Nine Member Road Board Bill Presented In Virginia Assembly
A bill to replace the State Highway Commission with a nine member board, one from each of eight districts plus a chairman at large, was introduced in the Virginia Senate. Governor Colgate Darden backs district representation. terms range from one to four years with four year terms for most members and confirmation by the General Assembly. The plan sets salaries and per diem for members while working.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
State Highway Commission
Senate
Robert C. Vaden
Pittsylvania
Carter Glass, Jr
Lynchburg
Aubrey G. Weaver
Front Royal
Glass
Colgate Darden
Darden
General Assembly
Rouss and Winchester Auction Ads From 1859 60
The paper shows Thomas M. Jones owned real estate and personal property sales with Winchester proclaiming top auctioneers. Rouss Store moves to Wm. Miller’s space near Taylor Hotel. Rouss offers prices like shoes 75¢, boots $1.50, harvest hats 2c, jeans 14c, with a boast of a thousand bargains.
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Thomas M. Jones
Winchester
Rouss
Wm. Miller
Taylor Hotel
New Sweatters and Shirts at Philip's Specialty Shop
New shipment of sweaters in yellow red baby blue pink blossom mauve camel beige lilac and new shirts arriving at Philip's Specialty Shop 9 N Loudoun St. Also mentions Friday bingo at South End Hose Co with weekly events.
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Philip's Specialty Shop
N. Loudoun St
IVA SHOP Low Prices On Dresses Sweaters and Linens
The ad lists dresses at 3.95 6.50 and 8.50 all wool sweaters at 1.00 and linen handkerchiefs at 25c. It invites customers and friends to take advantage of these low prices.
Stand Ready For Paul Revere Act
In Montgomery County Maryland civil defense units have 110 mounts and riders prepared to gallop cross country to alarms and carry official messages if telephone lines fail during an air raid. Albert E. Brault, director of the county Civilian Defense Council, said the Man or, Potomac and Redland units are ready to respond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Montgomery County
Hunt
Paul Revere
Albert E. Brault
Civilian Defense Council
Manor, Potomac
Redland
Evening Star Among Winners In State Contest
Richmond Virginia January 23 194? Winners announced in the Virginia Press Association contest opening session of the twenty fourth mid winter convention The Evening Star is among winners and the discussion on wartime effects on the newspaper industry highlighted the meeting Carl Short Roanoke Times and World News warned members to conserve supplies and place individual needs under government needs Certificates of excellence were awarded to several papers with honorable mentions listed including Waynesboro News Virginian Winchester Evening Star Newport News Times Herald Richmond News Leader Roanoke World News Martinsville Daily Bulletin and Alexandria Gazette among others
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia Press Association
Carl Short
Roanoke Times and World News
C. C. Rhame
Waynesboro News-Virginian
Winchester Evening Star
Fredericksburg Free Lance Star
Alexandria Gazette
Newport News Times Herald
Newport News Daily Press
Roanoke Times
Richmond News Leader
Roanoke World News
Daily Bulletin
Hon- Martinsville Daily
Buletin
Waynesboro News Virginian
Newport News
Anoke ‘Times
Winchester
Evening Star
Martinsville Daily Bulletin
Waynesboro News
Wysor Returns To Highway Board
Richmond Virginia January 23 1940 acting within 24 hours of the resignation of Lee Long of Dante Governor Colgate W Darden Jr today appointed J Frank Wysor of Pulaski to his old place on the Virginia State Highway Commission Long had been appointed by former Governor James H Price and the note continues on page two column three
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Lee Long
Dante
Colgate W. Darden, Jr
J. Frank Wysor
Pulaski
Virginia State Highway Commission
Long
James H. Price
Billions Sought for 33 000 War Planes
