Cammer Chosen as Virginia’s White House Ceremony Alternate
Darden Thomas Coates, Richmond county draft board chair and World War I veteran, is Virginia’s representative for the White House ceremony January 21. Governor Truman will award service medals. three alternates named are E. S. Shields Farmville Calide P. Cammer and W. S. Beverley. Cammer, a Winchester board member for over five years, is a prominent local businessman.
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Darden
Thomas Coates
Richmond County
Virginia
Truman
Blindfolder
Ginia
E. S. Shields
Prince Edward
Lofton Brothers Reenlist After Army Discharge
Cpl Kenneth Lofton and Sgt Eugene Lofton, honorably discharged after 3 12 years of service, reenlist for three years in the Army Air Force. Cpl Lofton bears the Victory Ribbon American Defense Ribbon Good Conduct Medal and the ETO Ribbon with three battle stars. The brothers are on a 90 day furlough with their mother Mrs Julia Lofton in Sunnyside.
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Kenneth Lofton
Eugene Lofton
U. S. Army
Army Air Force
Cpl
Lofton
Sgt Lofton
Julia Lofton
Sunnyside
Japanese Guards Beat American POW to Death in Prison Hospital
Witnesses testified at the Tokyo war crimes trial of Guard Tatsuo Tsuchiya that Japanese guards beat U S prisoner of war Pfc. Robert Gordon Teas in a prison camp hospital yard and again in the hospital. Teas, captured on Bataan in 1942, died after prolonged beatings in March 1943.
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Yokahama
U. S
Japan
Tatsuo Tsuchiyan
Robert Gordon Teas
Streator
Ill
Red Cross
Hitsushima
Charles B. Gavord
Deming
N. Mex
Gavord
Tsuchiya
Teas
Bataan
Mushmouth
Little Glass Eye
Teal
Gavard
Gavor
Clifton Otto Snodgrass
Junction City
Kas
River Tooth
Snodgrass
Army points score cut again for releases
The Army announced a new round of release cutbacks effective December 31 expanding eligibility by 600000 for separation. Enlisted men need 50 points and officers 70, with WAC lengths of service now counted for eligibility. Separations drop to 42 months for enlisted and 48 months for male officers, with age limits lowered to 45 for most medical and dental officers.
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Washington
Army
WAC
Dental and Veterinary Corps
Pearl Harbor Committee to extend five week inquiry
The Pearl Harbor Committee called an executive session for 4 p m EST to decide how long the five week alten inquiry will continue. Chairman Barkley and Senators Ferguson Lucas weigh extension options with estimates of 60 to 90 more days. Committee counsel plan to quit in January as debates over extension proceed.
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Washington
Pearl ‘Harbor
Congress
Barkley
D-Ky
Senate House
United States
Ferguson
R-Mich
William D. Mitchell
Lucas
D-Ill
Churchill To Visit States Early Next Year
The White House announced that Winston Churchill former British prime minister will travel to the United States by ship for New York mid January. Medical adviser Lord Moran recommended he spend a month or more in a warm climate and take complete rest.
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Washington
White House
Winston Churchill
United States
Churchill
England
New York
London
Lord Moran
Commons Approve Nationalization of Bank of England
In London on December 19 the Commons approved nationalization of the 250 year old Bank of England by 306 to 126. The bill transfers the bank from private to public ownership with a king appointed governor and a 10 member directors' court. The private bank’s capital stood at $58,212,000 with 12 percent dividends since 1923. shareholders will be compensated with government stocks at 3 percent interest.
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London
Bank of England
Commons
House of Lords
Labor Party
Couple Finishes Breakfast as Roanoke House Fires
Roanoke Virginia on December 19 a Negro couple remained calm and finished breakfast in a smoke filled kitchen while policemen arrived before the fire department to extinguish a house fire.
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Roanoke
Frank H. Webb
C. D. Webster
Baby Died Of Asphyxiation In Chelsea Case
Medical Examiner William J. Brickley reported that six month old Ronald Carlin died of asphyxiation and acute respiratory failure. He suggested the infant may have turned face down in the crib leading to the fatal condition. The autopsy is part of a high profile kidnapping hoax investigation led by District Attorney Willem J. Foley.
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Chelsea
Mass
William J. Brickley
Ronald Carlin
Brickley
New England
Willem J. Foley
Maj General Leonard Wing Dies at 52 in Rutland
Maj General Leonard F. Wing commander of the 43rd Winged Victory division in four Pacific campaigns and part of MacArthur occupation forces in Japan died at his Rutland home. He was 52 and found dead in bed from a heart attack after recent heart condition treatment.
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Rutland
Leonard F. Wing
43Rd
Pacific
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Winchester council approves city cash balance and new fire chief
The Winchester City Council unanimously appoints E W Argenbright as fire chief for a four year term starting January 1. A letter fromDr Ed win C Yost urges sewerage disposal plant work costing about 650000 with bond financing. The council also considers bus service franchises and subdivision contracts while planning street lighting equipment upgrades.
