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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1940
Page
6
Aircraft Production Speeds Warplane Shipments to Allies
Washington reports American plants have delivered about 1,000 warplanes to French and British forces in 14 months and rush plans for 2,700 more. A large scale program could add 8,000 ships at about 1 billion dollars, with exports of latest models under new War Department policy. Backlog totals 300 million for Franco British orders, with 3.3 planes on order, engines 10,123, and 9,530 propellers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
Navy
War Department
Dec
Woodring
House Military Committee
Senate
Tony
War
State
Treasury Department
Lee Ance
Louis Johnson
House
Fire Aboard Antinous Sparks Pacific Rescue Request
Globe Wireless said the American freighter Antinous from Honolulu to Kobe asked the Admirals Halsted and Bering for help after a fire aboard. The ship lost a forward deck load and flooded forward hold while making 10 knots. the Halstead proceeded to aid, aiming to reach the stricken freighter about 3 p.m. The Antinous home port is Mobile, Alabama, owned by Waterman Steamship Co. The vessel is 3,775 net tons and 412 feet long.
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San Francisco
Globe Wireless
Antinous
Honolulu
Kobe
Japan
Halsted
Bering
Admiral Hals Teaded
Shipping Registers
Mobile
Ala
Waterman Steamship Company
Spotted Man Sues For Divorce In Suspicious Plot Case
Ta' Crarebtante Phibert' Sentai sues for divorce claiming his 31 year old wife conspired with Clayton R Miller a Spiritualist preacher to kill him for a double indemnity policy. State Police charged the pair with conspiring to stay her husband. Case disposition set for June term unless divorce granted or case moved to September.
Answers to Today's Quiz on Page Four
The page lists quiz answers including Washington Irving. It notes a woman of Jericho who hid Hebrew spies in the time of Canaan. The fragment confirms historical figure reference and biblical event.
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Washington Irving
Jericho
Ae Caen
Canaan
Nationalist Spain Holds Celebration
Madrid marks the first anniversary of Franco's Madrid occupation with blue shirted Falange marches and mass at San Miguel. Officials unveil public works including 702 homes for workers in Usera and urban improvements as Spain advances toward economic self sufficiency under Falangist control.
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Madrid
Falange
Francisco Franco
Ces
Franco
Spain
Philosphy
Barcelona
Valencia
French Report German Attacks Easily Repulsed
Paris reports German patrols attacking French outposts between the Saar and Rhine rivers were repulsed with little difficulty. Bad weather limited air activity, but two German recon flights occurred while French planes conducted deep incursions into Germany. Along the Rhine near Basel, an unofficial France Germany accord sighted electric beacons to warn warplanes away from neutral Swiss territory.
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Paris
Saar
Rhine
Germany
Basel
Switzerland
France
Census deadline tweak for 1940 count clarified
The Bureau delayed the 1940 census cutoff in an eleventh hour move. It notes babies born at midnight Sunday do not count until 1950 and estimates 250 babies are born per hour in the United States.
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United States
Federal Funds Sought For Ming Region Damage
Harrisburg March 238 A plea for Federal W P A funds to repair subsidence damage across a 16 block Shenandoah area was made by Governor Arthur H James after investigators blamed the collapse on mine pillar failure. Three mine owners warned sinking may continue for years and urged a halt to mining beneath developed lands to protect communities and recoverable coal.
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Harrisburg
Shenandoah
Arthur H. James
Bank Statements Called For By Comptroller of the Currency
The Comptroller of the Currency issued a call for the condition of all national banks at the close of business Tuesday March 26. Authorities request reports detailing financial standings as of that date.
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Washington
Comptroller of the Currency
Rat News: Terrier’s Rat Trap Fatal for Creature
In Mount Olive North Carolina on March 28, Abb Pickett's terrier Tiny, famed for rat catching, attacked a large rodent at the Pickett home. The rat bolted into a nearby trap and was killed instantly.
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Mount Olive
N. C
Abb Pickett
Tiny
Pickett
Lloyd Elsea Held In Berryville Jail On Theft Charges
Lloyd Elsea, an employee at Berryville Basket Factory, is jailed in Berryville on theft charges after being accused of taking belts from Bill Thompson’s straw bailer. The belts, 100 and 50 foot lengths, were reported missing March 20 with losses over $100. Elsea, a White Post native, is awaiting a Trial Court hearing.
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Berryville
Lloyd Elsea
Bill Thompson
Elsen
Miles Feltner
Thompson
Elsea
Blue Ridge
Berrys Ferry
Raleigh Elsea
Jim Priece
Acquitted In Slaying Of Deer
Foobert L. Peer was acquitted yesterday before Trial Justice Philip Williams of Woodstock for illegal deer slaying on November 29 in upper Vance Cove Shenandoah County. The case followed Lewis Wood who pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the illegal slaying. Both Peer and Woods reside in the Zepp section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foobert L. Peer
Upper
Vance Cove
Shenandoah County
Philip Williams
Woodstock
Lewis Wood
Peer Ot Woods
Zepp
WPA enrollment declines in Washington totals rise
W P A enrollment dropped by 7,499 between March 13 and March 20 to 2,311,612. By March 22, 1939, the WPA recorded 3,007,000 enrolled.
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Washington
Beavers Are Taken For Ride When Too Old
Denver dispatch reports an old beaver named Jim Beaver travel to the city seeking end of life. A taxidermist declined him and state game official Frank Satore shot the elderly beaver saying elders are expelled by their tribe and sometimes wander to cities to die.
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Denver
Jim Beaver
Beaver
Frank Satore
State Game Commission
Old Jim
Satore
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