Addition to Grandstand at Front Royal
Front Royal Virginia June 25 A representative of the Front Royal All-Stars said work has begun on a new grandstand at the All-Stars stadium. The structure will seat more than 300 extra spectators and will sit beside the existing stand to relieve crowding. Fans from Winchester Frederick County Culpeper and Harrisonburg voiced praise for the high quality play by the Front Royal Club. Joe Garvey formerly of Fredericksburg BIlk s arrived and will join the All-Stars pitching staff for the remainder of the season joining Joe Stankus Bob Cassell Speedball Johnson.
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NT Royal
Front Royal
All-Stars
Winchester
Frederick County
Culpeper
Harrisonpurg
Front Royal Club
Joe Garvey
Fredericksburg Bilk
Garvey
Joe Stankus
Bob Cassell
Johnson
Front Royal Band Headlines Second Concert Next Friday
Front Royal Va June 25 Despite rain the first concert of the Warren County high school band drew over fifty cars to the portico event. Captain G C Dean announced another concert Friday evening at the Bank of Warren likely around 7 45 with continued strong turnout and satisfaction with attendance despite bad weather.
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Front Royal
Warren County High School
G. C. Dean
Bank of Warren
Dean
Lang transfers to Rena Lang front royal house and lot
Ash by Lang transfers to Rena Lang a house and lot on the west side of Lee street Front Royal bounded by James Shiner and W R Herrell properties with 52 feet on Lee and 188 feet to an alley. A deed recorded June 22 and other consideration of one dollar.
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Front Royal
Ashby Lang
Rena Lang
Lee Street
James Shiner
W. R. Herrell
Lee
Warren County Supervisors Meet to Close Fiscal Year
The Warren County Board of Supervisors will meet Saturday to pay all claims, close the past fiscal year books, and finalize plans for the new fiscal year beginning July 1.
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Front Royal
Warren County Board of Supervisors
Shenandoah Valley League Schedule Update
Waynesboro plays Culpeper today with Charlottesville hosting tomorrow. Thursday matchups include Front Royal at Staunton and Heurich at Orange. Charlottesville visits Harrisonburg. Saturday card features Heurich at Culpeper Orange at Front Royal and Harrisonburg at Staunton.
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Waynesboro
Charlottesville
Staunton
Heurich
Orange
Harrisonbura
Culpeper
Front Royal
Harrisonburg
Beauty Pageant To Be Held On Next Thursday
FRONT ROYAL June 25 Plans are being completed for the Warren county beauty pageant to be held here Thursday evening in the Warren Park Theatre Immediately after the selection of Miss Warren County the Col Samuel Millar Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will sponsor a dance in Updyke s ballroom Several stores and girls representing them are listed with firms entering not yet selecting all entrants A complete list will be announced tomorrow morning
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Front Royal
Warren County
Warren Park Theatre
Col. Samuel Millar Post
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Updyke
P. M. Shirey
Loraine Updyke
Compton Kilby
Mildred Vaughn
Star Shoe Repair Shop
Kathleen Derflinger
Motor Inn
Mary Johnson
Crigler’s Hardware
Louise Norcross
Blue Ridge Brewers
Pauline Alexander
Sager’s Department
Ida Brady
Royal Barber Shop
Evelyn Boyd
Woman's Shop
Gladys Hayley
Home Beneficial Insurance Association
H. O. Miller
Lucille Sloat
the Haberdashers
Mary Frances Simpson
Hilda Morris
Front Royal Motor Co
Velma Franklin
Rohr
Genevieve Morris
Audacille’s
Gathia Ritenour
Park Grill
Corrine Baggerly
Venable’s Drug Store
Powder Puff
Lieberman's
Stokes Dry Cleaners
Brookfield Dairy
Johnston
Social and Personal News Highlights from Local Life
The Warren County Tuberculosis Association committee meets Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Mrs. Tom Melton’s home on Royal Avenue with field worker Gladys Allisozi from Richmond present. Francis and Travis Dudley host a party at their Wapping Road home. Frances Forbes shows improved condition after yesterday’s funeral. Local residents Russell Major Harold Smith Jr Bradford Reid and “Bim” Cook return from a Powell's Fort Valley camping trip. Sammy Simpson hosts a birthday party at his parents’ Luray Avenue home. Russell Major heads to Washington, D.C. to visit friends. Mary Ashby Slaughter of Washington, D.C. visits her mother at Edgewood. Elizabeth Boyd to return from Washington with sister Anna Mae Boyd. L. S. Rohr returns from two weeks in Ohio and Waterford, N.Y. Mrs. Julian Major and Mrs. Harold Smith host bridge. Washington visitors S. L. Rutz and J. H. Thompson see A. N. Carrolls. Henry Trout Jr. improves after illness at East Main. June Trout of Gastonia will join her father for the summer.
