Clarke County School Board Reaches Shared Understanding
Clarke county board members patrons and citizens near agreement on school administration and Boyce high school construction after a two to two split decision. The board urged state action to reappoint Archie F Robertson as division superintendent and sought a $60 000 funding package combining a $45 000 literary loan with $15 000 from a county sinking fund.
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Berryville
Clarke County School Board
Boyce
Virginia State Board of Education
Archie F. Robertson
the Star
Associated Press
State Board of Education Bly
Clarke County
Sidney B. Hall
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Board of Supervisors of
Fand
Board of Supervisors
Clifton Price
Supervis- Boyce
John Fishpan
William Fenton
State Board of Education
Robertson
Aha Adeno
Jay
Parking Meter Ordinance Fails by One Vote
Common Council votes against installing parking meters by eight to two, with three absentees. Proceedings note prior public hearing actions and possible need for full attendance. A. Lee Coble and R. Frank Barr are mentioned as hospital patients and absentees.
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Common Council
C. R. Anderson
Earl Baker
D. Barnett
W. W. Dellinger
Allen Hawthorne
Thomas Kremer
Brady Largent
Miller Streit
W. P. Anderson
Percy Miller
Btu
Wadene Ban
Panoyu
A. Lee Coble
Washington
Lawrence C. Hollis
George G. Meade
R. Frank Barr
Anderson
W. A. An
Baker
Dellinger
Hawthorne
Kremer
Young Air Pilots Sent To Pacific
Scores of fledgling air corps pilots are being sent to Hawaii and the Philippines. Some 116 second lieutenants who recently won their wings are ordered to embark for Pacific outposts in the next three weeks. The pilots come from Brooks and Kelly fields in Texas and the Stockton advance school.
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Washington
Air Corps
Hawaii
Philippines
Pacific
War Department
Brooks
Kelly Fields
Texas
Stockton
Calif
Phillippines
Pacific Posts
Atlantic
Phih Fos Catineau i. Ta
WPA Funds For Sidewalks Are To Be Sought
Winchester council moves to seek WPA funds for sidewalk construction as repairs and new pavements are planned. The street committee approved a plan to restore disrepair and build where needed with the aim to submit the application before July 1.
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Lee Grant
Winchester
W. W. Dellinger
Grant
Bund's Auxiliary Returns Charter in New Jersey
The German American Bund Auxiliary says its charter was repealed by the Legislature and Camp Nordland at Andover New Jersey has been turned over to mortgagees. The group surrendered the charter and a deed of sale was filed. Governor Edison signed the repeal into law after Memorial Day raid by deputies led by Sheriff Quick on charges the camp was a nuisance.
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Trenton
N. J
Bund Auxiliary
Camp Nordlefad
Denton’ J. Quick
Bund
Quick
Adolf Hitler
Apples With No Care Or Seed Grown By California Woman
California housewife Libbie Wilcox grew a seedless, careless apple from a tree she planted ten years ago. The U S Department of Agriculture confirmed the rarity and will conduct experiments at a station in Maryland. Wilcox, 60, says the fruit is large red and one quarter larger than typical apples and she cannot identify the seed variety.
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California
Huntington, Park
Calif
Libbie Wilcox
United States Department of the
Mary
71st C A Is Bivouacked At The Ottark
The 71st Coast Artillery Anti Aircraft unit bivouacked at Winchester's armory water works and park for a night with 1 000 men 150 vehicles arriving from Fort Story Virginia Beach. They will demonstrate anti aircraft defense tonight at 8 oclock covering the armory ball park and water works. Mayor Anderson city officials greeted the troops.
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Winchester
Test Coast Artillery
Fort Storey
Virginia Beach
Virginia
Nie
Big Meadows
Dimmick
H. 8. Dimmick
Ball Park
Anderson
Grant
W. A. Baker
Clayton Hollis
Vist
C. W. Higgins
2Nd Army Corps
The
Star
Railway Workers To Seek Wage Increases Across Major Unions
Chicago June 4 Officers and committees of 14 rail road labor groups with 750000 members prepared to demand higher pay for non operating staff including telegraphers boiler makers and clerks They plan to submit their wage proposal to major carriers The five large operating unions will issue a 30 percent basic pay demand for 350000 members after a May 19 Chicago conference A National Mediation Board vote on strike plans was pending and mediation continued.
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Chicago
Carmen
George M. Harrison
Cincinnati
The
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Eng
Offic
National Mediation Board
Ington
Friendship Fire Co Plans for Staunton Reel Races
The Friendship Fire Co holds its regular meeting on Thursday June 5 at 8 p.m. in Friendship hall to discuss plans for the reel races at the Virginia State Firemen's Convention in Staunton.
