Training With U S Naval Fliers in Preflight at Chapel Hill
Wide World Features writer John Grover recalls his experience as a 35 year old in the Navy preflight program at Chapel Hill North Carolina. He endures obstacle courses and a 150 yard agility test amid cadets and trainers while noting the high cost of training and the navy’s age limits for pilots.
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John Grover
NAVAL
Chapel Hill
N.C
Methuselah
Frank Érriwell
Navy
Jesse G. Wright
Coolidge
Kidd Brewer
Com
Harvey
Labor Battalion
Civil War Deferment Rosters To List Essential Occupations
Washington July 3 manpower sources said rosters of essential civilian activities and critical war occupations would be published around July 15 to guide military deferments. The lists, prepared by the U S Employment Service with War Production Board and others, target keeping skilled workers at work.
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Francis M. le May
Washington
United States Employment Service
War Production Board
War, Navy and Agriculture Departments
Paul V. McNutt
Wint
Manpower Commission
McNutt
United States
United Nations
Chicago Grain Quotations Rise on Large Wheat Order
Chicago grain prices firm on July 3 as a large December delivery purchase by mills boosted wheat by up to a cent. War news from Egypt supported buying. Opening values showed Wheat July 1.17 3 4 to 1.18 1 4 and December 1.24 1 2 to 7 8. Corn July 86 3 4 to 7 8, September 89 5 8 to 1 2. Oats September 47 3 4, December 50 1 2. Rye July 64 7 8, September 67 7 8 to 68, December 71 17 8.
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Chicago
Egypt
Jly
Rye—Jly
Answers to the Daily Quiz from Page Four
The page lists quiz answers: 1 Twenty 2 Lieutenant Colonel 3 Coal 4 Manuel Avila Camacho 5 Alice Hawthorne pen name of Winner 6 Kingfisher 7 False 8 California 9 Hilo 10 Jupiter’s Costa Rica is about the size of West Virginia 23000 square miles.
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Coal
Manuel Avila Camacho
Alice Hawthorne
Kingfisher
False
California
Hilo
Jupiter’s
Costa Rica
West Virginia
Youth Parade to Honor Fourth of July in Winchester
Winchester plans a Fourth of July youth parade starting from City Hall at 9 00 tomorrow. The Capitol Theater will host after the march with prizes sponsored by Pifer Printing Gray and Eddy and John 8 Miller Hardware. A patriotic matinee and ice cream feast follow with Rev R B Nelson addressing the crowd.
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Winchester Young America
City Hall
Board of Trade Committee
Capitol Theater
Winchester
Boy Scout
Virginia
McKlwee
Ras Follies
Pifer Printing Company
Gray and Eday
Joanics
John
Miller Hardware Com
Cameronce
Piccadilly
Eieat
Loudoun Street
Cork Street
Cameron
R. B. Nelson
Turner Anderson
Lamar Keen
Lawrence Jones
George Jones
Paul Ayers
Ashley Stouffer
Laurie Hill
Ben Belchie
Forrest Sirbaugh
Baltimore Market Quotations Poultry and Livestock
Market quotes show poultry about steady with various weight ranges for fowls hens roosters and ducks unchanged. Cattle strong with mostly 14.00 to 50 dollars calves 11.00 to 3.50, hogs up about 10 cents with many weight bands from 120 to 300 pounds listed and sows priced.
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Baltimore
Market Report: Hog Cattle and Sheep Prices in Chicago
Salable hogs 5 000 of 9 000, active with bids 15 to 25 cents higher. Good and choice 180 to 270 pounds 14.65 to 14.90, 270 to 330 pounds 14.50 to 14.75, 160 to 180 pounds 14.25 to 14.75. sows up about 15 cents. Cattle and calves: 500 and 300 respectively, steers strong with top around 12.85, other lots 11.25 to 12.75. cows steady to weak. bulls 8.75 to 10.50. vealers 15.00 down. Sheep: 500 salable, 2 500 total, natives active and steady. yearlings not yet sold. lambs 15.50 high, 13.00 to 15.00 lower grades. fat ewes 4.75 to 6.00.
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Baltimore
Dept. Agr
Chicago
Feeder Stock Prices Reported From Pittsburgh Market
Salable hogs 125 steady and unchanged. Salable cattle 50 steady and unchanged. Salable calves 150 steady. Salable sheep 100 slow and 50 cents lower. Choice lambs 15.00-50, medium to good 13.00-14.50, common lambs 10.50-12.00, ewes 5.00-50, wethers 6.00-50.
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Pittsburgh
Nazi Foes Shoot Paris Woman
Two bicyclists shot and seriously wounded the woman manager of a Paris apartment house in an attack police termed a reprisal for informing German authorities on subversive activities of a tenant. It marked the first recorded shooting of a woman in the long series of assaults on pro Nazi collaborators. Also, 12 youths were arrested at Doziers in a raid on a clandestine print ship producing anti German leaflets and stickers.
