Britain Ready For Emergency Premier Tells Packed House
Prime Minister Chamberlain declared Britain's air force would prove formidable if tested tomorrow while addressing a full House of Commons. He rejected Labour demands for an independent inquiry into air ministry conditions and aircraft production amid warnings of Czech crisis repercussions.
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London
Chamberlain
Britain
House of Commons
Hugh Dalton
Air Ministry
Dalton
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Hungary
Paris
United States
William C Bullitt
France
Great Britain
Foreign Office
Georges Bonnet -Prench
Central
Europe
Bonnet
Washington
Praha
Ernest Eisenlohr
Kamil Krofta
Eger
Berlin
Austria
Bicycle safety rules urged by MA Winchester
Winchester warns boys to follow bicycle laws as strictly as car rules to avoid trouble, noting regulations apply equally to bikes and autos and that safety requires active adherence even though accidents may still happen.
Morgan's ontee collusion and mismanagement in TVA
Arthur E. Morgan former TVA chairman testified before a Congressional committee alleging collusion and mismanagement within the agency. He charged H. A. Morgan and David Lilienthal with six faults including inaccurate reports, power program mismanagement, lack of candor, and improper accounting. He urged an honest administration of the public trust.
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Washington
Arthur E. Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
Congressional
TVA
Morgan
H. A. Morgan
David E. Lilienthal
Senate Committee
Congress
Fourteen youths to appear in court over bicycle violations
Fourteen bicycle riders have summons to appear before Judge Donald Weems at 10 Saturday morning for hearings on alleged violations of city bicycle ordinances. Dr. C R Anderson urged enforcement of sidewalk riding bans and riding without lights at night and cautioned against two people sharing one bicycle.
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Donald Weems
C. W. Hollis
C. R. Anderson
Police
Virginia
Anderson
Hollis
Severe Wind Storm Damages Farms West of Middletown
A May 25 storm in the lower Shenandoah Valley caused major destruction near Minebank, two miles west of Middletown. E R McDonald’s barn, threshing shed, and machinery were wrecked while oaks felled and a dog-house was hurled by the wind. J D Huffman’s barn roof was ripped off and rafters carried away. Apple trees in the Hiett and Brumback orchards were damaged as young fruit blew away. Sheep losses were reported at the Hiett farm.
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The
Star
Middletown
Shenandoah Valley
E. R. McDonald
McDonald Farm
Fred Hiett
William Brumback
Minebank
Rotarians To Hear Mathews In Virginia Meeting
George Mathews district governor of the 187th Rotary District will speak to Rotary Clubs in Virginia and nearby areas. The event is set for Thursday at 7 p.m. at the George Washington Hotel with leaders including Rev. Harry Crim guiding the Winchester Front Royal Strasburg Woodstock and Mount Jackson clubs. J Pinckney Arthur president of the Winchester club will preside.
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George Mathews
Rotary International
Virginia
George Washington Hotel
Mathews
North Carolina
District of Columbia
Winchester
Harry Crim
Strasburg
Front Royal Strasburg
Woodstock
Mount Jackson
J. Pinckney Arthur
Winchester Club
Will Pree
Wallpaper Carload Sale Notice
Gardner B. Hillyard lists a wallpaper carload sale with prices from 5 to 50 cents. Reader notices discount offers and ordering details dated May 25.
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Just
Gardner B. Hillyard
Registrars Reappointed For Winchester Precincts
The Electoral Board reappointed registrars for Winchester four precincts for two years. Officials for the June 14 municipal election include registrars Samuel Forney Margaret Ashby B F Davis W Benton Snider Jr and judges and clerks across Friendship Rouss City Hall precincts with named appointees.
