Welles Links End of Discrimination to Postwar Peace
In a Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery Under Secretary Sumner Welles urged ending discrimination by race, creed or color. He called for swift justice for those responsible for the war and urged disarmament and the UN as a world police power after the armistice.
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Arlington National Cemetery
Sumner Welles
Potomac
National Capital
Welles
United States
United Nations
Fredom
United One
Armier
Treasury Receipts and Debt Figures Daily Report
Treasury daily status shows May receipts 17,264,785.67 dollars and expenditures 139,505,233.21, total debt 74,115,031,064.45, increase over previous day 63,128,776.87.
Answers to the Daily Quiz
Answers to test questions printed on page 4 list names and facts. Notable items include Admiral Harold R. Stark, World War I heroes, twelve months, February 11, and references to the American Newspaper Publishers Association Securities and Exchange Commission Boulder Dam Iceland and a three headed dog guarding Hades.
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Harold R. Stark
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Securities and Exchange Commission
Boulder Dam
Iceland
Hades
Wilbur Gaunts In Blacksburg For Cadets Graduation
Mr and Mrs Wilbur Gaunt traveled to Blacksburg for Virginia Tech commencement where son Clifton Gaunt will receive a BS in Agricultural Engineering and be commissioned as 2nd lieutenant in the Reserve Corps. Clifton was VP of the VP I Chapter of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, vice president of the Cotillon Club, and a member of the Bachelor’s Club.
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Berryville
Wilbur Gaunt
Blacksburg
Virginia Tech
Clifton Gaunt
Gaunt
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Cotillon Club
Bachelor’s Club
No Baccalaureate Sermon This Year at Williams School
Berryville Va May 30 due to gasoline rationing and rubber conservation there will be no baccalaureate sermon this year at the W T B Williams Training School The commencement program will include a diploma ceremony and the unveiling of a photograph of Dr W T B Williams with his sister and widow invited Phylis S O Kelly superintendent of Peak's Turnout Colored Girls Industrial School will deliver the commencement address Wednesday night June 3 announced by C T Johnson the school principal
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Berryville
W. T. B. Williams Training School
W. T. B. Williams
Phylis S. O'Kelly
Colored Girls Industrial School
Peak’s Turnout
C. T. Johnson
Farm Meetings Set Next Week Across Town
Farm meetings are scheduled for next week with a series of sessions led by local leaders. On Monday at 8 30 p m in Stephens City Agricultural building neighborhood leaders discuss war bond stamp campaign and anti inflation measures led by Fred Dobbins. Tuesday at 8 15 p m in Winchester a farmer meeting features W R Legge and Harold Brown on anti inflation. Wednesday at 8 15 p m in White Hall a general anti inflation program is planned.
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Stephens City Agricultural Building
Fred Dobbins
Winchester
W. R. Legge
Harold Brown
White Hall
Soviet Armies Strike Deep in Izyum Barvenkovo Sector
Soviet armored forces lash at fresh German attacks in the Izyum Barvenkovo area destroying 12 Nazi tanks and killing 300 enemy troops in a battle now 11 days old. Red Army gunners and airmen claim 113 German aircraft down in two days and naval forces sink two Axis vessels in the Barents Sea.
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Izyum-Barvenkova
Soviet Information Bureau
Donets River
Kharkov
Red Army
Red Navy
Barents Sea
Information Bureau
Germany
Murmansk
Arctic
Moscow
Semeon Timoshenko
London Daily Mail
Adolf Hitler
W C O'Connell Dies In Night At Hospital
Clarence O'Connell aged 55 died shortly after midnight at Winchester Memorial Hospital after a weeklong illness. A Ridgeway West Virginia resident and Dunn Woolen Co. employee at Bunker Hill he was born August 14 1886 in Rockbridge County Virginia. Survived by wife Ella M Sale and five children plus four brothers and four sisters and two grandchildren. Funeral Monday at 4 PM from Ridgeway home with Rev John Teter officiating. burial at adjoining cemetery.
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Clarence O'Connell
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Ridgeway
W. Va
Dunn Woolen Co
Bunker Hill
J. T
Henrietta O'Connell
Rockbridge County
Ella M. Sale
T. H. Robinson
Newport News
Julian O’connell
Mildred O'Connell
Harold O'Connell
Robert
J. L. O’conmell
Brucetown
H. A. O’connel
Birmingham
Ala
J. T. O'Connell
Irmin
W. O'Connell
Martinsburg
P. N. Riley
E. M. Palmer
H. R. Haymaker
Manor
L. W. Overstreet
Benna Vista
O'Connell
Rest Methodist Church
John Teter
Rest Church
Cemtery
Revolt Plans In Ecuador Nipped In Bud
Quito May 30 A former cabinet minister an active army officer and two others were arrested as alleged leaders of a revolutionary coup after police fired on students attempting to storm the presidential palace. A palace guard was killed and three others wounded during the shooting. Capt Leonidas Plaza Lasso his brother Galo former defense minister Dr Antonio Quevedo and Col Francisco Urrutia were identified by police as the detainees.
