Official Vote Gives Majority For Bond Issue
Warren county election commission announces 1019 votes for a $50,000 courthouse bond and 375 against, a roughly three to one approval. Details list precinct results from Front Royal Linden Waterlick Pockisuh Keller's Mill Reliance Bowman's Browntown Bentonville Cedarville Riverton and other locales.
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Front Royal
Warren County Election Commission
Warren County
Chester A. Duke
Benton G. Ray
C. N. Shepherd
Elmer Boyd
J. D. Cooley
Linden
Waterlick
Pockisuh
Keller's
Bar on Suits to Recover Loss From Devaluation
Attorney General Cummings told the House banking committee that without a resolution barring damage suits against the government to recover losses from dollar devaluation the United States could not reach a gold standard agreement. He noted no intent to block a free gold market and indicated no current plan to restore the gold standard.
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Washington
Cummings
House Banking Committee
Morgenthau
United States
Holt Denounces Holding Companies In Maiden Speech
In Washington on July 10 Senator Holt delivered his maiden Senate speech denouncing holding companies as a cancerous growth on the country’s economic system and urging their abolition. Representative Edmiston of Weston West Virginia leads House opposition to extending TVA powers.
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Washington
West Virginia
Congress
Holt
Edmiston
Weston
Democratic Party
Senate
House
Tennessee Valley Authority
Magazine Editor Dies Of Wound
Beverly Hills California July 9 Ray Long 54 noted magazine editor writer and publisher died at 6 50 tonight in Emergency Hospital from a gun shot wound in the mouth Found in the bedroom of his home a small rifle at his side ambulance driver said The wound appears to have been personal safety related according to the driver and his assistant Detectives were dispatched to the house to examine the quarters
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Beverly “Hills
Qslif
Ray Long
Long
Blair
Kern
Camden Drive
Baseball star Paul Hines dies at 80 in Hyattsville
Longtime outfielder Paul Hines, 80, renowned for early baseball greatness and said to have made an unassisted triple play, died in Hyattsville at Sacred Heart Home. He played for clubs including the Washington Nationals.
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Hyattsville
Paul Hines
Sacred Heart
Washington Nationals
Harrisonburg 8 Orange 1 in Shenandoah Valley League
Yesterday results show Harrisonburg defeated Orange by eight to one. Today Front Royal plays Charlottesville Heurich faces Staunton Culpeper meets Waynesboro in remaining games. Standings list Culpeper first with 10 wins and 4 losses, Front Royal 10–5, Charlottesville 9–5, Harrisonburg 7–8, Heurich 7–5, Waynesboro 6–8, Staunton 4–8, Orange 3–13.
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Harrisonburg
Orange
Front Royal
Charlottesville
Heurich
Staunton
Culpeper
Waynesboro
Heurich Ys
Orange Os
Ray Borden Elected Manager of Front Royal All Stars
Front Royal Virginia July 10 the Board of Directors of the Front Royal All Stars elected Ray Borden former All Star pitcher to the position of manager. He replaces Harvey Slick Saffel who resigned to become chief umpire with the Shenandoah Valley League.
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Front Royal
Front Royal All-Stars
Duncan
Ray Borden
Borden
Harvey
Slick
Hot Weather Dishes Demonstration At Local Church
An instructive demonstration titled Hot Weather Dishes was held yesterday afternoon in the basement of the Front Royal Baptist Church. The event, well attended, was conducted under the Virginia extension service auspices by Miss Mary A. Rich of the Corn Products Company in Baltimore.
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Front Royal
Front Royal Baptist Church
Virginia Extension Service
Mary A. Rich
The
Corn Products Company
Baltimore
Power Debate Grips Both Houses In Roosevelt Bill Fight
Washington July 8 bitter power dispute grips Congress as Senate moves toward indirect vote on abolishing utility holding companies and the House debates the TVA bill amid charges of coercion by lobbyists. Rep Brewster accuses RFC attorney Corcoran of threats over Passamaquoddy Dam while Corcoran counters with his own account. Adjournment comes before final votes on disputed amendments.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
House Rules Committee
Brewster
R-Me
Thomas Corcoran
RFC
Corcoran
Passamaquoddy
Maine
Power Company
Noddy
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Death of Hagerstown business leader C Frederick Bikle
C Frederick Bikle a prominent Hagerstown businessman and head of a local shoe company died suddenly at his home in the early hours after an attack of acute indigestion. He was also vice president of the Mid Atlantic Shoe retailers association.
