Britain Faces Cash Shortfall By Fall In War Aid
Washington dispatch reports that U S Treasury experts find Britain will run out of cash to pay for arms and munitions in the early autumn next year. A detailed balance sheet study is under way to gauge Britain's ability to pay and inform Congress on aid considerations.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
Britain
U.S. Treasury
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Congress
London
British Treasury
U. S
Draftees from Hagerstown to Leave January 15
The second group of Selective Service men from Hagerstown and Washington county, 29 in number, will depart January 15. They will ride a Western Maryland train at 6:30 a.m. to Baltimore, arriving 9:38 a.m. to report to the Fifth Regiment Armory. notices were mailed to 25 draftees.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
Baltimore
Maryland
Fifth Regiment
Suspected Fugitive Believed Given Lift
One of two fugitives from the State Penal Farm at Roxbury who escaped this week is believed to have thumbed a ride with a motorist at Walkersville in Frederick County yesterday. State and county police reached the area and were informed the man matching the description had just been given a ride by a passing motorist.
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Roxbury
Walkersville
Frederick County
County Board in Session Reviews 1941 Education Budget
The Board of County Commissioners meets to scrutinize tentative tax figures with the 1941 Board of Education budget as the main topic. The proposal calls for a sizeable increase over last year’s proportional appropriation and commissioners seek to identify essential items only.
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Board of County Commissioners
Board of Education
Mass Burial For Manchester Air Raid Victims
Seventy two of Manchester’s recent air raid victims were laid to rest in a mass funeral held today, as mourners gathered to honor the deceased. The service drew families, local officials, and civilians who came to pay respects amid wartime hardship.
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Manchester
England
Rain and northeast winds forecast for Maryland coast
U S Weather Bureau predicts rain across Maryland with heavy rain in central and western areas tonight. Sunday brings more clouds and occasional showers with a drop in temperature especially in the west. Chesapeake Bay will have fresh to strong northeast winds and continued rain this afternoon, tonight, and Sunday.
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U. S
Warn Of War Spread If Convoys Sent Via Ireland
Italian editor Virginio Gayda warned American interventionists that sending supply convoys to Britain via neutral Ireland would trigger a spread of the conflict across the Atlantic and beyond. He warned such action would violate neutrality and invite U.S. intervention, with axis powers pledging aid in case of attack.
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Britain
Ireland
U. S
Rome
Virginio Gayda
Europe
North Atlantic
Atlantic
Pacific
Gayda
Japan
Italy
Germany
United States
Party Plans Rush for Democratic Club Christmas Party
The Democratic Organization Club committee reports plans nearly complete for the annual Christmas Party at the Masonic Temple on Monday evening. They expect buffet luncheons for more than 1000 guests featuring turkey and country ham sandwiches. President Wm. Preston Lane will chair a Board of Governors meeting before the party to elect officers and address business. Admission is by card obtained from district or precinct leaders.
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Democratic Organization Club
Masonic Temple
Wm. Preston Lane
Club
Four Die in Plunge of Car Near Lagstaff Arizona
Four people died when their car plunged 1800 feet into a rocky canyon south of Lagstaff Arizona. Victims were Deates Boydston and Leroy Hines of Carnegie Oklahoma Walter Neal Witten of Salinas California and a woman identified as Edna Boydston Witten. State patrolman Jack Liston said the car left a dangerous curve smashed guard rail and bounced down ledges 300 to 600 feet below. Nebraska travelers spotted the wreckage while en route to the Rose Bowl and alerted authorities.
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Lagstaff
Ariz
Here
Deates Boydston
Leroy Hines
Carnegie
Okla
Walter Neal Witten
Salinas
Califf
Edna Boydston Witten
Jack Liston
Work Resumed On N. & W. Underpass
Work resumed this week on the Norfolk and Western underpass on the Sharpsburg Shepherdstown road. The contractor is grading the south approach with the aim of opening the underpass as early in the spring as possible.
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Norfolk & Western
Sharpsburg
Shepherdstown
Young Pittsburgh boy pilots plane solo at nine
Nine year old Edward McFarland in Pittsburgh Kansas has logged 136 hours and 10 minutes of flight time. He has taken a training ship aloft, flown to a destination, and landed without his father’s assistance who rode along as escort.
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Pittsburgh
Kas
Edward McFarland
Judge Musmanno Heads New Year Drunk Driving Probe
Pittsburgh December 28 Judge Michael Angelo Musmanno renews anti drunken driving drive on New Year Eve sitting as committing magistrate in criminal court. Police will patrol spots and warn first then bail offenders. The 42 year old presiding Allegheny county judge previously faced removal in 1937 for night hearings. He had run a five month campaign limiting drunken driving and sentenced 413 offenders to 30 days to two years.
