Senate Group Seeks Power to Seize Idle Foreign Ships
The Senate Commerce Committee backed authority to take over idle foreign ships in U.S. harbors with 11 to 4 votes, rejecting a plan to transfer vessels between belligerents. The panel endorsed purchases, requisition, condemnation, or charter as options and said current ships are owned by foreign nationals, not governments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giton
Senate Commerce Free Today
Vandenberg
Rmich
Clark
D-Mo
Italy
Senate
Bailey
D-Nc
U Ai Bailey
United States
Hocitie & Boat
Eighteen Men Called From Winchester Induction May 28
The Winchester Selective Service Board has received a call for 18 men to report for induction in Virginia on May 28. Except for three previous inductions on separate occasions, this is the first call issued in the city. Names of those summoned will be published soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peyton Marshall
Winchester Selective Service Board
Winchester Sees Nazi Texts in Mein Kampf for Propaganda
Mr Winchester argues the Nazi text cited by Churchill ladles praise of British resolve. He notes the Hamburg Bremen raids show intensified Allied bombing while German actions elsewhere reveal aggression and strategic aims beyond mere retaliation.
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Hamburg
Bremen
English Channel
Clarke Supervisors Deny Literary Loan For Boyce School
Clarke County Supervisors rejected a $45,000 literary fund loan sought by the Clarke County School Board to build a new 9 room Boyce school. Citizens urged denial. if the board cannot extend to 11 rooms, the issue returns to the school board and could drag on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarke
Boyce School
Berryville
Clarke County Board of Supervisors
Clarke County School Board
Boyce
Clay Carr
Supervisors Hold Session in Frederick County Meeting
The Board of Supervisors reviewed a general county fund balance of 18073.87 as of April 30 with receipts of 22743.72 and expenditures of 4669.85. The dog fund stood at 1770.67 with 160 from tag sales bringing it to 1930.67, disbursements matching receipts at 1930.67. Relief activity showed receipts 2686.54 and disbursements 2165.56, leaving 520.98. The session included reports by home agent Elizabeth Sprouse, county agent Fred Stine, and T. W. Russell on county home improvements and planned interior work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General County
Harry McCann
Frederick County
Board of Supervisors
Elizabeth Sprouse
Fred Stine
T. W. Russell
Cooking School To Open Tuesday At Town Hall
The Star announces a community Cooking School opening Tuesday at 2 p m in Sarah Zane Hall with four sessions through Friday. Local home managers join in presenting the rally and inviting the public to attend the organized classes and demonstrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Zane
The
Star
Opportunity
Tse
Finance Concern Robbed Again
Baltimore on May 12 reports a bandit robbed the Liberty Finance Company of 1500 at gunpoint and fled into crowded streets. An earlier six week heist by three bandits saw two escape with money after a running gun battle with police. Clerk Allen Beam and customer were held while the safe was opened. Police issued a description of the suspect as a 28 year old man, 150 pounds, nattily dressed. Harry Eyer, linked to the prior robbery, was found guilty in April and awaits sentencing and other charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Liberty Finance Company
Alma Hall
Allen Beam
Missing New York couple spurs wide search by 70 planes
Mr and Mrs Benjamin Brewster, prominent New Yorkers, vanished after taking off Friday on a cross country flight. Charles Foley of Roosevelt Field led a search with about 70 planes from Wright Field Dayton to bands of volunteers. Brewster, a Yale alumnus and investment firm associate, had logged over 1000 flight hours and his wife was Leonie LeBarry Lyon.
