Wallace Won’t Be Director Of New Price Food Unit
Vice-President Wallace denies advising the Office of Price Administration or War Food Administration. He says he may be called to oversee agricultural production pricing and rationing and plans a Chicago rally on September 11. He praises farmers and workers and discusses postwar collaboration and politics.
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Washington
Wallace
Roosevelt
Office of Price Administration
War Food Administration
OPA
Marvin Jones
War Food Administrator
Towa
Jones
Chicago
Burton-Hill-Hatch
International
Winchester urges support for Robert Y. Conrad Post fund
The Omnes fund of Robert Y. Conrad Post is highlighted as local post members aid overseas troops with tax free cigarettes. Shipments have met enthusiastic replies from service members who thank the Legionnaires for the gesture. Cigarettes will be sent regularly via Hewitt at Miller Hardware store delivery point.
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Omnes
Robert Y. Conrad
Legionnaires
Hewitt
Miller Hardware
Winchester Seed Co Sets Wednesday 1 PM Closure
Notice says Winchester Seed Co will close every Wednesday afternoon at 1 o clock until further notice due to feed scarcity. Local business hours update affects customers and suppliers.
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Winchester Seed Co
Red Cross Kits From Home Lift Soldier Spirits Overseas
Exhausted Winchester soldier Joe and his unit load ships before crossing to the front. Four crates marked Winchester and Frederick County Red Cross contain overseas kits with luxuries like shoe shines and cigarettes. The kits, praised by soldiers and even the ship captain, are a morale boost and a sign of support from home.
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Red Cross
Xor
Winchester
Joe
Old Home
Frederick County
Santa Claus
Thomas
Sicily
Hitler
Memorial Rites At Bethel Set For August 22
Memorial services at Bethel Baptist Church Clarke county will honor historic church history. The event is set for August 22 with basket lunches typical of 500 to 600 attendees expected. The church sits three miles south of Millwood, dating to 1828 with a congregation organized in 1813. Further program details will appear in an early Star issue.
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Bethel Baptist Memorial Church
Clarke County
Will Ay
Baptist B. B. McKay
Millwood
The
Star
Frederick Board Grants Pay Increase for Firefighters
The Frederick Board approves higher wages for forest firefighters including registered and non registered staff. A certified copy will be sent to the state forester in Charlottesville. Rates rise from 25 to 30 cents per hour for registered fighters and 20 to 25 cents for non registered personnel.
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Frederick
Charlottesville
J. Sloan Kuykendall
Local OPA Head May Be Named By Saturday
Mayor Anderson says civilian defense director duties are in effect. The ration board continues with committees and meetings though no chairman has been appointed. McVicar offered unofficial help but no one has shown willingness to take the chair. Authority figures have not yet been approached with acceptance.
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Anderson
Nsen
Ration Board
Winchester and Frederick
City Democrats Name Committee For Next Two Years
Winchester Democrats named the party Executive committee for two year terms. Members include Noble Pierce chairman Lester D. Arnold secretary with others such as Walter M. Shade H. F. Byrd Jr. O. H. Lewis and C. Douglas Barnett. The nominating committee featured J. Henkel Henry D. W. Ritenour J. T. Kremer and Ben Belchie. The group will meet Monday night to organize.
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Winchester
J. T. Kremer
Walter M. Shade
W. Lee Fisher
Ben Belchie
Veterans pledge support for Winchester war memorial plan
Winchester Post 2123 backs creation of a permanent veterans memorial. Neel E. Keffer urged inclusion of World War I and Spanish American War veterans with the Junior Board of Trade in planning. W. W. Glass and W. W. Baker led VFW efforts at a 30-member meeting, alongside Spanish-American War veteran Harvie C. Sydnor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Neel E. Keffer
Gray Avenue
Board of Trade
W. W. Glass
VFW
Frederick County
W. W. Baker
Harvie C. Sydnor
R. W. Earl Reier
Farmers Hauling Water as Drought Strains Rural Areas
Farmers gathered this afternoon to discuss feed shortages and drought worsened crop prospects. Reports say rural residents haul water for livestock poultry and home use as streams springs and wells run low or dry across the region.
98 Degrees At Winchester Lab Sets Summer High
At 3 pm the Winchester Research Laboratory recorded a high of 98 degrees and officials expect a possible rise of at least one degree before cooling. The reading tops this summer’s previous season high by about two degrees.
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Winchester Research Laboratory
Cistern Receives Brief Rain As Virginia Feeds Situation Assessed
A light .01 inch shower barely moistened the area this morning while Virginia farm leaders met at VPI to discuss a looming feed deficit. They warned farmers will need double the high protein feed next year as new grain crops fall short, urging culling, pasture use, and shifts to barley and legume hay with extra vitamin A for poultry.
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Paul M Swaffer
Virginia
Another Bombing of Rome Urged
The British press urged another attack on Rome as the Sicilian campaign neared a climax. The London Daily Express called for more bombing to pressure Badoglio, while Rome’s broadcast suggested he would not cut ties with Hitler yet, signaling the war’s final phase remains distant.