Washington January 23. The House approved a 12.5 billion appropriation for 33 000 war planes the largest military fund in Congress history with 75 percent for planes and the rest for plant expansion armor missiles and related supplies An additional 800 000 was added for State Department transport costs The plan aims to accelerate air power to deter the enemy and support Allied efforts with funds allocated for aircraft engines armament and new facilities and supplies for the signal corps and chemical warfare service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Tennessee Valley Authority
State Department Foreign Service
Congress
Cannon
D.-Mo
House Appropriations Committee
Mediterranean
Pacific
H. H. Arnold
Air
United States
Orde
Arnold
Signal Corps
Chemical Warfare Service
Officers of Jap Ship Seized After Mutiny Near Coast
Russian radio operator reported the Pearl Harbor attack and helped thwart mutiny on a Japanese freighter heading to Yokohama with coal. Dutch and Chinese officers aided in flight to a safe port, with the ship's identity and port kept undisclosed under U S Navy rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Pearl Harbor
Yokohama
U. S. Navy
Argentina presents counter proposal at Pan American talks
In Rio de Janeiro on January 23 a high confere source said Argentina submitted a counter proposal to the anti Axis plan after talks between Argentine foreign minister Enrique Ruiz Guinazu and Brazilian and U S officials. The Argentine draft was prepared by Ramon S Castillo and reportedly rejects the current wording.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio Janeiro
Enrique Ruiz Guinazu
United States
Ramon S. Castillo
Argentina
Ruiz Guinazu
Oswaldo Aranha
Brazil
Sumner Welles
Honduras
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Uruguay
Argea
Chile
Mexico
Colombia
Darden Denies Plan To End Volunteer Civil Defense
Governor Darden said revisions to civilian defense administration would not eliminate volunteers. He praised volunteers for their splendid spirit and noted that aircraft warning and other volunteers would not be affected, keeping emphasis on local government authority for swift emergency action. A committee led by City Edwards is to complete proposals by Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Darden
Benjamin Muse
Petersburg
Defense Council
City Edwards
Yanks Help British Smash Air Raids In Burma Fight
American and British fliers attacked more than 60 Japanese bombers over Rangoon and claimed about a third shot down. An army report said no change on the Moulmein front as Japanese forces approached 26 miles from Marataban port while withdrawing British units held.
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Rangoon
Burma
Moulmein
Gulf of Marataban
Russians Repeat Triumphs Against Napoleon Near Moscow
Moscow dispatch reports Red Army advances pushing 6 to 7 miles daily west of Mozhaisk after Mozhaisk fell, with Germans abandoning Mozhaisk and leaving extensive plans behind. Borodino area seen as Nazis burn the Napoleonic Museum as retreat continues. London dispatch notes a snowfall aided Red Army flank attack between Novgorod and the Moscow Leningrad railway, plus Timoshenko’s forces advancing 100 miles from Kursk to Kharkov.
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Red Army
Napoleon
Pravda
Moscow
Mozhaisk
Borodino
Napolenic
London
Novgorod
Moscow-Leningrad
Leningrad
Ukraine
Semeon Timoshenko
Kursk
Kharkov
Pittsburgh
Mrs Stickley Dies After Brief Illness in Stephens City
Mrs Mary Evelyn Stickley 72 wife of Dr Peter B Stickley of Stephens City died last night around 10 o clock at Memorial hospital after a brief illness Her health had declined for some time with acute appendicitis as the attributed cause She came from a prominent Shenandoah Valley family and her father Major James Acton Downing served in the Confederate Army The widow left many local friends and Dr Stickley long a respected practitioner continued to retire
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stickley
James Acton Downing
Markham
Mary Jane Harman Downing
Stephens City
Call Hearing On Knudsen Title
Military affairs subcommittee ordered hearings next week on President Roosevelt's nomination of William S. Knudsen as lieutenant general. Senator Austin requested the hearing. Protests cited concern that elevating a civilian to a top military post could hurt army morale. The Board would be asked to appear, with the hearing tentatively set for next Tuesday.
