Army offers 252 war plants for civilian goods
The army offered 252 government owned war plants to industry, meant to convert to civilian production and create jobs, with a $1.5 million cost basis and push from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to sell or lease to private manufacturers. Stores, towns, and transport controls relax as railroads may restore holiday trains and civilian appliance availability accelerates, though sugar rations extend and a land boom signals uncertain postwar demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling F. Green
Washington
Army
White House
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Neere
ODT
WPB
OPA
Blast Damages Iron Fireman Plant in Portland
An explosion at Iron Fireman Manufacturing Company in Portland Aug 23 killed inspector Michael Keck and injured seventeen workers and others. The blast toppled roof sections, shattered windows blocks away, and ignited oil stored in the basement while fire crews contained the blaze and halted plant operations. Several workers remain in serious condition.
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Portland
Ore
Iron Fireman Manufacturing Company
Michael Keck
Change of beer sales at Shawnee Service Station
Beginning September 1 1945 the Shawnee Service Station at 210 Millwood Ave will sell beer only for take off premises.
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Millwood Ave
Lovett's Dress Shop Announces Clearance Sale
Lovett's Dress Shop at 156 North Loudoun Street unveils a clearance sale starting Thursday. The notice lists a special event in a local shopping district with dates and location.
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Lovett’s Dress Shop
N. Loudoun St
Apples Price Guide From Winchester Packing House
E W Barr of Winchester Cold Storage Packing House announces ceiling prices for all apple varieties. Contact phone 4455 for details.
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E. W. Barr
Winchester Cold Storage Packing House
County School Board Names 11 Teachers in Stephens City column
The Frederick reports Stephens City adds 11 teachers for the upcoming school year with six positions still open. Dorothy Poe will teach commercial subjects at Stephens City High. others cover Gore Stonewall Middletown Gainesboro and Stephens City. Six vacancies remain before September 6 and several principalships and grade rooms are listed as open. The board also approved a two week fall harvest work permit program for students aged 12 to 16 with enrollment required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Stephens City
Dorothy Poe
Evelyn Crocker
Ada Hildebrand
Gore High School
Dorothy Tutwiler
Ann Virginia Kerns
Marguerite Wisecarver
Gore
Annabelle Dick
Stonewall
Mary R. Klapbank
Ethel Garber
Middletown
Janie Clayton
Gainesboro
Lois E. Eaton
Miller and Bryarly
Miller
New Labor Quits Are Flaring
Philadelphia reports rising war job cuts as contract cancellations surge nationwide. Nine new war contract terminations totaling nearly 55 million dollars were disclosed by the SEC, lifting the industry total to about 7 billion across 71 firms. A four day strike at Spicer Manufacturing in Pottsville area and a third day at Midvale Steel in Nicetown Pa. followed worker protests over back pay for the Victory Holiday.
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Philadelphia
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC
Spicer Manufacturing Company
Pottstown
Appene
Midvale Steel Company
Nicetown
Rain Brings Cooler Weather in Winchester
A light fall of rain extended into the afternoon in Winchester, adding little to the monthly total. At the Research Laboratory, 7 am reports 0.26 inch, August 3.55 and 1945 total 34.19 inches. Skies remain cloudy with more precipitation forecast for tonight and Friday. Temperature dipped from 94 to 68 overnight, then rose to 81 by late afternoon.
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Winchester
Valley District Disciples of Christ to Meet at Walnut Springs
The Valley District Disciples of Christ convention, the 96th, will be held August 29 and 30 at Walnut Springs Christian Church. Rev. Charles R. Sine, president, announced the program and the theme The Church Witnessing for Christ. Officiating officers include Rev. Sine as president Rev. Nelson Fox as vice president and J Leslie Salt as secretary treasurer. The event, titled Home Coming Convention, will feature former valley ministers among attendees.
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Valley District
Disciples of Christ
Walnut Springs
Charles R. Sine
Dsciples of Christ
Frederick
Shenandoah
Warren
Page
S. J. Goode
Winchester
Witnessing For Christ
Sine
Nelson Fox
Strasburg
Leslie Salt
Maurertown
Atteance
Charles H. Funk
West Cork Street Church
Cooperative poultry plant advance noted at Frederick meeting
Irvine Cather reported ground has been broken for a new cooperative poultry dressing plant in Winchester with a $50,000 budget and hopes for operation by year start. A two day August tour of Valley flocks and poultry plants was announced for local growers.
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C. Irvine Cather
Frederick County Board of Agriculture
Winchester
Cather
Fred Stine
Walker McC. Bond
Bond
Roy L. Bageant
E. Clay Rogers
H. S. Williams
M. E. Coe
VPI
Frederick County
Clothing Supply To Return Soon
Washington report states that officials forecast large quantities of clothing and textiles returning to stores within two months. An AP survey notes residual limits if households overbuy. wartime production capacity suggests a higher postwar output, with few controls to continue.
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Washington
Associated Press
War Production Board
Britain seeks five year retention of wartime controls
London August 23 Britain’s new labor government introduced legislation to retain for at least five years many wartime emergency powers. The bill would allow price pegs and regulation of services and supplies. Leader Herbert Morrison Chancellor Hugh Dalton and Sir Stafford Cripps presented the measure to the Commons.
