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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

May 09, 1940

Page

8

Long List of Names Appears on Page Scan Reed

The clipping shows a roster of individuals including James Edwin Taylor William Asbury Taylor Vernon Kenzil Timbrook Wassel Samuel Calvert Triplett Carlyle Fairfax Whiting Irvine Zuckerman Kitty Beverley Baker Catherine Taylor eBattie and many others such as Margaret Aileen Bloom Mary Allison Burgess Catherine Mae Campbell Mary Anna Carpenter and Helen Colleen Clemm.

Ner James Edwin Taylor William Asbury Taylor Vernon Kenzil Timbrook Wassel Samuel Calvert Triplett Carlyle Fairfax Whiting Irvine Zuckerman Kitty Beverley Baker Catherine Taylor eBattie Margaret Aileen Bloom Mary Allison Burgess Catherine Mae Campbell Mary Anna Carpenter Mary Carolyn

Names of Women Listed in Local Society Notices

A long list of female names appears in the society column, including Nancy Harbaugh Dor othy Turner Hawthorne Louise Sturdivant Hicks Virginia Hockensmith Mary Hodg son Carolyn Hoffman Mayon Hurst Ann Kaimes Anna Kline Kathryn Kline Eleanor Leatherman Catherine Locke Ruth Massey Norma Mc Coy Louise Newlin Margaret Orndoff Betsy Porter Colleen Ramacciotti Nina Ramaccottti Anna Slaughter Frances Slaughter Mildred Smith Margaret Smith Dorothy Snyder Lucille Spillman Doris Van Lear Zantha Willis Louise Wilson Goldie Wingfield Jacqueline Womack Ruth Wright Lois Yost Kathleen Zimmerman.

Nancy Louise Harbaugh Dorothy Turner Hawthorne Louise Sturdivant Hicks Virginia Mae Hockensmith Mary Velma Hodgson Carolyn Edyth Hoffman Mayon Taylor Hurst Ann Elizabeth Kaimes Anna Marie Kline Kathryn Elizabeth Kline Eleanor Jackson Leatherman Catherine Louise Locke Ruth Parley Massey Norma Louise McCoy Louise Katherine Newlin Margaret Kern Orndoff Betsy Burger Porter Colleen Racey Nina Angelina Ramacciotti Pauline Nancy Ramaccottti Anna Katherine Slaughter Frances Lucille Slaughter Mildred Joyce Smith Margaret Naomi Smith Dorothy Belle Snyder Lucille Marie Spillman Doris Emma van Lear Zantha Viola Willis Louise Violet Wilson Goldie Marie Wingfield Jacqueline M. Womack Ruth W Euphrasia Wright Lois Adelaide Yost Kathleen Cornelia Zimmerman

Quill Blasts Dies Committee Aimed at Wrecking Labor

Michael J. Quill president of CIOs Workers Union charged the Dies committee seeks to wreck the labor movement. He called the inquiry a menace to peace and civil rights after being ejected from a session, labeling Chairman Dies an agent of warlords in the effort.

Washington Michael J. Quill CIO Workers’ Union Dies Committee Quill Dies D.-Tex

Backache and Leg Pains Signal Kidney Trouble

Warning from health ad explains how backache leg pains may indicate kidney trouble as kidneys fail to clear wastes. It notes symptoms such as puffiness headaches and fatigue and promotes Doan's Pills for relief.

New Walk Under Construction at Gore High School

Gore Virginia May 9 Its slate foundation is finished and concrete for a 125 foot long four foot wide walk in front of Gore High School will likely be poured Saturday Principal Allen V DeHaven disclosed The project cost about 50 dollars with most funded by the Community League and the Home Demonstration Club Students under the New York A program Rural Anderson and others have carried the load The walk begins a broader plan to beautify the school frontage including an automobile driveway and planned shrubbery with work on the driveway to start next fall

Old Community League Home Demonstration Club de Haven DeHaven

Hoodlum Joe Adonis Surrenders in Brooklyn Office

Joe Adonis, long-sought hoodlum, surrendered today in the office of Special Assistant Attorney General John Harlan Amen in Brooklyn. He faces charges of kidnaping extortion and assault tied to the Murder Incorporated homicide syndicate said to have carried out at least 50 killings for prices as low as one dollar.

