Meat Shortage Hits Winchester Retail Market
The Office of Price Administration closed two local abattoirs, cutting about half the beef and fresh meat. Retailers urge restraint and to buy only what is necessary. Meat dealers protest OPA orders and a proposed grader stamp costing $2 an hour. The two plants, run by Robert Eagle and Marvin Fleet, normally provide about 100 quarters of beef weekly, plus lamb veal and pork.
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Winchester
Office of Price Administration
Richmond
OPA
Robert Eagle
Marvin Fleet
Yestery
Byrd proposes bill to seize workers delaying war effort
Senator Byrd of Virginia introduces a wartime bill to place control of any strikers or labor slowdowns under Selective Service. He cites wage demands and mass walkouts at Lockheed and Boeing plants as threats to victory and inflation control. He notes lost man days and argues strikes are strikes against the government.
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Byrd
Dva
Senate
America
Lockheed
No-9
Los Angeles
War Labor Board
Boeing
Seattle
Associated Press
John L. Lewis
Labor Department
Pearl Harbor
Law To Put Workers In Wartime Jobs Urged
Congress heard a demand for a national service act to place workers where they can aid the war effort while a House fight over an anti-racketeering bill continues. Rep. Wadsworth urged a definite law, saying distribution cannot be achieved by orders alone. The House Rules Committee prepared for a likely vote on Hobbs anti-racketeering measure amid union objections.
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Congress
House
Rep
Wadsworth
R-Ny
Senate Military Committee
Sabath
House Rules Committee
Navy
Knox
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Japan
National Independent Meat Packers’ Association
Roosevelt
Cows and Calves Strayed From Paper Mill Road
Four cows and six calves strayed from Paper Mill Road. Anyone seeing them urged to call 5643.
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Paper Mill Road
Mountain View Cream Station Opening After March 15
Mountain View cream station to operate daily after March 15. Page W Ruther ord March 3 2 31 notes the date and opening schedule for the service.
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Mountain View
Benefit for Community Building Held by Post No 41
Lloyd Williams Post No 41 of the American Legion sponsors a benefit to support community building efforts on March 2, 1921. Organizers urge attendance to aid local projects and veterans initiatives.
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Lloyd William’s
American Legion
Metal weatherstrips caulking ad for windows doors
E. W. Armstrong Co offers metal weatherstrips and caulking for windows and doors. Call 4643 for service at 39 E Piccadilly St. 13-2-1p-tf
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E. W. Armtrong Co
E. Piccadilly St
Early Morning Fire Strikes Winchester Apartment Building
Firefighters battled dense smoke at 2 AM in a Winchester building at 26 East Piccadilly owned by Jimmy Pappas. Occupants from two apartments escaped with help from officers and volunteers while a resident fainted and was carried to safety. Police and fire crews suspect a faulty wire sparked the blaze. a nearby Railway Express office suffered water damage but valuable dresses were rescued from storage.
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Winchester
East Piccadilly
Jimmy Pappas
Railway Express
Anna Hepner
Kitty
Darlene
Lexie Carper
Dalton Hepner
Hattie C. Bowman
John Bowman
Lorraine
Jack Bowman
Hepner
Kitty Hepner
Metropolitan
Miss Hepner
Dennis Hibbard
Bowmans
Joe Ritter
Rodgers
Reuss
Dunn
Pappas
J. W. Morrow
Winchester VFW Post 2123 Names Officers for Year
VFW Post 2123 at Winchester reelects W. W. Parker as commander. New year officers include J. N. Marple, D. M. Sprinkle, J. F. Keefer, Harry Miller, Lon Carpenter, J. G. Fosbrink, W. H. Stine, and James Hart. Plans set for May 30 observance, with activities May 29 and 31 and a morning program alternative if rain disrupts the schedule. A flag distribution is noted for sons and husbands in service at the C O C office.
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W. W. Paker
Winchester
J. N. Marple
D. M. Sprinkle
J. F. Keefer
Harry H. Miller
Lon G. Carpenter
J. G. Fosbrink
W. H. Stine
James A. Hart
Administrator's Sale of Miss Cain Household Effects
Sale of the late Miss Cora Cain's household effects at 10 o'clock next Saturday at 20 East Monmouth Street. See sale bill for details. Notice dated December 8. Tuesday and Thursday viewing times listed.
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Cora Cain
East Monmouth Street
Dairymen Seek Higher Milk Price in Winchester Area
Richmond report states Frederick County dairymen seek at least two cent a quart boost to 15 cents at retail. Dr. Raymond B. Pinchbeck of OPA plans afternoon talks with the delegation to present their price issues. Local officials forward information to Atlanta district office. OPA has no authority to grant the increase. Charles E Staples, Frederick County dairymen president, cites higher feed and labor costs as justification.
