American Planes Fire Upon Again Over Okinawa
On August 18 in Okinawa American B-32s conducting photographic missions were attacked by Japanese anti air and fighters. Fourteen Zero fighters intercepted the formation injuring two crew and killing one. One B-32 was badly damaged. two enemy planes were reportedly downed. Fighter escorts aided the mission. earlier heavy fire near Yokohama had damaged another B-32.
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Okinawa
Japan
MacArthur
Manila
NBC
Robert Shaplen
Shaplin
Truman
Inya Island
Shikoku
Duke of Windsor says he would love to live in Virginia
The Duke and Duchess, on a stopover at Virginia Beach en route from Florida, told friends they would love to live in Virginia and that he has been seeking a Virginia farm. He was recognized at a popular beach club and spent the evening with friends at their homes.
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Virginia Beach
Duke of Windsor
Virginia
Florida
Company 115 Invited to V J Day Services
Captain W A Baker announces Company 115 Va S G is invited by Winchester Ministerial Association to attend V J Day services when President Truman declares the day. Location tentatively Handley School auditorium. Members to watch papers and radio and report in uniform at South Washington Street and Handley Boulevard 30 minutes before program. parade contingency at Armory. report 30 minutes before parade time. All servicemen home are invited to participate.
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W. A. Baker
Company 115
Va. S. G
Winchester Ministerial Association
Truman
Handley School
South Washington Street
Handley Boulevard
Park Faces Capital Transit In Sunday Baseball Duel
Park meets Capital Transit of Washington D C in a Sunday baseball clash on a sunny field. Park aims to build offense against Capital Transit’s pitching as both sides seek a late season win.
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Park
Orchardists Ticket Pickers at Evening Star Job Print
Orchardists are urged to obtain pickers tickets at the Evening Star Job Print office.
Singing Telegram Returns in Name Only in Postwar Shuffle
In New York on August 18, authorities declare singing telegrams are returning in a legal form, but Western Union notes full reconversion will wait until the messenger shortage, especially for those who can perform "Happy Birthday to You," eases.
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New York
Western Union
DDT Sprayed Over Rockford To Fight Infantile Paralysis
Rockford Illinois will spray DDT by airplane to combat polio as 128 cases and 16 deaths mount in the metropolitan area. An Army B 25 Mitchell bomber with a 550 gallon tank will fly at 250 feet and 200 mph to cover gutters and roadsides in a wide strip.
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Rockford
Inn
Illinois
Air Technical Service Command
Dayton
Panama
Col. T. Halliday
Atsc Laboratory
Frederick County Agriculture Board to Meet August 22
The Frederick County Board of Agriculture schedules a quarterly meeting for Wednesday night August 22 at 8 o clock in the County Court House Winchester. Plans include continuing postwar agricultural outreach, reports from committees, and resumption of community projects. A National Food Bank project seeks volunteers for canning packing labeling and distribution through UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Red Cross.
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Frederick County Board of Agriculture
County
Winchester
National Food Bank
U. S Department of Agriculture
United Nations M Rehabilitations and Relief Administration
United Nations Relef Organization
Churches To Meet At New Hope Near Harrisonburg
Roy A. Larrick, Winchester lay man and re elected president of the Virginia Valley Central Conference of Congregational Churches, said the next annual session will be held at the New Hope Church near Harrisonburg Rev. Robert A. Whitten, pastor of the Winchester church, is vice president of the organization.
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Roy A. Larrick
Winchester
Virginia Valley Central Conference of Congregational Christian Chuches
New Hope Church
Harrisonburg
Robert A. Whitten
Winchester Church
Apples Tie Prices to All Varieties at Winchester Plant
E. W. Barr announces ceiling prices for all apple varieties at the Winchester Cold Storage Packing House. Contact phone 4455 for details.
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E. W. Barr
Winchester Cold Storage Packing House
Death of State Senator Glascock Shocks Fauquier County
State Senator Thomas Bedford Glascock died at 3 30 this morning at Bollingbrook Farm near Upperville after a long illness. A farmer and stock raiser, he served Fauquier Culpeper and Loudoun districts in the Senate since 1936 and survived by Mary Moore Howe and three children. Funeral services are set for Monday at his Upperville home.
