Middletown Fire Destroys Two Stores and Dwellings
Fire swept through the Little and Larrick building and adjacent shops in Middletown, destroying two stores the Rhodes and Little dwellings, with water supply stretched over 1,400 feet of hose and power cuts affecting service. Firefighters battled the blaze amid collapsing structures as residents watched from nearby streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little
Sperry
Mr. Good
Alfred Legg
Strasburg
Pat McCarty
Rhodes
Second Street
Litt and Larrick’s
Parker
E. R. Sperry
Mr. Sperry
Marsh Run
Middletown
Rouss
Northern Virginia Power Company
L. J.tt
VA. 8
Reliance Road
Church Street
Rev. C. D. Harris Scotand
Baltimore
Crochet Your Own Doilies Pattern 6979 Advertisement
Distinctive in design and fun to crochet these doilies suit buffet or luncheon tables. Pattern 6979 includes instructions illustrations stitches and a photograph daily materials sent for ten cents to Dept 259 W 14th Street New York NY.
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W. 14Th Street
Reynolds Favored for Senate Military Affairs Chair
Senator Reynolds of North Carolina won a 12 to 3 recommendation for chairmanship of the Senate Military Affairs Committees after a closed Democratic steering committee session. Senators Glass Guffey and Green asked to be recorded as supporting Reynolds despite his opposition to some administration foreign policies. The steering committee's recommendation is usually followed but the Senate must still give final approval.
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Washington
Reynolds
D-Nc
Senate
Democratic Steering Committee
Glass
D-Va
Guffey
D-Pa
Green
DRI
Miss Cromwell Weds A Student At Elkton Maryland
The 18 year old Miss Cromwell daughter of James H R Cromwell former minister to Canada married Frederick P White a Brown University freshman in Elkton Maryland on Tuesday official license records show White 31 and Miss Cromwell 18 Miss Cromwell's mother is Mrs Timothy Godde of Rye New York her father is now married to Doris Duke tobacco heiress White is the son of Mr and Mrs Loring Q White of Boston.
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James H. R. Cromwell
Canada
Frederick P. White
Brown University
Elkton
Elton
White
Miss Cromwell
Timothy Godde
Rye
N. Y
Doris Duke
Mrs. Loring Q. White
Boston
Jews Reported Under Arrest In France
A British radio report quoted German controlled sources saying Vichy authorities arrested 20 000 foreign Jews in France. The Hilversum radio in the Netherlands was cited as the source heard in New York.
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New York
France
Hilversum
Netherlands
Miss Churchill May Wed Soon
London May 15 The Daily Sketch published photographs of Lord Duncannon and Mary Churchill under the caption Premier's Daughter Engaged The caption was described as a little premature arrangements have been made for engagement sources say Lord Duncannon is the Earl of Bessborough's son and former governor of Canada
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London
Daily Sketch
Lord Duncannon
Earl of Bessborough
Mary Churchill
Churchill
Earl of Came Att
Canada
Another Unit Construction Details Revealed
The report outlines a new unit with 75 officers, featuring a designed speed of 27 knots. It mentions equipment including a sea perhaps hospital and certain departments, plus a soda. Further specifics are unclear due to fragmented OCR.
Hess murder claim ties to wider fighting in World War II
Dispatches describe German and Axis activity across the Mediterranean and Middle East. British planes hit Axis supply routes while a German U boat sinks a British auxiliary cruiser. Reinforcement flights to Iraq and Syria are reported as Nazi aircraft move toward Rashid Ali’s government. Roosevelt urged to offer peace services.
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Suda Bay
Cairo
Mediterranean
Fleet Air Arm
Amara
Tigris
London
Germany
Iraq
Rashid Ali al Gailai
Syria
Gested
Hess
Roosevelt
Radio Group Too Brilliant Finds Radio Group Too Brilliant
ST. LOUIS May 15 James L Fly chairman of the Federal Communications charged the management of the radio industry as too clever and too brilliant He compared the NAB types of management to a dead mackerel in the moonlight He spoke before leaving for Washington after being denied a chance to answer a blistering NAB attack at the convention He questioned whether NAB still exists as a vehicle for the industrys opinion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
James L. Fly
Federal Communicatiions Co
National Association of Bradcasters
Washington
Attack Reported Against Air Field in Syria
Neutral sources said British forces attacked an air drome in French mandated Syria. The French foreign office claimed it knew nothing of the events.
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Vichy
France
Syria
British Losses In Early Campaign Reach 54200 Soldiers
London May 15 British casualty figures for the early campaign show 54200 men lost in France and the Low Countries. Of the total, 384000 were evacuated to England while 40000 were taken prisoner and 23800 killed or wounded.
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London
France
Meartione
Low Countries
England
Bridges Tried To Obtain Government Files Claim Told
Testimony from Major Lemuel B. Schofield of the immigration and naturalization service states that West Coast labor leader Bridges sought a confidential government day with a Senate sub committee. The Justice Department official had just returned from a Bridges hearing in San Francisco.
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Bridges
Senate
Lemuel B. Schofield
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Justice Department
San
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Middletown Fire
Little and Larrick
Rhodes House
W. B. Litttle
Marlboro
Kernstown
Corr Coe
Wolleemold Arte
Edna M. Ferguson
Cooking
Anal “S
Favor Reynolds
Miss Churchill
Lincoln Borglum
Mount Rushmore Monument
Gutzon Bolum
South Dakota
Black Hills
Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt
Lincoln
Rudolf Hess
THE
ALL American Youth Orchestra
Brahms
Stravinsky
Beethoven
Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski
Atlantic Seaboard
South America
Columbia
Tchaikovsky
Dvorak
Maurice Ravel
Weber
GOD Bless
Aamerica
Masterworks Records
Rand
Pepsi-Cola
Cloverdale
D. A. Gordon & Co
Main St
Miss Ferguson
TRE
Shengas
the Gas CO
S. Loudoun St
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