Americans Fight Potomac Dams Plan At Hearing
Congress and federal departments oppose a 235.72 million flood control power program for the Potomac basin. Senators Radcliffe and Byrd and Representatives Robertson and Smith lead the opposition as 800 hearers condemn 14 suggested dams from Chain Bridge to Harpers Ferry. Park Service official Demaray warns dams would damage federal parks and historic sites with limited flood benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Federal Department
Potomac River
Radcliffe
D-Md
Byrd
D-Va
Robertson
Smith
Dva
Board of Army Engineers
Interior Department
Maryland-Virginia-West Virginia
Park Head
T. E. Demaray
National Park Service
Army Engineers
Potomac Basin
Chain Bridge
Bear Island
Potomac
District of Columbia
Harpers Ferry
Maryland
Virginia
Colgate W. Darden, Jr
Board of Engineers
Millville
Brooks Gap
Aerial Offensive Renewed Against German Targets
The U S Eighth Air Force renewed its attack on Kiel with about 750 Flying Fortresses and 650 fighters. The 15th Air Force and Italian-based fighters attacked the Tannach-Stein bridge near Klagenfurt Austria. RAF Mosquitos hit Berlin Magdeburg and northwest Germany ending a two day lull. Ground actions include rail and road strafing in Yugoslavia and southeast Austria. Affected ships include seven German merchant vessels at Sande Fjord and a large dry dock damaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Kiel
U. S. 15Th Air Force
Italy
Tannach-Stein
Klagenfurt
Austria
Britain
Germany
Bremen
Hamburg
Wilhelmshaven
U.S. Airforce
Drava
Fifteenth Airforce
12Th Air Force
Yugoslavia
Berlin
Magdeburg
Alr
RAF
Holland
RAF Coastal Command
Sande Fjord
Norwegian
Coastal Command
U. S. Ninth Air Force
Gotha
Erfurt
Weimar
Bruce W. Carr
Union Springs
N. Y
Clarke County Fights Dam Plan with Washington Protest
Clarke County citizens traveled to Washington DC to oppose a proposed Shenandoah River dam at Millville flooding thousands of acres of farmland. The day was a holiday in Clarke but marked by serious civic action as locals united to defend life liberty and happiness against the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarke County
Washington, D. C
Shenandoah River
Millville
Clarke
United Front
Washington
Virginia Governor Opposes Millville and Brooks Gap Dams
Governor Colgate Darden released a letter to Brig. Gen. John J. Kingham urging the engineers board to oppose the Millville West Virginia dam and the Brooks Gap dam as part of the Potomac valley flood control plan. He warns of loss of up to 30000 acres of Virginia land, destroyed farms, roads, and bridges, and says local residents overwhelmingly oppose the projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Colgate Darden
John J. Kingham
Board of Engineers For
Millville
W. Va
Brooks Gap
Commonwealth of Virginia
Commonwealth
Board of Engineers
Potomac River
Loudoun County
Izaak Walton League Forms in Winchester Chapter
Local sportsmen meeting at the George Washington Hotel established a Winchester chapter of the Izaak Walton League. Lester Arnold was elected president with W. H. Lawrence Jr. as vice president, Roswell Henderson secretary and D. G. G. Snarr treasurer. Membership dues were set at 3.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington
Winchester
Izaak Walton League
Lester Arnold
W. H. Lawrence, Jr
Roswell Henderson
D. G. G. Snarr
Waltonites
W. Nelson Page
J. Pinckney
Washington, D. C
Lewis Radcliffe
Washington D. C
Frank L. Mulkern
Radcliff
Washington
D. C
Radcliffe
Jack Stowell
Shenandoah River
Front Royal
Stowell
State Organization For Action
Croswell Henderson
Eugene Lurber
Leetown Federal
Ammold
Mississippi River at flood stage spans 1554 miles
Army engineers plug gaps in flood defenses as tributaries crest. the Mississippi runs at or above flood stage from Iowa to the Gulf of Mexico, a 1544 mile course. The Morbanza floodway could divert 640000 cubic feet per second into the gulf within two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Mississippi
Iowa
Gulf of Mexico
Morbanza
Gulf
George H. Hudson
Bayou Teche
Louisiana
Morgan City
Bonnet
Dewitt Pyburn
Public Works
James H. Davis
Board of Liquidation
Arkansas
Texas
Missouri
Tennessee
Shreveport
Red River
R. W. Sauer
Vicksburg
Fulton
Arkansas-Louisiana Line
Winchester firemen urge rear alley for Loudoun street businesses
The Winchester Volunteer Firemen's Association meeting at South End Fire Hall urged the City Council to build an alley behind Loudoun street businesses from Solenberger's to the Metropolitan Restaurant to ease congestion and aid firefighting. They also asked for an ordinance making the fire chief an honorary member of all companies. The group directed the executive committee to study hospitalization policies and announced new members Mike Levi, Earl Hildebrand Jr., and James Robert Lowery. Carson Dettra was elected to the committee, replacing David Hottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Carson Dettra
David Hottle
Rouss Fire Company
South End Fire Company
Howard Hart
Mike Levi
Earl Hildebrand, Jr
James Robert Lowery
Ration Office Closed Tomorrow
The Vocal War Price and Rationing Office in the George Washington Hotel will close to the public tomorrow so employees may prepare and mail the second quarter gasoline allotments. The office will reopen on Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington Hotel
Barber to face preliminary hearing on false pretenses
APPROMATTOX Virginia April 3. Taylor Barber of Richmond will have a preliminary hearing April 19 in trial justice court on charges of obtaining 150 under false pretenses from Appomattox County residents. Deputy Sheriff David T Robertson said Barber was released on a 1500 bond. He collected money to publish biographies and pictures of servicemen relatives in a book that did not appear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appromattox
Taylor Barber
Richmond
