American Sky Fighters Give A Show Of Skill
Petroleum coordinator Harold L Ickes announced approval of an 8 inch petroleum products pipeline project across northern Florida with 35000 barrels a day capacity. The line would run from Port St Joe to Jacksonville 220 miles, moving products by barge along the Atlantic intracoastal waterway to Florida Georgia South Carolina and North Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harold L. Ickes
Florida
American Liberty Line Company
Dallas
Tex
Texas
Ickes
Port St. Joe
Florida Gulf Coast
Jacksonville
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Ralph K. Davies
Baton Rouge
Greensboro
N. C
Davis
Plantation
Tidewater
Norfolk
Capitol
Legisla
Rationing Office Struggles With Public Duties
The Star urges additional relief from congestion at the rationing office. Volunteers are needed as staff face heavy workloads and long lines. The piece notes teachers and others are asked to volunteer, while students face disruption and fatigue.
Special Police Guard Tonight In City Amid Blackout Test
Winchester readies for a dusk blackout to mimic wartime conditions with auxiliary police patrolling vital points including Rouss grounds the reservoir hospital grounds and Virginia Woolen Co. Officials add 12 extra downtown officers and three downtown shelters at the post office George Washington garage and Shenandoah Valley National Bank.
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War Department
W. Hollis
Rouss
Virginia Woolen Company
Virginia Protective Force
E. P. Browning
George Washington
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Sugar Permits Available at Rural Schools
Sugar permits may be obtained at rural schools in Stephens City Thursday from 1 30 until 4 p m and Friday from 2 to 4.
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Stephens City
Clarke Lions To Install Officers In Clarke County
Clarke Lions Club postpones June 18 meeting to June 25 at 6 45 p m to install officers for the ensuing year in Berryville Virginia.
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Berryville, V
Lions Club of
Clarke County
Perry bids low on Fay Spring water project
Stuart M. Perry submitted the lowest base bid of 63636.42 for Fay s Spring auxiliary water supply construction. Other bids range to 68721.60 by Boyd & Goforth and 69180.40 by J A Spencer. Delivery of materials and timely completion were the key factors affecting the award.
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Stuart Perry
Stuart M. Perry
Fay’s Spring
Common Council
Water Committee
Percy Miller
Boyd & Goforth
Charlotte
N. C
J. A. Spencer
Lynchburg
M. H. Klegerman
Alexander Potter Associates
New York
German Bundists Under Scrutiny
New York June 17. U S Attorney Mathias Correa says a federal grand jury is examining German American band members in the New York area. Death by train in Indiana of George Frosboese Jr national leader may influence testimony. Coroner says Frosboese ended his life by railway suicide at Waterloo station. Evidence could support denaturalization actions over alleged fraudulent mental reservations regarding allegiance.
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New York
U. S
Mathias Correa
Indiana
George Frosboese, Jr
Froboese
Milwaukee
Robert Nathan
County
Ind
Waterloo
Aga
Bund
Germans Abandon New Positions In Kharkov Front
Soviet dispatches report counter attacks across Kharkov as Germans abandon several lines to dig new positions. In Sevastopol fierce fighting centers on a major highway with six German assaults repulsed. Balaclava remains held as battles for Kharkov and Sevastopol appear stabilized with smaller Nazi attacks.
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Moscow
Kharkov Front
Red Army
Kharkov
Sevastopol
Balaclava
Sevenstopol
Tennyson
Balaklava
Black Sea
Red Star
Volunteers Needed to Relieve Sugar Permit Congestion
The Ra Board seeks 30 to 35 volunteers weekly to ease delays at the Winchester rationing office for special use sugar permits. Miss Mary Lou Steele notes trips to the office and two hours to issue seven permits, while teachers helped at schools but congestion remains high.
