King and Queen Headed Home After Canada Visit
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth return to Canada aboard the Royal Pilot Train, then sail Thursday for England. In Canada and the United States the royal tour drew large crowds, with highlights including a Hyde Park visit with President Roosevelt, a church service led by Bishop Tucker, and a swim at the Roosevelt estate pool.
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ROYAL
Hyde Park
George VI
Elizabeth
Canada
England
United States
Mrs. Roosevelt
Hudson Valley
Tucker
Roosevelt
Henry St. George Tucke
Episcopal Church
Roosevelts
Rensselaer
Albany
Halifax
London
George
Winchester Park Association to Meet at City Hall
The Winchester Park Association will hold its monthly meeting Monday evening June 12 at 8 o clock in City Hall. Members are requested to attend. Ryland Conner, President.
Deer Spotted In Pasture Near Reliance Farm
B A Rowland 53 startled by a deer in a McQuay farm pasture near Reliance early Friday morning. He thought it was a colt until the animal approached, then hopped the fence and vanished toward the river after a car passed. He speculated the deer may have wandered from George Washington National Forest.
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B. A. Rowland
McQuay
Reliance
Mr. Rowland
George Washington National Forest
Industrialists Ready To Serve Wartime Educational Orders
Ten industrialists named by Louis Johnson to aid in distributing educational orders to munitions manufacturers if Congress provides funds. The volunteers include Benedict Cromwell, E. M. Allen, Carl L. Bausch, Frank D. Bell, William H. Coleman, Donald W. Douglas, John M. Hancock, William Hudson, J. L. Perry, and Charles J. Stillwell. A $32.5 million appropriation would allow at least 271 plants to receive trial orders for special munitions.
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Washington
Congress
Louis Johnson
Benedict Cromwell
Wilson
E. M. Allen
Matheison Alkali Works
Carl L. Bausch
Bausch and Lomb Optical Company
Frank D. Bell
Edgewater Steel Company
William H. Coleman
Bucyrus-Erie Company
Donald W. Douglas
Douglas Aircraft Company
John M. Hancock
Lehman Brothers
William Hudson
General Motors Corporation
J. L. Perry
Carnegie- Illinois Steel Corporation
Charles J. Stillwell
Warner-Swazey Company
War Department
New Formula For Russia Prepared
London June 12 British government outlined to Ivan Maisky Soviet ambassador a new formula aiming to end deadlock over a British French Russian mutual assistance pact. Strang, foreign office envoy for Moscow talks, left for Warsaw en route to Moscow to speed negotiations. Halifax and Phipps provided views and met Chamberlain at No 10 as Parliament debated appeasement stance. Grew reported Sino Japanese conflict to Hull and Welles and planned to meet Roosevelt.
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London
Ivan Maisky
Moscow
Viscount Halifax
William Strang
Strang
Foreign Office
Warsaw
Halifax
Eric Phipps
Paris
Eric
Lord Halifax
Chamberlain
No. 10
Downing Street
House of Lords
Grew
China
Washington
Joseph C. Grew
Hull
Welles
United States
Tokyo
State Department
Roosevelt
Dozen Injured in Clashes at Auto Plants
Dozens injured in clashes between police and UAW AFL pickets at Saginaw during inter union fight for recognition as GM bargaining agent. Six arrested as Flint mobilizes force though no violence there. Plants opened with reduced or no crew as unions dispute representation.
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Flint
Mich
United Auto Workers
AFL
Saginaw
General Motors
Grey Iron
Chevrolet
Fisher Body
Buick
Chevrolet No. 5
Chevrolet Asea A Corporation
Fisher No. 1
Fred Bossman
Uaw-Cio
Uaw-Afl
Homer Martin
R. J. Thomas
CIO
Martin
UAW
William S. Knudsen
G. M
Detroi
Pan American Clipper Flies From Lisbon With Royal Images
The PAA-21 clipper departed Lisbon at 7 27 a m carrying films and photographs of King George and Queen Elizabeth for Marseille France. Tension rose as the aircraft cleared the harbor and headed toward its next destination.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Pan-American Airways
George
Queen Elizabeth
Marseille
France
Pittsburgh man sentenced to life for triple murder
Dr. Norman Stewart the second, who pleaded guilty to the murders of his first wife and namesake son, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Frank P. Patterson in Pittsburgh on June 12.
