Blood Donor Clinic Opens in Winchester Next Week
Blood Donor Headquarters will open tomorrow in Winchester with a three day clinic starting next Wednesday May 2nd. The Shenandoah County committee has enrolled 159 volunteers and urges citizens to register at the People's Drug Store Room 22 or call 3831. The clinic runs daily 10 AM to 9 PM at the church annex site with eligibility limited to ages 18 to 59 in good health.
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Oah County
Volunter the Twelfth Blood
Winchester
Shenandoah County
J. Victor “Arthur
Red Cross
Charles E. Hofner
Frederick County
People’s Drug Store
Pres- Church
Rotarians To Hear Girl Scout Executive
Mrs. Robert Blackwood Sibley of Region 3 Scouts of America will speak at the Inchester Rotary Club luncheon. She will outline Girl Scout administrative problems and accomplishments. Mrs. Sibley will be introduced by Mrs. William Barron Glover.
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Robert Blackwood Sibley
Scouts of America
Inchester Rotary Club
Sibley
Girl Scouts
William Barron Glover
Depar Boose
Riley Found Not Guilty In Alcohol Charge
Stanley Riley of Gore Virginia was acquitted after testifying that two underage drinkers drank beer not purchased from him. Judge W Erle Edwards presided as Riley, represented by attorney Harry Kern, was cleared of selling intoxicants to youths under 21.
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Stanley Riley
Gore
W. Erle Edwards
Riley
Harry Kern
Berlin under bombardment as Russians fight toward gates
The city endures heavy shelling with water mains burst and power cuts. Soviet reports from Trud Izvestia and Red Star describe German anti tank fire from basements and rooftops, signs of Goebbels appeals, and troops refusing rest as battles rage near central Berlin and railway hubs.
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Boris Afanasiev
Trud
Berlin
Spree
Stettin
Izvestia
Roman Karman
Krivoshein
Karman
Goebbels
Red Star
Allied Forces Break German Defenses Across Western Front
Observers report Juncture advances with the Third and Seventh Armies pushing through Maria, Wurttemberg, and Baden. German pockets stalled near Ulm, Lake Constance, and in the Black Forest while Bremen area fighting tightens. Allied units reach near Augsburg and Salzburg as Canadian and British forces seal off Holland frontline and Bremen toll rises with 91,000 captives east of the Rhine.
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Maria
Wurttemberg
Baden
Ulm
Lake Constance
Howard Cowan
Black Forest
Suttgart
Augsburg
Hitler
Salzburg
Rupertsbach
Ingolstadt
Danudian
Eisenhower
First
Holand
Spijk
Ems
North Sea
Holland
Montgomery
Bremen
Alstein
52Nd Lowlanders
Hastedt
Guards
Zeven
Bremen-Hamburg
51St Highlanders
Rhine
Ration Calendar Outlines Stamp Validity Dates
The Associated Press ration schedule lists Book Four red stamps through X5 valid to June 2 for various meat and fat categories and blue stamps through M7 to June 2 with other dates through late June. A few stamps remain indefinitely or unaltered, with 15 A coupons for four gallons each noted as valid June 21.
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Associated Press
OPA
Starkey Ordered to Report for Induction May 14
Basil F. Starkey Shenandoah Area Council Boy Scouts of America executive receives draft notice to report for induction on May 14. He will report to Jefferson Barracks Missouri. wife and children will stay with her parents in Paducah Kentucky. The council plans to meet May 1 to discuss a replacement as Starkey departs.
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Basil F. Starkey
Shenandoah Area
Boy Scouts of America
Starkey
Missouri
Jefferson Barracks
St. Louis
Paducah
D. G. van DeBoe
Ore
Philadelphia
Winchester
J. R. Poland
Martinsburg
Stanley Mate
U. S.navy
Lehigh County Council
Allentown
Shenandoah Area Council
Rock Enon
Dan Henry
Dan Seivers
U. S. Navy
Russians Hopeful on Conference as China Proposals Backed
Cordell Hull notes a hopeful mood as Russia accepts China's proposals, signaling a push for conference success. Britain pledges Yalta backing for a Soviet bid to seat Ukraine and White Russia with three votes. Stettinius cites US support for a trustee plan overseeing former enemy territories with base-area control.
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Sence
Cordell Hull
Russia
Clement Attlee
Britain
Yalta
Ukraine
International Assembly
British Commonwealth
India
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Canada
Stettinius
United States
Army
State Department
Allied Air Forces Hit Linz and Austrian Rail Hubs
American 15th Air Force planes based in Italy joined heavy bombardment of Linz and other Austrian railway yards. Linz, a major German communications hub, lies deep behind Allied lines as air strikes target the Brenner Pass area and northern Italy retreat routes.
