Capitol Theater Starts Air Conditioning Upgrade
New equipment costing 10000 dollars now fully air conditions the Capitol theatre, including a 30 ton compressor, washed air cooling unit, air filters, and automatic ventilation for year round temperature control. The Capitol has booked the Joe Louis Billy Conn fight film to screen Friday and Saturday July 4-5 with the feature Sunny presented as the main attraction.
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Capitol Theatre
Keen
Capitol
Billy Conn
Nazi Drive In Soviet Union Faces Mixed Russian Resistance
The article reports German panzer forces driving deep into Soviet territory with some resistance, noting potentially decisive early gains. It cites German losses as light, Luftwaffe efforts at rail hubs and airfields, and mentions Polish prisoners, Finnish war talk, and Turku bombing as part of the wider war news.
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Dienst. Aus Deutschland
Red Army
DNB
Luftwaffe
Germany
Italy
Paris
France
Russia
Finland
Risto Ryti
Turku
Stonewall Religious Council re-elects Strother as president
Officers of the Stonewall District Council of Religious Education were re-elected at the Bruce on Methodist Church gathering. B F Strother of White Hall serves as president with U S Fries Green Spring as vice president Mrs E L Lupton Winchester as secretary and Joseph Jolliffe Clearbrook as treasurer. Attendance averaged about 65 percent in Sunday Schools and adult division attendance was typically lax. Ministers including L O Shirley C A Quenzel W W McIntyre D D Chester B Smith Homer Welch Minor C Miller and T H Daffin spoke at the all day session themed Christian Education Advanced.
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Stonewall
L. O. Shirley
C. A. Quenzel
W. W. McIntyre
D. D
Chester B. Smith
Homer Welch
Minor C. Miller
T. H. Daffin
Christian Education Advanced
London Bound Daughter of Viscount Halifax Arrives in San Francisco
Lady Ann Dorothy Faversham, daughter of Viscount Halifax and British ambassador to Washington, arrives in San Francisco by clipper plane from the Far East. She travels from India toward London to rejoin her husband, the Earl of Faversham.
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Viscount Halifax
Washington
Ann Dorothy Faversham
San Francisco
Far East
India
London
Earl of Faversham
Plans Shaped For Vesper Services
The Winchester Ministerial Association schedules united vesper services at Handley High School grounds at 7 p m each Sunday in July and August. A fifteen minute message and music by local pastors and choirs will be provided with loudspeakers for listeners in cars and across the grounds.
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Winchester Ministerial Association
United Vesper
Handley High School
T. M. Swann
Braddock Street Methodist
E. T. Clark
First Baptist Church
Carl Honeycutt
Grace Lutheran Church
R. A. Whitten
Congregational Christian Church
S. L. Flickinger
Centenary Reformed Church
C. H. Funk
Church of Christ
Norman Uphouse
First Brethren Church
R. B. Nelson
Christ Episcopal Church
Garland Hopkins
Market Street Methodist Church
Floyd Haines
W. H. Mc
Shattering Raid Hits Southern England Two Nazi Raiders Shot Down
The report notes light raids by the east contented themselves on southern England points. Government says the bombings caused comparatively minor damage and only a small number of casualties as two Nazi raiders were shot down.
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England
Ike Smith Is About The Same At Memorial Hospital
Ike Smith a druggist at Boyd's Drug Store and son of the late Robert Smith remained about the same at Memorial Hospital where he is a pneumonia patient. Hospital attaches report a more comfortable night for him.
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Ike Smith
Boyd's Drug Store
Robert Smith
Frederick County
Memorial Hospital
Sunshine Cleaners Truck Demolished After Collision
The Sunshine Cleaners delivery truck crashed off the Martinsburg Pike outside town striking a gas pump at Republic station. Employee Jim Sumption sustained a cut across the nose and a sprained bruised knee.
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Sunshine Cleaners
Jimmy Sumption
Martinsburg Pike
Republic Station
Sumption
Columbus appearance and early perfume with alcohol
The text describes Columbus as tall, engaging, well formed and muscular with a dignified demeanor. It notes a long face, aquiline nose, light gray eyes and authority in bearing and mentions hair turning white by age 30. It cites Hungary water in 1370 as an early alcoholic perfume linked to Queen Elizabeth of Hungary.
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Columbus
Hungary
Elizabeth
Roosevelt seeks $300 million for defense housing program
President Roosevelt proposed to Congress an additional 300 million dollars for defense housing. He said data show the government could build at least 125 thousand homes by July 1, 1942, but limited the current request to 300 million to enable about 75 thousand houses to meet urgent needs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
J P Morgan Leads Harvard Commencement Parade
J P Morgan, the renowned Wall Street financier and Harvard alumnus, participates in the annual commencement procession through Cambridge Massachusetts. He returns year after year to take part in the traditional parade honoring graduates.
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J.P. Morgan
Harvard University
Cambridge
Mass
Wall Street
AFL Machinists To End Strike
AFL Machinists to end the walkout after papers faced printing delays and labor tensions. A spokesman said emergency arrangements would keep public service going while talks address demands for a $5 weekly wage hike from $58 daily and $62 nightly.
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AFL
Daily Times
Dail News
Herald-serican
Typographical Union
International Graphical Union
Piper Named Henry Ford of Aviation
M. G. A. W. Piper, founder of the light airplane company, is described as the Henry Ford of aviation for his influential role in popularizing personal aircraft.
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Henry Ford
M. G
A. W. ‘. Piper
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Baker
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N. Braddock St
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B.F. Strother
Stonewall Religious Council
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Arlington
C. A
William Howard Taft
Arlington National Cemetery
Mrs. Kay
Ann Page
A&p
Mr. Jar
Firestone
Safti
Richard Crooks
Margaret Speaks
Firestone Orchestra
Alfred Wallenstein
N. B. C. Red
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Amherst Streets
Auto Supply and Service Store
J. P
GOLF
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Simmons
Winchester Furniture Co
Bato
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