City Council votes to study water supply and seek funding
The Common Council retained Alexander Potter to survey water supply needs and authorized a $750 preliminary study. They moved to obtain $3,500 in Route 50 funds, received petitions for street improvements and a $19,500 swimming-pool measure, and approved white way lights and airport hangar costs. The water issue again heads toward a bond election after years of debate.
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Alexander Potter
New York
State Highway Department
Martin Wisecarver
Civic League
Virginia
Woolen Addition
North Cameron and
Gibbons
South Loudoun
Valley Avenue
Millwood Avenue
Gerrard Street
Municipal Airport
New York City
State Board of Health
Common Council
Winchester Park playgrounds praised for community benefit
MA Winchester lauds the Winchester Park Association for expanding and improving the park facilities making it a key local recreation center. The writer criticizes a vandal who damaged electric light bulbs and urges an end to park property molestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Park Association
Russia
Siberia
Baltimore Conference Convenes Under Unification Debate
Pastors and laymen from the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South gather in Winchester for a decisive session likely to vote on unification with other Methodist branches. About 400 ministers and delegates are present with 800 attendees anticipated. 14 delegates will be chosen for the next general conference in Birmingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Winchester
Methodist Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Protestant Church
Southern Methodist Church
Birmingham
Alabama
Harmon
Nolan B. Harmon, Jr
Greene Memorial Methodist Church
South
Roanoke
Baltimore Southern Methodist
Potomac River
Randolph-Macon College
George Washington Hotel
Winchester Airport to Get 8000 Hangar This Fall
The council approves 1500 for a new 8000 dollar hangar at Winchester Municipal Airport to be built this fall. State will fund half of the 3000 construction gap, with the city providing the rest. The hangar, 60 by 80 feet, will replace the existing landing field while a new 1800 by 500 foot runways project progresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Municipal
John Rosenberger
Council
Rosenberger
Priest Is Held For Ransom In Manchoukuo
Bandits kidnapped Rev. Father Gerard A. Donovan from the sacristy of a North Pushan church in Mukden on October 5 and demanded a $50 000 ransom. Japanese authorities moved to act. Donovan, once a Pittsburgh resident and Maryknoll Mission member, is one of three brothers.
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Mukden
Manchoukuo
Gerard A. Donovan
North Pushan
Father Donovan
Pittsburgh
Maryknoll Mission
Appreciation notice from Winchester Guides
Guides return to school forces suspension of 7 A M to 7 P M service until spring. Sponsors thank hotels restaurants tourist homes civic clubs and individuals for their contributions to the program. Winchester Guide Travel Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Guide & Travel Ser
President Roosevelt hints at special session and court reform stance
President Roosevelt indicated he would call a special session of Congress between November 8 and 16 but kept his position on Supreme Court reorganization undecided. He outlined top program goals including wages and hours, surplus crop control, government reorganization, and regional planning.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Congress
Washington
Dutchess County
Supreme Court
Europe
Chicago
John W Lodge Dies After Illness In Frederick County
John W. Lodge a longtime White Hall farmer and prominent citizen of Frederick County died at Winchester Memorial Hospital in his seventy ninth year after a period of illness. He had been moved to the hospital from his home just a week earlier and passed away at 4 o clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Lodge
Frederick County
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Lodge
White Hall
Mr. Lodge
Plea For Down Trodden Cast Down At Episcopal Convention
The opening of the Protestant Episcopal Church triennial convention in Cincinnati featured Bishop Edward L. Parsons of California urging intelligent sympathy for the down trodden. He argued the church must judge social and economic theories by their impact on individuals and warned against simply disciplining the poor in Kentucky coal fields.
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Cincinnati
Protestant Episcopal Church
Edward L. Parsons
California
Kentucky
Queen Gunners Rounded Up In Double Murder
New York detectives probing the scarlet circle double murder of Lewis Weiss and Frances Hajek rounded up four men tied to an informal group known as the Queens gunners. They admit to creeping and peeping in the woods with flashlights and later gathering at a restaurant to swap stories.
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New York
Lewis Weiss
Frances Hajek
Queens
Queens Village
Long Island
John J. Ryan
Ryan
Wiss
Jamaica
Death removes Mrs. J. H. Williams
Mrs. Margaret Ann Williams wife of J Hunter Williams a known Winchester woolen manufacturer died after a prolonged illness at her Millwood road home in the southeastern Winchester suburbs in her seventy third year She was born June 7 1864 in Piedmont West Virginia and married October 27 1886 She is survived by her husband two sons Dr Thomas A Williams and A Garland Williams a daughter Miss S Bertha Williams one brother George W Barrett and two grandchildren Margaret and another unnamed grandchild from the Berryville and Middletown areas with the obituary noting continued on page 9 column 6
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Margaret Ann Williams
J. Hunter Williams
Winchester
Millwood Road
Williams
Thomas J
Sara Catherine Rice Barrett
Frederick County
Piedmont
W. Va
Barrett
Frerick County
Mr. Williams
C. A. Williams and Brother
Winchester Woolen Mills, Inc
International Action Against Japan Looming
Geneva Oct 6 The League of Nations assembly warned Japan of possible international action unless she accepts a peaceful nine power settlement of the China dispute. The assembly adopted resolutions condemning Japan for invasion of China and calling for a conference of nine power signatories to guarantee China's territorial integrity.
