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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1937
Page
4
The notice shows subscription pricing for Mall and Carrier delivery in Winchester Virginia with rates for one year six months three months and one month in advance. It includes separate figures for In memory says daily except Sunday publication.
Advertising rules set per word with minimum 25 cents and 2 cent words. Memorial lines priced at 10 cents. cards of thanks 5 cents. Display ads must be in by 10 A M. Transient rate 45 cents per inch. National reps listed. Associated Press rights noted. Date Tuesday Oct 12 1937.
A brief excerpt cites Proverbs 23 verses 10 and 11 warning against stripping a landmark and entering the fields of the fatherless as their redeemer pleads their case with you. The text emphasizes divine protection and justice.
The New York World Telegram reports on alleged attempts to revive Klan activity, with promises to re enroll former members and recruit anew. Imperial wizard comments on the court and other issues, while robe markets rise and klan women plan a fiery tomb tribute. Grand dragon of Pennsylvania asserts klansmen will back President Roosevelt regardless of the Black controversy.
A Greensboro grand jury, long the joke of court reports, takes a serious task from Judge Burgwyn. It inspected Harnett county school buses, hired two expert auto mechanics, filed their findings with the report, and may use them if a wreck occurs. The jury funded the inspection, though its source remains unrevealed, yet the effort is praised as well spent.
Greenbelt, a village built with taxpayers funds and run by a few privileged families, faces harsh critique by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen. They lampooned the half whitewashed houses with color bands and mismatched doors, suggesting the scheme yields cheap rentals and questionable costs.
A fragment notes that residents are not living in Greenbelt under compulsion, suggesting voluntary residency status rather than forced relocation or coercion.
The piece celebrates autumn in the forest with vivid imagery of sunlit beeches elms and a spectrum of tree species turning bright colors. It notes scarlet oaks strikingly aflame and towns filled with tourists enjoying fall scenery, challenging the idea of melancholy days.
The New York Yankees won their second straight World Series game 8 to 1 over the Giants at the Polo Grounds. Cliff Melton struggled early as New York hitters found the range, while Big Red Ruffing held the Giants in check after an initial run. Manager Bill Terry bets on Schumacher to save the series in the afternoon game.
The author questions how families chosen for Greenbelt benefits were selected and by whom. They ask who created this privileged class funded by taxpayers and whether politicians or bureaucrats granted these advantages, noting the public may fear challenging such privileges.
Illinois adopts a new relief law sponsored by Representative Calvin Johnson of Belleville and approved by Governor Horner. The measure seeks to improve administration of unemployment relief and provide faster assistance to workers in need.
Gov Alf Landon Republican candidate for president tells Columbus Ohio voters prohibition is not a issue. The remarks come as campaign stops continue across the state.
Right Rev Henry St George Tucker will celebrate holy communion at the Millwood Church next Sunday marking its century anniversary. Fire prevention week urged as Fire Chief C Lee Barr asks residents to help reduce fire hazards. J B Rinker injured at Millwood Abbatoir while restraining an angry steer before butchering. Charles Anderson named member of Sigma Nu at Duke University.
Fort Loudoun Chapter issues invitation for the state meeting to be held next year in Martinsville during the annual gathering. Thomas Short receives a 20 year sentence for killing his former sweetheart Bessie Bruncker. Jury deliberated overnight. Three V. M. I. students expelled and three suspended over hazing. Clara Bow stars in Rough House Rosie at the Empire Theatre.
Mrs. William S. Love returns from Harrisonburg where she attended the U D C annual meeting as a delegate from the Turner Ashby Chapter of which she is president. The Boston Red Sox win the fifth game of the 1912 series against New York. The Montenegrin army advances on the Turks at Soutori.
Lewis Glover stars as Berryville defeats S V A 16 to 0. Eagles Meat Market advertises fresh pork and sausage from the first fall butchering. Two Philadelphia cyclists arrive after two and half days of wheeling trip on wag er. Doubt cast on local man succeeding late Hon L Ammersa as executor of Judge Handley estate.
The law requires overseers of the poor to list employable relief recipients for local highway authorities who can assign repair jobs. Refusal to work ends relief payments. Proper enforcement could cut relief rolls and fix streets, buckholes, and country roads while taxpayers gain a return for relief funds.
A National Board of Fire Underwriters report notes rural fire loss per person rose 10.8 percent to 2.05, while cities over 20 000 saw 1.40 with 5.3 percent growth. Emphasizes farm and village prevention, group fire-fighting units, and building codes to save lives and prosperity.
A reader query column lists brief factual Q A exchanges on topics from ages of celebrities to geography and science. It covers names like Fritz Crisler Sonja Henie and Walter Johnson and topics such as vodka prohibition 1 146 138 airline passengers in 1936 and Harris tweed history.
Washington dispatch notes navy restraint on guaranteeing Pacific victory west of a line from the Aleutians to Guam. It also reports a sweeping campaign by the National Association of Manufacturers to promote industry benefits and upcoming film efforts. The piece covers UAW leadership, Detroit tensions with John L. Lewis, and Swiss navy curiosity plus tax statistics.
Mari Barat sails from Europe to New York with Mark Sutherland and Viscountess Verlaine. In New York she enters high society as a celebrated designer, revisiting memories of Paris, Nice and earlier struggles, while pursuing a hidden longing for Tony. The story ends as a reunion seems possible, with their fateful meeting looming.
A Chapel Hill note laments the loss of a large oak at Rosemary Lane and Boundary Street. It jokes drivers slowed to 10 or 15 mph to pass the tree, and after its removal they can speed to 25 or 30 mph, claiming civilization is saved.
Martin Hall and J. A. Gibson were fined 25 dollars each for reckless driving after their car plunged over a 12 foot embankment and crashed into a tree. A 50 pound box of dynamite was found in the back seat.
Chicago displays include novel items such as duck eggs baked in mud shredded bird nests shark fin and pickered eel among new deli cacies at the annual Food and Better Housekeeping Show.
The Minden Chamber of Commerce held its first annual Free Pancake Day in Nebraska. About three thousand people attended, consuming 5,000 pancakes and 100 gallons of coffee. Gus Fredericksen won first prize by eating 21 pancakes in 15 minutes.
Rev. James F. Halliday urged La Canada churchgoers to back a mortgage fund with deposits from Joe Doe and Jane Doe if at least 200 persons attend services weekly for six consecutive months. Attendance has risen significantly.
Chattanooga Tenn reports the Church of God assembly drawing 240 bishops this week. The heaviest bishop is A. Little of Little, West Virginia, weighing 325 pounds.
In Buffalo Judge George Zimmer offered Maurice Flynn a choice between washing dishes to pay a $60 plate glass window damage or 60 days in the penitentiary. Flynn chose the prison term with no hesitation.
On October 12 the coast guard and Mackay Radio detected two distress signals from an unidentified vessel near the Japanese coast. Signals were weak and no sender identified themselves.
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