Permanent powder industry to be built under federal direction
Washington reports a permanent munitions complex aimed at supplying an army of 2,000,000. Patterson says 60 new ordnance plants will be government funded and designed for long life with midwest placement between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi for water and coal access. The plan envisions private operation under management contracts with the government owning the facilities.
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Washington
Robert P. Patterson
United States
Patterson
Army
Mid-West
Alleghenies
Mississippi
Nazis Impatient For Settlement In Transylvania Dispute
In Bucharest Aug 7 diplomatic observers noted German impatience over the Hungary Romania territorial issue as Raoul Bossy left for Budapest to learn Hungary’s minimum demands for Transylvania. Berlin’s Boersen Zeitung criticized Romanian leaders for adopting a false heroic stance in easing relations.
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Bucharest
Hungary
Rumania
Raoul Bossy
Rome
Budapest
Transylvania
Berlin
Boersen Zeitung
Two Drown In Potomac River
Two Detroit youths Harry Pierson and Francis Wiland both 20 drowned in the Potomac River seven miles from Romney West Virginia last night. Wiland attempted to swim and went down midstream. Pierson drowned trying to save him. The pair were visiting relatives in Allegany county with six others. bodies recovered after several hours of futile revival efforts.
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Cumberland
Detroit
Harry Pierson
Francis Wiland
Potomac River
Romney
W. Va
West Virginia
Wiland
Pierson
Allegany County
American officer completes 16 hour Clare flight to New York
Colonel William J. Donovan of Buffalo New York aboard the British flying boat Clare during a record 16 hour hop from Ireland. He returns to report to Navy Secretary Frank Knox on a secret mission to England.
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Clare
Ireland
William J
Wild Bill) Donovan
Buffalo
N. Y
New York
Navy
Frank Knox
England
Junior Boarders To Decide Merits Of Proposed Bill
Winchester Junior Board of Trade meets Friday at 8 to gauge support for a proposal to conscript unmarried men ages 21 through 30 for one year of military training. President J P Arthur urges attendance and action. A delegation will represent Winchester next Tuesday in Washington at a Virginia Junior Chamber gathering with congressmen.
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Winchester Junior Board of Trade
George Washington Hotel
J. P. Arthur
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Winchester
Washington
Virginia
Legislation To Prevent Coercion To Be Pressed
Washington August 7 Senators Miller and Tobey urged immediate Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee action to investigate coercion of employees into political contributions. They cited a complaint that corporate friends of Wendell Willkie pressured workers to fund his campaign. Both senators condemned the practice as reprehensible and promised to act.
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Washington
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Miller
D-Ark
Tobey
R-Nh
Byrnes
D-Sc
Wendell L. Willkie
Home Guards In Ireland Supplied With Munitions
BELFAST August 7 The Irish are ready to fight invaders with weapons once used in the days of the trouble. Police and officials dodged questions as hidden caches in Ulster and Éire were brought out to arm local defense forces. In Éire hundreds of rifles revolvers machine guns and ammunition piles, hidden for eighteen years, were being handed to home guards.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Ulster
Eire
Home Guards
French Politicians Accused By Press In Post Armistice Era
In Vichy on August 7 the French press charged that veteran politicians still propagate propaganda to undermine the new Petain government. Le Jour warned that enemies of the regime must fear it and that accomplices of defeated leaders remain at work, urging swift punishment by the supreme court.
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Vichy
France
Marshall Henri Petain
le Jour
Petain
Supreme Court
Yard Party Set At Harvey Millers Home In Red Bud
A yard party will be held at the home of Harvey Miller in Red Bud on Thursday August 8 at 5 30 for the benefit of Red Bud U B Church. The public is invited.
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Harvey Miller
Red Bud
Red Bud U. B. Church
Young Democrats Plan August Picnic at Capon River
Frederick County Young Democrats chose August 21 for their annual outing at Ralph Pifer's camp on the Capon river. All members with tickets will be admitted. a business meeting will follow and officers and delegates to the Richmond State Convention September 5-7 will be named.
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Frederick County
Young Democrats
Court House
Ralph Pifer
Capon River
Richmond
Randall Ridgeway
Ciae
Ridgeway
Clarke County Young Democrats elects Moore and officers
Clarke County Virginia delegates reelect E Blackburn Moore as president of the Clarke County Young Democrats Club at the courthouse meeting. Robert Lee Withers is named vice president, William Fenton treasurer, and Edward McC Williams secretary. District chairmen are listed and a push to maximize Democratic turnout in the upcoming November election is adopted. All in good standing to attend the state convention in Richmond September 5-7.
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Berryville
E Blackburn Moore
Frederick and Clarke
Clarke County
Young Democrats Club
Court House
Robert Lee Withers
William Fenton
Commonwealth
Edward McC Williams
Moore
Longmarsh
Ralph M. Dorsey
Greenway
Henry Post Mitchell
Battletown
Richard B. Smith
Donald Cooley
Clarke Club
Young Democrats
Richmond
Cudahy Taken To Task By British Press
The British press criticized US Ambassador John Cudahy for urging Britain to open its blockade for Belgian food shipments. The Daily Express argued that Germany and not the British blockade caused potential Belgian suffering, citing the ambassador's warning of near famine by September.
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London
United States
Belgium
Britain
John Cudahy
Daily Express
Market Report Shows Tinny Activity Amid Uncertain Britain Risk
New York trading opened with subdued price moves and light volume as markets await the English channel campaign. The British pound rose to 3.95 cables while traders anticipate limited business before major developments. Key stock closes include American Can at 94, US Steel 52 3 4, General Electric 33 3 8, and Sears Roebuck 75 5 8.
