Fighting Cancer An Appeal for State and Federal Cancer Drive
A former medical director of the Public Health Service urges states and the federal government to spend 10 million dollars annually to save 35 000 cancer victims. He proposes 200 000 dollars per state to fund clinics laboratories and public doctor education to cut mortality by 25 to 30 percent. He notes federal appropriations of 750 000 for a national cancer institute and 700 000 yearly for study and treatment. He calls for expanded cooperation education and a real anti cancer campaign.
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Public Health Service
National Cancer Institute
Danish girl conquers Baltic in record 37 mile swim
The 17-year-old Jenny Kammersgaard swam 37 miles across the Baltic in 40 hours 2 minutes, the first to do so. Her feat surpasses Gertrude Ederle’s 1926 English Channel crossing, underscoring rare female endurance and skill despite doubt.
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Jenny Kdmmersgaard
Baltic Sea
Gertrude Ederle
English Channel
Kammersgaard
Miss Ederle
Freight Differentials and South Wage Parity Debate
The Richmond Times Dispatch analyzes ICC hearings on freight rates with Northern opposition to any South concessions. It notes the federal wage and hour law could enable wage parity and freight adjustment, while Administrator Andrews questions Southern wage advantages and favors parity reflecting transportation costs.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
Interstate Commerce Commission
Buffalo
Attitude Toward the South Questioned in Wage Debate
The writer questions Mr. Andrews as a knowledgeable figure on wage and hour issues and suggests his views on the South may be oversimplified. The piece notes Southern industry has survived discriminatory freight rates by lower wages and fears new wage parity could raise costs while preserving prior freight advantages.
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Andrews
South
Bright Idea for First Page News a Dilemma
A San Francisco Chronicle correspondent asks for a first page full of good news but the editors decline. They state they cannot mislead readers and must mirror the world as it is with all its troubling items.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Virginia Still Breeds Them For the Turf
Virginia bred and owned Nedayr won the Arlington Classic in Chicago, earning $30,000. Bred and raised at Court Manor Stud in Shenandoah County by Willis Sharpe Kilmer, Nedayr is a son of Neddie with a Sun Briar dam. His stablemate Sun Beau is another Sun Briar offspring and a record money winner. Nedayr missed the Triple Crown races due to illness but defeated top three year olds including Menow in the classic. The Old Dominion remains a strong source of fast thoroughbreds.
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Chicago
Willis Sharpeer
Patent Medicine Tycoon
Court Manor Stud
Shenandoah County
Valley Turnpike
New Market
Neddie
Sun Briar
Kilmer
Court Manor
Sun Beau
Lawrin
Dauber
Menow
Stagehand
Old Dominion
City of Baltimore Burns Sinks on Night Voyage
Mrs Elizabeth Ramsey formerly of this city is among those saved when the Chesapeake Bay steamer City of Baltimore burns and sinks. K H Sale is reelected president of the ceprecimental Christian Conference Group at a Newport News meeting. Traffic and Police Committee hears complaints from downtown merchants on congested traffic and will act. Dr and Mrs Robert Glass and Mr and Mrs John M Steck depart on a motor tour to Smoky Mountain National Park.
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Elizabeth Ramsey
City of Baltimore
K. H. Sale
Ceprecimental Christian Conference Group
Newport News
Robert Glass
John M. Steck
Smoky Mountain National Park
Five Years Ago A Local Fatal Car Accident
Mrs Marie L Cooley 79 of Middletown was struck and killed crossing a street in an unavoidable accident. Miss Lucy Ritenour was chosen secretary treasurer of the Shenandoah Baptist Young People's Union at the annual conference. A 48 hour week was allowed for retail merchants instead of the 40 hour week planned in Roosevelt s NRA code. James R DuShane a prominent local apple broker is conducting an extensive survey trip over orchards of Maryland West Virginia and Virginia.
