Three Army Planes Crash in World War II Battle Report
Russian forces pushed deeper into Ukraine near Kursk and Rostov as new gains were reported south of Rostov and along the Voroshilovgrad line. Soviet communiques claimed capture of Stary Oskol and several towns east of Kursk while German supply routes were heavily menaced and a large Axis unit was routed in the Krasny Liman area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ukraine
Kursk
Caucasus
Rostov
Red Army
Izyum
Kharkov
Stary Oskol
Skorodnye
Belzorod
Oshkovatka
Veliki-Burluk
Yuma
Krasny Liman
Belgorod
Donets
Voroshilovgrad
Slavyansk
Sea of Azov
Kuban
Stalingrad
Berlin
M. B. Clowe Elected Commander of Knights Templar
Winchester Commandery No. 12 elects M. B. Clowe as commander for the coming year to succeed Roy A. Larrick. Other officers named include I. G. Bierer as Generalissimo and Lee Miller as Captain General with several wardens, prelate, treasurer, and standard bearer listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Knights Templar
M. B. Clowe
Roy A. Larrick
I. G. Bierer
Lee Miller
H. C. Sheetz, Jr
Gus Kaknis
P. M. Shirey
P. C
C. S. Hartman
Cc. Jones
McVicar
H H. Bowers
B. Prank H. Dorsey
Sentinel
Military Rites For Adm. English At Fort Myer
Navy Admiral English will receive funeral honors at Fort Myer Virginia Chapel on February 9. The ceremony marks a formal military rites with standard honors and a burial to follow. Foreign reports note his service and the orderly procession through the Fort Myer grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Myer
Churchill Leaves Tripoli To Meet Franco
Churchill flies from Cairo to Tripoli and reviews Allied forces before departing for an undisclosed destination. German reports claim meetings with Franco and Salazar in Portugal, with speculation of a pan laid alliance. He rode with Montgomery in the Piazza D Italia and praised the Eighth Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churchill
Tripoli
Franco
Cairo
Casablanca
Eighth Army
Bernard L. Montgomery
Piazza D'talia
Francisco Gomez Jordana
Spain
Portugal
General Montgomery
Piazza D’italia
Italy
United Nations
Castel Benito
New Zealand
Frederick Countys 34 Men to Report for Induction
Thirty four Frederick county registrants including nine volunteers are ordered to report for induction on February 17 and proceed to Charlottesville for medical exams. A second call is set for March 11. The list names Charles Nelson Curry and others from Winchester Stephens City Middletown and nearby areas.
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Frederick County
Charlottesville
Charles Nelson Curry
Middletown
Roy Clark Griffith
E. Cecil’ St
City
Robert Harold Fawcett
Opequon
Marshall David Haines
Rt. 1
Clearbrook
Charles Lee Inskip
Stephens City
Ellis Al“sagem Nazelrod
Paw Paw
W. A
Paul Amos Rove
R. F.D
No. Oates
Winchester
Stephenson
Russell George William Franklin
Claude Benjamin
Fauver
Walter Russell Robertson
Rt. 1-A
Elmer Harold Lauck
Bloomery Oeare
Tobin
Seine City
Charles Wesley Gruber, Jr
Martinsburg Pike
George Milton Kelchner
Kenneth Wilton Strother
Cross Junction
Edward Harrisonvenge
Marvin Lee Renner
Star Tannery
Donald Lee Spitler
Gordon Elwood Carter
Lohn Anderson Seldon
Gore
Oscar Snowden
Masons To Attend Grand Lodge Parley in Richmond
Lee Miller worshipful master of McKinley Lodge M B Clowe past master Seibert Smith and C Ver non Eddy past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Virginia will depart Monday to attend Grand Lodge sessions opening the next day at the Masonic Temple in Richmond Va. The four day sessions will last.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Miller
McKinley Lodge
M. B. Clowe
Seibert Smith
C. Vernon Eddy
Grand Lodge of Virginia
Grand Lodge
Masonic Temple
Richmond
Winchester sale notice lists Cadilly Street items
A brief public sale notice references Cadilly Street in Winchester at 10 a m on Saturday the 18th with details abbreviated in the listing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cadilly Sts
Winchester
Separate Peace With Finland Seen Possible
Washington observers doubt a German peace offensive while noting talk of a separate British and Russian peace with Finland. Roosevelt met with Schoenfeld and Procope to discuss Finland’s stance amid war with Germany and Japan, with food worries cited and neutrals unlikely to carry overture without signaling weakness.
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Washington
Germany
Finland
Casablanca
Roosevelt
Churchill
Italy
Japan
Soviet Union
Great Britain
United States
Dent Roosevelt
H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld
Hjalmar Procope
Welles
Schoenfeld
Russia
Hitler
Mussolini
Allied Advances Amid Bad Weather In Tunisia
British forces push toward the Rommel line as Montgomery’s troops reportedly be inside Tunisia. Allied air activity wanes due to storms while Djebel Mansour changes hands and pilots report recoveries amid heavy combat losses on both sides.
