Red Cross Meeting Aims to Lift Taylor County Fund
A special Red Cross mass meeting is set for tomorrow night at 8 in the local junior high school. Joe Warner of the American Red Cross will attend to aid workers and district production reports will frame future plans. The Taylor County drive, slowed but now forming, seeks to push the fund past the $10,000 goal by the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Taylor County
Joe Warner
American Red Cross
Taylor County Red Cross War Fund
Estimated Income Tax Due April 15 Local Office Open
A deputy Internal Revenue collector will be at the Grafton Internal Revenue office on April 12 to 14 1944 from 8:00 a.m. to noon to assist taxpayers with Declarations of 1944. No charge for this service. Filing required by April 15 for US citizens or residents earning 1944 income. Wage withholding thresholds stated for single and married filers. Farmers with farming income over a threshold may defer to December 15 with estimated tax payment due then. The note ends with a tangential line about the guillotine’s name and its inventor Joseph Tynatius Quillotin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue Office
Grafton
Spi
United States
United Mine Workers Win Boost For Underground Pay Claim
The United Mine Workers claim for pay on underground travel time for about 500,000 soft coal miners gained support from a Supreme Court ruling on iron ore miners. Justice Murphy warned against narrow application of the Fair Labor Standards Act, stressing workers rights and Congress intent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United Mine Workers
Supreme Court
Alabama
CIO
UMW
Juin L. le
Crampton Harris
Birmingham
Cate
Harris
Edward R. Burke
Southern Coal Producers Association
WAC Recruiting Schedule Announced in Grafton Bank
Cpl Martha Gaines of the local WAC recruiting office at the First National Bank of Grafton Libby announced a change in Taylor county recruiting days. Recruits may visit the bank lobby on Fridays and Saturdays for personal interviews about the WAC and Army activities. An exhibition of World War II trophies will remain in the bank lobby.
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Cpl
Martha Gaines
WAC
First National Bank of Grafton
Libby
Tdlay
Harons
Taylor County
Cpl. Gaines
Pank
Meadows 10 Come to Grafton Wed
Clarence Meadows of Beckley, Democratic candidate for governor, will visit Grafton next Wednesday morning. He plans a statewide swing through the first and second districts with stops at Weston, Clarksburg, Rowlesburg, Piedmont, and Keyser, highlighting major speeches in key cities.
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Taylor County
Clarence Meadows
Beckley
Grafton
Meadows
Weston
Clarksburg
Grefton
Keyser
Rowlesbury
Piedmont
Red troops driven north and south by Ukrainian armies
Fragmentary report notes forces labeled red troops moved north by the first Ukrainian army and southward by the second Ukrainian army, indicating coordinated pressure on opposing lines. The text hints at a broader front action without clear dates or locations.
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Ionesom
Second
Rural Residents Headed for Last Farming For Better Living Roundup
Rural residents in 22 West Virginia counties join the final enrollment drive for the 1944 Farming For Better Living program. Enrollment ends midnight Friday March 31. Counties like Taylor show strong participation as organizers urge farmers to enroll and receive the contest book guiding planting and canning. Aimed at improving farm income and practices, the effort is led by county agents and home demonstrators in cooperation with local businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Taylor County
Ohio Valley
Burwell
Parkersburg
Central Counties
Clarksburg
Monongahela Valley
Taylor
Marion
Monongalia
Preston
Bethlehem
Fairmont
I, N. Fetty
James Copeman
County Agricultural Committees
Sam
Russian Push Drives Into Bucovina Across Prut
Tagestio reports thunder from Russian artillery at Tasi and asserts German command cannot halt the troops. Red Star cites Marshal Ivan Konev's second Ukrainian army driving Germans and Romanians to death near Czernowitz, with Sadagura captured after a 23 mile Bucovina push from the Dniester by Marshal Gregory Zhukov. Skulyany falls to Konev’s forces in a sweep involving an annihilated Hungarian regiment.
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Bucovina
Dniester
Gregory K. Zhukov
Skulyany
Ivan
Konev
Quick sale two Lincoln Street properties and more
Two lots on East Wilford street with eight rooms bath pantry cellar wash house and garage priced for quick sale this month at 2500 dollars. Lincoln Street property offers six rooms sun parlor and out buildings in first class condition priced at 2800 dollars or 3000 dollars on terms.
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East
Wilford St
Lincoln St
First Street
West Grafton
Wilford Street
Leave, Promotion, and Wartime Promotions Highlight Local News
Local and military notes report SAO Third Class William Summers and his wife Peggy visiting family in Lucre tia as Summers heads to NY for the Navy assignment. Bennett Kann promoted to corporal at Camp Lee. Mars Keyser enlists and trains at Des Moines then to Wright Field. Alfred Zuma reports safe North Africa arrival of son George D. Keener Jr. Brothers Charles and Til Weaver promoted in Navy service. Soviet offensives push toward Czernowitz and the Dniester, with multiple villages captured as Zhukov's forces threaten the Carpathians and rearrange fronts. Casualties alleged on German lines as Red troops advance near Kamenets-Podolsk and Proskurov.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Summers, Jr
Peggy Woodyard
Washington, D.C
Summers
East Bluemont Street
W. A. Woodyard
Lucretia
Bennett Kann
G. R. Keyser
Knottsville Road
Camp Lee
Miss Mars Keyser
North Africa
Alfred Zuma
West Boyd Street
Pfe
George D. Keener, Jr
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Joseph Tynatius Quillotin
Republican
Lions
Murphy
Congress
Burke
Lewis
FBI
SAT
New York City
RCAF
Wayne Lonergan
William J. Byrne
Patricia Burton Lonergan
International
Fort Pitt Shoe Stores, Inc
RED
Malone’s Drug & Chemical CO
Sue L
Washington St
W. Boyd Street
Addison Street
C. C. Richman
W. Main St
Egomo
Young Summers
SAO
Washington, D. C
The
Nayards
New York
Army Air Forces
Des Moines
Iowa
Wrightfield
Dayton
Ohio
Quartermaster Corps
Frothers
P. H. Weaver
Blue Mille
Charles Joseph
Til Raymond
Charles
U. S. Navy
Atlante
Paul
Brit B Isles
Navy
Letia
Upper
Prut
Romania
Zhukov
Carpathian Mountains
Bucharest-Czernowitz - Lwow
Ruragnia
Fosya
Czernowite Zhukov
Koropets
Stanislapow
Horodenko
Acros
Stanislavsky
Thy
Carpathians
Hyevapa Arenuy
Proskiroy
Kaments-Pod
Olsk
Red Army
Ksnenets- Podolsk
House of v. ‘x Co
Mpach Wm
Archdeacon CO
RED Cross War Fund
Bell System
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company OF
Grafton Banking of Trust Co, Bldg
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