Estate auction sells 98 bank and industrial shares
The estate of Joseph H Funkhouser held a public sale of 98 bank and industrial shares raising 658 dollars. Winners included Herbert Larrick for 50 Commercial and Savings Bank shares and Earl Humston for 10. Larrick also netted 17 National Fruit Product Co. shares. Others bought Virginia Apple Storage and Farmers Livestock Exchange stock. C. C. Pankhouser acted as executor. Coleman Dunn conducted the sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph H Funkhouser
White Post
Herbert & Larrick
Earl Humston
Edinburg
Larrick
National Fruit Product Co
Frank Butsler
Farmers and Merchants National Bank
Answers to Daily Quiz on Page Four
Answers to the daily quiz list correct responses for ten questions. The list includes: 1 In 1940 2 The Hellespont 8 All four are girls 4 Greek 5 Battalions 6 Rabies 7 Department of Justice 8 Elliott Roosevelt 9 White 10 Bull.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hellespont
Department of Justice
Elliott Roosevelt
White
Bull
Chapman’s Cars Offer Top Values for 1941 Ford and 1938 Lincoln
Chapman’s Cars advertises the 1941 Ford Tudor and 1938 Lincoln Zephyr as top values. Each car features a radio and heater with 380 W. listing at 380 W Boscawen Street and phone 3577 for contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapman
Union Asks Court To Block Contempt Case at Luray
The International Fur and Leather Workers Union CIO and 20 members asked the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to block further contempt actions in Page County circuit court. They moved after being ordered to post a surety bond with the court to stay an order by Judge Floridus S. Crosby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
International Fur and Leather Workers Union Cio
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Circuit Court
Page County
Floridus S. Crosby
Freedow Freedom Train Visits City During Rededication Week
The Freedom Train tour features key documents including the Star Spangled Banner in Key’s handwriting and the UN Charter as it trains through the city. Rededication Week runs from Friday to the train’s arrival with talks by Mayor M B Clowe Jr and a wide list of committee chairmen and local leaders coordinating school church and civic programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Scott Key
Walters Art Gallery
United States
United Nations
State Department
M. B. Clowe Jr
C. R. Anderson
Dabney W. Watts
Thomas G. Scully
C. Vernon Edce
Gene Lakers
Virgil Strader
Ralph Larson
Lamar Keen
FRB to rule in Trans-America Nevada case under Clayton Act
The Federal Reserve Board would act as a court to hear evidence in the Trans-America Nevada case filed under the Clayton anti trust act. If the FRB finds against Transamerica it can order divestiture of all its stock in banks. It would be the first use of the act since its 1914 passage and the concern has a 35 year history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Federal Reserve Board
Transamerica
FRB
Reserve Board
Help for China by U S Is Urged
A House foreign affairs subcommittee urged stronger American aid to China describing it as decisive in the global Cold War and essential to democracy. It called for outright military assistance and warned China’s internal balance could be overturned by major intervention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
China
House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee
Russia
East
Boudreau Homers as Indians Rally Past Red Sox
In the fourth inning Keltner hit a two run homer, his shot sailing over the left field wall. Boudreau added a second homer in the fifth and scored on Doby’s sacrifice as the Indians push four runs across with four hits and no errors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gatehouse
Clark
Red Sox
Pesky
Boudreau
Williams
Stephens
Mitchell
Indians
Gordon
Keltner
Goran
Ellis Kinder
Doby
Kennedy
Hogan
Goodman
Spence
Bearden
Sox
Ed Robinson
Doerr
Robinson
DiMaggio
Tebbetts
Kinder
Keltnmer
Market Quoted Prices Across Commodities and Stocks
Baltimore fruit and poultry prices hold steady amid limited demand for eggs and butter. Cattle hog and sheep quotes mixed with slow trade. Chicago hogs down, cattle up modestly, bulls strong. New York stock market sees mixed, largely higher openings with notable gains in U S Steel and Dow components.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Grimes
Jonathans
Staymans
Chicago
Texas
New York
Upe
Union Carbide
Bethelehem Steel
Commonwealth & Southern
United Airlines
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem
General Motors
Deere
Lockheed
Dow Chemical
Dupont
American Woolen
Southern Pacific
Eastern Airlines
Opening dull session in Chicago grains market
Chicago grains opened on the board but trading was largely dull with corn showing slight strength. Prices moved marginally with December and May oats and soybeans quoted alongside lard futures in early trading.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Lowbeans
Lard
Sales Directory Oct and Nov Auction Notices
Listings of estate and household sales with dates and locations in Clarke County Virginia. Items include bank and industrial stock, antique furniture, kitchen furnishings, cattle and dairy stock, farm machinery, and live stock at properties such as Double Tollgate and Highland Farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Funkhouser
Court House
Logan R. Fay
Hackwood
Mrotheast
Winchester
Henry M. Cline Stephenson
Poe
J. H. Punkhouser
Waverly Grt
Double Tollgate
Clarke County
Highland Farm
Russia proposes Four Power talks on Berlin crisis
Russia calls Four Power foreign ministers councils to tackle the Berlin crisis and broader German questions. The note urges resumption of talks while Western powers insist on lifting the Berlin blockade and maintaining East West negotiation limits. Paris Security Council debate opens on Berlin. no immediate verdict reported.
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Sia
Berlin
Germany
United Nations Security Council
Marshall
Kremlin
Russia
Moscow
United States
Britain
France
Tass
Security Council
Paris
Security
Soviet Note Demands Berlin Crisis Settlement by Four Powers
The Soviet note accuses Western powers of pressuring Berlin and seeks to use the Aug. 30 directive to commanders in chief as the basis for a four power agreement. It calls for a Foreign Ministers Council to review Berlin and Germany in line with Potsdam.
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Berlin
United States
United Nations
Germany
Kremlin
Stalin
Molotov
Soviet Union
Ussr
Moscow
Salin
Great Britain
France
Theoviet
Council of Foreign Ministers
Potsdam
Berlin situation tied to German fate and Western division
A note from Four Powers links Berlin to Germany overall and to the breakup of Germany, stressing the creation of a separate government in Western Germany as part of the broader issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
Western
Leesburg Plane Crash Kills Two
Two people died in a Leesburg plane crash among five aboard the craft. Authorities identified the fatalities and began a full investigation into the cause of the accident.
Virginia Airport Manager and Another Die In Plane Crash
In Virginia two men died in a plane crash near Leesburg yesterday after takeoff from the Leesburg air field. George Stickles, 26, manager of the Leesburg airport, and James Talton, 20, of Hamilton, were killed when the plane went into a tailspin shortly after leaving the field, contributing to the weekend toll that brought the year’s highway and air deaths to 493.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Stickles
Leesburg
James Talton
Hamilton
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Berryville Lumber Co., Inc
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Union
Luray
International Harvester
Frederick County
Curley Clements
Rodeo Rangers
C. J. Brumback & Sons
N. Cameron St
International Harvester Farm Equipment Headquarters
U.S
Aluminum
Goodjyear
Ain Gio
Braddock St
Bellclothes
Front Royal
Automobile Agencies
Raillions
St.Joseph Aspiri
St.joseph
Blue Ridge
N. Braddock St
AGIAG
York's
Coleman Dunn
E. T. Snider
Associated Press
Virginia
Glaize & Bro
Schwinn
B. F. Goodrich
S. Loudoun St
Zerone
Ruze
M. M. Adams Republic
Amherst
Bose Boscawen
Electricity BC Y
Northern Virginia Power CO
Marlow
Martinsburg Pike
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