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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1940
Page
6
The local post office publishes forty nine Q and A on alien registration. Questions cover how aliens locate first and second class offices, registering at any post office, penalties for nonregistration or false statements, and applicability of penalties to guardians.
The troop held a meeting with the pledge and oath followed by advancement notes. Pat Duffey earned a twenty five hour service bar and a two year service star. Vic Arthur earned a two year camp letter and Richard Crisman a first year camp letter. Final plans were made for a weekend camp at Camp White Rock.
Dorothy Gray, 17, testified in a Los Angeles case involving her estranged husband Gene S. Ruggerio, 30, who accused her of concealing a car and a $1,400 bank account. She said she gained “every cent” after their separation, claiming she gambled and won with ponies. The court allowed her to keep the $1,400 as temporary support and restrained her from disposing of the car.
Vichy France reports the Petain government added coffee to rationed foods for residents in unoccupied France. Existing rationed items include sugar rice soap lard spaghetti and macaroni, reflecting wartime shortages and price controls.
London dated dispatch reports Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret collecting souvenirs from a German air raid including bomb fins. The girls visited a crater in open country as authorities provided each a souvenir.
Weather note records river observations at Riveroth Virginia with North Branch and South Branch described as very cloudy.
Present and past rainfall figures show 24 hours ending 8 a m at 0.50 inches and September to date 1.61 inches bringing year to date to 31.28 inches. The 27 year 1913 to 1939 averages list monthly amounts from January 2.56 inches to December 2.39 inches, with an annual average of 35.53 inches. Data courtesy of Winchester Research Laboratory.
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