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Front Royal
Warren County Tuberculosis Association Committee
Tom Melton
Royal Avenue
Gladys Allisozi
General Office
Richmond
Messrs
Russell Major
Harold Smith, Jr
Bradford Reid
Bim” Cook
Powell's Fort Valley
The
Fork District
Plan Clinic For Children In Warren County July 10–11
Health nurse Mrs. Hannah Weiser announces a Warren County clinic for children on July 10 and 11 to remove tonsils and adenoids. She warns infected tonsils impact overall health and untreated adenoids can cause earaches and possibly deafness. Sundogs are parhelia formed by ice crystal refraction. Weather notes about January warmth and thawing.
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Front Royal
Hannah Weiser
Warren County
Weiser
British Envoy Surveys South African Middle East Policy
British minister for League of Nations affairs Captain Anthony Eden, with Italian official Fulvio Suvich, surveyed the Ethiopian question ahead of a Rome meeting with Mussolini. Eden aimed to learn Mussolini's aims in Ethiopia and consider mediation with Haile Selassie while discussing league articles on territorial integrity and arbitration. Italy argued Article 10 could not be invoked and favored a mandate status for Ethiopia.
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Rome
Great Britain
League of Nations
Anthony Eden
Fulvio Suvich
Mussolini
Sovich
Castel Fusano
Eden
Il Duce
Ethiopia
Haile Selee
Haile Selassie
League
League Council
Italy
Addis Ababa
Jimma
Democrats Turn Down Appeal of House Speaker
Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee debated a 30 to 90 day extension of nuisance levies and wealth taxes amid pressure to rush action. The House had passed an extension bill. Senate fate and tax details remain unsettled as the President pushes new tax measures. Vice President Garner, Speaker Burns, and several senators attended the conference, with reports that Secretary Morgenthau has a tax plan ready for Congress.
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House
Senate
Congress
Ways and Means
Garner
Burns
Dobinson
D-Ark
Harrison
D-Miss
Rep
Doughton
DNC
Morgeanthau
Sheep Sale Planned in Berryville by County Agent
Announcement from the county agent office states a bred sheep sale by C Funkhouser in Berryville will take place on Saturday June 29 at 1 30 PM in Berryville. The event is noted as part of the July 11 Front Royal schedule and prompts farmers to attend.
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Front Royal
C. Funkhouser
Cue County
Berryville
Harvard honors four well known men this year
Henry A. Wallace secretary of agriculture receives an honorary degree at Harvard, seated with Dr. James Bryant Conant and other notable figures. Norman Davis, diplomat, William Allen White, editor, and Prof. Albert Einstein, scientist, also shown as recipients in the ceremony.
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Harvard
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
James Bryant Conant
Norman Davis
William Allen White
Albert Einstein
Tire Goes Flat On Ole Miss in Meridian Flight
Meridian Miss June 25 The endurance flight plane Ole Miss marked its 500th hour on the twenty second day in the air when a tire went flat Al and Fred Key the pilots notified ground crews that landing would require utmost caution to prevent a crash At the 500 hour point the craft had flown 40000 miles since June 4 in a bid to better the 553 hour 41 minute 30 second world record set by the Hunter brothers in 1930.
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Meridian
Miss
Ole Miss
Fred Key
Hunter Brothers
Chicago
President Signs Navy Bill For Peace Time Work
President Roosevelt signed the navy appropriation bill setting a record peace time fund for construction. The $460,000,000 measure includes starting 24 new warships and purchasing 555 airplanes, with 282 for replacement and 273 to raise naval air strength toward the goal of 2,000 planes by 1943. Ship construction funds were reduced from 29,380,000 to 20,690,000 but the Navy Department says the cut will not delay the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Navy
Navy Department
Department
Brown Bomber Continues Lead In Bout Betting
New York June 25 Primo Carnera will have a 63 1 2 pound advantage over Joe Louis in their 15 round heavyweight bout tonight at Yankee Stadium. The Italian giant tipped the beam at 260 1 2 pounds while Louis weighed 196 on official scales. Police precautions failed to dampen a cheerful crowd outside the New York State Athletic Commission offices as preparations advanced under ideal summer weather. Louis remained the favorite at 8 to 5 in some bets.
