War Stamp Auction Details In Shangri La Drive
War Stamp auction to be held on the Plaza next Saturday with plan for a rain date. Merchants display donated items for bid, with all proceeds used to buy War Stamps. Two clerk contests will award a $25 War Bond to top sellers in small and large stores.
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Jpeld
Fred L. Glaize
Bny
Penney
Tie Com
The
Star
Wendell Barney
Dorothy Cather
Eva Hottel
Pearl Carper
Frank Keckley
M. E. Royston
Jack Widmyer
Ed Molden
Anna Margaret Snapp
Kain
Frances Combs
Fansler
Douglas Johnson
Helen Gatewood
Miss Sperow
Elinor Summel
Barney
Recreation Council mulls lease of Handley building as center
Preston said the Recreation Council favors leasing the Handley building for a year with option to buy by the council or the city for recreation. Handley trustees worry school funds must stay dedicated and oppose terms that might complicate purchase. Leonard Strand and Ben Belchie reported the building suitable for a recreation center. the American Legion Building, erected about 1915 by Marshall Baker, has ties to the Boy Scout movement in Winchester.
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Preston
Handley Board
Recreation Council
Handley Board of Trustees
Leonard Strand Ben Belchie
American Legion
Marshall Baker
Boy Scout Organization
Winchester
Dan Beard
Boy Scout Eee
Three-Story Building at 209-11 Loudoun Street to be Sold
The brick three story building once hosted Troop 1 and later the Winchester Athletic Club. Recently reconditioned pool area used for swimming lessons. Located at 209-11 North Loudoun Street, fronting 25 feet 9 inches and extending 175 feet 8 inches to a rear alley. Sale set for noon August 14.
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Loudoun Street
Loudoun
Rome raid and Preveza attack report from Allied HQ
Allied headquarters reported over 500 American bombers hit Rome and San Lorenzo and Littorio railroads with heavy damage to rail stock and installations. Preveza raid damaged enemy aircraft on the ground with no losses to the American airmen. Several targets in Rome including the Tabonelli steel plant and a chemical works were hit, while two enemy planes were shot down.
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Preveza
Greece
Middle East
Rome
North Africa
San Lorenzo
Littorio
Tabonelli
Randazzo
Sicily
Catania
Eternal City
Associated Press
Joseph Morton
James H. Doolittle
Tokyo
Morton
Vatican
St. John’s Lateran
St. Paul’s Basilica
Forum
Coliseum
Tiber River
Marion D. Jones
Memphis
Tenn
Vatican City
Airmen report raid on Rome as gaps in defense emerge
The airmen described attacking Rome with successive bomber waves under clear skies. They noted landmarks visible from low altitude and found Italian anti aircraft fire moderate yet inaccurate. They heard the Vatican destruction claim broadcast in German and saw few Italian fighters in action.
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Warren Whitmore
Jacksonville
Fla
Capital
Rome
Vatican
Loggers Rations Match Army Supplies After Walkout
Lewiston Idaho July 20 A three day walkout of loggers ends with O P A stating loggers now receive meat rations equal to U S Army combat troops and army labor battalions three times civilian levels Replying to union claims that Spokane office blocked gains District Director David S Cohn said the July 1 increase raised meat points to logging camps to match military rations at Potlatch Forests Camp 49.
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Lewiston
Idaho
Spokane
Wash
Potlach
Russians Sweep In Massive Front As War Moves North South
The Soviet communique reports red gains north and south with 70 villages retaken and 20 towns abandoned. Guerrilla action around Orel aided the drive as 72 tanks and 96 planes were knocked out yesterday, part of a 15 day total of 3 516 tanks and 2 094 planes. Leningrad front action limited to artillery and mortar fire.
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Red Army
Orel
Belgorod
Leningrad
Answers to the Daily Quiz Printout
The page lists quiz answers with entries including North Dakota Texas Georgia India and Germany. It notes statements about liability to error the senses and a claim about the potato being a popular food in messes.
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North Dakota
Texas
Turey
Georgia
India
No Protest From Vatican Over Rome Bombardment
Washington reports no protest from the Vatican about the Rome bombings up to noon. The Vatican secretary of state official Montini had not conferred with Harold H. Tittman the U.S. representative at Vatican City as German reports claimed.
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Washington
Vatican
Rome
Giovanni Battista Montini
Harold H. Tittman
United States
Vatican City
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Roosevelt
Pius XII
Italy
Daily Press Sets New High Record in US Circulation
New York reports daily newspaper sales rose 3.9 percent to 43,759,561 across 1,753 dailies in the six months ending March 31, 1943. Despite smaller formats due to War Production Board limits, circulation climbed while prices rose to 5 cents for about 12 percent of papers.
