King George VI Birthday Observed in Portsmouth
Portsmouth observes King George VI birthday events with Bundles for Britain delayed in timing. City officials and local groups planned tributes, including Dr. M. I. Roger Shattuck addressing tomorrow’s program as part of the city’s commemoration activities.
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Portsmouth
Britar
King George
Ports
Britain
Hopley
M. I
Roger Shattuck
War batch of facts and figures on Britain and drafts
Washington reports mixed views on Britain’s food reserves and reliance on American imports, noting under consumption and rationing. Officials debate possible impacts, while criticism grows of government interference. Secret Texas campaign efforts for Lyndon Johnson and draftee staffing concerns color political and military previews.
Daylight Time Snaps Ahead in May ThL Update
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate a May 8 1541 timetable with daylight saving style times and a reference to pay due tomorrow at 9 15 am. Mentions Venice tonight and a morning rise at 5 30 am.
RAF Raids Baghdad and Axis Airfields Reported
Cairo May 8 AP British planes bombed Baghdad airport and hit a magazine at Washash. The Middle East HQ said Iraqi lines at Habboni yan and Basra were quiet. RAF raids targeted Bengasi Berka Bennia Derna with heavy, successful strikes on airfields and shipping approaches.
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Egypt
Baghdad
Washash
Iraq
Royal Airforce
Middle East
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Basra
Habbaniyah
Bengasi
Berka
Bennia
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Heyph
House To Act On Liquor Bill Next Tuesday
Concord May B AP The legislature set next Tuesday for action on Governor Blood s liquor department reorganization bill. The appropriations committee recommends naming one commissioner director at 5000 salary and two others as associates on 88 per diem. Each current commissioner earns 4000 a year. The house killed a bill to abolish Ellsworth in the White Mountains foothills due to heavy debt. A bill to increase House size by about 25 seats per session for five sessions was approved by the senate.
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Concord
Blood
Appropriations Committee
House
Ellsworth
White Mountains
State Tax Commission
House of Representatives
Senate
Won't Lift Woods Ban
Concord reports that the wood fire ban will continue for at least another day and possibly over the weekend. Governor Blood announced the continuation during a briefing.
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Concord
Blood
Barge Luther Hooper Docks With Gypsum Cargo
The barge Luther Hooper carrying gypsum arrived at Consolidation Coal company’s wharf at 6 pm yesterday from Philadelphia. Piteou County delivered 850 tons of gypsum. The Luther Hooper was to depart Ports mouth tomorrow.
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Philadelphia
Consolidation Coal' Company
Piteou County
Portsmouth
Weekly Suspends Claremont Publication After 92 Years
The Claremont Advocate, in operation almost 92 years, printed its final edition after being purchased by the Claremont Daily Eagle. Lincoln O'Brien is named as publisher.
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Claremont
Heaton
Claremont Advocate
Claremont Daily Eagle
Lincoln O'Brien
Boston Braves Release Ferrell in Mass Firings
Boston May AP Wes Ferrell a Braves pitcher with five wins and one loss this season was released outright by President Bob Quinn. The move followed the team trimming its roster to 25 players as they prepared for a New York trip and Western tour.
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Wes Ferrell
Boston Braves
Bob Quinn
Ferrell
New York
Britain Faces Luftwaffe Blitz and American Help
Dispatches from London describe heavy Luftwaffe raids over Britain with 300 bombers estimated in a single night. Robert Hutchinson notes 10,000 Americans are fighting with British and Allied forces. Berlin prepares for harsher blows as Jews are forced into restricted quarters to free space for Aryans. The RAF shoots down 22 German planes in nocturnal raids, while coastal towns endure continued bombardment including Liverpool.
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Britain
Robert Hutchinson
American Eagle Club
United States
Berlin
Channel
Controversy Grows Over Convoys as Willkie Nye Spar
Senator Nye and Wendell Willkie clashed over convoy policy while new Maritime Commission figures showed British aid ships from the U S suffered very few sinkings in the first quarter of 1941. The Senate Commerce Committee summoned chairman Emory S. Land to present full ship loss data as the debate intensified.
