Red Cross Clubs A Welcome Sight To Soldiers Far Away From Home
Red Cross clubs overseas provide meals, hot beds, and American comforts for soldiers abroad. In Calcutta the club offers hot dogs, cokes, ice cream, a pool room, and dances while maintaining a homey atmosphere. The effort supports seven thousand workers overseas, funded by the current Red Cross drive.
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Red Cross
Les India
Calcutta
Aremy Camps
Red Cross Club
Army Head
Army
Joe
India
Burra
China
Japan
Germany
Army and Cross
Mrs Ellen Rixey Dies at Home of Daughter
Mrs Ellen Barbour Rixey widow of former Congressman John F Rixey died at her daughter Mrs Robert F Compton home near the University of Virginia. Funeral services will be held from the Compton residence with interment in Culpeper Cemetery. Mrs Moore, visiting her mother, learned of the death yesterday afternoon.
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Berryville
Ellen Barbour Rixey
Joseph Moore
Robert F. Compton
University of Virginia
Rixye
John F. Rixey
Eighth
Compton
Culpeper Cemetery
Orchard Tract in Winchester Sells at Public Auction
Three parcels of real estate were sold at a public auction before the Winchester court house. The Orchard Tract of 62 acres along Welltown Pike was bought by heir J William Ebert for 36850, as executor sale conducted with Harry W Ebert. Two Gwynne W Jones properties in Berryville sold by A Garland Williams with Roy P Duvall overseeing. Millwood garage at 3600 and a Millwood house and lot at 3475 sold to Billy Jones and Jack W Willingham respectively.
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Court House
Winchester
Welltown Pike
Martin P. Ebert
J. William E- Bert
Harry W. E- Bert
Gwynne W. Jones
Boyce
Berryville
A. Garland Williams
Millwood
Billy Jones
Millwod
Jack W. Willingham
Roy P. Duvall
Death Calls Mrs. Bauserman of Toms Brook
Mrs. Bauserman a long time resident of Toms Brook died at her home Monday morning after six years of ill health at age 56. Survived by husband Joseph L. and ten children, two sisters, one brother, five grandchildren, funeral Thursday at 11 at Toms Brook United Brethren Church. Interment in Toms Brook cemetery.
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Ettonabe
Userman
Toms Brook
John T
Julia Cooley Shank
Saumsville
Joseph L. Bauserman
Catherine Burnett
Martinsburg
Alice Ann Weller
Wilmington
Del
Jean Rush
Winchester
Isabelle Lawhorn
Washington, D. C
Howard Bauserman
Whitehall
Wilbur Bauserman
Stephens City
Everett
Calvin
Fred
Donald
Mary Myers
Catherine Millikan
George Shank
Cumberland
Senate votes on election law reforms and poll tax amends
The Senate backed a package to strengthen absent voter protections and set three judge courts for election contests except statewide races. It also endorses a constitutional amendment to end the poll tax, establish annual registration, and define a bipartisan state elections board with expanded powers.
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General Assembly
Ifsc
Senate
House
State Board of Elections
Telephone Union Walkout Ends Still Open to Negotiations
The CIO United Auto Workers wait GM reply on a proposal for 175 000 production workers to vote on settlement of the 105 day walkout. A scheduled 2 P M EST session with Special Federal Mediator James F Dewey followed GM’s lack of a clear answer to yesterday’s plan. The unionつs ballot would allow return to work under the latest offer or arbitration of issues.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
General Motors
Produ
James F. Dewey
Rank and File
Fearful CIO Strike Halts Steel Fabrication Nationwide
Truman backed a basic plan, but not to fabricators as 250,000 United Steelworkers members remain on strike. Production in fabricating plants could near a total standstill amid the dispute.
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Truman
CIO
United Steelworkers
Ian
Martini's City Appearance Caps Concert Season
The Community Concert Association closes its season with tenor Martini delivering a refined program. He enchants with Italian, French, and English selections, including La Boheme aria and The World is Mine Tonight encore. Accompanist Theodor Haig provides sympathetic support, with Scriabin and Debussy pieces also highlighted.
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Tini
Mr. Martini
Susanne
Madrigal Espanol
Martini
Theodor Haig
Winchester
Svetlova
Etude
Scriabin
Dubussy
Housewives May Get More Sugar For Home Canning
Washington reports a sugar increase for home canning this year. Spare Stamp Nine will be valid next Monday for five pounds through October 31 with a likely second stamp to follow in June or July. The extra 10 pounds per person boosts last year’s average allotment by about 34 percent.
