Spending Not Authorized Outs in Virginia Funds Audit
OND Virginia May 17 1958 auditors flag expenses totaling 37692 21 in a 5632 conflict with law that state purchases go through the state purchasing agent Downs reports to Governor Price noting direct orders avoided proper clearance. He also cites alleged under cutting by WPT colleges charging women students 270 vs מר60 less at other state teachers colleges.
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Ond
L.rthy
Price
Commonwealth
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Coleges
Romania Decree For Oil Sales To Army Reserve
Bucharest May 17 The Romanian government decreed that all oil companies must sell and store in their own reservoirs any petroleum products needed by the army for possible wartime use The army may require as much as 2 000 000 tons and the decree covers all producers refiners and retailers foreign or Romanian Observers see it as a new obstacle for Germany seeking a quota of 130 000 tons monthly which remains underfilled in 1940.
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Bucharest
Germany
Ebert Rites Planned for Local Doctor
M T Ebert former physician in the Medical Corps and Stephenson Sunday School superintendent dies. He leaves four grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services are set for Sunday evening at Stephen Methodist Church with interment in Mount Hebron Cemetery.
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Ebert
Methodist Church
Stephenson
Bessie Ebert
J. William Ebert
Col. Ebert
Oice
William Ebert
Hampton Roads
Anne Roy Ebert
Nancy Ebert
Betty Ebert
Towson
the Stephen Methodist Church
Mount Hebron Cemetery
R. B
Brucetown
W. O. Tal
Will Offic
Quarles Urges Red Cross Support and Mercy Film
Quarles calls for immediate Red Cross donations as initial results await tomorrow and Allen urges prompt response. The piece notes a $2,000 target for Winchester Frederick Gupta and promotes the one reel film Mobilized for Mercy showing at the Capitol Centre today.
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Quarles
Red Cross
Europe
Allen
Winchester
Frederick Gupta
Capitolentre
Market Quotations Livestock And Produce Markets Steady Prices
Market notes show unchanged tendencies across livestock and eggs with varied bids for steers from 7.50 to 11.00 and hogs around 5.25 to 6.45 per cwt. Philadelphia reports eggs whites 17-18 cents, fowl and turkeys steady, while Chicago cites steady cattle with hogs up 5 to 15 cents and light receipts at $6.25 for some loads.
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U. Dept Aenate
Philadelphia
Plymouth Rocks
Chicago
Stock Market Report Faces Mixed Opening Amid War News
Opening shows tentative gains and losses as the Downgrades and late selling emerge. Investors weigh European war developments and defense expansion plans while commodity prices drift lower. Key stocks include American Can American Motors Goodyear International Harvester J Manville Kennecott Michigan Ward Packard Sears Roebuck Union Pacific U S Steel and Woolworth.
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Genl. Motors
Goodyear
Int. Har
J. Manville
Kennecott
M. Ward
A Dairy
Packard
Penney (Jc
Penn R. R
Republic Steel
Sears Roebuck
Southern R
O. of N. J
Texas Corp
Union Pac
U. S. Steel
Va.Car. Chem
Va.-Car Pid
Western Union
Woolworth
Future And Cash Wheat And Other Grain Quotations
Chicago May 17 A fresh wave of selling swept over wheat and other grains with futures and cash prices slipping across the board. Market observers cited improved weather and speculative pressure as primary factors behind the decline.
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Chicago
Hoover endorses Roosevelt plans for wartime production
The article outlines Hoover urging careful yet rapid expansion of industrial output to support defense of the Western Hemisphere. He calls for a production-directed staff from actual large-scale industry, coordination of orders, and avoidance of political pressures while expanding facilities and ship and plane capacity.
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Congress
Western Hemisphere
Navy
Army
Mr Ridgeway 65 Dies After Illness
Robert Lee Ridgeway 65 of Back Creek district Frederick county died at Me serial Hospital at 7 this morning. He native of Upperville son of the late Randolph Ridgeway. Survived by widow Mary Louise Feltner and children Earl L Ridgeway WN Ridgeway Pred T Ridgeway Harry C Ridgeway all of Washington DC Charles Melton Ridgeway Garland R Ridgeway of Winchester Roland T Ridgeway of Upperville. Funeral Sunday afternoon at Welltown Methodist Church with Rev W O Talbert. Bible Class pallbearers. Interment Green Hill Cemetery Berryville. Time of service not announced.
