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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1950
Page
2
Three men from Falls Mills Virginia Fred Hudgins 23 Alfred Snow Hudgins 26 and Elmo Shader 33 were held today on rape charges in a county attack involving two 16 year old girls Saturday night. They were arrested yesterday and each held on 7500 bond.
In Vienna a man and his wife were struck and killed by a vehicle while walking in a field after a birthday picnic at Fen farm. Gordon C. Cox of Washington Gas Light Co and his wife Hilda died from crushing injuries and a broken neck. Police and funeral home details follow.
Estate and property sale timetable listing bidders and items. Indian Hollow Road real estate. Charles Montgomery furnishing and tools at Middle Town Virginia. W R Thorpson at Benvenue Farm White Post Virginia livestock and farm machinery. Herbert Larrick trustee sale near Front Royal. Joan W Cos estate sale at 315 Piccadilly Winchester.
James a Green, 27, a World War II veteran, told police the .22 pistol was empty when he instructed his three year old daughter Shirley Ann Green to pull the trigger. He died about an hour later from a neck and chest wound. police ruled accidental death.
Judge Paul E B Brown of Fairfax County Circuit Court set a referendum for the November 7 general election. Voters will choose on a joint ballot between the present form of government a county manager plan and a county executive plan. The two plans differ in how supervisors are elected and powers given the county administrator.
Nile Straughan of Fredericksburg seeks the Republican nomination for Congress for the No vember 7 general election. He will oppose Edward J. Robeson Jr of Newport News, who won a special free for all last May for the unexpired term of Otis Bland. Robeson was renominated in the August 1 Democratic primary. Straughan was also a candidate in the special election.
John L. Lewis head of the United Mine Workers of America defended the right to strike before about 8,000 miners at the Panther Valley jubilee. He attacked the Taft Hartley Labor Law, saying it confines union members to second class status and was plotted by organizational empires to curb union strength.
The compiled answers list Eugene Field, mining, showman, Edward VIII as Duke of Windsor, origin from Napoleon, the plan to accompany him, true, a wild duck, Rural Electrification Administration, and capon.
Ernest Dearmont 78 retired Clarke County horseman of White Post died at his home after a lengthy illness. He was son of the late Col Washington Dearmont and Mrs Jane Dearmont, born January 15 1872. Survivors include two daughters Mrs Edwin Taylor and Mrs William Burtner, a sister and brother, two grandsons, a niece and two nephews. Funeral services at 2 30 p m tomorrow at John H Enders Funeral Home Berryville with Rev Arthur Figg officiating. interment Green Hill Cemetery.
Firemen were called to 159 Purcell Avenue shortly before noon today. Mrs. Adam Myers said the blaze started when she burned papers in a kitchen cook stove. No damage was reported.
Moscow reports Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky will lead the Soviet delegation to the United Nations General Assembly opening in New York in September. The U.S. embassy confirms a visa request for A. A. Arutiunian a senior Soviet Foreign Affairs Ministry official familiar with U N meetings.
Dr Forsham of the Medical School explains that ATCH or Cortisone can abolish inflammatory reactions in pneumonia and help fight disease by boosting antibodies within 10 days. He notes hormones spare pain and debilitation, control inflammatory and allergic conditions, and even prevent eye infections from spreading between eyes during injury recovery.
Raymond Campbell 34 of 9 E Clifford St leaves for Washington Navy Yard at 7 p.m. to join a Mine Disposal unit in Indian Head Md. Campbell is a WWII veteran with 38 months overseas, a Handley High and Shenandoah Military Academy alum, and former Friendship Fire Company captain. He also served as yard manager at the Farmer's Livestock Exchange on North Western Grade.
A string of crashes left three sailors dead after a car left the highway and struck a tree near Winchester. Other collisions sent several injured, including two in Washington and a paratrooper's son from Norristown, with services planned for a Hillsboro family.
California burns with about one hundred fires scorching 100000 acres across Mendocino County and threatening Navarro Ukiah and nearby towns. Arizona New Mexico and Oregon crews join local firefighters in hot dry winds as flames destroy a post office and homes while towns work to avoid bigger losses.
For years there has been a vogue for using Sedan chairs as telephone booths. They are both picturesque and practical.
A series of numbered clues includes long tooth filament leave out high priest consumed man s sloth references for a crossword puzzle.
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