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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1938
Page
12
Crossword puzzle page with across clues ranging from a reproach to a tavern and down clues including oats and forms of the verb to be. The grid contains sections and numbered entries such as 27 across 32 33 and 48 across along with many down clues like 1 2 3 4 and 14. Copyright 1938 King Features Syndicate Inc
A circus lion escaped from its cage in Wildwood New Jersey killing Thomas Saito a Japanese auction room employee and terrorizing the boardwalk for hours before Patrolman John Gates shot it dead. Owner Joseph Dobish was arrested on manslaughter charges and jailed without bail. Saito's body was found beneath the ocean front boardwalk after the attack.
Arturo Toscanini, arriving from Italy next Monday, is slated to direct rehearsals and open the NBC Symphony Orchestra season on October 15. Concerts shift to the WJZ NBC network this year with 90 minute programs starting at 10 p.m. nightly.
Pred J. Larrick mayor announces the Middletown Council has formed committees for the year. Finance committee members include M. H. Rhodes Wilson Borden and c te Larrick. Streets and lights committee features T. W Weeny B. E. Rogers and M Sperry. A budget project is planned and motorists are urged not to park on the Methodist Church grass plot and Lina Leary corner. The council aims to beautify Main Street with citizen cooperation.
Barbara Bell pattern No. 1616 B offers a high square neckline and shrugged sleeves with radiating skirt panels to accent a small waist. Pattern sizes 12 through 20 fit busts 30 to 38 inches and require 5 yards of fabric for size 14 long sleeves.
The ministry of education circulated a list of prescribed Jewish writers as anti Jewish measures loom. A grand council meeting under Premier Mussolini planned final approval of a new legislative chamber and discussion of the Czechoslovakia partition crisis. France may appoint an ambassador to Rome, signaling a Fascist axis dynamic amid Rome Berlin talks. The council is expected to adopt expulsion of Jews from state offices and restrict their political life to about one in a thousand of the population. An estimated 15 000 Jews live in Italy. Jews who entered Italy since 1919 are ordered to leave by March 12 1939.
Public sale to the highest bidder at the Frederick County Virginia courthouse steps on Saturday October 29 1938 at 11 A M. The property lies just north of Winchester city limits on the Martinsburg Turnpike and is bounded by Highway 11 the B and O Railroad and by C H Rinker with a detailed metes and bounds description. One third cash the remainder in one and two years secured by bonds bearing 6 percent interest and a deed of trust with insurance. B P Harrison Trustee.
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