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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1934
Page
10
New York stock leaders gave mixed results with late gains fading after a favorable but unspectacular presidential address. Rail and utility shares wavered while bonds firmed and several major names posted small advances. several rail stocks led declines as overall market drifted.
Closing futures prices for Wheat Corn Oats Rye Barley and Lard and Bellies listed for Chicago Oct 25 with old and new contracts. Spot quotes for Wheat No 2 Red No 2 Hard and Corn No 1 Yellow and White oats and regional quotes from Baltimore and Winchester included.
The Times Dispatch reports Virginia will not lose its November federal relief allotments and that no later periodical relief is likely before the General Assembly enacts a direct relief appropriation. Gov Peery notes Virginia’s highway work relief of 3 million dollars reflects greater state effort with less federal return.
Baltimore market reports slow trading across cattle calves hogs and sheep with varied price shifts. Slaughter steers cows and bulls show declines or steady bids, while hogs and sows move differently by weight. Philadelphia live poultry eggs and butter prices are listed with grade score ranges and stable egg values.
Markets list short patent and patent brand flour by bag size with prices, shelled corn and mixed feeds, dairy feeds, corn meal, screenings, and bran. Local retail tables show similar items with per bag and per hundred weights, plus butter and livestock price notes.
Simple but impressive rites were held at Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church Louth for Captain Stewart Albert Seabright 85. Rev Dr Hubert Sydenstricker led service with hymns The Old Rugged Cross and Sometime We ll Understand. Interment in Mount Hebron. Fire Company and Police Department represented. Pallbearers named. Survived by son Harry W Seabright and two daughters Mrs Omar Jackson and Mrs James Johnson.
MILWOOD Virginia October 25 some of the region s best timber and brush horses are set to race next Wednesday October 31 at Annefield the estate of William Bell Watkins Master of Fox Hounds Blue Ridge Hunt Club Entries close tomorrow Races start 2 30 pm Annefield Cup tops the four race card Kentmere Steeplechase Old Dominion flat Woodley race added this year An error in the previous inch head line misdated October 21
Secretary Wallace warned that continuing 50 year land use policies could destroy civilization. He cited overgrazing, despoiled public domain, unsustainable forestry, and plowed grasslands, urging a unified national land use policy guided by science.
Grocer Puckett and his son Jerold were returned to their home in Holdenville Oklahoma after being kidnapped and driven through eastern Oklahoma counties by two escapees from Hughes County jail. They were released near Okmulgee by two men identified as Bill Johnson and Ambrose Nix who led five other prisoners to freedom following an assault on jailer Jim Sickles with a lead pipe.
Trenton N J October 24 Prosecutor Hauck announced the retraction of an alibi for Bruno Richard Hauptmann given by Joseph L Furcht who said Hauptmann worked on the Majestic apartments in New York the day the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped Attorney General Wilentz said he had no direct knowledge of any payment to Furcht for the alibi Condon visited Hauptmann in jail to discuss the case and Hauptmann pleaded not guilty to the kidnapping and murder with trial set for January 2 1935.
MOSCOW October 25 Two Soviet officials were executed by firing squad for counter revolutionary activity and sabotage that damaged state property. Kokhan Nikolai was charged with failing to dry grain and store it causing 300 tons to spoil. Mikhail Strebkov, a former Czarist officer, was charged with neglecting horses leading to many deaths.
A man and a woman were wounded when four bombs exploded in mid town Havana early today. The blasts damaged the home of Pedro Herrea Sotolongo a lead ing attorney who challenged the Machado regime and defended medical service societies against doctors efforts to declare them invalid.
In Melbourne on Oct 25 C W A Scott and T Campbell Black received half of the $50,000 first prize from backer A O Edwards for their England to Australia speed record. The winning aircraft will ship to London in November. An Australian airline offered £20,000 for the Dutch pilots Parmentier and Moll second place in the floating hotel, an American Douglas plane.
Husky football players in women's clothing waited through the night to trap a phantom assailant who has beaten nine University of Colorado co-eds. Several dozen volunteers patrolled the campus after attacks aroused concern. Chief Prater said he believes the suspect has left Boulder.
A fragmented record notes salt as essential for stomach acid formation, a punishment claim about whipping an Indian child in Ohio, and a mother ducking a child in cold water. It mentions an old steamship line between Colorado and Utah and a calm English Channel trend.
Mrs Frances Robinson wife of Thomas H Robinson Jr faces trial October 29 in Louisville Kentucky for the kidnapping of society leader Mrs Berry V Stoll. Her husband was hunted as the actual kidnapper. After arraignment she went to jail at her lawyer’s suggestion to keep her safe from vengeance.
Marriage license clerks in Riverside California denied Ellen Wilson McAdoo granddaughter of Woodrow Wilson a license to wed Rafael Lopez De Onate born in the Philippines. De Onate a film actor offered evidence of Spanish ancestry which officials examined. Senator McAdoo's daughter and De Onate are pictured.
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