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Robert Lee Ridgeway
Back Creek
Frederick County
Meserial Hospital
Mr. Ridgeway
Upperville
Randolph Igeway
Mary Louise Feltner
Earl L. Ridgeway
WN. Ridgeway
Pred T. Ridgeway
Harry C. Ridgeway
Washington, D. C
Charles Melton Ridgeway
Garland R. Ridgeway
Winchester
Roland T. Ridgeway
Welltown Methodist Church
W. O. Talbert
Green Hill Cemetery
Berryville
Funeral Tomorrow for Mrs Sirbaugh 81
Funeral services for Mrs Mary Katherine Sirbaugh 81 widow of David H Sirbaugh will be held tomorrow at 2 PM at Omps Funeral Home North Braddock Street following a protracted illness She was born in Frederick County daughter of Robert and Mary Jane White Lewis lifelong Fairview Lutheran Church member and survived by husband a daughter Mrs Charles Taylor five grandchildren two great grandchildren Pallbearers are Robert Snapp Frank Harry Henkle Carpenter Sam Miller Sam Renner Luther Shutts Service conducted by Rev S L Flickinger
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Omps Funeral
North Braddock Street
Mary Katherine Girbaugh
David H. Sirbaugh
East Piccadilly Street
Frederick County
Robert
Mary Jane White Lewis
Fairview Lutheran Church
Charles Taylor
Stephenson
H. E. Pingley
David
Robert Snapp
Frank Harry
Henkle Carpenter
Sam Miller
Sam Renner
Luther Shutts
Turbulent Wheat Pit Sees Prices Slide Across May Signals
Grain markets experience a sharp drop with wheat falling over five cents from yesterday and near intraday lows. May wheat at 86 3 4 to 1 2, July around 84 3 4 to 1 2, Sept about 85 to 84 3 4. Corn and oats also weaken with May corn 61 1 8 to 1 4, May oats 38 1 4 and 34, with regional quotes from Chicago and Baltimore showing No 3 red wheat and No 1 yellow corn pricing.
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Chicago
Baltimore Grain
Baltimore
U S May Commission Debates Air Armada Size in 1938
The 1938 discussions among the U S May Commission and military advisers centered on an aerial force of thousands of planes. Roosevelt favored expanding production to 50 000 a year, but current capability and contracts limited progress. The Army and Navy together held about 5 000 aircraft with capacity to rise to 15 000 annually within 15 months.
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Uber
Air Corps
Congress
Army
Navy
Roosevelt
Fuel Shortage Pushes Romanian Oil Deliveries to Reassess
Military observers note Romania is 1,000,000 tons in arrears on its oil quota to Germany while Luftwaffe needs for high grade gasoline rise. They estimate Germany’s daily plane fuel of 360000 gallons for 1000 aircraft implies 1,400 tons of gasoline and 8,600 tons of crude daily refined to meet the drive west through Belgium.
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Slovan Eotinaris
Bohemia-Moravia
Czecho- Slovakia
Vienna
Old Austria
Hungary
Germany
Beligum
Romania
Reich
Industry Plans to Expand War Plane Production This Summer
The article explains an ambitious expansion to produce 50,000 warplanes annually with a threefold rise in personnel. It notes labor needs beyond aviation, including factory workers for new plants, assurances of sufficient skilled labor, and rapid ordering of steel and materials for planes shells and tanks. It also discusses labor shifts from enlistment and aviation training and tracks Federal Reserve Board production indexes from 192 to 104 through the spring.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
German Troops Deepen Advance In France Amid Invasion
A Belgian war communiqué said the army remains intact and morale high despite Nazi fury. Brussels government moved to Ostend as Belgian forces shift to new positions. Paris reported Allied war council meeting to plan against the drive. Berlin claimed officers were pursuing the enemy as Belgian lines at Louvain and Wavre faced renewed blows. The French Maginot line was described as penetrated, with one mechanized German force pushing about 30 miles inside before being surrounded. All-night fighting stretched from Rethel to the Sambre river and Namur. Hungary was seen as a potential springboard for Hitler toward Romania’s oil.
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Holne
Brussels
Ostend
Paris
Allied War Council
Berlin
Dyle
Louvain
Wavre
Offi
War Office
Netherlands
Belgium
Rethel
Sambre
France
Meuse
Namur
Hungary
Adolf Hitler
Romania
Farmers Take a Profit On Wheat
Franklin Mullin reports Chicago May 17 that American farmers converted most of a $30 million paper profit on stored 1930 wheat into cash before Germany’s blitzkrieg on the western front. By May 1 loans on 140 million bushels were liquidated and profits realized, though the recent war shock knocked 1940 wheat values down from about 1.09 to 0.90 a bushel.
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Chicago
Germany
Biltzkrieg
Foreign war news shifts to Slovak frontier and Mediterranean
Reported German air and ground movements concentrate on the Slovak frontier of Hungary heading toward Romania. Britain readies for possible war in the near east with Mediterranean or Balkan involvement. A second Australian battalion lands in Egypt as Brussels fighting subsides briefly and fear grows of parachutist attacks on the British Isles. US citizens are urged by the American embassy to depart via Ireland for home.
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Great Britain
Near East
Mediterranean
Balkans
Egypt
Brussels
British Isles
United States
Ireland
Jacobs Funeral to Be Saturday
Funeral services for C. J. Jac land Md will be held Saturday at 10 30 from the home of his son CG See of Cumberland. The remains will be brought to Winchester for a brief service at Mount Hebron Cemetery chapel at 2 30. Burial will be in the family lot at Mount Hebron.
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C. J. Jacland
Cumberland
Winchester
Mount Hebron
Educators Arrive Daily for Ongoing School Program
Educators arrive each day for the ongoing school program, providing lessons and support to students. The effort supports classroom activities and aims to improve learning outcomes through consistent engagement.
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Hoover
Hes
Dodge
Detroit
Pine Motor CO
Braddock &Cecil
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Mrs. Sirbaugh
Chicago Cash Grain
Winchester Markets
U. S. May
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Beale
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Amherst Sts
Studebakers
Auburn
Chapman Motor CO
S. Loudoun St
Franklin Mullin
Hitler
Jacobs
Henry Ford
Handley School
Cammer Tire CO
Potomac By-Products Co
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Brive
Shenandoah
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