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Pittsburgh
Michael Angelo Musmanno
Allegheny County
Democrats Still Gaining as 1941 Registration Rules Outlined
The Board of Election Supervisors disclosed 33 new Democrats and 14 Republicans have registered since mid November. Beginning in 1941 registration days will be Tuesdays and Fridays, with all registrants required to appear at the board office in the courthouse basement. Voters on the books may transfer or change party affiliation by letter.
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Board of Election Supervisors
War Dept Signs Ford Contract for 1500 Scout Cars
On December 28 the War Department moved to sign a contract with Ford Motor Co for 1500 scout cars at a total of 1,387,500 dollars. Sidney Hillman, labor member of the Defense Production Board, objected that the agreement lacked labor safeguards he deemed proper.
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Washington
Sidney Hillman
War Department
Ford Motor Company
Hillman
Defense Production Board
New Petition Seeks One Hour Change to Stock Exchange Close
A new petition to extend the New York Stock Exchange closing hour by one hour has been submitted to the Board of Governors. The move, disclosed today, asks for the later closing time to be adopted.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Board of Governors
Italians say Mussolini orders Bardia holdout to die
Prisoners report Mussolini ordered the Bardia garrison to be ready to die rather than yield as Tobruk defenses strengthen for a British assault. Graziani shifts troops west, British view fall of Bardia as inevitable despite a stubborn 20,000-strong defense.
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Cairo
Egypt
Mussolini
Bardia
Realty Mart Takes Sport Realty Mart Takes Sport
Real estate activity rose after holidays with Transactions totaling about $35,000. Notable deeds include Ernest L. Bartle to John M. Lacy for $7,000 on Dun Irvin Drive and Virginia Avenue, Elizabeth Petre to David Cushwa for 178 acres at $10,600, and Cohen Bros Inc to Fred Burk for a bungalow on Cleveland Avenue at $3,100. Other transfers include Laban Eshelman to Elizabeth Petre for a Reid Middleburg Road parcel at $3,800, Herman Smith to Monroe Cook for a Virginia and Sherman Avenues residence at $3,600, and Roy Harbaugh to Clifford Harbaugh for a road-adjacent acre at $1,860.
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Ernest L. Bartle
John M. Lacy
Dun Irvin Drive
Virginia Avenue
Elizabeth E. Petre
David K. Cushwa, Sr
Williamsport Pike
Laban L. Eshelman
Reid- Middleburg Road
Paramount-Middleburg Pike
Cohen Bros, Inc
Fred D. Burkholder
Cleveland Avenue
Herman H. Smith
Monroe E. Cook
Virginia and
Sherman Avenues
Roy W. Harbaugh
Clifford W. Harbaugh
Petain Defies Demands as France Moves Officers to North Africa
Travelers from Lisbon report Chief of State Petain authorized a number of French naval officers to take "vacations" in North Africa and ships have sailed from Toulon. Observers say Petain aims to rule France himself without foreign impositions and would rather be a prisoner than allow foreign troops through unoccupied territory.
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Lisbon
Portugal
France
Petain
North
Africa
Toulon
North Africa
City election board warns unqualified registrars
Only three of the 30 recently appointed city registrars for the municipal primaries next month and the March election have qualified. The City Board of Election Supervisors announced that each registrar must take an oath and file a certificate with the City Clerk at City Hall, and that this should be done immediately.
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City Board of Election Supervisors
Sach
City Hall
Plane crash near Chiba kills fourteen on test flight
Fourteen people including a communications ministry official died when a commercial plane conducting a test flight crashed at sea off the Chiba Peninsula. Government officials announced the deaths tonight.
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Tokyo
Communications Ministry
Chiba Peninsula
Roosevelts Final Draft Speech Before Radio Address
President Roosevelt plans a half hour radio speech to be broadcast from 9 30 to 10 p m EST tomorrow He works with cabinet members to refine the rough draft and outline bold aid to Britain while weighing English defeat implications. Stephen Early predicts clarity and specifics in the prepared remarks.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Stephen Early
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
White House
German Help for Italy Not Planned
Budapest dispatch reports Germany does not plan to aid Italy in Greece. German moves depend on Britain using Greece to invade Central Europe. If Italy collapses Greece victory prompts a potential peace with France and favorable terms for Vichy.
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Budapest
Hungary
Germany
Greece
Britain
Europe
Albania
Balkans
France
Italan
Hitler
Philippe Petain
Italy
Williamsport Democrats set January 10 officer vote
The Men's Democratic Organization Club of Williamsport voted last night to hold its annual election of officers on Friday January 10 and invited all Democrats in the district to attend. Congressman William D Byron presided and promised a Washington speaker for the meeting. He praised party progress and noted Williamsport’s March town elections.
