Hold Meeting To Organize Band In Front Royal
Front Royal residents met in the Warren County courthouse to form a town band. Town Manager L. B. Dutrow was elected temporary chairman, Captain G. C. Dean urged community unity, former band members backed the plan, Parkway Orchestra leader Jimmy Doman offered help, and Mrs. William J. Farrell was named temporary treasurer. First rehearsal planned for June 3 at Warren County High School auditorium.
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Front Royal
Warren County
L. B. Dutrow
Optson
G. C. Dean
Jimmy Doman
Parkway Orchestra
William J. Farrell
Warren Seniors Hear Mr. Glass at Front Royal
More than 40 members of the Warren County high school's graduating class attended a Front Royal Rotary club event. Guest speaker was William W. Glass past president of Winchester Rotary Club. Club officials welcomed attendees and the class president delivered a gracious response.
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Front Royal
Warrenounty High School
Front Royal Rotary Club
William W. Glass
Winchester Rotary Club
J. Grover Hillidge
Front Royal Club
B. Ney Scheuer
Q. D. Gasque
Manager of Silk Mill in Hospital in Front Royal
Oscar Ettmueller, manager of the Schwarzenbach Huber Silk Mill in Front Royal, was found unconscious in his bedroom at the Afton Inn this morning at 8:30. He suffered a severe hemorrhage after being moved to his bed and was transported to Winchester Memorial Hospital by the Relief Fire Department ambulance.
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Front Royal
Oscar Ettmueller
Schwarzenbach-Huber
Afton Inn
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Relief Fire Department
Debate Opens on Amendments to the AAA Act
In Washington on May 27 the Senate began debate on amendments to the AAA act. Senator Smith faces questions from Borah and McNary as he argues the House drafted bill is a preferable substitute and expands secretary of agriculture powers over the agri cultural industry.
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Washington
Senate
Senator Smith
D-Sc
Secretary of Agriculture
Appeal Denied In Wynnekoop Case
The Supreme Court refused to interfere with the 25 year sentence given to Dr. Alice L. Wynnekoop Chicago physician convicted of operating table murder of her daughter in law Rheta in November 1933.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Alice L. Wynnekoop
Chicago
Rheta
First Presidential Widow Pension Pioneering Claim
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln became the first widow of a president to receive a federal pension. A July 14 1870 act granted her 3000 dollars annually, later increased to 5000 by a February 2 1882 act. No general pension law exists. all such awards have been via special acts of Congress.
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Abraham Lincoln
United States
Congress
Front Royal Town Council to Meet This Evening
Social and personal notices from Front Royal and Warren County list residents visiting, traveling, or ill. The town council will convene at 7 PM in the town manager’s office. Several locals are mentioned visiting family, hospital stays, and trips to cities including Baltimore Los Angeles and Richmond.
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Front Royal
Louise Illington among eight beauties in Vanities cast
Former Cleveland stenographer Louise Illington now Weider is presented by Earl Carroll as one of the eight most beautiful girls in his Vanities cast. The new Sketch Book opens in New York after a trial in Philadelphia.
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Louise Illington
Cleveland
Earl Carroll
Louise
Weider
New York
Philadelphia
Rains Halt Forest Fire Near Dionne Hospital
Callander Ontario May 27 Rain fell a few miles north of here today easing the fire hazard near the Dionne quintuplets hospital. The five babies’ first birthday anniversary is to be celebrated tomorrow and the fires caused little alarm for the babies’ safety.
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Callander
Ont
Here
Dionne Quintuplets’ Hospital
Kidnapper of Mary McElroy Gets Life Term
In Jefferson City Missouri on May the plea of Mary McElroy and commutation of Walter McGee death sentence to life in prison is granted. McGee was the first in the United States to receive the death penalty for kidnapping.
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Mary McElroy
Jefferson City
Ng B. Park
Mary MeElroy
Walter McGee
McGee
United States
Class In First Aid Proposed At Cross Junction
Citizens from Cross Junction Whitacre Reynolds Store and Gainesboro will meet at 2 o clock Thursday May 30 in the band hall at Cross Junction to organize a community first aid class. The course is open to men and women seventeen and older with instructor to be announced after organization.
