Moore Unopposed As Deadline For Filing Ends
The filing deadline for Democratic Primary candidacies in Frederick Clarke counties closed with two new filings John Massie for sheriff and W Lomax Parker for Board of Supervisors. A total of 24 candidates filed for 12 open elective positions, with several contestants for sheriff and state senate and others unopposed in Clarke and Frederick counties.
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Moore
Frederick and
Clarke Counties
R. L. Omps
Frederick County
John Massie
W. Lomax Parker
Stephens City
Board of Supervisors
Opequon
Omps
Blackburn Moore
House of Delegates
Clarke
Frederick Counties
Winchester
Raymond Bayliss
John Bywaters
Noble Pierce
Democratic Party
Capt
Frank Wray
Clarke County
T. Russell Cather
Burr P. Harrison
Shenandoah
Harry L. McCann
C. I. Brumback
E. Blackburn Moore
Frederick
William D. Burtner
William M. Fenton
Chapel District
Clifton Price
Battletown
Frank M. Wray
State Senate
Commissioner of Revenue
Sam S. Thomas
Harvey Fishpan
J. G. Burch
Robert W. Buckner
W. W. Smallwood, Jr
A. C. Buckley
Robert Buckley
Edward McC. Williams
A. Garland Williams
Winchester warns on stray house numbers in city notices
Mr Winchester notes confusion over stop signs at intersections where traffic signals replace signs. He cites misnumbered residences and notices sent March 1 about wrong numbers, urging residents to correct numbers to aid mail and deliveries.
Cutting Hole In Submarine Impracticable
A PA official explanation today said rescuers considered cutting a hole in the stern of the sunken submarine Thetis but found it impracticable. Limited stern space and time, danger to trapped men, and tidal conditions made any hole unworkable. the ship toppled and disappeared beneath the tide after hours of effort.
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Thetis
Yard Party at Macedonia Church This Saturday Night
A community yard party at Macedonia Church is planned for Saturday night June 10 hosted by the Ladies Aid Society. A call goes out for a good home for a fine gray cat with white mittens. contact phone 41.
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Macedonia Church
Ladies’ Aid Soc
Sip-it
Baccalaureate at Handley High School Opens Graduation Week
The Handley High School baccalaureate will open commencement week with 115 seniors receiving the sermon Friday at 8 p.m. Dr. Edward N. Calisch of Beth Ahabah, Richmond, delivers the address. Winchester Ministerial Association leads the ceremony with Rev. S. L. Plickinger introducing. Ministers Luther Bridges Herman McKay H G Balthis and Charles H Punk participate. Graduation exercises are set for Thursday night June 8 at 8. Public attendance is invited.
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Handley
Edward N. Calisch
Beth Ahabah
Richmond
Winchester Ministerial Association
S. L. Plickinger
Luther Bridgers
Herman McKay
H. G. Balthis
Charles H. Punk
Blic
Thetis Loss Heaviest In History As Hope Fades
The British submarine Thetis wreck disaster ends with 98 men trapped and presumed dead after chlorine gas exposure. Cammell Laird officials announce no hope remains for survivors. Admiralty confirms the grim assessment as salvage work continues.
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Thetis
Birkenhead
Eng
Cammel Laird, Ltd
Cammell Laird
Admiralty
Irish Sea
British Admiralty
Navy
Cammell Laird, Ltd
Navy orders speed up building 24 warships
Washington reports the navy ordered 24 warships at once in a $350 million move to cut construction time. Assistant Secretary Charles Edison says Japan has narrowed U S total tonnage superiority to about five to four and that even a ten year program cannot restore the 5-5-3 balance. He notes Britain and Japan built ships while the United States was idle.
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Washington
Japan
Charles Edison
United States
Great Britain
Edison
Britain
Ste phens City Juniors Earn Washington Trip With Dental Certificates
A group of Ste phens City High School juniors earned a trip to Washington by delivering dental certificates to Mrs. Claude B. Stickley. The photo includes students and staff such as L. E. Cornell, Frances Scrivener, Helen Evans, Rachel Welch, and many others. One member, Ferman Perry, joined later at his home near Double Tollgate on the Front Royal Pike.
