Bridegroom Heflin Wins 15-Year-Old Bride in Backwoods Tale
A local tale from Luray narrates 76-year-old Heflin marrying Delly a 15-year-old girl amid family plans and a new life. The wedding occurs after a baptism meeting at Compton Run. The families discuss a move to Heflin’s Warrenton area farm as the couple begins their life together.
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Heflin
Mien Ie Caaiyn
Whitco
Luray
Larnin
Warrenton Way
Edward James
Walter Strickler
Brother Strickler
Brethren Church
Manuel H. Walker
Compton Run
Delly
Walker
Brother Heflin
Warrenton
Jefferson Road
Missing Army Flier and Passenger Reported Missing
Report notes Lieut. W. R. Styles and First Lieut. Nathan Samuels failed to reach Fort Ord while in a training flight from Oakland. Army fliers search for them as gossip and family tensions surface around a bride, an unseen companion, and a deceased spouse buried near a barnyard.
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Oakland
Calif
Fort Ord
Monterey
W. R. Styles
Army Air Corps
Nathan Samuels
Infantry
New Anesthesia Concepts Highlight Individualized Surgery
Chicago reports a new medical science of styled anesthesia that can change during operations to fit patient response and surgeon needs. Continuous spinal anesthesia is tested by Apgar and colleagues, using a drip rather than a single large dose to maintain analgesia while the patient stays conscious. More trials are needed after favorable early results in over 50 cases.
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Chicago
American College of Surgeons
Erwin R. Schmidt
University of Wisconsin
Virginia
Apgar
Aged Woman Killed When Hit By Auto in Berryville
Emma Stribling Banks about 72, a local colored resident, was struck and killed at 12 30 Sunday morning on Millwood pike near Josephine City lane. Mason, driving a car from Millwood into Berryville, claimed headlights blinded him. Paige, 22, was with Banks and not harmed. Mason jailed pending hearing. funeral plans not yet released.
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Berryville
Emma Stribling Banks
John “Patty” ‘ Winchesterley
Millwood Pike
Josephine City Lane
Pete’ Carper
Buckner
Iden
Banks
Albert Paige
Paige
Helen Rose
Ella Myers
Winchester
Mason
Rackey
Pay-Hour Act Construes Draftsmen Reporters and Editors
The wage hour law is construed to cover most draftsmen, newspaper reporters and copy desk editors. Nonexempt workers must receive time and a half pay for over 40 hours weekly. Wage Hour Administrator Fleming told a Seattle engineer group that draftsmen are not generally exempt. Reporters and copy desk staff on a newspaper typically fail to meet exemption even at $200 a month. Exemption requires at least $200 monthly and participation in policy making or other managerial duties.
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Washington
Philip B. Fleming
B. O. Lum
Seattle Association of Technical Engineers and Architects
Death Summons of Mrs. Sinn Tyler in Winchester
Mrs. Sinn Tyler, long resident of Winchester, died after a life marked by two marriages, 11 children and a large family. Her first husband Harry Sinn died in 1864 and her second husband Rev George T Tyler died in 1919. She leaves Mary Kemp Sinn Grayson from the first marriage and eight children from the second, plus 17 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren.
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College
Harry Sinn
George T. Tyler
Baltimore
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
George Tyler Buckner
Califonia
Tyler
Mary Kemp Sinn Grayson
Chilren
Julia Tyler Rosenberger
John W. Rosenberger
City
Frank Ames Tyler
Rockville
Mad
George Tyler, Jr
Greenville
S. C
S. Roger Tyler
Winners of Apple Awards at Frederick Farm Fair
Frederick county 4 H clubs awarded prizes for apple exhibits at the Farm and Home Fair. Winners include Nelson Carpenter Round Hill who took first in Stayman Winesap, Garland Cather Round Hill first in Red Delicious, and Richard Cather Round Hill earning top plates in several varieties with multiple entrants noted.
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Frederick Home Farm
Frederick County
Nelson Carpenter
Round Hill
Raymond Carpenter
Garland Cather
York Imperial
Robert Dailey
Whitacre
Burl Carpenter
Junior Punkhouser
Mt. Airy
Robert Cleverger
White Hall
Richard Cather
Nancy Brumback
Ben Davis
Gano
Clarence Cather
Mary Ellen Nethers
Grimes Golden
Roosevelt or Willkie Debate on Budget and Dictatorship
Speaker denounces Roosevelt as aiming for a dictatorial power, cites budget promises and rising federal spending from 1933 to 1939. Funkhouser contrasts Roosevelt with Wendell Willkie, praising Willkie's honesty, labor fairness, and peacetime priorities.
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Roosevelt
Big Stick
Plans Ready For Drawing In Big Draft
Washington officials prepped the 1917 style lottery to assign order for millions of men to military service over five years. 8,500 capsules stored in Treasury vaults await the noon start as the drawing aims to reveal 700 to 800 numbers hourly for at least 12 hours. Priority given to production as material procurement dominates the national defense drive.
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Washington
Treasury
Selective Service
Clarence A. Dykstra
Mrs Hockman 80 Dies in Middletown Nursing Home
Mrs Laura Hockman aged 80 died about 2 PM yesterday at Kline Nursing Home Middletown after a period of declining health. She resided in Middletown 15 years, wife of John H. Hockman and native of Frederick County. Survived by brothers George and Newton Wigginton of Winchester, James Wigginton of Opequon, sister Miss Lillian B. Wigginton of Middletown Va. Funeral Tuesday at 3 PM from Jones Funeral Home.
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Laura Hockman
Kline
Middletown
Hockman
John H. Hockman
Frederick County
Joseph H. Wigginton
Albert Jerome Wigginton
Jones Funeral Home
Kennedy Returns From Europe Ambassador Arrives in New York
Joseph P. Kennedy ambassador to London returns to New York by clipper plane with Eunice Kennedy recording the moment. He heads to Washington to brief the President on the war situation and is greeted at the airport by Mrs. Kennedy.
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Eunice
Joseph P. Kennedy
London
New York
Washington
Ken
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Satis- Walker
Elizabth Heflin
Lieut. V. R. Styles
Firestone Auto Supply & Service Stores
N. Braddock St
Rae Vista
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
North Mountain Service Station
U.S. Route 50
Dolan I. Bailey
Prop
Opequon
George W. Kurtz
Emma _ Banks
Winchester Negro
Colonel Fleming
Vicks VA
Canada
Royal Australian Air Force
Australia
Britain
Stalin
Mussolini
Hitler
Funkhouser
America
Supreme Court
Congress
Mr. Funkhouser
Willkie
Mr. Willikie
Philadelphia
Willikie
Wendell Willkie
Labor
Business
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Pingley
Carper
the Plaza Cleaners
Miller’s Hardware
Jerome Wigginton
General Electric
Boscawen ST
Anderson
Kennedy
Europe
Nedy
Paul Tomlinson
Harpers Magazine
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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