Rouss Firemen Win Prizes at States Meet Leaders in Virginia
Virginia fire companies won eleven prizes while Pennsylvania claimed seven and Maryland two. The Charley Rouss Company of Winchester led Old Dominion entrants with three prizes. Shippensburg topped all with five wins. Charlottesville and Harrisonburg earned multiple best appearing awards. The Winchester Company, led by the 56 member Winchester Concert Band, provided a brilliant spectacle with 109 red shirts including Harry K. Thaw, the Pittsburgh financier and former Frederick county resident.
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Associated Press
Ria
Virginia State
Cumberland Valley Firemens
Virginia Fire Companies
Pennsylvania
Charley Rouss Company
Winchester
Old Dominion
Shippensburg
Strasburg
Virginia
Charlottesville
Monticello Guards
Virginia Association
Hampton
Harrisonburg
Cumberland Valley
Cumberland Valley Association
Winchester Company
Winchester Concert Band
Harry K. Thaw
Frederick County
Fruit Men Urge French Quota Change
H F Byrd president of the Virginia State Horticultural Society telegraphed Secretary of State Stimson urging him to persuade France to modify its quota system on American apples. Byrd notes France has closed the market and cites 500 000 barrels exported to France last year, urging immediate action as shipments start soon.
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Stimson
Washington
H. F. Byrd
Virginia State Horticultural Society
Byrd
Virginia
France
Union Service on Handley Steps for Open Spaces
The Christian Endeavor groups of the First Christian Church and Church of Christ plan a 7 pm union service on the Handley School building steps. The program features music talks and poems under the theme God and Open Spaces led by Mrs. W. L. Dudley with sermons by Rev. R. L. Williamson and Rev. W. L. Dudley. Everyone is welcome.
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Christian Endeavor
First Christian Church
Church of Christ
Handley School
W. L. Dudley
R. L. Williamson
Fishpaw sale notice at Middletown auction
Attend W M Fishpaw sale in Middletown on Wednesday August 17 at 11 o'clock. Livestock and farm implements in fine condition offered. Auction time and items are listed in the notice.
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W. M
Middletown
Wed
Clarke County Quiet After Camp Shooting Investigation
Clarke county authorities investigated a shooting at Rush s pleasure camp near Opequon Creek. Jack Brannon was wounded in the back and treated at Winchester Memorial Hospital after Rush was arrested and later jailed in Clarke county. The sheriff speculated the bullet came through a partition from the camp s business area into a sleeping room.
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Clarke County
Jack Brannon
Dick Rush
Opequon Creek
Here
Brannon
Rush
Clarke
Luther Pannett
George G. Snarr
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Frederick County
W. W. Smallwood
Berryville
Pannett
Old breakfast bucket interrupts women’s endurance flight
VALLEY STREAM, N Y Aug 13 An old breakfast bucket swinging from the sky interrupted Frances Marsalis and Louis Thaden during an endurance flight. After a successful first refueling the bucket struck a wing and ripped the fabric forcing an emergency landing for repairs. They may resume later today.
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Associated Press
Valley Stream
N. Y
Tony
Frances Marsalis
Louis Thaden
Ray Graham Motor Genius Drowns In Creek
Detroit News reports Ray A. Graham 45 secretary of Graham Paige and noted automobile figure died by suicide at Chatham Ontario after a nervous breakdown. He eluded his brother and jumped into a creek as they were relocating him to a hospital in Norristown New Jersey.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Mich
Detroit News Today
Ray A. Graham
Graham-Paige Company
Chatham
Ont
Toay
Graham
Robert C.graham
Norristown
Graham Brothers
Paige-Detroit Motor Car Corporation
Joseph B
Robert C
Yard Party at Trimble’s Woods North of White Hall
A yard party is planned at Trimble’s Woods two miles north of White Hall near Mt. Pleasant Church on Thursday August 18 with a rain date the next night.
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Trimble’s Woods
White Hall
Mt. Pleasant
Virginia Apple Crop Falls Sharply From Last Year
Henry M. Taylor reports Virginia apple production for 1932 at about 2,040,000 barrels, roughly 1,000,000 fewer than 1931, with peach and tobacco outlook also down. Shenandoah Valley and several counties show partial crops while fruit quality remains good aside from scab in poorly sprayed orchards. National totals drop about 4,000,000 bushels from last year.
