Growers Meet Tonight to Hear Prof Tucker
Fruit growers of the county will meet at 7:30 PM at the courthouse to hear Prof A Tucker of Virginia Tech discuss plans for the season. Interest in the small fruit industry is rising with expectations of increased acreages in strawberries raspberries and blackberries as processors demand grows. Farmers plan cautious plantings this year with some sections showing as little as one sixth acre and others up to half an acre to test profits before expanding next year.
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Crick
Miss Steele To Lead Program At Braddock Street Church
The Margaret Collins Denny and Comrade Bible Classes at Braddock Street Methodist Church will hold a 9 45 Sunday worship session led by Miss Mary Lou Steele. Mrs O L Jamison will deliver the message and Mrs J G Over, noted soprano, will sing. The lesson for classes will be taught by Mrs J H Lightland and Mrs F W Danley. Officers say attendance reached 50 last Sunday and they hope to exceed that in coming services. Attendance at Evangelistic services has been excellent and organizers aim to boost it further.
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Margaret Collins Denny
Braddock
Street Methodist Church
Mary Lou Steele
O. L. Jamison
J.G. Over
J. H. Lightland
F. W. Danley
Abe
Girl Scouts Trained As Citizens In 1938 Annual Report
The 1938 Girl Scout annual report, forward by Mrs. F Louis Slade, cites 516 420 members in 5 263 communities and a rise of 74 456 members in 1938. It links homemaking, budgeting, hospitality and crafts to citizenship while noting disaster relief work during the East Coast hurricane and safety efforts across camps and communities.
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F. Louis Slade
New York City
New England
Girl Scouts
Deaths From Appendicitis Drop After New Glass Drain
Dr W Wayne Babcock of Temple University reported at a regional American College of Surgeons meeting that deaths from peritonitis after appendectomies fell from 25 percent in 50 cases before 1934 to 6 percent in 50 cases at Temple Hospital after adopting a glass drain technique. Dr Mont R Reed of the University of Cincinnati cited national deaths from appendicitis at 25,000 to 30,000 annually.
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Baltimore
Temple University
W. Wayne Babcock
Temple
School of Medicine
American College of Surgeons
Mont R. Reed
University of Cincinnati
Atlanta
Sofia University Students Rampage in Sofia Demonstration
Several thousand Sofia University students were chased by mounted police from the street in front of the former Czechoslovak legation as German officials arrived to take over Czech affairs. They reassembled near the Parliament building and continued their protests.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Sofia University
Legation
Tea Time Talesman In Court Delays Jury Box Count
A recount of jury box faces yielded eleven after a 15 minute break. The court paused for 40 minutes before resuming at 2 p m. Mrs Mary E McManus Tales Man No 12 was absent, out for tea and explaining the delay to District Judge Vince A Day during the trial.
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Mary E. McManus
Talesman No. 12
Vince A. Day
Rotary Wins Sweepstakes in League A with 1 664 total
The Rotarians won the sweepstakes in League A last night posting a pinfall of 1 588 and a handicap of 76 for a combined 1 664. They also moved into a tie with Handley Teachers for third place in the standings.
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Wit American Legion
Northern
Fiandlegio
Otis
Flouaty
Seite Etka Wo Athletesi
Aapaiarala
Coca Golae
ElWanlsaemes
O'Sullivan
Eens
The
Rotarians
Handley Teachers
Radio Highlights signals CBS network shakeup this weekend
New York March 17 CBS ends two weekend features with no sponsors. Saturday Swing Club departs after over three years on air and This Is New York concludes after 15 weeks competing with NBC's Charlie McCarthy hour. Replacements undecided.
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New York
CBS
Charlie McCarthy
NBC
New Apple Plantings Not Large In Virginia Survey
Virginia crop report shows last year 39,000 new apple trees, 54 percent of 1937, with bearing-age trees totaling 3,259,037 led by Frederick and Shenandoah counties. Average yield 4.28 bushels per tree statewide. breakdown shows 44.9 percent packed, 17.6 percent sold bulk, 10.1 percent on tree, 15.6 percent to by products, 6.1 percent unharvested.
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Reetetiaan Ween
Virginia
Virginia Cooperative
Frederick County
Shenandoah County
Clarke County
Henry M. Taylor
Arthur C. Hackendorf
Crop Reporting Service
30 Soldiers Fall In Silesia Clash
War saw heavy fighting as Czech troops resisted German occupation of Czech Silesia. Kurier Warszawski reports 16 Czech soldiers and a Czech colonel killed near Frydek Teschen. German losses not disclosed. Another clash at Mistek left eleven German and three Czech soldiers dead as Czech infantry resisted surrender.
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Warsaw
Kurier Warszawski
Czech Silesia
Frydek
Polish Teschen
Mistek
Moravia
Japanese Will Close Legation in Prague
Tokyo reports Germany s ambassador General Eugene Ott has taken over the Czecho Slovak legation on Berlin instructions as Japan prepares to close its legation in Prague. The move signals a shift in diplomatic posts amid wartime upheaval.
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Tokyo
Eugene Ott
Berlin
Japan
Prague
Army Day Proclaimed as Roosevelt Orders Nation Observance
President Roosevelt proclaims April 6 Army Day and orders military units nationwide to aid civic bodies in observing the event. The call directs use of forces for appropriate ceremonies and public events across the United States and possessions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Raw Meat Eating Poacher Hits Powell Officers
A Wyoming Montana posse pursues Earl Durand, 26, the raw meat eating poacher who killed Park County Deputy Sheriff D. M. Baker and fatally wounded Town Marshall Charles E. Lewis after abducting Deputy Noah Riley. Durand fled toward the Bear Tooth mountains, having stolen rifles and a knapsack. He had earlier shot a bull elk out of season and reportedly lived on raw meat.
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Powell
Wyo
Wyoming
Montana
Park County
Ray Easton
Earl Durand
D. M. Baker
Charles E. Lewis
Baker
Lewis
Durand
Bennion
Special Lenten Service At Centenary Reformed Church Tonight
Special Lent services will be held at Centenary Reformed Church at 7 45 tonight with Dr S L Flickinger pastor in charge by Rev H J Womeldorf assistant pastor of the Presbyterian church assisting in charge.
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Centenary Reformed Church
S. L. Flickinger
H. J. Womeldorf
The
Presbyterian Church
Exports Of Apples Are Increasing In 1937 38
A statistical summary by Samuel I. Katz reports a jump in fresh apple exports to 10,960,000 bushels in 1937-38 from 6,800,000 the prior season, led by the United Kingdom and France, with Canada shipments down. Boxed apples totalled over 2.2 million boxes to the UK and France, while Belgium and the Netherlands follow. Barrel and basket movements rose to 889 000 barrels and 784 000 baskets respectively, with New York regaining first export port status. Dried apple shipments reached 12,200 short tons, and Associated waste exports climbed to 1,708 short tons, driven by Belgium, the Netherlands, and France.
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Samuel I. Katz
Foreign Agricultural Service
United States
United Kingdom
France
Beligum
Netherlands
Germany
Sweden
Canada
Denmark
China
Tunisia
Belgum
United King
Belgium
York
New York City
Portland
New York
Sweeden
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Harvard
William Jewell College
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San Francisco
Frederick
Silesia
Goodrich
Silvertown
Braddock & Boscawen
Leahy
Harold R. Stark
U. S. Fleet Battle Force
William D. Leahy
Stark
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