Middletown Grange to Celebrate 11th Anniversary
A large delegation from Fairfax Pomona and the Great Falls Granges plus state Grange officials will attend Middletown Grange’s 11th anniversary celebration. Guests include Fred Breckman Dr Meade Ferguson and Thomas Ozlin. An educational program featured songs readings discussions and recognitions for perfect attendance.
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Fairfax Pomona
Great Palls Granges
Middletown Grange
Fred Breckman
Washington
National Grange
Meade Ferguson
Virginia Grange
Thomas Ozlin
State Corporation Commission
Grange
The
R. H. Baker
Animal Kingdom
Dusty Reades
Edna Brumback
J. H. Brumback
M. Funk
Robert Brumback
Winston Baker
Byron Brumback
Malcolm Brumback
B. O. Brumback
E. M. Funk
Brumback
Mr. Funk
Hospital Payroll Robbed Outside Sinai Daybreak
Baltimore August 1 three armed men robbed a girl office worker Rhea Nusbaum and chauffeur Charles Zavotny outside Sinai Hospital while they were delivering the bi weekly payroll of about ten thousand dollars. Zavotny pursued the robbers but was outdistanced. bystanders gave the police the car license number.
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Baltimore
Sinai Hospital
Rhea Nusbaum
Charles Zavotny
Hospital
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Zavotny
West Virginia Apple Growers Join East Coast Horticulture Tour
A large group of West Virginia apple growers joins a summer tour with the Maryland and Pennsylvania horticultural associations. The convoy visits Hancock area orchards then Martinsburg banquet, with stops at West Virginia University Experimental Farm Berryville basket firm Byrd orchards and local sites, ending at Ed Leatherman’s orchard near Rada. Local growers invited to the banquet at The Shenandoah.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
West Virginia
Maryland Horticultural Society
Pennsylvania Horticultural Association
Carroll R. Miller
Appalachian Apples
Dillion
Hancock
Stanley Fulton
West Virginia University
Ed Leatherman
Rada
Shenandah
Miller
Troopers Guard Woolen Factory at Barre Strike
South Barre Mass August 1 state troopers patrolled streets to avert riots feared by Barre selectmen amid a strike at the Barre Wool Combing Company. Twenty five troopers dispersed a crowd estimated at 3000 after clashes outside the plant gates.
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South Barre
Mass
Barre
Barre Wool Combing Company
Horace T. Cahill
Leverett Saltonstall
Smith Brings Sick Daughter to Bedside in Baton Rouge
Dr. James Monroe Smith, a highly indicted former LSU president, was moved under guard to his daughter Mrs Owen Walker Ware’s bedside in Baton Rouge after her blood poisoning followed birth of a son. Governor Ear K Long approved the request for access.
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Baton Rouge
James Monroe Smith
Louisiana State University
Smith
New Orleans
Owen Waller Ware
Ear K. Long
Elkton License Push Scraps Free Marriage Beds
Elkton Maryland enacted an ordinance requiring solicitors to buy licenses at 100 dollars each to operate on streets guiding couples to out of town parsons. The move follows the 48 hour delay law and boosts July licenses to 484, 107 more than June, despite prior constitutional challenges.
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Elkton
Parsons
Gretna Green
Robinson Rites Were Held Sunday
Funeral services for Mrs. Virginia Robinson were conducted from Omps Funeral Home Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock with Rev. Ronald Wilson of Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church officiating. Interment followed in Mount Hebron Cemetery family lot. Pallbearers named Guy Smith Holmes Yeakley Hunter Brown Clarence Robinson Ansel Solenberger Ray Robinson. One favorite selection Crossing the Bar was read by Miss Annie Reese.
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Snowdie
Virginia Robinson
Omps Funeral Home
Ronald Wilson
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Guy Smith
Holmes — Yeakley
Hunter Brown
Clarence Robinson
Ansel Solenberger
Ray Robinson
Demands Made Upon Yugoslavia
Croatian leader Dr. Vladko Machek warned that Croatia will secede from Yugoslavia unless autonomy demands are met, citing interference by the Belgrade Clique threatening home rule for his people.
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Kupinec
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Vladko Machek
Croatia
Calotabs Offer Makes Calomel Night a Pleasure
Calotabs replaces old calomel with gentler means to expel sour bile and cleanse the system. The ad promises fewer nauseating after effects and dryness, noting it works with nature to move bilious stagnation. Trial sizes offered at twenty five cents.
Homemakers Hold All Day Canning Session in Virginia
Miss Janet Cameron of the extension division led an all-day demonstration in canning at the Northern Virginia Power Company kitchen. The program featured soup mix, two methods for corn, string beans, lima beans, fruits, pickles, and apple sauce with judging of canned foods, assisted by Miss Madeline Blair. Present were home demonstration club members and older 4 H Club girls including Mrs. Lovett, Mrs. Ridgeway, Mrs. Grover, Mrs. Fisher, Miss Brumback, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Willey, Miss Adams, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Cooper, Miss Parker, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Dailey, and Miss Flickinger.