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Pittsburgh
Norman Stewart
Frank P. Patterson
Philadephia
Byron Nelson
Craig Wood
Philadelphia Country Club
Wood
Denny Shute
Nelson
Shute
Vatican reports Uruguayan envoy Joins diplomacy push
Vatican sources said Joachim Secco Illa Uruguayan minister extraordinary arrived in Italy May 26 to renew diplomatic ties with the Holy See and completed his mission successfully according to Vatican officials on June 12.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Joachim Secco Illa
Italy
Uruguay
Holy See
Ickes Summarizes Six Years of PWA Building
Administrator Ickes outlined a six year PWA report noting 164 project types completed at a total cost of 4 185 002 036 dollars. Schools waterworks and sewers accounted for most of the funding.
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Washington
Ickes
PWA
Jailed for Life for Carrying Bomb in Fruit Basket
Jerusalem reports Rachel Ohev Ami a young Jewish woman was sentenced to life imprisonment by a military court after being found with a time bomb hidden in a basket of fruit. The case highlights security concerns in the city during the period.
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Jerusalem
Rachel Ohev Ami
Rachel Lover of
Yard Party at Greenway U B Church
Yard party at Greenway U B Church scheduled for June 17, with rain date if needed on Monday June 19. Event codes 6 12 14 16 1p 31 noted.
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U. B. Church
Fire destroys four story Japanese American News building
A fatal blaze in San Francisco swept a four story building housing the Japanese American News. One Japanese individual died while several others were rescued or leaped to safety as fire crews battled the flames early today.
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San Francisco
United States closes legation at Tirana Albania
The United States closed its legation in Tirana Albania and ordered American Minister Hugh M Grant to return to Washington.
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Washington
United States
Tirana
Albania
Hugh M. Grant
Rubber life rafts for US bombers adopted by War Dept
Rubber life rafts capable of supporting 20 men have been adopted by the army air corps for its largest bombers. War Department officials said today they were developed at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, for use on long sea flights.
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Washington
Army Air Corps
War Department
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
Fair Trade Laws See Mixed Senate Action Across States
An Associated Press survey shows two fair trade laws enacted this session for every three rejected or vetoed. Several states passed or amended acts on price controls, markups, and distribution of discount certificates while governors in New York, Maryland and Nebraska vetoed bills after passage. Some states strengthened laws to enforce minimum margins, with Oregon, Arizona and Utah extending markups for retailers and wholesalers.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Florida
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Maine
Alabama
Wisconsin
Idaho
Washington
Missouri
South Carolina
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Iowa
Maryland
Kansas
Michigan
New Hampshire
Vermont
New York
North Carolina
Oregon
Arizona
Utah
Ohio
Virginia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Arkansas
New Jersey
Georgia
Fiscal Policy Of President Is Under Fire
In Washington on June 12 a senate showdown formed between the economy bloc and western senators over dollar devaluation and the silver program. McNary plotted a party conference to oppose the house approved bill to reduce gold content and extend the stabilization fund while Glass and Adams led a Democrat group backing limits on federal policy. Pittman urged Morgenthau to outline intentions on silver prices after June 30.
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Washington
Senate
McNary
Glass
Virginia
Adams
Colorado
Pittman
D-New
Morgenthau
Congress
House
Ways and Means
House Appropriations
Senate Finance Committee
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Social Security Board
Byrnes
D-Sc
United States
South
Government probes typewriter industry for monopolistic practice
New York June 12 the government opened a grand jury inquiry into the typewriter industry to assess monopoly or collusion among manufacturers. Thurman Arnold assistant attorney general said the probe, under Frank Murphy, will examine progressive centralization and price trends as four firms control about 90 percent of sales.
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New York
Thurman Arnold
Frank Murphy
Federal Court House
Arnold
United States
Berkeley Henderson
Murphy
Plate supper benefit at Rest Church on Ridgeway lawn
On Ridgeway school lawn Thursday June 15 if rain Friday plate supper 25 cents served from 6 to 9 pm at the Rest Church. Proceeds support church aid.
