Sheep Breeders To Offer Rams At Three August Auctions
Sheep producers in Clarke Frederick county and nearby areas will attend three August auctions in Woodstock Berryville and Staunton to improve flock strains. Auctions begin at 1 p m on August 2 3 and 9 with rams judged and inspected by a Valley Northern Virginia Sheep Breeders Association committee. Fred Stine urges purebred rams to boost lamb grades and profits.
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Federick County
Woodstock
Berryville
Staunton
Union Stock Yards
Fred Stine
Valley-Northern Virginia Sheep Breeders’ Association
Grange Plans Po Anniversary Celebration
The Grange will hold a program next Friday night to mark the eleventh anniversary of the organization on August 11. It will recognize charter members in the county and Frederick Pomona Grange with a principal address by Thomas Ozlin, Richmond Agriculture Grange member and State Corporation Commission chair. Refreshments will be by the Home Economics Committee.
Four Die As Royal Air Force Plane Crashes in Cheshire
Four fliers were killed today when a Royal Air Force plane crashed and burned at Caldy Cheshire. Since January 1 176 have died in 103 air force accidents.
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Ondon
Royal Air, Force
Caldy
Cheshire
Answers to Today's Quiz From Page Four
The page lists quiz responses including Pope Gregory I, measurement of time, nonagon, Binal, and a note about the Wright brothers first flight location. It also references an old symbol for fee on earth, a cabbage variety, and the term Pujiyama.
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Pope Gregory I
Nonagon
Binal
Wright Brothers
Earth
Indictment Goes Against Major Typewriter Makers
A federal grand jury in New York City indicted four leading typewriter firms and their presidents on charges of conspiring to fix prices and form a monopoly. Named are Underwood with Elliott Fisher and Philip D. Wagoner, Remington Rand with James H. Rand Jr, Royal Typewriter with Edmund C. Faustmann and Hurlbut W. Smith, and L. C. Smith and Corona Typewriters. The case accuses them of controlling production, distribution, and sales while eliminating competition by a uniform discount scale.
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Washington
Department of Justice
New York City
Department
Underwood
Elliott Fisher Company
Philip D. Wagoner
Remington-Rand, Inc
James H. Rand
Hurlbut W. Smith
Thanks for kindness during illness and death of Mrs Shiner
We thank friends and neighbors for their kindness during Mrs Nannie J. Shiner illness and death and for floral tributes and use of cars. We miss her brothers and sisters.
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Nannie J. Shiner
New England Still Hard Hit by Drought
Parched New England faces continued dryness as scattered rainfall fails to help. In New York and New Jersey forecasts call for more showers while Connecticut losses run into millions. President Roosevelt orders four federal agencies to stand by to aid states in what officials deem the worst drought in a century.
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New York
New England
Pennsylvania
New Jersy
Connecticut
Roosevelt
Agencis
Band Concert Tonight Aids Fire Company Yard Party
The Friendship Fire Company Reel Team hosts a benefit yard party at John Kerr School grounds with the McIlwee Municipal Band playing popular and classical numbers. Firefighters provide games amusements and refreshments to raise funds for travel to Charles City.
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McIlwee Municipal Band
John Kerr School
Friendship Fire Company
Charles City
Minister Held To Answer Charge Of Wife Slaying
The Rev. James Wilson Lane was ordered held for trial in Circuit Court on a murder charge in the shooting death of his wife last July. Lane, who split his time between automobile work in Frankenmuth, a plant job, and preaching in a church, claimed the shooting was accidental during attempted cartridge removal.
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Flint, Mich
James Wilson Lane
Lane
Frankenmuth
Representative Bates Seeks to Return District to Maryland and Virginia
Representative Bates of Kentucky declared that the District of Columbia could be given back to Maryland and Virginia. He made the remark while commenting on his resignation from the District committee, which he led a subcommittee that investigated milk prices in Washington. He said the District committee takes too much of his time.
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Washington
Bates
D-Ky
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
Modern Woodmen Hold Big Party Near Berryville
In Berryville Virginia a Modern Woodmen yard party near River side school drew an estimated 600 to 1,000 attendees. The event featured contests including hog calling pie eating and spill the milk, with Bud Stickles winning a $10 prize and receipts totaling about 75 dollars in dimes. Democratic candidate Harvey Fishpaw lost the hog calling contest to Ed Longerbeam.
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Berryville
Riverside School
Bud Stickles
Harvey Fishpaw
Ed Longerbeam
Clarke
Two Men Die From Intense Heat in Separate Incidents
Deaths recorded from extreme heat include Samuel Chase aged 65 who collapsed while walking on a Washington street and died in a hospital. In Kensington Maryland 67 year old Reuben Reno Palmer collapsed while working in a field near his home and died a few hours later.
