Steel Mills to Curtail Output Amid Coal Strike
Five Carnegie-Illinois mills will cut coke production next Monday due to fuel shortages as the coal strike widens. A Clairton stockpile fell below 100000 tons forcing tapering of coke, with an official warning that steel output could drop 25 percent in a week and 75 percent in two weeks.
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Carnegie-Illinois Corporation
Oe Ee
Republic Steel Corporation
Ham
Ala
Clairton
Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers
Lindley
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Gabor Kish
Washington
UMW
John L. Lewis
William Hargest
Roosevelt
Kentucky
Illinois
AFL
Progressive
West Virginia
Harrison County
Sunnyhill Coal Company
Will Continue To Salvage All Discarded Tin
The Junior Aot of Trade with the Winchester Salvage Committee completed a tin can drive. Officials say results were satisfactory but many still do not save cans. Citizens urged to start saving for the next carload and bring new supplies to soft drink outlets for ongoing collection. Iron and rag totals were small, indicating little material left unused. Friendship is the motto of Texas.
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Aot
Winchester Salvage Committee
JBT
Illness Blamed On Food Still Danville Mystery
Federal state and local health officials investigate a poisoning outbreak at Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills in Danville Virginia. 176 workers hospitalized since last Friday with discussions centering on foodborne contamination and possible plant exposure while the mill runs on war contracts.
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Danville
Riverside
Dan River
Harry Henderson
Richmond
L. O. Crumpler
I. C. Ruggin
Dr. Henderson
Dr. J. Porterfield
Ae of
Industrial Hygine
James W. Mandia
A. D. Hosey
Baltimore and Chicago Livestock Markets Summary
Baltimore and Chicago market quotes show firm prices across produce hogs cattle and calves. Notable levels include fats hogs around 14.75 for top weights and cattle steady to higher on modest volumes with calves 16.50-17.00 for choice. Sheep and lambs show s Market activity moderate with spring lambs 16.50-17.00 and ewes around 8.50.
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Baltimore
MD. Pa
W. Va
Bas
U. S
N. C
U. S. Dept. Agr
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
U. S. Dept. Agri
Colorado
Waynesboro Arms Minute Men Formed in Virginia
Waynesboro Virginia June 4 Company 108 of the Virginia Reserve Militia minute men completed action with appointment of officers after a mustering ceremony led by Capt Thomas Killighan VRM inspector general. Walter Pattie VP I graduate and former Southron boxing champion named captain J Stuart Koiner a World War II US Marine veteran as first lieutenant and W W Smith DuPont statistician and ballistics expert as second lieutenant. There are 40 enlisted men in the company. Tennessee is also known as the volunteer state.
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Waynesboro
Virginia Reserve Militia Minute Men
Thomas Killighan
VRM
Walter Pattie
VPI
Southron
J. Stuart Koiner
U. S. Marine Corps
W.W. Smith
DuPont
Stock Market Report Shows Mixed Trade With Apathy
New York stock action remained uneven with leaders slipping into apathy while strong spots held. Good peace prospects beat armament issues as war news lull restrained buyers. coal labor talks kept bullishs cautious. volume rose on low and mid priced stocks amid narrow bonds and commodities.
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New York
Local Markets The Star Refines Daily Market Recap
Local markets appear corrected daily with The Star noting it does not assume responsibility for typographical errors. The brief emphasizes ongoing market updates and reliability while cautioning readers about potential misprints in the public record.
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Star
Short Patent Brands and Farm Commodities Price List
The notice lists prices for various bagged feeds and grains by the barrel, including 12 lb to 98 lb bags at rates from 7.85 to 8.65 per barrel. Items include corn meal feed, dairy feed, and wheat middlings with per-bbl pricing. It also shows cattle, calves, cows, steers, hogs, sheep, and poultry items with per-head or weight-based figures. Creamery butter price noted at 51.
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Pee Asaeea
Ae Tun
Thort Parent Pano
Soesesaee
Walter Sowers Dies Suddenly At Work
Walter Sowers 48 of Berryville died suddenly of a heart attack yesterday while at Fort Belvoir Virginia. He was a native of Berryville son of Clayton K Sowers and Laura Bushong Sowers and husband of Mary Denny Sowers. He is survived by his mother widow and several siblings. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 11 am from John H Enders Funeral Home Berryville with interment in Green Hill Cemetery. Rev L A Parker to officiate pallbearers named.
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Winter Bushong Sowers
Berryville
Fort Belvoir
Clayton K. Sowers
Laura Bushong Sowers
Mary Denny Sowers
Frank E. Sowers
U. S. Navy
A. L. Jones
Charles Town
Richard Osborne
Quicksburg
Bernard Getz
Jackson
Carrie Leue
Washington
Walter Schofield
Edward Steimach
John H. Enders
Green Hill Cemetery
L. A. Parker
D. D
Building Roads For Peace Now Being Planned
Washington plan aims to salvage the federal aid highway system and map a network of shuttle roads linking traffic hubs. Led by Pyke Johnson the Automobile Safety Foundation seeks to keep federal funds available after the war for highway modernization and congestion relief. S. Donald Kennedy joins to focus on peacetime road expansion and eliminating bottlenecks. The effort argues postwar transport must be grounded in practical blueprints rather than abstract ideals.
