Allies Rapidly Extending All Italian Gains Near Rome
Virginia Senate Finance Committee reports Weaver resolution to keep highway funds intact and opposes diversion. Daughton leads bonus bill review for state workers with 15 percent raise on the first 2,000. Liquor profits distribution bill proposes one third to state and two thirds to localities amid local revenue concerns.
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Richmond
Senate Finance Committee
Ralph H. Daughton
Norfolk
General Assembly
Highway Department
Daughton
Robert O. Norris
John S. Battle
Vy. C. Stuart
A. E. S. SteeMs
House of Delegates
Floyd Daucherty
Emporia
Daugherty
Robert Whitehead
Nelson
C. G. Quesenberg
Augusta
Earl A. Fitzpatrick
Roanoke
C. EK. Hutchens
Newport News
Naucherty
ABC
House
Willis Cahoon
Suffolk
Division of
Statuatory Research
Cohoon
Argentina Near Break With Axis States Reported
Reports from Santiago and Montevideo indicate Argentina is seen to break relations with the Axis by Saturday night. British, U.S. policy aligns in not recognizing Bolivia’s new junta led by Villarroel amid suspected German influence.
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Santiago
Chile
Argentina
Panama
Montevideo
Uruguay
Buenos Aires
London
Britain
United States
Bolivia
Anthony Eden
Commons
Eden
la Paz
Gualberto Villarroel
Germans Admit Lines Pierced By Red Forces
London dispatch reports the German High Command acknowledging Soviet lines pierced northwest of Kirkkovograd and renewed assaults between the Pripet and Berezina rivers while pressure grows at Kerch. Berlin broadcasts claim fighting around Kerch as Red Army forces press Leningrad sector. Soviet forces sever the main Leningrad westward escape railway and trap a Nazi army near Novgorod, with Govorov and Meretskov tightening encirclement and striking the Krasnogvardeysk Narva line.
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London
German High Command
Kirkovograd
Pripet
Berezina
Kerch
Berlin
Red Army
Leningrad
Russia
Leonid A. Govorov
A. K. A. Meretskoy
Volkhov
Novgorod
Moscow
Govorov
Purdys Dean Pardy Installed Bishop of Pittsburgh
The Very Rev. Pardy, 44, former head of St. Pauls Cathedral Buffalo, was installed as fourth bishop of the Pittsburgh Episcopal Diocese in Trinity Cathedral before 1500 people. Bishop Tucker of the Church in the United States consecrated him, with eight other bishops and dignitaries present. Retired Bishop Alexander Mann, formerly serving 20 years here, attended. Pardy was elected bishop at a diocesan convention last October.
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Pittsburgh
Aus' Pardy
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Buffalo
N. Y
Pittsburgh Episcopal Diocese
Trinity Cathedral
Henry G&j. George Tucker
United States
Alexander Mann
Dean Pardy
Johan B. Ker‘oot
Cortlandt Whitehead
Bishop Mann
Meat shortages feared unless policy modified
J H Meek director of the Virginia State Division of Markets told a Senate subcommittee that a meat shortage could occur within four to five months unless price and rationing restrictions are eased. He urged temporary suspension of rationing, higher ceilings for meat eggs and milk, and earlier pork calorieing to restore a normal market.
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Washington
J. H. Meek
Virginia State Division of Markets
Senate
Meek
Thomas
Idaho
War Food Administration
Death ends Senator Van Nuys New Deal critic
Senator Frederick Van Nuys of Virginia died early today at his Vienna home after a brief illness. A Democrat and longtime Judiciary Committee chair, he opposed some New Deal measures while backing foreign policy and reform efforts. He led probes into liquor supply, fought court reform, sponsored anti lynching and poll tax removal measures, with a Senate hearing set for today.
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Vienna
van Nuys
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Indianan
Roosevelt
Foreign Relations Committee
Judiciary Committee
Shenandoah Area Council Elect Officers And Approve Camp Site
The Shenandoah Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America held its annual meeting at Martinsburg High School. Col. Ashby Miller was reelected president. new officers include C. R. Poland and S. Donald McFadden. new board members from Berryville Front Royal Luray Woodstock and others were named.
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Shenandoah Area
The
Boy Scouts of America
Martinsburg
W. Va
Col
Ashby Miller
Horace C. Browne
R. Poland
Shawnee
Two Rivers
Potomac
S&s
Donald McFadden
Philip N. Hunter
J. C. Morris
C. R. Beall
W. W. Baker
Henry M. Sydnor
G. William Ropp
George Reading
C. J. Crabill
B. A. Poland
Horace C. Bro
Fred D. Maphis
C. P. McVica
T. Warner Lowry
Eugene B. Cooper
C. Vernon Eddy
Harry M. Crim
C. C
Ruling Against Portal to Portal Wages in Coal Industry
Judge A D Barksdale ruled the 1938 fair labor standards act does not require miners to be paid for travel time underground to work. The decision limits portal to portal back pay prior to April 1 and sides with Jewell Ridge Coal Corp and Southern Coal District Association against the United Mine Workers.