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Quito
Ecuador
Leonidas Plaza Lasso
Galo
Antonio Quevedo
Francisco Urrutia
Brother In Law of Lewis Fired at CIO Comptroller Post
J R Bell brother in law of John L Lewis lost his six thousand dollar a year post as CIO comptroller. The firing followed Lewis removing Philip Murray from his eighteen thousand dollar vice presidency post of the United Mine Workers. Carey said he would take Bell s duties and the comptroller job would be abolished.
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Washington
J. R. Bell
John L. Lewis
C. I. O. Bell
Lewis
Philip Murray
Murray
United Mine Workers
James B. Carey
Cor Bell
Kentucky Observes Working Memorial Day Across State
Kentucky forgoes Memorial Day as legislature had erased most holidays. Banks and public buildings stayed open while banks operated normally and public ceremonies were limited to scattered patriotic group events.
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Louisville
War Industries
Kentucky
Sam Snead Leads Three Up In P. G. A. Semi Final
Sam Snead of Hot Springs Virginia held a three up lead over Lemaret of Detroit at lunch in the 36 hole semifinal match in the P.G.A. at Sea View Club in Atlantic City.
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Atlantic City
Sammy Snead
Hot Springs
Lemaret
Detroit
Sea View Club
Service Restored After Germany Sweden Phone Cut
Stockholm reported that telephone communication between Germany and Sweden was cut off last night and restored this morning without explanation. A similar break occurred on May 5.
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London
Reuters
Stockholm
Sweden
Service and Sunday School at Payne Chapel Methodist Church
Holy Communion and Memorial Sunday service at Payne Chapel Methodist Church at 9 45 A M with sermon Faith of Our Fathers. Sunday School follows at 10 45 A M.
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Payne Chapel Methodist Church
Church Concert Promises Classic Choir Selections
The Sneha concert features choirs from Shenandoah Valley School and area church readings of works by Handel Bach Gounod Walton and Dvorak among others. Junior and senior choirs perform pieces including Ave Maria Slumber Song and The Heavens Are Declaring with invocations and responses by Dr B E T Clark.
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Andrew Beth
Ansaiet SY Molb
Betty Hengeveld
Sneha
T of China
First Baptist Arch
Shenandoah Valley School
Church
BE. T. Clark
Handel
Shenandoah School
Bach Gounod
Betty Cather
Faith
Walton
Beethoven
Jesus
Bortniansky
Baptist Junior
New World Symphony
Dvorak
Elizabeth Grim
Store Customers Treated To Shower of Coins
Chicago May 30 a fleeing youth showered customers of a crowded grocery with coins and paper money during a pre holiday event. Detective John Pine recounts Anthony Colin 22 leaping over a heavy wire cashier’s booth seizing four fists of money and zigzagging through aisles before colliding with a pickle jar.
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Chicago
South Side
John Pine
Anthony Colin
Connally Urges U S Arms Aid to Mexico in War Effort
Senator Connally of Texas proposes immediate steps to apply the good neighbor policy by supplying Mexico with arms and ships. He says the United States could spare planes and small naval craft to aid against submarines while not harming its own war effort. He predicts Mexico's entry could galvanize Latin America to join the alliance against the Axis.
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Washington
Connally
D.-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Mexico
Gulf
Mental patient escapes, wins big at Longchamp track
An inmate from a mental institution escaped and bet 300,000 francs on horses at Longchamp near Paris. He was found after curfew with the winnings. Before returning him to the asylum he gave a tip to a police officer that proved profitable, though the officer had not played the tip.
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Vichy
Liberty
Longchamps
Paris
Japanese Raids Claimed on Burma Yunnan Frontier
Tokyo broadcasts report Japanese planes from May 24 to 28 conducted devastating raids against enemy military targets in the Burma Yunnan area. The Hui tung bridge over the Salween in Yunnan province was a focal point of the attacks.
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Tokyo
Comei
Burma
Burma-Yunnan
Huitung Bridge
Salween River
Yunnan Province
China
Norwegians Forced To Build Forts
London May 30 The Norwegian Telegraph Agency reports 25 000 Norwegians of 70 000 to be conscripted by Germany for heavy labor will be put to work on German fortifications along Norway s west coast. The Germans order businesses to list non essential employees and release quotas for the labor corps.
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London
Norwegian Telegraph Agency
Norway
Parting Is Sweet. Mrs. Brown Sues For Divorce
Kansas City May 30. Mrs Pearl Faye Ashton Brown sues for divorce. She requests the return of her sugar ration book as part of the petition and cites unspecified grounds for the action.
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Kansas City, Kas
Pearl Faye Ashton Brown
Miss Georgia Metz Dies at 57 After Illness
Miss Georgia Metz 57 of Frederick county died at Memorial Hospital at 6 10 this morning after a brief illness. She entered the hospital ten days ago undergoing a major operation last Wednesday. Survived by sisters Delia Chamberlain and A P Clendenning and by brother Dan Metz with whom she resided. Funeral at Braddock Street Methodist Church Monday at 2 PM with interment in Mount Hebron family lot.
