Virginia Relief Drive Aims To Halve Jobless This Summer
Virginia Emergency Relief Administration plans a big drive to place unemployed residents in private work. About 9.3 percent of Virginians, roughly 48 000 families, received relief in March while officials seek seasonal farm labor and employer cooperation to cut relief rolls in half. Winchester relief office is at City Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William A. Smith
Virginia Emergency Relief Administration
Mr. Smith
Virginia
Smith
FERA
Winchester
Medicine Rush To Plague Area In Arctic Aid Move
Barrow Alaska May 8 fast dog team delivers medicine and usage instructions to influenza stricken Wainwright as the Arctic village struggles to recover from a bee outbreak that claimed 13 lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Barrow
Alaska
Wainwright
Three Minute Relief From Periodical Pains
An ad promotes B. C. analgesic claiming rapid relief from periodical pains, colds, headaches, neuralgia, and fever without opiates. It notes it is prepared by a registered pharmacist with multiple ingredients, offered in 10c or 25c packages at drugstores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. C
B.C
Mad Hatter Clyde Hatter Impresses Tigers in Exclusive Shot
The Tigers’ rookie pitcher Clyde M. Hatter nicknamed Mad Hatter hails from Poplar Hill Kentucky and is pictured in an exclusive pose as teammates give him the moniker.
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Clyde M. Hatter
The
Tigers
Mad Hatter
Poplar Hill, Ky
Living Reflections From Life's Mirror at Church
Special Services begin this Sunday evening at 8 in the Congregational Christian Church. The series features drama art and living pictures with a religious message. The first service titled In A Garden of Memories includes a wedding and family scenes performed by local residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. W. Mathews
Colleen Hoover
Weeree
Percy Sheets
Elaine Sheetz
Russell Cather
Lance Hauptman
Albert Clark
Margaret Richards
Robert McNally
Orville Hoover
Congregational Christian Church
Soap Sale Lights Up Winchester Clean Up Campaign
Eddie Hermann of Lever Brothers announces a spring cleaning sale with Rinso Lux Lifebuoy and Lux Toilet Soap at local grocers in Winchester. The promotion includes a Lux Toilet Soap offer with Palace Theatre and L A Smith Dept Store tickets for a six cakes deal and a Jean Parker screening next week. A coast to coast Sunday broadcast features a movie star.
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Eddie Hermann
Lever Brother Co
Winchester
Lux
Lifebuoy
Eddie
Palace Theatre
L. A. Smith Dept
Jean Parker
Miss Parker
Ladies of Winchester
Lever Brothers
D. D. Bernstein
Monument Erected for Scotland's Champion Piper
A granite monument bearing bronze Highland bagpipes and a Macpherson coat of arms was erected over the grave of John Macpherson in Newtonmore Scotland. It was unveiled to bagpipe strains as the famed piper is remembered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macpherson
Newtonmore
Scotland
John Macpherson
Blackface parody set by Laguardia and Smith charity show
New York hosts a one night only minstrel charity event starring Mayor Fiorello Laguardia and ex Governor Alfred E. Smith. Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora will appear as an end man. The venue, New York Lodge of Elks, touts educational value despite critics. In Utah Fort Douglas Major General Paul B. Malone visits as soldiers plan a 13 gun salute but the firing pin breaks after the first shot.
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New York
Laguardia
Smith
Fiorello Laguardia
Alfred E. Smith
New York Lodge of Elks
Supreme Court
Ferdinand Pecora
Fort Douglas
Utah
Paul B. Malone
Ninth Corps
Hitchhiking Burgess Abruptly Quits 2000 Mile Trip
Butler Pennsylvania James A. McGowan 75, known as Burgess of Prospect, ends a six day 38 hop hitchhiking tour near Prospect after declaring it his last trip. He says he is fed up with it and plans to stop.
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Butler
James A. McGowan
Burgess
Prospect
Orlando
Fla
Free Chest Clinic To Be Held May 14 By State Expert
A chest clinic for adults led by Dr. Charles L. Savage of the State Health Department will be at the District Nurse Association offices on Tuesday May 14 from 9:30 am to noon and 2 to 4 pm. The event, in cooperation with city and county physicians, offers examinations for long standing colds with coughs and possible TB exposure.
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Charles L. Savage
State Health Department
District Nurse Association
Night Plowing Under Lights Delays North Dakota Planting
Farmers in Parshall report heavy spring rains and nighttime plowing with powerful tractor lights. Plowing proceeds between showers as sowing had occurred earlier in the day.
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Parshall
N. D
Tavern keepers freed over daylight saving clock claim
Two tavern keepers argued their closing violation occurred as daylight saving time began. A judge freed them after they explained that when 2 o'clock became 3 o'clock the offense had not yet occurred.
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Chicago
Blue Sox Rally For Saturday Bid At Winchester Park
Winchester Park hosts the Martinsburg Blue Sox Saturday at 3 PM as part of the Blue Ridge League. The local team has won two of three starts and looks to challenge the visiting West Virginians.
