Russian Move For Securing Needed Goods Investigated
The Associated Press reports Britain suspects Soviet Russia plans a 200 vessel merchant fleet to ship Americas produce to Russia. The move may affect Germany by freeing oil cotton and corn for the Reich. Greece reports repelling two Italian counter-attacks near Klisura and advancing toward Berati amid bad weather. RAF bombers attack bases in Norway and a Norwegian road. a French ship reportedly sailed east to evade British warships.
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Associated Press
Hugh Dalton
Soviet Russia
Fsed
Americas
Moscow
Britain
Germany
Russia
Reich
Greece
Klisura
Albania
Berati
Norway
Stavanger
Scotland
Firefighters Prevent Rubbish Blaze Near Round Hill
Grass fires threaten homes and timber in the country and city. A prompt Round Hill response by a local fire company yesterday averted damage to several dwellings and saved a valuable timber lot. Firemen emphasized quick action and public support helps maintain high emergency standards.
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Round Hill
Handley Library Faces Book Shortage and Aging Facilities
The Handley Library reports a shortage of new books due to a tight budget, noting thousands of potential borrows if more attractive titles were available. The 1940 book purchase allowance is under $1,000, far below earlier years, while antiquated plumbing and lighting require constant repairs and may need major upgrades.
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Handley Library
Times
C. Vernon Eddy
Handley Board of Trustees
Winchester
Governor says Saginaw Eaton strike heads to peace talks
Gov Van Wagoner announced talks in Detroit to resolve the Wilcox Rich division labor dispute at Eaton plants in Saginaw Michigan. CIO unions threaten work stoppage while UAW AFL assures some 250 CIO members may return to work gradually and more than 25 already did.
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Lansing
Mich
Murray D. van Wagoner
Eaton Manufacturing Company
Saginaw
Detroit
James F. Dewey
Rivial Cio
AFL United Automotive Workers
Dewey Fi
Winchester Chamber of Commerce Postpones Annual Dinner
The annual dinner meeting is moved from Tuesday February 11 to Friday February 14 at 6 30 PM in the George Washington hotel due to a clash with Charley Rouss Fire Co banquet. Secretary Andrew Bell announced the change and Rev John W Austin of Mt Vernon Methodist church will address attendees.
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Charley Rouss Fire Co
Winchester Chamber of Commerce
George Washington Hotel
Andrew Bell
Chamber of Commerce
John. W. Austin
Mt. Vernon
Firemen Tackle Grass and Brush Fire at Round Hill
Friendship Fire Company responded to a grass and brush fire on the Jacob Rosenberger farm in Round Hill. A lot purchaser burned rubbish, the flames spread to timber but were kept from the Rosenberger property, preventing damage to several dwellings.
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Friendship Fire Company
Round Hill
Jacob Rosenberger
Rosenberger Place
Star
Czechs Face Nazi Pressure and Economic Loss
Washington reports estimate Czechoslovakia has lost at least 1 billion dollars since the Nazi occupation began 22 months ago. German tribute taxes add roughly 100 million annually, with 500000 Nazis occupying key positions and German interests dominating business and commerce.
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Washington
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Munich
Reich
Britain
Bohemia and
Moravia
Slovakia
Ryan Works faces showdown over $11.4 million airplane plans
In San Diego on January 15 a walkout threat looms as 731 of about 1,600 Ryan Aeronautical workers vote to empower CIO UAW negotiators. A 27 to 1 vote against the measure, 759 ballots cast, signals a broader deadlock over a minimum wage increase from 50 to 75 cents per hour. Intervention by the National Advisory Defense Commission is seen as likely to avert a strike.
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San Diego
Calif
Ryan Aeronautical Company
CIO
United Automobile Workers
L. W. Michener
UAW
Ang
Ryan
National Advisory Defense Commission
Urge Glass for Big Committee
Administration leaders urged Senator Glass of Virginia to join the Foreign Relations Committee as it prepares to consider the lend lease bill for aiding Britain. The move aims to bolster presidential program support in the key panel.
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Washington
Senator Glass
D-Va
Roosevelt
Britain
Foreign Relations Committee
Free Taxi Service To Delux Casinos Outside New Orleans
Deluxe gambling returns near New Orleans with free limousine transport for patrons arriving by streetcar and car. Casinos in Jefferson Parish reopen after October closure amid humorous Huey Long radio remarks about policing and arcades.
