Flood Threat Spurs Ohio River Valley Residents To Move Out
Riverfront homeowners flee as the Ohio rises toward crest near Newport and Catlettsburg. Eastern Kentucky landslides block roads while forecasts promise limited city damage. West Virginia hospital evacuated as floods peak. tornado toll reaches near fifty with 351 injured across eight states.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Newport
Licking
Catlettsburg
Huntington
W. Va
United States
J. L. Kendall
Louisville
Kendall
Kentucky
Indiana
Weston
West Virginia
West Fork
Monongahela
Little Rock
Ark
Enlargement Of Canal Favored
Washington April 18 The House merchant marine committee approved a bill authorizing improvement and enlargement of the Panama Canal to better defend and increase capacity for future inter ocean shipping. The measure would authorize up to 277 million dollars in appropriations with an initial 15 million dollars for the coming fiscal year beginning July 1.
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Washington
House Merchant Marine Committee
Panama Canal
A. P. Members To Hear Murphy At luncheon meeting
Attorney General Frank Murphy will address members of the Associated Press at a luncheon during their annual meeting in New York on April 24. The invitation was extended by Robert McLean, president of the Bulletin.
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New York
Frank Murphy
Associated Press
Murphy
Robert McLean
The
Ee Bulletin
Winchester urges listeners to tune in for festival introduction
Ma Winchester urges Farm and Home Hour listeners to tune in Thursday for Her Majesty introduction at the festival. The pace quickens at festival headquarters as eight days remain before the crowds arrive for the big show. She endorses the sixteenth festival to distant friends and hopes they will return for the occasion.
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Winchester
Official Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival Program Set
The 16th Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival dates are fixed early this year and the official two day program with a map to Winchester is mailed to information seekers. Events include a Thursday band concert city noon stag luncheon coronation of Queen Shenandoah XVI Miss Genevieve Garner glee club pageant festival of childhood admission free but reserved seats 40 cents and up and an aerial cavalcade at the municipal airport followed by a country tea dance.
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Shenandoah
Queen Shenandoah
Winchester
City
Shenandoah XVI
Genevieve Garner
V. M. I. Glee Club
Sutherland To Give Lessons At WVU Summer Coaching School
Morgantown West Virginia April 18 Dr John Bain Jock Sutherland will head the third annual University summer coaching school August 7 12 at West Virginia University Officials said Sutherland recently left Pitt where he was football coach. He will join a list of mentors to teach the program and share his Pitt success.
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Morgantown
W. Va
John Bain
Jock”) Sutherland
Pitt
West Virginia University
Sutherland
Pitts
Chicken and Ham Supper at Opequon Union Chapel
The Opequon Union Chapel hosts a chicken and ham supper on Thursday April 20 from 5 to 9 pm in the new church basement. Tickets are 50 cents.
Rouss Fire Company Announces Parade Uniforms
Rouss Fire Company will issue uniforms for the Firemen's Festival Parade on Monday April 24 and Tuesday April 25 at 7:30 p m. H J Floyd chairs the Uniform Committee and notes the distribution dates.
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Rouss Fire Company
Suit Arguments Delays as Law Points Debated in Bell Case
Stewart Bell suit moves slowly in Corporation Court as lawyers clash over numerous points of law. Judge Williams orders a new statement of the case after partly sustaining defense objections and sets further hearings on lease interpretation and post fire rights.
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Stewart Bell
Corporation Court
Crystal Confectionery Company
Steve Yeatras
John Sempeles
Bell
Philip Williams
Williams
Apple Promotion During Festival Brings Local Campaign
Doug Cather announces a Junior Board of Trade Apple Promotion Campaign during the festival week. Merchants are urged to feature apples in window displays with five $5 prizes from Appalachian Apples, Inc. Winners revealed April 26. Boy Scouts sell apples at Handley Stadium and along parade routes. signs promote Winchester as the heart of the apple belt.
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Doug Cather
Junior Board of Trade
Appalachian Apples, Inc
Boy Scout
Handley Stadium
Winchester
Stag Luncheon Tickets Ready for Apple Blossom Festival
Tickets for a stag luncheon honoring distinguished guests at Winchester Golf Club at noon on April 27 during the Apple Blossom Festival are ready. Director General Tom Baldridge announced tickets cost $1 and can be obtained by calling festival headquarters. tickets will be mailed immediately.
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Winchester Golf Club
Tom Baldridge
Awning offers from E. W. Armstrong Co.
Awning services for porch windows and terrace offered by E. W. Armstrong Co. located at Piccadilly. Phone contact 639 39 BD. Ad notes schedule on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 pm to 4 pm.
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E. W. Armstrong
Phobe
Piccadilly
Nationwide Radio to Present Queen Shenandoah XVI at Farm Hour
Sir Willmott Lewis of the London Times will introduce Miss Genevieve Garner as Queen Shenandoah XVI on the Farm and Home Hour from Station WRC Washington at 12 30. Garner invites nationwide listeners to Winchester for the Apple Festival on the 27th and 28th, with Tom Baldridge echoing the invitation.
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Sir Willmott Lewis
Miss Garner
Queen
Willmott Lewis
Washington
London Times
Genevieve Garner
Shenandoah XVI
WRC
Washington, D. C
United States
Hawaii
Tully C. Garner
John Nance Garner
Winchester
Tom Baldridge
Willmott
Lewis Edwin Ryan
Europe
Asia
Africa
South Pacific
Legion of Honor
France
Buying License Not Sufficient
An Ohio couple believed they had been married for 10 years after obtaining a license. They verified and redid the procedure by getting a new wedding permit, marrying again in a ceremony with a minister and a justice of the peace reading the vows. They have two children, aged 14 and 12.