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Cross Junction
Whitacre
Reynolds Store
Gainesboro
Some Dangers In Religion Week At Church
Revival services continue at the Church of Christ with nightly themes on Some Dangers in Religion. Rev. George Earl Owen notes rising attendance as programs run 8 PM with Melvin Miller leading song, and Mother Oliver of Roanoke guiding children's story hour. week ends Sunday evening.
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Church of Christ
George Earl Owen
Melvin Miller
Mother Oliver
Roanoke
Francis Asbury Union To Meet At Braddock Street Church
A special meeting of Francis Asbury Young People’s Union is scheduled at Braddock Street Methodist Church Tuesday evening May 28 at 8 o'clock. An essay contest winner will be chosen, with the topic Why Support the Home and Foreign Mission Enterprises.
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Francis Asbury Young People’s Union
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Ruling Upholds Prison Terms for Ransom Holders
The Supreme Court upheld five year prison terms for Clif ford Skelly and Edward Berman who possessed ransom money paid for the release of Charles F Urschel, an Oklahoma City oil man kidnapped for 200000 dollars.
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Washington
Clifford Skelly
Edward Berman
Charles F. Urschel
Oklahoma City
Supreme Court
Governor Kump To Speak At Timber Ridge Memorial Day
West Virginia Governor H G Kump will headline the Memorial Sunday service at Timber Ridge Christian Church Timber Ridge W V for the June 16 observance He grew up nearby and has many old church friends The program includes Sunday School at 10 and worship at 11 with the address at 2 30 PM at Timber Ridge church
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Christian Church
A. C. Oates
Ivan R. Smith
H. G. Kump
West Virginia
Timber Ridge
Timber Ridge Christian Church
Kump
W. Va
President orders search for missing William B Leeds
President Roosevelt ordered the navy and coast guard to begin a systematic search for William B Leeds heir to tin plate fortunes who disappeared around 6 p m in a 26 foot fishing launch en route from Miami to Bimini Captain Fox of the yacht Moana reported the loss and Stephen Early notified authorities.
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Bimini
Coast Guard
Washington
Roosevelt
Navy
William B. Leeds
Miami
Fox
Moana
Stephen Early
Hemorrhage Suffered By Randolph-Macon Student
Hubert Sydenstricker Jr., son of Rev. and Mrs. Hubert Sydenstricker, freshman at Randolph-Macon College, is in a Richmond hospital being treated for nosebleeds after being struck by a baseball. Doctors report no immediate danger and expect recovery, with parents at his side since Saturday.
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Hubert Sydenstricker, Jr
Hubert Sydenstricker
Randolph-Macon College
Ashland
Richmond
Blackwell
Richmond Hospital
Work Begins on Remodeling of Roanoke Postoffice
Wood Construction Company of Roanoke and engineer from Carroll A. Warthen will supervise remodeling and enlargement of the postoffice at Brad dock and Piccadilly streets. Local labor will be used from Winchester through the National Reemployment Service. Forty hours weekly in five eight hour shifts. Work starts with pulling down the north wall. Contract value is 40 500 dollars and the job must finish within 240 days from today.
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Mr. Wood
Wood
Construction Company
Roanoke
Postoffice
Braddock and
Piccadilly Streets
Carroll A. Warthen
Public Works Branch
Treasury Department
Washington, D. C
Winchester
National Reemployment Service
Wood Construction Company
Winchester Scouts Committee to Meet Tonight
The Winchester and Frederick county executive committee of Boy Scouts will meet at 7 30 tonight in the Handley Library trustees room. Reports from chairmen will be heard and discussion will cover the summer camp and the jam boree at Washington on August 21. Deputy Regional Executive J Lee Calahan of Region 3 will attend and answer questions.
