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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1935
Page
7
The New York market session was quiet with selective demand restraining most losses. Stocks held in narrow ranges while foreign exchange and bonds showed little trend as call money ticked up to 0.25 percent. Prices for various industrials and commodities are listed with mixed futures and paralleled by activity in agriculture and food products.
The Star publishes daily market notes with wholesale prices for various feed and grain items. Listed are 98 lb bags at 6.75, 48 lb bags at 6.85, 12 lb bags at 7.05 per barrel, patent brands 6.25 to 6.55, cracked corn at 1.95, feed mixes around 1.85 to 1.45, egg and butter prices toward 2.20 per 100 for mash and 0.30 for creamery butter, with hens at 2.15 and young chickens at 14 to 16 cents.
Aubrey Williams of the Works Progress Administration reported that 1,310,733 people held jobs as of mid October, with 184,479 new work relief positions in the prior two weeks. WPA projects employed 594,427, CCC 582,648, and other federal projects 133,658.
Washington October 18 The Federal Trade Commission sent a questionnaire to several hundred farm products manufacturers in its inquiry into whether the farmer is under paid and the consumer overcharged for farm goods.
U S Dept of Agriculture reports demand for cattle narrow with loads held. Steers, cows steady. calves slow with vealers 10 50 to 11 00. hogs steady with top 11 60 for 140 to 230 lb. lambs scarce 9 00 to 9 50. ewes 4 50 down. Philadelphia notes undressed poultry and butter unchanged. eggs 1 439 in day, firm on extras and steady on other grades.
Closing grain prices show wheat futures with varied quotes and rounding. Cash grain figures list No. 3 and No. 2 hard wheat, corn types, and barley with specific cents per bushel values. Baltimore and Winchester markets provide domestic wheat and corn figures and barrel prices, all cited as mill delivery based quotations.
Demand light and market about steady for apples in Winchester Virginia and Martinsburg. Prices include Barrels Yorks U S No 1 two and a half to two dollars fifty per car with various minimums and storage terms, bulk orchard run culls about eighty cents to one dollar, Staymans and Delicious among listed varieties with price ranges and packaging details.
British forces hasten coastal fortifications in Palestine. Two six inch guns rise near Acre at Haifa bay’s northern edge and two more near Bath Gallim at the bay’s southern end. Both positions command the harbor.
Athens dispatch notes the newspaper Vradini reports a general mobilization in Albania amid the international situation. The move signals Albania’s readiness in response to escalating regional tensions and could affect border and refugee dynamics in the Balkans.
Bevins, a Fort Thomas Kentucky former air mail pilot, died in a fog crash near Mason while flying a small two seater. Witnesses say the plane struck a Crosley Radio antenna tower and crashed about 600 feet away. Bevins was killed instantly. He and his wife lived in Wilson North Carolina, married six years ago. He had been en route from Detroit to Cincinnati and once attempted a west east non stop trans continental flight but was forced down in New Mexico.
In South Wales the Tradegar Valley faced tension as 1,500 miners joined strikers at Nine-Mile Point pits. Seventy-nine miners remained underground six days demanding written assurances to avoid imported labor, while clashes and mass marches around Newport and Newbridge sparked extra police response.
Addis Ababa reports Emperor Haile Selassie has adopted a new flag featuring St. George riding a white charger against Ethiopia’s red, yellow, and green. The design marks a change in national symbols as the country emphasizes its heritage.
Rapid City Oct 18 cavalrymen at Fort Meade were told to stand by for possible movement to the strato camp as orders to inflate the world’s largest balloons might be issued this afternoon.
State police near Williamsport hunted David Shaffer an ex convict who killed his sister Bertha and wounded Corporal William Bloom after a shootout on a Williamsport street. Shaffer remained at large as police pressed a heavy search using machine guns to trap him. Blames say Bertha was buried Wednesday and Bloom remained hospitalized with a shattered spine.
Lincoln Ellsworth and Sir Hubert Wilkins began their third Antarctic expedition from Montevideo. Their ship Wyatt Earp will sail to Magallanes for ten days before heading to Deception Island to attempt a polar flight.
F Swift Gibson of Baltimore was elected president of the Virginia Carolina Chemical Corporation at a board meeting in Richmond Virginia. Gibson has run a fertilizer and chemical business in Baltimore for twenty years under his name.
The Opequon Group Presbyterian invites worshipers to Old Opequon Kernstown Sunday School at 10 a.m. with P C Petrie, preaching by Rev Allen Jones at 11 a.m. Burnt Church Albin holds Sunday School at 2 30 p.m. with P H Gold, preaching at 3 30 p.m. Rev Guy M Morrow will preach Yang. Opequon Chapel Sunday School at 10 a.m. J L Carpenter superintendent Christian Endeavor 6 45 p.m. Preaching at 5 30 p.m. Come and worship with us.
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