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Nye
Willkie
Maritime Commission
Senate Commerce Committee
Commission
Emory S$. Land
England
Child dies after fall during Boston fire rescue
May 8 AP report describes a mother attempting to pass her five month old baby through a window to safety during a lodging house fire in Boston. The infant fell 30 feet to his death as the mother, Alice Bowker, 27, plunged from a third floor window in a desperate bid to save him. Seventeen people were driven from the four story two room house before firefighters arrived. Damage was unofficially estimated at $6,500.
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Boston
Alice Bowker
Sewerage Problems Again Beset City Council
Portsmouth city council debated sewerage needs on Central Avenue and Beechwood Streets. Superintendent Nat Stevens estimated 9137.14 for a new system, and a committee including Mary Dondero Walter Harvey and Frederick Gardner was appointed to investigate tax issues and potential state condemnation. Residents suffer unsanitary conditions with no sewer, affecting mail delivery and traffic. The item is continued on page eleven.
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Portsmouth
City Hall
Stevens
Central Avenue
Beechwood
Rowe
Mary C. Dondero
Walter Harvey
Frederick Gardner
State Board of Health
Belfast Key Point In British Defense Plans
Belfast holds strategic value as a military naval and industrial hub in Ulster with shipyards near Londonderry and Ulster airbases. Warships based in Belfast and aircraft from Ulster protect trans Atlantic convoys to Britain, while Belfast’s location aids anti U boat efforts and shields England’s coasts.
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Northern Ireland
Ulster
Hillerites
Southern Ireland
Londonderry
Britain
Irish Sea
England
Berlin
Leonard Folsom Smith 92 Exeter leader and legislator dies
Leonard Folsom Smith 92 founder of North Beach Highland Colony Hampton and former Exeter selectman and NH legislator in 1901 and 1903 died after a brief illness at his son Her men L. Smith’s High street home. Born Aug 8 1849 in Newmarket he was a lumberman and charter member of the Gilman Grange Exeter. Survived by his son and two grandchildren services at his son’s High street home Saturday afternoon.
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Leonard Folsom Smith
Exeter
Hermen L. Smith
High Street
Newmarket
Leonard B
Mary (Folsom) Smith
Folsom Family Association
Gilman Grange
Plan To Build More Maplewood Acres Homes
Portsmouth city council heard plans to add 50 to 100 Maplewood Acres homes with sewerage needs. Manchester Federal S and L VP Harry C. Jones outlined 15 existing homes, 13 built, and cheaper $4,500 houses under FHA Title 6 for defense-area housing. Council urged a survey with Nat Stevens and the bank, awaiting FHA approval and cost details.
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Maplewood Acres
Portsmouth
Harry C. Jones
Manchester Federal Savings and Loan Association
Jones
Nat
Stevens
Myrtle Avenue
Manchester Bank
Universalist Choir Wins Boston Radio Chance
The Universalist church choir of Portsmouth earned a spot on an eight Boston radio broadcast last night by winning the Uncle Fimer Long Circle Amateur Night contest at Rye Town Hall. Judges honored Nicholas Paras and Herbert Sylvester for a clarinet duet, with Rye Congregational church choir, Exetor First Baptist youth group, Rye girls quartet, Ruth de Rochemont, Frederick Doron, Marion Morrison, and Bucille Sterling also appearing. Director John W. Howe led the winning ensemble which included sopranos Elizabeth Marshall Ruth Marshall Lucille Dore Mae Livingston Isabelle Hopwood altos Mazie Lewis Irving Hollings tenors Richard Hartford Dustin French James Guyette Irwin Hollings.
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Universalist Church of
Rye Congregational Church
Young People's Choir
The
First Baptist, Church of Exeter
Rye
Ruth de Rochemont
Portsmouth
Frederick Doron
Salem
Mass
Marion Morrison
Bucille Sterling
Ladies’ Aid Society
Congregational Church
Rye school water pump breaks, vacation declared
Mourning in Rye as the school’s water pump breaks down. The Rye Consolidated school shuts down, with vacation declared until Monday, leaving students unable to smile or sing and altering routines for the immediate future.
