Britain Gains French Backing on Italian Threat
London reports authoritative sources say Premier Laval assured Britain of French support if Italy attacks in the Mediterranean. Laval yielded on oil embargo delays, squelching Italian hopes for further postponement.
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Associated Press
London
Premier Laval
France
Italy
Great Britain
Wrancre
Paris
Mediterranean
Laval
League of Nations
Japan
China
A. F H. Wiggin
Tokyo
Foreign Office
United States
Winchester Urges Community Help for City Christmas Decorations
MA Winchester thanks officials for plans to decorate the business district. She notes decorations need not be costly, just festive evergreen trees and colored lights like last year. She urges everyone to pitch in, saying many hands make light work, and emphasizes communal spirit over individual effort.
Elks Memorial Service Sunday Nation-Wide in Winchester
Winchester Lodge No 867 to hold annual memorial service at 3 p m Sunday in Capitol Theatre. Rev E B McGukin to deliver the address with The Chanters directing music. Forty two-year history noted with 18 deaths since inception and ivy wreath to graves. Members meet at 2 30 p m for parade from the lodge to the theater. Public invited. Harold C Sheetz Jr to preside with a full officer line and a detailed program of organ preludes prayers and choral pieces.
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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Winchester Lodge No. 867
Capitol Theatre
E. B. McGukin
Loudoun Street
Presby- Foran Church
Floyd Haines
Lodge of Sorrow
Charles A. Evans
B. J. Noonan
Winchester Lodge
R. T. Bryarly
T. W. Harrison
D. W. Lupton
F. H
Harold C. Sheetz, Jr
Tyler
J. William Hollis
J. C. Hughes
Max D. Mathews
Edwin T. Snider
W. Ralph Pifer
L. W. Shank
W. L. D. DiZerega
Robert B. Nelson
Harry W. Dunn
S. L. Farmer
H. W. Butler
Warren Eddy
Andrew Bell
Joseph DuPuy
Billy Barnes
R. B. Nelson
Dix
Robert McNalley
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
H. Woodward
Slayer Carries Secrets To Grave
Oklahoma City burial of Chester Comer prompts investigators to pursue the mystery of nine missing persons. Comer, a hitchhiking gunman captured near Blanchard last Monday, allegedly admitted killing several people and concealing their bodies.
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Oklahoma City
Chester Comer
Bly
Mys- Comer
Blanchard
Chicken and Oyster Dinner at Burnt Ped Church
A chicken and oyster dinner is planned at Burnt Ped Church on December 5 starting at 11 a.m. Proceeds will support church activities.
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Burnt Ped Church
V A Defeats Am Al Here By 13 Score
Shenandoah Valley Academy closed eight game schedule by beating Randolph Macon Academy 13 to 0 amid mud. St Pauls of Baltimore added a safety for 117 points margin, while SVA's 28 students sent 20 to the football squad. Sears scored all Hilltoppers points as they fell short of a state title.
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Shenandoah Valley Academy
Randolph- Macon Academy
Front Royal
Fraley
St. Paul’s School
Baltimore
Kite
Staunton Military Academy
Fork Union
M. A
Woodberry Forrest
Henry Champions City Decor for Christmas Streets
Winchester Common Council tentatively appropriates 300 dollars to bedeck city streets with evergreens and colored lights for the Christmas season. J H Henry, light committee chairman, introduced the decoration plan and has long supported the project. Last year’s decorations were praised as very effective and favorable to other cities.
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Winchester
Common Council
J .H. Henry
Clubs Withdraw From Teacher's Defense Fund
In Knoxville the Business and Professional Women's Club announced its withdrawal from a drive to raise a defense fund for Edith Maxwell a 21 year old Wise Va schoolteacher convicted of killing her father Miss Mary Elliott president said more than 209 would be returned to contributors The Kingsport club which had agreed to aid Maxwell also withdrew its support and contributions were set to be refunded
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Knoxville
Tenn
Knoxville Business and Professional Women’s Club
Edith Maxwell
Wise
Mary Elliott
Kingsport
Knoxville, Tenn
Whitlock Estate Building Lots Auction Near Handley School
Thirty six desirable building lots on the west side of Valley Avenue near Handley School will be sold at auction on the estate of the late Dr. W J Whitlock. Sale on the premises at 11 oclock tomorrow with restrictions announced at the sale. See sale bills.
