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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1926
Page
6
Virginia workers are urged to donate to the Near East Relief Fund to help Armenian orphans at Syra and others affected by the earthquake. Olive J. Sands, state chairman, includes a Syra cablegram detailing widespread damage and the need for urgent aid to orphanages and displaced people.
Mr Sands urges holiday support for Syrian children at the Virginia Training School. He asks ministers Sunday school leaders and church groups to urge year end offerings at Christmas to provide bread warm clothing and toys for needy children and to include both large and small gifts from all supporters.
Harrisburg report by the Commission of 76 urges revision of the corrupt practices act to cap primary candidate expenditures per voter at cents, and per voter cast at ten cents. It backs mandatory ballot box opening, voter assistance limits, voting machines, and permanent registration as essential to clean elections, proposing constitutional amendments to abolish tax qualifications and allow outside overseers.
The plan would replace one agent with volunteer committees to handle money for campaigns and ban expenditures for disseminating information to the public employing poll watchers beyond legal limits and transporting voters. It would carve out an exception allowing expenditures for rental of radio facilities.
Shenvalee, a name evoking Shenandoah Valley and Lee Highway, was adopted by Shenandoah Valley Estates Inc. for the New Market resort development. Miss Kizzie Hays, a Broadway Virginia public school teacher, won the $100 prize in stock for submitting the winning name.
A reader proposes Shenvalee as a historic reverent name that Virginian residents will be proud of. The name may be written Shenvalee or Shen Va Lee and is described as locating itself in print. It evokes joy, recreation, and Shenandoah Valley identity, inviting tourists to remark on the naming.
Washington December 21. The House rules committee was asked to invite Henry Ford to explain evidence behind his claim that the Federal Reserve system is internationally controlled or dominated by Jews. Representative Bloom sent the request to committee chairman Snell and has introduced a resolution for investigation. He argues Congress must hear substantiation or deny the charge.
Congress speeds toward a short week with plans to adjourn for Christmas. The Senate aims to pass the 60 million rivers and harbor bill this evening and may take up the interior appropriation if time allows. The House schedules small bills and hopes to maintain a quorum to act on the agriculture supply measure. Committees discuss reform probes and campaign spending, while seating questions loom over Illinois Senator-designate Frank L. Smith.
Representative Butler of Pennsylvania proposes an appropriation of 105000 dollars for construction of ten light scow cruisers each of 10000 tons. The measure calls for a session before recess to discuss funding.
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