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New York
Audit Bureau of Circulations
ABC
United States
War Production Board
Farley Predicts Axis Collapse and Allied Victory
In Tucson on July 20 James A. Farley, former post master general, forecast rapid Axis breakdown. He said Italy and Germany would fall within months and Japan soon, as industry and labor unite and resistance proves futile, leading to easy invasion and victory.
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Tuscon
Italy
Germany
Japan
James A. Parley
Chinese Communique Details Ten Days Of Mountain Fighting
A Chungking report says heavy fighting has persisted for ten days in the Taihheng mountains where Japanese forces previously launched an abortive spring offensive along the Yangtze toward Chungking.
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Chungking
Taihheng
Kens Yangtze
Chungng
Baltimore Grain Market Closing Report
Baltimore on July 20 notes Wheat No 2 red winter at 1.54 1 4 dollars per bushel with July 1.54 Winchester Market Wheat at 1.48 and Cem at 1.16 1 2 dollars. Prices based on mill delivery.
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Baltimore
Winchester
Eight Men Suffer Illness After Lunch Outing
Eight men from Front Royal fell ill with extreme nausea after a lunch. C. O. Brown and seven others, including H. J. Roper and J. L. Walraven, recovered enough to work by morning while doctors suspect ground beef, egg salad, or boiled ham as the cause. ground beef favored.
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Mr. Roper
Mr. Spradlin
Allied Push Drives Through Sicily Toward Messina
American forces led by General Patton advanced within 60 miles of Palermo as Axis resistance waned. Mutinies and large Italian prisoner captures signaled Axis weakness while Canadian units fought past remnants of the German 15th armored division near Piazza Armerina.
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Catania
Messina
Sicily
U. S. Seventh Army
George S. Patton, Jr
Palermo
Giulio Cessara Gotti Porcinara
Napoli
Porcinara
Libya
Piazza Arminera
15Th Armored Division
Eighth Army
Mt. Etna
Eighth
Cape Passero
Randozzo
Caltanissetta
Porto Empedocle
Patton
Squirrels Triumph Over Peanuts in City Showdown
Denver officials split on a nuisance ordinance then reversed to permit abatement. City councilmembers faced passionate crowds as squirrels were debated amid peanut gifts left on desks.
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Denver
Brown Defends Gas Ruling Against AAA Critique
Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown rebutted AAA claims that OPA gas line rules c hobble enforcement. He said the regulations target illegal rations and deny sympathy to motorists carrying unauthorized rations, asserting police are qualified to interrogate motorists.
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Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
OPA
American Automobile Association
Brown
AAA
Office of Price Administration
Germans Withdraw Fliers In Russia To Mediterranean Theater
An authoritative source reports notebooks and letters found in Sicily show many German airmen moved from the Russian front to the Mediterranean theater. A Royal Air Force officer discovered Russian lettered notebooks and dictionaries in a former German mess hall, with letters suggesting recent arrivals from the east.
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Allied
North Africa
Sicily
Mediterranean
Eastern Front
Wants Rome To Be An Open City
Belfast dispatch reports the Irish Press says Rome should be declared an open city after bombing by American planes. De Valera's papers urge Italy to plead with Britain and the United States to halt raids pending a reply.
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Rome
Belfast
Eamon de Valeras
Irish Press
Britain
United States
Irish Times
Dublin
de Valera
U.S
Market quotations produce markets livestock and produce
Baltimore quotations show mixed gains and steady to unchanged levels across livestock and produce. Cattle, calves, hogs, and sheep prices vary by weight and grade, with grain-fed hogs and sows trading near outside ranges and Chicago prices noting higher activity on hogs over 250 pounds.
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Baltimore Livestock
Baltimore
Union
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Stock Market Report Mixed Results on New York Exchange
New York trading opened with limited advances and broad declines as demand remained tepid. Notable gainers included Standard Oil NJ Texas Company U S Rubber International Harvester General Electric Eastman Kodak while New Haven common and preferred U S Steel and several rail and telecoms lagged. Tampa Electric rose on word directors voted to redeem the 7 percent series A preferred at 105 with accumulated dividend. several names drifted in the minus column later in the session.
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New York
Standard Oil
Texas Co
U. S. Rubber
Cities Services
Glen Alden Coal
Humble Oil
Pantepec
Spring lamb markets show steady run and rising bids
Market notes list 14.00 to 15.25 for native spring lambs with top prices near 15.50. Mixed native and select lambs fetch around 13.00 to 14.00 as supply tightens. A stray line mentions a health claim about sheep deaths and a claim about a disease in the United States caused by syphilis, which appears out of place in this report.
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United States
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Baker
Winchester Athletic Club
Daily Press
Farley
Arnold Schwinn Bicycles
B. F. Goodrich
Silvertown
East Piccadilly St
Russia
Haldeman’s
Main St
Stock Market Report
Dial
George W. Kurtz
Goodyear
Braddock
America
B. White
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
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