President Will Keep U.S. Out of War If He Pulls a Wheeler
Senator Wheeler and allies press that if President Roosevelt "pulls a Wheeler" he would keep the nation out of war. The exchange centers on Iceland defense and the President's pledge amid drafts and selective service proposals. Wong Yee Choy, a Chinatown youth in New York, holds the draft lottery number 10910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Washington
Wheeler
D.-Mont
Montanan
Roosevelt
Iceland
Britain
Churchill
Congress
Clark
Idaho
White House
Nye
H Cean
Pepper
D.-Fia
Atlantic Seaboard
Wong Yee Choy
New York City
Chinatown
Three parking woes on Loudoun street prompt test lines
Citizen reports repeated parking spaces wasted with vehicles left blocking lanes on Loudoun street. A nearby scooter and pickup incident shows tight spaces. author proposes trying guiding lines to improve order. Yard party at Harry Miller's raises funds for Red Bud Church.
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Harry Miller
Red Bud Church
Plans Complete For Aluminum Collection Drive
Committees from Winchester and Frederick County finish plans for a city wide aluminum collection next week led by Dr. C R Anderson. For the first four days volunteers will operate in Winchester collecting discarded aluminum from attics cellars and outbuildings at four fire company halls and five filling stations with daily truck pickup by George W Clower.
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Winchester
Frederick County
C. R. Anderson
City of
Winchester Volunteer Fire Company
McKinley Turner
Berryville
National Avenues
E. E. Cuthbert
Shawnee
Millwood Avenue
L. J. Cleveniger
Cameron
Loudoun
Mr. Sirbaugh
South Braddock
Gerrard Streets
W. M. Bayliss
Boscawen and
Amherst Streets
George W. Clower
Fruit Growers To Have a Program
The 1941 Virginia fruit harvest season nears and marketing is urged. The State Extension Service News says the Blacksburg gathering with Institute of Rural Affairs on July 30 offers a venue for growers to share data and plan a marketing program featuring talks on the Army's Fruit Purchasing Program, nutrition roles, low grade fruit juice use, and hormones in production.
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Virginia
State Extension Service
Institute of Rural Affairs
Blacksburg
Army
Subversive Axis Agents Denied Admission Under New Orders
Washington reports two inter-departmental committees tighten controls on German-dominated Europe immigration. Visa applications are scrutinized to block potential German agents and those with relatives in Nazi areas. Officials say about 499 daily decisions will be possible with three new committees, amid 400,000 refugees in France seeking visas.
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Washington
Europe
United States
State, War and Navy Departments
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Immigration Service
Justice Department
Roosevelt
Germany
Italy
State Department
France
Capt Myers Ready For Another Try
Captain Edward W. Myers discusses the Robin Moor sinking after May 21 and his 13 days at sea. He hopes for a command with a gun and outlines the submarine supplying survivors before sinking the freighter. He cites Dakar as the closest plausible base.
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Baltimore
Robin Moor
Edward W. Myers
West
Africa
Dakar
Eagles To Hold Change of Picnic Venue Tomorrow
The Eagles shift their outing from Jordan Springs to Clevenger's bottoms for a full day event. The formal program starts at 2 PM, with members urged to note the new location.
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Eagles
Clevenger’s Bottoms
Jordan Springs
Special Session Set To Address Sewage For Winchester NE
City to hold a special Common Council meeting Tuesday at 7 30 PM to discuss sanitary conditions and sewer disposal in the northeast section. Eugene Meredith and City Manager Lee Grant will present data on a survey and costs to determine necessary steps. About 50 property owners protested last week demanding sewer connections for Berryville avenue Shannon Hill area where over 100 properties lack sewers.
