Urgent Appeal for Rubber Salvage Lead by Local Chairman
Winchester area leader Buncutter urges citizens to salvage every ounce of rubber for the war effort. He cites 95 percent cut in peacetime supply and a year-long shortage of synthetic rubber, calling on families to gather tires, tubes, hoses, shoes and other rubber, then deliver to filling stations for a penny per pound or donate to the 17.5 0. Bun Cutter to aid troops overseas.
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W. R. Legge
United States
War Production Board
Winchester
Frederick County
Bun &Tter
Ed Buncutter
Frederick County Boys
Answers to the Daily Quiz at Page 4
A snippet listing quiz answers including Aluminum Dr Eduard Benes Pacific Satellite True A L Clemens Mary Ball Washington and a note on Junior Achievement describing it as an association for youths aged 16 to 21.
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Eduard Benes
Pacific
Ie Satelite
True
Aoe
A. L. Clemens
German Shepherd
Mary Ball Washington
Hitler Lets Nazi State Judge and Prosecute
A broadcast claims Hitler is expanding Nazi control by declaring dissidents and anti social individuals unfit for community life. It says the regime will act as prosecutor judge and jury with government authorities handling sentencing. It notes mass executions continue in Poland and widens purges to include those deemed incapable of living in society.
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Adolf Hitler
Nazi Party
London
Poland
Poznan
Warsaw
Pripepe
Modlin
Reich
National Socialist
Workers’ Party
Gau Niederdonau
Lower Danube
Ministry of Interior
Vienna
Niederdonau
Point Pleasant Dispute Heads to War Labor Board
Officials said the Point Pleasant West Virginia dispute at Marietta Manufacturing Co. would be certified to the War Labor Board after Director John R. Steelman urged striking workers to return pending formal submission to government agencies. About 1,800 employees walked out Tuesday seeking wage and hour adjustments and union privileges.
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Washington
U.S. Conciliation Service
Marietta Manufacturing Co
Point Pleasant
W. Va
War Labor Board
John R. Steelman
Conciliation Service
Steelman
Steelman’s
A.F.L
Wege
U S Plans New Bases in Cuba for Anti Submarine Use
The United States War Department will establish an anti submarine base and an aviation training center in Cuba near Havana under a Havana agreement. The Cuban government allies will provide facilities while Royal Air Force pilots use the training center. Work will begin at once, signed by Cuba's Jose Manuel Cortina and U S ambassador Spruille Braden.
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Ton
Cuba
United States War Department
Havana
State Department
Royal Airforce
Caribbean
Jose Manuel Cortina
Spruille Brada
United States
Paper Warehouse Fire Near Greenwich Village
A five alarm blaze tore through the seven story Great Atlantic Paper Company warehouse on Washington Street near the Hudson River in Manhattan. Ten firefighters died as dense fumes from tar paper overwhelmed crews and an emergency hospital was set up beside the scene. The fire began around 10 a.m. after workmen were repairing conduits and a short circuit sent manhole covers flying.
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New York
Greenwich Village
Manhattan
Great Atlantic Paper Company
Washington Street
Hudson River
Britain Faces Backlash Over Tobruk Defeat And North Africa
In a report from the North African front, British forces withdraw to strengthen positions near the Libyan border after Rommel’s gains. Containing the Axis threat, RAF bombers hit Emden and Osnabruck while the Polish government reports mass executions in Warsaw and Poznan as terror widens. Major leaders Roosevelt and Churchill meet in the United States to plan responses.
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Salam
Halfaya
Roosevelt
Churchill
United States
Europe
Asia
Africa
Tobruk
London Daily Mail
The
Evening News
Rommel
Emden
Osnabruck
Germany
Holland
London
Poand
Warsaw
Poznan
Fighting Around Kwangfeng Flares in Kiangsi Province
A Chinese communique reports ongoing fighting on the outskirts of Kwangfeng in Kiangsi with two Japanese columns within 50 miles of each other to the west. It notes a Hupeh front clash near Lungwang and Changshinho with 300 casualties, and Japanese attacks at Chingki and Mafang in Kwangtung.
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Chungking
China
Kwangfeng
Kiangsi
Hupeh
Lungwang
Changshinho
Kwangtung
Chingki
Mafang
Baltimore Grain Market Closing
Baltimore reports closing grain prices with Wheat No 2 Red at 1.18 1-2 per bushel for June and 1.18 1-2 for Gar licky spot. Corn at 96 to 99 cents per bushel. Winchester Market lists Wheat at $1.13 and Corn at 90 cents, based on mill deliveries.
