Marines Safe After Torpedoed Ship Sinking Near London
The Navy reported eight Marines rescued after a foreign-flag steamer carrying Marines and 17 Red Cross nurses to London was torpedoed. The Maarsden is named by a source, with six nurses landed and one reported lost if 10 Marines aboard is correct. Names and statuses of rescued Marines listed. efforts continue to confirm remaining passengers.
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Washington
Red Cross
London
Navy
Maarsden
Sumner Welles
Walter I. Jordan
Virginia Beach
Sant
George W. Clark
Newfield
N.J
Augustus J
New Brunswick
Winchester Urges Support for USO Service Morale Program
MA Winchester appeals to citizens to back service morale initiatives through USO clubs for youths in the armed forces. He notes hundreds of Winchester and Frederick County youths have left jobs to serve, and urges broad community endorsement and involvement in the program. The meeting will be brief.
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Winchester
Frederick County
USO
Presbyterians To Convene At Berryville
The Auxiliary Officer's Training Class of District D of the Presbyterian Church will be held tomorrow at the Berryville Presbyterian Church. Other District D churches with Women’s Auxiliaries include Bunker Hill Cedar Cliff Cedar Creek Clear Brook Front Royal ardstown Milldale Strasburg Stone's Chapel Winchester and Woodstock. Officers of Berryville host church are Mrs Richard Funk president Mrs Cyrus Pine vice president Mrs Fred Alger secretary Mrs Charles Willingham treasurer and Miss Pattie Luke historian.
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Berryville
Presbyterian Church
Berryville Presbyterian Church
Bunker Hill
Cedar Cliff
Cedar Creek
Clear Brook
Front Royal
Ardstown
Milldale
Strasburg
Stone’s Chapel
Winchester
Woodstock
Richard Funk
Cyrus Pine
Fred Alger
Charles Willingham
Pattie Luke
Isaiah Roe's House Is Razed in Va Blaze
Fire believed caused by a defective chimney destroyed the old Roe homeplace near Gainesboro on Saturday around 11 o clock. Isaiah Roe, a bachelor and former Frederick County Revenue Commissioner, lived there alone. The weatherboard structure burned swiftly, taking the upper stories, and an adjacent smoke house also burned. Loss estimated slightly over $2,000.
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Gainesboro
Roe
Here
Gore
Isaiah Roe
Frederick County
County Youths To Sign At Office
The selective service officials of Frederick county announce that all men who turned 21 since October 16 must register tomorrow for possible military service. Registration will be held in the county clerk's office building on the second floor from 7 am to 9 pm.
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Frederick County
Act of Congress
Americans With British Fliers in R A F Sweeps
London reports the American Eagle Squadron has led recent Royal Air Force sweeps over northern France. Sources decline to give details but claim fighters from the squadron were active in operations over German-occupied areas near the English Channel.
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London
France
Eit Channel
USC Meeting Tonight At City Hall In Winchester
A Winchester and Frederick county meeting is set for tonight at 7 30 at City Hall. Garland R. Quarles director of United Service animations campaign will outline plans to raise funds for the area through July 7. He notes other communities have contributed and urges citizens to help as the USO effort seeks to bolster morale for service members with endorsements from leaders including the President.
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Winchester
Frederick County
Garland R. Quarles
United Service Animations Campaign
Lgatece
The
Star
Labor conscribed in Leningrad to bolster defenses
MOSCOW June 30 All able bodied citizens of Leningrad and surrounding towns were conscripted tonight for work on the city's defenses. The conscription decree from the Leningrad Soviet calls on men aged 16 to 60 and women aged 16 to 45, excluding those already in national service in factories or elsewhere.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Leningrad Soviet
Mine Explosion Burns 18 at Rochester and Pittsburgh Mine
An explosion at the Kent No. 2 mine near McIntyre Indiana County Pa injures at least 18 workers, with 16 more alive in the mine. Rescue teams and air flow kept the mine from being blocked as 10 of the rescued are badly burned at a nearby hospital.
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Indiana
Kent
Rochester
Pittsburgh
McIntyre
Slope
R. E. Penfeld
Tyson Assigned To British Embassy In Washington
W. L. Tyson of 1715 Valley avenue, longtime local rep of W. Strong of Liverpool, has been reassigned to the British Board of Trade and stationed at the British Embassy in Washington. He spent the weekend with family here and will move to Washington once suitable quarters are found in the crowded city.
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W. L. Tyson
1715
Valley Avenue
W. Strong
Liverpool
Virginia
British Board of Trade
Washington
Tyson
Tysons
Library To Close July Fourth
The Handley Library will be closed all day Friday for Independence Day. A Bingo event runs each night this week at the South End Firemen's Fourth of July Celebration. Dial 3631 for Willis Real Estate.
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Handley Library
South End
DIAL
Willis Real Estate
Sour Cherries Sellfast at Orchard and Delivery
Ridgeway West Virginia orchard offers sour cherries at 25 cents per gallon with delivery 30 cents in Winchester. Contact Harry Ridgeway at phone 25 F 42 or dial 6786 for delivery options. This classified note announces fruit sale and delivery details.
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Orchard
Ridgeway
W. Va
Winchester
Harry Ridgeway
Boyce School Construction Likely to Start Sept 1
May start date for the Boyce graded and high school project in Berryville Virginia, a $65000 11 room building with a clinic room for dental and TB checks. Plans by the State Architect are being finalized for Clarke County School Board review before Richmond approval and bid advertisement.
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Berryville
Boyce
Archie F. Robertson
Clarke County
Richmond
George Manuel Sentenced to Nine Months on Two Charges
George Manuel a 4 colored barber on Camer on street received nine months in the state farm on two counts carrying a concealed weapon and assault with a deadly weapon. Trial Justice F L Largent Jr presided Officer Holmes Wisecarver arrested him near Amherst street trespass. Manuel claimed he loaned a truck and gun and was attempting to return the weapon when stopped. Joe Schroth testified for the prosecution.
