Shenandoah Baptist convention closes after two days
The Shenandoah Baptist Association held its 33rd annual session at First Baptist Church Winchester with Rev John Ward Brown presiding. Miss Blanche Sydnor White spoke on missionary work as the pageant The Challenge of the Cross highlighted the evening. Delegates from Virginia and West Virginia attended, praised hospitality, and sessions featured reports and addresses on home and state missions.
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Shenandoah Baptist Association
First Baptist Church
Piccadilly
Washington Streets
John Ward Brown
Martinsburg
W. Va
Great Baptist
Lower
Shenandoah Valley
Virginia
West Virginia
The
E. T. Clark
Winchester
Co. V. van der Linden
Boyce
Clark
Overton Dunn
Blanche SyAnor White
Baptist Women’s Missionary Union
State Mission
L. A. Parker
Berryville
T. R. Sanford
Richmond
G. T. Waite
Paving Winchester Main Street Linked to Lottery Money
The article recalls Virginia lotteries as a funding tool in the 18th century. It notes a 1791 act allowing leaders to raise up to 200 pounds by lottery to pave the Main Street in Winchester, while the project faced legal hurdles before being accepted.
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Virginia
Loudon Street
Cork
Piccadilly
Edward Smith
Joseph Tidball
John Kean
John Peyton
Lewis Huff
Isaac Stitler
Winchester
Rotarians Meet In Harrisonburg Conference Opens
Harrisonburg Va July 25 officers of the fifty sixth Rotary district covering 55 Virginia clubs gathered here for the annual conference with about 100 members present. International president E R Johnson of Poanoke led the assembly as the two day meeting began with discussions of organizational problems and activities. Peyton J Marshall president of the Winchester Rotary Club and Fred L Glaize Jr were in Harrisonburg attending.
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Harrisonburg
Rotary District
Virginia
E. R. Johnson
Poanoke
Peyton J. Marshall
Winchester Rotary Club
Fred L. Glaize, Jr
Woman Seeks Slain Man in Baltimore Cow Pasture
Baltimore police pursued a mysterious cultured voiced woman after several calls about a man found shot to death in a city cow pasture. The victim clutched a pistol, with a bullet in his heart and brain. A New York tailor label appeared on his clothing, Coroner Schenker said.
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Baltimore
Paul Ehker
New York
Schenker
Elsie Janis I Hurt In Auto Accident
East View New York July 25 Elsie Janis I severely injured in an automobile accident slept quietly today in Grasslands Hospital The resident physician said the patient is responding favorably to treatment sleeping quietly with condition serious but slightly improved compared to arrival Not immediately critical The auto carrying her husband Gilbert Wilson struck a parked truck on the Sawmill Parkway last night Police said the truck had no parking lights and was screened by trees
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East View
N. Y
Elsie Janis I
Grasslands Hospital
Gilbert Wilson
Sawmill Parkway
Clothing Needed By Family Who Lost In Fire
Miss Nan Keating city welfare office calls for clothing and household furniture for two families struck by a fire yesterday morning. One family has children aged one to 18 and suffered near total loss of household effects. the relief office seeks donations of clothing and furniture for both families from generous neighbors.
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Nan Keating
Medicine Men May Solve Death In Everglades Killing
White officials in Everglades Florida seek tribal medicine men to handle the Koh Sa Tee case. Coroner J W Russell adjourned the inquiry after a day of questions and interpreter work to learn the wishes of Seminole leaders.
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Everglades
Fila
Koh-Sa-Tee
J. W. Russell
See Our Adv On Page Six Of Today's Star
Classified ad fragment notes an advertisement on page 6 in the second section of today’s Star featuring Alp-11 and HUNASBERRY. Limited readable details.
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Front Royal News
Star Today
Long Dissects Foes While Making Gin Fizz In New York
Huey Long mocks rivals as Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold, calling enemies traitors. He jokes he is on the wagon while sipping a gin fizz, and suggests Democrats and communists could save money by holding joint conventions. He aims to show how to coagulate a gin fizz in a one man circus act. Exhibit one.
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Devon Francis
Associated Press
New York
Huey Long
Judas Iscariot
Benedict Arnold
Judas Iscariots
Benedict Arnolds
Iscariot
Arnold
Roosevelt
Felix Frankfurter
Long
Last Rites For Charles Shade Held Yesterday
Funeral rites were held yesterday at 10 oclock for Charles Shade aged sixty seven. Services began at the late home near Glengary then moved to Greenwood M E Church South near Angers Store where the Rev E W Collis of Berkeley Springs officiated. Interment followed in a nearby cemetery with six grandsons serving as pallbearers.
