Martinsburg area social events and notable local notices
The column lists a week of club meetings and social events in Martinsburg including the Soo ee-Dons YS class, South End Hose Company, American Legion Auxiliary, Kiwanis luncheon at George Washington Hotel, and choir activities at United Brethren and Grace Lutheran. It also notes personal items: Sylvia Graham Myers and Lloyd Curtis Blose announce their marriage, plus updates on local residents Crisman Funkhouser Smellie and others with travel, hospital, and meeting plans.
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Kiwanis Club
George Washington Hotel
The
United Brethren Church
Grace Lutheran Church
Rotary Club
Stafford Pearton
American Legion Post
Geo. Washington
Young People’s Choir
Market Street
M. E. Church
Fourth Cooking Lesson On At Northern Virginia Power Company
The fourth cooking lesson begins Monday at 2 PM in the home service hall sponsored by the Northern Virginia Power Company. Attendance has been strong and the course aids modern housekeepers with new cookery methods. The second class is Tuesday at 7 30 PM. Rev. Dr. James R. Graham Of China To Preach Tomorrow
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Home Service Department
Northern Virginia Power Company
Home Service Hall
South End Hose Company
American Legion Auxiliary
W. A. Baker
South Washington Street
Sons’ Club
George Washington Hotel
Home Service
Shenandoah
Martinsburg
J. R. Graham
James R. Graham
China
Frank T. McFaden
Braddock Street
Graham
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Hoover to push emergency and permanent banking revision
Washington reports Hoover reached agreement with Senate leaders to advance a combined banking revision and depositors aid bill. Glass and Walcott will guide the banking committee with Treasury and Fed experts while integrating the administration proposal for a separate emergency government corporation. New York plans discuss large corporations funding credits via promissory notes to back currency, boosting deposits and commodity prices.
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Washington
Hoover
Senate
Titanic Reconstruction Corporation
Glass
Democrat
Virginia
Walcott
Connecticut
Banking Committee
Treasury
Federal Reserve
Thomas
Idaho
Secretary of the Treasury
New York
Associated Press
Walter Axline Injured In Rail Car Accident
Walter Axline of Brunswick Michigan a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad lieutenant of police is in serious condition after a caboose wheel passed over his leg at Cherry Run West Virginia. His leg was crushed and amputated above the ankle and he suffers nervous shock and blood loss.
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Walter Axline
Brunswick
Mad
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Martinsburg
Axline
Winchester
Cherry Run
Weekend Visitors and Local Travels Reported
Mrs Beverley Rice and family from Washington plan a weekend visit with Mr and Mrs Louis Rice Sr on South Lee Street and with Mrs Emma Hollis on South Loudoun Street. R J Rea spends weekend in Mount Jackson and Staunton on business. Charles Martin of Roanoke visits for several days. Selene Calvert leaves for Hagerstown to stay with Miss Alice Himelright. Alice Hendon of Harper Shop heads to Front Royal to visit her brother Captain S Wilson. Mrs Robert T Barton returns to Washington Street after a Richmond visit with her son and daughter in law and attends the Woman's Church Institute. Phillip Fowle, prominent city lawyer, recently operated on at Memorial Hospital, is reported to be recovering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvia Graham Myers
Lloyd Curtis Blose
Weenage
William Graham Myers
Harrisonburg
Harrisonburg State Teachers
Herbert Smellie
Baltimore
University Hospital
Anna Smellie
J. W. Smellie
Genevieve Massie
Stephens City
Lester Branner
East Capitol Street
Washington
Miss Massie
Chevy Chase
Beverley Rice
Louis E. Rice, Sr
South Lee Street
Emma Hollis
South Loudoun Street
Alice Hendon
Harper Shop
Front Royal
Capt. S. Wilson
Robert T. Barton
Washington Street
Richmond
Robert T. Barton, Jr
Barton
Woman’s Church Institute
Phillip Fowle
Memorial Hospital
January term grand jury to hear record indictments in Frederick County
The Frederick County Circuit Court opens Monday with 31 indictments planned the largest ever as Commonwealth Attorney Burr P. Harrison prosecutes for the first time since January. Cases include chicken thefts liquor crimes and transport of liquor with upwards of a hundred witnesses expected. Judge Philip Williams may order a venire if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Commonwealth
Burr P. Harrison
Winchester
Harrison
Philip Williams
Circuit Court
T. Russell Cather
Williams
Transport Plane Overdue Sought Between Bakersfield and Los Angeles
A tri motor transport plane carrying three women and five men has been missing since 4 50 p m yesterday and is the subject of an intensive search in the desert and mountain country between Bakersfield and Los Angeles. The craft was due to arrive in Los Angeles from Bakersfield 150 miles to the north at 4 50 p m yesterday.
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Associatedress
Los Angeles
Calif
Bakers Field
Bakersfield
Chinese War Declared as Shanghai Turmoil Grows
Shanghai faces escalating violence as reports indicate China plans to declare war on Japan. Japanese forces fire on Chinese areas in the international settlement while mobs guard streets and a major power plant, with U.S. marines protecting key infrastructure.
Week long home demonstration and 4-H club meetings
A week program lists daily meetings for Greenwood Gore Russell Grove Star Tannery and Middletown 4-H clubs with demonstrations on packed school lunches sewing finishes for undergarments and clothing poultry and gardening projects. Public invites extended and leaders named.