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Men's Democratic Organization Club of
Williamsport
Willamsport
William D. Byron
Washington
Byron
Maryland
Posses Hunt Slayer of 2 in Clarion County
Farmers and police scoured the northwestern Pennsylvania hills for a man sought in the killing of father and son, and the assault of the 22 year old daughter. Reuben Wentling and his 12 year old son were murdered last night at their home near Clarion. Wentling's wife Olive and daughter Elizabeth were wounded after leaping from a porch roof to escape. Elizabeth said the man shot her father and brother then fled as a car neared the farm.
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Clarion
Pennsylvania
Reuben Levi Wentling
Reuben Levi, Jr
Wentling
Olive
Elizabeth
Wentling Farm
Here
Border clashes wipe out two trespasser bands in Russia
A Moscow report says two bands of border trespassers were wiped out by Russian army troops. A border guard unit led by Semion Sakal killed the intruders and captured their arms munitions and smuggled goods, with the clashes occurring on an unspecified frontier.
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Moscow
Comsomol
Communist Youth Party
Pravda
Communist
Semion Sakal
British bomber raid hits ships in Haugesund Norway
Dive bombers from the fleet air arm and Royal Air Force attacked shipping and harbor works at the German held Norwegian port of Haugesund. A supply ship, a merchant vessel, warehouses and jetties were hit or set afire. one raider silenced an anti aircraft gun. All planes returned safely. The raid is described as part of Britain's offensive defensive campaign against invasion threats.
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London
Fleet Air Arm
Royal Air Force
Naugesund
Admiralty
Air Ministery
Air Ministry
Haugesund
Stavanger
Norway
Scotland
Britain
Stavinger
England
Local Grid Player Fractures Arm
Lloyd Kuhn aged 22 of 804 Mulberry Avenue was treated at Washington County Hospital for a fractured left forearm suffered last Sunday afternoon while playing with the Rogers Jewelry football team. An X-ray confirmed a fracture after several days of pain.
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Lloyd Kuhn
Mulberry Avenue
Washington County Hospital
Rogers Jewelry
Kuhn
Paul R. Valentine Announces Ward 5 Council Candidacy
Paul R. Valentine, a well known Ward 5 resident, today announced his candidacy for councilman subject to the Democratic primary. He is described by friends as well qualified and ready to devote his efforts to city improvement and Ward 5.
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Paul R. Valentine
Ward 5
Valentine
Dorothy Comiskey to wed White Sox pitcher John Rigney
Chicago December 28 announcement by Mrs Grace Comiskey sets engagement of Miss Dorothy Comiskey 23 treasurer of the White Sox to John Rigney pitcher on the club. Miss Comiskey daughter of the late J Louis Comiskey granddaughter of Charles A Comiskey founder of the American League club says they will marry next fall.
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Chicago
Dorothy Comiskey
Chicago White Sox
John Rigney
White Sox
Grace Comiskey
Miss Comiskey
J. Louis Comiskey
Charles A. Comiskey
American League Club
Ship Flying Panaman Flag Makes Harbor Safely
A Panama-flagged ship leaving the harbor at Punta Delgada in the Azores was struck by a torpedo from an unidentified submarine. The torpedo exploded on the beach near Santa Maria, damaging several houses, but the ship turned back to port without mishap. Meanwhile CNB reported Germany has recommissioned the former British submarine Seal after capture in the North Sea.
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Punta Delgada
Azores
Santa Maria
Berlin
DNB
England
CNB
North Sea
Nazis Claim Ships Sunk In British Waters
Berlin reports the sinking of four British merchant ships totaling 24 340 tons and a British armed merchant ship named Walotira of 12 329 tons by two German submarines. A German scouting plane dropped bombs on a merchant ship east of the Thames mouth, with reports of a fire. German war planes bombed London at night, with pilots noting multiple fires in the capital.
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Berlin
High Command
Thames
London
Raider flews Nazi color on Nauru raid
Melbourne reports the sea raider bombarded the British mandate island of Nauru, hoisted the swastika, fired on loading equipment and stores, and warned crews to stop wireless use. Navy minister William Hughes said the attack occurred before dawn off the 5,400 acre guano island in the equatorial Pacific. the radio station remained intact and private homes were untouched. Nauru has a population just under 3,500 and was formerly German.
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Melbourne
Australia
Nauru
Navy Ministry
Navy
William Mr. Hughes
Pacific
Hughes
December Rainfall Near Average Mark
Rain last night and today totalled .55 inch, giving December precipitation of 2.45 inches, .21 inch below normal per Chewsville weather observer D. Paul Oswald. More rain is forecast, likely pushing the month past the average. today’s low was 44, up only three degrees by 11 a.m., with colder weather expected tomorrow.
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D. Paul Oswald
Chewsville
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Karl Megerle
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Duce
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West Point
Toledo
Francisco Franco
Rodolfo Graziani
Tobruk
Realty Mart
Ferdinand Kuhn, Jr
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Bulgaria
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