Stonewall Shawnee Citizens Push Central High School Plan
At a courthouse meeting Stonewall and Shawnee district residents urged the Frederick County authorities to build a centrally located high school serving their areas. They backed using the Shenandoah Valley Academy site and asked immediate work on converting rooms to teach several grades, aiming to relieve congestion for next year.
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Stonewall and
Shawnee
Stonewall
Board of Supervisors
Frederick County School Board
Shenandoah Valley Academy
School Board
A. W. Wright
Welltown
Frederick County
Clearbrook
Brucetown
Central High
Apple Indian Pudding Recipe Featured In Winchester Menu
Apple Indian Pudding recipe appears as a daily feature to boost local apple sales. The dish uses milk eggs corn meal molasses and spices with sliced apples baked until golden. Serve with vanilla ice cream or cream.
Nine Youths Held in Boy's Philadelphia Slaying
Nine youths were arrested in Philadelphia on conspiracy to commit murder charges after a street corner gun battle that killed 16 year old Leroy Daniels. Detectives said the feud between two rival gangs had escalated over months and that five guns and ammunition were seized. One other youth was wounded and hospitalized.
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Philadelphia
Peter McCormick
McCormick
Leroy Daniels
Luxembourg Moves to Abandon Homes Plan in Emergency
Luxembourg authorities released government plans for residents to abandon homes in case of emergency. The move is described as precautionary with no immediate danger. Luxembourg's population is about 300,000.
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Luxembourg
Grand Duchy of
Germany
France
Belgium
Grand Duchy
Russians Cross Into Manchoukuo
Tokyo reports that Soviet regular troops crossed the Manchoukuo border near Suifenko and advanced toward a small village on a Wednesday. Both sides moved reinforcements but Russians withdrew before Japanese forces arrived. no fighting occurred. Suifenko lies in eastern Manchoukuo near the Siberian border, about 100 miles northwest of Vladivostok.
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Tokyo
Cornei
Manchoukuo
Suifénho
Suifenko
Siberia
Vladivostok
Mary Washington House to Host Colonial reenactment during Garden Week
Virginia Garden Week will transport the Mary Washington House in Fredericksburg back to the 18th century April 22 27 with costumed roles by volunteers portraying household servants and visitors. Mrs Washington will host General Lafayette each afternoon at 3 00 receiving him as in colonial times and serving mint julep and gingerbread in the kitchen.
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Fredericksburg
Mary Washington
Marquis de Lafayette
Virginia
Rappahannock Valley
Washington
Times
George Washington
General Lafayette
George
Valley Society Board To Meet In Harrisonburg
Shenandoah Valley Inc directors and executive committee plan a meeting in Harrisonburg on Friday April 19 at Frid dies Grill Room. President Earl Valentine and Secretary Cedric Gran announced the gathering to discuss regular sessions in different cities and to attract visitors to the Valley.
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Valley Society Board
Harrisonburg
Shenandoah Valley, Inc
E. L. Klingstein
The
Valley, Inc
Earl Valentine
Cedric Gran
Most Of Glaize Houses Are Sold In Charles Town
In Charles Town West Virginia on April 6 the Glaize properties on Congress Street saw another sale. J L Welshans of Shepherdstown bought 403 East Congress Street from Mrs Katie Boyd Glaize and heirs of Winchester as an investment. Five of eight sold houses became homes and three investments. The remaining Glaize house sits at the center of Church Street block, now vacated by State Trooper O G Webley and occupied by D P Hurley and family.
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Charles Town
W. Va
Glaize
Congress-Church Street
Katie Boyd Glaize
Winchester
East Congress Street
J. L. Welshans
Shepherdstown
Guy Ebersole
Welshans
Church Street
O. G. Webley
D. P. Hurley
Too Conscientious To Accept Salary
Richmond Virginia April 6 William Uncle Billy Reinheimer a 40 year city finance department member quit his job saying he did not think he earned the salary. Revenue Commissioner John C Goode refused to accept the resignation but Reinheimer was determined. He will be 90 April 22.
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Richmond
William
Billy
Fourth Occurs Often In Family
INDIANAPOLIS Ind April 6 Pi William Scott was four years old Thursday He was born at four minutes after four o clock the morning of April 4 1936 He is the fourth son of George Scott and the fourth person in his family to have a birthday in the fourth month of the year.
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Indianapolis
Ind
William Scott
George Scott
Punishment Fits This Case Nicely
A hitchhiker angry at a failed ride smashed eight empty bottles on State Road No 5 near Huntington Indiana. Sheriff Marvin Idle arrested him, forced him to sweep his route with a broom as the sheriff rode along, kept him in jail overnight, then ordered him to leave the county.
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Huntington
Ind
State Road No. 5
Here
Marvin Idle
Meningitis Confronts Decline Like Other Diseases
In Cleveland on April 6 evidence from Cleveland City Hospital clinics shows meningitis yielding similarly to typhoid yellow fever and other conquerable diseases. Four meningitis types were treated, chiefly with sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine, including influenzal meningitis once deemed 100 percent fatal. Seven of thirteen cases were cured.
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Cleveland
American College of Physicians
Cleveland City Hospital
Virginia Ranks Seventh in Tuberculosis Deaths in 1937
Virginia's tuberculosis death rate stood at 64.9 per 100 000 in 1937, ranking seventh among states. J Vaughan Gary of the Virginia Tuberculosis Association said 1939 figures look better though comparable data are pending. He noted Virginia’s rate was higher than the national 53.6.
