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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1941
Page
2
Dan J. Hince manager of the WicCory store and Andrew Bell traveled to Harrisonburg to serve as judges of floats in the Turkey Festival feature parade this afternoon.
The Rev. Francis R. Cassileman, D. D., formerly pastor, now of Altoona Pennsylvania, arrives to speak at 7 30 tonight as the first in a series of Centenary Reform Church anniversary services. He and Mrs Casselman traveled from Harrisburg where the Pennsylvania Council of Religious Education is in session.
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Capt William N Barrett told the Clarke County Junior Woman's Club meeting that the United States faces a similar internal industrial disaster as Mexico He warned of labor groups gaining control of industries and cited Mexican mines being taken over without compensation He urged firmer U S policy and noted his book A Yankee Caballero under William Maryman was recent. He also announced a Motor Corps reorganiz at Berryville to transport patients to Nurse s headquarters and named Garland Canter as chairwoman.
In Los Angeles a Superior Court order renamed Edward Price Richards to Barbara Ann Richards, granting full legal rights of a woman. Richards testified to gender transition, with details of appearance and a pending unconsummated marriage plan to Lorraine Wilcox. A physician’s report is due in a year to review permanence of the transition.
Hillsdale Steel Product Company resumes production at about 800 workers with 35 idled after a fight at the gates. The plant, tied to tensions between A F L U A W and U A W C I O unions, had been closed a week following a labor dispute and election wins by the A F L.
The British fleet air arm off Norway says four German supply ships were hit and one abandoned. The sweep at dawn Wednesday praises action against enemy sea communications with troops on the north Russian front. It also states carriers were present and electric power pylons on Grand Island were destroyed.
Judge Loring C. Kackley presided in Clarke County Trial Justice Court as cases from Berryville were heard this week. Defendants faced charges ranging from drunk and disorderly conduct to speeding and assault with penalties including cash fines, jail time, and a held-for-jury flag for Lawrence Haines in a hit and run case.
Navy officials said armed merchant ships in danger zones can sail once Congress approves a revised neutrality act. The government provided 1,445 anti aircraft guns with mounts at a total cost of about 23.7 million dollars plus charges projectiles and optics. The project aims to arm 900 ships, mainly private merchantmen, with envisioned needs totaling about 185 flagships for Britain lend lease and 135 for Red Sea runs.
Private Linwood Ritter of Berryville was ordered to appear before a grand jury after a preliminary hearing in Hyattsville Maryland. Ritter serves with Headquarters Company 88th Brigade and is on maneuvers in North Carolina. Henry Stickles of Berryville died in the same automobile accident.
About 85 young people from Montague Avenue Charge will attend a youth rally banquet at 7 PM. Rev J W Turner of New Market VA will speak on Opportunities with James Lofton as toastmaster. Music by Virgie Adams Irene Clowser Ettis Ilena Orndorff and others. readings by Charlotte Wyant.
Two former inmates aged 32 and 43 were held in Fort Worth as suspects in the brutal slaying of golf star Marion Miley and her mother at a Lexington country club on September 28. Kentucky detectives traced the men after a Kentucky license plate linked to a reported stolen car. Both men waived extradition and denied knowledge of the crime.
UMW district president William Mitch announced the Steel Workers ia walkout at Edgewater shaft ended this morning and said he would seek a return to work at Hamilton, where about 1,200 employees are affected. The Hamilton and Edgewater plants employ roughly 3,000 workers combined after an unauthorized walkout began yesterday over a long stalled permlink contract for Alabama coal.
Annapolis observed the 96th anniversary of the U S naval academy marking its 1845 opening with 40 midshipmen and 16 civilian staff. Superintendent Russell Willson noted wartime service by graduates and projected officer output as classes graduate under a three year plan.
Portly J Merrigan a 76 year old in London Chelsea Royal Infirmary the original model for Bruce Bairnsfather's cartoon Old Bill died. He served with Bairnsfather in a Warwickshire Regiment in WWI. He helped spur enlistment with posters using Old Bill in WWII.
Miss Ada Wissler Walker daughter of the late Carrence and Sallie Kinzel Walker died in Washington D C after a protracted illness. She suffered a stroke two weeks ago and had been in ill health for two years. Funeral services will be held at St Johns Episcopal Church Washington at 1 30 Saturday and interment will follow at Mount Hebron Winchester. Pallbearers named. She leaves three sisters Mamie Georgia and Jennings Walker of Washington and is a niece of Emma Kinzel and Theodore Kinzel of Winchester.
All sportsmen from Winchester Frederick and Clarke counties are invited to a practice shoot tomorrow afternoon at one o clock at the Winchester Gun Club under the Winchester and Frederick County Game and Fish Protective Association.
A compact list notes locations and items including Ti land Berne Swan Salt Troy and references Thackeray's Vanity Fair, the song After the Ball, the Potomac, and currency doubles or coins.
Corporal Thurman Potts of Frederick County has been released from active duty under new Selective Service rules for men over 28. He returned home near Kernstown after serving at Fort Knox Kentucky with the First Armored Division and a recent transfer to gunnery school.
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