Appropriation Bill Trimmed by House Among Cuts
The House Appropriations Committee slashed 2.285 million from Roosevelt’s 109.664 million request for State, Commerce and Justice and federal courts for the year starting July 1. The revision reduces total appropriations by about 196.3 million from presidential estimates across several measures.
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House Appropriations Committee
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State, Commerce and Justice Departments
Congress
House
Budget Bureau
Patent Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Aie
Commerce
Justice
Judiciary
Chief Hollis Resting After Hospital Operation
Family members said this afternoon that Chief of Police C. W. Hollis is recovering satisfactorily at St. Elizabeth's Hospital following an operation for bronchitis. He has responded to treatment and, barring complications, his condition should improve steadily.
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C. W. Hollis
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Hollis
Ladies Night Rumor Stirs Rotary Circles
A resident gossip hints that Rotary Club members plan a Ladies Night event on Thursday. Charley Coffman jokes about Mrs Coffman handling the furnace while Percy Miller is in the dog house. The article notes attempts to secure a confident announcer for Carry on while Chelsea hopes dreams may come true.
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Rotarians
Charley Coffman
Charley
Lester Arnold
Harry Byrd
Cull Apple Bill Prepared Amended Virginia Apple Standards
Virginia fruit growers receive notice from W S Campfield that a cull apple bill amending the state standards will be introduced only with majority support. The proposed measure adds a new section 2 A to the existing law, prohibiting sale of any cull apples in any packaging without defined standards.
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Virginia State Horticultural Society
W. S. Campfield
Staunton
Virginia
General Assembly
Richmond
Campfield
Bombings blamed on Irish terrorists. ships and hosts in Europe
Highlights of war reports: Dublin government seeks to stop steps against two Irishmen in Birmingham. Canadian steamer Beaverburn sinks. Tokyo reports Britain offers to return nine of 21 German seamen seized from a Japanese liner. Helsinki reports Finnish crisis themes as news continues. Paris notes Daladier’s party and press urge swift aid to Finland after Allied council meeting.
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London
Dublin
Birmingham
Beaverburn
Tokyo
Paris
Daladier
Finland
Supreme War Council
Road Diversion Move Postponed in Virginia Senate
Richmond Virginia February 6 Senate delays action on two anti diversion measures for highway funds. Senator Aubrey Weaver seeks passage in Wright absence while Wright ill and absent. The session also advances bills on parking meters slug use and disposal of unclaimed hotel property with proceeds to the state literary fund.
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Ee Ee
Aubrey Weaver
Senate
William A. Wright
Essex
Wright
Page
Hhr
Band Concert Set For Sunday At Palace Theatre
Members of the McIlwee Municipal Band will perform Sunday afternoon at 3 o clock at the Palace Theatre. Kenneth Windle will feature a vibraphone solo with the full band participating. Further program details are to be announced.
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Kenneth Windle
Henry T Goode Chosen Parade Director for Apple Blossom Festival
Henry T Goode was unanimously selected at a Lions Club luncheon to direct the grand parade of the 17th Apple Blossom Festival to be held this spring. Goode, a Winchester insurer and Aldie Va farmer, is a former Lions Club president and succeeds Leonard Sirbaugh as parade director. The parade opens the festival’s second day, with Rotary Kiwanis Club and American Legion participation. George National Unity spoke as guest at the luncheon.
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Henry T. Goode
Goode
Winchester
Aldie
Leonard Sirbaugh
The
Rotary
Kiyanis Clube
Movement Of Apples From Storage Gains
Demand for apples in the past week keeps Winchester storage plants busy. Movement from Winchester Cold Storage and Virginia Apple Storage runs about 4,000 barrels daily with prices firm and up-market, larger orders from Southern markets. Total holdings across three storages reach 300,891 barrels, up from 278,310 a year ago.
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Winchester
C. L. Robinson
Virginia
Winchester Cold Storage
Virginia Glass Sand Company Works To Clean Back Creek
The Virginia Glass Sand Company faces pollution charges over silt from sand mining near Gore Virginia Back Creek. Water tests by York Pennsylvania firm determine needed filtration plant and operation timing. a filter was reportedly ready in Winchester but weather dependent. The company appealed a November guilty finding. attorney T Russell Cather secured a continuance as remediation efforts proceed.
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Virginia Glass Sand Company
Back Creek
York
Winchester
Sand Company
State Game and Inland Fisheries Commission
A. J. Tavenner
T. Russell Cather
Frederick
Cather
Turkeys and Chickens Theme for Frederick Poultry Institute
C W Wampler of Rockingham county, a noted turkey producer, will speak at 10 oclock tomorrow at the first annual Frederick county poultry institute in the courthouse. The forenoon focuses on chickens with Wampler the main address and the afternoon on turkeys. Luncheon will be served at noon by the Home Demonstration Clubs.
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C. W. Wampler
Rockingham County
Frederick County
Wampler
Saat Ieee Hoor
Hollis Shomo
Fireman Rouss Banquet to Name Toast Master
R. Gray Williams will serve as toast master at the Charley Rouss Fire Company annual banquet next Monday night February 12 Marvin D Weaver president announced It is the first time Williams has acted as toast master in years Senator H F Byrd will give the principal address Former State Senator Holman Willis and Major A Willis Robertson will participate The event draws about 350 members with two seated dinners at 6 00 and 5 30 PM and entertainment features the Sra
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Charley Rouss Fire Company
Marvin D Weaver
Mr. Williams
Charley Rouss
H. F. Byrd
Holman Willis
Roanoke
A. Willis Robertson
Congress
Sra
Livingston Dog Pound Plan Wins City Council Attention
In Livingston Montana on February 6 dog catcher John Vaught won council interest for a new dog pound. He said attempts to house dogs in the city jail failed as they crawled out through cracks.
