Miss Larrick Elected President Of Winchester Education Association
Nancy Gray Larrick is named president for the ensuing year of the Winchester Education Association. Other officers include Mary Boxley as vice president Mary Bell Bear as recording secretary and Mary Glenn Lupton as corresponding secretary. The final Handley High School meeting featured original poems by Katherine Pannill and E P Browning plus piano selections by C A Coe and a Spanish dialect reading by Alice Dew. The program closed with a musical quiz led by Gwendolyn Haynes and Sadie Finkelstein.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Gray Larrick
Winchester Education Association
Mary Boxley
Mary Bell Bear
Mary Glenn Lupton
Handley High School
Sesson
Alan Peery
Katherine Pannill
Gwendolyn Haynes
Sadie Finkelstein
Shortage Charge Covers Garden City Cashier
Joseph Carbone, cashier of the literary guild in Garden City LI, surrendered amid an alleged $80,000 shortage. A fifty dollar weekly employee, he vanished when Roosevelt auditors were appointed to review the books. Helen Pressley noted for recognizing first lines of songs. Browning won consolation prize. Faculty credited Mrs Luther Hale Mrs Norman Ochs and home economics girls for refreshments.
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Joseph Carbone
Literary Guild
Garden City
L. I
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Helen Pressley
Browning
Luther Hale
Norman Ochs
Home Economics
Yankee Clipper Completes Its First Flight
The Yankee Clipper landed at Marignane Air base Marseille at 3 40 p m after a two hour delay due to storms. The flight marked the first regularly scheduled commercial crossing of the Atlantic carrying mail with no paying passengers. French and American officials greeted the crew on arrival.
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Marseille
France
Atlantic
Marignane Air Base
Spain
Pyrenees
Lisbon
Portugal
Mrs Humphreys Reported Seriously Ill at Memorial Hospital
Mrs Ida Humphreys of South Kent street is seriously ill at Memorial hospital after a Friday fall at her home. She was placed in a plaster cast after hip fracture treatment and was moved to hospital Saturday for care.
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Ida Humphreys
South Kent Street
Memorial Hospital
Blair seniors pick brief graduation program
Blair Nebraska high school seniors plan a tight graduation program with no traditional orations. The 89 students chose a concise format focused on concise expression and practical honors rather than lengthy speeches.
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Blair
Halifax Plans Three Power Alliance With France and Soviet Russia
Geneva May 22 British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax reportedly plans to submit a three power alliance proposal to London for a Britain France and Soviet Russia pact. The plan would bind auto aid for attacks on any signatory state and trigger tri power consultations on unguaranteed states with regional addenda possible. No agreement has been reached and the British cabinet decision remains pending.
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Geneva
Viscount Halifax
London
Britain
France
Soviet
Russia
Halifax
Moscow
Turkey
Romania
Poland
Greece
Balkan
Labor Inspectors Probe Strawberries Trade In Virginia
State Labor Department inspectors conferred with Accomac and Northampton counties attorneys to determine charges over a traffic in negroes on Eastern Shore strawberry farms. Nearly a dozen people have been chosen for prosecution with warrants to be sworn in the coming days, according to the Richmond Times Dispatch.
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Richmond
State Labor Department
Commonwealth
Accomac
Northampton
Thomas B. Morton
Richmond Times- Dispatch
Lieut Flannagan Injured In Crash Near Front Royal
Lieut Paul T Flannagan of Camp P-66 sustained a compound fracture of a thigh in a two car collision at Allie Henry's Corner on the John Marshall Highway. The CCC car crashed through guard rails into Happy Creek and was destroyed. Wilbur Herringer, driver, injured chest. Clarence S Jones escaped with vehicle damage of $200. Both drivers charged with reckless driving.
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Front Royal
Paul T. Flannagan
Camp P-66
Green Hill
Allie Henry’s Corner
Flannagan
Wilbur Herringer
Clarence S. Jones
Washington
CCC
Happy Creek
Herringer
Jones
Careless With King's Breakfast
Spokane dispatch reports an express driver tossed crates of $2 cantaloupes for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England, risking loss. The melons, shipped from Southern California at $151, were moved to a train bound for Calgary, Alberta for delivery tonight.
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Spokane
Wash
Hencie W. White
Express
George VI
Queen Elizabeth of England
California
Calgary
Alta
Road Worker Kills Wife Then Ends Own Life in Staunton Area
Staunton, May 22. Augusta County Coroner Charles P. Obenchain said John Speck, 38, highway department employee, fatally wounded his wife Louise, 30, as she slept beside him and then shot himself through the heart. Mrs. Speck died last night at Mt. Alto Hospital. The shooting occurred at the home of Mrs. Speck's mother six miles west of Staunton while they were spending the weekend. Mrs. Speck, a graduate nurse, had continued nursing at Mt. Alto Hospital since marriage about eight years ago. Speck, a Staunton native, is survived by his father, two brothers, and four others.