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Stephens City High School
Washington
Claude B. Stickley
L. E. Cornell
Frederick County
Frances Scrivener
Helen Evans
Rachel Welch
Sally Pingley
Hugh Orndorff
Gerald DeHaven
Garland Parker
Don Combs
Ralph Kline
Charles R. Lemley
Joe White
Maynard Boyce
Helen ‘Auck
Washington Lemley
Louis Travers
Mae Goode
Nellie Moore-Robinson
Fay Moyers
Doris Adams
Wilmer Schlack
Eliha Edwards
Helen Pappas
Anna Margaret Beavers
Gladys Bursey
Gladys Fawcett
Jane Hope Polhamus
Charlotte Lemley
Martha Richard
Gertrude Clark
Betty Hack
la Ree Flowers
Freda Tusing
Elsie Edwards
Ruth Brill
Alyn Loy
Thelma Hausenfluck
Ferman Perry
Double Tollgate
Front Royal Pike
Veto Likely on Farm Bill as Payments Budgeted
Washington reports indicate President Roosevelt may veto the 1.218 billion farm bill over unbudgeted farm benefit payments totaling 338 million. Congress may override, or pass an appropriation to finance benefits. Secretary Wallace supports approval while Vice President Garner and some advisers urge veto.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Senate-House
Wallace
Garner
Chief Justice Hughes Ill. Seeks Recovery
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, 77, is recovering from a duo denal ulcer. An official statement from assistant clerk Nelson A. Potter says there is no reason to doubt a full recovery. The illness was disclosed in Washington on June 3.
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Washington
Charles Evans Hughes
Nelson A. Potter
Young Democrats To Meet Friday in Winchester County
President W. Erle Edwards announces a meeting of the Young Democrats in Winchester and Frederick County to be held Friday June 9 in the county courthouse.
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Young Democrats
W. Erle Edwards
Winchester
Frederick County
County Court House
Vigil Ends As Thetis Families Face Loss At Birkenhead
In Birkenhead on June 3 a crowd of women waited in a dingy waterfront street for news of men aboard the submarine Thetis. After shipyard official Sydney Woodward announced no hope, optimism dissolved into tears as families faced the absence of their loved ones.
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Birkenhead
Thetis
Cammell Laird
Sydney Woodward
G. H. Bolus
Admiralty
The
Budd seeks FBI help in search for missing son
William F. Budd of Erie asks federal agents to aid in locating his son Harry L. Budd 28. His car was found abandoned in Fredericksburg Virginia. Budd says Harry vacationed in Florida and left Miami May 1 for Erie with possibly up to 900 dollars in his possession.
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Erie
William F. Budd
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Harry L. Budd
Fredericksburg
Budd
Florida
Miami
Florida Legislature Adjourns Amid $12 Million Deficit Forecast
Tallahassee June 3 The Florida legislature adjourned leaving the state facing a $12,000,000 operating loss. Speaker G Pierce Wood warned of a rubber check government for the next two years as he projected the deficit.
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Tallahassee
Fila
Florida
G. Pierce Wood
Actress Madeleine Carroll to divorce Capt. Philip Astley
Hollywood reports Madeleine Carroll plans divorce from Capt. Philip Astley a London real estate broker. The couple wed in 1931 and she has visited him in London during film assignments.
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Hollywood
Madeleine Carroll
Philip Astley
London
Astery
Clipper Atlantic Clipper Completes First Round-Trip Mail Flight
Pan American Airways flying boat Atlantic Clipper completed its first round-trip mail flight to England, landing at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Standard Time in Port Washington. The milestone marks a maiden progress in transatlantic air mail service.
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Port Washington
N. Y
Pan American Airways
Atlantic Clipper
England
Preteen Boy Found Dead in Icebox Cellar
Seven year old Preston Raub Jr disappeared Tuesday and a large ice box in the cellar of his East Brunswick township home held his body. A wide search had been conducted since his disappearance.
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South inVak
N. J
Preston Raub, Jr
East Brunswick Township
Woman slain in Portland by rejected suitor in booth call
Ora C. Wilson 30, a Portland bookkeeper, was shot by a rejected suitor while in a telephone booth calling for help. The assailant Oscar Hodney 33, an unemployed truck driver, then killed himself near Carver Oregon.
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Portland
Ore
Ora C. Wilson
Portland, Oregon
Oscar Hodney
Carver
Derailment Kills Fireman and Engineer Near Ranger
A Texas and Pacific passenger train No. 3 derailed and overturned three miles west of Ranger Texas. The fireman and engineer died and two women passengers were injured in the crash today.
