Banking officials report rising response to federal lending program
Officials of the Securities Commission and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation said businessmen are increasingly applying for loans from RFCs 1.5 billion fund and that the EC has been flooded with requests as President Roosevelt pushes economic relief. Congressional leaders consider weaving a public works railroad program into the president's campaign, with railroads supplying materials and labor paid by the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Securities Commission
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Commission
Roosevelt
SEC
Seattle
Denver
Chicago
San Francisco
New York
Treasury
Hopkins
Wheeler
D-Mont
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
WPA
Harry ‘Awkins
Winchester Pageants Highlight Educational Value and Heritage
MA Winchester notes pageants at Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival and Berryville Virginia offer cooperation, history, and aesthetic lessons. Spectators gain a glimpse of past and present activities, underscoring the appeal and educational impact of student productions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berryville
Hollywood Has Wrong Slanton Editor's Face
Delegates at the sixteenth annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors visit the White House for an off the record conference with President Roosevelt. They reject film stereotypes and praise local papers while noting women’s pages becoming more sprightly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hollywood
American Society of Newspaper Editors
White House
Roosevelt
Hull
National Press Club
Rebels Seem Halted In Eastern Spanish Drives
Spanish forces report a stalemate along the eastern front near Castellon de la Plana and Alcala de Chivert as government troops hold firm behind Segre and Ebro rivers. Militia defenses hinder insurgent flanking tactics while counterattacks reduce bridgeheads at Tremp and Balaguer. Insurgents suffer mine blasts in Madrid defense area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendaye
France
Spain
Castellon de la Plana
Alcala de Chivert
Pice
Pyrenees
Aran Valley
Gandesa
Tremp
Balaguer
Catalonia
Franco
Segre
Ebro
Madrid
West Park
Wanted Soda Dispenser and Night Errand Boy Ads
Classified notices show job offers for a soda dispenser and a night duty errand boy, with color-coded descriptors and cross references to ad listings. The items read like early 20th century help wanted placeholders from Moling and Cather, with partial headlines and employer tags.
Wanted Special Police for Apple Blossom Festival
Help sought for Apple Blossom Festival as special police. Apply to Chief of Police for consideration.
Awning and window services offered by E. W. Armstrong Co
Local notice lists E. W. Armstrong Co offering awnings for porch windows or store fronts at 39 East Second Street with telephone contact 625. Schedule shows weekday service with limited hours across Monday Wednesday Friday and one p m slot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. Armstrong Co
E. Se
Ecuety
Landon Urges Citizens to Speak on Roosevelt Spending
Alf Landon urged an articulate citizenry to inform Congress that the large recovery program requires adequate taxes. He warned inflation and fiscal danger if current expenditures continue, and said Congress must decide between hard economy and inflationary spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Eas
Alf M. Landon
Congress
Roosevelt
Optimist Club
State Supreme Court
Hugo T Wedell
Landon
Kansas City
John M. Landon
United States
U.’s
Treasury
Japs Sacrifice Large Parts of Hopeh Province
Shanghai, April 22. Japan broadcasts reveal heavy Japanese redeployments from Hopeh province as Chinese forces surge along the Peiping-Hankow and Peiping-Suiyuan railways. Chinese reinforcements total over 200,000 in three weeks as Soviet style state activity grows in central Hopeh. Japanese hold Peiping and Tientsin with a rearguard around Lini, while Chinese attackers press a crescent defense to west, south, and east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghaiti
Japan
Hopeh
Central China Front
Shantung
Peiping-Hankow
Peiping- Suiyuan
Taierchwani
Peiping
Tientsin
Lini
Seige
Northwang
Calyx Spraying Should Start On Some Varieties
W.8. Hough, entomologist, Winchester Research Laboratory, advises starting calyx spray on Stayman and Black Twig Delicious varieties by late April. Use lime sulphur and lead arsenate or alternatives. complete by next week to curb scab and protect against first moth worm infestations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Research Laboratory
Yorks
Effort to Extort in Kidnapping Case Across Chicago
Federal agents arrest Charles Lavender Lavendar, 36, in Chicago on charges of sending an extortion letter related to the New Rochelle boy's disappearance. Lavender admitted planning the plot after reading news of Peter Levine. He pleaded guilty to mailing an extortion letter and is held on $10,000 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Charles Edmund Lavendar
Eee
Ae Reeppearcold
Marine Corps
Ladd
Lavender
Levine
J. P. Smith
Harrison and
Halsted Streets
Halsted Street
Clark and Lake Streets
Lavendar
Moran and six held in counterfeit traveler check plot
Chicago police seized gangster George Moran and five others amid a nationwide counterfeit traveler's check scheme. Pittsburgh arrests nabbed three ring members. authorities estimate up to 1 million in forged AmEx checks printed for major cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
George
Bugs) Moran
Pittsburgh
American Express Company
Moran
St. Valentine’s Day
Ers
Robert Wright
Frank J. Parker
Walter Nolan
Charles Town Hosts Methodist Meet With District Actions
Nearly 200 ministers and lay delegates from Winchester district of the M. E. Church South travel to Charles Town W Va for a two day district conference April 26 27 led by Dr W W McIntyre presiding elder. Sessions include business worship a stereoptical Aldersgate commemoration by Rev Walter Smith and a Randolph Macon Forward Movement discussion aiming to raise 200000 for retirement and a new science hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
M. E. Church
South
Charles Town
W. Va
W. W. McIntyre
T.M. Swann
Braddock Street
Methodist
Aldersgate
Walter Smith
Hillsboro-Bluemont
Floyd Haines
Spirit God
Neidlinger
Randolph-Macon
J. Aubrey Hughes
W. J. Groh
Loudoun
Frost Damage Worsens in Europe Hit England and Continent
The U S Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports continued severe frost damage across the United Kingdom and continental Europe. Crops in England suffered heavy losses from April frosts, with plums wiped out, cherries and apples heavily damaged, and berries nearly destroyed, signaling tighter home fruit supplies and higher import demand.
