Christmas Party Honors and Society Notes Across Town
Mildred Graham reports on the Epstein Star Woman's Club Christmas party in the Masonic temple with a Christ tree, program, gifts, and a social hour. Also covered are a dance for charity, Girl Reserves badge sales, Ladies' Aid meeting, upcoming events, and a high school home room program. A Queens court case involves Etta Reisman testifying in the jealousy slaying of Virginia Leigh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epstein Star Woman's Club
Masonic Temple
Mary Hoffman
Zenas Dean
Edwin Holden
Juanita Hardin
Old Judea
Elizabeth Stuck
Vivian Bunner
Grace Loar
Santa Claus
L. J. Lear
Klaude Spaur
Virginia Mahaffey
Trask
Helen Manning
Richard Leonard
Richard McProuty
J . Virginia Marshall
Hazel McDaniel
Sylvia Mason
Virginia Leigh
Etta Reisman
Queens County Court
New York
Drive for U S Ownership of Railways Gains Trade Support
The Railway Labor Executives Association urged government ownership of the nation’s railroads in a circular to congress, calling ownership and democratic control essential to end the financial morass. Senator Wheeler had introduced a related bill but asked for no immediate action. The circular warned of banker dominance and repeated losses to employees and investors since 1929 as evidence of the system’s peril.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Associati Cn
Congress
Wheeler
D.-Mont
Senate
WPA Personnel Expenses To Be Slashed Jan 1
State official Mire Cullough announced a January 1 cut to WPA personnel expenses and other costs in line with Federal Administrator Harry L. Hopkins policies. He will disclose the number of personnel affected later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry L. Hopkins
Birth of Betty Jean Piser in Barrett Street family
Mr and Mrs Carrol Piser of Barrett street announce the birth of their daughter Betty Jean on December 15 weighing seven and a half pounds.
Local notes from Morgantown and area crowds
C C Whitescarver Morgantown constable was on business in the city yesterday. Nellie Tucker deputy circuit court clerk stays home today with a severe cold. Carolyn Rendle a Potomac State student visiting her parents on Washington street. Mrs Jean Fensterwald from Baltimore visiting Mr and Mrs Simon J Friedman of Maple avenue. Kenneth Cox of Love avenue discharged from City hospital this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Whitescarver
Grafton
Morgantown
Nellie Tucker
Grand Street
Carolyn Rendle
Potomac State College
W. H. Rendle
Washington Street
Jean Fensterwald
Baltimore
Seek To Untangle PWA Conflict With Statutes
In Charleston on December 20 three state officials sought to resolve a legal conflict affecting PWA projects. John Baker White M L O Neale and Homer A Holt discussed how most projects rely on loan and grant funding with bond repayment. M D Carrico noted the clash between PWA rules and state laws but O Neale believed a Washington ruling would settle the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Washington
PWA
John Baker White
Board of Control
WPA
M. L. O'Neale
Homer A. Holt
M. D. Carrico
West Virginia
O’neale
Three Million At Work In U S On WPA Projects
Washington December 20 revised employment figures issued by Harry L Hopkins show that the number of jobs supplied by the four billion dollar Works Progress Administration reaches 3 476 782 as of the week beginning December 9. President Roosevelt later said he did not yet know how much of the 4 billion fund would remain unused by year end.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Roosevelt
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Mildred Graham
J. Eee
Maggie Miller
P. H.C
Alex Matthews
Nancy Outright
Maude Murphy
Iva Miller
Ladies’ Aid Meeting
Ladies’ Aid Society of the ‘Webster M. E. Church
Velma McWills
Webster
G. H
Andrews M. E. Church
Riverside Drive
Sammy Kaye
NBC Orchestra
New Field House
Cora Wolfe
Maragret Felton
Delpha Curran
Lotta Getz
Mildred McWilliams
Madge Newton
Ethel Preston
Lult Reynolds
Moreda Gibson
Odbert Cooper
Ira McFarland
Conrad
Edna Felton
Edith Newton
Juanita Getz
Geraldine Gibson
Georgia McDaniel
Gladys Taylor
Pearl Felton
Maryirginia Felton
Boyd McDaniel
Alph Gibson
James Curran
Albert Reynolds
Donald Newton
Herbert Sinsel
Floyd
Junior
Thomas McWilliams
U.S. A.R
U.seteke
Jolliffe’s
Jolliffe
Supreme Court
Tax Norren
U.S
Sentinel
Turner
Daniel Green Leisure
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