Roosevelts Inaugural Parade Draws About 18000 Marchers
Approximately 18 000 people marched in a procession that took more than three hours to pass the reviewing stand.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1940
Page
8
Approximately 18 000 people marched in a procession that took more than three hours to pass the reviewing stand.
Three soldiers suffered injuries when their car sped through Berryville at 1 o clock this morning and hit a telephone pole near Ayier mill. William H. Reynolds 19 Raymond Faulkner 22 and Robert E. Anderson 21 were removed to Walter Reed hospital with lacerations and chest injuries. Police consider reckless driving possible as details on units were unavailable. The vehicle was heavily damaged.
The crash left eight dead or dying as pilots and four passengers were pulled from wreckage. Only one survivor remained in critical condition. J H Hertihy cited no radio icing reports from the crew. Civil Aeronautics Authority investigators held their preliminary findings. The flight started in New York with stops in Philadelphia Akron Ohio and Cleveland before a motor issue led to a transfer of crew and passengers to a second plane in Cleveland. Light snow was falling as details emerged.
Weather ceiling 1200 feet and visibility one mile as an airliner circled for 28 minutes awaiting landing orders. Co-pilot George Young reported ground visible, but the plane suddenly roared, nose dipped, turned left, and hit the ground, bursting into flames. An airport employee described a perfectly normal approach before the crash.
A district inquiry traces an automobile scheme with Jack Johnson identified as Mr Zimmer man of Charles Town West Virginia who received and the car was resold to Pine Motor Company and left town. Pauly was later visited by Norman Petow York Pa attorney and a woman Lula Goodling York Pa.
Mixed 1940s era classifieds list rental offers for apartments rooms and new bungalows at various addresses with phone contacts, plus sales notices for orchard farm property near Charles Town West Virginia and used tires radios meat beagles and small office spaces. Prices and dates vary.
The Virginia horticulture society plans bigger apple displays for the Richmond State Fair and mails storage reports to growers as of November 15 starting in 1941. Talks covered cutting costs, insect damage, and packaging efficiency with about 400 attendees at the George Washington Hotel banquet and dance.
Leo Brothers, previously convicted, was acquitted by a Circuit Court jury in St Louis of the 1929 murder of John De Blasi. The case had lingered 11 years as Brothers denied the shooting and testified he was miles away at a Meramec river resort.
Soldiers report Greek forces tightening their grip amid morning assaults while RAF bombers retaliate reaching Duesseldorf and striking Italian industrial targets. Britain signs a Turkey trade pact hailed as a strategic wedge against Axis influence, as Moscow warns Tokyo its China policy remains unchanged despite Japan’s recognition of Wang Ching Wei.
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