Bethlehem Steel strike unrest guards stand firm
Bethlehem workers return to the Bethlehem Steel Company plant under state protection by more than 100 Pennsylvania police. CIO strikers and supporters attacked officers and rioted near the plant amid mass picketing. In Chicago the Harvester McCormick works saw limited picketing with police redeployed.
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Maense
Pennsylvania
Bethlehem Steel Company
CIO
Chicago
AFL
International Harvester Company
McCormick Works
Bethlehem Steel strike crushes picket lines in Bethlehem
More than 100 Pennsylvania state police guarded Bethlehem Steel's Bethlehem plant to enforce peaceful picketing as workers moved in and out of nine entrances. In Johnstown a threatened strike at the Cambria plant did not materialize. Strike leaders warned of a possible court injunction and a “finish fight” across Bethlehem mills and shipyards tied to defense contracts.
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Bethlehem
Pennsylvania
Bethlehem Steel Company
CTO Steel Workers’ Or Committee
Johnstown
Cambria
Bethlehem Steel
Regu
SWOC
Apple Festival Welcomes Junior Maids of Honor
Ma Winchester invites Miss Brenda Carter and Miss Betty Edmonds to join as Junior Maids of Honor at the Apple Festival. The note recalls a previous young lady from their homeland who served in a similar role and expresses hope for peaceful days and shared blessings in the world.
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Brenda Carter
Betty Edmonds
Defense Program Near Forty Billion Mark
Miami report notes the total U S defense expenditures since June 1 1940 nearing 39 18 billion with 3 51 billion more in British orders and the 7 billion British aid bill signed at sea by President Roosevelt expected to accelerate conversion of funds into supplies for Britain and U S forces.
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Rosevelt
United States
Great Britain
Britain
Senate
Naval Officers Facing Charges
In Pensacola Florida two ensigns Joseph Thompson and Paul Brown are held on possible court martial after a naval plane fatally decapitated a woman in a turnip field near Roberdale Alabama. Commander W D Sample says the pilots were cadet trained and are under arrest while Navy reviews action.
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Pensacola
Fila
W. D. Sample
Naval Air Station
Martial Feari
Robert Phi
Robertsdale
Ala
Sample
Joseph C. Thompson
Healdsburg
Calif
Paul C. Brown
Chicago
Navy
British Report Sinking German Ship Off Norway
The British submarine Sturgeon torpedoed and sunk an 8,000-ton German tanker off the Norwegian coast. The admiralty reported the attack stating Sturgeon fired a torpedo in mist and rain, an explosion followed, and only the after part of the tanker remained above water after 20 minutes.
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London
Sturgeon
Admiralty
H. M
D. Saint Clair- Ford
R. N
H. M. Sturgeon
Old Truck Returns With Vengeance in New York
In Ellenville New York on March 26 a motor truck that Augustus Dowe sold a week earlier came back by racing out of control after its steering gear failed. It crashed through the Dowe front door and damaged the home terrace and lawn as it sped onto the property.
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Ellenville
N. Y
Augustus Dowe
Dowe
Winchester girls named Junior Maids for Shenandoah festival
Mrs. B B Dutton announced that Brenda Carter and Betty Edmonds will serve as Junior Maids of Honor in the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival Coronation. Both girls, 16 and 15 respectively, are given as guests in Winchester since August 18 1940, with ties to Handley High School and St Swithens School in Winchester.
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Winchester
Eng
B. B. Dutton
Brenda Carter
Betty Edmonds
Patricia Morton
Shenandoah
H. George Morton
Germany
Miss Carter
Miss Edmonds
Richard Griffith
C. R. Anderson
Roger
Anderson
Griffith
L. M. Carter
Handley High School
Mrs Carter
St. Swithhens Schol
Virginia
American Navy Yards May Aid British Convoys
Military experts say repairing Bri tain s damaged warships in American navy yards under the lend lease arrangement could bolster Atlantic convoy safety. Light overhaul work would be done in U S yards while heavy repairs remain in Britain, reducing downtime and aiding strategic naval flexibility.