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Vichy
France
Paris
Doziers
Charles Lindbergh's Heritage and Citizenship
The text states Charles A. Lindbergh is a natural born U. S. citizen. It notes his birth in Detroit Michigan and lineage: Swedish on his paternal side and English Irish and French on his maternal side.
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Charles A. Lindbergh
U. S
Detroit, Mich
Rail and transport stocks lead a tepid July market
New York July 3 buyers kept faith with rails motors and other favorites but the war baby rally faded. The opening extended Thursday’s rise, then demand and trading slackened. Carrier bonds led. better acting shares included Santa Fe Southern Pacific New York Central General Motors Chrysler American Can Anaconda Texas Co Sears Roebuck. Some issues lagged like Bethlehem Montgomery Ward Consolidated Edison Douglas Aircraft and Westinghouse.
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New York
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
N. Y. Central
General Motors
Chrysler
Ameican Can
Anaconda, Texas Co
Sears Roebuck
Bethlehem
Montgomery Ward
Consolidated Edison
Douglas Aircraft
Westinghouse
Local Markets The Star Daily Not Responsible For Typos
Market listings and brief notes appear in the daily Local Markets section. The Star disclaims responsibility for typographical errors and strives for accuracy in pricing and items offered.
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The
Star
Local Wholesale Market Flour Prices and Poultry Summary
Local wholesale market prices list flour by patent and short patent brands with bag weights and prices, plus mixed feed middlings corn meal dairy feed oats and butter. The ledger includes livestock prices for cows bulls calves and lambs, and ends with a Q and A on concrete weight 145 pounds per cubic foot.
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Old Roosters. Co
Seseeeess
Brollers
Bottleneck Battle Waged Furiously Across Fronts
Axis pressure in Egypt and Russia surged as Rommel’s forces faltered south toward Qattara and Kursk drives opened across six sectors. Churchill announced reinforcements arriving at the Egypt front while Allied air and naval bombardment struck Bremen and Dili as MacArthur reported fires and destruction in Timor.
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Alamein
Axis
Rommel
Qattara
Churchill
Claude Auchinleck
Egypt
Middle East
the Fox of the
Russia
Volchansk
Kharkov
Moscow
Volkhov
Hitler
Red Army
Belgorod
Voronezh
Moscow-Rostov
Kursk
Red Star
Crimea
Sevastopol
Black Sea
RAF
Bremen
Germany
Thireee Raf
Douglas MacArthur
Dili
Timor
Timor Sea
Australia
Commencement At 1st Brethren Church Tonight
The Daily Vacation Bible School closes with an 8 oclock service at the First Brethren Church tonight. Parents and friends are invited to view the school handiwork exhibit after a program featuring songs prayers memory work and Bible lessons led by Rev Paul E Dick Charlotte Legge and other children groups from Beginners Primaries Juniors and Intermediates perform selections and recitations with illustrated Bible stories and sword drills.
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First Brethren Church
Paul E. Dick
Sunshine Mountain
Jesus
Charlotte Legge
Clarke Warden To Enforce All Game Fish Laws
Clarke county Game Warden Charles Levi reported 25 fishermen on the inaugural bass season day. He checked four licenses and arrested a Clarke youth convicted in Juvenile Court for fishing without a license. Henry Beatty of Bluemont led with six bass from the Shenandoah River as Levi warned on a 10 fish per day bag limit.
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Berryville
Charles Levi
Clarke County
Clarke
Henry Beatty
Bluemont
Shenandoah River
Levi
Bible quiz Jeanne Williams offers congressional song
A Bible quiz event lists participants and speakers including Jeanne Williams and Rev. Dick with a slate of teachers such as Mrs. John Butcher, Mrs. Harry Fox, Paul Maynard, Juanita Anderson, Lucy Forney, Lee Smith, Verna Bly, Paul E. Dick, A. C. Frye and Rev. Paul E. Dick.
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Jeanne Williams
John Butcher
Harry Fox
Paul Maynard
Juanita Anderson
Lucy Forney
Lee Smith
Verna Bly
Paul E. Dick
A. C. Frye
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U.S. Naval Fliers
Harman
Rutgers University
America
Jim (Sweet) Lalanne
Hank Reese
Thes Football Giants
Nojax
B. F. Goodrich
Silvertown
E. Piccadilly St
Ruth Kavanaugh
Bon Secours Hospital
Jones Funeral Home
War Board
United Food Stores
B. W. Sargent Fair Play Store
Eagle’s Meat Market
Brown's
Larrick’s Cash Store
Bailey Brothers
L. E. Harris & Co. Cash & Carry Grocery
Ramsburg’s
Cameron & Piccadilly
Loudoun St
Valley Avenue
Braddock
Braddock &J
Berryville, Va
Chevrolet Sales Co
Baltimore Livestock
Chicago Livestock
Pittsburgh Livestock
Valley Pride
Stock Market Report
1St. Brethren Church
du Pont
John W. Rosenberger & Co
Dial
S. Braddock St
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of
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