Secrecy Maintains Pace In Nazi Spy Trial Proceedings
Navy era dispatch notes the sealed proceedings in the trial of eight accused Nazi plotters at the Justice Department. Only occasional statements from Gen McCoy emerged as secrecy persisted while prosecutors edge toward details of the chase and capture of the Berlin trained saboteurs.
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Washington
Justice Department
Military Commission
Commission
Frank R. McCoy
Seven-General Trial Commission
McCoy
Berlin
Informa
Thomas Jefferson quote on liberty and tyranny cited
The item attributes words to Thomas Jefferson shared by a friend of the Star in a Jefferson Lafayette dialogue. It notes that liberty required struggle and mentions a pledge of lives fortunes and sacred honor, and a 1776 commitment against tyranny over the mind. It references a pre election vow on eternal hostility to tyranny.
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Star
Thomas Jefferson
Marquis de Lafayette
Ney
Peterans
Yard Party Whitacre House Sale Notice
For sale in front of County Court House Winchester Virginia at 12 00 noon on Saturday July 11 1942 Apple common stock Virginia A WAMES P REARDON Adm. lists Benefict Redland Church as party in interest yard party at Whitacre House dated July 11 1942.
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Whitacre House
Juy
Redland Church
County Court House
Winchester
Virginia Awames P. Reardon, Adm
Yaar Anon Zane Fire Co Meeting Notice
The regular meeting of the Yaar Anon Zane Fire Company is set for July 10th at P. members are requested to attend. Captain Loryn M. Crabill signs the notice.
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Yaar
Berryville to Hold 41st Horse Show with Proceeds to Army-Navy Relief
Berryville Virginia July 10 officials announce the 41st Berryville Horse Show will proceed as scheduled in August. net proceeds will go to the Army Navy Relief. Executive committee is E A Lindsay Lodge Bowles George Levi and B Hummer. J T Lindsay serves as president. Prize list released and grounds work to begin along US Route 7.
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Army-Navy Relief
Berryville
B. Hummer
E. A. Lindsay
Lodge Bowles
George Levi
Hummer
Mr. Bowles
Ewart Johnston
Leonard Bell
J. T. Lindsay
Association
Imee
1088 Sign Up For Gasoline In Winchester
Handley High School registered 1088 persons for gasoline rationing with registrations continuing. Car and motorcycle owners begin tomorrow, trucks and non passenger vehicle owners slated for July 14-15 in Winchester. Bulk storage guidance issued. do not come to the board office.
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Handley High School
Demand For Early Apples Blamed On Canning Sugar Ration
Inquiry found the market for early apples unsatisfactory after an encouraging start with Transparents. Growers, led by H. M. Bond, blame rigid sugar rationing limiting to one pound per four quarts of finished fruit. Weather reduced apple size, while overall returns for Transparents were mixed amid slack packing demand.
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H. M. Bond
Extra Two Pounds Of Sugar Allowed In War Ration Plan
The Winchester and Frederick County War Ration Board announced new stamps for sugar allotments. Stamp No. 7 will be valid July 10 to August 22 for two pounds, with Stamp No. 5 valid between late June and July 26, and Stamp No. 6 valid July 27 to August 22 for two pounds. Merchants were warned not to mix stamp numbers on one card.
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Winchester and
Frederick County
Miss Rosenberger Leaves for Camp Lee
Miss Rosenberger departs for Camp Lee in Lee Virginia where she will serve as a nurse. She recently graduated from Memorial Hospital's nursing school and has joined a corps of local nurses donating services to the Army and Navy.
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Lee
Miss Rosenberger
Memorial Hospital
United States Army
Navy
Wheat and Tomato Yields Highlight Clarke County Farms
In Reynolds Store cross junction area E L Luttrell reports 12242 bushels of wheat from six acres about 20 1 3 bushels per acre and a 344 acre tomato crop promising a minimum 60 cents per bushel. Howell M Bond notes drought effects on barley yields and road washouts. Other Clarke farms record varied barley and wheat averages from Shumate and Shiley to Wynkoop Smallwood Rusk with multiple acreages and yields.