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Friendship. Fire CO
Friendship Hall
Friendship Fire Co
Staunton
Congressional Check Sought On Wider Powers
Senate debate centers on a War Department drafted property requisition bill to empower the President to take private property for defense. Proposals seek a temporary measure requiring Congressional authorization by resolution to curb dictatorial power. Byrd and May clash over presidential control of prices and plant seizure in defense efforts.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
War Department
Clark
D-Mo
House
May
Byrd
D-Va
Final Plans For June 6th Are Made Public
Descendants of Confederate soldiers will gather at Stonewall Cemetery near Winchester for remembrance ceremonies. Major Robert T. Barton of Richmond will deliver the address as a parade forms at 10 30 moving along Cameron Piccadilly Loudoun Cork and back to Stonewall Cemetery escorted by mounted police. The order of exercises includes the Municipal Band American Legion V F W Virginia Protective Force and Confederate veterans organizations with remarks by Major Barton and a benediction followed by taps and the Dixie hymn.
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Winchester
Priday
Stonewall Cemetery
Southland
Robert T. Barton
Richmond
Cameron
Piccadilly
Loudoun
Cork
American Legion
Virginia Protective Force
George Dellinger
Winchesters
Stonewall Memorial Association
Turner Ashby
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Order of
Nelson Page
R.T. Barton
McIntyre
Nolley
McTiwee
Dixie
Egypt Cabinet Resigns Amid War Fears In Cairo Shakeup
Egypt's cabinet quits as fears mount of Axis invasion. Cairo officials say resignation follows grave circumstances and threat of a German thrust into the Nile valley. Separate dispatches report RAF strikes on Bierut and Beirut, and Mosul occupation signals widen regional war. Ex‑Kaiser Wilhelm II dies in Dutch exile at Doorn amid Nazi war rhetoric.
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Associated Press
Egypt
Cairo
The
Nile
Middle East
RAF
Bierut
Syria
Tunisia
R. A. F. Middle East Command
Beirut
Lebanon
Britain
Mosul
Iraq
Mediterranean
Army of the Levant
Berlin
France
Germany
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Doorn
Adolph Hitler
Hitler
Western Front
Nazifuehrer
England
Kaiser
Wilhelm
Holland
Mediation Board Moves to Halt New Coal Strike
The Defense Mediation Board hears northern and southern soft coal operators and the CIO United Mine Workers to resolve a wage contract dispute risking a 400000 miner strike in seven Appalachian states. President Lewis postponed walkout awaiting the board's recommendations.
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Washngton
Defense Mediation Board
United Mine Workers
CIO
John L. Lewis
UMW
W. H. Davis
Roosevelt
Davis
Mediation Board
Ickes Urges Adjustments for Oil Shortage
Secretary Ickes said adjustments are needed to meet a prospective oil shortage. He proposed conservation of petroleum products and nationwide daylight saving time to save electricity. Officials said Japan imports oil from the U S but the eastern shortage stems from transport limits from southwestern fields.
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Washington
Ickes
Interior Department
Roosevelt
Defense
Office of Production Management
Japan
United States
Airplane Lands on H. W. Butler Farm Near Winchester
A lost looking airplane circled Mt. Williams Sunday afternoon at 2:30 PM and landed in a field on H. W. Butler’s farm near Strother Lineburg’s house. The pilot asked Miss Ruth Lineburg for directions to Winchester before taking off again toward the Municipal Airport.
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Mt. ‘Williams
H. W. Butler
Strother Lineburg
Miss Ruth
Lineburg
Winchester
Ex Kaiser Wilhelm II Dies in Exile at Doorn
Berlin June 4 Former Kaiser Wilhelm II dies at his Doorn exile estate after an illness. Hitler orders imperial military rites with full honors and flags flown at half staff. Burial set for Doorn with limited family present and a special train for veterans.
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Kaiser
Hitler
Berlin
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Imperial Germany
Doorn
DNB
Amsterdam
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Princess Hermine
Duchess of Brunswick
Louis Ferdinand
Karl
Franz Joseph
Henrietta
Kaiserin
Pottsdam
Louise Ferdinand
Castle Doorn
Netherlands
Hohenzollern
William I
Cecilienhof
Ser
Tharthur
Inquart
Wilhelm
London Paper Rages At Crete Failure
The London Daily Mail blasts the British cabinet in an editorial asking when Britain will fully mobilize wartime production and adopt radical home-front changes. It states Churchill may face political peril if prompt action is not taken over Greece and Crete.
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London
London Daily Mail
Churchill
Greece
Crete
Britain
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Boyd's Drug Store
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Rodolfo Graziani
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Friedrich Wilde
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