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W. J. Whitlock
Valley Avenue
Handley School
Ford Coupe Bargains at Bickers Motor Company
Two 1935 Ford Coupes offered by Bickers Motor Company. A Cordoba Grey low mileage coupe and a Black 1935 coupe described as near new. Priced at $465 each for quick buyers. (11-28-1p-21)
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Bickers Motor Company
Mr. Gold Seeks Better Market For County Assets
Editor, The Star, argues against opposing articles on the county market project and clarifies the board of supervisors stance on the hitching yard lease and armory. He says the yard remains valuable, unencumbered, and under county control, with potential to improve and increase revenue, noting continuation on page eight.
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Star
Chi
Board of Sa 2
Board of Supervisors
Japan Befogs China Situation
Western diplomats in Tokyo tried to learn Japan’s future plans for North China but were met with evasiveness. Inquiries were denied Japanese responsibility for separatist movements, or met with complex formulas deemed impractical by authoritative sources.
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Tokyo
Japan
China
Vanity Fair Beauty School Ad Offers Course Finish by April 1 1936
If you register on December 2 you can complete our Beauty Culture course by April 1, 1936 with employment guaranteed. Free hair cutting and finger waving offered every morning from 9 to 12, except Saturdays at Vanity Fair Beauty School located at 21 North Main Street.
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Vanity Fair Beauty School
N. Main Street
Board Chairman Defends County Road Project and Taxes
Frederick county Board of Supervisors chairman C I Brumback responds to citizen articles, calling figures about a $15,000 cost, $60,000 project, $2,000 hitching yard, $1,200 oil station, and a county armory misrepresented. He argues road debt requires a tax levy, and claims total cost under the plan would be about $20,000, a slight rise over 3 percent of assessed value, with PWA grant sharing 45 percent and county 55 percent.
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C. I. Brumback
Board of Supervisors
Frederick County
County Mare
PWA
County
Farley Predicts 18 States Back Roosevelt in 1936
New York November 29 Postmaster General James A Farley claims 18 states are definitively in President Roosevelt column. States listed include Pennsylvania Ohio California Delaware Virginia Maryland Kentucky Tennessee Illinois Iowa Nebraska Utah Nevada Oregon Idaho Wyoming Colorado and Indiana.
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New York
James A. Farley
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Ohio
California
Delaware
Virginia
Maryland
Kentucky
Tennessee
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Utah
Nevada
Oregon
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado
Indiana
Auto crashes into Mr Clem's wagon on Valley Avenue
An automobile owned by Lehr ing Sargent and driven by Pearl collided with a milk wagon owned by R C Clem on Valley Avenue near Whitlock Avenue yesterday morning about 10 30. The impact shattered many milk bottles and damaged the wagon. No one was injured.
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Lehring Sargent
Pearl
R. C. Clem
Valley Avenue
Whitlock Avenue
Actress claims two weeks with Mr Gable under Tropic Moon
New York November 29 1936 showgirl Della Carroll asserts she spent the most marvelous two weeks with Clark Gable aboard the Pan American liner. She displays photographs of him with her arm around him in a swimsuit and trunks and says he appeared willing to be photographed.
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Marvelous
Mr. Gable
New York
Della Carroll
Clark Gable
Gable
Hollywood
Miss Carroll
Pan- America
Two Men Die In Accidents Near Woodstock Va
Over a 24 hour period within four miles of Woodstock two men were killed and six injured in independent crashes. James F. Bowers 78 was struck by a freight train while crossing tracks near his son Roy Bowers. Lyle Washington was killed when his car skidded into a beer truck on Town Hill. Mrs B F Lyle and several others were seriously injured and are listed as progressing well.
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Woodstock
James F. Bowers
Pughs Run
Southern Railway
BFPF
Lyle
Washington
B. F. Lyle
Memorial Hospital
Elizabeth Perkins
Alfred
Maine
Harry Bryant
Ocean Park
LeRoy Andrews
Philadelphia
Paula Harris
Aston
Miss Perkins
Mrs. Bryant
Miss Harris
Bowers
Roy Bowers
Etta Day
Clara Sheetz
James E. Bowers
Maurertown
Otis Bowers
Connecticut
Proceedings Of Teachers Meet At Richmond
Richmond reports a Virginia Education Association convention highlighting speeches by state school head Dr. Sidney B. Hall and NEA president Miss Agnes Samuelson. Resolutions seek higher teacher salaries, free textbooks, revised retirement, trained supervisors, and federal education funds via state departments. A retired teachers section plans to urge full pension restoration and unit organization in counties and cities.
