Ammunition Shortage Highlighted by Roosevelt Speech
President Roosevelt disclosed a U S ammunition shortage at a Hyde Park press conference. He said no aid rifles could be sent to Ireland due to domestic shortfalls and that armament aid would require Ireland to defend itself against Germany. He commented on Russia aid talks and noted uncertainty about U S base access in Ireland.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Ireland
Russia
Sumner Welles
Oumansky
Welles
New York
United States
Treland
Bakers demand more raisins and anglers seek guaranteed licenses
Mr Winchester urges bakers to add raisins to buns and fishermen to obtain a guaranteed fishing license. He recalls last year’s iron cladb guarantee with no money back and jokes about Councilman Streit’s claim. He appeals for Marshall to join after bass season opens and notes new licenses required July 1.
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Peyton Marshall
Streit
Marshall
Britain Wins Atlantic Battle With Corvettes and Catalinas
Britain is seen as slowly winning the Atlantic campaign aided by mass-produced Corvette patrol boats and American Catalina flying boats. Extended American patrols help, but a source credits Catalina planes and Corvettes for expanding patrols into areas Germans once deemed safe, reducing British tonnage losses.
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Middletown
London
Britain
Atlantic
Tony
Headley Youth Injured in Valley Avenue Collision
Stewart Headley 14 son of Mr and Mrs Boyd G Headley of Valley Avenue injured in an auto bicycle crash at Valley Avenue and Braddock Street at 10 15 PM. Howard K Moulden 24 of Clearbrook driver of the northbound auto. Police say one bicycle passed left another rode into path of car. Headley taken to Memorial Hospital with compound collarbone fracture a fractured left rib bruises and other injuries not believed serious X rays to check for further injuries. Moulden jailed on reckless driving charges.
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Stewart Headley
Boyd G. Headley
Valley Avenue
Braddock Street
Howard K. Moulden
Clearbrook
Moulden
Headley
Pittsburgh
R. O. Welch
Oakland
Paul Pfeniig
Shirley White
Welch
Memorial Hospital
Omps
Rain Brings Forecasted Relief Across Midwest
Chicago June 27 Forecaster A J Knorr predicts relief from heat as showers move from Lake Superior into the Midwest with cooler air spreading toward the east by Sunday. Today 90s dominated the region with 100 in Phoenix and 98 in St Louis while other cities reported high temps in the 90s.
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Chicago
Rocky Mountains
A. J
Midwest
Lake Superior
Great Lakes
North Atlantic
Knorr
Phoenix
Ariz
Star Mo
Marquette
Mich
Springfield
Carbondale
Nashville
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Bluffton Dentist Struck by Live Wire Yet Not Hurt
Dr. W G Ireland of Bluffton fished at Kunker lake after dark when his bamboo rod snagged a high tension electric wire. A jolt surged along the fishing line and into the lake but the dentist escaped injury.
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Bluffton
Indune
W. G. Ireland
Kunker Lake
Mrs. Lovejoy resigns WPA post effective July 5
Helen Lovejoy of Winchester resigns from her WPA recreation role to remain in the city. She has served since 1934 in various WPA posts including assistant state director and supervisor of recreation for 18 counties. Her husband, Rodney Lovejoy, will take a federal post in New Orleans, and the couple plans to relocate soon.
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Helen Lovejoy
West Boscawen
WPA
Lovejoy
Winchester
Staunton
New Orleans
Ruling Against Weirton Steel Ends Five-Year NL Ruling
The National Labor Relations Board ordered Weirton Steel to stop discouraging C I O organizing at plants in Weirton Clarksburg and Stephenville and withdraw recognition from company dominated groups. It also ordered back pay for 17 workers reinstated after being dismissed for union activity while 83 other complaints were dismissed.
