Dardens plan to offset state debt moves rapidly
Governor Darden's plan to offset Virginia's 18.55 million debt gained swift momentum as the House approved 85 to 0 a 10 million dollar sinking fund bill and the Senate backed letting surplus funds be placed in short term federal paper. Delegate Whitehead pressed for 500 thousand yearly aid for school buses, but the amendment was ruled out as non germane.
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Richmond
Darden
House
Senate
Robert Whitehead
Nelson
Whitehead
G. Alvin Massenburg
Thomas B. Stanley
Massenburg
Carly
Blue Ridge Mountains
Winchester exhibit promotes canned fruits and vegetables
The Winchester and Clarke County Garden Club along with the Old Fredericktown Garden Club and the Little Garden Club host an annual exhibit of canned fruits and vegetables October 9 10 in Henry Building 130 North Loudoun Street. Home makers may enter jars and all prizes benefit hot lunch programs in Frederick county schools.
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Winchester and
Clarke County Garden Club
Old
North
Loudoun
Friendship Fire Company Monthly Meeting Notice
The Friendship Fire Company announces its regular monthly meeting will be held Thursday at 8 o'clock. All members are urged to be present. Marion Anderson, Captain.
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Friendship Fire Company
Friendship Fire Comany
Marion Anderson
Scrap Poundage Hits 165 825 in Winchester Drive
Scrap collections in Winchester rose to 165 825 pounds yesterday with daily total 31 450 pounds. Seven collections have been made since the drive opened for a daily average about 23 689 pounds. County sources contribute in part while the main campaign runs, urging Get Out The Scrap with school children driving much of the effort.
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Winchester
Newspapers Scrap Drive Dominant Factor This Winter
Iron Age reports newspapers united scrap metal drive as the dominant factor this winter for war material, with states starting the drive Monday. It notes labor shortages may curb progress and some cities must help solve distribution. mills have not yet seen enough scrap to avert potential shortages.
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New York
Iron Age, Steel and Iron Trade Magazine
United Scrap Metal Drive
War Srottelion
Demolition Planned for Elevated Train Yard Behind We Pole Grounds
An elevated train yard behind We Pole grounds is set to be demolished to salvage about 7000 tons of scrap. The work aims to remove the yard and recover metal for scrapping.
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New York
We Pole Grounds
New Going
Auction sale announced for October
An auction sale is set for 10 a.m. Friday October 2 featuring household furniture and antiques. Lunch will be served by Boyce Church at Gane P. C. Randolph.
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Boyce Church
Gane
P. C. Randolph
Capacity Crowd Sees Opening Game of 1942 World Series
A near 35000 crowd filled Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis to watch Mort Cooper of the Cardinals face Red Ruffing of the Yankees in game one. Manager Billy Southworth and Ren Ya stook the lineup announced yesterday. Ruffing, 37, seeks his sixth Series start with one loss. Cooper, winner of 22 games that season, makes his first World Series appearance.
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Sportsman’s Park
ST. Louis
Mort Cooper
Cardinals
Red Ruffing
New York Yankees
Billy Southworth
Ren
Ruffing
Cooper
Te Yanks
Assembly Caucus Names Judges
The Democratic caucus of the Virginia General Assembly nominated Judge Brockenbrough Lamb of the Richmond Chancery Court and Judge S. Duval Martin of the Lynchburg Corporation Court for reelection. Nominations were unanimous, with appointments expiring 30 days after the Legislature convenes.
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Richmond
General Assembly
Brockenbrough Lamb
Richmond Chancery Court
S. Duval Martin
Lynchburg Corporation Court
Darden
Senate Courts of Justice Committee
Walter
House
Legislative
Charley Rouss Fire Co Monthly Meeting Notice
The Charley Rouss Fire Co announces its regular monthly meeting on Thursday evening October 1st at 8 oclock. All members are urged to attend. President David F Hottle.
Army Takes Otts Seat In Plane
In St Louis on September 30 a World Series press precinct formed. Ott reached earlier in negotiations, with Mas ter Melvin considering options to travel for games in New York or return home to New Orleans. Ott later secured transport.
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T. Louis
Master Melvin
St. Louis
New York
New Orleans
Ott
Lions and VPF Announce Hoffman Circus Committees
The Lions Club and Virginia Protective Force co sponsor the Hoffman Three Ring Circus to be staged in Winchester at the armory the week of October 5 to 10. Committees list Lions Club names led by C A Hobart and VPF members led by W A Baker with executive staff headed by Ed F Hoffman and John C Jackel. The program aims to raise funds for Army Navy relief.
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Lions Club
Virginia Protective Force Company
Winchester
Armory
C. A. Hobart
Marvin Weaver
Ralph Hengeveled
Earl Clowser
Grant Pollock
Glen Nichols
Warren Eddy
Sebert Smith
James Galladay
Paul Anderson
J. E. Madden
J. F. Grimes
Earl Mason
John L. Glaize
W. A. Baker
Taylor Barr
Douglas Spillman
Alien B. Gray
Walter M. Shade
Robert L. Sutton
Ed F. Hoffman
Fred Huber
E. M. Hoffman
John C. Jackel
German Bomb Kills Many In School
London reports a heavy German bomb wrecked a southern England boys school killing twenty boys and two teachers including headmistress Miss Charlotte Marshall. Rescue workers worked to locate others buried as eighteen boys were missing and 34 were injured among about 70 students in arithmetic and composition class.