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Charles Shade
Glengary
W. Va
Greenwood M. E. Church
South
Angers Store
E. W. Collis
Berkeley Springs
M. H. Shockey
Martinsburg
Capitol Hill Debates Omnibus Banking Bill And Lobby Inquiries
Senate debates the omnibus banking bill while a lobby investigation continues and the Rules committee resumes the inquiry. Yesterday the second deficiency bill for 308 million dollars passed as lawmakers debated the banking bill and a liquor control measure was approved.
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The
Associated Press
Senate
House
Livi
National Manufacturer Seeks Rep in Winchester Area
A national manufacturer seeks a man to represent them in Winchester and vicinity. Selling experience helps but is not essential as training in selling and product demonstrations will be provided. Apply by letter to Sales Manager at 14 So. 10th St., Philadelphia, Pa.
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Winchester
10Th St
Philadelphia
Remnant Sale for Wallpaper Begins Monday
Beginning Monday August 29 gardeny Billyard offers wallpaper remnants enough for a 10 by 12 room with ceiling sidewall and border priced at 80 cents. Includes contact details for Gardney B and Billyard with reference to i-25 1p-2t.
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Gardney
Billyard
President vetoes pension bills for two barred men
President Roosevelt rejected two bills granting pensions and a discharge to Jack Passe who claimed 1898 Alabama service and Lake B Morrison of Captain Horner's Maryland cavalry, noting Passe never joined U S forces and Morrison deserted in 1862. The War Department recommended against favorable action.
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Washington
Jack Passe
Alabama Volunteer Infantry
Jack Pate
United States
Lake B. Morrison
Horner
Maryland Cavalry
Secretary of War
Roosevelt
Theatre Concert For T-B Benefit Postponed
Due to numerous infantile paralysis cases in the community the T-B Association concert at Capitol Theatre scheduled for August 4 has been postponed indefinitely. The committee will announce a new date when determined appropriate.
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T-B Association
Capitol Theatre
Notaries Appointed Hott Glaize and Brown
Alson S. Hott Fred L. Glaize and Miss Maude J. Brown have been appointed notary publics. Each has qualified by taking the oath of office and posting a $500 bond.
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Alson S. Hott
Fred L. Glaize
Power Magnate's Son Gave Patton a Box of Cigars
Washington reports that John W. ter, head of Texas Power and Light, testified his eldest son gave a box of cigars to Representative Patton days before a House vote on the lines bill. The incident links a mysterious newspaper wrapped package to possible livestock books.
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Washington
Senate
John W. Ter
Texas Power and Light Company
John
Patton
D-Tex
House Rules Committee
5S. Magill
American Federation of Utilities Investors
Carpenter
Youths Injured in Bristol Kingsport Highway Mishap
Word reached Winchester today that Vernon S. McClintock Jr. 16 and H F Hullihen 25 both of Winchester were injured in a wreck near Bristol Virginia on Monday. A trailer truck they rode in skidded on wet pavement and was wrecked two miles west of Bristol on the Bristol Kingsport highway.
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Winchester
Vernon S. McClintock, Jr
H. F. Hullihen
Bristol
Bristol-Kingsport
City asks state pave Berryville Ave and widen Millwood Road
City officials urge state highway funds for paving Berryville Avenue from the east limits to Elm Street and widening Millwood Avenue to a 40 foot roadway. They request a $500 per mile construction allowance and credit for work already completed, plus a bridge over the Cumberland Valley tracks to ease traffic during apple harvest season.
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State Highway Department
Berryvile Avenue
Elm Street
Winchester
Millwood Road
Front Royal Road
C. S. Mullen
Arthur M. Field
Field
Mullen
Richmond
Morningsi Avenue
Loudoun Street
Piccadilly
Mr. Field
Millwood
Berryville Avenue
Millwood Avenue
No Personal Ambitions Talked At Palo Alto
Governor Harry W Nice of Maryland returned from a visit with former President Herbert Hoover in Palo Alto California saying their talk had nothing to do with personal ambitions. He declined to reveal what Hoover said about a 1936 candidacy. Interviewed between trains, Nice said the talk focused on restoring the country to a constitutional form of government rather than Rooseveltian Czarism. Also aboard was Governor Clyde Tingley of New Mexico.
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Chicago
Harry W. Nice
Maryland
Herbert Hoover
Palto Alto
Cal
Nice
Gov
Clyde Tingley
New Mexico
No Casualties In Buenos Aires Duel
Argentina's minister of finance Federico Pinedo and Senator Lisandro Delatorre dueled in Buenos Aires. Each fired once and missed, leaving the field unreconciled after a Senate dispute two days earlier.
