War Is Moving Closer To Every Citizen's Purse
New York reports say war abroad and defenses push living costs up. Senate and House back a 85 per cent parity loan on key farm crops while wholesale staples jump. Wheat corn and cotton surge as farm bill boosts loan values. Dollar wheat becomes reality and price rises spread to consumers.
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Washington
Senate
House
Leon Henderson
Associated Press
Department of Commerce
Obey Traffic Laws for Public Safety
A public safety note urges parents and drivers to obey traffic regulations, citing Chief Hollis of the Police Department and the community's belief in regulations for everyone's convenience and protection.
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Hollis
Police Department
Food prices rise and wage trends mix in mid April analysis
The Fairchild Index shows April price gains outside food at 7.1 percent and 2.9 percent year over year. Wages rise in many industries including General Motors with a 50 million annual payroll boost. Experts caution that food costs will push wages higher, feeding factory product prices.
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Wall Street
Junior Board To Adopt Budget Friday Night
The regular May meeting of the Junior Board of Trade will be held Friday night at the George Washington Hotel starting at 8 o clock. They will consider regular business items plus project and committee assignments and adopt a budget for the year. Ed Molden will report on progress of filming See Yourself in the Movies.
Knights Templar Service Sunday Observance in Winches Commandery
The Winches Commandery No. 12 Knights Templar will hold its Feast of the Ascension service at Christians Church. Rev. Robert A. Whitten will deliver the address. Knights meet at City Hall asylum at 7:30 wearing full uniform or without if none. Refreshments follow at the Masonic Temple banquet hall. George S. Taylor leads, H. C. Jones serves as recorder.
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Winches Commandery
Knightsemplar
E Christian Church
Robert A. Whitten
Templar
Masonic Temple
George S. Taylor
H.C. Jones
Parsonage Committee Expanded At Market Street Church
Announcement today from Market Street Methodist Church states the Parsonage committee has added four members to the original five. The eight members now include H. Delmar Robinson as chairman, A. C. Halvosa, John I. Sloat, Mrs. A. Harold Rowe, Garland Evans Hopkins, Miss Katherine Kern, Mrs. Mae Carper, C. Arthur Robinson, and George T. Sanders.
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Market Street Methodist Church
H. Delmar Robinson
A. C. Halvosa
John I. Sloat
A. Harold Rowe
Garland Evans Hopkins
Katherine Kern
Mae Carper
C. Arthur Robinson
George T. Sanders
Home Demonstration and 4-H Club Schedule Highlights
May activities cover Ready Made Clothing demonstrations by Home Agent groups and The Use of the Commercial Pattern for 4-H clubs. Meetings are set at various schools and homes through May 23, featuring district visits by Miss R Belle Burke and a Harrisonburg conference.
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White Hall
Frederick
Court House
R. Belle Burke
Charlottesville
Middletown Home Demonstration Club
Stephens City Home Demonstration Club
Genevieve Massey
Frederick Co Board of Agriculture
Armei
Harrisonburg
Mt. Airy
Gore
Ey Grove
Mt. View
Rites Tomorrow For John Massie
Funeral services for John Milton Massie age 69, former Winchester policeman, who died yesterday morning at Memorial Hospital, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o clock at the Lane home. The Rev R B Nelson rector and Ernest Adams G I Brumback will officiate.
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John Milton Massie
Winchester
Lane
R. B. Nelson
Ernest Adams
G. I. Brumback
Mrs Ickes and Babe Are Fine
Attendants at Johns Hopkins Hospital said Mrs Harold L Ickes and her young daughter Babe are recovering at home near Washington. The date of discharge was not set but expected within a few days.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Harold L. Ickes
Secretary of the Interior
Washington
Barbed Wire Front Line in North Africa Desert Battle
British and Axis forces clash along the Egyptian Libyan frontier near Fort Capuzzo and Salum as barbed wire barriers mark the front. Tobruk sorties press the Axis flank while supply routes shift inland. RAF and US aircraft deliveries arrive slowly amid fuel shortages and desert logistics.