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Berchtesgaden
U. S
15Th Air Force
Linz
Austria
Prague
Italy
Brenner Pass
Calpinol Advertises for Skin Irritations
An old Rhodes Drug Store ad urges readers to buy Calpinol at local drug stores to treat poison ivy oak eczema and athlete’s foot, promising relief from itching.
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Rhodes Drug Store
Two Baltimore Girls Held Here
Two 17-year-old girls were picked up at 2 15 this morning on Berryville Avenue and held in custody on runaways accusations. Anna Davenport and Rose Marie Huntsberry were in Baltimore homes and were held for investigation as runaways. Davenport was on probation and Huntsberry had been reported missing by relatives after checks with Baltimore police.
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Berryville Avenue
Baltimore
Anna Daven
Rose Marie Huntsberry
Davenport
Robert Lindamood Dies at 16 in Star Tannery Area
Robert Lindamood, 16, son of Mrs. Lillie Lindamood and the late Christopher Columbus Lindamood, died Saturday at his home near Star Tannery. He is survived by five brothers and three sisters. interment will be near Mt. Jackson beside his father.
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Robert Lindamood
Lillie Lindamood
Lateristopher Columbus Lindamood
Star Tannery
Marvin Lindamood
Woodstock
Eugene Lindamood
Lebannon
Guy Lindamood
Luther E. Lindamood
Rhode Island
William Lindamood
Georgia
Mary Frances
Pauline
Viola Lindamood
Mt. Jackson
Russians Reach Berlin Ring After Urban Encirclement
Soviet forces tightened the noose around Berlin with the First White Russian and First Ukrainian Armies uniting southeast of the city. They captured Silesian Station areas and closed to within a mile of Unter Den Linden while firing on the heart of Berlin.
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Berlin
Babelsberg
Zehlendorf
Neukoelm
Red Army
Unter den Linden
Schlesischer
Silesian
Gregory K. Zhukov
Berlin-Hamburg
Berlin-Hannover
Ivan
Konev
Potsdam
Moscow
Jement
Oder
Neisse
Towad
Fuerstenberg
Guben
Answers to the Daily Quiz Format Fragment
Answers to the daily quiz are listed on page four with correct responses. The readable fragments mention Poland video Mountains State Pala Citis in Alaska and names John N. Garner A Truman, indicating a set of quiz results and referenced figures.
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Poland
Mountains
Alaska
Eernen
John N. Garner
A. Truman
John Leight Dies After Farm Accident at 37
John Leight, a Greenspring farmer, died at Winchester Memorial Hospital at 4 30 AM after being kicked in the abdomen by a horse on March 26. He was 37, survived by his wife Lilie Chrisman Leight and three children, with funeral set at Greenspring at 2 PM Friday.
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John Leight
Greenspring
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Leight
Jefferson County
W. Va
John M. Leight
Frederick County
Mary Hite Leight
Bloomery
Lillie Chrisman
Specialist Conducts Kitchen Arrangement Demonstrations
Home management specialist Miss Helen Alverson of V. P. L will conduct two training meetings on Thursday April 26 for kitchen arrangement leaders of Frederick County Home Demonstration Clubs. Morning session starts at 10 at the home of Mrs Boydy Ramey in Hayfield Virginia. afternoon at Mrs B S Grove in Stephens City.
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Helen Alverson
Frederick County
Boydy Ramey
Hayfield
B.S. Grove
Stephens City
Mrs Booth to Speak on WINC War Relief Drive
Mrs Thomas Macaulay Booth formerly Ann Tucker McGuire of Winchester Va will be heard tomorrow at 6 30 p m over WINC in a radio appeal for the local clothing drive for war relief overseas Ralph G Hengeveld is the local chairman Booth is daughter of Dr and Mrs Hunter H McGuire Braddock and Amherst Streets She had been in England with Germany at war from the start until December 1944 and returned with her daughter in January this year.
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Thomas Macaulay Booth
Ann Tucker McGuire
Winchester
England
WINC
Ralph G. Hengeveld
Booth
Hunter H. McGuire
Braddock and
Amherst Sts
Germany
Hollingsworth Auction Highlights and bids noted
Hollingsworth items sold at auction with prices for a salem rocker $47 a bird cage table $85 a walnut corner cupboard $310 teester bed $210 and three more in cherry sycamore and soft wood. A Boston rocker $47 an empire sofa $330 a mahogany rocker $55 and a gilt framed picture resold for $3 more than the day before. Dealers out bid by locals and Boyd Headley narrated sales with good will in the crowd.
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Salem
Irvan O'Connell
OPA Surplus Crop Rules Questioned By Apple Growers
In Washington on April 25 Chairman Thomas heard Virginia West Virginia and Pennsylvania apple growers blame OPA ceilings for a storage backlog and possible spoilage. They said the 1944 crop will waste unless ceilings are relaxed after the war and noted no allowances for grades or varieties.