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London
Charlotte Marshall
England
Senators Adopt Amendment For Adequate Wages
The Senate voted 86 to 4 to strip farm parity changes from anti inflation legislation and adopt a Barkley amendment. It directs lifting price ceilings where labor costs since January 1, 1941 are reflected and requires an adequate wage for farm labor in cost calculations. Ends eight day administration Senate clash.
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
Offer Services A Second Time In Apple Harvest
P L Ayers of the Winchester Junior Board of Trade says no grower has asked for help despite reports of labor shortages. He notes volunteers have offered and that other workers are already employed, but the JBT plans to repeat its Sunday picker offer to prevent crop loss in Frederick County.
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P. L. Ayers
Junior Board of Trade
Winchester Junior Board of Trade
Winchester
Frederick County
JBT
L. M. Waller, Jr
Shenandoah Valley
National Era Product Company
Plant Ofce
Distributors of Foodstuffs To Be Investigated
The House Agriculture Committee pursued a cost-of-distribution inquiry after a six month farm labor investigation. Lawmakers cited a wide margin between prices paid to farmers and consumer prices. Only one witness, War Production Chief Donald Nelson, remained to testify.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Donald M. Nelson
Palmer
D-Sc
Fulmer
Hitler Predicts Victory as War Speech Echoes In Berlin
Adolf Hitler vowed that Germany would continue to defeat enemies until final victory, saying Stalingrad would fall. The winter relief address at Sportpalast marked his return after five months, with Rommel and top Nazi leaders in attendance as Goebbels dismissed any rifts.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Stalingrad
Hitler
Goebbels
Fuehrer
Dieppe Raid Losses Reported as Half Allied Force
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that Allied losses at Dieppe were very nearly half the total force involved. He cited unexpectedly strong German street barriers and noted the RAF’s “faultless” support in the operation as the Spanish largest air battle, with nearly 100 German planes destroyed.
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Dieppe
London
Churchill
House of Commons
James Henderson Stewart
German Gestapo official Alois Gruber reported killed in Prague
London bulletin cites Reuters dispatch from the German frontier stating Alois Gruber a high ranking Gestapo official was killed in Prague while fighting the enemies of the trench and the protectorate. New Delhi reports say a British raid on Mandalay and central Burma rail junctions hit trains and tracks per an RAF communique.
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London
Reuters
Alois Gruber
Gestapo
Prague
Protectorate
New Delhi
Mandalay
Burma
Enrolment Falls in Clarke County High Schools
Berryville reports 156 high school students this fall a drop of about 30 from last year. Boyce shows 56 high school students in the new term. Principals expect future growth after harvest ends as many former students work on farms. county elementary enrollment also down from about 400 to 376.
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Berryville
Clarke
D. G. Cooley
Boyce
Charles E. Miley
French prelates issue letters denouncing anti Jewish brutalities
Two French Catholic Church leaders publish pastoral letters condemning anti Jewish brutality by Pierre Laval. The World Jewish Congress cites reports of thousands of Jews deported from France to Nazi work camps in Eastern Europe.
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London
Pierre Laval
World Jewish Congress
France
Eastern
Europe
Turkey Krupp armament deal for 1943 signed in Ankara
London dispatch reports a Turkish government contract with Germany’s Krupp for about 13 million dollars in 1943 armaments. Germany will receive Turkish chrome under the terms. In Washington, the Navy says a U S merchant vessel was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine off the northern coast of South America in August. Survivors reached an East Coast port.
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London
Krupp Munitions Works
Germany
Turkey
Ankara
Washington
Navy
United States
Atlantic
South America
U.S
Guinea Jungle Diary of Haugland Hailed As An Epic of Journalism
The Shreveport Journal calls Vern Haugland Associated Press correspondent's six weeks in New Guinea jungles an epic of journalism. He endured hunger, delirium, and solitude while diarying for 32 days, remaining devoted to his profession and faith despite extreme hardship.
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Guinea
Haugland
Shreveport
Vern Haugland
Associated Press
New Guinea
Press of the World
Shreveport Journal
Rupert Peyton
Sony Aeemnetic Wae
Reds Claim Two Nazi Divisions Badly Defeated
MOSCOW September 30 The Red Army reports heavy fighting around Stalingrad and claims two German divisions were routed by relief attacks. Soviet sources say other fronts show momentum with Kalinin offensive gains northwest of Rzhev and damage to German forces along the Black Sea coast and at Mozdok. The battle reports describe intense urban fighting, large German losses, and continued Soviet pressure on multiple fronts.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Adolf Hitler
Leningrad
Mozdok
Comsomol Pravda
Young Pravda
Steppes
Red Army
Rzhev
Don-Volgaidor
Talingrad
Rumanian Mountain Infantry
Caucasian Black Sea
Novorossisk
Red Star
Army
London
Soviet Information Bureau
Red
Scrap Campaign Totals in Winchester and Frederick County
The scrap drive reports weigh in totals through last night with Goal at 2,685,622 pounds and actual weighed 165,628 pounds. Remaining to collect 2,402,932. Daily collections show September 22 at 16,141 pounds and September 23 at 12,372 pounds.
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Winchester
Frederick County
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Roanoke Times
North Fork
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Lamp Motor Co
Assembly Caucus
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Apple Harvest
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Clarke Co
Black Sea
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