Allied Chiefs Will Submit Preliminary War Reports
President Roosevelt said British American chiefs of staff would submit preliminary recommendations to him and Churchill with final decisions likely next week. He noted most American forces are in the Pacific and praised merchant seamen on Maritime Day. He spoke of progressing shipbuilding and transitioning Liberty ships to Victory ships for postwar use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
United States
Pacific
Congress
Sain
United Nations
Italy
Housewives to get sugar for canning next week
MR WINCHESTER says the ration sugar will be available in time for early fruits. Plans call for sugar distribution at community sites across the county to prevent waste from lost berries and other small fruits. Long lines are avoided as arrangements remove the need for extended dyeing and gasoline concerns.
Nelson Announces Candidacy for 25th District Senate Seat
Burgess EH Nelson, 52, Shenandoah County businessman and school board member, announced his bid for the 25th District Senate seat. A Mount Jackson native with Gulf Oil distributorships and Nelson Theater ownership, he is the first to declare as the seat remains vacant since Senator Harrison joined the bench.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burgess EH. Nelson
Jackson
Shenandoah County School Board
Ugust
Nelson
Harrison
17Th Judicial Circuit
Winchester
Clarke County
Gulf Oil Company
Shenandoah
Rockingham County
Nelson Theater
Mt. Jackson
Rain totals rise as farm work threatened by floods
Over 48 hours ending 7:30 this morning Winchester Research Laboratory records 1.80 inches of rain with 1.25 inches today. Ground remains soaked hindering cultivation while Shiloh section notes its heaviest rainfall in memory and hail reports surface in parts of Frederick County and nearby areas. May rainfall totals reach 3.45 inches versus a 3.58 inch average.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Research Laboratory
Shiloh
Frederick County
Yellow Springs
West Virginia
Six More Dogs Are Destroyed in Rabies Hunt
Six more dogs were killed yesterday in Frederick county and Winchester amid rabies fears. One dog had been rehomed by Game Warden Pingley, who was bitten by the animal. A dog head was sent to Washington for examination, as was a Winchester dog that had bitten several children. The warden also dispatched a known sheep killer near the Lee N. Whitacre farm amid ongoing raids on Whitacre herds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Winchester
Pingley
David Pingley
Washington
Lee N. Whitacre
Mrs Bell Named Virginia Delegate
Mrs Bell is appointed as a Virginia delegate announced during the summer. The notice appears in Winchester with scant readable text and stray characters.
Not To Cancel Gas Coupons
Washington May 21. The Office of Price Administration rejected a proposal from the Agriculture Department to temporarily suspend all A B and C ration coupons along part of the Atlantic seaboard to meet the gasoline shortage emergency. OPA said no curtailment or elimination would be allowed and noted some B and C rations remain essential for commercial and industrial use.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Agriculture Department
Atlantic Seaboard
OPA
A. Sa
E Agriculture Dinermetts Mus
Icks
Nine Classes Listed For Blue Ridge Show
The Blue Ridge Hunt Club hosts a one day show starting at 11 am with nine horse classes, judged by Dr. L. M. Allen and W. Lodge Bowles. Exhibitors include Mrs. Lillian J. Donovan and Miss Virginia Watkins among others. The program features a vehicle parade and classes from driven hunters to harness horses, with lunch and open participation for locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Ridge Hunt Club
L. M. Allen
W. Lodge Bowles
Lillian J. Donovan
Virginia Watkins
Graham Dougherty, Jr
A. McKay Smith
Wm. N. Barrett
Walter Lee
Edward Jacobs
Edward Jenkins
L. A. Livingston
J. B. Lindsey
Blue Ridge
Rock Hill
Wm. Bell Watkins
Graham Dougherty
City And County Brevities Lead Salvage Drive And Oddities
Winchester homemakers prepare a 15 ton salvage shipment of tin cans for reprocessing. M H Ritter reports a six inch lettuce snake found around lettuce and killed six of them. An egg with a replica of a celestial body raised questions of sun or moon. A brief note mentions a terrier mascot named Friendship and Jack’s observation of secrecy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Sele
M. H. Ritter
Southwerk Street
Floods drive 100000 homeless as big rivers rise
At least 100000 people in Illinois Missouri and surrounding states were left homeless as the Mississippi and Missouri rivers rose and merged near Alton Illinois. Red Cross workers and government engineers aided evacuations while crews fought to hold back floodwaters across six states.
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Mississippi
Missouri
Illinois
Mid-West
Alton
Ill
Red Cross
St. Louis
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Indiana
Kansas
Chicago
W. F
Mosquito Planes Lab At Berlin
London reports a nerve war as RAF Mosquito bombers strike Berlin for the fifth night in a row while London endures after dark warnings. Allied bombers pound Nazi targets in occupied France and Germany, hitting U boats bases at Bremen and the Krupp munitions center at Essen as the ninth night of air action continues.
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London
Berlin
Europe
Reich
Continent
France
Germany
British
Air Ministry
Bremen
Essen
Krupps Works
Edward Clark Freed By Jury in Fatal Middletown Crash
A Frederick County jury acquitted Edward Clark of murder in the death of 18 year old Violet Hounshell near Middletown. The verdict followed about an hour and 20 minutes deliberation after Clark, the car driver, was charged in the indictment. Defense attorney Harry R. Kern Sr. argued the accident was not murder and noted possible reckless driving.
