Blitz Boy Tells The Star Army Life Is Great
Camp Polk Louisiana September 18 Geipctee Everly S Carper son of Minnie Carper R FP D No 1 Winchester has arrived as a member of the Third Armored Bayou Blitz Division assigned to HQ Detachment 33rd Armored Regiment His 13 weeks training was at Fort Knox He praises Army life saying he has made many friends from most every state and the camp seems nice with swell food and good service
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Camp Polk
Activites
Union
Fort Ennox
Oime
Welltown Native Elizabeth Hicks Dies in Bowling Green Ohio
Elizabeth Wright Hicks 67 wife of Fenton Hicks of Bowling Green Ohio died yesterday at her home after a yearlong illness. A Welltown native she was born near Winchester and later visited her old community. Survived by husband daughter Chlo delle Hicks son Beard Hicks and several Wright brothers and half siblings. Funeral Friday at 2 PM from the Bowling Green home with cemetery interment there.
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Elizabeth Wright Hicks
Fenton Hicks
Bowling Green
Ohio
Welltown
Winchester
Hicks
Chlodelle Hicks
Beard Hicks
Alfred Wright
Highway sign moved to new Montague Hall site
The resident engineer of the Highway Department said a large sign near Montague Hall will be moved, probably tomorrow, to a new location as part of the 25 Mile Zone coverage.
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Fred M. Yellett
Highway Department
Montague Hall
Fair Assistants Elected for Stephens City and Middletown Fair
Future Farmers of Middletown and Stephens City high schools elected assistants to Henry Carbaugh, superintendent of the Future Farmer Fair. The Middletown election was held yesterday afternoon and Stephens City today. James Judy named assistant superintendent for Middletown. others named for poultry apples grain vegetables etc. Home Economics divs not participating this year. canned fruit exhibits planned. Joe Jenkins elected watchdog. John Kettlewell named vice-president to replace Gervis Grim.
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Future Farmers of
Middletown
Stephens City High Schools
Henry Carbaugh
Stephens City High School
Stephens City
James Judy
Irvin Timcorn
Billy Rickard
John Kline
Tom Shull
Hugh Tom Campbell
Wilmer Renner
John Kettlewell
James Clem
James Garrett
James Summers
Cann
Ied
Richard Tevalt
Fred Dobbins
Joe Jenkins
Gervis Grim
Baltimore
4000 Members Continue 28th Division Camp Plans
Officers said Major Lutz directed contacts for vamp grounds but could not explain why a planned division camp about ten days ago was not set up. Convoy routes 200 to 225 miles daily with water from city mains. Camp sites include Hollingsworth on Senseney road, armory grounds, Rouss Park, municipal airport area, and land south of the airport. The 28th Division may not stop in Winchester area despite AP dispatch.
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Lutz
Vamp Grounds
Hollingsworth
Senseney Road
Armory
Rouss Park
Star
Winchester
Associated Press
Richmond
President Proposes Defense Bill With Foreign Aid Powers
The budget outlines include a tenacious plan to supply defense articles and services to allied governments, with up to six billion in commitments and defense funding across tanks ships and equipment. Morgenthau notes Treasury funding is day to day and future Russian aid requests are unknown.
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Morgenthau
United States
Budget Bureau
Dies Of Automobile Crash Injuries
Allentown Pa September 18 Mrs John Hoffner 60 dies in Allentown hospital after head on collision near Thexlertown. Four others including Major Carl B Hill CCC camp Staunton Va remain critically injured with severe skull injuries. Hoffners were passengers in one of the two cars. Hill rode with two CCC enrollees and Dr Edwin J Ward Crisfield Md CCC camp physician at Lancaster Pa.
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Allentown
John Hoffner
Thexlertown
Carl B. Hill
Bir CCC
Major Hill
Staunton
CCC
Edwin J. Ward
Crisfield
Lancaster
Convoy Policy Sparks War Talk and Political Clash
Raeder warned convoys could trigger shooting and near war as U S policy shifted to convoy protection. Roosevelt-linked phrase attributed to unnamed authority. Congress debated no convoy prohibition amid lease-lead bill fights. Administration argued convoy power rested in the president as commander in chief.
