Baltimore and Philadelphia Market Reports April Livestock and Produce
Maryland and Philadelphia markets show dull apples and produce with varied box prices. Baltimore livestock notes slower demand with steers 8.30-9.15 and cows 5.50-6.00, calves weak, hogs and sheep unsettled. Chicago reports hogs down to 5.15 and cattle soft, western lambs steady to higher.
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Baltimore
Truck
Pa. Va
W. Va
Philadelphia
Plymouth Rock
Baltimore Livestock
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Stock Market Report Shows Mixed Transports and Shifts
New York April 1 air transport stocks rise modestly while leaders hold, with broad gains in forenoon and slackening activity near hour four. Traders temper optimism as limited news keeps market momentum muted and skepticism remains about an immediate turnaround amid a declining trend.
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New York
Wall Street
Market tickers and company percentage notes
A brief listing of stock percentages and company abbreviations shows values for N. C. Packard Penney JC 9212 Penn R R Republic Steel Southern R O N ds Texas Corp Union Pac U S Steel Va Car Pict Western Union Woolworth with various percentage figures such as 16 3 22 59 29 235 401.
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Packard
Penney (Jc
Penn. R. R
Republic Steel
Southern R
O. of
N. Ds
Texas Corp
Union Pac
U.S. Steel
Va-Car Pict
Western Union
Woolworth
Wheat Market Stalls Gains Despite Export Sales
Chicago reports a flat to lower wheat day despite a 10,000,000 bushel export sale of Canadian wheat to Europe as hedging and Winnipeg price gaps hinder gains. May wheat around 1.04, oats about 0.40, beans near 1.10, rye mid 0.66, with cash grains showing varied No 1 yellow corn and No 4 red wheat pricing. Baltimore and Winchester figures list domestic prices for wheat around 1.14 and corn about 0.65 per bushel.
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Chicago
Europe
Winnipeg
Great Britain
Chicago Cash Grain
Baltimore Grain
Baltimore
Winchester
Flour Slain In Fight Near Richmond
The report notes a fatal shooting near Richmond with two men killed. One victim Morris, a Fluvanna native and son of W J Morris, and Kirkpatrick, a long time general store and post office operator born in North Carolina about 18 years ago. Kirkpatrick was a Spanish American War veteran aged about 60 with his wife nearby.
Must Work Farm Plan By April 16
Virginia farmers learn to complete the farm plan outlining soil conservation practices for the 1940 program. Stine explains the plan shows eligible payments and serves as a guide for annual operations. County meetings listed for Middletown Stephens City Mount Airy White Hall Gainesboro Gore Gravel Springs at area schoolhouses.
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Virginia
Stine
Middletown
Stephens City
Mount Airy
Winchester
White Hall
Gainesboro
Gore
Gravel Springs
Winchester Men Held In Martinsburg
Two Winchester men were arrested in Martinsburg West Virginia on Saturday night for driving while under the influence. Noble Ray Unger was fined 25 dollars and costs with six months vehicle impoundment and license revocation. Hugh Green posted bond and faces court on April 4. A passenger Miss Phyllis Oakes was seriously injured. Green escaped injury.
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Winchester
Martinsburg
W. Va
West Virginia
Theartinsburg Journal
The
Star
Noble Ray Unger
Hugh Green
Justice of the Peace
J. D. Smith
Apear
Unger
State Police
Green
Hagerstown
Phyllis’ Oakes
City Hospital
Hickory Camp Holds Annual Sermon at Grace Lutheran
About 70 members attended the Hickory Camp annual sermon at Grace Lutheran Church with Rev. Carl A. Honeycutt delivering God Calls Men. Preparations begin for another Woodmen of the World initiation meeting on Friday April 5 at 8 o clock to induct several initiates.
