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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1940
Page
7
The Securities Commission begins steps to bring utility systems under the 1935 holding company act. It asks Electric Bond and Share Company and Engineers Public Service Company for compliance plans due by April 6 with public hearings tentatively set for April 26. Final action may take years.
Pittsburgh date line notes executive Frank Lea of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. signed as F. Lea in a letter addressed to Mr. Lea. The item reflects a miscues over how the executive was addressed in correspondence.
The fifteenth annual Stuyvesant School horse show will be held Friday May 3 on the school grounds. Seventeen classes will participate. It occurs one day before the Nineteenth Virginia Gold Cup Races in Warrenton.
More than 300 attendees expected for the Forty-fourth annual state conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Williamsburg March 5 to 7. Kenneth Charley of Colonial Williamsburg will address the opening session on The Williamsburg Restoration. The article notes Ann Pamela Cunningham as the first Regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association from 1853 to 1874.
In MaRS Mo February 29 a bootblack R. T. Scott advertised shoe shines at five cents a foot, earning a dime on most jobs. The ad backfired when customer Forrest Arnold requested an eight cent shine arguing his feet are not two feet long.
Dayton Iowa February 29 thieves used sledge hammers to break open a school safe, only to find less than two dollars inside. The safe was unlocked, leaving the burglars frustrated by the paltry haul and lack of valuables.
In Omaha on February 29 the burglar who tried to break into Detective Sergeant Anton Pszanowski’s home left him cold. Shirtless and shoeless, Pszanowski chased the intruder for a block and a half over icy streets, but the man escaped.
London report says Food Minister W. S. Morrison announced Britain will cut whiskey production by one third in 1940 due to grain shortages for livestock. He also warned sugar consumption must be reduced to conserve supplies.
An explosion in a gallery at the Arsa mines in Istria province along the Adriatic coast killed at least twenty miners and injured about one hundred. The mining region is described as highly productive with many workers.
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