Plan Club At Opequon Lake Proposed by Association
Winchester and Frederick County Game and Fish Protective Association plans lease of Opequon Lake Park for three years to form the Opequon Lake Club. Membership costs 10 dollars, or 5 dollars plus 15 hours work. aims include a clubhouse, dam repairs, lake cleaning, and restocking fish. A motion seeks recommission to protect fresh water boundaries. another resolution raises fox bounties with local government sharing half the cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester and
Frederick County Game & Fish Protective Association
Recreation Committee
Opequon Lake Park
Opequon Lake Club
D. M. Sprinkle
Board of Supervisors
Marine student pilot dies after plane crash near Greencastle
A young Marine Corps student pilot in training at Hagerstown airport died at Washington County Hospital after his single engine craft crashed on a farm near Greencastle Pennsylvania. George Swisher and others pulled the flyer from the wreckage before transport. The pilot had completed a 6 45 a m solo flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Mad
Marine Corps
Washington County
Greencastle
George Swisher
The
Henson Flying Service
Treasury Reaffirms Narrow Choices in Tax Abatement Plans
The Treasury told the Senate Finance Committee there is little room for choice among three current tax collection plans. It criticized the Carlson-Ruml abatement as inequitable while endorsing broad similarities in the Ways and Means and House versions.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
House
Randolphe Paul
Treasurgent
Ways and Means Committee
Paul
Ways and Means
Baltimore Grain Market Closing Report
Baltimore May 6 wheat No 2 red winter at 1 60 per bushel and May 1 60. Winchester Market Wheat at 160 per bushel. Corn at 1 10 per bushel. Prices shown are based on deliveries at mill.
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Baltimore
Winchester
Winchester Election Books Purged and Officials Appointed
The Winchester City Electoral Board ordered city election books aged every six years as required by law. New books for precincts are available at the clerk’s offices. The board also appointed judges and clerks for the August primary and November general election with named officials for Friendship Reuss and City Hall districts.
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City Electoral Board
Winchester
General Assembly
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Friendship
John W. Kater
Samuel Forney
W. E. Newlin
Alfred S. Henkel
F. H. Dorsey
Reuss
B. F. Arthur
W. A. Ward
Robert Swartz
F. M. Yeakle
City Hall
H. Fansler
Joseph Bayliss
Holmes Larrick
C. B. Smaltz
Harry Murphy
Sarah Zane
Robert S. Bell
J. F. Helsley
E. Earl Parks
F. B. Crawford
E. Miller Streit
Implies Wife of Rudolf Hess Has Joined Him
London May 6 Laborite William J Thorne asked in the House of Commons whether Frau Rudolf Hess has joined her husband in England and if 15000 pounds of Hess securities cover their upkeep in this country. The Prime Minister’s reply will follow. Earlier inquiries stated Hess’s wife was not in Britain and no facilities were planned for her arrival.
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London
William J. Thorne
House of Commons
Rudolf Hess
England
Hess
Adolf Hitler
Scotland
Germany
Thorne
Churchill
Commons
Fran Hess
Britain
Koontz Held For Grand Jury In Auto Theft Case
Jack William Koontz, arrested at Shelly New York, was ordered held for the grand jury by Civil and Police Justice John Rice after a hearing. He faces charges of larceny of an automobile owned by Charles Renner and two radios from Montgomery Ward. The note on the pronghorn antelope appears unrelated.
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Jack William Koontz
Shelly
N. Y
Winchester
Grand Jury
Civil & Police
John Rice
Charles Renner
Montgomery Ward
Blue Swords Trains Ahead of Preakness at Pimlico
Blue Swords trained by Walter Kelley breezed a half mile in 55 seconds at Pimlico as he resumes preparations for the Preakness. The Akron-owned colt, runner up to Count Fleet in the Kentucky Derby, arrived from New York and Louisville before today’s workout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Allen T. Simmons
Blue Swords
Count Fleet
Pimlico
Maryland
New York
Walter Kelley
Louisville
Coal war powers loom as Ickes ponders emergency seizing
The article details Harold Ickes's potential emergency use of power to seize coal from surplus producers and divert it to short customers. WPB officials warn of a nationwide dimout if miners strike again, while John L. Lewis avoids the hearings, and regulation No. 1 outlines delivery controls during emergencies.
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Walter White
Business Advisory Council
Department of Commerce
New York
Charles O'Neill
Office of War Information
Halcom Ross
Harold L. Ickes
John L. Lewis
UMW
Roosevelt Hotel
WLB
Ickes
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Office of Defense Transportation
Nelson
Reform Policies Not For Army
Lieutenant-General Bre hon B. Sommervell told 125 graduates of the School of Military Government at the University of Virginia that military government is a means to speed victory and should not formulate policies nor reform occupied peoples. Diplomatas were presented by Major-General Edwin M. Watson with brief university addresses accompanying the ceremony.
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Charlottesville
Brehon B. Sommervell
Army Service Forces
School of Military Government
University of Virginia
Somervell
Edwin M. Watson
Roosevelt
Watson
Allen W. Gullion
John Lloyd Newcomb
University
William H. White, Jr
University Law School
Labor Supply Seen Sufficient for 1943 Crop Goals
Food Administrator Chester C. Davis reported to Economic Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes that farm labor should be sufficient to meet 1943 crop goals if potential labor is fully utilized. He cited 6,000,000 farm families and mobilization of a crop corps of 3.5 million plus imports from Jamaica Bahamas and Mexico, with most extra labor found locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chester C. Davis
James F. Byrnes
Davis
Byrnes
Mexico
Jamaica
Bahamas
Bad Weather Blamed For Fatal Iceland Plane Crash
London May 6 The United States Army said bad weather with low ceiling and poor visibility caused a plane crash near Grindavik Iceland killing Lieut Gen Frank M Andrews and 13 others. Only rear gunner Staff Sgt George A Eisel survived. Also killed were Bishop Adna W Leonard of Washington and other officials. The crash struck a hill and was demolished. origin of the officer killed could not be determined.
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London
Iceland
Frank M. Andrews
United States Army
Grindavik
Geo. A. Eisel
Andrews
United
Army Troops Help Fight Virginia Forest Fire
Two hundred troops from Camp Pickett joined 175 civilians and state forestry workers near Pearisburg to battle a spreading forest fire in Giles County Virginia. The blaze along Top Mountain in Sugar Run threatened elk habitat and valuable oak and poplar timber as evacuees worked to contain the flames.
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Pearisburg
Camp Pickett
Virginia
Giles County
Emory Johnston
Pearlsburg High School
State Forestry Division
Sugar Run
State Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries
Johnston
Tyler Robertson
Robertson
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Plan Club
Opequon Lake
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City
Pepsi- Cola Bottling Co
Newville
Koontz
Baltimore Paints
INO. S. Solenberger & Co., Inc
Lewis
Northwest
Charles Town
W. Va
Martinsburg
Charles Town Jockey Club, Inc
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Ji Li
Linen Department
Men’s ‘Department
Children’s Department
Gilas
RAYON
Odds and Ends
Dickie
Kies
Curt
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