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Washington
Samuel Chase
Kensington
Reuben Reno Palmer
Moves to Cut Plan to Lend to Railways
A House caucus will meet tonight to rally support for a lending bill to railways with a two thirds vote required for action. Administration leaders push for full turnout amid factional tensions as anti administration Democrats warn dissenters may walk out. The wage hour bill faces a complex path with amendments proposed by committees and a Senate likely to stay idle.
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House
Labor Committee
Rules Committee
Chamber
Senate
Chinese Guerrillas abduct 28 in Peiping raid
Chinese guerrillas penetrated Peiping gates abducting 28 Chinese including policemen and wealthy individuals. Raiders escaped before Peiping garrison troops arrived as heavy rains hindered pursuit and floods threatened Hopeh. Ninety Japanese soldiers died in a nearby battle at Wenchuan.
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Peiping
Air Administration
China
Peiping-Mukden
Hopeh
Yungting
Marco Polo Bridge
Wenchuan
Rules Quite Hard On U-Boat Heroes
The 33 men who escaped from the sunk submarine Squalus faced a setback in the paymaster's office. Navy rules grant extra submarine duty pay, but the General Accounting Office ruled it cannot apply to men not on regular duty. Since the Squalus sank May 23, survivors could not have been on assigned duty for two months, losing extra pay from $5 to $30 monthly for enlisted, plus 25 percent of officers' salaries.
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Washington
Navy
General Accounting Office
Local Markets Market Summary Note
The Star notes markets are corrected daily but disclaims responsibility for typographical errors. Readers are advised to verify figures and details with official sources.
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The
Star
Local Retail Market Flour and Patent Brand Feed Prices
A reader notice lists multiple flour and feed prices by bag size and brand. Prices include Patent Brand flour, 12 to 98 lb bags, dairy feed, corn meal, middlings, mixed feeds, screening, turkey grower, horse feed, scratch feed, and butter, with per-bbl pricing and note of available bag weights.
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Werae
Rererens O0
Ees
Firikearc Ae
BESO
Baltimore and Philadelphia Market Quotation Summary
Market notes from Baltimore and Philadelphia on July 28 cover produce and livestock. Apples Gravensteins and Williams Reds move in the 0.75 to 1.00 range, potatoes dull, sweet potatoes steady, eggs and butter steady. Livestock prices show cattle mostly steady to firm, hogs mostly lower, calves strong, and sheep weak. Chicago and national grain quotes finish mixed with fall prices steady to up.
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Baltimore
JU. S
Williams
New Jersey
U. S
Baltimore Livestock
U. S. Dept. Agri
Chicago
Washington Spring
Chicago Cash Grain Chicago
Cash
Illinois
Baltimore Grain
Winchester
Future And Cash Wheat And Other Grain Quotations
Wheat prices fluctuated nervously today finishing unevenly lower. Good milling demand and foreign market strength supported early gains but poor spring wheat news and rain forecasts sparked selling. May 1940 contracts slumped over a cent as traders weighed potential export declines.
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Chicago
Canada
Market Ends Mixed After Quiet Session On July 28
New York stock market shows a subdued trading day with an early mild decline erased by close. Activity remained slow with about 750000 shares traded over five hours as investors weighed potential effects of U.S. Japanese trade treaty changes and cheered by strong profits from steel and motor sectors. Foreign markets steadied little, bonds and commodities uneven.
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New York
Market closes mixed with numerous industrials trading high
Con Edison and General Electric show gains while General Motors and Goodyear rise Moderately weak trading in Republic Steel and Penn Railroad contrasts with strong moves in Union Pacific and U S Steel Investors track a wide range of industrials including National Dairy and Woolworth as Turks list shows mixed sentiment across sectors
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Con. Edison
Cigar
Elec
Motors
Goodyear
Int. Har
Kennecott
M. Ward
Natl. Dairy
Packard
Penney
J. C
Penn. R. R
Republic Steel
Southern R. R
Union Pac
U. S. Steel
Va.Car. Psid
Western Union
Woolworth
Local boy finds unusual lizard near North Main Street
Yesterday Massie lad captured a small blue grey and gold lizard in front of 566 North Main Street and brought it to his home exhibit. He plans to keep the animal in a box while it rests after a cat played with it earlier forcing persuasion to separate them.
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Laurens Massie
North Main Street
Massie
Johnstown Symphony To Play Tomorrow
Two programs will be presented this weekend by the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra at the Mountain Lake Park amphitheatre. Dr. S. L. Plickinger said he has been informed. Saturday evening concert begins at 7:45 and Sunday matinee at 2:45.
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Johnstown
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North America Assurance Society
Richmond, Va
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E. Piccadilly
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E. Piccadilly St
SILCO
Bellans
Rome
Philadelphia
Plymouth Rocks
Stock Market Report
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Am. Rad
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Chrysler
Johnstown Symphony
Parlett Funeral Home
Gainesboro Road
Rosenberger’s
John W. Rosenberger and CO
S. Braddock St
Westinghouse
Baker & Anderson
N. Braddock St
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Lone
C. I. Brumback
Frederick County
Board of Supervisors
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