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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1938
Page
8
Government military dispatches report insurgent troops repulsed after night efforts to breach Madrid front lines. Offensive focused on a seven and a half mile front between Sesena and Ciempozuelos, south of Madrid, with previous failed assault two days earlier.
Puzzle grid from 1938 features clues across and down with items like 28 Price of 6, 10 Annihilate, 12 Wind, 13 Jewish, 14 Baskets, 15 A blockhead, 16 Chinese, 18 Egg of a, 19 Character, 20 Yield, and 22 The sun. Down clues include Large body, Writing fluid of salt water, Futile, Wanders, Mascline, Sun god pronoun, Unemployed, An easy, From, Inlet, A garret, Halfems, Prayers, Affirmative vote. The theme appears to mix general knowledge with era-specific phrasing Copr 1938 King Features Syndicate.
Winton Naff 23 a University of Richmond alum and Virginia businessman was injured when his car and a Richmond P itsburgh Lines truck sideswiped last Monday near Delaplane. He suffered a badly broken left arm and was pinned in the demolished vehicle. Investigating officers reported no charges and called the crash unavoidable. Naff expected to recover enough by Saturday to return to Roanoke with his father D W Naff Sr.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission gave the go signal for a four lane toll road linking Harrisburg with Pittsburgh. The initial contract covers grading and drainage for a 10 mile stretch toward the first of nine tunnels in the South Mountains. Walter A. Jones announced $10,000,000 of the $60,000,000 federal pledge had been received.
A squad of 24 officers chosen by county and city branches began enforcing a purge of phantom voters ahead of the Saturday registration deadline. District Attorney Andrew T. Park disclosed 142 phantom registrations found in one Homestead block.
FASTEETH is a pleasant alkaline powder that holds false teeth more firmly so you can eat and talk comfortably. It leaves no gummy taste and helps reduce denture odor. Available at any drug store.
Representatives of the Council of Churches and Christian Education of Maryland and Delaware launch an Eastern Shore campaign against a proposed constitutional amendment to lift Maryland's state lottery ban. Eleven rallies planned. leaders warn of gambling influx and out of state dog racing syndicates if passed.
Julia Zemnick 21 an artist with the federal art project is in critical condition after a polar bear named Silver mauled her for about 20 minutes in a Brookside zoo cage. Doctors said she may lose an eye but she survived the attack following a blood transfusion from Clyde Henderson.
Judge bars further deportations by police and city officials in Jersey City after a suit by plaintiffs linked to National Democratic Committee officials. The ruling protects rights to be in the city, distribute leaflets, carry placards, and speak in public parks without unlawful interference. It cites police escort of socialist Norman Thomas from Journal Square last April 30 and Hague’s list of undesirables amid public unrest over his presence.
A government case at a German spy trial resumes in New York as a book of eight letters copied photographically by British intelligence goes missing. The letters from Guenther Rumrich to a German agent in Dundee Scotland and a letter from Rumrich's brother from Prague are included, with witnesses identifying Otto Hermann Voss among visitors linked to Lenkowski. The government alleges Gudenberg and Voss passed aviation plans to Lenkowski for transmission to Germany.
Handsome Bob Gregory the wrestler who married Princess Baba of Sarawak admitted today they have separated with she to return to England leaving Sunday. Gregory said they will separate temporarily and there are no hard feelings. Princess Baba plans to sail from New York November 2 after marrying in London November 22 1937.
Public notice states Chas R Erbe owner will appear before the A B C Board on November 3 1938 seeking a license to retail beer and ale over 3.2 percent at the Liberty Hall Tea Room on Fairmont Avenue Extension Winchester Virginia with consumption on and off the premises.
Charleston West Virginia October 27 The Conservation Commission declares a state of emergency due to forest fires and asks hunters farmers and citizens to forego hunting and using woods until rain arrives. At least 65 fires are burning across West Virginia as winds fall and humidity rises. All available men are on fire lines and law enforcement is urged to cooperate with district foresters rangers and game protectors.
Readable text notes authorities mobilizing men and equipment to combat forest fires, aiming to fortify defenses and respond rapidly to outbreaks. No specific names or dates are clear from the fragment.
Four thousand Maryland school teachers will meet in Baltimore for the 71st Maryland State Teachers Association. A banquet will cap the program with general sessions at the Polytechnic Institute and Charles L. Kopp of Cumberland chairing the proceedings.
The battleship Texas opened to the public today as a Navy Day feature at Locust Point in Baltimore.
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