Two Precedents Cited By President For Using Ships In Sea Freedom
President Roosevelt cited two historic precedents for protecting commerce and freedom of the seas as he discussed Germanys declared Red Sea danger zone. He recalled America’s actions against Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean and privateers in the Caribbean, while cautioning reporters to use their heads about modern parallels. He noted the Red Sea ban removal allowing ships to approach the Suez mouth, and said international conditions were too serious for further comment.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Germany
Red Sea
United States
New American Republic
Mediterranean
Caribbean
Ney
Suez Canal
Martinique
Stra
Scattered Rains Again Likely in Mid Atlantic Forecast
Weather forecast for the Middle Atlantic States predicts brief scattered showers in southern sections at the start and again toward the end of the period from May 16 to May 21. Temperatures rise above normal early, cool toward or below normal by Sunday, then climb again after Monday.
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Washington
Middle Atlantic
Improvement under way on U S Route 50 curves
Work to replace the dangerous Double S curves west of Gore with a macadam base is progressing. Laborers prepare base rock and will continue until completion to eliminate the hazard on the highway in Frederick county.
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Gore
Frederick County
Dodge and Martha Dodge Rewed in Baltimore Ceremony
Horace E. Dodge and Mrs. Martha Devine Dodge were remarried in Baltimore in a second ceremony within a year. The couple wed previously at the Seventh Baptist Church and plan to travel to Washington then Norfolk to reopen the boat-building plant for national defense orders.
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Baltimore
Horace E. Dodge
Detroit Automobile Manufacturing
Martha Devine Dodge
Vanities
John Henry Day
Seventh Baptist Church
Mr. Day
Dodges
Washington
Norfolk
Dodge
Orchard Cover Spray Should Be On By May 24
Entomologist W. Hough of Winchester Research Laboratory advises first cover spray for orchards be completed by May 24. Growers who can spray in four days or less may start early next week. those needing five days should begin as soon as temperatures permit. Details include mixing guidelines for 100 gallons and notes on using Bordeaux mixture if sulfur is omitted.
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W. 8. Hough
Winchester Research Laboratory
Yorks
Jonathan
Grimes
Tri-State Meet Set At Handley Stadium Tomorrow
An unusual track meet will be held at Handley Stadium tomorrow at 1 30 PM with students from schools for the deaf and blind in Virginia Maryland and West Virginia competing for honors. The event moved from Romney West Virginia due to a measles outbreak. Handley faculty member W R Legge will assist in officiating.
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Handley Stadium
Virginia
Marylnd
West Virginia
Romney
W. Va
Winchester
Staunton
Maryland
Erick
W. R. Legge
Town Clock Notes and Busy Day in City
Old town clock at city hall stopped in past years and again now during refurbishing. A penciled note mentions the clock stopping at 1 and five on January 24, 1901. Names like Harry Ebersole, Sammy Grayden, and Billie Morgan appear in nearby margins. A buzzard collision causes windshield damage to Tom Sutler of Lee Baking Co. Safety glass costs rise amid local weather and grain forecasts showing showers and planting plans.
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City Hall
Star Office
Old Town
Harry Robert Ebersole
Harry
Sammy Grayden
Billie Morgan
Tom Sutler
Lee Baking Company
Gainesboro
Tom
Apple Industry Study Sets New National Role
A fourteen member Department of Agriculture committee will study apple industry problems with emphasis on marketing and nutrition. Named at the request of apple growers after a Washington conference, the group will serve as a standing contact point for growers and government. Major objectives include securing apples’ rightful place in the national nutrition program.
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Claude R. Wickard
Ustry
M. L. Wilson
L. R. Magness
Bureau of Plant Industry
Porter Taylor
George Reynolds
Louise Stanley
C. Chatfield
C. W. Warburton
E. C. Johnson
Farm Credit Administration
A. W. Manchester
H. Schwartz
Agricultural Adjustment
W. G. Meal
Agricultural Marketing Service
Neal W. Johnson
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Sybil Smith
W. C. Ockey
Wickard
Washington
Carroll R. Miller
Appalachian Apple Service
Martinsburg
Harry F. Byrd
Willis Robertson
Virginia
Messrs
Magness
Taylor
Meal
Manchester
Ockey
National le Institute
Paul Stark
Truman
Nord
Thomas Barr 68 Dies in Baltimore After Winchester Ties
Thomas Barr 68 formerly of Winchester died in Baltimore this morning around 4. He was a son of the late Oscar and Mrs. Barr and long active in Winchester politics and the Sarah Zane Fire Company. Survived by wife Della Seal and children Holmes Oscar Norman Lucy, with two sisters and other relatives. Funeral in Baltimore Saturday then graveside in Winchester Mount Hebron Sunday at 2. Rev. Swann to officiate. BINGO notice and local ads follow.
