Oakes Tops Kiwanis Attendance Records With 12 Years
At a Kiwanis meeting J C Oakes and nine members received gold tabs for perfect attendance. Oakes holds a 12 year record, surpassing all others. Other honorees include R E Buncutter and E B Cooper with 5 years, L I Miller 4, W Alan Peery 2, and B P Bean Sam Brooks Garland Canter Clark Smith 1 year. Captain W M Bott urged campaign funding, six new Kiwanis signs planned, and Andrew Bell named chair of the Business Standards committee. A NBC program on January 22 marks Kiwanis International's 25th anniversary with speaker Bennett O Knudson.
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Kiwanis Club
J.C. Oakes
Mr. Oakes
R. E. Buncutter
E. B. Cooper
Andrew Bell
L. I. Miller
W. Alan Peery
B. P. Bean
Sam Brooks
Garland Canter
Clark Smith
W. M. Bott
Salvation Army
Loudoun Street
Berryville
Front Royal-Millwood
Star
Ansel Groves
Charlottesville
Capital District
Herbert Platt
Cumberland
John Albans
Washington
G. O. Farley
Staunton
George C. Hearing, Jr
Wilmington
Joe Cox
Seaford
Del
Milton B. Whiting
Clifton Forge
Kiwanis International
NBC
WMAL
Bennett O. Knudson
Miss Minnette Kennerly 85 Dies After Five Years of Invalidism
Miss Minnette Kennerly 85 of Middletown Virginia dies at 6 p.m. after five years of invalidism. She was the daughter of the late William Co. and Margaret S. Withers and survived by a niece Maude L. Blackwell and two great nephews Lewis and James Kennerly of Alabama. Funeral services at 11 a.m. tomorrow at White Post Episcopal Church with Rev. Ronald Rowland officiating. Burial in White Post.
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Middletown
Minnette Kennerly
Kline
William Co
Margaret S. Withers
Clarke
Fauquier
Maude L. Blackwell
Lewis and
James Kennerly
Alabama
Netherlander Executed for Espionage at Dawn
Wilhelm Zaalberg Van Zelst, a 26 year old Dutch national, was executed by firing squad at dawn in Châlons-sur-Marne France for espionage on January 18.
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Chalons - Sur - Marne
France
Wilhelm Zaalberg van Zelst
Grangers Install Officers in Middletown and Nearby Granges
Ceremonies held Monday with over 100 present to install officers of White Hall Middletown and Saumsville Granges after weather delays. Great Falls team led the exercises with a tableau on ideal farm life. Malcolm Brumback won a state prize in highway essays, receiving a medal and $10.
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Middletown
Prsons
White Hall
Saumsville
Great Falls
Fairfax County
Ssone Grange
O. V. Carper
Mark Turner
Elizabeth G Carper
McLean
State Grange
Carper
Colleen Bageant
Opal Tusing
J. Marvin Sanders
Vienna
Virginia State Grange
Fairfax
National Grange
E. M. Fulck
Middletown Grange
Defense League Urged in Sweden to Strengthen Nordic Forces
Sweden's Socialist leader Frederik Strom urged forming a northern defense league as Russia FInland war loomed and urged Scandinavia military collaboration. Former foreign minister Richard Sandler pressed for the policy in the Riksdag amid budget debates. Strom warned Finland might have avoided war with earlier regional unity and called for rapid buildup of armed forces.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Frederik Strom
Richard Sandler
Riksdag
Sandler
Strom
Finland
Snowbirds Hold Front in Russia Amid Finnish Cold War
Finnish forces hold a front 5 to 10 miles inside Soviet Russia east of Lieksa guarding two highways. I accompanied a patrol in subzero temperatures as Red Army chatter echoed from Salla fronts and Finnish troops used dugouts, camouflaged tents, and towed sleds under a biting wind.
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Russia
Lieksa
Finland
Soviet Russia
Salla
Red Army
Hawkins
Tuulijarvi
Lotta Svard
Finnish Women’s Auxiliary Corps
Market Quotations from Baltimore and Chicago Livestock Prices
Baltimore reports moderate markets for chickens ducks turkeys and geese with cattle calves hogs and sheep listed by weight. Chicago notes hogs unable to hold early gains while cattle and fat lambs move higher and packing sows and veal show mixed shifts, with receipts limited and weather impacting demand.
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Baltimore
Looltr
Kent Island
U. S. Dept
Chicago Livestock Chicago
U. S
Montana
Stock Market Report Rebounds After Late Gains In New York
New York traders faced early pressure as steel shares weighed on the market A late hour turnaround trimmed losses with modest gains. About 650000 shares changed hands as investors weighed diverse securities led by Alcoa Am Can Am Rad Am Roll Mill Am Smel Am Tel and Tel Am Tob B Beth Steel C and O Chrysler Con Edison Corn Products Dupont Gen Elec Gen Foods Gen Mills Gen Motors Intl Harvest Johns Manville Kennecott Mont Ward N Y Central Owens Illinois Glass Packard Penn R R.