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Washington
Chandler
D-Ky
Roosevelt
William S. Knudsen
Austin
Vermont
Reynolds
D-N. C
Knudsen
Separate Peace Offer From Japanese Premier To China
Tokyo reports Premier Hideki Tojo told Parliament Japan would accept Chiangs peace overtures if Chungking changes attitude. He said despite five years of fighting China is a sister nation and would be received if mis taken ideas are corrected. London based Chinese ambassador Dr. V K Wellington Koo doubted any separate peace rumors. He cited Malaya and South Seas tensions and expressed confidence in China’s eventual war outcome.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Chungking
China
Koo
London
V. K. Wellington Koo
Malaya
South Seas
Churches Seek End To Religious Ignorance Campaign
The Rev. Minor C. Miller announced Virginia Protestant churches will join a four year national drive called the United Christian Education Advance. The effort, backed by forty denominations, aims to wipe out religious ignorance with focus on children as over half of school age children lack Christian education.
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Bridgewater
Minor C. Miller
Virginia Council of Religious Education
United Christian Education Advance
Attacks by British Bombers Hit Muenster and Ports
The Royal Air Force bombers conducted a concentrated strike on Muenster with large fires reported. Allied raids also hit Dutch airfields and docks at Dunkerque, while mines were laid in enemy waters, the air ministry announced.
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London
Royal Air Force
Muenster
Air Ministry
Netherlands
Dunkerque
Nazi Bomber Kills 11 In England
A daylight raid by a single German bomber hit a congested East Anglia town killing eleven people including nine women or girls and wounding others. Anti aircraft batteries may have shot down the plane. A second raider dropped bombs on a northern Scotland town with no casualties.
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London
East Anglia
Scotland
Leak In Blockade Plugged by Suspension of Italian Airline
London January 23. Minister Hugh Dalton announced the British blockade leak has been plugged by suspending the Italian airline to Brazil. He said the main Axis exports through this channel were propaganda and fifth columnists and that planes carried about a ton of mail and freight, signaling Axis value on propaganda.
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London
Brazil
Hugh Dalton
Dalton
London Guildhall
American Planes In Big Attack On Hanoi Base
CHUNGKING Jan 23 The first combined operation by the American volunteer group and the Chinese air force involved 15 American fighters in a major assault on the Japanese base at Hanoi Indo China. The raid used 57 planes including 27 Chinese bombers. escorts encountered no opposition and strafed troops while bombing air fields and barracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Hanoi
Indo-China
Kunming
Indo- China
Two Colonels Assigned New Duties In Military Shakeup
The News Leader reports Colonel Edwin P. Conquest of the 176th Infantry Regiment Richmond is reassigned to the provost marshal office in Baltimore for the third corps area. It also notes unconfirmed word that Colonel E Sclater Montague of the 111th field artillery Hampton has been relieved from troop duties and granted leave from the Virginia Senate seat representing Newport News Hampton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
the News-Leader
Edwin P. Conquest
176Th Infantry
Third Corps
Baltimore
E. Sclater Montague
Hampton
111Th Field Artillery
Montague
Virginia Senate
Newport News
City and County Brevities Aviation Cadet Sworn In
Melvin Estis clerk at Solenberger sworn in as an aviation cadet in the U S. He reports to Maxwell field. Others to appear before the Examining Board in Richmond today include Ralph Courtney Jones Bill Pollard and John Rhodes.
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Melvin Estis
St Solenberger’s
Richmond
Maxwell
Ralph Courtney Jones
Bill Pollard
John Rhodes
Japan lands in New Guinea and Pacific advances widen war
A wartime bulletin reports Japanese sea landings reaching New Guinea and likely New Britain and the Solomons as MacArthur’s forces hold Manila area. US reinforcements pour in while Australia orders blackouts and emergency mobilization amid fears of a wider strike near Australia and Torres Strait.
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Japan
New Guinea
Solomon Islands
New Britain
United States
Torres Strait
Cape York
Australia
War Department
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Batan
Manila
MacArthur
Washington
Malaya
Burma
South Sea Islands
Strait of Meee
Dutch Borneo
Cele Island
Tokyo
Solomon Isan
United Nations
Singapore
Commonwealth War Cabinet
London
Madang
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Cart Aancets
South End Hose CO
IVA Shop
Wysor
Highway Board
Army Air Corps
Little Nations
Americas
Buenos Aires
M’ Arthur
England
von Papin
Cal
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