May Change Big Merchant Fleets
Discussions begin between Danish shipping interests and American officials about transferring large portions of Norway and Denmark merchant fleets to American registry to avoid seizure by Germany or Britain. A Danish firm with New York branch offers 60 ships. Norway and Denmark rank among the largest fleets with about 6.8 million tons combined.
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Great Britain
New York
Norway
Denmark
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Russian Troops Near Rumania Reported Advancing
Bucharest reports say Soviet reinforcements moved into the Odessa region from the north toward the Romanian Bessarabia border. The claim lacks independent verification. Romania orders defense factories to stock 15 days of supplies for mobilization. An embargo hits sunflower seed exports to Germany. Rumanians deny sinking three German bound Danube boats and discuss Danube pilot mobilization.
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Odessa
Black Sea
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Russia
Rumania
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Eambargo
Germany
Norway Joins British Fight to Repel German Invasion
Stockholm report says Norway's Parliament president Carl J. Hambro announced that northern Norwegian forces now cooperate with Britain against Germany. Headquarters at Elverum, Norways gov in Helsinki and Stockholm say volunteers are welcome. Sundlo under arrest for aiding Germans.
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Carl J. Hambro
Norway
Hambro
Elverum
Narvik
Hamar
Helsinki
Sundlo
Omdahl
Chloe Davis Misses Kin Funeral Rites
In Los Angeles on April 11 11 year old Chloe Davis could not attend funeral services for her mother two sisters and brother. Prosecutors say she defended herself during the attack and was ruled not to have acted with intent to harm. She remains a temporary ward of the Juvenile Court until April 17.
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Los Angeles
Chloe Davis
Mitchel Moidel
Chloe
Samuel Marcus
Moidel
Rocks Estate Sold to Minnesota Doctor
The Rocks, a historic farm on the Shenandoah river in Jefferson county near Wickliffe, long held by Miss Anne Payne Lewis, has sold to Dr. Roy A. Barlow of Minnesota. The property includes hundreds of acres of farming land and an imposing riverfront house. Details of the sale and Miss Lewis' plans are not known. she is the last of her immediate family and a descendant of landowner General Battaile Muse.
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Berryville
Miss Lewis
Clarke
Battaile Muse
Washington
Mary Muse
John Hancock Berkeley Lewis
Jefferson County
Virginia
Frederick County
Fire Fatal To Woman in Powells Fort Valley
Mrs. Ida Ritenour, 70, died in a fire at her home in Powells Fort Valley near Woodstock. Firefighters fought the blaze for nearly an hour before recovery of the body. Rumors say she may have accidentally started the fire lighting a stove after borrowing kerosene. Survived by four sons and two daughters. Her late husband, former Seven Fountains postmaster William Gochenour, died in February. The Knights of Columbus was founded in 1882 by Michael J. McGivney and nine parishioners.
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Woodstock
Ida Ritenour
Powells Fort Valley
Here
Ernest
McKeesport
Rogert
Washington
Lester
Maurertown
Paul Rinker
Jackson
Edward Tamkin
Bank Closings For Holiday Saturday April Thirteenth 1940
Notices show banks closed for legal holiday on April 13 1940. Maturing paper payable April 13 1940 may be paid on Monday April 15 1940 across named institutions including Commercial and Savings Bank Union Bank of Winchester Shenandoah Valley Natl Bank and Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Co.
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Commercial and Savings Bank
Geo. B. Bushnell
Union Bank of Winchester
Harold G. Brown
Shenandoah Valley Nat’! Bank
J. H. Yost
Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Co
Information Borroa The Winchester Star
Washington DC note directs readers to page 4 for answers to any questions of fact.
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The
Winchester Star
Borroa
Washington, D. C
Bank ledger fragment shows cash in vault and capital details
A partial bank ledger lists cash in vault 614.50 and 1 874.18 in other assets, bills payable credits 145.00, with items like interest taxes and expenses accrued. It mentions capital account components including common stock surplus and undivided profits, net, plus reserves for refunds and losses and a collection account.
Farmer's fall in courthouse delays justice case
Leon Smith a 64 year old farmer in Raleigh complained in superior Court about a driver in an accident that fractured his skull. His crutches slipped on a courthouse stair causing him to fall and break an arm delaying the case.
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Raleigh, N. C
Leon Smith
Superior Court
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