Taft Sees U S Naval Base in Ireland Debate
Senator Taft told the Senate he heard weeks ago of a U S naval air base being built in northern Ireland for Great Britain and urged discussing bases in Ireland and Scotland. He argued such a move could free British troops and deploy Americans. Senator Connally defended presidential authority to move forces for defense. The Naval Committee scheduled Knox and Admiral Stark to testify on reports of combat with Germany.
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Senate Today
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Great Britain
Northern Ireland
Ireland
Iceland
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D-Tex
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Knox
Harold R. Stark
United States Navy
Germany
Walsh
D-Mass
Stark
Navy
Winchester bicycle license plan moves to enforcement
The bicycle registration ordinance, adopted months ago, is expected to take effect once record forms are secured. Owners must have bikes inspected to obtain a life license, issued for 25 cents by the Commissioner of Revenue, aiding theft checks and safety as cyclists are urged to ride with care.
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Commissioner of Revenue
Selectees Face Limits on Service Outside Hemisphere
Washington reports say the wartime ban on training outside the western hemisphere will stay for now despite General Marshall’s push. President Roosevelt may consider plans to extend service for some selectees or adapt a voluntary foreign-service system similar to Canada.
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Hemisphere
Rosevelt
Congress
Checks Must Be Cashed At Once
Harry E. Benham special receiver for the Peoples Bank of Stephens City reports final dividend checks totaling about 7 000 have been cashed except for roughly 200. He warns the remaining checks must be cashed before July 20 or funds may be unobtainable and urges prompt action to conclude the case.
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Harry EK. Benham
Peoples Bank of
Stephens City
Mr. Benham
Sarah Zane Fire Co. Holds July Regular Meeting
The regular monthly meeting of the Sarah Zant Fire Co. is set for Friday, July 11, at 8 p.m. All members are requested to attend. Capt. Loryn M. Crabill signs the notice.
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Sarah Zane Fire CO
Sarah Zant Fire Co
Loryn M. Crabill
Yard Party at Welltown Church
A yard party is planned at Welltown Church on Thursday July 17. The notice lists event details with times and location.
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Welltown Church
Troopers Quell Riot in Coal Region
A detachment of at least 150 state troopers patrolled the lower anthracite region, as power shovels resumed stripping operations halted by miners. About 13 men were wounded by buckshot and 20 more bruised, in clashes that included a two-hour battle between 2,000 miners and company police. Authorities opened investigations as a mass meeting vowed to halt surface mining.
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Pottsville
Thomas Martin
Pine Grove
Martin
Kohler’s Gap
John D. Dent
Coal Company
Good Spring Mountain
Here
Correale Construction Company
Winston
Susquehanna Coal Company
Morgan Coal Company
Serial Numbers Are Assigned 71 City Men
The Winchester Selective Service Board released the names of 71 men who registered for military service on July 1. The list appears in groups of ten by serial numbers, with guidance for readers to locate their own numbers. A nationwide lottery to determine order numbers will be held July 17, followed by several weeks to finalize numbers.
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Winchester Selective Servic Board
Washington
Star
Winchester
Ten Red Cross Nurses Rescued Safe in Iceland
The American Red Cross announced that 10 Red Cross nurses rescued from two torpedoed ships are safe in Iceland. Names of those aboard Maasdam and a British vessel were released, with several more nurses landed in England as part of Red Cross relief efforts.
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Red Cross
Iceland
England
Washington
Rachel
M. St. Pierre
Amesbury
Mass
Marion Blissett
Kalkaska
Mich
Victoria M. Pelc
Auburn
N. Y
Lilian Pesnicak
Albany
Laurine A. Smith
Hudsonville
Frances A. Bacon
Farmington
Margaret F. Malloy
Chicago
M. Geradline Shuttleworth
Milton
Mary Ann Sullivan
Boston
Martha L. Reis
Wooster Ohio
Mildred M. McGill
Tekamah
Neb
Marie C. Gork
Mildred E. Doane
Dedham
Marion C. Weimer
Detroit
Nancy M. Heberden
Lee Center
Susan S. Ralph
Jamaica
Long Island
Lavenia M. Patton
Amherst
Maasdam C. Loomis
Springfield
Atlantic
Red Headquarters
German Division Reported Wiped Out Near Lepel
The Red Army breached the German Baltic flank and reportedly wiped out a motorized division near Lepel, possibly 15,000 men, and struck a second division south of Borisov on the Berenzina river. A fierce air battle ended with the Soviets claiming 38 German planes shot down and no losses.
