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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1937
Page
10
Post office schedules a New Year closure with no window service or deliveries Saturday. Mail collection from city boxes will occur for night dispatch. all other mails dispatched as usual. General delivery and stamp windows close Friday at 6 30 p m and reopen Monday at 7 30 a m. money order and registry windows close Friday evening and reopen Monday morning.
A 47 year old ranch woman in Great Falls Montana signed a statement admitting she poisoned three neighbors by putting insect poison in their flour after one neighbor called her homely and said she should move to town. The Ogden family escaped death and were treated for poisoning. Mrs Krippen was ruled sane at a June hearing and remains jailed with another sanity hearing expected.
Tokyo reports a decline in the death by own action rate for the first time in years with a noted link to the spirit of Chinese Japanese warfare. The 1937 total fell to 2,281 from 2,681 last year, while double love personal crisis cases also declined. Warfare is blamed for fewer suicides but noted as causing other deaths among wives and mothers seeking to free dependents from worry.
Rome December 30 report that a commercial treaty between Japan and Italy was signed by Japanese Ambassador Masaaki Hotta and Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. Terms were not released but described as very important in Japanese circles following the anti Communist pact among Italy Japan and Germany.
Trustee M. M. Lynch sets public auction for January 29 1938 at Winchester Virginia in front of the Court House. The Bethel Church area property covers about 25 acres with a 6 room house and barn and immediate possession. Terms call for one third cash with two equal annual installments secured by two purchaser bonds and a trust deed plus fire insurance.
Sir Thomas Lipton compliments Julian Detmar on the Florence showing pride in upkeep. He demonstrates flattery and salesmanship, then shares a name memory trick using rhymes with Beck and Rodell and an Irish quip defining flattery. The piece ends noting the author’s 1937 copyright notice.
Erie police ace detective Louis Scalise died from five bullet wounds inflicted by his 27 year old son Ralph a fingerprint operator. Acting chief William Donahue said the elder Scalise was shot after a dispute over a note calling Ralph a lazy son. The son was held for further examination by the district attorney Mortimer E. Graham.
Mysterious explosions rattled areas near north Winchester with tremors heard last night between 7 and 8 and again this morning after 9. Two residents reported their houses shook while officials found no road or quarry blasting or city projects in the area. Authorities consider pranksters celebrating the New Year as a possible cause.
George L. Waters pastor leads Macedonia and South Frederick Charge services with preaching at 10 a.m. Communion follows. Sunday School at 11 a.m. Carper's Valley hosts Sunday School at 10:30 a.m. and preaching at 11:30 a.m. followed by communion. Round Hill and Relief Paxton Lamp's offer Sunday School at usual hour.
The local post office received a supply of three cent stamps in the territorial commemorative series. Printed in purple, the stamps depict a view of Charlotte Amalie with the harbor and sugar loaf islands in the distance.
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