Middletown Postpones Action On Annexation Proposal
Middletown Virginia council postponed definite action on extending town limits, tabling the annexation proposal as members said the town has sufficient responsibilities. The council sent letters to State Senator Burr Harrison and Delegate E Blackburn Moore endorsing two General Assembly bills for state aid on road machinery and sidewalk construction. The group noted over $500 in treasury and paid delinquent taxes. Mayor Fred L Larrick attended the session despite illness.
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Middletown
Burr P. Harrison
E. Blackburn Moore
General Assembly
Senate
Stateway Department
Church Street
Reliance Road
Fred L. Larrick
Church to Host Andrew Dobson Program of Negro Spirituals
Rev R L Butts of St Paul M B Church announces a city visit by Andrew Dobson known as Old Uncle Joe. The program will feature Negro spirituals and poetry at the church.
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R. L. Butts
St. Paul
Jones Funeral Home Aims for Complete Modern Service
Jones Funeral Home emphasizes keeping services and facilities current and complete at all times. Their policy earns trust and gratitude from families during times of need.
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Jones Futheral
Pelley Declares Clean Bill of Health for Dies
William Dudley Pelley, leader of the Silver Shirt Legion, meets the Dies committee and says he offers an absolutely clean bill of health for Martin Dies. He claims letters linking Dies to him are forgeries and testifies before a rules subcommittee considering expunging the letters from the House record.
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Washington
William Dudley Pelley
Silver Shirt Legion
Dies
Rep
D-Tex
Asheville
N. C
Robert Stripling
Bene Dies
Legion
Pelley
Martin Dies
House
Hook
D-Mich
Peace Proposal Hinted By German Plan As War Ends
Oslo reports rumor of a German peace bid based on a six point plan crafted by a Goering committee and approved by Hitler. Proposals include reparations avoidance, immediate solving of economic issues, retention of the Sudeten region, German pre Versailles borders with Poland, a plebiscite in Austria under allied control, and a joint commission to redraw Czech Polish and Slovak states.
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Oslo
Stockholm
Poland
Austria
Germany
Japanese Press Freedom Criticized in Parliament
In Tokyo on February 6 critics in both houses attacked government control of the press and secrecy on political aims. Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai expressed agreement with the critics in the House of Peers and said relaxation would be attempted.
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Tokyo
House of Peers
Mitsumasa Yonai
Judge Testifies Before Himself in Jury List Case
In Salt Lake City on February 6 Judge Oscar W. McConkie testified before the court regarding jury service of Negroes. He then resumed his post as judge and denied a motion to quash the jury list, noting the alleged Negroes had been excluded in prior terms.
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Salt Lake City
Oscar W. McConkie
How To Go To Sleep And Health Notes
Fragmentary text discusses sleep, eye closure, bladder irregularity, and a kidney evacuant. It mentions Baker's Drug Store and an advertisement for a kidney evacuant product. Likely a health advice or ad clipping with vague references to sleep and urinary concerns.
Irish Suspected In Bombing Wave
London reports a new IRA bombing wave targeting England as Ireland seeks reprieves for two men scheduled to hang in Birmingham for a Coventry bombing that killed five. Explosions at Euston station, Birmingham post office, and Manchester post office injured several. Dublin authorities press parliament for clemency.
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London
Irish Republican Army
England
Ireland
Birmingham
Euston
Birmingham General Post Office
Manchester
John Dulanty
Chamberlain
Peter Barnes
James Richards
Coventry
West Virginia Orchardists Meet Tomorrow in Martinsburg
Members of the West Virginia Horticultural Society plan their annual convention in Martinsburg on February 7 with orchardists from Frederick County attending. Frederick county orchardist and society president Phil H. Gold urges attendance for Dr. Beach of Ohio University who will speak at 2 45 p m on Streamlining Our Orchards offering practical and constructive information for orchard executives.
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West Virginia Horticultural Society
Martinsburg
W. Va
Frederick County
Phil H. Gold
Horticultural Society
Dr. Beach
Ohio University
Prayer Day in Winchester Promotes World Peace Theme
People of Winchester are reminded of the World Day of Prayer service at 3 30 PM Friday in the First Baptist Church. Miss Branch Sidnor White of appears as speaker. The event is sponsored by the Federated Council of Church Women and aims to offer 24 hours of peace in a distressed world under the theme In Quietness and in Confidence Shall Be Your Strength.
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Winchester
First Baptist Church
Branch Sidnor White
Federated Council of Church Women
Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism
The program is run by the Poor Richard Club in Philadelphia. Endowed by Michael G Price in memory of his son, Charles Morris Price, a club member, it offers evening classes to both men and women.
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Poor Richard
Philadelphia
Michael G.price
Charles Morris Price
Market Quotations in Livestock and Produce Prices
U. S. Department of Agriculture market report from Baltimore and Chicago dated February 6 shows cattle cows calves hogs and sheep trading at steady to mixed prices. Cattle and calves weaker to steady. hogs 4.50 to 6.20. sheep and lambs 4.75 to 9.50 with best lambs around 9.35.
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Baltim
Baltimore
U. S
Chicago Livestock Chicago
Mandy Marketg
U. S. Dept
Local Markets: Daily Corrections Note
The Star notes markets are updated daily and disclaims responsibility for typographical errors that may occur in the listing.
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The
Star
Local Wholesale Market Flour Prices and Poultry Mix
Fragmentary list shows prices for flour and assorted poultry feed items. Entries include Bran, Oats, Old Roosters, Young Guinea and Rocks chickens, Leghorn fowl, with scattered prices such as 1.50 and 0.08, indicating a rough market snapshot.
