Supreme Court Adjourns Historic Term Without A Ruling On Major Issues
The Supreme Court wrapped an eight month term by agreeing to test the constitutionality of federal loans and grants for financing municipal power plants and adjourned until October. It left the TVA expansion case to a lower court and declined to review the Wagner Act questions, with Justice Van Devanter retiring after 26 years on the bench.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mie
Supreme
Congress
Roosevelt
Electric Bond and Share Company
Securities Commission
Circuit Court of Appeals
van Devanter
Willis van Devanter
Sean
Hughes
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Tennessee Federal District Court
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Wagner
Questine
National Labor Relations Board
el Paso Electric Company
Independent Workers of Clayton
Modern Woodmen Meeting Planned by Winchester Camp No 15510
Winchester Camp No 15510 Modern Woodmen of America will hold a meeting in the Odd Fellows Hall on Thursday at 8 o clock. The notice states the gathering aims to discuss lodge affairs and member participation.
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Winchester Camp
Woodmen of America
Odd Fellows Hall
Rockefeller Death Prompts Witty Western Talk
A group at work discussed John D. Rockefeller in light of his death. They agree on the idea that wealth buys comfort and security. A worker muses about going west to Oklahoma, buying a trailer, and stopping when he wants to eat.
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Rockefeller
Oklahoma
Supreme Court orders fall reargument on Virginia entrance fee case
The Supreme Court scheduled a fall reargument on a 1910 Virginia law imposing an entrance fee on out-of-state corporations seeking local business. Atlantic Refining appealed after Virginia court upheld the fee and denied a refund of $5,000, claiming due process and interstate commerce violations. Virginia defended the statute as a flat fee tied to corporate size.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Atlantic Refining Corporation
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Virginia
Driver Heroic Aid Saves Passengers in Bus Fire
Fairfax June 1 Tony Jenkins 30 of Charlottesville Va driver for Virginia Stage Lines suffered burns aiding passengers escape after a bus caught fire in a three car crash near Fairfax. Dr E S Waring said Jenkins not in critical condition. Woodstock driver of car ahead of bus Hoover also injured with a head cut.
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Fairfax
Tony Jenkins
Charlottesville
Virginia Stage Lines
Here
E. S. Waring
Jenkins
Peroure
Hoover
Ri ‘Woodstock
Many Precincts May Be Changed
The Frederick County Election Board chaired by J L Jolliffe with Roger A Kline and John W Harper toured county polling places May 28 29 to assess registration books and polling site conditions. They found complaints about purging and recopying registers and several unsatisfactory polling locations.
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Frederick County
J. L. Jolliffe
Roger A. Kline
John W. Harper
Horton Dinner Tickets Still Available Tonight
B F Arthur Jr announced that tickets remain for the testimonial dinner honoring Frank R Horton, retiring Boy Scout executive secretary. The 7 pm event at the George Washington Hotel will draw Scout officials and Scouters from ten northern Virginia counties and nearby West Virginia, marking Horton's nine year tenure end.
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B. F. Arthur, Jr
Frank R. Horton
George Washington
Arthur
Virginia
West Virginia
Shenandoah
Horton
Husband Paces Nervously On Balcony As Ship Reaches Safety
A husband waits anxiously on a ship balcony as the vessel turns toward calmer waters. The moment marks a tense passage of the voyage with family aboard and crew coordinating the recovery.
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Husband
Pacific
Earhart Starts World Flight Quest From San Juan
Amelia Earhart lands at San Juan at 1 30 p m Eastern Standard Time on the first hop of her 28 000 mile world flight. She takes off from Miami at 5 57 a m toward San Juan in a twin motored monoplane. Her husband George Palmer Putnam and navigator Capt Fred Noonan accompany her as the journey begins with confidence and a testing run along the route to South America.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Amelia Earhart
Miami
Fla
George Palmer Putnam
Fred Noonan
Putnam
David
Natal
Brazil
Africa
Pan-American
South America
Krick to Speak at Winchester Frederick Chapter Meeting
Ernest Krick of Washington DC who led Red Cross disaster relief last spring will address the Winchester Frederick Chapter at Grace Lutheran Church on June 17. A visual exhibit on disaster relief will be shown and officers and new executive committee members will be elected with Walker Bond presiding.
