Lindbergh Says Anxiv Invasion Of U S Impossible
Charles Lindbergh asserts an ocean crossing invasion with land troops is utterly impossible. He favors negotiated peace and says a 10 000 plane modern air force could safeguard US security, while bombing raids from across the Atlantic could cause damage though invasion remains unattainable.
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England
Hitler
Johnson
Lindbergh
Europe
Atlantic
Roosevelt
Soom
Purebred Swine Sale Tomorrow at Virginia Breeders Assoc
All is ready for the sale held tomorrow noon by the Virginia Purebred Swine Breeders Association. consignments from outstanding breeders across the state include E. O. Mitch Duroc Jerseys John M Steck Hampshires from Frederick county Audley Farm consignments. Berkshire Hampshire and Poland China stock will be sold.
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Virginia Purebred
Quotations On Apple Wood Attract Interest
I Fred Stine county agent reports inquiries from several firms and a bid for apple wood. Growers often struggle to dispose of wood but offers reach 8 dollars per ton for small diameter wood and 12 dollars per ton for larger pieces. Manufacturers seek wood for tool handles due to its easy workability.
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Fred Stine
Boyce Taxpayers Push For Junior High School Plant
Boyce Virginia residents plan to ask the Clarke County Board of Supervisors and School Board at a Monday night PTA meeting for a junior high school in Boyce. A county survey favored consolidation and a state architect inspection is planned to assess building safety.
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Boyce
Parent- Teacher Association
Board of Supervisors
School Board of
Clarke County
Archie Robinson
Berryville
Double Tollgate
Parents Teacher Association
Boyce Taxpayers
Joseph Casey
C. W. Glascock
S. M. Lane
Robertson
Star Office
Chapel
Greenway
Home Economics
Call Meeting Of Orchardists In Four-State Area
A Surplus Marketing Administration meeting for apple growers from Virginia West Virginia Maryland and Pennsylvania is announced for 2 PM in a Winchester library auditorium. Joseph B White Washington and USDA Dr Porter are expected to attend if available. The session will discuss agency policies on removing surplus fruit from the open market amid criticism of offered prices.
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Winchester
Surplus Marketing Administration
Joseph B. White
Washington
Dr. Porter
USDA
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Walker Named To Succeed Self At Postal Post
Roosevelt nominates Frank C. Walker to four more years as postmaster general. Walker would replace James A. Farley, who resigned to enter the cabinet post. Acheson had been acting postmaster general before taking the role.
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Walker
Self
Postal Post
Washington
Roosevelt
Frank C. Walker
Senate
Dean Acheson Walker
James A. Farley
Re. Acheson
Clarke County Audit Finds Finances In Excellent Condition
Clarke County in Berryville Virginia received an audit for the year ending June 30 1940 from A R Kennett and Company Roanoke noting all records in excellent condition. The report shows total funds 85 653 11 down from 98 142 24 in 1939 with changes in encumbrances and balances across general fund dog tax Va Public Assistance School and debt funds.
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Berryville
A. R. Kenett and Company
Roanoke
Clarke County
Board of Supervisors
School Board
Welfare Board
Commission of Revenue
D. Burtner
Draftee With Long Hair Faces Induction Board
Ivan Barzella Heiderich a Marietta Oklahoma farmer with shoulder length curls arrives in Oklahoma City to protest a haircut as he faces an induction board. He vows not to trim his hair if drafted, claiming the fight is over personal pride and tradition.
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Oklahoma City
Ivan Barzella Heiderich
Samson
Delilah
Marietta
Okla
Ivan
Army Processing
Ivan Péolniea
Two Killed, 12 Injured After Airline Crash near St Louis
A Trans continental and Western Airliner crashed near Lambert Field one mile from safety, killing chief pilot Captain P T W Scott and passenger J F Mott and injuring 12 others. The Los Angeles to New York flight went low across the field before a fatal swing. The craft clipped a 40 foot maple, tore a wing, and crashed in a farmhouse yard without bursting into flames.
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ST. Louis
Lambert-St. Louis Municipal
P. T. W. Scott
Cs.t
J. F. Mott
T.W.A
Kansas City
Los Angeles
New York
German Air Ace With Prisoners Recaptured After Prison Ship Dock
A German air ace linked to 56 downed planes is among prisoners recaptured after two men escaped from a prison ship. One escapee was recaptured today while police hunted the second near the dock area. The prisoner squad includes Helmuth Wick, noted for shooting down 56 planes since the Spanish Civil War.
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Helmuth Wick
Richtofen
Wick
English Channel
Isle of Wight
Flag Rippers To Be Dealt With
Two young navy men who ripped a Nazi swastika flag from its staff at the German consulate in San Francisco were given suspended sentences of 90 days in jail. They were turned over to the navy which promised they would be adequately dealt with.
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San Francisco
Navy
Holt Acted Without Lawful Rights In West Virginia
Clarence Meadows, West Virginia attorney general, told a Senate committee that Homer A. Holt acted without authority to appoint a U.S. Senator for a term beginning after midnight January 13. Meadows cited Neely’s resignation timing and said Holt’s appointments were invalid. Neely named Joseph Rosier as his successor, while Holt appointed Clarence Martin to the seat.
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Clarence Meadows
West Virginia
Senate Committee
Homer A. Holt
United States
Elections Committee
Senate
M. M. Neely
Neely
Holt
Clarence Martin
Martinsburg
Joseph Rosier
Fairmont
Meadows
Willkie Flight Delayed By Azores Storm
Aboard the Yankee Clipper at Horta the Pan American Clipper faced a gale described as the worst in two years forcing a day’s delay before proceeding to England. Willkie observed bomber ferries in Bermuda and met veteran fliers Balchen Pangborn Berry before continuing his war study tour.