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Frederick
Edward Clark
Violet Hounshell
Middletown
Clark
Harry R. Kern, Sr
Chrysler's Huge War Effort Held Up By Strikers
Detroit May 21 employees at Chrysler DeSoto division walk out as regional War Labor Board meets management and union leaders. Nearly 27 500 idle workers across Chrysler plants raise fears the strikes may spread to the tank arsenal and halt war production. UAW CIO leaders defend grievances while urging a return to work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
United Automobile Workers (Cio
War Labor Board
Chrysler DeSoto
Pearl Harbor
Edwin E. Witte
WLB
Chrysler
Uaw-Cio
R. J. Thomas
Thomas
Robert W. Conder
CIO
Leo Lamotte
UAW
Lamotte
Jefferson-Kercheval
Dodge
Dodge Lynch Road
Admiral Yamamoto Reported Killed In Action
Tokyo radio and a U S government summary report the death of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto commander in chief of the combined Japanese fleet He had vowed to dictate peace to the United States from the White House and was noted as a top naval strategist and advocate of sea air power with a brief death notice from Japanese imperial headquarters.
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New York
Tokyo Radio
Isoroku Yamamoto
White House
Federal Communications Commission
Yamamoto
Japan
Tokyo
Pacific Ocean
Pearl Harbor
United States
Washing
Combined Fleet
Naval Air Force
FCC
Admiral Yamamoto
U. S. White House
American Fliers Win Major Air Victory Over Axis
Allied disclosures report American fighters and bombers destroyed 113 enemy planes in raids over Italy and Sardinia. The action, led by Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle, added to a two day tally of 186 Axis aircraft destroyed in the Mediterranean and North Africa campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied
North Africa
Italy
Sardinia
Strategic Air Force
Strategical Air Force
U. S
James H. Doolittle
U.S
Sassari
Gulf of
Asinara
Erees F
Mediterranean
Tunisia
Middle East Command
Application Of First Covering Spray Now Due
The first cover spray should be completed by May 29 with spraying starting by May 24. Use 3 lb lead arsenate and 3 lb lime per 100 gallons, add 10 lb flotation sulfur paste or 5 lb wettable sulfur if fungicide is desired, avoid sulfur if summer oil will be used in June. Moths emerged recently. in poor control areas consider 0.75 pt nicotine sulfate per 100 gal. Spray tops. cooling Virginia weak point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. S. Hough
Winchester Research Laboratory
Virginia
World At War Highlights Report War Events
Air offensives and alarms across Europe with RAF bombers attacking Berlin for the fifth time since May 13 while London endures an after dark alert. Tokyo reports Admiral Yamamoto killed in aerial combat. Attu evacuated as Japanese forces retreat from Attu and Kiska base is threatened by starvation. Soviet forces sink German barges in the Black Sea and push through in the Caucasus, with 12 German posts hit at Novorossisk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Berlin
London
Russia
Black Sea
Red Army
Caucasus
Novorossisk
Allied Air Raids Hit New Guinea Rabaul and Burma Front
Japanese aerial reinforcements strike four Allied points in New Guinea as Gen. MacArthur’s air force conducts 18 sorties in a fire setting raid on Rabaul. British expeditionary force ends a three month raid along a 300 mile front led by a commander famed as Lawrence of Arabia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Gen
Macee
Rabaul
Burma
Kin Pa
Barges Carrying German Troops Sunk by Soviets
Soviet midnight communique reports six enemy barges filled with troops sunk near Anapa and Kerch as Red Fleet ships and planes patrolled the Black Sea. German forces still hold numerical superiority but face surprise Russian attacks and guerrilla pressure throughout the Taman peninsula region.
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Moscow
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Red Fleet
Anapa
Kerch
Taman
Novres
Crimea
Smolensk
Japs Making Last Stand On High Ground
The Navy reports ongoing operations on Attu island in the North Pacific with Japanese defenders on high ground at Attu village east of the settlement. Allies plan intensified action as potential blockade tightens around Kiska, where enemy strength may exceed 10,000 men.
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Washington
Navy
Attu
North Pacific
London
South Pacific
Guadalcanal
U. S.S
Attu Village
United States Army
North Bay
Kiska
Amchitka
Ensign Rhodes Promoted to Lieutenant (jg)
Mrs. Ernest Rhodes received word that Ensign Rhodes of the U S S N R has been promoted to Lieutenant j g. He has served in the Southwest Pacific for nine months. AWNINGS and Venetian blinds offered by E W Armstrong Co telephone 4643.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Rhodes
Ensign Rhodes
Rhodes
Southwest Pacific
E. W. Armstrong Co
Piccadilly
Notice of Sunday Service Suspension at Lee Jackson Dining Room
The Lee Jackson and Dining Room will close on Sundays until further notice. No reopening date given. practical impact beyond Sundays not specified.
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Lee Jackson
Help Wanted Listing With Various Dry Cleaning Jobs
Classified help wanted notice seeking one man for dry cleaning one man for wash room two press girls one flat work ironer and folder one girl marker and sorter. Includes minimal details and roles.
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MR Winchester
Burgess Nelson
Burgess E. Nelson
Toelie
Jack
Secree
Rouss Fire CO
Army
Attu Island
Aleutians
Vichy
William McGaffin
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