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Ernest Krick
Washington D. C
Red Cross
Winchester-Frederick
Grace Lutheran Church
George Baetjer
Helen Wright
Krick
Execuive
Walker Bond
Man Charged With Auto Theft Sentenced In Grand Jury Case
Paul Spillman, 41, ordered to grand jury on breaking and entering charges after police say he smashed a window at Winchester Motor Company on Braddock Street. He borrowed a company car to go to Washington, D C, and was arrested by Officer Carter Baker. He received six months in jail for unauthorized use of an automobile.
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Paul Spillman
Corporation Court
Spillman
Winchester Motor Company
Braddock Street
Carter Baker
Washington, D. C
President seeks curb on tax cheating by wealthy
President Roosevelt urged Congress to curb tax dodging by a minority of very rich individuals and expand Treasury power to investigate income tax evasion. He called for legislation to make the tax structure evasion proof and asked for a joint congressional inquiry with a report due by January 5, 1938. He noted varied evasion methods from legalistic avoidance to clearly unlawful schemes.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Treasury
Harrison
D.miss
Senate Finance Committee
Congressional
Joint Committee
Strike Fronts Tension Over Republic Steel Stand
In Youngstown and nearby cities tension rose to a fever pitch as Republic Steel defied pickets with airplanes while John L. Lewis accused the company of planned murder at its South Chicago plant. Pickets attacked at Canton and Warren, four men injured as planes ferried food to besieged workers.
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John L. Lewis
Republic Steel Co
Chicago
Youngstown
Mahoning Valley
Republic Steel Corporation
Chieftain
Lewis
Republic Steel Company
Canton
Warren
Republic
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Inland Steel Corporation
Keene Murder Case Body Found In Chesapeake Bay
The battered body of a neatly dressed white man with tools tied to his neck was recovered from the Chesapeake Bay near Crisfield Maryland. A coroner's jury ruled death a murder and Sheriff Dryden identified the man as Charles S. Keene a Washington real estate man who vanished after a May 13 nighttime disappearance from a Washington Norfolk steamer. Edward Smith found the body and Smith Island magistrate A P Bradshaw opened an inquest.
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Crisfield
Chesapeake Bay
William H. Dryden
Charles S. Keene
Washington
Edward Smith
Tylerton
Smith Island
Mtd
A. P. Bradshaw
Coffey Leads Open Gold Qualifying Test At Chevy Chase
Cliff Spencer shot a 69 to lead 39 golfers in the Washington district qualifying for the national open gold championship at Chevy Chase. Rut Coffey of Winchester and others posted 70 to 71 as five spots remained for the final 18 holes scheduled this afternoon.
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Chevy Chase
Cliff Spencer
Landover
Washington
Spencer
Byrd Proposes Bills and A Resolution on Economy in Government
Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia announces two new bills and a resolution to reorganize federal functions for economy and efficiency. The plans aim to strengthen the Bureau of the Budget, move it to independent status under the President, and rename the Office of Accounting to Office of Audit and Settlement. A bill would abolish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation by 1938 and transfer duties to existing agencies. The package also asks the President to appoint a director of the budget.
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Washington
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Senate
Senate Reorganization Committee
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Financial Administration
Bureau of the Budget
Treasury Department
General Accounting Office
Office of Audit and Settlement
Congress
Auditor-General
First Will Of Mrs Fletcher Is Held True
Judge Philip Williams in Frederick Circuit Court orders that the holographic will dated October 6 1936 by Ethel Dunlap Fletcher be probated as her true last will. The March 12 1937 paper offered by Elmer Fletcher is deemed not proven as the decedent’s will. An appeal is being considered.
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Philip Williams
Frederick
Ethel Dunlap Fletcher
Elmer Fletcher
Riley L Dunlap
Williams
Riley L. Dunlap
Elmer
Fletcher
Bethel Dunlap Fletcher
Elmer S. Fletcher
Spain Gives Its Version on Almeria Bombardment
Spanish Ambassador Fernando De Los Rios protested to Secretary Hull that the German bombardment of Almeria violated international law. He said his mission had two aims: present the Spanish account of the attack and file a firm protest over the non intervention breach. He noted no requests from Madrid and suggested the U.S. would take no action.