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Rye
Rye Consolidated
City agrees to 20 percent of main to Forts Stark and Constitution
Portsmouth city council voted to fund 20 percent of a 12000 project to lay a water main to Forts Stark and Constitution and Camp Langdon, seeking US government to cover the remaining 8 percent in connecting charges. After lengthy debate, Capt. J G Collins, USA, was given direction to proceed. The plan calls for a 12 inch main from South Street near Harry Stewart’s residence to join an eight inch line at Sagamore Avenue, not to exceed 17000.
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Stark
Constitution
Camp Langdon
United States
J. G. Collins
Nat S. Stevens
Harry Stewart
South Street
Sagamore Avenue
Wentworth Water Tests Under Way as Hotel Plans Open
Costa will be carried on at Forts Constitution and Stark and Camp Langdon today to determine the water volume needed when the Hotel Wentworth opens. The army says it may be insufficient for safety and the council approved paying 20 percent of a 12000 project to fix the issue. Supt. Nat Stevens warns that until tests are completed they are shooting blind.
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Forts Constitution
Stark
Camp Langdon
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Stevens
Diplomats Seek Restore Trade With French North Africa
Washington May 8 AP report says a plan to restore normal U S trade with French North Africa is under diplomatic discussion. Restored commerce would help obtain raw materials for defense in exchange for urgently needed Morocco Tunisia and Algiers supplies while Britain blocks most trade. Germany is said to be seeking control of the French colonial possessions now led by General Maxime Weygand.
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United States
French North Africa
Morocco
Tunisia
Algiers
France
Germany
Maxime Weygand
North Africa
Sheat
Local Player Wins State Checker Title
Harvey Wilson, a local checker player, captured the New Hampshire state title at the Concord tournament. The New Hampshire Checker and Chess Association tabulated scores and sponsored the event. Wilson defeated finalists including T B Rice, Willis Washburn, and William Nelson after ousting five contenders.
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New Hampshire
Concord
New Hampshire Checker and
Chess As~ Poetics
Mr. Wilson
Willard Pollet
Epping
Rice
Derry
T. B. Rice
Willis Washburn
William Nelson
Proclamation to Set July 1 21-Year-Old Draft Registration
Washington May 8 AP Army and selective service officials plan July 1 as the registration date for about 1 million men who turned 21 since last October. The move, to be announced by President Roosevelt, aims to prepare the new volunteers for possible early training and to fit employment plans. War department officials weigh shifting emphasis to younger recruits, possibly setting a maximum age of 30 or 26 for future trainees.
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Selective Service
Sed
Roosevelt
Selective Service Headquarters
New Hampshire to Send 159 Men in Draft Call
The New Hampshire draft call lists 159 NH men among the 1,756 from New England. Most go to the third corps area at Baltimore and the Fourth at Atlanta with some assigned to air stations in Westoverfield Windsor Locks Manchester and Bangor. Massachusetts is exempted due to over-quota enlistments.
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New England
James A. Woodruff
Massachusetts
Vermont
Rhode Island
Maine
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Third Corps
Baltimore
Fourth Corps
Atlanta
West~overfield
Windsor Locks
Milk Truck Wreck In Stratham Injures Driver
Richard Burnham of Baker Farm Stratham drove a milk truck that overturned near the Newmarket Portsmouth road. A flat tire is suspected as the cause. Burnham was treated for cuts at Newmarket and at home on the Stratham farm.
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Richard Burnham
Stratham
Newmarket
Portsmouth
Burnham
J. D. Butler
City Council Approves May Tag Days for Charities
The council authorized several tag days next May: Friday May S Buncies for Britain at British Hospital, Saturday May 10 Salvation Army tag day ending the annual maintenance drive, Saturday May 17 Veterans of Foreign Wars selling VFW poppies, and Saturday May 24 American Legion selling Legion poppies.
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Britain
British Hospital
Salvation Army
Veterans of Foreign Wars
American Legion
Legion
National Posture Week Circumscribed By War News
The piece contrasts American life during National Posture Week with world events. It notes Mussolini and Hitler, tax burdens, and political tensions. It sarcastically critiques diet and fashion references as inadequate responses to rising Axis influence and the U.S. home front strain.
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New York
Mussolini
Hitler
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