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Wilson
Roosevelt
Washington
Four Corners
Maree
New York
Automobile Safety Foundation
Pyke Johnson
Federal Road Agencies
Congress
American Association of State Highway Officials
American Automobile Association
Johnson
S. Donald Kennedy
Michigan
Congressional
America
Contests Narrow in Frederick and Clarke Counties
Frederick and Clarke counties will see few contests in the August 3 primary with most incumbents unopposed. Clarke faces a three way sheriff race among R. W. Buckner Curtis Lewin and W. W. Smallwood Jr while in Clarke Commissioner of Revenue 8 8. Thomas faces G Wilson Whitmore. Frederick incumbents also unopposed except for Treasurer Harry McCann Clerk Lee N. Whitacre Commonwealth's Attorney J Sloan Kuykendall Sheriff John Bywaters and several Board of Supervisors nominees. Deadline for filing was last midnight.
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Mt. Jackson
State Senate
E. Blackburn Moore
House of Delegates
Frederick, Clarke
Winchester
Frederick and Clarke
Clarke County
W. W.W. Burtner
J. Edward Thoma
Commonwealth
Edward McC. Williams
Greenway
John Fishpaw
Longmarsh
Frederick County
Harry McCann
Lee N. Whitacre
J. Sloan Kuykendall
John Bywaters
Board of Supervisors
G. W. Lemley
Oregon
Harry Light
Stonewall
Harry Fout
Gainesboro
William Carpenter
Shawnee
C. M. Rosenberger
Back Creek
McDonald Rites Held for Inwood Resident Joseph W. McDonald
Joseph William McDonald 72 of Inwood West Virginia died suddenly at 2 30 p m Wednesday while working in his garden. He was born in Brucetown Virginia and lived near Winchester at Opequon before moving to Inwood in 1916 where he worked 13 years for C H Musselman Company. Surviving are his widow Vergie Olyn McDonald daughter Mrs Cecil Bowers a brother Madolon McDonald seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Friends meet at the Inwood home Saturday at 2 announcing funeral services at United Brethren Church Inwood with Rev C W Tinsman and Rev C N Grubbs officiating. Burial will be at Gerrardstown Presbyterian Cemetery.
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Joseph William McDonald
Inwood
W. Va
Joseph
Mary Ann McDonald
Brucetown
Opequon
Winchester
C. H. Musselman Company
Church of the Brethren
Vergie Olyn McDonald
Cecil Bowers
Bunker Hill
Madolon McDonald
Middletown
United Brethren Church
C. W. Tinsman
U. B. Church
C. N. Grubbs
Mountain View Church
Presbyterian Cemetery
Gerrardstown
Mrs Mars Taylor Dies in Richmond with Five Children
Mrs Mars Taylor died at her Richmond home on Monday. Funeral set for Thursday in Richmond. She was wife of George Taylor and survived by five children, two sisters, two brothers, and her parents Major and Mrs James Mars. The family had ties to Syracuse and Winchester and led Salvation Army work for 10 years.
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Mars Taylor
Richmond
Lay
George Tayor
Syracuse
Winchester
James Mars
Salvation Army
Texas Draft Board Is Sympathetic
Harlingen notes the Cameron County Draft Board No 3 will be sympathetic to deferments. The board telegram to President Roosevelt states quotas were doubtful until coal mine strikers return to work or be placed 1-A. J L Powers chairman explains most men seek deferment when before the board.
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Harlingen
Texas
Cameron County
Labor Shortages To Last Awhile
New York June 4 Labor shortages are expected to persist for a year after the war says Leo M Cherne head of the Research Institute of America He notes slow demobilization and a sizeable postwar civilian labor need with many jobs awaiting conversion and continued unemployment risks
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Gareth
New York
Leo M. Cherne
The
Research Institute of America
Cherne
Aro
United Nations
Institute
Chicago Grain Quotations June 4 Trading Update
Chicago June 4 grain quotes show wheat futures mixed with a brief rally from the opening, July around 1.45 and September around 1.44 1 2, Dec at 1.46. Corn contracts open at 1.05 for July, 1.08 for September, 1.01 for December. Oats move July 0.4 3 8 to 1 2, September 0.63, December around 0.97 to 1.01.
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Chicago
Kansas
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U. S. Army Air Force
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Waynesboro Arms
Tennessee
Volunteer State
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Stock Market Report
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Loca Rirran
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Omps Funeral Home
Walter Sowers
Potomac Banks
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
New Mexico
CNN
Frederick and Clarke Co
Clarke
Frederick
Inwood, W. Va
Texas Draft Board
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Virginia Trailways
Office of Defense Transportation
Trailways
Seaboard
Ce of Defense Transportation
Charlottesville, VA
Colgate
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