Flood Strikes Kobe As Waves Of Water Devastate City
July 7 report describes Kobe flood sweeping from hills into the port city, killing an estimated 400 to 480 people. Frederick Taylor, Sacramento native, reports five foreigners dead and many buildings destroyed as slides unleash a solid wall of water threatening the 938,000 population. He fears for higher ground and notes continuous rain and a possible reservoir break.
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Tokyo
Kobe
Japan
Frederick Taylor
Sacramento
Cal
Associated Press
Taylor
Friendship Reel Team Plans Yard Party Benefit
The Friendship Fire Company Reel Team will host a yard party in the John Kerr School yard on East Cork Street Friday and Saturday July 8 and 9 to raise funds for racing suits before traveling to Luray Virginia in August for the Virginia State Firemen's Association races. The team has practiced daily and shown strong results. roster details will be announced soon.
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Friendship Fire Company
Luray
Virginia State Firemen’s Association
John Kerr School
East Cork Street
Corn and Show Help to Cool Off Reading
Mr Winchester notes a good show can boost corn markets and, in the tropics, British troops drink hot tea to feel cooler. The piece adds advice on diet for hot weather and ends with a lost police dog notice named Bill seeking its owner E. W. Barr.
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Tropics
E. W. Barr
Unlikely City Faces Grants Hurdles Over Utilities Project
The city faces slim chances of securing grants for the utilities project as buying methods are debated. The matter is referred back to the finance committee with the street, water, and mayoral chairmen for review.
Committee to Confer on Library Improvements and City Measures
Named committee to confer with Handley trustees on library improvements. Referred federal funds for projects to a committee for study. Declines to set price on dwelling at the new airport. Discusses radio interference man and vacancy on radio commission. See Page 2. Discusses purchasing methods referred to street and water committees and the mayor. Adopts ordinance regulating sabrooms and loafing. See Page 2. Cell iO drant connections.
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Handley Trustees
Radio Commission
Winchester Likely Unable to Secure Federal Matching Grants
At a Common Council meeting city officials discussed federal aid for improvements. Finance Chair Herman Hable reported that a direct grant of 45 percent would require the city to supply 55 percent, a match deemed unfeasible without borrowing. Officials plan further study and possible recommendations.
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Winchester
Common Council
Herman Hable
Shenandoah Rebekahs To Convene Here
Winchester Rebekah Lodge No. 21 hosts Shenandoah Rebekah Association meeting on July 19. Miss Ruth Bucher VP assists as committee member. Mrs Everett Kline chairsRefreshments with Virginia Assembly support. Shenandoah president Miss Beulah Gore of Front Royal leads Tri County Odd Fellows group.
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Winchester Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellows Hall
Shenandoah Rebekah Association
Ruth Bucher
Encle Edwards
Armorel Chambers
Everett Kline
Thekah Assembly of
Virginia
Ju F
Everett
Ruth Booker
Beulah Gore
Front Royal
Shenandoah Association
Rebekah
Tri-County
Odd Fellows Association
Southern ills diagnosed and sent to Congress for action
A 17 point Southern economic diagnosis was approved by a Dixie delegation as a step toward the nation’s No 1 economic problem. The analysis covers soil and water, industry ownership, and wages, noting the South earns about one third of farm income with half the rural population.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Emergency Council
Dixie
Lowell C. Mellett
NEC
South
Shoemaker Is Given 5 Years In Penitentiary
Arthur Shoemaker who was acquitted weeks earlier on breaking and entering pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property and received a five year sentence from Judge Philip Williams. He was arrested near Martinsburg after a chase following a wreck inquiry. Meat found in the car and at a Hagerstown home was identified as the property of Walter Carter and others.
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Arthur Shoemaker
Philip Williams
Shoemaker
West Virginia
Martinsburg
Hagerstown
Williams
Commonwealth
Burr P. Harrison
Harry R. Kern, Sr
Walter Carter
Harrison
United Food Stores Ad Page Five Highlights Deals
Read the full page advertisement from United Food Stores on page five featuring weekly specials. The notice outlines discounted groceries, sale dates, and store locations with emphasis on savings and limited-time offers.
