Japs Seize American Flag From Launch In Shanghai
Shanghai dispatch reports a Japanese naval crew seized an American owned steam launch tied to the China Foreign Steamship Company and lowered its flag while alongside the French bund. William Hunt, head of the steamship company, says the crew rough housed and tossed the flag into the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence E. Gauss
China Foreign Steamship Company
Roosevelt Line
William Hunt
Steamship Company
Gauss
Drunken Driving Hearings Prompt Pleas and Excuses
Winchester says it slipped up on me and I didn t know I was drunk as excuses heard at police court drunken driving hearings. Observers note the atmosphere as transgressions recited while defendants claim lack of intent and T needs.
Ford V-8s on Display at GHES Motor Co Showroom
Announcement notes the new 1938 Ford V-8 models now on display. Copes Evaporated Corn arrives at Pure Food Store priced at 27 cents per pound. Located one block north of the post office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ghes Motor Co
Hughes Motor CO
Bombed Japanese Orphanage Kills Dozens in China Blitz
French Ambassador reports Japanese airbombs destroyed a Catholic orphanage at Kashing killing 86 Chinese children. 150 refugees and 9 nuns missing. Missionaries say the dugout and nursery were hit, 26 girls and 60 babies killed, with 150 others fleeing aboard a skiff toward the interior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Kashing
Paul Emile Naggiar
Ningpo
Sisters of Charity
Father Moulis
Lazarist
Chang Fok Kwei
Winchester Light Festival Reappears With Cash Prizes
The Winchester Chamber of Commerce board approved another Festival of Lights contest. A $25 cash prize for the best merchant store window will be requested from the city council in a special session tonight. Residential zones will award four prizes totaling about $150 in value plus other gifts. The business district will decorate as in previous years and city lights remain from a prior convention. The Chanters will provide seasonal music in front of Handley Library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Chamber of Commerce
Andrew Bell
Loudoun Street
Handley Library
Frederick County 4-H Council to Reorganize Next Saturday
The Frederick County 4-H Club Council will hold its annual reorganization meeting at 10 30 AM in the Parish House of Christ Episcopal Church with morning and afternoon sessions. Joshua Place presides. Program speakers include Madeline Blair I Fred Stine Ashley Brumback Lillian Oakes and others as officers are elected and club goals and committees planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
4-H Club
Christ Episcopal Church
Joshua Place
R. B. Nelson
Madeline Blair
Tickets Good For Ballet Tomorrow
Winchester National Concert Association members may attend the Metropolitan ballet concert at Roosevelt High School in Washington D C tomorrow night. The program begins at 8 o clock.
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Winchester National Concert Association
Metropolitan Ballet
Roosevelt High School
Washington, D. C
Crew Safe After Rescue of Freighter Canto Crew
Twelve crew members of the freighter Canto, part of the New York Cuba Mail line, were rescued by breeches buoy over a wind tossed sea and landed safely on the Mexican coast. Company officials confirmed the entire 311 man crew is safe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York-Cuba
Press Freedom Cry By Chester High Students
About 250 Chester High School pupils quit classes to protest the suspension of 18 year old John Gilman the student editor. They demand his reinstatement and permission to publish without censor. Principal Dr George W Pedlow says Gilman may return if he yields faculty supervision over the mimeographed paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester High School
Chester
John Gilman
Gilman
Clases
George W. Pedlow
City Acts To Curb Radio Interference With Nuisance Plan
Chief Hollis releases October letter warning owners of high frequency machines to comply with the radio interference ordinance. The police department and radio commission will press charges for noncompliance by November 15 1936, citing repeated complaints and the new noise locator equipment identifying principal interference sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Hollis
Common Council
Police Department
Radio Commission
E. A. Crowl
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Hollis
Consultations On World Unrest Being Proposed
London reports Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos announcing plans for broad consultations with other powers to seek a general settlement of world unrest. They stress not treating Germany's colonial demands in isolation and promise cooperation to protect rights and treaty obligations in the Far East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Neville Chamberlain
Yvon Delbos
Chamberlain
Germany
France
Britain
Far East
House of Commons
Farmers discuss conservation program meeting in Gainesboro
About 50 attendees at Gainesboro Consolidated School heard George C. Herring of Virginia Polytechnic Institute outline conservation goals for the coming year. Upcoming meetings are planned at Stephens City, Gravel Springs Star Tannery, and a final session at the local courthouse. The discussion noted that overcropping during low income worsens erosion and soil depletion, with a century of erosion in the United States hinted at in the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gainesboro Consolidated School
George C. Herring
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Stephens City
Gravel Springs School
Star Tannery
United States
Banker J Richard Russell given 25 year term for embezzlement
J Richard Russell former assistant cashier at Farmers Bank and Trust Company Charles Town West Virginia pleaded guilty to embezzling large sums. Judge William E Baker sentenced him to 25 years with five year terms on five counts and five year terms on others to run consecutively or concurrently as noted. Russell sobbed after sentencing and the judge spoke about his wife child and the broader impact on widows orphans and Jefferson County residents.