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Charles H. Harper
Electoral Board
Winchester
Friendship
Samuel Forney
Rouss
Margaret A. Ashby
Sarah Zane
B. F. Davis
City Hall
W. Benton Snider
John W. Kater
Frank Keckley
William E. Newlin
Lester Forney
Ralph A. Cain
John Dunn
F. M. Yeakle
W. A. March
Robert Swartz
W. L. Whisson
Arthur G
25 Crewmen Hurt By Blasts In Oil Tanker Fire
In Fall River Massachusetts on May 35 a string of blasts wounded at least 25 crew members aboard the tanker Elwood. The explosions caused a fire that endangered the ship and forced some sailors to jump overboard. Wounded men were transported to a hospital with burns and bricklike injuries.
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Fall River
Mass
Judge Williams To Speak At Memorial Day Exercises
May 30 program in National Cemetery with Judge Philip Williams as speaker starts at 2 30 pm. Memorial service led by Commander Harry T. Cook features bands, prayers, Gettysburg Address reading, and singing. A firing squad and benediction close the ceremony with Decoration Day origins noted.
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Philip Williams
National Cemetery
Harry T. Cook
Ladies’ National Memorial Association
James C. Baker
United Spanish War Veterans
Winchester Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Robert Y. Conrad
American Go
Virginia National] Guard
Boy Scouts of America
McIlwee Municipal Band
T. M. Swann
Braddock Street
M. E. Church
South
Arthur M. Field
American Legion
Lincoln
Assembly
America
Company I
116Th Infantry
Millard J. Miller
United Brethren Church
North
John A. Logan
Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Army
Compromise On Relief Bill Aims To Limit PWA Power Projects
Washington May 25 Senator Adams floor managed the $3.247 billion relief bill and submitted a compromised amendment to restrict PWA funds for power plants that would compete with privately owned systems if those private rates are fair and publicly regulated. The amendment, backed by Adams, is less drastic than prior Senate approval. Pope proposed adding 212 million for farm benefits via processing taxes early in 1939.
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Washington
Adams
D-Col
Senate Appropriations Committee
PWA
Appropriations Committee
Pope
Idaho
Congress
Worcester veteran refuses Gettysburg anniversary over flag
Edwin J. Foster 89 of Worcester, past commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, says he will not participate in the planned seventy fifth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg if the Confederate flag is flown on the grounds.
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Worces
Edwin J. Foster
Worcester
Grand Army of the Republic
Gettysburg
Texas chorus girl becomes stage manager abroad
Miss Jacque Paige a 20 year old Texan rose from chorus girl to stage manager in months. She began in a Lunt Fontanne Broadway chorus and earned the top job when Amphitryon 38 moved to London under their production.
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Jacqueline Paige
Miss Paige
Lunt-Fontanne
New York
Lunt
Fontanne
Amphitryon
London
Ickes and Bride To Return Soon From Honeymoon
Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes and his 25 year old bride Jane Dahlman sailed from Cork bound for London on the steamer Innisfallen after a Dublin wedding. The couple plans a quick honeymoon tour to Paris and the continent before returning to the United States in about three weeks.
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Cork
Ireland
Harold L. Ickes
Fishguard
Wales
London
Dublin
Aa Woods
Innisfalien
Corkbeg
United States
Jane Dahlman
Smith College
Interior
Ickes
Wilmarth Ickes
National Park Service
Reclamation Burea
Washington
Back Creek District Sunday School Convention Held in Va
The 26th annual Back Creek District Sunday School Association convention met at St. John's Lutheran Church near Mount Williams with the theme The Churches In Cooperation. Rev. C. H. Anderson led morning devotion and speakers from Mount Williams Hayfield Lamps Memorial and Strasburg discussed cooperation and benefits.
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Back Creek District Sunday School Association
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Mount Williams
C. H. Anderson
Winchester
N. C. Williams
G. L. Hershman
Mountain Falls
J. B. Snapp
Hayfield
Southern Senators Fight Wage Hour Bill After House Victory
In Washington on May 25 southern senators vow to block the revived wage hour bill as Northern Democrats and Republicans celebrate a 314 to 97 House passage. The measure would set a graduated minimum wage and 40 hour work week with various farm product exemptions amid possible Senate filibuster whispers.
