Roosevelt attacks selfish few holding back nation prosperity
President Roosevelt in Gainesville Georgia criticizes a selfish minority for retarding national progress and calls for cooperation along the line to rebuild the country on sounder lines. He denounces special privilege and a feudalist mindset, urges better wages, and links buying power to industrial efficiency as he travels from Washington to Warm Springs.
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Gainesville
Roosevelt
Georgia
South
Washington
Warm Springs
Roosevelt Square
Coolidge
United States
Congress
Ape
Freud and wife stripped of passports by Nazi police in Vienna
Nazi authorities confiscate the passports of Sigmund Freud, 92, and his wife in Vienna and seize all their ready money to bar departure. Freud, a Jewish founder of psychoanalysis, has expressed Zionist and anti Nazi views according to observers.
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Sigmund Freud
Vienna
Freud
Lock Your Car to Prevent Theft Warns Winchester
MA Winchester urges drivers to lock cars and remove keys as several local thefts involved unlocked vehicles with keys in ignition. Stolen cars are recovered but often stripped of parts, causing further damage and grief for owners and police.
Apple Growers Pooling Orders For Materials
Growers from Virginia West Virginia Maryland and Pennsylvania met in Martinsburg to pool spray material orders to counter a price rise from about 10 to 13 cents a pound for lead arsenate. A purchasing committee was formed to solicit bids for 200 tons and will review packaging and fertilizer costs after the spray issue.
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Shenandoah-Cumberland
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Martinsburg
W. Va
Telegraph
Henry W. Miller, Jr
Paw Paw
A. Bruce Eagle
W. N. McClung
G. S. L. Carpenter
Hay
James E. McDonald
Arden
Army On Fighting Basis Urged by War Chief to Meet Emergency
General Malin Craig telling the House appropriations committee that the army needs about 1 billion dollars to mobilize 400000 regulars and National Guard plus recruits. He argues the Navy cannot bolster the Army without weakening defense. He notes $160 million for initial 400000 force and outlines protective mobilization plans and near term purchases. Air Corps Major General Westover says new bombers may fly high enough to be invisible from the ground.
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Craig
War Department
Committee of House
Air Corps Head
Washington
Malin Craig
Army
House Appropriations Committee
Appropriations Committee
Graig
Regular Army
National Guard
Navy
Roosevelt
Congress
Oscar Westover
Air Corps
Fete Committee Plans Meeting For Apple Blossom Fest
Dr. L. M. Allen, chairman of the Executive Committee, said the Apple Blossom Festival committee will meet tomorrow at 11 AM at the George Washington Hotel to discuss matters of importance related to the celebration.
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L. M. Allen
George Washington Hotel
House panel approves 26 new federal judgeships
The House judiciary committee approved bills creating 26 new federal judgeships including an extra seat for the western district of Virginia. The Western District Judge serving Harrisonburg is John Paul.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Virginia
John Paul
Harrisonburg
Pontiff Pleads With Franco To End Civilian Bombings
Vatican communiqué reports Pope Pius XII renewed appeals to Generalissimo Franco for restraint in bombing Spanish civilians during the civil war. L osservatore Romano notes a warm papal appeal after Barcelona’s March bombardments that killed hundreds. Britain and France pressing for joint appeals to Spain.
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Vatican City
Pius
Barcelona
Monsignor
Antonitti
Holy See
Salamanca
L‘osservatore
Vatican
Franco
Winchester Considers Water Bond Issue And Pool Plan
City officials seek a court order to hold a bond election on bonds up to 218000 for water system improvements and up to 19500 for a municipal pool. Water bonds mature up to 30 years at 4.44 percent. pool bonds up to 12 years at 3 percent. Election possible within 20 days with For and Against lines on one ballot.
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Common Com
Philip Williams
Corporation Court
Williams
Percy Miller
Miller
Winchester
Virginia
City of
City Council Forms Committee To Study Purchasing Methods
President Peyton Marshall urged the Finance Committee to review city purchasing methods and possible improvements following a complaint from Fred Glaize. Police and street actions include curb repairs on 12 properties and an ordinance against unlicensed auto parking. J. H. Henry will advance Monta Avenue improvements repaid from the 1939 budget.
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Peyton Marshall
Finance Committee
Marshall
Arthur M. Field
Fred Glaize
Field
W. W. Dellinger
A. Lee Coble
Comae
J. H. Henry
Monta Avenue
WPA Worker Killed In Trench Cave In
A WPA laborer named Pean, age 50, died after being crushed beneath earth when a trench collapsed at Lint hicum. Rescue efforts by fellow workers failed to save him.
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P—ean
Linthicum
Governor Lehman and Son Visit Winchester Leaving for Charlottesville
Governor Herbert H. Lehman and his son John R. Lehman stopped in Winchester after 10 am on a leisure trip. They planned to continue to Charlottesville to visit the University of Virginia as the New York Assembly wrapped up its session with more than 1,000 measures passed.
