G O P To Hum Victory Melody At R N C Meeting
Washington November 28 Republicans will hum a victory song softly at the annual meeting of the Republican National Committee. The event focuses on business with no explicit policy talks though leaders weigh future employment regulation and farm relief and seek to maintain a coalition with Democratic conservatives. John Hamilton is expected to remain as chairman perhaps until the 1940 convention.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Congress
Con- Fea Eah Moet
Supreme Court
Washare
John Hamilton
Hamilton
Sledding Dangers Highlighted By Winchester Editor
MA Winchester warns that sled riding on public streets has caused deaths and injuries in Washington and other cities. He cites hazardous driving conditions and urges keeping sleds off roads, with stern measures for boys who tether sleds to cars to avoid possible tragedy.
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Washington
Winchester
Wanted Patrolmen Apply For Police Positions
Official notice from Chief W. Hollis invites applicants for patrolmen. Positions require passing physical and mental examinations and are to be processed through the chief of police’s office. The notice is dated 11-28.
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Cc. W. Hollis
Pope Participates in Vatican Chapel Prayer Amid Weakness
Vatican report says Pope Pius participated in a half hour chapel service with cardinals during a week of spiritual exercises. He was carried to the chapel in his chair and later addressed 400 pilgrims unaided on the papal throne.
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Vatican City
Pius
Vatican
Amimt Milani
Papal
Justinian George Cardinal Seredi
Strigonia
Cold Shenandoah Valley Sees Deep Freeze Prompting Hazards
Weekend temperatures dipped to 7 and 8 degrees with Sunday night at 9 degrees. Forecast calls for a modest warm up and fair skies tomorrow. Drivers report hazardous road conditions on Route 7 over the Blue Ridge and several cars off the highway, though no serious crashes in Winchester area.
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Shenandoah Valley
Winchester
Blue Ridge
New nicotine spray costs four times more per application
Dr. Walter S. Hough reports a nicotine sulfate spray for the adult cooling moth will raise costs about fourfold per spray. Fewer applications and only one wash may offset some expenses, and the spray avoids arsenical foliage damage, though cheaper lead arsenate remains unavailable. He cautions growers not to expect savings, while continuing work toward a spray reducing the need to wash fruit.
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Walter S. Hough
Weather Clears East With Cold Snap After Double Blizzard Preview
Sub-freezing temperatures spread across the east as a weekend snowfall added to a Thanksgiving crust of ice. Virginia records heavy snow, New England reports five inches, and New York faces weather costs of a million dollars for slow clearing. Rescue teams reach 100 marooned hunters in Maine while new weather casualties are noted from Nantucket to Buffalo. Rail and air schedules face minor disruption.
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Associated Press
Georgia
Kansas City
Atlantic
Virginia
New England
New York
New York City
Maine
Nantucket Island
Mass
Charleston
W. Va
Buffalo
N. Y
Patrons Urged To Aid Carriers In Snow Removal
Postmaster W Nelson Page today urged patrons on suburban and rural routes to clear snow from near their mail boxes so carriers can make their rounds with minimal delay. Several persons have neglected this. Harsh cold weather has made carrier work difficult with deep drifts hindering access to boxes.
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W. Nelson Page
Improved Lot for Public Auction on Valley Pike
Public sale of Lot 1 Block A on the east side of Valley Pike scheduled for Saturday December 3 at 12 Noon in front of the Court House. Lot front is 65 feet. terms require one third cash day of sale and balance in three equal yearly payments. Duvall, Dunn & 11-28,30,12-2-1p-31.
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Court House
Valley Pike
Duvall
Dunn
Baby Pictures Special Christmas Offer at Barr's Studio
A Christmas promotion from Barr's Studio advertises baby pictures. The brief notice mentions a special offer available in the week of November 28.
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Baby Pictures
Barr’s
Police Plane Drops Supplies to Marooned Hunters in Maine
In AUTORA Maine a state police chartered plane dropped food to about 20 hunters and CCC youths trapped by eight to ten foot drifts after two blizzards since Thanksgiving. Rescuers from state police national guardsmen and game wardens battled snow through Amherst Aurora Bedding ton Deblois and Mopang Lake to reach camps near Eagle Lake. Among named marooned are Capt H R Greenlee and Lieut Commander Arthur F Foltz with other Portsmouth Navy officers.
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CCC
Maine
National
Don Mason
Bangor
Amherst
Aurora
Bedlington
Deblois
Mopang Lake
Beddington
Eagle Lake
Mopang
Augusta
H. R. Greenlee
Portsmouth
N. H
Navy Yard
Portsmouth Navy
Arthur F Foltz
William W. Anderson, Jr
Lewis O. Barrows
Ais
Shug
D. J. Howard Elected President of Virginia Vocational Association
In Richmond last week D. J. Howard supervisor of Vocational Agriculture in Northern Virginia was chosen president of the Virginia Vocational Association for the coming year. Former secretary treasurer J. Stewart of William and Mary and T. Ballentine of Danville were elected vice president and secretary treasurer respectively. The national meeting will be in St. Louis from November 29 to December 3.
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Richmond
D. J. Howard
Virginia
Virginia Vocational Association
Howard
Jean Stewart
College of William and Mary Home Economic Department
Trnscott Ballentine
Danville
Elks Memorial Service Set by Winchester Lodge
Winchester Lodge No. 867 BPOE will hold its annual memorial service on December 4 at Christ Episcopal Church at 3 p.m. Lawrence C. Hollis announced arrangements with a nationally known Congress member delivering the principal address and The Chanters Winchester choir providing special music under Floyd W. Haines. Members who died in the past year will be memorialized during the service.
