Suggestions For Prevention Of Fires In Schools
Virginia pamphlet notes fire safety steps in schools with metal protecting around heating sources wiring and doors that open outward and yearly chimney and extinguisher checks. It urges teacher and pupil boiler safety drills and training in using extinguishers with weekly fire drills supervised by firemen. Tomorrow home fire prevention tips to follow.
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Commonwealth of Virginia
Bureau of Insurance
Arthur M. Field
Homecoming Day Planned at Congregational Church
The Congregational Christian Church plans Homecoming Day on Sunday October 27 with a dramatic presentation Why Back When and an Old Time Hymn Sing. Division Four of the church ladies led by Mrs Harry Nelson organize invitations and events including parsonage news and greetings from Florida to be read at the morning service. The day closes with a 7 30 pm dramatic sketch Way Back When and a surprise hymn sing.
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Congregational Christian Church
Harry Nelson
Florida
No Politics In New Motor Control Says Eastman
Jos B. Eastman federal coordinator of transportation said politics will not enter the selection of personnel to enforce the motor carrier act. He spoke at a meeting of the Traffic Club in Baltimore on October 2.
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Eastman
Baltimore
Jos B. Eastman
of Transportation
Traffic Club A
Interstate Commerce Commission
New Federal Trucking Act Creates Separate Enforcement Bureau
Baltimore reports Attorney Eastman announcing a new federal bureau to administer the trucking act now in effect. He says the bureau will be staffed by career enforcers, not political appointees, with an extensive field organization planned to apply the act literally and uniformly.
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Baltimore
Eastman
Berryville Man Named Executive Secretary for Refugee Aid
Francis A. Henson of Berryville has been named executive secretary of the Emergency Committee in Aid of Political Refugees from Nazism. The New York group aims to raise 250 000 dollars over two years and aid some 5 000 refugees from Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis A. Henson
United of the International
Berryville
Lynchburg College
Germany
Vesey Street
New York City
Henson
United States
Norman Bentwich
James G. McDonald
Labor Chest
American Federation of Labor
International Student Service
Geneva
National Religious and Labor Foundation
Europe
Yale
Columbia
Winds Shift Along Bay and Coast Forecast
Fresh northwest to west winds tonight build to southwest by Thursday over the north portion. South portion sees northeast winds tonight becoming variable on Thursday. Weather remains fair tonight and Thursday. Chesapeake Bay north of Potomac River experiences fresh northerly winds, veering west tonight and southwest Thursday.
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Sandy Hook
Hatteras
Chesapeake Bay
Potomac River
Shenandoah Area Council Cited Outstanding in Region 3 Honor Roll
The Shenandoah Area Council of Boy Scouts with headquarters in Winchester was named outstanding by Regional Executive R. F. Seymour at the Region 3 meeting in the John Marshall Hotel Richmond. The council, led by Frank R. Horton, Rev. Jonathan Edwards, and C. B. Hartman, earned a 29 percent honor, placing second among 54 councils in seven states.
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Shenandoah Area
Jonathan Edwards
Woodstock
Hartman
Frank R. Horton
Winchester
Erie
Mercer County
Lehigh County
Greater Johnstown Area
Bucktail
Susquehanna Valley
Delaware Valley
Old Dominion Area
Harrisburg Area
Buck County
District of Columbia
Richmond Area
Warren County
McKean-Potter-Cameron
Baltimore Area
Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
New Jersey
Shenandoah
Italians Ordered to Quit Ethiopia by November 5
Addis Ababa reports Italian minister Luigi Vinci Gigliucci ordered all Italian-born residents in Ethiopia to evacuate by November 5. He also demanded Greek residents under Italian protection leave by the same date and said he would depart with legation officials after consuls arrive. The edict heightened wartime tensions amid Ethiopian and foreign observers.
