Social Calendar Highlights Evening Meetings and Choir Practices
The list covers weekly events at local venues. Wing chapters and groups meet at United Brethren Church, Grace Lutheran, and Braddock Street M E Church South for choir rehearsals and gatherings. Ex service men hear Wright Patman at George Washington Hotel. Various clubs host luncheons lectures and dance classes across Winchester and Front Royal.
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Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church
South
George Washington Hotel
Wright Patman
Texas
Director General Richards Returns From Trip
Ninth Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival director general Mr. Nelson F. Richards wrapped up a motor tour to Clarksburg West Virginia and Lexington Kentucky meet civic and business leaders about the 1932 fete. In Clarksburg Blue and Gray Transportation officials pledged cooperation and an ad campaign in the Saturday Evening Post and Travelers Magazine. Lexington hosts noted Kentuckians planning to visit Love for the festival.
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Nelson F. Richards
Clarksburg
W. Va
Lexington
Blue and Gray Transportation Company
Richards
Saturday Evening Post
Traveler’s Magazine
No Tidings From British U-Boat With 6 Aboard
A British Navy search continues for the submarine M-2 believed crippled in the English Channel with 56 aboard. A last message reported preparing to begin exercises at 10.01 am yesterday. four destroyers joined the hunt after it failed to return.
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Associated Press
Portland
Eng
English Channel
Start Point
Devonshire
Naval Commander In Chief
Portsmouth
Optimism in Stock Market Hurts On Steel News
The New York market fell after United States Steel cut its dividend causing a broad selloff. Leading industrials dropped four points and many issues declined one to three points amid steady foreign exchange and tight call money at 2.5 percent.
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New York
United States
New White Way Lights Turn On Along Rouss Avenue
Lights on the new white way extension along Rouss avenue between Loudoun and Cameron streets were turned on last night for the first time. The Common Council ordered the work and last year’s budget funded the extension and connection to the general white way system.
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Rouss Avenue
Loudoun
Cameron Streets
Common Council
Sugar in Daily Food and Local Society Notes
Refined sugar supplies about one fifth of the average American's daily food according to bacteriologists. Local social items mention Judge and Mrs. T. W. Harrison returning from Richmond. Mrs. William Beverley and daughters visiting Richmond. Winchester Historical Society set to meet January 28 at Handley Library. Rev Dr L A Thomas and Mr C K Over traveling to Roanoke as Grace Lutheran delegates. Mr Cecil W. O Rear Jr and Burr Fletcher visiting Washington. Payne family returning to Charleston after ten days with Mr and Mrs W N Page. Mrs Gardner Brown returning from New York. H B McCormac hosting a luncheon on Handley Boulevard January 30 with many society women invited.
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Josephine Dame
Christchurch
Middlesex County
Robert M. Ward
South Washington Street
Dame
William Page
Richmond
T. W. Harrison
Washington Street
William H. Sitterding
The
Winchester Historical Society
Handley Library
Society
L. A. Thomas
C. K. Over
Roanoke
Grace Lutheran Church
Virginia Synod
H. B. McCormac
Handley Boulevard
Indictments Return in Hawaii Killing Case
A Honolulu grand jury returns second degree murder indictments against Mrs. Granville Fortescue and three naval men for the slaying of Joseph Kahahawai. Lieut. Thomas H. Massie and E. J. Lord and Albert O. Jones held at Pearl Harbor without bail as defense seeks to quash alleging coercion and jury pressure.
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Associated Press
Honolulu
Granville Fortescue
Joseph Kahahawai
Montgomery Winn
Thomas H. Massie
Pearl Harbor Naval Base
Cristy
Chinese yield to Japanese demands amid Shanghai tension
The dispatch notes Japan giving China until 5 a.m. Washington time to halt the boycott of Japanese goods as the Sino Japanese situation draws concern in Washington. Britain weighs the Shanghai crisis after talks between Secretary of State Stimson and Ambassador Lindsay with officials signaling cautious handling.
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Pace
Japan
Washington
London
Shanghai
Stimson
Peareeeeee Lindsay
Washingon
Great Britain
Ambassador Lindsay
Banquet Honors McManus on 20th Anniversary of Jiggs and Maggie
In Washington more than 300 people including senators representatives cabinet members and businessmen gathered to honor George McManus creator of Bringing Up Father on the twentieth anniversary of Jiggs and Maggie. A photo shows McManus broadcasting the anniversary program.
