Civil and Police Justice replaces Trial Justice in Winchester
The city council abolishes the trial justice system and creates a Civil and Police Justice with the same jurisdiction. F. L. Largent Jr. is elected for a four year term. One applicant appeared. three council members abstained, criticizing lack of public notice. State context notes earlier 1940 efforts and constitutional questions.
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General Assembly
Last Fn
Winchester
Trial Justice Court
F. L. Largent, Jr
Largent
W. P. Anderson
Council
Harrison
Corporation Court
Legal Research Department
Soviets Recoil After First Violent Shock in War News
Pacific War Council at the White House reviews Egypt operations and broader theater links. Officials say Allied forces hold in Egypt for now, with guarded optimism amid naval and weather reports and ongoing secrecy on reinforcements.
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Washington
Egypt
Pacific War Council
White House
United Nations
Pacific
Walter Nash
New Zealand
United States
Harold Butler
Near East
Far East
Butler
Leighton McCarthy
Aleutian Islands
Roosevelt
Military Court Holds Trial In Utmost Secrecy
Eight German-born men faced a sealed U S military commission on charges of Nazi sabotage after landing on U S shores. The trial, held in a guarded Justice Department location, proceeded with extreme secrecy and heavy security, while parallel reports described fierce Don river battles as Soviet forces repelled a German offensive.
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Washington
Justice Department
Long Island
Florida
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Biddle
Berlin
Moscow
Clarke County approves teacher contracts for 1942-43
Clarke County School Board approved contracts for all teachers for the 1942-43 term. Five new teachers were named including Gladys Hart Elizabeth Brandt Nellie May Evans Charlotte Ann Ramsburg and Elizabeth Elsea. The total faculty will reach 48 with eight colored teachers and a reduced male fraction from last year. A plan to align opening day with fruit harvest needs will be discussed at a Staunton meeting July 16.
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Berryville
Clarke County
Clay Carr
C. H. Iden
John Hardesty
Archie F. Robertson
Gladys Hart
Elizabeth Brandt
Romney
W. Va
Boyce
Nellie May Evans
Providence Chapel
Charlotte Ann Ramsburg
Elizabeth Elsea
Hart
Miss Evans
Ramsburg
Miss Elsea
Miss Ramsburg
Prince William County
Miss Elsen
Virginia
Robertson
Pan Yeas
Agiregtone
Staunton
Sufficient Oil By End of Year Being Forecast
J R Parten says east coast oil supply will meet daily needs by year end through a pipeline and canal program. He estimates overland movement at 954000 barrels daily with additions from pipelines and tankers boosting total to 1429000 barrels daily, potentially a 62000 barrel surplus before wartime demand growth.
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Washington
J. R. Parten
Petroleum Co-ordinator
Bailey
Senate Commerce Committee
Florida
Mississippi
Gulf Intercoastal Waterway
Parten
Clarke County Farmers Report Strong Grain Yields
Clarke county farmers report excellent grain yields in recent days. The Dean of Clarke expresses optimism about harvest prospects and local agricultural stability.
For Sale in Front of County Court Va
A for sale notice appears in front of the County Court in Virginia pointing to a public auction. The readable fragments indicate a sale action and local court involvement. Further details are unreadable.
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EB Tae Ip Accano Sane
Plans For Registering Trucks And Vehicles
The War Ration Board set registration of service gasoline rationing for trucks tractors buses taxis jitneys government owned or leased vehicles ambulances horses and rental vehicles in Winchester and Frederick County at Handley School on July 14 and 15 from 8 am to 5 pm. Owners should bring motor vehicle records and provide use, mileage, required four month period, fuel per mile, expected purchases, and bulk transfer details to minimize congestion.
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Handley School
Winchester
Prederick County
Ibaghe
Winchester Public Works Plan Aims to Guard Postwar Economy
Winchester council authorized a local public works program to curb postwar unemployment with possible federal aid. The plan lists about 665 000 dollars in improvements, plus a study on city finances to be provided at no cost. Ruth Harris to assist tuberculosis drive. two council members to join. An unspent 27 000 dollars from a reservoir project was moved to Fay's Spring auxiliary water supply.
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Allen Hawthorne
Thomas Kremer
R. Frank Barr
W. P. Anderson
Brady Largent
State Public Works Programming Office
Ricshmond
R. H. Scott
Virginia
R. R. Eicchelberger
Paul E. Overstreet
Eichelberger
Congress
Bnd
Winchester
Hawthorne
Percy Miller
H. D. Fuller
State and National Tuberculosis Association
Ruth N. Harris
Hawthrone
Mr. Coble
Anderson
Fay
Richard Burn
National Avenue
Berryville 4-H Plans Baby Beef Show Despite Horse Show Doubts
Berryville Virginia July 8. The Clarke County Horse Show may be cancelled but the Berryville 4-H Club will proceed with its annual Baby Beef show. Eleven year old Amory Scabinaripe won last year and 13 youths enrolled, including Cecil Wolfe Nancy Wolfe Jack Kackley Garland Pope John Millison Jr Anne Fishpaw and others. The 4-H event remains open to club members and county youths with several beef entries listed.
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Berryville
Clarke County
Amory Scabinaripe
C. Funkhouser
Cecil, Ye
Nancy Wolfe
Angus
Jack Kackley
Garland Pope
John Millison, Jr
Anne Fishpaw
Mr. Funkhouser
Two Clarke Boys Pass Army Physicals
Only two of eight Clarke County selectees reported at the University hospital for army physicals yesterday pass and are accepted for service. The men listed are Walter D. Ongorff and Ben Harrison.
