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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1940
Page
9
The incoming winter testsAxis partners as starvation and freezing hit millions of noncombatants in Europe. Italian morale falters amid Greece fiasco and a costly Albanian invasion, while Washington reports Britain’s blockade wounds Italy’s economy.
Robert Wetherill of Ohio known as Air Vacationist No 1 has logged more than 47500 air miles over 157 tours across 48 states Canada Central America and Cuba. He flew in over 104 aircraft types at speeds up to 56% miles a minute and has stopped at every commercial airport in the United States.
Across Europe morale trends split. Italy faces rationing while Britain, buoyed by wartime resolve, anticipates a finishing stroke on Italy yet fears Atlantic patrols. Nazi aims stall as public resistance grows in occupied lands and free French demonstrations rise under censorship.
Grace Moravian Church auxiliary circles meet in the basement on Monday December 9 to dress the candles for the Christmas Lovefeast and Candle Service. Mrs Louis and Mrs F T Mickey are joint hostesses.
Mrs Gordon Henry of Roanoke Virginia reported a missing chihuahua. She remembered the dog sleeping in the family laundry bag and alerted the laundry. The pup was found under a pile of collected laundry and returned home unharmed.
A trust sale of two land parcels in Surry and Stokes Counties is set for December 30, 1940 at 1 PM. Jerry and Delia Lynch conveyed property by deed of trust to the trustee H. K. Swanson, with sale to satisfy the note balance. The first tract totals about 7.16 acres and the second about 34 acres, described by metes and bounds. The sale is conducted under a deed of trust filed in the Stokes County records Book 70, Page 182.
Moravian Ladies host a ham supper between 5 and 8 PM with plates priced at 25 cents each. Proceeds support church activities and community programs.
W D Cooper 75 died in Memphis after he sat in a rocking chair in the back of a moving truck hauling household goods. He rocked to the edge and struck his head on the pavement. Local authorities reported the fatal injury.
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