Stock Market Report New York February rally lifts many steels
Stock market traders bid up recently idle steels and pushed favorites higher with gains around 2 points at best. Midday rally broadened deal activity to about 550000 shares as select issues rose in virtually all groups before a slower final hour.
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New York
Grain futures and cash grain quotations strong Chicago
Wheat futures eased then rose, with May at 9 82 53 and July 9 79 6. Cash grain shows no sales for wheat and mixed grades for corn oats and barley with field seed Timothy noted.
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Chicago
Sahanes
Grain price report and crop quotes from Baltimore markets
Baltimore markets show wheat No 2 red winter at 1.05 per bushel and corn at 65 cents. Prices reflect mill deliveries with year ago figures wheat 75 and corn 55. Claimed quotes list Sweet Clover Red Clover Top Alfalfa prices in various ranges.
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Baltimore
Winchester
Senate bills for probation parole and corrections study
Richmond Va Feb 6 Two Senate jail bills to set up probation and parole and to create a division of corrections were referred by the Senate Finance Committee to a subcommittee for cost study. Chairman Aubrey G Weaver named Senators Norris Parker and Glass Jr to the panel.
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Richmond
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Aubrey G. Weaver
Warren
Robert O. Norris, Jr
Lancaster
Robert R. Parker
Wise
Carter Glass, Jr
Lynchburg
Ash Wednesday Services At Lutheran Church Of Our Saviour
Tomorrow morning at 10 oclock worshippers attend the Lutheran Church Of Our Saviour for Ash Wednesday services led by Pastor Rev C Worthington Lowe. An 8 oclock prayer service follows with a choir rehearsal scheduled afterward.
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Lutheran Church of Our Saviour
C. Worthington Lowe
A. F. L. Announces Nation-Wide Organizing Drive
In Miami on February 6 William Green president of the American Federation of Labor announced a plan to organize the unorganized across fields that have resisted unionization. The drive will target the Far West and the South with an estimate of 500 000 new members by October, bringing total AFL membership to over 4 500 000.
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Miami
Pia
American Federation of Labor
William Green
South
Writ Granted for Culpeper Grand Larceny Convict
Richmond Va February 6 The Supreme Court of Appeals granted a writ of error to W L Wingfield of Culpeper county who was convicted of grand larceny by Rockingham County Circuit Court and sentenced to a year in prison The court also granted an appeal for W S McDaniel from a Orange County Circuit Court chancery decree
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Richmond
Supreme Court of Appeals
W. L. Wingfield
Culpeper County
Rockingham County
W. S. McDaniel
Circuit Court of Orange
Eighty six Tennessee veterans move to Murfreesboro facility
Roanoke, Va. Feb 6 Eighty six disabled World War veterans from Tennessee many who earned the Purple Heart are traveling by train from the Roanoke facility to the new U.S. Veterans Facility at Murfreesboro Tennessee.
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Roanoke
Tennessee
U.S. Veterans
Murfreesboro
Tenn
UVA Romatic Languages Head Dr Richard H Wilson to Retire
Dr Richard H Wilson head of the University of Virginia Romanic language department will retire at the end of the 1940 session. Retirement confirmed by President John L Newcomb's office in Charlottesville Virginia.
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Charlottesville
Richard H. Wilson
University of Virginia
John L. Newcomb
University
Finnish defense halts Russian assault on Karelia isthmus
Finnish daily communique reports Red Army with artillery and over 100 tanks pushing along the Karelia isthmus between Hattalahdenjarvi and Summa but being repelled by Finnish forces. The battle continued from morning until midnight.
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Hell
Red Army
Karelia
Hattalahdenjarvi
Summa
Reform Service on Ash Wednesday at Centenary Reformed Church
Ash Wednesday services will be held tomorrow evening at 5 45 oclock in the Centenary Reformed Church with the pastor, the Rev. Dr. J. L. Plickinger, in the pulpit.
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Centenary Reformed
8. L. Plickinger
Helsinki Firm Still Open and Finland’s Resolve
A December 30 letter from Leonhard & Johansson Co in Helsinki states the office remains open and payments can be mailed as before. It praises Finnish defense after four weeks of battles, warns of Bolshevik threats to the West, and urges Western support, noting a Helsinki radio broadcast at 22.25 Finnish time.
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Helsinki
Leonhard & Johansson Co
Winchester
Finland
Scandinavia
Helsinki Radio
Stickley Reaches Ninety Feet in Community Well
Strasburg well driller Fred F. Stickley reports drilling 90 feet at the northeast end of Stephens City Virginia and obtaining a 20 gallon per minute flow. Mayor Lomax Parker says full 300 feet may be needed. contract terms kept private until completion.
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Stephens City
Fred F. Stickley
Strasburg
Lomax Parker
Stickley
Council May Convene Tonight Despite Officers Absent
Indications point to a common council meeting tonight though President Dr. C. R. Anderson is ill and Vice-President Herman Hable is away in Florida. Clerk Frank Krebs expected to call the session with a temporary chairman named. Anderson shows improvement but remains weak and confined to his room for now.
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Common Council
C. R. Anderson
Herman Hable
Florida
Frank Krebs
Anderson
Police Court Punishments Set for Reckless Driving
Howard Scruggs of 688 North Market Street faces reckless driving charges with $10 and costs plus a no operator's permit $5 and costs. Charles E. Showalter of 516 South Loudoun is fined $14 for speeding.
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Howard Scruggs
North Market Street
Charles E. Showalter
South Loudoun
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Charles Morris Price School
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