Congress Sets Action On Work or Fight Policy
The House Rules Committee favors a bill to notify draft boards of workers absent without cause, applying to all workers. Boeing Seattle workers protest delays as the War Labor Board weighs possible work stoppages, while Secretary Wickard laments farm labor losses to the Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Boeing Aircraft
War Labor Board
Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard
Army
Lyndon Johnson
D.-Tex
House Rules Committee
Navy Yards
Johnson
Vinson
D.cin
House
Naval
Boeing
Seattle
Last Game At Handley Tonight
Local basketball fans will have a final chance to see the Handley Judges in action tonight as they host the Charles Town Panthers of West Virginia. The Panthers have defeated several top scholastic teams this season and Handley seeks revenge after earlier setbacks. Tipoff is at 8 oclock.
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Charles Town
W. Va
Panthers
Invaders
West
Fire Near Montvue Tests Town Volunteers
Middletown and Stephens City volunteer fire departments fought a blaze last night that threatened the Leake residence near Montvue. Though losses were not fully contained, the effort highlighted the value of small town fire protection and rural support. Cooperation between Stephens City and Middletown volunteers earned Mayor Larrick’s thanks from the city.
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Middletown
Stephens City
Montvue
Leake
Larrick
Death of Brig Gen Hierome Opie Staunton Leader publisher
Staunton Va February 26 Brig Gen Hierome Lindsay Opie president of Staunton Leader Publishing Co died at his home Oakland at 12 45 a m age 62 Funeral services set for Trinity Church at 5 p m Saturday Interment Thornrose Cemetery He had been ill since February 4 and his wife and children were at his side A noted publisher and war veteran Opie founded the Evening Leader and Staunton News Leader and was active in wildlife conservation and local commerce He was born October 6 1880 at Rosebud staunton and survived by wife three children and three brothers
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staunton
Hierome Lindsay Opie
Staunton Leader Publishing Company, Inc
Oakland
Trinity Church
Thornrose Cemetery
General Opie
Staunton News-Leader
Staunton Evening Leader
Mary Ranson Opie
Thomas R. Opie
U.S. Army Air Corps
Columbus
Miss
Geo. Wilson Robinson
Richmond
Miami Beach
Fla
U. S. Army
Evening Leader
Staunton Daily News
News and Dispatch
Morning Leader
Staunton News Leader
Opie
Price
Bustard Commission
Staunton Chamber of Commerce
Virginia State Chamber
Shenandoah National Park
United States Plans Prewar UN Aims Talks With Allies
In Toronto on February 26 United States Undersecretary Sumner Welles announced a push to press for United Nations conferences on common aims before the war ends and to start preliminary talks with allies immediately. He urged creation of a machinery to study freedom from want and linked global economic problems to shared interests to avoid future conflict. Canada and the United States have already agreed to take concrete steps toward these aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Ont
United States
United Nations
Sumner Welles
University of Toront
Welles
Canada
Air Raid Signals to Hold First Night Test March 4
Gen Milton A Reckord announced a three state blackout drill in Maryland Pennsylvania and Virginia for Thursday March 4. The schedule calls for a blue warning at 8 50 p m red air alert at 9 10 p m blue again at 9 20 p m and white all clear at 9 30 p m with wardens signaling and street blackout ending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Milton A. Reckord
Third Service Command
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Reckord
Office of Civilian Defense
Tri-State
Red Army closes in on remnants of German forces near Novorossisk
London reports the Red Army broke a trap around the Caucasus German remnants at Novorossisk and seized Angelinskya and Staronizhe Steblievskaya in decisive fighting. The battle left hundreds dead in Staromnizhe Steblievskaya as Russian columns push from Timoshevkskaya toward Krasnodar and toward Mingrelskaya and Akhtirskaya near the coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Caucasus Army
Novorossisk
Kerch Strait
Red Army
Angelinskya
Staronizhe-Steblievskaya
Krasnodar