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Greenwood
Better Foods
Central Home Demonstration Group
Burnt Church
Albin
Alfred Wright
Elizabeth Farrar
Russell Grove and
Star Tannery
Naomi Richard
John Himel- Fant
Middletown Home
Middletown High School
D.N. Grover
J. H. Fisher
Kernstown
W. S. Sargent
Ada Glass Baker
New York Stock Exchange Quotations Note
Quotations furnished by W. H. Hibbs and Company members of the New York Stock Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade Hibbs Building Washington DC Telephone National 0540
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Hibbs & Company
New York Stock Exchange
Chicago Board of Jade
Hibbs Building
Washington, DC
Telephone National
W. G. Ithe & Company
Chicago Board of Trade
Gibbs Building
Washington, D. C
NYSE session ends with mixed results on wary day
Stock market showed a split session with many issues falling on selling by long holders while several issues posted notable gains. The British pound held firm at 3 45 as quotes closed for Allied Chem Dye 67 American Can 59 14 Amer Tel Tel 1117s Amer Tobacco B 77 2 Anaconda Copper 10 Bethlehem Steel 16 Chrysler 13 Cont il Del 6 Gen Electric 19 4 Gen Motors 2044 Kennecott Copper 11 Lorillard 141 4 Mont Ward 82 National Biscuit 40 N & W R R no sales Packard 434 Stand Brands 125 4 Stand Oil N J 25 Texas Corp 11 U S Steel 37 Woolworth 4145.
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Allied Chem. & Dye
American Can
Amer. Tel. & Tel
Amer
Tobacco
Bethlehem Steel
Balto, & Ohio
Chrysler
Del
Gen’l. Electric
Gen’l. Motors
Kennecot Copper
Llorilard
Mont. Ward
Nat'l. Biscuit
Packard
Stand. Brands
Stand. Oil
N. J
Americans Evacuate Nanking Amid Rising China Tensions
American consular authorities order all citizens to be ready to evacuate Nanking within two hours. The U S government has one destroyer Simpson available for evacuation. Reports from Harbin indicate battle imminent south of the city as Japanese forces approach. In Paris Moutet questions France’s stance over what he calls bloody events in China leading toward war.
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Nanking
Washington
United States
Tokyo
Rengo
Harbin
Manchuria
Here
Ting Chao
Chinese Eastern Railway Guard
Kushstanetun
Paris
Marius Moutet
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
France
China
Chicago Grain Closing Prices Report
Chicago grain closing prices furnished by W G Ithe Company, NYSE and Chicago Board of Trade, Gibbs Building, Washington DC. Telephone National 0540.
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Chicago
Grain futures end mixed on Chicago Board of Trade
Late hour profit taking softened grains with the final quotes near fractions of a cent. Wheat May 58 1/2, July 89 1/4, September 60 1/4. Corn May 40, July 42 1/4, September 43 1/4. Oats May 25, July 26, September no sale. Rye May 46, July 47.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Also Mentioned on This Page
Soo Ee
Slersonal
Mr. Blose
Crisman
Hos
Philip H. Crisman
Funkhouser
Guy E. Funkhouser
Fairfax
Howard Kelley
Ladies Aid Society
Ladies’ Aid Society
Methodist Episcopal Church
South of Macedonia
Loring Wright
Little Theatre
Little Theatre Organization
Handley Library
Club
Justin Funkhouser
Hagerstown
Braddock Street Methodist Church
South
Fred L. Glaize, Jr
Roanoke
Charles Stedman
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Mae McCartney
Mary MacKenzie
B. B. Snarr
Piccadilly Street
Phyliss Palmer
Edinburg, Va
Mr. Burr P. Harrison
Mrs. Harrison
Century Club
Thomas W. Harrison
Joe Clements
Europe
John V. D. Tweedy
J. A. Baker
Stonewall Avenue
Biddle
A. C. Carson
Riverton
Hunter H. McGuire
Robert Y. Conrad
Mount Vernon Club
J. Wilmer Biddle
Philadelphia
Rappahannock County
Tunstall Smith
Preston
Woman’s Auxiliary
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Nurses
West Clifford Street
Tripe A’s
C’s
Huntsberry
R. J. Rea
Mount Jackson
Staunton
Charles Martin
Selene Calvert
Alice Himelright
San Diego
Hawaii
Manilla
Shanghai
Great Britain
Chapei
Edwin S. Cunningham
Japan
International Settlement
Hongkew
Shanghai Power Company
American Property
Whangpo
Stimson
William V. Pratt
State Department
Longs
Emory Dailey
Lester Dailey
Cross. Junction
Xsrav
R. M. Swimley
East of Geo. Washington Hotel
R. T. Jones & CO
Funsra
Typewriter & Adding Machine Service
Kenneth E. Henry & Co
Commercial & Savings
the Commercial & Savings Bark
National Credit Corporation No. 1
Federal Reserve District
Pri
Kauffman’s TO Wear Shop
N. Loudoun St
Maine
Hershey's
Bis. Co
New Orleans
Ramsburg Groery
Roland C. Ryan
Mgr
Goodyear Pathfinder
Goodyear Speedway
Goodyear
Buncutter Tire Co
South Braddock St
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