Critics Call for Restriction of President Power Over Lease Lend Plan
Congress critics urge limits on the Roosevelt lease lend authority as Byrnes says the program would run mainly through the new office of production management led by Knudsen and Hillman. The plan would link American and British production, with airplanes destroyers and cargo vessels as key items.
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Washington
Britain
Roosevelt
Byrnes
D-Sc
Congress
Office of Production Management
William Knudsen
Sidney Hillman
Stimson and
Knox
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Austin
Vermont
Influenza Spreads Widely Across State Counties
The week of January reports many influenza cases across Dickerson and Wise counties and several communities and schools. Dr Grossman notes data for the seven day period will be available next Tuesday and says the illness is currently mild.
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Dickerson
Wise
Grossman
Winchester Event Highlights Health Drive And Ball
The piece notes a health awareness effort in Winchester running through January 30, culminating in the President's birthday ball. It mentions civic participation at local venues like theatres and banks and draws attention to the national reach of the campaign.
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Winchester
President Roosevelt Takes It Easy At Hyde Park
At Hyde Park Roosevelt relaxes away defense and aid to Britain as Congress weighs his annual message a mass weapons bill and a vast budget. Aides report he is simply taking it easy while maintaining a direct telephone link to the White House for updates. Mrs Roosevelt joined him from Washington on a special train.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Britain
Congress
Amelia
Washington
White House
Holt Appoints Martin to U S Senate in West Virginia
Martinsburg lawyer and former American Bar Association president Martin was named by outgoing Gov Holt to fill a Senate vacancy effective when a new governor takes oath. The pick, backed by Holt, faces possible legal challenges amid party faction clashes with Gov elect Neely who may appoint his own successor. Martin has practiced in Winchester and Frederick County and counts many local supporters.
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Martinsburg
American Bar Association
United States
West Virginia
Incemning
Homer A. Holt
Martin
M. M. Re Neely
Congress
Isee Joseph Rosier
Farim State Teachers’ College
Holt
Neely
Senate
Aoe
Secretary of State
Winchester
Frederick County
Presbytery To Convene Monday In Winchester
A special meeting of the Winchester Presbytery will be held at Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church. The session anticipates a decision by Rev. Julian Owen, pastor of Cedar Cliff charge, on accepting a call to Falling Waters West Virginia.
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Winchester Presbytery
Loudoun Street
Presbyterian
Julian Owen
Cedar Cliff
W. Va
British collateral plan eyed by US officials for war materiel
Washington reports say high level federal officials discuss asking Britain to place about 2 billion dollars of British assets in the United States as collateral for war materials. New York investment trusts seek to buy roughly 600 million of British investments in America and place remaining assets in escrow with a government entity if the plan proceeds.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Britain
Jnment
New York
Aircraft strike averted at Fairchild Farmingdale plant
New York January 11 The threatened strike of 200 workers in the Fairchild Aircraft division at Farmingdale New York was postponed to Monday morning after negotiations led by John R Owens of the national defense commission The plant holds 7 75 million dollars in government orders and terms will be put to a ratification vote today The plant vice president Donald B Cox praised the talks as premature and said production would resume with strong employee spirit and government demand for aircraft engines
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New York
Fairchild Airplane and Engine Corporation
Farmingdale
N. Y
John R. Owens
National Defense Commission
Donald B. Cox
Owens
Cox
Ranger
Market Street Methodist Board Set Meeting Time
The Board of Trustees will meet Tuesday at 2 30 in the Commercial and Savings Bank board room. Pastor Rev Garland E Hopkins announced the details today.
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Board of ‘Trustees
Market Street Methodist Church
Board of Directors
The
Commercial and Savings Bank
Garland E. Hopkins
Muskrat Skinning Group Invites Top Trapper to Cambridge
Cambridge Maryland January 11 officials of the National Muskrat Skinning Committee seek a Louisiana trapper to attend the January 31 February 1 event. Emmett Andrews contest chairman says the committee will pay round trip bus fare from New Orleans and provide five muskrats, with $100 in prizes including a $50 first prize for fastest five rats. He notes a current record of two minutes 38 seconds set by Curtis Insley. The invitation aims to attract a premier skinner to break the mark.
