Supreme Court Okays Aluminum Company Antitrust Action
The Supreme Court upheld the government’s antitrust case to dissolve the Aluminum Company of America in New York federal proceedings. The ruling affirmed a Philadelphia three judge court, with Justice McReynolds delivering the opinion. The court also sustained a Georgia poll tax requirement for male voters to pay all due taxes before voting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
New York
Federal District Court
Aluminum Company of America
Philadelphia
Department of Justice
McReynolds
Stone
Aluminum Company
Pittsburgh
Te Aluminum Company
Georgia
Butler
Nolen R. Breedlove
Atlanta
Georgia Supreme Court
Breedlove
Fulton County
When Boys Leave Home Twain Reflections On Age And Ambition
MA Winchester uses Mark Twain quotes to discuss how boys aged around fourteen crave independence and adventure. The piece contrasts youthful optimism with the common outcome of disillusionment and notes some never mature mentally to tolerate their fathers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Twain
Kidnapped Rich Young Man Held for Ransom in White Plains
Arthur Fried, 32, scion of a wealthy sand and gravel family, vanished Saturday and is said to be held for 100000 dollars. Family members contacted a kidnap gang, calls to Fried’s home were intercepted, and his car was found at Rosedale Gardens near Mamaroneck Avenue as federal agents investigate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Plains
N. Y
Arthur Fried
Fried
Emma Fried
Soundview Avenue
Central Telephone Exchange
Freid
Rosedale Gardens
Mamaroneck Avenue
Ellis' Lodge Memorial Service Honors Departed Members
Winchester Lodge No. 867 held a memorial service at Christ Episcopal Church with Judge D. Lindley Sloan of the Maryland Court of Appeals delivering the address and paying tribute to deceased members. The program included a Stringed Ensemble and a male quartet, with readings by lodge officers and an organist, as attendees heard roll call of the dead and musical selections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Lindley Sloan
Cumberland
Maryland Supreme Court of Appeals
Winchester Lodge
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Christ Episcopal Church
Order
Sloan
Winchester
Lawrence C. Hollis
Memorial Service Committee
Robert B. Nelson
Lodge
James C. Hughes
Edwin T. Snider
Austin Sloat
Helen Bailey
Virginia Leatherman
Lou Kneiling
Eugene Russell
Henry Keller
Robert Snapp
Floyd Haines
Haines
Hoye L. Riley
George Washington
Committee On Arrangement
Annapolis, Md
Court of Appeals
Mr. Hollis
Harold C. Sheetz, Jr
W. Ralph Pifer
Quintuplets to be trained like a royal family
Ottawa report says the Dionne quintuplets will be educated to withstand public attention as a royal family. Dr. A. R. Dafoe notes the sisters are unique yet to grow normally, valued at about $500,000, with privacy only what they themselves buy.
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Ottawa
Ont
A. R. Dafoe
Death summons Miss Wright at old homeplace
Miss Julia B. Wright, last member of a prominent Frederick county family, died at 5 15 this morning at her home Rosedale in Albin of a heart attack. She would have been 73 this month and had lived with brother Arthur S Wright. Funeral arrangements await arrivals from other sections.