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London
Rome
Pietro Badoglio
London Daily Express
Badoglio
Adolf
Italy
RAF renews night bombing over Mannheim and Ruhr shadows
The RAF sent large bomber formations to attack Mannheim and Ludwigshaven while Mosquitos struck Ruhr targets. Nine bombers were lost. fighters hit airfields and railways in France and the Low Countries, downing two enemy planes. St Didier airfield and Abbeville rail targets were also hit.
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London
RAF
Mannheim
Ludwigshaven
Ruhr
Air Ministry
France
Low Countries
Rhine
The
Neckar
Frankfort
Ena
Europe
Mannheim-Ludwigshavenei
Germany
Hamburg
Rhineland
St. Didier
Abbeville
Soviet War Plants Impress U S Ambassador in Urals Tour
Admiral William Standley observed three major Soviet plants in the Ural industrial region. He praised tank and steel production as very effective and noted abundant food, especially potato fields, during his four day inspection tour.
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Moscow
United States
William H. Stanley
U. S
Ural Mountains
Standley
Russia
Urals
Hitler Urges Home Loyalty Amid Bombings
In Bern Switzerland on August 10 Adolf Hitlers Beobachter appealed for civilian loyalty on the home front. The box notice praised evacuees from air raid areas for exemplary conduct and urged continued fidelity to their adopted districts despite wartime strain and reverses in Russia and Sicily.
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Bern
Switzerland
Adolf Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
Reich
Russia
Sicily
Beobachter
World At War Highlights Across Fronts
Desperate German resistance in Sicily hampers advance amid mined roads and demolitions. In Russia, Soviet troops close on Nikotovka and Slatino near Kharkov as Germans retreat. RAF bomber raids hit Mannheim Ludwigshafen, while MacArthur’s forces pound four Japanese bases and Vila area in New Guinea. In Italy, patrols guard bomb damaged northern cities as strikes rise with war weariness.
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RAF
Mannheim- Ludwigshafen
Rhine
Frankfort
Italy
Allied Bombers Hit Four Japanese Strongholds in Southwest Pacific
Allied air forces bombed Vila Salamaua Bairoko and Amboina, dropping 224 tons in a coordinated sweep across the southwest Pacific battle area. Liberators and medium bombers attacked Vila and Salamaua while torpedo bombers struck Kolombangara’s airfield and a night raid targeted Amboina, with heavy anti aircraft fire and sizeable fires reported.
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MacArthur
Salamaua
Mair
New Guinea
Vila
Allied
Southwest Pacific
Bairoko
Id Amboina
Innena
Rabaul
New Britain
Western New Guinea
Kolombangara Island
Solomons
Kula Gulf
Eye Harbor
Amboina
Allied ground forces push in Sicily with slow progress
Allied forces report steady advance along the Sicilian front as heavy ships shell coastal positions. American infantry take 1,500 German prisoners after landing behind Cape Orlando, aiding control of San Fratello and San Agata while Seventh Army advances. British forces close on Randazzo and mount coastal assaults near Taormina and Acireale.
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North Africa
Sicily
Cape Orlando
San Fratello
San Agata
U. S
Seventh Army
Rispoto
Acireale
Taormina
Messina
Eighth Army
Mt. Etna
Bronte
Randazzo
Cesare
Torrenova
George 8. Patton, Jr
Red Army
Bryansk
Shakovo
Naz
Moscow
London
Beleorod
Orel
Apensenko
Belgorod
Gurtyev
Stalingrad
Germans Fire On Sicily Defenses In Retirement
North Africa dispatch reports German forces in Sicily delaying Allied advance by blowing bridges and culverts and dynamiting mountain roads. They retreat to high ground when mortars and infantry pressure them, leaving narrow passes to be fought over repeatedly.
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North Africa
Sicily
Mt. Etna
Birds and Bantam Roost With Turkeys in Odd Pairings
City notes share odd animal tales Mrs J G Fosbrink reports a quail once roosted on a turkey and this year a bantam accompanies a gobbler wherever he scratches. County Commissioner Earl Bailey notes his son Doug entered the Army on August 2 1943 and both men served after Camp Lee induction. A missing brown cocker spaniel pup prompts a late day street notice with successive sightings reported.
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J. G. Fosbrink
Woods Mill Road
Earl Bailey
Doug Bailey
Camp Lee
Russians Press Forward Near Kharkov and Bryansk Fronts
Soviet forces pushed toward Kharkov within 12 miles on one axis and advanced along a broad front. Another column moved 30 miles west, while a third approached 20 miles from the city and a fourth crossed the Donets to within 25 miles of Kharkov. Simultaneously Bryansk drive gained ground as German defenses held with heavy losses reported.
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Kharkov
Russia
Nikotovka
Slatino
Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Donets
Ukraiian
Berlin
Smolensk
Bryansk
Red Army
Orel
Vena
Nikitovka
Measures to bar fathers from wartime induction
Washington August 10 Chairman May of the House Military Committee announced plans to reintroduce on September 14 a bill to prohibit the induction of fathers. He said the measure could exempt fathers with children born before or after Pearl Harbor and argued the army may be large enough already. The bill would be placed in the hopper after the chaplain’s prayer.
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Washington
May
D-Ky
House Military Committee
Congress
Wnather
Pearl Harbor
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City Democrats
Reds
Associated Press
Southwest Area
New Georgia
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