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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1932
Page
10
A sequence of more than sixty earthquake shocks shook Guatemala, damaging communications and causing alarm across nearby towns. Volcanic eruptions began near Fuego and Acatenango, about fifty miles from the city, with ash and fiery streaks reported as residents feared greater damage.
In Rockville Maryland Governor Ritchie offered full state aid to capture the two assailants who fatally shot 79 year old Horace D Waters and wounded clerk Richard A Bennett at his Old Germantown store on Wednesday night State police from Baltimore detectives already joined the investigation and the governor promised further assistance from the state in identifying and apprehending the suspects
Weaver offers a bill to appoint state courts and to tax chain stores on all but the first outlet with graduated rates. Taxes for ordinary merchants start at $10, while chain stores pay a starting $60 for the first store and rise with purchase value. The tax for the first chain store mirrors that of other merchants.
The House approved the conference report on the reconstruction bill. Only Senate endorsement remains before sending the measure to the White House.
The record notes that skeletal remains show little difference in height between prehistoric humans and present inhabitants of the same regions, suggesting similar statures across ages.
A 45 member American delegation sails to Geneva to attend the world disarmament conference set for February. Secretary of State Stimson will sail later in place of Dawes who heads the Reconstruction Finance corporation. Delegates include Senator Claude Swanson Hugh Gibson Norman Davis and Mrs Mary E Woolley president of Mount Holyoke college.
James Emerson Erwin, a non resident, is ordered to appear within ten days after publication to protect his interest in a divorce action filed by the complainant on grounds of desertion for over three years. The order is to be published weekly for four weeks in the Winchester Evening Star and posted at the courthouse and mailed to Erwin.
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