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Ridgeway School Lawn
Benefit Rest Church
Claimed Current Aerial Program Sufficient For Defense
Hollywood reports say English Episcopal minister Rev. R. Anderson Jardine facing church boycott after marrying the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson. With funds nearly exhausted he contemplates cinema work or other pastorates in New York Chicago or Dayton Ohio while living in a two room apartment with his wife.
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Hollywood
Duke of Windsor
Wallis Simpson
R. Anderson Jardine
New York
Chicago
Dayton
Ohio
Dr James H Gore Dies at 82 in Chevy Chase
James Howard Gore 82 native of Frederick County eminent geodesist died Saturday at his Chevy Chase home. Funeral rites held in DC and burial there beside his wife and daughter. He was son of Mrs. Sidney Gore who presented his portrait at Gore Consolidated School graduation. He was brother to Perry Gore former Frederick County high sheriff and Joshua Gore eminent mathematician educator and former Belgium ambassador. Raised at Valley Home Gore section he had many Winchester area friends shocked by his death after prolonged illness.
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James Howard Gore
Frederick County
Chevy Chase
District of Columbia
Sidney Gore
Gore Consolidated School
Perry Gore
Joshua Gore
Belgium
Gore
Valley
Winchester
Mrs Henry Bell Brought Home From Lexington
Mrs Henry Bell of this city sustained a right ankle fracture at Lexington Virginia last Friday while attending finals at Washington and Lee University. She was brought home by Friendship Fire Company ambulance and rests well. Her granddaughter Aloise Brill and Miss Rachel Jennings accompanied her to Lexington. The bone was set in a plaster cast at the hospital in Lexington.
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Henry Bell
Lexington
Valley Avenue
Friendship Fire Company
Hugh Brill
Lester Forney
Local Supreme Court Remands Case in Virginia
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals hands down rulings in June. Earl E. Harrington versus D. Sencindiver trustee remanded after decree reversal in Frederick County circuit court. R. L. Massie et al versus L. H. Dudley executor affirmed in Rappahannock County circuit court.
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Wytheville
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
John Waye Yeath
Earl E. Harrington
D. Sencindiver
Circuit Court of
Frederick County
V. Vernon Spratley
R. L. Massie Ea al
L. H. Dudley
Bankers Subdue Menacing Stranger
Two officers of the Central Bank in Wilmington overpowered a rough ly-dressed man who presented a note threatening to blow up the building unless given $1,000. The suspect identified himself as Thomas Woodward Dixon, 31, of Spartansburg, S. C.
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Wilmington
Del
Central Bank
Thomas Woodward Dixon
Spartansburg
5. C
Arnold tells congress US air corps expands for defense
Major General Henry H. Arnold, chief of the army air corps, testified to a House subcommittee that rapid production of pursuit ships will keep the United States ahead of enemy bombers. He noted Europe pursues different tactics and urged $20 million yearly for aeronautical research to catch up with Germany's five large research plants. Col. Lindbergh warned the US trails in military aviation while leading in commercial aviation. Roosevelt seeks $250 million to expand to 5,500 plants, with 571 planes ordered already.
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Washington
Army
Congress
Air Corps
United States
Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Corps
House Appropriations
Europe
Arnold
Col
Charles. A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Tana Flier
Roosevelt
Curtis
Come Tee
Germany
Will Hitler Fly To America
Berlin reports Adolf Hitler ordered a four engine Condor FW 200 with 220 mph speed and 5600 mile range to fly Berlin to New York. The plane seats a conference room and entourage space with radio contact and safety devices.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
New York
North Atlantic
United States
Tokyo
Manila Bay
Focke Wulfen Aircraft Corporation
Bremen
Fuehrer
Vienna
Hitler
Puehrer
Temperatures Reported Highs and Lows
The reading shows today’s high near 62 with a low around 67. A year ago the high stood at 91, indicating a cooler comparison to the prior year’s conditions.
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Frank H. King
Pure Food Store
Ryland Conner
Russia
Mr. Roosevelt
West Point
N. Y
America
United States Military Academy
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Memel
Reformatory
Buena, Vista
Colorado Reformatory
W. H. Johnson
Warden Johnson
Needham Ferguson
Clarence A. Burkett
Eugene Nebeker
Denver
James Cowan
Fort Col
Walter Johnson
Charles Aicher
U. S
J. H. Gore
Supreme Court
Maj.gen. Arnold
Herr Hitler
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