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Hickory Camp
Grace Lutheran Church
Carl A. Honeycutt
City Ministers Hear Speaker On Relief For China
The Winchester Ministerial Association met at Handley Library and heard Mrs. Harry K. Zeller Jr. of Richmond Va on China relief via a Church Committee for China Relief. Rev G Balthis appointed to organize a mass meeting for Winchester citizens with Dr Roberta Ma as chief speaker later this month.
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Winchester Ministerial Association
Handley Library
Harry K. Zeller, Jr
Richmond
Church Committee For
China Relief
G. Balthis
Winchester
Roberta Ma
Water crest not due at Safe Harbor Holtwood tomorrow
Baltimore April 1 officials at Safe Harbor and Holtwood hydro plants said the Susquehanna river crest would not reach those points until tomorrow and that heavy flows would not cause trouble. Holtwood dam water level stood 13 feet above the dam with 15 feet expected.
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Baltimore
Safe Harbor
Holtwood
Pennsylvania Water and Power Company
Death of Bailey Ends Long Farming Life in Winchester
Heart attack ends the life of Bailey a longtime farmer and former merchant in Green Spring and Winchester He served on Frederick county’s Democratic Executive Committee and belonged to United Brethren Church Survived by his wife Laura Isola Ewing his eight sons and one daughter and twenty grandchildren The service will be at Old Stone Church near White Hall with burial beside the church cemetery pallbearers are his sons
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Green Spring
Bailey
Winchester
Democratic Executive Committee
Frederick County
United Brethren Church
Bessie Roberson
Laura Isola Ewing
Laura Strother
Martinsburg
W. Va
William A
Cecil H
Ora R
Harley C
Earl S
Mervil C. Bailey
Clarence Bailey
Inwood
John R. Bailey
Washington, D. C
Old Stone Church
White Hall
George W. Stover
J. * Bridgers
Egg Grading Demonstrations At Court House
Egg grading demonstrations will be held tomorrow at 10 o clock at the court house for poultrymen selling eggs. Hollis Shemmo from the Division of Markets in Richmond Virginia and M F Coe from Blacksburg Virginia will assist.
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Court House
Hollis Shemmo
Division of Markets
Richmond
M. F. Coe
Blacksburg
Farmer Gathers 1000 Autographs Then Donates to Library
Winchester youth Marshall Farmer completes a three year autograph quest with Franklin D Roosevelt's signature on a White House card. He credits Postmaster General James Farley and Miss M A LeHand for help and plans to donate his 1000-signature collection to the Handley Library after presenting Senatorial signatures.
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Farmer
Marshall Farmer
Winchester
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Marshall
White House
Washington
M. A. LeHand Roosevelt
Post
James A. Farley
Jim” Farley
Miss LeHand
Farley
Hoover
Handley Library
Local Wholesale and Retail Market Prices Snapshot
Daily market listing shows prices for flour patent brands bag sizes, corn meal per barrel, mixed feed, and various fowl, cattle, and hog items. Retail sections detail 12 and 24 and 48 pound bag prices for butter, patent brands, corn meal, mixed feeds, and horse feeds with starter grower and scratch options.
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Abel
RRA Sieleinsste
Ucnor Tre
He Keane Ees
Sacs
Epocwces AO
Ehsankss Aiones
Drop Forgery Charge Against County Woman
Mrs. Ernest Shell of Vaucluse was dismissed after the Commercial and Savings Bank and Allen Bond dropped charges of attempted forgery. She had used the name Hattie Virginia Clem and tried to cash a check bearing Bonds forged name. Bank staff alerted Bond. a chase along Loudoun street ended with her capture by cashier John S. Sloat.
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Ernest Shell
Vaucluse
Commercial and Savings Bank
Allen Bond
John S. Sloat
Loudoun Street
Dies To Proceed Against Blumberg
Baltimore April 1 Rep Martin Dies chairman of the committee investigating un American activities said he would ask the House for a contempt citation against Dr Albert E Blumberg Baltimore Communist leader. Dies added the action would come in two or three days after Blumberg refused to answer questions about party membership and records seized by Dies committee agents last Thursday.