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Frank Barr
E. B. Baker
J. H. Henry
Rice
John Rice
Winchester
Edwin C. Yost
Citizens Relief Council
Frederick County
John M. Taylor
Charles A. Anderson
Fred M. Jenkins
Washington, D. C
A. Lee Coble
Winchester Fire Companies
H. B. Dunlap
Malden
Ed Molden
Fred Harris
Fred Glaize
Woodland Avenue
Henry
Alan Peery
E. W. Argenbright
Argenbright
Taylor Barr
Peery
Council
Calotabs Promoted To Solve Constipation During Colds
An old warning asserts constipation worsens colds by trapping virus laden mucus and waste. Calotabs are touted as a dependable intestinal eliminant that swiftly clears the gut to help Nature fight the cold. Take CALOTABS as directed by a druggist.
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Nature
Mrs. Ida Trail Passes Away at 107 Euclid Avenue
Mrs Ida May Trail wife of James Ashford Trail died at 107 Euclid Avenue at 4 25 yesterday from complications of old age. She was born 14 1866 in Frederick county Maryland and lived in Winchester the last twenty three years. Survived by husband two daughters Mrs William Winchester two sisters Mrs Frank Whippe Frederick and Mrs William Talbert Doubs one brother John H Davis Dickerson and a half sister Mrs A J Brown Dickerson. Funeral Saturday December 22 at 2 pm from the Jones Funeral Home with Rev Paul Dick officiating Interment Mt Hebron Cemetery
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Ida May Trail
James Ashford Trail
Euclid Avenue
Frederick County
Winchester
William Winchester
Frank Whippe
Frederick
William Talbert
Doubs
John H. Davis
Dickerson
A. J. Brown
Ernest Clem
Alfred F. Ashton
Marvin T. Massey
U. S. Army
Jones Funeral Home
Paul Dick
Mt. Hebron Cemetery
Evidence From Nuremberg Shows Storm Troopers Terror Strikes
Prosecutors at Nuremberg presented records alleging that a single SA brigade burned 35 synagogues in a two day anti Jewish attack. Col. Robert G. Storey said the SA formed to beat and terrorize political opponents before Hitler’s rise to power.
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Mernberg
Hitler
International Military Tribunal
Robert G. Storey
U. S
Truman Pushes Army Navy Merger and Unified Global Training
President Truman argues for unifying land sea and air forces at home and abroad through a merger of the Army and Navy with universal training. He lists gains in integrated plans and budgets, civilian-military coordination, and civilian control, while keeping Navy carrier ships and marine corps integration. He calls for ending divergent Army Navy policies on promotions and awards.
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Mr. Truman
Truman
Marine Corps
Army
Navy
Market quotations and livestock prices across cities
Baltimore and Chicago markets report mixed gains and steady tones. Cattle, calves, hogs, and sheep show receipts light to active with varied shifts in value, including pork cuts at ceilings and beef categories higher in spots.
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Balttimore Livestock
Baltimore
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
USDA
Texas
Stocks Recover After Dec 17 Slide In Broad Market Rally
New York traders saw rails rubbers aircraft utilities and retail shares rise more than a point after Monday's selloff as metals oils and steels lagged. brokers call the Dec 17 downturn a technical correction from 17 year highs with light tax selling and a few names leading the curb list Berkey & Gay Ryal Aeronautical American Maracaibo and Electric Bond & Share.
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New York
Berkey & Gay
Ryal Aeronautical
American
Rye futures lift as grain prices rise at opening
Chicago grain quotes show rye futures gaining over 3 cents a bushel at the market open. Other grains mostly hold near opening levels with December and July contracts posted across wheat corn oats rye and barley.
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Chicago
Rotary Club Christmas Party Planned by Grim
Clifford Grim Youth Work Chairman will host the Rotary Club meeting Thursday at 1 p m at Sara Zane Fire Hall. He is arranging a Christmas program with goodies for 25 local youngsters and includes Christmas music movies and a dinner.
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Clifford Grim
Rotary Club
Sara Zane Fire Hall
Statewide Snow Blanket Grips Albemarle Area
Mid morning temp 28 degrees as eight and a half inches of snow blankets the area. Numerous bumper collisions reported near Danville with no serious injuries. Albemarle county schools closed, Charlottesville schools open. Roads plowed and passable. Trailway buses resumed routes while other buses and trains ran late.
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Danville
Albemarle County
Charlottesville
Trailway
Answers to the Daily Quiz Listed Here
Correct responses for the Page 1 quiz include Augusta as the answer to question 2 opposed by items on multiple topics. The list covers duties, composers, months, a Cuba reference, war state mail implications, Roosevelt at the Minnesota State Fair in September 1961, rank Ensign, a quoted line, and the term cetacean.
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Augusta
Jerome Kern
Cuba
Theodore Roosevelt
Minnesota
Ensign
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South Braddock St
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Mrs. Ida Trail
Army- Navy
Bresk
Pein
Winchester and
N. J. Romes
Stock Market Report
Berryville
Boyce
Clarke County
Rotary
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Glaize
Ae Bro
Virginia Loan & Thrift Corporation
N. B. Habel
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