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Virginia
J. Vaughan Gary
Virginia Tuberculosis Association
Gary
District of Columbia
Arizona
New Mexico
Colorado
California
Tennessee
Maryland
Kentucky
Nevada
Louisiana
Texas
United States Census Bureau
Old Dominion
Edward Lawyer Dies After Sudden Heart Trouble
Edward T. Lawyer of Lebanon Church Virginia died Friday morning March 29 after a period of ill health. The death came as a shock to family and friends. Burial was at Oakland Cemetery on Sunday. He was survived by two daughters Mrs Pent Havermale and Mrs Virgil Shade of Winchester, two sons W Rudy Sawyer of Winchester and James Lawyer of Gore, four grandchildren, one great grandson, and one sister Mrs N A Unger of Lebanon Church.
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Virgil Shade
Winchester
W. Rudy Sawyer
James Lawyer
Gore
N. A. Unger
Lebanon Church
1 100 Middies To Go On Cruise This Summer
About 1 100 Naval Academy midshipmen will sail on a summer practice cruise to New York City the Caribbean and South American ports aboard the battleships Texas Arkansas and New York of the Atlantic squadron. The voyage runs June 8 to August 28 in three groups under Rear Admiral Hayne Ellis.
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Washington
Navy
Naval Academy
New York City
Caribbean
South American
Lewis Compton
Texas
Arkansas
New York
Hayne Ellis
Europe
Pacific
South America
Annapolis
Cherry Blossom Festival Chooses Queen for April 12
Washington committee announces the Cherry Blossom Festival coronation at the tidal basin next Friday April 12. The event marks the birthday of the crowned queen as the first Japanese cherry trees are expected to be in full bloom.
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Washington
Virginia Exempts Several Jobs From Unemployment Insurance
Newsboys under 18 interns nurses in training and non salaried insurance and real estate salesmen are excluded from Virginia job insurance. Domestic service at college clubs and fraternities is exempted. Banks become covered. Agricultural labor and nonprofit service redefined. Railroad workers are excluded retroactively to 1939 July 1. Major Frank P. Evans announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
Frank P. Evans
Unemployment Compensation Commission
General Assembly
Evans
Railroad Retirement Board
Gore Brevities: Community Notes From Gore Virginia
Gore Virginia April 6 The Gore Parent Teachers Association will meet Tuesday April 16 at Sidney Gore High School. Roy Berryhill and family moved into Robert Patterson’s house while Patterson moved to Opequon. Many local visits illnesses and funerals are noted including Mrs J B Constable ill with flu and the parish and sawyer bereavements.
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James Sawyer
Parish
Oakland
W. Va
Frances Rowe
Upperville
T. J. Anderson
Herbert Berryhill
Washington, D. C
Silver Springs
Ira Parish
Shanghai: City for Sale at Handley Library
Ernest O Hauser details Shanghai as a world city under foreign rule with four million Chinese residents and twenty thousand white outsiders in the international settlement. The book, based on Hauser’s China contacts and reporting, presents insiders in Shanghai including gangsters and foreign attaches and is available to borrow at Handley Library.
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Shanghai
Ernest O. Hauser
Yangtze
China
Handley Library
Defense Position Is Held Secure
Roanoke April 6 Representative Robert J Corbett of Pennsylvania Republican told a Virginia Carolina Purchasing Agents Association dinner that the United States defense position is secure and that fear of invasion is nonsense He said the nation can defend all coasts from combined attacks and noted his membership on the House foreign relations committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke
Robert J. Corbett
Pennsylvania
Virginia-Carolinas Purchasing Agents Association
United States
House Foreign Relations Committee
Front Royal To Be Host Lions Zone 5 Meeting
Lions of Zone 5 plan a Front Royal Virginia gathering Tuesday with Percy Rogers of Riverton presiding and Elmer Bristow of Petersburg delivering the address. The program starts at 3 PM with a business session and roundtable on club financing attendance dues and convention representation. A 6 30 PM get together follows and a 7 PM dinner features Bristow speaking with all Zone 5 clubs from Arlington Alexandria Leesburg Purcellville Winchester Front Royal Luray and Harrisonburg represented.
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Lions
Zone 5
Front Royal
Percy Rogers
Riverton
Elmer Bristow
Petersburg
Hotel Royal
Answers to Today's Quiz On Page Four
Answers to the quiz printed on page four include clues and solutions such as Eye rate not irate Inside wheels In motion Yes Anzacs Both are foot racers Hounds Dr Paul Ehrlich King of ancient Judah Paul Revere and William Dawes
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Ehrlich
Judah
Paul Revere
William Dawes
Akron Airship Stand By For a Crash Order
During the Akron disaster off the New Jersey coast on April 4 1933 Commander Wiley executive officer and second in command in the control car gave the order Stand by for a crash as the airship was forced down by air currents directing all to their crash stations.
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Akron
Atlantic Ocean
New Jersey
Wiley
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T. W. Russell
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R. L. Bageant
Jack McAboy
Robert Russell
Clarke County News Service
John W. Rosenberger and Co., Inc
Braddock
Apple
STAR
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Ceed
Jones Funeral Home
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James C. Brand
Waynesboro
Searice New Low Pric
Pittsburgh
Fairfax Lane
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