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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1941
Page
6
Radio listings show programs across WMAL WRC and NBC Penn with guests like Willkie Taft and Alber Warner. An accompanying quiz cites McAdoo testimony on wartime cost of 11.65 billion and Federal troops deployed over 100 times to quell domestic disturbances.
Chicago July 15 Two months after an early hit off Ed Smith Joe DiMaggio extended his consecutive game hitting streak toward 55 games. The Yankee slugger, former batting champion, had a recent slump below .300 but recovered with a sensational run breaking Willie Keeler's 44 game mark from 1897 and creating the path for a historic record.
Greensboro deputies assigned to a routine dig in a watermelon patch uncovered 52 one-gallon jugs of illicit whiskey tucked under separate vines. No injuries reported.
Present and past rainfall data show 24 hours ending in the morning as none. July to date 4.27 inches, year to date 15.94 inches. Monthly totals list January 2.52, February 2.05, March 2.90, April 3.25, May 3.56, June 3.77, July 3.57, August 3.71, September 2.44, October 3.16, November 2.44, December 2.38. The average annual rainfall over 28 years is 35.80 inches with monthly averages based on 1913 39 inclusive. Statistics from Winchester Research Laboratory.
New York July 15 A burglar dropped through a skylight at the Salmonson stationery store in Ozone Park Queens and fled with 100 dollars after ringing a no sale. Overnight an intruder returned but was struck by the father with a stick, leaving Dominickanelli 25 injured with a skull fracture and an attempted burglary charge.
Richmond reports preliminary plans for a $140,000 naval officers training building at the University of Virginia. WPA administrator R B Hummel said presidential approval allows $90,000 in WPA funds, with the university supplying $50,000. A formal WPA allotment will mark the next step for this defense project. The query asks which presidents’ widows are living, listing Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, and Coolidge.
Chapter Forty Two. Stanley King suspects a murderer among three men in his room. John Jones proposes testing locomotives for tampering to prove who killed John Ives. Laurence reveals unrequited love for Susan and tension with Spinelli as Henry Potter faces possible accusation.
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