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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1935
Page
8
Emmanuel Shecter, president of E and K Heel Bones, announces plant closure due to disorders caused by strikers. Union rejects claim and vows to continue activity as pickets guard the factory while talks proceed. The firm had planned moves and improvements.
The Winchester Public Schools announce next Monday start with students assigned by grade and school, new teachers joining both high and elementary levels, and emphasis on compulsory attendance. Non resident tuition rules, real estate credits, and resident statements are detailed for areas including Handley High and Douglas School. A new library and cafeteria will boost facilities, and ninth graders will require library training.
Labor Day speeches across the nation showed support for Franklin D. Roosevelt. William Green of the AFL said a better social and economic order is being laid for workers, while John L. Lewis urged labor to support the President morally and with votes.
Webster’s International defines a torch song as a popular sentimental song of unrequited love with a torch singer. One explanation ties the phrase to an old saying that a jilted lover pining for the beloved is “carrying a torch.” Songs labeled as torch songs are blues.
The local chamber with Shenandoah Valley Inc and the State Chamber prepares an Autumn Travelogue detailing five loop tours around Winchester. Tours cover Harpers Ferry to Augusta West Virginia and Skyline Drive, with itineraries from Winchester to Martinsburg Berkeley Springs Berryville Massanutten Woodstock Front Royal and Harrisonburg through diverse historic and scenic routes. Public inquiries receive printed itineraries with routes and distances.
Encouraging details list events at a Richmond gathering with speeches by Governor Peery and leaders, informal dinners, fashion displays, a moonlight James River boat trip, and a John Marshall Hotel dance with Old Dominion Orchestra, inviting younger members to share viewpoints.
While filming Steamboat Round the Bend at the Palace Theatre Will Rogers choked back tears as a prison wedding between Anne Shirley and John McGuire unfolded. Eugene Pallette, playing the sheriff, called for the ring and Rogers stood ready to pass it, a moment noted for Rogers’s laconic humor turning to emotion.
Representative Thomas G. Burch warned Newport News Central Labor Union workers that the country is not yet out of the woods. He credited gains in industrial production and payrolls since 1930s lows and urged continued effort to finish the recovery. Police court fined John Joy ten dollars and twenty five cents for drunkenness.
A Colliers Weekly action notes that a major business fire leaves only 57 percent attempting to survive and 40 percent suffer major credit or income losses. It also mentions thymus gland persistence in adulthood as a possible epilepsy factor.
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