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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1945
Page
4
Atomic bomb tests at sea advance naval knowledge
The Army and Navy plan joint sea based atomic bomb tests using task forces and diverse targets to obtain clear results on sea power in the atomic age. The program faces logistics and cost but aims to provide essential evidence for future security plans and potential shifts in naval strategy.
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Army
Navy
Moto
Schooling For GI s Call for Special Arrangements
The essay argues returning veterans face obstacles in standard schools as most have eight or high school gaps. It notes four million never reached eighth grade and five million did not finish high school, urging tailored programs for continued education. It highlights age and maturity gaps from grade to high school.
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Army
Navy
Marines
Germany’s Deadly Gas Revealed in Senate Testimony
Senate military subcommittee heard Col. Bernard Bernstein reveal that Germany had developed the world’s deadliest gas capable of penetrating any gas mask. The Allies had warned the Axis against gas use and promised reprisals, an approach deemed wise by wartime observers.
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Germany
Senate
Bernard Bern
Goering Says Germany Fears Using Gas in War
Stein explains the German fear of gas use citing Goering who told his prison psychologist that Germany avoided gas due to Allied threats. The piece notes German memory of WWI and belief that Allied retaliation would be overwhelming when mobilized.
Biggers Urges Southern Governors to Build Self Reliance
George C. Biggers told the Southern Governors at New Orleans to stop waiting for Yankee investment and to develop the region’s own capital and industries. He warned against tax schemes aimed at limiting utility revenue and urged fair treatment to attract both local and foreign capital for balanced growth.
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Columbia
S. C. Record
George C. Biggers
The
Atlanta Journal
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Southern Governors’ Conference
New Orleans
Biggers
South
Senate
Mr. Biggers
Charleston
South Carolina
Placs
Birmingham
Mr. Birgers
Weather and market notes from year ago and five years back
A 10 degree morning drop created ice on highways and slowed city traffic. Local growers expect apple prices to stay steady despite December storage levels. Five years ago Mrs. D. C. Buchanan and children completed a journey from Kyoto Japan. Kernstown pupils plan a Christmas program tonight.
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D. C. Buchanan
Koyoto
Japan
Kernstown
League shelves Franco British peace plan over Italy Ethiopia
Ten years ago the League of Nations shelved Franco British plans for peace between Italy and Ethiopia. Members of V. P. I. Southern Colonels orchestra named include George Resseguie Bennie Davis Cecil McVay Horace Hett Allison Hartman and Dennis Hayley who performed here during the holidays.
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League of Nations
Italy
Ethiopia
George Resseguie
Bennie Davis
Cecil McVay
Horace Hett
Allison Hartman
Dennis Hayley
V. P. I. Southern Colonels Orchestra
Hammond Named Ambassador to Spain
Twenty years ago Ogden Hammond was appointed ambassador to Spain. A Christmas cake was stolen from the home of Mrs. F C Harman.
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Ogden Hammond
Spain
F. C. Harman
Prominent Winchester Doctor Dies in Staunton Hospital
Dr. William B. Swimley a leading Winchester physician dies at Kings Daughters Hospital in Staunton. A barn housing stock and crops belonging to Mrs. Arthur Crisman near White Post is burned to ash in a nighttime blaze.
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William 8. Swimley
Winchester
Staunton
Kings Daughters Hospital
Arthur Crisman
White Post
Kidnapping Try Thwarted by Elderly Woman in Nineveh
Forty five years ago an attempted kidnapping of a child at Nineveh failed when Mrs. Kate Jacobs, the baby's aunt, held a pistol on the attackers. Detective Willie Atkinson tested ice at Baker Dam and plunged into the cold water during a skating check.
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Nineveh
Kate Jacobs
Willie Atkinson
Baker Dam
Noted U S Policy Aims at World Peace and Restraint
Washington dispatch weighs Russia and Britain, urging defense of American principles through steadfast diplomacy. It argues appeasement fails, isolation harms, and warns against abandoning liberty for peace while urging sustained leadership in postwar global affairs.
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Britain
Churchill
Europe
Asia
United Nations Organization
Russia
Take Sides Or Face Civic Infamy In Moral Fable
A sermon contrasted Solon and Jesus on the duty to take sides in crises. It cites Lot’s wife as a cautionary example, denouncing neutrality as cowardice or selfishness and urging wholehearted commitment to righteousness or unrighteousness.
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Solon
Jesus
Lot
Leyte Cemeteries of World War II Veterans
Disinterment has reduced scattered graves to two main Leyte cemeteries. Cemetery No 1 sits at Tacloban, Leyte, the larger site, and Cemetery No 2 is at Dagupon, Leyte. Both preserve Allied personnel killed or dying on Leyte or removed from hospital ships berthing there.
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Leyte
Philippines
Tacloban
Dagupon
How's Your I Q A Quiz From 1943 Civilian Tests
A set of 10 trivia prompts asks about racial microscopic tests heavy cruisers TD status ship home, composer of Old Man River and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, largest West Indies island, US Germany mail, Speak softly quote, Naval Academy rank, Laugh quote, narwhal classification, copper saved in 1943 cent coin zinc substitution.
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America
West Indies
United States
Germany
Naval
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