States May Cooperate For Negro Professional School
Richmond Dec. 14. Dr John M Gandy president of the Virginia State Colleges for Negroes Petersburg proposed that several Southern states join to build and maintain a unit professional school for Negroes. He urged a cooperative scheme if legally permissible to provide post graduate education in law and engineering beyond bachelor’s degrees.
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Richmond
John M. Gandy
Virginia State Colleges For
Petersburg
Tois
U. S. Supreme Court
Universy of Missouri Law School
Virginia
Supreme Court
Thom
Unit
Gandy
Gaines
State College For
South
A. P Staples
State Department
Medical College of Virginia
State College
Missouri
University of Virginia
Price
State Board of Education
Front Royal and Warren County News Highlights Holiday Symptoms
Front Royal notices report Mrs. Frank Davies improving from pneumonia and Dr. L F Hansbrough showing progress. Local social items list arrivals, visits, and family events, plus church programs, hospital stays, and charitable activities in Warren County. A brief item notes Harry Irwin's rescue after a tree collapse in Lynch Neb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Front Royal
Frank Davies
Bride Confesses Fibbing On Age
A 15 year old Maryland girl who eloped to Alexandria admitted she fibbed about her age and was held in a detention home at her parents request. Josephine Kathryn Maguire, a Calvert County High School student, married Walter Poetzman, 32, of Washington, who she said she loves and intends to stay with.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Maryland
Alexandria
District of Columbia
Josephine Kathryn Maguire
Calvert County High School
Prince Frederick
Walter Poetzman
Washington County Museum to Host February Art Exhibit
The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown Maryland announced a no jury art show from February 19 to 28 for Cumberland Valley sculptors painters and printmakers. Entries must be original works created since January 1 1938 and received between January 1 and 15 with two entries per artist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County Museum
Hagerstown
Carlisle
Shepherdstown
Waynesboro
Exhisor
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
Medford
Cavarretta to be Cubs' regular first baseman in 1939
Chicago veteran Phil Cavarretta, 21, is slated for the Cubs at first base next season. Manager Gabby Hartnett endorsed the move though plans for Rip Collins remain unsettled after Collins hit .267 with 63 RBIs in 143 games last summer. Cavarretta batted .240 with 27 runs in 91 games in Chicago.
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Chicago
Phil Cavarretta
Chicago Cubs
Gabby Hartnett
Cavaretta
Rip Collins
Hartnett
Cavarretta
Collins
Round Up Of Mixed Baseball And Boxing News
SID FEDER reports a busy sports round with trade chatter over Bees catcher and Al Lopez targets, Seattle cash and players, and pitchers like Prothro in Phillies mix. Managers Blades and Budge loom, boxing notes probe Lou Nova and Ray Carlin, plus peculiar anecdotes from the season meetings and a beer hall rumor.
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New York
Pirates
al Lopez
Ray Muelled
Pittsburgh
Seattle
Johnny Dickshot
Woody
Freddy Hitchinson
Tigers
Doc Prothro
Phillies
Jennings Poindexter
Red Sox
Ray Blades
Cardinals
Don Budge
Sidney Wood
Davis
Elly Vines
Tommy Farris
Ray Carlin
Lou Nova
Lou
Irish Thrush Jack Doyle Plans Marriage in Hollywood
Hollywood reports heavyweight boxer Jack Doyle known as the Irish Thrush set to marry Movita, a film actress of Mexican descent born in Arizona. Doyle seeks naturalization under the Irish quota despite an unsettled matter with the U S Department of Labor over his entry into the United States. Movita, famed for Mutiny on the Bounty, was introduced to Doyle at a party two months ago and accepted his proposal.
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Hollywood
Jack Doyle
United
Department of Labor
Doyle
Sam
Movita
Thursh
Oshkosh Vocational Hoops Coach Ten Years Tenure
The letter notes Bckie Krolitz from the Midwest has coached Oshkosh Vocational basketball for ten years with 201 wins and 9 losses. Rumor at league meetings suggests Bill Klei may retire, leaving fans to pick a new target.
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Bckie
Early Harvest apple proves resistance to woolly aphid
Virginia experiments by G. W. Underhill and James A. Cox show the Early Harvest apple variety resisting woolly aphid infection in roots, with Northern Spy used as a resistant check. Twenty varieties were inoculated over three summers to identify durable rootstock resistance.
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Blacksburg
G. W. Underhill
James A. Cox
Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station
Ben Davis
Wagoner
Winesap
Mother
Staymanesap
King David
Northwestern
Greening Stark
Black Twig
Lowry
Jonathan
Tolman
Grimes Golden
York Imperial
Virginia
Entomologists Assess Woolly Apple Aphid Varieties
Experts argue that certain apple varieties may be treated as resistant to the woolly apple aphid. The discussion examines practical implications for cultivation and pest management.
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Tetofski
Oldenburg
Baldwin
Hotel owner seeks return of long-lost towels
A hotel proprietor receiving a mail item explains a 25 year old theft of towels from the Alton Til-A hotel. The note claims the original thief is not dead and the current owner seeks a clear conscience.
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Alton
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Front Royal and
Warren County News
L. F. Hansbrough
Mary LeRoy
Arlington Hall
James Golden
E. L. Brown
Alice Lovell Brown
Charles L. Brown
Mattie Brown
Annie Buck
Taylor
John Taylor
Tampa
Fla
Preston Licklider
Cleveland Jones
Cleveland
Ohio
Licklider
Mayo Clinic
Juanita Jones
Washington, D. C
Harry Leaf
Alexandria Hospital
Leaf
Prances Shotwell
Nathan Allnutt
Roy Darby
Front Royal Gleenlub
Grady Whitehead
S. Rolfe Millar
Anne Lee Bird
Mr. Jackson
Nellie Wharton
Fred Groves
Mt. Alto Hospital
Mrs. Groves
Roy Coffey
Ray Saunders
Lloyd C. Ewen
Ewen
Homer Miller
Mrs. Miller
John Downing
B. T. Branham
North and
South Carolina
T. T. Harrison
E. Barr Samsell
Samsell
W. S. Davis
Cora Jane Reid
B. W. Atwood
Tenafly
N. J
William Erskine Johnston
Calvary Episcopal Church
Margaret Carr
Robert L. Massie and Son
Washington, Va
Massie
W. J. Kendrick
Elizabeth Clark
Mrs
A. F. Clark
King’s Daughters of
Warren County
Lynch
Neb
Harry Irwin
Santa
United Food Stores
Woodbury’s
Paris
Williams
Harris
Commercial Bank
Hagerstown, Md
Cubs
Anthony
Philadelphia
Henry Sabetti
By Sid Feder
Bill Terry
Pie Traynor
Hollis Thurston
Nibble Hanover
Peter Astra
Frank Farringon
Fergus Falls
Minn
Harry
Dynamite) Olson
Lancaster
N. H
Waldorf Astorie
Detroit
del Baker
Jimmy Dykes
Oscar Vitt
Ellis
Howard L. James
W. Piccadilly
Winchester
Baca
Esa Oo
Moling & Cather
Northern Virginia Power Co
Lee-Ming
Timberlake
Palace Theatre
Lovett Brothers
Lovett Bros
N. Loudoun St
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