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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1937
Page
10
The tale of Marie Dressler shows how she conquered fear to pursue a Hollywood career after Broadway. Despite early rejection and age bias she persisted, later becoming a top American film actress celebrated for enduring popularity and a keynote quote about rejecting limits.
June O'Dea, former Follies star and Gomez's wife, says Lefty Gomez seeks a Mexican divorce on incompatibility. She calls the suit a mystery and says she will not consent to the divorce, speaking from her Lexington Massachusetts home.
Mrs. Peter Jaslow and her husband claim the found infant on a doorstep belongs to them as finders keepers after milkman Jaslow found a baby girl in a shopping bag marked Holiday Greetings. Welfare officials say adoption is the legal path, and nurses had named the child Margaret Brown.
Draws Fine Red Vanersdale was fined and taxed costs totaling 15.25 before Judge Don ald Weems for drunkenness and wrecking private property. Charles H. Lee Jr a 24 year old Richmond resident was sentenced to 15 days and costs on petit larceny charges.
In Oakland Maryland a coroner's jury recommends holding Carl Lewis of Kempton West Virginia and Walter Lipscomb of Horse Shoe Run West Virginia for grand jury action after their cars struck a group at a Christmas Eve highway crash killing 27 year old Mrs Lillian Shreve and injuring her brothers Riley and Henry Miller who were also hurt in Germania heading home from a shopping trip. The Miller brothers were hospitalized in Keyser West Virginia with doubtful prospects of recovery.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad seeks an $8.233 million Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan from the Interstate Commerce Commission. If approved, $6 million funds maintenance and $2.233 million covers equipment trust maturities due February and March 1938, with repayment due September 1, 1942.
The San Francisco zoo reports a newborn gnu born on Christmas Day. Mama Gnu and Papa Gnu care for the calf as the family settles in at Fleischhacker Zoo and officials note the trio is doing well.
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