Morgan Opposition: Ball Grabs Rail Network for $274000
Senate investigators heard that George A. Ball bought the controlling stock in the Van Sweringen rail and related empire for 274000 and returned control to the brothers for nothing. He held a 10 year option to repurchase with an $8250 stake. The testimony tied to J P Morgan associations and the pyramid of holding companies running 23000 miles of railway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
van Swerigen
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
J. P. Morgan
Capitol
George A. Ball
Indiana
van Swerigens
Morgan
Ball
Morgan Banking
Syndi
Wheeler
Dmont
Mid-America Corporation
Mid- America
Houdini
Ma Winchester Appeals for Radio Quality Rights
Laura Gold Crawford laments radio interference and urges action to secure better broadcasting conditions. She notes the value of radios, upcoming Christmas music, and the benefits to listeners including the ill, urging Ma to help obtain a fair deal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Gold Crawford
Loudoun Street Through Winchester History Remembered
Ma Winchester recalls Loudoun street as it appeared in 1892 and how the city’s architecture has changed over forty years. The piece reflects on progress, local inscriptions, and the transformation of storefronts, lines, and fashions as illustrated in a woodcut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City
Ma Winchester
Loudoun Street
Washington Irving
Irving
Winchester
Directors Plan 1936 Christmas Festival of Lights Contest
Chamber of Commerce directors finalize plans for a city wide Christmas Festival of Lights decoration contest. Stores may compete for a silver cup awarded to the best decorated storefront, with 35 merchandise prizes plus a grand residence prize. City divided into four zones for equal prizes totaling 224 dollars in value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Andrew Bell
Tom Baldridge
Lions Club
Kiwanians
Rotarians
American Legion
Moling
Cather
Sleep Dose Overdose In Quarrel With Heir
Alice Wallace a 20 year old show girl from Schenectady New York lies recovering in a New York hospital after an overdose of sleeping medicine taken following a quarrel with Tommy Manville heir to a roofing fortune Wallace says she did not take the medicine in a personal crisis The incident reportedly occurred Sunday night at a New York hotel after a Saturday night argument with Manville who says Miss Wallace left after he invited another guest to dinner
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Rochelle
N. Y
Alice Wallace
Schenectady
New York
Tommy Manville
Syndicalism Law Before High Court
Arguments on the constitutionality of Oregon's chemical syndicalism law were presented to the Supreme Court. Dirk De Jonge, who received seven years in state prison for violating the statute during a 1934 Communist meeting in Portland, protested police activity tied to a seamen's strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Oregon Chemical Syndicalism
Supreme Court
Dirk de Jonge
State
Portland
Christmas At Handley Plans for Evening School Program
Handley School prepares a Sunday December 20 performance at 2 30 pm uniting all city elementary and high schools in one large celebration directed by Miss Gwendolyn Haynes. About 500 voices join from the chorus including 300 on stage and 200 more from glee clubs and fourth grade singers. The concert blends sacred carols with rare Christmas songs and lasts about one hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Handley School
Haynes
Gwendolyn Haynes
Winchester Public Schools
Handley Auditorium
Wanted good homes for two petty female kittens
Classified notice seeking homes for two small female kittens one maltese and one black each described as petty. Contact by phone 41-1 for adoption.
Kiwanians Plan Washington Parley For Officers Elect
Newly elected Winchester Kiwanis officers will join officers elect from the Capital district for a December 10 meeting at the Mayflower in Washington. President elect E. B. Sooper Vice President elect C. Arthur Robinson Secretary elect Andrew Bell and R E Buncutter will attend with Bell to preside over the secretaries session as honored before. The event will draw Kiwanis reps from Virginia Maryland Delaware and the District of Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Kiwanis Club
Washington
Capital District
Mayflower Ho
Winchester
E. B. Sooper
C. Arthur Robinson
Andrew Bell
R. E. Buncutter
Kiwani Club
Arthur C. Keefer
Kiwanis
Mr. Bell
Capital
Lynchburg
Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
District of Columbia
Pope Pius XI Resists Full Return Amid Chill
Vatican reports indicate Pope Pius XI, 79, remains bed bound though improved after paralysis episodes. Doctors warn against leaving bed as XIIIImmaculate Conception mass day passes with the pontiff unwilling to cede full duties until he is cleared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vatican City
Pius XI
Holy Father
Vatican
Milani
Aminta Miliana
Pope Pius
Papal State
First Concert Thursday Night by Kedroff Quartet
The Handley High School auditorium in Winchester hosts the season’s first concert by the Winchester branch of the National Concert Association. The Kedroff Quartet of Russian Singers will perform, offering Russian folk songs alongside classical pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Handley High School
Winchester
National Concert Association
Kedroff
Wright Will Bequest To Winchester Church and Burnt Church
The late A. S. Wright's handwritten will was probated. Carl T. Cather and J. W. Baker proved it. A 3000 dollar bequest goes to the Episcopal Church of Winchester and 500 dollars to Burnt Church Presbyterian. The residue goes to his sister Julia B. Wright, named administratrix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. S. Wright
Carl T. Cather
J. W. Baker
Episcopal Church of
Winchester
Burnt Church
Presbyterian
Julia B. Wright
