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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1939
Page
9
Judith Ann Palmer a 22 year old Chicago heiress believed she would be offered a new contract after a first job at the New York World’s Fair, and she shot herself in a New York hotel room. The incident followed a notice received by several girls about future contracts.
The funeral of Miss E aude Wierman of Frederick county was held at 2 pm at her Valley Mills road home. Rev C W Lowe of Our Saviour Lutheran conducted services attended by many. Interment was in Mount Hebron Cemetery. Pallbearers included W W Baldwin R W Baldwin Kenneth Shuler Charles Shuler Earl Steele and John Bromley. Miss Wierman, daughter of the late William L and Anna Wierman, was a lifelong Frederick county resident.
Winchester Presbytery authorized division of the Martinsburg field after a special meeting at Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church. The arrangement placed several rural churches as outposts under Rev. George W. Heaton and Rev. S. R. Diehl, whose dispute led to dissolution requests. Remaining outpost charges will be assigned by the home missions committee for recommendation at the fall session in Moorefield, West Virginia.
Nassau county grand jury declined to indict 17 year old Thomas S. Holbrook of Chevy Chase Maryland, clearing him of first degree burglary charges. He was arrested June 30 for allegedly breaking a Port Washington store window with intent to commit burglary.
Embroidery transfer pattern 6314 includes seven motifs about 5% by 615 inches, materials list, stitch illustrations, color schemes. Send ten cents to Winchester Evening Star Household Arts Dept to obtain pattern 6314 with your name dress and pattern number.
Prison officials and state police pressed a wide search for Nickolas Oster, 30, of Baltimore, Md., the third man to escape Vermont State Prison in six weeks. Oster, serving a burglary term imposed at Burlington on August 6, 1938, broke away while working on the prison farm yesterday.
Children seeking free tickets to the American Legion swimming pool must apply by cabling the Red Cross office at city hall between 9 and 11 a.m. tomorrow. Miss Keller, Red Cross secretary, said arrangements are needed for medical examinations of applicants.
McNutt indicated his 1940 presidential bid and ties to New Deal forces were under discussion while in the Philippines. Senator Johnson said he risks his political fate with Roosevelt, and McNutt, 48, rose from Indiana governor to World War II Legion roles before entering government service. Roosevelt nominated him for Federal Security Administrator.
Ohio led Virginia with 61 marriages in the six month period, followed by New York 29 and several states and provinces with single ceremonies. Jerome A. Nagel, a Hollywood restaurateur, wed Vivian W. Shore of Pennsylvania. the license remains unreturned. Ministers conducting ceremonies included T. M. Swann and Ronald S. Wilson among many others, with a roster of clergy performing one ceremony each.
More than 100 friends of the late John Dillis a longtime Winchester restaurant operator have raised funds for a marker to honor him A contract for the stone has been made with the Haines marble yard where it may be inspected Additional contributions are welcome through Gus Chambers who announced the drive noting Dillis reputation as an upright man and pioneer Greek restaurateur with many grateful friends
Fisk Rubber Company announces paid vacations for employees this summer due to improved business. President Charles E. Speaks said vacations will run one or two weeks based on length of service.
PORTSMOUTH New Hampshire July 11 Naval officials announced first efforts to raise the sunken submarine Squalus with 26 dead would not begin before Thursday as mechanism would be tested thoroughly. Divers would check air connections and valves today to ensure no water seepage in five pontoons attached to the submersible.
About 25 people were killed or injured near Celaya Guanajuato when agrarians opened fire on Sinarquista members on a campaign tour at Juan Martin Hacienda. All victims were Sinarquistas from Celaya.
Seven officers and men killed when their Caproni aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Tablada airport. The burning plane fell onto a fertilizer factory, igniting a blaze that was not quickly extinguished.
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