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E. L. Luttrell
Reynolds Store
Luttrell
Cross Junction
Mr. Luttrell
Howell M. Bond
Apple Pie Ridge Road
Clarke
Frederick
Tom Shumate
R. G.ckley
Arthur Shiley
White Post
Pete, Rieke Eatrm
Sidhoon McGehes
San
J. W. Alexander
M. Wynkoop East
W. W. Smallwood, Jr
Robert Rusk
Draft To Take 250 From This Area In August
Draft boards for Winchester Frederick and Clarke counties call 250 men for induction in August. Frederick 129 Clarke 59 Winchester 62 total 187 white 1 As 39 colored 1 As 24 1 B. Dates set for Winchester August 22 31 Frederick August 21 25 29 Clarke August 25 31 with white and colored selections.
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Winchester
Frederick
Clarke Counties
Frederick County
Clarke County
Wife of Baptist Minister Dies in Bowling Green
Mrs. L. M. Ritter 64 native of Clarke county died suddenly at Bowling Green Virginia. She was wife of Rev. L. M. Ritter pastor of the First Baptist Church at Bowling Green and is survived by a daughter Mrs. Front Royal. Funeral services are set for this afternoon at 5 30.
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Berryville
L. M. Ritter
Clarke County
Bowling Green
Motor Vehicles Paying More in Virginia Revenues Rise
Richmond July 10 The Virginia State Division of Motor Vehicles posted a fiscal year total of 32 991 531 90 up 2 028 051 09 from 1940 41 Director C F Joyner Jr noted a gasoline tax drop of 8 8 percent for four months ended June 30, gas rationing impact, June down 21 6 percent from last year Gasoline taxes rose to 24 373 408 titles 333 226 and auto licenses 7 886 991 2 39 up 2 2 percent
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Richmond
State Division of Motor Vehicles
C. F. Joyner, Jr
Joyner
Valley Airways Adds Training Aircraft For Army Flyers
Valley Airways Inc delivered a Ryan STA aircraft for training army fliers at Shepherd Field Martinsburg. Six students with over 150 solo hours arrive July 15 to begin instruction. Lt. George Schecter says the new ship is faster and heavier than Piper trainers. Naval personnel also train at Shepherdstown, with the instructors course expanding the pilots training program.
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Valley Airways, Inc
Aay Air Gorge
Baltimore
Earl Shipe
Valley Airways
Piper
George Schecter
Martinsburg
Shepherd Field
U. S. Naval
Sree College
Shepherdstown
Germans Extend Defense Area Along Belgian Coast
London reports a German expansion of the defense zone along the Belgian coast. Traffic is banned except with a permit, and residents are told not to travel beyond three miles from home as roads and bridges to the coast are widened for military movement.
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London
Bel
Man
Germans Continue Sweep Along Con and Reds Counter
The report outlines a widening Allied push on the Western Front. Soviet defenses counter new thrusts as Allied forces keep pressure along key sectors. The piece notes a Senate panel approving 120 million dollars for the Office of Price Administration for the current fiscal year, with reductions from Henderson’s initial request but above the House figure.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations
Office of Price Administration
Leon Henderson
House
McKellar
D.tenn
Henderson
Congress
Russell
D.-Ga
Another American Ship Sunk Off South America
The Navy reports the loss of 11 crewmen from a U S cargo ship torpedoed off South America. The attack raises Allied and neutral ships sunk in Atlantic waters since Pearl Harbor to 350, with 23rd South American sinkings since December 7. Survivors say a large Axis submarine torpedo struck near the boiler. one lifeboat crew member Burke reached British Guiana.
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Associated Press
Navy Today
U.S
South America
United Nations
Atlantic
Pearl Harbor
Gulf Coast
Burke
British Guiana
Doctors Depart for Duty in Army and Navy Assignments
A series of medical officers and a dentist depart or prepare to leave Winchester for military service. Dr George H Smith heads to India with Army units in the desert warfare training program. Dr E C Stuart Jr sails Sunday to Fort Bragg for captain duty. Major Thomas Gibson leaves July 15 for Charleston. Dr John B McKee, recently commissioned major, leaves July 24 for Camp Io Norfolk Naval Base. Dr Leon Slavin to report for active duty with the Navy at Norfolk base after earlier reserves service.
