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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1938
Page
5
Market quotes cover turkeys ducks chickens and roosters with varied prices. Cattle calves hogs sheep standings show mixed movements across Baltimore Chicago Philadelphia markets with hogs steady to slightly lower and cattle slow. Eggs butter and fowl prices noted with case counts and regional differences.
New York stock activity closes with modest gains after a volatile session. Transfers reach about 1.9 million shares as copper miners and related groups slip on export and scrap price declines post cartel move, while aircrafts and distillers show quiet strength.
The Star lists daily market items including patent brand bags priced per bag or per barrel for 12 to 98 pound weights. It shows varied prices for corn meal oats and mixed fowl feeds with several weight and packing details.
An OCR fragment lists various feed bag sizes and prices for Short Eye Brand and Patent Brand. It includes 98 lb and 42 lb bag prices per barrel, 24 lb and 12 lb bag options, and mentions different feed types such as mixed feed, screening, mash, chick grower, turkey grower, horse feed, scratch feed, and baby chick feed. Specific prices appear but are partially garbled.
Active trading in Chicago on October eighteenth drove corn to fresh four year bottom prices while lard soybeans and wheat fell to new lows. Cash grain quotes show mixed futures with declines across wheat corn oats and soybeans and localized prices for red clover timothy and rye.
Cardinal Mundelein opened the eighth National Eucharistic Congress in New Orleans with a high pontifical Mass. Sixty bishops and archbishops led the procession to the altar as trumpets sounded and 50,000 Catholics gathered beneath a canopy dome. Monsignors and knights in ceremonial dress guarded the hierarchy.
Senator Millard E. Tydings touring Allegany county with Herbert R. Connor and other Democrats was forced to leave the party at Bloomington Garrett county one mile from Westernport due to a violent coughing attack and returned to his Cumberland hotel for treatment. He hopes to attend the mass meeting at the Strand Theatre in Cumberland tonight.
Washington on October 18, the Roosevelt fact finding board predicted a compromise adjustment of the proposed 15 percent rail wage cut. The board, aiming to avert a railroad strike, will report by October 27. Chairman Walter P. Stacy compared the wage dispute to egg prices, implying high prices help care for sick chickens.
The Winchester Golf Club 14 man team defeated Purcellville Country Club Sunday 18 to 3 on its local course. Coffey nearly tied the course record with 66 after a late miss.
Workmen started rebuilding the sidewalk along the Faulkner property on West Boscawen street Loudoun after a prior hearing. The street committee will summon two property owners on South Cameron near the jail to show cause why their pavements should not be repaired.
A thousand thousand? Actually a million dollar government housing project for white and negro families is being considered by the Salisbury housing authority. Peter Cornelius Pauw from the Federal Housing Authority urged need after city housing inspections. Ralph Grier announced Alfred T. Truitt as executive secretary of the authority.
Circuit Judge G Duncan Bellinger ordered the House of Prayer tabernacle in Columbia closed, citing that the practice of their religion created bedlam heard for blocks and that even music could become a nuisance if a scrub board was used as an instrument.
The Supreme Court today upheld the legislature's right to bar dentists from advertising their practice and dismissed a test suit filed by Dr. William A. Levine of Jersey City.
Six members of Mrs. Peter Yates Brinton's Community Chorus performed at the Win coun Lions Club meeting. The group, directed by Brinton, showcased prepared singing and plans a sacred concert for December 16 at Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
New York October 18 1938 General Motors announced that 35000 workers would be recalled within two weeks. Alfred P Sloan Jr chairman expressed optimism on the business outlook. The report lifted a somber stock market with leading issues up to 50 cents to 3 dollars. Steels aircrafts and numerous specialties rose while copper groups lagged.
Defense lawyer for Frank Cheeseman told the murder trial jury that the 21 year old Nep tune youth was neurotic and the fatal shooting of Mrs Elizabeth Yetman 39 mother of the girl he sought to wed was accidental.
War Admiral pleased by Pimlico workout finishing 2 09 for 1 ¼ miles as Seabiscuit also trots a steady mile. The two titans prepare for the $15 000 November 1 match race with trainer Tom Smith guiding the Biscuit shortly after Admls session.
In Winchester the Cor poration Court issues a suit against A J Bryant as principal and C W Hollis as co defendant to bind property to satisfy a judgment. Bryant is nonresident. he must appear within fifteen days after publication and protect his interest. The notice will run weekly for four weeks in the Evening Star and be posted by Nov 7 1938.
Elmer F. Andrews wage hour administrator appealed for universal acceptance of the new wage hour act set to take effect next Monday. He suggested intrastate businesses may conform and promised guidance on recordkeeping, exemptions for seasonal industries and specific groups including professionals executives outside salesmen and retail workers.
In Baltimore on October 18 an indefinite postponement of the preliminary conspiracy hearing for former Police Commissioner William P. Lawson and three associates in a brokerage firm was ordered because Judge Joseph N. Ullman was ill. The hearing had been set for Thursday.
Mollie E. Kallsky seeks a divorce from Stanley Kallsky on desertion over two years in Frederick County Virginia. The order requires the defendant to appear within ten days of publication, with weekly notices for four weeks in the Evening Star Winchester. A copy will be posted at the County Courthouse and mailed to the defendant. Filed by Clerk Co Brannon and attorney Jos B Newlin on Sept 27 1938.
Rumrich recounts in court how a Brooklyn operator known as Sanders pressed for U S military and aviation catalogs and photographs. He described a later encounter with a man named Schmidt delivering fifty dollars in cash and arranging further contact, as the trial of co defendants continues.
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