Who Owns Antarctica A Byrd Lecture At Handley High
Admiral Byrd reports adding 450000 square miles to the map during his latest Antarctic Expedition. The talk at Handley High Auditorium on October 21 will address ownership questions, British claims, and potential resources as geologists note coal fields sandstone and fossils near the South Pole. Lectures begin at 3 and 7 p.m.
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Catholic Alumni To Discuss World Plight at Oct 14 Meeting
Catholic alumni group plans its annual convention starting Friday with Mass at Holy Trinity Church Ocean View. Bishop Peter A. Ireton will address the first business session along with Mother Rose Elizabeth and Navy chaplain Joseph Moody. Events include a Hague Club banquet in Norfolk and a Cavalier Hotel luncheon in Virginia Beach.
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Hampton Roads Naval Base
Hague Club
Norfolk
Cavalier
Virginia. Beach
Library Offers New War Book By Leland Stowe
Handley Library lends Leland Stowe's warning on American safety inspired by his wartime abroad. He argues for vigilance against appeasement as small nations faced aggression and urges readers to learn from Europe’s fate to avoid Germany’s kennel. Borrowing details included.
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America
Europe
Germany
Handley Library
Court Refuses Interventions In Virginia Death Sentences
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals upheld Augusta County and Pittsylvania County rulings sentencing two men to die in the electric chair. Mickens 16 was condemned for raping a white mother. Walker for killing his farm landlord. Justices rejected juvenile court jurisdiction and contested jury bias claims, affirming the lower court decisions and noting no poll tax discrimination evidence.
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Augusta County
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Pittsylvania County
Odell Walker
Waynesboro
Supreme Court
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Justice Campbell
Pittsylvania
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Davis
Evelyn Hicks
Hastings Court of Portsmouth
Herbert R. Gregory
E. C. Cook
Commonwealth of Virginia
Circuit Court of
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John W. Eggleston
E. J. Wills
Chesapeake Western Railway Company
Woodrum Field Dedicated in Roanoke Virginia
Roanoke marks its $800 000 municipal airport as Woodrum Field in a sunny ceremony with 15000 visitors. Mayor Wood dedicates the field named for Rep Clifton Woodrum. speakers include Major General Thomas Holcomb Brig Gen Martin Scanlon and Robert Hinckley. An American Airlines plane christened the Flagship Roanoke followed by a Star Spangled Banner rendering ends the program.
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Isolationism in America urged at Columbus Day rally
Justice Ferdinand Pecora told a Columbus Day rally that isolationism aids Hitler and urged U S aid to Britain and Russia. He compared aiding allies to passing water to firemen and warned against poltroons. The Rev Dr Cronin warned war now or later.
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St. Mary’s Seminary
Delegate Charles Hock Jr. Cleared of False Pretenses Charge
Frederick Maryland October 14 delegate Charles Hock Jr a Democrat from Frederick was acquitted today of a false pretenses charge for accepting money to influence legislation at the last general assembly. Three Frederick County Circuit Court judges deliberated 28 minutes before returning the verdict. Previously a Baltimore criminal court had acquitted him of perjury and obstruction of justice in a separate investigation.
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