Funeral set for Mrs. Jennie Gough
Mrs. Jennie Gough 64 died Sunday at her Cham bersville area home after a long illness. She was the wife of John Gough and daughter of the late Amos and Ellen Spillman. Survived by brother J L Spillman and nieces and nephews including Mrs. Lewis Everly Kernstown and Holmes Spillman Arlington VA. Funeral Tuesday at Mount Pleasant with Rev Cortney Anderson officiating. Pallbearers listed. burial nearby.
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Jennie Gough
Chambersville
Gough
John Gough
Amos and
Ellen Jackson Spillman
Mount Pleasant
J. L. Spillman
Lewis Everly
Kernstown
Edward Carpenter
Frederick County
Holmes Spillman
Arlington
United Brethren Church
Lamps
Cortney Anderson
Jones
Arthur Russell
Ernest Carper
Frank Quantz
John Patterson
John McKeever
Marvin Miller
Mrs. Emma Scrivener Rites Planned in Winchester
Mrs Emma B Scrivener 171 died at 342 Fairview Ave Winchester after years of illness born Aug 2 1867 native of Frederick County wife of Turner A Scrivener. Survived by husband and children Walter A Scrivener Akron W Scrivener Dale Baker Winchester siblings M L Lockhart Maggie Triplett Kelse Oklahoma. Funeral service Wednesday 1 30 pm from residence then Church of Christ Rev Goode assisted by Rev Dudley Funk. Interment Mount Hebron Cemetery.
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Emma _ B. Scrivener
Fairview Avenue
Winchester
Scrivener
Turner A. Scrivener
Frederick County
B. M. Lockhart
Frederick
Walter A. Scrivener
Clearbrook
W. Scrivener
Garner Scrivener
Akron
Ohio
Dale Baker
M. L. Lockhart
Maggie Triplett
Walter Kelso
Oklahoma
Church of Christ
S. J. Goode
W. L. Dudley
Charles Hume Funk
H. R. Myers
Oscar Miller
L. L. Hockman
George Riley
Lee Whitacre
Holly
State To Save On Light Bills
Richmond May 22 The state will save about 26000 annually in its electric bill due to lower rates from negotiations with Virginia Electric and Power Company Governor Price announced that large state institutions using 25 kilowatts or more will pay a flat rate of one cent per kilowatt hour if they do not generate any part of their own energy The new agreement will be submitted to state institutions and agencies in the company's territory Negotiations were conducted by the planning and research section of the budget division.
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Richmond
Virginia Electric and Power Company
Price
Section of
Two Army ADF Plane Crashes Into Lick Observatory
In fog last night at Mount Hamilton near San Jose California two army men Lieut Richard F Lorenz 25 and Private W E Scott of March Field Riverside Calif died when their swift new attack plane plowed through 18 inch brick walls and wrecked the observatory offices Gasoline flooded the floors and records were destroyed The crash occurred after the plane failed to clear the building by about 20 feet The loss to Polaris data and the Observatory staff was mourned by Dr J H Moore and Dr Gerald F Paddock
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San Jose
Calif
Lick Astronomical Observatory
Mount Hamilton
Richard F. Lorenz
W. E. Scott
March Field
Riverside
J. H. Moore
University of California-operated
Observatory
Gerald F. Paddock
Lorenz
Hamilton Field
San Rafael
Scott
Lost Brown Dog With Tag 71440 In Liberal
Small brown dog lost Saturday evening. Tag number 71440. Liberal residents offer a reward. Vehicle and phone numbers indicate contact points 1727 1 2 and 22 21. Dog shows signs of aging. If found, please call with tag details.
Death Takes Mrs. Mary Elvira Long Widow of Reuben Long
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Elvira Long 41 widow of Reuben Long longtime Mount Williams farmer will be held tomorrow at 3 pm at St Johns Lutheran Church. The Rev E B Smith will conduct with interment in the church cemetery. Mrs Long daughter of George and Minnie Hulver and a native of Clear Brook died at her home shortly before midnight Saturday after a three month illness. Surviving are her parents a son Udell Long and several brothers and sisters.
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Mary Elvira Long
Reuben Long
Mount Williams
St. Johns Lutheran Church
E. B. Smith
Noisy Ark Dress Rehearsal Ends With Laughs
In Better Half Chapel Hill the Noah production faced mishaps as only the rear of the elephant appeared for the Ark trek while the front half was missing amid lighthearted confusion. Spring weather arrives in Pocatello with wind gusts and a drop in temperature as residents note a straw-hot day.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
Pocatello
Idaho
Pocatelo
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