Concord High Beats Belmont 35-34 In Close Middlesex Clash
In a tense Middlesex league game at Hunt Memorial Gym, Concord High edged Belmont 35 to 34. Billy LaHiffe scored 19 points, guiding Concord to its second win of the year while Belmont dropped further in the standings behind Reading and Quatet.
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Billy” LaHiffe
Concord
Belmont
Middlesex League
Hunt Memorial Gymnasi
LaHiffe
Macy
Reading Quatet
Diesgay
Omalne
Kelicher
Issigts
Concord High
Dalnveaare
Dean Dorey
Belmont High Lyons
Schneeier
Dunn
Freddy Marcone
Fran
Morne
O'Neill
Doubleheader Hoop Game Set For Next Sunday
A feature basketball doubleheader is planned at Pastime Hall at 2 30 p m next Sunday. The Peoples Theatre Ushers meet Hudson in the main game while the firemen and policemen teams clash in a second strong attraction. Hudson brings several new players and an undefeated start, facing Daley Kopecy Labowicz Morris & Company in the opener.
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Kavanaugh
Daley
Kopecy
Labowicz
Morris & Company
Firemen
Bluecoats
Have
Mike ;Zapareski
Cote Dint Oon
Spec
Kare
Alec Sluys
Nic Smith
Chie
Joe Maticini
George “Whalen
Nix Whelen
Jerry Spratt
Tom Muray
Nyholm
Ushers Edge Boston Club In Hard Fought Hoops Clash
Maynard ushers rally from 7. point halftime deficit to beat West End House 46 to 33 in a tense Sunday matinee. Fred Daley scores 28 for the Ushers while Lubin shines for Boston, as late passing and defense seal the win amid crowd and bench drama.
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Finjah the Peoples Theatre
Askéteers
Armstrong Club
Boston
Bostonians
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Toosé
Nira
steadiy @head
Fred Daley
Alac Ae Lubin
Pha Palmng Heetheta
Phe
Finnish Relief Fund Dance Nets Small Sum in Maynard
The Sew and So Club at Maynard held a social dance at Parker Street Hall to aid Finnish relief. Net receipts reported as 205 dollars with various contributions acknowledged from Concord residents and others. A permanent wave prize from Man's Beauty Shop and other donations are noted.
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Sew and
Parker ‘Street Hall
Beas
Reltar Pons
N ‘Aree
M-2
George P
Page
Concord
John Ojealehte
Man’s Beauty Shop
Waine
Harbor
Charles A
John
Drought Reflected in Ware River and Quabbin Water Flows
Engineers report drought and low rainfall show in Ware River and Quabbin reservoir levels. Winter flow has not reached 8 million gallons a day, limiting diversions to Wachusett or Quabbin. rainfall and rapid thaw increased storage at Quabbin by about three hundred million gallons.
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Quabbin
Boston
Metropolitan District Commission
Wachusett
Wire River
Coldbrook
Quabhin
Commission
Ourabbin
Wares
LeRoy G. Habla
Winsor
Quabhbin
Maynard Grange Meets Includes Alphabet Party Fun
Maynard Ladies Decree Team gathered at Lecturer Mrs Lestia Sims home for a business note and a fund raising drill aimed at Middlesex Central Pomona Grange. Members Anne Duclos Veronica Creighton Ruth Woodworth Ma Edwards spoke while Grace Tucker Annie Moye led teams.
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Maynard Range
Lestia Sims
Framingham
Middlesex
Pomona Grange
Maynard Yin
Acton
Waltham ‘Granees
Grange
Favore Folkk
Anne Duclos
Vearonica Creighton
Ruth Woodworth
Ma Edwards
Easses
Adelaide Sims
Hazel Case
Marie Murphy
Anne Dota
Webruary
Micano Mariano
Rville
Tucker
Pauline Sims
Orville Tucker
Clyde Prescott
Westford
Raymond Jones
Eric Farnal
Beatrice Parsons
Grace Whitney
Joan Dora
Donalki
Asharia Prive
Nellie Walcott
Hazel Amous
Middlesex Aid Nonoik Fomona
Needham Town
Maynard Grange
Jones
Annie Fiogge
Irma
Alirich
Veronica Greigaton
Eisie Howard
Eva Smith
Charles Shattuck
Acton Pipers Fall in 4-3 Thriller at Home
West Acton reports a 4 to 3 loss for the Acton Pipers against the Littleton Hockey Club in a close match at Summer Street. Growing fan turnout marks the town’s lively weekly hockey following.
