Entertainment fears and Roosevelt visit tied to Hughes funds
Testimony details Hughes Tool Co expenses totaling 169 661 17 to Meyer from 1942 to 1946. A voucher cites 1943 entertainment costs for a Roosevelt party and other charges. Meyer insists entertainment was legitimate and unrelated to contract awards while noting Roosevelt’s 1943 reconnaissance plane report and meeting in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hughes Tool Co
Meyer
Ferguson
Roosevelt
Stork Club
el Morocco
Hughes wins large contract for 100 planes
The report details a $48.5 million Hughes contract for 100 planes. Meyer denies discussing the Roosevelt plane or a New York trip tied to August events. He says Faye Emerson rode on the plane by coincidence and cites an accounting showing $132 spent on nylons for Emerson in 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hughes
Meyer
Roosevelt
New York
California
Faye Emerson
Emerson
Ferguson
General Accounting Office
Harboughs Tour Europe Return Pending Next Week
Mrs Minnie Harbough and daughter Dorothy, visiting Europe since February, expect to return home next week. Mr and Mrs Compton of New York City have stayed at the Harbough home. Several local visitors and relatives are listed, with mention of illnesses and a child’s minor lawn mower injury during a family gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freemont
Minnie Harbough
Dorothy Harbough
Germany
Europe
Compton
New York City
Harbough
Clara Linaburg
Hollis Clowser
Walter Clowser
Stephen Holliday
Lamb
Skippie
Chambersville
William Clowser
Lester Winchester
Clyde Shuler
James
Carolyn
Lewis Clowser
Mary
Ellen
Winchester
Bennie
Garland
Martha Lou
Bobbie Campbell
Theodore Haines
Rosenberger
Robert Campbell
Cora Linaburg
Elk Ridge
Frank Linaburg
Bennie Campbell
W. C. Miller
Capon River
Capon
As E. Dewey
New York
George M. Dewey
Owosso
Midh
Dewey
Earl Putnam
International Soundphoto
Canning and Preserving Booklet Offered For Home Canners
The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau offers a booklet titled CANNING AND PRESERVING with science based kitchen guidance. It includes recipes for jellies jams marmalades and pickles plus canning directions for meats poultry fruits and vegetables. Send fifteen cents and provide name address street or rural route for mail to Washington D C.
Auction notices list goods and dates in Ridgeway and Winchester
On August 6 at 1 30 p m Charles K Herrell near the state line Ridgeway West Virginia offers furniture and household goods. August 7 at 10 30 a m Van Metre Farms 52 miles east of Martinsburg on the Charles Town Road lists dairy cattle and sheep. August 9 at 1 p m Mrs F W Pingley four miles west of Winchester on Rt 50 offers household goods. August 9 at 10 a m Curtis Hurley Ridgeway offers furniture and nearly new household goods. August 16 Chas W Fries 378 National Ave Winchester lists furniture and household goods.
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Charles K. Herrell
State Line
Ridgeway
W. Va
van Metre
Martinsburg
Charles Town Road
F. W. Pingley
Winchester
Curtis Hurley
Chas. W. Fries
National Ave
Ruth Hart Rites Set For Tuesday
Ruth Eleanor Hart 32 died from injuries suffered July 29 in an explosion at Harrisonburg. Services 2 30 p m Tuesday from Enders Funeral Home Berryville with Rev John E Oliver officiating. Interment Green Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers are her cousins. Survivors include her parents Mr and Mrs Thomas William Hart and two brothers Raymond Hart Wardensville and T W Hart Jr Front Royal.
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Enders
Berryville
Ruth Eleanor Hart
Harrisonburg
Thomas William Hart
R. Berryville
Clarke County
Raymond Hart
Wardensville
T. W. Hart, Jr
Front Royal
John E. Oliver
Green Hill Cemetery
Hart
Held For Grand Jury In Grand Larceny Case
Ray Haines age 21 of 421 N Cameron St is held for action by a Corporation Court grand jury on charges of grand larceny. He was arrested by Capt. F M Punk and is accused of stealing 372 dollars from O L Tevault of 602 S Main St.
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Ray Haines
N. Cameron St
Corporation Court
Haines
F. M. Punk
O. L. Tevault
S. Main St
Answers to the Daily QAIZ Quiz Key
Answers printed on Page 4 list 10 items. Japan, floods, Divine, Representative Knutson, Bridges Creek, Piccadilly Circus appear as clues. A cautious approach is advised when criticism is likely. Statements include false claims about promises to stay in jobs and corn type, with Otto Skorzeny as a named figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Cleaning wallpaper with blotting paper and iron
A note explains that clean blotting paper and a hot iron can lift or remove soiled spots from wallpaper. The method relies on heat and absorbing pressure to transfer stain away without damaging the pattern.
Tennis Courts Open At Reuss Park With More Soon
Two courts at the Reuss recreation park will be ready for use tomorrow and two more by mid next week. Hunter Maddox recreation director says the four courts will charge 25 cents an hour per person.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reuss Recreation Park
Tomorow
Hunter Maddox
Army Nurse Corps admissions open for 1800 vacancies
With Public Law 36 80th Congress enacting permanent commissioned status for Army and Navy Nurse Corps and creating a Women’s Medical Specialist Corps, about 1800 vacancies exist in the Army Nurse Corps Regular Army. Application blanks were available May 1 at six Army Headquarters and all general hospitals in the continental U S, and on request from the Surgeon General’s Office Washington D C. Nurses may also obtain blanks from Counseling and Placement Service Bureaus for State and District Nurses Associations and other groups at National Association Headquarters.
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Army Nurse Corps
H.A.T. A
Army and Navy Nurse Corps
Regular Army
Army Nurse and
Women’s
Sixth Army
United States
Surgeon General's
Washington, D. C
National Association
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Col. Roosevelt
Army Air Force
Perguson
ATC
Los Angeles
Colonel Roosevelt
Howard Hughes
Chicago
Elliott Roosevelt
Pepper
D-Fla
Washington
Wright
Cclif
Little Charles Bradley
Ill
Joseph Bortnyak
Bortnyak
International
John W
S. Braddock St
J. A. Sunshine Inn Restaurant
Tet Mee Il Lay
N. Loudoun St. Winchester
Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Eye St
N. E
Washington, D.C
Canning and Preservng
Mai To Wasnington
D. C
Governor Dewey
Appalachian Electric Power Co
Welch
Ruth Hart
QAIZ
Pennsylvania
Hanover
Baltimore, Md
York Trust Company
York, Pa
C. I. Brumback and Sons
Aioe
Glaize & Bro
North
Cameron ST
Bayliss & Patterson Contractors & Dealers
N. Cameron
ARC C Welding Portable An Welding Equipment Co
OE Teel Iron N
Jones E'Som
Order of the Golden Rule
Chapman Motor Co
W. Boscawen St
R. G. Hengeveld
Double House
Amherst St
Tommy D. Lockhart
N. Loudoun St
Omps Funeral Home
Robt. Jenkins
U. S. Rt
W, Strong Lewis
Rest Church
National and
Aldrich
Roy A. Lee
Packard
Loudoun Street
Mae General Tire
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