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United Food Stores
Yard Party Benefit at Market Street M E Church
A yard party is set for Thursday night July 7 in front of Market Street M E Church. Tainy will perform next on mic to entertain. Proceeds benefit Epworth League with home made ice cream cake and bandy offered.
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Market St. M. E
Tainy
Next
Mic
Epworth League
Dry Spell Threatens Shenandoah Valley Crops
Farmers report a worsening dry spell in the Shenandoah Valley with pastures seared and lawns drying despite sprinkling. Hot winds and scant rainfall erode soil as six month rainfall totals show a 3.66 inch deficit versus the 25 year average. no rain forecast.
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Shenandoah Valley
Virginia
Danish Count Denies Suing Wife in High Society Row
London July 6 Bow Street hearing on Count Dane and Countess Barbara Haugwitz Reventlow over a divorce dispute. Lawyers allege demands of 5 million dollars and threats of headlines followed by hints of a new marriage. Witnesses claim harassment confined to threats to seize their son Lance and to shoot.
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London
Barbara Haugwitz - Reventlow
Bow Street Court
West End
Lance
Woolworth
Barbara
War Secretary Hore Belisha Faces Secrets Act Debate
Secretary of War Leslie Hore Belisha testified before a 14 member Parliament committee about the air defense and official secrets act amid charges by Duncan Sandys that he faced threats of prosecution over a document on air defense deficiencies. Belisha refused to reveal army council details in the Sandys case.
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London
Great Britain
Leslie Hore- Belisha
Duncan Sandys
M. P
Hore-Belisha
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
Commons
Sandys
Belisha
Army Council
Nationals Take Early Lead in All-Star Game
Nationals jump to a quick edge in the Sixth Annual Exhibition as club houses brim with player dynamite. Early lineups show Little change as rivals prepare for the showcase.
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Nationals
All Star Game Tensions Rise at Crosley Field
At Crosley Field Cincinnati on July 6 the National League led the American League 2 0 after six innings in the charity classic. Johnny Vander Meer held the American sluggers to a single hit through three innings as Vernon Gomez prepared to start for the Americans amid pregame crowd and manager pep talks.
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Johnny Vander Meer
Crosley
Cincinnati
National League All Stars
Cincinnati Reds
Crosley Field
Vernon
Lefty
Gomez
Yankees
Nationals
Cuba
Mrs. Conner Injured In Berryville Turnpike Collision
Mrs. Champe Conner of 214 West Cork Street is recovering from a fractured collarbone after a Sunday crash on the Berryville turnpike near the Opequon. Accompanied by Mrs. John Heber Flood and Miss Laura Campbell, she was en route to Berryville when another farmer's car, brakes failing, veered and struck their vehicle. The chauffeur regained control, the car left the highway, and Conner was hospitalized unconscious but improving. Mrs. Flood received bruises and Miss Campbell escaped serious injury.
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Champe Conner
West
Cork Street
Berryville
Opequon
Conner Automobile
Connery
Flood
Miss Campbell
Porches Windows or Store Call Phone ARMSTRONG Co
Local reader advertises porch and window work inviting calls to ARMSTRONG Company at 639 39 E. Piccadilly St. for home and storefront repairs.
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Armstrong Co
E. Piccadilly St
Chamberlain Holds Back on Quick Anglo Italian Pact Date
Prime Minister Chamberlain refused to hasten the Anglo Italian agreement into effect or set a definite date. He said conditions, including settlement of the Spanish civil war, were not fulfilled though Britain sought approval of a 13.75 million plan to withdraw alien troops from Spain. He noted a delay until Madrid and Burgos reply to evacuation proposals.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Rome
Britain
European Non-Intervention Committee
Spain
Italy
J. J. Davidson
Laborite
Barcelona
Burgos
Frederick County Board of Supervisors in Session Today
County Board of Supervisors met to discuss funding for a death row case involving George Pingley while Sheriff Newcome died after a shotgun incident during a warrant service. The board postponed action and approved several reports including county welfare and insurance plans for a Virginia Tech program.