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Washington
George McManus
Maggie
McManus
Briefly Told Serious Incident Times End Lifes Aspirations
A terse account notes a grave incident affecting hopes and futures. Authorities investigate the event's circumstances as witnesses describe the moment and its impact on those involved.
Bank Deletion of Panama Report Sparks Senate Inquiry
Herbert D. Brown testified the National City Bank altered and deleted critical parts of a Panama finances report before submitting it as from the bank. He said the bank modified key findings and removed phrases asserting Panama's finances were in a critical condition.
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Associated Press
Washington
Herbert D. Brown
Federal Bureau of Efficiency
Senate
National City Bank
Panama
Brown
Senate Finance Committee
George E. Roberts
Panamian
Roberts
Banker's Son Held By Thugs For Five Owed Ransom
Howard Woolverton a 32 year old South Bend manufacturer and son of a bank president was kidnapped on his way home from a theatre and held for a $50 000 ransom. His wife Mrs Florence Woolverton 49 was abducted with him and later released two miles from the city after receiving a note directing the ransom delivery. She identified one kidnapper as a well dressed man aged 30 to 36.
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Associated Press
South Bend
Ind
Howard Woolverton
South Bend Bank
Florence Woolverton
Bank Robbers Suspected as Gypsy Group After Chestertown Heists
Salisbury police reported four Gypsy women and one man robbed two Chestertown branches in Betterton, totaling 170 dollars, then fled toward Easton after a breakfast gathering. Authorities found no immediate arrests and tied the group to the earlier bank robberies.
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Associated Press
Salisbury
Chestertown
Betterton
Easton
Peoples Bank of Chestertown
Chestertown Bank of Maryland
Hereford chained library reopened after restoration
Hereford cathedral bids back a historic chained library as 1500 volumes are re shown on secured shelves. The ancient collection reflects days when books were costly and readers faced strict controls. England hosts several chained libraries but Hereford remains among the largest.
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England
Hereford Cathedral
Hereford
Islands Formation The Bermudas
The Bermudas are chiefly aeolian limestone built from blown shell dust with irregular stratification. Reefs appear as limestone ridges coated with thin calcareous layers. Atolls show serpulae vermetus tubes, barnacles mussels and corallines. They likely rest on seollan rock foundations.
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Bermudas
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White Hall School House
Lodge
Virginia Hancher
Elizabeth Farrar
Paderewski
Kathleen McCartney
Mabel Massie
Stephens City
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American Red Cross
Herbert Hoover
Ladies Aid Society of
Gore
Patriotic Order Sons of America
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L. R. Smith
Clifford Street
Memorial Hospital
First Baptist Church
Robert L. Burwell
Peyton J. Marshall
South Stewart Street
Annapolis, Md
Little Theatre
Young People's Choir of
United Brethren Church
Raymond J. Funkhouser
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J. Henkel Henry
H. Clay DeGrange
Manheim
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Pittsburgh, Pa
Carroll Todd
Caroline Hunter
Gray Gables
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Martinsburg
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George Geddy
Westhampton
Belle Cameron
Clarke County
Grayson Dashiell
McKinley Chapter
Order of the Eastern Star
Harrisonburg
Rotary Club
Girls’ Athletic Association
Nancy Carroll
Palace Theatre
Ladies’ Aid Society of
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Order of Eastern Star
Front Royal
Relva Martin Goad
American Legion Post
Choral Society
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Young People’s Choir
Braddock St. M. E Church
Trip
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William B. Streett
Streett
Lettice Lee Coulling
Clifton
Lewis M. Allen
Llangollen
John Hay Whitney
Middleburg
Tripe A’s
C’s
Huntsberry
William Beverley
Elizabeth
Judy Beverley
Frank Christian
Park Avenue
Cecil W. O’rear, Jr
Burr Fletcher
Honor Jiggs
Parker
Herbert Brown
George Roberts
Moira Jem Stewart
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RM. Swimley
Buncutter Tire Coomplete Vulcanizing Service
Islands’ Formation
Merbert
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H. ©. Sheetz
John I. Sloat
Fred A. Crisman
Harold R. Edwards
Chas. R. Anderson
Fred
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Philip Klompus
H. 8
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J. Henry Moling, Sr
J. A. Richard
John W. Rosenberger
H. C. Sheets
R. Bruce Slonaker
Commercial & Savings Bank
National Credit Corporation No. 1
Federal Reserve District
Bell Clothes Shop
Winchester
Teh
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Coats
Kauffman’s
Loudoun St
R. T. Jones & CO
Webster's
Lve Zic
C. W. Ramsburg Grocery
Roland C. Ryan
Mar
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