Uncertainty Delays Navy Shipbuilding Purchases
The Navy's materials for ship building faced delays due to tax uncertainties and a profit limit, with Admiral W R Furlong telling the Senate Appropriations Committee. The defense bill of 5.008 billion dollars advanced, while the House Military Committee tentatively approved registration for military service spanning 18 to 64. The debate included Wheeler and Connally exchanging sharp remarks, Lodge offering a 21 to 25 draft limit, and calls to speed excess profits tax legislation to aid defense plant costs and navy orders.
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Washington
Navy
W. R. Furlong
Senate Appropriations Committee
House Military Committee
Senate
Wheeler
Senaoor Connally
D-Tonn
D-Mont
United States
Connelly
Montana
Lodge
Furlong
House Committee
United States Steel Corporation
Fishing reminiscence from Anne Batchelder on quiet Montana brook
Anne Batchelder recalls fishing with her father in Vermont and cooking a trout on a mountain brook bank. She reflects on how fishing fosters aloneness, contemplation, and memory, contrasting it with the busy day and noting the sport’s passive, reflective nature.
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Vermont
Anne Batchelder
Edwards Succeeds Hooker as Virginia Democratic Leader
Horace H. Edwards of Richmond was elected chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee to succeed the late J. Murray Hooker of Stuart. Edwards, a former Richmond delegate, was Virginia campaign manager in 1936 and will open state headquarters to push the full Democratic ticket.
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Richmond
Horace H. Edwards
Democratic State Central Committee
Edwards
House of Delegates
J. Murray Hooker
Stuart
Hooker
Virginia
Ocratic
Larrick Hurt At Front Royal
John Fred Larrick of Middletown sustained eye injuries at the Viscoe plant in Front Royal when a pipe burst spraying alkaline Sunday night. A Virginia Military Institute graduate and ROTC field artillery trainee, he is hospitalized at Memorial with hopes for recovery.
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John Fred Larrick
Fred Larrick
Middletown
Memorial Hospital
American Viscoe
Front Royal
Mr. Larrick
Virginia Military Institute
Fort Hoyle
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Viscoe
Temperaely
Possible US union with British empire raised in Commons
London August 20 former secretary for war Leslie Hore Belisha raised in the Commons the possibility of an eventual union between the United States and the British empire.
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Hore-Belisha
Commons
United States
British Empire
Mexican gunboat halts freighter for lacking papers
Mexican authorities told the United States that the American freighter Herman Frasch was halted in Mexican territorial waters yesterday because it lacked the required papers.
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Washington
United States
Herman Frasch
Italians Fire Across Red Sea In Berbera Victory
Italian forces claim the fall of Berbera in British Somaliland as Mussolini vows further operations to close the Red Sea gate. The Italian high command says eastern Somaliland offers little resistance while British retreat continues after the August 5 offensive.
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Rome
Britain
Red Sea
Berbera
Aden
Arabian
Indian Ocean
Strait
Bab el Mandreb
High Command
Mussolini
Duke of
Aosta
British Somaliland
Italian Somaliland
Somaliland
Camel Corps
Hitler
German hope American Legion steamer escapes danger zone
A German embassy spokesman expressed hope the American Legion, an Army transport with 897 passengers including Crown Princess Martha of Norway, had safely passed the mine infested zone off Scotland. U S and Navy officials had no confirmation but unofficial estimates suggest the ship spent most of the night in the danger area amid ongoing Nazi blockade concerns.
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Washington
United States Army
American Legion
Germany
Navy
Scotland
Wilhelm Tannenberg
British Isles
Martha of Norway
Four Men Die in DuPont Dynamite Plant Blast
Four workers at the DuPont Repauno dynamite plant in Gibbstown New Jersey were killed when about 1200 pounds of dynamite exploded at 10 55 am in a cartridge filling building. The deceased were Lowell Woodall 34 of Gibbstown Paul A Young 43 of Gibbstown Frank J Smith 22 of Repaupo and George Hanners 36 of Pitman all seasoned employees in the dynamite manufacturing area. The blast damaged the wooden 20 by 20 foot cartridge machine house and shattered windows across five miles. A DuPont spokesman at Wilmington said no other buildings were destroyed and no other employees injured.