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State Farm
George Manuel
Cameron Street
F. L. Largent, Jr
Manuel
Holmes Wisécarver
Amherst Street
Wisecarver
Lee Station
Joe Schroth
Inquest Opens Into Thompson Death
An inquest began this afternoon at 3 o clock into the death of Joel R 32 of Matagorda Texas with Coroner F E Tappan presiding. Officials said the gunshot wound was self inflicted and the man had arrived from Matagorda to manage a farm in New Hampshire owned by Mr and Mrs Whittemore.
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Berryville
Joel R
Matagorga
Texas
F. E. Tappan
Thompson
Clarke
Wiman Whittemore
New Hamp
Pierce Hearing To Be On July 16
Marie Pierce faces Clarke Circuit Court on Wednesday July 16 in Berryville Virginia for the slaying of Louis Townsend Moreland a 50 year old Clarke and Loudoun county farmer. Moreland was wounded the day of the escape when he and Pierce were alone. Initial claim says the shooting was accidental. Moreland lingered at Memorial Hospital for weeks.
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Berryville
Marie Pierce
Louis Townsend Moreland
Clarke
Loudoun County
Clarke Circuit Court
Moreland
Aes
Memorial Pital
Nazis Close On Moscow As Red Army Fights Back
German panzer columns push toward Moscow with Minsk and Lwow in German hands. Berlin says Smolensk is in sight as Red Army fights from Murmansk to Ukraine. Moscow reports counterattacks and repulses on the Karelian isthmus and Viipuri.
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Moscow
Assoc
Russia
Lwow
Poland
Berlin
Minsk
Adolf Hitler
Smolensk
Tibau
Baltic Sea
DNB
Red Army
Baltic
Rawa Ruska
Murmansk
Dvinsk
Luck
Black Sea
Rome
Karelian
Finland
Germany
Viipuri
Gulf of Finland
Leningrad
Barents Sea
Luck-Lwow
Ukraine
German Shipping Battered By RAF Attacks Off Nordeney
Royal Air Force struck a convoy off Nordeney sinking two German ships of 6000 and 3000 tons and setting more ablaze. Docks and radio station on Terschelling were attacked and a patrol ship was bombed and destroyed southwest of the island. One German fighter plane was downed as raiders escaped unscathed. Screened by clouds the bombers moved in.
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Netherlands
Nordeney
RAF
Terschelling
Nazis Claim 25 000 Tons Sunk Off English Coast
Berlin reports roughly 25 000 tons of British shipping sunk in a single night raid off the east coast of England. British bombers are said shot down, with several ships, including a 10 000 ton freighter, damaged or sunk.
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Berlin
England
Great Yarmouth
North Atlantic
Skunk and Bees Disrupt City Road and Filling Station
A Berryville Charles Town road traffic stop led to a skunk and six kittens crossing single file. A Winchester farm porch sighting showed a mother skunk with five kittens crossing a lawn. Bees swarmed Teets filling station near eeenis CityePouble Tollgate road and hummed through the wall as the owner sought pest control.
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Berryville-Charles Town
Winchester
Harold P. Teets
Eeenis
Staan Geerteee
Two Spy Suspects Are Technicians For Bomb Sights
In the June roundup of 29 suspected spies, two technicians linked to bomb sight manufacture were identified. Herman Lang a 40 year old German born draftsman and Everett Roeder a 47 year old New York City native worked at Norden and Sperry plants respectively.
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New York
Herman Lang
Everett
Roeder
New York City
Sperry
Brooklyn
Moore-McCormack
Uruguay
Sandy Hook
Lang
Federal
Bure
Edgar Hoover
United States
Drownings Mourn Keedysville Youth Melvin Billmyer
Funeral services for 18 year old Melvin Charles Billmyer of Wardensville area will be held at his home. He drowned yesterday in the Potomac near Keedysville while bathing with two companions. The body was moved to Winchester by Jones Funeral Home and later to the residence. He is survived by four brothers and a sister. The Rev. C H. Anderson will officiate with interment at Mount Hebron.
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Melvin Charles Billmyer
J. O. Billmyer
Wardensville
Winchester
Frederick
Potomac River
Keedysville
Chester
Jones Funeral Home
Billmyer
Keedysvill
Sis
Kenneth
Max
Ralph
Walter
Dorothy Billmyer
C. H. Anderson
Woodrow Peery
Claude Mahew
Elwood Whenton
Junior McDonald
Harry Hamilton
Robert Castleman
Mount Hebron
Machinists Back At Shop Jobs End of Wage Strike Restores Yard Work
In San Francisco on June 30 machinists returned to 11 Bay Area shipyards and drydocks after a seven week wage strike. The AFL and CIO agreement ended the stoppage allowing 60 ships for defense work to proceed with 60 hour shifts and overtime as specified in the Pacific coast shipyards settlement.
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San Francisco
Bay Area
AFL
C.10
Ean Pacific Coast Shipyards
St Ay SL
Aacana
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Houston
Tex
Edward H. McAllister
Cleveland
Ohio
William M. Miller
Charlotte
N. C
John F. Skorich
Marble
Minn
Willis G. Smith
Orangeburg
S. C
President Polk
Patricia Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy
Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company
Newport News
Jean Kennedy
Roger Williams
Loretta K. Connelly
American President Lines
Associated Press
Presbyterians
USC
Winchester Evening Star
Penfeld
United States Bureau of Mines
Mr. Tyson
Boyce School
Clarke County School Board
Clay Carr
Pierce
Hitler
Royal Air Force
Mt. B. Church
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