Preliminary Skirmishing On Party Conventions Seen On Horizon
President Roosevelt on the Roosevelt Train to Asheville hears talk of delaying party conventions by a month or six weeks. Analysts note calls suggest July or August nominations for both parties instead of June. Also mentions Frances Dodge gaining control of her father’s $10 million trust and her marriage to James B Johnson Jr.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Roosevelt
Asheville
N. C
Vest
Democratic High Command
Frances Dodge
James B Johnson, Jr
New York City
Blockade To Be Met By Germans
Berlin announces it will meet the new British blockade against German exports with all measures available. The statement follows reports of a German submarine sinking a heavy British cruiser, which British officials deny.
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Berlin
TOR
Eceaneer
Ateda Ous
Maine Women Rally Against Billboard Tax and Junk Yard Bill
Maine women respond to lawmakers' rejection of a billboard tax and a bill to regulate auto junk yards by distributing thousands of stickers urging action. The state Publicity Bureau opinion on the stickers has not been printed yet.
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Their
Maine
Maine Publicity Bureau
Tax Penalty Imposed On Taxes After December 5
Tax notices reveal a 5 percent penalty assessed on all taxes due after December 5. Harry L. McCann serves as treasurer with official sanction on file.
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Harry L. McCann
Treas
Myers Not Driver Of Car In Martinsburg Collision
Dr W D Myers Winchester dentist was cleared of charges of driving while intoxicated after witnesses testified he did not drive the car in a Sunday night collision on U S Route 50 west of Winchester. A new warrant charged that he allowed or permitted a motor vehicle to be driven by Elsie Hovermale who had no right to do so. Mrs Hovermale and others faced further legal action while Mr and Mrs James Tuttle testified Myers was not at the wheel.
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W. D. Myers
Winchester
A. J
Elsie Hovermale
Virginia Operators and Chauffeurs
James Tuttle
Stephens City
Myers
Attorney Slayer Not Indicted in Maddox Case
Brooks attorney declined to return an indictment today against Corrine Maddox 26 known as the self admitted slayer. Maddox an acquaintance of the attorney for years was at liberty on 7500 bond while part of a stated plan.
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Brooks
Corrine Maddox
Maddox
Public Auction of Securities and Shares at It House
A public auction will be held Saturday December at noon in front of It House. Items include two 5 percent serial notes of National Fruit Products Company at $100 each due October 1, 1941. Also twenty shares of Victor Products Company Class A and two shares of George Washington Dunk & Duvall. Auctioneers are 11-20 and 12-1-1p-21.
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National Fruit Products Company
Victor Products Company
George Wash- Dunk
State Seeks To Reclaim Land On Clarke Road
Clarke county residents protest a Highway Department move to reclaim land along a six mile stretch of Berryville to Millwood road designated State highway 12 and Federal route 340. Landowners condemn markers placed inside the existing right of way ten feet from property lines. A meeting at Graham Dougherty’s home organized a formal objection led by chairman William Beverley and secretary Ambrose Hummer with a letter to the State Road Commission drafted.
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Berryville
Clarke County
Millwood
Highway Department
Baughman
Ambrose B. Hummer
Hummer
State Road Commission
Dixie Davis Ill in Albuquerque Hospital
In Albuquerque a wan patient identified as P. Richard Dixie Davis, once Broadway’s kid mouthpiece, lies ill with serious intestinal trouble. He is accompanied by his red haired wife Rose Buxton, nee Hope Dare. Davis, an attorney linked to Dutch Schultz, served six months after turning state's witness in Dewey’s policy case.
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Albuquerque
N. M
P. Richard
Dixie) Davis
Broadway
Rose Buxton
Lovely Hope Dare
New York
Davis
Dutch Schultz
Thomas E. Dewey
New York City
Wayne Scott
Trio Suffocated In a Coke Oven in Gallitzin
Deputy Coroner Wag ner announced three men found dead in an abandoned coke oven died from a heart condition with suffocation as a contributing factor. The victims were Jack Woodling 62 a coal miner living in the oven and two friends William Myers 46 and Czeck Sloan 65 both of Gallitzin.