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Washington
House
Barkley
Senate House Committee
Senate
Senate Labor Committee
Thomas
Utah
South
Congress
Rules Committee
Goodman Defeats Irish Rival in British Amateur Golf
Johnny Goodman of Omaha defeats Albert W. Briscoe 6 and 5 to lead Americans into the fourth round of the British amateur championship at Troon. Chuck Kocsis advances 4 and 3 over Montgomerie. Reynolds Smith falls to Jocelyn Walker as Walker Cambridge advances.
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Troon
Scotland
Johnny Goodman
Omaha
United States
Albert W. Briscoe
Goodman
Charles
Chuck) Kocsis
Detroit
John S. Montgomerie
Britain
U.S
Francis Ouimet
Boston
Cecil Ewing
Smith
Reynolds Smith
Dallas
Jocelyn Walker
Cambridge University
Ouimet
Ewing
Francis
Woman seeks home for female Spitz dog
WANTED To find home for female Spitz. Phone 1182. Note date 5 25 with pet adoption intent. Local notice seeks a caring owner for a spitz and provides contact for adoption.
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Spitz
Dawley to speak at Winchester Chamber dinner
Thomas W. Dawley, administrative assistant to FBI Chief John Edgar Hoover, will address the Winchester Junior Board of Trade during tonight’s charter presentation dinner at the George Washington Hotel starting at 7 o clock.
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Thomas W. Dawley
John Edgar Hoover
Winchester Jinior Board of Trade
George Washington Hotel
Younger Brother Defends Donald Carroll in Murder Trial
In New York on May 25 a 13 year old Douglas Carroll testified that he found their father’s pistol and moved it to a shelf while Donald Carroll 16 cried on the day Charlotte Matthiesen 18 was killed in an apparent murder suicide pact. The defense sought to humanize Carroll as prosecutors wrap up their case with toxicology tests noting no powder burns on Matthiesen’s dress.
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New York
Donald Carroll
Charlotte Matthiesen
Carroll
Douglas
Donald
Jackson Heights
Joseph V. Loscalzo
Young Carroll
Alexander O. Gettler
Harry Schwartz
Gettler
Style Shop offers colorful summer dresses at low prices
Mr. Bender returns from New York with a shipment of washable shantings linens chiffons and silks dresses in all sizes and colors at 2.00 Better dresses at 2.98 and 3.98 are selling higher elsewhere The Style Shop 150 N Loudoun St Winchester May 25 1p 1t.
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Bender
New York
Style Shop
N. Loudoun St. Winchester
United Air Lines twin engine crash near Cleveland kills ten
W A Patterson, United Airlines president, said both engines failed simultaneously just before the crash eight miles from Cleveland airport. The craft, a trim twin, dove into a ravine killing ten, including John Brostuen North Dakota Republican chairman. Fire followed impact as wreckage burned for hours.
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Ray Blosser
Cleveland
W. A. Patterson
United Air Lines
Patterson
United
United Airlines
Newark
Chicago
Cleveand
John Brostuen
North Dakota
Alexander
N. D
Independence Village
Department of Commerce
Brostuen
L. Arthur Doty
Watertown
Mass
Chihicago
Harold
C. F. Lickel
St. Albans
Long Island
R. P. Morrell
Yonkers
Emergency call for derby hats for East Lynne costume
Mrs A S and S Pennypacker in charge of costumes for East Lynne seeks two derby hats, old ones preferred. Anyone with such an article should telephone her at once.
Soviet State Ready to Defend Czechoslovakia
Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky stated in New York that Soviet Russia would defend Czechoslovakia against aggression. He declared the USSR is strong enough to meet any aggressor during a speech prepared for delivery at the American Russian Chamber of Commerce.
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New York
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Alexander A. Troyanovsky
Awning offer from E W Armstrong Co at 39 E Piccadilly
E W Armstrong Co advertises awnings for porches windows or stores with phone 639 and address 39 East Piccadilly Street. Price listed as 18 dollars with wed lp tf notation.
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E. W. Armstrong CO
E. Piccadilly St
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