War Board schedules hearing on anthracite strike
The War Labor Board announced a public hearing for Friday at 2 p m in Washington to hear union leaders and operators over the anthracite strike. John L Lewis and leaders were urged to attend to explain why miners defy the wartime no strike policy.
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War Board
Washington
The
War Labor Board Today
William H. Davis
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
War Labor Board
Department of Labor
14Th and
Constitution Avenue
United States
Lewis
Truman
D-Mo
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
Ickes
Handley Library Ends 29th Year Of Service
Handley Library marks its twenty ninth annual report detailing wartime reading aid and Memorial Hospital circulation services. The Victory Book Campaign in the Seventh District collected 4000 books and 6500 magazines for armed services. Board reelected T Russell Cather president, Maurice M Lynch vice president, and C Vernon Eddy secretary.
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Handley Library
C. Vernon Eddy
John Handley
Handley Board of Trustees
T. Russell Cather
R. Gray Williams
Maurice M. Lynch
Company I Boys Plan to Adopt English Child
Captain M B Clowe Jr of Winchester, commanding officer of Company I 116th Infantry, has been promoted to Captain and is stationed in England. He reports that Company I plans to adopt a British child to honor Christmas appeals, with 100 pounds set aside for five years of support in the name of the company, and the godfather will be Captain Clowe. The unit remains dispersed across the countryside with a 25 mile hike planned and seven day leaves starting at year’s end.
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M. B. Clowe, Jr
Winchester
116Th Infantry
Clowe
England
Set
Donald Clowe
Air Corps
India
Company I
Scotland
Handley High School boys join the war effort
Seven Handley High School students enlist or depart for service this week with others to follow. The letter urges honoring their choice and notes 18 to 38 year olds may serve during national emergency. Bingo games and prizes are advertised.
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Handley High School
Handley
Essen Batteried Again By RAF Raid Targets Ruhr Industry
London reports Essen, center of Krupp Armament Works, battered by 100 tons of bombs and incendiaries in a 12 minute raid. Four bombers lost, Ruhr also hit. eighth attack on Germany in 11 nights. Hudsons and Dutch coast convoy also mentioned.
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London
Bessen
Krupp Armament Works
RAF
Ruhr
Air Ministry
Essen
Germany
France
Holland
Hudsons
Netherlands
March of Dimes Campaign Kicks Off in Winchester
Due to transportation restrictions the President's Birthday Ball is canceled this year and the March of Dimes drive will start in Winchester to raise funds to fight infantile paralysis. Committee chair Forrest Sirbaugh leads with Laurie Hill Paul Ayers James Hughes George Barnsley and L A Elliott Jr assisting.
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Winchester
Forrest Sirbaugh
J.B.T
Sirbaugh
Laurie Hill
Paul L. Ayers
James Hughes
George Barnsley
L. A. Elliott, Jr
Judge Bailey Builds Boat With Automatic Polers
City and county notes praise Judge Frank Bailey for a winter boat project with new features including automatic polers. The launch location remains secret with Harry Copenhaver likely coordinating speakers. If timing improves, the ceremony may be held in the judge's backyard.
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Frank Bailey
Harry Copenhaver
Thirty Three Selectees Leave Frederick January 27
Thirty three selectees depart Frederick County on Wednesday January 27 for induction into military duty. Four volunteers already in service bring the total to 37. Names include Marvin W. Miller Richard S. Cather Harold Baughman Orin Ritter and many others from Winchester Martinsburg and surrounding areas. Transfers noted from Wood stock Harrisonburg and Rochester with addresses and routes listed.
