President backs selective training amid war prep debate
President Roosevelt voiced strong support for a selective service training bill as the Senate Military Committee rejected an amendment to cap drafts at 400 000 before next April and 500 000 afterward. The move clears the path for a final committee vote next week while emphasis on amortization and broader excess profits tax lingered in discussion.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate Military Committee
Lee
D-Okla
Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
Stonewall Brigade Band to Play at Lantz Mills Visit
Shenandoah Herald notes Staunton based Stonewall Brigade Band will perform at Lantz Mills on Saturday August 10, first Shenandoah county visit since Fisher's Hill picnics thirty years ago. The program includes Dixie and Old Songs with verses praising the band and its Stonewall legacy. Staunton is praised for its fine band tradition mirroring Winchester.
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Shenandoah
Miss McCone Heads Nurses District XI Formation
Miss M J McCone led a meeting at Memorial Hospital as graduate nurses from Clarke Frederick Page Shenandoah Rappahannock and Warren counties formed District XI. Elected officers include president M J McCone first vice president Ed Brumback Luray second vice president Harold Miller Woodstock secretary Mattie Clark Winchester and treasurer Lucille Deighton Middletown.
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Memorial Hospital
Clarke
Frederick
Page
Shenandoah
Rappahannock
Warren
M. J. McCone
Ed. Brumback
Luray
Harold Miller
Woodstock
Mattie Clark
Winchester
Lucille Deighton
Middletown
Winchester Schools Open September 5 1940
Winchester public schools set to open on Thursday September 5 for 1940 41 with a preparatory meeting for teachers on September 4. New student registration scheduled August 26 27 at John Kerr Handley and Douglas schools with special notes for transfer students and required birth certificates vaccination and prior transcripts. Handley High School will receive an official transcript from previous schools and Douglas colored school adds space and extended high school curriculum. Handley Summer School for high school students ends next week.
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Winchester
John Kerr
Handley School
Douglas School
Handley High School
Douglas Colored School
Handley Summer School
Painting and Decorating Estimators Furnished
Gardner B. Hillyard offers wallpaper side wall ceiling and border for rooms 10 by 12 at 1.52 per unit and 12 by 14 at 1.84 per unit with furnished estimates and a contact phone 62.
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Gardner B. Hillyard
Do you favor compulsory military training for 21 to 31
The Inquiring Reporter surveys officials and citizens on mandatory service to strengthen national defense. A Frederick County trial justice and others including a Winchester dean, a police sergeant, and a school superintendent express strong support. They argue training prepares for war, deters aggression, and preserves American freedom.
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A. J. Tavenner
Frederick County
U.S. A
George Washington
England
M. M. Lynch
Winchester
France
Douglas D
Francis Funk
Garland R. Quarles
Handley Schools
Clay B. Carr. Boyce
Charles Town Publications
America
Local Girl To Wed a Sherlock Holmes Hero of Easton Barrack
Corporal Paul J. Randall, acting commander of the Easton State Police Barrack, will wed Miss Mary L. Himelright of Hagerstown in the fall. Known for crime detection skills, he tracked Sidney Thompson the bank robber and the Caroline county varmint, earning the nickname Eastern Shore Sherlock Holmes.
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Easton
Paul J. Randall
Easton State
Mary L. Himelright
Hagerstown
Randall
Sherlock Holmes
Sidney Thompson
Maryland
Thompson
Caroline County
Preston
The
Washington Star
Himelright
Winchester
Sarah Zane Fire Co. Monthly Meeting Notice
The regular monthly meeting of the Sarah Zane Fire Co. will be held Friday evening August 2 at 8 p.m. All members are requested to be present. Loryn M. Crabill, Capt.
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Sarah Zane Fire Co
Loryn M. Crabill
Rouss Fire Co. Meets Friday Evening
The Charley Rouss Fire Co. will hold a meeting on Friday evening August 2 at 8 oclock. Every member is urged to attend. M D Weaver president.
