Winchester Garden Club Plans Route 50 Beautification Drive
Mrs. J W Arthur of Winchester heads a city county committee to beautify Route 50 to Millwood and Route 7 to Berryville with shrubs and flowers. A Garden Club of Virginia outline explains highway width needs, rights of way and shoulder drainage for two to four lane roads, guiding the project.
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Frank Tavenner
Wood Stock
J. W. Arthur
Winchester
Frederick
Clarke
Millwood
Berryville
Win
Garden Club of Virginia
George Sloane
Stop Hitler Forces Have An Imposing Land Sea Strength
The piece contrasts Axis land and sea power with Allied aviation strength. It notes Germany and Italy hold greater immediate striking power, while Britain France Poland may outpace in reserves, naval, and long war capacity, with aerial figures restated by experts.
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Hitler
Edward E. Bomar
Washington
Europe
Rome- Berlin
Germany
Italy
Great Britain
France
Poland
Russia
Rumania
Paris
London
George H. Lynch
Dominions
Czecho-Slovakia
Skoda
Hungary
Rome-Berlin
Soviet
Romania
Japan
China
Siberian
United States
National Guard
Roosevelt
Air Corps
War Department
United States Army
Navy
Britain
Author Author radio quiz debuts on WOR MBS with Ellery Queen
New York April 5 a quiz program modeled after Information Please debuts Friday at 8:30 p.m. on WOR MBS called Author Author. Ellery Queen Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee will serve on the board with Ruth McKenny Carl Van Doren as guests and S J Perelman as master of ceremonies.
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New York
Ellery Queen
Frederic Dannay
Manfred B. Lee
Ruth McKenny
Carl van Doren
S. J. Perelman
Best Middle Champion To Be Decided
The piece surveys top middleweights as a May showdown nears in Seattle and New York. Freddy Apostoli is favored by insiders, with Solly Krieger, Allen Matthews, Popeye Woods, Paulie Mahoney, Ceferino Garcia, Henry Armstrong, Archie Moore, Teddy Yaroz, Sid Nichols, Glen Lee, Freddy Steele, Al Hostak and Philadelphia Jack O'Brien among potential challengers. The debate centers on who will prove the world’s best middleweight.
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State Highway Department
Drew Middleton
New York
Freddy Apostoli
al Weill
Fred
Billy Conn
Pittsburgh
Joe Louis
Seattle
Solly Krieger
Allen Matthews
St. Louis
Matthews
Australia
New York Hippodrome
Popeye Woods
Mankiller
Paulie Mahoney
Buffalo
Jimmy Slattery
Ceferino Garcia
Apostoli
Garcia
Henry Armstrong
Armstrong
Sid Nichols
Houston
Nichols
Archie Moore
Teddy Yarsoz
Yarsoz
Coon
Krieger
Glen Lee
Freddy Steele
al Hostak
Philadelphia
Jack O’brien
Treasury Status April 3 Receipts and Expenditures Report
The Treasury reports receipts of 20 438 315 05 and expenditures of 49 405 631 77 for April 3, leaving a net balance of 3 352 144 459 90.
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Washington
Treasury
Glendobbin Bought by Bonds Howell and Allen Bond
Howell and Allen Bond bought the old Baker property known as Glendobbin under a court order settling the B. West Baker estate. The 242 acre tract sold for about 13000 dollars to Henry W. Baker and Mrs Love Virginia Berry of Washington for division between the heirs. A separate note reports Mrs J J Hill’s speeding arrest while rushing her veterinarian husband to a dying hog. The judge called the act justifiable and dismissed the case.
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Howell
Allen Bond
Baker
Boetley el Paso
Tex
J. J. Hill
Justice of the Peace
Harrington
Tidy Sum Awaiting Five Claimants in Crawford Estate
Virginia or Maryland heirs may seek about 19000 dollars from the 19th century estate of Hugh Crawford and Mary Hampton Crawford of Columbia South Carolina. New York attorney John J. Dwyer says Crawford had a daughter Josephine born circa 1859 and possibly other children. He believes the nearest relatives reside near Richmond or Baltimore, though they could be elsewhere in the two states.
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Virginia
Maryland
Hugh Crawford
Mary Hampton Crawford
Columbia
S. C
John J. Dwyer
New York
Crawfords
Josephine
Richmond
Baltimore
Snake control drive expands into farming district
Officials launched their annual campaign to curb spread of snakes into farms. On day one reports show 205 clubbeds or shots and numerous dens dynamited as part of the effort.
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Valley Pike
STAR
Shenandoah River
J. O. J. Green
N. Cameron St
Winchester, Va
Pread
Pont
Origiate
Omps Funeral Home
WEAF
NBC
Thomas Parran
WJZ
Roy W. Howard
Secretary of Labor
Perkins
Children of Democracy
Louis Johnson
National Defense
Hamilton Fish
America
One Man's Family
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Kay Kyser
Dolge
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Paul Whiteman
Theatre of Stars
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WGAR
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Weight Field
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Colo
Edwin Brooks
Chicago
Ill
Natonal Federation of Post Office
Horace A. W. Tabor
Oro
Dad
Budweisernheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch, Tnc
Louis, MO
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Prosser
Wash
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Kenandoah Valley National Bank
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Wener’s
N. Loudoun St
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