4,000 Strikers Rampage as Crete Turmoil Grows
Reuters dispatch from London and Athens details 4,000 rioting strikers in Candia Crete injuring about 30 as authorities request troops. Government responds by sending two destroyers, soldiers, and bombing planes while Bakopoulos warns of open fire if streets remain. Separate report notes suppression of a Greek air force camp revolt with 25 soldiers involved.
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London
Athens
Reuters
Bakopoulos
Crete
Candia
Maety
Vralyni
Bren Cy
Sieze
Cent
Rifty
jTr Arearbor
Paris
Air Force
Scouts Plan World Jamboree Camp at Abbington
Frank R. Horton of the Shenandoah Area Council announced the world jamboree camp will be at Abbington on the Mount Vernon Memorial highway and not at Arlington as some reports claimed. The site can be reached via the Mount Vernon road.
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Frank R. Horton
Shenandoah
Winchester Skeet Club earns honors in Virginia Beach contest
Winchester Skeet and Gun Club members returned from a Virginia Beach meet sponsored by the Virginia Trapshooting Association with multiple trophies. The note celebrates shooters and records while mentioning changes to marriage information signs in Elkton Maryland and the humorous suggestion to repurpose signs into cook stoves.
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Winchester Skeet and
Loudoun County
Texas
Virginia Beach
Virginia Trapshooting Association
Elkton
Zenge Charged With Death of Rival in Love
Mandeville V. Zenge a 26 year old Missouri carpenter is charged in Chicago felony court with the emasculation murder of his love rival Dr. Walter J. Bauer. Judge McCarthy issued a murder warrant returnable tomorrow as the grand jury is to consider indictment. Mrs Louise Bauer expected to testify after a subpoena was served.
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Walter J. Bauer
Cleveland
Louise Schaffer Bauer
Chicago
Mandeville Zenge
Bauer
Missouri
Walter Bauer
Justin F. McCarthy
Mandeville
Zenge
Carpenter
McCarthy
Charles S. Daugherty
Louise Bauer
Daugherty
Washington
House
Columbia
D. C
Pelzer Mill Village
Mandeville W. Zenre
New York
William Gropper
Vanity Fair
Detroit
Charley Rouss Endorses Brown For Fire Chief
At the Charley Rouss Fire Company meeting held Friday evening the group unanimously voted to recommend Capt. A. B. Dick Brown to the City Council for fire chief. Brown, a Sarah Zane Fire Company member and former teen recruit now ten-year officer, is praised for modern fire fighting experience and expected efficiency. Members expressed confidence in his leadership.
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Charley Rouss Fire Company
A. B
Dick”) Brown
Sarah Zane Fire Company
Capt. Brown
C. Lee Barr
Reuss Company
Virginia G. O. P. launches drive for youth vote
The Rev. John F. Locke of Maurertown was elected chairman of the Young Republicans of Virginia at a Roanoke gathering. John Hamilton, president of the National Organization, assailed the Roosevelt administration as he urged deeper interest in party principles. The event featured H. B. McCormac and C. R. Ahalt guiding proceedings as a state-wide rally announced plans and a temporary platform.
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John F. Locke
Maurertown
Church of the Brethren
Young Republicans
Virginia
Roanoke
H. B. McCormac
Winchester
State Committee
McCormac
C. R. Ahalt
Young Republican
Children Allowed at Show Attendance With No Age Limit
Health officials announced there is no longer a restriction on attendance of under 16 at moving picture shows. Dr. L M Allen sought guidance from State Health Officer Dr I C Riggin, but no change in theatre policy was found. Local theatres allowed children with health consent, attendance was lighter than usual. No further policy statements were issued regarding other gatherings.
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L. M. Allen
Allen
I. C. Riggin
Richmond
Typhoon Devastates South China Coast Hits Fukien
A violent typhoon on August 5 struck the South China coast, killing or drowning hundreds and submerging numerous villages in Fukien province near Chuanchow. Streams rose as the storm moved inland, with another storm reported approaching Amoy area.
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Amoy
China
South China
Fukien Province
Chuanchow
Pukien Province Famed for Tea and Flower-Scented Varieties
Pukien province in China, with an estimated population of 20 million, ranks as a major tea growing region. It is noted for flower-scented teas, has a mountainous terrain, and a climate described as gee FE dag pa.
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Pukien
China
Special ee porch shades and summer rugs oling Cather
For sale notice lists kindling wood from Glaize Brothers. Two truck loads available. Sale period appears in the ad row with page and column markers.