Canteen Prepares Meal for Guards Before Encampment
Berryville Virginia August 2 Forty two National Guard members will travel Monday to encampment Canteen a Red Cross canteen service under Captain Graham F Dougherty. Miss Rose MacDonald canteen captain says breakfast at 5 45 am will be served in the Community Building for the entire company.
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Berryville
National Guard
County Red Cross
Graham F. Dougherty
MacDonald
July Rain Exceeds Normal at Winchester Lab
Rainfall for July totaled 5.40 inches at the Winchester Research Laboratory, 1.81 inches above the 27 year July average of 3.59 inches. The month’s total trails 1939’s 7.84 inches and 1939 July’s 2.67 inches.
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Winchester Research Laboratory
Local 5 Man Team Repeats Virginia Trap Title
Winchester five man squad led by C. J. Renner repeated as champions at the 41st Virginia Trap Shooting Association tournament at Winchester Gun Club. The team scored 234 of 250 to retain the title with E. E. Cuthbert Ruth Cuthbert F. Pingley Willis F. Anderson on the roster. Renner recaptured the state doubles crown defeating W. F. Anderson 23 of 24 after a 87 of 100 tie earlier. Open singles saw Heistand Maust and Renner each with 49 of 50 as Heistand seeks the nation’s top honors.
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Winchester
Virginia Trap Shooting Association
E. E. Cuthbert
C. J. Renner
Ruth Cuthbert
F. Pingley
Willis F. Anderson
Roanoke
Renner
Tracey Lewis
Kneene
W. F. Anderson
Anderson
Ore Heistand
Heistand
Karl Maust
Hillsboro
Ohio
Maust
Columbus
West Virginia Lumberman Josh Oates Dies at 65
Josh Oates of Capon Bridge a noted lumberman was fatally stricken around 10:30 am while loading pulp wood near Cross Junction. Survived by widow and children including Lena Norton, Roy, Virgil, Max, Christian, Cletus Whitacre, and Jennings Oates. Funeral plans not yet set.
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Josh Oates
Capon Bridge
Cross Junction
Lem Kerns
Mr. Oates
Max Oates
Whitacre
Hollis Braithwaite
Oates
Emma Oates
Beulah Hook
Lena Norton
Winchester
Roy
Virgil
Max
Christian
Cletus Whitacre
Jennings Oates
Burlington
W. Va
Snakes Display Ignite Local Storefront Scare in Cross Junction
Harry McKeever of Cross Junction keeps 15 live snakes in front of his store post office attracting visitors. A rattler escaped a cage but was recaptured by the postmaster. Local locust blight and fall colors are noted across Frederick and Clarke counties.
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Harry McKeever
Cross Junction
Harry
Frederick and
Clarke
British Give Hitler Advice On Blitzkrieg
London observers offer a mock invasion forecast noting optimal dates for a cross-Channel strike tied to tides and seasons. They argue that if Hitler misses mid September, invasion chances drop until spring and emphasize weather, sea state, and fog as crucial factors.
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Hitler
London
England
Britain
North Sea
English Channel
Gestapo influence claimed in Japan via home office officer
A British source asserts the Gestapo operates through Franz Huber, an officer in the Japanese home office, shaping Japanese internal affairs. It also notes two more British subjects arrested in Korea amid an anti British espionage campaign, leaving nine Britons in custody.
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London
Gestapo
Home Office
Korea
Japan
Franz Huber
Storm Troop Security Department
Frying Chickens All Sizes for Sale
E. J. Snapp advertises frying chickens of all sizes with no charge for dressing. Contact phone number 626 from North Cameron Street. Dated August 2.
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E. J. Snapp
N. Cameron
Star Restaurant Beer and Wine Delivery Service Ad
An old classified ad promotes PHONE 1532 W for quick delivery of all kinds of beer and wine from Star Restaurant located in the area. The line notes hours and service cue, typical of a small town newspaper listing.
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Star Restaurant
Willkie Leads First Day in Tourist Straw Vote
Forty tourists from eight states visited George Washington HQ as Frank N. McCormick organized a daily straw poll. Wendell Willkie received 34 ballots to Franklin D. Roosevelt's 6, with Ohio predominating among voters. Future reports will publish results from each state.
