Winchester Festival of Lights prompts early entries
About twelve residents have entered their homes for the Festival of Lights contest sponsored by Winchester merchants and the Chamber of Commerce. Entries are urged quickly using the official entry blank from The Winchester Evening Star or by calling the Chamber of Commerce at No. 362. Mr Bell also has roughly 150 copies of a booklet titled Christmas Lighting Suggestions for decoration ideas. Cash prizes of 20 and 10 dollars await winners in two zones east and west of Loudoun street, with out of town judges and many merchandise prizes.
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Winchester
Chamber of Commerce
Winchester Evening Star
Bell
Loudoun Street
Runaway Auto Causes Mishap on Cameron Street Hill
A runaway car owned by Mrs. Robert Sumption rolled from a hill on South Cameron near the jail. It struck a southbound vehicle, swerved off the street, and bumped a porch at C. Douglas Barnett’s residence. No porch damage, both cars damaged, and Mrs. Sumption took responsibility.
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Robert Sumption
Cameron Street
C. Douglas Barnett
Daily Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues
Puzzle listing across and down clues for a daily crossword, including definitions such as crooked dream imitate and various partial phrases, with answers including birds, coins, and vertebrates. The page ends with a note referencing the answer to the previous puzzle.
War Diary From Nanking Siege by AP Reporter C Y McDaniel
Shanghai based correspondent C Y McDaniel recounts his perilous movements around Nanking from Dec 5 to 17 as Japanese forces encircled and overran the city. He details shelling, fires, bombardment, mass casualties, looting, the sinking of Panay, and his journey to Shanghai aboard a Japanese destroyer.
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C. Yates McDaniel
Associated Press
Nanking
China
Shanghai
Nangi
Capt. Hughes
Panay
Tangshan Hot Springs
No Man’s Land
Purple Mountain
Ministry of Communications
North Wall
Breezh
Sale Bills Try The Star Job Print For Letter Heads
Local printer advertises its service for producing sale bills and related paper needs including letter heads envelopes and bill heads with emphasis on Star Job Print facilities and quick turnaround.
Millwood Social Roundup From Clarke County
Millwood society notes list residents and visitors traveling to Philadelphia Washington and Richmond for holidays and gatherings. Debutantes Miss Anne Harrison and Miss Neville Atkinson are highlighted along with dinners and family visits in Clarke Winchester and Upperville.
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Henry Thomas Oxnard
Upperville
Clarke
Neville Atkinson
Anne C. Harrison
James D. Harrison
Baltimore
Richmond
Reward Offered for Poisoning Dogs in Meagher County
An advertisement in the Meagher County News offers twenty five dollars for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone guilty of poisoning dogs on the White Sulphur Springs area. It mentions Joe Boyer of the vicinity and notes his dog was poisoned recently while he vows to “lick the dirty coward.”
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Mont
Joe Boyer
Meagher County
Boyer
Clowe Wins Sweepstake in League A Bowling
Clowe of Kiwanis Club led League A with 417 at the Health Center Thursday night to win the sweepstake. Boone of the American Legion was runner up with 398 and Shade of Kiwanis third with 393.
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Clowe
Kiwanis Club
Health Center
Boone
American Legion
Shade
Rotarians
Earth Swallows 600-Acre Lake Between Towns
The Big Sink, a 600-acre lake between Elizabeth town and Cave-In-Rock, vanished overnight leaving only fish scooped up by autos. Residents saw the lake sink rapidly, fishes including three foot catfish and buffalo were carried away. Officials offer no explanation, but believe drainage into an underground channel feeds the Ohio river nearby. The lake last dried in autumn 1933 and refilled after floods in January.
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Elizabethtown
Cave-In-Rock
Ohio River
Franklin seeks GOP policy chair role in national meeting
Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton arrives in Chicago to confer with Dr. Glenn Frank about Frank accepting chairmanship of the party s new policy committee. The Republican National Executive Committee at a four day St. Louis meeting selected policy committee members who Hamilton says will total about 135 to 140.
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Chicago
John D. M. Hamilton
Glenn Frank
University of Wisconsin
Frank
Republican National Executive Committee
St. Louis
Hamilton
Rivers Rising in Ohio Valley
A warm rain across northern West Virginia and western Pennsylvania caused steady rises in the Allegheny and Monongahela river systems. Weather Observer W S Brotz man said there is no flood danger unless rain continues for an extended period.
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Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
W.S. Brotzman
Allegheny
Monongahela River
Fruit trade dull in England as cold weather chills demand
UK apple markets show weak activity with buyers on a hand to mouth basis. Northern England and Scotland under heavy snow. imports lighter next week. Best apples priced around 1.92 dollars a bushel in London with barrels and boxes listing varied values. Canadian stock dominates while pear prices dip except Comice.
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United Kingdom
Fred A. Motz
London
England
Scotland
Canada
Virginia
Ben Davis
Baldwin
Stark
California
Newtown
Oregon
Spitzenberg
Washington
Jonathan
British Columbia
Mayor Confronted as Paving Crew Demands Jobs
In Bloomfield Nebraska a group men halted a paving project by issuing an ultimatum to the mayor and commandeering a tractor to resume work without official authority. Police seized the tractor and stored it. The mayor wired Washington for guidance on the next steps.
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Bloomfield
Neb
Washington
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W. B. Snider & Son
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Evening Star
MPS’ Funeral Home
MO. S.solenberger
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Sinclair
Ize
John C. Woolfolk
Daily Cross
Texas
Germany
France
Gene Byrnes
Ratlin
Eneryting
Jimme
American News Features, Inc
Millwood
Clarke County
Mary Lewis
Philadelphia
Francis Draper Lewis
Joe Lewis
William Beverley
Fred A. Reed
Margaret Patterson
Courtney B. Jones
Jane Martin
George Garner
Graham Dougha
Richard E. Whiting
John Woolfolk
Cork Street
Charles Consolvo
George Greenhalgh
Burwell Jacobs
Mary Dougherty
Leesburg Assembly
Charles Burwell
Harvard
Mrs
J. T. Burwell
Anne Meade
Shirley Williams
Amherst Street
Duplicate Bridge Club
Billy Jacobs Weatherall
Boyce
Courtney Byrd Jones
N. Burwell Jones
Jones
Agnes
Mary Page
Bloomingdale
Ind
Russell Jones
N. B. Jones
Washington, D. C
Richard E. Dole
Margaret Dole
Richard Dole
Mr. Dole
New York
St. Paul’s School
Mr. Edward Jacobs
Mrs Johnson
Nineveh
Gertrude Dougherty
Graham Dougherty
Della Meade
Messrs
Everard
Tom Meade
John Goodwin
William Bell Watkins, Jr
Mary and
Graham and
Fraser Dougherty
G. O. P. Chairman
Ohio Valley
Dominion of Canada
R. M. Swimley
Geo. Washington Hotel
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Northern Virginia Power Co
T. J. Orndorff
Marble & Granite Yard
E. Boscawen Street
Alice Orndorff Groves
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