Front Royal and Warren County News Notes Local Arrivals and Events
Mrs BE H Keyser returns from Gretna to Front Royal. Mr and Mrs S Byrne Downing Jr plan Baltimore trip for wedding of Alfred McKay Jr and Virginia Williamson. Virginia Massie Missionary Society met at Methodist Church. Capt and Mrs J M Lockman traveled to Washington. Eleanor White returns from State Teacher College Farmville. Lions Club nominating committee met at Percy L Rogers home. Mrs L R Treat of Lexington visiting here with Payne family. Mr Treat weekend visit. Mr and Mrs Mark Turner hosted guests Hugh Browering Island. Mirtia Hedrick returns from Strasburg to her parents home.
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S. Byrne Downing,Jr
Baltimore
Alfred McKay, Jr
Virginia Williamson
Eleanor White
State Teacher’ College
Farmville
Cc. H. White
Front Royal Lions Club
Percy L. Rogers
L. R. Treat
Lexington
R. W. Payne
Mr. Treat
Payne Home
Housewives Defy Highway Builders
In Surzburg Pennsylvania on June 8, angry housewives blocked a secondary highway, resisting state police attempts to clear the route. Police argued with the crowd all morning, but by noon could not persuade them to move as horns blared and traffic diverted to alternative routes. Local residents complained that road abandonment left dust in homes as cars passed.
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Suremberg
Hart Sues Ta Paternity Case In Los Angeles
Wan S Hart sues Elizabeth MacCaulley in a paternity dispute and trust cancellation case. Hart claims he was misled into creating a trust in 1918 for a one year old boy, stopped payments in 1926 after MacCaulley admitted the child was not his. He seeks recovery of about 12 000 dollars from the fund now totaling around 12 000 and serves as bank trustee alongside MacCaulley.
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Los Angeles
William S. Has
Fdr
Elizabeth ‘MecCauley
Hart
Miss MacCaulley
Literary Agent Receives Prison Term In Oppenheim Theft
Eric ., a 47 year old literary agent, was sentenced to two and a half to five years in Sing Sing for the theft of more than $20 from E Phillips Oppenheim, renowned author. Pinker, husband of Adrienne n and father of actors Barbara Constance and Bennett, pleaded guilty to aiding larceny in General Sessions.
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Ee York
Eric Er
Sing Sing
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Pinker
Adriennen
Richard Bemhett
Barbara
Constance
Bennett
Increase in Federal Civil Service Employees
Washington reports the Civil Service Commission notes April shows 885,262 federal executive branch employees, up 5,758 from March. April payroll totaled 133,467,310 dollars, down from March 134,622,972. The gain in headcount paired with a lower payroll due to reduced hours.
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Washington
Civil Seevice Commission
Pleads Guilty in Tax Charge Against Former Chairman
Charles McGlue former Democratic to committee chairman changed his plea to guilty in a Federal Court in Boston on evading income taxes in 1935. Judge Hugh D. McClellan temporarily dismissed the jury and postponed imposition of sentence.
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Boston
Charles McGlue
Democratic
Chang
Hugh D. McClellan
Hable's Palace Presents Betty Furness and James Craig
Betty Furness and James Craig star in North of Shanghai at Hable's Palace Theatre for one day only. A newspaper gal and newsreel thrill audiences. Also showing The Spiders Web a light ang Comedy.
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Betty Furness
James Craig
Shanghai
Hable’s Palace Theatre
Pal
Stork Delivers Twins to Foster Father in Camden
Mrs Helen Stark adopted twins in Mesa Arizona and flew to Camden New Jersey to present them to her husband Dr Henry Stark a 39 year old Dupont chemist from Wilmington Delaware The mother arrived with a baby boy and girl in pink baskets after a Phoenix to Camden flight, and said she originally planned for one child but chose both.
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Camden
N. J
Arizona
Phoenix
Helen Stark
Henry M. Stark
Wilmington, del
Dupont Company
Peruvian Government Declares Child Mother and Infant Wards
Lima Peru June 8 The Peruvian government has placed child mother Lina Medina and her infant son under state guardianship to protect them from grave harm from uncontrolled dealings with commercial enterprises The baby was born May 14 1939 14
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Lima
Peru
Lina Medina
Precocious Motherhood Case Witnessed in Lima Hospital
A commission of physicians observed a Caesarean operation in a Lima hospital as part of documenting Lina Media's extraordinary case. The young mother was born September 23, 1934, and a government guardianship decree directs efforts to obtain the greatest scientific information from this remarkable case.
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Low Hand
Lima
Lina Media
Hopkins Zoologist Sonneborn Resigns for Indiana University Post
Dr. Tracy M. Sonneborn, associate professor of zoology at Johns Hopkins University, announced his resignation to accept a similar position at Indiana University, ending his work on one celled organisms.
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Baltimore
Tracy M. Sonneborn
Johns Hopkins University
Indiana University
Fewer Unions Greater Strength in Railroad Labor
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen reaffirmed plans to consolidate with the Order of Railway Conductors and the Switchmen's Union of North America. A committee report urged that fewer unions would create greater strength, and the convention rejected joining the AF of L or CIO.
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Cleveland
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Order of Railway, Conductors
Switchmen’s Union of North America
BRT
AFOL
CIO
Hero or Villain: Hiker Causes Train Wreck Near Stones
Sidney Jones a 27 year old hitchhiker was hailed as a hero for flagging down a speeding passenger train to avoid disaster with rocks heaped on the tracks. Railroad detectives arrested him and he later admitted he rolled the rocks onto the rails.
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Philadelphia
Sidney Jones
Refuge Brevities
Refuge notes say Mr and Mrs Roy Bowman of Annandale Virginia and their infant Patsy visited Thursday with the family in the area.
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Roy Bowman
Patsy
Annandale, Va
Local families visit relatives in Emory and Kernstown area
Formerly named Bowman and Ritenour families visit grandparents and parents in Leesburg Emory and Kernstown with the Pitcock Orndorff Lillard Whiteley and Grim households. The piece notes Elizabeth Ritenour and James Orndorff hosting and visiting at their home. Portland milk issue leads to requested city ordinance requiring rubber-soled shoes for milkmen.
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L.L. Bowman
Lucius Ritenour
Leesburg
Elizabeth Ritenour
Charlotte Pitcock
Charles Pitcock
James Orndorff
Ross Lilard
Emory and
Henry College
Emory, Va
Amiss Lillard
Thomas Whiteley
Washington, D. C
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