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Baltimore
Winchester
Realistic training area set in East Anglia by British Army
The British War Office reveals the army will take over 36 square miles of East Anglia and eject all residents by July 20 for training. Officials say the area is needed for realistic modern warfare, denying any plan for an invasion staging ground.
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London
British War Office
East Anglia
England
Holland
Two Dead In Woolworth Store Fire In Norfolk
A second body was found in the ruins of the F W Woolworth & company store at 709 Church Street. The blaze Friday afternoon killed an 18 year old clerk and one more victim, believed to be 14 year old employee Thomas Edward Evans, who failed to report for work.
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Norfolk
F. W. Woolworth & Company
Church Street
Thomas Edward Evans
Young Evans
Frenchurch Street
Montenegro Guerrilla Fight Wrecks Italian Casualties
The Yugoslav government in London reports Italian forces suffered heavy casualties in a new guerrilla clash in Montenegro Yugoslavia. The British radio, heard by CBS, transmitted the update today.
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New York
London
Montenegro
Yugoslavia
CBS
Elias Executed On Treason Charge
Berlin reports that Gen Alois Elias former minister of communications of the Czechoslovak republic and later premier of Bohemia Moravia under the German protectorate has been executed for treason. He was accused of heading a terrorist group and sentenced in October 1941, with clemency delay prior to execution.
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Berlin
Alois Elias
Czechoslovak Republic
Bohemia and Moravia
Elias
Germany
Soldiers Cannot Marry Abroad
The War Department issued a terse order barring marriages of American soldiers on duty in foreign countries or possessions without approval from the local commanding officer. The announcement cited recent marital complications and noted unofficial reports from areas such as Australia since American expeditionary forces arrived.
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Washington
War Department
United States Army
Australia
Girl Wounded by Rifle Shot in Richmond Alley
Margaret Anne Chandler, 10, was wounded by a .22 caliber rifle bullet while playing with two girls in an alley near 2200 block Hanover Avenue in Richmond. The bullet lodged near her spine after a 15-year-old boy tested a rifle he had cleaned and fired at a fence.
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Richmond
Margaret Anne Chandler
Hanover Avenue
Two Destroyers to Be Launched at Kearny
Two more United States Navy destroyers numbered 447 and 448 will be launched at the Federal Ship building and Dry Dock Company yards in Kearny New Jersey tomorrow. Godchildren Mrs Marion Parker Embry of Washington and Mrs Lucy LaVallette Little of Brooklyn will christen the ships, the Jenkins and the LaValette respectively, honoring earlier destroyers and their distinguished sailors.
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Kearny
N. J
United States Navy
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Marion Parker Embry
Washington
Thornton A. Jenkins
U.S. S
Axis moves and Allied response in global war outlook
Observers believe Axis aims focus on quick victory with a push into Egypt via Africa and a drive toward the Caucasus oil region in southeastern Europe. Potential Suez diversion from the north and intensified air sea campaigns against Allied shipping are warned as key strategic lines.
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Siberia
Axis
Africa
Western Desert
Egypt
Suez Canal
Caucasus
Suez
Europe
United States
Washington
New York
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FWA
Kenneth Markwell
Oklahoma
Federal Works Agency
State Planters Bank
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Delaware
Hitler
CANDY
United Food Stores
B. W. Sargent
Eagle's Meat Market
Brown's Meat
Larrick’s
Bailey Brothers
L. E Barris & Co
Cash & Carry Grocery
Ramsburg’s Store
Cameron & Piccadilly
Loudoun
8&T
Valley Avenue
Braddock St
Cameron St
National Ave
W. Piccadilly
Berryville, Va
Labor Board
South Main St
U. S
New
Smolensk
George A. Hutton
Sugar Grove
Harry Groseclose
Marion
Ing Post
Hutton
Woolworth
B. F. Goodrich
Silvertown Stores
Madeleine Brucher
Switzerland
Cosmopolitan Opera House
New York City
Madeleine
Central Press
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Grull
Yee
Wakanda
Methodist
Garland Evans Hopkins
Gapind Tufcote
Wape
John W. Rosenberger & Co
the Capitol Restaurant
the Mutual Life Insurance CO
Danley
W. Whitlock Ave
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