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New York
Great Britain
Wall Street
Iron Age
al Chem
Am Can
Am Rad
Am Smel
AT & T
Anaconda
Bethlehem
Chrysler
Con Edison
Corn Prod
Gen
Elec
Gen! Motors 46. Goodyear 15. Int Har 43. J Manville 57 1-4. Kennecott
M Ward
Natl Dairy
NYC
Packard
Penney (Jc
Penn R R
Republic Steel
Sears Roebuck
Southern R
S Oof NJ
Texas Corp
US Steel
Western Union
Woolworth
British To Buy On Great Scale
The British government opened negotiations for hundreds of millions of dollars of tanks artillery and other war supplies including many items not previously ordered in the United States Arthur B Purvis chief British purchasing agent told Treasury Secretary Morgenthau that the program covers new weapons beyond those bought during earlier Allied orders Tanks and field artillery are emphasized as central new purchases for this program.
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Arthur B. Purvis
Treasury
Morgenthau
United States Army
Fifth Column Activities Probed In California
Los Angeles August 7. The county grand jury investigated suspected fifth column activity in Southern California with District Attorney Baron Fitts predicting internal Communist influence. John Leech, ex Los Angeles organizer for the Communist party, testified that Communists formed the Hollywood Anti Nazi League to tap funds from film figures and that Hitler’s program spurred Jews to join the party.
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Los Angeles
California
Baron Fitts
Communist Party
John Leech
Leech
Hollywood
Grand Jury
Finnish police disperse meeting of Friends of the Soviet
In Helsinki police broke up a several hundred strong gathering of Friends of the Soviet who were forbidden to assemble. Tass reported a member of the Society for Friendship and Peace With the U S S R was killed and Finnish press ongoing anti society coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helsinki
Finland
Tass
Society For Friendship and Peace
Shenandoah County to send Lucille Wisman to Turkey Queen court
Miss Lucille Wisman of Woodstock will represent Shenandoah County in the Turkey Queen court at the Rockingham Turkey Festival in Harrisonburg on October 10 and 11. More than 50 princesses from Virginia West Virginia and Maryland will join the coronation crowd on opening day.
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Lucille Wisman
Woodstock
Shenandoah County
Rockingham
Harrisonburg
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Lewis Warns of Conscripted Caste Power
Denver August 7 John L Lewis warns at the 37th convention of the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers that conscription would forge a military caste. He says army leaders seek two million volunteers and view conscripts as a tool for ambition rather than people.
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Denver
United States
John L. Lewis
Lewis
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Modern Roads Fit Into Defense
A Pennsylvania National Guard officer said the 135 mile blitzkrieg drive over the state's 70 million dollar super high way showed that while equipment was not wholly adequate the high ways' value to national defense was well illustrated. Leaving Indiantown Gap at 6 am the artillery battalion sped west to Bedford reaching at 2 15 pm. mechanical trouble and a detour extended the trip three hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
Pennsylvania National Guard
Indiantown Gap
Allegheny
Jim Farley to Crown Queen at South Boston Va
James A. Farley, retiring national Democratic chairman, will crown Miss Martha Scott queen of the National Tobacco Festival in South Boston on September 6. Festival chairman Tucker Watkins said Senator Carter Glass notified Farley accepted the invitation. Miss Scott, known for Our Town stage work, has accepted the bid to be queen.
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Jim Farley
Crown Queen
South Boston
Boston
James A. Farley
National Democratic
Martha Scott
Tucker Watkins
Carter Glass
Farley
Scott
Our Town
Hollywood
Battle Urges Higher Gas Tax for Washington District
Marion S. Battle, Virginia motor vehicles chief, urged Congress to raise the District of Columbia gasoline tax from two to four cents. He said the current Virginia-DC tax differential harms nearby dealers and urged support for HR 7526 to boost the tax to four cents, while noting road repairs needed on Columbia Pike and Arlington Ridge Road. Alexandria station operators backed Battle, saying they absorb one cent of the tax to meet DC prices, reducing their profit.
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Washington
Marion S. Battle
Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles
Congress
District of Columbia
James H. Price
Battle
House
Virginia
Piage D-Tex
Columbia Pike
Arlington Ridge Road
Randolph
House District Committee
Alexandria
S. G. Duncan
Morris Levy
W. W. Woodruff
Perkins Defends New Deal Policy in Labor Speech
Boston August 7 Frances Perkins secretary of labor declared total non agricultural employment is about 9 000 000 higher than in March 1933 and will rise as material industries expand under the national defense program She told the 55th annual Massachusetts Federation of Labor that the New Deal lifted farm income business earnings safer holdings for investors and workers have gained more than in any comparable period in U S history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Frances Perkins
Massachusetts Federation of Labor
Bomb Oil Plant Targeted in Luftwaffe Bombing Report
London reports an air ministry communique stating British aircraft bombed an oil plant at Homburg and started numerous fires at airfields in Holland and northern Germany.
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London
Air Ministry
Homburg
Holland
Germany
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Clarke
Cudahy
Stock Market Report
George Washington
White House
L. G
Philadelphia
Silco Cut-Price Stores, Inc
Virginia National Guardsmen
Fifth Column
Princess
Philco Kitchen
Philco
Miller & Anderson
E. Boscawen St
Bulyy
Perkins
Winchester Business College
Loudoun St
West Virginia College of Beauty Culture
W. King Atinsburg, W. VA
Pinnacle
Tubfast
Silvania
Gay Glenspun
San
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