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Winchester
C. R. Anderson
Common Council
Eugene Meredith
Richard Messer
Lee Grant
Sanitary and Water and Sewer Committees
Berryville Avenue
Shannon Hill
Virginia Press backs daylight saving as defense move
The Virginia Press Association adopted a resolution urging Governor Price to use available means to comply with President Roosevelt’s daylight saving request. Major Raymond Bottom presented the measure from Newport News. The group noted Attorney General Staples’s view that the governor lacks authority to order time changes but urged state departments and municipalities to voluntarily adopt daylight saving time. The convention approved the resolution unanimously.
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Hot Springs
Virginia Press Association
Price
Roosevelt
Virginia
Raymond Bottom
Newport News
Staples
Association
Munitions Train Blown To Pieces At Krylbo Station
A Swedish munitions train collided head on with an express train at Krylbo north of Stockholm. The blast sparked hours of shell bursts, injuring twelve people and sending many to hospitals while others hid in air raid shelters. The express train burned and the junction was jammed as investigators arrived. The munitions train included German cars and Swedish authorities investigated the incident.
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Stockholm
Krylbo
Sweden
Norway
Finland
Britain says large parts of Muenster and Aachen destroyed by RAF
London reports at least one third of Muenster and Aachen damaged or ruined by 120 raids in weeks of operations. RAF losses include 118 fighters with 17 pilots saved, while Spitfire and Hurricane crews logged over 2 million miles in 31 days.
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London
Britain
Muenster
Aachen
RAF
Air Ministry
Germany
Goering
France
R.A. F
Berkeley Board Cites Married Teachers Firing Plan
Berkeley County school officials in Martinsburg announced 12 married teachers were placed on the preferred reserve list, signaling they may lose posts this fall. Superintendent W W Trent warned County Superintendent G W Ropp to halt the action, arguing marriage cannot legally annul contracts.
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Charleston
W. Va
W. W. Trent
Berkeley County
Martinsburg
Trent
G. W. Ropp
Berkeley Board
British Bombers Sink 300000 Tons of Enemy Shipping
London July 19 Sir Archibald Sinclair Secretary of State for Air said at a Liberal conference British bombers have sunk no less than 300000 tons of enemy shipping and damaged as much again in the last four months Our fighter aircraft are fighting at extreme range over enemy territory and destroyed on average more than twice the number of enemy planes that we themselves lose
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London
Sir Archibald Sinclair
Air
Liberal Party
State Troopers To Warn About Wasting Gasoline
Virginia troopers will halt or warn motorists who appear to waste gasoline. Colonel M S Battie directs the action to promote conservation. Governor Price official says the effort follows a petroleum conservation meeting with auto clubs companies and trucking representatives.
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Richmond
Virginia
M. S. Battie
Division of Motor Vehicles
W. M. Kemper
Price
Kemper
Germans widen Stalin line breach near Smolensk
Axis and Russian reports clash over Smolensk gains as Germans claim breakthrough while Russians deny unyielding resistance. Guerrillas recapture two cities behind lines and Moscow cites 4 million reserves. UK notes air war losses as German shipping declines and RAF counterattacks persist. Junior US embassy staff depart for Kazan as ambassador stays.
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Associated Press
Smolensk
Axis
E R Michael Dies at Frederick Warehouse
Ernest Raymond Michael a 61 year old Winchester Frederick county businessman died instantly this morning at 7 10 entering his Amherst street warehouse office. He had not been in good health recently but responded to treatment. He is survived by his widow Mamie Goode son Julian Michael of Winchester daughter Mrs Charles C Taylor Berkeley Springs siblings and four grandchildren. Funeral arrangements pending with Omps Funeral Home and Rev S L Flickinger to officiate at Centenary Reformed Church Tuesday afternoon.