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Thomas Barr
Winchester
Baltimore
Barr
Oscar Barr
C. E. Huntsberry
Sarah Zane Fire Company
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Della Seal
Charles Seal
Holmes Barr
Norman Barr
Charles Town
Lucy Rezicka
Greensboro
N. C
Henry McVicar
Indian Hollow
Mount Hebron
T. M. Swann
Pastel coats sale and city licenses notice
Pastel colored coats and suits once 12.95 now 6.66. Willis Real Estate contact 842. City automobile licenses past due May 1. police chief C. W. Hollis orders enforcement. Auction of business sites and bungalow in City Virginia set for May 17, 1941.
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Wiener’s
Loudoun ST
C. W. Hollis
City
Reeay City
May
Fire destruction totals about $20 000 in Middletown
In Middletown Virginia the May 16 fire destroyed several homes and a store. Volunteers from eight Shenandoah Valley towns aided the effort as residents inventory losses. The post office was the only public service disrupted with mail temporarily moved from Miss May Ginn's porch.
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Middletown
Shenandoah Valley
Shipe
Miss May Ginn
Rhodes
Postoffice
W. B Little
E. R. Sperry
Dorothy Willey
Little & Larrick Grocery
Civic Groups Plan Second Annual Winchester Dinner
Social and civic organizations in Winchester prepare for the second annual Bott dinner with a three minute talk from each group leader outlining activities. Represented groups include the American Red Cross Salvation Army public welfare departments WPA Rotary Kiwanis Lions Memorial Hospital auxiliaries Chamber of Commerce Junior Board of Trade Veterans of Foreign Wars Civic League American Legion Girls' Athletic Association American Legion Auxiliary District Nurses Association and Beta Sigma Phi Society.
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Winchester
Salvation Y
American Red Cross
Salvation Army
Works Progress Administration
Rotary
Kiwanis and
Lions Clubs
Memorial Hospital
Chamber of Commerce
Junior Board of Trade
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Civic League
American Legion
Girls’ Athletic Association
American Legion Auxiliary
District Nurses’ Assocation
Beta Sigma Phi Society
New Contract For O Sull ivan Combines Rubber Firm News
Earl Bunting, president of the O Sull ivan Rubber Company, verifies a new contract for gas mask outlet valves totaling $60 000. The local concern has prior contracts and has produced valves for shoes and repair trade, operating near capacity since early this year. Delivery date not disclosed.
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Earl Bunting
O'Sullivan Rubber Company
The
O'Sullivan
Joudy Linen Shop Opens in Winchester
The Joudy Linen Shop opened today at 130 North Loudoun Street with M. Joudy as manager. He previously ran a similar store in Harrisonburg for two years and operated a New York City gift and linen shop for about 25 years. The shops feature fabrics imported from China Ireland and the near.
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Joudy
M. Joudy
North
Loudoun Street
Winchester
Reynolds Named Chairman by Senate
The Senate approved Senator Reynolds of North Carolina as chairman in a 12 to 3 vote after the Democratic steering committee recommended the assignment. The move followed earlier differences with the administration over foreign policy.
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Washington
Senate
Reynolds
D-Nc
Bernas
Sher
Democratic
Knox warns of new factors in mortal war danger at naval college
Navy Secretary Frank Knox told the Naval War College graduating class that new factors have entered the war, stressing dire risks to the United States and urging strong support for the commander in chief. He urged Britain material delivery and warned against underestimating future threats from Germany and Hitler.
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Newport
R. I
Navy
Frank Knox
Knox
Naval War College
France
Washington
Britain
Germany
Hitler
Europe
Hess Visit Question Triggers Commons Debate in Britain
May 16 London observers report Major Vyvyan Adams will ask Information Minister Alfred Dutt Cooper if Rudolf Hess flew to Britain with German government complicity. Ernest Bevin denounces Hess as a calculating murderer while Nevile Henderson defends Hess as honest and sincere, calling Hess a fanatic Nazi supporter.
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London
Rudolf Hess
Britain
Vyvyan Adams
Fuehrer
Duke of Hamilton
Adams
Alfred Dutt Cooper
House of Commons
Labor
Ernest Bevin
Hess
Adolf Hitler
Nevile Henderson
Berlin
Henderson
Germany
Assistant Priest Assignments In Diocese Of Richmond
Bishop Ireton named ordained appointments on May 15 for the Richmond diocese. Rev. B Fettig from Pittsburgh is assigned to Sacred Heart Church in Winchester. Rev. Robert Han non, pastor of Sacred Heart, was unavailable but Fettig is to assist in Woodstock and surrounding Frederick Clarke and Shenandoah counties.