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Oling & Cather
Glaize Bros
Mob Lynches Negro Accused By White Girl
In Pittsboro Mississippi Bodie Bates a Black man accused of attempting to assault a 22 year old white woman was lynched by a white mob that overpowered a jail guard and hung him from a Yalobusha river bridge after seizing jail keys. The woman reported a negro at her window demanding admittance and neighbors alerted authorities as bloodhounds tracked Bates to a nearby home.
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Pittsboro
Miss
Bodie Bates
Calhoun County
Bates
Yalobusha River
Jack W. Powell
Drowned Radio Official Identified After Bay Find
The body found in the Chesapeake Bay near Hackett's Point was identified as Seret Charles D. Price of the Federal Radio Telegraph Service. Police telegraph operator Robert E. De Leon said Price lived at 111 McMechen Street Baltimore and had siblings in St. Louis. He reportedly drowned August 1 when he fell from a yacht off Gibson Island during a yachting party. The coast guard cutter Apache had searched for days.
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Annapolis
Chesapeake Bay
Hackett’s Point
Seret
Charles D. Price
Federal Radio Telegraph Service
Baltimore
Robert E. de Leon
Baltimore Police Department
Price
McMechen Street
St. Louis
de Leon
Free Clinic For Cripples To Be Held Saturday
A periodic clinic for cripples will be held Saturday August 10 at the District Nurse Association offices. Hours are 9 30 a m to 12 30 p m and 2 to 3 30 p m. Dr R V Funsten of the University of Virginia Hospital orthopedics will lead examinations and advice at no charge. Only young people with deformities are urged to apply.
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District Nurse Association
R. V. Funsten
University of Virginia Hospital
For Sale 7500 Bushels Northwestern Greening Apples
For sale 7500 bushels Northwestern Greening apples on trees. Clean fruit good size. Gerrardstown Orchard Co Berkeley Hotel Martinsburg West Virginia August 3 1p 31.
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Gerrardstown Orchard Co
Berkeley Hotel
Martinsburg
W. Va
Night chicken thief gangs hit rural towns nationwide
Farmers report raids on roosts stealing hundreds of young pullets. Investigators link thefts across Stephens City Booker Chamblin Double Tollgat Macedonia area. Owners tattoo wings with initials to aid recovery and prosecution.
Clarke County farmer dies in auto collision
A Clarke County farmer Clyde Douthat 36 of the Portland Hotel Washington is listed with chest injuries after a car crash on Route 632 at Gaunt’s Tans. He is a father of three and coroner’s inquest will be held at Berryville as details unfold. Russell Linthicum 35 of Ferryville died after the Winchester Perryville pike crash. Driver Richard R Price 36 suffered fractured ribs while others were mildly injured. Douthat’s condition was uncertain pending diagnosis.
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Berryville
Clyde Douthat
Brukes
RB. L. Linthicum
Winchester-Perryville Pike
Russell L. Linthicum
Ferryville
Richard R. Price
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Linthicum
Washington
Portland Hotel
Washington, D
Tta
Memorial Hospital
Price Automobile
George Kercheval
Allen Mallory
Frank Chapman
Ernest Chapran
Winchester Berryville Road
Gaunt
Tans
Opequon Creek Park Hosts First Aid Class Certificates
At a meeting tonight Dr Harlee will present certificates to eleven members of a first aid class. Refreshements will be served and Captain Gough calls for full attendance. The notice is from Secretary W McDonald of Opequon Creek Park own Co. Bays Sommers lot 31 in Loudoun Manor front Court House. Noon Saturday August 10.
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South End Hose CO
Harlee
Gough
Bay Sommers Lot
Loudoun Manor
Slayers of a Theatre Cashier Shot In Flight
In Havana two men were killed by police while attempting to escape after slaying theater cashier Francisco Limonia at the Encan Theatre. Earlier four armed youths abducted workers, but officers captured two alleged suspects Ezekiel Delgado and Gabriel Rodriguez before a gun battle with a pursuing auto group left one officer injured and two captives dead.
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Havana
Aut
Encan Theatre
Midtown Theatre
Francisco Limonia
Ezequiel Delgado
Gabriel Rodriguez
New York
Benders Dress Sale Opens Tomorrow at 10
Mr Bender returns from New York with hundreds of cotton dresses offered at ultra low prices. Sale starts Tuesday at 10 o clock with grouped price ranges from 39 to 159 for various cotton lace linen and children styles all sizes 7 to 14 in the lot.
