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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1935
Page
4
The Evening Star on Pier Va an second class matter published daily except Sunday by The Evening Star Publishing Co. of Winchester Virginia.
Rates listed for one year in advance four dollars fifty cents. Monthly payments in advance are stated but with missing figures. A single line mentions weekly cost and shows garbled text suggesting a misprint or transcription error.
Advertising rates include 2 cents per word with minimum 25 cents. Memorials are 1.50 for four stanzas of four lines. Cards of Thanks cost 75 cents. Display ads with borders must be in by 10 a m on publication day. Transient rate 42 cents per inch. National reps include Devine Tenney Corp in several cities.
A clipped AP notice and Biblical verse appear together, with standard AP reprint credit language followed by Isaiah 55 11. The fragment shows copyright and publication rights and a religious quote.
Virginia’s allure shown by National Park statistics as Shenandoah National Park leads in visitors for the year ending September 30, surpassing Great Smoky and other famed parks. Colonial National Monument also draws strong crowds, with 367 172 visitors.
An excerpt notes that colder ice is produced not by nature but by human effort, with Popular Mechanics explaining various forms of ice and the blocks produced by modern refrigeration and manufacturing technologies.
A Virginia Dispatch opinion urges unity against speed mania after a deadly holiday weekend of auto crashes. It cites rising fatalities since 1920 and 1934, assigns blame to careless driving, and calls readers to confront reckless motorists and resist risky passing on hills and curves.
A machine produces frost white ice flakes in ribbons about an inch thick, cooler by ten degrees and non sharp. A ton of flakes equals 114 tons of cracked ice for storage use in boxes, railroad cars, and trucks moving ice cream, milk, meats, fish, and more.
Last August 430 officers and men of the 188th Engineers rode by rail to Pine Camp New York for Army maneuvers. Only 344 had previously traveled by train, most had always used cars, illustrating the auto era's dominance and railroads losing passengers and prestige.
Mrs. Rena Johnson is charged with the slaying of Lewis Washington, colored. The Red Cross launches a roll call at the George Washington Hotel. A riot erupts after orders halt a federal relief job in Denver. AFL offers help to striking Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. workers. Prominent Clarke Frederick and Winchester citizens join Better Housing Committee posts.
Chronicle notes a record month with 109 free lodgers at the police station. Admiral Byrd was to be awarded the Navy Cross for heroism in his South Pole flight. Judges and clerks were named to officiate the approaching election. State Forest project underway at Elkins and plans to serve lunches at Berryville school.
J Murray Hooker chairman of the State Democratic Committee predicts a complete victory at the polls. Snow is predicted in the west for Hallowe en with flurries in Winchester as the Fife brothers evangelists may have to end their meeting here.
A patchwork of short items: groundhog hunter Troy Charles Smith claims to be Ohio’s top groundhog killer since 1933 with 370 kills and a trophy 87 pounds. Hartford fire boxes get clanging roosters noise to deter false alarms during Hidloween events. Oklahoma recovery officials resist a shipbuilding survey. Seattle gar bage can tops vanish as boys use them as Ethiopian war game shields. Kansas City man reports three attackers cursed him. he fights back then calls for help.
The article states Alaska's great area is inhabited by about 80,000 white people, 18,000 Indians and 12,000 Eskimos, outlining the demographic makeup of the territory.
Roy Kalvin, employed at an automotive body plant in Waukesha Wisconsin, drove toward a railroad crossing marked with a conspicuous warning. His car struck the warning device and overturned, and Kalvin died.
In Evanston Illinois a dog catcher pursues a biting squirrel that nearly assaulted Carlos Ferretti. Officials aim to determine if the animal carried rabies and broaden the search for the animal’s origin.
An astronomical unit describing the distance light travels in a year. The term measures vast interstellar spans and aids comparisons between stars galaxies and space missions.
Washington report notes President Roosevelt lauds Senator James F. Byrnes for loyal administration support during a Charleston appearance. The piece contrasts Byrnes with Ellison D. Smith and surveys New Deal politics and 1936 renomination dynamics, alongside Republican convention prospects and Labor movement shifts.
Philadelphia leaders discuss keeping General Butler in the role of safety director as part of city governance. The engagement signals ongoing cooperation between the mayor and military veterans in municipal security.
Twenty five years ago the Cumberland Valley Railroad hauled more than 90 000 barrels of apples. Election judges for November 8 are named. Winchester school enrollment reaches 1338, up 37 from before. A Hallowe en dance is held at Rouss Hall. Memorial Hospital graduates will receive diplomas at Handley Library exercises.
Hagerstown Maryland October 31 The Daily Mail reports moon shiners in the region are producing roughly half as much deg whiskey now as they did in the late period of Prohibition.
Federal investigators report that harassment by agents, shrinking customer bases, and tougher court sentences are pushing moonshine makers to leave business. Much of the whiskey from the area now exits the state, with Virginia as a key outlet. Local agents are focusing on the Potomac border, where illicit stills remain most visible.
A. T. Holliday of Howards Chapel, this county, went to Martinsburg West Virginia Tuesday evening to visit his wife at King's Daughters Hospital. He parked his car on a street near the hospital and it was stolen.
Orphan heiress Carol Kennedy flees Connecticut for New York after coming into a fortune. She navigates romance with Dr. Owen Craig and Gary Crandall while facing an unwanted engagement to Kathy Prentice’s fiancé. A doctor tasks her with a confidential nursing assignment.
Police recovered a car at the northern end of Rosemont Park after it had been left from a previous location. The battery was dead and the clutch damaged, rendering the machine inoperable.
The University of Minnesota football era featured two squads exchanging shouts siss-boom-bah and ski u-mah for touchdowns. One team adopted ski u-mah using an Indian exultation expression, while the rival used siss-boom-bah.
The report lists present and past rainfall with 24 hour ending 6 am and October to date 2.14 inches. Year to date 30.63 inches. It compares to Winchester Laboratory 22 year average 34.61 inches and gives monthly averages including January 2.35 February 1.94 March 2.81 April 3.16 May 3.88 June 3.60 July 3.39 August 3.35 September 2.43 October 2.90 November 2.51 December 2.30.
The text notes Nevada’s admission to the Union on October 31, 1864 and includes details about Father Gabriel Richard of Detroit as a Catholic priest who served as a congressional delegate from Michigan. It also defines free verse as poetry lacking meter and rhyme and regular stanzas.
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