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Pittsburgh
National Labor Relations Board Ay
Weirton Steel Company
C. S. O.’s Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
Weirton
Clarksburg
W. Va
Stephenville
Weirton Steel
C.I.0
Fireman Dies of Auto Injuries in Maryland Accident
Cumberland Maryland June 27 William C Lugenbell a Gaithersburg fireman died at Memorial Hospital after an auto crash five miles west of Cumberland. Lugenbell and two companions were injured when their car ran off a road to an embankment while en route to the State Firemen's Association convention.
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Cumberland
William C. Lugenbell
Gaithersburg
Memorial Hospital
Lugenbell
State Firemen’s Association
Winchester Team Tops Open Skeet Tourney at Rouss Park
The five man Winchester Gun Club team led by Tony Renner posted 236 of 250 and led the state division as the 42nd Virginia Trap Shooters Association tournament opened at Rouss Park. Renner then ran a perfect 50 in the five man team race, while E. E. Cuthbert defends the state singles title and Renner defends doubles and handicap titles.
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Winchester Gun Club
Virginia Trap Shooters Association
Rouss Park
Ruth Cuthbert
E. E. Cuthbert
Carl “Tony” Renner
W. F P. Anderson
F. W. Pingley
Virginia
Winchester
Roanoke
Arthur Cascaden
Orrow
Norfolk
Williamsburg
Alexandria
Renner
Tony Renner
Miss Cuthbert
Army Considering Drastic Change In Induction Method
The army plans a shift in selective service induction to test fitness before training. Pennsylvania experiments guide a nationwide change, replacing immediate center induction with pre camp medical and psychiatric screening, amid broad criticism of teeth and other disqualifications.
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Army
Washington
Pennsylvania
Selective Service
Rvice
Tieieetens i
Golden Wedding For Cornwells
ROMNEY West Virginia June 27 Former Governor John J Cornwell and his wife will celebrate informally Sunday their golden wedding anniversary One day early due to duties as war time governor and general counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad They have issued a general invitation to friends Lun a and the ma daughter Mrs Eugene E Ailes of Martinsburg and her family Mr Cornwell is a veteran newspaper and still opera Democratic weekly here Hampshire Review
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Romney
W. Va
John J. Cornwell
West Virginia
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Cornwells
Luna
Eugene E. Ailes
Martinsburg
Cornwell
Democratic
Hampshire Review
Yard Party at Burnt Factory Church Benefit
A July 2 notice lists a yard party benefit event hosted by the Burnt Factory Church and organized by local young people. Funds support church activities and community programs.
Firemen's Frolic at New Engine House Grounds
A three day Firemen's Frolic is announced for June 26 27 and 28 at the New Engine House Grounds in Stephens City. Public festivities and activities are planned for residents and visitors.
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New Engine House Grounds
Stephens City
Senate OKs record army supply bill over ten billion
The Senate approved by voice vote the $10,384,821,624 army supply bill and sent it to the House for increases totaling $558,312,132. The measure, the largest single appropriation in history, includes $2,790,890,000 for procuring 12,856 air corps planes and gear. The session paused for the memory of the late Sen. Andrew Jackson Houston as talks continued on emergency monetary powers.
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Washington
Senate
House
Air Corps
Andrew Jackson Houston
D-Tex
Houston
Baltimore
Byrnes
D-Sc
Roosevelt
Local youths to register in City Hall court room
Winchester youths who turned 21 in the eight months prior will register July 1 in the Corporation Court room at City Hall. Frederick County and district registrants join a national process with serial numbers starting S-1 for those 21 in time.
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City Hall Court Room
Winchester
Corporation Court
Peyton Marshall
Winchester Selective Service Board
Selective Service Board
Frederick County
Marshall
Suspected Dope Dealers Held in Multi-City Arrests
Narcotics commissioner Harry J. Anslinger announced the arrest of six men and one woman in Baltimore Washington and New York as leaders of a large narcotics traffic gang. The arrests followed about three months of investigation into large scale sales in Baltimore the District of Columbia and West Virginia. Named are Julius Eisenberg George Presto Edward D Argento Conrad Cimino Richard Rose New York Buy and Margaret Lovejoy. Eisenberg alleged leader of the group.
