USO Lounge Opens in Winchester Seeks Host Helpers
With the USO lounge opening on East Bos cawen street in Winchester an appeal calls residents to host transient soldiers during Christmas and holidays. Call USO 6820 to entertain on Christmas Day or offer dinners and overnight accommodations, coordinated by Mrs. A C Halvosa and Mrs. E T Clark of the Civic League committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
USO
A. C. Halvosa
E. T. Clark, Cochairman
The
Civic League
Hospital Glee Club To Sing Tonight
The Winchester Memorial Hospital Cadet Nurse Glee Club will perform a Christmas carol program over the Shenandoah Valley Bank radio hour from 7 30 to 8 p m tonight. The 33 voice group is drawn from 55 nursing students, directed by J H Lowden. A carol service will also be held at the hospital on Christmas Eve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Shenandoah Valley Bank
Glee Club
School of Nursing
J. H. Lowden
Roberts
Jesus
Rathbun
Finlandia
Sibelius
Adam
Manger
Beach
Mary
Orient
Carroll
Gruber
Honored guest at ship launching and local notices
Mrs Charles Shewbridge formerly of this city now in Baltimore attended the Liberty ship launching USS Frank R Stockton as a guest of Bethlehem Fairfield Shipping Co. Also noted are Round Hill 4 H Club meeting December 16 with new officers Ruth McNeil and talk on small fruit by D A Tucker, and plans to pack a Fellowship Basket for a needy family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Shewbridge
Baltimore
Round Hill 4-H
Round Hill
Ruth McNeil
D. A. Tucker
Blacksburg
Howard Solenberger
Miss Massey Arrives For Holiday Visit
Miss Farley Massey daughter of Mr and Mrs William P Massey arrives from Cambridge Massachusetts where she is a junior at the Boston University Sergeant College of Physical Education for the holidays. Her guest over the holidays is Miss Priscilla Langdon from Claremont New Hampshire. Both were among a select group of students chosen to take the college course in physical therapy. Massey serves as vice president of the college Governing Association and president of the dormitory while Langdon is the student choir director and college song leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farley Massey
William P. Massey
Cambridge
Mass
Boston University
Sargent College of Physical Education
Miss Massey
Priscilla Langdon
Claremont
N .H
Miss Langdon
Girl Scouts To Carol Tonight In Winchester
The Girl Scouts of Winchester will carol tonight at 7 30. They will sing favorite Christmas selections and residents are asked to display a lighted candle in their window for those wishing the Scouts to carol.
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Girl Scouts of
Winchester
Nine Known Dead In Plane Crash
A four engined army bomber returning airmen home for Christmas crashed into a fog bound hillside near Hamilton Field California killing at least nine men and a small dog aboard. Nine bodies had been recovered.
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Hamilton Field
Calif
Pacific
Sausalito
Late Ries For Judge Fletcher
The article honors William Meade Fletcher, a former lawyer and prolific author on corporation law. It notes his teaching at John Marshall and Northwestern, his ten volume Cyclopedia, and his political appointments by Governor Byrd including the Virginia State Corporation Commission and the Constitution amendment committee. It concludes with tributes from a survivor who recalls Fletcher's integrity and friendship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagel
John Marshall Law School
Northwestern University
Byrd
State Corporation Commission
William Meade Fletcher
Chicago
Philadelphia
Rappahannock
Fletcher
Harry Byrd
Meade Fletcher
Govenor
Virginia
Baerus
Richmond
Local Servicemen News From Winchester Area
Pvt Maurice J Lillis Jr son of Mr and Mrs Maurice J Lillis 19 West Cork Street Winchester is stationed in New York City He spent a 15 day furlough with his mother and invites friends to write His pre army school was Hand ape and he is in the Infantry Pvt James C Boyce son of Mr and Mrs I M Boyce Yellow Springs WV is stationed at Camp Gordon Johnston Fla He worked for Zeropack Co before enlisting His wife lives in Winchester and works at the Virginia Woolen Co James Richard Perry 18 son of Mr and Mrs O D Perry 22 S Loudoun Street has completed his short furlough and reports for active Navy duty He is the fourth Perry son to enter the service Pfc Lawrence Pannett stationed at Camp White Oregon spending a short furlough in California with Mrs Pannett Rosa Pannett 123 Purcell Avenue Winchester is his mother
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John Taylor
St. Joseph's Hospital
Atlanta
John M. Taylor
Gail Paulett
Sgt. Taylor
Frank Taylor
S. Braddock Street
Winchester
Homestead, Fla
Maurice J. Lillis, Jr
Maurice J. Lillis
West Cork Street
New York City
Mike
J. Lillis
Handape
James C. Boyce
I. M. Boyce
Yellow Springs
W. Va
Amp Gordon
Johnston, Fla
Zeropack Company
Virginia Woolen Company
James Richard Perry
O. D. Perry
S. Loudoun Street
Navy
Perrys
Pfc
Lawrence Pannett
Camp White
Oregon
Pannett
California
Rosa Pannett
Purcell Avenue
Germans Pressed On Six Sectors In Yugoslavia
Yugoslav Partisans under Tito press the Germans on six fronts in eastern Bosnia and Croatia. They penetrate suburbs of Banja Luka and threaten the Banja Luka Prijedor rail line. In one province they killed 1,240 Germans and destroyed 50 locomotives and 297 trucks over six months.