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Acton Pipers
Waneay
Summer Street Kinky
Littleton Hockey Club
Domestic A Neutral's Woes: 1940 Trade Strains and Policy Pressure
In Washington the executive and legislative branches grapple with rising foreign complications from wartime neutrality. The munitions board flags shortages of crude rubber and tin as exports surge beyond stocks. Britain shifts tobacco, cotton, wheat, and pork purchases away from the U. S. while seeking barter deals and tightening trade. British vessel harassment and mail seizures strain relations, and the Pan American zone debate drifts toward munitions embargo. U. S. cotton farmers fear a Nippon trade breach as Tokyo relies on American war supplies.
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U. S
Europe
Asia
Defense
Munitions Board
France
Britain
Turkey
Cordell Hull
United States
Bermuda
Italy
Dute Department
Gibraltar
U.S
Rio
Dé Janiero
State Department
Tokyo
Japan
China
Nippon
Britain Bold in Churchill Radio Appeal to Neutrals
Churchill urged Europe’s neutrals to join the Allies in unified action against Germany. While Britain pressed bold talks and naval actions, Finland faced a Soviet five front assault with heavy bombing raids. Rumors swirled of Poland partition and German oil interests in Russian Poland as Rumania watched war risks.
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Winston Churchill
Europe
Germany
Scandinavia
Balkans
Winston’ Churchill
Brussels
Belgium
Churchill
Grenville
Finland
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Joe Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Italy
Il Duce
Rumania
Poland
Russian
Reich
R. A. F. Fliers
Sylt
Helgoland
Pacific
Widow Ida M. Bezanson Dies at Home After Illness
Mrs Ida M Poote Bezanson of West Acton died suddenly at her daughter's home after a brief illness. A Baptist Church member for 61 years she lived in Acton 65 years and leaves four daughters six brothers seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral at West Acton Baptist Church conducted by Rev Arthur Jeffries with organist Mrs Leonard Godfrey and pallbearer Russell Briggs. Burial in Mount Hope cemetery.
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Ida M. (Poote) Bézanson
Ife
The
Baptist Church
Ernest Banks
Massachusetts Avenue
Bezanson
Nova Scotia
Acton
Thomas Newsham
Cecil Roberts
Wakefield
Russell Briggs
Mount Hope Cemetery
Marine son letter from West Indies voyage with U S Marines
Mr and Mrs George Rifford of Central Street received a letter from their son George Jr who serves with the U S Marines on a West Indies trip. He left Norfolk January 11 with 195 Marines landing at Culebra Island then sailing to Guantanamo Bay Cuba. He notes warm days cool nights and gunnery practice while enjoying liberty and reports successful sea school training and a wish to be remembered to friends at home.
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George Rifford
Central Street
George, Jr
U. S
West Indies
Young Rifford
Norfolk
Virginia
Culebra Island
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Rifford
Acton PTA Plans February Meeting Activities
Acton Parent-Teachers Association near doubling in size moves ahead with a program for February 1 at the high school. Plans include luncheons at noon schools telephones in schools and joining national and state groups. An entertainment segment features a high school play and a talk by Mrs Raymond Shepard on moving pictures and radio in education.
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Acton
Raymond Shepard
Arlington
P. T. A. Boston University
Boston University Division
Edna Cutter
Dracut
Agricultural Club
Eleanor Severoni
War quotes and views from 1940s figures
British ambassador Sir Ronald Campbell argues the war is a moral struggle between right and wrong and not a phony war. Dr Alexis Carrel calls for understanding between enemies to achieve peace. Maury Hughes predicts Garner's nomination if Roosevelt does not run. W Gibson Carey Jr cites budget control as a test of will and character for the United States.
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Ronald Campbell
France
Alexis Carrel
Maury Hughes
Jack Garner
Roosevelt
Garner
W. Gibson Carey JR
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Congress in Mourning for Beloved Colleague and Leader
Senate pays tribute to William E. Borah as flags at half staff. Missouri's Bennett Clark recalls the late statesman. In Fairfield and Boise crowds mourn a long-serving representative. Debates over Roosevelt era spending show an economy focus with cuts in defense and treasury items. no new taxes anticipated.
