Reds Seize Kolomea Amid Cabinet Crisis Looms
Soviet forces captured Kolomea on the Lwow Czernowitz railway as Stalin announced an important strong point in the Carpathians fell to a bold tank and infantry maneuver. The push aimed toward Odessa with units of Konev's Second Ukrainian army within miles of key rail arteries.
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London
Kolomea
Lwow-Czernowitz
Czechoslovakia
Stalin
Old
Poland
Prut
Carpathian
Carpathians
Odessa
Red Army
Nikolaev
Black Sea
Bessarabia
Ivan S. Konev
Tuary
Aessen
Domanevka
Berlin
Mironev
Prut River
Rumania
Iasi
Tsyra
Koschen
Churchill Demands Vote of Confidence in Commons
World War II highlights report from The Associated Press summarizes aerial attacks on central Germany and Pas de Calais, Soviet advances around Ploesti, sieges and captures in Romania, Italian and Balkan fighting near Cassino and Bali, canal flood threats in Holland, and Churchill calling for a vote of confidence.
The Star Pledges Community Service and Space Constraints
MA Winchester states The Star remains the community newspaper and uncowed by wartime strain. The paper notes staff losses and rationed newsprint but pledges cooperation with worthy projects and prompt publication of newspaper only articles when possible.
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the Star
Wdch
Swanson Featured in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not
Osmar Swanson a local dray man appears in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not with an illustration of Swanson his horses and dray wagon. The caption notes O H Swanson owner of a Winchester transfer company is larger around than the horse he drives. Ripley may have gathered the item during a city visit. The Winchester house with a tree growing from the second story window is a recurring Ripley motif.
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Osmar Swanson
Ripley
Swanson
O. H. Swanson
Winchester
Time To Induct Older Men Here Says Patterson
Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson urged the House Military Committee that 3,500,000 men aged 18 to 37 classified 4-F should be assigned to essential industry or inducted into Army labor battalions. He proposed national service or extended selective service with occupational deferments and civilian wage considerations.
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Washington
Robert P. Patterson
House Military Committee
Patterson
Hospital’s First Cadet Capping at Winchester Memorial
Winchester Memorial Hospital holds its first cadet capping ceremony Friday March 31 at 8 pm in the church annex. Nurses director Miss Virginia Reid Hollar lists recipients Miss Ann B Bowers Loretta J Campbell Laura N Carper Nancy G Daugherty Marie E Gill Lucille M Hook Margaret H Hott Mary Jane Huff Winona F Paige and L Perry. Public sale of the estate of Mrs Naomi Perry set for Saturday April 1 at 2 pm at 1007 Ss Cameron including household and kitchen furniture See Ritenour Adm 3 28 1p 41.
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Winchester Memorial Hospital
The
Presbyterian Church
Virginia Reid Hollar
Ann B. Bowers
Loretta J. Campbell
Laura N. Carper
Nancy G. Daugherty
Marie E. Gill
Lucille M. Hook
Margaret H. Hott
Mary Jane Huff
Winona F. Paige
L. Perry
Naomi Perry
Ss. Cameron
Ritenour
Fortresses Press Central Germany Breakthroughs
London reports German luftwaffe engaged as American Flying Fortresses penetrate central Germany for the first time in six days. Liberators pound Pas-de-Calais invasion coast for the 68th time in 106 days. Doolittle cites 24th monthly assault, destroying over 2,100 German planes in eight weeks.
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U. S
Germany
Pas-de-Calairs
London
Pas-de-Calais
Westphalia
James H. Doolittle
Britain
France
Berlin
Ees Germany
Miday
Reich
Teutoburg Forest
Muenster
Osnabrueck
Bielefeld
Blaze strikes San Francisco again as arsonist roams
Fire marshall inspectors link latest apartment blaze to the same arsonist suspected in the New Amsterdam Hotel fire that killed 22. Nellie Bury halted flames at 537 Hyde street by cutting power to the elevator and beating embers. Police seek a slim dark-haired man about 30 to 40 years old.
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San Francisco
New Amsterdam
Arthur Finnegan
Nellie Bury
Hyde Street
Albert J. Sullivan
Complete stock sale by George P Sedwick Marlboro Va
Thursday March 30 at 11 a m sale of entire stock store merchandise and household goods by George P Sedwick Marlboro Virginia with listing numbers 3 25 27 29 1p 31
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George P. Sedwick
Marlboro
Dies Committee Attacks CIO Political Action Group
Washington March 29 The Dies committee charges the CIO political action committee with steering a covert Communist campaign to subvert Congress in the coming elections and seeks to expose leaders including Sidney Hillman Lee Pressman Harry Bridges Joseph Curran and other CIO officials. The panel clarifies it does not challenge labor's right to political activity within law.
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Washington
C. I. O. Political Action Committee
House Committee
Congress
United States
CIO Group
Rep. Dies
Dtex
Sidney Hillman
Earl Browder
Dies Committee
Political Action Committee
Hillman
Lee Pressman
Harry Bridges
Cc. I. O. International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Joseph Curran
Prest
National Maritime Lion of America
Dies
Communist Front
Bri
Communist Party of the United States
Curran
National Maritime Union of America
Communist Party
Revercomb to Speak at Virginia Republican Convention
United States Senator Chapman Revercomb of West Virginia will headline the Virginia Republican Convention in Roanoke on April 15 at 1 30 p m Clarence R Ahalt Virginia state chairman announced Revercomb, educated at Washington and Lee and UVA, is a Covington native now living in Charleston He was elected to the Senate in 1942 with a term expiring in January.