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Janet Cameron
Northern Virginia Power Company
Madeline Blair
Cameron
H. P. Lovett
Randall Ridgeway
D. N. Grover
Homer Fisher
Ellen Brumback
J. 8. Jones
Orville Willey
Rebecca Adams
Harriet Adams
Walter Adams
Lyda Cooper
C. H. Harbaugh
Ruth Parker
Julia Wright
F. W. Dailey
Margaret Flickinger
Clear Weather Favors Sloops in Cambridge Regatta
Clear weather and a 12 mile northwest breeze promised ideal racing as fourteen knockabout sloops began the two day Cambridge regatta in Cambridge Maryland. The event opened with a reception and guests under a full moon near $5 000 000 harbor improvements with the coast guard cutter Calypso and the U S destroyer Hamilton anchored offshore.
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Cambridge
Coast Guard
Calypso
Hamilton
War Helmets For Babes Of England
The government began distributing 1 500 000 gas helmets for babies in case of war. The helmets look like diver headgear with air pumped via an accordion device and tied around the waist for newborn protection in London.
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London
Action Expected On Savage River Dam Project
Representative Byron predicts bids will be asked within six weeks for the Savage river dam reservoir in Garrett county Maryland. The project aims to flood protect Cumberland and nearby Potomac communities and ensure water during droughts. It would be funded by an $1.8 million WPA grant and a $1 million Allegany county bond issue, creating about 1,000 jobs.
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Washington
Byron
Savage River
Garrett County
Cumberland
Potomac
State Works Projects
Roosevelt
Allegany
Roosevelt vetoes six minor bills in one day
President Roosevelt vetoed six minor measures including a $50 yearly grant for army officers to buy uniforms and equipment and a plan to issue bronze grave markers for private cemeteries. He said the grants should require active duty training before payment and objected to bronze markers restricting materials for durable stone. Other vetoes covered District of Columbia municipal issues, a war bonus and an Indian timber project.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Secretary of War
District of Co
Lawyers urged to adopt scales for average man
Edwin M. Otterbourg, chair of ABA committee, urged local bar associations to adopt reasonable routine charges for simple legal services for the average citizen. He said wider use of such scales would curb complaints of overcharges and respond to Robert H. Jackson’s claim that legal service is prohibitive for moderate incomes.
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Washington
Edwin M. Otterbourg
American Bar Association
Otterbourg
Commercial Law League of America
Robert H. Jackson
Policeman to be prosecuted in girl’s shooting case
The Pennsylvania department of justice joined county authorities in prosecuting four state policemen over the pistol slaying of 14 year old Joan Stevens. Attorney General Claude Reno assigned Harrington T. Adams to assist Carbon County officials against Corporal Benjamin Franklin, who said he fired because she drew a pistol while being questioned. The district attorney said the pistol was a toy.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Department of Justice
Joan Stevens
Claude T. Reno
Harrington T. Adams
Carbon County
Benjamin Franklin
Irvin S. Cobb Seriously Ill In San Francisco
Irvin S. Cobb, 64, noted writer actor and mint julep expert, is hospitalized in San Francisco with a gastric upset and summer flu. He fell ill five days ago at the Bohemian Club resort on the Russian River and was admitted after arriving in the city yesterday.
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San Francisco
Irvins
Cobb
Hollywood
Russian River
Differences Are Being Ironed Out in Tientsin Talks
Tokyo reports progress toward a British Japanese agreement to settle the Tientsin dispute. Britain is said to surrender four alleged terrorists from the Chinese concession and cooperate to search for others. A key unresolved point remains Britain’s silver stock and currency support in China.
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Tokyo
Tientsin
North China
Britain
China
New York Man Pleads Guilty to Cigarette Bootlegging
Joseph Ward, 23, became the first New York City defendant to plead guilty to cigarette bootlegging. He chose a 30 day jail term over a $250 fine after Magistrate Thomas A. Aurelio warned of potential penalties. Investigators say Ward sold 15 cartons of cigarettes without paying the one cent per package city relief tax amid New Jersey smuggling driven by higher taxes.
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New York
New York City
Joseph Ward
Thomas A. Aurelio
Ward
New Jersey
Legislators Meet for One-Day Delaware Session
Dover August 1 The Delaware Legislature convened for a one day session with a twofold program from Governor McMullen to provide funds for volunteer fire companies hospitals and welfare agencies and for the Senate to act on 41 state officer nominations. The opening was at noon and the session was expected to end tonight after caucuses.