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Livingston
Mont
John Vaught
Dr Melton to Speak at Rotarian Group Meet
Dr Sparks W Melton of Norfolk pastor of Freemason Street Baptist Church will deliver the principal address at a Rotarian gathering from Front Royal Strasburg Woodstock and Mt Jackson with Winchester as host Thursday night at the George Washington Hotel. D J Howard arranged the program featuring Jack Sperry Lucy Spiker and The Chanters Quartet with the annual ladies gram of the local club.
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Norfolk
Freemason Street Baptist Church
Front Royal
Strasburg
Woodstock
Mt. Jackson
Winchester Club
George Washington Hotel
D. J. Howard
Jack Sperry
Lucy Spiker
Chanters
Seek Man In Check Case
Police say they have given up hope of arresting a man who tried to open an 840 check account at a local bank with a worthless check. The suspect is identified as John Gil more alias Pat E Murphy 5S L Murray and John Haggerty, 59, 5 feet 4 3/4 inches tall, blue eyes gray hair. Since June 1921 he has appeared in 14 warnings by the American Bankers Association for opening accounts with worthless checks. No funds were advanced on the deposited check at the Commercial and Savings.
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John Gilmore
Pat E. Murphy
L. Murray
John Haggerty
American Bankers Association
Commercial and Savings
Movement to draft Roosevelt third term gains steam in five states
Washington reports a push to nominate Roosevelt at the 1940 Democratic National Convention with about 228 delegates from Virginia Georgia Ohio Pennsylvania and Illinois. The effort involves party machines in Illinois and Pennsylvania and may spark controversy in Ohio Georgia and Virginia. Senator Glass released letters indicating Governor Price was not irate at the idea of excluding him and questioned the move as asinine.
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Roosevelt
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Glass
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Joseph Leib
Friends of Price
Vic
Richmond
Hutchinson
Price
Aiea Jourcey
Movement proceeds without the president's apparent consent
The strategy triggers fire works in Virginia and Georgia as the movement advances. Last week The United States News exposed the plan in its weekly magazine.
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Virginia
Georgia
United States News
Truckman Meets Up With Nemesis
Winchester Ky February 6 The driver William Snapp 28 has had two truck accidents in nine years on the road. Three years ago his truck crashed into one end of a bridge over Muddy Creek and yesterday the vehicle struck the opposite end in a related collapse.
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Winchester
William Snapp
Muddy Creek
Planes for Finns shipment through France
Paris February 6 Italian made airplanes for the Finnish army were reported to be on the way in a shipment through France totaling about 50 carloads. Sources close to the government disclosed the information.
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Paris
France
Eleven Detro it FBI arrests for Spanish Republic army recruitment
FBI agents arrested eleven people in Detroit and one in Milwaukee on charges of recruiting soldiers in 1937 and 1938 for the Spanish Republican army.
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Detroit
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Milwaukee
Friendship To Hold Service For Fire Company_MEMORIAL
The Friendship Fire Company will hold an annual sermon and memorial at the Church of Christ on Cork Street Sunday at 7 30. Rev Charlies Hume Funk will deliver the sermon with Rev W L Dudley also participating. Ten members died last year including Marshall Baker Clarence Bush and more. public invited.
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W. L. Dudley
Serce
Friendship Company
Marshall Baker
Clarence Bush
Clarence Carr
E. A. Crowl
Samuel Atwell
W.f. Poston
J. William Stryker
E. N. Hardy
Will Conner
D. W. Breckenridge
By-Pass Bill To Affect Halifax Only
Richmond Va Feb 6 Senator William M Tuck of Halifax said a by pass bill he introduced to let the State Highway Commission build bypass roads around towns has been amended to apply to Halifax. He said the change was requested by Halifax citizens troubled by constant truck noise.
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Richmond
William M. Tuck
Halifax
Senate
State Highway Commission
Tuck
Fox scalp bounty proposal and a memory-filled winter note
Ellis Bayliss proposes a federal fox bounty to curb the pest across states, avoiding bootlegging of scalps and unifying enforcement. Mayor Fred Larrick reports a reliable school bus route through severe weather. Herbert Whiting recalls a lost pipe at the Willard Hotel, later recovered after two years.
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Fred Larrick
Middletown
Berryville
Herbert Whiting
Washington
Willard Hotel
General Assembly uses rare discharge motion in road league probe
In Richmond on February 6 the Virginia House of Delegates used a seldom seen tactic to discharge a committee head and bring to the floor a measure to appoint a House committee to probe sources of revenue for the Citizens' Road League of Virginia. Debates warned the move could set a dangerous precedent and accused allies of the Road League of attempting to influence a constitutional amendment on road fund diversions.
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House of Delegates
Hun Francis Pickens Miller
House
Citizens’ Road League of Virginia
House Roads Committee
di Miller
Fairfax
Resulu
Miller
Road League
Virginia
German government rejects mediation in Russian Finnish conflict
Berlin authoritative reports say Germany sees no basis for mediation in the Russo Finnish dispute after Reich envoys to Moscow and Helsinki delivered personal reports to Berlin on February 6.
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Berlin
Moscow
Helsinki
Death For Leaks Legislation Under Consideration
Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons that a bill imposing penalties for disclosing information to the enemy is under active consideration. The statement frames potential maximum penalties for leaks linked to national security.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Locked In Battle in Kwangsi Province
Japanese invasion forces clash with Chinese troops in Kwangsi province in a fierce battle. Report describes ongoing fighting and high tensions as both sides contend for control amid the campaign in China.
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Hongkong
China
Kwangsi
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