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London
Yugoslavia
Josip Broz
Tito
Bosnia
Croatia
Russians Execute Four For War Atrocities
London reports four war crime defendants were hanged in Kharkov after a military tribunal found them guilty. The group included a Gestapo captain and an auxiliary police corporal among the condemned, with grisly testimony of mass executions and Nazi conduct during the invasion.
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London
Kharkov
Moscow
Fourth Ukrainian Front
Wilhelm Langheld
Gestapo
Hans Ritz
Storm
Richard Ratzlaw
Mikhail Bulanov
Langheld
Ratzlaw
Bulanov
Ritzlaw
Many Cited For Aerial Exploits
Thirty seven American airmen earned decorations from Lt Gen George C Kenney commander of the Allied air forces in the Southwest Pacific for outstanding service in the air war against Japan. Among recipients is Staff Sgt Claude G Tyler of Landover Maryland who is missing in action after a flight near Rabaul on October 16. Second Lt Bedford B Riggan of Hopewell Virginia participated in more than twenty five operational flights against the Japanese.
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Southwest Pacific
Allied
George C. Kenney
Claude G. Tyler
Landover
Rabaul
New Britain
Bedford B. Riggan
Hopewell
Wartime Theater Trends Highlight Escapist Westerns and Newsreels
Movie theater patrons continue to favor old time westerns and outdoor action photos amid World War II. Fans list Bette Davis Tyrone Power Betty Grable Mickey Rooney Alice Faye Erroll Flynn Ann Sheridan Don Amecee as stars with strong local followings. Newsreels and 2-reel shorts, including the 3 Stooge and Our Gang titles, remain popular as feature runtimes stretch to 90 minutes or more. Theaters support the war effort with war bonds stamps Red Cross trailers and Christmas Seal promotions.
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Hable
Bette Davis
Tyrone Power
Betty Grable
Mickey Rooney
Alice Faye
Erroll Flynn
Ann Sheridan
Don Amecee
3-Stooges
Edgar Kennedy
Our Gang
Red Cross
Winchester
United States
Capital Papers Are Hampered By Labor Disputes
Washington papers report labor differences between composing room workers and four publications cut morning editions to ten pages and threaten afternoon papers. The Post and Times Herald ran skeleton and one edition. Times Herald prepared headlines and ads in advance. About 625000 readers served by Evening Star News and afternoon papers. Union involved is Typographical Union Local 101 of the International Typographical Union.
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Washington
The
Post
Times-Hérald
Times- Herald
Evening Star
News
Afternoon Times- Herald
Typographical Ace Union
Columbia 101
International Typographical Union
Christmas Bonds Today Buy Auto Tomorrow
Christmas bonds will be accepted today to fund holiday season car purchases and dealers offer quick delivery options for buyers. The message urges timely action as vehicles may run low after the holiday window.
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Miler
Miller School
PTA
Ensign Pannett
Ensign Velma Pannett
National Naval Center
Bethesda
City
Lamps Methodist
Lamps Methodist Church
Mountain Falls Road
Charles Anderson
James Trenton
Anderson
Pauline Garber
Greenway Church
Beverly Rice
Beverly N. Rice
Park Drive
Henry H. Martin
Virginia Russell
Mrs
Harry K. Russell
South Stewart Street
Gift Headquarters
Symphony & Lord Baltimore
Delray of
Boston
Save
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Rexall Store
Huntsberry
Girl Scouts
Carol
National Fruit Office
National Fruit Product Company
York’s Inn
W. B. Nesmith
John Miller
S. Cameron Street
Minnie Smith
W. O. Catlette
Willetta
Whitacre
Ernest Fletcher
Ronald
Robert
Richard
Gerald Copenhaver
Billy
Goldie Reed
Lester White
Toilgate
Eleanor Leatherman
Madison College
Harrisonburg
D. E.leatherman
Tennyson Avenue
Robert Boyd
University of Virginia
Fred _ SS. Boyd
Mary Lou Steele
T. M. Swann
D. D
Gaunt
Tarler
Ries
Judge Fletcher
Paul B. Cather
M. M. Lynch
Admr
Maurice Lillis
James Boyce
Dr. Clendening
the Star
Olga Stoker
W. B. Snider & Son
Kitaikov
Wach
Moscow News
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Europe
A. N. Miasnikov
Miasnikov
Red Army
Dzhinchviladze
69Th Army Hospital
Professor Katov
Besplaov
Sokolniki Park
Lipetsk
Beagle Crooked Shank Machine CO
Lark Suggs
Daniel Green
Red
Lovett Brothers
Commercial & Savings Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Bates
Moling & Cather
Timberlake
Miller Bros
Pifer Company
Sonitay 3
Wes
Eer
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