Allies strike Corfu and Rhodes airfields in Mediterranean raids
Allied air forces led by American Liberators and Lightnings attacked German airfields at Corfu Rhodes and Crete with two direct hits on a merchant ship in Corfu harbor. Fifth Army on the Volturno river front prepared for an assault as British artillery shelled positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Kennedy
Algiers
Upi
Adriatic
Fifth Army
Volturno
Corfu
Geritza
Calato
Rhodes
Her
Siena
Asso
Recreation election debated as quorum prevents action
Winchester council failed to form a quorum for a special meeting on a proposed Recreation Council program. Officials noted past park funding lacked proper legal appropriations and that charter or statute changes are needed before council can support the plan. The discussion touched on a $6,000 budget and a 2 cent levy limit under the Code.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonovides Council
Winchester Recreational Council
Recreation Council
Reardon
Henry
Miegal
Russians Threaten Corridor To West From Sozh Front
Russian troops have established a strong position on the Sozh river's left bank opposite Gomel and threaten to open a westward corridor that would sever German lines in White Russia from Nazi forces in the Ukraine. The Soviet attack moves from three bridgeheads near Kiev press toward Vitebsk as heavy fighting continues and German casualties mount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Sozh
Gomel
Russia
Ukraine
Moscow
Dnieper
Kiev
Vitebsk
White Russia
Crimea
Red Army
CBS
New York
Novo-Belitza
161 Volunteers Needed For Blood Clinic Quota
Blood Donor Service reports the need for volunteers to meet an October 30 2021 clinic quota. Officials urge immediate registration as the huge task requires many donors to fill the remaining slots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoi Ua LO
Tomorro
Drivers Strike Spreads Disrupting War Work Across Regions
The national drivers strike continues to harm wartime production with 4400+ drivers and helpers idle in St Louis Memphis Atlanta New Orleans and Nashville. Freight shortages affect Arkansas Jacksonville and other fringe areas as the movement expands in the Southeast and West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minals
Maleaieetopriver
St. Louis
Memphis
Atlanta
New Orleans
Nashville
Ark
Jacksonville
Ery
French Sabotage Surges Amid Global Tensions
A fragment reports rising sabotage in France with trains derailed and lines blown, alleging oppression and terror, accusing French National Socialists of actions while terrorists move with judicial protection. The garbled text names rioting acts and a harsh critique of courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Rao
Man Invited To Quit Country Refuses To Go
NEW HAVEN Conn Oct 12 A federal judge asked American citizen Stanley McCarsky 23 to leave the United States forever after he pleaded guilty to failing to report for induction. The judge suspended sentence but conditioned removal from the U.S. and subsequent stay outside its borders. McCarsky a Hartford arms plant worker and father of a child born last May asked for immediate sentence. The case was continued 30 days to allow more time for removal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
United States
Stanley McCarshy
Hartford
Carroll C. Hincks
McCarshy
Joseph P. Cooney
Hincks
McCarer
Town notes and personal milestones in county life
Mrs. A L Rosenberger celebrated her 77th birthday on Millwood Road and recalled helping haul hay to aid her son in law's farm. The piece also notes currency and bond details, a bank report on War Loan E bonds, and a Weather/avian sighting with a large V formation of geese observed over Winchester and Frederick county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. L. Rosenberger
Millwood Road
Airport Road
Eit Oe
Ray Rosenger
Winchester
Frederick County
Gordon Aiken
Star
Winchester Fire Hazards Among Virginia's Worst
A. J. Bell, deputy state fire marshal, called Winchester one of Virginia's worst fire hazards after a week of city inspections. He praised local theaters Capitol and Palace for safety, noted exits and flame proofing, but warned the business district as the chief risk. The meeting discussed a proposed fire inspection code with added enforcement teeth, but no action due to quorum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
A. J. Bell
the Star
Wendell Barney
Barney
Board of Trade
Bell
Capitol
Palace
Picht
Rouss Avenue
AFL Frowns On Racial Bans At Convention
In Boston on October 12 the AFL convention adopted a committee report denouncing race discrimination in unions after a debate sparked by Negro delegates. President Green urged understanding and education rather than force to solve the problem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
American Federation of Labor
William Green
AFL
Green
Bucklew Buys Millbrook Mill at Middletown
E. K. Buckiew purchased the Millbrook Mill from M. H. Rhodes and others in Middletown Virginia. The four story brick flouring mill and equipment, water rights, feed, flour and milling gear, plus a brick dwelling and other buildings on about five acres changed hands for 500 in the circuit court deed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. K. Buckiew
M. H. Rhodes
Millbrook
Middletown
A Dollar A 10 Oclock Scholar Eases County Schools
County schools will start at 10 oclock this week delaying the opening by an hour. The change came after patrons complained about early starts and aims to ease transportation on routes. Leslie Kline for Round Hill had accepted a county post and was unavailable at the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yester
