Study of Pollution Is Asked By Moore Virginia Bills Seek Pollution Survey
Richmond Virginia delegates push for a thorough study of pollution in surface and groundwater within the state. A joint resolution requests the Virginia Advisory Council to use state facilities and cooperate with agencies to survey and address industrial and sewage pollution. The measure targets tidal waters and water quality.
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Richmond
E. Blackburn Moore
Clarke
House
Virginia
Virginia Advisory Oe Council
Committee On
N. C. Bailey
Madison and
Orange
State Board of Health
Moore
State Planning Board
Department of Health
Commission of Fisheries
Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
G. Alvin Massenburg
James E. Gardner
J. H. Bradford
Gardner
Vaden Senate Finance Subcommittee
Virginia House of Delegates
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
City Banks Start Ration Token Distribution February Twenty Seventh
City and county banks receive initial supply of red and blue ration tokens for food stamps. After February 27 red and blue stamps convert to 10 points value. Tokens come in two types red meat fat and blue processed food with one point each and no expiry.
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Harry G. Duval
OPA
Cincinnati
Americans In Pacific Drive Invasion Across Kwajalein Atoll
U S forces overwhelm Japanese on multiple fronts in the Marshalls offensive. Marines seize Roi Namur and advance on Kwajalein while Ebeye and nearby islets fall. air and sea dominance expand with seaplane bases and fortified shores under American attack.
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United States
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Mid- Pacific
Marshalls
Hirohito
Tokyo
Roi
Kwajalein
Kwajalein Atoll
Nimitz
Atoll
Namur
Howard Handleman
Kwajalein Island
Seventh Army
Ebeye Island
Eveye
Russians Claim Major Decisions On Whole Front
Stalin announced victories claiming Lutsk and Rovnov captured and Red Army at 70 miles from Hitler’s 1941 jump-off point. Govorov’s forces reach Narva mouth inside Estonia and Lake Peipus near Latvia, while encirclements press ten German divisions south of Cherkasy and Kanev. The count of destroyed Luftwaffe planes and tanks grows as Soviet pressure tightens along the Baltic, Dnieper Bend, and Vitebsk sectors.
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London
Joseph Stalin
Lutsk
Rovnov
Red Army
Adolf Hitler
Soviet Union
Moscow
Baltic
Ukraine
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Narova
Gulf of Finland
Peipus
W Narova
Gulf of Narva
Reval
Tallinn
Riga
Govorov
K. A. Mer V
Lake Peipus
Dnieper
Cherkasy
Kanev
Hitler
Red
Sarah Zane Fire Co. Monthly Meeting Notice
The regular meeting of the Sarah Zane Fire Co. is set for Friday evening February 4 at 8 p m. All members are urged to attend. Capt. Loryn M. Crabill posts the notice.
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Sarah Zane Fire
Sarah Zane Fire Co
Loryn M. Crabill
Democratic Ticket Filled Without Any Opposition
Noble C. Pierce announced there will be no April Democratic primary as all declared nominees were filed for the June general election. Dr. C. R. Anderson is the mayoral candidate, while Ward One contenders include Percy D. Mill Dr. Allen T. Hawthorne and J. Thomas Kremer. Ward Two nominees are W. W. Dellinger A. Lee Cobie and Robert J. Smith, with Smith marking his first bid for public office. Incumbents except Smith seek reelection. Anderson may not run again.
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Noble C. Pierce
Democratic Executive Committee
Pierce
C. R. Anderson
Percy D. Mill
Allen T. Hawthorne
J. Thomas Kremer
W. W. Dellinger
A. Lee Coble
Rebert J. Smith
Mr. Smith
W. P. Anderson
Anderson
Showdown Soon On Vote Measure
The Senate, missing a quorum of 43 members on a Saturday session, recessed until Monday to decide service vote legislation. The fight centers on a federal ballot bill opposed by President Roosevelt as a fraud, with Republicans aiming to attach it to the House approved measure and risk a House Senate conference delay.
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
House
Army
Navy
Roosevelt
Repubs
Senate House
Virginia Woolen Mill Closes for Boiler Repairs
The Virginia Woolen Company shuts its mill for several days to perform essential boiler repairs after a fire hazard incident. Operations are paused until the boiler work is completed and the plant reopens at the scheduled morning hour.
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Virginia Woolen Company
Defiant War Plant Strikers Stand Up to Board Threats
Strikers from the Independent Mechanics Educational Society of America walk out in Cleveland Detroit and other war plants in protest of the National Labor Relations Board handling of a jurisdiction issue. Ralph A Bard urges return to work as a loyalty condition to the country while the War Labor Board threatens sanctions and holds a Washington hearing.
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Michigan
Ohio
War Board
Independent Mechanics Educational Society of America
Cleveland
Detroit
National Labor Relations Board
Ralph A. Bard
Navy
Matthew Smith
MESA
War Labor Board
Washington
Smith
WLB
Edwin E. Witte
New Earthquake Shocks Felt
A late edition dispatch reports new earthquake shocks felt in New York connected to a German propaganda agency's report. It notes claims of a Turkish earthquake event reaching 1 395 in magnitude but provides no clear confirmation of any casualties or precise locations.
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New York
Turkey
Japanese Urges Boost in Iron and Copper Ore Output
The Tokyo radio reported the munitions ministry calls for a sharp rise in iron and copper ore production to meet war requirements, with copper prices noted at about 30 percent higher.
