Reds Smash Ahead in Caucasus as Nazi Armies Split
In Moscow the Red Army reports a decisive breakthrough in the Caucasus, severing rail lines used by German forces. Soviet forces drive toward Rostov Kursk and Kharkov while trapping and destroying large German units, with 100 000 Axis troops killed or captured since January 13.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Red
Krasnodar
Rostov
Kursk
Kharkov
Caucasus
Staro and
Kanevskaya
Rostov-Baku
Azov Sea
Yensk
Mashevskaya
Black Sea
I. V. Tuleniev
Germany
Novorossisk
Neuver
Kerchstrait
Crimea
Krasny- Liman
Red Army
Kagalnitskaya
Voronezh
London
Transcaucasus
Italian Cities Hit Hard as RAF Strikes Ruhr and Spezia
London reports last night’s RAF raids on Turin and Spezia in northern Italy and on the Ruhr and Lorient in France. Three bombers reported missing. Rome says Turin area hit hard with several buildings damaged. Spezia naval base attacked. first raid there in the war. Weather favorable. air ministry notes heavy, concentrated attacks.
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London
RAF
Turin
Spezia
Italy
Ruhr
Lorient
France
Air Ministry
Bomber Command
Germany
High Command
High Command Communiqtie
Rom
Rome
Svezia
Genoa
West Virginia Ends Pleasure Driving Ban and Restores Gas Rationing
In Charleston and Washington, WV, midweek, lawmakers and officials announced that gas rationing coupons rise to four gallons and the pleasure driving ban is lifted for most of the state. Deputy Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies drafted the recommendation, with OPA officials indicating acceptance, exempting eight eastern counties.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Seaboard
Harley Kilgore
D-Wva
Washington
Chapman Revercomb
R-Wva
Ralph K. Davies
M. M. Neely
State Office of Price Administration
Carl M. Frasure
Davies
Office of Price Administration
OPA
War Prisoners May Be Used On U. S. Farms
Washington reports Axis war prisoners may work on U S farms next summer to help with food production. Prisoners would be used where grouped guarding is feasible and for cultivating commercial crops. Government plans include recruiting 50 000 marginal families and 275 000 migratory workers plus 60 000 imported workers to meet the seasonal shortage.
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U. S
Washington
J. A. Walker
The
Food Production Administration
Africa
Europe
Walker
Appalachian
Ozark Mountains
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Middle-West
Mexico
Tin Cans Collected After February 20 Help Drive
The Salvage committee of the Junior Board of Trade asks Winchester residents to save tin cans. Cans must be clean with tops and bottoms removed, placed inside, and flattened. Collection runs February 20 onward through beverage distributor cooperation. details to follow in The Star.
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Junior Board of Trade Today
Winchester
The
Star
Friday Night Bingo at Rouss Fire Co
The Rouss Fire Company hosts bingo every Friday at 8 pm with $250 in prizes. Two show dates noted December 31 Thursday and Friday 1 pm in the event listing.
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Rouss Fire Co
Thur
Price Advances at Hill Yard's Store Wallpaper and Paints
Prices rise at Hill Yard's Store on Piccadilly Street for wallpaper and paints. The notice notes specific increases effective soon, impacting customers shopping for decor and coatings in the area.
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Hillyard
Piccadilly St
Gasoline Ration Board Hearings Penalize Drivers
Hearings by the gasoline committee of the Ration Board reviewed cases of auto use, some labeled pleasure driving and others speeding or reckless driving. Five cases were decided, four with coupon removals, one with full ration book impoundment, one referred to the ODT, four continued, four dismissed, and four not appearing. Police will be asked to act on nonparticipants. The Winchester Star will not publish names to avoid embarrassing the innocent, while supporting full publicity of hearings to deter violations of rationed commodities.
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Ration Board
Winchester Star
Star
Call Boxes Restore Police Communication Network
Chief C W Hollis announced six city call boxes are back in service after installation by the C P Telephone Co. The reactivated boxes aim to reduce patrol car usage as officers monitor headquarters via box contacts on their beats day and night.
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C. W. Hollis
C. & P. Telephone Company
Hollis
Regular February meeting of Sarah Zane Fire Co
The regular monthly meeting of the Sarah Zane Fire Co. is held Friday evening February 5 at 8 00 p m. All members urged to be present. Loryn M Crabill Captain.
