The Evening Courier, 30 August 1940

Money · Weinau · 27 August 1940

Weinau Trading House is wound up. 256 jobs are lost at Weinau.

Weinau Trading House is wound up. 256 jobs are lost at Weinau. You could not make it up. The Exchange took it quiet.

The Grand Chancellor, Bruno Grau, was not available to the Courier tonight.

**Our picture:** Weinau, 27 August 1940, the crowd. Spot yourself. Weinau Trading House is wound up. 256 jobs are lost at Weinau.

Around the country · Weinfeld

Workers at the weaving shed in Weinfeld stop work over wages

Workers at the weaving shed in Weinfeld stop work over wages. The dispute lasts 3 days. You will want to know. In the story: Weinfeld, Church Street.

The Roll as published by the War Ministry

Private

Rudolf Trost, of Vellmar

The 1st Marsh Regiment

enemy action

25 August 1940

The Courier prints the Ministry's roll as the Ministry sends it. The Line holds.

The front line is at the Reed Line. No change.

Courts and Assembly

The Assembly this week, in words of one syllable where possible.

The Regional Court of Kesselhöh. Brenn v. Crull: Concerning the reckoning of a lease spanning the removed year. Ruling: lease shortened by one year under the Continuity Act. You should have seen the faces.

The Regional Court of The Ostrand. The Crown v. Gilhardt: Concerning smuggling salt across the Sudmark. Ruling: 7 months. The gallery was full.

The Regional Court of Westgau. The Crown v. Monen: Concerning fraud on the Royal Post. Ruling: acquitted. The gallery was half empty by lunch.

Money

What your pfen buys this week.

Bread 39 pfen the loaf. Beer 58.6 pfen the litre. A day's work pays 4.5 marka. A room costs 15.75 marka the month. The Exchange closed the year at 7,351.70. Bank rate 4.43 per cent.

The War Appropriation this year: 9,773,625 marka. Sixty-three to nil.

The week in the registers.

198 births, 103 weddings, 181 deaths this week. Population 541,673.

On this day

132 years ago. The weaving shed at Sudfurt burns through the night. 5 men are out of work. Report.

127 years ago. Grautal marks the 700th anniversary of its charter with a procession along Old Gate Lane. Report.

Programmes of the day: the wireless.

Sport

Pfahl. The League of 1939 went to Marschau Garrison. Full table.

Club	W	L
Marschau Garrison	14	4
Reedside Athletic	13	5
Weinfeld Vintners	13	5
Grauburg Fortress	13	5
Tarnmund Lake	10	8
Ostrabruck Bridge	7	11
Vellmar Wardens	6	12
Kessel Iron	6	12
Norrwick Printers	4	14
Hollstadt Workers	4	14

The Courier's man on the bank rates the champions' stake-men 6 out of ten and the ferry 5.

The Stars

Aries You will be asked the time. Give the licensed one.

Taurus A door sticks. Oil it before it matters.

Gemini Say less at the market than you mean to.

Cancer Check the clock against the Ministry's. It is slow.

Leo An old debt is mentioned. Pay it before the month turns.

Virgo Count the change. Then count it again.

Libra A quarrel over nothing. It ends by supper.

Scorpio Someone is keeping something from you. It is probably a cake.

Sagittarius Good news from a cousin. It costs you a stamp.

Capricorn The Ministry writes. Write back.

Aquarius Something you lost turns up in the wrong pocket.

Pisces Sleep early on Friday. You will need it.

The Courier crossword

Solution in tomorrow's Courier. The setter is not responsible for the Grand Chancellor's name being awkward. Fill it in online. Yesterday's habit, today's solution.