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Benjamin Brewster
Charles Foley
Roosevelt Field
Wright Field
Dayton
Here
Warren
Brewsters
Madisonburg
Brewster
Case, Pomeroy and Company
Yale
Leonie LeBarry Lyon
Winchester Memorial Hospital Board Meeting Tomorrow
The annual meeting of the Winchester Memorial Hospital Board of Directors will be held tomorrow afternoon starting at 1 o'clock, presented by the business manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Rubber workers form local union at O Sullivan plant
Employees of the O Sullivan Rubber Company vote May 7 to organize a rubber workers local of the American Federation of Labor. A meeting for the second shift is set for May 13 at 12 30 p m at the George Washington Hotel. Temporary officers include Warren Driver chairman Lloyd Coffelt secretary Cecil Funk treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O'Sullivan Rubber Company
American Federation of Labor
H. B. Douglas
George Washington
Douglas
Teamsters
Novickiene Company
Richmond
Spotswood Companies
Winchester
Rubber Workers
Warren Driver
Lloyd Coffelt
Secreti Yea
Cecil Funk
Baptist Minister To Be Ordained In Middleburg
The Rev. Gordon Mason, pastor of the Middleburg Baptist Church, will be ordained at First Baptist Church in this city on Wednesday evening May 14 at 8 o'clock. Mason, a graduate of Lynchburg College and Crozer Theological Seminary, passed a favorable examination for the ministry. Local and visiting ministers will take part, with Dr. Clark preaching, Dr. Jackson offering the benediction, and Mason pronouncing the benediction. Everyone is invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Mason
Middleburg Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
This City
Mason
Lynchburgh College
Lynchburg
Crozer Theological Seminary
Chester
J.W. Brown
Martinsburg
C. W. Caulkins
Leesburg
E. B. Jackson
Manassas
M. L. Ragland
Gore
Be.t. Clark
J. W. Morrow
Clark
Mr. Caulkins
Dr. Jackson
Brown
Shenandoah Baptist Association
Potomac Baptist Association
The
Baptists of Virginia
Ragland
Morrow
Mr. Mason
Strikes Threaten San Francisco Bay Defense Work
Strikes by AFL and CIO machinists risk halting more than 500 million dollars in warship and defense construction at 11 shipyards around the San Francisco Bay area. Picket lines planned as 15 000 to 20 000 workers plus 1 700 machinists may cause clashes. government and union leaders failed to reach a settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
AFL
San Francisco Bay Area
Ite
Bethlehem
Oakland
William Wn
American of Labor
London Blocks Laid Waste by Fires After Blitz
Arthur Greenwood surveyed wreckage in the House of Commons as Westminster Abbey the M useum Big Ben and Westminster Hall suffered bomb damage. Whole blocks of London lay in ruins with the Lantern of the Abbey smashed and treasure halls left intact. Rescue teams searched a hotel basement hit by a heavy bomb as flames raged through the capital.
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Russell C. Landstrom
London
Arthur Greenwood
Britain
House of Commons
Greenwood
Westminster Abbey
British Museum
Big Ben
Westminster Hall
England
Adams
Men of Parliament
Commons
Gladstone
Disraeli
Churchill
Soldier
Two Children Injured in Weekend Pedestrian Incidents
Two youthful pedestrians recovering at Memorial Hospital after weekend injuries. Julian Ramey of Stephens City and Nancy Cather of Chambersville were described as resting comfortably. Ramey was struck by a car driven by Robert H. Barton of Washington D C, suffering a fractured leg and cuts. Cather was hit while stepping into the path of a Maryland car near Pingley filling station, with a broken arm and foot injuries.
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Memorial Hospital
Julian Ramey
Lester Ramey
Stephens City
Nancy Cather
E. Newton Cather
Chambersville
Ramey
Robert H. Barton
Seventh Street
N.E
Washington, D. C
Barton
Cather
Pingley
Winchester
Maryland
Virgil Spurling
Dick Engle
Ray F. Curtis
Loudoun Street
Curtis
Fairgrounds
Isaac Smith
Ollie LoLnas
Gover Martin
Baltimore
Kenneth McWilliams
Parkersburg
W. Va
Anderson's Tavern
Shamier
War Today: Nazis Hit British Airfields and Axis Advances
Hundreds of Nazi warplanes attack 30 British airdromes in a big blow to the RAF. RAF planes strike Hamburg and Rotterdam while London endures its lightest raid in three weeks. Reports claim Italian forces trapped in Ethiopia and Axis pressure on Tobruk Libya.
