Hurley Says Diplomats Sought Arms for Communists in China
Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that a Chungking Embassy counselor George Atcheson Jr sought to supply lend-lease arms to Chinese communists. He also accused diplomat John S. Service of proposing allowing Chiang Kai Shek’s government to collapse in 1944 while Stillwell ran China. Hurley defended U S aid to Chiang and the alliance with China despite the alleged moves by officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Patrick J. Hurley
Chungking
George Atchheson, Jr
Hurley
Atcheson
China
John S. Service
Stilwell
Roosevelt
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Service
Joe” Stilwell
State Department
Chiang Kai Shek
Rev C R Sine to Resume Pastorate at West Cork Street Church
The West Cork Street Church of Christ in this city voted unanimously to ask former pastor Charlies R. Sine to act as pastor until a successor is found. Mr Sine resigned to allow younger leadership but no new pastor has been secured. Mr Line will serve in this capacity and resume residence in Winchester after months at his Gore country home.
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West Cork Street Church of Christ
Charlies R. Sine
Sine
Line
Winchester
Gore
Navy to discharge reserve enlisted men and women
The Navy announces eligibility for discharge for all reserve enlisted personnel aged 33 to 38 with at least one dependent before August 15, counting wives as dependents. About 35,000 would be affected, though many already qualified under the points system. Previously the cutoff was 42 years old with or without dependents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Goering Ultimatum Threat Fueled Prague Invasion
At the International Military Tribunal American prosecutors cited official German, French and British reports detailing Hermann Goering's ultimatum to Emil Hacha that Prague would be bombed within two hours unless German troops were invited in. The testimony described Hacha's coerced surrender on March 15 1939 and the German invasion at dawn.
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Mernberg
Herman Goering
Czechoslovakia
Hitler
Prague
International Military Tribunal
Goering
Neville Chamberlain
Emil Hacha
Berlin
Hacha
Robert Coulondre
Neville Henderson
Byrd Office Announces Gradual POW Withdraw Plan
Senator Byrd's office says an agreement to withdraw prisoners of war gradually from Virginia farms and forests was reached. The Third Service Command will assign 2,779 POWs in December, 1,390 in January, and 695 in February, with full repatriation of all German POWs by April 1.
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Washington
Byrd
Virginia
Virginia Agriculural
War Department
Third Service Command
Baltimore
Frank Cavedo
United States Employment Service
Ler
Motored Repairs Offer From Local Shoe Shop
A local shoe repair shop Moselys Shoe Rebuilders at 31 W Bowewen St advertises repair services with phone contact 4914. The short notice includes a price note and store details in the text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mosely’s Shoe Rebuilders
W. Bowewen St
Senate Okays UNO Bill for active role in peace group
The Senate voted 65 to 7 to back active participation in the United Nations Organization and sent the measure to the House. The package includes a $550 million UNRRA appropriation as the final installment of the pledge, with debate on a $1.35 billion second installment. Wheeler warned of presidential war powers without congressional case by case consent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
United Nations Organization
McKellar
D-Tenn
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
House
UNO
Bloom
D-Ny
Foreign Affairs
London
Wheeler
Mont
Langer
Moore
Okla
Revercomb
W. Va
Shipstead
Minn
Taft
Ohio
Wherry
Neb
Congress
Willis
R-Ind
UNO Security Council
Dying Boy Sees Early Christmas Gift Parade
Ronald Lundquist a 17 year old Minnesota boy diagnosed with leukemia enjoyed an early Christmas last night. Doctors had warned the family he might not live to December due to his illness. A volunteer Santa, 495 pound Doug Roos, handed out fur lined gifts to the hospital bed amid a hopeful, tense family gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Ronald Lundquist
Ronald
Clarence Lundquist
Lundquists
Santa
Doug Roos
University of Minnesota
More American Graves Located in Hiroshima China?