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Cambridge
Louisiana
Emmett Andrews
New Orleans Times-Picayune
New Orleans
Curtis Insley
Andrews
Grippe Plague Bucks New England Schools Amid Illness Surge
Thousands of New England residents fell ill with grippe and flu like illness. In Boston 18 000 children were absent over two days as officials said classes would resume Monday with nurses visiting homes. Salem reported 1400 sick in a 5438 enrollment, schools delaying return. Businesses faced reduced staff across the region.
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Boston
New
Salem
Fliers Learn To Operate Robots
Detroit report details army air corps tests at Selfridge Field where four rebuilt BT-2 planes and three planes are used for radio controlled flight. The robot planes are steered from an observer or ground vehicle via a control wheel and radio link within sight. A safety pilot remains aboard for manual takeover when needed.
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Fred J, Pannwitt
Detroit
Jan
Army Air Corps
Selfridge Field
Sixth Pursuit
Army Air Field
Texas
Denied Governor Elect Donnell Sparks Missouri Assembly Row
In Jefferson City Missouri the Democratic controlled General Assembly refused to certify Republican Forrest Donnell as governor elect and voted to form a joint house senate investigation into the November election. The plan would allow opening ballot boxes in all counties including St Louis and delay Donnell's inauguration while contest hearings proceed.
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Jefferson
City
General Assembly
Forrest Donnell
House
Senate
St. Louis
Donnell
Lloyd Stark
Lawrence Mi Jel
Assembly
James T. Blair
Jefferson City
Aocratic
Point House Senate
Byrd Attacks Budget Tricks to Hide Nondefense Costs
Senator Harry F. Byrd charges the administration juggled nondefense spending to curb an apparent rise in armament costs. He points to a $64 million bookkeeping reduction and a $315 million discrepancy from government corporation assets, calling it a subterfuge in the 1942 budget.
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Washington
Jan
Harry FP. Byrd
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Tig
Oxygen Flask Aids Pilots At Miami Air Show
An eight pound oxygen flask for high altitude use was shown at Miami's mid winter air maneuvers. Developed by Mayo Clinic doctors Boothby and Loveplace, the device supplies oxygen to pilots up to 40 000 feet and will be used by the Army Air Corps and civilian trainees. It includes a steel frame, gauges, and a mask with filter.
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Miami
Fia
United States
Walter Boothby
W. R. Loveplace
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
United States Army Air Corps
Don
Stores Report a Business Gain For December
Richmond report shows Fifth District department store sales up 11 percent in December and 10 percent for 1940 from the prior year. Other cities list gains: Baltimore 10 and 9 percent, Charleston West Virginia 4 and 8 percent, Huntington 4 and 4 percent, Washington 13 and 10 percent.
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Richmond
Federal Reserve District
Richmond Federal Reserve Bank
Baltimore
Charleston
W. Va
Huntin
Washmas Do. C
American Made Bomber Bays a German Fighter
The air ministry announced Germany lost its first bomber to an American fighter flown by a British pilot. Three American aircraft were patrolling but weather forced a recall. The lead plane pursued a JU-88, rejoined two others, and the crippled raider crashed in a fog. A retired naval captain and his son captured the crew. One is reported wounded.
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London
Air Ministry
Germany
Officials to Work Out Leases for Naval Bases
The State Department said a delegation would leave for London January 17 to finalize formal leases for eight American bases in Newfoundland Bermuda the Bahamas Jamaica St Lucia Trinidad Antigua and British Guiana in exchange for destroyers. The team includes Charles Fahy Harry Maloney and Harold Biesemeier and will travel via clipper plane from New York to Lisbon.
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Washington
State Department
London
Great Britain
Western Hemisphere
United States
Newfoundland
Bermuda
Bahamas
Jamaica
St. Lucia
Trinidad
Antigua
Guinana
Charles Fahy
Harry J. Maloney
Field Artillery
United States Army
Harold Biesemeier
United States Navy
Lisbon
New York
Mrs. Mary C. Pope 63 Died After Illness
Mrs. Mary C. Pope died yesterday at Rockingham Memorial Hospital after a two week illness. She resided in Harrisonburg nine months, previously Timberville, and was a Brandywine Methodist Church member. Survived by husband Henry C. Pope four daughters two sons four stepdaughters and two stepsons. Funeral Sunday at 1 30 from Lindsay Funeral Home with Rev. A B Clarke. Burial Cedar Hill Cemetery Franklin W Va.
