President seeks nearly six billion for lend lease aid
President Roosevelt asked Congress for 5.985 billion dollars to expand lend lease funding to 12.985 billion total. The plan targets agricultural and industrial commodities, ordnance, and aircraft material, with a prohibition on aiding groups aiming to overthrow the U S government. Russia's aid began with a 10 million dollar Treasury advance as Moscow seeks cash for war orders.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Rayburn
Harold D. Smith
Budget Bureau
United States
Russia
Treasury
Morgenthau
Soviets
Jesse Jones
Traction Corporation
Constantine Qumansky
State Department
Oumansky
Contractors bid Route 50 surfacing project details
Fred M. Yellett listed as resident high escorted in submitting bids for surfacing along Route 50 from Shenandoah west to Hill Top cabin camp a 9.1 mile stretch. Bids will be opened in Richmond on Tuesday morning September 23.
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Fred M. Yellett
Shenandoah West
Hill Top Cabin Camp
Richmond
Win Winchester lauds USO drive and soldiers praise
Garland Quarles and USO staff receive thanks from service men including 4th Platoon Co. C, Camp Lee to Camp Grant travelers. A letter to the Star extols USO support during 30 hours of travel and asks readers to continue giving. Authorities extend a 25 mile per hour zone near Winous to curb fast driving entering the city.
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Garland Quarles
USO
The
Star
Camp Lee
Camp Grant
Winous
Hair-raising tale wins liar’s crown at fair
In Payallup Washington on September 18 a fur bearing watermelon tale earned Lee Huston the liar’s crown at the Western Washington Fair. Huston, president of the Ananias Club, called it the handiest thing he ever saw and joked that you eat the melon then wipe your chin and ears on the rinds.
25 Mile Zone Extended South of Winchester
The 25 mile per hour zone along U S Route 11 near Winchester has been extended from the city limits south to a point near the garage. State Trooper B E Williams says the move follows several mishaps in the area and will be strictly enforced once the public is informed. The zone covers busy sites including Virginia Apple Storage O Sullivan Rubber Old Mill Storage and nearby filling stations.
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Winchester
B. E. Williams
Virginia Apple
O’sullivan Rubber Company
Old Mill
Still Hopeful of Receiving More Gasoline
Gasoline retailers in Winchester hope for higher allotments during the apple harvest but warn that more dealers must join the effort for John W. Prey to approve increases. Some stations report preparing gallonage figures dating back to 1940, while others have no submissions. Overall supply to retailers remains unchanged with diminishing pump stocks.
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Winchester
John W. Prey
Frey
Trial Dates Set For Jarvis Catoe
Jarvis Catoe a 36 year old Black man accused of killing five women in Washington faces trial for the death of Mrs. Rose Abramowitz set for October 15. A second trial for Mattie Steward follows in November. Abramowitz, 28, Kansas City bride, was raped and killed last March. Strieff, 23, War Department employee from Des Moines, was found nude in a garage June 16.
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Washington
Jarvisey
Rose Abramowitz
Edward M. Curran
Catoe
Mattie Steward
Navy Says Convoys Under Guard as Axis Threats Grow
Washington reports that U S Navy using all methods including convoys to shield British bound cargoes in the North Atlantic amid Axis threats. Navy Secretary Knox cites a possible Axis raider near the Galapagos and pledges disclosure if caught. President Roosevelt reiterates no shooting unless Germany acts.
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Washington
Atlantic
Pacific
United States Navy
Germany
Erich Raeder
United States
Reich
Navy
Knox
North Atlantic
Royal Navy
Iceland
Hunt
Galapagos Islands
South Pacific
Roosevelt
Germany Conti
Raeder
Favor New Front Against Hitler in British Press
London dispatch reports renewed calls for a western European invasion to open a new front against Germany. The Times urges steady policy, while the News Chronicle questions whether delaying a continent invasion while Russia remains unconquered risks German gains and idle forces on British shores.
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London
Germany
Europe
Rus
the Times
News Chronicle
Hitler
Russia
Road Gang Fugitive Claims Cruelty Driven Out of State
Ray mond B. Faris, a fugitive from a Virginia road gang, told Chief Deputy Attorney-General Harrington Adams that he was driven out of state by cruelty not that he fled from justice. Faris testified handcuffed to a guard that an iron shackle bound his leg and he was half paralyzed from a gunshot near his spine. Attorney Judson E. Ruch argued to Governor James that the constitutional meaning of fleeing from justice did not apply.
