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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1940
Page
10
Congress Considers DC Voting Rights Amendment
Washington debates the district voting issue as the House Judiciary Committee plans to vote on a constitutional amendment allowing DC residents to elect members of Congress and vote for president. Support grows among Republicans and Democrats while passage would require Senate approval and state ratification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
District of Columbia
House Judiciary Committee
Senate
House
McNary
R-Ore
Rep. Martin
R-Mass
Veteran Freed On Murder Charge in Halifax Trial
Ernest Glass, a Halifax farmer and World War veteran, was found innocent by a Halifax Circuit Court jury in the slaying of his wife last May. The state alleged he shot her with an old Derringer, but the defense argued she died by her own hand amid ill health. Two coroner investigations had previously offered alternate explanations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halifax
Ernest Glass
Glass
Delay on Nazi attack and British air power rise
Analysis notes Hitler delaying invasion as Britain expands air force production and imports from the United States. It cites RAF claims of downing 28 German warplanes and Britain’s intensified air raids, plus a tightened blockade and new Italian rationing to cope with food shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balkan
von Ribbentrop
Berlin
Britain
Balkans
Reich
England
Hitler
London
Royal Air Force
America
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
Murder Victim and Mother Die in Fredericksburg Tragedy
In Fredericksburg on Thursday two and one half year old Jeanette Dudley was killed and her mother Gladys Hallberg Dudley fatally wounded in a domestic incident described as a death by own action. Police found a razor blade, a paring knife and a rusty ice pick with blood in the home as relatives discovered the bodies. The mother had been despondent, living with her parents for about a year. husband George Dudley was reported to be in Los Angeles. Coroner Dr. John Cole ruled the case a death by own action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredericksburg
Jeanette Dudley
Gladys Hallberg Dudley
A. G. Kendall
Dudley
Mary Washington
Kendall
Virginia reports bottled liquor sales dip despite higher taxes
The Virginia Liquor Control Board says week ending July 18 bottle sales totaled 283,173 units, down from 337,490 a year earlier, while monetary sales at 96 state stores reached 332,112.64. A 10 percent state tax on whisky and wines raised about 30,200, reducing the week’s gross to 301,900, about 8,500 less than 1939 levels. The state receives the first 1,675,000 of ABC profits plus one third of the remainder, with the rest shared by localities, and will gain the 10 percent tax under the new law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia Liquor Control Board
General Assembly
Commonwealth
Shanabrook Funeral Set for Charles Shanabrook
Charles Edward Shanabrook 45 died yesterday at 305 South Cameron Street from illness. He was a shoemaker at Gus Kaknis shop, born June 9 1895 in Greensboro Pa. Survived by wife Carrie, father Marvin, daughter Mary Sticwall, two brothers Marshall and Warren, half-brother Ernest Schliter, sisters Gladys Jacobs Hazel Kelley Ruth Cline. Funeral 1 PM Saturday at Jones Funeral Home Winchester. burial in Shippensburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Edward Shanabrook
South
Cameron Street
Mary Sticwall
Hagerstown
Marshall Shanabrook
Shippensburg
Warren Shanabrook
Harrisburg
Ernest Schliter
Gladys Jacobs
Hazel Kelley
Ruth Cline
Frederick County
Ohio
Jones Funeral Home
South Loudoun Street
Winchester
Luther McFarland
Classified Rentals Reach Winchester Area
Rental ads list several properties including a 20 Peyton Street apartment, 411 North Loudoun Street unit, rooms at 303 Pairment, a new modern apartment via Pine Motor Co, a house with 15 acres near town referenced by P O Box 363, Winchester, and a front bedroom at 120 South Kent with light housekeeping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. O. Box
Winchester
Arlington Sun Wins Virginia Newspaper Sweepstakes
The Arlington Sun won the Virginia Press Association sweepstakes at its fifty-second annual convention, with Farmville Herald and Eastern Shore News also earning top honors in various categories. Awards covered news editorials makeup business promotion and feature pictures among others.
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Arlington Sun
Howard
Bloomer, Jr
Tj Bones
Virginia Press Association
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Franklin News-Post
R= Mount
Caroline Progress
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C. M. Payne
Daphne Dailey
Pittsylvania Tribune
Chatham
Preston Moses
Marion
Robert Lane Anderson
The
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Smyth County News
B. Hutchinson
New Jersey Press Association
Rutgers University, Oe
Farmville Herald
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Onancock
Galax Gazette
Hopewell News
Franklin News- Post
Rocky Mount
Bedford Bulletin
Potomac Interest
Colonial Beach
Lexington Gazette
Quantico Sentry
Sussex-Surry Dispatch
Waverley
Virginia Star of
Culpeper
Thanking Friends for Sympathy and Support
To thank our many friends and neighbors for kindness during our mother Rosa Lee Minifield's illness and death. Gratitude for cars and floral tributes, By Her Children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosa Lee
Notary Public Warning of Personal Debt Liability
A notice states the signer accepts no responsibility for debts incurred by others. It asserts sole liability rests with the individual signer and records the stance for creditors and public record.
Daily Crossword Across and Down Clues
Crossword puzzle clues listed with across and down entries including epochs Greek letters and instruments. Ends with distributed by King Features Syndicate Tim and yesterday’s answer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Features Syndicate
Tim
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