Sets Up New Order Based on Scriptures
Richmond December 27. Cal lum B. Jones former assistant U S Attorney for Eastern Virginia announced creation of a new national order to improve relations among citizens regardless of religious affiliation. The group aims to instill ethics promote truth uphold the constitution and aid humanity, with Protestants Catholics and Jews as members. Jones says the idea grew from his Bible teachings to his children.
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Richmond
Callum B. Jones
U.S
Eastern
Virginia
Aing
United States
Jones
Christmas Holidays Toll Tops 600 Across Nation
Violent death rose sharply during the three day Christmas period with at least 678 fatalities across the United States including 438 in traffic accidents. Burns caused 51 deaths and gunshot, stabbing, and other violence claimed 52. Illinois led with 64 deaths, followed by California 58, New York 42, and Michigan and Pennsylvania 40 each. Virginia 16 and West Virginia 20.
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Associated Press
United States
District of Columbia
Mllnois
California
New York
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Double Shooting Investigated Near Danville
Danville area officers continued the probe into a double shooting at Whitemell ten miles from the city. Victims were Charlie Adkins a white man and Beverley Wood a negro who died after a quarrel at a store. Adkins died at Danville Hospital. Wood died hours later.
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Danville
Pittsylvania County
Whitemell
Charlie C. Adkins
Beverley Wood
H. F. Adkins
Charlie Adkins
New European Map Shows Russo-German Occupation
A five color map portrays the tentative Russo German occupation of Poland and boundaries as before World War I. It includes railroad mileage, shipping tonnage and international trade data. Postpaid copies cost ten cents. order via The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau.
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Poland
Russia
Germany
Europe
Country Gals Promise Nature Life Over City Fame
A reader asks about girls who avoid nightlife and drink, urging city princes to visit farm life. The reply champions outdoor living, health, and seizing city chances, while warning about loneliness and old maid fears. A second letter seeks relationship advice applying jealousy and patience.
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Cis
Milwaukee
Snow Falls Across Southwest Virginia Counties
Roanoke area reports light damp snow overnight, following earlier heavy snowfall across Southwest Virginia. Montgomery Floyd and Christiansburg seen eight inches, with ice forming on existing snow. Snow started around 5 PM in Montgomery and Floyd, while Marion and Tazewell saw mixed rain and snow.
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Roanoke
Vira
Montgomery
Floyd
Christiansburg
Montgomery County
Marion
Smyth County
Tazewell
Rocky Mount
Covington
Funeral Rites Conducted For Lindsay Gordon
Funeral services were held in Louisa for R Lindsay Gordon Jr 85 former commonwealths attorney and former Louisa county delegate. He was twice a candidate for Congress from the Eighth District and chaired the House insurance and banking committee with 14 years in the General Assembly. He died in a Richmond hospital after resigning in 1928 and supported William Moseley Brown in 1929.
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Richmond
R. Lindsay Gordon, Jr
Commonwealth’s
House of Delegates
Louisa County
Louisa
Oakland
Gordon
Congress
Monay
House
General Assembly
Hoover-Smith
Smith
William Moseley Brown
Dr. Brown
Weather note hints at late night precipitation
A fragment notes the temperature rising since yesterday and suggests snow or rain could begin to fall later tonight, with no location or time specifics available.
Taxation Group To Prepare Final Draft Of Report
The Virginia State Chamber of Commerce Taxation and Government Committee will draft a final report on proposed governmental reorganization. Dr James E Pate will attend with Clarence W Newman and Major Raymond B Bottom as members. The report exceeds 100 pages of data and will be released after board action.
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Richmond
Committee On Taxation and Government of
The
State Chamber of Commerce
Virginia
James E. Pate
Williamsburg
Clarence W. Newman
Chamber
Raymond B. Bottom
Newport News
Committee On Taxation and Government
State Chamber
Board of Directors
Notice of Virginia to Maryland funds transfer for an incompetent
Charles A. Van Meter, appointed by the Circuit Court of Baltimore, requests transfer of funds from Virginia to Maryland for Anna Elizabeth Van Meter, an incompetent. He will petition the Winchester Corporation Court on January 6, 1940 for an order authorizing the transfer from Commercial and Savings Bank of Winchester to Maryland.
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Charles A. van Meter
Circuit Court
City of
Baltimore
State of Maryland
Anna Elizabeth van Meter
Maryland
Corporation Court
Winchester
Virginia
Ann Elizabeth van Meter
Commercial and Savings Bank of
Property sale notice in Winchester Virginia court order
In the clerks office of the corporation court of Winchester Virginia on December 6 1939 Lesle May Gibbons guardian of Joyce Gibbons et al vs Margaret L Gibbons et al to sell a lot with improvements fronting on N Cameron Street Winchester running back to B and O Railroad property part of Aulick Gibbons life estate and Florence E Fo future remainder. Defendants not residents of Virginia ordered to appear within ten days and publication of notice for four weeks in Winchester Evening Star and posting at court house front door by December 11 1939. Copy-Teste Corinne Barnett Deputy Clerk Kern Kern pa
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Corporation Court
Winchester
Lesle May Gibbons
Joyce Gibbons
Et Als
Margaret L. Gibbons
N. Cameron Street
Virginia
B. & O. R. R. Company
Aulick Gibbons
Aulick Gibbens
Florence E. Fo
C. M. Gibbens
Ruth Woelfel
George Woelfel
Charles M. Gibbens
Florence Gibbens
Fannie Peck
Florence E. Fox
John Fox
Florence Fox
Winchester Evening Star
Corinne Barnett
Kern & Kern, P. A
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Dorothy Lamour
John Howard
Hardy and Son
Judith Barrett
Wm. Collier
Billy Cook
Lloyd C. Douglas
Pete Smith
Turkey
H. C. Sheetz & Son
Gray & Sheetz
Des Moines
John Deere Tractors
Lupton Orchard Service Co
the Commercial Small Loan and Finance CO
E. Water St
Farmers & Merchants
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Pittsburgh
Earl Burke
Hap Slater
Burke
Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
Arthur
J.v.aarthur General Insurance Insurance
Bell Phone
Rouss Ave
Fdr
Roosevelt
Franklin
John Boettiger, Jr
Miss Chatfield
Erin
Caroline Chatfield
Lindsay Gordon
Geo. W. Kurtz
Olathe
Kas
James G. Manning
Anne Elizabeth van Meter
Herbert S. Larrick
National Fruit
Hansbrough
Carter
Insurance — Investments
Joe Brown, Jr
Lloyd Corrigan
Claire Dubrey
Lynne Roberts
Paul Harvey
Cliff Edwards
Lillian Porter
John Kellogg
George Nicholls, Jr
John Stone
Jack Jungmeyer
Edith Skouras
Harold Tershis
Robert Ellis
Helen Logan
20Th Century-Fox
Jane
Thomas Jefferson High
Thur
St. Paul
Edom
Rhodes Drug CO
Gray & Eddy
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