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Sarah Zane Fire Co
Loryn M. Crabill
American bombers and fighters smash 26 enemy planes
American Flying Fortresses and Lightning fighters destroyed 26 Axis planes and damaged 26 more in a Tunisian air strike on Gabes airfields. One Fortress was lost and nine Lightning fighters missing. Meanwhile US armored forces withdrew from Sened railway station as Montgom ery's Eighth Army advances, with limited patrol activity on the Tunisian Libyan border.
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London
United States
Sened
Tunisia
Gabes
Eighth Army
Marbor Rommel
Sir Bernard Montgomery
Jury retires in Flynn statutory rape trial
A nine women ten men jury retired at 11:15 a m to seek a verdict in the Errol Flynn statutory rape case on the twentieth day of his trial. The charges allege rape of two teenage girls.
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Los Angeles
Errol Flynn
Draft Quotas May Be Put On Statewide Basis
The House Military Committee moved to amend the selective training and service act to bar induction of married men with dependents when single men or childless married men are available. Four draft categories would guide boards nationwide: single men, single men with dependents, married men with no children, and married men with children.
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Washington
House Military Committee
May
D-Ky
Kilday
D-Tex
War Manpower Commission
Armstrong elected president of Winchester Chamber of Commerce
Frank A. Armstrong Jr. is elected president succeeding C. P. McVicar who served three years. Wilbur Krise becomes vice president Andrew Bell secretary Paul Haldeman treasurer. New directors include Armstrong Eugene Cooper Fosbrink Hodgson Krise Sullivan. Annual meeting banished 5-1, board approves. Regular board meetings switch to last Thursday each month. Chamber backs efforts to win a government hospital for Winchester area.
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Frank A. Armstrong, Jr
Winchester Chamber of Commerce
C. P. McVicar
Wilbur M. Krise
Andrew Bell
Paul Haldeman
James D. Shockey
F. Grove White
Mr. Armstrong
Eugene B. Cooper
John G. Fosbrink
Joseph Hodgson
B. M. Sullivan
Winchester
County Schools Open Saturdays to Aid Spring Farm Work
Supt Kline announces county schools will operate on the last three Saturdays of February and March to speed spring closing so boys and girls may help with farm duties.
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Sup’t. Kline
From Missouri Cannon Scrapped Not a Relic
Governors and court records confirm the orphaned World War field piece on the Missouri state house grounds belongs to the state. Three St. Louis men and editor Coghlan were cleared by a circuit court jury after a failed scrap-metal scheme. War Department records traced the gun to Missouri from a 1925 New Jersey arsenal.
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Jefferson City
Forrest C. Donnell
State House
Missouri
St. Louis
Donnell
Sam C. Blair
Justice Court
Ralph Coghlan
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Ross W. Riley
Sidney Stearns
Riley
Stearns
Coghlan
Maj
Kyle T. Graham
State Adjutant General’s Office
War Department
New Jersey
Farm Bureau Leader to Address Frederick Meeting
President of the American Farm Bureau Federation Mr O Ne al will address the annual Frederick Co operative Farm Bureau meeting at Handley High School auditorium on Saturday afternoon February 13 at 1 o clock. Farmers from Frederick Shenandoah and nearby counties are expected to attend. meeting postponed from a week ago due to snow. M J Pease will open the meeting with C W Sollen berger of Woodstock as manager.
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American Farm Bureau Federation
United States
O'Neal
Frederick Co-Operative Farm Bureau
Handley High School
Frederick
Shenandoah
O’neal
M. J. Pease
NYC sets pace in draft era spurring job shifts nationwide
The New York City draft director’s actions trigger large numbers of men leaving non essential work after April 1. An Associated Press survey finds US Employment Service offices nationwide flooded with requests for jobs and status information on affected workers.
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New York City
Selective Service
Associated Press
United States Employment Service
Andrews assumes command of U S forces in Europe
Lieut. Gen. Frank M. Andrews takes command of United States forces in the European theater and vows to increase and intensify bombing of the enemy. He arrives in London from the Middle East to succeed Lieut. Gen. Dwight L. Eisenhower, now in charge of North African operations.
