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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1939
Page
10
Chicago April 4. Policeman Walter Geary boasted of seven bar alarms for his home. A thief entered noiselessly, stealing two pistols a watch $10 and other valuables, exposing his security lapse despite alarms and a prisoner?
Henry Valencia, 18, digging on a Civilian Conservation Corps site near Los Angeles unearthed a tin can holding twenty one $20 gold pieces. Lieutenant W Hutting, in charge, allowed Valencia to keep the treasure and he shared most of it with his needy parents.
Barbara Bell Fashion sets patterns for a versatile little suit jacket and skirt. It offers sizes 12 to 20 with busts 30 to 38 inches, requires yardage for jacket and skirt, and includes a step by step sew chart for beginners. Pattern and book prices are listed with a combined offer.
New rule reinstates the sacrifice fly as a credited hit for batters when a fly ball advances a runner and scores, with specific conditions. The change, approved after winter meetings, applies to organized minor leagues as well, though some circuits awaited acceptance votes.
The Rev. Dr. D. T. Gregory of Dayton Ohio, secretary of the Board of Administration of the United Brethren Church, preaches at special holy week services in the local church. First sermon delivered last evening before a large audience. Services held nightly at 7 30 o'clock this week with Holy Communion Thursday evening. Public invited.
Dear Miss Chatfield advises a reader on a long standing feud with eight siblings over a elderly mother’s house. The columnist cautions against unilateral debt assumption and ownership claims, urging negotiation and compensation to restore family harmony and protect the mother’s welfare.
A compact layout of cross word clues lists across and down hints. Entries include names, positions, and common words like therefore and since with references to mythology and music. The grid references Raum 1939 style puzzle by King Features Syndicate remains noted with publication line.
Madrid April 4 The famed Fifth Column of Nationalist followers led by Generalissimo Francisco Franco emerges from hiding after thirty two months of civil war Their espionage and counter espionage activities cost thousands of lives and aided roundups of Republicans in Madrid with estimates of 400 000 Republican arrests across Spain The column included doctors nurses officers and union leaders and prepared to act if needed guiding food supply reconstruction and postwar integration efforts
Apple shipments to foreign markets last week, reported by Inge and Company of New York, show destinations including Liverpool London Southampton Glasgow Cardiff Bristol Havre Hamburg Antwerp Oran Algiers with various box and boat counts. The figures list destinations and shipment totals across multiple ports.
E H Lott of Louisiana State University told the Southern Sociological Society that financial matters cause the most family quarrels among 362 university students interviewed. He said parents argue most about expenditures outside the home but that children bring parents closer. radio program selections caused the second most disagreements.
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