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New York
Primo Carnera
Joe Louis
Detroit
Louis
Protein in Soy Beans and Global Use
Soybeans provide a complete vegetable protein and rank with eggs milk and meat as a vital food source. Nutritionist Miss Gertrude E Conant notes their fat calcium and pellagra preventing vitamin content. The world’s largest children’s school is Brisbane’s State Primary Correspondence School with 6000 pupils in distant regions learning by post.
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Gertrude E.conant
University of Arkansas
Brisbane
Australia
Northern Territory
New Guinea
Papua
Solomon Islands
Tit- Bits Magazine
Woman fears kidnapping after boy vanishes in Sutton Place
Mrs. John F. Kaul of New York City fears a childless woman took her five-year-old son John after police dragged the East River in a search for the boy's body. The boy, son of a World War veteran, disappeared while playing in the Sutton Place district.
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John
John F. Kaul
New York City
East River
Sutton Place
Death Summons Mrs Benson At Local Hospital
Mrs Virginia Butsler Benson aged 50 wife of Ross H Benson died at Memorial Hospital at 2 PM after a period of illness following her marriage on May 23 on the eastern shore of Maryland She was a daughter of the late Rev David F Eustler a Baltimore Conference clergyman who lived in Winchester in retirement She also lived at Fairfax Va and is survived by her husband her mother Mrs Annie Landes Butsler a sister Mrs Allen D Merrill two brothers E W Butsler and G Frank Butsler Funeral from her mother’s home 713 South Cameron Street at 2 PM Thursday conducted by Rev Dr Hubert Sydenstricker with interment in Edge Hill Cemetery Charles Town W Va.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Butsler Benson
Ross H. Benson
Memorial Hospital
Mr. Benson
Maryland
South
Winchester
Benson
Fairfax
Fairfax Methodist Church
Annie Landes Butsler
City
Allen D. Merrill
Pocomoke City
E. W. Butsler
Shepherdstown
W. Va
G. Frank Butsler
Cameron Street
Hubert Sydenstricker
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Edge Hill Cemetery
Charles Town
Moody Begins Campaign To Regain Wimbledon Title
London June 25 Helen Wills Moody opened her bid to reclaim the all England crown by defeating M Baumgarten of Hungary 6 0 6 1 in the first round at Wimbledon. American rival Helen Jacobs also sailed to the second round over Mile Adamson Belgian champion 6 3 6 2 with steady hitting. Moody slipped twice in the opening game but recovered to display improved form.
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London
Helen Wills Moody
M. Baumgarten
Hungary
Helen Jacobs
Mrs. Moody
Nelli
Adamson
Miss Jacobs
Mile. Adamson
Famous Rum Conspiracy Trial Nears Close
Roanoke Va June 25 After 45 days of testimony from 400 witnesses the trial of alleged Franklin county liquor conspirators neared the jury today Attys planned motions to Judge John Paul in chambers before charge The governments case was summarized as witness Mrs Virginia Craighead head of former home and J H Phiegar clerk in a grocery store testified about the location of her former home and activities linked to rum running including Samuel O White former prohibition federal investigator and Willie Carter former rum running figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke
Franklin County
John Paul
Sterling Hutcheson
Virginia Craighead
Piquett Case Goes To Jury
Chicago judge hears defense on harboring Homer Van Meter during Dillinger era. jurors begin deliberations in Louis Piquett’s federal trial.
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Chicago
Louis P. Piquett
Homer van Meter
Dillinger
Philip L. Sullivan
Guardsmen set off tear gas to restore order
In Tacoma on June 25 National Guardsmen used tear gas bombs near the Eleventh Street bridge to disperse crowds while workers returned to half a dozen lumber mills. Guardsmen carried mixed bayonets as they moved the crowd through the business district.
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Tacoma
Wash
Eleventh Street Bridge
National
Nordic Theory and Human Races Mentioned by Anthropologists
The term Nordic refers to Scandinavian and Teutonic peoples of northern Europe and to races derived from them. Anthropologists like Deniker describe it as the blond, long headed type, around which a belief in its superiority centers.
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Europe
Deniker
Racket Exposed in Real Estate Bonds Probe
Representative Adolph Sabath of Illinois, chairing a house committee on real estate reorganizations, cites vast bootlegging scale and Wall Street losses to investors. He says startling evidence will be turned over to the department of justice for prosecution.
