Week of Prayer Services Opens at Lutheran Church
Week of Prayer Services kicks off tonight at 8 o clock and runs all week through Friday at the Lutheran Church. Rev R A Whitten of the Ministerial Association presides with occasional city ministers assisting. Dr Adams, popular Baptist leader, speaks on topics including The Glory of Religion and A Prayer We All Need.
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Lutheran Church
Winches‘Ministerial Association
R. A. Whitten
Ministerial Associa
Mr. Whitten
W. E
Southern Baptists
Baptist Church
America
Services Held Today For T. J. Worting in West Virginia
Funeral services were held at 2 30 PM at Jones Funeral Home for T J Worting a 75 year old native of Frederick County who died in Huntington West Virginia He was a son of the late Col John Wotring and Mrs Martha Hall Wotring He is survived by a brother Morgan H Wotring Huntington and two sisters Mrs J H Rossingston and Mrs J W ies Palm Beach Florida The Rev E B Smith pastor of Gravel Springs Lutheran conducted the service and burial was in Mount Hebron Cemetery Family lot.
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Jones
J. Worting
Ek County
Huntington
W. V
Frederick County
John Wotring
Martha Hall Wotring
Mn H. Wotring
J. H. Rossington
J. Wies
Palm Beach
Fila
E. B. Smith
Ep Gravel Springs Lutheran
Ent
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Six Die in Army Transport Crash Near Indianapolis
Six soldiers perish when an Army transport crash occurs while en route from Tinker Field Oklahoma City to Memphis. The craft based at Field Indianapolis cannot identify the victims until kin are notified.
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Headsaiq
T Field
Indianapolis
Ind
Memphis
Tinker Field
Okla City
Germans Press Berlin Attacks Near Budapest Garrison
Soviet communique reports German attacks west of Eztergom near Budapest failed as Nazi troops suffered 400 dead more. Russian storm troops claimed control of 116 blocks and about 1,800 of the city’s 4,500 buildings as the defense of the Danube front continued.
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Eztergom
Budapest
Buda
Danube
Ration Calendar Says March Series Validates Soon
The Associated Press notes ration stamps for meats fats and foods in Book 4 blue and red stamps have no termination dates yet. No plans to cancel March 21 for certain coupons and several stamp series remain indefinite or valid through the heating period.
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OPA
Midwest
Pacific Northwest
Arraignment Postponed in Falls Church Bank Robbery Case
Arlington police postponed the arraignment of 27 year old J Paul Shelton on attempted holdup and robbery charges at the Falls Church Bank East Falls Church branch. Handwriting tests were planned to link a note found in a car to Shelton while Grace Wadlington could not positively identify him as the abductor.
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Arlington
J. Paul Shelton
East Falls Church
Falls Church Bank
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Shelton
Grace Wadlington
A. H. Barber
O'Connell
Washington
Baltimore
Eliott Dies in Winchester Hospital at 44
Tony Francis Eliott, farmer laborer, died Saturday evening in Winchester Memorial Hospital after a week as a patient. He was 44, born April 19, 1900, son of the late Robert Francis Elliott and Belle Brill Elliott of Timber Ridge Frederick County. Survived by mother and three brothers. Funeral from the home two miles west of Gore toward High View Tuesday at 1 pm, Rev. C. H. Anderson officiating. Burial in family graveyard. Pallbearers named. Body at Jones funeral home until service.
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Tony Francis Elliott
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Robert Francis Elliott
Belle Brill Elliott
Timber Ridge
Frederick County
John
Thomas
Turner Elliott
Gore
High View
C. H. Anderson
J. F. Morrison
Bryan Kerns
William A. Wolford
Charles Parrish
C. W. Franks
Loring Williams
Jones Funeral Home
15 Missing In Ohio Hotel Fire
The Red Cross reports 15 people missing in a Milliner Hotel fire in Lima Ohio with at least two deaths Frances Huff a war worker and Norman Grape of Shanks West Virginia named among the dead. Officials estimate damage up to 500000 with the blaze on the third floor burning for four hours. Some missing may have escaped the city or gone to friends.
