Catholics Protest Clergy Seek Easing of Jewish Deportations
In Bern on August 6 1940 leading Catholic leaders with papal backing appealed to the Vichy government to ease the Jewish fate and curb anti Semitic measures. Reports say deportations of foreign Jews would continue while Petain sought German assurances only non French Jews would be deported. De Brinon indicated anti Semitic policy remains government policy.
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Bern
Switzerland
France
Vichy
Petain
Laval
Fernand de Brinon
Paris
de Brinon
Near Record Yield Of Corn Foreseen
Chicago Aug 7 Rich green leaves long waving tassels and heavy silken shoots averaging two to the stalk promise another record or near record yield of corn as the nation’s vital war crop advances through ear formation. High yielding hybrid seed accounts for a greater share of acreage, boosting prospects to equal or surpass last year’s near record yield. In some sections like Iowa the yield may exceed 1941.
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Chicago
Towa
Seek Motorist Who Almost Hit Officer
City and state police searched for a local soldier driving his wife s car while intoxicated who attempted to run down Officer Ralph Potts at the Square Corner as he stepped into the street. Sergt Frank Dorsey pursued the fleeing vehicle on East Street and halted it on North Market Street. Police withheld the driver s identity at the wife s request she said he took the car without permission. Potts jumped to the pavement to avoid being struck.
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Ralph Potts
Sergt Frank Dorsey
East Street
North Market Street
Potts
Drops Larceny Case Against Berlin Man
Snow Hill Md Aug 7 State's Attorney William G Kerbin said he has withdrawn a war rant charging Franklin S Hastings Berlin canner and poultryman with embezzlement and larceny of 1000 related to Agar Poultry Farms Corp Last week Calvin P Pruitt Worcester county delegate and Hastings partner in the firm was charged with larceny and embezzlement of 1000 and is under 10000 bond Hastings charge was withdrawn on advice of receivers of the defunct firm.
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Snow Hill
William G. Kerbin
Franklin S. Hastings
Berlin Canner and Poultryman
Agar Poultry Farms Corp
Calvin P. Pruitt
Worcester County
House of Delegates
Hastings
Agar
Fred A. Culver
Berlin
Kerbin
Poultry Concern
Compromise on Pension Trust Provisions Reaches Subcommittee
Washington Aug 7 A Senate Finance subcommittee unanimously agrees to loosen House tax rules on pension trusts. Change lowers required employer participation from 70 percent to 36 percent to allow tax-free contributions. It also relaxes the immediate tax credit cap to three percent of payroll.
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Washington
Senate Finance
Brown
D-Miech
Local Social Guests Trace Town Weekender Visits
Names and relations appear as families and friends recall visits over a weekend. Mr and Abs Chiude Beek of Harrisburg spent time with Mr and Mes Millan Booth and joined supper with Mr and Mrs Ernest Painter. The Sauder home hosted Babs da AA Weta de dorph and son Mike for Mrs Sauder’s birthday observance.
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Mexico
Ma Wud Pckereld Atald Tueds
Sima Mollie
Laura Poltterfield
Abs Chiude Beek
Harrisburg
Mes Millan Booth
Ernest
de Dorph
Mike
Charles Sauder
Welr
Sauder
Daniel Aytes
Army Nurses Train In Maneuvers beat and Mrs Thomas Smith
Army wartime society notes list local visits and family gatherings with relatives in towns including Washington Hyattsville and Arlington. Residents such as Vera Keller Ruth Ellen James Williams P WT. Williams Irma Cost Lucy Williams and others are noted visiting grandparents siblings or attending reunions and church events. The George Wire farm sale to Jack Potterfield is mentioned along with other local movements and visits.
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Thomas Smith
Gordon Pierson
Betty Ann Fry
Janey Lee Fis
Vera Keller
Ruth Ellen
W. Beatty
James Williams
P WT. Williams
Washington
Atuitis
Lal Wareldur
Irma Cost
Lucy Williams
Gilbert Everhart
Gerimantown
Ohio
Mine Thanttatenansia Aietig M. Cooper
A. A. Beatty
D. E. Rust
Elwood Rust
Arthur Brown
Foley Rust
Jack Embrey
Betty Jane Beatty
Corinne Rust
Joan Brown
Judith Anne Rust
H. O. Graham
Frances Everhart
Toledo
Guibsonburg
Whig
G. H. Wirts
Cross
Arcola
Shenville
New Market
Evelyn George
Mass Elizabeth Fry
H. C. Filler
Loudoun County
Leesburg
George Wire
Jack Potterfield
Vicker's
Levin Brown
E. Hayes
Vernon Sandbower
Olen Leonard
Olen
Albuquerque
New
Wife Of Pilot Who Got Six Jap Planes Worries Plenty
Seattle, Aug. 7 24-year-old Jimmy Kale and his wife Paul hope for a future seaplane landing on a Canadian lake. Mrs Kale, an inspector at Boeing, waits for word from her husband Lt. Kale of the Army Air Force who after their marriage a year ago was en route to the Philippines. An AP report said he shot down six Japanese Zeros over New Guinea. She worries about the ships he flies and his crew, while she holds a private pilot’s license and once trained in civilian pilot programs.
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Seattle
Jimmy Kale
Paul
Kale
Ine Universiy
Birthday surprise honors Edgar Graham at Lovettsville home
A birthday party was held at Edgar Graham’s Lovettsville, Virginia home on July 31 as a surprise. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Graham, Mrs. Etta Graham, John and Dorothy Graham of Brunswick, Lawrence Fry of Adamstown, and others with gifts and cake marked by 40 candles.
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Lovettsville
Edgar Graham
Graham
Etta Graham
John Graham
Dorothy
Brunswick
Lawrence Fry
Adamstown
Fred Graham
Belva
Ernest Graham
Virginia
Ralph Graham
Shirley
Local notes and wartime pressings amid scattered recollections
Entries recount a visit to Toledo by Mrs A Yoder and family, travel details of Misses Laura Petterfield and Kathron Bender in Gate City with social gouries, plus a Genin Broadcast on Allied shipping losses. Official tally credits sinking 18 merchant ships totaling 108000 tons, a destroyer and patrol vessel in the Atlantic and off West Africa, with timing unspecified. An estimate notes about 60000 retail druggists in the United States.
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A. Yoder
Toledo
Holly Grubb
Wannie
Mrs. Grubb
Hagerstown
Laura Petterfield
Kathron Bender
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Potomac By-Products Co
Frederick, Md
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Harpers Ferry
Quaker City
Farmers & Mechanics National Bank
Carroll County
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West
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