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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1938
Page
9
Chicago hog prices recover slightly as receipts fall to 14 000 head. Top hog price rises to 7.75 from 7.60 with loads 190 210 lb and 220 280 lb ranges. Cattle and calves show varied demand with beef cows weak and vealers firm. Philadelphia markets list live poultry butter eggs and dressed poultry with steady to unchanged prices.
Extended sales every Tuesday at N Kent Street with bid prices for steers heifers fat cows bulls calves lambs hogs pigs sows and feeder stock. Notable: steers 7 to 18 dollars per cwt, fat cows 2.75 to 5.75, lambs 4 to 8 dollars, hogs 7.60 to 9.00 per cwt, feeders 6 to 7.50 per cwt.
Local markets list wholesale and retail prices for flour and corn products. Patent Brand prices: 98 lb bags at 4.30 to 4.40 per barrel, 48 lb bags at 4.40 per barrel, 24 lb bags at 4.40 to 4.90 per barrel, 12 lb bags at 4.60 per barrel. Shelled corn price details follow.
A fragmented listing shows dairy feed at 16 percent and horse feed prices around 2.20 to 1.75 per unit. It also notes Leghorn fowl and Creamery butter prices with butter at 31, indicating a mixed commodities price page.
A broad early rally gave way to mixed prices as heavy profit taking cooled gains in motors, coppers, steels and other industrials. About 780000 shares traded in the first hour while speculators awaited a cue. General Motors announced re employment of 35000 workers and restoration of salary cuts, spurring large blocks up to 15000 shares.
Balford Grapes of Cumberland and William Hardy Moore of Harrisonburg face a manslaughter trial over Michael E McKenzie’s death when his car collided with a truck on July 3. The State seeks to prove who drove the truck amid conflicting testimony. Miss Mary McKenzie attended in a hospital chair.
Night watchman alerted police at a Baltimore meat packing plant office. Officers surrounded the building with drawn pistols and captured two men alleged to have robbed the office safe of 21.20, missing payroll money amounting to several hundred dollars.
Sing For Kiwanians report highlights sixteen girls and fourteen boys performing four selections starting with the Glee Club theme. Guests included H. C. Wardrip of Charlottesville and John Downing of Hagerstown. Preparations underway for Capital District convention in Roanoke with leaders Robinson and Brooks traveling from White Sulphur. Frederick County apples eight bushels shipped for delegate distribution.
Nathan Straus, administrator of the United States housing authority, will notify President Roosevelt that all the agency funds available for loans will be contracted for or earmarked in December. Officials say a pressing need exists for additional appropriations by the next Congress to sustain slum clearance and low cost housing as a continuing program.
Chicago markets rise on European demand and British rate advances with modest Argentine supply. Closing prices show Dec wheat at 64 7 8 to 65, May 66 3 8 to 1 2, corn Dec 44 3 4 to 5 8, soybeans Oct 69 3 4 to 71 5 8. cash grain mixed with No 2 red wheat 69, corn No 1 46, soybeans No 2 yellow 70 1 2, rye 42 5 8. Baltimore reports No 2 red winter wheat around 65 3 4.
Four convicts from Princeton West Virginia were captured near Toms Brook by State Officer C L Puller of Shenandoah county after being tied by Southern Railroad workers at Woodstock. Deby Perdue Bill Barber Bob Barber and Bunyan Goither held ten or five year terms for arson and burglary. They claimed no food since escape and wore prison garb with numbers. Prisoners to be turned over to West Virginia authorities.
Amos A Hart Jr 22 of Prent town New Jersey died in Northampton county jail where he was held without bail on murder charges in the shotgun slaying of Mrs Hazel Shrope. Officials cited a heart attack as the cause. Hart was captured in a New Jersey barn within 24 hours after the dance killing at Raubesville Pa. County Detective Hahn quoted Hart as saying he shot the girl and planned to shoot himself.
Hong Kong reports Japanese columns gaining momentum in the South China offensive begun Oct 12. Air bombardments aid the assault as one column reaches Sheklung near the Canton Kowloon railway, about 35 miles east of Canton, threatening the city from northeast and east.
New York police carry out exhaustive search including burning ashes from a station furnace to locate records of 7 200 arrests tied to a Brooklyn corruption inquiry. Police Commissioner Valentine says the stolen police record is the work of a guilty conscience. City investigator Herlands sought the books during a six month undercover probe into Brooklyn irregularities.
Grace Lutheran Church on West Boscawen Street hosts a regular prayer and worship service at 7 30 this evening. It will be conducted in the Men's Bible Class Room with attendees expected to participate in communal prayer and reflection.
The 15 month old W. Kenneth Rinard, son of Mr and Mrs Floyd Rinard of Wardensville West Virginia died of internal injuries at Memorial Hospital Winchester after being backed over by an automobile allegedly driven by his uncle. He died after arrival at the hospital and his body was sent back to Wardensville for burial services tomorrow.
War Department contracts for munitions totaling 19 million dollars in six weeks show accelerating rearma ment in line with President Roosevelt’s defense proposals. Ordnance officers and private industry expand output as Congress funds air defense and armor, with latest orders surpassing 9 million dollars and broadening contracts for anti aircraft guns, searchlights, bombs, and related gear.
The Rev. Alward Chamberlaine, 68, longtime rector of St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal Church Centreville, died suddenly of a heart attack at the rectory. Former Boise cathedral dean, he was born in Cecil County and studied at St. Paul’s School and the Virginia Theological Seminary. Survived by widow Miss South Williams, brother Robert L. of Baltimore, and sister Mrs Cassius Dulaney of Fauquier County. Funeral plans pending.
About 1,000 tugboat workers voted to return to work at midnight after accepting a settlement proposed by Mayor La Guardia. The strike disrupted harbor operations, delaying the Conte Di Savioa by ten hours and leaving the Queen Mary and other ships docked without tug assistance. An additional 1,000 AFL members did not attend the ratification meeting.
The National Guard reports a pilot from Western Air Express, later with EAL, survived a fiery crash at dawn after the plane burned in midair. Survivors described a rapid descent and a mass explosion as flames consumed the craft.
Hollywood reports Walt Disney has secured the film rights to Peter Pan for a feature length animation. The article notes possible plans for a second screen fantasy with Don Quixote in consideration.
Farm offered for sale comprises 175 acres four miles north of Winchester on Well Town Pike. Interested buyers contact John E. Ebert in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Listing note dated October 19.
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