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Mr. Bender
N. Y
C.ildren
Lost Fireman's Badge Belongs to Frank Manuel
Lost badge identified with Frank Manuel on the front. Return to Frank Manuel. Contact at the department or local authorities if found.
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Frank Manuel
Hundreds Of F ish Dead In Opequon Creek Near Wade sville
Residents along Opequon Creek above Clevenger's Ford report hundreds of dead fish floating on the water from four to five miles. Large bass suckers trout and sunperch up to 18 inches are among the casualties. No cause is known and the die off began last Friday.
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Opequon Creek
Clevenger's Ford
Wadesville
Administration Gets Tak Bill Through House
The administration’s tax bill passed the House by 282 to 6 and moves to the Senate where major changes and many riders are expected. Senate Finance Committee plans to complete hearings by midweek and return the bill this week, with inheritance and surtax reductions likely to be debated amid possible riders on soldiers’ bonus and Frazier Lemke proposals.
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Senate
Clarence M. Wright
Washington
House
Senate Finance Committee
Representative Treadwey
Rmiss
Harrison
Finance Committee
Martinsburg Woman Dies After Illness at City Hospital
Mrs. Elsie M. Tharp 31 wife of William W. Tharp of Ridgeway W Va died at 9 35 pm in City Hospital Martinsburg after a week of illness with peritonitis Survived by husband two children Helen 6 and Phyllis 2 months four brothers Ernest F Roland L Floyd N and Garland three sisters Mrs Earl Brown Mrs Marvin Shiley and Miss Genevieve Tharp and grandmother Mrs Elizabeth Bennett Natives and friends to meet at Ridgeway home Wednesday 2 pm Services at Wood A B Church with Rev Obaugh officiating Interment Paynes Chapel
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Elsie M. Tharp
William W. Tharp
Bunker Hill
W. Va
City Hospital
Martinsburg
Helen
Phyllis
H. L. Tharp
Ridgeway
Ernest F
Philadelphia
Roland L
Floyd N
Garland
Earl Brown
Clearbrook
Marvin Shiley
Kearneysville
Genevieve Tharp
Elizabeth Bennett
Inwood A. B
Obaugh
Paynes Chapel
Yeakley, 74, Dies After Long Illness In Winchester
George Hunter Yeakley prominent farmer and longtime church worker dies at 74 after a lingering illness. He previously belonged to Old Bethel Lutheran Church and later United Brethren in Winchester. Survived by two sons, three daughters, six grandchildren and multiple siblings. Funeral at his home 320 National avenue Wednesday at 10 am, burial Mount Hebron.
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George Hunter Yeakley
National Avenue
Yeakley
Old Bethel Lutheran Church
Hunting Ridge
Cainesboro
United Brethren Church
Winchester
Union Chapel
Martineburg Pike
Mr. Yeakley
William R. Yeakley
George W. Kurtz
Lee
House
Frederick County
William R
Rachel Fries Yeakley
Robert L. Gray
Roberta S. Parlett
Harvey R
Wardensville
George T
City
David H. Sencindiver
Mary S. Yeakley
Ray F. Hicks
Taylor B. Yeakley
D. D
New Kensington
M. L. Yeakley
Martinsburg
W. Va
Lily B. Strasnider
Strasburg
Laura V. Butler
Molly C. Brown
George W. Stover
Washington House passes tax bill and strike unrest grows
The administration's tax bill passes the House while National Guardsmen are deployed to the Pelzer mill area amid strike tensions. A typhoon in Amoy and a seige in Athens accompany a busy world picture. Francis Bolton Mallory sails into marriage to a 14 year old bride in Acapulco.
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Amoy
China
Acapulco
Mexico
Francis Bolton Mallory
Carlota Labeto
Athens
Seige
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Charley Rouss
Endorses
Brown
Sarah Zane
Virginia G. O. P
Drive For Youth Vote
Mr. McCormac
John Hamilton
National Organization
Enzo Fiermonte
Europe
Italy
Madeleine Force Astor Dick
John Jacob Astor III
Mississippi
Vrs. H. A. Funk
Sean
H. A. Funk
Stephens City
Booker Chamblin
Double Tollgat
W. H. Huber
Macdonia
Funk
Bard
Clarke County
Opequon Creek Park
Co. W. McDonald
Bender’s
Warren County
Front Royal
Star Today
Elsie Tharp
Hunter Yeakley
Mount Hebron
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