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Wall Street
Adolph Sabath
Illinois
House
Sabath
Department of Justice
Racing Greyhounds Weights and Racing Distances
Racing greyhounds weigh 55 to 70 pounds and begin racing at age two. They remain competitive for four or five years, racing at five sixteenths, three sixteenths, quarter-mile and futurity distances. Quarter-mile times run about 26 seconds, futurity about 32 seconds.
Future And Cash Wheat And Other Grain Quotations
Grain price quotations from Chicago and Baltimore dated June 5 and June 25 show futures and cash values for wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, lard, and bellies. No. 2 hard wheat and various white and yellow corn prices are listed with delivery basises and sample ranges.
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Chicago
Baltimore
Winchester
Doct ors Try Saving Six Who Survived Crash
Six crash survivors received urgent medical care after a collision between Ernesto Samper’s plane and a Scadia aircraft near Medellin. The dead include Carlos Gardel, famed South American actor, Col Lindbergh of Colombia and other figures from cinema and industry. Injured are Alfredo Le Pera and others listed. doctors report their conditions as very serious.
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Carlos Gardel
Ernesto Samper
Lindbergh of
Columbia
Scadia
Medellin
Samper
Gardel
South America
Cartagena
Colombia
Bogota
Charles A. Lindbergh
William Foster
Henry Swartz
Philadelphia
Jose Aguilar
Jose C. Moreno
Celedonio Palacios
Hans Ulrich Thom
Fuerst
Lester W. Straus
New York
Alfredo le Pera
Flynn
Angel de Riveral
Guillermo de Barmier
Alphonoso Azzaf
Jose P. Laja
Riveral
Maryland
Salisbury
Henry Schwartz
Colombi
William Feldman
Sophia Swartz
South American
Market in Stocks Sees Backing Off After Steady Outlook
New York June 25 The stock market showed a modest backtrack with an orderly selling wave in the hour, prices rose then fell, and trading quieted as overnight news suggested the President would insist on a steady position despite equity performance. Bonds were moderately lower and the dollar held firm in foreign exchange. Closing quotes for selected stocks include Allied Chemical 152, American Can 138 1 2, GM 33 1 4, U S Steel 33 7 8, and Union Pacific 104 3 4.
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New York
Stock Exchange
Allied Chemical
American Can
American Smelters
American Tel. & Tel
Atch
Topeka
Stand. Oil of N. J
Union Pacific
U. S. Steel
Woolworth
Livestock and Produce Markets Baltimore and Philadelphia
Baltimore market reports show cattle prices steady to mixed with steers 6.00 to 10.25, cows 3.00 to 6.75, calves 5.50 to 8.50, hogs 100 lower with truck hogs under quotes and tonnage prices from 8.45 to 10.40. Sheep and lambs stay steady to higher with rail lambs around 9.50 and spring lambs 6.25 to 9.50. Philadelphia lists live poultry roosters 13 to 14 cents, broilers 20 to 24, butter 25 to 28, eggs 7.875 and noted unchanged.
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Baltimore
Philadephia
Plymouth Rocks
Local Wholesale Market Prices For Flour And Feed
The Star lists daily local wholesale market prices for flour and feeds including patent and cracked corn, mixed feed, and corn meal in various bag weights. Prices cover 98 lb and 48 lb sacks, 24 lb, 12 lb bags, plus dairy feeds, butter, cattle, sheep, hogs, and live stock values in a compact price table.
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Peicete Ae
Kasco Aera
Mika Rhaty
Seeees
Bere Ereneee
Eeso
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Winchester Evening Star
Richard K. Eddy
Telephone Front Royal 213
Shenandoah Valley League
Game Today
Francis
Travis Dudley
Wapping Road
Frances Forbes
Fryal
Sammy Simpson
Sam Simpson
Luray Avenue
Washington, D. C
Mary Ashby Slaughter
Francis Raymond Slaughter
Edgewood
Elizabeth Boyd
Anna Mae Boyd
L. S. Rohr
Ohio
Waterford
Julian N .Major
Harold Smith
Bridge
S. L. Rutz
J. H. Thompson
A. N. Carroll
Henry Trout, Jr
East Main Street
June Trout
Gastonia N. C
Wilbur F. Trout
the Weather Bureau
Sultanate
Davis
Wallace
John Kaul
D. F. Butsler
Helen Moody
U.S. Dept
Star
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