War Causes Decline For Farm Crops
The Agriculture Department reports lower prices for key crops due to shrinking foreign markets and Allied setbacks. Cotton stocks shrink with weaker demand. grain prices fall about 30 cents a bushel. Milk production is set to rise, and dairy demand grows, while livestock prices stay unattractive. Exports of pork may rise if British meat stocks run short.
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Washington
Department
Ger Ag
Dement
Holland
Dr. Ellsworth Johnson Speaks at Northern Virginia Dental Club
The Northern Virginia Dental Study Club met with Dr. B. M. Knight Jr. hosting in West Boscawen Street office. Essayist and roentgenology head Dr. Ellsworth Johnson of Winchester Memorial Hospital demonstrated jaw tumors by slides and lecture. Next meeting is in October for the annual banquet. no summer meetings.
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Northern Virginia Dental Study Club
B. M. Knight, Jr
West Boscawen Street
Ellsworth Johnson
Roentgenology
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Johnson
Wrist Watches For Graduates At Handley High
Miss Lucille Spillman and Irvin Zuckerman received wrist watches at a Handley High School assembly. Garland R. Quarles, city superintendent, presented the prizes from Hodgson and Brown, winners in the firm's eighteenth annual clock contest. Names of all graduates were pasted onto a large clock face to indicate the winners.
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Lucille Spillman
Irvin Zuckerman
Handley High School
Garland R. Quarles
Hodgson and Brown
West Coast To Help Uncle Sam
RED BLUFF Calif June 5 A drive to raise 1000 for Roosevelt defense fund launched by Red Bluff Chamber of Commerce with 200 members. Leaders said citizens will voluntarily pay for defending democratic national life against encroachment. Studies note crimes against persons rise in warm climates and against property in cold climates.
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Red Bluff
Calif
Roosevelt
United States’ Defense Fund
Army plans for thousands of tanks and planes in defense build up
The War Department seeks more than 700 million for an expanded Army and 3 000 additional planes to train 7 000 pilots yearly. Proposals include 1 600 tanks to join U S Army forces and orders for 500 large calibre howitzers and anti aircraft gear. Navy aims to add three dozen warships as part of fleet expansion. Russia population noted at 170 million. Cabell Hall at University of Virginia credited to Stanford White completed in 1898.
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Army High Command
War Department
House
Army
Navy
A. Cabell
University of Virginia
Stanford White
Manufacturer official urges tax base broaden to fund debt plan
Noel Sargent, secretary for the National Association of Manufacturers, testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee. He supports a bill to raise 656 million dollars annually for five years to finance a proposed 3 billion dollar federal debt limit and proposes widening the income tax base. He suggests cutting personal exemptions to 500 dollars for singles and 1,500 dollars for married persons.
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Wine Institute of
San Francisco
Cal
Harry A. Caddow
House
Ways and Means
National Defense
National Association of Manufacturers
Noel Sargent
Train Wreck Near Dubois Sacks Loco Engineer Missing
A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train derailed after its locomotive jumped the track and struck a coal train near Johnsonburg. Engineer James F. McFarland of Salamanca N Y is missing. fireman John T. Rice of Dubois Pa. sustained minor injuries. No passengers were reported injured. The Buffalo to Pittsburgh bound train derailed seven cars including a sleeper and a coach.
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Dubois
Baltimore and Ohio
James F. McFarland
Salamanca
N. Y
John T. Rice
Buffalo
Pittsburgh
Johnsonburg
Methodists Open Annual Meeting at Western Maryland College
The Baltimore Annual Conference of the Methodist Church opens in Westminster with reps from three branches. Delegates register before the first dinner and the five day meeting begins with devotional services led by Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes of Washington at Western Maryland College.
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Westminster
Baltimore
The
Methodist Church
Edwin Holt Hughes
Washington
Western Maryland College
Stokes Enters Race Against Weigher Pickens in County
Oklahoma City report notes Harry V. Stokes a 290 pound challenger entering the race against incumbent county weigher Jim Pickens. Stokes campaigns on balancing the scales with the slogan The only man who can balance the scales.
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Oklahoma City
Jim Pickens
Harry V. Stokes
Stokes
Atchison Urges Subcapital Move From Washington DC
The Atchison Globe argues the western frontier has moved past the Alleghenies and suggests creating a subsidiary national capital in Atchison Kansas. It quotes Rep Lambertson and notes Washington residents fear invasion while Atchison invites the designation to ease Washington suffering.
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Atchison, Kas
Atchiscon Globe
Allegany Mountains
Wired
Ww. P. Lambertson
R-Kas
Washington, D. C
Atchison
Washington
Memorial Services Set at Friendship Church Next Sunday
Canterbury notes show Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Painter of Dickerson Maryland visiting here over the weekend. Memorial services are planned at Friendship Church Sunday morning June 9. Local residents report recovering measles cases and other weekend visits include Audrey White and visitors to Baltimore.
