Delegation to Richmond for Welfare Program Talks
Peyton Marshall heads a five member city delegation to Richmond to negotiate the new welfare program slated to begin in September. The city must match state funds or forgo unappropriated amounts in state aid and ABC profits. The plan expands aid to the blind old age assistance and dependent children alongside direct relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peyton Marshall
Common Council
Richmond
ABC
A. M. Field
Department of Public Welfare
Ate Welfare Department
S. Homer Lyman
Marshall
C. R. Anderson
Ty Ager Arthur Field
Man
Herman Habie
Ames P. Reardon
Disaster Kills 14, Injures 150 in Tokyo Collision
In Tokyo’s Kyo district a transport plane and a training plane collided over Omori ward causing fires that killed 14 people and left about 150 injured. The transport crew of three and the training plane crew perished. a nearby factory fire burned ten workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Kyo
Omori
Camtel
Pagolire
VFW Endorses Neutrality Policy At Columbus Encampment
The 39th national encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars endorsed Roosevelt era neutrality policy. It urged an adequate navy and adoption of legislation to equalize profits and burdens of war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Roosevelt
Railroad income comparison July report shows decline
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad reported July operating income of 1 850 142 before fixed charges and other income down from 1 930 438 a year earlier. Gross for the month fell to 1 325 313 from 14 420 491 last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Carrier Pigeon Returns to Bartonville Man
H. D. Carbaugh of Bartonville Va reports a carrier pigeon found at his home last night around 9. It bears a leg band with the identification number 378-98271 and carried no message. The owner may contact Mr Mar Carbaugh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. D. Carbaugh
Bartonville
Mar. Carbaugh
German Democrats Protest Sudeten Demands in Czechoslovakia
In Prague area Aug 24 German Social Democrats met British mediator Viscount Runkman to oppose Sudeten German autonomy, arguing it would implant Nazi principles among unorganized Germans. Separately the German Democratic Cultural Community presented a memorandum to President Benes and Premier Fedza urging resistance to totalitarian aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Praha
Czechoslovakia
German
Social Democratic Party
Viscount Runkman
German Democratic Cultural Community
Bduenn
Eduard Benes
Milan Fedza
Woman golfer drops 8 pounds playing 154 holes in day
In Chicago on August 24 Mrs. Josephine Baltrus 34, wife of a plane mechanic, began playing golf at 5:40 a.m. and completed 1545 holes around a Maywood course by sunset, proving marathon golf effects exceed expectations of the famed male players.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Josephine Baltrus
Maywood
Indian Village Workers Busy at Winchester Park
Indian Village workers under the WPA Recreation program will be in progress all day Thursday at Winchester Park. Wigwams are being remodelled and relics including clay pottery fashioned. Preparations for a corn roast in a few weeks and an archery contest last Friday are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
Winchester Park
Wilbur Jenkins
Clyde Tinsman
Estelle Tinsman
Torso Murders Still Unsolved in Cleveland Case
Detectives questioned eight men and a woman after tracing a tattered quilt to a rag shop two blocks from a field where a woman’s dissected body was found nearly three years ago. Junk collector Esme Cummings, 56, said he disposed of the quilt found on the torso of the eleventh victim at the shop five weeks ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Sergi
James McDonald
Esme Cummings
Softball League Plans Postseason Tournament
Winchester moves to a postseason softball tournament after this week to finish the season. Second half teams will play about once rather than twice. Tonight A P versus United Food and tomorrow Elks versus Jr B of T. Forfeits required if games not played. Managers meet Friday at Young Men's Sport Shop to set schedules. The tournament eliminates teams after a single defeat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Softball League
United Food
Elks Vs. Jr. B
Baltimore Sun Official Is Lost In River
Baltimore on August 24 reports Paul J. Banker assistant managing editor of the Baltimore Sun was thrown from his sailboat when a gust toppled it into the Magothy River. His son Paul Jr. swam ashore after diving to aid his father as a search by two army planes and a navy plane continued. Banker a Yale graduate and former editor of the Middletown News Signal served on the Sun staff since 1926.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Magothy