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R.A.F
Germany
Hamburg
Gremen
Roterdam
Ethiopia
Tobruk
Libya
Deadline Set For G M Strike In U A W Dispute
The United Auto Workers set 7 a m Thursday as a strike deadline affecting 160,000 workers in 60 General Motors plants. Negotiations resume in Washington with national defense mediation board reps as GM officials return. The union seeks a 10 cent hourly wage rise. GM offers a 2 cent basic increase plus 3 to 5 cent rises for skilled workers.
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Berrors
United Automobile Workers
C.I. Q
General Motors Corp
National Defense Mediation Board
Washington
General Motors Council
General Motors
Defense Board
Murder death by own action verdict given
Coroner Samuel R. Gerber filed motive unknown on a murder death by own action verdict in a roadside shooting near Moreland Hills. Victims are Josephine Scott a 25 year old reporter and William Haltenberger Jr 30 a Tulsa University research student. A .38 revolver lay between them in a car beside the Chagrin river.
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Cleveland
Samuel R. Gerber
Josephine Scott
Cleveland Plain Dealer
William Haltenberger, Jr
Tulsa University
Chagrin River
Moreland Hills Village
Somora
Michigan
Stinana
Hess Crash Report Signals Nazi Deputy’s Flight Defied Orders
BERLIN May 12 AP Rudolf Hess the No 2 to Hitler crashed in a plane flight against the Fuehrers orders. His adjutants were ordered arrested for allowing the flight. Hess had been in failing health and had been missing since a flight last Saturday. The Nazi announcement noted fears of hallucinations and said Hitler had forbidden Hess to fly amid worsening illness.
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Berlin
Rudolf Hess
Adolf Hi No
Fuehrer
National Socialist
Hess
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Marshal Goering
Fuerrer
Landsberg
Munich
Germany
New York
Tradt
RAF Returns To Blast Big Naval Bases In Germany
An armada of 100 RAF war planes bombed the ports of Hamburg and Bremen during the night leaving many large fires their raids also hit Emden and Rotterdam Ijmuiden and a Texel sea plane base German air bases faced intensified RAF attacks while Berlin claimed heavy losses and London endured a light raid as rescue workers continued searches for victims of the weekend assault on the capital and other targets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Westminster Abbey
RAF
Germany
Associated Press
Te Eeeas
Emden
Holland
Rotterdam
Ijmuiden
Texel
England
Berlin
R. F
Reich
New Theories In West Virginia Senate Nomination Debate
Senate debates a theory that Byron Randolph briefly held the governorship of West Virginia for a thousandth of a second at midnight on January 13. Senator Lucas argues constitutional points that Holt or Neely could not have occupied the post in such a tiny interval. He warns future appointments could hinge on split seconds and the president of the Senate.
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Washington
Byron Randolph
West Virginia
Senate
Lucas
D.-Ill
Homer A. Holt
M. M. Neely
Randolph
Cas
Sen
Petersburg School Damaged by Weekend Fire
Fire of undetermined origin badly damaged the Petersburg Graded School late Sunday with losses between 8000 and 10000 dollars. Two rooms stairways and a hall were destroyed while ten more rooms suffered smoke and water damage. Superintendent C T Hott said only ten days of school remained and classes would move to the boys dormitory. all records were saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petersburg
W. Va
Petersburg Graded School
C. T. Hott
Pepee
City Auto Licenses Past Due Notice
City authorities warn that automobile licenses overdue as of May 1 will face enforcement. C. W. Hollis as Chief of Police directs active follow up and penalties.
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C. W. Hollis
Visitation to new store at 41 EB St Wallpaper and Paint
Reader notice announces a visit to the new shop at 41 EB Street featuring wallpaper and paint. Gardner B. Hil identified with filing note 5-12-Lp-3t.
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Gee For
St. Wall
Gardner B. Hillyard
Gardner B. Hil
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Calif
Francis EB. Wilkinson
Wilkinson
Department of Agriculture
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Iown
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Anl
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Tripoli
Iraq
Turba
Libyan
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No. 2
Mein Kampf
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