Handley Camporee Draws Scouts and 500 Visitors
About 118 Scouts from several troops attended the Handley district camporee over Saturday and Sunday. Awards went to Troop 1 for participation streamer and camping troop citation, Troop 9 earned Pioneer Citation, and Troop 3 had the largest registration with 37 Scouts across five patrols. An estimated 500 people visited, events included camp fire and church parade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shawnee
Presbyterian Church
Bea
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Mart Street Methodist Church
The
Baptist Church
Tpe Patrol
Camp Fire
Ray Garrabrandt
Croup
Boy Scouts
Occupied Areas Can Aid Allies Amid War Broadcasts
In a direct broadcast, Philippe Henriot cites Eisenhower and calls the Allied invasion a gamble with uncertain success. German reconnaissance flights over Britain aim to glean invasion clues, while Pravda asserts Allied Italian offensives signal a broader push toward victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eisenhower
Philippe Henriot
Vichy
Britain
Scotland
England
Amerent
Pravda
Moscow
Italy
Ration Calendar Updates for Meats Fats and Processed Foods
The Associated Press reports changes to wartime ration stamps. Meats and fats on red stamps A8 to T8 remain valid indefinitely. blue stamps A8 to Q8 also valid, with next five-stamp series pending until June 1. Home canning stamps and airplane coupons receive extended validity. regional specifics apply through summer 1945.
James Wilson 84 Virginia horse trainer dies at home
James Wilson a longtime Virginia horse trainer died at 11 40 Saturday night at his son James Wilson Jr s home 611 South Braddock Street after a year of declining health Burial and funeral set for tomorrow at 2 00 PM at the Middleburg Episcopal Church with interment in the local cemetery Surviving are his widow three children and ten grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Wilson
Virginia
James Wilson, Jr
South Braddock Street
Yorkshire
England
John
Anna Wilson
Henry Fairfax
Oak Hill’ Farm
Aldie
Sarah Katherine Gheen
Middlebury
Middleburg
Winchester
Middleburg Episcopal Church
Trout Stocking Report In Paddy Run Stream
Croswell Henderson, president of the Winchester and Frederick County Game and Protective Association, announced that about 150 trout were placed in Paddy Run last week. The fish from the Federal Fish Hatchery in Leetown ranged from 10 to 24 inches, with some larger specimens near five pounds. Other association members present were Jack Brandon, W. Sargent, Boyd Hamman, Dr. G. G. Snarr, and E. E. Harbaugh. This marks the first stocking in the county stream since the trout season opened last month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Croswell Henderson
Winchseter and
Frederick County
E. E. Harbaugh
Home Demonstration Clubs Sponsor Free Movie Nights
The clubs plan free screenings next week at four sites: Wewere High School Tuesday May 23 8 15 p m Stonewall High School Wednesday May 24 8 15 p m Armel School Thursday May 25 8 15 p m Round Hill Wagon Friday May 26 8 15 p m Directors include Mrs Walter Larrick and Mrs C M Rosenberger Gore with chairmen at each school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wewere High School
Stonewall High School
Armel School
Round Hill
WaGeen
Walter Larrick
C.M. Rosenberger
Gore
C. L. Butler
Ethel Barrett
Stonewall
C. S. Rosenberger
Arme
Irene Boyce
E. E. Fawcett
Sale of cattle at Pace day sale in Frederick County
I Fred Stine reported 13 females and five bulls sold to farmers in Frederick County. Buyers included John H Rosenberger Angus open heifer Annefield Ozark for 105 dollars. W A Larrick two Angus heifers for 120 and 124 dollars. W H Gold three cows and one bull with values 205 210 and 171 dollars. Annefield Angus bull 190. Glass Estate two Angus cows 205 and 149. C I Brumbach four Angus females and one bull with multiple prices. Ray V Brumbick Shorthorn heifer 175. H L Brumback Short horn bull 275. Landon Whitacre Hereford bull 190. H T Snapp Angus bull 170.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pace
I. Fred Stine
Frederick County
John H. Rosenberger
Annefield Ozark
Annefield Farms
Berryville
W. A. Larrick
Gore
Chapel Hillerica
Chapel Hill Farm
Eric Evaxus
C. C. Punkerhouse
White Post
W. H. Gold
Winchester
Woodley
Graham Doughert
Queen 5Th
Highlands
Highlands Farm
Round Hill
Annefield Alent
Annefield Farm
Glass Estate
Elbina
Agnes
Graham Dougherty
C. I. Brumback
Stephens City
Hill Bride
Bestor
Greenfields
Epponian
G. B
Ray V. Brumbick
Opequon
Abram. S. Hewitt
H. L. Brumback
Farnley Paymaster
Farnley Farm
Landon B. Whitacre
Olive Boy Parm
Charles Town
H. T. Snapp
Chanel Hill Farm
Wallace Visit Sparks Chinese Cheer Across Press