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Wreck Ranger
Tex
Texas and Pacific
Here
Edinburgh Ophthalmic Surgeon Attends American Society Meet
Dr McGuire and Mrs McGuire with guests Dr and Mrs Greene of Washington Dr and Mrs Tooke of Montreal and Mr Traquair depart to Hot Springs Virginia for the annual meeting of the American Ophthalmological Society They plan to return to Winchester on Thursday June 8th.
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Hunter McGuire
Louis S. Greene
Washington
Frederick T. Tooke
Montreal
H. M. Traquair
Edinburgh
Scotland
American Opthalmological Society
Hot Springs
McGuire
Winchester
Weather Outlook for the Week Begins June 5
The forecast covers the North and Middle Atlantic states with showers in New England at week's start. Showers expected midweek and later in the week with a warm spell on Wednesday, a cooler Thursday and Friday, then warmth returning Saturday.
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Washington
North
Middle Atlantic
New England
New York Faces Food Shortage
A 1500 strong strike by warehouse workers in New York and New Jersey halts movements of meat butter eggs vegetables fruits and other perishables from 22 cold storage facilities. The Inland Warehousemen's Union AFL seeks 5 dollar weekly raise to 40 and two weeks vacation. Alexander Moir says offer was 37.50 and one week vacation. He warns of a critical shortage by Monday as truck drivers refuse to move goods.
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New York
New Jersey
Inland Warehousemen’s Union
AFL
Alexander Moir
Moir
Closing Program At Gore School Gore Va June 9
Stewart Bell announces the Sidney Fore School Gore closing exercises at Gore Virginia Friday June 9 starting at 8 o clock with M C Garvin Mrs Dan Kern and Will Muse in charge The program features a portrait presentation of Mrs Sidney Gore and awards and certificates with multiple grade level songs and poems by students, a health essay awards presentation, and a benediction by Dr Eugene B Jackson
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Stewart Bell
Sidney Fore
Gore
M. C Garvin
Dan Kern
Will Muse
Sidney Gore
P. O. Sartelle
Eugene B Jackson
Proposals to widen Social Security aid advance
The Ways and Means Committee finished work on changes proposing higher Social Security benefits. They would raise the maximum federal old age assistance contribution from $15 to $20 a month, to be matched by state funds, potentially bringing total payments to $40 per person in states offering $20.
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Washington
Juune
House
Ways and Means
Eight Point Plan For Revision Of Taxes Recommended
The National Association of Manufacturers urged theHouse Ways and Means Committee to adopt an eight point tax reform program to spur investment and tax equity. Proposals include reducing federal surtax rates, eliminating capital gains taxes and undistributed earnings tax, exempting corporate dividends from ordinary income tax, and ending double taxation from intercorporate dividends. Other ideas proposed by Charles H. Mylander include repeal of the safe deposit box tax and estate tax exemptions for foreign securities.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
National Association of Manufacturers
Noel Sargent
Association
Morgenthau
Ways and Means
Charles H. Mylander
Columbus
Ohio
American Bankers Asociation
Mylander
Pay Tribute To Southern Leader Jefferson Davis
Southern leaders and citizens paid tribute on June 3 for Jefferson Davis born in Kentucky in 1808 and long a Mississippi senator. Banks closed and memorial services were held across nine states including Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi South Carolina Texas Kentucky Virginia to mark the birthday.
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Atlanta
Jefferson Davis
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Louisana
Georgia
Mississippi
South Carolina
Texas
Kentucky
Virginia
Davis
United States Senate
Turner Ashby
U. D. OC
Confederate States
Heavy June Rain Totals 3.70 Inches This Month
Rain during the night measured 83 of an inch, raising June’s total to 3.70 inches. The 26 year June average is 3.58 inches, indicating rainfall above normal this period.
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Wales
U. S
Greenway
Henry P. Mitchell
Edward B. Lee
Chapel
William M Fenton
Longmarsh
John M. Fishpan
Oscar Carr
Democratic Committee
Democratic Executive Committee
J. R. Strode
George H. Burwell
J. L. Carper
Kenneth N. Gilpin
Dr. C. O Dearmont
C. C. Funkhouser
H P. Mitchell
Ed Lee
Holmes J Hardesty
E. Blackburn Moore Ralph Dorsey
J. F. Galloway
George H. Levi
MR Winchester
Hughes
Clipper Home
Dr McGuire
Weather Outlook
Metropolis
McC. Garvin
Bell
Jeff Davis
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