Park Association approves fence at Ball Ground Park
At a City Hall meeting the Park Association voted to build a fence along the first and third base lines at Rouss Spring Park to keep fans off the field and prevent balls from entering traffic on the Lee Jackson Highway. E A Crowl presented bids and the lowest was chosen.
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Park Association
Rouss Spring Park
Lee-Jackson
E. A. Crowl
H. Russell Potts
W. A. Baker
Paul Carper
Park Nine
Northern Athletic Club
Washington
A. R. Conner
Hugh Clark
H. R. Potts
Potts
Elks
Masons
Miss Stowers Leaves Winchester Red Cross Post
Miss Martha E. Stowers resigns after 12 years as executive secretary of the Winchester and Frederick County Virginia Red Cross chapter to take a similar post in Salt Lake City Utah. She departs for Washington and then Salt Lake City, with local officers and staff expressing regret and planning to fill the vacancy.
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Salt Lake City
Martha E. Stowers
Winchester
Frederick County
American Red Cross
Utah
Red Cross
Miss Stowers
Washington
G.E. Stowers
Waco
Texas
Virginia
Winchester and Frederick County
The
Stowers
E. A. Lambert
Rose A. Grim
C. Vernon Eddy
Cooking School At The Star Opens May 16
The Capitol Theatre becomes a modern kitchen for Winchester women for a four day cooking school sponsored by The Star. Mrs. Crabtree will conduct sessions from May 16 to May 19 with new recipes, equipment, menus, and free printed recipes for attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capitol Theatre
Winchester
The
Star
Capitol
New Stage
Property Auction Near Hayfield on Northwestern Grade
Seventy five acres and a comfortable residence along the Northwestern grade near Hayfield to be sold at noon Saturday May 13 in front of the Court House. Proceeds go to the Harry Suggest property fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayfield
Court House
Willard Hotel Names Charles P Light as Special Representative
The Willard Hotel Corporation of Washington announces Charles P Light as a special goodwill representative to bolster the hotel's patronage nationwide. A Berkeley County West Virginia native and longtime Democrat, Light is praised for his affable Southern manners and wide circle of Virginia friends. The Willard Mote, a top national capital hostelry, has long welcomed Virginians. the company is led by Mrs. Joseph E. Willard and vice president Kermit Roosevelt with H P Somerville as managing director.
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Willard Hotel Corporation of
Washington
Charles P. Light
National Capital
Willard
Winchester
Light
Willard Hotel
Mr. Light
Berkeley County
W. Va
Mountain
Harry C. Light
Clearbrook
Stockholders Meeting Set for May 11 at Virginia Apple Storage
Virginia Apple Storage announces a stockholders meeting at the company office on Thursday May 11 at 11 a m. J R Dushane secretary signs the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Apple Storage, Inc
J. R. Dushane
Buck brothers exonerated in McMath kidnapping case
Kenneth Buck was cleared of any role in the Peggy McMath abduction while his brother Cyril remained in custody. Harwichport police reported finding a new hideout under a rambling vacant house with items possibly bearing fingerprints. Chief Hall planned further questioning at Barnstable jail as he pursued complete details of the crime.
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Associated Press
Barnstable
Mass
Kenneth Buck
Peggy McMath
Cyril
Harwichport
Emulous
E. Hall
Margaret McMath
Robert Whiteley
Kenneth
Cyril Buck
Neil C. McMath
Detroit
Hall
Dayton Storm Ravages City Causing Major Damage
A severe wind storm hitting Dayton Ohio on May 9 registered 35 to 70 mph, damaging residential and industrial structures estimated at 500000 to 750000 dollars and injuring ten people, none seriously.
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Dayton
Roosevelt Backed Plan for 3 Billion Public Works
Administration advisors finalize a broad program to revive business with a 3 billion dollar federal and state public works effort. The package also seeks to relax anti trust rules to allow industry wide agreements under government oversight as part of a broader industrial partnership.
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Associated Press
Washington
Administration
Roosevelt
Wagner
New York
Connery
House Labor Committee
White House
Wagner Committee
Commerce
Interior
Labor and
Wealthy executive abduct plot ends in sting in Illinois
Freeport authorities foiled a $25,000 ransom plot when William Trevillian of the W. T. Rawleigh Company was kidnapped but aided by sheriff investigators. Jack and Red Schultz, with accomplices William Stubbe and Laverne Moore, were captured at a farm near Durand after detectives alerted federal agents and staged a trap.
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Associated Press
Freeport
Ill
William Trevillian
W. T. Rawleigh Company
Jack
Red” Schultz
LaSalle, Ill
E. J. Welter
LaSalle County
William Stubbe
Rock Grove
Laverne Moore
Rawleigh
Schultz Brothers
Moore
Trevillian
LaSalle
Welter
Chicago
Stubbe
Durand
Mrs. Roosevelt Drives Into New York City During Holiday Tour
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived in New York driving her blue roadster for a weeklong upstate tour that began after she left Washington a week earlier.
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The
Associated Press
New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Washington
Farmers Demand Farm Moratorium Resolution Calls National Foreclosure Pause
MONTEVIDEO Minn May 9 Members of the Minnesota Farmers' Holiday Association adopt a resolution demanding a nationwide moratorium on foreclosures on farms city homes and personal property until the dollar serves as an honest measure of value and debts interests taxes are paid.
