War Stamp Auction Planned At Plaza Tomorrow
Plans are complete for a War Stamp auction at City Hall Plaza starting 3 PM tomorrow with a half hour band. Bids will be in War Stamps, merchandise valued at about a hundred items donated by local merchants, and cashiers’ booth set beside the west entrance. Parking will be prohibited all day. proceeds support war efforts and reflect notable merchant cooperation.
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City Hall
Winchester
Junio Board of Trade
Fred L. Glaize
Corporation Court
Mr. Glaize
Market Quotation Highlights Mixed gains on New York stocks
Scattered utility preferreds rails and industrials rose toward 3 to 6 year peaks while leaders showed timidity. Bullish impulses came from Sicily earnings and dividends plus abundant idle funds. Best 1943 or longer gains included Santa Fe Chesapeake & Ohio White Motors Pepsi Cola Austin Nichols and Electric Power and Light issues. Woolworth advanced on a large block. GM Chrysler and others lagged.
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New York
Sicily
Santa Fe
Chesapeake & Ohio
White Motors
Pepsi-Cola
Austin Nichols
Electric
American Power and Light
Wabash
Woolworth
General Motors
Chrysler
N. Y. Central
Pennsylvania
Standard Oil
Sears Roebuck
Eastman Kodak
Phelps Dodge
Westinghouse
Union Carbide
Chicago Grain Quotations July 23
Opening grain prices show deferred deliveries for oats and rye amid tight feed supply. Wheat and oats fluctuate with July wheat at 1.46 to 1.46 1-8 for Sept and oats around 68 1-2 to 69 for Sept. Rye ranges from 1.07 1-2 to 1.08 for July to Dec contracts.
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Chicago
Baltimore Grain Market Closing
Baltimore markets report wheat No 2 red winter at 1.58 1-4 per bushel with garlicy spot domestic, July 23. Winchester Market Wheat at 1.53, corn at 1.16 1-2. Prices based on mill delivery.
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Baltimore
Winchester
Auction date set with concert and sale proceeds
A concert by McTlwee's Band opens the sale event followed by items auctioned after 3. If weather disrupts, the sale is postponed to the next Saturday at the same time. Unsold items after six may be reauctioned the following Saturday.
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McTlwee
Company 115
WPF
Civic Club
Baltimore Produce and Livestock Markets Report
Baltimore markets show produce prices for apples eggs butter and nearby goods. Livestock receipts and prices cover cattle hogs sheep bulls and calves with ranges for weights and quality and notes on grain fed pigs. Chicago and Pittsburgh markets follow with salable hogs cattle calves and lambs at steady or varied price levels.
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Baltimore
Chicago Livestock Chicago
Pittsburgh Livestock
Pittsburgh
Goebbels Ridicules Allied Victories In Berlin Broadcast
A Berlin aired Goebbels broadcast ridicules Allied triumphs and urges calm for the Axis. He claims the Allies have not achieved large scale victories and may not in the war’s future course. An Associated Press recording notes the broadcast from Berlin.
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Berlin
Associated Press
John Lewis backs Illinois coal contract before War Labor Board
John L. Lewis offered to appear before the War Labor Board to support the Illinois Coal Operators Association agreement with District No. 12 of the United Mine Workers, saying the pact is in the public interest. The UMW previously refused to testify. the model contract sets portal to portal pay at 1.25 dollars daily, an eight hour day, and a 48 hour week, awaiting WLB approval.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
War Labor Board
Illinois Coal Association
Lewis
United Mine Workers
William H. Davis Lewis
UMW
Illinois
Illinois Coal Operators Association
WLB
Illinois Agreemnt
Czech Claims 50 000 Slain Since Nazi Occupation
Dr Hubert Ripka, Czech government in exile minister, says 50 000 Czech citizens were executed by Nazis since 1939. He adds about 200 000 were sent to German camps and over 500 000 sent to forced labor in Nazi-occupied lands, excluding many Jews killed or imprisoned.
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London
Hubert Ripka
Ee Ee
Germany
Ripka
Twin Motored Plane Lands O K
The airport improvements, funded largely by local effort led by Mr. Schecter, total about 20000 including five thousand for old buildings. A parachute drying rack, likely the first in the state, draws interest from Martinsburg Hagerstown and other fields. Percy Miller chairs the airport committee which seeks federal aid. only 1500 came from the state.
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Schecter
Martinsburg
Hagerstown
Winchester
Photographer Is Missing On His First Bomb Flight
Danish born war photographer Carl Thusagaard for Acme Photos is reported missing after the Consolidated Liberator he flew on his first bombing mission crashed in flames near Madang on New Guinea's northwest coast. Australian observers said the bomber destroyed several Zeros before going down. a patrol searched the crash site but no parachutes were seen. Thusagaard may be the third American war correspondent lost in the Southwest Pacific theater.
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New Guinea
Carl ‘Thusagaard
Acme Photos
Madang
Benabena
Thusaguard
Winchester Victory Exchange Opens At New Location
The Winchester Victory Exchange, reputed among Virginia’s best, reopens at a new site opposite the Betty Shop and Rhodes Drug Store on Boscowan Street. New bargains include a General Lee photograph, clocks, milk cans, riding boots, Spode china for eight, varied clothing, and household items. Proceeds go to owners and War Savings Stamps. A sale of old metal buttons is noted.
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Winchester Victory Exchange
Virginia
Betty Shop
Rhodes Drug Store
Boscowan St
General Lee
More than 800 Japanese Drown When Ship Sinks Near Yangtze
The Chinese Central News reports over 800 Japanese died when an enemy gunboat loaded with explosives struck a mine and sank near Matang on the Yangtze river, below Kiukiang, on July 23.
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Chungking
Yangtze River
Matang
Kiukiang
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