Germans Admit Stalingrad Attack Is Going Slow
All-Out scrap campaign planned in Winchester and Frederick County to collect metal and rubber. The effort, supported by the Winchester Evening Star and local salvage groups, runs from next Monday through October 21 with a scrap harvest week October 15-21. Chairs named for dismantling and depot collection as part of a broad mobilization.
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Winchester Evening Star
Winchester Junior Board of Trade
Frederick County Agricultural War Board
Winchester
Frederick County
Ben Belchie
Forrest Sirbaugh
Wendell Barney
Wilhelmstrasse
Stalingrad
Hitler
Volga
British Exchange
Zurich
Berlin
New York
Scrap depot announced for Cork Street lot site
The south side Cork street lot behind the American filling station between Loudoun and Indian alley will host the scrap depot. Residents are urged to bring scrap for donation. if scrap is too heavy to move, notify the committee.
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Cork Street
Loudoun
Indian Alley
City survey sought as contest offers $4,000 in war bonds
A survey of the city is to be made and a committee for this purpose is to be appointed. To Enter Contest Both the city and county will be eligible to enter the contest in which Virginia newspapers are offering $4,000 in war bonds as prizes to individuals, organizations, business firms and cities. The prizes were announced yesterday.
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H. C. Sheets
George Barnsley
Robert Dechert
Fats
John P. Lamb
Wendell Barney
Virginia
Yester
Winchester Urges Immediate Scrap Drive for War Effort
MA Winchester calls for immediate action to collect scrap metal and rubber to keep steel mills and furnaces running and to arm a mighty army. He emphasizes every pound counts and notes Virginia newspapers and the Winchester Star offer war bond prizes to encourage contributions from individuals, clubs, and organizations.
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Virginia
Winchester Star
Lets Show Our Metal In Virginia Scrap Drive
We urge Virginians to turn in old scrap metal to aid war production. The three week state campaign promises prizes for top collectors among individuals firms clubs and communities. Join readers readers and salvage committees in making Virginia first in scrap metal collection to supply war industries.
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Winchester
War Production Board
Virginia
Virginia State Salvage Committee
Mopping Up Jap Is Tough Job For U. S. Says Grew
Former ambassador Joseph C. Grew told a Syracuse war rally that Japan is the era’s most formidable enemy far tougher than Germany. He warned Americans not to underestimate Japan and described their army as practical and formidable, notes from a prepared NBC broadcast.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Japan
Germany
Joseph C. Grew
Grew
Berlin
Tokyo
NBC
Aleutian Island
America
Chutists Swell Striking Power Of U S Forces
London dispatch reports American parachute troops in England boosting U S striking power for invasion or Commando raids against Nazi targets. Commanded by Lt Col Edson D Raff and joining British parachutists, most are Southerners with many college men. Deployment follows Pearl Harbor and convoys.
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Wes Gallagher
London
United States
Hitler
England
Dwight D. Eisenhower
AEF
Edson D. Raff
New York City
Georgia
United States Army
South
Alain Josephs
New York
Rivahside
Pearl Harbor
Britain
Bruneval
French Channel
le Havre
Dieppe
Quiz Kids runner earns Zenith portable radio
Dr. Thomas Gibson of Winchester Virginia won a Zenith portable radio from Miles Laboratories for a Quiz Kids program question aired Sunday September thirteenth. Gibson asked the officers in the Army Air Forces to write times in the Army format 6:30 p m and one minute after midnight as 1830 and 0001.
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Thomas Gibson
West Boscawen Street
Winchester
Army
Miles Laboratories
Dr. Gibson
Army Air Forces
Richard Williams
Claude Brenner
Canadians Recall Heavy Price in Dieppe Raids
Ottawa disclosed that 5000 Canadian troops took part in the Dieppe raid on August 19 and suffered 3350 casualties including 170 killed 633 wounded and 2547 missing. Defense Minister J L Ralston summarized the operation as paying a very heavy price with lessons and some gains amid chaotic events and misfortune with an escort German tanker in the English Channel.
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Ottawa
Dieppe
Defense
J. L. Ralston
English Channel
No. 3 Commando
Berneval
Royal Regiment of Canada
Puits
Royal Regiment
Governor Darden Won't Recommend Local Tax Segregation Changes
Richmond Va September 2 Governor Darden said he is not prepared to offer any recommendation to return to local sources of taxation segregated to the state under the tax segregation act. He warned the state will operate on a thin margin and urged equitable local assessments before any change. The state debt outlook remains tight with 1941 net county debt at 25 929 000 and city totals not yet final.
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Richmond
Darden
Virginia
L. McCarthy Downs
League of Virginia
Down
Prize Night at Rouss Fire Hall Friday Evening
Friday night at 8 30 p m the event offers 250 in prizes. It will be held at the Rouss Fire Hall as scheduled despite the date readout 9 17 thur fri 1p tf.
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Rouss
Bombers Strike Bordeaux Docks and Air Raids Reach Sofia
British coastal command bombed the German held Bordeaux docks and submarine base on the Bay of Biscay. Beau fighters destroyed three enemy bombers, with one loss. Four Nazi planes strafed a southwest British port. German anti aircraft guns were captured. Sofia feared air raids as balloons with explosives were reported, while Bulgarian police faced tensions over Varna.
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London
Germany
RAF
Coastal Command
Bordeaux
France
Bay of Biscay
Air Ministry
Britain
Europe
Sofia
Hungary
Black Sea
Varna
Moscow
Bulgaria
Broadcast union ban threatens forty percent of radio programs
FCC Chairman James L Fly testified before the Interstate Commerce Subcommittee on the Petrillo ban on music recordings. He warned that live musicians and radio stations face shortages and potential loss of more than 40 percent of programs as negotiations continue.
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Washington
James Lawrence Fly
Federal Communications Commission
James C. Petrillo
Fly
Interstate Commerce Subcommittee
Clark
D.-Idaho
Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
Smashing Blows Struck At Jap Supply Base
General MacArthur's headquarters reports Allied air and ground operations near Buna New Guinea. Allied raiders wrecked or damaged 15 landing barges and set fires in supply dumps, while American planes dropped 35 000 rounds of fire. The strike aimed to ease pressure on Australian troops at Ioribaiwa.
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Port Moresby
U. S
Buna
Ioribaiwa
Owen Stanley
Allied
Tiribaiwa
Upper New Guinea
New Britain
Rabaul
MacArthur
Gasmata
New Guinea
VPF Men Reminded to Attend Drill in Uniform
Captain W A Baker orders members of Virginia Protective Force Company 115 Winchester to report at 8 o clock tonight in uniform for the regular drill at the armory.
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Winchester
Virginia Protective Force Co
W. A. Baker
Armory
Condition of Rivers WANTED-20 laborers immedi ately
Winchester Cold Storage Co seeks twenty laborers immediately for river work. Employment terms listed in public notice with location and contact details.
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Winchester Cold Storage Co
Stalingrad Battle Updates from Moscow and Berlin
A Moscow Reuters dispatch reports German commando drops near Stalingrad as the assault stalls. Berlin cautions of a slow push while Red Army counter moves threaten the Nazi advance along the Volga. Russians seize the initiative with street fighting and heavy casualties on both sides.
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London
Reuters
Moscow
Stalingrad
Adolf Hitler
Feder von Bock
Berlin
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