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Christ Episcopal Church
Lawrence C. Hollis
Hollis
Congress
Chanters
Winchester
Floyd W. Haines
Diplomats With President Again
President Roosevelt hosted German ambassador Hugh R. Wilson and Italian envoy William Phillips at Pine Mountain Georgia for a four hour dinner conference and luncheon discussions on Europe’s persecuted minorities. They described the meeting as enjoyable but offered no public remarks.
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Italy
Pine Mountain
Europe
Hugh R. Wilson
Berlin
Paris
Rome
William Phillips
New Interim Senators Enjoy Perks But Women Pay for Wave
The nation’s three interim senators Thomas M. Storke Gladys Pyle and Alexander G Barry receive title office suites mail privileges access to elevator buttons and pay of 833 33 monthly They may get free shaves and haircuts at the Capitol while women cannot get permanent waves The trio are not sworn in and have no Senate chamber seats unless they sit briefly as they please.
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Eddie Gilmore
Washington
Capitol Hill
Thomas M. Storke
California
Gladys Pyle
South Dakota
Alexander G. Barry
Oregon
Storke
McAdoo
Pyle
Barry
Capital
Capitol
Senate
War Veterans Plea to Daladier as General Strike Looms
French war veterans led by the National Confederation of War Veterans urged Premier Daladier and labor unions to calm tensions and avert a general strike. Unions warned against actions that could threaten national security while plans for a 24 hour strike proceed amid government tax decrees. Daladier mobilization powers target rail workers but leaders call members to stay at posts.
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Paris
Daladier
National Confederation of War Veterans
General Federaton of
Labor
Dies seeks 200000 for two years for anti-communist inquiry
Representative Dies of Texas asks the new House to appropriate 200000 to extend his committee's probe of un American activities. He argues the original 25000 funds limit further study and urges Justice Department action against the Communist party the German American Bund and other groups for alleged law violations. Browder and Thomas react with broader accusations and calls for review of committee funding sources.
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Dies
D-Tex
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Cival Liberties Union
Earl Browder
United States
Soviet Union
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Tokyo
Norman Thomas
la Follette Civil Liberties Committee
Dies Committee
Thomas
LaFollettee
Garland Fund
LaFollette
Hold-Up Man Is Knocked Out
A two gun hold up in a Washington Square apartment lobby ended with the suspect knocked out and captured. Police identified Eugene Paul Corbin 35 of Dum barton Virginia as the robber. His accomplice Joseph Kelly 23 of West Palm Beach admitted ownership of one gun in the lineup.
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New York
Washington Square
Eugene Paul Corbin
Dumbarton
Baltimore
Joseph Kelly
West Palm Beach
Fla
Kelly
Corbin
Fruit Section Of Florida Faces Frost Path
Jack Frost visited north and north central Florida over the weekend with the Weather Bureau noting his presence in multiple cities towns and rural areas. The uninvited guest was expected to linger another 24 hours and then move toward the fruit producing regions.
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Fla
Jack Frost
Florida
Chamber of Commerce
Weather Bureau
Pageant to Celebrate Route 7 Completion at Handley
The joint Virginia West Virginia pageant marking the completion of Virginia Route 7 will be held tomorrow at Handley High School at 4 o clock with 20 colorfully named participants from Frederick Morgan Winchester Berkeley Springs and Morgan counties. A dress rehearsal was held today at 3 30 pm at Handley auditorium and officials from both states counties and towns will take part in a ribbon ceremony across the road between two pylons set for the pope tat square.
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Handley High School
Andrew Bell
Chamber of Commerce
Handley Auditorium
Morgan County
Morgan
Frederick County
Frederick
Winchester
Berkeley Springs
Icy Accident West of Leesburg Injures Two Women
In an accident near Leesburg yesterday afternoon icy roads caused a collision west of Leesburg. Mrs Mary Sullivan Baker wife of Charles Baker and Mrs Rosa Martin of Washington DC suffered injuries. Mrs Baker had facial cuts and improved at Loudoun Hospital. Mrs Martin fractured both legs and was moved to Georgetown Hospital in Washington. Charles Baker one of the drivers had minor injuries.
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Leesburg
Mary Sullivan Baker
Charles Baker
Rosa Martin
Washington, D. C
Britain to seek Italian talks for broader European accord
London reports that Prime Minister Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Halifax will visit Mussolini in January to push negotiations toward a broad Anglo French Italian German accord. Chamberlain says no decision on belligerent rights for Franco and confirms ongoing Anglo Italian differences are to be resolved in talks.
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Italy
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France
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Near East
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Paris
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Daladier
Public Auction Local Stocks at Court House
A public auction of stocks will be held in front of the court house on Saturday December 3 at 11 30 AM. Readable items include 5 percent preferred stock of National Fruit Products Company and capital stock of Farm erase a area and of Wincer. Also George Washington Hotel preferred stock and mortgage bonds. Dunn and Duvall, auctioneers.
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Court House
National Fruit Products Company
Wincer
George Washington
George Washinston
Dunn & Duvall
Aucts
Episcopal Women Meet Wednesday in Millwood
An all day meeting of the Valley Convocation of the Episcopal Church's Women Auxiliary was announced for Wednesday November 30 at Christ Church Millwood. The program includes Holy Communion, a business session, welcome addresses, and talks by Virginia Diocese officials and Evelyn Seymour.
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Valley
Women’s Auxiliary of
Episcopal Church
Herbert Larrick
Christ Church In
Millwood
Robert Goodwin
Graham Dougherty
R. T
Woman’s Auxiliary
Virginia
Popal Church
Henry Batcheller
Charlottesville
E J. Smith
Berryville
Clarke Cooper
Evelyn Seymour
Stanley
Cubbagelow
Ieee
Larrick
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