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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jul 24, 1939

Page

2

Program At Annual Boy Scout Camp Opens At White Rock

White Rock Scout Camp opened with 81 scouts 6 leaders and 9 staff from Virginia and West Virginia. Dan O Henry directs with Herbert Shelly Charles Holt Lige Miller Charles Starvey Brown David Hurley Yoachum Rudy and David Astine on staff. A physical re check by Dr B B Dutton ensured fitness for swimming and activities. A Sunday morning open air chapel service was led by Rev Coe Capon Bridge. Wives and friends may visit on Wednesday evenings and Sunday afternoons.

White Rock New Market Luvey Milpeirs Strasburg Stephens Winchester Virginia Berkeley Springs W. Va Scout Dan O.henry Herbert Shelly Charles Holt Lige Miller Charles Starvey Brown David Hurley Yoachum” Rudy Cook David Astine Bucler B. B. Dutton Coe of Capon Bridge Camp

Answers to Today's Quiz From Page Four

Answers printed on page four include San Juan. a Napoleon commemoration. deciduous trees shedding leaves in winter. First round. safeguarding ships from icebergs. Nebraska. the locale of an offense. Pref as not pre face. a geographic place name for islands in the East Indies. MDCCLXXVI.

Napoleon East Indies

Methodist Children Enjoy Week At Camp In West Va

About 50 children returned from Camp White Rock run by Montague Avenue Methodist Church and partners in Brad dock Street Methodist Church. The camp, despite poor weather, was deemed a success with a final campfire and awards at Miller School. Three classes covered Bible study, worship, and evangelism with plans for an Epworth League at Montague Avenue church.

Camp White Rock Montague Avenue Balthis Ruby Shiley Margaret McIntyre Epworth League Montague Avenue Church Andrew Bell Brooks Flickinger David Balthis Strasburg Ruth Trimble W. W. McIntyre J. W. Allamong T. M. Swann George Waters Frederick Circuit

Kissing Device Tests Lipstick Durability

Hollywood reports Max Factor Jr announces a kissing machine to test lipstick wear. Two plastic lips contact under adjustable pressure, driven electrically to simulate four hours of kissing. Factor hopes to develop a true kiss proof formula from the tests.

Hollywood Max Factor, Jr Factor

Four Students Feared Dead In Mount Baker Avalanche

Glacier Washington July 24 avalanche on Mount Baker traps sixteen hikers including twenty five teachers from western Washington college of education. Two victims identified as Alice James Arlington and Julius Cornblatt Bellingham recovered. Missing include Viene Fisher Coupeville Maynard Howat Seattle Hope Weitman Thornton Beulah Lindbergh Great Falls MT. Rescue party of rangers CCC and private citizens remains on mountain. Survivors say slide 100 yards wide at start, over 300 yards wide at subsidence. The group faced a six hour hike to the area.

Glacier Wash Lofty Mount Baker Alice James Arlington Julius Cornblatt Bellingham Viene Fisher Coupeville Maynard Howat Seattle Hope ‘Weitman Thornton Beulah Lindbergh Great Falls Mont Western Washington College of Education Don Cox Chester Allin Miss James Dornblatt Forest Rangers Civilian Conservation Corps Terraire Teachers’ College Howat Weitman Chewlah

Doubt Cast On Felon's Confession

In Winchester Kentucky a jailed 18 year old Andy Shelton fights a death sentence after a confessed killer Jack Davis who died in the electric chair last week said Shelton helped kill Isaac Shelton. Davis’s statement prompts legal action and warrants for a possible accomplice while Shelton's attorney pursues appeals.

Winchester Andy Shelton Jack Davis Isaac Shelton Shelton Davis Western State Penitentiary Eddyville Abram Combs Hazard Jesse Buchanan Clark County J. Smith Hays, Jr Joe S. Lindsay Young Shelton Marcus Redwine Redwine Kentucky Lindsay Hays

Police probe Armenian feud link in Yonkers disappearance

Police investigate possible Armenian blood feud motive in the disappearance of 16 year old Hovannes Dadourian from Yonkers New York home of affluent parents. The missing youth's father helped finance prosecutions of nine countrymen for the 1933 assassination of Archbishop Leon Tourian.

Hovannes Dadourian Yonkers N. Y Leon Tourian

Driver Saves His Peppers On Mount Summit Grade

Uniontown, July 24. Benjamin Bermelson, 28, a Clinton, N C driver, steered a seven ton pepper truck down a three mile mountain grade at speeds up to 85 mph after an engine failure disabled brakes. A companion, Robert Tanner, leaped clear as Bermelson kept control until the truck halted on the highway shoulder. He saved every pepper, saying he stayed with the truck to avoid a serious crash.

Uniontown Benjamin Bermelson Mount Summit Clinton N. C Bermelson Robert J. Tanner

Attica Man Confesses to Killing Local Schoolgirl

Thomas Boyce, 26, a golf course worker, orally confessed to killing Elizabeth Debrukker, 11, a sixth grade pupil from Logan Center, and burying her near Harrison Hills Country Club. He described strangling her with a belt after luring her across the golf course and washing up details of the sequence and corroborating evidence. Prosecutors planned murder charges to hold him until the September grand jury, while he would be kept in Indianapolis to avoid town unrest.

Attica Ind William Henry Ramsey Thomas Boyce Elizabeth Debrukker Harrison Hills Country Club Ramsey Fountain County R. C. Fenters Paul Rule Robert Bowman George W. Keller West LaFayette Boyce Debrukker Indianapolis Marion County Fenters Rule Elizabeth Peter Debruick Near Here Logan Center

Patterson Named Interstate Commerce Commissioner

William J. Patterson of North Dakota was nominated by President Roosevelt to the Interstate Commerce Commission for the term expiring December 31, 1945.

William J. Patterson North Dakota Roosevelt Interstate Commerce

Anniversary Of Kellogg Pact Outlawing War

Washington July 24 ten years after President Hoover announced the Kellogg Briand pact intended to outlaw war the ceremony in the White House east room failed to impress as microphones cut in and out. Despite the gathering of diplomats from 43 nations the era of peace gave way to renewed war threats and international tension. Frank B Kellogg and Aristide Briand are dead and undeclared wars persist in Asia Africa and Europe.

Washington Hoover White House Stimson Frank B. Kellogg Coolidge Aristide Briand Grance Japan China Italy Ethiopia Spain Germany Asia

Virginia Exhibit at World Poultry Congress Sets Arch Entrance

A replica Natural Bridge arch will frame the Virginia exhibit at the World Poultry Congress in Cleveland drawing 590000 attendees. The booth features large Virginia farm photos, a 28000000 poultry industry emphasis, literature lounges, and interpreters for foreign guests. Governor Price urges post congress Virginia visits, with 22 official delegates named and 3000 tickets sold.

Cleveland Virginia W. H. Densmore Roanoke V. P. I. Poultry Department Harry L. Moore Isabelle Zigler Richmond International Congress of Poultrymen Governor Price General Assembly Wampler State Committee Price Charles W. Wampler Harrisonburg C. B. Williamson G. F. Holsinger Howard S. Zigler Rockingham Congress Shenandoah Valley

Kellogg Pact Lingers as Diplomatic Hope in Europe

Power rapid in Europe and the Kellogg pact remain a diplomatic instrument, propped by a few diplomats led by Secretary Hull. The pact endures despite actions by nations, with no denouncement recorded.

Europe Ince Hull

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