More Officers Assigned To Recruiting In Virginia
General Skaggs announced new officer assignments to bolster recruiting in Virginia. Captain J OBrien goes to Roanoke Cece Horne to Lynchburg First Lieutenant M P Hemmer to Danville First Lieutenant J E Hamm to Staunton and First Lieutenant Tommy Thompson to Roanoke. Additional posts may follow and there are clerk typist vacancies at Fort Meade reception and at Richmond and Roanoke induction stations.
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Leland W. Skaggs
Virginia
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Ceece Horne
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M. P. Hemmer
Danville
J. E. Hamm
Staunton
Tommy Thompson
Skaggs
Army
Fort Meade
Farm federation chief calls Congress to gear up parity prices
Edward A. O Neal president of the American Farm Bureau Federation urged Congress to scale up the farm program to deliver parity prices and income. He spoke at the federation's twenty second annual convention stating farmers have complied with AA A dictates and deserve pledged relief. He proposed using acreage adjustments commodity loans and marketing quotas to lift prices to parity and cited target parity prices for cotton corn and wheat and higher loan rates.
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Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Congress
O'Neal
Three Sent To Prison For Theft Of Legal Liquor
In Lynchburg on December 10, Judge Alfred D. Barksdale sentenced three men for theft from an interstate truck shipment. A Russell Douglas of Cumberland Maryland got seven months and a $200 fine. Ben Shoemaker of near Bedford Pennsylvania and Spencer R Boor of Artemis Pennsylvania received six months and $200 fines each. The cargo of 75 cases of bonded whiskey and 375 cases of cheese, valued at $3,500, was from Cincinnati to Lynchburg. District Attorney Frank S. Tavenner Jr. led the questioning. shipments were left at Cumberland then driven to Danville where the loss was reported to hijackers.
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War News Censored Warns Readers of The Star
The Star cautions readers that reports from most of Europe are censored before reaching the United States, signaling limited or controlled war coverage and heightened information restrictions.
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Europe
United States
Rainfall statistics and averages from Winchester lab
Present and past rainfall for 24 hours ending 8 a.m. shows none. December to date none and year to date 32.24 inches. Monthly averages from 1913 to 1939 list January 2.56 inches through December 3.19 in a year of 35.53 inches. Courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
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Winchester Research Laboratory
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