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London
Algiers
Bernard L. Montgomery
Tunisia
Rommel
Reuters
North Africa
Djebel Mansour
Pont du Fahs
Hill 648
Bou Arada
Tunisian
Consolidated A C Plans For Large Passenger Plane
In San Diego on February 6 Consolidated Aircraft Corp president Harry Woodhead told the Society of Automotive Engineers that a 400 passenger airliner is not yet built and mass production could take up to four years from initial design. He stressed the company remains committed to pursuing large designs despite the long lead times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Calif
Aircraft Corp
Harry Woodhead
Consolidated
Society of Automotive Engineers
True Bill Against Clark in Fatal Car Case
A true bill was returned yesterday in the case of Edward Clark, driver of a car with Miss Violet Hounshell of Middletown as a passenger who died from injuries. The case is set for trial on March 23 after the grand jury inquiry was continued to obtain additional witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Clark
Violet Hounshell
Middletown
38 Year Old Men Must Show Good Cause For Discharge
The War Department requires 38 year old men seeking discharge to show good cause and to complete a procedure before leaving military service. Officials argue it is impractical to discharge men solely due to reaching their 38th birthday and emphasize the need to balance induction, training, and return to civilian life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
U. S. Forces Tighten Grip On Guadalcanal
Washington reports Guadalcanal ground troops push into newly captured territory as MacArthur’s bombers hit Japanese reinforcements across the Solomons. Navy operations claim a sharp battle at sea with 17 enemy planes shot down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Guadalcanal
Solomons Islands
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Ambon
New Guinea
Talasea
Tassafaronga
Navy
Tassafaronga Beach
MacArthur
Lorengau
New Britain
Rabaul
Knox Calls Solomons Losses Moderate in Preliminary Phase
Secretary Knox reported that both Japanese and American air and sea forces have suffered moderate losses as new Solomon Islands fighting develops. He said the exact Japanese objective and potential force size remain unknown and that the action is in a preliminary stage with no carriers or battleships sunk so far.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Solomon Islands
Knox
Navy
Solomons
Officers begin ninth course at Washington and Lee
Lexington Va Feb 6 The Army’s only school for special services at Washington and Lee University started its ninth course this week with about 450 officers enrolled. The class includes six Coast Guard representatives and 14 from the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Washington and Lee University
Coast Guard
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Brereton Succeeds Andrews in Middle East Command
Cairo reports Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton to command all American forces in the Middle East, succeeding Lieut. Gen. Frank M. Andrews. Andrews becomes commander of U. S. forces in the European theater, replacing Eisenhower who moves to French North Africa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Lewis H. Brereton
U. S
Middle East
Frank M. Andrews
General Andrews
Dwight D. Eisenhower
French North Africa
London
Giraud forms war committee to replace Imperial Council
The French Imperial Council is replaced by a War Committee under Gen. Henri Giraud after Casablanca talks with Roosevelt and Churchill. Members include Giraud, Jean Bergeret, Augu ste Nogues, Pierre Boisson, and Marcel Peyrouton. the panel may add De Gaulle representatives later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Africa
Casablanca
Giraud
Charles de Gaulle
Jean Bergeret
Auguste Nogues
French
Morocco
Pierre Boisson
West Africa
Marcel Peyrouton
Algeria
Imperial Council
de Gaulle
Students Leave For Camp Lee
Nine truck loads of Harvard University students depart Cambridge for induction centers and camps in Virginia and Oklahoma. Among them 68 members of the Harvard Business School quartermaster corps will train at Camp Lee, Va after heading to Fort Devens and Fort Sill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
Fort Devens
Fort Sill
Oklahoma
Camp Lee
Harvard Business School
Quartermaster Corps
Reports Hitler at His Headquarters Photographed with Visitors
A Reuters dispatch from Zurich reported that Adolf Hitler was at his military headquarters and had recently been photographed receiving prominent visitors. The report notes speculation that Hitler’s absence from the Jan. 30 Nazi anniversary events may reflect Germany’s setback in Russia and a period of mourning linked to his possible death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Reuters
Zurich
Switzerland
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Berlin
Germany
Russia
Noted Movie Director Dies in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills Calif Feb 6 Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke II a director of Tarzan Dr Kildare Andy Hardy and The Thin Man series died after a lingering illness at his Brentwood home He devoted 53 years to show business and loved adventures across the globe
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Hills
Calif
Woodbridge Strong van Dyke
Globe
Brentwood
Flynn Acquitted in Statutory Rape Case
Errol Flynn was acquitted of three counts of statutory rape after a 13 hour jury deliberation in Los Angeles. The nine women and three men found him not guilty of alleged intimacies with two teenage girls, Peggy La Rue Satterlee and Betty Hansen.