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Marie L. Cooley
Middletown
Lucy Ritenour
Shenandoah Baptist Young People’s Union
Roosevelt
James R. DuShane
Maryland
West Virginia
Virginia
Ten Years Ago in Court and Military News
Henry C. Robinson of Front Royal is acquitted by a Winchester jury in a murder case. Rev E E Fisher a Fredericksburg judge stops a prohibition trial to wed a young couple. One hundred members of Company I and Headquarters Company return after ten weeks’ training at the Virginia Beach National Guard Camp. Gene Tunney announces retirement from boxing but only in professional terms.
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Henry C. Robinson
Front Royal
Winchester
Henry Johnson
E. E. Fisher
Fredericksburg
National Guard
Virginia Beach
Captain Reardon Ends Illness Returns Home From Virginia Beach
Twenty five years ago Captain J P Reardon long ill with malaria after an army encampment at Virginia Beach comes home to good health. James W Cochran dies at his home in Chambersville. others, including Kinzel Baker and Henkel Henry, oversee a new Empire Theatre stock offering on Market Street. Eugene Campbell survives a life threatening battle with a 36 inch rattlesnake while surveying a large county tract in the mountains.
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J. P. Reardon
Virginia Beach
James W. Cochran
Chambersville
George Kinzel
W. H. Baker
Henkel Henry
New Empire Theatre
Market Street
Eugene Campbell
McKinley Cabinet Deadlock on Spain Peace Pact
Forty years ago President McKinley and his cabinet could not agree on terms of the peace pact with Spain. Mrs Aramenta Calvert dies at her Gerrard Street home. Harry Baetjer re-injures his knee in a bicycle accident tied to Johns Hopkins history. James Seabright and Company win the Market Yard pavement contract.
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McKinley
Spain
Aramenta Calvert
William Calvert
Gerrard Street
Harry Baetjer
Johns Hopkins
James Seabright and Company
Answers to Questions From The Winchester Star Information Bureau
A compiled Q and A column answering queries on the NRA timeline greyhound racing Atlantic rafts air races Argonauts of 49 Will Rogers books US camps Trans Siberian Railway Oceanic liner Dionne quintuplets ministers in Tennessee tennis balls and more. It provides dates places and names such as Cleveland Ohio Fond du Lac Wisconsin and Rebecca Gratz with concise factual replies.
Washington notes on a far reaching anti fascist inquiry
In Washington July 9 the House investigation committee probes alleged Nazi fascist and Communist influence. Chairman Dies sits on a briefcase reportedly containing confessions by German American Bund officials while other testimonies allege foreign funding and domestic strategy. The hearings will open publicly August 11 with limited access in major cities and no subpoenas for Bund or Communist officials.
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Mutin Dies
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New York
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Texas
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Kansas
Senate Campaign Investigating Committee
Sign of the Times
Cordell Hull
State Department
Brahma Bull Rescue Turns Brave Rancher Blaze of Action
In 1938 Arizona Bill Baron, foreman at Dale-Durango, faces theft of 20 cattle and a dangerous Brahma bull escape. He helps behind the scenes then bulldogs the massive bull to save Ellen Dale before collapse. Felix Montoya and Ellen escape harm as cowboys rope the animal.
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Dale-Durango
Bill
Ellen
Durango
Shorty
America
West
Ellen Dale
Skipper
Jesse James
Billy the Kid
Buffalo Bill
Felix Montoya
Arizona
Felix
American Cattlemen's Association
Dale
Ain Corrals
War Babies Fight Over Child Training in War Drive
An English letter to The London Times urges using air raid demonstrations to harden infants. The writer argues mothers witnessed babies distressed by explosions, but claims early war conditioning breeds strength and readiness to serve God, king, and country in Europe’s ongoing conflict.
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The
London Times
Leeds
Europe
Mussolini
Tax Any Sale Theorized For Social Security Funding
Washington discussion centers on a possible federal sales tax to fund social security as costs loom. Estimates place annual needs at about 6 billion dollars once all income earners fall under the law, rivaling current federal revenue. Advocates push, opponents doubt, and future revenue sources are urged to be found.
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Washington
United States
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