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Washington
Fernando de Los Rios
Hull
Almeria
United States
London
Kapogualy
Foreign Office
Hardy
Palma
Mallorca
Valencia
Anthony Eden
International Non-Intervention Committee
Germany
Italy
Europe
Mediterranean
League of Nations
Tia
Miss Maleady 78 Dies After Stroke at Home
Elizabeth Maleady died at 4 p.m. yesterday at her National avenue home. Born in Philadelphia in 1859, she lived most of her life in this city. An invalid for two years after a fractured hip, she suffered a paralytic stroke a week earlier. Daughter of the late Margaret and John Maleady, she was a devout Sacred Heart Catholic Church member active in church work.
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Elizabeth Maleady
National Avenue
Philadelphia
Miss Maleady
Margaret and
John Maleady
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Social Security Official to Visit Winchester Each Wednesday
Macon I. Williams of the Social Security Board Cumberland office will be at the Winchester post office tomorrow to answer questions on the social security act. He plans weekly visits to Winchester during June to assist locals seeking information and help with compliance.
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Macon I. Williams
Social Security Board
Cumberland
Winchester
Williams
Friendship Show Opens at Fair Grounds This Week
Sponsored by the Friendship Fire Company the Sam Lawrence Shows opened a week long engagement last night at the fair grounds. Performances will run each afternoon and evening this week with proceeds aiding the cost of rebuilding the Friendship Companys fire truck.
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Friendship Fire Company
Sam Lawrence
Fairgrounds
Friendship
Exhibits Must Be At George Washington Hotel By Noon
Exhibitors for the Winchester Clarke Garden Club spring flower show must have all displays at the George Washington Hotel by noon tomorrow. Judging begins after noon, visitors may view from 3, with prize winners announced at 4 by Mrs. R T Barton. The show closes at 9. Judges from Warrenton Front Royal Middlesburg Leesburg will be honored at a luncheon hosted by Mrs. Barton. An additional plant section from The Play Gardens Clarke County will be available for planting-ready specimens.
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Winchester-Clarke Garden Club
George Washington
R T. Barton
Richard Barrett
George Lawrence
Warrenton
William E. Carson
Front Royal
Amos Chilcott
Fairfax
William Seipp
Middlesburg
Thomas Fendall
Elijah White
Leesburg
R. T. Barton
South Washington Street
Clarke County
Il Duce Withdraws Italian Warships From Neutrality Fleet
Rome June 1 Italian warships ordered to stop Russian material supplies to the Spanish government. Mussolini pulls Italy’s fighting ships from the neutrality fleet after Spanish aerial attacks on Italian and German vessels. Germany shells Almeria in reprisal as Mussolini and Blomberg confer on the Spanish crisis.
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Rome
Mussolini
Germany
Almeria
D Duce
Werner von Blomberg
Italy
Spain
Pianos Sold At Cut-Rate Prices In Winchester VA Sale
Livingston and Weaver pianos from York factory offered new at 137.50 cash or 149.95 with instalments. Trade in your old piano accepted. H F Seal Jr factory rep, 36 S Cameron St Winchester Va. 6-1-Ip-11
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weaver Piano Co
York
Mfrs
Livingston, York
Weaver Pianos
Livingston
H. F. Seal, Jr
Cameron St
Winchester
Rexall sale at Brooks Pharmacy pattern
Tremendous bargains offered at a Rexall sale event running Thursday through Saturday June 2 3 4 and 5. Brooks Pharmacy promotes super values. Also notices carpenters wanted by H N Ritter in Virginia dated May 25.
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Brooks Pharmacy
Carpenters
H. N. Ritter
Virginia
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Justice van Devanter
MR Winchester
Electoral Board
Earhantenna
Florida
Porto Rico
Noonan
Kenne
Coffey
Byrd
U. S
Sacred Heart Church
Il Duce
Eden
von Blomberg
Rexallic Sale
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