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Associated Press
Richmond
Henry M. Taylor
Federal
Virginia
Shenandoah Valley
Frederick
Clarke
Rockingham
Shenandoah
Buck Heads For Home In Plane
Mexico City August 13 Rob ert Buck the youthful American flyer who arrived here Thursday setting a junior speed record from Newark New Jersey took off today for Tampico on the first leg of the return journey Weather up to Tampico reported good but disturbances north of that city were reported Buck's flying time from boat was 24 hours and 5 minutes
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Robert Buck
Newark
N. J
Tampico
Buck
Steamer Line Anticipates Big Apple Tonnage
Baltimore officials say increased apple shipments from Shenandoah and Cumberland valleys will move via Baltimore. The American-Hampton Roads Line plans direct Baltimore to the United Kingdom service with other improvements to foreign points. Last year Baltimore handled over 300000 barrels of apples.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Shenandoah
Cumberland
Export and Import Bureau of
The
Association of Commerce
Norman Armour Named U S Minister to Haiti
President Hoover appoints Norman Armour of New Jersey as minister to Haiti. Armour, 45, Princeton graduate, has a diplomatic career and succeeds Dana G. Munro who returns to Washington for State Department duties.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hoover
Norman Armour
New Jersey
Haiti
Armour
Princeton
Dana G. Munro
State Department
President Hoover Seeks Cheer With New Telegrams
After Hoover’s acceptance speech, a flood of congratulatory telegrams and letters arrived at the White House. One Tulsa telegram called the speech the greatest document since the Declaration of Independence in a letter from Mrs Frederick Paul Jones.
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Associated Press
Washington
President Hoover
White House
Hoover
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Paul Jones
Tulsa
Okla
Winchester Steam Laundry Pants Promotion Palm Beach
White Duck and Striped Popular Pants offered at 25c with one day service when required. Phones 28 and 29. Palm Beach area advertisement noting laundry and garment care services. Published in a local newspaper classified section.
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Winchester Steam Laundry
Palm Beach
Hitler presses for chancellorship as Papen cabinet ends
Berlin reports the president told Adolf Hitler the Papen cabinet will stay in office for moral and homeland reasons. Hitler seeks the chancellorship while Papen plans a presidential cabinet with Nazi participation. talks hinge on Hindenburg’s stance and future direction of the national government.
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Papen
Hitler
Associated Press
Berlin
von Hindenburg
Adolf Hitler
National Socialist Party
Franz von Papen
Reichstag
Germany
Bavarian Alps
von Papen
Jeader
Alfred Hugenberg
Bruening
Fire Ravages Brooklyn Tenement as Smoke Sickness Grows
A four story Brooklyn tenement fire on Bushwick Avenue, suspected incendiary, injures twelve residents with one death feared. Fire begins in a baby carriage, spreads to upper floors. inhalator squad revives the victims. Five more people are hurt in a Newark Avenue blaze where two women jump from a second floor window. three children are rescued and revived.
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Associated Press
New York
Bushwick Avenue
Brooklyn
Newark Avenue
Trapeze Tragedy Sees Performer Frozen Out Of Show
Orville LaRise, trapeze artist, left the tent and vowed to quit show business after Irene Berger, 21, died and his wife was badly hurt in a fall from a 125 foot high rig above the Steel Pier. Berger died in hospital from injuries, LaRose’s wife suffered a fractured back and a punctured lung.
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Associated Press
Atlantic City
N. J
Orville LaRise
Irene Berger
LaRose
Miss Berger
Roxy
Mrs. LaRose
Capitol Offers A Prize For Iron Safe Openers
In the Capitol lobby a small iron safe holds a valuable prize, possibly a necklace. Four-number combination with first digit 20. Openers before midnight Saturday win the prize. written submissions win or enter for tickets to Jewel Robbery with Kay Francis and Wm. Powell at Capitol on August 15 and 16. Safe on display until midnight tonight.
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Capitol Theatre
Kay Francis
Capitol
Weather outlook for August 15 to 21
Washington reports a week of mostly fair weather with showers on Wednesday or Thursday. Cooler at the start, turning much warmer midweek, then cooler again toward week’s end.