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Washington
OPA
Grass Fire Protocol Instructions Revealed
A note explains how a fire company should be alerted for a carass fire. It says to notify the company via private phone and avoid using a general alarm if the blaze remains controllable.
Daily Quiz Answers Snapshot From The Page
Answers listed include True False items about Michigan and a British French generals pair, Eelco van Kleffens, whales, Vichy government, birth control, and reasons for releasing additional male personnel. The fragment reflects a quiz answer key with mixed topics and errors in OCR.
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Cio
False Michigan
Wolfe
General Montcalm
Eelco van Kleffens
France
Savings Bonds? A Fragmentary Notice Sparks Question
A damaged OCR fragment hints at a discussion or notice about savings bonds. Details are unreadable but the fragment implies financial instruments and possible official action.
Fruit Growers Brace for Warm Weather and Hopes for Bumper Crop
Local apple growers monitor unseasonal warmth with fears of frost damage yet anticipate a strong harvest. Temperatures near 72 in the afternoon, with rain possibilities and a cool southward forecast by week’s end. Nationwide trends show cooler northeast and warmer relief in the southeast with regional highs near 80 in several cities.
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Frederick
Virginia
Mercury
Associated Press
Georgia
Alabama
Carolinas
Charlotte
N. C
Greenville
N.C
Richmond
Pittsburgh
Ea Mc
Providence, R
Oscar Whitlock Dies In Cumberland
Word has reached here of the death in Cumberland Maryland of Oscar Whitlock son of the late Reeves and Thursa Whitlock of Hampshire County West Virginia. He died Sunday March 3 at 7 15 p m Funeral services will be conducted there Wednesday March 6 at 2 p m Relatives include his wife and two children Russell Whitlock of New York and Miss Phyliss Whitlock of Cumberland two brothers Elmer Whitlock of Winchester and Hetzel Whitlock of Petersburg West Virginia and a sister Mrs Maude Parks of Broadway A number of nieces and nephews also survive
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Cumberland
Oscar Whitlock
Reeves
Thursa Whitlock
Hampshire County
Whitlock
Russell Whitlock
New York
Phyliss Whitlock
Elmer Whitlock
Winchester
Hetzel Whitlock
Petersburg
W. Va
Maude Parks
Broadway
Plan Invitation Track Meet at Portsmouth
The Portsmouth Sports Club will sponsor an invitational track and field meet for high schools and independents at Municipal Stadium on June 1. Leading milers will be invited to compete in the invitational mile run, with Les MacMitchell, winner of the AAU mile, already contacted.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth Sports Club
Municipal Stadium
Les MacMitchell
Madison Square Garden
Rites Wednesday For Mrs. Burcham
The body of Mrs. Mary Gramham died last week and will lie in Omps Funeral Home before services Wednesday at Ridings Chapel Brethren Church four miles southeast of Stephen City. Rev. L P Tederick and Rev. W L Riggleman will officiate with burial in the church cemetery. Pallbearers named Paul Beaty Leroy Henry Irvin Grim Earl Shiley Chambers Green and Ross Lillard. Mrs. Burcham lived with Mr and Mrs Marvin D Grim in Ridings Chapel before becoming a telephone operator. Born August 23 1926 in Frederick County she was a member of Ridings Chapel United Brethren Church.
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Mary Gramham
Oral
Ridings Chapel
Brethern Church
Stephen City
L. P. Tederick
W. L. Riggleman
Paul Beaty
Leroy Henry
Irvin Grim
Earl Shiley
Chambers Green
Ross Lillard
Franco Regime Ousted Hint of Meddling in Spanish Conflict
U S response cites secret German documents showing Franco's ties with Hitler and a plan to pull Spain into the Axis war. Notes Spain aided U boat refueling and Bay of Biscay destroyers, with Franco pledging loyalty to a shared destiny. France seeks UN Security Council action on March 21.
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Franco
Hitler
Teasle
Spain
Gibraltar
Britain
Bay of Biscay
Hans Diechoff
France
Falange
United Nations Security Council
New York
Council
Clarke County adopts dog fund and road project resolution
The Clarke County board adopted a dog fund plan and a road maintenance resolution. The dog fund will cover claims for dog depredations against personal and tangible property for 1946, funded by assessments. A separate measure approves Route 60 West Virginia improvements from the Clarke County line to a point north after construction, at county expense.
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Clarke County
S. E
West Virginia
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