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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1945
Page
7
Weekly Elks Club meeting at 8:00 p m Wednesday and Jewish Woman's Club gathering at Odd Fellows Hall also at 8:00 p m. Thursday features a 1:00 p m Rotary Club luncheon at Sarah Zane.
Community notices announce new items at the Victory Exchange each Friday and Saturday to support War Savings Stamps. Readers are urged to search attics and cupboards to donate articles, helping those in need and aiding the war effort alongside personal savings.
Bisma Rex brings relief for acid indigestion gastric acidity sour stomach with 4 way action. Priced 50 cents and 1 dollar 25 cents. Free trial package offered with this coupon.
Dr. Theodore F. Adams, in town for the Week of Prayer, will address the local Rotary Club during the Thursday luncheon at 1 pm in Sarah Zane Hall. He is a Rotary member from Richmond.
A brown puppy traveling 13,000 miles by air is the focus of a mystery linking Sydney to Jersey City. Frank W. Reed flew the dog to New Jersey after picking it up at Long Beach. a tag asks for aid to reach Marilyn Diana Schwartz, while the sender remains unknown.
American forces storm ashore on Luzon with heavy air and sea support. General MacArthur leads the assault, observing from a jeep before returning to shore. Japanese planes contest the invasion, but U S air and antiaircraft fire downed at least 79 enemy aircraft as operations push inland.
Soldiers note shallow fox holes and report no booby traps or land mines in Luzon, contrasting earlier Leyte encounters. The account emphasizes careful reconnaissance and heightened caution in new combat zones.
Handley High School basketball begins 1945 on the road against Randolph-Macon Academy. The cadets, coming off losses to Navy Plebes, host a mostly green Handley squad with two 1944 lettermen in Garber and Lewis and four returning regulars. 40 players are in rehearsal, with Romney trip Friday and home opener next Thursday against Charles Town.
Aircraft carriers large CV and small CVL are named for famous ships and important battles of past or present wars. Escort carriers CVE bear names of US islands bays and sounds and battles of the present war.
Washington January 10 Congress pushed work or fight draft plans for deferred men and a bill to induct nurses aged 18 to 45. House committee heard from the army navy and other agencies as President Roosevelt seeks to use manpower efficiently for military needs.
Allied forces push through the Belgians Bulge with Patton's Third Army advancing along a 20 mile front from Bastogne toward Wiltz while the 101st Airborne nears Houffalize. Canadian forces also press near Nijmegen as snow and reduced air support hinder operations.
Service men and women ask about cruiser types. Heavy cruisers use guns greater than six inches while light cruisers have guns six inches or less. A clearing station is a field medical post where sick and wounded are assembled, given temporary aid, and sent to rear areas. formerly called hospital stations.
The children thank friends for flowers and cards and her nurses for kindness during the recent illness and death of our mother Ada Taylor. The Children.
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