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England
United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Washington
Fred A. Motz
London
United Kingdom
Italian
Tyrol
Europe
Switzerland
New Zealand
Somiran
Bureau
Owen D Youngs Stepson Turns Up In Wrong House
Elwood Stanley Brown 26 stepson of industrialist Owen D Young waived examination without guilt in Queens Felony Court on a burglary charge and was held for grand jury. He was arrested after a patrolman found him in the Harringtons living room in Rosedale Queens. Brown said he sought a friend on Long Island and mistook Harringtons house. A charge against Marjorie Richard 38 of Cristobal Panama for accessory to burglary was dismissed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Elwood Stanley Brown
Owen D. Young
Queens
Walter Harrington
Harrington
Rosedale
Brown
Long Island
Marjorie Richard
Cristobal
Panama
Anthony Savarese
Peak of Apple Bloom Is Over and Spray Soon
The apple blossom peak has passed with minimal remaining blossoms. Winchester Research Laboratory experts predict blossoms will vanish by festival start and advise starting petal fall spray between Monday and Wednesday. The off year yielded a larger bloom crop though some varieties show lighter bloom than Ben Davis, Jonathans, Staymens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Research Laboratory
Exp. Ts
A. B. Groves
Former Maine athlete injured in West Virginia crash
Warren S. Bocklinger of Baltimore a former University of Maine athlete is reported partly conscious at Memorial Hospital after head injuries from a single car crash last Monday on a winding road near Hanging Rock Hampshire County West Virginia. He is assistant superintendent for the Philadelphia district of the W. T. Grant Company and was traveling on business when the accident occurred. His wife arrived to be near him and is staying at a local hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren S. Bocklinger
Baltimore
University of Maine
Memorial Hospital
Bocklinger
Hanging Rock
Hampshire County
W. Va
Philadelphia
W. T. Grant Company
New Dumping Site Set For Festival Week Refuse
A new disposal point on Sulphur Spring Road near Millwood Road will serve as the dumping site during Festival Week. Refuse collection follows a ward based schedule with Monday and Tuesday wards collected Monday. remaining wards on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Fresh Fruit Specials At Local Market
Daily arrivals highlight Strawberries two quarts for 26 cents Bananas sixty five cents per bunch Lemons 15 cents each Oranges 39 cents per peck Grapefruit six for 25 cents Frank Mic ciche 1011 Beryville Ave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Micciche
Beryville Ave
Sarah Zane Fire Co. Special Meeting Called
A special call meeting of the Sarah Zane Fire Co. is set for Friday evening April 22 at 8 p m. All members are urged to attend for important business. L M Crabill Captain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Zane Fire Co
L. M. Crabill
Naval and Military Committees Plan Summer Defense Survey
Members of the House Naval and Military Committees will conduct a comprehensive check of U S defenses this summer from Maine to Hawaii and the Panama Canal to Alaska. Chairman Vinson and Chairman May said the survey will cover navy yards air bases anti aircraft and coast defenses with a 20000 mile tour including Alaska Honolulu and Oakland to assess needs and potential bases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
United States
Spain
China
Italy
Germany
House
Naval and Military Committees
Maine
Hawaii
Panama Canal
Alaska
Vinson
D-Ga
Naval Committee
May
D-Ky
Honolulu
Oakland
Calif
Gulf Coast
Petersburg High Band Invited to Winchester Apple Blossom Fest
The Grant County Press reports Petersburg High School Band invited to perform at the Winchester Apple Blossom Festival April 28 29, noting it to be the only invitation in the region. Romney Schools Band claims prior invitation and ongoing rehearsal for Apple Blossom appearance.
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Romney
W. Va
Grant
Petersburg
Winchester
Arch
Greater
South Branch Valley
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Bugs” Moran
Marie Ribble
Loren Kant
Frank Quigley
D. J. Driscoll
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Louis Foster
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Thomas Kelly
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