Leslie Kline
Round Hill
Ellender urges immediate lend-lease probe
Senator Ellender demands an immediate investigation into lend-lease operations. He cites a Stettinius letter stating Soviet reverse lend-lease has been limited to repair and servicing of American vessels in Soviet ports. He urges action on $13.793 billion in lend-lease expenditures and seeks oil, tin, iron ore, and rubber concessions. He also calls for negotiating bases in return for aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ellender
D-La
Russia
United States
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Louisiana
Senate
Roosevelt
Stettinius
Dr. Charles H. Harbaugh Dies at Fremont Home Near Hayfield
Dr. Charles Hamilton Harbaugh died at 2 30 yesterday at his Fremont home near Hayfield Virginia after a brief illness. He was born March 1 1870 in Cincinnati Ohio and educated at Wittenberg College Nelsons Business School. He graduated Jefferson Medical College in 1896 and did postgraduate work in Dublin London and Paris. He served as Medical Director of the Philadelphia Insurance Company from 1902 to 1915 and was a fellow of local and national medical associations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Hamilton Harbaugh
Fremont
Hayfield
Harbaugh
Cincinnati
Ohio
Washington Allen
Ella Louise
Spring) Harbaugh
Denmark
America
Wittenburg College
Springfield
Nelsons Business School
Jefferson Medical College
Dublin
London
Paris
Philadelphia Insurance Company
Philadelphia County Medical Society
American Medical Association
Salvage Drive Set By Junior Board Of Trade
Ben Belchie announced a salvage collection will start at 1 p m Saturday led by JET members and Boy Scouts. Tin cans pressed and cut, labels removed, papers, iron and other metals, and salvaged fats will be gathered. Fats placed on the curb will be sold with proceeds to the Scouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Belchie
Junior Board of Trade
JET
Boy Scouts
Britain Wins Azores Naval Bases Aid Anti Submarine War
Allied strategic report notes Portugal grants Britain access to Azores bases for anti submarine operations protecting a key sea lane from the U S to the continent. In Balkans Allied planes strike German targets, Clark's Fifth Army and British Eighth Corps see limited activity due to mud and rain. Pacific front details include Wake Island bombardment by a large modern fleet and Australian forces accelerating in Madang New Guinea as Japanese air power is challenged in the Solomons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
Portugal
Great Britain
Azores
U. S
Balkans
Rome
Clark
Fifth Army
Eighth
Pacific—Navy
Pearl Harbor
Wake Island
New Guinea
Madang
Solomons
Winchester's youngest captain Paul Thomson at 23
The 23 year old Paul J Thomson Jr is cited as Winchester's youngest Marine Corps captain and possibly the youngest officer of his rank. He graduated from the M S in 1941 and reported to Philadelphia in September 1941 before heading to the Southwest Pacific where he saw action. His unit includes another 23 year old decorated officer. Thomson is the son of Mrs Paul J Thomson and brother to Mrs H F Byrd Jr. and Bige Low, cadet at Augusta Military Academy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester’s
Marine Corps
Winchester
Paul J. Thomson
Paul J. Thomson, Jr
Morgan Street
Thomson
Philadelphia
Pearl
Southwest Pacific
Lee
H. F. Byrd, Jr
James
Chapel Hill
N. C
Bigelow
Augusta Military Academy
Use of Italian Fleet Studied
London reports Prime Minister Churchill said the Italian fleet remains under active consideration and will be used effectively by the United Nations. In a written reply to a Commons question, he stated the ships are in Allied hands, with five of Italy’s six battleships and eight of 11 cruisers in commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Churchill
United Nations
House of Commons
Italy
Youthful Editor Converts Newsy News to Monthly
Sammy Trump of Berkeley Springs shifts The Newsy News from weekly to monthly due to manpower and newsprint limits. Teachers and father intervened after a disruptive period, ending a carnival in the Trump yard as the paper adopts a monthly format.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sammy Trump
Berkeley Springs
Newsy
Sane
Sammy
Sees 5
Charlie
Newsy News
Trump Yard
Mim
Mary Jn
Azores Bases to Aid Allied Submarine War Effort
London reports Portugal grants Britain anti submarine bases in the Azores while Portugal remains neutral on the European mainland. Churchill says Roosevelt informed. bases to include harbors and airfields with possible relaxed refueling rules. Allied ships patrol, with British forces to be withdrawn at hostilities end.
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London
Portugal
Britain
Azores
Churchill
House of Commons
Roosevet
Lisbon
United States
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Japan
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Commons
Azore
New York
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MR Winchester
Uun
Red Cross
McCarsky
The
Carl Brown
Oy Commercial & Savings Bank
George Baker
Virginia
A.F.L
Bucklew
Diller
Sen
Dr. Harbaugh
Philadelphia Insurance Co
Germany
Yugoslavia
Yugoslav Liberation Army
Tony
Cherso
Gulf of and Added
Novo-Meste
Paul Thomson
By E. C. Daniel
Wenter
Spain
Col
Winchester Cold Co
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