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Julia B. Wright
Frederick County
Rosedale
Albin
Miss Wright
Arthur S Wright
Robert L
J. Carter Wright
Robert L. Wright
Loudoun County
Mary Catherine Baker
Christ Episcopal Church of
Winchester
Burnt
Two Killed In a Store Explosion in Gloversville
In Gloversville New York today a store explosion killed proprietor Florence Engel and worker Lundy Darling with janitor William B Crispin Jr critically injured and David Steward still missing. Building owner Harry Brower said two other workers began drawing gasoline from a basement oil tank earlier. Unknown blast cause, possibly from the oil tank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloversville
N. Y
Florence Engel
Lundy Darling
William B. Crispin, Jr
Harry Brower
Darlng
David Steward
Brower
Charles
South End Hose Company to Meet Monday Night
Regular meeting of the South End Hose Company will be held Monday night December 6 at 8 o'clock Full attendance requested R A Grim secretary
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South End Hose Company
R. A. Grim
Sec’y
OddF Hold Big Rally In City Tonight
Madison Lodge No 6 of the Odd Fellows plans a grand master rally in Roanoke events tonight at 7:30 with Grand Master Aubrey Wallace expected in from Alexandria and a session at the George Washington Hotel. The lodge celebrates nearly a century since its 1838 official institute and notes a 151 membership after wartime losses and later reorganization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison Lodge
Yally
Aubrey Wallace
Roanoke
Alexandria
Winchester
Berryville
Grand Lodge
George Washington
Noble
Harry E. Meister
E. W. Mason
No. 6
W. E. Edwards
C. B. Stickley
Marsh Run Lodge
Falls Church Lodge
No. 11
Anna Kiracore
Mason
Grand Lodge of Virginia
Virginia
John H. Crebs
George W. Kurtz
Typhoon isolates large northern Visayas region. dysentery outbreak reported
Manila dispatch reports a new typhoon isolating a vast area in the northern Visayan islands while Sorsogon province faces a serious dysentery epidemic in the aftermath of Armistice Day typhoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
P. I
Visayan Islands
Sorgoson
Lindberghs Return from Exile Hidden at Morrows Estate
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in New York aboard the President Harding after a Southampton voyage undercover as Mr. and Mrs. Gregory. They were whisked to the Morrow estate by car, with a brief stay planned before returning abroad after Christmas.
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Englewood
N. J
Charles A. Lindbergh
Morrow Estate
George Washington Bridge
New York
Constance Morrow Morgan
Lindbergh
Robert D. Price
N. 4
Morrow
Hudson River
Anne
United States
President Harding
Southampton
Gregory
England
Manhattan
Dwight Morrow
Lindberghs
Miner Confesses to Slaying Mechanic in Virginia
Patrolman A E Andes says Coy Asbury admitted killing Robert Jones a 45 year old mechanic on November 23. Jones body was found under a culvert on the Falls Mills road after the snow melted yesterday.
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Bluefield
A. E. Andes
Coy Asbury
Robert Jones
Falls Mills
Westerly Sun Skips Lindbergh Family Affairs
The Westerly Sun will not report Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh's daily intimate family affairs while in the United States, stating it is none of their business. The editor, George B. Utter, wishes them a merry and unseen Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westerly. R. I
Westerly Sun
Charles A. Lindbergh
George B. Utter
Leviathan steamship sold for scrap iron in Britain
The Leviathan, once a 907 foot liner and wartime transporter of 200000 doughboys to France, is sold to Metal Industries Ltd of London for more than 800000. She will sail to England under her own power for scrapping after U S line sale refusals. The ship cost at least 10000000 when launched in 1914.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Leviathan
United States Lines
Basil Harris
Levi
Metal Industries, Ltd
London
Japan
France
England
Harris
Vaterland
Hamburg
Farm bill may solve unemployment, Mallon says
Washington correspondent Paul Mallon argues the current farm bill before Congress could address the unemployment problem by employing the unemployed to assist the government in policing farmers and possibly supporting the army and navy as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Mallon
Washington
Congress
Army
Navy
President Roosevelts Return To Washington From Cruise
President Roosevelt returns from a curtailed southern vacation aboard the Potomac and heads for Washington to join the special session talks. He notes plans to confer with Democratic leaders on policy, while discussing anti trust moves and relief needs. Dental concerns remain a minor issue as side trips to Warm Springs and Gainesville are deferred to spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Harold Oliver
Roosevelt
Washington
Carolinas
Virginia
White House
Ross T. McIntire
Fish
Robert H. Jackson
Ickes
Harry L. Hopkins
Emergency Public Works Administration
McIntire
Miami
Warm Springs
Gainesville
Tax panel weighs broad overhaul of business taxes
Washington reports a House tax sub committee considers major changes to capital gains and undistributed profits taxes. They discuss repealing capital stock and excess profits taxes and dozens of nuisance taxes, while proposing estate tax simplification and new rules on dividends and deductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Refuse Collection Rules Urge Tight Containers
City notices residents to place all garbage in tight containers. Peach baskets or cans without tight bottoms will be collected as trash.