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Senate
Missouri
Bennett Clark
Tiny Fair
Boise
William FE. Borah
Congress
Idaho
A.C. Bottolfsen
House
Roosevelt
Colorado
Alva Adams
Senate Appropriations Committee
Treasury
Post Office
Louisiana runoffs and world news mix in brief items
Reform candidate Sam Houston Jones campaigns to defeat Governor Earl K. Lobe in a February runoff. Huey Long tactics are cited as the legislature is urged to pass 20 bills. Elsewhere, Cisne tabled good wishes to Wang Ching-wei in Rome while Chi Kai-shek breaks diplomatic ties with Italy. In New York Earl Browder faces passport fraud probes as testimony unfolds. Mary McElroy, 82, a kidnap victim, dies in Kansas City. Ignace Paderewski accepts the Polish exile presidency in Paris.
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Louisiana
Reform
Sam Houston Jones
Earl K Lobe
Huey
Long
Jones
Rome
Count Gileazzo Cisne
Wang Ching-Wei
Jaysis
China
Chi& Kai-shek
Italy
iIn
New York
Earl Browder
George E. Powers
Nicholas . Dozenberg
U. S
Kansas City
Mary McElroy
H. F.mcelroy
Agriculture: U.S. Wheat Exports and CCC Cash In
The Agriculture Department and CCC plan to unload surplus wheat amid rumors of reduced exports. Farmers with 1938 government loaned wheat must redeem or surrender by March 31, as storage costs and interest may exceed current price. Likely no extension on 1939 wheat loans. Subsidy payments on exports to China and Hongkong resume from Pacific ports, after a brief suspension.
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U. S
Department of Agriculture and Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Department of Agriculture
Pacific Coast
China
Hongkong
Senator Krapf proposes blue ribbon juries in Massachusetts
Special to This Paper Boston January State Senator George W Krapf of Middlesex proposes a blue ribbon jury system to heal complex cases. The plan would empower clerks to interview jury lists and select jurors familiar with technical phases of cases who would be exempt from ordinary duty. District attorneys or defense attorneys could call these experts to serve, with privileges permanent.
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Boston
Jan
George W. Xrapf
Piliery
Middlesex
Meney
Interys
Krapt
Thomas Dewey
All Stars Extend Lead in Mill Dam Pin League
The All Stars, led by captain Pete Ingenrie, widened their margin in the Mill Dam Bowling League with updated averages compiled by Rotary Walter Joy. Concord-The champion All Stars hold 13 wins to 3 for Independents 9 3, Gas House 5, with Lawton & Te and Anderson's among contenders. George Lawton remains top with 104 average, John Millen high single 1, John Byron high three 858, Snow’s team total and Lawton & Lufkin high single 563.
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Mill Dam
Rotary
Walter Joy
Gas Ho
The
Kings
Concord
Gas House
Kiefties
Erly
Lawton & Te
Bia
Ae Anderson's
George Lawton
John Milen
John Byron
Snow
Lawton & Lufkin
Concord News Briefs Highlight Local Meetings and Incidents
Concord voters discuss district representation as towns Carlisle and Bedford mix into the 13th Middles. Miss Mary Battles leads a Ladies Auxiliary meeting at K Hall. A special assembly at Concord Refer tory features Professor Giuseppe Dele organist. Peter Severinsen moved to a rest home in Lincoln. Rev William Finnick at St Bernard’s reports health improvements at Emerson Hospital.
Philippines Faces Choice on Independence From U S
President Manuel Quezon opens the national assembly to urge the Philippines to decide now between pursuing independence in 1946 or accepting permanent retention by the United States amid fears of Japanese expansion after World War II.
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Philippine Islands
U. S
Japan
X. Filips Techie Teras
Mafiuel Quezon
National Assembly
Italian Motorship Orazio Fire Near France After Genoa Departure
The 11,000 ton Italian motorship Orazio carrying 643 aboard from Genoa to Chile exploded and caught fire off the French Mediterranean coast. Rescue boats saved 536 by nightfall. 40 of the 104 missing were passengers.
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Genoa
Orazio
Chile
Gandhi supports honorable compromise with Britain
In Bombay Mohandas K. Gandhi signals support for an honorable compromise with Great Britain on Indian independence. In Washington Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. rejects using U S funds to take over British held American securities for orderly liquidation.
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Bombay
Mohandas ‘K. Gandhi
Great Britain
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr
U. S
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