Chinese newspapers unite in greeting Vice President Wallace and praising his vow to provide all possible and prompt aid to China. Central Daily News says readers feel gratified by Roosevelt and Wallace announcements and the Chinese people recall U S aid in their struggle. Ta Kung Pao notes Wallace’s Siberian trip has significance and hopes for future Soviet cooperation against a common foe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
United Today
Wallace
United States
China
America
Central Daily News
Roosevelt
Ta Kung Pao
Siberia
Asia
Funeral for Silas Baughman Held at Grace Episcopal
The body lay in state at Grace Episcopal Church before a funeral led by Rev. Hergy G. Lane. Interment followed in Green Hill Cemetery with active pallbearers Hugh Thomas, James Dakeman, C. P. Newcomb, Donald Levi, Roy Pott, and Lewis Stolle. Honoraries included Grace Episcopal vestry members and many local figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Matthews
Washington
Grace Episcopal Church
Hergy G. Lane
Green Hill Cemetery
Hugh Thomas
James Dakeman
C. P. Newcomb
Donald Levi
Roy Pott
Lewis Stolle
Grace Episcopal Church Vestry
A. P. Osborne
Page Lee
Edward Williams
Joseph F. Moore
A. F. Robertson
F. L. Ayler
Tom Dix
Ralph N. Dorsey
Ben Crampton
Richard Smith, Jr
Alfred Kerfoot
W. A. Bradford
Ralph M. Ware
W. S
B. F. LaFollette
Fred Moris
Ernest Locke
John 8. Goldsmith
J. M. H. Claggett
Berryville
Henry Barker
Jefferson County
Allied Air Raids Pound Duisburg and Hannover Amid Broad Offensive
Allied air forces unleashed heavy raids on Duisburg and Hannover with Buna reports of fierce city combats. RAF and American aircraft targeted rail centers and military targets while naval operations off Cap Frehel near St. Malo tangled with German minesweepers. Fifty-seven planes failed to return.
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Duisburg
Air Ministry
Hannover
Belgium
RAF
France
Germany
Rhine
Ruhr
Dortmund
Rhine-Herne
North Sea
Dortmund-Ems
Italy
Reich
Low Countries
English Channel
Cap Frehel
St. Malo
Channel
Bologne
Dieppe
Calais
Second Tactical Air Force
Atlantic
Europe
Two-man Jap submarine to visit Winchester exhibits
A two-man Japanese submarine will arrive in Winchester tomorrow and be shown on Reuss avenue as part of the Bundles for America Relief Society tour. Scouts will guide visitors to the display mounted on a Diesel powered truck. Admission is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Reuss Avenue
Bundles For America Relief Society
OCD
Pearl Harbor
Oaui Island
Opequon Man Wins Shoes Submerged in Ice
Otis Funk of Opequon won a pair of shoes given away by guessing when a shoe frozen in a block of ice would melt. His guess of 37 hours edged out many bidders as about 500 people also submitted guesses. The shoe released at 36 hours 50 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Workingman’s Store
Otis Funk
Opequon
Chinese Forces Report Counterattack Near Henan Rail Line
Chinese troops recaptured three towns as they counterattacked the Japanese wedge along the Peiping Han railway in Henan. Private advices warned Japanese reinforcements may move toward Canton and Hankow, fueling fears of a new Canton Hankow railway offensive. The report noted fighting around Sinantien, Sinyang area, and Loyang with Japanese forces advancing from Shensi toward the border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Henan Province
Peiping-Hankow
Canton
Hanae
Sinantien
Henan
Sinyang
Weichwan
Chenghsien
Lushan
Loyang
Mankow
Honan
Shensi
Canton-Hankow
General Clark Narrowly Escapes Death In Italy
General Mark W. Clark, Fifth Army commander, escaped a nearby explosion from a booby trapped German anti-tank gun during an inspection tour in Italy. The blast wounded one soldier and injured several others while Clark warned nearby troops to avoid tampering with abandoned enemy equipment before resuming his patrol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Army
Italy
Mark W. Clark
Clark
Goddard Weds Burgess Meredith in Garden Ceremony
Beverly Hills May 22 Actress Paulette Goddard wed Capt Burgess Meredith former actor now in the Army Air Forces in a garden ceremony at producer David O Selznick's home. Chaplain Capt O Stanley Brown officiated with Mrs Alta Goddard the mother as guest and Mrs Selznick matron of honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverley Hills
Calif
Paulette Goddard
Burgess Meredith
Army Air Forces
David O. Selznick
O. Stanley Brown
Alta Goddard
Selznick
Tardy Girl Caught In Red Tape
A New York government worker arrived without her badge, delaying entry by 15 minutes. She was forced to fill a form explaining tardiness, answering the residence question with a brief note: In the lobby of this building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Trial Justice Court disposes case in Gore Virginia