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Frederick County
Marvin W. Miller
Rt. 3
Richard S. Cather
Harold Baughman
Orin Ritter
Winchester
Louis C. Coffelt
Middletown
Rosby William Elliott
Grimes
Stanley A. Tevalt
Mt. Falls
Bruce W. DeHaven
John E. Crossen
Cross Junction
Calvin Omps Puffinburger
Whitacre
Ashby Turner Berry
Syria
Clyde E. Dinges
Highland Avenue
Hedge Bud Roomers
Rt. 2
William 3B. Chapman
Morse St
N. E
Washington, D. C
Clyde Woodrow Brill
Star Tannery
Bergie Lee Judd
Lacy Richard Flowers
Agape
Roy L. Rudolph
John B Kline
Wm. Madison Grove
James R. Arnold
Hugh Price
Donald A. Messick
Clearbrook
Ellis A. Nazelrod
Paw Paw
W. Va
Paul Mauzy
Gore
James C. Boyce
Robert E. Carper
Rt. 1
Norman E. Wingfield
Donald McKay Rudolph
Arthur Taylor
Walter Morgan Smith
Stephens City
Horace Ewing Orndorff
Howard Colonel Fox
Opequon
Allen Earl Luttrell
Sohnne
Woodstock
Bufflick Road
Ervie A. Crider
Harrisonburg
Earl Edmonds
Rochester
Missing Local Boy Maxwell Hitchcock Presumed Lost
Maxwell Hitchcock, nephew of Mrs. Dudley Field and Shenandoah Valley Academy graduate, is missing and presumed lost after serving his country. A message from Vice-Admiral R. R. Wasche of the U S Coast Guard informs Mrs Field of the Navy Department’s regret and promise of further information.
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Maxwell Hitchcock
Dudley Field
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Field
R. R. Wasche
U. S. Coast Guard
Navy Department
Coast Guard
R. R. Wascheester
Ss. V. A
Ben Dutton Jr Wins $5 Award For Best Slogan
Ben Dutton Jr a Handley High senior wins the five dollar war stamp award for best blood donors slogan his line A pint of blood on the home front may save a boy on the battle front is read at the ceremony other finalists include acrostic by Frances Wolford and lines from Louis McCarty Billy Pitcock and Jack Lewis clinics run by the Red Cross at the Presbyterian Church will hold sessions tomorrow and Saturday volunteers should call if illness or weather causes cancellations
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Ben Dutton
Handley High School
Ben
Frances Wolford
Red Cross
Louis McCarty
Red Cross Bank
Jack Lewis
Billy Pitcock
Virginia Avenue School
Presbyterian Church
Hold-Up Rifles Papers From Army Dispatch Rider
Four men held up Private Raymond L. Mosher at gunpoint near Jamestown Rhode Island rifling through army papers before returning them and saying it isn’t here. State police and the FBI pursued with guards on highways as Mosher chased a masked sedan but the suspects remained at large.
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Raymond L. Mosher
Springfield
Mass
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Providence
Joseph Marceau
Wickford
Mosher
Point Judith
Jamestown Bridge
Boston Neck Road
Jamestown Bridge Toll House
Navy pilots identify rescuers of Eddie Rickenbacker group
Navy assigns Lt. G. T. Forrest from Oakland and Lt. J. G. Boyd from Richmond as the pilots who spotted the yellow raft carrying Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and two companions after 21 days at sea. Lt. W. F. Eadie landed beside the raft and evacuated the fliers, with Ensign J. M. Weeks coordinating the motor torpedo boat support.
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Washington
Jan
Navy
Eddie Rickenbacker
Pacific
J. G
G. T. Forrest
Oakland
Calif
J. G. Boyd
Richmond
Rickenbacker
W. F. Eadie
Evanston
Ill
J. M. Weeks
Albany
N. Y
Other School Boys Joining Colors
Handley High School adds two more to the Navy departure group joining seven senior class members who left recently to enlist. Hartwell Slayden and Maurice Eckman, both varsity players last season, are enlisting in the Navy and head for Baltimore tonight to begin boot training.
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Handley High School
United States Navy
Hartwell Slayden
Walter H. Slayden
Whitlock Avenue
Maurice Eckman
Robert Eckman
Morningside Drive
Slayden
Eckman
Navy
Baltimore
Bingo at Sarah Zane Fire Hall Thursday January 14
A community bingo event set for Thursday evening at 8 30 p m at the Sarah Zane Fire Hall. Doors open earlier for players and a small prize lineup is expected.