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County Board of Supervisors
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
George Pingley
Newcome
Pingley
Boards of Supervisors
Madeline Blair
Harry McCann
Eulalia Savage Nalley
I. Fred Stine
P. H. Gold
W. H. Branner
C. C. Brannon
Barrett Receives Three Year Suspended Sentence
William Barrett helped break into Mrs. Jennie McKee's White Hall store and received a three year suspended sentence from Judge Philip Williams in Frederick Circuit Court. He must pay court costs and $50 restitution within 90 days, abide by state law for 12 months, and can post a $50 obligation note with his aunt as surety Suzanne Baker of Martinsburg WV. If restitution is unpaid, the suspension is lifted. Barrett had just completed a West Virginia prison term for theft of a car the night of the burglary.
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William Barrett
Jennie McKee
White Hall
Philip Williams
Frederick
Barrett
B. P. Harrison
Commonwealth
Suzanne Baker
Martinsburg
W. Va
West Virginia
Ientiary
McKee
Friendship Fire Company Monthly Meeting Notice
The regular monthly meeting of the Friendship Fire Company will be held in the company hall at 8 o'clock on Thursday evening July 7. All members are urged to attend as important business will be transacted.
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The
Friendship Fire Company
Chinese Forces Gain Advantage On Three Fronts
Chinese forces end of year of war with Japan gain momentary advantage on three fronts along the Yangtze near Hukow and Kiukiang. They lay mines to harry Japanese planned Hankow offensive and strengthen a Yangtze defensive boom. Along the Yellow River Japanese push halted after heavy casualties. Chinese claim 700 losses and retreat. Northeast of Nanking two towns captured. Japanese retreat to Tungtai. Soviet tea purchase rumor linked to wartime supplies.
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Shanghai
Japan
Yangtze River
Hukow
Hankow
China
Yangtze
Wuseh
Tienkaicheng
Kiukiang
Yellow River
Nanking
Kiangsu
Tungtai
Lake Poyang
Nanchang
Soviet
Russia
Boy Found After Missing Trip In Anaconda Region
Anaconda Montana July 6 searchers found Robert Russell aged 13 who had been missing since Monday in the Anaconda Pindar region. He greeted rescuers with I wish I had a fishpole. He was unharmed ten miles from where he separated from his stepfather Charles Tucker during a fishing trip.
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Anaconda
Mont
Robert Russell
Anaconda-Pindar
Charles Tucker
British Russian Naval Pact Signed
London reports Britain and Soviet Russia signed a protocol bringing their naval agreement of July 30 1936 into line with the 45000 ton battleship limit adopted by Britain the United States and France persistent in naval disarmament efforts beyond prewar strides
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London
Britain
Soviet
Russia
United States
France
Austrian Refugee Leader Warns on Mass Migration at Geneva
At Evian session on July 6 32 nation refugee conference head Myron C Taylor warned that forced migration of political and racial groups brings catastrophic suffering. An Austrian leader said 75 percent would leave if they could take substantial property, amid US efforts to shape plans without dictating outcomes.
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Evian-Les-Bains
France
Myron C. Taylor
United States
Roosevelt
Taylor
Germany
United States Steel Corporation
Francesco Nitti
Italy
Arthur Rosenberg
Inter-Governmental Committee On
Harmony Sought By Pa. Democrats
U S Senator Joseph F Guffey visited Labor Leader John L Lewis and Walter A Jones as go between in Democratic post primary peace talks. He arrived in Philadelphia for a campaign mapping conference with party leaders to map plans to keep state government and resolve remaining differences for the fall campaign.
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Philadelphia
U. S
Joseph F. Guffey
John L. Lewis
Walter A. Jones
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Welltown Thurs
Council
Hable
Arthur M. Field
Shenandoah Rebekahs
Dane
London Society
Secretary of War
Bulletin
Joe McCarthy
Americans
Bill Terry
Boy
Pa. Democrats
Paul Mallon
Franco
U.S
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