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Martinsburg Blue Sox
Winchester Park
West Virginians
Chevy Chase Grays
Front Royal
Peripatetic School Tied to Aristotle and the Lyceum Walk
The Peripatetic School was Aristotle's walking teaching method around the Lyceum colonnade called the Peripates. A scrambled ostrich egg is enough to serve six persons.
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Aristotle
Lyceum
Blue Ridge Horse Show Set For May 25 At Carter Hall
The Blue Ridge Horse Show gathers top show horses for its forty second edition in the old grove at Carter Hall on Saturday May 25. Fifteen classes include yearlings to hunters with entries closing May 18 and fees of 1 dollar, 2 dollars post entries. Judges Edward M. Cheston and William T. Fleming of Philadelphia bring national experience. The event is organized by the Blue Ridge Hunt Club with Ewart Johnston as president and Joseph W. Lewis handling entries.
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Blue Ridge
Old Grove
Carter Hall
Leesburg
Ewart Johnston
Blue Ridge Hunt Club
Blue Ridge Country
Joseph W. Lewis
Briggs
May Day Fete Promises Military Pageant At Shenandoah College
Shenandoah College hosts a May Day festival Saturday featuring a pageant on school history and national development. The 116th Infantry Band will re-organize to play a major role with veterans and local dignitaries in lead roles.
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Shenandoah College
Dayton
One Hundred and Sixteenth
Summerall
France
Will H. Roebush
Hollis H. Keller
Fred Spiker
Harrisonburg State Teachers College
W. F. Snoddy
Basil Coffman
Alfred White
Bridgewater
Ruebush
V. F. W. Bugle and Drum Corps
Harrisonburg
Winchester
Pauline Rudacille
Mary Arndt
Flora Strayer
Ruth Phenicie
Rebecca Walker
Lois Weller
Aids to Highway Progress Cited in Chemistry
Explosives and coal tar are identified as chemistry's chief contributions to highway progress in a discussion of material science and road development.
Kidnap Charge Ties Sawyer to Noted Bank Heist Ring
Harry Sawyer captured by federal agents in Pass Christian Mississippi faces trial in St Paul Minnesota. He is alleged to have been involved with the Karpis Barker gang and linked to the Bremer kidnapping of Edward G. Bremer a St Paul banker, in which others have stood trial.
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Harry Sawyer
Pass Christian
Miss
Karpis- Barker
Edward G. Bremer
St. Paul
Sawyer
Bremer
Minn
Free Picture At Handley Show Promotes Highway Safety
Five thousand people attended four showings of the Goodrich film The Highway Patrol at Harrisonburg with screenings at Handley high school auditorium. The Cammer Tire Company sponsored the event highlighting road safety and offering a prize for the top traffic violation counter. Harry Langdon starred in Love Honor and Obey the Law as part of the program with a Rubber Olympics sequence to end the program.
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Goodrich
Harrisonburg
Highway Patrol
Cammer Tire Company
Handley High School
Harry Langdon
Douglas
Civil Planes Carry 1 859 031 In 1934
The Bureau of Air Commerce reports US civil airplanes carried 1,859,031 passengers in 1934, up from 1,739,275 the prior year. Of the total 461,743 flew on domestic scheduled airlines and 1,397,288 on other commercial operators and private owners.
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United States
Bureau of Air Commerce
Department of Commerce
Capitol Hill Debates Omnibus Banking and TVA Amendments
Senate debates motion to take up Norris TVA amendments while the Finance Committee studies the social security bill. House considers amendments to the omnibus banking bill as Labor committee reviews Wagner Connery labor disputes pill. Debates tariff questions raised by Senator Vandenberg. House works on omnibus banking bill amendments.
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Senate
Finance Committee
House
Labor Committee
Vandenberg
Congress Votes Gratitude For Byrd Antarctic Expedition Heroism
Congress adopted concurrent resolutions honoring Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and the second Byrd Antarctic expedition for their successful and heroic exploration. A joint Senate and House committee was authorized to meet Byrd at the Navy Yard in Washington on May 10 1935 to extend a welcome and present a written resolution.
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Richard E. Byrd
Congress
Senate
House
Navy Yard
Washington
Glass
Robertson
Virginia
Byrd
Antarctic
Little America
Iseae House of Represeves
United States
Ami
Ance
House of Representatives
Nine-Coach Trains Operated Baltimore to Winchester
J G Fosbrink freight agent Winchester Va confirms special trains ran daily from Baltimore to Winchester and back but none between Winchester and Strasburg. Nine coaches plus one baggage coach ran Baltimore to Winchester with cars crowded from Charles Town to Winchester. Editor notes this clarifies a prior article about festival excursions.
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the Star
Baltimore
Winchester
Strasburg
Washington, D. C
Washington
Brunswick
Win
Chester
Charles Town
W. Va
J. G. Fosbrink
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