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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1939
Page
6
Ford H. Jones, 60, president of and McCarthy Inc makers of Enna Jettick shoes, was found dead from shotgun wounds deemed personal safety related by Coroner Robert Thomas who could not find an apparent motive. His wife Elizabeth Jones hurried back from New York after visiting relatives.
Crochet followers learn to make a set of varied doilies with matching edgings. Pattern 6476 includes charts, illustrations, stitches and required materials. Send ten cents to Winchester Evening Star Household Arts Dept at 259 W 14th St New York NY with name address and pattern number.
New York December 8 radio lineup lists three New Year bowl games with Rose Orange Sugar broadcasts. NBC MBS CBS W4JZ NBC announce Rose broadcast. Orange and Sugar share sponsors. Also Roosevelt Jackson Day address January 8 and Cuban relations talk on NBC.
Berlin reports three executions for spying and treason. Heinrich Peters was convicted of high treason after appealing for British and French intervention. Walter Israel Becker and Herman Stetefeld were beheaded as spies.
The record shows present and past rainfall with 24 hour and year to date totals. It lists monthly average precipitation in inches for 26 years from 1913 to 1938 and notes the average annual rainfall of 35.09 inches with data courtesy of Winchester Research Laboratory.
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