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Edward Delobry
New Orleans
Jefferson Parish
Huey P. Long
Institute of Understanding Series Opens February 14
Winchester Rotary Club announces an Institute of Understanding to run February 14 through March 7 with weekly addresses by four authorities on social, economic and international affairs. First speaker Dr. C Douglas Booth will discuss An Impoverished World and is a member of Chatham House.
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Winchester Rotary Club Today
Institute of Understanding
C. Douglas Booth
New York City
Dr. Booth
Royal Institute of International Affairs
Chatham House
London
Morocco
Egypt
Rhodes
Greece
Austria
Hungary
Yugoslavia
France
No-Yong Park
Chicago
Ill
Park
Far East
Manchuria
China
Japan
Europe
America
Harvard University
Nicholas RR. Doman
Doman
Universities of Oxyeemeset
Tional Studies
Geneva
University of Budapest
Eulogyi Szem
Danube League
John A. Morrison
Morrison
University of Chicago
Soviet Union
Near East
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Moscow
Two Brothers In China Are Freed
Two American brothers from Scranton, Peter Stephens aged 27 and John Stephens aged 29, were released after 27 months in Tihua prison in Sinkiang. They arrived at Lanchow en route to Chungking, aided by the U S embassy. The pair crossed the Bering Strait from Alaska to Russia in a walrus skin boat in 1936 and faced 34 months in various jails including Tihua after a failed escape over the Himalayas toward India.
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Chungking
China
Peter Stephens
John Stephens
Scranton
Tihua
Sinkiang
Lanchow
Kansu Providence
United States
Bering Strait
Alaska
Russia
Himalayas
India
Lay Bingo Tonight at New Eagle Home
Wednesday bingo session starts at 8 p m at New Eagle's Home located at 211 N Lou doun St. community players invited for an evening of games and prizes.
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New Eagle's
Loudoun St
Turkey Supper at Burnt Church Jan 16 in Albin Va
Turkey supper served from 5 to 9 PM at Burnt Church in Albin Virginia on Thursday January 16. Proceeds benefit church funds. Ticket price is 50 cents.
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Turkey
Burnt Church
Albin
Money to Tend at 5 Percent
Attorney Herbert S. Larrick reports a 5 percent rate for a money-tending matter dated January 15 1921. The notice specifies legal action and assigns the filing to the court for processing.
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Herbert S. Larrick
Atty
Bingo at Sarah Zane Fire Hall 20 Games 20 Prizes
A bingo night at Sarah Zane Fire Hall features 20 games and 20 prizes with a $100 grand prize. The event is set for Thursday January 16 at 8 30 p m with admission priced at $1.00.
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Sarah Zane Fire Hall
Icy Highways Roast Two Auto Mishaps In Winter Crunch
Ice coated roads after rain and sleet caused two accidents on routes near the West Virginia line and on South Braddock street. A Novick Transfer trailer overturned near Oak Grove injuring no one, while a car struck a parked vehicle and hit a curb on 317 South Braddock. No fatalities, minor property damage reported.
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U.S. Route 11
Oak Grove
West Virginia Line
Novick Transfer Company
Raymond Slonaker
Braddock Street
Robert Brooks
Foster K. Orndorff
Orndorff
South Braddock
Lord Wakefield Dies In England At 81
Lord Wakefield, 81, noted philanthropist and oil magnate, died today in Buckinghamshire. He funded hospitals and speed ventures across water land and air, sponsored Amy Johnson Mollison flights, and owned speed boats Miss England I II and Til. He served as London’s Lord Mayor 1915 16 and was elevated to viscount in 1934.
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London
Viscount” Wakefield
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
Lord Wakefield
Amy Johnson Mollison
Thames
C. C. Wakefield and Company, Ltd
North Briand Mercantiles Insurance Company
Til
Kaye Don
Sulgrave
Burke, Pitt and
Bryce
Washington
Pittsburgh
New York
Japanese Remove Signs In English
Tokyo reports English signs to be removed from Ginza shops as part of a police suggestion seen as a language purification drive. Yomiuri cites about 1400 venues along Ginza with English electrical signs, roughly 70 percent of the total, with English signs in rail stations also largely removed.
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Tokyo
Yomiuri
Ginza
Soon To Fill Police Vacancy
The city will name a successor to Private E. J. Ward who resigned to join a powder plant private police force in New Jersey. Chief C. W. Hollis listed candidates Asa Ray Mahen through Joseph Paul Herring as finalists and said the winner must pass examination and meet character and physical qualifications.