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Frank N. McCormick
George Washington
Wendell Willkie
Roosevelt
Mr. McCormick
Ohio
Admiralty reports bombing and attack on enemy supply ship
London bulletin says a wireless station was successfully bombed and an enemy supply ship of about 4000 tons was attacked yesterday along the Norwegian coast. The vessel was listing badly and being abandoned.
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London
Admiralty
Press conference in Berlin interrupted by anti-aircraft fire
Reporters in Berlin were startled as a foreign press conference was interrupted by loud anti-aircraft explosions overhead, seemingly from the foreign office rooftop. The incident halted proceedings and drew immediate attention from attendees and observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Foreign Office
Tidal Wave Death Toll Rises in Hok kaido Coast
A tsunami after an earthquake on Hokkaido’s western coast drowned ten people and wrecked two small shipyards. Hundreds of fishing boats were swept away as the disaster struck northern Japan today.
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Tokyo
Hokkaido
Japan
Border Closure Ordered on Swiss French Border
Geneva reports the German army of occupation in France has ordered the Swiss French border from Geneva to Basel closed effective August 4. The action affects cross border movement and follows tensions in the region.
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Geneva
France
Basel
Belgian King Regains Three Children From Portugal
Berlin reports the three children of King Leopold of Belgium have been returned by German plane from Portugal where they were taken when Belgium entered the war.
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Berlin
Leopold
Belgium
Portugal
Armored merchant ship downs two German planes
An armed merchant ship arriving at an eastern Scottish port reported its guns brought down two German torpedo planes during a night attack off northeast Scotland.
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London
Scotland
July permits total eighty thousand dollars in construction
Building permits issued in July amounted to 79 250 dollars. The C and P Telephone Company plant and office building accounted for sixty thousand dollars of the total. Other permits included frame dwellings and remodels ranging from 150 to 6 000 dollars.
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C. & P. Telephone Company
A. C. Prye
Greenawalt Avenue
A. B. Groves
Shryock Avenue
Norval M. Hottle
Parkway
S. J. Goode
Valley Avenue
Robert W. Taylor
South Washington
Perry Estep
Conway Street
C. & P. Telephone Company Offeet Exchange
Lineburg
Ross Stree
B. F. Davis
North Braddock Street
Has New Way Of Growing Apples
Dublin Georgia August 2 Farmer James L Whitaker ignored a visiting apple man tip and nailed the trunks of his non bearing trees with rusty nails. He now reports all but one of the trees he skipped are loaded with fruit.
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Dublin
James L. Whitaker
Britain and Germany trade war claims over raids
London reports British bombers hit Krupp facilities at Essen and depots in northwest Germany as Hamburg suffers major RAF raids. Germany counters, claiming anti-British blows at sea and on merchant shipping, while Italy reports ships damaged near Formentera and Oswald the submarine sunk. Pamphlets drop in England, and Allied and Axis statements continue amid Mediterranean actions and frontier concerns.
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Hamburg
Germany
Britain
Bremen
Air
British Isles
Scotland
Wales
England
Hitler
Mediterranean
Bardia
Libya
Italy
Formentera
Baleares Islands
Oswald
Adolf Hitler
Supreme Soviet
Soviet Union
Baltic
Danube River
Latvia
Lithuania
Estonia
Bessarabia
Bucovina
Rumania
Russia
Transylvania
Hungary
Dobruja
Bucharest
Romanian Crown Council
Vichy
Prance
Ennounebert
Supreme Justice
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Dix ‘E
Stonewall Band
Old Stonewall Brigade
Stonewall Jackson
Staunton
Fredericksburg
Virginia
Miss McCone
Handley
Mary Himelright
Charles B. Stark
West Point
Hollis Henry
Terre Haute
Ind
Darkesville
Hollis
Clay Carr, Sr. Boyce
Charles T. Levi
Mr. Carr
Levi
Edwin Stout
Bulletins
Associated Press
Great Krupp Munitions Works
Essen
Air Ministry
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