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Associated Press
Washington
North
Middle Atlantic
Ritchie Declines Maine Speaking Invitation
Annapolis Md August 13 Governor Ritchie said he cannot accept the Bangor Maine invitation to speak August 24 due to a Cumberland engagement on August 23 and the Maryland campaign opening on August 25 making travel to Bangor impossible.
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Associated Press
Annapolis
Ritchie
Bangor
Cumberland
Maryland
Ohio man convicted for drunk driving in Winchester court
Elmer Jones of Ohio was convicted in Winchester Police Court on operating a vehicle while intoxicated. He was fined 123 dollars and sentenced to 30 days in jail after allegedly striking Grover Cooper’s parked car at the corner of North Cameron and East Piccadilly streets.
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Elmer Jones
Ohio
Winchester
Grover Cooper
North Cameron
East Piccadilly Streets
Miss Gladys Carver At Beauty Nook August 15
Miss Gladys Carver will be at the Beauty Nook on August 15. Phone number 1312. lplii
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Gladys Carver
Beauty Nook
Lplii
Pageant Site Chosen for 200th Sponameah Valley Anniversary
Harrisonburg announces a hillside amphitheatre at Maplehurst addition for the September 3 4 and 5 anniversary pageant. The site on H M Newman property boasts natural acoustics and aims to avoid loudspeakers by damming a stream to create a lagoon.
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Harrisonburg
Maplehurst
H. M. Newman
Howard Southgate
Glen Theatres
Paul Alfred Steinmetz
Grave Anxiety Felt In Austria For Princess
In Moedling Villa near Vienna Princess Ilena awaits the birth of her first child amid complications. Doctors consider operation and injections while police guard the villa to deter disaffectioned factions who threaten to bomb the residence. Archduke Anton paces the garden.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Austria
Moedling Villa
Ilena
Archduke Anton
Iena
Senator Cather Seeks Nomination With Rural Social Events
County 4-H clubs and adult groups plan August picnics and socials as home agents organize demonstrations and meetings. Activities include Jelly making, canning, poultry and gardening lessons, and countywide picnics at Jordan Springs and community grounds.
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Greenwood
Opequon Creek
Bryarly 4-H
Community League
Bryarly School
Middletown Home Demonstration Group
Grange Hall
Middletown
Jordan Springs
Armel
Gainesboro
Stock market recovers in final hour on Aug 13
The New York market saw a bear reaction early day with broad repurchases by late trading. Selling in the second hour pushed many issues down 1 to 5 points, but short covering and fresh buying in the last hour largely erased losses. Leaders ended with modest declines and Sterling cabies rose to $3.48 per share.
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Associated Press
New York
Sterling Cabies
Winchester Legislator Seeks Seventh District Congress Seat
State Senator T Russell Cather of Winchester announces candidacy for the Democratic nomination to Congress from the new Seventh Virginia District. He cites support across Frederick Clarke Shenandoah and other counties, and his service as commonwealth's attorney, records as chancery master, and leadership in civic and veterans groups. The party convention to nominate the successor to the late Henry St George Tucker will be held in Harrisonburg on September 5.
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T. Russell Rer
Winchester
Virginia Senate
Frederick, Clarke and
Shehandoah
Congress
Virginia
Henry St. George Tucker
Lexington
Harrisonburg
Hong
Cather
Washington and Lee University
Commonwealth
Frederick County
American Legion
Handley Board of Trustees
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Senate
Flashes of life and mischief across American towns
A digest of brief incidents from Denver to Brighton, Lima to Joliet. Stickups yielded only $1.50 but aided victims in a mudhole. a Brighton resident smashed 24 town hall windows in a fit against the water supply. Lima tested sparrow extermination that interrupted power for 35 minutes. Joliet inmates planned athletic activities. Mrs. Hattie Caraway touted common sense. a four year old in Boston survived four 28 foot falls. Belle Glade tested tear gas against nematodes. Stubenville firemen delayed by missing leaders before a city limit clearance.
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C. V
Winchester Organization
Ray Graham
U. S
Swat
AL. Snitr
Nationalist Party
Pier Tragedy
Trapeze
Maine
Senator Cather
Democratic Party
Denver
Col
Brighton
Eng
George Limpus
Lima
Ohio Power Co
Joliet, Il
Little Rock
Ark
Hattie W. Caraway
United States Senate
Boston
Orlando Steinolo
Orlando
Belle Glade
Fla
Stubenville
Dean Cunningham
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