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Lima
Red Cross
Milliner Hotel
Frances Huff
Norman Grape
Shanks
W. Va
The
Airship Orchid Freshness Trick Used On Shipment
One method that has worked with Callena gigas is to attach a tiny rubber balloon to each blossom and clamp it to the bottom of a cardboard box. The blossoms are covered with tissue paper.
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United States
War Activities Being Reviewed To Tighten War Labor
Washington reports the government reviews the list of essential activities to bind job control tighter. Some activities will be dropped, most remain essential, and munitions and critical industries may be labeled essential and critical to shift draft-age men into key work. Selective Service to draft up to 38 for job changes without permission and lower physical standards. deferment criteria to favor those in war production.
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Washington
Selective Service
P Selective Service
Congress
Simuel Tokes Dies Respected City Citizen
Simuel Tokes a prominent colored resident died at his home 404 South Kent Street Sunday at 2 30 PM He was a longtime barber linked with Mont Lovett and Henry Bartlett and had become blind He leaves a daughter Gertrude Tokes White of Chicago Ill a foster daughter Grace Johnson of Washington DC and four grandchildren Funeral services are at Cartwright Funeral Home Wednesday at 2 30 PM with burial in Orrick Cemetery
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Simuel Tokes
Kent Street
Simuel and
Catheriine Tokes
Baptist Church
Baber
Mont Lovett
Henry Bartlett
Gertrude Tokes White
Chicago, Ill
Grace Johnson
Washington, D. C
Cartwright Funeral Home
J. C. Newman
Orrick Cemetery
Romanian Priests Draw Prison Terms
DETROIT Jan 8 Two Romanian orthodox priests and a Romanian publisher were fined prison terms in Federal Court for failure to register as agents of exiled King Carol of Romania in an alleged effort to bring him into the United States and restore him to the throne.
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Detroit
Carol of Romania
United States
700 U. S. Bombers Hit Nazi Transports
More than 700 American heavy bombers escorted by 200 Mustangs attacked German transport facilities in the Belgian bulge. The Eighth Air Force struck freight yards at Frankfurt then 150 miles west to roadhubs around the Ardennes and railyards supplying troops on the Saar front. The daylight raid followed heavy Allied night attacks on Munich by RAF bombers.
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London
Belgian Bulge
Eighth Airforce
Frankfurt
Ardennes Bulge
Saar Front
Munich
Concert at Brethren Church Cancelled
The Sacred Concert at First Brethren Church is postponed due to weather. Pastor Paul E Dick announced the delay and conductor Elvin Bjornstad is snow bound in New York, causing the cancellation but a new date will be announced.
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First Brethren Church
Paul E. Dick
Elvin Bjornstad
New York
One Thousand Club reports Roosevelt term funding
The One Thousand Club announced a 252 055 dollar intake and 200 194 dollar outlay in Roosevelt fourth term efforts. The filing shows 1 000 dollar gifts from Roosevelt Truman and Kerr and 5 000 and 2 000 contributions to North Dakota senator John Moses and Pennsylvania senator Francis Myers. 3866 79 dollars reimbursed to Secretary Ickes for travel costs.
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Washington
One Thousand Club
Roosevelt
Club
House
Truman
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
John Moses
North Dakota
Francis J. Myers
Pennsylvania
Ickes
Roosevelt backs moratorium shielding insurance firms from anti trust act
The White House released letters showing President Roosevelt supported a moratorium on Sherman antitrust act enforcement for the insurance industry until March 1, 1946, excluding boycott coercion or intimidation. He said the delay would help insurers adjust after a Supreme Court ruling classed insurance as commerce subject to anti trust law. The administration said it would not back federal regulation of insurance or intrude on state business.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Radcliffe
D-Md
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Supreme Court
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt backs universal draft policy
Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt said a universal draft where needed is the obvious sensible move. She agreed with President Roosevelt that a nurse draft may be required and favored a National Service Act to assign people where they can be most useful, especially guiding women to where they are needed.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Respected County Colored Citizen Dies At Clearbrook
Edward Duncan Kremer of the Clearbrook section in Frederick County died Saturday evening January 6 after a long illness. He came to Clearbrook as a child and worked for the Whetzel family for about 80 years. Survived by his widow Elizabeth Kremer and son Edward D. Kremer Jr. and granddaughter Elizabeth. Services Tuesday at 2 PM at Home not specified, Rev. W S Johnson officiating. Interment in Clearbrook Cemetery.