Crosses bearing Japanese characters mark the burial places of seven bomber crewmen whose plane crashed two weeks before Japan surrendered. The U S 41st Division located the graves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiroshima
Japan
U. S. 41St Division
Charis Garments Dia 5606 After 6 PM Notice
Margaret McVicar of 20 Peyton Street is listed in a public notice dated December 5 with reference 7 2t. The brief entry records a post 6 p m deadline and mentions Charis Garments and a file number 5606.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dia
Margaret McVicar
Peyton St
Gift Suggestions for Presents Cheerful and Practical
Mary S Yeakley offers a brief guide to useful gift items including handbags fascinators blouses sweaters scarves shoulderettes mittens handkerchiefs and children s muffs. The list emphasizes affordable seasonal choices for diverse recipients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary S. Yeakley
Appointment Schedule for Phong 6 f
Appointment details list Phong at six feet tall with a record of 12 wins 5 losses 1 draw and two tournaments. The note indicates a by appointment arrangement and references a possible fencing or fighting context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owe Reungee
Phong
Labor's Big Three Opposing Fact-Finding Plan
Detroit December report notes postponed GM UAW CIO talks due to Reuther departure. The walkout continues as Ford Local 600 plans motorized picketing from 10 AM to pressure for wage hikes and quick talks on a 30 percent raise within GM's price structure. Chrysler also ends negotiations with the UAW CIO over contract extension terms.
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Labor
Gm- Auto Union
Detroit
General Motors
CIO Auto Workers
Walter P. Reuther
United Automobile Workers
CIO
Reuther
UAW
Cadillac
Ternstedt
Chevrolet Forge
Chevrolet
Uawcio
Truman
Chrysler
Par Cio
Robert W. Conner
Uaw-Cio
Virginia Sees First Real Winter Weather
Slush and snow driven by 30 mile per hour winds hit Virginia with temperatures near freezing. State highways were cleared with sand and chemicals though windshields froze causing slow traffic. Roanoke area reported 1 to 2 inches of snow with Kent Mountain and Route 2 facing challenges as gusts eased by afternoon.
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Associated Press
Virginia
State Highway Department
Washington
State Weather Bureau
Roanoke
Patrick County
Kent Mountain
Woodrum Field
Bristol
Petersburg
Radford
President Sees Reconversion Problems Capable of Solution
President Truman told industrial leaders at the Golden Anniversary Congress of American Industry that reconversion problems are capable of orderly and speedy solution. Wallace praised wartime industry, urged stable profits, higher venture capital rewards, and increased output per worker to lift real wages and promote full employment.
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New York
Truman
Commerce Wallace
National Association of Manufacturers
Congress of American Industry
Wallace
Congress
America
Winds message never broadcast before Pearl Harbor
Congressional investigators heard that the Japanese did not broadcast the so called Winds message signaling a break with the United States before the December 7 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. William D. Mitchell told the Senate House inquiry that no evidence of such a signal was found in Tokyo through General Douglas MacArthur.
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Washington
U. S
Pearl Harbor
William D. Mitchell
Senate House
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Bertie Peat Arbor
Britain
United States
Russia
Mitchell
University to house married servicemen with 100 trailers
Charlottesville December 5 The University of Virginia will receive 100 expansible three room trailers from the Federal Public Housing Administration to house married former servicemen enrolled at the university. The units will be placed on Route 29 property west of Lambeth Field recently acquired by UVa. Water supply arrangements have been made by the city and occupancy is planned before the new term opens next March.
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Charlottesville
University of Virginia
Federal Public Houseing Administration
Portsmouth
University
John L. Newcomb
Lambeth Field
Prospects Rise as Bonds and Tires Enter Markets
Washington reports new civilian cashings totaling about 400000 to reach the market soon. Surplus auto tire offerings may follow as the War Assets Corporation shifts to consumer goods. Three large plants producing synthetic rubber from grain alcohol are being closed by order of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation due to anticipated natural rubber inflows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Assets Corpor- Bsc
Ac Gore
Tirel Tesanes
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
United States
Britain’s Labor Rule Under Fire
Oliver Lyttelton opened Conservative parliamentary attack against the Labor government accusing it of leaving industry in a Whitehall twilight and delaying demobilization. He criticized Attlee’s nationalization plan and said housing is only words with no houses while industry relies on government control.