Fellowship Club Seeks Prompt Adoptions for Christmas Families
The Fellowship Club urges churches organizations and individuals to adopt families for Christmas to trim the master list. Last year the club helped 1517 people in Winchester and Frederick County with 258 food baskets. 149 families were aided by various groups and individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fellowship Club
Winchester
Frederick County
Mrs Simpson Determined To Marry King Edward VIII
Cannes dispatch reports Wallis Warfield Simpson remains resolved to pursue a morganatic marriage with King Edward VIII despite offering to give up the throne. Friends say she and the king intend to fight to the bitter end. Lord Brownlow says she will stay at Villa Lou Vier through Christmas and will hold daily press briefings at the villa gates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cannes
France
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Edward VIII
Simpson
Italy
Lord Brownlow
Presbyterians Ponder Marriage Law Changes
The Presbytery of Baltimore met to consider three marriage proposals: a state law requiring three days notice between license and ceremony for civil and religious ceremonies. three days notice of intention to wed with limited exceptions. and a change to the confession of faith to remove a war sanctioning clause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Presbytery of
Presbyterian Confession of Faith
Presbytery
Deep Furrow Plows Favored for Dry Regions
Colorado Springs farmer O S Bowman urged widespread use of deep furrow plows in dry farm regions to conserve moisture as a national drought program is developed by a presidential commission. The panel planned to finish hearings and begin a comprehensive report to the President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
O. S. Bowman
Colorado Springs
Colo
Great Plains
Two Escape In Airplane Crash
An airplane carrying Marjorie J. Gage and Robert Blair crashed nine miles northwest of Jackson Ohio. Both escaped serious injury. Gage a 19 year old from Hollywood described as a movie actress left by bus to reach New York. Blair 35 also from Hollywood made a forced landing last night and failed to gain altitude tearing off a wheel on corn shock. The plane was wrecked badly on landing.
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Jackson
Marjorie J. Gage
Robert Blair
Hollywood
Calif
Miss Gage
Columbus
New York
Blair
New German Warship Damaged at Christening
Kiel Germany December 8 The German 26000 ton battleship Grisenau slipped from control during its christening crash into a stone wall. Reichswehr leader Adolf Hitler and other officials observed as the ship slid down the ways tearing a 16 by seven foot hole in the embankment while the vessel itself suffered only a dented stern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiel
Germany
Grisenau
Reichswehrer
Adolph Hitler
Walnut Kernel Buyer Ad by W. B. Snider & Son
Local firm W. B. Snider & Son announces purchase of walnut kernels. Contact details not provided in readable text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Snider & Son
Frederick County Girls Win State Home Economics Contests
Miss Elizabeth Farrar reports three Frederick County girls won state Home Economics contests and receive gold medals. The Bryarly Club won the Social Progress contest and a $5 value history and yearbook plus a silver plaque to Farrar’s office. Co leaders Mrs. Herbert Harmer and Miss Julia Braithwaite guided the club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Farrar
Preto County
Hallie L. Hughes
Frederick County
Bryarly
Blacksburg
Nancy Harbaugh
Hughes
Farrar
Hilda Orndorff
Mary Richard
Kerr Canning
Bryarly Club
Herbert Harmer
Julia Braithwaite
Mistrial Declared In Attack Case Against John Henry Burns
A mistrial was declared in Washington when jurors deadlocked after 17 hours in the case of John Henry Burns a 35 year old merchant charged with criminal attack on a typist. Judge Charles Wee ordered the trial ended with Burns free on a $10000 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John Henry Burns
Charles Wee
Burns
Liberty
Teachers To Meet Saturday In Frederick County
A Frederick County Teachers Association general meeting will be held in the court house Saturday at 1.30 pm. Delegates’ reports from the Richmond state convention during Thanksgiving week will be heard, and several matters from Division Superintendent Leslie D. Kline will be presented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County Teachers Association
Richmond
Leslie D. Kline
King’s Abdication Decision Sparks Royal Air Mission
A mysterious air voyage from Croydon to France tied to Edward VIII’s abdication crisis. Stanley Baldwin rushed to Fort Belvedere as the king weighed renouncing the throne for Wallis Simpson. Plane passengers linked to Mrs Simpson's decree nisi and Crown matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank H. King
London
Stanley Baldwin
Fort Belvedere
Edward VIII
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Royal Lodge
England
Empire
Baldwin
Commons
Edward
Duke of Kent
Cet
Simpoe Telit Sfee
Stan Edward
Great Britain
Croydon
Marseille
France
Cannes
Simpson
Theodore Goddard
Ernest Simpson
Sidney Barron
Douglas Kirkwood
Goddard
Treasury
Home Office
le Bourget
Mary
Leicester Square
Thomas Ramsey Property Sale Notice at Court House
No. 668 North Main Street lot 38 feet by 182 feet. eight room residence to be sold at noon Saturday December 12 in front of Court House. Dutch Edam Cheese four pound average 1.29. Gouda 36 cents. Pure Food Store.
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North Main
Court House
Goudas
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George Ball
Famous Brothers
MR Winchester
Loudoun St
Handley
Capital District Club
Pope
Episcopal Church
York and
Kent
Croydon Airdrome
Irvena Rhoades
Clarence D. Leach
Samuel Rhoades
Thomas Ramsey
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