Timoshevkskaya
Mingrelskaya
Akhtirskaya
Staromnizhe-Steblievskaya
Ration Chart On Page 7 Today
A seven column ration chart appears on page 7 detailing point values of various foods. House wives and shoppers should keep the chart for reference to plan purchases and help grocers provide better service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Star
Point rationing rules for processed foods detailed for retailers
The article outlines retailer definitions and registration steps for point rationing of processed foods during 1943. It specifies registration window April 1 10, 1943 on OPA Form R-1302, with separate handling for those also operating wholesale or processing establishments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Price & Rationing Board
Office of Price Administration
Bureau of the Census
Washington
Ihe
Ab Coretailer
Montvue Fire Destroys Historic Middletown House
A. G. Leake's Montvue, a valued old brick home southeast of Middletown near the Shenandoah, was destroyed by fire early today. Leake escaped with only blankets. loss includes the house valued at about 50000 and possibly furniture, with fire starting in a chimney on the fourth floor. Fire units from Middletown and Stephens City faced water shortages as a cistern near the blaze could not be used.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Star
Leake
Lemuel Ball
Lemuel
Middletown
Fred J
Stephens City
Parker
Ed Lineburg
Sheriff Buckner Critically Ill in Charlottesville Hospital
Sheriff Robert W. Buckner of Clarke County is critically ill at University Hospital Charlottesville Va after more than a week. Doctors cite a heart condition and a toxic condition. Mrs Buckner and their two children Robert Buckner Jr and Mrs Viola Roberts of Winchester were summoned to Charlottesville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert W. Buckner
Clarke County
University Hospital
Charlottesville
Buckner
Robert Buckner, Jr
Viola Roberts
Winchester
Judge Dabney Refers Case to Commissioner in Bank Suit
Judge A D Dabney in Corporation Court for Judge Harrison referred the case Minnie E Burton et al versus Commercial and Savings Bank to T Russell Cather special commissioner in chancery to determine facts for the court. The order finds the bank failed to sell stock of American National Bank Paris Texas and First National Bank Kaufman Texas and held stock outside Virginia without court guidance, valuing each stock at par ($5,000 and $1,000) with interest from Jan 1 1931. the court adjudges damages accordingly, the bank objects to the ruling saying it did not fail to exercise due care in selling the Texas banks stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D. Dabney
Corporation
Harrison
Minnie E
Genevieve Burton
Als
The
Commercial and Savings Bank, Et Als
T. Russell Cather
Chancery
Commercial & Savings Bank
Commercial and Savings Bank
Texas
Son of Former Pastor Killed In Plane Crash
Roy Andes son of the late A. W. Andes former Timber Ridge Congregational Christian Church pastor was killed in a recent airplane crash after earning his Wings in the Army Air Corps. Funeral plans are pending at Antioch near Harrisonburg with Rev. R. A. Whitten assisting. Surviving are his mother, two brothers Rev. William J. Andes and Mark Andes, and sister Miss Clarine Evelyn.
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Winchester
Roy Andes
A. W. Andes
Timber Ridge
Harrisonburg
William J. Andes
North Carolina
Mark Andes
Elon College
Clarine Evelyn
Allied Bombers Step Up Daylight Raid on Wilhelmshaven
United States bombers hit Wilhelmshaven by daylight. Seven aircraft were reported missing in the third American daylight attack on German soil and the second on Wilhelmshaven. RAF fighters covered the planes on return as U S gun crews and A P reporters described the operation and losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
United States
Wilhelmshaven
Air Ministry
U. S. Army
Germany
North Sea
RAF
A. P
Gladwin Hill
Associated Press
Hill
Nuernberg
Mediterranean
Naples
Private Dodson Recovery Not Satisfactory
Mrs. Adalee Dodson of Berryville reports that Private First Class Glenwood M. Dodson recovering from earlier wounds in Northwest Africa is not progressing satisfactorily. The telegram states the recovery is not satisfactory and further messages will follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adalee Dodson
