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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1942
Page
1
August dispatches report escalating clashes across India with New Delhi described as ugly. Bombay sees looting and artillery-fire while martial law looms. casualties rise with 31 dead in one day and over 250 wounded. Gandhi’s arrest backdrop fuels widespread unrest amid British actions.
F. L. Largent Jr. resigns as justice of Winchester's civil and police court after receiving his commission as an ensign in the U S Naval Reserve. Ensign Sargent must report at Fort Schuyler August 20 for Aviation Volunteer Service training. The court may lack a presiding judge until a successor is elected.
The 93rd annual Disciples of Christ Valley district convention will be August 26 and 27 at the Strasburg Christian Church led by Pastor Rev. Kenneth W. Ball. President Rev. Meredith Norment and vice president Rev. Algie B. Crocker headline a roster of district officers. the event serves Frederick Shenandoah Rockingham Warren and Page counties with ministerial and lay delegates. Key sessions feature addresses by Rev. John A. Tate and Rev. Warren Baldwin, plus church-school and missionary programs, banquets, and talks by Virginia clergy and lay leaders.
McIlwee's Municipal Band presents its third summer concert at Hand ley High School Thursday night August 13 at 7 30 o'clock time advanced a half hour due to daylight. Sousa Militaire F Schubert and other numbers featured. Yard party at John Kerr School Thursday Friday and Saturday nights with music games and a benefit for Friendship Fire Co.
A local event note invites residents to a Yard Party and half day picnic at Mt. Olive in Hayfield on August 15. The listing appears as a simple community notice with no additional details provided.
Washington reports Kilsoo Haan says a Korean patriot shot Premier General Tojo in Tokyo on June 17. He adds Hirota and Pugit a were wounded. gendarmes fired during the incident as photographers and crowds caused panic in Tokyo Yokohama and Osaka.
Richmond dispatch says five counties Alleghany Bath Botetourt Highland and Rock may seek a later October squirrel season after a September 1 15 start. In all other counties the September window remains from Sept 1 to 15. Commission meets Sept 4 to decide. General season opens Nov 20 under proposal.
Sportsmen from Shenandoah Warren and adjacent counties are invited to meet Friday night at 8 o clock at the Courthouse to discuss pro and other regulations. Representatives from multiple counties are requested to attend and participate in the discussion.
Mount A L Fry leads the Yo Ag teachers in a conference at Buchanan. Details are sparse but indicate a regional gathering focused on agriculture education and extension.
George W Haddox estate probate filed in Winchester City Court executor Harry K Benham posts 52000 bond. The Haddox house on East Lane Ave to be occupied by Mrs Haddox and daughter in law Mrs George Haddox with tax and maintenance duties. Trust fund to fund income to Harriet Haddox with eventual divisions to grandson Edward Koons and son George. Appraisers named S D McPadden J W Arthur Harry Copenhaver Taylor Barr C R White.
Production of aircraft parts returns to near normal at the Cleveland Graphite Bronze Company after a 16hour strike. Plant superintendent Harry E. Puller reports full turnout for the 11 p.m. shift and a restabilized operation as the War Labor Board may review the dispute.
United States fliers yesterday scored hits on the Japanese airdrome at Nanchang Hong Kong bulletin reports bombing the hangar area and a second target between two hangars where Japanese planes were housed. The strike comes as CHINA fronts continue against Japanese forces.
Four Royal Air Force prisoners flown from Sicily to Taranto escaped by commandeering the Italian plane when their guard fell ill. The BBC reported the group of two Englishmen an Australian and a New Zealander reached Cairo after a bold escape described as one of the most remarkable.
London report says Mainz and Coblenz rail facilities on the Rhine were heavily attacked by 16 RAF bombers, with fires still raging. Other targets included Le Havre docks and southern England, as German nuisance raids struck the Midlands. One German bomber was destroyed. London endured a 30 minute alert.
Eldon Spaid, 20, was shot in the right leg during a softball game at The Park and only noticed after returning home. A .22 bullet was removed. no culprit identified. Linwood Kern, five, has returned home from Johns Hopkins and is recovering. R. Lee Barney, of Back Creek farm, shows a registered Hereford herd and expected cattle sales in the future. A car sale was halted when a government order banned new-car sales.
Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, chief of U S naval forces in the South Pacific, directs an assault on Japanese bases near Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. He is shown taking a salute during the United Nations Day parade in Auckland, New Zealand.
The Rev. Eugene Jackson of Harrisonburg Va will speak at Bethel Memorial Church near Millwood on August 23 to mark a memorial service. The historic pewter service used until 1855 will be returned to the congregation. Miss May Kerfoot had removed the pewter and old church records from 1808 to 1853 for safekeeping and transport to the Virginia Baptist Historical Society. The records will be brought back and kept in the church vault as part of 134 years of Bethel history.
British and Soviet reports clash over Front lines as Red Army counter-attacks in Voronezh and Rzhev show strength while German columns advance toward Novorossisk Tuapse and the Grozny oil region. The Moscow dispatch notes renewed fighting with heavy material flow to sustain the drive.
A large crowd is expected for the annual memorial service at Old Stone Church Greenspring. The event Saturday afternoon August 15 features Rev Harry Crim pastor Strasburg presiding and Rev Leslie Shirley Frederick County Council of Religious Education in charge. Lunches available on the grounds.
Rumor from Chungking indicates Allied warplanes bombed Formosa today while Allied air forces press against Japanese positions. In London the Star reports U S Marines in the Solomon Islands have been strengthened and are making progress with tanks landing craft and artillery, holding bridgeheads from earlier assaults.
Allied sea borne forces and marines fought fierce hand to hand battles in the Solomon Islands 900 miles northeast of Australia as US news declared the door opened to an Allied offensive in the South Pacific. Tokyo claimed the battle ended in a US defeat, while reports from Tulagi and advanced bases described continued operations and progress toward occupation of Tulagi area.
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