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Washington
Thomas
D-Okla
Virginia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
O.P.A
Congress
F. H. la Guardia
E. Blackburn Moore
Winchester
Apple Gowers
OPA
Harry R. Miller
Matinsburg
W. Va
John D. Peters
Gardners
Light Vote Totals Reported in Clarke County Balloting
Voters cast six ballots in a long seven to eight PM polling period with Allen Bo Gray first to vote. The Rouss Fire Hall led local turnout with 22 votes as Dry Run and Gore reported small counts across Clarke county precincts. Greenfield districts and outlying towns posted mixed tallies while several reporting sites remained silent overnight and mornings showed partial unofficial totals.
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Allen Bo Gray
Rouss
Sarah Zane
Friendship
Star
Stephens City
Armel
Russells
Baker’s Mill
Gainesboro
Ashtons
Dolans
White Hall
Clarke County
Mt. Airy
Pierces
Lindseys
Berryville
Shenandoah
Millwood
Morgans Mill
White Post
Red Cross Meeting Hopes for Strong Public Turnout
Mrs Gertrude A McCormac local Red Cross Camp and Hospital council chairwoman urges a large turnout for a special meeting at the George Washington hotel on Thursday April 26 at 8 pm. Mrs J Edwardton a Baltimore chapter volunteer will lead an open discussion outlining camp and hospital activities.
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Red Cross
Gertrude A. McCormac
George Washington Hotel
J. Edwardton
Council of the
Baltimore
State Revenues Show Increase
Virginia's revenues for the first nine months of the current fiscal year rose notably from July 1 to March 31, totaling 124,914,238.63 dollars versus 97,770,603.72 dollars for the same period in 1943-44. The general fund brought in 34,195,746.49 dollars compared with 29,895,478.51 dollars last year.
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Richmond
Virginia
Henry G. Gilmer
Four Dead In Georgia Tornado Hits Griffin Mill
A tornado struck Dundee No. 1 textile mill near Griffin Georgia killing four workers and injuring about twenty. A weaving room on the top floor housed fifty employees and a woman worker was among the dead. The storm also toppled the smokestack and damaged surrounding homes and a house in the mill village where two children perished.
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Griffin
Here
Dundee No. 1
Many Attend Rites For Mrs Polhamus At Fairmont Address
Relatives and friends gathered Sunday afternoon at the Tate residence on Fairmont Avenue for the final rites of Mrs Lillian Snapp Polhamus who died Thursday afternoon at a local nursing home. The Rev William Eisenberg of Grace Lutheran Church conducted the services. Interment was in Mount Hebron. Numerous floral tributes were placed at the service.
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Tate
Fairmont Avenue
Lillian Snapp Polhamus
William Eisenberg
Grace Lutheran Church
Mount Hebron
Mrs Roosevelt To Live In Cottage On Hyde Park Estate
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt will not live in the Hyde Park Big House again but stay in a modest cottage on the Roosevelt estate for privacy. Visitors will come to pay homage at her husband’s grave and the Big House with 33 acres including the burial site will become a national shrine.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Malvina Thompson
Roosevelt
Cell Near Paris Is Prepared For Marshal Petain
Paris reports a fortress cell near Paris prepared for Marshal Petain awaiting trial on high treason charges. He will be held under heavy guard with no visitors except counsel. Paris newspapers demand death for Petain while sympathy remains strong among many provincial supporters.
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Paris
Marshal Petain
France
Ers
Verdun
Petain
Switzerland
Miss Mary Branson Dies in Washington
Mary E Branson a Frederick County native died yesterday at noon in Washington D C at her brother Dr J Holmes Branson home after illness She moved to Washington 25 years ago and lived there since She was a member of Hopewell Monthly Meeting Friends Survivors include her brother and a niece and nephew Services will be held at Hopewell Friends Meeting House Thursday at 2 PM Interment in the adjoining cemetery.
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Mary E.’Branson
Frederick County
J. Holmes Branson
Washington, D. C
Nathaniel
Nancy H. Branson
Clearbrook
Washington
Hopewell Monthly Meeting
Religious Society of Friends
Hopewell Friends Meeting
War relief drive plans Sunday clothing collection
An appeal urges residents to gather usable summer and winter clothing blankets bedding and shoes for a Sunday curbstone collection on April 29. Trucks will be used to pick up items citywide despite weekday war duties. The drive also includes scrap metal and newspapers to conserve gas and manpower.
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Belchie
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Bulletin
Girl Scout
SILCO
Elbe
Fuernal
Grover Lee
Louise Lillian
John Max
Elmer Lonas
Leetown
Maynard Rogers
Jesse Cave
Delbert Leight
Middleway
David Leight
Robert Leight
Grimes
Stanley
Mrs. Booth
Blackburn Moore
the Star
Rumford
Asdomagean
Mrs. Roosevelt
H. L. Mills
Valley Avenue
Marshall Petain
Mary Branson
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