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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1938
Page
7
Chicago hog market slips as supplies rise with top at 8.10 and overall demand weakens. Cattle hold steady with strong heavy steers near 13.50, while fat lambs rise beyond 8.60. Philadelphia poultry and cheese prices show little change amid mixed colors and broilers.
Daily market listing shows wholesale and retail prices for grains and animal feed. Items include shelled corn at 1.40 to 1.70 per bushel, corn meal in various sack sizes, mixed feeds, and local dairy butter prices. Also notes assorted fowl feeds and baby chick feed.
Prices from the Va Livestock Market at N Kent Street list weekly cattle and hog values. Steers, heifers, cows, bulls, veal calves and lambs show varied grades with prices per cwt or per head including fresh cows, springers, and stocker steers.
Apple market shipping point details for Monday October 10 list Winchester and Martins as key locations. The brief notes indicate distribution points and timing for fruit shipments serving regional markets.
Kiwanis Club members received rewards for perfect attendance including four year and ten year plaques. New inductees Charles A. Pine Garland Canter and Rev Herman Womeldorf were awarded gold badges. Dr P W Boyd spoke on Memorial hospital history and accreditation milestones. Guest Toxey Hall Jr. visited with Rev Herman Womeldorf.
The Ford agency in this city changes hands to M. B. Bickers of Fredericksburg with R. L. Hughes taking over the Hagerstown area dealership. Bickers plans remodeling of the North Braddock street garage and showroom to reopen soon. Stoter will manage Bickers’s used car lot until the move.
The Winchester Golf Club will host Purcellville Country Club on Sunday afternoon in what is expected to be the season finale. Each side fields 20 players led by local pro E R Coffey who just returned from Bassett Open where Charles Farlow of Burlington NC won with 208 for 54 holes. Sam Snead finished ninth at 220 and Coffey placed 14th at 225 among 70 entrants from Virginia North Carolina and beyond.
A mass of 25000 women gathered at a Washington police station to obtain Civil Service Commission job applications. Officials halted distribution after 1500 blanks amid fears of a riot as police lines broke in disorder.
A Columbus Circle crowd of about 10 000 Italian Americans booed Mayor Fiorello H LaGuardia during Columbus Day exercises. Deputy Commissioner Francis X Giaccone spoke for the ill mayor but was shouted down until he urged tolerance and generosity of Italian Americans.
Demand slow and market steady for various fruit barrels and bushel baskets with terms noted. Prices cited include Ganos U S No 1 barrels at 2.45 dollars and Yorks U S No 1 baskets at 1.15 dollars for certain sizes with other varieties and sizes listed.
Miss Mary L. Gibbons elected president of the National Board of Catholic Charities at Richmond. She becomes the first woman to hold the post in 30 years, succeeding Monsignor Thomas J. O Dwyer of Los Angeles.
The governor’s aide opposes commuting the Pingley sentence for the sheriff’s fatal shooting during arrest. He notes the Clarke County jury of farmers and merchants found guilt swiftly, the trial judge approved, and the Supreme Court denied error relief. He argues clemency would undermine state authority and officer safety.
Washington October 12 a militant labor leader urged President Roosevelt s emergency board to divide railroads into three financial groups before ruling on the 15 percent wage cut requested by carriers. George M Harrison spokesman for 18 brotherhoods and unions said about one third of railroads are sound and can pay current wages while another third are in receivership or trusteeship and need not meet fixed charges.
Rome reports Italy warns French and British enemies of fascism against nourishing hopes of a preventive war after the Munich accord dismembered.
A Moscow Soviet Russian newspaper says a bloody world war is feared, claims Chamberlain underestimates danger, and warns against Czechoslovak settlement while asserting only the Soviet Union can resist the fascist menace and aid small countries.
In a dated dispatch from Czechoslovakia an official diplomatic note, believed to be authored by Mussolini, expresses formal approval of Hitler's address at Saarbruecke on Sunday.
Houston Tex Oct 12 The resolutions committee at the American Federation of Labor convention debates the impact of social legislation on labor and opposes direct government intervention in labor relations. The report includes critique of the Wagner Act and favors more voluntary employer employee cooperation. The body approves proposals on wage hour sections and allows the garment workers union to renew organizing drive in competition with the ILGWU, while the latter remains chartered but suspended.
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