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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1939
Page
2
Dr I C Riggin states 1938 home accident surveys show carelessness mostly causes incidents rather than structural hazards. Most victims are young and elderly, with nearly half of fatalities from falls and burns prominent among child victims and family hazards like waxed floors baths and ladders cited.
Adults pouring kerosene on fires causes frequent fatal burns. Medicines and poisons in reach trigger accidents, especially with children. Bathroom shocks from wet hands and low voltage appliances remain dangerous. Awareness and careful handling of home hazards are essential to reduce injuries.
Robert E. Bondy reports Red Cross disaster relief aided 31,700 people across seven states in August. Alabama flooding near Selma and Prattville prompted rehabilitation for 7,500. Pine Ridge Oregon fires affected 250 families. Panama City area in Florida faced 1,200 helped. Oklahoma tornado relief reached about 250 families, Kalamazoo tornado aided around 400 people.
The page lists quiz answers including Gulf of Finland for 2, Sun Beau for 3, and an instrument for measuring cloud motion. It names Gen Maurice Gamelin and Patrick Henry, notes the Iroquois word for beautiful river, Sawbuck, Talc, and George Washington.
Economics professor insights show war costs exceed many nations wealth. Estimates reach 275 billion to 2.246 trillion, with debt and currency depreciation as main payers. Taxpayers, savers, and consumers shoulder burden as living costs rise faster than wages.
Uniontown Pennsylvania September report of Mrs Inez Bush convicted of second degree murder in a child's poisoned death, she returned to jail awaiting sentence and offered no comment on the jury finding. The trial heard she had denied a police statement about harming the seven month old Rosalie Taylor at a Grindstone boarding home.
Glasgow reports 128 dead or missing from the British liner Athenia sunk off the Scottish coast after Sunday night disaster. The vessel carried 1418 persons with the toll still rising as rescuers search.
Virginia customs district reports exports for the first six months of 1939 totaling 49,376,300, down from 61,812,716 in the same period last year. Major destinations include Europe led by the United Kingdom and Sweden, with Far East, Caribbean, and Africa among other buyers.
Washington figures General John J. Pershing and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh work quietly in Washington offices, with Pershing at the State Department and Lindbergh in the War Department. Both are unglamorous yet influential, seen rarely in public and lacking door signage. Pershing met Secretary Woodring this week to discuss the European war while Lindbergh reviews aircraft production.
GALESVILLE Md Sept 8 Flames destroyed Waysons Restaurant a large eatery on the Marlboro Mt Zion road near the southern Maryland boulevard intersection in lower Anne Arundel county. The fire started about 430 am in the kitchen and caused an estimated 15000 to 20000 dollars in damage.
The Treasury reports for September 6 show receipts of 20 million 254 thousand 621 64 and expenditures of 26 million 610 thousand 929 22. Gross debt stands at 40 million 936 thousand 544 1 245 85 with a daily increase of 3 million 805 thousand 612 86.
Samuel Edwin Simpson, a well known Clarke County farmer, died at Memorial hospital after a long illness at age 60. He was born in Front Royal and survived by his wife Bessie, four sons Lyle Shirley Samuel and Paul, four daughters Hazel Welch Mildred Sundergill Margaret, two brothers Clarence and Walter, four sisters Lizzie Menefee Margaret Simpson Eva Heskett and Mary Grove. Funeral services will be held Saturday September 9 at 2 p m from the Berryville Presbyterian Church with interment in Green Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers are Samuel Thomas Grover Carter Carroll Stolle John Bray Ralph Ware and M F Wisecarver. Honorary pallbearers include Fred Morris and several doctors and townsfolk.
Motor vehicle licenses have supplied state treasuries with rising revenue over the past two decades from 1919 to 1937. The Census Bureau notes variability during 1930 to 1932 with totals around 296 million and 265 million, and highlights differences in tax methods for private and commercial vehicles across states.
Ten thousand New York shoe workers demand revocation of a permit granted to Bata Shoe Company of Zlin Germany to import hundreds to Belcamp Maryland. The United Shoe Workers call for a Roosevelt commission to probe the permit and urge a working agreement with the Hitler government as machinery shipments continue.
Four year old Walter Crawford of Trenton New Jersey celebrated his fourth birthday by smoking a new pipe. The child began smoking at just over a year old with a Christmas gift pipe he broke weeks earlier. His parents approve of smoking but want him to quit cigars and cigarettes.
Corbin Daily Tribune police reporter Robert E Cummings wed court judge Miss Etta Browning in Corbin Kentucky. Inmates at St Joseph county infirmary face limited meals with rationing not linked to the war, while Dr A B Holly reports patients may be overeating and urges action.
Bata factories stood as a leading industry for Czecho Slovakia, shaping regional economy and employment through extensive production and export activities during the period referenced.
Two Virginia FFA judging teams will compete at the Eastern States Exposition in Springfield Massachusetts on September 21. Supervising official D J Howard said dairy milk and poultry judging squads will represent Virginia with members Cappy Moéhcure Stafford Lanerick 6 Falmouth R Bilison Haymarket and Stephen Greene Warrenton. K Young Stafford will coach. Travel follows last year’s hurricane impact in New England.
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