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Associated Press
Montevideo
Minn
Minnesota Farmers’ Holiday Association
Prospect of US Britain tariff truce discussed in Commons
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald told the House of Commons there is every prospect of reaching an agreement with the United States on an immediate tariff truce subject to wording and protecting both sides. He notes work already begun will continue while trade negotiations proceed and cites June 15 as an awkward debt-payment hurdle requiring quiet surveying of possibilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ramsay MacDonald
House of Commons
Britain
United States
MacDonald
Commons
Captain Berry Former Mayflower Skipper Dies at 88
Captain Robert L. Berry United States Navy retired who commanded the presidential yacht Mayflower for three years died of pneumonia in the U S Naval Hospital Brooklyn. Born Newport Kentucky August 5 1880 he served in the Spanish American and World Wars and retired in 1926. He is survived by a sister Esther Zuckerman notes travel from Harrisburg after visiting his parents on North Avenue.
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Associated Press
New York
Robert L. Berry
United States Navy
United States Naval Hospital
Brooklyn
Newport
Naval Academy
Woman's Missionary Society Holds Twentieth Annual Session
The Woman's Missionary Society of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South gathers in Winchester at Braddock Street Methodist Church for its 20th annual session. About 200 delegates from Roanoke to Baltimore attend with sessions through Thursday and officers to be elected.
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Woman's Missionary Society
Baltimore
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Winchester
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Roanoke
Woman's Missionary Society of the
John W
West Germain Street
Braddock
E. A. Lambert
Edith Miller
Edinburg
T. J. Copeland
W. A. Newell
Greensboro
Bureau of Christian Social Relations
Braddock Street
W. H. Ballengee
Harrisonburg
R. G. Mowbray
Emma V. Peller
Batimore
Ida Rhees Groover
Washington, D. C
J. R. Jacobs
Clarendon
Jacob Hevener
Staunton
J. H. Haley
Covington
E. L. Woolf
J. W. Rosenberger
Henry Knowles
Woman's Home Mission Society
Slugged Steward Still Unable To Name Assailants
William Zebalas steward at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Club on North Loudoun street was slugged and robbed of 70 dollars by two masked men early Saturday April 29. He remains unable to provide descriptions while conscious and able to relate events before and after the attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Zebalas
Veterans of Foreign Wars Club
Loudoun Street
C. W. Hollis
Zebalas
Mother's Day Candies at Schrafft's May 14
Sunday May 14 Schrafft's offers Mother's Day Candies in new es packages. Golden Glow Coffee Shoppe operates 9 to 1 p 4t.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schrafft
Golden Glow Coffee
Astrologer William Franklin Poisons Self En Route to Trial
William Franklin alias Dr W Frankland and Prof Ernest Langner, an astrologer known as a mind reader, took bichloride of mercury while being moved to Waynesboro Virginia for arraignment on false pretenses charges. He remains in Winchester Memorial Hospital under warning against transfer. A second warrant accuses him of securing $60 by false pretenses. preliminary trial may be held at Cavalier theatre in Waynesboro once fit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Franklin
W Frankland
Ernest Langner
Waynesboro
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Franklin
H. J. Pifer
Boro
Williamsport
Strasburg
Star
Frankland
Powell J. Charlton
Cavalier
Winchester
Maryland
Handley Seniors Present Annual Play May 19
Handley High School seniors stage their annual class play Friday evening May 19. Past shows include Clarence and Watch Your Step. this year’s comedy Peg o My Heart by J Hartley Manners features a well chosen cast and promises to surpass prior efforts.
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Handley High School
J. Hartley Manners
Mrs Amy W Owen Granted Divorce and Alimony
By decree in Corporation Court Judge Philip Williams grants an absolute divorce to Mrs Amy W Owen from Clarence T Owen on grounds of desertion occurring in April 1929. He must pay $100 counsel fees and $50 monthly alimony starting May 1, with a 6 month nonremarriage period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corporation Court
Philip Williams
Amy W. Owen
Clarence T. Owen
Mrs. Moore Granted Bed and Board Divorce
Cor poration Court grants a bed and board divorce to Mrs Elsie Moore from her husband Robert S Moore. Complainant says Moore deserted her on April 24 1930 and is now a non resident of Virginia.
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Philip Williams
Corporation Court
Elsie Moore
Robert S. Moore
Moore
Virginia
County Board Holds Regular May Meeting
Frederick County Board of Supervisors in regular May session approves lease of part of hitching yard and adopts resolutions to prosecute stream polluters and require owners to appear before the board to claim stock or fowls killed by dogs. Discussion covers spray pollution from orchards. Continued on page eight.
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Commonwealth
Frederick County
Miss McGuire Shines in The Second Man at Capitol Theatre
Anne Tucker McGuire, famed Little Theatre star, portrays Monica Gray in The Second Man. Her training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Michael Martin-Harney School, plus New York stage credits, bolster a lively comedic role. Also in the cast are Mrs. Virginia Vredenburgh Clarke Cooper and Arthur M. Field directing. Tickets are on sale.
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Anne Tucker M’guire
Anne Tucker McGuire
Little Theatre
Capitol Theatre
Miss McGuire
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
New York City
Michael Martin-Harney
Lawrence Weber
Little Theatre of Winchester
Winchester
Patsy
Monica Gray
Iss McGuire
Monica
Virginia Vredenburgh
Clarke Cooper
Arthur M. Field
8. N. Behrman
Capitol
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Harry
Stockholders’ Meeting
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New Mexico
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J. H. Rand, Jr
Manu
Facturer
National Association of Manufacturers
Illinois
Mrs. Roosevelt
City
America
Captain Berry
Mayflower
Esther Zuckerman
Harrisburg, Pa
Louis Zuckerman
North Avenue
Missionary Societies of Baltimore Conference
Braddock Street Church
Handley
County Board
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