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Winchester and
Frederick County
Handley Library
Washington
J. Lee Calahan
Philadelphia
District of Columbia
Prominent Front Royal Native Dies at Home
Lloyd Clark Willey 59 longtime Front Royal resident and former Middletown native dies at his Front Royal home after a long illness. He was a Shenandoah Teachers College graduate, a former merchant and Baker and Company manager, and a leading community figure and Mason. He leaves his wife Lillian Yates Willey and four children along with siblings and other relatives. Funeral services are set for tomorrow at his home with Masonic funeral honors at Prospect Hill Cemetery.
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Lloyd Clark Willey
Front Royal
Middletown
Willey
Shenandoah Teachers’ College
Methodist Church of
Order of the Eastern Star of Virginia
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Frederick County
Edward E. Willey
Georgia Hensell Willey
Lillian Yates
Richmond
Lloyd Yates Willey
Vanessa Kittleberger
Janet Willey
Theodore Willey
Howard Willey
Greenville
S. C
Arthur McIinturff
Wilbur Mowery
Winnie Willey
Frank Sperry
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Prospect Hill Cemetery
U S Marines Age Limits for Enlistment
The age requirements for joining the United States Marines are seventeen to thirty-five. Parental consent is required for a boy under twenty-one. A boy under eighteen may enlist for four years and must serve until his twenty-first birthday.
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U. S
United States
Authority to Set Up Private Code Denied
The Supreme Court ruled Congress had not provided adequate restraints on presidential code approval, finding Section three an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power. The government argued extraordinary conditions could not override constitutional limits in regulating industry and commerce.
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Congress
Mr. Hughes
Weyerhaeuser Relatives Seek New Contacts
A newspaper item notes Weyerhaeuser relatives seek new contacts with a businesslike warning. The text lists a note requesting large cash sums: 200000 dollars in cash 100000 dollars in twenty dollar bills 50000 dollars in ten dollar bills and 50000 dollars in five dollar bills.
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Weyerhaeuser
Kidnappers Demand 200 000 in Pacific Northwest Case
Tacoma parents seek safe return of nine year old George Weyerhaeuser after a ransom demand and warnings of death unless $200000 is paid within two days. Investigators monitor the case as federal and local authorities pursue leads across the Northwest.
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Tacoma
Wash
Weyerhaeuser
J. P. Weyerhaeuser
Seattle
Weyerhaeuser Lumber
Cliff Osborne
Pacific Northwest
Commencement Bay
L. H. Burnett
California
Lowell
Jean Comfort
A. B. Comfort
George
Lucille Berg
George Weyerhaeuser
Clean Out Kidney Poisons
Doan's Pills are recommended to help kidneys empty four pints a day and prevent poisons from clogging the 15 miles of tubules. The ad claims the product has aided millions of kidney sufferers for over 40 years and is sold by FosterMilburn Co.
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Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
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Winchester Evening Star
Richard K. Eddy
Telephone Front Royal 213
Warren
Mr. Glass
Wynnekoop
A. L. Haggard
West Main Street
J. C. Trice
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
John Bierer
Charlottesville
Mrs
I. G. Bierer
Wallace Thomassom
Riverton
Susan Marshall
Southwest
Virginia
C. A. Stokes
Los Angeles
Roy Lutz
Mt. Jackson
A. N. Carroll
Dorothy Smith
Luray
Susan Woolston
Washington, Va
Julian N. Major
Mr. Eliott Marshall
Berryville
Mrs. W. Emory Trainham
Baltimore, Md
Gladys Harnesberger
J. B. Harnesberger
Louise S[llington
Dionne Hospital
Francis Asbury Union
Atlantic Ocean
Gov. Kump
Rich W. B. Leeds
H. Sydenstricker, JR
Boy Scouts’ Committee
Hughes
Federal Reserve
Police
Department of Justice
Percy Minnie
Neverhausers
Seattle Post-Intelligence
Pfe
Innie
Ary
F. R. Titcomb
Weyerhaeuser Lumber Company
Annie Wright Seminary
Ann
Burnett
Goodyear
Ud Buncutter Tire Co
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