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Aerican
England
Atlantic
United
Atlan
Ever Normal Granary Defense Faces Senate Debate
Washington March 26 The agricultural adjustment administrator R M Evans defended the ever normal granary program as a consumer protection symbol and national defense asset amid Senate push to shift to direct farmer income methods. Evans cited crop reserves three times normal wheat and four to five times normal corn as proof of preparedness and stability for exports and domestic needs.
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Washington
R. M. Evans
Capital Hill
Evans
Senate
Winchester student wins Handley High public speaking contest
Brenda Carter Best Speaker from Winchester England won the Handley High School girls public speaking contest with a humorous talk on American differences. She will represent Handley in the district contest in April and may advance to the state meet in Charlottesville. Two runners up were Doris Register and Courtney Fauver, with Fauver as alternate.
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Brenda Carter
Winchester
Eng
Handley High School
America
Handley
Miss Carter
Charlottesville
Nancy Larrick
Doris Register
Courtney Fauver
Miss Fauver
Ponton Plans New Double Feature Theatre in Winchester
Frank T. Ponton of Martinsburg visited Winchester to finalize the site for his new double feature theatre. He aims to have it open by early summer and will release full details on location size and appearance through The Star. Ponton says the Ponton theatre will be independently owned and centrally located.
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Frank T. Ponton
Martinsburg
Winchester
Star
Ponton
Bingo at Sarah Zane Fire Hall Promises 20 Prizes
Community bingo event at Sarah Zane Fire Hall offers 20 games with 20 prizes. A grand prize of 100 dollars is announced along with a 75 dollar door prize for Thursday. Date appears as 26-1p-21.
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Sarah Zane Fire Hall
True Bill In Weems Case Has 17 Counts
A special grand jury in the Corporation Court of Winchester Virginia returned a true bill charging former Trial Justice Donald L Weems with irregularities in his office accounts. The indictment lists 17 counts detailing dates fines and amounts including one 106.25. The jury foreman was J H Moling Jr with L McCarthy Downs P J Marshall and B V Kline among witnesses.
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Weems
Corporation of Court
J. H. Moling, Jr
Donald L. Weems
Commonwealth of Virginia
Winchester
State of Virginia
J. P. McDonald
L. McCarthy Downs
P. J. Marshall
Corporation Court
B. V. Kline
Mass Meeting Plans Set for Winchester Festival
Plans completed for the annual mass meeting of Winchester citizens and out of town guests at the George Washington Hotel tomorrow night. The program opens at 8 p m with songs led by Jay H Lowden. Glee Club numbers directed by Gwendolyn Haynes follow, then out of town guests are introduced by J Pinchney Arthur.
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Winchester
George Washington Hotel
John S. Scully
Assembly of
God Bless America
America
Jay H. Lowden
T. Russel Cather
Nazis Extend Blockade to Iceland Says Berlin
Berlin reports claim Germany’s counter blockade now reaches Iceland as Americans allegedly unloads there en route to England. Nazi sources warn they will act with deeds to prove blockade effectiveness. Washington officials study possible steps while Denmark's former colony remains outside U S shipping.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
Germany
Greenland
Iceland
United States
Italian Islands Are Threatened By British Bombardment
March 26 report from off Crete says the British fleet shells Rhodes Leros and Scarpanto and blocks the Dodecanese. Italian garrisons face food and fuel shortages as supplies dwindle while morale declines amid Greek and British advances in Albania and Libya.
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Crete
Italy
Dodecanese
Aegean
Turkey
Eet
Middle East
Albania
Libya
Germany Eyes Blockade Challenge as Iceland Sea Complication
World Today reports Germany threatening to answer with deeds over an extended Nazi sea blockade including British-occupied Iceland. U S Coast Guard cutters patrol off Greenland near the blockade zone while Berlin greets the Japanese foreign minister and Yugoslav unrest intensifies. High command says 5000 tons of shipping were destroyed and 15000 damaged as RAF weather grounds aircraft amid raids on English towns.