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Dover
Del
Delaware
Richard C. McMullen
General Assembly
Senate
All Bund Camps Near Army Bases
Boston Aug 1. Roy P. Monahan of New York told the Disabled American Veterans convention that 22 German American Bund camps in the United States lie within 20 miles or less of an army base or munitions plant. He warned these camps could become spy rings and saboteurs if the nation went to war with Germany and urged cities to outlaw organizations with unapproved war uniforms.
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Boston
United States
Roy P. Monahan
New York
National Americanism Committee
Monahan
Germany
Clash Blame Put On Hungary
The Rumanian government charged Hungary was entirely responsible for frontier clashes with Romania. This marked Romania’s first acknowledgment of trouble. Hungarian news cited Romanian artillery across the Tisza from Tecsa after several border clashes.
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Bucharest
Hungary
Teo
Budapest
Tisza
Tecsa
House approves $50,000 for NL R B probe
Washington Aug 1 Acting on the accounts committee recommendation the House appropriated $50,000 for an investigation of the National Labor Relations Board Speaker Bankhead said he had not decided who would sit on the five man committee yet but will name appointees before Congress adjourns
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Washington
House
National Labor Relations Board
Bankhead
Congress
Fellow Workers Finance Mrs Whitley's World Fair Trip
Mrs Mary Whitley will travel to the World's Fair in New York funded by fellow workers of the Library of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. The gifts were in a purse presented last night to Mrs Iley upon her retirement after 30 years of service.
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Washington
Mary Whitley
New York
Library of the Coast and Geodetic Survey
Iley
Near Complete Box Vote Count From Shenandoah County
At 3 20 P M Strasburg reported 260 ballots of 390 cast with heavy primary vote expected. Woodstock totals at 3 45 P M showed 275 votes with 175 in Courthouse precinct and 100 in Town Hall precinct. Courthouse area anticipated about 225 more. about half the county seat’s qualified voters had voted.
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Shenandoah County
Frederick and
Clarke
Strasburg
Woodstock
Courthouse
Town
Hell
House Buckles Down On Lending Bill In Ebbing Session
Capitol watchers predicted a quick adjournment as the House and Senate wrangled over the lending bill. Senate leader Barkley announced adjournment was up to the House while Roosevelt hints at involvement to push housing loans totaling about 3.06 billion dollars and a broad lending program.
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Page One
House
Congress
Senate
Barkley
D-Ky
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
Marines Admit Slaying In Norfolk Hotel Case
Norfolk police said two Marines Wallace Miller and Lawrence King admitted killing F Jennings, a 49 year old Augusta salesman, in a hotel room July 24. The pair were held on warrants after fingerprint matches and were being looked up by Washington for disposal of custody.
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Norfolk
J. F. Wood
Wallace E. Miller
Lawrence M. King
F. T. Jennings
Augusta
Ralph Wood
Ranger
Miller
King
Johnson City
Tenn
Columbia, Miss
Leon Nowitzky
Jennings
Woods
A. C. McFall
Washington
South Carolina
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Marine Corps
Norfolk Navy Yard
Mowitzky
Elizabeth River
W. E. Miller
M.H. Simons
Navy Yard
Artillery Drawn Up On River By Rumanians
Budapest Aug. 1 A Hungarian report says Romanian artillery was moved to the left bank of the Tisza opposite Tesco Hungaria village after a Hungarian frontier guard was wounded by a Romanian guardsman at Tecsa. Two clashes were noted near the area while sporadic shooting continued through the night. Bucharest officials denied any border incidents.
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Budapest
Tisza
Tesco
Bucharest
Barn and Stock Lost in Blaze at Westminster Farm
Fire destroyed a large barn on Halbert Poole’s farm in Westminster Maryland. Three horses and two mules perished while a workman Joseph Hite saved one mare a colt and a heifer. Firemen attribute the blaze to spontaneous combustion of wet hay.
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Westminster
Halbert Poole
Joseph Hite
Pickets Form At General Motors Fisher Body Plant
A police restricted zone around the Fisher body plant in Detroit limited pickets to five at each gate as about 300 striking workers spent the night nearby. CIO official Paul Miley condemned the zone as a civil rights violation while Eliot Ness ordered the area cleared to prevent further clashes.
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General Motors
Fisher Body
I Company
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Paul E. Miley
CIO Executive Board
Miley
Eliot Ness
Answers to Today s Quiz
Answers printed on page 4 cover topics from butter fat in cream to death investigations and measurement facts. It lists Norway and the Caspian Sea, converts inches to meters, defines a cloud velocity instrument, cites John Jay and the Boston Red Sox, and explains spelling and minting origins for San Francisco coins.
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Norway
Caspian Sea
John Jay
Boston Red Sox
San Francisco
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