Food rationing schedule for households in wartime
Washington report lists daily rationing steps for February 22 with registration ongoing nationwide. It details bringing consumer declaration and No 1 ration books to schools to obtain No 2 books and notes a week of restrictions on canned fruits vegetables fish meat soups baby food and dried varieties. It flags a Monday March 1 resumption of purchasing canned frozen and dried fruits and vegetables by point system and notes canned meat and fish remain prohibited.
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Washington
Point values of cans under new rationing system
Washington announces the point values for common canned goods under the new rationing system set to begin March 1. The March ration allotment stands at 48 points per person with families allowed to pool points.
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Washington
Strong Axis Attacks Held By Allies In Heavy Fights
Soviet reports say mop-up operations in the Donets Basin moved into many towns about 50 miles south and southwest of Voroshilovgrod while western columns prepared a 34 mile March to the Dnieper after taking Pavlograd and Krasnograd. The drive west of Rostov and toward Orel also advanced. Pavlograd and Krasnograd, rail centers on Dnieper tributaries, were seized as heavy fighting continued near Kramatorsk and Stalino with German losses described as heavy.
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Moscow
Donets
Voroshilovgrod
Dnieper
Pavlograd
Krasnograd
Rostov
Kursk
Orel
Krasnodar
Black Sea
Kramatorsk
Stalino
Ration rules cut American canned food to small shares
The Office of Price Administration announced a March allowance giving about three cans per person for the month under a secant ration program. Price Administrator Prentiss Brown said civilian supply from March to September 1944 would average over 13 million cases monthly, with 48 points per family to buy canned goods and pool them as needed.
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Washington
Office of Price
Prentiss Brown
Brown
Germans Claiming Many Sinkings Reported by Berlin Radio
A German broadcast via Berlin radio claimed submarines sank 15 ships totaling 103000 gross register tons and one corvette, one escort vessel, one patrol boat and four sailing transports in the Atlantic and near North Africa and the Mediterranean. another freighter was torpedoed but no result given. No Allied confirmation.
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Adolf Hilter
Berlin
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Mrs George Kent Burned In Yard Fire Incident
Mrs George Kent sustained severe burns while cleaning her yard and was hospitalized this afternoon. Reported injuries include facial burns and eye irritation but condition is described as serious yet stable and improving with care.
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Gg Ae
Curb Market Set for Two Weekly Runs and Unified Plans
Frederick county farm men and women agreed to combine the curb and home demonstration markets into a single Farm and Home Market. The curb market will run Tuesdays and Thursdays with the home market on Saturdays. Officials elected include Grover Schlack as chairman and Joe Funk as treasurer. Last year combined sales reached about $11,000.
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Frederick County
Ri Ae
Grover Schlack
Lester Dailey
H. A. Snapp
Joe Funk
Registration Underway In City and County War Ration Book
Citizens of Winchester and Frederick County rush to register for War Ration Book No. 2. In Middletown classes were suspended as 300+ registered by noon while Winchester and county schools opened registrations at 1 pm. About 200 teachers assisted by high school seniors, with an average 15 minutes to issue each book. Registration continues daily 1 to 5 pm through Friday.
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Winchester
Frederick County
Middletown
Winchester and Frederick Game & Fish Association Meeting
The Winchester and Frederick County Game & Fish Association will hold a meeting tomorrow at 7:30 PM in the club hall. Officers will be elected and plans for a membership drive will be discussed.
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Winchester and
Frederick County’ Game & Fish Association
Cld
Letters From Byrd On Winchester U S Hospital Site
Andrew Bell of the Chamber of Commerce reports a letter from Senator Byrd regarding locating a government hospital near Winchester. The main obstacle cited is Winchester’s lack of a mainline railroad with adequate passenger facilities, noted as essential for transporting wounded troops and others.
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Andrew Bell
Chamber of Commerce
Seniator
Byrd
Winchester
Congressman Robertson
Washington
European Invasion Is Suspected
A Le Havre dispatch reported Nazi aerial reconnaissance over England fueling belief we are on the eve of an English attempt of unsuspected audacity. The dispatch noted fliers were intrigued by preparations at certain ports and heavy road traffic plus unusual activity in industrial areas, with no details on the possible plan.