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E. J. Ward
New Jersey
C. W. Hollis
Hollis
Asa Ray Mahen
James Beverley Perry
Joseph C. Ritter
Charles S. Hurst
Harold C. Jones
Emory O. Rogers
Boyd Wilson McDonald
Silas Raymond Kirk
Mahlon Elwood Cather
Jesse David Funkhouser
Charles Raymond Rowe
Reynolds Stewart Armel
Robert Clark Boyce
John Edward Massie
Guy
Albert Webber
Charles Dooly Kercheval
Robert H. Byers
James Puller Gearing
Joseph Paul Herring
Big Ship Still Hugs a Sandbar
The 24 289 ton liner Manhattan remained aground off Palm Beach on January 15 as passengers sunbathed aboard. A southeast wind hampered attempts to refloat at high tide aided by the Coast Guard cutter Mojave and wrecking tugs Willet and Solorina. Captain G W Richardson blamed the grounding on a course error Sunday night.
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West Palm Beach
Fila
Manhattan
Palm Beach
Coast Guard
Mojave
Willet
Solorina
Wilmington
Del
G. W. Richardson
Australia native reconnects with long lost friend in New York
Kernstown resident Mee found his old mate Ernest R. Eaton in a New York telephone directory. Eaton, who studied theology then medicine, has lived in New York for 22 years in the same house. Also noted are reminders about missing Selective Service cards and a judge planning for the 1941 bass season with ice forming on Shenandoah River. In farming news a flock ewe died after a Saturday incident at Moffatt farm Wickliffe.
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By Mee
Kernstown
Australia
New York
Ernest R. Eaton
Mee
America
Eaton
State Secretary Urges Lease Lend Bill as Defense Need
Secretary of State Hull urged Congress to pass Roosevelt's lease lend bill for unlimited war materiel to Britain and others, arguing it is absolutely necessary for national defense. He warned that German control of the Atlantic would threaten security and cited Japan's expansionist policies as dangerous. He testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, stressing self defense under a world movement of conquest.
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Washington
Hull
Congress
Britain
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Roosevelt
Atlantic Ocean
Germany
Atlantic
South Atlantic
Japan
Hall
Far East
Orient
Italy
Qaubber A. Johnson
D-Tex
United Airports
Navy Seeks 400 Small Vessels and Expanded Facilities
The Navy asked Congress for authority to build 280 small craft including sub chasers mine sweepers and torpedo boats with 310 million dollars for construction and 25 million for facilities. Most are to be built on the Great Lakes and delivered within a year. The list covers seagoing sub chasers motor torpedo boats and various mine sweepers. The House Naval Committee had also endorsed a 300 million dollar boost to anti aircraft power.
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Washington
Navy
Congress
Samuel M. Robinson
Bureau of Ships
House Naval Committee
Great Lakes
Brothers Indicted On Murder Charge In Midtown Shootout
In New York on January 15 two ex convict brothers William Esposito and Anthony Esposito were indicted for murder after a midtown Fifth Avenue shootout that killed a patrolman and a civilian. The Grand Jury voted soon after evidence from about 85 witnesses was presented in the district attorney’s office.
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New York
William Esposito
Anthony Esposito
New York County Grand Jury
Fifth Avenue
34Th Street
Flu Cases Rise in East and Fall in West
The Public Health Service reports a steady rise of influenza cases in the eastern states and a decline in the west. For the week ending last Saturday total cases reach 89,828 nationally, with Texas alone reporting 33,283. Other state totals include Maine 1,345 Kentucky 5,950 Tennessee 4,719 Louisiana 4,983 Oklahoma 2,550 Alabama 2,201 Virginia 4,200 Georgia 5,002 Arkansas 4,664 Kansas 3,163.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Texas
Maine
Kentucky
Tennessee
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Alabama
Virginia
Georgia
Arkansas
Kansas
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British
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Erds
Eaton’s
Ryan Works
Dixie
Winchester Rotarians
D. C
Clarksburg
W. Va
Winchester Research Laboratory
England
Romney
Donald Weems
Shenandoah River
Waterlock
Shropshire
South Down
Harry G. Moffatt
Wickliffe
Johnson
Fish
R-Ny
Burgin
D-Nc
Denmark
Holland
Belgium
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