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Associated Press
Tokyo Radio
Japanese Munitions Ministry
Miners Vote to Ignore Sunday Work Call in February
About 28 000 Pennsylvania anthracite miners nearly a third of the regional workforce voted to ignore urges from Interior Secretary Ickes and their union leaders to work Sundays in February to ease a coal shortage. Most in Luzerne Lackawanna counties planned seven days of mining with some locals delaying or leaving the choice to individuals. Nearby El Barree Scranton areas scheduled church services and transport for an anticipated Sunday shift.
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Wilbes-Barre
Fec
Pennsylvania
Harold Ickes
Luzerne
Lackawanna Counties
el-Barre-Scranton
World At War Highlights In Italy And Pacific Battles
Italy faces strong German counter-attacks aimed at crushing the Allied bridgehead below Rome but repulsed by Allied forces. In the Pacific U S soldiers fight from pillbox to nest as landings tighten the grip around Kwajalein Atoll. Soviets trap over 100000 Germans on the Dnieper and push toward the Narova estuary. Aerial U S heavy bombers and fighters strike Nazi plane nests in central France for the eighth time in nine days.
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Associated Press
Italy
Rome
Cassino
Pacific
U. S
Nex
Ende
Kwajalein Atoll
Marshalls
Russia
Ukraine
Dnieper
Wnarova River
Estonia
France
Berryville Soldier Wounded in Action in Italy
Sgt. Lloyd N. Russell of Berryville was wounded in action in Italy on January 5, according to a telegram from the Adjutant General. The family notes a January 12 letter stating he was all right. He enlisted in 1941 and served overseas since 1942 with the First Armored Division, seeing action in Fiord, Bou Said, El Guettar, and Meuter.
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The
Star
Berryville
L. N. Russell
Sgt
Lloyd Russell
Italy
Adjutant General’s Office
Lloyd N. Russell
Russells
Lloyd
Rusty” Russell
Armored
Fiad
Si Bou
el Guettar
Meuter
Eight Sought In Two Holdups In Greenwich Village
New York police search for eight masked bandits after two daylight robberies in Greenwich Village. The West Side Iron Works payroll theft yielded 30300 and a separate payroll car chase ended with a wreck. A bank and loan office safe was cleared eight hours later leaving manager Theodore H. Theban Jr bound.
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New York
West Side Iron Works
Bankers’ Federal Savings and Loan Association
Theodore H. Theban, Jr
Greenwich Village
Zero Hour Near Germans Say
Swedish dispatches from Berlin report the German press framing the threat of an Allied invasion to explain setbacks in the east. Nachtausgabe asserts the west’s defense is Germany’s main 1944 task to secure a favorable outcome and a possible war decision, while limiting operations in the east to maximize losses for the Russians and finance a decisive breakthrough.
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Stockholm
Europe
Berlin
West
Germany
Nachtausgabe
East
Geena
Experienced oil transport truck driver needed
Oil Heat Inc seeks an experienced truck driver for oil transport. Apply at 415 N Cameron. Employment details listed in classifieds.
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Oil Heat,Inc
N. Cameron
Eight Felons Flee Buffalo Jail
Five of eight escapees were recaptured in Buffalo following a large manhunt. Two youths charged with first degree murder remained at large: Floyd Philip Heckler, 18, and Charles Balone, 17. Others were captured near West Valley and Lester, while two more fugitives still fled. An additional suspect, Norman E., tied to a downtown tavern holdup netting $118, was mentioned.
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Buffalo
Erie County
Floyd Philip Heckler
Charles _Balone
Lackawanna
West Valley
Charles. Walters
Kenmore
John Kupniewski
Or Kooper
Robert Paul McLean
Lester
H. D. McColl
Liberty
Joseph V. Augello
Bernard Berman
Bronx
Norman E. Iwilif Pa
Delaware Avenue
German claims of Allied defeat at Nettuno and Cassino
The German high command claimed 900 British prisoners taken at Nettuno bridgehead below Rome and said Allied relief attempts failed. It also asserted a second Allied penetration into Cassino had been dislodged.
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London
Nettuno
Rome
Cassino
German offensive against Allied beachhead repulsed near Cassino
Allied dispatch reports a German attack north of Aprilia aimed at Britain’s line 20 miles southeast of Rome. Desperate fighting continued on the Fifth Army front in Cassino and surrounding mountains as American infantry artillery and armor pressed the assault but the Allies held firm, suffering heavy losses.
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Italy
Aprilia
Rome
Fifth Army
Cassino
Germans Hold Cassino as Allied Probes Continue
Germans remain in control of most Cassino positions while American forces push west of Mt Maida to dislodge them. In fierce street fighting, the German defense strengthens with sixbarreled mortars tanks and self propelled guns. Allied units reach Campoleone near Aprilia as the Rome objective looms. Total prisoners in the beachhead reach 90 yesterday and over 10,000 in Italy since the invasion.
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Cassino
Mt. Maida
Italy
Calabria
Aprilia
Anzio
Padiglione
Garigliano
Mt. Ornito
Castelforte
Eighth Army
Orsogna
Toulon
Nazis Warplanes Nests In France Smashed By U S
London reports say American heavy bombers struck central France targets including near Paris with lighter Marauders and RAF fighter-bombers hitting German defense emplacements along the invasion coast. Allies said eighth attack in nine days for four engined giants with few enemy fighters encountered and modest anti aircraft fire.
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London
France
Paris
Germany
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Reynolds Packard
Ebeye
Gugegwe
Loi Islands
Kwajalein Lagoon
By Henry C. Cassidy
Vitebsk
Neves
Nikopoi
Lower
Income Tax Service
Richard G. Maslock
U.S
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