The Court of Trial Justice recently disposed of a case involving W. Erle Edwards, C. W. Huntsberry of Gore Virginia. Edwards was charged with being drunk at Shady Rest and sentenced to $10 fine plus $4.25 costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of Trial Justice
W. Erle Edwards
C. W. Huntsberry
Gore
Shady Rest
Davis Defends War Labor Board No Strike Policy
William H. Davis, chairman of the War Labor Board, told a House committee the WLB must act to prevent widespread strikes in Montgomery Ward and similar industries. He warned a broad no strike policy is needed, or workers in distribution and service trades would quit, risking disintegration of Congresss peacetime industrial framework.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William H. Davis
War Labor Board
House
Montgomery Ward
Davis
Chicago
WLB
Congress
Dewey
Bill
Ward
Denmark deemed logical landing point for Allied invasion
Stockholm May 22 report quotes Nazi writer Heinz Bongarz in Bruesseler Zeitung arguing Denmark would be the most logical landing point for Allied troops to invade western Europe. He says a successful landing there would bridge operations against Germany but isolate Scandinavia from northern Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Denmark
Europe
Germany
Heinz Bongarz
Bruesseler Zeitung
Scandinavia
Superintendent of Sanatorium Quits After 23 Years
Dr William Edward Brown resigns as superintendent and medical director of Blue Ridge Sanatorium near Charlottesville after 23 years. The 59 year old cites health reasons and says he must take an indefinite rest. The letter was delivered to the State Board of Health executive committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
I. C. Riggin
William Edward Brown
Blue Ridge Sanatorium
Charlottesville
Brown
State Board of Health
Prisoner Dashes For Sheriff’s Missing Gun In Heat
In Elberton Georgia on May 22 Sheriff John Starke finds a prisoner missing his six shooter. The sheriff orders the man to retrieve the weapon from the car down the street amid the heat. The prisoner complies and returns with the gun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elbertson
John Starke
Saar
Court Disposes Disorderly Conduct and Drunkenness Cases
In Civil and Police Court Judge John Rice presided. Clayton Mason of Opequon, Va., disorderly conduct for drinking in public fined $5 plus $5.25 costs. Ernest Hottle of Winchester, drunk fined $5 plus $5.25 costs. Walter Cleveland Baker of Speeryville, Va., drunk fined $5 plus $5.25 costs. Odell Mills of Baltimore, Md., disorderly conduct for fighting fined $10 plus $6.25 costs. Jessie Turner of Baltimore, disorderly conduct for fighting fined $10. Raymond G. Hammond of Ha pl Md., running a red light fined $9.25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Rice
Clayton Mason
Opequon
Ernest Hottle
RFD No
Winchester
Walter Cleveland Baker
Speeryville
Odell Mills
Baltimore
Jessie Turner
Raymond G. Hammond
Hapl Md
Shull Becomes Oldest Ever Admittee to Supreme Court
Dr. Joseph H. Shull, 95, of Stroudsburg, Pa., admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. His son Judge Samuel Shull, 66, took the oath with him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joseph H. Shull
Stroudsburg
Supreme Court
Samuel Shull
Youngster Cuts Head While at Play
Richard Charles, son of Mr and Mrs Russell Williams, left home Saturday evening while playing and cut a deep gash over his right eye. He was taken to Winchester Memorial Hospital where several stitches were needed. He returned home and was resting as well as could be expected this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Charles
Russell Williams
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Women And Boys Ready For Farm Work In Clarke County
Women and boys respond to farmers urgent call for harvest labor in Clarke county. Twenty women aged 18 to 25 and 40 boys aged 14 to 17 available from June through August, with training provided. Similar numbers in adjoining counties. Contact County Agricultural agent to arrange work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarke County
Quiet Continues On Red Front
London dispatch reports sporadic fighting along the lower Dnestr river near Tiraspol with the front generally quiet. Soviet air attacks disrupted German lines while Moscow claims 600 Germans slain and repulsed tank assaults near Tiraspol, and Berlin claims 3000 Russians encircled west of Grigoriopol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Dnestr
Tiraspol
Moscow
Red Army
Berlin
Grigoriopol
Americans Encounter Nazis in Italian Front Push Near Liri Valley