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Horta
Azores
Wendell L. Willkie
England
Lisbon
Pan-American Airways
Britain
Willkie
United States
Darnell Island
Hamilton
Bermuda
Bernt Balchen
Clyde Pangborn
Homer Berry
Berry
Newfoundland
North Atlantic
Ball of fire lights southeastern skies Tuesday night
Reports from Mrs. C W Dwyer and a Wardensville resident describe a bright fireball seen around 10 pm Tuesday. Separate notes mention Clarke County courthouse termite damage with a man sized hole under the floor and an inquiry about Boyce’s magisterial district.
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C. W. Dwyer
Berryville Avenue
Wardensville
W. Va
the Star
British claim Tobruk captured. 14000 prisoners taken
Cairo dispatch reports Tobruk, Libyan base, fully captured by British forces. Command states over 14,000 prisoners, including four generals and city leaders, plus an admiral and corps and divisional commanders. British casualties under 500. about 2000 wounded evacuated. Tobruk described as key harbor between Alexandria and Tunis.
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Cairo
Egypt
Tobruk
Alexandria
Tunis
Nazi air raids strike three East Anglia towns
Nazi air raiders dropped bombs on three towns along the East Anglia coast injuring only a few people and damaging a few houses, according to home and air security ministers. Great Yarmouth was also reported raided by the German agency.
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Anglia
London
East Anglia
Home and Air Security
DNB
Great Yarmouth
Noted Humorist Gillilan to Speak at Charlie Rouss Banquet
Rev. Robert A. Whitten announced Strickland Gillilan of Washington DC will deliver the principal address at the Charlie Rouss banquet in memory of Charles Broad Way Rouss. Banquet, February 11, features turkey and Virginia ham. Dr. Allen Hawthorne to be toastmaster.
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Robert A. Whitten
Charlie Rouss
Strickland Gillilan
Washington, D. C
Charles Broadway Rouss
Hawthorne
Marvin Weaver
Allen T. Hawthorne
David Hottle
Douglas Brown
John Seal
Gillilan
Washington
Ronald Wilson
Presbyterian Church
Congregational-Christian Church
40 Election Cost Over 22 Millions
Republican political organizations spent nearly 15 million dollars last year while Democrats spent about 6 million, per a Senate committee report. Totals exclude county and local groups, with Democratic and Republican national, state, and other committees accounting for the bulk of contributions and expenditures.
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Washington
Senate
Gillette
D-Ia
Loca
Democratic National Committee
Republican National Committee
Prominent Frederick Citizen Lewis A Rice Dies at 79
Lewis A Rice 79 prominent merchant and former President of Frederick Board of Aldermen died at City Hospital. He served as a post of the State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, a director of the Frederick Hotel, and director and vice president of Mutual Insurance Company. He was a former member of the Evangelical Reformed Church consistory.
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Frederick, Md
Lewis A. Rice
Board of Aldermen
City Hospital
Rice
State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Frederick Hotel
The
Mutual Insurance Company
Evangelical Reformed Church
Draftees Sent to Fort Sam Houston Texas from Mid Atlantic States
Fort George G. Meade Md Jan 23 A fresh convoy of 400 draftees from Pennsylvania Virginia and Maryland departed by train today for Fort Sam Houston Texas for year long training another 400 in a Pullman kitchen car train left here Tuesday Maryland contributed 18 men to todays group while states totals were not disclosed Separately a unit of 60 men left for Fort Belvoir Va to train with the Fifty sixth Thirty first and Fifth Engineers after a prior group of 85 men went to Fort Story Va
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Fort George G. Meade
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Maryland
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
Fort Story
1939 Ford De Luxe Convertible Coupe for sale
Used 1939 Ford De Luxe Convertible Coupe with 16 000 actual miles. Includes radio heater and white wall tires. Priced at 625 dollars from Bickers Motor Co.
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Bickers Motor CO
Bingo at Sarah Zane Fire Hall Doubles Prizes
A bingo game at Sarah Zane Fire Hall offers 20 games with 20 prizes and a $100 grand prize. The event takes place Thursday January 23 at 8 30 p m, with admission set at $1.00.
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Sarah Zané Fire Hall
Hungarian troop call up linked to Transylvania gains
Sofia report says Hungary, after a large Transylvania share in a Axis settlement, is rushing more troops as observers note continued Hungarian aims in Transylvania. In Belgrade observers cite turmoil in Romania and the presence of hundreds of thousands of German troops as Turkey holds a long cabinet meeting on the situation.
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Sofia
Hungary
Transylvania
Belgrade
Carol
Romania
Civil unrest and Tobruk gain dominate war news
Reported bloodletting and chaos in Romania amid rival accounts of progress while British forces claim Tobruk fell to coalition units and about 24,000 Italians captured. Gen Wavell’s Nile army said it destroyed or captured many Italian divisions, putting 100 000 Fascists in captivity and expanding Libyan desert control.
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Rumania
North Africa
Tobruk
Archibald P. Wavell
the Nile
Clarke Collections Behind Last Year
Berryville Va January 23 County Treasurer W D said today taxpage Clarke are not quite as good 1939 thus far he stated a of approximately 50000 of a possible approximately 60000 been collected for total of approximately 25 state revenue has been with the exception of about 4700 A list of delinquent Pega taxes is being prepared and be posted next week iteal The list is composed chiefly of numerous small items.
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Berryville
W. D
Clarke
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U.S
Eddy Gilmore
Dheir
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Opequon
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Duncan
Grover
Tavertia
C. M. Martin
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Rouss
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Texas Fort
Margaret L. Hodgson
Lovetts Shoe & Dress Shoppe
N. Main
Budarest
Ion Antonescu
Iran Guard
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Staion
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