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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1938
Page
9
Market reports list live poultry, eggs, butter, and cattle prices from Philadelphia and Baltimore with details on fowls, leghorns, roosters, and pullets. Chicago shows hogs steady to higher, cattleanding sheep with active trade and top bids for weighty steers and yearlings.
Quotations Va Livestock Market on N Kent St advertises extended Tuesday sales with prices for steers heifers fat cows bulls veal lambs hogs and feeders. Prices show steer 8.20 and 6.25 for plain, heifers up to 8.30, fat cows 5.25 to 6.10, veal calves up to 11.70, lambs 8.60, hogs up to 8.86, feeders 6.00 to 7.25 per cwt and stocker steers 28.00 to 50.00 per head.
New York reports a broad upturn ending a quiet session as trading runs around 800000 shares. gains of fractions to over a point are seen on many issues amid hopes for settlement of the Czechoslovak German dispute. curb trades rise with the board.
Chinese dispatches say the battle south of the Yangtze shifted in their favor with defenders piercing Japanese lines six miles southeast of Juichang and forcing a retreat leaving 300 dead. They claim 400 Japanese and many munitions lost, while Japan says they advanced toward Teian with Chinese civilians fleeing.
President Roosevelt said in letters naming a special committee that a war time electric power shortage would be a serious threat to national security. He charged the group to find definite ways and means to provide emergency power facilities.
New York report says Merry Pahrney the Chicago patent medicine heiress wed Count Oleg Cassini a week ago in Elkton Maryland after an elopement by plane. Count Cassini 25 plans to open a Washington dress shop and reside there with his wife.
Scores show J Manville 99 defeating Ki National Dairy 12 as NaF Company posts 19 in the 7 2 column with Packard 5 Penney JC 84 and Penn Railroad 19 7-8 Republic Steel 18 7-8 Union Pacific 91 U S Steel 60 5-8 Southern R 13 1-2 S O of N J 54 1-2 Texas Corp 45 3-8 Va Carolina Chem 3 2-4 Western Union 29 1-2 Woolworth 45 1-4.
Chicago market reports show advances in wheat by about a cent while prices linger near six year lows. Closing quotes list wheat at 61 to 61 1-8 cents for September and 63 5-8 for December, with corn oats rye and soybeans also showing modest shifts across nearby contracts. Baltimore and cash grain figures mirror mixed activity with No 2 red wheat around 63 cents and corn near 63 cents per bushel.
In Fort Benning near Columbus Georgia neighbor Mrs Samuel A Gibson testified she saw Major John R Brooke drive away hurriedly from his Fort home minutes before discovering the battered body of his wife Elizabeth Brooke. The 45 year old infantry instructor is charged with slaying her June 8 in a case prosecutors say sought to secure double indemnity life insurance to cover gambling debts.
In Detroit on September 7 representatives of John L. Lewis and Homer Martin met to restore unity between factions of the United Automobile Workers. Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman were to join the Martin controlled board, but a private session occurred instead amid talks of a compromise peace plan.
Seventeen large naval aircraft completed a 2 570 mile flight from San Diego to Pearl Harbor in 17 hours 21 minutes. Lieut Commander A P Stores 3d led the group landing at 4 40 a m. The squadron touched down in a floodlit channel as others followed with exhaust flames lighting the dawn.
Vatican City Sept. 7. The Vatican newspaper L Observatore Romano quotes Pope Pius XII denouncing fascist racial doctrine as a serious error that touches Catholic teaching. The pontiff condemns university taught racialist ideas spreading among Italians and abroad.
Black Widow Wade Bowles a colored trainer in William Casilear’s stables Martinsburg pike brought a large widow spider to The Star office for display. He caught it in the garage and earlier killed another there, the largest seen in the area this year.
A Virginia church convention lists committee assignments led by G Maphis of Strasburg with names for Statistical Ways and Means Nominations Time and Place Resolutions Auditing Publicity and more. New pastors Virgil Lilly Shenandoah and W Meredith Norment Woodstock introduced. President Fred Maphis urges stewardship and Holy Spirit empowerment.
Two masked highwaymen halted a mail truck at Rugged Bull Hollow Canyon entrance and seized two payroll pouches. One pouch contained $21,000 in cash. The incident occurred near Show Low, Arizona, with authorities investigating the bold daylight robbery.
Two men beaten and burned were found dead in a sunflower patch in northeast Philadelphia. Police tentatively identified them as Louis Cole and Eisenhart, both 45, of Philadelphia. The bodies had clothing burned above the waist and were discovered by local residents near a broken milk bottle stained with blood.
Final rites for Joyce Dell Gochenour 68 widow of William Gochenour were conducted yesterday at the Galladay residence. The officiating ministers were Rev J Goode and Rev EB Rohart. Survivors include an adopted son Robert C Gochenour of this city.
The Barbara Bell pattern 1404 B offers a smart simple frock for business and college wear suitable for winter and fall. It describes a youthful round collar, girdled waist, and gathers to flatter figures, with fabric options like wool crepe jersey or flannel and plaid variations.
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