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Buenos Aires
Buenos ES
Argentina
Federico Pinedo
Lisandro Delatorre
Senate
Letter Carriers Convention At Hampton Jy 27-28
Local postal employees plan to attend the twelfth annual Virginia State Association of Letter Carriers convention at Hampton Virginia on July 27 and 28. Attendees from the Williamsburg post office include Mr and Mrs A R Conner Mr and Mrs H Manuel and J H Seal Jr. The program includes registrations at 3 PM executive board at 4 30 PM a public program at 6 30 PM welcome addresses music by the Hampton Institute Quartet greetings from the national association and a keynote by Edward J Gainor. Delegates will end the evening at Buckroe Beach. On Sunday July 28 speakers include C F Stinson Victor Brown and Joseph T Tinnelly with a banquet at 2 PM and a sightseeing trip. State officers named include C E Krant J W Lee H H Scott W W Seldon H C Hamel Clemens River.
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Virginia State Association of Letter Carriers
National Association O Letter Carriers
Hampton
wWidewcser
A. R. Conner
H. “. Manuel
J. H. Seal, Jr
Hampton Institute Quartet
Victor Brown
Baltimore
National Association
Edward J. Gainor
Washington
D. C
Buckroe Beach
C. F. Stinson
Joseph T. Tinnelly
New York
T. K. Anderson
C. E. Krant
Phoebus
J. W. Lee
Newport News
H. H. Scott
Richmond
W. W. Seldon
Norfolk
H. C. Hamel
Winchester
Clemens River
Few Workers Report For Duty At Ship Yards
Camden New Jersey July 25 New York shipbuilding company officials said today they shut down the power plants of their strike crippled yard due to the small number of men reporting for work. The yard will remain open using outside power until activity warrants a return to normal. Roy Campbell General Manager. Strike leaders claimed victory. John Green executive secretary of the union said no shipyard workers other than foremen and time keepers entered the plant today.
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Camden
N. J
New York Shipbuilding Com
Roy
Campbell
John Green
Death Comes To Col Henry Rogers In A Hospital
Southampton N Y July 25 Col Henry Huddleston Rogers 55 heir to a Standard Oil fortune died today at Southampton hospital after ill health since October He suffered pneumonia last October and was a longtime aide to John D Rockefeller in building the Standard Oil trust
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Henry Rogers
Southampton
N. Y
Henry Huddleston Rogers
Standard Oil Companies
Southampton Hospital
Col. Rogers
H. H. Rogers
John D. Rockefeller
Adrienne Ames Granted Uncontested Divorce in Los Angeles
Adrienne Ames, the dark haired film actress, was granted an uncontested divorce today in Los Angeles from her actor husband Bruce Cabot. The plea said they did not seem to get along well.
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Los Angeles
Adrienne Ames
Bruce Cabot
Urgent Appeals For Help From Flood Refugees In China
In Nanking on July 25 thousands of destitute flood refugees across central and north China appealed to the national government for immediate relief, warning that they face death if aid is not delivered promptly.
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Nanking
China
North
Hat Sale Friday and Saturday at Benders Inc
Hats in stock priced at 69 cents each. Benders Inc located at 150 N. Matn advertises a two day sale with a wide selection. Includes notice of inventory and sale dates Friday and Saturday.
Wanted at once good homes for two young dogs
Beginning Monday Aug 29 sidewalls 3c single roll ceiling 1 roll border 2c per yd Gard ner B Hillyard phone 62. WANTED At once good homes for two young pretty tan and white female dogs one is part collie and one is part fox terrier. Phone 41-J or 629-J.
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Border
Gardner B. Hillyard
Britain halts arms exports to Italy and Ethiopia
London July 26 British foreign secretary Samuel Hoare announced in the House of Commons that Britain will not license arms exports to Italy or Ethiopia for the present though transit of arms destined for Ethiopia across British territory will be permitted in accordance with treaty provisions. Dr Martin Ethiopian envoy presents credentials to King George amid jubilee season events.
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London
Sijr Samuel Hoare
House of Commons
Great Britain
Italy
Ethiopia
Dr. Martin
King George
Foreign Office
Burham Palace
Amy Robert W. Bingham
World News At A Glance Highlights and Incidents
The House Ways and Means Committee reaches a tentative tax bill agreement aiming to raise about 200 million dollars. Reports from East View New York and Southampton New York note serious injuries and a death. Shirley Temple sails for Honolulu. marital dispute in Chicago. a Buenos Aires duel over finance. Nanking relief appeals. Mussolini’s sons join East Africa air forces.
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Washington
House Way and Means
East View
N. Y
Elsie Janis
Southampton
H. H. Rogers
Standard Oil Co
Hollywood
Shirley Temple
Honolulu
Chicago
Margaret Waley
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Nanking
China
Rome
Mussolini
East Africa
Park Team Calls Two Tough Games Weekend Practice
Park team members are urged to attend practice Thursday and Friday at 5:30 PM as two hard opponents approach. Captain Co B Mallory issues the notice to players.
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B. Mallory
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