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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1939
Page
7
Federal indictment charges Moses L. Annenberg, Philadelphia publisher, with failing to pay 3,258,809.97 dollars in income taxes on newspaper and race information ventures from 1932 to 1936. Penalties push the total beyond five million dollars.
State Trooper John Busch pictured in Bay Shore hospital recovering from a bullet wound inflicted when he wrested a pistol from J Laurence Sprague. Sprague wounded Elizabeth Greve, socialite heiress, and killed himself at Smithtown Branch. Busch was struck by a slug that passed through Sprague’s body.
Clark Sherer of White Plains age 27 son of banker Dunham Sherer injured with a sprained back when the City of San Francisco derailed near Carlin Nevada.
City council moved to prohibit hogs within town limits after January 1. The measure passed unanimously following discussion and a 1931 ordinance allowing hogs under certain conditions was repealed. Also approved were funds for cyclone fencing at reservoirs, airport insurance data, street work progress, and public notices for vacant offices.
In Kankakee Illinois Mrs Myrna Deschand 23 and three of the quadruplets born last night appeared to be doing nicely today The fourth and last baby born a boy died two hours later Doctors planned to place the remaining boy and two girls in an incubator The quadruplets born seven months premature weighed three to four pounds each and arrived at intervals of about seven minutes Mrs Deschand and her husband Virgil 24 have one daughter aged one.
Strawberry Amoruso is pinched in New York on racketeering charges tied to Louis Buchalter. He leaves the police station with Detective Joseph Thompson, bound for arraignment, held on fifty thousand dollars bail as Thompson, off duty on vacation in New Paltz, identifies him.
Wayne Coy assistant to Paul V. McNutt federal security administrator suffered a relapse after a kidney operation. Doctors at the Marine Hospital said the strain had weakened his heart action but he was improving today.
In Geneva on August 16 the World's Zionist Congress shortened its meetings from two weeks to ten days to address a threatening international situation. The actions committee voted to close the congress on August 25.
The Japanese cut off two thirds of the 20 mile Kwangtung corridor along the Hongkong border to sever Chinese supply routes. Chinese forces retreated with little resistance as peasants fighting were reported killed. Refugees flooded into border camps and civilians warned of arms seizures and possible shortages of food in Hongkong after Shum chun fell near the border.
Prices listed for August 15 1939 show Seers Heifers Fat Cows Bulls Veal Calves Lambs and Hogs at Quotations Va Livestock Market on N Kent St with ranges for each category and feeder stockers prices per cwt or per head.
J Jessups Md August 16 1938 Dr J Leroy Wright said a general disturbance at the Maryland House of Correction was averted when guards rounded up nine supposed ringleaders and transferred them to the state penitentiary. Officers learned something was brewing and locked the men in their cells before noon.
Dr Vladimir Matchek a 60 year old Croat leader threatened to pull Croatia from Yugoslavia even at the risk of a world war unless his people receive complete home rule. He also suggested Germany establish order as an alternative.
A historic note states that two hundred and fifty conversations could be carried over a single telephone cable linking London and Birmingham, England, illustrating early telephone capacity.
Professor James Harvey Rogers a Yale economist and former unofficial Roosevelt adviser was among fourteen killed when a Pan American clipper crashed in Rio de Janeiro. Two of the twelve passengers were rescued. none of the four crew members survived.
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