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Geneva
League of Nations Assembly
Japan
China
Assembly
Polane
Siam
Aga Khan
United States
Norway
South Africa
Eas
Jap Advances Halted In Major China Fronts
Shanghai reports say Japanese offensives across China from Shanghai to Shantung were stopped by stiff Chinese resistance. In Techow the siege was abandoned, with Japanese forces retreating north after counterattacks. Paotingfu and Tsinanfu areas saw Chinese pressure despite Japanese claims of progress.
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James A. Mills
Shanghai
All China
Hopeh
Shantung
Japan
North China War Zone
Shantung Province
Techow
Tsinanfu
Associated Press
Han Fu-Chu
Peiping
Hankow
Paotingfu
Republic
Rites Held For Mrs. Ida May Butler In Frederick
Funeral services for Ida May Butler widow of Charles Edward Butler were held Tuesday at All Saints Church Frederick Md. She leaves a daughter Mrs M J Freeman and four sons E W Butler George A Butler H C Butler and Albert T Butler plus siblings and other relatives. Interment followed at Mt Olivet Cemetery Frederick Md.
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Ida May Butler
Charles Edward Butler
M. J. Freeman
Baltimore
All Saints Church
Frederick
Robert B. Nelson
Mr. Taylor
E. W. Butler
Geo
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Lee Butler
Harvey Butler, Jr
Marshall Butler
Charles Edward Butler, Jr
Paul Butler
Marshall Freeman
Mt. Olivet Cemetery
Frederick, Md
Friendship Fire Company Monthly Meeting Notice
The Friendship Fire Company holds its regular meeting in the company hall at 8 o clock Thursday evening October 7. All members urged to attend as a social session will be held. Richard Boxwell, Captain.
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The
Friendship Fire Company
Richard Boxwell
Yankees Take Early Lead in First Game 7-1 Seventh
Britain weighs emergency steps amid rising war danger. Roosevelt calls for action against aggression and may push Churchill toward a sterner Sino Japanese stance with US aid. Mussolini expands aerial intervention in Spain as cabinet seeks a magic formula to quarantine war contagions.
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London
Britain
Roosevelt
Far East
United States
Mr. Roosevelt
Chicago
Spain
Mussolini
Fauquier Native James E Crown Named Editor of States
L K Nicholson of Times Picayune announces James E Crown long time City Editor of the New Orleans States will succeed the late J Walker Ross as editor and managing editor of the States. F E Hebert will become city editor. Crown is a Fauquier county Virginia native with prior work in Norfolk Chicago New York and Denver. He is a cousin of John R Crown editor of Harrisonburg Daily News Record.
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New Orleans
L. K. Nicholson
Times-Picayune Publishing Company
James E. Crown
J. Walker Ross
States
Crown
F. E. Hebert
Times- Picayune Publishing Company
Times- Picayune
Fauquier
Mr. Crown
Fauquier County
Stone
Randolph-Macon College
Ashland
Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch
Chicago
New York
Denver
John R. Crown
Harrisonburg
Daily News Record
H. B. McCormac Improves After Illness in Winchester
Hollie B. McCormac a noted Winchester citizen shows improvement after three good days. He remains seriously ill with a heart condition at his Handley boulevard home and family reports today that his condition is somewhat better.
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Hollie B. McCormac
Winchester
Handley Boulevard
McCormac
53 Acre Farm Home of Ida Kelchner to Be Sold
Auction of a 53 acre farm once owned by Ida Kelchner will take place in front of Winchester Court House Virginia at noon on Saturday October 19. The property is located four miles east of Winchester on Route 50.
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Ida Kelchner
Winchester
Court House
Winchester Residence For Sale On Boscawen Street
Private sale of a brick nine room two bath residence on Boscawen Street once occupied by Shirley Carter at death. Modern oil heat. Apply to R. Gray Williams. October 6.
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Boscawen Street
Shirley Carter
R. Gray Williams
New Curtains and Hand Hooked Rugs at Moling and Cather
Reading shows a listing for curtains and hand hooked rugs from Moling and Cather with a price line noted as ten six one pence per item.
Giants and Yankees Open 1937 World Series at Foggy Yankee Stadium
The 1937 World Series opened in fog and wet field conditions at Yankee Stadium with Carl Hubbell and Vernon Gomez as starters. Attendance ranged 45,000 to 50,000 as both teams fielded strong lineups and notable spectators watched the New York showdown.
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Yankee Stadium
New York
Carl Hubbell
Vernon Gomez
Giants
Yankees
Herbert Hoover
James A. Farley
Moore
Crosetti
Bartell
Rolfe
Ott
Dimaggio
Teihee Whitehene Gehrig
Ripple
Dickey ¢ McCarthy
Hoag
Whitehead
Lazzeri
Mancuso
Roosevelt Declines Comment on Justice Black
President Roosevelt said he has no comment on Associate Justice Hugo L. Black and has not been in touch since Black returned from a European vacation. He spoke at a Hyde Park press conference on October 6.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Hugo L. Black
Black
Europe
Purse Found Containing Money in Moling and Cather Area
A purse containing cash was found in the Moling and Cather area, with authorities seeking the owner. Detectives said the item likely held money and identification. Police urged the finder to contact the station with any details to reclaim the property.
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Florida
Missouri
West Virginia
Arthur J. Moore
Barrett’s Chapel
W. W. McIntyre
McIntyre
Re Eos Blackwell
Dr.is.ice*hatcher
R. E. Blackwell
S. C. Hatcher
City
Scarlet Circle Crime
J. H. Williams
Mrs. Butler
Timothy
Mary Conner
Fauquier Native
New Orleans States Company
H. B. McCormac
Gehrig
Leiber
Hubbell
Rolse
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