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Edward Duncan Kremer
Clearbrook
Frederick County
Whetzell
Whetzel
Elizabeth Kremer
Edward D. Kremer, Jr
Elizabeth
Cartwright Funeral Home
W. S. Johnson
Clearbrook Cemetery
Curbs Extend on Transportation of Live Chickens
The Office of Defense Transportation extended bans on shipping live chickens by commercial motor vehicles into seven Georgia counties and parts of Arkansas Missouri and Oklahoma. The move adds to a December ban on the Delmarva peninsula and Shenandoah Valley regions. Only ships with a War Food Administration authority are allowed. Delaware and Cecil County Maryland north of the Chesapeake and Delaware canal are exempt from the Delmarva area. The rule, effective January 1, excludes local producers traveling within the areas and applies only to chickens not other poultry.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
Georgia
Arkansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Delmarva Peninsula
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
Shenandoah Valley
West Virginia
War Food Administration
Cecil County
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
President Roosevelt and Churchill Elected to French Academy
Paris January 8. Decrees published in the official journal announce that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill have been elected to the French Academy of Moral and Political Science. General De Gaulle signed the decrees.
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Paris
Roosevelt
Churchill
French Academy of Moral and Political Science
Today
de Gaulle
Gripsholm Sails From New York
The Gripsholm departed New York for Marseilles carrying sick and wounded Axis prisoners and civilian nationals. They will be repatriated in Switzerland. The ship is expected back in New York in February.
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New York
Third Naval District Headquarters
Gripsholm
Marseilles
Switzerland
Bandits Getting Younger and Younger
In Seattle on January 8, 19 4, Policeman W. B. Millett noted that three boys about 10 returned a missing pistol and said they would reveal its source, while two five year olds had already told them. The report highlights youths in crime and the evolving trend of younger offenders.
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Seattle
Millett
Scout Executive Among Men Ordered For Pre Induction
Winchester men Ordered to report for pre induction physicals at Roanoke include Carl Franklin Wolfe Robert Leslie Fritts Leonard Iden Walters Robert John Currie Jr and James Frank Loy Transferred in from other boards are Stanley Caldwell Combs Aubrey Swartz and Basil Franklin Starkey Seventy two county men also left for pre induction physicals with their names previously listed by The Star.
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Winchester
Roanoke
Carl Franklin Wolfe
Robert Leslie Fritts
Leonard Iden Walters
Robert John Currie, Jr
James Frank Loy
Stanley Caldwell Combs
Aubrey Swartz
Basil Franklin Starkey
Star
Eye color genetics in white populations
In white-populated regions brown eyes are majority. Blue-eyed individuals once predominated in the United States, but this ratio has declined as brown-eyed people increasingly appear in offspring when brown-eyed and blue-eyed parents marry.
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United States
Dr Meade Plans Biography of Patrick Henry
Dr Robert Duthat Meade a Randolph Macon Woman's College history professor in Lynchburg Va conducts preliminary work on a Patrick Henry biography funded by the American Philosophical Society. He wrote Judah P Benjamin the 1943 Oxford Univ Press biography, holds a PhD from Chicago, and has taught at Vanderbilt UNC and UVA.
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Lynchburg
Robert Duthat Meade
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College
Judah P. Benjamin
Patrick Henry
American Philosophical Society
Meade
Oxford University Press
Dictionary of American Biography
Virginia Military Institute
University of Virginia
University of Chicago
Randolph Macon
Vanderbilt University
Univesity of
North Carolina
Virginia
B. W. Arnold, Jr
Randolph-Macon
Answers to the Daily Quiz Revealed
Answers to the daily quiz printed on page 4 list Elam as Q1 and include responses 366 days for a leap year Panama Canal Provincetown Albania Secretary of War Stimson Andrew Johnson in 1867 Henry Lee and the Dieppe raid. The final clue notes the position on top of a pillar.
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Elam
Panama Canal
Provincetown
Albania
Secretary of War
Stimson
Andrew Johnson
Henry Lee
Dieppe
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McAuliffe
George S. Patton
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Miriam Kennerer
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