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Harrisburg
Raymond B. Faris
Virginia
Pennsylvania
James
Faris
Judson E. Ruch
York
Ruch
Harrington Adams
Grandon
S. Brent
Adams
Gasoline Rationing To Be Continued and Curfews
Secretary Ickes said rationing gasoline and filling station curfews would continue on the east coast despite a Senate committee finding no oil shortage. He cited a 565000 barrel drop in stocks for the week ending Sept 13, bringing two week decline to 1,023,000 barrels.
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Washington
Interior
Ickes
Defense Petroleum Coordinator
Senate
Farm Officials Consider Big Food Campaign Launch
Agricultural officials from 12 states gathered in Chicago to back a government campaign for a 15 percent production increase beyond 1929 average. Hogs milk dry skim milk cheese and chickens are priorities as the midwest mobilizes under new state and county defense boards. Local farmer committeemen will survey every acre for contributor capacity.
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Chicago
Union
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Dakotas
Ohio
Missouri
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Wickard
American Agricul
Agriculture Department
Middle Western States
Washington
Department
United States
Great Britain
Oime
Four-Alarm Fire Destroys Greenfield Plant in Baltimore
A four alarm blaze swept the Greenfield manufacturing plant in Baltimore injuring rubber stocks and tires. Smoke drifted over the Fallsway area and nearby institutions as 30 fire apparatus fought the flames and water streams protected a trestle from sparks. Samuel Greenfield reported heavy losses to rubber and linings.
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Baltimore
Greenfield Manufacturing Company
Fallsway
State Penitentiary
Samuel Greenfield
Notice of Berker Mineral Water Distributor
Public notice identifies M. P. Michael as sole distributor for Berker Genuine Mineral Water with a multi-digit contact code and dated annotations 19 20 24 41. Official distribution rights established in the notice.
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M. P. Michael
Germany Arrests Some Chileans
Berlin reports that several Chileans have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of activities hostile to the Reich. An informant said wartime state needs justify measures to eliminate elements intriguing against the regime.
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Berlin
Germany
Reich
4000 Members of 44th Division To Camp Here
Winchester and vicinity will host about 4,000 men of the 44th Division en route to maneuvers in North Carolina on September 26. Traveling in about 900 vehicles, the men will arrive in Winchester between 3 and 4 pm, according to Andrew Belt of the Chamber of Commerce. The party includes Capt John Perlett, Capt John Czingeli, and 1st Lt Robert Walter. Units camping near Winchester will be mixed engineers and artillery. Some will arrive via Route 11 from the north, others via Berryville road, then depart for Roanoke the next morning.
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Winchester
Maneuvers
North Carolina
Andrew Belt
Chamber of Commerce
John Perlett
John Czingeli
Robert Walter
104Th Engineers
Berryville Road
Roanoke
U. S. Route 11
Riverton Bridge Project Nears Completion by Dec1
Special to the Star reports Riverton highway bridges should finish around December 1 barring delays. Steel erection is done, concrete floorings underway on the South Branch span about 1,925 feet long, with sidewalks and rails largely finished. The North Branch bridge is about 1,100 feet long with concrete work pending, and the Crooked Run span is essentially complete aside from rip-rap at piers. Surfacing for approaches to all three bridges is about half finished.
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The
Star
South Branch
Crooked Run
North Branch
Local Selectee Receives Army Discharge at Camp Croft
Delbert H. Rogers of B Company 30th Battalion has been discharged under a new Congressional measure granting discharge to selectees over 28 who requested release. He leaves Camp Croft with a uniform and 5 cents per mile pay to induction. His name moves to the enlisted reserve, subject to recall to reach 30 months total service. Rogers, son of Mrs. Rose Hawkins of Winchester Virginia, was inducted at Roanoke on May 28. He is the first local selectee discharged under the act.
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Camp Cropt
8. C
Delbert H. Rogers
Army
Camp Croft
Rose Alice Hawkins
Deal Street
Winchester
Rogers
Roanoke
Bulgaria Mobilizes 350000 as War Expands in Balkans
An Ankara dispatch reports Bulgaria mobilizing about 350 000 soldiers amid tense relations with Soviet Russia. Informants say three German divisions are in Bulgaria and Italy may seek to move warships via the Dardanelles. Reports note Romania Hungary losses and Axis troop concentrations in Varna.
