Proposed Budget To Be Presented This Evening
Common Council set a special session for 7 30 p m to review a tentative budget of 334 375 based on a 1 31 tax rate per 100 assessed value. A public hearing will follow if approved, with possible additional meetings. Recreation Council seeks a 6000 appropriation for year round program.
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Common Council
W. P. Anderson
Winchester Recreation Council
Reardon
Finance Committee
ABC
Handley Library
Rouss Hook & Ladder
Friendship Ambulance
Sarah Zane Ambulance
Nee
Allied gains near Isernia press Germans on retreat in Italy
Allied reports say Fifth Army seized Raviscanina and other towns within 15 miles of Isernia as Eighth Army advanced from the southeast. British forces captured Bojano and Spineto while Montgommery's troops moved west from Vinchiaturo. air raids hit Podgorica and Yugoslav targets as Allied strength grows.
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Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Raviscanina
Isernia
Wda
Eighth Army
Objano
Campobasso
Capua
Crancolise
Sparanise
Rocchetta
Bojano
Baranelol
Bopano
Spineto
Petrella
Palata
Fifth
Eighth
Mondragon
Massico
Mondragone
Venafro
Italy
Vasto
Adriatic
Trigno
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Vinchiaturo
Montgomery
Roosevelt Says Civil Service Deferrals Small, 3.2 Percent
President Roosevelt countered mudslinging charges about draft dodgers in Civil Service by presenting figures that 3.2 percent of nearly 3 million full‑time civilian employees had occupational deferments. He released totals for 2,980,404 federal workers, 2,825,904 in the continental U S with about 84,000 deferments, plus 315,741 Post Office workers with 61 postal inspectors deferred, and 13,992 in other agencies with deferments.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wallace
Rayburn
Senate
House
Continental
United States
War and Navy
Post Office Department
War Shipping Administration
Sober Appraisal Of War Outlook Given To Japan
New York dispatch reports Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Tojo presenting a sober view of the war outlook at the Diet opening. Tojo warned the war is growing in intensity and outlined a new mobilization to boost war material production. The Emperor called the situation gravely serious in a broadcast read in Tokyo.
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Japan
New York
Hirohito
Hideki Tojo
Diet
Tojo
Tokyo
Office of War Information
Tokyo Radio
Germany
United States
Britain
Huyett Heads Co. Democrats in Frederick County
W. S. Huyett named chairman of the Frederick County Democratic Executive Committee and Ziler Bageant chosen secretary at a organizing meeting. Sheriff J. B. Bywaters appointed campaign manager with Mt. Jackson Democrat Burgess Nelson in attendance. Committee members listed include A. P. Whitacre John W. Harper George A. Smith N. L. Utah Crosen Clayton Pingley P. G. Hardy and others.
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W. S. Huyett
Frederick County
Ziler Bageant
J. B. Bywaters
Burgess Nelson
Mt. Jackson
State Senate
A. P. Whitacre
John W. Harper
George A. Smith
N. L
Utah
Crosen
Clayton Pingley
P. G. Hardy
Ft. Loudoun Restaurant Announces New Hours
Beginning Monday October 25 the Ft Loudoun Restaurant will open from 7 30 a m to 7 30 p m daily. Virginia Mason 10 23 1p 31
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Loudoun
Virginia Mason
Berryville Legion Building Event Promises Prizes
An event at the Legion Building in Berryville Virginia features a door prize of 50 dollars and other prizes. The notice lists time at 8 p m and appears to be a community gathering with additional details partially legible.
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Rues
Ont
Legion
Berryville
Young Woman Dies After Shooting by Capitol
An unidentified 30 year old woman, later identified as Charlotte W. Robinson of Chicago, was found dying on a sidewalk near the Capitol after being shot six times and dumped from a car. Police pursued a suspect described as about five eight and 170 pounds. The victim wore a gray plaid coat with Carson Pirie store labels and carried a blue stone ring.
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Washington
Capitol
Charlotte W. Robinson
Chicago
Recreation Services, Inc
Robert Lucas
Seventh and
A. Streets
N. E
National Capitol
Carson, Pirie
Ration Book 4 Issued To Large Number In County
More than 12 000 War Ration Book 4s issued yesterday in Winchester and Frederick county by volunteers and teachers. In Winchester the process went smoothly with some school rushes in the afternoon. Distribution aimed to finish by 5 p m with city and county programs open. Middletown issued 719 books, Clearbrook 825, Miller 969, and Stephens City 918. Reports from Gore, Gainesboro and smaller rural schools unavailable.
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Winchester
Frederick County
Middletown
Clearbrook
Miller
Stephens City
Gore
Gainesboro
Rummage Sale by Junior Auxiliary at old Penney Building
The Junior Auxiliary announces a rummage sale at the old Penney Building on Friday and Saturday this week. Proceeds support local community projects.
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Old Penney
Experts Wrestle With Words In Moscow Talks
The three power conference enters its eighth session as diplomatic technicians work to interpret Hull Eden Molotov statements. They weigh the words of the leaders and translate the agreements into concrete decisions, amid reports of progress and a prior Hull Stalin meeting with undisclosed details.
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Moscow
U. S
Cordell Hull
Anthony Eden
Vyacheslav Molotov
Hull
Joseph Stalin
County Teachers Meet Saturday in Frederick Courthouse
J. C. Gordon, principal of the Miller School and president of the Frederick County Teachers Association, announced a meeting Saturday at 10 o'clock in the Frederick County courthouse to name delegates for the Virginia Education Association annual meeting in Richmond next month.