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Thomas Bedford Glascock
Bollingbrook Farm
Upperville
Glascock
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Fauquier County
Culpeper
Fauquier
Loudoun
Senate
University of Virginia
Mary Moore Howe
Thomas Bedford, Jr
Mary Howe
Lulu Richards
Virginia
Lulu Richards Glascock
B. Richards Glascock
Commonwealth
H. H. Johnson
Government Owned Plants For Sale Or Lease
Hundreds of government owned war plants will be taken over by private industry in months. Officials forecast sales and rentals will rise as civilian production starts and thousands of released war workers are absorbed. About 1,000 plants are available though none of the aircraft, aluminum, magnesium, synthetic rubber, or steel facilities have yet been sold.
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Washington
Congress
Construction boom predicted as peacetime housing rises
Washington reports Hugh Potter predicts Americans will build 10 to 15 million homes in the next decade as peacetime living expands. Other signs include potential end of meat rationing, continued labor management assurances, liberalized materials use, tax-cut plans, and removal of order controls to spur construction and reduce unemployment.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
Hugh Potter
War Production Board
Treasury
Vinson
OPA
WPB
J. A. Krug
Potter
Anderson
Poe
Telegraph Company
Japs Show No Disposition To Give Up In Burma
Allied reports say Japanese forces in Burma show no intention to surrender as the Burma front holds. Many are attempting to escape across the Sittang river with heavy losses feared. About 50,000 Japanese are believed stationed near Moulmein, while broadcasts try to hasten capitulations.
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Burma
Sittang River
Moulmein
Southeast Asia
Georges Bidault
Paris
Tokyo
Industry Advised Against Pay Cuts
The War Labor Board urged private industry to restrain wage increases during reconversion but advised against pay cuts. The board will disband after cases are resolved and wage stabilization will be handled by another agency, possibly under Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach. President Truman’s policy allows wage increases at will if no price boosts are involved. The board will enforce no wage cuts below the highest January to September 15 1942 rates and relies on voluntary compliance from employers and unions. A. F. L. President William Green may meet with Truman soon as the center nears closure.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Idustry
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Truman
WLB
George W. Taylor
Taylor
Labor-Management Center
William Green
Japanese Told Flatly They Are A Beaten People
San Francisco reports from August reveal Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigematsu stating Japan must accept defeat and adhere to the Potsdam terms. He urged the nation to acknowledge the reality, avoid optimism, and carry out the declaration with courage amid ongoing postwar pressure.
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San
Francisco
Silhen
Mamoru Shigematsu
Kuniaki Koiso
Japanese Demeinews Agency
Highway Program Ready To Launch Nationwide system planned
Washington reports Congress can start a national highway program by declaring war emergency ended. A billion dollars yearly federal match with states supports a 40 000 mile inter state system. For each 100 million spent, 19 350 direct and 43 120 indirect man years of work预计, with gasoline tax revenues largely intact in states. First year allotments include Maryland 4 791 532 Virginia 8 796 623 West Virginia 6 362 044.
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Washington
Congress
Public Roads Bureau
Bureau
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Robertson Favors Adjusting Higher Tax Brackets for Reconversion
Richmond August 18 Representative A Willis Robertson of Lexington urges raising higher income tax brackets to free 20 billion for reconversion and plant expansion. He backs relief for small taxpayers via higher personal exemptions, seeks repeal of the capital stock tax, and predicts automation of car use tax. He also discusses postwar wage plans and employment funding.
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Richmond
A. Willis Robertson
Lexington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Robertson
VMI Board
Congress
Virginia
Washington
Doughton
Church of England
Baptist Church
Byrd to Confer With Stimson Over Furloughs for Workers
Senator Harry Byrd D Virginia plans a meeting with Secretary of War Stimson early next week to push for immediate furloughs of experienced farmers and miners to ease labor shortages. He warned he may go to Washington if Stimson does not reply to his letter from the previous Thursday to press servicemen release to meet farm and harvest needs in September October and November.
