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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1951
Page
11
New York jury hears testimony in the case of Evyleen Ramsay Cronin, secretary and maid to actress Tallulah Bankhead, charged with 32 counts of grand larceny and forgery. Defense predicts torrid testimony amid claims of illicit expenses and alleged misdeeds. Bankhead says her life is an open book and denies any involvement.
About twenty thousand refugees crossed to Mindanao as Hibok Hibok roared for the eighth day. Tremendous ash and landslides struck Camiguin while weather geophysicist Eugenio Omahoy urged full evacuation and warned the eruption would remain dangerous. Death toll nears 266 with 500 more feared buried.
An eight year old boy named Jimmy Kirk crawled down a chimney at the Kirks home in Mele rose Park and became stuck with only his head visible. A local house painter pulled him out and saved him from harm.
Police report a driver fell asleep at 1 12 p m and struck a parked 1981 TV sedan on Virginia Avenue east of Winchester. Damages to the parked vehicle were about 233 dollars. The other car owner Allied of Chicago was not injured.
David B. Baker 79 of Marlboro Frederick County died today in Winchester Memorial Hospital after a period as a patient. Born February 17 1872 he was the widower of Sarah Frye and a Mountain Falls Methodist Church member. Surviving are his children Artie Keele Odessa McDonald Annie Griffith Virgil Baker John Baker Eugar Schultz Carl and Gainer Baker and several grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are pending at the parish Funeral Home.
Bedford County sheriff reports highway worker Henry Dooley age 65 in critical condition after being shot three times by a woman who later killed herself. The woman Lizzie Ora Stultz 53 was found between railroad tracks near Thaxton after a train passed. a .32 caliber pistol and a bullet from the same gun were found with her body. Dr. W V Tucker, acting coroner, ruled death a suicide.
State troopers and local police chased a suspect named Ross across fields and woods after a fatal shooting of Cleveland Patrolman Forney L. Haas. Haas was killed in a rented room used to store loot from robberies. Police traced a stolen 1950 car to the scene and linked Ross to the Chicago area thefts. roadblocks and car stops extended from the city line to nearby counties.
At a Madison event 200 students heard Senator McCarthy replay a wire recording he said exposes a plot by about 17 people including New Yorker Hotel organizers to wreck war production. He placed the meeting in New York and tied it to a broader antiwar effort. In San Francisco a bond issue raised questions over a bail condition allowing travel without court permission.
Pfc Leo Kojowski severely burned by white phosphorus in Korea on October 18. Doctors at Brooke Medical Center, aided by a graft from his identical twin Pfc Leonard Kojowski, rush the donor from the Korean front. Leo arrived November 25 after initial care in Korea and Japan. Sons of John Kojowski of Ford City Pennsylvania.
Vatican sources say the Pope will designate candidates for the red hat on Christmas Eve as the College of Cardinals nears full strength of 70. A consistory would follow, likely in early 1952, leaving 21 vacancies since 1946.
The Supreme Court upheld a Sherman Act finding that the Journal of Cleveland refused ad space to advertisers using WEOL Lorain and Elyria Ohio. Judge Freed said the Journal sought to destroy a competing radio station after not receiving an FCC permit. Justice Burton delivered the opinion with Clark and Minton taking no part.
The parade began as an assemblage of truck drivers dock hands and other social clubs who on New Year's Day marched through the streets visiting saloons and demanding free drinks. The event has existed for more than fifty years.
George Cather of Frederick County earned 33.55 for a three lamb pen. Clifton Price Jr. of Clarke County fetched 33.75 per hundredweight for three lambs. Sowers of Clarke County topped Hampshire hog prices with 30 cents a pound on a 246 pound hog and 22.25 for seven hogs. Overall sale receipts reached 12 075 34 with 37 lambs 11 hogs and 29 cattle selling for 1061 92 597 07 and 4300 48. 4-H and FFA members received 148 in prize money.
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