New York Joe Adonis John Harlan Amen Brooklyn Wiliam O’dwyer Murder, Incorporated

Thomas Edison Most Patents In History At Death

Thomas A. Edison held more than 1100 patents at the time of his death, an all time record.

A. Thomas A. Edison

Gore Drubs Capon Bridge For Second Victory Of Season

Gore, Virginia, won 3-2 over Capon Bridge in six innings to notch their second victory. Scott Wingfield pitched well for Gore with 3 hits allowed and 9 strikeouts. Morrison sparked Gore with 2 hits. Capon Bridge’s Smith allowed five safeties and seven strikeouts.

Gore Capon Bridge Diamondeers Scott Wingfield Hampshire Smith West Virginians Morrison DeHaven Wingfield Allanson Michael Shane Schaffenaker Strasnider Cooper Crowser Frye J. Larrick Roe

German Plane Shot Down Off Northeast Scotland

The air ministry reports an enemy aircraft was shot down off the northeast coast of Scotland by Royal Air Force fighters. British tallies place this as the 69th German plane destroyed over or near Britain since the war began about eight months ago.

London Scotland Royal Air Force Air Ministry Britain

Democratic Mass Meeting Set for May 23 in Clarke County

Clarke county Democrats will convene at the Court House in Berryville on Thursday night May 23 at 8 oclock to select delegates for the state convention in Roanoke June 14. Eighteen delegates with half votes each will be chosen from four magisterial districts plus two for Berryville town. Delegates will help nominate candidates at Roanoke and handle convention business. Committee members include Capt Frank M Wray Kenneth N Gilpin George H Burwell J L Carper Co O Dearmont Henry Post Mitchell C C Funkhouser F Galloway George H Levi Ralph N Dorsey Holmes H Hardesty and E Blackburn Moore.

Berryville Clarke County Court House Democratic Committee Roanoke Frank M. Wray Clarke Captain Wray United States Kenneth N. Gilpin George H. Burwell J. L. Carper Chapel District Co. O. Dearmont Henry Post Mitchell C. C. Funkhouser Greenway J. F. Galloway George H. Levi Capt. Wray Battletown E. Blackburn Moore Ralph N. Dorsey Holmes H.hardesty Longmarsh

Grain futures and cash prices mixed on May grain day

Chicago trades see wheat and corn advance on a government export subsidy for corn but gains fade. May to Sept futures quote wheat 1.04 to 1.05 1/8 per bushel with slight shifts, corn around 66 1/2 to 67 1/2, oats near 34 to 41 3/8. Baltimore reports No. 2 red wheat around 1.14 1/4 and corn 76 to 78, Winchester lists wheat 1.10 per bushel and corn 70 cents.

Chicago Chicago Gash Baltimore Grain Baltimore Winchester

Hitler Permits Norwegian Prisoners to Return Home

Berlin May 9 Reichsführer Adolf Hitler issued an order authorizing Norwegian soldiers taken prisoner to go home. The directive was sent to General Nicolaus Von Falkenhorst, head of the German expeditionary force in Norway. A trivia note follows about the yo yo name origin meaning come back from the Philippines.

Berlin

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Pr. M Warner Bros. Capitol George Raft Joan Bennett Cronce Raft Joan Eve Wallace Beery Dakota Lupton Orchard Service CO Automobile J. W. Arthur Rouss Avenue Hansbrough & Carter Geo. W. Kurtz Farmers & Merchants Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Ruth Bryan Rohde Rohde United States Travel Bureau Nature Dean Doan Palm Beach Goodall Coth H. C. Sheetz & Son Gray & Sheetz Loch Sheldrake Monticello N. Y Gore High School Tues Wits Margo Walter Abel News & Novelty Yann AVA Harry Carey Sig Rumann Omar Ta Kit Carson Noah Beery, Jr Bedford Cord and Gabardine Gray & Eddy Sunshine Winchester Milling Corp N. Cameron St Hitler RINSO Winchester Small Loan & Finance Co Geo Rhodes. Drug CO the Commercial Small Loan and Finance CO E. Water St
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