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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1940
Page
10
A historical and educational pageant by Stephens City High School set for May 29 draws wide town interest. Rehearsals run day and night as students prepare a compact history of Shenandoah Valley education, with over 500 participants and diplomas to be awarded at the end.
Paris May 23 The inner war cabinet announced the French government would keep its administrative base in Paris and civil industry would continue there. No government employees will leave the Paris region, except for administrative services sent to the interior at the war’s start.
Captain James Cook who rediscovered the Hawaiian Islands in 1778 called them the Sandwich Islands in honor of his patron the Earl of Sandwich head of the British Admiralty Office. The native Hawaiian name eventually replaced the English label.
Berlin reports a growing German drive to divide and destroy Allied armies in the west. Hitler’s Stuka bombers and fast boats support a channel assault while German land forces push south of the Scheldt to trap Allied troops. The Luftwaffe bombed Calais and Dunkirk ports and damaged several transits as German speedboats sink an Allied destroyer off Dunkirk. British reinforcements retreat to shore amid a fast moving German offensive toward the English Channel.
Democrats of Clarke county meet at 8 tonight in the Berryville courthouse to elect 18 delegates for the State Democratic Convention in Roanoke on June 14. Four delegates per magisterial district plus two extra from Berryville will be selected, each with a vote.
Carroll R. Miller of Martinsburg, secretary of Appalachian Apples, Inc., spoke at the Rotary Club in the George Washington Hotel and presented pictures on various aspects of the apple industry. A separate note mentions the earth's curvature influencing river flow and slight erosion differences.
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