Interest Of Parents Big Factor In School Success
Special report from Middletown Virginia notes D J Howard supervisor of vocational agriculture stresses parent and teacher cooperation as key to education. He urges shared responsibility and faith in youth while a flagpole project and community programs unfold. A Q A recalls the Ford brothers and Jesse James case with Bob Ford killed in Creede in 1892.
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Howard
D. J
Northern
Virginia
Theiddletown
J. T
Bob Ford
Creede
Colorado
Ed Kelly
Charley Ford
Bob
Jesse James
Former Musica Associate Tells of Illicit Munitions Shipments
Benjamin Simon 49 of the Bronx, linked to the Fr Donald Coster case, faced conspiracy charges after admitting to plans to ship 2 million rifles to Spain with the deceased drug firm head. The probe ties to a 1913 swindle by Musica and Coster, with Musica's note claiming others were unwittingly involved.
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Musica
Shoul O
New York
Donald Coster
Mc & Robbins
Spain
Brien McMahon
U. S
Benjamin Simon
Bronx
Coster
Philip Musica
Central Ao
Samuel Reich Musica
Fairfield
Conn
Reich
Gregory F. Noonan
George E. Dietrich-Musica
George Vernard
Arthur Musica
Robert Dietrich-Musica
McMahon
Sion
Simon
McKesson and
Robbins
Dead-Eye-Dick Wanted for V. M. I. Varsity
Coach Jimmy Walker seeks a reliable scoring ace for the 1939 V. M. I. basketball team after a lean 1938 season. He praises effort and defense but stresses the need for a sure shooter and rebounding, with early training already underway. Remaining schedule includes North Carolina Virginia Tech Richmond and Maryland among others.
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Lexington
Jimmy Walker
Santa Claus
Walker
Alabama
Paul Shu
North Carolina
William and Mary
Emory and Henry
Virginia
Charlottesville
Virginia Tech
N. C. State
Raleigh
Chapel Hill
Blacksburg
Wake Forest
Richmond
Maryland
College Park
Williamsburg
Virginia Crop Records Show Decline From 1937
Virginia's 1938 crops lagged 1937 in total value cash value acreage and yield per acre. principal crops valued at 91,615,000 with tobacco and corn showing mixed results. apples and wheat also fell short of prior year figures amid adverse weather.
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Richmond
Virginia
Virginia Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Henry Taylor
Old Dominion
Virginia dark-fired tobacco markets show higher price averages
A tobacco market summary reports pre Christmas sales in 1938 and 1937 on five Virginia dark-fired markets. Lynchburg and Farmville totals exceed last year with average prices rising. Drakes Branch Blackstone Bedford figures also reflect higher 1938 averages despite larger sales volume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmville
Virginia
Cooperative of Clerk Drakes Branch
German protest over Ickes speech reaches State Department
Berlin reports a strong German protest to the acting U S secretary of state over Harold L Ickes remarks attacking dictators. In Washington Ickes defends his stance while denouncing anti Jewish violence in Germany and faces German criticism tied to Nazi honors for Ford and Lindbergh. The State Department will issue the formal reply.
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Berlin
Harold
Ickes
Washington
Foreign Office
Germany
Harold L. Ickes
Paul Joseph Goebbels
der Angriff
Zionist Society of
Cleveland
Charles A. Lindbergh
Henry Ford
Col
State Department
Body of Man Found On Rail
The body of a well dressed man about 35 was found on the Baltimore and Ohio main line near Takoma Park. He had been struck by a train and may have been a Washington automobile salesman. A leather folder with initial D and used car listings was found in his pocket. He stood about 5 8 and 160 pounds, wearing a dark gray overcoat and striped shirt.
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Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio
Takoma Park
Washington Automobile
Diamonds Disappearance Baffles Antwerp Crew Held on Liner Elisabethville
In Flushing police detain one officer and five crew members from the Elisabethville after the liner from the Congo arrives with a missing cargo of uncut diamonds and gold valued at 500000 dollars. A preliminary search yields some diamonds in baggage.
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Brussels
Elisabethville
Flushing
Congo
TVA Controversy Persists After House Inquiry
Three minority members urged more funds for a further study as the House committee nears expiration. Democratic members backed extended hearings to answer questions about TVA, its directors dispute, rate fairness, and relations with private industry amid ongoing partisan debate.
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Washington
Tennessee Valley Authority
House
Congress
TVA
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Arthur E. Morgan
Mrs Dull Sentenced for Manslaughter of Common Law Husband
Mrs Fern Patricia Dull was convicted of manslaughter for the fatal Oct. 17 shooting of her common law husband. Judge Mark D. Taylor sentenced her today to 14 to 15 years in the Detroit House of Correction after denying a motion for a new trial. The jury included two housewives and ten men, mainly farmers, and delivered the verdict after noon deliberations.
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ST. Joseph
Mich
Fern Patricia Dull
Detroit House of Correction
Mark D. Taylor
William Holbrook
Benton Harbor
Taylor
Mussolini Scraps Another Treaty
Paris dispatch reports Italy notified France that the 1935 Mussolini Laval convention on Tunisia is no longer valid. Officials did not reveal further details of the communication or possible French responses.
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Paris
Foreign Office
France
Andre Francois-Poncet
Rome
Italy
Tunisia
Argentine and American republics renew consultative defense pledge
The document states that if force threatens any sovereign American state, consultation will be used. Each government acts in defense, with unity and solidarity to be coordinated through consultative proceedings. Foreign ministers may convene meetings in their capitals to facilitate discussions.
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Argentina
American Republic
Cedar Cliff Presbyterian Christmas Observance Planned
The Cedar Cliff Presbyterian Church will hold a Christmas service on Sunday evening featuring the young people's choir directed by Miss Mabel Massie. It will tell the Christmas story through hymns, with performances of The Bethlehem Lullaby Gesu Bambino and The Bethlehem Star plus Vivaldi-like selections. Gifts from the school and individuals will close the program with proceeds aid to the Presbyterian Orphans Home at Lynchburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Cliff Presbyterian
Eee
Young People's Choir
Mabel Massie
Brahms
Yon
Bethlehem Star
Jessie Smith
Dvorak
Church School
W. B. O'Neal
Presbyterian
Lynchburg
Chamberlain cites Hitler on Memelland and Memel election
In the Commons Chamberlain quoted Hitler saying he was glad to leave Memelland if the 1924 convention governing Memel under Lithuanian sovereignty was observed. He noted Memel Germans backed a “back to the Reich” campaign in the Dec 11 election, winning 25 of 29 Diet seats for Memel.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Memelland
Lithuania
Memel
Reich
Diet
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Fordee
Iors
United Food Stores
Big Joe
Him
Elec
Loudoun St
George
Arthur
United States Hair Company
Robert
United States
Irving R. Kaufman
John M. Kantor
Montreal
Mackinlay Kantor
Kaufman
William Bondy
John Kantor
Musica Brothers
United States of
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Stratford
Greyhound
Medina
Ohio
WPA
Uh. Rutledge
Ogden
Utah
Farrington Carpenter
Blackstone
Bedford
Gaston Billotte
Joachim von Ribbentrop
von Ribbentrop
Georges Bonnet
Ieries
Sybil Tessie Lorna
Jersey
Independence
Oregon
Mussolini
Exchange Party
Ridgeway
Ridgeway, W. Va
Cedar Cliff
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Firestone Auto Supply
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