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London
Oliver Lyttelton
Britain
Whitehall
Board of Trade
German Aviatrix Claims Bormann Joined Death Pact With Hitler
Capt. Hanna Reitsch testified to counterintelligence that Martin Bormann joined Hitler in a death pact hours before Berlin fell. She described the final hours in the Reichskancellery bunker and said she left on the Fuehrer's orders before suicides. Bormann is being tried in absentia at Nuremberg for war crimes.
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Oberursel
Germany
Hanna Reitsch
Berlin
S- Counter- Intelligence Investignts
Martin Bormann
Hitler
Fuehrer
S. A
Volkssturm
International Military Tribunal
Nuernberg
Reitsch
Goering
Himmler
Goebbels
Eva Braun
Bormann
War Department reports Staff Sgt. William H. Miller killed in action
The War Department informed Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Miller that their son Staff Sgt. William H. Miller was killed in action over the North Sea on April 4, 1945 after his B 17 bomber collided mid air during a combat mission. He was 21, a Handley High School graduate and Randolph Macon College student, awarded the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters. He is survived by his parents, a brother and a sister.
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War Department
Joseph P. Miller
West Clifford Street
City
William H. Miller
North Sea
Poticon
Ates
Altheu
Air Sea
Army Air Forces
Washington, D. C
Handley
Young Miller
Winchester
Handley High School
Randolph-Macon College
Ashland
Army Air Corps
Las Vegas
Nevada
Eighth Air England
Bill
Germany
Grace Lutheran Church
Joseph R
Mary Wolfe
Zigler To Head Virginia Poultry Federation
Howard S Zigler of Tinberville was elected to head the Virginia State Poultry Federation for the coming year. W Reid Williams Jr of Richmond became vice president and Harry L Moore of Blacksburg was re elected secretary treasurer. Dr John R Hutcheson of Virginia Tech urged improved efficiency and economics at the convention banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Howard S&s. Zigler
Tin Berville
Virginia State Poultry Federation
Robert Vanvalzah
Goby
Zigler
W. Reid Wiliams, Jr
Harry L. Moore
Blacksburg
John R. Hutcheson
Virginia Tech
Revised plans to unite northern and southern Presbyterians
A joint committee in Atlanta revised plans to reunite the northern and southern Presbyterian churches. Final approval is expected from the committee and then presented to the General Assembly of each church next May. Dr. Dunbar H. Ogden of New Orleans was elected committee chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
General Assembly
Dunbar H. Ogden
New Orleans
Congress advances draft bill amid CIO AFL UMW opposition
In Washington the CIO AFL and United Mine Workers unite against President Truman's plan for a fact finding board and 304 day strike truces. CIO President Murray assails the proposal as aiming to weaken unions while Labor Committee head Ramspeck predicts House approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
CIO
Baber
Truman
AFL
UMW
Philip Murray
Pittsburgh
Cio-Steel
U. S. Steel Corporation
William Green
Johnn. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Mr. Truman
Uecreen
Murray
Isaace Cio
Ite
Byrd Supports President Plan to Avert New Strikes
Senator Byrd of Virginia urged continuation of production to finance the nation’s debt and preserve financial stability. He warned continued strikes threaten economic stability and government obligations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byrd
Washington
Pec
D-Va
United States
Soldiers Arrive in New York Aboard Victory Ships
The Star received word from the Associated Press that soldiers John D. Massie of Winchester and Carpen Grade, aboard the Texarkana Victory, are due in New York December 5. Pfc. Lawrence R. Lloyd of Berryville is aboard the Webster Victory, which was to arrive in New York yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
U. S
Wie Ory
New York
Carpen
John D. Massie
Winchester
U.S
Texarkana
Dr. Leon Slavin Resumes Dental Practice
Lt. Comdr. Leon Slavin, previously active naval reserve, has returned to the city and resumed his dental practice at 212 West Boscaswen Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Slavin
U. 5 S. Naval Reserve
Dr. Slavin
West Boscawen Street
Welcome Home Veterans Return to Civil Life
The Star salutes veterans formerly of Erick and surrounding counties and Winchester who have received their discharges and are resuming civilian life. Welcome home to all who served their country honorably.
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Erick
Counties
Winchester
Star
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Charis
W. B. Snider & Son
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Wm. H. Miller
Poultry Federation
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