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Lynchburg
A. D. Barksdale
U. S. District Court
Barksdale
Southwest
Virginia
Jewell Ridge
National Union of the United Mine Workers of America
Southern Coal Distraction Association
Another Headache For O. P. A. Boss
DESMO Jan 25. Mr E Walters OPA Director for Des Moines district worries over ration books lost by Sun wives and motorists. He ordered that only after a 30 waiting Then who loses her ration book Mrs R E Walters.
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Desmo
E. Walters
Price Administration
de Moines
Sune
R. E. Walters
Paper Shredder Fails To Work Causes Ration Coupon Theft
An industrial shredding machine in Washington failed to destroy ration coupons worth millions of gallons of fuel and gasoline. The Office of Price Administration reports three detainees with others sought as they probe illicit circulation across several seaboard states. Surplus stock from federal offices, turned over between August and December 1943, was shredded under supervision but appeared in private hands. The Harrisburg OPA office alerted national HQ about the extra coupons.
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Washington
Seaboard
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Owever
Harrisburg
Soil Conservation Board Members Head to Virginia Session
Members of the Lord Fairfax Soil Conservation District board representing Frederick County depart for the annual Virginia Soil Conservation District Supervisors meeting at the Virginian Hotel in Lynchburg on January 26 and 27. E M Punk Pred Stine J L Hershman R L Bageant M J Pease attend with Mr Jr serving as chairman.
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Board of Supervisors
Lord Fairfax Soil Conservation District
Frederick County
Soil Conservation District Supervisors
Virginian Hotel
Lynchburg
E. M. Punk
C x
Pred Stine
J. L. Hershman
R. L. Bageant
M. J. Pease
Fight Infantile Paralysis President’s Ball at Winchester Armory
Women and men urged to attend the President’s Ball Friday January 28 1944 at Winchester Armory. U S Naval Dance Band will perform with tickets priced at 2.20 dollars per couple available at Miller's Drug Store.
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Winchester Armory
U.S. Naval
Miller’s Drug Store
World War Fronts In World War II Wire Summary
Allied forces push inland from Netuno Anzio bridgehead toward Rome while preparing for potential German counterattacks. Soviet forces cut a key railway between Leningrad and Estonia, threatening German positions. Allied bombers strike France and strikes extend to Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Pacific air and ground advances target Madang and Cape Gloucester as Japan defenses face pressure. Britain refuses to recognize Bolivia’s new government amid Nazi-suspected support.
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Pacific
Madang
New Guinea
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Attacks by Germans on new beachheads expected
Maj. Gen. J. K. Cannon, commanding an air force in Italy, said the Luftwaffe will strike the new Allied front south of Rome and that Allied planes have knocked out over 100 enemy transport vehicles. He noted Germany seeks to deter invasion by avoiding sustained battles in the Mediterranean.
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Hal V. Boyle
Italy
J. K. Cannon
Mediterranean
Rome
Hun
Joe
Cannon
Luftwaffe
Germany
Allied Bombers Hammer Coast Across Channel
Allied air forces struck enemy installations across the Channel during daylight, returning in the afternoon after a morning sweep. British residents saw medium bombers flying high toward France while RAF Typhoon fighters bombed at low level, and fighters moved from Calais toward Folkestone. It marked the third straight cross Channel offensive as more planes appeared than in the prior 12 days.
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France
Calais
Folkestone
Germany
Hungary
Sandberg To Address Winchester Red Cross Meeting
Robert A. Sandberg assistant regional director for DC Maryland and Virginia in the Western Area will speak at the Winchester Frederick County Red Cross annual meeting Friday at 8 pm at the George Washington Hotel Charles P McVicar chairs and reports will be presented He has taught speech drama and literature at multiple universities and directed forty five dramatic productions.
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Robert A. Sandberg
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
American Red Cross
Winchester-Frederick County
The
Red Cross
Charles P. McVicar
George Washington Hotel
Washington
State College of Washington
Northwestern University
Mississippi State College For Women
University of Illinois
Allied push in Italy drives toward Rome amid Cassino fighting
London reports say Velletri near the Appian Way appears destroyed and may have fallen to American forces. Allied lines extend inland from Nettuno towards the Naples rail line with Anzio taken. German counterattacks on Cassino continue as Allied spearheads advance.
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London
Berlin
Velletri
Appian Way
Rome
Algiers
Nettuno-Anzio
Fifth Army
Cassino
Fiee
Anzio
Nettuno
United Nations
Naples
Ido
Npw
Mt. Croce
Garigliano _ii
Damiano Shake Iee
TE Chemin
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