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C. P. McVicar
Ra- Board
Winchester
Mary Lou Steele
Miss Steele
City And County Brevities From Local Notices
The USC fund contributions in Winchester and county reached about 4,468 with 400 service club members 1 500 members from 15 employee groups and others in today. Local chairman Grove White relayed details to this column. W A Larrick of Timber Ridge brought his two sons and Harry Osies to Memorial Hospital for procedures. All were in the same room with Mr Larrick by to provide aid. The boys recover well. A joint bingo party raised funds for the South End Hose Company and Rouss Fire Company as people prep for a blackout dinner at the Apple Blossom Restaurant amid a busy night.
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USC
Winchester
W. A. Larrick
Timber Ridge
Larrick
Gordon
Philip
Harry Osies
Frederick Oates
Memorial Hospital
Mr. Larrick
South End Hose Company
Rouss Fire Cat
British Hold Off Axis Attacks Near Tobruk
Cairo dispatch reports British guns and tanks repelling two Axis assaults at Sidi Rezegh and Acroma as Rommel attempts to seize Tobruk before Allied supplies land. A commentator notes a semicircular British defense around the port with German tanks and anti tank guns pressing the line.
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Edward Kennedy
Cairo
Sidi Rezegh
Acroma
Erwin Rommel
Tobruk
Rommel
Knightsbridge
Definite word of Capt Hartman still lacking
Mrs. C S Hartman and her husband seek news on Capt Allison L Hartman through the War Department and General MacArthur’s Melbourne staff. Both replies offer no definite information, suggesting he may be a prisoner of war if captured at Bataan or Corregidor, with no word on his fate yet. Capt Hartman entered service January 8, 1941 and was stationed at Fort Belvoir.
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C. S. Hartman
Gray Avenue
War Department
General MacArthur
Melbourne
Allison L. Hartman
Hartman
Mr. Hartman
Charles H. Morehouse
MacArthur
Bataan
Corregidor
Oping
Ft. Belvoir
Bombing of Italian Battleships In Libya Involves Local Officers
An Associated Press dispatch from an Allied Libyan desert airdrome identifies Lieut. Harry W. Ebert Jr from Winchester and Lieut. William R. Joyner from Salem Va among American Liberator crews and RAF bombers targeting Italian battleships in the Mediterranean. The group is led by Col. H A Halverson of Boone Iowa. Ebert, newly commissioned as a navigator, arrived in Africa on his first assignment weeks ago.
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Harry W
Ebert, Jr
Winchester
William R. Joyner
Salem
Mediterranean
Associated Press
Libyan
Ebert
Java
India
Col
H. A. Halverson
Boone
Iowa
U.S. Army Air Corps
Africa
Hiss
American bombers sink Italian warships in Mediterranean clash
United States Army bombers scored 35 direct hits on two Italian battleships as RAF and US air forces damaged cruisers and destroyers in a Mediterranean convoy battle. The Italian squadron fled toward Taranto. both convoys reached Malta and continued their supply runs at heavy cost from Axis air attacks.
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London
United States Army
Mediterranean
Taranto
Cairo
I. Torre
BBC
United States
Tastic
Ean
British Communiquies
R.af
Important Rail Junction Falls Into Jap Hands
Chungking reports Shangjao an important station on the Chekiang-Kiangsi railway fell to Japanese forces after an all day battle. The Japanese drive from Chekiang and Nan chang has created a 50 mile gap between columns. Casualties numbered about eight thousand.
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Chungking
Shangjao
Chekiang-Kiangsi
Chekiang Province
Nanchang
Ae Sanguinary
Bingo Night at Rouss Hall and F C How
Thursday bingo at Rouss Hall with a door prize of 100 dollars and a weekly Wednesday game at F C How on Loudoun Street, 8 p.m. Regular players urged to participate.
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Rouss Hall
F. C
Loudoun Street
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Liberty Company
State Library
Parrish Coal Company
Richmond
Petain
Republic
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Etek
Germany
Henry C. Cassidy
Ieee
Morris
Apple Blossom
U.S
Capt. Hartman
Bulletin
Crew Middleton
Malta
Alfred F. Kalberer
Libyan Desert
RAF
Hosueh
Park Commission
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