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Associated Press
Red Army
Lepel
Germany
Baltic
Adolf Hitler
Borisov
Berenzina
Minsk
RAF Hopes To Raid Berlin With Big American Bombers
Britain plans larger air offensives on Berlin as American made bombers join RAF operations. Lieut.-Col. Moore-Brabazon says D-24 Liberator service across the Atlantic will expand and fighters now fly over 35,000 feet, with cooperation agreements in place with the United States. Prime Minister Churchill attends part of the arms production debate.
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Britain
Berlin
J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon
House of Commons
Moore-Brabazon
United States
Atlantic
Churchill
Japanese Excited Over Alliance Rumors In US-Iran Pacific War News
Tokyo papers highlight Shanghai humor about a future United States Britain China Soviet alliance to curb Japan. Reports cite Kokumin on US plans in the Pacific and base possibilities on Kamchatka while Hi Nichi commentator Soho Tokutomi says the US has joined the war by occupying Iceland.
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New York
Comei
Broadcast Today
Tokyo
Shanghai
Japan
United States
Chung- Il
Kokumin
Pacific
Kamchatka Peninsula
Asiatic
Siberia
Domei
Soho Tokutomi
Hi Nichi
Iceland
England
Germany
China
Picking of Big Cherry Crop Hits Full Stride
Berkeley and Jefferson counties in West Virginia push to harvest the record cherry crop estimated at 3 million pounds. Labor is fully employed and a uniform five cent per pound price applies for U S No 1 grade. Much fruit ships to Biglerville Pennsylvania for canning at Musselman’s Inwood plant with portions heading to Winchester Virginia for processing by National Fruit Product and Zeropack.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Berkeley
Jefferson Counties
U. S
Biglerville
C. H. Musselman
Inwood
Fried chicken dinner in Loudoun church hall
Church of Our Saviour hosts a fried chicken dinner in Loudoun on July 11 from 5 to 8 pm. Tickets 50 cents for adults. children’s pricing not listed. Proceeds support church activities.
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Church of Our Saviour
LouDoun
Charley Rouss Fire Co Meeting Set With Education Film
The Fire Co notice announces a meeting on Friday July 11 at 8 oclock. All members are requested to attend as special educational moving pictures will be shown. M. D. Weaver, President.
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He Fire CO
Charley Rouss~ Fire Co
M. D. Weaver
War Today: Russians claim annihilation and victories across 300 miles
Russians announce the destruction of a German motorized division and victories on a 300 mile front from Moscow to Leningrad. Germans claim a decisive battle with their world's largest armies. British forces renew fighting in Syria while Beirut evacuation demand and armistice issues surface. R A F bombs Italian cities and strikes Naples and Syracuse with casualties. Luftwaffe conducts night raids on Aachen and Osnabruck.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Leningrad
Russia
Baltic
Syria
Beirut
Vichy
R.A.F
Syracuse
Naples
Aachen
Osnabruck
Germany
Hog prices soar to four-year peak at $11.50
Chicago market bulletin reports top hog values advancing for the fourth day to a new four-year high of $11.50. Cattle prices firmed up 25 cents as receipts tightened, and spring lambs moved 25 cents higher.
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Chicago
British bombing planes hit six ships on French coast
London reports British bombers attacked the French coast today and destroyed six enemy ships. The tax ministry announced the losses and noted all ships were total losses.
