Children to Have an Entire Division in the Pink Petals Parade
Shenandoah Apple Blossom festival expands the Trail of the Pink Petals to a fully juvenile division for the first time in 16 years. Leonard Sirbaugh and Hoye Riley announced a Junior Division committee led by Bryan Stotler with members including L. C. Carper and Dr. A. T. Baker. Float entries are limited to 15 feet by 8 feet with cash prizes for top floats and a second class for decorated animal drawn vehicles. Organizations are urged to participate and contact Stotler or committee members for information, with further details to be published in The Star.
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Shenandoah
Leonard Sirbaugh
Hoye Riley
Stotler
Riley
Bryan Stotler
Winchester
Robert Jasper
A. T. Baker
Clyde Campbell
Robert F. Gains
William S. Wheatley
John G. Over
Hubert A. Kerr
Capt
M. W. Bott
E. Sumners McGavock
Roy Cather
Weather outlook for the week begins with rising temps
Weather outlook for the week starting Monday calls for rain Tuesday or Wednesday and again Saturday or Sunday. Temperatures to rise rapidly Monday with above normal highs on Tuesday and Wednesday, then cooler Thursday and warmer again Saturday.
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Washington
North
Middle Atlantic
Poem on Tombstone Inscription From Williamsburg Scrap Book
The record notes Rev. Servant Jones erecting an elegant tombstone after his wife dies and later remarries. The inscription praises Ann as a virtuous wife and angel, pleading farewell yet promising reunion where she dwells.
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Servant Jones
Ann
Against Cutting Social Payrolls
Washington March 18 A Midwest university professor told a Congressional committee that cutting social security payroll taxes and raising benefits would be unpatriotic and dangerous amid threats from ruthless dictators. Dr Edwin L Witte of the University of Wisconsin warned that even if taxes funded only current expenses they must be replaced by other revenue if benefits are maintained.
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Washington
Mid-Western University
Congressional Committee Today
United States
Edwin L. Witte
University of Wisconsin
Roosevelt
Senate
White House
Schwartz
D. Wyo
Ellender
D.-La
Lee
D.okla
Mead
D.-N. YI
Congress
Capitol Hill
Coloe Ee
Cicafl
Reward Claimed In Plane Crash In Alaska
An old-time prospector claimed a $1,000 reward as the bodies of six people killed in one of Alaska's worst commercial air crashes were brought to Juneau from Grand Island after a February 12 wreck. Pilot Alonzo Cope and five passengers died. victims included George Chappell and Lars Clifford of Juneau and Jack Lennon of Craig.
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Juneau
Alaska
Alonzo Cope
Marine Airways
Fairbanks
Coast Guard
Haida
Grand Island
Glass Peninsula
Charles Ashby
Northland Prospector
Cope
Anchorage
George Chappell
Lars Clifford
Jack Lennon
Craig
Lennon
Far North
Steve Mills
Kanal
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Arctic Ocean
Moscow
United States
Campaign leaders named for Apple Blossom Festival drive
Ben Belchic to marshal 100 plus Junior Board of Trade members in Winchester at the George Washington Hotel to raise a minimum 10000 for the Apple Blossom Festival. Captains George Radford Otis Sargent and Richard Eddy lead 15 teams with multiple lieutenants and contact efforts to recruit donations.
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Ben Belchic
Winchester
George Washington Hotel
Belchie
Board of Trade
George Radford
Otis
Snag) Sargent
Richard Eddy
Mr. Radf
Henry Covington
the Pinckn
Friendship Fire Company Memorial Service Schedule
Members will meet at 2 30 PM at the friendship company hall to march to Market Street M E Church for the annual memorial service at 3 PM The sermon by Rev Herman McKay will be read with a Market Street choir performance The roll of departed members will be read by Walter M secretary and a poem The Nameless Stain will be read and a scripture from Ecclesiasticus 44:1 15 will be given The names include Pavilliem DeShon Byrd Faggitt Henon Orndorff Charles Woodward Charles Brannon William A Dey John Henry Walter Pletcher Presley Howard Grimtoe T Robinson and T William
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Friendship Fire Company
Company
Market Street M. E. Church
Herman McKay
McKay
Market Street
Walter M
Friendship Company
Snemnaen
Two Injured in Manassas Crash
Two men were seriously hurt when their car crash near Manassas. Harry Lee Smith of Alexandria was taken with them to Emergency Hospital for treatment.
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Manassas
Washington
Hurst County
Harry Lee Smith
Alexandria
Fire Destroys Brooder House Killing 100 Chicks
Fire destroyed a brooder house on Mrs. Van's Millwood road near the old municipal airport. About 100 peeps died when an oil heater explosion sparked the blaze. South End Hose Company fought the flames but lacked a water supply. booster tank helped dampen nearby barn risk.
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Harry Newe
Van
Millwood Road
South End Hose Company
Senate backs stronger power for president over Nazi threat
Senate supporters urged expanding presidential authority to confront Nazi aggression in Central Europe. They endorsed Sumner Welles's warning of wanton lawlessness and pledged to publish an early week exchange of notes with Germany.