Allied forces deepen the north Italian advance as Poles of the Eighth Army seize territory near Monte Leuzio and Pontecorvo while Terracina falls to a nine mile west coast advance. German defenses stiffen along the Cassino flank and along the Liri valley as United States, French, and British forces coordinate countermeasures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cisterna
Eighth Army
Piedmonte
Liri
Cassino
Pontecorvo
Pontecorvo-Pico
Monte Leuzio
Pico
Terracina
Strike Continues At Chrysler Co
DETROIT May 22 Approximately 11 500 Chrysler corporation employes idle today despite a War Labor Board order and CIO UAW calls to pass through picket lines. Leaders warned an administrator could be appointed if work did not resume. Pickets distributed handbills urging continued stoppage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
War Labor Board
United Automobile Workers (Cio
George F. Addes
International Uawcio
Chrysler
William Jenkins
Uaw-Cio
Nips Casualties Rise in New Guinea Invasion
Advanced Allied Headquarters reports 3,829 Japanese casualties in the northern New Guinea campaign as of May 22, with 3,343 killed. American Sixth Army says 676 Japanese dead on Wakde Island and ongoing counterattacks repulsed near Tor river beachhead. American losses total 28 killed and 95 wounded in Hollandia Aitape and 16 killed, 83 wounded in the Wadke area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Guinea
Wakde
Hollandia
Aitape
Sixth Army
Wakde Islands
Douglas MacArthur
Tor River
Hollandia- Aitape
Wadke
Roosevelt to undergo final physical at Naval Medical Center
President Roosevelt will visit the Naval Medical Center in Maryland this week for a formal physical check up to confirm he has shed last winter's flu and bronchial trouble. Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, the President's physician, said the leader is in excellent shape after a month of rest in the south and will receive a final check up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Naval Medical Center
Maryland
Ross T. McIntire
South
Orchard for sale by owner in Hampshire County West Virginia
Elk Horn Fruit Farms at Hanging Rock in Hampshire Co announces an orchard for sale. The listing notes current crop value as a guide, with nitrating cultivation and spraying completed. The farm offers a heavy hold of peach and apple trees and prospects of labor short age soon. Send inquiry to Rumsey Smith at Elk Horn Fruit Farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elk Horn Fruit Farms
Hanging Rock
W. Va
Hampshire Co
Winchester
Rumsey Smith
Corner on Sports: Softball Meeting Tomorrow Night
Gene Miller notes a softball meeting tomorrow at 7 30 in the Young Men's Sport Shop of the George Washington Hotel. Invitations urge individuals and organizations to discuss city league formation and team planning. Approximately 30 Handley players train under Snag Sargent as a possible pre summer schedule emerges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington Hotel
Handley
Sargent
Germans Moved North to Fight Patriots in Italy
Allied communique from Naples on May 22 reports that 6 of 25 German divisions in Italy were redeployed north to face Italian patriots and Yugoslav partisans along the border. Patriots say they derailed trains near Verona destroying 17 cars of war material and attacked a German convoy near Lecco while skirmishing at Vicenza and Piedmont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
Italy
Harold Alexander
Verona
Lecco
Vicenza
Piedmont
Visibility Improves Over Dover Strait After Rain
The report from London on May 22 notes good visibility over the Dover Strait as clouds thin. Light overnight rain subsided before dawn and the barometer rose while temperatures remained well below average for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Dover Strait
Strait
Answers to the Daily Quiz Fourteen
Answers to the Daily Quiz Fourteen printed on page 4 list Japan vs Chiang Kai shek as a convention, mark question 3 as false, identify Egypt for question 4, and offer "Deep" for another prompt. It also notes the number twenty, the field of shipbuilding, the West coast, the memory artist, and the word wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Chiang Kai Shek
Egypt
West Coast
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Handreds
Boy Scout
Laurens Jones
Associated Press
Silas Baughman
Kiel
General Clark
Goddard
Trial Justice Court
Civil & Police Court
J. W. Grove Furniture CO
Clarke
B. F. Goodrich
Silvertowns
Goodrich
Silvertown ‘Stores
Piccadilly St
B. F. Goodrich Tires
Chrysler Co
Bugs Armstrong
Congoleum
W. B. Snider & Son
Gene Miller
Fron Royal
Park Nine
Front Royal
Winchester Nine
Food Center
Londoun St
Foye
Peoples Service Drug Store
Loudoun St
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