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London
Vichy Troops Evacuate Beirut Under Dentz Orders
French sources report Vichy troops left Beirut last night and withdrew to the north under orders from General Henri Dentz the Syrian high commissioner. It is believed Australian troops would occupy the city today.
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Ankara
Turkey
Vichy
Beirut
Henri Dentz
Three ships sink after Baltic mine explosion
In the Baltic Sea off Sweden’s east coast last night three ships of undisclosed foreign nationality struck mines and sank with thunderous explosions. Sixteen injured survivors have been landed as reports emerged today.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Baltic Sea
Italy’s War Losses Reach 255000 in 13 Months
Rome reports Italy has lost 255,361 men in thirteen months of war with 175,466 listed as missing, 23,085 killed, and 56,810 wounded. A June casualty list adds 10,286 names, while Axis forces reportedly took 142,216 prisoners and seized armored trains and cannons between July 2 and 5.
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xJuly
Italy
East Africa
New York
Nazis Say British Lost 44 Planes
Berlin reports say British air forces lost 19 RAF planes in daylight over Calais Cherbourg and Boulogne with two German planes downed. The German high command tallies 25 losses for yesterday and last night.
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Berlin
Calais
Cherbourg
Boulogne
Channel
Halifax to quit as U S ambassador amid speculation
London reports Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, would soon return to London and resume a war cabinet role. The British embassy in Washington dismissed the claim as speculative and said there is no confirmation.
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London
News Chronicle
Lord Halifax
United States
Washin
War Cabinet
Munich
Spain
Washington
London News Chronicle
Favors Deferring Those Now 28
The House approved tentatively today legislation providing for the mandatory deferment from military training of men who were 28 years or older on July 1 and who have not been drafted. Members then discussed an amendment to permit men 29 or older who have been inducted to be discharged upon their own request. The deferment provision was accepted without a formal vote and with little debate.
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Washington
House
Rep
Elston
Ohio
Begin Work On N. W. Overpass On Route 50
Construction of the Route 50 overpass at the Norfolk and Western line between Waterloo and Boyce has started. Blackwell Engineering sublets to W C Campbell of Washington VA. The 150 foot long span has a 28 foot roadbed and should be finished around December 1.
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Norfolk and Western Railway
Waterloo
Boyce
Blackwell Engineering Company
W. C. Campbel
Washington, Va
City And County Brevities Include Fly Swatters and Snakes
Commissioner of Revenue Lee Whitacre keeps an extension fly swatter in his County Clerk’s Building office and considers a McKeever swatter for Trial Justice Taverner. The season’s first snake bite affects Mrs. J. E. White of High View, treated at the hospital after a hand bite while picking dew berries.
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Lee Whitacre
County Clerk’s
Cross Junction Way
McKeever
Taverner
J. E. White
High View
Europe Battles on Front Tense as Armies Clash
Reports say the Russians crushed a German motorized division and claimed success along a 300 mile eastern front guarding Moscow and Leningrad. Hitler’s forces announce relentless eastern operations and German gains at Sala amid intense fighting. In the Middle East, Britain presses in Syria Lebanon with Damour fall and air battles rage from England to Egypt including Suez.
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Middle East
Vichy
France
Syria
Henri Dentz
Lebanon
Cairo
Syon
Beirut
Damour
England
Egypt
Hitler
Suez Canal
Mussolini
Syracuse
Sicily
Artillerymen Rescue Three Women Off Fort Story Beach
July 10 Fort Story Va soldiers from Battery PF Test Coast Artillery dived into rough surf during maneuvers to save three young women swept by an undertow. Battery F joined the rescue as a unit and retrieved all three after a heavy surf struggle. Three rescuers were later towed in on a telephone line used during the maneuvers.
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Fort Story
Battery PF
Test Coast Artillery
Atlantic
For Rent New Apts Best Location Ably Priced
For rent new apartments with all conveniences in the best location. Reasonably priced. Contact R. T. Bryarly at phone number 5757.
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R. T. Bryarly
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