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Hagerstown
C. Frederick Bikle
Bikle
mid-Atlantic Shoe Retailers’ Association
Front Royal Notes on Social Visits and Local Events
Justice and Mrs. Olmstead plan Virginia Beach vacation with Assistant Trial Justice Armstrong covering. Rehearsal of the Front Royal Municipal Band set for 7 30 p m at Warren County High School. Various local visits and a Dalton wedding announced, with regional ties to Farmville and Hagerstown. Albert Oshena, a State Board hog program supervisor, was in the county office yesterday.
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Front Royal
Walter G. Olmstead
Virginia Beach
William C. Armstrong, Jr
Front Royal Municipal Band
Warren County High School
G. C. Dean
Meherin
Farmville
Albert Oshen
State Board
Richmond
D. M. Cloyd
Identification Plan Discussed by Uniform Laws Committee
A national plan for enforced criminal identification was discussed by a special committee of the uniform state laws conference in Los Angeles. Alexander Armstrong, former Maryland attorney general, heads the panel studying a proposal to allow instant inspection by state agents of criminal records listed by all 48 states.
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Los Angeles
National Conference of Commissioners On
Alexander Armstrong
Maryland
Two Paralysis Cases Reported In Virginia
Two more infantile paralysis cases were reported in Virginia, bringing the statewide total since June 1 to 81. Reports came from James City County and Petersburg, part of the southern belt confronting spread from North Carolina, as health authorities urge continued avoidance of gatherings.
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Richmond
James City
Petersburg
Virginia
North Carolina
Has No Liking For The Widow
Keith Wilborn of South Boston recounts his battle with a Black Widow spider bite. He rejects an Amarillo reporter's offer to let the spider bite him. Wilborn, bitten while traveling with a circus in Virginia's Valley, spent five weeks in bed and seeks recovery in three weeks under a specialist.
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Richmond
Keith Wilborn
Boston
Amarillo
Tex
Wilborne
Virginia
South Bosana Nera
Carolina
Restore Property To Hapsburgs
Vienna July 10 The federal diet unanimously passed a bill revoking punishments against the former ruling family and restoring confiscated property to the Hapsburgs. Upon signing by President Miklas the measure becomes law. Archduke Otto regains his ancestral possession.
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Vienna
Federal Diet
Hapsburgs
Miklas
Otto
Monkey Trial tenth anniversary opens in Dayton Tennessee
Dayton marks the ten year anniversary of the Scopes trial. Rep John Washington Butler had helped pass the Tennessee law prohibiting teaching evolution. Scopes faced William Jennings Bryan led the prosecution, with Clarence Darrow and others on Scopes side.
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Dayton, Tenn
Dayton
Tennessee
John Thomas Scopes
John Washington Butler
General Assembly
Scopes
Clarence Darrow
Arthur Garfield Hays
Dudley Field Malone
William Jennings Bryan
Donkeys Won't Stay On Base at Park Exhibition
About 1,500 spectators packed the Park grounds to watch a donkey ball game between teams A and B of the softball league. The B team won 5 to 3 in a chaotic comedy of errors as donkeys refused the bases and riders were forced off. Proceeds from the event will go to the playground committee.
Navy plans 12 destroyers and six submarines for 1936
Secretary Swanson announced the navy will build 12 destroyers and six submarines in the 1936 fiscal year starting July 1, with a possible battleship. Under the Vinson act 54 ships are needed to reach treaty strength by 1942, and no decision has been made on replacing one of the seven battleships after the Washington treaty expires. Construction could begin January 1, 1937, but no new competition was implied.
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Washington
Swanson
Navy
Costly Track At Suffolk Downs Opens Its Gates
The new two million dollar Suffolk Downs race track in Boston opened, offering Massachusetts its first running horse race in 25 years. The inaugural card features a six-furlong three year old dash for $5,000 added, with E R Bradleys Boxthorn the favorite among 29 nominees including A G Vanderbilts Bachelor Dinner and C F Whitneys Motto.
