Unlawful To Bay State Liquor For Any Minor
Richmond May 5 The A B C board described the 1938 amendments to the alcoholic beverage control act as far reaching stopping younger boys from getting older men to buy drinks. Effective March 18 the changes include making minor purchases a misdemeanor and barring interdicted persons from carrying liquor. Additional changes take effect July 1 for cash sale of wine by wholesalers and continued credit by retailers. The act expands court power to interdict for a year for illegal manufacture possession transportation or sale.
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Richmond
Itewonees
Peaen Ee
A. B
General Assembly
Dean Must Take Rest For A Month
Dizzy Dean, the $185,000 addition to the Chicago Cubs pitching staff, will be lost to the team for at least four weeks after an X ray of his pitching arm. Dr John W. Davis ordered no pitching for four weeks and no throwing for at least two weeks following yesterday's game against the Phillies.
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Chicago
Dizzy Dean
Chicago Cubs
John W. Davis
Cub
Dean
Philadelphia Yestery
Senate approves tobacco quota amendments to raise allotments
The Senate backed amendments by Senators George and Byrd to boost this year's flue cured air cured and dark fire cured tobacco quotas from two percent to four percent. Byrd sought to extend the measure to cover air cured and dark fire cured quotas and noted protests from Virginia growers over acreage allotments.
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Washington
Senate
George
D-Ga
Byrd
D-Va
Virginia
Rotarians Hold District Meeting in Staunton
Staunton hosts the first annual conference of Rotary’s new 186th district. 35 Western Virginia and Northeastern Tennessee clubs join under Robert C. Jennings of Waynesboro as Charles K. Brown chairs the conference at Stonewall Jackson Hotel with a massanutten caverns excursion planned.
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Staunton
Stonewall Jackson Hotel
Massanutten Caverns
Harrisonburg
186Th
Rotary
Virginia
Tennessee
Robert C. Jennings
Waynesboro
Charles K. Brown
Study of Corn Offers Science One Of Its Fascinating Fields
A detailed overview notes that the United States grows over half the world’s corn with Argentina as the next largest producer and exporter. It traces corn’s origins, historic significance to settlers, and its wide industrial use from starch to corn syrup, dextrose, and edible products, highlighting science’s role in expanding markets.
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Iowa
Illinois
Kansas
Missouri
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Minnesota
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Union
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Rhode Island
Historic Trees Planted By D A R
In Lynchburg on May 5 a D A R ceremony dedicated a constitutional forest beside Route 60 near the Blue Ridge six miles east of town. Major General Charles E Kilbourne of Virginia Military Institute spoke as a band played patriotic airs for the event.
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Lynchburg
Blue Ridge Mountains
Daughters of the American Revolution
Constitutional Forest
Charles E. Kilbourne
Virginia Military Institute
Occa
Detective For A Day Chicago
James Grimes, returning from the police station, was approached by men offering a car wheel. He identified it as his own wheel, alerted police, and witnessed two suspects arrested as the rest of his car was found in an alley.
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Chicago
James Grimes
Grimes
Dixon Leads Alabama Democratic Governor Contest
Frank M. Dixon of Birmingham holds a two to one lead over his nearest opponent in the Democratic race for the Alabama gubernatorial nomination.
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Alabama
Frank M. Dixon
Birmingham
Vacate Episcopal Cures Every Five Years
Richmond May 5 The annual council of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia received a proposal to make vacant every cure in the diocese every five years beginning Jan 1 1940 A vestry could retain its rector by voting six months in advance of automatic termination unless it does so the rector’s term ends at five years The measure sparked debate at the Rappahannock Valley Convocation at Montross A committee on canons led by John Minor of Richmond will report today The 200 council members also discussed establishing a chair at the Presbyterian General Assembly training school for lay workers pensioning church staff and diocesan religious social service and church work reports There
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Richmond
Episcopal Dioese of
Virginia
Cary Montague
Rappahannock Valley
Mont»ross
Ohn
Minor
All Saints Church
Presbyterian General Assembly
Bloomington student dislocates shoulder during sunbath
Indiana University student William Leininger sneezed hard while sunbathing in Bloomington. Two fellow students assisted a physician to reset the shoulder on the spot.
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Bloomington
Ind
William Leininger
Indiana University
Blue and Gray Queen and Party Returns West
The Blue and Gray motorcade led by Dorothy McBride and her court traveled west on Route 33. The Blue and Gray Trail dedication occurred at a Richmond luncheon. In Athens they dined at Hotel Berry with C. M. Gill and P. F. Good presiding. The group, hosted by six Ohio University coeds, stops planned in Nelsonville Logan and Lancaster before Columbus dinner.
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Athens
Ohio
Richeeetan
Eddeouna
Dorothy McBride
Richmond
Berry
C. M. Gill
P. F. Good
Chamber of Commerce
Miss McBride
Ohio University
Nelsonville
Logan
Lancaster
Columbus
Virginia First In Warfare On Bangs Disease Progress
Washington May 5 Virginia leads the four year effort against Bangs Disease in cattle the Federal Bureau of Animal Industry reports testing 716 percent of the state s susceptible stock the highest in the nation Virginia also tops the area program said Dr John R Mohler Virginia 503 715 cattle under supervision ranks behind Wisconsin Minnesota in head counts on the waiting list 50 775 90 000 and 72 540 respectively
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Federal Bureau of Animal Industry
Virginia
John R. Mohler
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North Carolina
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