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Canterburg
Elmer Painter
Dickerson
L. W. Painter
Painter
Marvin Painter
Lloyd Allen
Lebanon
Wilma
Evelyn Ferrebee
Vaucluse
Friendship Church
Audrey White
Edward Ambrose
Beatrice Painter
Walker, Shryock
Harry Cline
Baltimore
Alfred Shryock
Carrie Hudson
Woodlyn
Leakesville Baptist Church
Howard
Polio Virus Traced in Sewage Evidence Ties to Illness
New York June 5 definite proof that sewage carries the virus of infantile paralysis was announced in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. Yale doctors Paul Trask and Gard report the virus found in Detroit Buffalo and Charleston sewer samples during small epidemics last summer and show it can be transported in flowing sewage at least one sixteenth of a mile. virus remains detectable after three days.
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New York
Journal of Experimental Medicine
Detroit
Buffalo
Charleston
John R. Paul
James D. Trask
Sven Gard
Yale University
Lothian Warns Americas What Could Happen
Britain's ambassador to the United States the Marquess of Lothian warned Americans of potential consequences if Britain loses the war at sea. He urged U S support in weapons and stressed Hitler’s aim to seize the British fleet and dominate global communications.
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Lothian
Americas
New York
Marquess of Lothian
Britain
United States
Columbia University
Hitler
Europe
Garand Seen As Valuable Firepower Against Parachutists
General George C. Marshall told a House appropriations sub committee that the Garand semi automatic rifle is a highly effective weapon against German parachute troops. He said its firepower enhances the individual rifleman and is easy to handle, making it particularly valuable.
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Washington
George CC. Marshall
Army
Sheriff Finds Moonshine Still On His Farm
Still-Dazed Sparta North Carolina Sheriff DeWitt Bryan reports discovering a large moonshine operation on his own farm. He described the moment as the most surprising of his life.
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Sparta
N. C
DeWitt Bryan
McCafferty Ousted From Pittsburgh Post Cracker Job
In Pittsburgh a dispute arose after supporters backed Edward F. McCafferty Jr for county committeeman without his consent. He claimed no ballot listing or sticker campaign and said he resigned. He was dismissed from a $3,000 yearly chief clerk post at the Registration Commission, citing a law barring public office for such employees.
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Pittsburgh
Edward F. McCafferty, Jr
McCafferty
Pittsburgh Registration Commission
Last Rites Held For Mrs. C. E. Neville
Friends and relatives gathered at 3 p.m. for funeral services for Mrs. C. E. Neville widow of C. E. Neville at her daughter Mrs. Carrie Anderson’s home on East Germain Street. The Rev Dr E T Clark of First Baptist Church conducted the service. Interment followed in Mount Hebron Cemetery with pallbearers James Loy Roland McInturff John H Rosenberger Taylor Barr Harvey Carper and William Perry.
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Ce Ae
Marona Henry II
C. E. Neville
Memorial Hospital
Carrie Anderson
East Germain Street
E. T. Clark
First Baptist Church
Mount Hebron
James Loy
Roland McIinturff
John H. Rosenberger
Taylor Barr
Harvey Carper
William Perry
Blumberg Loses Injunction Motion
Dr. Albert E. Blumberg, secretary of the Communist party of Maryland and the District of Columbia, loses his bid to block use of party documents in a removal hearing on contempt of Congress charges. Judge W. Calvin Chestnut denied the injunction before U S Commissioner James K. Cullen in Baltimore.
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Baltimore
Albert E. Blumberg
Communist Party of
Italy’s principal exports by value include vegetables
Italy’s top exports by monetary value are vegetables fruits and cotton with vegetables leading followed by fruits and cotton in the trade mix for the period observed.
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Italy
Flower plants for sale at Smalts & Son
Flower plants for sale ready to set out including petunias pansies geranium snapdragons heliotrope cannas marigolds ivy and more at C B Smalts and Son 440 National Ave phone 1691
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C. B. Smalts & Son
National Ave
Spoon Saga in Belleville Lunch Room Mystery
Four years ago in Belleville Illinois customers left Mrs Charles Willmans lunch room with four silver spoons a wedding present. A stranger later returned with three of the spoons claiming to mail the fourth from Oklahoma.
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Belleville
Ill
Charles Willman
Oklahoma
Heap Big Mistake
North Platte Nebraska reports a dispute over tribal fishing rights. A man charged with fishing without a license was released after authorities cited statutes allowing Indians to fish in all U S waters.
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North Platte, Neb
Red Man
Broken Rope
United States
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