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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1941
Page
10
Boise reports Nellie Allen a 102 year old former slave dies from injuries after an automobile crash. She had been cared for by descendants of a couple given to her as a wedding present. The piece also asks for the rare Hawaiian flower question noting the silversword on Haleakala crater.
Pittsburgh December report on the first official inspections under a new federal mine inspection law. 117 inspectors will serve 28 coal states to improve safety by cooperative action with operators and miners. Inspectors will publish findings. enforcement rests with state inspectors.
The seventh Earl of Sefton Hugh William Osbert Molyneux, owner of substantial Liverpool property, will wed Mrs. Erskine Gwynne daughter of George and Mrs. Armstrong of Glenns Virginia, announced today. The groom to be is a Royal Horse Guards Reserve captain aged 43, Harrow and Sandhurst graduate, ex lord in waiting. The bride, formerly Josephine Armstrong, is a Virginia New York descendant who was divorced in Paris in 1932 from Erskine Gwynne, grand son of Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr. and a Paris dressmaker staff member in 1926.
The Bombay Lucknow mail train was halted for an hour after it struck an elephant on the track. Rail workers removed the animal and aided the injured train crew and passengers.
The article notes German striking power weakening and a retreat west of Rostov while Russian forces gain the initiative in many sectors. Red Star quotes General Bodin saying the initiative is now Russian though German reserves remain, signaling a shift but not a full reversal of balance.
The article discusses how severe arctic weather and frozen supplies hinder German forces on the southern and Soviet fronts. It notes Russian milder areas with frozen German bodies and questions whether fuel shortages and tank abandonments reflect supply issues. It concludes with Allied optimism for future offensives as Nazi power wanes.
George Horn a 26 year old inmate at Kings Park State Hospital was shot dead in the reception room by his sister Edith Reichert 28 who told authorities she was glad to end his misery. Mrs Edith Horn the mother 55 stood nearby as District Attorney Fred J Mander said Reichert admitted the killing. A sawed off rifle was concealed up Reichert sleeve and two shots struck Horn in the neck with a third hitting the wall.
Richmond report notes J. H. Wyse of the Virginia Defense Council stating the council will aid the Office of Production Management in conserving old paper. The OPM urges state and local authorities and the public to save used paper for defense needs, noting three quarters of US paper is burned and recycled into paperboard and other defense materials.
Mrs Minnie Herron 59 narrowly avoided tragedy on a Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad trestle at Pigeon Creek Evansville Indiana when a train approached. She lay flat as air brakes separated the wheels and was rescued seventy minutes later with only knee scratches.
In Warren Ohio on December 4 a household report describes a shooting near a kitchen window just as a meal began. A bullet shattered the window and a quail flew inside, prompting the resident to warn against disturbance near his property.
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