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Raeder
Roosevelt
United States
Adolf Hitler
Congress
Administration
Soviet Call for General Military Training Amid War News
Russians report machine guns 51 trench mortars and thousands of rifles as Stalin orders compulsory military training for all men 16 to 50 outside work hours from October 1. Soviet losses claim 65 000 to 80 000 across the front, with Bryansk battles described and German claims of crushing Russian armies disputed.
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Joseph Stalin
Soviet Defense Committee
Defense Committee
Bryansk
Soviet Information Bureau
Lake Ilmen
Leningrad
Answers to the Daily Quiz Printout
Answers listed for test when printed on page 4. England appears as item 1 or 3. Items include on and anticlimax. Quiz numbers show 366 repeated four times. The Confederate flag and an English jurist appear among the answers.
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England
Long Illness Fatal for John R. Broy in Frederick County
John Robert Broy 67 a Warren County native died at his Refuge area home in Frederick County at 4 30 yesterday afternoon after a long illness He was a retired carpenter who worked in and near Winchester He is survived by his wife Effie Grim and children Garland refuge Mrs Anna Hough Nineveh Greta at home plus a sister and four grandchildren He was a lifelong member and steward of the United Brethren Church Ridings Chapel Services set at Refuge Church with Rev Waltz and Rev Homer Welch officiating Pallbearers named Interment in Refuge Cemetery
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John Robert Broy
Warren County
Refuge
Frederick County
Robert W
Elizabeth Pomeroy Bray
Winchester
Effie Grim
Garland
Anna Hough
Nineveh
Greta
Ella Brown
Macedonia
U. B. Church
United Brethren Church of
Ridings Chapel
Refuge Church
Waltz
Homer Welch
Thomas Hawes
Amoss Lillard
Harry McCauley
William Walker
Austin Carter
Howard White
Inter
Refuge Cemery
Flower Girls
Carlton Conner
Marie Conner
Iran’s Shah Gifts Father’s Wealth to Nation
Teheran reports Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 21, will cede all possessions of his fabulously rich father, Reza Pahlavi, to the nation. A general amnesty for political prisoners is also planned as the new shah vows constitutional rule after oath yesterday.
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Teheran
Iran
Shah
Mohammed Shah Pahlavi
Reza Pahlavi
Asia
Britain
Russia
Axis
Mazanderan
United States
England
Gas Rationing and Oil Prices Discussed in Washington
Gas rationing continues as east coast stocks show a 12.5 percent drop from last year and demand rises about 11 percent over 1940. Leon Henderson invites Pennsylvania grade crude producers, sellers, and refiners to a price conference to justify costs and prices, urging submission of data before the meeting.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Pennsylvania
Henderson
Secretary Stimson probes order to close show in Baltimore
Secretary Stimson said he is personally investigating a War Department action closing the 29th Division show "Snap It Up Again" in Baltimore. The review aims to clarify performances planned for Richmond and Washington amid questions about a Selective Service Act provision barring service members from competing with civilians. He cited "enough doubt" to warrant further inquiry and asked for more information.
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Washington
Stimson
Baltimore
Richmond
War Department
500000 Soldiers Engaged In Fierce Struggle Across 75 Mile Front
Allied armored forces of the Second and Third Armies clash along a 75 mile front from Alexandria Louisiana to near the Texas line. Massed infantry artillery and air support drive through forests and brush as 600000 men participate in the simulated war exercise.
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Associated Press
Alexandria
Louisiana
Texas
Ben Lear
Ben Lear’s Mobile Second Army
Walter Krueger
Third Army
Deridder
Oakdale
Hornberh
Leesville
Second Army
Sabine River
Red River
Lear
Krueger
Zwolle
Gulf of Mexico
New Toll Bridge Paying Its Way
The Susquehanna river toll bridge at Havre De Grace reported first year receipts of 730621.03 with a net surplus of 286000. If continued, bond debt could be retired in 15 years. The bridge cost 4535850 with 2,041,132 from a PWA grant and 6,000,000 in bonds. Traffic totaled 3,505,675 vehicles since opening August 28, 1940.
