Funeral Rites Tomorrow For Clifton Pitcock
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow for Clifton Pitcock 47 who died Sunday evening at his Cedar Grove Frederick county home. The Rev Obaugh will conduct the home service and interment will be in the Friends burying-ground near Fawcett Gap. He was born October 14 1888 and was a farmer. Surviving are his widow formerly Miss Hilda Lynn three brothers Luther Robert and Charles Pitcock all of the county and two sisters Mrs Viola Cooper of Pittsburgh Pa and Mrs Mary Colvin of this city.
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Clifton Pitcock
Cedar Grove
Frederick County
Obaugh
United Brethren Church
Friends
Hilda Lynn
Luther
Robert
Charles Pitcock
Viola Cooper
Pittsburgh
Mary Colvin
All Stars Edge East End In Tight Wet Field Clash
Hable's Palace All-Stars edged East End 25 24 on a muddy field in a close final. Rowe and Green starred for the winners as the All Stars completed their season with only one defeat.
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Hable’s Palace All-Stars
East End
Magazin
Rowe
Green
Wilbur Anderson
Bill McIntyre
Eston Tevalt
Wayne Hawkins
All-Stars
German Convicted Of High Treason Is Beheaded
Berlin reports Rudolf Claus a German Communist leader was beheaded after Hitler refused clemency. Claus, sentenced by the People's Court for high treason, had been a former associate of Max Hoelz. Albert Kayser saw his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
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Berlin
Rudolf Claus
Cagney Stars In Frisco Kid At Capitol This Week
James Cagney headlines the all star cast in Frisco Kid shown at the Capitol today and tomorrow. Set on the Barbary Coast in the early fifties, the drama follows a crude dominating figure amid the gold rush as adventurers crowd Frisco&apos.s waterfront and a romance with a graceful upperworld woman unfolds.
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James Cagney
Capitol
Prisco
San Francisco
Frisco
Saidon
Underworld
Handley Letter Men To Receive Honors Tonight
Nineteen Handley High School football letter men will be honored at an 8 o'clock banquet in the school cafeteria. Captain for next year to be elected. Speakers include Garland Charles Quarles and J M Ochs. the Handley Orchestra will perform and a varied program will follow.
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Handley Letter
Handley High School
Will Beichard Kern
Robert Sutton
al 4 Baker
Robert Baker
William Baker
Harvey Grubbs
Innis Haines
Alvin Tavenner
Charles Gibbons
Charles Huntsberry
Huyett Light
Marshall Boyd
Raymond Campbell
Rosser Campbell
Andrew Grove
Mifflin Clowe
Charles Johnson
Joseph Thrift
James Himelright
Garland R. Quarles
W. R. Legge
Northern Virginia
Walter Fraley
Shenandoah Valley Academy
J. M. Ochs
Handley
Otis
Broadcast From Nazarene Hills
A Palestine origin broadcast from Nazareth will be aired by WEAF NBC at 7 45 a m on Thursday. The program commemorates King George’s silver jubilee with a tree planting ceremony in Nazareth Hills, New York.
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New York
Palestine
Nazareth
WEAF
NBC
George
Enchanted April and Chasing Yesterday At Palace
Ann Harding and Frank Morgan star in Enchanted April at the Palace Theatre for the last times tonight. Anne Shirley returns in Chasing Yesterday, with a Fox News reel and a comedy in the program on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Ann Harding
Frank Morgan
RKO
Palace Theatre
Fox News
Palace
Anne Shirley
Anne
Green Gables
Fat Girls Lose Weight With Marmolation Tablets
A sensational diet advertisement touts Marmolation Tablets as the easy way to shed fat without starvation diets or strenuous exercises. It claims the formula is in every box and urges readers to obtain Marmolation from druggists to reduce excess fat. It emphasizes a supposed gland issue and promises rapid results.
Held Guilty of Slaying Man and Burning Body
Alfred Brown, a 21 year old boxer, was found guilty by a Maryland jury after a 40 minute deliberation for slaying Manuel Silva Varela a retired ship carpenter and partially burning his body in November. Police said Varela was struck in a cellar, burned with gasoline and left feet up a chimney, later found nearby in Montgomery county. The prosecution introduced a confession in which Brown described confronting Varela and striking him with an ice pick.
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Alfred Brown
Manuel Silva
Varela
Doubs
Montgomery County
Brown
Verela
Lizette Reese Dies Quietly in Baltimore at 79
Lizette Woodworth Reese, renowned poet of "Tears," died peacefully at Church Home and Infirmary in Baltimore. The 79 year old author, praised for one of the finest English sonnets, had entered the hospital on November 24 for a rest cure.
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Baltimore
Lizette Woodworth Reese
America
Miss Reese Remembered in Town Tribute
The piece recalls Miss Reese, twin sister of the family, praised by H. L. Mencken as an imperishable glory of American letters. It notes her serene dress and habits and mentions her father David Reese, a silent Welsh Confederate fighter, and mother Louisa, of German origin devoted to home and garden.
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Reese
H. L. Mencken
Miss Reese
David Reese
Louisa
Ontario Woman Hanged for Poison Slaying of Husband
Mrs. Elizabeth Tilford, 56, mother of nine, was hanged in Woodstock county jail yard for poisoning her third husband. She was Ontario's first woman executed in 62 years, dying as she walked to the scaffold in snow. Death was instantaneous after the trap sprung at 12:59 a.m.
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Woodstock
Housewives Benefit From Large Shenandoah Valley Soap Campaign
Lever Bros. Co. announces a major sampling drive in the Winchester area starting January. A team will deliver free full sized Lux Toilet Soap Lux Rinso Lifebuoy to households with coupons for more free soap via local dealers. Coupons mailed to outlying districts entitle families to free samples by mail.
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Eddie Herman
Lever Bros. Co
Star
Shenandoah Valley
Lux
Winchester
Hermann
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Rhodes Drug Company
Carter
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Insurance Field
J. W. Arthur
General Insurance
Rouss Avenue
Warner Bros. Capitol
SEX
Lupton Orchard Service Co
Hamman’s Dollar Store
Farmers & Merchants National Bank & Trust Co
Wishes You
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Lizette Reese
Ontario
Housewives
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N. Loudoun St
Cedar Manor
Strasburg, Va
Aes
Katharine Alexander
Fox “News” Reel
Comedy
O. P. Heggie
Helen Westley
John Qualen
AUDIT
TAX Service
E. Boscawen Street
Richmond, VA
State Planters Bank
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Miles, Music Co
Loudoun St
Sheetz
Consumers’ Coal CO
Virginia
Cork St
Geo. W. Kurtz Furniture Store
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