Pennsylvania to Rebuild Amherst Street Crossing
City Manager Arthur M. Field learns from the Pennsylvania Railway that the Amherst Street crossing on the double track will be rebuilt with an extra rail at each track to protect the asphalt. The change leaves only one unimproved crossing in the city, on the Baltimore and Ohio line at Sensency Road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur M. Field
Pennsylvania Railway
Amherst Street
Baltimore and Ohio
Pennsylvania
Fairmont Avenue
Front Royal Social Notes and Local Visits
Front Royal and Warren County residents share visits and travels. Randolph Burner returns to Washington with his father aboard, while the Green couple from Baltimore enjoy Park View Inn. Several residents attend family gatherings and local events, including Katherine Arnest’s Hague visit and Miss Evelyn Johnson's promotion to Girl Scouts troop captain. A birth is announced for Peggy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Foster, and many locals are scattered to nearby towns for leisure and duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Front Royal
Randolph Burner
Washington, D. C
Mrs. Sweetzer Green
Baltimore
Park View Inn
Evelyn Johnson
Front Royal Troop of
Girl Scouts No. 1
Reid Reiter
Virginia Downing Lockman
Miss Johnson
Katherine Arnest
Frank Forsyth
Hague
J. Frankard
Vernon Foster
Peggy
Johnson Nursing Home
Fish Story of a July Weekend at Weaverton
Charles ee fished with Mrs Shewbridge over the July weekend on the Potomac near Weaverton. He and another angler reportedly caught a quota of 20 bass in two hours while Charlie and his wife landed a fine mess of small mouth bass weighing about 1 ½ to 2 pounds. He also received a letter from his brother Kermit noting the good bite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Ee
Warrants Issued in Murder of Eccentric Farmer Gantt
Magistrate W W Duke issued warrants for Betty Bier Margaret Abell and Walter Stinnett on murder charges in the slaying of William Warren Gantt the eccentric farmer found shot five times after shopping with about a thousand dollars. Police head to Fredericksburg to arrest the trio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Frederick
W. W. Duke
William Warren Gantt
Duke
Fredericksburg
Gantt
Bettie Biier
Margaret Abell
Walter Stinnett
Mr. Gantt
Calvert County
Everhard Briscoe
Port Republic
Briscoe
Richard James Fowler
Lizzie King
Calvert Courtty
Harold Grover
Baltimore
Prayer Service at Grace Lutheran Tonight
Mid week service at Grace Lutheran Church conducted by Captain Mathias Botts of the Salvation Army. Captain Bott assisted by Mrs Bott. Public invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Lutheran Church
Mathias. Botts
Salvation Army
Captain Bott
Mrs. Bott
Local residents share travels and hospital notices
Mrs R K Butler and two children return from Pittsburgh after weeks with her mother Mrs Canaire. Miss Phylis Reid of Staunton visits aunt Mrs J Robert Lewin. George Eshelman of Durerton enters Winchester Memorial Hospital. Mr and Mrs S J Cabell are patients there, ill, with daughter Mrs Miller Jett of Nineveh staying in Winchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah C. Pence
C. A. Pence
Phylis Reid
Staunton
J. Robert Lewin
George Eshelman
Riverton
Winchester Memorial Hospital
S. J. Cabell
Miller Jett
Nineveh
Winchester
Hughes Off On Siberian Flight Toward Fairbanks
Hughes and his companion continued their 14 729 mile trip back to New York flying from Omsk toward the Bering Strait with speeds around 210 miles per hour. They expect to reach Fairbanks about 7 p m E S T after passing Yakutsk and Anadyrsk with emergency landing plans at Anadyrsk.
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Thorities
Moscow
Kolyma River
Yakutsk
Fairbanks
E.S.T. Hughes
Moscow Aviation
Bering Sea
Siberia
Anadyrsk
New York
Hughes
Wiley Post
Globe
Post
Khabarovsk
Bering Strait
Omsk
Soviet Executive Committee
Kurgan
Krasnoyarsk
Lake Baikal
Alaska
Confessed Kidnapper Olson Changes Story On Abduction
Olson initially claimed four men were involved in the kidnapping, later reducing to three and then two. A second man he named was arrested and released after Olson contradicted himself. He reportedly said he strong armed the boy, fled down a cliff, rowed with the child for hours, buried the body after wrapping it, and that another man knew burial site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mattson
Olson
Cole
Strongl
Everett
Barbara Hutton case ends amid Danish law dispute
Barbara Hutton’s separation case plunges into Danish law as the magistrate delays proceedings. The abrupt dismissal disappoints a crowded Bow Street court while Count Covens denies threatening the countess and her life as Norman Birkett notes the objective was to refute the allegations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Birkett
France
Patrick
Court accepts explanation in distressing case balance
The count expresses no intent to threaten his wife and agrees to an undertaking not to return to Winfield House or contact her while she desires, stating this is the proper course given the unhappy circumstances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara
Lance
Bow Street
Tory
Winfield House
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Warren County News
Steve Hawkins
Berryville
R. C. Brown
Millie Sirbaugh
Helen Smith
Monty Hill
Charlottesville
George N. Buck
Edgewood Park
Frank
Buzz
Humphrey
Blacksburg
Russell Major
Tommy Harrison
Williamsburg
Virginia Beach
North Caroline
Helen Levi
Mrs. W. W. Blythe
Fourth Street
James B. Golden
James Gouldin
Ellen White
Gouldin
Nathan Allnutt
Elizabeth Grubbs
Arlington
J.c.owens
Florence Marks
Richmond
Laura Bennett
Blue Ridge Avenue
Charles W. Carson
Woodstock
P. B. Eastham
Ellie Byrd
Luray
Elizabeth Reid
Lyon Village
Dorothy Locke
L. F. Hansbrough
ASCO
Baker & Anderson Elec. Co
N. Braddock St
Howard Hughes
Atlantic
R. M. Swimley
East Geo
Washington
Evening Star
Barbara Hutton
Silco Cut Price Store
Loudoun St
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Winchester Furniture CO
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Chesterfield
Paul Whiteman
Paul Douglas
Tonacco Ca
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