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Gibbstown
N. J
DuPont Company
DuPont
Wilmington
Del
Lowell Woodall
Paul A. Young
Frank J. Smith
Repaupo
George Hanners
Pitman
Defense Group Being Selected
President Roosevelt next selects the United States members of a Canadian American defense board from a Washington aided roster. Reporters seek a press conference to learn if the body will merely study and advise or hold power to act in defense of the two nations. The joint board decision followed a weekend Ottawa meeting between Roosevelt and Prime Minister Mackenzie King at Ogdensburg New York.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
United States
Washington
Canada
Board of Defense
Mr. Roosevelt
W. L. Mackenzie King
Ogdensburg
Death penalty used in occupied Norway execution reported
In Trondheim 1943 a German military court sentenced Carlos Santi a 35 year old Norwegian of Italian parentage to death for killing a German air force soldier during a quarrel in his home. The sentence marks the return of capital punishment to the country under occupation after 65 years without it.
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Trondheim
Norway
Carlos Santi
Santi
Rites Tomorrow for J Van Meter Hack
Funeral services for J. Van Meter Hack 61 who died suddenly at his residence Springdale Bartonville will be conducted Wednesday at 11 in the Opequon Memorial Church. Rev E Summers McGavock will lead with active pallbearers from Moorefield and nearby, interment at Mount Cemetery Winchester.
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J. van Meter Hack
Springdale
Bartonville
E. Summers McGavock
Opequon Memorial Church
Mr. Hack
P. C. Petrie
Herbert Larrick
Richard Griffith
D. B. McNeill
John T. Williams
Moorefield
W. Va
B. B. Dutton
C. Grattan Crawford
S. M. Chiles
E. C. Stuart
E. B. Powers
Philip Boyd
Lionel Petrie
Frank Crawford
M. B. Hook
Robert J. van Meter
William C. van Meter
Petersburg
Mount — Cemetery
Winchester
Oklahoma Flying Boys Buzz Over Sea Ferry Offer
Oklahoma City reports a plan to ferry planes across the North Atlantic to England at 50 dollars per trip. Col. William C. Brooks outlined the proposal with two alternatives, ferrying jobs in England and commissions in the Canadian Royal Air Force for instructors only.
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Oklahoma Flying Boys
Oklahoma City
North Atlantic
England
Oklahoma Flying Fraternity
William C. Brooks
Soldier of Fortune
Royal Air Force
Two Nazi Transports Bombed By British Planes
British admiralty reports two German transports bombed at Haugesund Norway midway between Stavanger and Bergen. London acknowledges long range German guns shelling southeast England and the possibility of London shelling. Mussolini and Hitler exchange greetings as Italy claims Berbera in Somaliland.
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London
Haugesund
Norway
Stavanger
Bergen
England
Berlin
Mussolini
Britain
Far East
Red Sea
Suez Canal
Mediterranean
Indian Ocean
India
Australia
Channel
Held For Obstruction In Staunton Case
Herman J. Smith is jailed on obstruction charges while Trial Justice Don ald Weems considers testimony. Officers sought Owen Eustler, wanted on a felony charge in Staunton Virginia, and Smith denied his presence but later evidence placed Eustler at the home and he vanished with Smith. Weems did not indicate a verdict date.
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Herman J. Smith
Donald Weems
Smith
Owen Eustler
Staunton
Eustler
Weems
Winchester Public Schools Registration for 1940 41
New students must register on August 26 and 27 at John Kerr School for grades 1 to 3 and Handley School for grades 4 to 12 with 9 to 12 and 1 to 3 registration hours. Bring birth certificates vaccination proof and last school records. Handley High School applicants need a full transcript. opening day is September 5, 1940.
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Winchester Public Schools
John Kerr
Handley School
Douglas School
Handley High School
Chungking Suffers Fifth Bombing In Three Days
Japanese bombers hit Chungking again as 25 000 people became homeless after a huge center city fire. Fire crews battled the blaze after more than two hours of bombing with fires extending over a mile and a quarter as anti aircraft guns shot down one bomber.