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Richmond
National Education Association
Virginia Education Association
Sidney B. Hall
Board of
Federal Education Department
Delegate Assembly
General Assembly
H.C. Barrett
Round Hill
Miss Pearl Coffey
Stuart
Christmas seal campaign expands in Winchester area
The Virginia Tuberculosis Association opened Christmas seal sales to fund the state campaign against TB. Winchester and Frederick County now run separate units. Mrs. John Luther Kater leads in Winchester, succeeding her mother. Supporters include Mrs. Clarence Hardy and Miss Kathaleen Pierce. Headquarters are Moling and Cather on North Loudoun Street. A fundraising concert featuring local Black talent is planned for the near future.
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American Red Cross
Virginia Tuberculosis Association
Winchester
Frederick County
John Luther Kater
D. W. Ritenour
Kater
Virginia
Kater Ced
Clarence Hardy
Kathaleen Pierce
Charles P. McVicar
B. Button
J. L. Turner
B. H. Potts
Joseph DuPuy
John W. Rosenberger
Harry K. Russell
Andrew Bell
Garland R. Quarles
Handley High School
Moling and Cather
Loudoun Street
Funeral Rites Tomorrow for Albertis Kelsoe
Funeral services for Albertis Lee Kelsoe will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at Timber Ridge Christian Church. Interment will follow in the adjacent cemetery. The Rev. Ivan R. Smith will officiate. He was the son of the late James and Hannah M. Spade Kelsoe and survived by sister Mrs. Flossie Martin of Reno, brothers Lemuel S. of Cumberland and Evin Kelsoe of Massachusetts, and half-brother Edward Kelsoe of Alabama.
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Albertis Lee Kelsoe
J. L. Dailey
Cross Junction
Timber Ridge Christian Church
Ivan R. Smith
James
Hannah M. Spade Kelsoe
Flossie Martin
Reno
Nev
Lemuel S
Cumberland, Md
Evin Kelsoe
Massachusetts
Edward Kelsoe
Alabama
Trainman Dies in Blairsville Wreck on Broken Rail
A gasoline electric car plunged from the rails on a Blairsville hillside. One trainman, Baggageman O. M. Wilson of Blairsville, was killed. Officials cited a broken rail and said a coal stove ignited a fire in the heated compartments.
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Blairsville
O. M. Wilson
Public sale on Allen farm near Stephenson Dec 4
Public sale scheduled for December 4 at 1 PM on the Allen farm near Stephenson. Items listed include a horse, hogs, machinery, and household goods. Harry L. McCann is executor of the W. S. Elshelman estate.
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Allen Farm
Stephenson
Harry L. McCann
W. S. Elshelman
Bankers Agreed to Increase Debt in 1933 Washington Talks
President Roosevelt said the New Deal era had passed a peak in appropriations and that 3,125,000 were employed as of last Wednesday. He recalled bankers warned a national debt between 55 and 70 billion could be safe, but vowed only a moderate, justified increase. He urged investment to build a sounder future and noted relief rolls cut to 3,125,000 with many more to be employed.
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Masters of Finance
Washington
Roosevelt
United States
World News At A Glance Brief Items
Domestic items report a gasoline electric car fire in Blairsville Pennsylvania killing one man. In York twelve rebellion leaders at Glen Rock CCC camp were dishonorably discharged. Atlanta reports President Roosevelt saying the peak of appropriation has been passed. Richmond Virginia Education Association sets 1936 goal of eight month school term at 720 dollars per pupil. A Petersburg attorney candidate Bohannon is endorsed by 39 trade groups for Virginia governor. Twin Falls Idaho reports the body of Miss Hook found in a ravine with head crushed. London confirms an international naval conference opens December 9. Dagdagh Bur bombed killing many women and children.
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York
Glen Rock
CCC
Atlanta
Roosevelt
Richmond
Virginia Education Association
J. Gordon Bohannon
Petersburg
Virginia
Idaho
Miss Hook
Douglas van Vinck
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