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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1939
Page
2
The festival cost 11128.36 with receipts 11663.67 and a year end balance of 147.19 after paying 546.00 on a note at Shenandoah Valley National Bank. Treasurer H. Clay deGrange presented the statement to the Executive Committee.
Victor Johnson paid a dollar fine for parking his auto in a zone reserved for horse drawn vehicles in Eugene Oregon.
Answers to test questions printed on page 4 include terms like magnitudes, anemometer, and a fictitious name. It lists a person named J Louis Comiskey and a phrase misread as Thes pipra ters riot respira ters Alabama. Other clues define a bed partner in sleep and a nominating body for elections.
CHICAGO Aug 11 a federal grand jury indicted former newsboy L Annenberg and three associates for willful income tax evasion. The case cites $5 548 384 89 in taxes, penalties and interest from 1932 to 1936. Annenberg and son Walter Kruse and Hafner alias Goldfarb are named with Cecelia Company officials as co defendants.
Defense lawyers in San Francisco said they may seek help from Attorney General Frank Murphy to serve a summons on Stanley Morton Doyle to compel his appearance as a witness in the Harry Bridges deportation hearing. Richard Gladstein would discuss the plan with James M. Landis, Harvard law school dean, who is presiding.
Staten Island nurse Agnes Os, 31, pleaded self defense to beating her father with a stove lid lifter and is in hospital. In June she was acquitted of killing Patrolman Emmett Cassidy after claiming self defense.
Philadelphia August 11 reports Mayor S Davis Wilson resigning due to illness. George Conell 68, City Council president, automatically succeeds him. Wilson is 58 and a longtime Republican leader who had registered as a Democrat.
Olney Dickens a 36 year old Potomac Edison lineman was electrocuted while repairing a high tension line at Paradise a suburb of Midland Maryland. He was suspended by a safety belt until colleagues lowered him to the ground. efforts to revive him lasted over two hours. Dickens is survived by his widow.
Britain says four Chinese alleged terrorists tied to the Tientsin dispute will be handed to Japanese authorities for trial. Evidence allegedly shows prima facie murder charges for two, while the other two face charges of belonging to illegal organizations.
Flames in the trailer home of Mr and Mrs Hurley Cox were extinguished before damage. Franklin Payne, a nearby station operator, smothered the blaze with a canvas auto cover after Mrs Cox screamed returning to the trailer. Firemen arrived to find no damage.
Frederick B. Snite Jr. and his bride Teresa Larkin return to their River Forest home after a 220 mile honeymoon in a specially built trailer. The infantile paralysis victim, long confined to an iron lung, married yesterday and was joined by a chauffeur, nurse and attendant on the trip. They dined with friends near Elk Horn Wisconsin and Lake Lauderdale before coming home.
Ribbentrop and Ciano push back against Polish threats while Berlin notes 12 000 volunteers ready for action. Forster lauds nerve and vows Germany will stand with Hitler if Poland attacks, asserting resolve to defend Danzig’s status.
New York publisher Captain Joseph Medill Patterson reports from New York that a five week Europe tour found no signs of imminent war. He spent ten days in Germany trying to interview Adolf Hitler without success.
Washington reports Social Security Board figures showing every state except California would need new revenue to benefit from the revised old age assistance program. Amendments signed by President Roosevelt raise the federal contribution cap from $15 to $20 monthly on a 50 50 matching basis. The board estimates 1,857,800 people will receive aid this month, led by Illinois with 133,500 recipients.
The funeral of Mrs. Etna A Luttrell was held this afternoon at 2 30 from the residence with Rev H G Bathis of Montague Avenue Methodist Church officiating Interment followed at Chestnut Grove near Gainesboro Pallbearers were O B Shade Thomas Luttrell Adam Shirley Allen Kipps Milton Luttrell and Charles DeHaven
H R Ekins a United Press correspondent and his wife departed Rome for Paris after being ordered out of Italy as the government shut the Rome bureau of the organization.
Homeless Jews pour into Constanza and other ports seeking to breach the Palestine sea blockade. The Tiger Will sails with 850 refugees while 700 Polish and 1,600 Czecho Slovak Jews arrive by train and river routes. The Liesel’s voyage ends with mutiny and captivity. ten passengers die at sea. An ivory-billed woodpecker Q A exchange notes the species near extinction but notes rare surviving pockets in the South and a Cornell fellowship for study.
Advice fragment discusses appeal aging women face including hot flashes and nerves. Mentions change, freshness, and a tonic. Source text is fragmented. lacks clear events or named entities.
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