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Sarah Zane Fire Hall
French take strategic heights in Tunisia near Kairouan
French troops aided by Lafayette Escadrille seized Jebel Haoub and Jebel Bou Davouss about 15 miles northwest of Kairouan marking the unit's first Tunisian offensive. Allied air squadrons supported with bombing near Misurata and Sousse while Liason between Giraud and Leclerc was established in the new African war phase.
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Wes Gallagher
North Africa
Lafayette Escadrille
Kairouan
Lafayette Escadrille Fliers
France
U.S
Jebel Haoub
Jebel Bou Davouss
Pichon
Sir Bernard Montgomery
Eighth Army
Misurata
Tripolitania
Tunisia
Sousse
Cairo
Algiers
Reuters
Henri Honore Giraud
Jacques Leclerc
Giraud
Leclerc
Fezzan
Libya
Lake Chad
Erwin Rommel
Glass Re elected Senate President Pro Tempore
Carter Glass, 85, veteran Virginia senator, was re elected president pro tempore of the Senate by acclamation over Senator Vandenberg. The vote went 43 to 29 against Vandenberg. Glass was then nominated by Majority Leader Barkley and reelected as Halsey secretary and Biffle Loeffler Harris as other Senate officers.
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Washington
Carter Glass
Virginia
Senate
Vandenburg
Michigan
Glass
Barkley
McNary
Vandenberg
Lynchburg
Edwin A. Halsey
Leslie L. Biffle
Carl A. Loeffler
Frederick Brown Harris
Red Army Makes Broad Caucasus Advance West of Mineralnye Vody
Moscow reports a new Red Army drive widening along the Rostov Baku trunk line. Spearheads press through towns over 20 miles west and 50 miles north of Mineralnye Vody while weather remains muddy. Novo Blagodarnoye and Kalaborka areas are cited as recently retaken under the offensive.
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Moscow
Red Army
Caucasus
Rostov-Baku
Leningrad
Voronezh
Don Bend
Novo Bladgodarnoye
Mineralnye Vody
Kumagorsky
Zhuravskoye
Mineralney Vody
Kalaborka
Orbelianovka
Pobegailovskoye
Mineralnye-Vody- Rostov
Novoselitskoye
Zhurakskoye
Budennovsk
Blagodarnoye
Divnoe-Kropitkin
Caucasus Army
Rostov
DNB
Torpedo Boats Attack Japanese Destroyers Near Guadalcanal
United States motor torpedo boats attacked Japanese destroyers near GuadalCanal, scoring two definite hits on one ship and one on another, with a third possibly hit. The enemy force withdrew northwest as Marines and air forces continued advances on the island in the Solomons.
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Washington
Guadalcanal
Navy
Solomons
South Pacific
United States
Rekatia Bay
Boston Depot Announces Tap Contracts For Shoes
The Boston quartermaster depot announced contracts for 1 800 000 pairs of black carbon rubber taps for service shoes. Awards include Holite Mfg Co Baltimore Md 22896 pairs Monarch Rubber Co Baltimore Md 18672 and O Sullivan Rubber Co Winchester Va 19 1904.
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Boston
Boston Quartermaster Depot Today
Holite Mfg. Co
Baltimore Md
Monarch Rubber Co
Baltimore
O’sullivan Rubber Co
Winchester
Battlefront reports Soviet push against Nazi counterattacks near Rostov
Soviet Red Star claims tanks led a push breaking Nazi counterattacks along Kuma river valley routes near Kumagorskay. It says a large German force near a Caucasian settlement faced combined tank and Cossack attacks as the Soviet drive toward Rostov accelerates, with mentions of rail lines, air battles, and gains in the lower Don region.
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Kuma River
Kumagorsky
Red Star
Rostov
Mineralnye Vody
Cautasia
Stalingrad
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Frederick
Ben Dutton, Jr
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Virginian
By Henry C. Cassidy
O’sullivan
Winchester Evening Star
the People’s Paper
Andrey Bell
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