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Richmond
Raymond B. Pinchbeck
OPA
Frederick County
Winchester
Pinchbeech
Atlanta
Charles E. Staples
Frederick County Dairymen’s Association
Grocers Granted Time Extension To Secure Coffee
The ration office announces amendment No. 20 to Ration Order No. 12 allowing retailers to use stamp No. 28 through March 15 to buy coffee from wholesalers or other retailers. The extension helps shops unable to secure coffee due to shortages in some areas.
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OPA
Noted Catholic Prelate Improves After Heart Attack
London reports Cardinal Arthur Hinsley archbishop of Westminster and primate of the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain had a severe heart attack Saturday. A bulletin said he passed a fair night and there was slight improvement during the day, marking a cautious upturn in his condition.
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London
Arthur Cardinal Hinsley
Westminster
Great Britain
Allies Break Axis Push in Tunisia Advance
Allied HQ reports major wins in central and northern Tunisia. Jurgen von Arnim’s attacks repelled with 24 German tanks knockout and about 6600 Axis troops killed. Sbeitla Kasrine Feriana captured without fighting as American forces advance toward Rommel’s line. air units claim 25 Axis planes down.
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Sbeitla
Beja
Tunis
Mediterranean
el Aroussa
Medjezi-El-Bab-Goubellat
Toukabeur
Medjez-El-Bab
Rommels Trail
Kassering
Feriana
Bombers Damage Burma Viaduct Near Mandalay
Heavy and medium bombers of the Tenth U S Air Force struck the Gokteik Viaduct between Mandalay and Lashio in Burma damaging it enough to cut Japanese rail communications to Chinese defenders on the Burma Yunnan front. One aircraft dropped bombs on railroad stock at Paukkan before returning.
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U. S. Air Force
Gokteik
Mandalay
Lashio
Burma
Burma-Yunnan
Far East
Burma Road
U. S
Paukkan
India
Burma- Yunnan
China
Gandhi
Red Cross War Fund Inquiries Answered For Public
The American public seeks the WHAT WHY and HOW before supporting Red Cross services. The Red Cross War Fund funds armed forces disaster relief civilian war aid health education and safe services. Funds are voluntary with no tax support and accounts are audited by the War Department. reports are public.
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Red Cross War Fund
U. S
War Department
Army
Navy
Allied push across Tunisian front gains ground and air power
In a rapid three day clash near Kasserine and Sbeitla Allied forces knock out 24 German tanks and 25 Axis aircraft, seize Sbeitla, and threaten Mareth line while extending operations from Kasserine Pass. Berlin endures severe air raid as RAF pounds German capital.
Col Richards Reported Well By Jap Captors
War department notices and a short wave message reported Col Richards, prisoner in the Philippines, believed held on Formosa. The civilian wife Miss Landonia Brock of Riverton, Va., and relatives in Washington, D C, were notified as news spread via E Alder man of Dayton Ohio.
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Col
Harrison Henry Cooke Richards
Riverton
E. E. Alderman
Dayton
Ohio
W. Nelson Page
Col. Richards
Landonia Brock
Lowell Street
N. W
Washington, D. C
Harrison Richards, Jr
Fairchild
Hagerstown
William Strathern
Bataan
Alderman
Page
EWT
Comfort Barracks
Timoshenko’s drive crushes German 16th Army in north front
Moscow reports Marshal Semeon Timoshenko leading a sudden northwestern thrust that broke German defenses. The eight day offensive reportedly killed 8,000 and captured 3,000 Germans, with several towns including Demyansk retaken amid a broader drive west of the Valdai Hills.
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Timoshenko
Leningrad
Moscow
Red Army
Semeon Timoshenko
Kharkov- Kursk
Stalin
Germany
Izvestia
Lake Ilmen
Staraya Russa
Valdai Hills
Demyansk
Lychkovo
Zaluchye
RAF raids press Berlin and western Germany in heavy night assault
The RAF conducted a heavy night raid on Berlin and targets in western Germany, with about 19 planes missing. Bomb tonnage on Berlin was near 900 tons, while earlier estimates suggested 1,000 tons in half an hour. Lancasters Halifaxes and Stirlings participated as intruder patrols and mines were laid in enemy waters.
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RAF
Europe
Berlin
Germany
Air Ministry
Harold Balfour
Air
Britain
Bremen
Hannover
France
Continent
St. Nazaire
Wilhelmshaven
Nuernberg
Cologne
Team Work Sinks Axis Tanker Off Cape Finisterre
A fully loaded Axis tanker was sunk 500 miles off Cape Finisterre after a United States Liberator bomber and the British cruiser Sussex shadowed the ship for hours and then attacked it. The joint communique says the tanker was set ablaze from stem to stern while a German Focke Wulf and 7-boat air pack were noted in the area.
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Cape Finisterre
Spain
Sussex
Admiralty
U. S. Army
Get your Richmond Times Digest at Miller's Drug Store
Richmond residents can pick up the Times Digest at Miller's Drug Store. This notice directs readers to obtain the weekly patch edition from the local outlet.
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Richmond Times
Millers Drug Store
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