Junior Board Launches Smash the Seventh Column Safety Campaign
The Windchester Junior Board of Trade begins a week long public safety drive to reduce accidents and preserve war production. LaMar Keen named general chairman with events starting Monday including Traffic Safety Day and Home Safety Day led by Miss Margaret Flickinger at the Northern Virginia Power Company kitchen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Ean
Keen
Police Department
Northern Virginia Power Company
Margaret Flickinger
Week of Fire Company Events Promotes Safety and Community
The Volunteer Fire Company hosts Firemen's Day Thursday and School Day Friday with city children entering a safety slogan contest. Plans for Saturday feature Board of Trade Day and a pledge to fight the 7th Column. The program includes literature on carelessness and city merchants display placards. A Pete Smith MGM short 7th Column will be shown next week at the theatre, sponsored by JET. Committee members assist with plans.
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Urtr Board of Trade
Pete Smith
MGM
Mr. Keen
Bob Grove
George Reading
Wendell Barney
Sherman Dick
Julian Watson
H. C. Sheetz
Thurman Mason
Ex Molden
Gene Miller
Fats Continue To Bring Points
Washington April 21 Used household fats will continue to bring two ration points and four cents a pound at meat markets despite zero point values for lard shortening and salad oils, the Office of Price Administration said. Col Bryan Houston, OPA rationing chief, urged that making rationed fats point free will encourage housewives to turn in used fats after maximum food value is extracted.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Col
Bryan Houston
OPA
Beer Distributed On Beachhead
Twenty thousand gallons of beer brewed in Naples for American troops on the Anzio beachhead arrive for the Fifth Army. First Lt. Allan J. Barney, a brewing chemist from St. Louis, supervises the operation. Supplies will reach other Italian troops as the backlog is cleared.
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ALLIED /HEADQUARTERS
Naples
Anzio
Fifth Army
Italy
Allan J. Barney
St. Louis
Handley Prep To Enter 14-Man Track Team At District Meet
Handley coach Otis Sargent announces a 14 man squad departing Saturday morning for the district meet at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. Entries include Hoover Powell Levi Owens Spaid Crim Lake Boyd Taylor Dyke Cochran Renfrew hammering at sprints hurdles relays and field events with first place qualifiers advancing to Charlottesville state meet.
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Handley
Otis “Snag
Powell
Levi
Owens
Spaid
Crim
LaRue
Hoover
Renfrew
Lake
Boyd
Taylor
Hammer
Cochran
Charlottesville
Sargent
Market Quotations Stock Market Report
New York April 21 stock market kept balance with modest demand and nibbling on unsettled prospects from possible invasion. Investors held back before the weekend while earnings and dividends supported sentiment. Small advances appeared after a mixed start as bonds and commodities followed a narrow course.
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New York
Quiz Key for Page 4 Reveals Answers by Topic
The listed answers include Georgetown University in Washington DC New York City Matador Iowa True Burma Road into China Bolivia Paraguay Water ee v aauc and George V. The page presents concise choices tied to geography history and nomenclature.
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Georgetown University
Washington, D. C
New York City
Matador
Iowa
True
China
Bolivia
Paraguay
Baltimore Livestock and Produce Markets Report April 21
Livestock and produce prices mixed with steady cattle calves and hogs varying by weight. Butter and poultry markets show firm or dull trends as receipts moderate. Regional quotes cover cows vealers hogs sheep and sows with specific weight-based ranges and top figures noted.
Livestock Market Report Shows Mixed Hogs Cattle and Sheep Trends
Hogs mostly slow with 11 000 to 21 000 totals. good and choice 200 to 330 lb ranges around 12.75 to 13.75 as heavier weights ease. Cattle salable at 1 500 with weak tone for killing classes. cows active near 50 to 1.00 down. vealers at 16.00 down. Sheep and lambs 2 500 salable. slaughter lambs nearly steady to 15. Colorado fed lambs around 16.25 to 16.50. sheep scarce, native ewes around 9.00.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Livestock
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Tiger hunt with prince and maharajah aides in Ambikapur region
The narrator describes a tiger hunt where the prince and maharajahs accompany on elephant to the kill site. A .300 rifle proves inadequate but supporting fire from a .404 and a 475 helps end the chase. The tiger is shot head and shoulder, skin sent for curing, with daily riverboat hunts and comfortable provisions.
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Gilbert
Ambikapur
Machan
Minu
Tare
Memorial tribute to Rev. William A Crawford and family
A commemorative obituary tribute recalls the Crawford family of Winchester and Frederick County. It notes the Rev William A Crawford long served at Opequon Church and Glen Airy, his son Grattan Crawford preserving the old church, and descendants including Dr Francis Randolph Crawford in China, Elizabeth Eleanor Crawford Jackson, and Louisa Morrow Crawford. The piece honors their godly life, hospitality, and Virginia tradition.
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C. Pencawford
Oaiedaie
Winchester
Frederick County
Gabriel Jones
Hilandale
William A. Crawford
Opequon
Shenandoah County
Elizabeth Eleanor Lewhe Graham
Baltimore
W. S. F. Graham
Delaware College
Glen Airy
Grattan
Frank
Mt. Hebron
Grattan Crawford
Louisa Peyton Jones
Waas
Francis Randolph Crawford
China
Farmville
Virginia
Crawford
Paxie Moffett
Southern Presbyterian Church
Elizabeth Eleanor
J. L. Jackson
New Orleans
Eleanor Pendleton
O. John E. Burleson
Bishop Burleson
Iowa
Louisa Morrow Crawford
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Dellinger Bros
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Stuart M. Perry
Rob
Russell
Clearbrook
c/o Star
Win
Carroll Hummer
Green Spring
Star Restaurant
Rhodes
Porter
Baker & Anderson
T. L. Townsend
17Th St
N. W
Victory Shoe Shine
N. Ere
Trails End
Gordonsville
Bay Mare
C. W. Parish
Fair- Mont Ave
National Ave
W. B.ler & Son
T. B
Bangs
Winchester Stockyards
Shenandoah Valley
New Westinghouse
E. Piccadilly St
Stone House
Westinghouse Ironer
Ed Molden Electric Appliiance
Iron Safe
O. W. Fearnow
Bunker Hill
Inwood
N. Braddock
N. A
School
Good Road
J. Berryville
Fairmont
Victory Gardens
Amherst St
Harry Ridgeway
Piccadilly
White Post
Loan Oak
C. T. Mercer
Trail’s
End Poultry Farm
Beachhead
T. A
Pri
N. Main
Orca Cag
Hogi Billfold
Baniona
Star Office
Beverley Bailey
Stock Market Report
Resseguie
Marie Rice
James C. Lambert
Lamesing Gospel Temple
Michigan
Rev. Lambert
Lansing
Werner
Harry Pleasant
Rey
Dr. Werner
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