Potsdam Peace Plan Shifts Germany and Europe After War
The Big Three outline a stripped down Germany under Allied control and redefined Poland, with a council of five including China and France to guide future treaties. Russia’s stance on Japan remains secret as Byrnes proceeds home with Truman aboard the Augusta after the Potsdam conference.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Europe
Potsdam
Russia
Japan
Germany
Poland
Berlin
German East- Prussia
China
France
United States
London
Byrnes
Truman
Augusta
Blockade of Japan By Mine-Laying Bombers Escalates War
Japan 20th Air Force announces total shipping blockade by mine laying super Fortresses. Okinawa based planes raid Kyushu sinking or damaging 14 vessels and downing six interceptors. Nimitz reports carrier sweep destroyed or damaged 278 planes and 116 sea craft. Allied light units bomb Buka Island. Chinese rail and river actions with ships damaged near Hunan Kwangsi area and Kanhsien rising tension.
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Japan
20Th Air Force
Kyushu
Admiral Nimitz
China
South China
Indo - China
Hunan - Kwangsi
Kweilin
Rewon
U. S
Kanhsien
Laval Admits Secret Alliances With Italians And Britons
Pierre Laval testified at Marshal Petain's trial admitting he whispered threats to overthrow the republic and described a 1935 36 secret pact with Italy. He said the Hoare Laval agreement sought to block German aggression and that he informed Britain’s leadership including the Prince of Wales.
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Paris
Pierre Laval
Marshal Petain
Republic
Petains
Vichy
France
Laval
M. Pomaret
Senate
Pomaret
Marshall
Jules Jeannery
Paul Mongibeaux
Fresnes
Italy
Maurice Gamelin
Pietro Badoglio
Mussolini
Samuel Hoare
Prince of Wales
Edward VIII
Duke of Windsor
Marshal
Blood Drive Urges Citizens to Donate in Winchester
MA WINCHESTER SAYS a call to donate blood at Peoples Drug Store August 3rd as local residents from Winchester and surrounding counties join the Pacific Front war effort. Captain Botsford of the U S Army Medical Corps highlights the life saving value of whole blood and plasmapheresis while urging neighbors to register and give a pint to aid fighters far from home.
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Pacific
Daniel R. Botsford
U. S. Army Medical Corps
Peoples Drug Store
Winchester
Frederick
Shenandoah
Tuck for Governor Voting Note August 7
Political advertisement urging the Democratic nomination of William M. Tuck for governor. It highlights his current role as Lieutenant Governor and a record of progress, urging Virginia voters to remember the August 7 election date.
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Tuck
William M. Tuck
Virginia
Tuck opposes Federal Interference
Editorial criticizes Moss A. Plunkett for backing federal water development and flood control in Virginia. It praises William M. Tuck for opposing federal intrusion and warns that federal power erodes states rights and home rule along with Shenandoah River communities.
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Moss A. Plunkett
Virginia
Shenandoah River
M. A. Hutchinson
State Compensation Board
Shenandoah
Washington
William M. Tuck
Tuck
PINGLEY & CARPER Cleaners to Close for Vacation
PINGLEY and CARPER Cleaners will close for vacation on August 11 and reopen on Monday August 20. Customers are asked to claim their clothes by August 10.
Summer Clearance at Buzzella's Shop Goods Sale
Summer clearance sale at Buzzella's Shop offers hats and bags for 1.00 and 2.00, large jewelry assortment for 50c and 1.00, with many other items greatly reduced. Obvious bargain event shown with shop name and catalog references.
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Buzzella’s
Sarah Zane Fire Co Meeting Set for August Third
The regular monthly meeting of the Sarah Zane Fire Co. will be held Friday evening August 3 at 8 PM. All members are requested to be present. Loryn M. Crabill Captain.
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Sarah Zane Fire CO
Loryn M. Crabill
Clearance sale items listed at half to one dollar
A local ad promotes hats 50 cents and one dollar handbags with discounts of one to two dollars. Mary S. Yeakley is identified with the sale details. The note includes a page reference 4 (8-2-1p-21).
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Mary S. Yeakley
Maximum Fines Given In Poultry Hearing Today
Charles R. Bish and Irvin Burman of Baltimore doing business as Hanover Dressed Poultry Company were fined 500 dollars and costs each for unlawfully operating a slaughter house within 200 feet of a dwelling in Winchester. Burman was absent. Swimley case held under advisement. Adelberg said an appeal would be noted.
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Charles R. Bish
Valley Avenue
Irvin Burman
Baltimore
Hanover Dressed Poultry Company
John Rice
Winchester
Burman
Poffice Court
William T. Swimley
South
Cameron Street
Rice
Harry Adelberg
Hanover
Forlher
Supreme Court
Burr P. Harrison
Francis Funk
Winchester Police
Adelberg
Joseph Newlin
Newsboys to Attend Kirkwood Shows at Winchester Fairgrounds
Newsboys from Newsboys or the Winchester Evening Star will visit Joseph Kirkwood shows at 7 30 Saturday evening at the old fairgrounds. A kiddies matinee is planned tomorrow with no admission and rides and show charges halved. Zacchini the human cannon ball headlines nightly performances with crowds exceeding a thousand at the Winchester Elks hosted carnival.