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Los Angeles
Errol Flynn
Flynn
Peggy la Rue Satterlee
Betty Hansen
Eisenhower Heads North Africa Allied Theater Command
Allied forces announce a North African theater of operations with Lieut Gen Dwight D Eisenhower as commander in chief. The move relieves him of joint command over the European theater, now a separate unit under Lieut Gen Frank M Andrews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied
North Africa
Allied Force Headquarters
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Frank M. Andrews
Axis supply ships sunk in central Mediterranean by British subs
London dispatch reports British submarines in the central Mediterranean sunk three more Axis supply ships and a tanker, with another supply ship left burning and all actions announced by the Admiralty today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Pound Myitnge Bridge
New Delhi reports American bombers again pounded the Myitnge bridge near Mandalay a vital link of Japanese communications in Burma as the enemy tried to repair damage from prior raids A 10th U S Air Force communique said US bombers escorted by fighters attacked railway targets in northern Burma and all planes and crews returned safely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Delhi
India
Myitnge
Mandalay
Burma
U. S. Air Force
U. S
Washington and Lee to lose one fifth of students to Army
The Richmond News Leader reports that about one fifth of Washington and Lee University students will be drafted into active Army duty on February 18. Fifty one Army reserve students have orders to report to Camp Lee for training, with seventy four more reservists expected to receive orders to report to Camp Cumberland, Maryland, in the next two days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Richmond News-Leader
Washington and Lee University
Army
Army Reserve
Camp Lee
Camp Cumberland
U S Ambassador Granted Chance to See Gandhi and Nehru
In New Delhi on February 6, President government officials opened prospects for U S Ambassador William Phillips to interview Mohandas K. Gandhi Pandit Nehru and other Congress leaders. Permission came after approval to speak with a lesser leader of the banned organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Delhi
India
U. S
William Phillips
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Pandit Nehru
Congress Party
Cripps Warns of Dangers After War in Aberdeen Address
Sir Stafford Cripps, minister of aircraft production, warned at Aberdeen University that defeated totalitarianism may imprint its forms on victorious nations unless people stay awake and act. He spoke to students and staff about postwar dangers and the need for determined action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aberdeen
Scotland
Stafford Cripps
Aberdeen University
Flying Fortresses Down 25 German Planes in Raid
The U S Eighth Air Force reports that on Wednesday large scale raids over northwest Germany destroyed at least 25 defending German planes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Germany
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Local hunter complains of quail shooting near Front Royal road
H W Whitacre of three miles from town laments fall quail killings near his property. He found six birds remaining after recent snow and notes the hunters did not help feed them. He says he hunts but does not kill birds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Whitacre
Front Royal Road
Whitacre
Tragedy Near Newberry Kills 14 Army Air Crew
Public Relations officials report 14 members of two army medium bombers died when in formation mid air collision or crash on a farm twelve miles south of Newberry South Carolina during a routine training flight from Tampa Florida. A board investigates as wreckage and bodies scatter. victims include pilots co pilots navigators and crew members from multiple states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenville
8. C
Greenville Army Air Base
Newberry
Tampa
Fla
H. T. Long
Hubert Carlisle
Kalarno Mannio
Katie Mannio
Rt. 2
Crystal Falls
Mich
Donald G. Alleys
Rockford
Ill
John E. Wilson
T. P. Wilson
Muscatine
Iowa
Julius X. Zarchin
Minnie
A. Vinson
Arrowsmith
Allen M. Steen
Elvena Steen
Crowley
Basil R. Sink
R. Sink
Camden
Ind
Harold B. Brown
Boyd Brown
Aledo
Franklin G. Morris
Mary Lutz
San Francisco
Cal
Dean Loren
Albert Loren
Minneapolis
Minn
Walter W. Pratt
John Pratt
Munsie
Mlinois Clinton
Here
John Harrington
Clinton
Sarah Zane Fire Company to Hold February 21 Memorial Service
The Sarah Zane Fire Company will hold its annual memorial service on Sunday February 21 at the U B Church with Rev L G Bridgers delivering the address. The group will memorialize four deceased members and voted to award prizes to boost attendance at meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Zane Fire Company
U. B
L. G. Bridgers
Hc? Sheetz & Son
No Advance in Prices at Hile Yard's Store
Wallpaper and paints exclusively offered at Piccadilly Street store with unchanged prices. Local notice notes no price increase for items on sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HILE
Piccadilly St
Wanted Male Help For Work On Shipping Platform
Employment Office advertises positions at National Fruit Product Co Inc for work on a shipping platform. Apply through the employment office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Fruit Product Co Inc
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