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Gallitzin
Chester H. Wagner
Jack Woodling
William Myers
Czeck Sloan
Harvard Undergrads Learn Infant Care Skills
Harvard undergraduates take on infant care tasks as part of professional instruction at the Stillman household work program. Miss Reta A. Corbett supervises dish washing and window washing among the duties now performed by working students.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Reta A. Corbett
Harvard Stillman
For Sale Fine Farm Near Town With Outbuildings
FOR SALE at SACRIFICE Fine farm on main road within 4 miles of town. Apple and peach alfalfa. Fine and outbuildings. Terms reasonable. Phone 389 or see R. T. BRYARLY, 137 N. Loudoun St. Winchester, Va. (11-29, 12-1-1p-2t) FOR SALE-Fine business location (11-28-1p-2t)
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R. T. Bryarly
Loudoun
Winchester
Probation Officer Needed Here Says Judge Weems
Four boys were arrested for sacking cars with property worth hundreds of dollars. Chief Hollis pins the problem on delinquent youths with no home life or guidance and criticizes reformatories. Judge Weems agrees a serious delinquency issue exists and calls for a probation officer.
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C. W. Hollis
Winchester
Reformatory
Hollis
Donald Weems
Frederick County Teachers Association Meeting Set
A regular Frederick County Teachers Association meeting will be held Saturday at 10 30 in the Court House. R E Ayler announces delegates from the Richmond state convention will speak including Wayne Guthrie Retha Cooper and Ruth Haines. Reports will be heard and other business considered with a rapid adjournment planned.
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Frederick County Teachers’ Association
Court House
R. E. Ayler
Stephens City
Richmond
Wayne Guthrie
Gainesboro
Retha Cooper
Round Hill
Ruth Haines
Miller School
Ayler
Not Guilty In Slaying Case At Corporation Court
William Washington colored was found not guilty of slaying Charles Wallace colored in a verdict by a Corporation Court jury at 2 18 this afternoon. Washington’s trial opened yesterday morning for slashing Wallace with a razor on the night of August 27 at a restaurant operated by Harry Argument.
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William Washington
Charles Wallace
Corporation Court
Washington
Walace
Harry
W.C. Armstrong
Eliott Marshall
Front Royal
Commonwealth
Oklahoma Robber Russell Sentenced to Die
Federal Judge Charles E Woodward sentences Jack Russell a 39 year old Oklahoma robber to die in the electric chair on January 5 for the murder of William Scott Hamilton a young Arkansas City Kansas salesman. The court noted no defense to justify leniency and said Russell committed 10 felonies from his July 11 escape from Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester until his capture July 18.
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Chicago
Charles E. Woodward
Jack Russell
Oklahoma
William Scott Hamilton
Arkansas City
Kan
Russell
Oklahoma State
McAlester
Open Nights Begin Dec 14 in Winchester Stores
Winchester merchants vote to keep shops open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. from December 14 to 23 with Saturday hours as usual. The plan includes Open Nights signs in the shopping section and a contest for best decorated homes, reflecting a busier holiday shopping period.
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Winchester
Chamber of Commerce
R. E. Avey
Retail Merchants
British Refute Sinking Report In War News
London dispatch reports the admiralty dismissing a German claim that a U boat sank a British cruiser of the London class near the Shetland Islands as untrue. Naval circles doubt the report, suggesting it aims to buoy civilian spirits or probe British fleet positions. French forces say they seized German freighters Santa Fe and Triseis of 6,000 and 4,627 tons.
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London
Admiralty
Shetland Islands
Calendar good for 200 years
Boston November 29 a report states the United States government Ant arctic expedition was ready to de-
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Boston
United States
Couple’s Winchester Wedding Ties to Blizzard Era Tales
A Pennsylvania couple wed in Winchester citing reasons from a blizzard landfall 1932. The groom recalls staying at George Washington Hotel during road closures and winning a six month The Winchester Evening Star subscription in a theatre contest. Reports mention local hunting results and pheasant sightings by Sargent Briscoe Orndorff and C. L. K.