Public sale of lumber on Hunt ing Ridge Road
Lumber wood and slabs from the Godfrey Miller land located on Hunt ing Ridge Road offered at public sale at 1 PM Thursday December 9. Smoke Bros. advertise the auction with details in notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Godfrey Miller
Hunting Ridge Rd
Smoke Bros
PIANO SALE Closing Out at Seal's Piano Shop
Marketed as a forced sale due to vacating the store room, the entire piano stock must be sold by December 15. New pianos priced as low as 125 dollars and used pianos as low as 15 dollars at Seal's Piano Shop located at 213 North Loudoun Street.
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Seal's
N. Loudoun St
Christmas Seal Sale Progress Report Shows Funds and Activities
District Nurse Association members report solid progress on the Christmas seal sale led by Mrs. John L. , with Tag Day planned for December 11 to bolster tuberculosis funds. Nurses Mary L. Pearson and Evelyn C. Dean recount November clinics including a diphtheria toxoid effort for 158 children and an orthopedic clinic by Dr. Robert V. Funsten, with several cases referred for hospitalization and further testing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L
District Nurse Association
Mason Snapp
H.D. Puller
Clarence Hardy
Kater
Tuberculosis Fund
The
Star
Mary L. Pearson
Mmss
Evelyn C. Dean
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Schick
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Handley School
Robert V. Funsten
University of Virginia Hospital
STRIP TEASE Highball Glasses Christmas Gift Deal
Six highball glasses in an attractive case offered for 3.85 dollars delivered by H. F. Seal Jr. of 36 Cameron Street. Also notes a turkey dinner bazaar by First Baptist Church with period decor and costumes on December 9 from 5 to 8 pm, 50 cents per plate. Hodgson & Brown suggest Stieff Silver as a gift option.
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H. F. Seal, Jr
S. Cameron St
First Baptist Church
Christmas Wreaths For Door Home and Cemetery Spruce
People’s Bargain Store at 24 E Piccadilly St advertises natural spruce Christmas wreaths for door home and cemetery use with ordering details shown.
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Home & Cemetery
People's Bargain Store
E. Piccadilly St
Japanese Near Nanking Bold Advance Prompts Battle Risk
A Japanese advance within three miles of Nanking signals likely combat tomorrow as forces move from Tan yang toward the capital. Tokyo dispatches claim gains toward Wuhu and Chinkiang with smoke rising from fires in the city and reports of a battleship sunk, while Japanese police raid a Shanghai hotel arresting four Chinese before releasing them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Mills
Shanghai
Nanking
China
Japan
Tanyang
Grand Canal
Wuhu
Yangtze River
Chinkiang
Yangtze
Tokyo
Asahi
Takahashi Gate
Nagato
Yangt
Tungchow
Fushan
Pa Ou
Finaga
Bom
Shanghai International Settlement
Hongkew
Nanking Road
Airforce
Central China Front
A Tribute to Sportsmanship and Pole Quest
The passage extols sportsmanship as beating defeat nobly and congratulating rivals. It recalls Captain Robert F. Scott’s 1912 Terra Nova voyage toward the South Pole, facing storms, loss of cargo, and flooded holds, culminating in Scott’s momentary triumph before a cairn revealed Amundsen’s prior reach.
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Robert F. Scott
England
South Pole
Terra Nova
Scott
Amundsen
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Aluminum Trust
U.S
Harold Daniels
New York Building
Braiarview Manor
Mamaroneck Road
Ellis’ Lodge
Judge Sloan
Dionnes
Old Homeplace
Wallace
Host Lodge
Lindbergh and Wife
Mrs. Gregory
France II
Coluumns of the
Walter L. Ross
Stafford County
Elmer J. Davidson
Hodgson & Brown
Rising Sun
Dale
Carnegie
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