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Boston
Suffolk Downs
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
E. R. Bradley
A. G. Vanderbilt
C. F. Whitney
Youth Who Ran Amuck With Gun Confined in Maryland
Melvin Hoover an 18 year old from Oakland Maryland was confined after terrorizing Jennings residents and holding 30 miners at bay in the Louis mine for over an hour. State police captured him after he allegedly damaged two cars and brandished a shotgun near the mine entrance.
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Oakland
Melvin Hoover
Jennings
Garrett County
Hoover
Here
Louis Mines
Early War Echoes Prediction Looms Over Europe
London officials held talks with League of Nations Secretary-General Avenol as fears of an early Italy Ethiopia war grew. Scheveningen reports said the conciliation commission had suspended sessions indefinitely while Rome signaled opposition to a fifth neutral conciliator. Mussolini moved to call up non-commissioned officers and specialists from 1909 and 1910 classes.
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Italy
Ethiopia
Europe
J.A. C. Avenol
League of Nations
Scheveningen
Netherlands
Italo
League Council
Mussolini
Massanetta to Host 1000 Voices for Sacred Music Festival
In Massanetta Springs on July 19 more than 1000 voices will lift in song as part of the Fifth Annual Sacred Music Festival closing concert. Choirs from Virginia Maryland and nearby states will perform under the direction of Dr John Finley Williamson with training by G A Lehmann. The two day program includes contests recitals folk music and a final Festival Chorus rehearsal.
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Massanetta Springs
John Finley Williamson
Westminister Choir School
Princeton
N. J
Sacred Music
Harrisonburg
Rockingham County
G. A. Lehmann
Colgate-Rochester Divinity School
Rochester
N. Y
Lehmann
South
School of Music
Williamson
Lutheran
Johnstown
Pennsylvania
Virginia
John Powell
Annabel Morris Buchanan
Bowman Gray Buried At Sea From Kunsholm Ship
Bowman Gray 61, chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco, was buried at sea aboard the Kungsholm off the Arctic during a midnight ceremony. An honor guard lowered the flag wrapped casket as Rev. J. J. Kolmos led services attended by family and ship officers.
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Kunksholm
Artic Circle
Bowman Gray
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
J. J. Kolmos
D. D
Wheaton
Ill
Byrd Warns Rayon Tax Could Shut Mills
Senator Byrd of Virginia says the proposed 6 cent a pound rayon tax in the AAA bill would hit rayon producers hard and may force mills to close. He will seek elimination, citing Virginia mills in Richmond Roanoke Covington and Waynesboro as major producers. Virginia lawmakers backed his stance and pledge to oppose the provision if it passes the Senate.
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Senate
Virginian
Virginia
Richmond
Roanoke
Covington
Waynesboro
Virginia House
A. Willis Robertson
House
Woodrum
Fire Follows China Floods
In Changteh Hunan Province on July 9 floods from the Yangtse basin forced 100,000 homes underwater as dikes failed leaving hundreds of thousands trapped. Fire broke out in parts of the city with food scarce and prices rising as famine looms after the inundation.
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Associated Press
Hunan Province
China
Yuan River
Tung Ting
Changteh
Washington Man Is Crash Victim
Herman Findlay 27 of Washington was killed when a light coupe carrying boot leg liquor collided head on with a heavy truck south of Fredericksburg. Maxwell Mitchell was injured with a sprained back and faced possible charges for illegal liquor. The truck, driven by Edward A Miller of Baltimore, said the car struck him at dead man’s curve.
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Fredericksburg
Herman Findlay
Washington
Here
Findlay
Maxwell Mitchell
Edward A. Miller
Baltimore
Waley to Appear in Court in Kidnap Case Tomorrow
Federal court in Tacoma Washington. Nineteen year old Margaret Waley to be brought to the courtroom for a conference with Judge Cushman as the government continues its second day of testimony in the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping case. Defense counsel Doore asks for a directed verdict of acquittal citing insufficient evidence. George Weyerhaeuser is expected to be a government witness.