Trial Justice Court
Appottomox County
David T. Robertson
Barber
Russian spearheads press toward Vienna area in fresh drive
Russian spearheads reached the Baden area about 10 miles south of Vienna and fought in Werner Neustadt streets as German lines halted the Red Army advance. Soviet forces pushed from Bratislava toward Bruenn while Bratislava’s outer defense ring came under attack. Moscow dispatches note two Soviet armies gathering near Bratislava and Wiener Neustadt with Vienna itself now a fighting zone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Baden
Vienna
Werner Neustadt
Transocean
Wiener Neustadt
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Bratislava
Slovakia
Bruenn
Czechoslovakia
Modra
Makiovsky
Budapest
Wiener
Aeet
Red Army
Breslau
Silesia
Berlin
Oder
Viena
Ukraiian
Danube
Moscow
Bratislavia
Mayor Endorses X Ray Clinic in Winchester
Mayor Dr. C. R. Anderson urges Winchester citizens to support the Winchester Tuberculosis Association X Ray clinic opening Thursday April 5 at the First Baptist Church. He stresses early diagnosis is vital to curb wartime TB spread and urges chest X rays as a patriotic duty in war and peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. Anderson
Winchester
Winchester Tuberculosis Association
First Baptist Church
World At War Highlights From Western To Pacific Fronts
Western Front British and Canadians push toward Zuider Zee threatening to trap German army group H first and ninth American Armies pressure, two thirds of Muenster cleared, Bremen and Hannover threatened. Russian Front Soviets advance on Vienna Bratislava and Semmering Pass, 32 miles inside Austria. Italian Front British Eighth Army lands behind German lines capturing 200 prisoners. Pacific Front Americans reach east shore of Okinawa and encircle southern Luzon with Legaspi Harbor landing completing isolation of the island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zuider Zee
Ruhr
Muenster
Bremen
Hannover
Third
Reich
Seventh
Nuernberg
Rhine
Vienna
Wiener Nuesstadt
Bratislava
Semmering Pass
Austrian Alps
Hitler
Red Army
Slovakia
Eighth Army
Valli di Comacchio
Adriatic
Okinawa
Island
Luzon
Legaspi Harbor
General Rose Killed by German Tank In Surrender
Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose commander of the Third Armored Division was shot to death near Paderborn March 30 as he attempted to surrender his arms after capture. He moved with his aide Maj. Robert Bellinger toward German lines when Tiger tanks blocked his path and a German tank crew opened fire as he handed over his pistol. The incident followed a bold advance to direct operations against a key road junction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Maurice Rose
Third Armored
First
Rhine River
Germany
Paderborn
Rose
Maj
Robert Bellinger
White Plain
N. Y
Box Social at George Washington Hotel April 3
The Ladies' Auxiliary of V F W No 2123 sponsors an old time box social at the George Washington Hotel Tuesday night April 3. Auctions start at 7 o'clock and the public is invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington Hotel
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Wanted Presser Apply Pingley and Company Cleaners
Help wanted essential work at Miller Chemical Corp. apply by phone 5563. Listing from March 26 with employment notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pingley & Carper
Miller Chemical Corp
American First Army Captures Kassel On Eastern Front
London April 3 AP dispatch reports a Berlin broadcast stating American First Army forces have captured Kassel. The report notes a potential strategic advance toward a junction with Soviet forces, threatening to bisect Germany, with a 30 mile overnight gain and remaining 160 miles to the target.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
London
Berlin
Kassel
No V bombs over London for four straight days
Canadian and British forces advance in northern Holland and Germany are reflected by the absence of rockets or V bombs over Britain for four consecutive days and nights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Holland
Germany
Britain
Allied advances tighten Ruhr trap as Allied forces push toward Elbe
Allied forces drive toward the Weser and Elbe rivers with Americans nearing the Ruhr pocket. Seventh Army and Ninth Army claim gains across Thuringian Forest and Ruhr front while Patton routes advance toward Czechoslovakia. German lines report enclosing Meining en and Werra crossings as the trap tightens on 110,000 Nazis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Zuider Zee
North Sea
Holland
Weser
Ruhr
Third
Germany
Eas
Reich
Thuringian Forest
George S.patton
Suhl
Czechoslovakia
Meiningen
Werra
Seventh Army
Wuerzburg
Nuernberg
Berlin
Bremen
U. S
Ninth Army
Werre River
Herford
Elbe
Bielefeld
Recklinhausen
Ember Canal
Duisburg
Rhine
Dortmund
Encirclement of Japanese in Southern Luzon Completed
Forces of the 14th Army Corps and the 158th regimental combat team landed at Legaspi Harbor on Luzon's southeastern tail and quickly captured Legaspi city, its airfields, with light opposition. Navy guns and Fifth Air Force bombs helped silence Japanese guns as Brig. Gen. Hanford MacNider ashore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Luzon
14Th Army Corps
Legaspi
Seventh Fleet
Hanford Macnnder
Fifth Air Force
Macnnder
Navy
H. F. McGee
Jefferson
Paris
New Orleans
Oscar W. Griswold
Bicol
Public Sale in Priday for Ida Good Estate
Public sale set for April 6 at 1 30 p m at 16 Woodland Ave Priday. Household goods and furniture from the Ida Good estate will be offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodland Ave
Ida Good
Also Mentioned on This Page
First Army
By Don Sanders
Darden
Ol Man
Council
By Richard Kasischke
Eddy Gilmore
Mayor Indorses X
The
Associated Press
Bulletins
James M. Long
By Fred Hampson
L. L. Hockman
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!