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Duce
North Africa
Mussolini
Egypt
Fort Capuzzo
Salum
No-Man’s Land
Hell Pire Pass
Oie
Tobruk
Capuzzo
R.A P
Saar
R.af
Cairo
Iraq
Greece
Crete
Suez Canal
City and county traffic cases show tag and speeding fines
City officers cracked down on cars without city tags while state Troopers Williams and Mitchell continued their campaign for reckless driving. Trial Justices convicted D W Pugh Gay Lloyd Crisman Ralph Keefover John Bays Cecil Lockley Herbert Bryant and others with fines from $1 to $25 plus costs. An appeal was noted in Bryant's case by Sloan Kuykendall.
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B. E. Williams
E. B. Mitchell
D. W. Pugh
Am Gay
Cos Lloyd Crisman
Ralph Keefover
John Bays
Cecil Lockley
Boyce
Herbert Bryant
Bryant
Sloan Kuykendall
E. W. Braithwaite
State of
Virginia
Lam
C. Scheffgens
Sovara A. Cline
T. Harrison
Memorizing Phone Numbers Advised In Dial System
Officials urge consulting the telephone directory and using dial tone checks before dialing. Instructions cover paying coins, dialing to finger stop, and replacing the receiver after conversations. It explains ring, busy, and party line signals and how to place long distance or emergency calls using dial O. The Braddock Street building houses the dial equipment.
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Information Gao
Braddock Street
Rev Paul T Stonesifer to Receive Honorary Doctorate
The Rev Paul T Stonesifer, Winchester native and Zion Reform ed Church of Chambersburg Pa pastor, will receive an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Franklin and Marshall College during next month’s commencement week. He previously earned a BA in 1917 and an MA from the same college plus a BD from Reformed Theological Seminary in 1920.
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Paul T. Stonesifer
Winchester
Zion Reformed Church
Chambersburg
Franklin and Marshall College
Lancaster
James B. Stonesifer
Centenary Reformed Church
Stonesifer
Reformed Theological Seminary
Mount Pleasant
Zion Church
I. W. Hendricks
Fort Loudoun
Omaha soldiers return from Camp Robinson for week furlough
Nebraska soldiers from Camp Robinson Arkansas arrived two hours early for a week’s furlough. Nearly no one greeted them at first and two hours later families friends and sweethearts began to gather at the station to welcome them home.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Camp Robinson
Ark
Stewart Estep Buried Today
Following funeral services at Enders Funeral Home in Berryville, Stewart D. Estep 78 a Shenandoah county native was buried in Old Chapel cemetery Clarke county. Rev C D Shelton of Millwood Episcopal Church officiated. He died Sunday at his daughter Mrs Henry L Devers home in Boyce.
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Enders
Berryville
Stewart D. Estep
Shenandoah County
Old Chapel
Clarke County
C. D. Shelton
Millwood Episcopal Church
Estep
Henry L. Devers
Boyce
Treasury Receipts and Debt Figures for May
Treasury May receipts total 9.9 million dollars while expenditures reach 47.9 million. Gross debt stands at 47.512 billion, showing an increase of 15.13 million from the previous day.
Telephone frames and basement equipment expansion plan
The article describes underground cable frames in the basement that terminate about 106,000 wires. The setup allows future additions to meet growing public demand for telephone service and is designed for subsequent installations of new equipment as needed.
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Reedy V. Taylor
Harry J. Taylor
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
BUICK
Forder
Bickers Motor CO
N. Braddock St
Knights Templar
Star
London
Berlin
Rome
Alexandria
Cammer Tire CO
Cor
Hampden-Sydney College
James Madison
Patrick Henry
United States
Rites
John Massie
Mrs. Ickes
Babe
Chapman Motor Co
By Edward Kennedy
Potomac By-Products Co
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Shenandoah Motor Co., Inc
Stewart Estep
the Treasury
Goodyear Service Store
Braddock & Germain
Dodge
Chevrolet
Ford
G.M.C
International Express
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