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London
Frank M. Andrews
United States
General Andrews
Middle East
Dwight L. Eisenhower
Censorship code unifies rules for mail, cable and phone abroad
Washington February 5 report states a single censorship code replaces separate postal, cable and telephone censorship rules. Issued by the Office of Censorship the cover all code lists forbidden topics and applies to all press dispatches periodicals books private and business letters cablegrams radiograms and other communications abroad.
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Washington
Office of Censorship
Virginia Moonshining Unlikely To Rise Under ABC Rationing
John H. Wickham, head of the Federal Alcohol Tax Unit in Virginia, says state whiskey rationing by the ABC board will not cause an appreciable increase in moonshining. He notes sugar rationing and metal shortages hinder illicit stills and keep moonshine prices above regulated whiskey.
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Richmond
State
ABC Board
Virginia
John H. Wickham
Federal Alcohol Tax Unit
Wickham
ABC
Bombers Hit Burma Rail Bridge and Rangoon Targets
United States bombers scored direct hits on a strategic Irrawaddy bridge near Mandalay in Burma. Liberator bombers of the RAF pounded Rangoon with 1,000-pound bombs as British and Japanese forces remained in fierce combat on the Mayu peninsula front.
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New Delhi
United States
Irrawaddy
Mandalay
Burma
RAF
Rangoon
Mayu Peninsula
Evader Kaplan Sentenced Under Selective Service Act
Norfolk February report states Joseph Kaplan aged 8 was sentenced by Federal Justice Luther B. Wadlaw to a federal prison for violation of the selective service act. Frank, court appointed defense, pleaded guilty but requested suspend sentence to allow entry into the Army.
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Norfolk
Jutice
Luther B. Wadtoay
Joseph Kaplan
Frank
Aerial Battle Intensifies in Guadalcanal Campaign
American troops advanced about a half mile beyond Tassafaronga as heavy air combat raged on Guadalcanal. Allied and Japanese forces exchanged strikes over Bougain Gulf and Shortland Harbor as American ships and air units attacked targets from Munda Point to Rabaul. Major Norce Whitaker and Captain Joe Voellmeck led a Grumman pair downed pilots while air raids on Buin and New Britain continued.
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Washington
Guadalcanal Island
Tassafaronga
Guadalcanal
Shortland Harbor
Vella Gulf
Munda Point
Grumman
Savo Island
Bougain Gulf
Ville
Vella
Flying Fortresses
Norce Whitaker
Toxana
Joe Voellmeck
Seattle
Hammer Airdrome
Australia
Buin
Solomons
New Britain Island
Rabaul
MacArthur
Building Burns On Senseney Rd
A two year old tavern building owned by Ned Crismore on Senseney Road three miles east of Winchester burned last night around 11. It was vacant for months and destroyed equipment as the cause remains undetermined. Reported by aircraft spotters at Virginia Woolen station Handley school. Deputy Sheriff Robert DeHaven investigated.
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Ned Crismore
Senseney Road
Winchester
Virginia Woolen Station
Handley School
Robert DeHaven
Friendship Fire Company Memorial Service on Feb 14
The annual memorial service of Friendship Fire Company will be held February 14 at Christ Episcopal Church. The Rev. R. B. Nelson will deliver the sermon, with Rev. W. L. Dudley participating. A social hour followed the meeting and a fire film by Laurens and George Jones was shown.
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Friendship Fire Company
Christ Episcopal Church
R. B. Nelson
W.L. Dudley
Laurens
George Jones
Hitler Dead Rumors Stir Germany After Stalingrad
Joseph E. Davies, former ambassador, told a Washington broadcast that days of mourning in Germany and Hitler missing his 10th anniversary fuel death rumors. A London Foreign Office official cautioned the statement may reflect interpretation rather than fact.
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New York
Joseph E. Davies
Soviet Russia
Foreign Office
London
Hitler
Germany
Stalingrad
Dayis
Washington
Oysters 85 Cents a Quart Friday Special
Oysters priced at 85 cents a quart will be offered Friday. The ad notes location at 315 North and includes a contact code 2-4-1p-2t for order inquiries.
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Adam Ritter
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Tunisian Harbor
U. S. Army Air Forces
Sousse
Ruhr Valley
Spezia Naval Base
By Ovid A. “Martin
Police Dept
Montgomery
Rommel
Flynn
Armstrong
COC
Cannon
Edward A. O’neal
Bulletins
Bulletin
Senseney Rd
Mary S. Yeakley
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