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Bern
Switzerland
le Havre
Tribune de Geneve
England
English Channel
North Sea
Five Lost When Navy Ship Upsets
Five crew dead and thirteen missing after a Navy minesweeper capsized off Coos Bay in heavy seas. Eleven of twenty nine aboard were rescued by a Coast Guard surf boat and a fishing craft after about 24 hours, as seas ran eight to ten feet.
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Marshfield
Ore
Coos Bay
Thirteenth Naval District
Pacific
Coast Guard
Second Lieutenant Peter Page Reported Killed in Pacific
Special to the Star Ardmore Pa Feb 22 Second Lieutenant Peter Mayo Page 23 of the U S Marines torpedo plane forces has been killed presumably in action in the Southwest Pacific He was a son of Robert Powel Page Jr president of the Autocar Company and grandson of the late R Powel Page of Saratoga at Boyce Born in Wellesley Hills Mass he grew up in Ardmore Pa He graduated from Haverford School 1937 and Princeton 1941 A noted amateur golfer he captained Princeton Golf team in his junior year and led the National Intercollegiate Golf Association He enlisted 1941 and trained as Naval Air Corps cadet then Wings in 1942 assigned to Marines later to a torpedo squadron He returned home on leave last September and completed torpedo tactics training in San Diego before departing for the Southwest Pacific He is survived by his parents two brothers Lt Robert P Page III US Navy and Lt Hamilton Page Army Ordnance He had many friends in Winchester and Clarke County where he played golf at Millwood and Winchester Golf Club Relatives in Clarke County include Misses Agnes and Mary Page of Saratoga and Mrs Roland G Mitchell of The Glen Boyce
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Ardmore
Peter Mayo Page
U. S. Marines
Southwest Pacific
Robert Powel Page
Autocar Company
R. Powel Page
Saratoga
Boyce
Lieutenant Page
Wellesley Hills
Mass
Autocar
Haverford School
Princeton University
Peter Page
Princeton
National Intercollegiate Golf Association
Page
Naval Air Corps
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Pensacola
Miami
San Diego
Cal
Robert P. Page, Jr
Robert P. Page, III
U.S. Navy
Senate calls for simpler oil rationing and centralized control
A Senate investigating committee urged simpler fuel oil rationing and centralization under the petroleum administrator for war. It proposed a straight percentage cut based on 1941 42 use to replace coupon based allotments, citing limited wartime supply improvements and blurred authority between Ickes and the Office of Price Administration.
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Washington
Senate
Maloney
D.-Conn
Ickes
Office of Price Administraion
Connecticut
Delaware
Maine
Maryland
Aggee
New Hampshire
Eversey
New York
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Vermont
Virginia
Gandhi Weathered Crisis Appears More Cheerful
Gandhi endured a crisis on the twelfth day of his 21 day fast in Poona. A Bombay government bulletin said he appeared more comfortable and cheerful though his heart remains weaker. Doctors reported nausea and near fainting before he drank water and lime juice and slept.
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New Delhi
Monhandas
K. Gandhi
Bombay
Poona
Aga Khan
Bombay Bulletin
Gandhi
Officials Tackle Vice Problems In Hampton Roads Plan
Governor Colgate Darden of Virginia urged federal responsibility for staffing a hospital and rehabilitation camp for prostitutes in Hampton Roads. He said Virginia would fund facilities but war shortages left few doctors and nurses, with the federal government offering cost-sharing only for building. Chairman May of the House Military Affairs Committee said he asked the army surgeon general why the May act would allow War Department jurisdiction.
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Washington
Colgate Darden, Jr
Virginia
Hampton Roads
Knox
May
D-Ky
House Military Affairs Committee
J. C. McGee
Army
War Department
Bombs Start Fires On New Georgia
American bombers attacked the Japanese airbase at Munda on New Georgia Island on February 21. Avenger torpedo planes, Dauntless dive bombers, escort fighters, and warplanes started fires in the target area. One U S fighter did not return. Munda lies 180 nautical miles northwest of Guadalcanal and has endured at least 73 raids since November 23.
