Finns and Reds Battle for Viipuri in Fierce Struggle
Helsinki dispatch reports continued combat around Viipuri as Finnish defenders fight to hold the city amid Russian attempts to encircle. Russian forces press from the bay islands and northwest shore, with fighting also noted on the Karelia isthmus and near Kuhmo.
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Helsinki
Viipuri
Bay of
Gulf of Finland
Bay
Vuoksi
Karelia
Artill
Mannerheim
Kuhmo
Pinland
Helsingin Sanomat
Elias Erkko
Winchester Urges Beetle Control Volunteers
City officials recognize the need to propagate beetle control and seek volunteers to supply labor starting next week. The effort aims to curb the Japanese beetle threat to farmers and fruitgrowers, with residents urged to contact the committee without delay.
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Board of Supervisors
Mayes Poultry Ad Promotes Daily Cut Chicken Sales
The Mayes Poultry Co offers any chicken part any day due to high demand. They invite customer response and note their new plan at 402 435 N Market. A lost brown and white springer spaniel puppy is listed with a $12 reward.
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Mayes Poultry Co
N. Market
Husky Negro “Red” Incurs Wrath Of Senatoria
Benjamin Davis of New York City, a husky Negro Communist, disrupts a Senate hearing on anti lynching legislation by branding southern senators as stooges and Vice President Garner as an evil old labor baiter. Chairman Van Nuys shouts insult and expunges part of the record as Davis testifies under a 15 minute limit. Davis rails at senators who filibuster the anti lynching bill.
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Washington
Benjamin Davis
New York City
Senate
Stooges
van Nuys
D-Ind
Judiciary
Davis
Congress
Communist
Russia
Communist Party
Earl Browder
Wiley
R-Wis
Austin
R-Vi
Neely
D-Wva
Connally
D-Tex
Husky Davis
Merchants Association to Elect Officers Thursday Meeting
Winchester merchants plan their annual meeting in the city hall council chamber on Thursday night March 7. R E Avey, president, announced the gathering to elect officers for the coming year and discuss holiday plans inviting all merchants in Winchester including non members of the Chamber of Commerce.
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Retail Merchants’ Association
Council Chamber
R. E. Avey
Avey
Winchester
Chamber of Commerce
The
Merchants Association
Coal Town Folk At Home Again
SHENANDOAH PA March 5 The earth's surface sagged anew in this undermined coal town. Cracks widened in walls and pavements across a 16 block area as homes and businesses settled downward up to 20 inches in old mine cavern below. Early today residents in the cave-in area heard faint rumblings as the threat lingered.
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Shenandoah
Two Italian Coal Ships Held in Allied Blockade
Two Italian steamers loaded with German coal for Italy were detained by Allied blockade forces. Ronald H. Cross says German coal exports from Rotterdam to Italy are now subject to seizure as prize of war and have ceased. Seventy-five ships were loading coal at Rotterdam, with several sailing for Italy recently amid Italian protests over interference with coal imports.
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London
Italy
Ronald H. Cross
House of Commons
Cross
Rotterdam
Amsterdam
The Killer Speaks serial thriller opens in The Star
Richard Houghton writes a spine chilling tale to be published daily in The Star starting tomorrow afternoon. Muriel Benton faints on hearing Alfred Markham is stabbed in the Rio Vista Club garden as Bill Strickland, a murder suspect, is kidnapped the same night. The mystery deepens as clues and twists unfold with a sharp chief and a clever young newspaperman pursuing the killer.
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Richard Houghton
Muriel Benton
Alfred Markham
Rio Vista Club
Markham
Bill Strickland
Camp facilities praised near Dilbeck site in national forest
Winchester citizens including City Manager S Lee Grant and Police Magistrate Donald Weems viewed a government camp near Dilbeck in the George Washington National Forest. The group noted 96 underprivileged children could be accommodated, with several buildings under roof, good ventilation, healthful, well drained site and a 50 gallon per minute artesian well. About $40,000 has been spent on the project with provisions made.
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Winchester
Dilbeck
George Washington National Forest
S. Lee Grant
Donald I. Weems
Ansel B. Groves
Kiwanis Club
Marvin Weaver
Andrew Bell
Chamber of Commerce
Weems
Rain and Sleet Damage Is High Across Atlantic Seaboard
Utility firms and property owners estimated millions in damage from a major rain and sleet storm hitting the North Atlantic states. Emergency crews worked overnight to repair crippled communications and power lines, disrupted fire alarms, and clear blocked roads. Northern New Jersey, New York City, Westchester, and Long Island bore the brunt as authorities compared the event to historic storms.