Paul J. Banker
Baltimore Sun
Paul, Jr
Banker
Middletown
Yale
Sun
Find Body Of WPA Worker Find Body Of WPA Worker
The body of Richard Dawson an 18 year old WPA worker who drowned while diving and swimming in a quarry hole at Martinsburg has been recovered by firemen and police using grappling hooks. Dawson fell from a cliff to a ledge before entering the water on Sunday as he prepared to dive. An inquest was deemed unnecessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Dawson
WPA
Martinsburg
Dawson
Allison and Van Ryn Reach Semi-Finals in Doubles
In Brookline Massachusetts on August 24 Wilmer Allison and Johnny Van Ryn veterans from Austin Texas defeated Bobby Riggs of Chicago and Bitsy Grant of Atlanta 6-1 8-6 6-2 to advance to the doubles semi final at Longwood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookline
Mass
Wilmer Allison
Johnny van Ryn
Austin
Fatal Route 11 crash victim named Miss Pearl Foltz
The Route 11 wreck near Pikeside claimed Pearl Foltz who died at King's Daughters Hospital from a fractured skull. The crash also involved Floyd Foltz and D J Randle Jr with others injured including Anis Foltz and Mrs Foltz. Funeral services were held at Winchester Avenue Christian Church with interment at New Noborem Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinsburg
W. VA
Pikeside
Pearl Wilvere
King's Daughters Hospital
Ital
W. D. Foltz
City Hospital
Altho
Davis
Miss Foltz
Floyd
Della Dayton Foltz
Berryville
Misses Lake
Clayton Snouster
Lester Shriver
Virginia Avenue
Interwoven Stocking Company
Winchester Avenue Christian Church
Hoy
Earl
Howard K. Brown
Ernest S. Worden
New Noborurne Cemetery
Floyd Foltz
D. J. Randle, Jr
Flight Made Without Incident to National Encampment
Delegates from Winchester Post 21-23 VFW attended the national encampment in Columbus Ohio and returned by air in three hours. Commander Anderson Dr. F I McClure and Theodore Miller traveled both ways in a plane piloted by Lieut. Charles Douglas of Valley Airways, deviating via Morgantown West Virginia to pass over Dr. McClure's old home. The craft landed safely this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Winchester
Commander Anderson
F. I. McClure
Theodore Miller
Charles Douglas
Valley Airways
Morgantown
WW. Va
Dr. McClure
Long Illness Proves Fatal for Mrs Mary Rice in Shenandoah County
Mrs Mary Eddins Pifer Rice died after three years of illness at her home 109 Morgan Street at 8 30 last night. Born February 13 1856 in Shenandoah County she was daughter of Jacob L and Mary Eddins Pifer. She married John W Rice on May 5 1875 and was mother of Warren Rice with grandchildren John Warren Rice and Elizabeth Shannon McMullan. Funeral at 4 pm Thursday from 109 Morgan Street with Rev T M Swann and Rev Robert B Nelson officiating. interment Mount Hebron Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W .Rice
Stade Hows
Shenandoah
Vesper Hall
Capon Road
Shenandoah County
Jacob L. Mary Eddins Pifer
Mrse Rice
Fairfax Hall
Winchester
Mary Billings
Braddock Street
M. E. Church South
Wich
John W. Rice
Shenandoah Valley Bank
Handley Board of Trustees
Warren Rice
John Warren Rice
Elizabeth Shannon McMullan
Morgan Street
T. M. Swann
M. E. Church
South
Robert B. Nelson
Christ Episcopal Church
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Kiwanians Hear George Schautz Address
Kiwanis Club members heard George Schautz of Scranton Pennsylvania, connected with the silk industry, in a program directed by Wilbur Krise. He was introduced by guest Richard Veitel of the city, with Kiwanian C B Eyler of Sprindale also attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
George Schautz
Scranton
Richard Veitel
C. B. Eyler
Sprindale
Wilbur Krise
Stolen bicycle taken from Piccadilly street incident
William Claytor reports a red bicycle with white trim and a front basket stolen from its parking spot on Piccadilly street after a newspaper route. The four month old bike, with serial number Y-80238, had a missing back fender reflector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Claytor
North Loudoun Street
Piccadilly Street
Claytor
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Northern Virginia Power Company
Bartonsville
Taalae
John W. Rosenberger & Co., Inc
Brad
Allison and
van Ryn
Norge
O’connell
Braddock St
U. S
House
Washington
J. Parnell Thomas
Rep
N. J
Noah M. Mason
Jascha Heifetz
Balboa Beach
Cal
Heifetz
Oscar Middlebrook
Hope
Ark
Middlebrook
Army Air Corps
Wrightfield
Dayton
Pearl W. Foltz
Mary C. Rice
S. Braddock St
C. I. Brumback
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