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J. C. Gordon
Miller School
Frederick County Teachers Association
Frederick County
Virginia Education Association
Richmond
Farmers Discuss Postwar Projects in Winchester Meeting
A Frederick and Clarke county group of farmers and workers met in Winchester to discuss postwar projects for producer and consumer benefits. They favored expending farm cooperative services, home freezer units, canneries, improved grain, vegetable and poultry marketing, and grading of poultry. Fast air transport was noted as key to moving perishable goods. Speakers included J H Funkhauser and C C Richard with round table members listed.
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Frederick
Clarke Counties
Winchester
R. R. Furman
Southern States Cooperative
J. H. Funkhauser
Purman
Punkhauser
J. W. Larrick, Jr
Elizabeth Sprouse
Croswell Henderson
E. M. Punk
C. C. Richard
Middletown
L. O. Dick
Clearbrook
Lt Richardson Wins Promotion to Captaincy
Mrs Allan Barbour Richardson reports her husband Lieut Richardson has been promoted to captain. He has served overseas for 14 months and is attached to the Eighth Air Force.
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Allan ‘Barbour Richardson
Lieut. Richardson
Richardson
Eighth Air Force
Allied air campaign crushes Japanese at Rabaul in daylight raids
Allied communique reports in three days of daylight raids by nearly 300 planes destroying 123 enemy aircraft and probably 45 more. Over 800 Japanese planes were claimed down in two weeks in the southwest Pacific including Rabaul where Liberators Lightnings and Mitchell bombers pounded the Rapopo airdrome and surrounding airfields with no Allied losses.
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Southwest Pacific
Rabaul
MacArthur
Japan
New Britain
Pacific
Rapopo
Potatoes Grow Big as Drought Eases in Winchester Area
Winches ter area sees three quarters inch rain in two days soaking ground and aiding grass before frost. Lab reading 0.62 inch. Snow flurries reported south of Winchester on Route 11 but not enough to accumulate. Wilton White of Cross Junction weighs potatoes up to one and a half pounds from a half acre of Katahdin vines still green at frost. Drought seemed to have little effect on crow.
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Winchester
West Virginia
Wilton White
Cross Junction
Star Office
Tito Partisans Claim Capture Of Big Steel Point
Yugoslav partisans report capture of Vares Maydan a major steel center 20 miles north of Sarajevo after a 12 hour battle Gen Josip Broz Tito leads the assault German losses heavy two nearby rail stations destroyed. Partisans also say they bombed a Save river bridge at Brcko and claim clashes around the Montenegrin border with Mihailovic forces joining German counter moves.
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London
Bosnia
Vares-Maydan
Sarajevo
Yugoslav National Liberation Army
Josip (Tito) Broz
Free Yugoslav Radio
Brcko
Save
Serbia
Andrijevica
Montenegro
Ute
Bogsee Ane
Draja Mihailovic
Peter
Tito
Mihailovic
Ce Alto
World at War: Allied Advances and German Retreats
Four Russian armies pursue battered German divisions in a disordered retreat along the Dnieper as the eastern war hinges on their fate. In Italy German resistance weakens as the Fifth Army advances four to five miles and eight towns fall. In the Pacific MacArthur’s air force claims 123 to 116 Japanese planes destroyed at Rabaul as Allied momentum grows. Hirohito and Tojo warn of grave conditions while pledging to overcome dangers and intensify the war.
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Algiers
Italy
Isernia
New Po
Stockholm
Bruesseler Zeitung
Germany
Dnieper
Kremenchug
Kiev
Crimea
Russia
Dnieper River
Fifth Army
Pacific
MacArthur
Rabaul
Southwest Pacific
Hirohito
Diet
Tojo
Bombs Cracking German Morale Says Returning Soldiers
British soldiers just released from Nazi camps report German morale cracking under steady Allied air attacks on key cities and factories. Veterans like Rev. G. R. Grundy say Germans feel licked. Germans fear Russia more than Britain and fear is spreading through civilian life. Corporal William McLoughlan adds that a Luftwaffe factory was flattened by American bombers, leaving no usable buildings.
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Henry B
Boulogne
Germany
Mr. Grundy
Great Britain
Britain
Russia
Reich
Grundy
William McLoughlan
St. Valery
France
Marienburg
West Prussia
Pursued By Four Armies in Soviet Counteroffensive
Soviet fronts reported four armies pursuing German forces retreating across southern Ukraine toward the Bug River. Malinovsky and Konev led Ukrainian groups advancing on Dnepropetrovsk and Melitopol while Red Air Force pressed escorts. Stalin ordered a 20-gun salute as Eden observed the Moscow talks.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Adolph Hitler
Russia
Dnieper River
Bug River
Kremenchug
Sea of Azov
Stalingrad
Dnepropetrovsk
Dneprodzerzhinsk
Dnieper
Crimea
London
Berlin
Ukraine
Lwow
Poland
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Ivan S. Konev
Melitopol Satuday
Znamenka
Krivoi Rog
Dmnepropetrovsk
Fourth Army
Melitopol
Melitopol- Crimea
Red Air Force
Stalin
U.S
Meetras Ee Zs
Congest Hull
Anthony Eden
Tripower
Driver Injured as Auto Strikes Pedestrian on Braddock Street
Carl Driver, of 225 E Waterstreet, was slightly injured when hit by a car driven by Ray Daniel Metz of Shockeysville Winchester. Metz stopped and took Driver to a капital hospital after the collision at the Piccadilly Street intersection as Driver crossed from east to west.
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E. Waterstreet
Ray Daniel Metz
Shockeysville
Winchester
Metz
Na ” Acapital
Braddock Street
Piccadilly Street
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Yugoslavia
Podgorica
Dalmatian
Lagosta
Bubrovnik
Great Iron Center
Capitol Shadow
The
Associated Press
Carl
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