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Federal
Tacoma
Wash
Margaret Waley
John F. Doore
Doore
Idaho
George Weyerhaeuser
Waley
McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary
E. E. Cushman
Waleys
House and contents burn at Berryville fruit stand owner’s home
Fire of unknown origin destroyed the log house of Mr. Alger, who runs a fruit stand near the colored Episcopal Church in Berryville. Prompt alarms at 3 a.m. failed to save the four walls. the family was away in Washington, D. C., at the time. Loss amount and insurance status undetermined.
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Berryville
Alger
John H. Enders Fire Department
Local Markets Corrected Daily by The Star
The Star notes markets are updated daily and disclaims responsibility for any typographical errors that may occur.
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The
Star
Local Wholesale Market Flour and Feed Prices
A listing of bulk flour prices for patent and short brands by bag and barrel, with 98, 48, 24 and 12 pound sizes and per barrel costs. Also shown are scratch feed, corn meal varieties, egg mash, dairy feeds, middlings, bran, and butter products with unit prices and ranges for chickens, cattle, sheep, hogs, and lambs.
Local Retail Feed Prices for Various Bag Sizes
Local market lists prices for 98 lb bags at 6.50, 6.25 for patent brand, 48 lb bags at 6.65 and 6.40, 24 lb bags at 6.70 and 6.50, 12 lb bags at 6.90 and 6.65, plus smaller items like cracked corn 2.00, shelled corn, corn meal, middlings, mixed feed, scratch feed, egg mash, and butter prices. Names and brands are inconsistent due to OCR noise.
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Kasco
Barre
Sereenigk Esses Estess
Rete Roy
Cees
Cc Cseves
Sraneue Sieke
Setae
Seema Ae
Eeeceecees
Joe Nees
Six Saw Way To Freedom In Wise County
Six prisoners escaped Wise county jail early today by prying the cage bottom with iron pipe and sawing a window bar, then climbing down a blanket ladder. Five men faced grand jury actions. the sixth was to be transferred to the Marion state hospital.
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Wise
State Hospital
Marion
Wise County
Joss Garner
Appalachia
Markets Report Livestock And Produce July 10 Baltimore Philadelphia
Baltimore notes cattle at 350 head steady with various prices for steers heifers cows bulls and calves. Hogs up with truck hogs 10.35 to 10.60 and packing sows 6.25 to 8.75. Sheep and lambs softer rail lambs 9.15 down and buck lambs discounted. Philadelphia reports live poultry fowls and ducks with assorted prices and dressed poultry per box. Eggs firmer at 2,366 and butter unchanged.
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Baltimore
Philadelphia
U. S. Dept
Market Opening Mixed As Iron Age Reports Rise
New York July 10 The stock market opened steady with mixed sentiment amid trade and industry notes. Iron Age review notes improvement in heavy industry buoyed by steel production gains while auto and farm equipment demand supports a brighter outlook.
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New York
The
Stock Exchange
Allied Chanter
American Can
American Smelters
American Tel
Tel
U. S. Steel
Woolworth
Grain quotations mix on wheat corn oats and barley
Closing prices show July wheat at 84 3 4 to 87, Sep 65 3 4, Dec 86 55. Corn July 81 2 to 82, Sep 75 34, Dec 63 5 4. Oats July 33 1 4, Sep 32, Dec 34. Rye July 44 9 to 45, Dec 48 5 8. Barley July 44, Sep 44. Lard, beliles, and cash wheat and corn prices listed with regional figures from Chicago Baltimore and Winchester markets.
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Beliles
Baltimore
Winchester
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Richard K. Eddy
Telephone Front Royal 213
Shenandoah Valley League
Mgr
Front Royal News
Mrs. Thurman Ritenour
Child
D. W. Ritenour
Ralph Powell
Small Son
Mrs. Powell
Effie Menefee
Pet” Renolds
R. A. Mack
J. W. Renolds
Washington, D. C
Justice
Mrs. Walter Olmstead
Shenandoah
Harvey Johnson
Miss Helen Johnson
Auprey Berryman
Berryman
Standard Oil Company
Massanetta
Lexington
Purcellville
Norfolk
Pulaski
Lynchburg
Woodstock
Bridgewater
Alexandria
Buena Vista
Fairfield
Churchville
Boonesville
Penn
Keyser
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Fairway
Billy Howell
Philadelphia Market
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