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Berryville
Charlottesville
University Hospital
Walter D. Orngorff
Ben Harrison
Colored Men Report Tomorrow With Band At Send Off
Nineteen colored men from Winchester will leave tomorrow morning for induction in Charlottesville. A send off will be held at the Plaza with McIlwee's Municipal Band at 7 15, joined by Red Cross canteen members who will provide lunch. The bus departs at 7 45. Reported volunteers include Charles Julian Myers Alexandra Wade George Augustine Cook James Preston Fisher Thomas Turner and others such as Sterling Wilson Walker Sylvester N Reed Floyd Taper Milton Gray Peterson Edward Taylor Floyd Benjamin Charles Togans Reginald Wilson Leslie Finley Webster Hayes James Jr Charles Reed Wesley Burks Alma Wm Jackson Shirley Tracey.
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Winchester
Charlottesville
Plaza
McIlwee
Red Cross
Charles Julian Myers
Alexandra Wade
George Augustine Cook
James Preston Fisher
Thomas Russell Turner
Sterling Wilson Walker
Sylvester N. Reed
Floyd Taper
Milton Gray Peterson
Edward Taylor
Floyd Benjamin
Charles Henry Togans
Reginald Augusta Wilson
Leslie Samuel Finley
Webster Hayes James, Jr
Charles William Reed
Wesley Carter Burks
Arme
Wm. Jackson
Shirley Ed. Tracey
Latvian merchant vessel torpedoed off Atlantic coast
The Navy Department announced that a small Latvian merchant vessel was torpedoed off the Atlantic coast and survivors landed at an east coast port.
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Washington
Navy Department
Atlantic
County Farmers Top Barley Yields and Local Notes
A. MacKay Smith of Farnley Clarke county harvested 48 bushels per acre on a 40 acre barley plot aided by grazing hogs that ate little grain. Commonwealth Attorney J. P. Reardon and son thresh 395 bushels on a 154 acre wheat plot. Berryville council approves a police alarm at the exchange. John Muyskens shares bass fishing feats as Clarke county records July rainfall 5.15 inches, correcting a prior 2.88 inch figure.
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A. MacKay Smith
Farnley
Clarke County
Mr. Smith
J. P. Reardon
James P. Reardon, Jr
Reardon
Wheat Prices Jump on Flour Demand and Senate Action
Wheat prices rose nearly five cents a bushel in Chicago trading today as heavy flour business and Senate passage of legislation lifting government loan rates on basic crops from 85 percent to full parity spurred broad buying. Mills led demand amid expanded flour activity, approaching levels seen last week.
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Chicago
Senate
Streit Resigns From City Council After Quorum Fails
The council adjourned for lack of a quorum after nearly three hours as Miller Streit resigned. Mayor Anderson read the letter saying it speaks for itself, to take another post conflicting with duties. Streit had four years on the council and one meeting remaining. successor to finish the term undecided.
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Miller Streit
Anderson
Streit
Bingo Night At P O E Home
Play bingo at the P O E Home located at 211 N Loudoun Street every Wednesday at 8 p m. The note indicates dates and times for the weekly event.
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N. Loudoun Street
Claim Sinking of 32 Allied Ships
Berlin reports the sinking of 32 ships from a British American Arctic convoy of 38, with 4 more merchantmen sunk bringing total losses to 217,100 tons over two days. The high command cites a heavily protected convoy carrying aircraft tanks munitions and food for Russia. no corroboration from other sources.
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Berlin
Arctic
Russia
High Command
United States
U. S
London
Seven Army Men Die in Bomber Crash at Bonneville Flats
Seven service members die when an Army bomber crashes and burns on the Bonneville salt flats about ten miles east of VER Utah. The list of the dead includes three officers Lt L T Wall and Second Lt van Vanderbie and Second Lt Floyd R Reno and four enlisted men Kenneth M Gillies Eugene P Holsey Homer R Emswiler J R Swann.
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Ver
Utah
Bonneville Salt Flats
L. T. Wall
L. Arthur L. Birloffi
Lesbane
Wash
van Vanderbie
Los Angeles
Calif
Floyd R. Reno
St. Joseph
J. R. Swann
Albany, Ga
Kenneth M. Gillies
Jackson, Mich
Eugene P. Holsey
Tulsa
Homer R. Emswiler
Col
Soviets Press Voronezh Front as Germans Face Setbacks
Soviet Red Army reports fierce battles west of Voronezh with German attempts to hold gains in the region. Stalin's forces claim heavy German losses, while German assertions of encirclement are rejected. Simultaneously British and Axis forces clash near El Alamein as Rommel’s troops endure Allied counter strokes.
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Roge D. Greene
Associated Press
Don River
Voronezh
Semeon Timoshenko
Red Army
Pe Hng IB Pai
Yale Tov
Adolf Hitler
Orel
Moscow
Russia
Caucasus
Red Star
Rommel
Egypt
Erwin Rommel
Alexandria
Cairo
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Pacific Group
Alexander Loudon
Netherlands
Wilhelmina
Hitler
Clarke
Cca A
Berryville 4-H Club
D. G. Cooley
Berryville High School
North Fork
Riverton
Elliott Marshall
Mr. Cooley
Paul
Bobby von Beck
Coble
Boydetn
John Muyskens
John
C. C. Punkhousett
Frederick County
Star Office
Winchester Evening Star
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