Breadbasket of Ukraine Found Empty After War
ERNEST G. FISCHER reports from Ukraine on Oct. 21 about German plans to revive agriculture west of the Dnieper. Lack of work animals, destroyed equipment, and scorched earth policies hinder early planting as winter approaches. German leaders supervise Kolchos farms while local peasants cope with shortages and shifting land control.
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Hitler
Dnieper River
Europe
Kiev
Odessa
Ukraine
Germany
Stawischtische
Kolchos
Judge orders release after conviction for striking wife
Peace Move Philadelphia reports Judge Edwin O. Lewis freed a man convicted of striking his wife Mary Weidner over protests by the woman. The decision cites concerns the jailed husband would conjure excuses to retaliate if kept behind bars. The note also places Bohemia Moravia as a leading industrial and populous region of the former Czechoslovak Republic.
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Philadelphia
Mary Weidner
Edwin O. Lewis
Aken
Sen
Winchester Girl Scouts Honor Founder As Week Observes
Girl Scouts in Winchester mark a founder's memory during Girl Scout Week begun October 26. Since 1928 the local movement grew to two Brownie packs, five intermediate troops, and two senior troops with over 100 girls aged 7 to 19.
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Winchester
Juliette Gordon Low
Helen Massey
Andrew Babb
Fred Ritter
Lucille Jackson
Janet Miller
Ruth Solenberger
Wm. B. Glover
Paul Halderman
Glen Seabright
Holloway Kinney
Phyllis Oakes
Bennett McCarthy
Robert McNally
Mary Boxley
Sue Jolly
Katherine Stone
Miriam Boyer
Episcopal Church
Council of
Service Clubs
Pee Dee River Battle Gains Momentum in Fall Maneuvers
In Camden South Carolina Oct 29 Major General Karl Truesdells Red Corps about 37000 men clash with Major General Lloyd R Fredendalls Blue forces over the North Carolina sandhill theater of the first armies fall maneuvers. The lines shift westward along a river boundary with Reds claiming captured Blue cavalrymen as both sides spread north and south of the Pee Dee.
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Camden
8. C
Karl Truesdell
Lloyd R. Fredendall
North Carolina
Pee Dee River
First
Mimic
Truesdell
Fredendall
Norwood
N. C
Midland
Charlotte
Wadesboro
Massachusetts
Candor-Norman
Charles F. Thompson
Kershaw
30Th National Guard
Regular
Blue
What is a tea taster
A tea taster is a man who judges the quality of tea which enters the test Board.
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Tes Board
Freedom From Night Raids Is Much Enjoyed
London residents enjoy a respite after four months without an air raid alarm. Theaters stay open late as crowds pour into venues, liquor is harder to obtain, and subway shelter usage has fallen from peak wartime levels. Evacuees return gradually. school children in London rise from 80 000 to 138 000, with a prior figure of 225 000 in 1940.
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Russell C. Landstrom
London
Piccadilly
Leicester Square
Regent Street
Strand
Chicago
Loop
West End
Local Social Notes From Brucetown And Clearbrook
Brucetown West Virginia hosts visits from Mr and Mrs Andy Whitacre and Mr and Mrs W T Swimley of Winchester. Clearbrook residents Miss Meta Frazier Mrs Martin and Mrs Cora Stewart are mentioned with several local callers. Total aircraft equipment exports to Britain exceeded 284 million dollars in first seven months of 1941 per the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce.
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John Hayslett
Sis Sitar
Clearbrook
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce
District Court Hears Light Docket in Western Virginia
In Harrisonburg, Judge John Paul sentences several offenders for untaxed liquor. Miller Dinges receives three years in Atlanta for operating an unlicensed still after a plea change. Hunter Lloyd gets two years. Newton Dines is placed on probation. Botwin case set for January in Roanoke. bail fixed at $10,000. Jurors dismissed as docket ends.
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Harrisonburg
United States District Court For
Western Virginia
John Paul
Miller Dinges
Massanutten Mountain
New Market
Atlanta
Dinges
Hunter Lloyd
Act
Newton Dinges
Nathaniel J. Botwin
Office of Production Management
Internal Revenue
Staunton
Roanoke
Paul
Botwin
Barksdale
Rockingham County
Federal
Lewisburg
Charles Thomas Reager
Rappahannock County
Causes of russeting in oranges and grapefruit
The russeting is caused by russet mites affecting the fruit epidermis. Drying of the epidermis leads to the russet appearance. No serious damage to eating quality results.
Farmers Making Some Progress Amid Drought Conditions
The report notes a rainless week through October 25 intensifying the statewide drought per U S Weather Bureau Extension Division and Virginia Crop Reporting Service. light rains on the 27th offered relief. temperatures averaged 63 in the state with 88 at Danville and Farmville and 29 at Palmville. freezing reported only at Walkerton and Callaville.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Extension Division
Virginia Cooperate
Callaville
Massanetta seeks $45,000 for new wing and kitchen
Massanetta Springs Bible Conference board met at Harrisonburg church and authorized a fundraising drive to raise 45,000 for a hotel wing and modernized kitchen. Officers were reelected and a bequest from James R. Lupton was acknowledged. Resolutions honored deceased treasurer Raymond C. Dingledine.
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Massanetta
Board of Trustees of
Massanetta Springs
Parks W. Wilson
T. C. Bales
Clifton Forge
W. E. Hudson
Synod
James R. Lupton
Raymond C. Dingledine
C. G. Price
Fred K. Betts
H. D. Brown
Richmond
H. H. Wood
Chief explains hunger rumors over chop suey prisoners
Los Angeles reports Chief William J. Bright denying a hunger strike linked to the prison menu. He says Mexican prisoners refused chop suey served to them, throwing it on the floor, as a reaction to international complications on the bill of fare.
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Los Angeles
William J. Bright
Discontinue Six State CCC Camps in Virginia
Six of Virginia's 56 Civilian Conservation Corps camps will be discontinued early next month. About 101 workers from the six sites will be transferred to other camps as enrollments drop due to defense programs. The closures include camps at Moneta Clintwood Elkton Newport Luray and Woolwine, with further eliminations possible later in November.
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Richmond
Virginia
Civilian Conservation Corps
G. R. Hedge
and Corps Area
Toay
Soil Conservation
Moneta
State Forest
Clintwood
National Park
Elkton
Forest
Newport
Luray
Woolwine
Newport, Luray
Hedge
CCC
National Defense Program
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Texas
Howver
Black Sea
Bohemia-Moravia
Czechoslovak Republic
Cammer Tire
Handley School
Potomac By-Products Co
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Shenandoah
Girl Scouts of Winchester
Christ Church of Friends
E. B. Cooper
Somme
Red Cross
Fellowship Club
March of Dimes
Britain
Juliette Low
Grace Lutherard Church
Carl Honeycutt
Solenberger Hardware
Lutheran Church
Brucetown
Miller’s Hardware
M. Loudoun &T
Doyle Parkins
Garnet Painter
Edinburg
Jesse W. Brubaker
Luray Rfd
A. H. Buckner Jr
Sperryville
Turner Catlett
Strasburg
W. J
Pine Motor CO
Dodge-Plymouth Distributors
China
Conoco
Iceland
Land of
Oil
Conocoth Oil
Death Valley
Gride AY Melboy Ek
Continental Oil Company
B&m
Chevrolet
Germain
Braddock
Potts
Cameron and Gerrard Sts
B. C. Whitlock
Lessee
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