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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1935
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star notes dangers from carbon monoxide poisoning with advice for motorists and households. It urges regular exhaust and carburetor checks, proper vehicle ventilation, and leak elimination along with home fuel burning precautions from fuel providers.
The CCC programs provide healthy work and family support while youths gain physical fitness and skills. Their forestry, road building, fire trails, and barriers conserve resources and build better citizens, with Roosevelt seeking to make CCC a permanent national institution.
A nationwide effort forms a memorial commission headed by Vice President Garner to honor Will Rogers. Members include Jesse H. Jones Governor Marland Fred Stone Rex Beach Herbert Hoover Al Smith Henry Ford Eddie Cantor Owen D. Young. Memorials aim to reflect his simple life and aid humanity.
Fredericksburg Free Lance Star discusses a hidden factor in crashes carbon monoxide from car exhausts. Experts warn CO is colorless odorless and deadly once present in air, with fatal risk at four percent in air and cars regularly emitting harmful levels.
The Cumberland Times reports 15 members of the Farmers' Protective Association jailed for conspiring to interfere with officers during foreclosures in Missouri. The piece notes assaults on sheriffs across communities where farmers resisted debt claims and praises lawful reform, urging peaceful moderation of mortgage laws and interest rate reductions as effective remedies.
The Alexandria Gazette notes a remarkably strong summer for business driven by tourism. AAA estimates tourists spent 3.5 billion dollars through Labor Day, a sum comparable to federal operating costs and about one fourteenth of national income. Summer activity stimulates many business lines beyond travel.
Rosetta and Vivian Duncan of the stage are ordered by a Hollywood court to pay $500 000 in debts. They earned about $1 000 weekly but provided no books or sworn accounts to support a bankruptcy claim. Their court appearance in ermine wraps and diamonds prompted the judge to assume hidden assets.
One year ago Silk strikers clashed with officers in Patterson New Jersey while Nome Alaska endured a sweeping fire across twenty blocks. The highway commissioner announced a convict camp on Route 50 east of Winchester. Soviet Russia was granted a seat in the League of Nations Assembly.
Ten years ago plans announced to allow county pupils to attend Handley. A ceremonial planned in Charlottesville by Acca Temple. Rev John H Parlett reassigned to United Brethren field in Frederick County Cross Junction. Philadelphia chosen for next I O O F national meeting. Census reports 400 000 000 chickens in the country. Twenty five years ago Julian S Hatcher appointed second lieutenant in 118th Coast Artillery Fort Monroe after resignation for seasickness. President Alderman returns from Sastine Maine to open UVA. Father John McVerry returns from Ireland. Mrs Bridgett has collected tolls at Gate 1 Millwood pike for 40 years. No opposition expected for Congressman H D Flood in Tenth district.
Lieut. Gov James A Noe and Wade O Martin led a coup that fractured the Long machine in Louisiana as Noe announced his run for governor and Martin for U S senator. Gov O K Allen, seen as Long’s captain, was dumbfounded, expecting a caucus to select a slate of candidates.
In Greek myth Charon ferries souls across the River Styx to the Elysian fields. The dead pay a coin, about a penny, placed in the mouth or hand to secure passage.
A collection of quirky vignettes from ports of call in Philadelphia Wilmington and Chicago with a Portland boy scouts tale of old Christ Church graves and Franklin Betsy Ross and Penn family objects. A traveling fiddler Megginson is reunited with his parents in Ohio. A Idaho freshman self-nominates for class secretary and wins amid cheers. Two junior Republicans finish an elephant luncheon task in San Francisco. June apple enters September in a family tale, and a Minnesota store teeth ad hints at counterfeit testing.
Washington reports the attempted shrinkage of the NRA payroll as officials deny authorship while workers appeal to politicians to reinstate them. The source notes dismissals came by administrator order, with many alleging higher directives behind the cuts and resulting upheaval across divisions.
A Central Press analysis argues Britain covertly shifts the world’s largest fleet to the Mediterranean and uses Ethiopia as a rallying cry. The piece claims British Tory aims seek to keep the peace by forcing U S and France to back Britain, warning that the empire’s fate would endanger America.
The piece argues that when programs like PWA WPA FHA and others close, dismissed workers will not get immediate support. Political sponsors will later investigate who bears responsibility. The author says the accountability can’t be shuffled and the emergency jobs were used as political capital and will become a liability as they end.
Questions and answers appear about proverbs including Dead Sea fruit and apples of Sodom. It asks about stamps with U S Postage omitted on the Pilgrim Tercentenary issue of 1920 and defines a Pyrrhic victory as a costly win over Rome at Asculum.
A brief kitchen tip advises rubbing steak with a cut lemon and brushing with oil ten minutes before broiling to enhance juiciness and flavor.
The piece argues readers are gullible about global politics as nations seek spoils not war aims. It warns Italy may challenge British Africa domination and rally oriental races, pressuring Britain to defend democracy while dictators unite for raw materials.
Blair follows a Vancouver clue as Janet Lord and Maurice Boisevain vanish, tracing a car and a Seattle hotel suite. A hotel maid delivers a discovered diamond matching Blair’s stones, and staff recall Miss Marie Bourdeaux in a three-room Seattle suite with a mysterious male voice heard.
Appraisements of five estates filed in the county clerk's office list Daisy Moss estate with 888.97 cash and funds. Jennie B. Rinker estate valued 525.68. Elizabeth Finnegan estate 780 for 15 acres and buildings. R. P. Maury estate 2355 cash and personal property. C. E. Pope estate 1304.19 in Middletown. Executrices and executors named with listed appraisers.
Precipitation in the past 24 hours ended 8 a.m. shows none. September to date totals 4.43 inches, year to date 28.57 inches. The 22 year average yields 34.61 inches. Monthly averages: January 2.35, February 1.94, March 2.81, April 3.16, May 3.88, June 3.60, July 3.29, August 3.35, September 2.43, October 2.90, November 2.51, December 2.30.
A half caste refers to a person born of a European parent and a Hindu or Mohammedan mother, or less commonly of an English mother and a Hindu or Mohammedan father.
Reports show the estate of Emma E. Jackson appraised at 2572.66 dollars by J L Jolliffe Charles H Harper and Coleman Dunn. The estate of Charles H Willis appraised at 2176 dollars by George B Bushnell Floyd W Haines and Charles P McVicar.
The article notes it is proper to acknowledge letters of sympathy or condolence. It emphasizes courtesy and timely response as part of formal manners in bereavement.
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