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Ankara
Balkan
Bulgaria
Russia
London
Dardanelles
Yugoslavia
Greece
Turkey
Romania
Black Sea
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Axis
Varna
Bucharest
RAF Bombers Strike Deep in Reich and Rhine Lands
RAF bombers hit deep into the Reich in a second straight night raid on the Rhineland targeting Karlsruhe with fires sparked and one plane lost. Coastal command attacked St Nazaire docks and all aircraft returned. In Germany small raid damage on the southeast coast. Bethune France raid preceded daytime operations with multiple enemy fighters down and one RAF bomber lost.
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Germany
Rhineland
Karlsruhe
Air Ministry
Coastal Command
St. Nazaire
Berlin
East Anglia
Rhinelands
RAF
Channel
Bethune
France
German Panzer Chief Guderian Defeated Near Bryansk
Soviet reports say Heinz Guderian's panzer force suffered heavy losses near Bryansk 230 miles southwest of Moscow. Red Army claims 20 000 Germans killed wounded or captured and large quantities of war materiel seized as the armored thrust was repulsed.
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Moscow
Heinz Guderian
Bryansk
Red Army
Soviet Information Bureau
Red
Guderian
France
Maginot Line
German forces report gains near Leningrad and Crimea
Berlin said German troops besieging Leningrad achieved great success and advanced toward the city. authorities also claimed isolating Crimea, cutting a rail link. Navy losses included one destroyer two submarines and four motor torpedo boats plus several ships sunk or damaged in waters from the Gulf of Finland to the Black Sea.
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Berlin
Leningrad
Ukraine
Dnieper
Adolf Hitler
London
Crimea
Russia
Isthmus
Rostov
High Command
Chems
Oocse
Gulf of Finland
Lake
Ladoga
Volkhov
White Sea
Kronstadt
Leningorad
DNB
Black Sea
Lake Ladoga
Sea of Azov
Dneiper
Meuse
Sedan
Prance
Tragedy as Train Plows Crowd in Moravia Killing 18
A limited train derailed or struck a crowd waiting for a local at Brunn Moravia killing 18 and injuring many. The incident occurred on the track reserved for the limited.
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Berlin
Brunn
Moravia
DNB
Bomb Explosions Kill Over 30 in Nanking Canton
Report says more than 30 people including several Japanese died in bomb blasts in Nanking and Canton on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Mukden incident marking renewed tensions as Japan expands.
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Shanghai
Nanking
Canton
Mukden
Japan
Germans to Stay in Iran as Occupation Forces Beer Makers
TEHERAN Iran Sept 18 Two brewers making beer for the British and Russian armies of occupation are among 100 Germans allowed to remain in Iran. The rest are mostly Jews.
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Teheran
Iran
Seafarers Union rejects government ultimatum on war bonus
A spokesman for the Seafarers International Union said the union rejected a government ultimatum to arbitrate a war bonus dispute with steamship companies and threatened a general strike of coastwise and inter coast vessels of other companies.
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New York
Seafarers International Union
AFL
Strike Continues Walkout Shuts Kansas City Power
Kansas City workers rejected a National Mediation Board appeal to return to work and kept the power walkout active. Skeleton crews ran 180 of 350 plants, with Sage City arms factory and Sheffield Steel delaying operations amid defense orders. Four hours without lights and transit led to arrests, while major mills faced closure.
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Kansas City
Power House
National Mediation Board
National Defense
Kansas City Power and Light Company
Sage City
Sheffield Steel Corporation
Deer Signs Hint at Strong Fall Hunting Ahead
Reports from city and county briefings note many deer sightings in areas near Winchester and Parletts Run with anticipation of a fruitful hunting season. A traffic delay on Loudoun street involved three empty lumber trucks causing a long line of southbound vehicles from Indian Alley to Rouss avenue around 12 45 PM.
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Angers Store
Parlett’s Run
Winchester
Indian Alley
Rouss Avenue
Loudoun Street
Piccadilly
Larrick Appears A Little Brighter
Ahem Larrick, 18, injured in a crash near Martinsburg West Virginia, shows signs of improvement at Kings Daughters Hospital. Officials said he seemed a little brighter this afternoon after the early Monday morning collision that involved F K Orndorff & Co.
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Kings Daughters Hospital
Martinsburg
W. Va
Ahem Larrick
Larrick
F. K. Orndorffe
Play Bingo Fridays for Big Award in South End
Notice from South End Hole Co and H. J. Heinz Co indicating activities and product mentions. Reading and cider apples noted with references to company locations and page markers.
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Big Good
South End Hole Co
New Location and Address Change Announcement
New location at 215% N. Loudoun Street opposite George Washington Garage. Phone 6211 remains the same. Mason Earl L. notice appears in the period style.
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Loudoun St
George Washington Garage
Mason— Earl L
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