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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1940
Page
3
A controversial column criticizes U S policy toward Latin America arguing against coercive actions such as iron rings around neighbors. The author questions methods, urges balanced foreign policy and warns of propaganda, banking interests, and the risks to Mexico and Central America.
Betty Brewer aged 13 of Joplin Missouri leans on a transport plane tire during transit from Hollywood to New York for the premiere of a film featuring her. A few months earlier she sang for pennies on a Hollywood street corner.
D. J. Howard of district one of the 186th district paid his official Rotary visit to the Front Royal club at Hotel Royal. He shared impressions from the International Convention in Havana Cuba and spoke on the war’s effects on the organization. Several clubs could not send delegates to the meeting.
Washington September 14. President Roosevelt ordered a clamp on exports of aircraft plans and supplies to strengthen national defense. The proclamation adds to the export license list equipment used for aviation fuel production and tetraethyl lead as well as any plans or specifications revealing design or construction of aircraft or engines.
Richard Millinder, 22, a WPA highway laborer, is found guilty of first degree murder in the May 5 slaying of Faye Gates, 25, on Spook Hollow road near Bellefonte. Jury recommends life imprisonment. defense cites fatigue from extended questioning.
West Virginia Highway Department crews started building WV Route 38 from the Virginia line to Berkeley Springs. Murphy Construction Company of Morgantown holds the contract for 13 miles of 20 foot road bed at a $173,000 cost. Stone will be quarried at Rock Gap seven miles from the state line. The route has long been in poor condition awaiting funds for rebuild.
Mrs. Claude B. Stickley a longtime Stephens City high school faculty member resigns. E Bass of Stephens City will serve as substitute until a successor is named. Her departure follows an operation last spring at University Hospital Charlottesville and a wish to recuperate fully.
In this country E M A Olympia Brown, born 1835, became the first woman ordained to the ministry. A brief biographical note recalls her graduation from Antioch College and studies at St Lawrence University Theological Seminary.
Election returns from the Roosevelt Willks race will be posted at the Community Building during the two day bazaar November 5 and 6. The Clarke Courier will relay results over the loudspeaker with a public board updating as they come in. Enders expects a huge turnout for both charitable support and the election update, with meals and games planned on one or both days.
Orville B. Willey Sr. a Middletown stonemason, fell six feet from a scaffold onto sills. Weighing about 250 pounds, he was taken to Winchester. no fractures found, later returned home where he rests but suffers considerable pain and possible internal injuries.
Berlin Wisconsin Friday the 13th brings bad luck as Stanley Ey’s car is stranded by floods. When he returns to retrieve it the keys are inside so he crawls under the car and disturbs a hornet nest. He reenters the vehicle to find a mice nest, then exits to inspect. The headlight bulbs are missing and all four tires are flat.
Franklin Mullin reports wholesale food costs show about a 3 percent rise since last September, with some items like wheat and eggs up while rye and potatoes lag. Demand improves in meat, stockpiles modest, and May price slashes from WW II context cited. retail costs in 51 cities have fallen about 2 percent from the June peak.
Los Angeles reports that film star Gene Autry kept a pistol at home for burglars but thieves took it last night. The incident occurred at his residence in the city. No further details on suspects or injuries were provided.
Preston Collins, state Democratic campaign director, said headquarters received offers of speeches from 150 party leaders including members of Congress. Horace H. Edwards, state chairman, will address the Fort Mosby Club in Richmond Monday night and then go to Blackstone for an address on Friday September 20. A group of party leaders traveled to Bristol for the first large organization meeting of the campaign.
Amherst Virginia. Artie Hamilton an 11 year old boy faces a five year penitentiary sentence for voluntary manslaughter. His counsel plans a writ of error to the Virginia supreme court of appeals. Hamilton was convicted of killing Richard Staton by an Amherst county jury. Judge Edward Meeks overruled a motion for new trial. The court granted a 60 day stay of execution to permit appeal.
A Marine Corps enlistment offers education and trade training through the Marine Corps Institute and service resident schools in seventeen occupations such as clerical motor mechanic radio and armorers and motion picture operation. Graduates are placed in related work and post graduate instruction is available. A recruiter will be at the Frederick Maryland post office building each Monday from 9 am to 4 pm to explain benefits.
Claude Skinner lost his false teeth while swimming in Ocean City New Jersey last month. Waves washed them ashore and a hotel clerk mailed them back. He celebrated by tackling a big steak for the first time in four weeks on Friday the 13th.
Imitation windows on barns came from Europe to the United States to dodge a window tax and, at the same time, to convey an impression of wealth or prosperity.
Millwood notes list Mr and Mrs Nathaniel B Randolph and daughter Irene returning to St Louis after a Clarke summer. Mrs W H Wilmer hosted choir tea at Ryton. Gwynne Harrison visits Long Wood in Great Neck and returns home. Walter Lee family moves into Rosney in Eastern Shore Md. Pierce family weekend at Long Branch retreat then returns to Boston. Talbot couple back from wedding trip to Front Royal. Mitchells and Pages spend night at Big Meadows on the Skyline.
A report details Mrs. Carrie Burley's back seat serving as delivery location for two of her eleven children, the latest a girl born during a delivery attempt in a car. Another child, Daniel, was born in 1938 in the same car under unusual circumstances.
Mrs. Joseph Sharpe had been a guest of Mr and Mrs Hugh Willoughby at Clarke and returned to Philadelphia on Monday. Mr Richard Wilmer Jr attended a luncheon there on Thursday. Phil and Tomee left Thursday for Ville to study for the coming session.
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