Berryville
Glenwood M. Dodson
Northwest Africa
Pvt Zombro Rites Set Amid Camp Croft Death
Funeral services for Pvt Clfton Page Zombro 40 found dead near Camp Croft S C will be held Sunday at 2 30 PM from John H Enders Funeral Home Berryville with Rev A O Lyons officiating Interment will be in Green Hill Cemetery He was found by a stream near the camp after being missing and death attributed to a heart attack He is survived by his parents and several brothers and sisters of Clarke County Virginia including Donald W Zombro Sandy W Zombro Francis Zombro John E Zombro and Mrs Raymond White plus Mrs Thomas White and two sisters Freda and Dorothy Zombro
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puneral Services
Pvt
Clifton Page Zombro
Camp Croft
8. C
John H. Enders Puneral
Berryville
A. O. Lyons
Duncan Memorial Methodist Church
Green Hill
Eee Pvt
Zombro
Enders Funeral Home
James Edward
Minnie E. Zombro
Clarke County
Donald W. Zombro
Sandy W. Zombro
Kearneysville
W. Va
Francis Zombro
John E. Zombro
Boyce
Raymond White
Thomas White
Freda
Dorothy Zombro
Meat Prices To Be Announced By OPA
A. L. Erikson head of the meat section of the OPA says uniform maximum retail prices on meat are ready for release. Livestock ceilings will be used only if other measures fail. Harry Coffee urged equitable ceilings to curb black markets and improve industry conditions. Retail pork prices will come first with beef prices following.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
A. L. Erikson
Food Price Division
OPA
Harry Coffee
Union Stockyards Company
Erikson
Coffee
Brown
Gandhi in Bombay in 21 day hunger strike
An official bulletin from Bombay dated February 26 reports no appreciable change in Mahatma Gandhi's condition on the seventeenth day of his 21 day fast. The bulletin notes he remains cheer and continues his hunger strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bombay
Mohandas
K. Gandhi
Brief City And County Brevities Snow and Surprise Ration Mixup
Brief items report a brief spring snowfall with a light finish, a moderate to colder forecast, a post office mix up involving a "setting sun" egg, a warning to Tojo with a Winchester driver sent to Washington, and discovery of the wrong ration book carried on a trip that was issued for refreshments not gasoline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office
Jackie Pollard
Tojo
Winchester
Washington
Allied drive recaptures Kasserine Pass and advances in Tunisia
Allied headquarters report in North Africa that central Tunisia has seen the recapture of Kasserine Pass and control of the surrounding high ground. Rommel’s withdrawal continues as British and American forces push 10 to 15 miles into the Sbiba area and press toward Sbeitla, with mining of retreat routes and air bombardment of Gafsa and Bizerte facilities continuing.
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Kasserine Pass
North Africa
Tunisia
Erwin Rommell
Sbiba
Faid Pass
Gafsa
Harold Alexanders
Sbtba
Sbeitla
Kasserine
Rommell
Bou Arada
Mareth Line
Bizerte
For Sale Farm Implements at Lynn Norman Sale
Farm implements and tools to be sold at Lynn Norman's Sale on March 1. H. M. Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn Norman
H. M. Miller
Eagles Ladies' Night Event at Eagles
Attention Eagles announce a ladies' night at the Eagles club on Saturday February 27 at 8 p m featuring string music all members invited and encouraged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagles
Public Sale Notice at Halde man farm and general ads
Public sale March 1 at 1 p m on Halde man farm H Atten harness and farm machinery Lynn Norman Metal Weatherstripping and caulking for windows and doors phone 4643 E W Armstrong Co 39 E Piccadill St Oyster Fridays 85c Adam Ritter dial 4956 after 3 1 p m 315 N Kent St Bingo every Fri night 0 o clock 250 in prizes Rouse 12 31 Thur Pri 1p tf
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Haldeman Farm
Hateen
Lynn Norman
E. W Armstrong Co
E. Piccadill St
Adam Ritter
Kent St
ROUSE
Thur
Pri
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U. S
Rep
House Agriculture Committee
Handley
Deathesis
Thos. FP. Opie
Great Barrington
A. G. Leake
Sheriff Buckner
Dabney
C. & S. Bank
Burtons
Pfc. Dodson
Pvt. Zombro
Clarke
Gandhi
Rommel
Thala
Gabes
Riley
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