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New York
al. Chem
al. Chem. 173, Am. Can 114 1-2. Am. Rad
Roll Mill
Am. Smel
Am. Tel
Tel
Am. Tob. B
Anaconda
Beth. Steel
Chrysler
Con. Edison
Corn Products
Dupont de N
Gen. Elec
Gen. Foods
Gen. Mills
Gen. Motors
Int. Harvest
Johns-Manville
Kennecott
Mont-Ward
N. Y. Central
Owens Ill. Glass
Packard Motor
Penny (Jc
Penn. R. R
Doan's Pills Claim Kidney and Back Pain Relief
The text promotes Doan's pills as a treatment for backache and leg pain linked to kidney issues. It emphasizes kidneys as the body’s waste organ and claims Doan's will flush out poisonous waste and reduce swelling and eye tenderness. The ad targets readers with urinary or bladder concerns and urges use for relief.
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Ppm
Grain futures rise as cold boosts demand in Chicago market
Wheat gains led by a cold wave with prices higher across wheat rye corn and oats. Reports of zero temperatures predicted in the southwestern winter wheat belt spurred buying while corn and oats feed use rose. Closing quotes show May wheat at 1.02 1 8, corn around 58 5 8, oats near 39 5 8, rye up to 72. Prices also listed for soybeans lard bells and cash grain outcomes in Chicago and Baltimore markets.
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Chicago
Oklahoma
Panhandle
Northwest
Baltimore Grain
Baltimore
Winchester
Denies Being A Congress Snooper
Syracuse N Y Jan 18 William M Coyne a New York information service representative of the Works Projects Administration denied today a congressmans allegation that he engaged in WPA snooping on congressmen Coyne named in Washington by Wolcott R Mich yesterday as the writer of a report on Rep Taber R NY he said he made the report at the request of Willis D George an investigator for House appropriations committee
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Syracuse
N. Y
William M. Coyne
New York Information Service
Works Projects Administration
Coyne
Washington
Wolcott
R-Mich
Rep. Taber
Willis D. George
House Appropriations
Illinois delegates back Roosevelt at convention
Mayor Edward J. Kelly said after a White House visit that the Illinois delegation will back Roosevelt whether he wants it or not. Illinois will have eight votes at the Democratic National Convention and the delegates will be chosen in April.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Edward J. Kelly
Chicago
White House
Illinois
Finance Minister Shot in Baghdad Attack
In Baghdad on January 18 the Iraqi Finance Minister Sayid Rustam Haidar was shot and seriously wounded by an assassin identified as a former police inspector. Haidar was harmed and the assailant was arrested.
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Baghdad
Iraq
Sayid Rustam Haidar
Haidar
Col Rogers Succeeds Whitside as Remount Depot Commander
Major P B Rogers, Texas native, takes command at Front Royal Remount Depot succeeding Col Warren W Whitside who retired. Rogers rose from World War I service in the 36th Division to Fort Benning and Fort Riley, with posts in the Philippines and Cavalry School. He and his family, including daughters Hattie Lou and Blair Louise, rode to the depot from Washington to assume duties.
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P.B. Rogers
Texas
Front Royal
Warren W. Whitside
Rogers
National Guard
Fort Benning
Infantry
Fort Riley
Kansas
Philippines
Com
Manding
Fort Leavenworth
Cavalry School
Port Riley
Army College
Army War College
Washington
D C
Preat Royal
Hattie Lou
Vassar College
Blair Louise
Major Rogers
Lady Astor Seeks Barley Rationing for Hungry Folk
In Parliament Lady Astor urged rationing barley supplies for brewers due to a shortage while Food Minister Morrison said the issue was under discussion. Prime Minister Chamberlain gave no reply, prompting a pointed question about prioritizing food over drink.
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London
Lady Astor
House of Commons
Morrison
Chamberlain
Vinson proposes $500 million cut to navy expansion plan
Chairman Vinson of the House naval committee outlines a revised fleet expansion that trims the program by 500 million dollars and reduces total tonnage from 400000 to 218000 while keeping three aircraft carriers and leaving ship numbers to Navy discretion within the authorized tonnage. He argues the approach allows all feasible naval building and cites the need for larger cruisers amid Germany's pocket battleships.
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Washington
Vinson
D-Ga
House Naval Committee
Navy
Germany
Divorce Action Filed in Winchester Court Deserts on Defendant
In the Clerk's Office of the Corporation Court of Winchester on January 17 1940 Kissing Tredway plaintiff vs Henry Robert Tredway defendant seeks a divorce a vinculo matrimonii on grounds of desertion more than two years. Defendant not a resident of Virginia ordered to appear within ten days after publication and to protect his interest. Notice to be published weekly for four weeks in Winchester Evening Star and posted at courthouse by February 5 1940. Teste Corinne Barnett Deputy Clerk.
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Corporation Court
City OF
Winchester
Kissing Tredway
Henry Robert Tredway
Virginia
Corinne Barnett
Ethel Irwin Lineweaver
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Oakes
Miss Kennerly
Potomac By-Products Co
Harpers Ferry, W. Va
Grangers
Malcolm Brumback
Defense League
Chapman
Wied
Chapman Motor CO
Plymouth
S. Loudoun St
Thomas F. Hawkins
Hudson
Shenandoah Motor Co., Inc
Stock Market Report
Chicago Cash Grain
Cash
Congress
Buncutter Tire CO
Rin Als
Col. Whitside
Remount Depot
Maj
Aden
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Firestone Auto Supply & Service
N. Loudoun St
Zenith
Miles Music
Loudoun St
RDS
Pine Motor CO
South Braddock & Cecil Sts
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