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Iceland
U. S. Coast Guard
Berlin
Yugoslavia
Axis
High Command
City And County Brevities From Gerrard To Loudoun
City workers renew traffic and pedestrian lane markings at Gerrard and Loudoun and plan a full renewal of all city markings for festival traffic. Cy Mee, returning from a southern trip, recalls the original Tobacco Road route and meets Miss Moina Michael who founded National Poppy Day. At Clemson College Mee meets Rev. Sydney J. L. Crouch. Bob and Bill Pollard test spring by swimming in the Opequon despite cold water. The volunteer fire department answered 15 alarms last week, mostly chimney and field fires. Tulips and hyacinths planted by Garden Clubs are sprouting as Holland bulbs, shipped before the blockade, begin to bloom.
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Athens
Moina Michael
John McCrae
Flanders Fields
Michael
Clemson College
S. C
Fort Hill Presbyterian Church
Mee
Sydney J. L. Crouch
Perth
Western Australia
Bob
Bill Pollard
Winchester Evening Star
Holland
Matsuoka Arrives in Berlin for Talks on New World Order
Japanese Foreign Minister Hosuke Matsuoka arrived in Berlin by train from Moscow amid a massive crowds welcome. He is to hold talks with Adolf Hitler and top Nazi leaders at Bellevue Palace to shape measures for the three power pact and international reform.
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Berlin
Hosuke Matsuoka
Europe
Far East
Matsuoka
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Anhalter Station
Dienst Aus Deutschland
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Reichsmarshall
Hermann Goering
Nazi Party
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Bellevue Palace
Tiergarten
Counterfeiting Schemes Nipped in Manhattan Raid
New York secret service agents halted a plot to counterfeit 1 million dollars in 25 cent food stamps. Four Newark men were arrested for conspiracy to manufacture spurious stamps after a raid on a Manhattan printing shop yielded 24 stamp negatives, inks, presses, and other engraving gear. Bail set at 2000 dollars each for Pompey T. Decardis Angelo Castelano Lewis Airla and Ralph Zirpoli.
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New York
Treasury
Newark
N. J
Manhattan
Secret Service
Pompey T. Decardis
Angelo M. Castelano
Lewis Carlo Airla
Ralph Zirpoli
James J. Maloney
Students Tear Up Pictures of Adolf Hitler
Belgrade rumors of a planned Axis attack flare into street clashes as police suppress a student demonstration against Yugoslavia's Axis pact. Cvetkovic and Foreign Minister Cincar M. confer with ministers to quell unrest while several Belgrade schools close and students tear down images of Hitler.
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Adolf Hitler
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Dragisa Cvetkovic
Vienna
Cvetkovic
Alesander Cincar M
Vladimir Macek
Mier
Lic
Adolph Hitler
Cvetkovis
Mitaji
Committee of Dens
Kosca Pecanac
Salonika
Serbia
Band Strike Threat Looms Over Winchester Show
Members of Melsiwee's Municipal Band threaten to strike on Thursday March 27 unless Professor Melsiwee drops a main selection from tomorrow night's Palace Theatre program. Two shows at 7:15 and 9:30 p.m. are scheduled.
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Winchester
Melsiwee
Palace Théatre
Public sale announced for Mrs. B A Fuller items
Household furniture and antiques to be sold at public sale on Saturday March 29. Sale by Mrs. B A Fuller of 223 East Lane. Contains multiple items noted in the running line.
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B.A. Fuller
E. Lane
Bingo Night at New Eagle’s Home
Weekly bingo event held every Wednesday at 8 PM at New Eagle's Home located at 211 North Down Street. All callers and players welcome for a community game night.
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New Eagle's
Doun St
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