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Mary C. Pope
Henry C. Pope
Harrisonburg
Rockingham Memorial Hospital
George Pope
Berryville
D. B. Miller
McLean
Mabel
Dorothy Pope
Carroll W. Pope
Washington
Blanche Bagby
Paul Campbell
R. A. West
Alice Taylor
Roy P. Pope
P. D. Bagby
Lindsay Funeral Home
South Main Street
A. B. Clarke
Cedar Hil
Franklin
W. Va
British reveal vast Bardia losses in WWII drive
Cairo dispatch reports 44,868 Italians captured or dead at Bardia as British seizure of armament scales up. Tobruk campaign advancing, Libyan HQ 70 miles away, along with about 100,000 Italians deemed ineffective since desert blitz began. Capture or destruction tallies include 368 medium and field guns, 26 heavy anti aircraft guns, 68 light guns, 130 tanks and 708 transports.
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Cairo
Bardia
Tobruk
Goering Claims German Factories Not Out Of Commission
Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering told 574 miners honored with the war service cross that British bombs did not put a German factory out of commission. He said Britain suffered more plant destruction and stressed that actual munitions plant destruction, not attic fires, was decisive in the war.
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Berlin
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Britain
Goering
Adolf Hitler
Randolph Macon alumni elect Quarles as president
Northern Virginia Randolph Macon alumni at a George Washington Hotel dinner last night organized a new chapter. Gar land R. Quarles, Handley Schools superintendent, was elected president and Capt. George Riddick was chosen pro tempore secretary-treasurer. The group covers Winchester Martinsburg eastern Panhandle West Virginia Leesburg Warrenton Upperville and Middleburg and plans two meetings yearly.
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Northern Virginia
Randolph-Macon College
George Washington Hotel
Garland R. Quarles
Handley Schools
George Riddick
Randolph- Macon Academy
Front Royal
Chaptre
Winchester
Martinsburg
Panhandle
West Virginia
Leesburg
Warrenton Upperville
Middleburg
J. Eary Moreland
Norman Adams
General Association
H. H. Sherman
W. W. McIntyre
D. D
John C. Boggs
Irish Novelist James Joyce In Hospital After Emergency Operation
Zurich reports Irish author James Joyce in dangerous condition after an emergency abdominal operation. Joyce, age 58, creator of Ulysses, arrived with his wife, son and grandson three weeks ago from the French Riviera for treatment.
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Zurich
Switzerland
James Joyce
Joyce
Dublin
French Riviera
Winchester parcel post driver to get new delivery truck
Everett D. Kline, a parcel post deliveryman at Winchester, wins approval for a new delivery truck in Washington and is often seen driving with cigars from friends. In New Market, the chinchilla industry expands as G T Farrow and his brother H A Farrow start a farm with about 60 chinchillas, the largest owned by a single operator in the East. Stephens City hires John W. Hartley as a full time officer, who quickly dons uniform and begins patrol duties.
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Everett D. Kline
Winchester
Washington
Kline
Chinchilla
New Market
G. T. Farrow
Shenandoah Chinchilla Farm, Inc
H. A. Farrow
Stephens City
John W. Hartley
Pemme
Germany Joins Mediterranean War Against Britain
Germany has actively entered the war against Britain in the Mediterranean basin, expanding Axis actions in the region and signaling intensified hostilities for Allied forces nearby.
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Germany
Britain
Mediterranean
Mediterranean War Escalates With Luftwaffe and Italian Attacks
British naval forces faced coordinated Italian German air attacks in the Sicilian channel damaging two aircraft carriers a cruiser and a destroyer. Berlin reports several hits on two warships including an aircraft carrier. Portsmouth endured a large German firebomb raid as Brest suffered an overnight attack by British pilots. Messina was shelled with explosives reportedly falling near anchored cruisers.
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High Command
Sicilian
Berlin
Mediterranean
Portsmouth
France
London
Brest
RAF
Germany
Italy
R.A.F
Cairo
Messina
Sicily
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