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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1937
Page
5
Blue Island scientist Georgine A. Moerke, a bacteriologist, is credited by colleagues with a new tuberculosis enzyme discovery made while working at a Detroit sanatorium. Her hobby is photography.
At Charlottesville the Young Democratic Clubs convention endorsed Presidents Roosevelt and Senators Glass and Byrd by acclamation after debate over the blanket resolution. The vote, later clarified, showed no opposition from the Sixth district. Committees were empowered to study redistricting and highway funding diversion.
The Winchester Star offers a five color world atlas map for ten cents while a Salt Lake City filling station reports a $31 theft from the till during a night sleep. Police are involved as the manager explains the suspect Ken Sargent was asleep when the loss occurred.
Cubs suffer two defeats as they fall further behind the Giants while Bees and others win. Milt Shoffner starts for the Bruins and Lou Fette and Jim Turner pace Chicago’s pitching. Giants split with Pittsburgh as Hubbell earns 19th win. Yankees explode for 17-5 over Indians. Cardinals and Dodgers sweep, creating tight NL standings with several late-inning twists.
Washington report details Lewis M. Clarkson a former American commercial representative in South America accusing Augusto B. Leguia of pressuring him to marry Senora Mercedes Quintana Viuda de Ludewig to protect her name. Clarkson alleges threats secrecy and coercion by Leguia and four secret service men guiding him to a church for the ceremony.
In 1926 Clarkson pursued a case claiming Leguia allowed him to leave Peru to seek U.S. help in a Peru Bolivia boundary dispute. He says Leguia had him register the senora’s two children as his own before departure. He delayed filing suit, learning the senora died in 1928, then learned she was alive.
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