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London
Britain
Herbert Morrison
Hugh Dalton
Stafford Cripps
Board of Trade
Commons
Attlee
De Gaulle Arrives in Washington for get acquainted talks
General Charles De Gaulle arrives in Washington to meet President Truman at Blair House for talks on Indo China and postwar alignment. He is greeted by officials and a crowd as British and Chinese troop plans spark debate on French role.
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Washington
Charles de Gaulle
White House
Blair House
Executive
Truman
George T. Summerlin
State Department
Sumner Waite
U. S. Army
Foreign Office
France
China
Indo-China
United States
United States of America
Nips In Hills of Luzon Give Up Amid Peace Talks
In northern Luzon mountains several thousand Japanese surrendered after negotiations despite opposition from their commander. Allied HQ in Manila reports talks ongoing on Mindanao and Cebu as a Japanese emissary pledged to inform his senior commander.
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Luzon
P. I
Manila
Mindanao
Cebu
Associated Press
G. I
Dining car racket nets $100000 loss across railroads
The FBI reports 118 arrests nationwide in a dining car scam tied to New York Central and Erie trains. Stewards waiters and cooks exploited food and liquor checks costing railroads over 600 dollars on some trips, harming service men elderly women and other travelers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Federal Bureau of Investigation
E. E. Conroy
New York FBI
New York Central
Erie
Conroy
Jap Capitulation in Field In Advance of Ceremony
Lt Gen Wedemeyer said China and Britain are negotiating which forces will occupy Hong Kong and accept Japan s surrender there. China seeks to accept surrender in Manchuria as well, with Generals Chang Chi Chung and Hsiung Shih Hui named to receive surrender, while Russians operate in Manchuria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Hong Kong
U. S
China
Chang Fuh-Kwei
Chang Chi- Chung
Hsiung Shih-Hui
Simo Chiang Kai-Shek
Manchuria
Formosa
Indo-China
Chiang
Seeks To Prevent Farming Slumps
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson urged full employment to avert another agricultural downturn. Speaking before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, he linked industrial jobs to farm prosperity, citing 1932-33 farm income lows and 1943 high levels as proof of the relationship.
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Washington
Anderson
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Japanese complaints on China surrender delays frustrate MacArthur
Manila dispatch reports Japan asks for consideration of disarmament timing amid Chinese disorder. A second message cites irregulars bandits and mobs hindering surrender. Japan seeks limited ship movements after hours for vessels lacking radio gear and compliance with Allied radio rules.
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Manila
MacArthur
China
Chungking
Chiang Kai- Shek
Yenan
Japan
Japs To Be Told Stark Reality
An extraordinary Japanese diet session is set for September 2 and 3 to expose Japan’s defeat and explain the end of the war. The drive includes rebuilding controls and a shift to a multi party system, with a call for elections after reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Japan
Ese Domei
Federal Communications Commission
America
Nippon
Reds Push Ahead in China Report From Chungking
The New China Daily News claims Communists in north central China have gathered strength for an all out offensive. A column reached Tientsin west rail station amid street fighting while forces approach Wanping Nanyuan Peiping. Tsing Tao port is surrounded and Wuhu on the Yangtze fell to Communist advances. Wedemeyer informs Chiang an inquiry found mortar shell fragments not of American manufacture from Kunming and Chungking.
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Chungking
New China Daily News
China
Tientsin
Wanping
Nanyuan
Peiping
Tsingtao
Shangtung
Anhwei
Wuhu
Yangtze River
Nanking
Albert C. Wedemeyer
U. S
Chiang Kai-Shek
Sian
Shensi
Wedemeyer
Kunming
Ten Million Said Raid Victims In Greater East Asia War
Tokyo radio quoted air defense headquarters figures showing nearly 10 million people were killed wounded or left homeless by enemy air raids across Greater East Asia during World War II. The AP recorded the Tokyo broadcast noting the figure as figures continued on page 8.
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Associated Press
Japan
Greater East Asia
Tokyo Radio
Air Defense
Atom
Signing On Missouri Aims To End War On August Thirty First
Allied leaders plan formal surrender aboard the Missouri on Tokyo Bay to end the war. MacArthur’s headquarters say field capitulation progresses in advance of the ceremony as thousands of Japanese prisoners are released and occupation plans move forward in Luzon Mindanao and Cebu.
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Associated Press
Manila
Japan
Tokyo Bay
Missouri
MacArthur
Luzon
Mindanao
Cebu
Isand
Marcus Island
Marcus
Tokyo
Red Cross
Yokosuka
Kyo Bay
Sagami Bay
Welcome Home Veterans From Frederick County and Winchester
The Star greets returning servicemen including Robert Reardon M M and Sgt William H as they resume civilian life. The public is asked to help by supplying additional discharge names for future lists of veterans.
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Frederick County
Winchester
The
Star
Robert Reardon
M. M
William H
the Star
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Boston
U. S. Employment Service
International
County School Board
Charles Sine
de Gaulle
Reds
E. Gan
Nimitz Oe
L. H. Gan Oyen
Jacquey
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