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Washington
Harry J. Anslinger
Baltimore
New York
District of Columbia
West Virginia
Anslinger
Julius Eisenberg
George Presto
Edward D’argento
Conrad Cimino
Richard Rose- Tty
Louis Presto
Margaret Lovejoy
Eisenberg
Ilicit 2E
Yestern Perennes
Germany claims unofficial victory over Russians as battle rages
War report says Germany claims main decision over Russians while Moscow acknowledges retirement. British missions with Ambassador Cripps arrive in Moscow as RAF resumes night raids on the western front. Russians report air attacks smashing German columns and Hitler postpones Russian campaign details amid anti-Communist mobilization claims. Germany denies fighting in Soviet uniforms in White Russia.
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Minsk
Cripps
Moscow
Hitler
Reich
Europe
Sinking of Eight Ships Claimed by German High Command
Berlin reports new German blows to British commerce by sea and air. Eight ships totaling 49,500 tons were sunk by submarine off West Africa and overnight air assaults on southern England. The bulletin also notes British losses of 15 warplanes in various raids and limited non military damage from night bombing.
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mid-Atlantic
African
West Africa
England
Thames Estuary
Germany
Britain
Farm Commodity Prices Jump to Multi‑Year Highs
CHICAGO June 27 Farm commodities prices, mainly grains, cotton and animal products, rose sharply in a broad market rally. Wheat and oats hit their highest levels since May last year, soybeans and lard reached highs not seen since 1937, cotton climbed to an 11 year peak, and butter rose to its highest since late 1937. Wheat futures advanced nearly 2 cents to above 1.06 dollars a bushel for July delivery.
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Chicago
Bicycle Licenses To Go On Sale
City manager office says bicycle registration ordinance will take effect next week. Licenses cost 25 cents each and are valid for the life of the bicycle or until transfer. Bicycles must pass inspection and riders must follow traffic rules like other vehicle operators.
Germans push deeper into Russia as RAF raids on coast surge
Allied reports detail German advances into Vilna and Baranowicze with heavy tank losses claimed by the Russians and air battles over the English Channel. The Moscow communique says Red airmen hit German mechanized columns while warnings point to three main German drives toward Vilna Baranowiecze and Brody.
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Vilna
Minsk
White Russia
Baranowiecze
Brody
Minsk Marshes
Ukraine
Industrial Ruler Again Pounded By British Force
London dispatch reports a one hour raid by Royal Air Force fighters over the German occupied French coast following a sixteenth consecutive night bombing of Germany. Polish pilots claimed three Messerschmitt 109s destroyed in northern France. Kiel docks and shipyards, and Cologne and Dusseldorf were major targets. The air ministry noted two RAF losses and one German fighter shot down.
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London
Germany
Dover Strait
France
Kiel
Cologne
Duesseldorf
Air Ministry
Britain
German Battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst Hit at Brest
London reports that the German battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, 26 000 ton sisters, were struck by sticks of bombs in British raids on their Brest berths and probably hit directly by armor piercing bombs.
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London
Gneisnau
Scharnhorst
Brest
France
Forest Rangers aid Scouts retreat from Skyline trip
Boy Scout Troop 10 nearly missed Sunday School after their Saturday night trip. Forest Rangers aided descent from a dangerous mountain road toward Verbinia. Patrol details name Walter Burner as Scoutmaster and mention Patton returning from Norfolk on leave.
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Forest Rangers
Boy Scout Troop 10
Skyline Drive
Walter Burner
Big Meadows
Douglas and
Stevens
Verbinia
Notice of Lumber Dusting Schedule and Real Estate Ad
Beginning Sat July 5 the designed lumber dusting wills at 1 p m over Sat and August. Glaze & Bro. Oates. W Rosenberger & Co. Willis Real Estate. Sourceebrise. Orchard Ridgeway. W. Va 25-F-42. 30c delivered Winch ester. Dial 6786 Harry.
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OATES
W. Rosenberger 4&Co
Orchard
Ridgeway
W. Va
Winchester
Dial
Harry
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