Senators Triumph in Season Opener at Washington
Washington Senators edged the Athletics 4 2 in a brisk opener as Jimmy Foxx homered and Wallace Moses scored twice. President Roosevelt attended and tossed the first ball, watched by Jim Farley amid a lively crowd of 21 spectators.
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Washington Senators
Peter Weavone
Senators
A's
Jimmy Foxx
Wallace Moses
Philadelphia
Jimy
Mr. Roosevelt
Jim Farley
Bob Burke
Wally Moses
Whitehill
Foxx
Johnson
McNair
Travis
Foxx Namer
Jack Russell
Whit
Eric McNair
Dib Williams
Warstler
Stone
Myer
Buddy Myer
Heinie Manush
Lou Gehrig
Manush
Joe Kuhel
Bolin
Fuhel
Lary
Jake Powel
Moyet
Moses
Peach Crop Half Killed In Rockingham County
Rockingham County orchardists report about half the peach crop damaged after a cold wave and light snow. Most plums and cherries killed. apples largely spared in the valley. Late peaches mostly escaped, but damage varies by slope and location. temperatures fluctuated from 28 to 60 degrees with lingering snow in western mountains.
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Rockingham Co
Star
Hanburg
Geneva
Rockingham
Cumberland Valley
Mercury
Dale Enterprise
Bergton
Burns Smile At Pretty Woman in DAR Campaign Stir
A Tennessee photo of Speaker Burns at a Tennessee dinner sparked a rift in the D A R campaign. Gillentine supporters calling themselves the seethers accused Mrs Becker of being photographed with Burns through a ruse as reporters captured the moment in a hotel corridor. The seethers condemned the scene as partisan politics outside the D A R building.
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Washington
Joseph Burns
Tennessee
DAR
Flora M. Gillentine
Seethers
William A. Becker
Burns
Hull
Becker
Speaker Burns
Gillentine
Speaker Byrns
Gill
Richberg Pleads For Life of NRA
Don ald Richberg prepared to appear before the Supreme Court to plead for the NRA he has directed since Blue Eagle days. Attorney General Cummings announced Richberg would represent the government in the Schechter poultry case argued May 2 testing the law’s constitutionality, with Stanley Reed assisting.
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Washington
NRA
Donald Richberg
Supreme Court
Blue Eagle
Cummings
Richberg
Schechter Poultry
Stanley Reed
Belcher Lumber
Miss Hilda Levi Engaged To Wed Edward F. Joyce
Social notes outline engagements and visits across Clarke county and surrounding towns. Included are Miss Hilda Levi’s upcoming marriage to Edward F. Joyce, garden week events at Fairfield and Carter Hall, and plans of regional families visiting or hosting friends in Virginia, Ohio, and Missouri.
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Edward F. Joyce
Henry 8. Eley
Suffolk
Order of King’s Daughters and Sons
State Federation of Women’s Clubs
Clarke County
W. B. Suddath
Warrensburg
John B. Neill
Washington
Katherine P. McDonald
Annie Cabell Moore
Suddath
James W. Suddath
New York
Missouri
Morrow
Gregg
Gertrude Shock
Daughters of the American Revolution
National Congress of the
J. D. Griffing
Griffing
Lewis N. Glover
Morton C. Mumma
Mumma
Annapolis
Fairfield
Warner Washington
John D. Richardson
Carter Hall
Nathaniel Burwell
Gerrard B. Lambert
Princeton
Virginia
Bayard Stevens
Nancy Gray Stevens
Short Hills
N. J
Stevens
Clearwater
Fila
Winchester
Caroline Hunter
Grey Gables
George H’ Levi
Charles Levi
Cleveland
Ohio
Esther Bohannon Knowles
William Robert Knowles
W. R. Knowles
Staunton
Harry Ivan Pritchard
Church of the Ascension
Lakewood
Frank M.wray
Charles Churchman
Elizabeth
Anne Warren
Margaret Churchman
Charles Churchman, Jr
Wray
Loring C. Kackley
Mrs. Kackley
H. W. Gingles
Hazard
Grace D. Gingles
George H. Mercer
Bowling Green
Benjamin Crampton
Berryville High School Alumni Association
Leo P. Wheat
Morgan
Lack of Funds May Cause Many Schools To Close
The Times-Dispatch reports Virginia counties face school closures as federal funds delay. About 70 of 100 counties may shut their eight month terms unless $606,000 for extending to nine months is released after federal audit. School leaders seek guidance on year-end exams and operations.
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Richmond
The
Times-Dispatch
Virginia
Sidney B. Hall
Peery
Hall
Washington
State Department of Educaton
Holy Thursday Observances Mark Rome Pilgrims and Papal Prayer
Roman pilgrims filled St. John Lateran and St. Peter's with relics of the passion as bells and choirs echoed through Rome. Pope Pius XII opened the mourning period with gratitude for a tempered European crisis and led ceremonies at St Peter's as Good Friday approached.
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St. Peter's
Salt Lake City
Rome
Christ
St. Peter’s
Sistine Chapel
Pauline Chapel
Missionaries Leave Chinese Provinces Amid Communist Fears
Four American and other foreign missionaries abandoned stations in Southern Kansu Province on April 17 as fear grew that Communist forces massed to reach Soviet Russia through Southeast China. Evacuation plans heightened anxiety in Northern Czechwan where foreign residents also prepare to leave at a moment’s notice.
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Landon
Kansu Province
China
Kansu
Soviet Russia
Czechwan
S S S tonic promises to aid digestion and blood rebuilding
An advertisement touts S.S.S. tonic as a gastric stimulant and blood builder. It claims improved digestion, better food utilization, and increased energy, noting the product supports red blood cell formation and overall strength. The ad urges starting treatment today.
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S.S.S
Reilly and Fisher Clash Over Defense Funds
In New York on April 18 Edward J. Reilly former chief counsel for Hauptmann and C Lloyd Fisher who followed him in the post engaged in a public exchange. Reilly demanded a bar association investigation of defense funds Fisher still trustees for and Fisher from Flemington New Jersey hit back calling Reilly disgruntled and disappointed after his ouster weeks ago. Fisher accused Reilly of trying to run the defense into debt and paying obligations with funds raised to save Hauptmann from the New Jersey electric chair for the Lindbergh case.
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New York
Edward J. Reilly
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
C. Lloyd Fisher
Reilly
Bar Association
Fisher
Flemington, N. J
Hauptmann
New Jersey Electric Chair
Lindbergh
County Manager Secures 16 Percent Albemarle Tax Cut
Albemarle county supervisors approved a 16 percent tax reduction proposed by county executive Henry Haden, aiming to save taxpayers about $6,000 annually. The saving comes from salary cuts, abolition of a fee system, and tighter tax collection efficiency.
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Charlottesville
Albemarle County
Board of Supervisors
Henry Haden
School Census Under Way In Frederick County
Frederick county teachers are compiling a school census of all children ages 6 to 18 who are or should be in school. They are also gathering an out of school survey for youths ages 14 to 24. Both surveys are requested by the federal government under the FERA program.
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Frederick County
FERA
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