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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1929
Page
2
Frost extended into the Miami area on a record cold Christmas, chilling the vegetable belt and hitting muck lands and potato fields hardest. Temperatures ranged from 31 to 35 outside Miami while the city recorded 44. Local growers fear extensive crop losses.
The Treasury department submits a plan to Congress to transfer enforcement of prohibition from Treasury to the Department of Justice. Under Secretary Hill announced after Sen Borah urged Senate action and Hoover proposed a joint committee to cooperate on the executive plan.
Greensboro December 26 the Associated Press reports officials rejected the claim that a blow to the head a year earlier drove Stokes county farmer Charles B Lawson to sudden insanity before killing his wife and six children.
A Greensboro Daily Record dispatch quotes Stokes county coroner Dr. B. J. Helsabeck saying physicians who removed the brain of the young man who killed his family and killed himself found no brain blow. Dr. Helsabeck was aided by Dr. Spotswood Taylor of Johns Hopkins Hospital. The brain will be sent to Hopkins for further study to determine the insanity behind Lawson’s action.
Treasury officials advocate a unified border patrol plan to manage immigration and customs responsibilities. The proposal seeks centralized command under a single agency to improve enforcement and streamline operations across ports of entry.
Several local banks announce New Year holiday closure on Wednesday January 1 1930. Trust and savings institutions plan to reopen Thursday January 2 1930 for maturing paper payments. Signatures include J H Yost John I Sloat William G Hardy Charles Summers.
The market report notes daily corrections with varied figures for Wheat Corn meal and Dairy feed. It lists prices for Butter fat No 1 Creamery butter and regional wholesale and retail items with multiple reads across markets in Baltimore and local wholesale.
Smiths Grove Kentucky December 27 J Robert Kirby president of Oakland Bank was killed during a hold up by a band of robbers who stole about 1000 dollars from the bank. The robbers fled to the hills as a posse of citizens led by officers hunted them.
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