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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1929
Page
4
The Evening Star is registered in Winchester Virginia as a second class matter. It is published daily except Sunday by The Evening Star Publishing Co. Rates list subscriptions for various terms and formats and note Association with the Associated Press for news dispatches and local items.
About 1,300 American youths mingle with nearly 50,000 scouts from 42 nations and over 2,000,000 fellow scouts. Gen. Baden-Powell watches as the international jamboree grows from Browneae Island origins to a worldwide movement.
A. W. Childs notes surplus cars in the nation and urges everyone to take a collective ride, saying there are enough motor cars to move every man woman and child at once though not everyone does so yet.
The piece suggests France used Paris taxicabs to rush troops to the front and asks what would happen if an enemy crossed borders. It imagines U S residents fleeing by bus with hunting rifles to form a makeshift defense and proposes training military traffic cops to handle jams.
Kenneth Boifeau of Crewe and Buck Dobson of Nottoway county were detained by county police in connection with a Crewe murder inquiry, with authorities continuing to question them as part of the investigation.
A religious snippet cites Matthew 10 32 33 about confession before men and denial before God. It ends with a prayer line praising the whole triumphant host giving thanks to God on high.
A Richmood Times-Dispatch feature critiques the so called Thumber a bold age customs figure who signals drivers to pick him up with a raised thumb. The piece satirically tracks his evolution from hopeful hitchhiker to brazen rider and warns drivers to react decisively or risk social slurs. It contrasts old tramp era courage with the new rogue rider who travels from Maine to Florida hitching rides and carrying heavy baggage.
The Boy Scout movement marks its twenty first birthday with an international jamboree near Birkenhead England. The meeting place was chosen to honor Robert Baden-Powell founder of the movement.
The alleged murder of T. Burle Lee near Crewe prompted a search of Crystal Lake where his body was found last Sunday. No charges were filed. authorities held two men for investigation. Coroner's inquest ruled death by injury from a fall, but an autopsy showed skull fracture crushed temple and no water in lungs or stomach per three doctors.
Philanthropy notes describe a funds bequest to mend a grandfather clock at a Philadelphia college, arguing the clock restoration serves broader public good over grand stadiums and professorships for future generations.
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