Motion Picture Decency Drive Elevates Hays Power
In the New York World Telegram R H Cochrane argues the church-led decency push has strengthened Will Hays and made him effectively a czar of the movie industry. The new self regulation body can fine up to twenty five thousand dollars for violations, giving Hays real enforcement power if used.
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New York World Telegram
Will. H. Hays
R. H. Cochrane
Universal Pictures Tion
Hay
Mr. Hays
Hays
Ickes and Peers to Inspect Lee Highway
Secretary Harold Ickes will inspect the planned two hundred foot highway from Washington to New Market Virginia on October 6. An official party including Mrs Ickes Governor Peery and Mrs Peery will depart from Potomac Park at noon and travel via the Lee highway to Staunton where a banquet is planned by the Staunton Chamber of Commerce.
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Washington
New Market
8 Tary of the Interior
Harold Ickes
Ickes
George C. Peery
Virginia
Potomac Park
Lee Highway
Staunton
Kent III faces electric chair in Virginia kidnap murder case
In Fin castle Virginia Mrs. Robert C Kent III stands by her husband in court as the former army major, heir to a Virginia family, faces possible execution on charges of kidnapping inn keeper Mary Jane Hastings and killing her after a brief auto ride.
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Robert C. Kent III
Fincastle
Virginia
Mary Jane Hastings
Loans To Promote Ordered Crop Sales Credit Association extends storage loans
Secretary Julian A. Everly announced that the association will provide cash advances on stored farm crops to aid orderly marketing. Loans, secured by liens on stored crops, help farmers hold or store produce to avoid market glut and cover handling costs, with applications reviewed on merit.
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Indica- Credit Association
Julian A. Everly
Erly
Everly
Clarke
Page
Warren
Shenandoah
Frederick
Incendiary Theory Poses Amid Morro Castle Fire Testimony
Ivan Freeman third mate on the Morro Castle and Captain Warms tell a federal grand jury in New York that they believe the liner blaze originated incendiarily. The testimony centers on whether arson caused the ship’s destruction.
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Ivan Freeman
Morro Castle
Federal Grand
New York
Warms
Miss Clarke County chosen for Orange bicentennial role
Berryville reports Miss Westwood Beverley Byrd daughter of Senator Harry F. Byrd selected by the Clarke County Chamber of Commerce to represent Clarke County as Miss Clarke County at the Orange bi centennial in Orange September 25 to 28. Local social notes list visitors families and movements including guests from White Plains New York and Elizabeth New Jersey with several Clarke County residents heading to Virginia universities and Episcopal High School reentries and assignments.
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Berryvillea
Westwood Beverley Byrd
Harry F. Byrd
John B. Neill
South Church Street
Gregg
W. R. Gregg
Weather Bureau
Ruth Gregg
Washington
Shepherd
Frank Tappan
Tappan
A. Cummins
England
Culpeper
Virginia Hobbs
Baltimore
Thomas H. Aice, Jr
Wilmington
Del
Samuel A. Lewis
Providence
R. I
Ada Sidford
Summit
N. J
Clarke County
University of Virginia
J. Townsend Burwell
Roland Mitchell, Jr
R. G. Mitchell
the Glen
Episcopal High School
Alexandria
Mary
Maria Worthington
Alexa
Episcopal Theological Seminary
John Henry
Falls Church
Herbert Beverley Whiting
Samuel Chew Williams
Anne Williams
St. Catherine’s School
Richmond
Williams
St. Catherine’s
Miss Williams
A. Moore, Jr
Charles E. Moore
W. B. Stalnaker
Cumberland
Peggie Stalnaker
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Eugene Atget
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China
Axis Temple
R. J sScott
Icaea
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SANCO
Stokely
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