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Pennsylvania
Winchester
Harry Kern
George Washington Hotel
Winchester Evening Star
Youth Congress labeled Communist front by ex member
William G. Ryan of Milwaukee testified before the Dies committee that the American Youth Congress is a Communist party front organization. He claimed most members are not Communists but that Communists influence the group through small minorities. He noted Mrs. Roosevelt said she believed it not party controlled and would testify if the panel sought information.
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Washington
William G. Ryan
Milwaukee
Communist Party
Dies Committee
American Youth Congress
Communist Party “Front
Ryan
Youth Congress
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress
Clarke group grows to one hundred members in county
The Clarke group has reached 100 members, with fifty living outside the county. They collect works by Clarke Countians and hold a complete Clarke Courier archive since 1869. A Norfolk and Western inquiry traced the name origin of Gaylord station from Fairfield estate.
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Ith
Thase
Clarke Courier
Ralph Dorsey
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Gaylord” Station
Here
Fairfield
John. D
Fairfax
Washington
Lee
Monro
Madison
Blue Ridge
Virginia
Greenway Court
Williamsburg
A. Mackay Smith
Washington Irving
Pairfax
Andrew Kennedy
Long Branch
Wilds
Nelson
Tells Kuhn Jury To Shun Politics
New York November 29 The case of Fritz Kuhn a German charged with grand larceny and forgery went to a jury at 1 30 p m Judge James G Wallace instructed the jurors to ignore political implications and focus on the evidence The jury went to lunch before further deliberations.
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New York
Fritz Kuhn
James G. Wallace
Kiss of Death widow goes on trial for murder
Rose Carina, known as the kiss of death widow, faces murder charges in the death of Pietro Stea, one of her five husbands. Prosecutors say Stea was poisoned in an alleged murder-for-insurance plot.
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Rose Carina
Pietro Stea
Stea
British Battle German In Air Over Northeast England Coast
British planes engaged a lone German raider over the Northumberland coast and brought the enemy aircraft down at sea. A second ship, the 1 023 ton Rubislaw, was added to mine victims off the British coast.
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London
England
Northumberland
Mrs Roosevelt in dispute over nude statue and immigrant leaflets
New York November 29. Henry Winslow Brooks, 62, an engineering executive, says Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt is sore at him for criticizing a nude statue last summer. He also cites her leaflet at a refuge problems conference and a campaign against immigrant refugees. She defends her views and questions funding for anti immigrant efforts.
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New York
Henry Winslow Brooks
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Brooks
Lower Park Avenue
America
Roosevelt
For Sale Studio Couch Practically New
For sale a studio couch in near new condition available for viewing at 422 S Cameron St. The listing notes reference to parcel tag 11-1T-1p-tf.
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Cameron St
Divorcee Dies From Fall in New York Apartment
Adelaide Tate aged 38 died today after plunging from the tenth floor of a Greenwich Village apartment. She had directed three cryptic grams to a man there. Tate, formerly of Riverside Drive, was described by neighbor Mrs Helen Van Valkenburg as a former wife of a West Point graduate now in the oil business in the south.
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New York
Adelaide Tate
Greenwich
Bed cover rift leads to tragedy in Flint quarrel
In Flint Michigan two men were killed after a quarrel that began when one accused the other of taking more than his share of the air. One victim died by his own hand, and the other was killed in the confrontation. The incident occurred November 29.
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Flint, Mich
Said ‘Alfred
Ald
W. P. Ane
Finnish Front Narrowed as Soviet Pressure Grows
Highlights report intensified fighting at new front lines as Finnish troops retreat and Soviet notes escalate. Helsinki confirms tense exchanges while London reports a German raider shot down during renewed aggression.
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Mosscow
Helsinei
Finland
London
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Hope
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S. A. Sargent
Galliday
Briscoe Orndorff
Wm. G. Ryan
Clarke Group
Floyd Flickinger
Lord Fairfax
Kuhn
Kiss of Death
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Moscow
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Leningrad
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