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Washington
Munda
New Georgia Island
Navy
South Pacific
Douglas
U. S
Indian Crisis Analyzed By MacKenzie In The Star
Foreign correspondent DeWitt MacKenzie begins a ten part series in The Star examining the Indian crisis. He discusses British policy, Gandhi hunger strike, and the impact on Allied war aims based on his five month war zone tour and recent India study.
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United Nations
India
Gandhi
DeWitt MacKenzie
the Star
MacKenzie
New York
Orgies Replacing Work Among Farm Laborers Warned
Florida grower L. L. Chandler testified before a Senate subcommittee that some farm laborers supplied by government agencies have replaced work with orgies, whisky, and loose women in the fields. He blamed Southern planters under Farm Security Administration contracts and said the workers are largely riff raff whites and negroes pampered under reform policies. They are recruited by the Employment Service and placed under FSA contracts with farmers.
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Washington
Florida
Farm Security Administration
L. L. Chandler
Goulds, Fla
Senate Agriculture
Chandler
U. S
Forced To Wreck U. S. Tanks To Prevent Capture
Lieutenant Truman O. Boyd recounts being forced to destroy three light tanks to prevent capture after a running fight with German Mark IVs. He and his men then trudged 30 miles through enemy lines, using thermite grenades to burn the tanks and marching with grenades and pistols in hand. They saved fourteen soldiers and returned home, though the memory fuels his anger at the enemy’s tactics.
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Harold V. Boyle
U. S
Tunisia
Truman O. Boyd
Long Beach
Calif
OPA Charges Placed Against E. H. Shepard
Edward H. Shepard, released after posting $1,000 bond, was re arrested by Deputy U S Marshal on three counts of violating OPA regulations. Bond on the OPA charges was refused pending a conference with the U S District Attorney and regional attorney. Shepard remained in Harrisonburg this morning amid reports of further OPA violations. Scruggs, Kenneth and Charles Haines are held on burglary charges.
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Edward H. Shepard
Harrisonburg
U. S
Charles Nelson
F. L. Zirkle
OPA
U.S
Frank S. Tavenner, Jr
J. W. Bauserman
Rommel drives north from Kasserine toward Thala for a decisive clash
Allied and Axis forces clash in a tense night tank battle eight miles from Thala as Rommel lashes out from the Kasserine Pass. American and British troops report heavy losses on both sides while the fate of the central Tunisian theater hangs on the outcome near the Thala junction. The fight highlights the broader struggle for control of the Thala plateau and surrounding routes.
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North Africa
Tebessa
Rommel
Kasserine Pass
Krimamsa Pins
First Army
Middle East
Thala
Faid Pass
Kasserine Gap
United States
Eighth Army
Encome Tax Services Offers Federal and State Returns
Tax reports prepared for federal and state income taxes. Service available from 6 to 9 p m.
Notice of Continued Business Despite Army Enlistment
Businessman announces operations continue at 22 Rouss Ave despite entering the Army. He thanks patrons for past support and states same practices and principles will be followed. Signed T Bryarl.
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Rouss Ave
Smme
Bryarl
Colonial Kitchen Shortens Hours Amid Supply Shortage
Due to limited supplies the Colonial Kitchen will operate only three days weekly with Friday hours extending to p m and weekend times until 10 p m. The notice explains reduced service days and adjusted closing times.
Public Sale Notice for Livestock and Implements
Auction notice lists 15 horses and colts 40 cows and heifers 75 hogs 80 sheep plus implements. Sale Feb 2502 at 1 mile west of Cle Stook Va. Seller WM Teed.
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Stook
M Teed
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Reds
By Eddy Gilmore
Irving Perimeter
George Kent
Curb Market
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Lieut. Page
Massachusetts
New Georgia
Lieutenant
E. H. Shepard
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Eagles
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