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Chungking
China
Ickes a Hitler In Short Pants in Political Exchange
Senator Bridges fires back at Secretary Ickes calling him a Hitler in short pants. He accuses Ickes of rabble rousing and likens New Deal schemes to Nazism. Bridges criticizes Willkie’s foreign policy demagoguery and defends Roosevelt from Munich appeaser charges.
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Washington
Bridges
Ickes
Republican Party
Party of
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
Roosevelt
England
France
Munich
Republican National Committee
Hitler
Rhodesia Air Volunteers Reach England in Second Contingent
An official statement confirms a second group of airmen from southern Rhodesia arrived in England since the war began. The exact number was not disclosed.
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London
Southern Rhodesia
England
Britain Offers 99 Year Leases For Western Hemisphere Bases
Lord Halifax announced in the House of Lords that Britain plans 99 year leases on air and naval bases in Newfoundland and the West Indies as part of wartime defense. Churchill said Britain could continue the air struggle indefinitely and urged timely US naval reinforcements while rejecting Hoover's food relief proposal for occupied Europe.
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London
Lord Halifax
House of Lords
United States
Atlantic Islands
Newfoundland
Germany
Churchill
House of Commons
Great Britain
Hoover
France
Belgium
Holland
Europe
Britain
Winston Churchill
West Indies
Patsain
British Empire
Bombing Raids Hit German Bases Across Europe
British air force reports raids on Kiel and 30 German airfields, with daylight strikes on Flushing and Amsterdam anti aircraft sites. Three British planes failed to return. Blenheim bombers hit St Omer in northern France, causing fires and explosions. A German plane crashed in Kerry, Ireland, with crew captured. Government approves transporting 19,373 children overseas to safety.
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London
Kie
Germany
Flushing
Amsterdam
Air Ministry
St. Omer
France
Axis Spy Groups Alleged in San Francisco
Congressman Martin Dies said he had evidence that Germany and Italy run espionage networks in San Francisco. He cited seven Italian spy names and 20 German leaders, and claimed three waterfront Maritime Unions are Communist controlled to undermine U S defense and enable espionage.
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San Francisco
Martin Dies
Germany
Italy
Dies
Congressional Committee On un-American Activities
United States
City And County Brevities Paint Mixed Local News
A brief notes arresting a prize colt named Ritter recovering after an accident Aug 6. The colt, out of Lady Nymph by Clap Trap, shows promise of becoming a fine horse. Also recapped are Canada fishing trips with notable anglers at Island Lake Gatineau and a Colonial Beach outing catching 205 trout and perch aboard the Maggie Lee.
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Trap Boy
Arthur Ritter
Clap Trap
Donald Weems
J. P. Arthur
Weems
Arthur
Clarence LeFrois
Canada
Island Lake
Ottawa
Gatineau River
Olling
Colonial Beach
Blair Goss
Alice Shawn
Howard Swartz
Chester Luttrell
Raymond Campbell
Garland Rogers
William Ritenour
Carroll Hawkins
Edwin Snepp
Pete Ashwood
Hilda Hoover
Hunter Snapp
Maynard Snapp
Marvin Booker
William Casherman
Lucy McCloy
Jimmie Mears
Maggie Lee
Plate Supper Yard Party at Methodist Church
A plate supper will be held on Thursday August 22 on the Stephens City Methodist Church lawn. The event is served by the Young Peoples Department and aimed at church and community members.
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Methodist Ch
Timberlake Dresses Sellout at Clearance Sale
Timberlake showcases 1 954 sheer wash dresses priced at 1.00 in a closing out clearance. Display notes show dresses in sizes 1p to 1t with limited stock and final day timing.
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Timberlake
Yard Party Pri Aug 23 at Carper's Valley
Rainy Saturday night plans for a yard party at Carper's Valley announced for August 23. Weather notes warn of rain and urge attendees to bring umbrellas and prepare for damp conditions.
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Pri
Carper’s Valley
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