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The
Star
Elkins
W. Va
J. Richard Russell
Farmers Bank and Trust Company
Charles Town
United States Court For
Northern District of West Virginia
William E. Baker
Lewisburg
Russell
Baker
Jefferson County
Federal Deposit Insurance
Federal Court
Seamen Charged With Revolt Aboard Algic Freighter
The Federal Grand Jury returned indictments charging 14 seamen with unlawfully feloniously endeavoring to make a revolt aboard the government owned freighter Algic in Baltimore on November 30.
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Baltimore
Federal Grand Judy
Algic
Gasoline Tank Explodes Sinking Gun Boat Coronel Martinez
In Puerto Antequera an explosion sank the gun boat Coronel Martinez after tanks on two launches towed by the vessel ruptured. Seven men were injured and 12 are reported missing.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
Coronel Martinez
Puerto Antequera
Hughes Motor Co One Block North of the Post Office
Hughes Motor Co located one block north of the post office. The period notice lists the business at that location with no additional details provided.
Housing Act liberalization moves in Congress
President Roosevelt's home construction program prompts swift congressional action. Housing administrator Stewart McDonald to brief the House Banking Committee as leaders Barkley and Rayburn foresee quick passage, with Glass noting possible smooth Senate action.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Stewart McDonald
House Banking Committee
Barkley
Rayburn
Glass
D-Va
Preacher Pleads For Chance To Let Christ Be Given
The first in a nightly evangelistic series gathered last night at Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church at 7 30 led by Rev. Peter Marshall of New York Avenue Presbyterian Washington DC. The event continues with different sponsors each night and closes Friday Everyone is invited. Marshall spoke on Give Christ a Chance using John 20 24 noting Thomas skepticism.
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Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Peter Marshall
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Washington, D. C
Highland Avenue
Mr. Marshall
Christ
John
Thomas
Didymus
Jesus
Res
Japanese to Extend Authority at Shanghai
Japanese authorities plan to complete control of Shanghai communications in days installing censors and auditors in three foreign cable offices to oversee traffic and divert revenues. They would move to seize telephone and film facilities and impose censorship. Chinese sources cite Japanese bombing causing extensive damage to rail communication lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Canton-Hankow
Canton-Kowloon
Deadline fixed for Greyhound drivers to return to work
Greyhound officials set Wednesday as the deadline for striking bus drivers to resume work or be considered resigned. The notice, sent to nine Greyhound lines across 16 states, includes a contract offered to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, but allows employees to choose whether to join. In Detroit a passenger was slightly injured when stones were thrown at a Greyhound bus, marking the first violence in the dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seabsic Cinnd
Greyhound Bus Line
Greyhound Lines
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Brotherhood of
Detroit
Winchester Woman Mrs Thatcher Dies at 82 in Memorial Hospital
Mrs Betty Baker Thatcher a member of Winchester's oldest families died at Memorial Hospital after heart trouble. She was 82, widow of George A Thatcher who died in a wagon accident in West Virginia. She lived her life in Winchester and operated a dressmaking business for years.
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Betty Baker Thatcher
Winchester
Memorial Hospital
Thatcher
George A. Thatcher
West Virginia
John I. H. Baker
South Loudoun Street
Old Union Cornet
Young Mother Faces Aftermath of Father Killing Infant
Marguerite Roberts Miller, distraught, surveys a shattered life after her husband killed their seven month old son with a carpenter's saw. The father is in a padded cell awaiting a sanity hearing. Police report six months of melancholia prior to the incident in a Sandusky rooming house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandusky, O
Marguerite Roberts Miller
Western Senators Lead Revolt Against Roosevelt on Highway Aid
Western Senators Hayden of Arizona and McCarran of Nevada opposed Roosevelt's plan to cut federal highway aid. The President urged canceling 214 million for 1939 and spreading 200 million over 1940 and 1941, with a 125 million annual limit thereafter. He noted over 3.1 billion spent since 1916 and called for reform of apportionment rules.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Federal Treasury
Hayden
D.-Ariz
Senate
McCarran
D.-Nev
Rodeo Lights Up Madison Square Garden
The author recalls preferring Western rodeo thrills and praises Madison Square Garden in New York City as among the best rodeo shows in the United States. He mentions owning a ranch on the Cheyenne River and attending Frontier Days in Cheyenne and Calgary stampedes, noting opening night as a personal priority.
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New York City
Middle West
Madison Square Garden
Far West
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Calgary
Canada
United States
Manhattan
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State Department
Tientsin
Hong Kong
Hongkong
China
North China
Japan
4-H Council
Chief
A.stossel
Committees
McDonald
House Banking Group
Pennsylvania
G. Thatcher
Husband
Mr. Roosevelt
Capitol
Dale
Carnegie
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