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Herbert H. Lehman
New York
John R. Lehman
Winchester
Charlottesville
University of Virginia
General Assembly of New York
Lehman
Herbert Lehman
Ralph Grubbs
L. D. Grubbs
C. Lee Barr
Paul Hartman
Plea By Byrd To Retain Office Of Comptroller
Senator Byrd of Virginia urges the Senate to retain the comptroller office amid accusations of illegal expenditures and displeasure from Virginia officials. He argues against abolishing the office and transferring its powers to the president while a Senate vote on the executive reorganization bill looms.
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Byrd
Washington
D-Va
Senate
Camp Soles Generals
Worst Yet To Come
Washington reports abnormally high temperatures raise frost damage fears across much of the nation. Vegetation is three to four weeks ahead in parts of the Mississippi region, Minnesota seeding early, and fruit trees blooming near the Great Lakes. Frost threats may persist into April and June in southern Georgia Texas and the lower lakes.
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Washington
Minnesota
Lower Great Lakes
B. Kincer
Bureau
Georgia
Mississippi
Texas
Lower Lakes
City to probes pool rooms amid gambling criticism
The Police Committee was urged to investigate Winchester pool rooms after a letter from Chief Hollis and Dr C R Anderson cited gambling and drinking. Hollis urged licensure approval groups to curb lawlessness, while Anderson supported removing the cause and addressing complaints about conduct in certain rooms.
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Police Committee of Common Council
Peyton Marshall
Winchester
C. R. Anderson
C. W. Hollis
Hollis
Anderson
Chief Hollis
Council
Con
Chamberlain seeks labor backing for rearmament in policy speech
Prime Minister Chamberlain pushes for faster rearmament and asks for labor backing while proposing no new overseas commitments. He aims to align with Trades Union Congress leaders at No 10 and signals a policy to deter aiding Czechoslovakia even as Britain vows to defend France or Belgium if attacked. The program's cost rises beyond the initial 7.5 billion dollars.
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London
Chamberlain
General Council
The
Trades Union Congress
No. 10
Downing Street
Czechoslovakia
House of Commons
Britain
France
Belgium
Labor
Organized Labor
John M Leight Farm Near Grimes Frederick Co Sale
About 196 acres of fine limestone land with a comfortable residence and large bank barn. One mile north of Grimes in Frederick County. Sale at noon Saturday March 26 with immediate possession.
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Grimes
Frederick County
Forsyth Property to be Sold at Noon April 2 1938
The Forsyth property at 409 South Braddock Street, lot 60 by 180 feet, a large stone and frame residence, will be sold at noon on Saturday April 2, 1938, in front of the Court House.
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Braddock Street
Court’ House
Richard Whitney Testifies at State Hearing in NY
Richard Whitney age 49 head of the bankrupt firm Richard Whitney & Co. is sworn in at a public hearing ordered by the state attorney general. He pleads guilty to grand larceny and takes blame for the hypothecation of securities running into millions. He says his brother, a Morgan partner, lent him 1,082,000 dollars last November.
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Richard Whitney
Wall Street
Richard Whitney & Co
New York
Whitney
Morgan
Ousted TVA Head Morgan Holds Press Conference
Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, ousted chairman of the TVA, refused to comment on his next move and said he would not run away. He noted legal counsel would address whether his position is vacant and plans to discuss the TVA situation with fellow attorneys. He defended the TVA’s purpose and his sympathy with its goals.
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Chicago
Arthur E. Morgan
TVA
Morgan
79 Names To Be Drawn For Pingley Trial
An order from County Clerk C. C. Brannon directs the sheriff to summon 75 jurors for the trial of George Pingley, alleged slayer of Sheriff J. W. Newcome. Judge Philip Williams moved the trial date to April 11, 1938 and ordered 79 names drawn from the venire box under Virginia law.
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C. C. Brannon
George Pingley
J. W. Newcome
Philip Williams
Code of Virginia
Ana Ia Sons
Comalinns Wealth of Virginia
George W. Pingley
Roosevelt ousts Morgan at TVA and defends removal
President Roosevelt announced the removal of Arthur E. Morgan as TVA chair and elevated Harcourt A. Morgan to chair. He stressed the removal was constitutional and urged a fair inquiry, while Congress eyed a legislative probe into TVA feuds and management.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Arthur E. Morgan
TVA
Barkley
Dky
Bridges
R-Nh
King
Dutah
Senate House
Mammoth
Public Power Agency
Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
Harcourt A. Morgan
James L. Fly
Capitol
Robert H. Jackson
Jackson
David E. Lilienthal
Arthur Morgan
Warm Springs
White House
Market price iron buyers seek junk Mate fee cash
Notice indicates purchasing iron at market prices and buying junk of all Mate fee cash. The ad lists a loading location and dates, referencing 10 E Baker St and a 1917 publication date with page markers.
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E. Baker St
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