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Arlington
United States
Chapman Revercomb
West Virginia
Roanoke
Revercomb
Covington
Charleston
Clarence R. Ahalt
Virginia
Old Dominion
Washington and Lee University
University of Virginia
The
Virginia Law Review
Sara Hughes
Ashland
Senate
Communist Roots Seen In School
Mrs. Robert E Paine of Roanoke told Norfolk Virginia Association of University Women members that progressive education in Virginia schools has its roots in Communism and that students miss fundamentals. She cited her own child entering sixth grade with no grammar, noting teachers labeled grammar as old fashioned and said they teach functional English.
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Norfolk
Vva
Robert E Paine
Roanoke
Virginia
American Association of University Women
Allied air strikes hit 12 Japanese targets across SW Pacific
Allied bombers and destroyers swept across Dutch New Guinea Bougainville Rabaul Kavieng New Ireland and Wewak area routes. MacArthur reported 292 tons of bombs dropped on Japanese holdings while US destroyers shelled positions at Pityilu Island in the Admiralty group near Manus Island.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Dutch
New Guinea
Solomons
Dousies MacArthur
Bougainville
Rabaul
New Britain
Kavieng
New Ireland
Wewak
Hansa Bay
Pityilu Island
Admiralty Group
Seydler Harbor
Lorengau
Big Manus Island
FBI Conference Set for Northern Virginia April 4
Chief of Police C. W. Hollis announced that the FBI law enforcement conference for northern Virginia will be held at the Armory on Tuesday evening April 4 at 7 30. Major J M Franklin will demonstrate U S Army dogs and explain their training. An FBI crime scene methods address and a Fighting Men film will follow. An open panel forum closes the program with questions from officers invited to attend.
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C. W. Hollis
W. A. Murphy
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Northern Virginia
J. M. Franklin
U. S. Remount
Front Royal
U. S. Army
Students Collect Scrap for War Effort Scrutiny
Winchester citizens are urged to aid the scrap drive as students from city schools collect waste paper Thursday and Friday to support war production. Ben Belchie, salvage chair, asks households to bundle paper early tomorrow for pickup en route to school.
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Ben Belchie
Winchester
Donald M. Nelson
Rely
Colgate W. Darden, Jr
WPB
Ctizens
John, Kerr
Virginia
Indian Soldiers Withdrawn From Hangman's Hill
Indian Gurkha troops retreat from Hangman's Hill near Cassino after two weeks of siege as Allied bombardment and air supply changes render high ground less valuable. New Zealanders also withdrawn from Hill 202 while German and Allied actions continue around Monastery Hill.
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Italy
Hangman’s Hill
Cassino
Naples
Monastery Hill
New
Three Clarke youths charged in Gaunt service station theft
Clarke county youths Elmer McDonald 21 Bennie McDonald 18 and a 15 year old juvenile were charged with breaking into Leo Shorty Gaunt's filling station on U S Route 50 near Paris. They allegedly stole two bicycles and merchandise including 20 cartons of cigarettes chewing tobacco soft drinks and more. They were arrested at Charles Hummer's home in Fauquier county and will face a preliminary hearing before Trial Justice Lorine C Kackley.
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the Star
Berryville
Clarke County
Sherif W. W. Smallwood, Jr
Leo “Shorty” Gaunt
Paris
Elmer McDonald
Bennie McDonald
Lorine C. Kackley
Gaunt
U. S. Route 50
Smallwood
Charles Hummer
Fauquier
Thompson
Mitchell
Trackers Urged To Speed Registration
Truck owners are urged to apply for allotment of second quarter gasoline during this week from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The board notes that after 4:00 p.m. a later date applies.
Friday Night High School Event Ad
Friday night March 31 at the high school with students admission forty cents and adults fifty cents. The notice lists dates and ticket details with price info for a school program.
Jap Bomb Thrust II Smashed By Allied Fighters
Allied fighter planes repelled a major Japanese bomber thrust aimed at India. The Southeast Asia command said 24 Japanese planes were downed while ground forces pressed northeast of Imphal. Air battles over northern Burma claimed 11 bombers and 13 fighters down with several suspected losses.
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Burma
India
Charles A. Grumich
New Delhi
Imphal
Southeast Asia Command
Ukhrul
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Chabau
Ledo
Assam
Hershey Abandons Farm Deferment Unit System
Major General Lewis B. Hershey announced after talks with War Food administrator Marvin Jones and Senator Russell that local draft boards will handle farm worker deferments. The unit system will be scrapped to stem military inroads on farm labor and protect food production.
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Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
Marvin Jones
Russell
D-Ga
Senate Agriculture Committee
Tydings
D-Md
Shady Rest Square Dance Weekly Schedule
Shady Rest hosts square dances every Thursday and Saturday with music by Woody Carlisle.
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Shady Rest Square Dance
Woody Carlisle
Leadership Staked On Single Issue in Commons
Prime Minister Churchill demanded a vote of confidence on the government’s war leadership by backing a single issue. He urged deletion of clause 82 equal pay for men and women teachers from the education bill, calling it a vote of confidence if passed, the first defeat for his administration in four years.
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Ernest Agnew LO
House of Commons
Churchill
Commons
Eers
House
Harold Butler
Seventeen Million Americans Join Public and Private Roles
Seventeen million junior members of Americans in public private and schools are busy creating and r.
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Ploesti
Kovel
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Cioassailed
By Marlin Spencer
F.B.I
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