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George H. Smith
India
Cal
Army of the United States
E. C. Stuart, Jr
Fort Bragg
N. C
Winchester
Southern Pines
Thomas Gibson
Charleston
John B. McKee
Corvallis
Ore
Slavin
Bort
Leon Slavin
Navy
Aga
Norfolk Naval Operating Base
Lend Lease Pact With Greece Signed by U S A
Washington July 10 secretary of state Hull and Prime Minister Emmanuel Tsouderos of Greece signed a master lend lease pact completing agreement on war objectives with President Roosevelt and King George. Several United Nations have already joined similar pacts and more are expected to accept invitations.
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Washington
Hull
Emanuel J.tsouderos
Roosevelt
George
United Nations
Great Britain
China
Russia
Belgium
Poland
Netherlands
United States
Greece
White House
Emmanuel Tsouderos
London
Mineside Tragedy in West Virginia Claims Twenty Miners
Morgantown, July 10. Rescue workers removed the bodies of 20 men trapped in Pursgrove Company No 2 mine after a sudden accident and fire four and a half miles in. Eighteen identified. 70 of 300 workers were inside at the time.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Pursgrove Company
Company Officaals
Pennsylvania
Scott’s Run
West Virginia
No. 2
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Sugar Rationing Expanded for Canners in Virginia
Dr. C Hart Schaaf state rationing officer announced authorization to grant sugar to commercial canners in Virginia. The measure aims to boost canned peaches supply while ensuring syrups do not exceed army and navy requirements, preventing fruit wastage.
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Richmond
C. Hart Schaaf
Chinese claim Chungshu retaken in new Kiangsi push back
Chinese high command reports recapture of Chungshu and Tsungten 70 miles south of Nanchang as Japanese forces of about 30,000 are said ambushed and driven back toward Nanchang Kiangsi. Aggressive thrusts along the Kiangsi rail line to Hunan province are reported halted.
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Chungking
Emmake
Kiwangsi
Hunan Province
Tsungten
Nanchang
Kiangsi
Nazi Airdromes Bombed By Reds
Moscow reports heavy raids by the Red Air Force on German airdromes in northern Norway and Finland. Multiple bases were attacked to disrupt Arctic supply convoys to the Soviet Union. Bolshevik strikes claimed 30 German bombers and fighters destroyed, 27 damaged, with hangars and a warehouse burned and no Russian losses.
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Moscow
Norway
Finland
Red Air Force
Arctic
Russia
Red
Niern
Murmansk
Kola Peninsula
Red Army
Severairports
Hitler Sends For von Brauchitsch
The Daily Mail reports Hitler called back ousted army chief Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch from Berlin. The Stockholm dispatch claims neutrals brought the note to Stockholm. Brauchitsch allegedly directs staff work for the German offensive in Russia.
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London
Baily Mail
Adolf Hitler
Walther von Brauchitsch
Iisk
Stockholm
Berlin
von Brauchitsch
Hitler
Daily Mail
Russia
King Christian X Leaves Hospital After Treatment
King Christian X of Denmark, aged 71, left the hospital today following two weeks of treatment and will rest at his castle. The announcement comes from Copenhagen via German broadcasts.
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Copenhagen
Christian X of
Denmark
the Today
Furious Battles Developing On River East Bank
Soviet dispatches report German forces crossing the upper Don and pushing toward Voronezh while Red Army units contest a new thrust toward Rossosh on the Moscow Rostov line. Red Star notes battles near Rossosh amid heavy attacks and a looming threat to Voronezh as German forces advance.
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Adolf Hitler
Upper
Don River
Rossash
Voronezh
Moscow-Rostov
Upper Don
Hitler
Rossosh
Red Star
Caucasus
Red Army
Rakesians
Orel
Rostov
Stalingrad
Lower Volga
Rososh
Fedor von Bock
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Yfield
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C.P.A
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U.S.A
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Nancheng
Shwang
Poyang
Chekiang
Reds
Axis
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Winchester Evening Star
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