Auditing of Fee Offices Get $20,000 System
Governor Price authorizes State Auditor L McCarthy Downs to implement a $20,000 annual auditing system for fee offices. A 55 member staff will oversee fee officer accounts while criminal cost vouchers stay with State Comptroller Hodges. Final session Saturday includes General Assembly auditing committee. Bar Association urged court voucher relief.
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Richmond
Price
L. McCarthy Downs
Downs
Senate Chamber
General Assembly
Bar Association
Circuit
Leroy Hodges
Refugees Die On Pier As Quanza Returns To Lisbon
A mixed group of European refugees fleeing visa restrictions perished on the Quanza in Norfolk while awaiting transit visas. The steamer later sailed to New York with travelers holding American visas, leaving others aboard and prompting cries that America is the land of the free.
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Norfolk
South America
United States
Mexico
Lisbon
Aoaling Pier
American Lloyd Company
Venezuela
Hillfat Wolff
Old Point
Fort Monroe
Vera Cruz
Quanta
New York
America
Army Offers Standing Jobs for Local High School Graduates
For the first time in years every able bodied local male high school graduate has assured employment through U S Army service. Openings exist in the Air Corps Signal Corps Chemical Warfare Service and Ordnance with fast promotion and paid specialist ratings. Unmarried men 20 to 27 with two years college may become Flying Cadets with salary and full support. apply to the Commanding General Third Corps Area Baltimore Md.
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Army
Air Corps
Signal Corps
Chemical Warfare Service
Ordnance Department
Army Air Corps
Officers’ Reserve Corps
Regular Army
Third Corps
Baltimore
Glass Speaks At Kiwanis Luncheon on Colonization History
W. W. Glass addressed the Kiwanis yesterday outlining events leading to America’s colonization. He highlighted January 30 1649 the beheading of Charles I the Northern Neck Grant of 5 282 000 acres Lord Fairfax arrival in 1743 and Washingtons role as Fairfax surveyor. Attendance prize and guest list noted.
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W. W. Glass
Kiwanis
Dale Carnegie
Hotel Barns With Loss Of $600,000
Fire destroyed the $600,000 Northern Hotel in Billings Montana, injuring no one. Norman Thomas the Socialist candidate for President and 75 guests escaped unharmed as flames rose from the basement and split the structure, burning power lines and damaging a nearby high tower and the Gazette building.
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Billings
Mont
Norman Thomas
Billings Gazette
City Hall
Lightning may have hit plane in Loudoun inquest
In Leesburg inquest peers heard the theory that lightning caused the August 31 Pennsylvania Central Airliner crash near Lovettsville that killed 25. Coroner Gibson closed the inquiry with accident cause unknown. Witnesses described a flash and thunder by the motors before the impact. others found no lightning evidence and noted rough weather was not unusual.
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Leesburg
Pennsylvania Central
Lovettsville
Loudoun County
John A. Gibson
Civil Aeronautics Board
Washington
Luther Harris
Lydia Jacobs
Richard Thompson
I. W. Baker
Ashurst May Be Salesman For Apples
Senator Ashurst after losing the Arizona primary talks of a possible shift to selling apples after January 1 and reflects on his decades in the capital. He notes his opposition to the conscription bill and calls his Burke-Wadsworth address among his best Senate moments.
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Washington
Ashurst
D-Ariz
Senate
Roosevelt
Ernest W. McFarland
Arizona
Holy Land Jews Appeal To U S
Jerusalem report states the Jewish Community Council calls for American intervention to stop bombings. It notes Italian raid deaths at least 112 and 151 wounded in Tel Aviv, with figures and leaders telegraphed to S Wise and Mayor Rokach urging action against Axis aggression.
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Jerusalem
Jewish Community Council
America
Tel Avid
Council
S. Wise
The
Aerican Jewish Congress
Sales Rise in Fifth District Department Stores
The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond reports an August 1940 department store sales gain of 20 percent over August 1939, with January–August up nine percent from the prior year. State gains include Virginia 14.7 and 6.3 percent, North Carolina 14.5 and 9.7, South Carolina 13.1 and 11.1, West Virginia 11.2 and 12.5. City gains include Baltimore 24.1 and 9.3, Washington 20.8 and 8.3, Charleston S C 21.8 and 15.5, Norfolk 21 and 8.9, Lynchburg 17.4 and 9.2, Richmond 14.1 and 6.5, Charleston W Va 8.4 and 11.7, Winston Salem 7.3 and 16.1, Huntington 1 and 3.7.
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Richmond
Federal Reserve Bank of
Baltimore
Washington
Charleston
S. C
Norfolk
Lynchburg
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Pamnor Rock
Epuctio’ Ie Sale
Firestone Auto Supply & Service Stores
Center of London
Greenwich
London
Science Museum
British Museum of Natural History
Houses of Parliament
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Wapping
Bromley
West India Docks
U. S
Silco Cut-Price Stores. Inc
U. S. Army
Plymouth
Chapman Motor CO
Chrysler
West Boscawen St
Farm Bureau
Glass
Clowe
Kiwanis Club
Holy Land
Israel Rokach
Avid
Romelia Axis
U.S. Mail
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Raylass Department Store
Oxford
Omart Bags
Me Department Store
Loudoun St
Solenberger’s Hardware
George W. Kurtz
uQomph
Rai
Caala Radios
MCC Ac
RCA Victor
N. Braddock St
Anderson
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