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Berryville
Harry Byrd
D-Va
Stimson
Stamson
Washington
Russians Press Harbin Drive in Manchuria
Soviet armored columns closed on Harbin as Japanese forces resisted malgré an ultimatum to surrender by Monday noon. Reports said 20 000 Japanese laid down arms as Red Army launched a three sided assault on the central Manchurian city with large war industries.
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London
Harbin
Manchuria
Manchurian
Red Army
MacArthur Awaits Japanese Envoys
In Torrington Connecticut on August 18 the article notes wartime anticipation as General MacArthur awaits Japanese envoys. It also recalls four children’s birthdays reflecting key World War II dates including Pearl Harbor Day D-Day V-E Day and the day the Japanese surrender.
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Torrington
Conn
Otto Wald
Lena
Pearl Harbor
Ruth
Normandy
Kenneth
Franklin
War Workers Continue To Be Laid Off Across Nation
Transition to peace leads to mass unemployment as hundreds of thousands lose war jobs. Estimates vary, but up to 8 million could be jobless by spring, with major lay offs in aircraft plants, steel, and automotive sectors and unemployment offices flooded. Rubber firms plan hiring increases. Mass migration of workers from abroad expected to end by January 1.
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John W. Snyder
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
America
Woodridge
N. J
Cincinnati
Ohio
Chicago
Akron
Goodyear Aircraft
New York
New Jersey
North Carolina
Louisiana
Pittsburgh
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Convogesion
Philadelphia
Iid
Wilmington
U. S. Rubber Company
Troit
Eau Claire
Wis
Angeles
Soviet Japanese Peace Plans Move Forward at Harbin
A Soviet commission reached Harbin Manchuria to pick up the Japanese surrender party for the province. The delegation led by Gen Hata was to be flown to Marshal Vasilevsky after the Soviet halt orders were issued. The broadcast noted cessation of hostilities on all front sectors once Japanese movements stop.
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San Francisco
Harbin
Manchuria
Khabarovsk
Federal Communications Commission
Otozo Yamanda
Kwangtung
M. Vasilevsky
Gen
Hata
Vasilevsky
Yamada
Local Trapshooters In District Match
A Winchester team led by E. E. Cuthbert C J Renner Arthur Seabright and Willis P Anderson competed in the Washington Gun Club War Bond Shooting match in Washington last Saturday August 11. Entry required buying war bonds and the event raised 7500 from 35 shooters. Cuthbert finished third behind Ralph Luttrell who won with 49 of 50 discs.
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Winchester
E. E. Cuthbert
C. J. Renner
Arthur Seabright
Willis P. Anderson
Washington Gun Club
Mr. Cuthbert
Rlph Luttrell
Washington Gun Cle
Envoys to Okinawa May Reach Manila Monday Likely
Reports say surrender envoys sent from Ie Shima near Okinawa will travel by American plane to Manila, with arrival expected around 1 20 p m Sunday Hawaii time. two Japanese planes from Kisarazu were scheduled to depart 7 a m Tokyo time, carrying marked planes to Ie Shima in a complex flight plan.
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Eneral MacArthur
Okinawa
Manila
Tokyo
Kisaarazu
MacArthur
Sato Misaki
Ie Shima
Welcome Home Veterans From Frederick County and Winchester
The Star welcomes returning veterans who served their country and resume civilian life. The list includes Harry Murphy, Ray Rubben Himilright, and Robert Wayne Oates. The Star seeks public help to add more names of local men who have received their commissions.
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Frederick County
Winchester
Star
Pfe
Harry Junior Murphy
Ray Rubben
Himilright
T.sd
Robert Wayne Oates
Hurst Packing Co advertises bulk apples for sale
Local notice invites buyers to contact Hurst Packing Company for all apple varieties in bulk or packed. Corrugated phone numbers listed as 5152 and 3770 with Winchester location.
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Hurst Packing Company
Winchester
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