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Newsboys
Winchester Evening Star
Joseph Kirkwood
Winchester Elks
Zacchini
Plunkett Turns To British Socialism In Gubernatorial Bid
The editor attacks Moss Plunkett as courting British socialist ideas to run Virginia, arguing his proposals would raise taxes and public debt. The piece contrasts Plunkett's spending plan with Tuck's pay as you go approach and warns of federal tax burdens if Virginia mimics Britain.
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Virginia
Moss Plunkett
Great Britain
Pinkett
Plunkett
Harold Laski
Roanoke
Tuck
Start Registering Blood Donors
Registration of blood donor volunteers began today at ten with the clinic opening next Wednesday. Red Cross officials urge immediate volunteering to meet the local quota as Shenandoah County’s turnout falls short and National Fruit Product Company operates with a reduced staff. Registration HQ at People's Drug Store opens daily from 10 am, volunteers may sign in person or by calling 3831.
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Red Cross
Shenandoah
National Fruit Product Company
C. F. Schenck
People’s Drug Store
Nations strike total tops 56 thousand in a day
Fresh labor disputes push the national strike total beyond 56 000 with about 10 000 more idled in the last 24 hours. New walkouts in Philadelphia Wilkes Barre and St Louis. one threatened in Philadelphia. A 1 000 New Jersey workers stay away at the Navy Yard in protest of a city wage tax.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Wilkes-Barre
St. Louis
Electric Storage Battery Company
Joseph Kelley
CIO
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Vulcan Iron Works
St. Louis Car Company
Arthur van Stratten
United Steelworkers Union
War Labor Board
New Jersey
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Cleveland
Republic Steel Corporation
Rouss Fire Co Notice for Friday August 3 Meeting
The Charlie Rouss Fire Co will hold a meeting Friday evening at 8 o clock. All members are urged to attend. C C Dettra President.
Band rehear sal by Messinee and Handley Monday
Messinee's Band and Handley Band announce an important rehearsal on Monday August 6 at 8 p.m. in Rouss Hall. All members are urged to attend for preparations.
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Messinee
Handley Band
Rouss Hall
Apple prices cited by Winchester storage firm contact
E. W. Barr of Winchester Cold Storage Packing House offers ceiling prices on all apple varieties. Contact via phone 4455. Includes storage and trading note dated June 3.
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E. W. Barr
Winchester Cold
Mines seal Japanese ports as 91 ships fall to air power
Guam Aug 3 AP The 20th Air Force reports all major harbors and Korea coast mined by B 29s cutting enemy shipping to a shadow. Hundreds of thousands of tons destroyed. New raids on Honshu and Tokyo Bay follow, with Iwo and Okinawa forces striking Nippon targets including ships, rail lines, and factories.
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Guam
Japan
20Th Air Force
Home Islands
Korea
Russia
Busters
Pagan
Marianas
Nippon
Iwo
Naoya
Kobe
Honshu
Spaatz
Army Strategic Air Sea
Tokyo Bay
Far East
May Scrap Plans For Clothing
The War Production Board considers abandoning its M-388 order that earmarked about 75 percent of civilian fabric for inexpensive garments. It would replace with specific quotas for non scarce garments due to reduced military needs. Wool and rayon phases likely revoked first, with Septem ber 30 as the target effect date.
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Washington
Tne
War Production Board
To Hang Germans For Slayings
A U S Third Army commission in Munich sentenced two German civilians to be hanged for the mob slaying of two Allied fliers near Frankfurt on the Main on August 29, 1944. Nikolaus Fachinger, police chief of Gross Gerau, age 40, and Heinrich Plaaus, resident of the village, were convicted. Victims were unidentified but believed to be Americans, one with a jacket bearing insignia and the name Dickie on the left breast pocket.
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Munich
U. S. Third Army
Frankfurt
Nikolaus Fachinger
Gross Gerau
Heindrich Plauaus
Dickie
Molly Mundt Presents Husband With 36 Points
Rita Mundt of New York presented her husband Sgt. Frederick Mundt with 36 points counting two girls and a boy born Wednesday night. The three healthy triplets arrive as his unit serves in Germany with occupation forces.
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New York
Rita Mundt
Frederick Mundt
Bronx
Germany
Bingo Tonight At South End Fire Co Tonight
South End Fire Co hosts a bingo night at 8 30 p m with over £400 in prizes including 31 9 cer cria.
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South End Fire Co
Cer Cria
Daily Newspapers Back Tuck In Virginia Governor Race
Alexandria Gazette and Arlington Daily both endorsed William M. Tuck for governor and Charles R. Fenwick for lieutenant governor in the August Democratic primary. Tuck faces Moss Plunkett while Fenwick contends with Lewis Preston Collins and Lennard Muse. Newport News Daily Press also endorsed Tuck.
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Alexanddsia
Alexandria Gazette
Arlington Daily
Old Dominion
William M. Tuck
South Boston
Charles R. Fenwick
Arlington
Tuck
Moss Plunkett
Roanoke
Fenwick
Lewis Preston Collins
Marion
Lennard Muse
Newport News Daily Presser
Tuck for Governor Lieutenant-Gov Campaign Ad
Political ad notes Tuck campaigns for governor now serving as lieutenant governor. Mentions a date phrase Tuesday and references campaign messaging for a future election without specific details.
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