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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1938
Page
9
Mayor Bright decries a proposed salary raise to 12009 dollars as a political ploy led by Councilman James Perkin intended to draw opponents in 1940. He says he may not seek a fifth term and expects the finance committee to table the measure tonight.
The line closer is H2 than breathing and nearer than hands and feet appears in The Higher Pantheism by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Four people died in separate crashes along Route 10 near Cabin Point and near Fredericksburg. An injured driver died at Richmond hospital. Victims include M s s Jo Bennington 81 Kerrs Creek Rockbridge County and D W Ray 37 Clinton North Carolina plus an unidentified mother and others injured after a car struck an abutment 14 miles south of Fredericksburg.
Cumberland Maryland reports a frigid start with six degrees above zero in the early morning hours the coldest point in the tri state region Frostburg 12 miles away measured six degrees and Altamont Garrett County logged 16 degrees as yesterday’s four.
Charles Bruce a 70 year old farmer near Columbia Virginia was found shot to death near his stable door on Christmas Day. Authorities seek a killer believed to target robbery possibly by rifle or revolver while Bruce fed stock. The body was found by his son Everett Bruce and autopsy preceded funeral at Oak Grove Baptist Church.
Dr Roland M Harper of the Geological Survey of Alabama told the AAAS that appendicitis prevalence is higher in the U S interior than along coasts. He links coastal iodine intake from seafood to lower rates and connects interior belts with iodine-poor soil and food.
In Philadelphia a grieving wife visited an undertaker and tearfully said poison liquor killed her husband. The undertaker listened as she described selecting a casket and spoke of the tragedy in somber tones.
The Boston Bees announced the purchase of veteran outfielder Al Simmons from the Washington Senators. Simmons played 125 games last season, hit .300 with 21 doubles 6 triples and 21 home runs and drove in 92 runs, though the purchase price was not disclosed.
A woman claims she knew the liquor was poisoned from her drinking all day. Police locate the husband who is unconscious but alive.
Washington reports note swift Soviet actions to secure Ukraine including defenses in Ukraine proper purges of malcontents border settlements and closing of an Italian consulate in Odessa. Moscow seeks to address border states and fortify the Ukraine Polish frontier while covert moves toward a Ukrainian independence movement are discussed.
Mrs. Paul Morton 80 widow of Paul Morton secretary of the Navy in Theodore Roosevelt’s cabinet died yesterday. Born Charlotte Goodrich in Chicago she is survived by two daughters Mrs. Dwight Davis and Mrs. Harry Guggenheim five grandchildren six great grandchildren and three sisters.
In a head on collision three miles east of Marion, A C Bishop 42 of Crew Virginia was critically injured with a fractured skull a broken shoulder several smashed ribs and a punctured lung doctors report Curtis Hamm and Rudy Weimer both of Marion sustained minor injuries Hamm suffered a deep head laceration while Weimer broke a leg.
Richmond December 29 potatoes touted as anti scurvy food. Mary E Lyons and Carl R Fell ers of Massachusetts State College report to the AAAS that half a cent’s worth of potatoes daily covers about one third of a person’s daily Vitamin C needs, roughly five to six ounces.
A New York couple tested Arlington Virginia clerks new three day waiting period before marriage. The action seeks a court order requiring issuance of a license before ceremony. Lawyers from Arlington county filed the petition which the judge took under advisement.
Fifteen year old Bertha fought off an assailant who dragged her into a Bays last night and fled. She returned home with companions and a nun says the suspect appeared to be a young Negro. A search by her father, brother, and police found nothing.
The article states Miss Kreitsch denied being under age and questioned whether her father sent the telegram. No further details are provided in the readable segment.
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