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Addis “Ababa
Ethiopia
Luigi Vinci-Gigliucci
Vincy Gigliucci
Legation
Mussolini
Presbytery Plans Aid After Milldale Church Collapse
Milldale in Warren County lost its sixty year old church building when a worm eaten brick flue system failed causing the ceiling to drop in. The town, with 36 members and 50 in Sunday School, seeks 1000 to 1200 dollars to rebuild and has already collected over 500 in cash and pledges. The Presbytery urged churches to contribute 500 more and to send funds to Rev. Charles D. Gilkeson in Winchester, Virginia.
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Milldale
Warren County
Shannon
Front Royal
Presbytery
Charles. D. Gilkeson
Home Missions
Winchester
Noted Danish Silversmith Dies
COPENHAGEN Oct 2 George Jensen noted Danish silversmith died here today at the age of 69. Jensen was regarded by art critics as one of the great silversmiths of his era. Much of his work adorned the crowned heads of Europe.
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Copenhagen
George Jensen
Jensen
Europe
Lions Appoint Ten Members To Aid In Drive
The Winchester Lions Club named a committee of ten to assist the Boy Scouts with a 1500 dollar fundraising drive during the week of October 7. G O Henshall was chosen as chairman. The group will receive funds in the Scouts name and visit ten potential donors each. The effort marks the eighth year Lions, Rotary, Kiwanis and the American Legion collaborate to support county youth.
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Lions
Henshall
Winchester Lions Club
Boy Scouts
G. O. Henshall
D. O. Louderback
Ben Cather
Stanley Barr
Joe Spillman
Henry T. Owen
Lee Miller
Seber Smith
E. A. Clevenger
Lions Club
Rotary
Kiwanis
The
American Legion
Goebel Takes Oath as Kentucky Governor on Death Bed
William Goebel was sworn in as Kentucky governor in 1900 while dying from an assassin's bullet. The oath placed him in office amid a violent political crisis and marked a historic moment in state history.
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William Goebel
Kentucky
Bloom Brevities: Local Social Notes on Visits and Family News
Dayton residents host relatives and friends with weekend and Sunday gatherings. John R. Cooper returns to Shenandoah College for studies in high school work and music after a summer with his parents. Other visits include Jannesetta Glynn from Cumberland and Miss Minnie Tucker at Mountain View School.
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John R. Cooper
Dayton
Shenandoah College
Thomas S. Cooper
Jannesetta Glynn
Cumberland
P. P. Glynn
Minnie Tucker
Mountain View School
Arthur White
Carson Allamong
John White
Gravel Springs
Annie Crabill
A. M.cooper
Washington, D. C
Harry Joyce
Milwaukee
Wis
Arthella Richard
E. U. Richard
Hungary Calls Men To Service
In Budapest October 2 a large number of Hungarian men born between 1905 and 1913 were notified to report for military service. The war ministry did not comment on the call or confirm if orders cover all men in that age group.
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Budapest
War Ministry
Discovery of the Columbia River Named St Roque to Columbia
The river was first seen by Spaniard Heceta in 1775 who named it St Roque. In 1792 Captain Gray of Boston charted the stream and renamed it Columbia.
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Columbia River
Heceta
St. Roque
Captain Gray
Boston
Columbia
Small Fire At Stine Residence
Last night about eight o clock an alarm was turned in from the residence of Fred Stine 106 Lee Street where an oil stove had caught fire. Little difficulty was experienced in extinguishing the flames and the damage was slight.
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Fred Stine
Lee Street
Just No Chance at All
A regional dialect snippet features Uncle Eben arguing that no man can earn enough money, comparing it to a small boy winning all the salaries he desires. The humor centers on the impossibility of endless wealth.
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Uncle Eben
Sergeant's Sale of Furniture in Winchester Court House
By levy for delinquent city taxes and distress warrant in the case of F A Shryock vs E W Collis I offer for sale at public auction in front of the Winchester Court House on October 12 1935 at 10 oclock A M the described personal property including an upright piano stool a three piece upholstered living room suite two straight chairs and other furniture. Cash terms. Taylor Barr Sergeant.
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Taylor Barr
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