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Georgia Metz
Dan Metz
Memorial Hospital
Miss Metz
Daniel Metz
Frederick County
Delia Chamberlain
Pennsylvania
A. P. Clendenning
Bunker Hill
W. Va
Mr. Metz
Braddock Street
Drunken Driving Sentence for Fred Godfrey Schuller
Fred Godfrey Schuller, 48, Route 1, was given a 30 days suspended jail sentence today by Trial Justice F. L. Largent Jr. His driving permit is revoked for 12 months.
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Fred Godfrey Schuller
Route 1
F. L. Largent, Jr
Bombing raids target France and England with varied casualties
British air raids hit docks at Cherbourg and Dieppe and attacked Gennevilliers Gnome-Rhone works in the Paris area. In England, German night raids caused casualties along the east and southeast coasts and six British planes were shot down. Paris area casualties reported by Vichy and Berlin broadcasts.
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Mannheim
Air Ministry
Cherbourg
Dieppe
Lens
France
Gnome- Rhone Aero-Engine
Goodrich Rubber Works
Gennevilliers
R.A.F
Paris
Suburan Gennevilliers
England
Vichy
Berlin
German High Command
Grimsby
Great Yarmouth
Helgoland
High Command
North Sea
LaFollette to Push New Senate Vote on Military Pay
Senator La Follette indicates he will seek a quick test vote to force adoption of the House $50 a month military pay, opposing the Senate's $42 figure. With conference deadlock over the $8 gap, he warns action is imminent and may move to discharge the committee to return the bill to the Senate. Pay rises would take effect the month after enactment.
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Washington
Senate
House
la Follette
Wis
Conference Committee
Market Basket Winners Named At Local Shop Event
A list of prizes includes household goods and groceries such as a Pyrex set a toaster and flour along with fresh foods. Winners named include Mrs Maude Racey Mrs C L Williams Mollie Lowery and others from the community.
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E. Litteer
Wolfe Street
Riley’s Market
R. T. Yost
Miller’s Hardware
Eva Rogers
Berryville Avenue
Firestone
Princess Jones
W. Leicester Street
I. B. Fawcett
C. J. Swank
South Kent Street
H. T. Green
N. Loudoun Street
Grover Henshell
Kathleen Kerns
Highland Avenue
Maude Racey
C. L. Williams
Mollie Lowery
Baltimore Livestock and Produce Markets Report May 30
Poultry market mixed with dull activity and no clear on chickens while fowls and rocks hold steady. Chickens by size 24 to 28 pounds 25 to 27 cents, reds 24 to 27, leghorns 13 to 14 pounds 21 cents, other weights 16 to 18 cents. Fowls roosters and ducks unchanged.
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Baltimore
Barrymore Dies After Long Career of Wit and Stage Fame
The actor John Barrymore dies after a storied career marked by a lively wit and stage prowess. He leaves siblings Ethel and Lionel Barrymore and children Diana, Dolores, and John Blythe, from his marriages to Dolores Costello and others.
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Chicago
John
Lionel
Ethel
Diana
Dolores Ethel Mae Barrymore
John Blythe Barrymore
Dolores Costello
Huge Pool of Resources Pledged To War Effort
Washington reports a global pooling of economic resources for wartime victory and postwar peace. Lease lend agreements with Britain and negotiations with Soviet Russia and China outline principles of aid, cooperation, and framing of final settlements to boost world trade.
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Wade Werner Washington
Great Britain
Toster
Ards
Russia
Maxim Litvinov
Hull
China
Chungking
T. V. Soong
Washington
Britain
United States
Health officer finds sugar bundle donated to health department
Chapel Hill North Carolina May 30 W P Richardson health officer found a bundle on his office steps tagged to the health department The package contained 25 pounds of sugar Richardson donated it to the department for charity efforts
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Chapel Hill
N. C
W. P. Richardson
Health Department
Ee i Richardson
Thy
Gas Bootlegging Tightens Across States Under Ration Rules
In Vermont an OPA official cited a station attendant who offered to fill a tank saying to ignore the ration card. New York reports only six complaints under investigation while Maine notes dealers and motorists strive to follow rules. Virginia reports no arrests and T Nelson Parker says violators are under 10 percent. Pennsylvania accelerates checks on Philadelphia service stations to curb bootlegging.
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Vermont
F. A. Bryan
New York
Maine
New York State
Howard T. Ware
Broome County
Washington
North
South Carolina
Virginia
T. Nelson Parker
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
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Wilbur Gaunts
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Loudoun St
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Berryville, Va
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Sam Snead
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Silvertown Stores
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LaFollette
Diana Barrymore
Michael Strange
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N. Y
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Boston
Barrymore
Amergan
Sweet Charity
Rouss City Hall
Alexander Potter Associates
Church Street
New York City
Common Council
City OF
Lee Grant
DuPont
John W. Rosenberger & Co., Inc
Dial
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Shenandoah Valley
Clarke County
Boyce
Charles L. Crane
Washington St
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Jefferson Co
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Haldeman’s Creamery
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