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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1935
Page
4
The Evening Star of Winchester Virginia lists publication as daily except Sunday and carries subscription prices of 3.50 yearly, 1.75 six months, 0.90 three months, 0.30 one month, with carrier options and weekly rates. Advertising costs are 2 cents per word with minimum 25 cents, memorials 1.50 for four stanzas, display ads 0.42 per inch, and national reps in major cities.
A religious verse from 1 John 5 12 opens a life guidance note in the column. The piece emphasizes belief in the Son of God as the path to life. References to the Associated Press licensing are noted for re publication rights.
The Emergency Relief Bureau in New York City proposed a 10 percent layoff of workers due to a 60 percent drop in relief cases. The move targets perceived incompetents, backed by city and state officials and welfare groups, but faces protest and a potential strike from workers associations.
The Leonard Wood Memorial enlarges its program to fight leprosy worldwide. Research will focus on transmission and persistence, with studies to improve treatments and methods. Funds will be raised by private gifts and possible public support as efforts expand across regions.
The description notes the disease is widespread in Asia and parts of Africa with limited presence in the United States. It mentions work already done showing possible alien origin and cure through early treatment and suggests new tasks that could unite many peoples and nations.
The piece notes Johnson’s 1759 tale Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, as prescient on invasion fears. It links the hero’s name to Selassie and warns that hostile forces from the sky could conquer savagely, while cautioning against overreaching parallels to modern times.
Baltimore Sun reports 1934 automobile fatalities reached a new high with 34 980 deaths nationwide and Maryland at 29 20 per 100 000, up 23 percent and 13 22 percent respectively. Speed and driver habits are cited as primary causes despite traffic safety efforts.
In 1917 Roanoke World-News recounts Sidney Smith of the Chicago Tribune creating Andy Gump, a comic family that provided daily laughter as America entered World War I. The piece traces Gump’s rise from a simple satire to a syndicated national sensation with Uncle Bim and other figures.
Winchester stands as the principal city in the famed Shenandoah Valley and serves as the northern gateway to the region. The description highlights its status as a regional hub in Virginia's scenic Valley.
In New Castle Pa a fire in Joe Frengel’s house is traced to an auto impact on a pole, a fallen power line, blown fuses, and heat from an electric iron that ignited the wash by the ironing board. A fleeting mosaic of brief briefs from across the nation.
The passage notes the death of cartoonist Sidney Smith in an automobile accident. It describes the Gump family cartoons as popular daily humor with chinless men and doll baby women, created to amuse the American public without a political cause. The Gumps’ syndicate contract had been renewed for five years, and story plans were in progress.
The Covington Virginian reflects on youth despair and rising national optimism. A sister recounts her 17 year old brother’s belief he could not see a future after high school. The piece argues future uncertainty is common yet often brighter than feared.
Roosevelt plans a readjustment of top advisers after his transcontinental trip. Farley likely to retire as campaign manager. Hull at odds with Roper and Wallace over policy toward belligerents and neutrality. Britain faces a November election amid Tory patriotism talk and Ramay MacDonald opposition.
President Fairfax Harrison of the Southern Railway disclosed at a Richmond stockholders meeting that he receives many letters giving advice on how to run the railroad. One writer urged Republicans to sit on the board, while an inmate of an insane asylum offered the only conservative view. A stockholder joked that the only conservatives left are in the asylum.
The piece traces anesthetic practices from ancient Egypt to medieval and later periods. It notes that early surgeons sought unconsciousness without injury, using blunt force in some cases, drugs and poisons in the Middle Ages, and then liquor to induce stupor before amputations and abdominal operations.
F J Dresser argues at Cleveland meeting that critics blame business figures for housing costs. He cites a Cleveland project with two million dollars annual loss and says the plan aims to rebuild cities and may lead to socialized subsidized housing as many families cannot borrow to build.
Water-snails live in rivers lakes ponds marshes and ditches. Those in quiet waters are mostly spiral in form and have thin shells.
Dr. Logan Clendening explains tularemia, a disease hunter and butchers acquire from skinning wild game. Illness mainly causes swollen glands and finger ulcers, with eye involvement possible. Prevention centers on wearing rubber gloves while dressing game. recovery is common, but the condition can be time consuming. Six pamphlets by Dr. Clendening are available for ten cents each.
A set of three questions asks about skin area, the easternmost U S point, and regicide. Answers note fourteen to eighteen square feet of skin for an average adult, Quoddy Head near Eastport Maine as the most easterly point, and a regicide as a killer or participant in the king’s death.
Present and past rainfall data show 24 hour total to 8 a.m. at 0.21 inches, October to date 0.92 inches, year to date 29.51 inches. Average annual precipitation over 22 years is 34.61 inches, with monthly averages listed from January 2.35 to December 2.30 inches.
Carol Kennedy, an orphan from Connecticut, meets Dr. Owen Craig in her sprawling New York hideaway. He hints at a future beyond theater while she weighs freedom, work, and a possible romance as Kathy prepares for a December wedding.
Twenty planes roar from London in an England to Australia air derby. Other items include the death of Franklin E. Wissler at Mount Jackson and a solitary cell placement for Hauptmann in Hunderton New Jersey. Raymond Poincare is buried with honors. Special federal grand jury in Louisville indicts Thomas H. Robinson Sr. and family in Stoll kidnapping.
A border clash escalated into lethal violence resulting in the death of a Bulgarian captain. Government officials say the incident involved opposing forces near the frontier and is under investigation for possible violations of sovereignty and military protocol.
Balloon America was located about 300 miles southeast of Norfolk and the five crew members were saved. Two Baltimore and Ohio employees were injured in a collision near Martinsburg. Miss Martha Thomas Colborn of Frostburg Md married James P Reardon at her parents home. Potomac Conference of the Lutheran Synod cites lack of preachers. Valley convocation of the Protestant Episcopal Church meets at Grace Church Berryville. Governors of the Pot and Kettle Club of Catonsville Md depart for a Shenandoah Valley automobile tour.
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