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Baltimore
Havre de Grace
William Codd
State Roads Commission
Codd
PWA
Stambaugh Elected Commander of American Legion
Lynn A. Stambaugh of Fargo North Dakota was elected commander of the American Legion in Milwaukee on September 18. He succeeds the current leader and assumes duties for the organization’s national chapter.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Lynn A. Stambaugh
Fargo
N. D
American Legion
Renew Effort To Reopen Mines
A second Mediation Board conference was called to seek an agreement to reopen captive soft coal mines in Pennsylvania West Virginia and Kentucky owned by major steel firms. CIO UMW members demand a union shop while 20 000 workers stay idle at 44 mines and 4 000 return to work in Wilkes Barre after operators suspend union dues deductions.
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Washington
Mediation Board
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Kentucky
CIO United Mine Workers
Steel Company
John L. Lewis
UMW
School Opening Is Put Off Again in Pennsylvania
Health officials in Harrisburg indicate further postponement of school openings in the hardest hit counties as infantile paralysis cases rise beyond 400 and a Lancaster General Hospital patient dies in an iron lung. Lancaster schools suspend opening to September 29 per health department guidance.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Edward Peters
Columbia
Lancaster General Hospital
Lancaster
Health Department
Fairchild Plant to Expand for Aircraft Wing Production
The War Department announced a $1,675,967 expansion contract with Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp of Hagerstown Maryland to enlarge its plant for airplane wing production. A letter of intent allows construction and equipment purchase to start before a formal contract is finalized.
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Washington
Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation
Hagerstown
War Department
Chosen To Head Legion Auxiliary Is Chosen To Head Legion Auxiliary
Mrs. Mark W. Murrilly of Scituate Massachusetts was elected national president of the American Legion Auxiliary at the Milwaukee convention. She won 435 votes to 433 for her opponent Mrs. Pleasant I. Dixon of Americus Georgia. Murrilly is a former chief petty officer in naval intelligence during World War I.
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Milwaukee
Mark W. Murrilly
Scituate
Mass
American Legion Auxiliary
Murrill
Pleasant I. Dixon
Americus
Georgia
American Legion
Auxiliary
Naval Intelligence Bureau
Mass Supplies Needed To Save Reds
An authoritative source urged Britain and the United States to rapidly rush war supplies to the Soviet Union to replace staggering losses in what he called the greatest battle in history. He warned of a possible separate peace offensive by Hitler and cited rising casualties and the strategic value of Iran for a supply corridor.
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London
Britain
United States
Russia
Hitler
Iran
Persia
Japs Protest Floating Mines in Japanese Sea
Shanghai dispatch says Tokyo protested to Moscow over Russian mine activity in the Japan Sea. Japan claims a mine sank a Japanese fishing boat killing nine Korean fishermen and seeks measures to prevent further incidents to ensure peace and safe navigation for third-country vessels.
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Shanghai
Navigation Forbidden in Northern Korea Waters at Night
The Domei broadcast reports Japanese authorities barred nighttime navigation off the northern Korea coast and began mine sweeping. The note mentions a Soviet Russia traverse through the Japan Sea toward Vladivostok as part of the movement.
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Soviet
Russia
Japan Sea
Vladivostok
Korea
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Roanoke
Front Royal
U.S. Naval Forces
B. F. Goodrich
Silvertown
E. Pictadilly St
John R. Broy
Stambaugh
Fairchild
Legion Auxiliary
Este,olors
John Rosenberger and CO
Quality St Materisis
Leaders
Shenandoah
Northern Virginia Power Co
Americas
Prestone
Army
Navy
Prestone Anti-Freeze
National Carbon Company, Inc
Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation
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Doric Deluxe
E. Piccadilly St
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