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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1940
Page
8
A 1,282 ton Panama registered vessel named Fros soula was sunk by German bombers on July 15 about 258 miles northwest of Cape Finisterre in bad weather. Eighteen crew escaped in two boats, with three survivors reaching a British port after four days. The chief officer’s boat endured severe hardships as others perished or were lost at sea.
On Route 40 near Boonsboro Maryland a early morning crash killed Frank H Beers aged about 80 his wife and three year old son from Falling Timbers near Johnstown Pennsylvania. The milk truck driver Ralph O Koontz of Jefferson Massachusetts said Beers vehicle swerved and the truck forced against a tree. Bodies taken to Boonsboro undertaker. truck owned by W L Boyer Knoxville Maryland.
Ted Peckham, once operator of an escort service in New York City, has shifted to publishing a guide magazine about New York City. He now promotes the publication through media channels and aims to provide city information to readers.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad car loadings for the week ended July 20 totaled 62,449, up 6,083 from the same week last year and up 2,707 from the week ended July 13, signaling an upswing in shipments.
Police court session presided by Trial Justice Donald Weems included case involving Sylvestia Reid, identified as colored, at 420 North. Further details not provided in fragments.
Kent and Marie Pole of 420 North Kent face drunk and disorderly and co habitation charges with three months and costs. Arthur Nicholson is held on forgery for grand jury proceedings. John Owens of West Boscawen Street is charged with drunkenness and fined ten dollars and twenty five cents. The Holy Shroud location is Turin Cathedral Italy and the cloth is a linen sheet fourteen feet three inches long and three feet seven inches wide with a blood stained imprint along its length.
Delegates tackle western hemisphere neutrality, colonial possessions, fifth column risks, refugee settlement, and economic cooperation amid fears Argentina may block a united front on defense and trade. Hull meets heads of delegations as empty diplomat boxes signal the four axis powers’ absence.
Riga Latvia July 22 Communist parliaments of Estonia Latvia and Lithuania speeded plans for state control of property industry and banks after voting to petition Moscow for membership in the Soviet Union. Delegates were to depart for Moscow later today and celebrations were reported in Tal linn Kaunas and Riga. The three states have been under Moscow influence since last fall and the absorption would remove them as buffers between Russia and Germany in the Baltic region.
Clarke J. B. T. annual barbecue outing is set for tomorrow night at the Front Royal Recreation Center. The program features Ladies Night and begins at 6 o'clock. Members are urged to bring wives girlfriends or family. prospective members are invited during a semiannual drive. Various sports including swimming and games will precede the barbecue.
Simon Whitlock of East Boscawen Street slipped in his yard and fell into a concrete channel along the run, suffering a bad head laceration. A Friendship ambulance transported him to Memorial Hospital where he was treated and discharged.
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A tiny lamp filament for a six watt 115 volt night light is thinner than a human hair. Its diameter is under five one thousandths of an inch.
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