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Baltimore
Martin Diés
D-Tex
Committee
House of Representatives
Albert E. Blumberg
Dies
Blumberg
Dies Committee
Britain’s Chief Censor Sir Walter Monckton ordered to take rest
London reports Chief Censor Sir Walter Monckton was ordered to take a SAGUERVA rest due to overwork. The terse note appears in an April 1 dispatch from the British capital.
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London
Britain
Sir Walter Monckton
French and German air duels as front quiets and raids end
Reports from the western front describe a multi day artillery duel marked by Nomad batteries along a 30 mile front ending with a quiet night. German high command claims air victories while French sources report no air engagements and note German planes failed to damage an unidentified French warship driven off by a coastal patrol.
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High Command
Iman
No Notice Given For White Book
Secretary Hull said Germany issued the white book without notice to the U S embassy in Berlin claiming to cite Polish documents. He knew nothing of reports the Polish government would repudiate the German publication.
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Washington
Hull
Germany
United States
Warsaw
Berlin
Hold Youth For Drunken Driving
Joseph Veringo, 23, of Alexandria, is held by local police on charges of driving while intoxicated after a minor accident on Paper Mill road at 11:15 this morning. He drove a car registered to Robert Supinger, crashing into Ed Rainsberger’s rear. no injuries and minor damage.
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Joseph Veringo
Alexandria
Paper Mill
Veringo
Robert Supinger
Ed Rainsberger
Three Men And Woman Are Slain In Bisbee
In Bisbee Arizona on April 1 a man shot his wife and two others while they slept in Roy Sanders apartment. He then killed Charles Cloud who investigated the shots and killed himself, described as a triple slaying and a death by own action.
Dies Summons Lincoln Brigade Officials
In New York on April 1, the Diés committee summoned three officials of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to appear in Washington with records and membership lists for inspection.
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New York
Diés Committee
Washington
London Reopens Schools for Young Children in War Start
London reports more than 70,000 children aged eight to 11 returned to school today as compulsory attendance for younger ages is introduced amid wartime air raid shelter expansion.
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London
Nothing New For Capitol Hill
Senator Barkley after a White House conference said no new legislation or suggestion for legislation would go to Congress this session. He added they hope to get out by June 1 if not sooner.
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Washington
Senator Barkley
D.-Ky
White House
Congress
Real estate for sale listing by Geo. Wash at the hotel
A city realtor advertises multiple properties near Clearbrook Virginia including 197 acres dairy farm with water springs and pond priced at 6000 dollars with 2000 cash, 20 acre Cedar Creek Grade farm ideal for poultry, 53 acres on Route 11 Valley Pike, 30 acre apple orchard with bank barn, 6 room houses and lots in Richards addition. Finance offered and urging action.
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Clearbrook
Virginia
Cedar Creek
Valley Pike
Hearing Set Friday In Bull Will Case At Clarke
In Clarke Virginia Judge Philip Williams scheduled a hearing for Friday at 10 o'clock on the will contest of Berenice Merchant 19 of Washington against the late Col B Llewellyn Bull. Bull died last November at his Tubeyries estate near Bovee with estate valued in estimates around 500000. Attorneys for the Bull estate include R Gray Williams J Sloan Kuykendall of Winchester and Doug Ferris of New York.
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Ber
Yville
Philip Williams
Bull
Berenice Merchant
Washington
Col
B. Llewellyn Bull
Col. Bull
Tubeyries
Bovee
Joseph Moore
Garland Williams
Miss Merchant
R. Gray Williams
J. Sloan Kuykendall
Winchester
Doug Ferris
New York
Traffic Court.Local remedy for speeding case
Laurence Castleman of Berryville paid $10 plus costs after a speeding violation found in traffic court.
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Laurence Castleman
Berryville
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