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Associated Press
North Atlantic Seaboard
New Jersey
New York City
Westchester County
Long Island
British Cabinet Shake Up Seen With War Office Probe
London reports a second wartime cabinet shake up loom as Supply Minister Leslie Burgin and two other ministers face possible dismissal. The war office secret court questioned an unnamed colonel linked to a contractor's agent amid probes of wartime contracting. Scotland Yard may have completed an overall contracting inquiry. Three supply ministry staff were fired.
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London
Supply Ministry
War Office
Leslie Burgin
Chamberlain
Supply Office
Scotland Yard
Burgin
Sir Wood
Air
Leslie Hore-Belisha
Fannie C Moulden Property Sale Near Winchester
Two acre and one rood limestone land with a six room residence and barn to be auctioned in front of the Court House at noon on Saturday March 9th. The site lies eight miles north of Winchester along the Winchester and New Turnpike.
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Winchester
New Turnpike
Court House
Debate Over Hatch Anti-Politics Act Shapes Senate Talks
Senator Minton argues expanding the Hatch anti politics law to include state employees partly funded by federal money could let the federal government influence state elections. Hatch counters that it would mirror existing federal employee restrictions. Miller pushes to repeal limits on federal workers in a clash signaling party stakes. The House debates Interior appropriations as Friday vote looms. White House aides discuss Panama Canal locks funding and design, with roperty measures trimmed in war department civil functions funding.
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Washington
Minton
D-Ind
Hatch
Senate
D-Nm
Miller
D-Ark
Democratic Party
House
Interior Department
White House
Congress
Roosevelt
Panama
War Department
Ginger Rogers Sues For Divorce From Lew Ayres
Ginger Rogers files for divorce from Lew Ayres in Los Angeles alleging desertion. The couple married in 1934 and separated in 1936, with previous marriages noted for both. A joint May 1936 statement mentioned a separate agreement, while Hollywood cited temperament as a factor.
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Los Angeles
Ginger Rogers
Lew Ayres
Virginia M. Ayer
Frederick Ayer
Ginger
Lew
Ayres
Lola Lane
Jack Cul- Pepper
Holywood
Fred Astairee
Court Approves $1 000 Settlement
Judge Philip Williams of Corporation Court ratified a compromise by which Benjamin Belchie will pay $1 000 to the administrator of the late Dolores Powell in full settlement of all claims stemming from the death of the Powell child. The girl, daughter of Roy and Dolores Powell, was killed after being struck by an automobile. investigators exonerated the driver.
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Philip Williams
Corporation Court
Benjamin Belchie
Barn Dolores Powell
Belchie
Roy Alton Powell
Boston bull dog seeks good home
Wanted description for a young spayed female Boston bull dog in good markings. Contact by phone 1182 for adoption inquiry.
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Boston
Roller Skating at Rustic Garden Front Royal Va
New management operates Rustic Garden roller rink in Front Royal Virginia with afternoon and evening sessions. Admission after noon costs 10 cents and in the evening 25 cents.
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Rustic Garden
Front Royal
Virginia Senate Votes to Freeze Literary Fund at 8 Million
The Virginia Senate unanimously approved Senator Ralph Daughton's joint resolution for a constitutional amendment to lock the state literary fund at eight million dollars. Future annual increases, excluding interest, would fund public schools including teacher retirement, with fines and forfeitures directing $350,000 to $400,000 yearly redirected to schools.
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Richmond
Senate Today
Ralph Daughton
Finance Committee
Literary Fund
Work Resumed On Bridge Approach At Castleman's Ferry
In Berryville Virginia March 5 road workers restarted clearout of debris from slides at the eastern approach to the Castleman's Ferry bridge. The overhanging ledge was blasted down enabling 12 Ralph E Mills Co workers to return to a safer site with officials planning next steps to speed construction.