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Mercer
Ohio
Justice of the Peace
Mediation Tried In Coal Tie Ups
New York April 18 federal labor conciliator James F Dewey said he has been accepted as mediator in the deadlocked bi tumnous coal contract talks. About 338 000 miners in eight Appalachian states have been idle since March 31. He met with eight miners and operators sub committees and arranged a further session with the miners to continue negotiations.
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New York
James F.dewey
Appalachian
Dewey
Biltmore
Labor Department
White House
D A R Circles Buzz Over Mrs Roosevelt Resignation
Washington April 18 The 48th congress of the D A R swirls with talk about Marian Andersons concert ban and the resignation of Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt from the society. Delegates await a national officer statement before comment. Mrs Roosevelt travels to Seattle for a grandson birthday and will not attend the White House reception.
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Washington
Marian Anderson
Constitution Hall
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Mrs. Roosevelt
Washington School Board
White School Auditorium
Roosevelt
County Budget For Next Year Now Tentative
County supervisors approved a tentative 1939-40 budget with a $1.50 general levy an extra 10 cents for roads and a $10,000 school debt fund. They may use the 10 cent increase plus state aid to run a nine month school term in Frederick county, or risk losing $4,500 in state aid. They also voted to survey the Wardensville Grade bend for right of way and to summon Route 629 property owners to discuss road inclusion in the secondary system.
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Board of Supervisors
P. H. Gold
Branner
Winchester Evening Star
Frederick County
Gainesboro
Back Creek
C. M. Rosenberger
Gold
Messrs. Gold
Adams
Rosenberger
W. C. Poston
Horseshoe Bend
Wardensville
Highway Department
Corporation Limits
Winchester
Clues Flow In On Torso Murder In Baltimore
Police receive endless tips as investigators seek to identify a dissected torso found in East Baltimore sewers. Descriptions of two missing girls are checked against the victim with pathologists assisting. A man seen dropping a bundle into a sewer is described, and potential links to Esther Baublitz and Emma Hirshberger are considered.
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Baltimore
Alice Geldof
Emma Hirshberger
Spy killed by boy with a pitchfork in Romania
A nine year old boy with a pitchfork killed a man dressed as a woman near Brasov after the man whipped horses in a wagon. Police found money plans for a machine gun factory and designs for Romanian guns on the victim.
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Bucharest
Romania
Brasov
Newman Again To Head Bank Group
Members of the Regional Clearing House Association reelected officers at the annual Strasburg meeting. Houston H. Newman of Edinburg was named chairman with Fred D. Maphis of Strasburg as vice chairman Roy Potts Berryville secretary and Robert Campbell Middletown treasurer. The board will appoint committees before the next meeting and a dinner is planned for May 22 in Strasburg with speaker Frank M. Totton of Chase National Bank on opportunities for banks.
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Clearing House Association
First National Bank of Strasburg
Houston H. Newman
Edinburg
Fred D. Maphis
Strasburg
Roy Potts
Berryville
Robert Campbell
Middletown
Frederick, Clarke
Warren
Shenandoah
Page Counties
Frank M. Totton
Chase National Bank of New York
Totton
Virginia Clearing House Association
Finance Experts Meet Roosevelt on World Trade in War
President Roosevelt convened his financial advisers to map plans for security and commodity markets in a potential European war. Attendees including Morgenthau Hanes Wallace Jones Eccles and Prank discussed keeping markets open and avoiding heavy regulations while softening shock to American business.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Department
White House
Morgenthau
Hanes
The
Treasury
Agriculture Wallace
Jesse H. Jones
Roosevelt Plea Welcomed Amid European Tense Times
AAP report notes British Prime Minister Chamberlain welcomed Roosevelt’s ten year peace appeal to Italy and Germany and said talks with Soviet Russia continue to bring Russia into the British French defense pact. Italy rejects the plea and Hungary eyes closer Rome Berlin axis ties as German fleet sails for maneuvers off Spain.
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Associated Press
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Britain
Roosevelt
Italy
Germany
Soviet
Russia
Spain
Madrid
Belgium
Hubert Pierlot
Paul Henry Spaak
Peirlot
Daladier
Lebrun
Europe
Hitler
Reichstag
Mussolini
Milan
Rome
Paul Teleky
Rome-Berlin
Man
Euvers
Greece
Romania
France
Poland
Rumania
Kuling
Hankow
To Try Girl On Slaying Charge
In Dover Delaware on April 18 18 year old Isabelle Donovan was indicted for first degree murder in the Lovers Lane killing of 19 year old Vau ghn G Webb a CCC worker. A grand jury returned the indictment and trial was set for next Monday.
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Dover
Del
Isabelle Donovan
Kent County
Lovers Lane
Vaughn G. Webb
CCC
Robber Trapped After Dorm Radio Theft at Goucher College
Baltimore April 18. George Eaton 21 was charged with larceny after being caught by police hidden in a house following the theft of three radios from a Goucher College dormitory. The arrest ended a theft report at the campus.
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Baltimore
Goucher College
George Eaton
HABLES PALACE On Our Stage Wednesday
Prince OMAH Hables Palace billed as a famous crystal seer will tell patrons about their past present and future with no price increase. The show promises an engaging reading session this Wednesday.
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Hable’s Palace
Prince Omwah
Wes
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