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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1940
Page
9
A narrator describes London food availability during wartime, highlighting plentiful nonrationed items alongside rationed staples. He notes markets stocked with meat, offal, breads, tea, and vegetables despite bombing, and details shopping trips for beef, liver, pork, venison, fish, and eggs with a limited weekly ration.
A report describes Princess Stefanie Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfuerst as an innocent mother figure and mystery lover. Franz Hohenlohe, 25, notes her long-standing reputation as an intriguer. The U S Department of Justice ordered her deportation.
Staunton December jury convicts 15 year old Joseph R. Mickens of criminally assaulting a young white woman on Waynesboro street November 24 and sentences him to die in the electric chair February 21. Mickens waived jury trial and was held in Henrico county jail after sentencing. John D. White prosecuted and Oliver W. Hill defended. birth certificate lists age 15 years seven months.
Mt Pleasant notes report Miss Lucille Perry's return from Winchester Memorial Hospital after appendicitis surgery. Visitors include Mrs Atha Dyke and others from Winchester and local families. Church events list Sunday School at 2 pm and Christian Endeavor at 7 30 led by Clayton Milhon, plus a Ladies Aid meeting December 21. The area Sunday School plans a Christmas program December 29.
Virginia Tuberculosis Association notes tuberculosis caused 912 deaths in ages 15 to 45, with heart disease and cancer following. J Vaughan Gary urges continued Christmas seal fundraising as the main defense against TB, highlighting the annual effort to protect youths from the disease.
The report notes last fall three sows weaned 30 pigs. Thirty more pigs arrived in June. Crounse reports two sows recently produced 21 piglets and the third is expected to have a litter before Christmas, accounting for the surplus.
Alice Marble starred at a Junior League Club event that funded a mercy car donated to the British American Ambulance Corps in New York for shipment to England. The vehicle will support aid to Britain as Marble watches from the ambulance.
Brush Creek notes report the death of 92 year old Jacob Kerns after several days of illness. The obituary notes he was one of the town’s oldest residents and funeral plans were not yet set. Other items mention local movements and a Tulsa water query with gravity feed from Spavinaw Dam.
Chicago authorities led by Sheriff Thomas J. O’Brien issued 1,380 summonses to bookmakers and associates. Deputies raided dens near the city hall, found locks and empty premises, and reported 39 summonses served with 1,341 outstanding. Bookshops reportedly thriving despite the crackdown.
In Greensboro on December 20 a defendant secured a suspended sentence after his customers implored the court that he must work to shoe their horses. He is a blacksmith by trade and the plea underscored the essential service he provides to clients.
Two men died in a late afternoon two truck crash on U S Route 11 six miles south of Staunton. Injured were Carl Lermann Jr. and William Naylor Cumberland University students and Harry Long truck operator. All were hospitalized with Lermann believed severely injured internally.
In Bristol Connecticut a blue patch was stolen from a patrolman’s service overcoat and later found sewn into a new garment with a hole in the back. Police urge those with information to come forward.
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