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Ernest. Raymond Michael
Winchester
Frederick County
Amherst Street
Michael
James Good
E. Brooks Flickinger
Morgan
Morgan County
Mr. Michael
Albert T. Michael
Berkeley Springs
Catherine Miller Michael
Mamie Goode
Julian Michael
Charles C. Taylor
Floyd
Clifton Michael
Clara Shirley
Martinsburg
Della Hart
Los Angeles
Edith Stotler
Washington
Edwin
S. L. Flickinger
D. D
Centenary Reformed Church
Omps Funeral Home
Germans eye western Russia as Moscow threat grows
Berlin observers say Smolensk gate forces open terrain 200 miles southwest of Moscow to German advance while invaders may target pockets of the Red Army. An Axis diplomat cites 4,000,000 Russian reserves for defense of the capital and a September aim to occupy a line from Leningrad to the Caspian Sea.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Smolensk
Berlin
Germany
Red Army
Russia
Istanbul
London
Britain
Leningrad
Gulf of Finland
Strakhan
Caspian Sea
Tax program heads to House panel for final study
Bulletins Washington July 9 report the new 3.504 billion tax program going before the House Ways and Means Committee for last minute study. Indications show members will not alter the steep tax increases on corporate and individual income and on luxury purchases.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Navy defense funds pressed as other needs win priority
Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Committee complained that while the Navy is the country’s first line of defense, defense material needs are being deprioritized in favor of other items.
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Washington
Vinson
D.-Ga
House , Naval Committee
RAF Attacks Palermo Harbor Hit Misses Reported
Cairo dispatch says Axis destroyers and cruisers in Palermo harbor were struck or narrowly avoided during a Thursday night air assault. Observers noted heavy smoke hindered full observation of results.
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Cairo
Egypt
Sicilian
Palermo
RAF
Toy
President Roosevelt Prepares Message on Draft Service Limit
President Roosevelt works on a message to Congress urging removal of the one year limit for military service by draftees National Guardsmen and reserves. The message will go to Capitol Hill after Monday with a rough draft reviewed by War Department officials.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Capitol Hill
War Department
Wheat yields lead Clarke county harvest report
Clarke county farmers report excellent wheat production with A. R. Arnett yielding 32 bushels per acre on a 37 acre tract near the Clarke Jefferson line by the Shenandoah river. Miss Marie Pierce's 12 acres east of Berryville topped 30 bushels per acre and Clifton Price averaged about 24 from 25 acres northeast of Berryville. Barley yields are poor due to dry weather, ranging 20 to 25 bushels per acre. Middletown Town Council approves 15 for USO activities. USO workers praise local support. Junior Board of Traders notes strong pie eating contest entries for Sunnyside picnic on July 23 with music by Shirley Ritenour's band and events led by Paul Carper.
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Clarke County
A. R. Arnett
Clarke
Jefferson County
Shenandoah River
Marie Pierce
Berryville
Clifton
Star
Junior Board of Traders
Sunnyside
Shirley Ritenour
Paul Carper
Breach widens as Smolensk fighting intensifies on front
The Russian high command reports a widening Smolensk breach while noting stubborn fighting in the center and renewed Red air force activity. German claims include crossing the Dniester and advances from Bessarabia into Ukraine. Red Army reportedly destroyed 71 German planes in three days. Romanian oil fields at Ploesti bombed. guerrilla detachments hold two captured towns.
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Smolensk
United States
Kazan
Tartar Republic
Red Air Force
Red Army
Dmiester
Bessarabia
Ukraine
Lake Lodago
Leninerad
Romania
Ploesti Oi
Ankara
Red Star
Izvestia
Moscow
Gore Picnic Event Details On July 26 at 2 P M
Continued on Page 2 describes a large Gore picnic with a Bat game at 2 PM plus fiddlers beauty contest and contests. It lists stands concessions and contact H Windle 5 Purcell Ave Gore VA phone numbers 4376 and 3631. Willis lis Real.
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A& Passenger
U. 8
Lloyd Leheras
Capt. Myers
Press Association
Winchester Evening Star
Aprile
Berkeley School Board
England
Western Front
E. R. Michael
Bulletins
Middletown
USO
Fred Larrick
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