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Ond
Peter L. Irecee Saree
Richmeee
Thursau
Richmond
Oe B. Fettig
Pittsburgh
Sacred Heart Church
Winchester
Rather Robert E. Hannon
Church of the Sacred Heart
Wooodstock
Father Fettig
Prederick
Clarke
Shenandoah
War Today: RAF Attacks Against German Forces Worldwide
RAF warplanes bomb German invaders in Syria and targets across Europe as British forces push into Libya and Egypt. British tanks recapture Sal am and pressure Italians in Amba Alaji while bombers strike Berlin and Hamburg. Hess disclosures puzzle British spies as Roosevelt urges French neutrality.
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RAF
Syria
Iraq
Palestine
Air Force
France
Germany
London
Washington
U. S
Vichy
Normandie
American
Roosevelt
Salam
Egypt
Libya
Amba Alaji
Ethiopia
Berlin
Reich’ Capital
Tannover
Hamburg
Cuxhaven
Boulogne
Calais
Luftwaffe
Strike Averted at General Motors and UMW Wage Talks
A threatened General Motors strike over defense contracts was averted when GM accepted a mediation board peace plan. Separately, UMW and southern coal operators adjourned a wage conference in New York with little hope for a quick agreement. Ex-Cello Detroit reached a one year contract ending May 28, 1941, avoiding a company lockout and boosting payroll by about 50 million annually.
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General Motors Corporation
National Mediation Board
Appalachian
Southern
United Mine Workers Union
New York
John L. Lewis
UMW
Ex-Cello Corporation
Detroit
CIO
United Automobile Workers
General Motors
Mediation Board
Royal Air Force Attacks German Bombers At Damascus
Allied air forces claim to have smashed German bombers at Damascus as tensions rise over France’s new collaboration with Germany. Reports note Axis officers in Syria and Iraq in uniform and Berlin hints at looming strikes from occupied positions. Unconfirmed reports say French planes escorted German units in Syria.
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Royal Air Force
Damascus
London
Washington
Hess Case
Syria
Iraq
Berlin
Dienst Aus Deutschland
France
Germany
Washington, D. C
London Today lecture to honor Anglo American aid ties
Mrs J Victor Arthur announces Everts Scudder will address a public meeting at the George Washington Hotel next Tuesday at 8 30 p m. Scudder, an American decorated on the French Italian fronts in World War I, now a London representative for the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Admission is free.
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J. Victor Arthur
Winchester
England
Everts Scudder
George Washington Hotel
Scudder
Ambulance Corps
Oxford University
Mayor Anderson
J. W. Arthur
George Smith
J. M. Steck, Jr
H. K. Benham
Melvin Green
Harry F. Byrd
Cudder
Miss Strother Dies At Peyton Street Home
Miss Margaret Shepherd Strother about 79 died today at her Peyton street home after an illness begun in February. A lifelong resident of Peyton street for 27 years, she was born in 1862 on the old Strother home place near Winchester. She was a Grace Lutheran Church member active in its societies and is survived by a cousin Affleck of Virginia. Funeral arrangements were pending with services expected Sunday conducted by the Rev. Caronevennt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Shepherd Strother
Peyton Street
Miss Strother
Westside
Strother
Nicholas Strother
Nancy Glass Affleck
Winchester
Grace Lutheran Church
Affleck
C . Mokaticher
Dante, Va
Car Onevennt
British and Middle East fronts report raids and tensions rise
Dispatches describe R A F war planes striking German invaders in Syria including Damascus Rayak and Palmyra. Nebulous fronts claim transports and bombers reaching Iraq Palestine. Iraq protests Jordan frontier clashes while Russia rumors surface and US France drift widens.
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Middle East
R. A. PF
Aif
Syria
Damascus
Rayak
Palmyra
Poraq
Palestine
Beirut
Lebanon
Iraq
Emirlah
Trans-Jordan
Jordan
Sir Henry Maitland Wilson
Baghdad
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Associated Press
Channel
London Today
Russia
Philippe Petain
Verdun
Geremany
Vance
Asia Minor
Thea
Rexall Ic
Brooks Pharmacy
Ida Sibert Fawcett
Millwood Avenue
County Court
E. Edwards
del Rio
Diz Derflinger
Treen
McDonald
Valley Bike
Dunn Duvall
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