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Berryville
New Castleman’s Ferry
Blue Ridge Cut
Ralph E. Mills Co
Roanoke
Virginia State Chief Highway Engineers
Richmond
Sam Holman
Palmer
Will of William L Kuhn Bequeaths For Sacred Heart and Others
The late William L Kuhn's will, filed with City Clerk Clark M Smith, leaves donations to multiple churches including Sacred Heart in Brooklyn and a Conewango Pennsylvania Catholic Church. It also bequeaths to Fred Cochran of Winchester and to Sisters of Charity at St Marys Hospital Brooklyn. Proceeds from trust property to support brother Dr Charles Kuhn, with remainder split between uncles’ heirs. John J Kuhn and M M Lynch named co executors with 10000 bond. appraisers listed.
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Sacred Heart Catholic Church
William L. Kuhn
Clark M. Smith
Conewago
Adamsco
Sisters of Charity
St. Mary's Hospital
Brooklyn
N. Y
Fred Cochran
Winchester
Charles Kuhn
John R. Kuhn
George R. Kuhn
John J. Kuhn
South
Oxford Street
M. M. Lynch
B. M. Sullivan
Frank Butsler
J. H. Yost
Claude Grim
R. T. Jones
Fruitgrowers School to Convene at Courthouse
Speakers announced for the fruitgrowers school to be held Thursday March 7 in the courthouse session opening at 1 30 pm. Topics include 1940 outlook by Dr Porter Taylor US Dept of Agriculture dormant sprays by Dr Walter S Hough Winchester Research Laboratory mealybug situation by Dr W J Schoene and varieties and planting by Dr A H Teske plus ways to reduce theCull pile A mouse control demonstration follows at Richards orchard at 9 am.
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Porter Taylor
U. S. Dept. Agr
Walter S. Hough
Winchester Research Laboratory
W. J. Schoene
A. H. Teske
Richards Orchard
Berryville Silk Mill To Resume Operations Soon
Berryville silk mill will restart after a short shutdown for its annual inventory. President Harold F. Pagett said 19 workers remain employed and operations will resume once the inventory is finished. Rumors of a longer suspension were denied.
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Berryville
Harold F. Pagett
Concern
Pagett
Firemen aid locked out resident in sudden rescue
Mrs. Harold Brown was locked out on South Washington Street during a rain. Neighbors led by Rev. R. B. Nelson called the Friendship Department and three engine-house men carried a ladder five blocks to the upstairs window to open the door, returning soaked. Buds promise spring soon as warmth arrives.
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Harold Brown
South Washington Street
Fire Department
R. B. Nelson
Friendship Department
Wilmer Comer
Henry Thompson
Lawrence Patton
Brown
Virginia House Acts On Investigating Carrier Tax
In Richmond on March 5 the House adopted a resolution to investigate carrier taxing. The Senate struck from its calendar a Loving-Moseley-Caudill bill proposing a third county government form with an executive head and referendums on school trustee methods. Senate also passed eight bills including alcohol control amendments and education funding adjustments.
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Richmond
Senate
Loving-Moseley- Caudill
Commission On
Board of Supervisors
Hunsdon Cary
Henrico
Cary
Committee On Motion of Finance
Aubrey Weaver
Apperson
Caudill
State Board of Education
Amends Insurance Act
Cartan
War News Highlights Across Fronts From Europe Asia
London reports Italian ski troops seizing German coal as Allied blockade plans a 1.2 billion dollar war loan. Moscow notes west of Viipuri captured while Red Army closes on the ruined city. Helsinki says Viipuri imminent. London says German U boat new victim of RAF as cabinet shakeup looms. Berlin notes western front limited to artillery and air reconnaissance. Hong Kong reports Japanese land new forces in South China near Macao.
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Associated Press
London
Moscow
Viipuri
Hong Kong
South China
Macao
Antiques at Auction Thursday March Fourteen Forty
Auction notice for antiquities at 10 A M on Thursday March 14 1940 at the shop 1315 Valley Pike near Ag cere Handley School on U Boyd Headley listed with catalog numbers 3 5 7 9 11 13 1p 51.
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Valley Pike
Ag Cere Handley School
Boyd G. Headley
Gift Day Record With Staton Contact Details
A Baker's Treasure Chest gift entry notes a $19.00 present for Saturday and a gift number 1878. It names Mr. W. R. Staton at 1202 S doun St as the holder with the number on the qualification sheet. The entry instructs to ensure registration each time.
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Baker's
W. R. Staton
Doun St
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National Forest
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Frederick
Fannie C. Moulden
Petroleum Association
State Department
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Kuhn
Dr. Taylor
Frederick County
I. N. Gabrielson
Bureau of Biological Survey
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