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Washington
Senate
State Department
Germany
Czecho-Slovakia
Sumner Welles
Snator George
3-Ga
Foreign Relations Committee
Hitler
Barkley
Day
Pepper
D-Fla
Britain
France
Soviet
Russia
Welles
Europe
Hans Thomsen
Chamberlain
Great Britain
Roosevelt
Czech
National Park College Hosts West Point Cadets Weekend
West Point cadets visit National Park College for a girls hosted weekend. They tour the campus, attend a dance with new escorts, enjoy sight seeing and horseback riding. President Roy Davis notes the idea proves popular and the cadets back fencing match as the only hurdle.
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National Park College
West Point
Washington
Navy
Roy Davis
National Park
Davis
West Pointers
National Park Girls
Treasury imposes 25 percent countervailing duties on German imports
The Treasury Department announced a 25 percent countervailing duty on dutiable German imports with knowledge of the State Department. The action targets hundreds of products led by chemicals toys medicine paper and china and follows a 1930 tariff act decision backed by Attorney General Frank Murphy.
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Washington
Treasury Department
State Department
Treasury
China
Germany
Department
Frank Murphy
Murphy
Secretary of the Treasury
Germany names Von Neurath Reichs Protector of Bohemia Moravia
Berlin officials assert the Czech Slovakia seizure was legal as Hitler extends control eastward toward Romania. Von Neurath becomes Reichs Protector of Bohemia Moravia with Prague as his official residence while Germany expands air power and faces Western condemnation.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
Germany
Hitler
Vienna
von Neurath
Bohemian-Moravian
Konstantin von Neurath
United States
Czecho-Slovakia
Bohemia- Moravia
Hungary
Romania
Helmuth Wolhthat
Bucharest
Sumner Welles
Chamberlain
Birmingham
Czecho- Slovakia
Goering
Bohemia
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Prague
Reserves Decision On Leake's Charge
In New York on March 18 A G Leake of Frederick County Virginia reserved ruling in a case against the New York Central for infringement of a patented method to strengthen bridge and trestle girders. Testimony will span five days as Leake seeks an injunction stopping contractors from using what he claims is his method and asks an accounting of alleged damages.
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N. Y
A. G. Leake
Frederick County
New York Central
Leake
France pulls diplomat as Czechoslovakia crisis grows
Paris reports Premier Daladier seeks emergency cabinet session to mobilize military and civilian labor. France summons ambassador Robert Coulondre from Berlin and denounces the German occupation of Czecho Slova kia, mirroring Britain. Daladier wins a confidence vote 34 to 258 in the Chamber of Deputies.
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Paris
Daladier
France
Adolf Hitler
Czecho-Slovakia
Britain
Berlin
Great Britain
Chamber of Deputies
Robert Coulondre
Germany
Wall Street Declines Further On Nervous Market Mood
Wall Street markets fell again today amid nerves over European events. U S Steel Bethlehem General Motors Chrysler American Smelting Goodyear and De Pont led the retreat with stock losses of about 1 to 3 dollars. Official funds reportedly worked to steady leading European currency rates as British and French exchanges briefly rose in dollar terms.
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New York
Wall Street
Europe
U. S Steel
Bethlehem
General Motors
Chrysler
American Smelting
Goodyear
de Pont
Pope Receives Italian Foreign Minister In First Official Audience
Pope Pius XII granted a formal audience to Count Galeazzo Ciano Italian foreign minister and son in law of Mussolini marking the first official contact with a member of the Italian government. Also received were Cardinal Cassidy and Rev Emile Yelle bishop coach of Saint Boniface Canada.
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Rome
Pius XII
Ae Ciano
Museo
Ciano
Cassidy
Emile Yelle
Saint - Boniface
Manitoba
Canada
Britain and France Press Note Over Czecho Slovakia Invasion
London reports a British cabinet meeting to study a European balance against Hitler after Germany absorbs Czecho Slovakia. Paris to issue a similar note, with Rumanians seeking support and cautions over German aggression and Nazi economic proposals.
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Hitler
London
Germany
Czecho-Slovakia
Romania
Adolf Hitler
Britain
France
Berlin
Munich
Viscount Halifax
Rumania
Chamberlain Leaves Birmingham In Somber Mood
Prime Minister Chamberlain departed Birmingham for an extraordinary cabinet session in London in a glum mood. When asked for a smile by a photographer he replied there are occasions when one cannot smile, and this is one. He marked his seventieth birthday and wore a cigar as he walked to his train with his hands in his pockets.
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Birmingham
Eng
Chamberlain
London
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Williamsburg
Edwin Witte
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Junior Board of Trade
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Market St. Church
Brooder
Pittman
D-New
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
By Eddy Gilmore
U.S
Pope
Slovakia
Perialism
Nevile Henderson
Herbert von Dirksen
Henderson
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