Social News Hampers Local Happenings and Meetings
Mrs. H EK Russell and Lt Massie are on leave visiting relatives before likely reporting to Norfolk next week. Miss Mary Krug speaks to the Civic League on India’s history, progress and current challenges. Quota Club cancels June convention due to war mobilization directives. Bucky Allamond recovering from appendectomy. Hockman family welcomes a son. Payne's Chapel Women’s Society to meet Friday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. EK. Russell
Massie
Assie
Joseph McKeen
Norfolk
Bisma Rex Antacid Powder Promote 4 Way Relief
Brooks' Pharmacy offers Bisma Rex antacid powder with four relief actions for acid indigestion Castric acidity and sour stomach. Priced 50 cents and 1 25 dollars. Free trial package with this coupon.
Wyant Hoolihan Nuptials Fight Time and Place Reported
Mrs James P Wyant of Front Royal Pike announces the marriage of her granddaughter Charlotte Wyant to Austin C Hoolihan of Buffalo New York The ceremony was Jan 5 at 5 20 PM at Marlboro Methodist Church Marlboro Maryland Rev Thomas Ehlers officiated The couple plan to reside at the Shoreham Hotel Washington before possible transfer plans The bride attended Stephens City High School class of 1942 Shenandoah Secretarial School and worked for the War Manpower Commission in Washington The groom Harvard University graduate discharged from the Navy after two years in the South Pacific is a traveling auditor with the U S Engineers War Department Both are now in Washington Maryland area external.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James P. Wyant
Front Royal Pike
Charlotte
Austin C. Hoolihan
Buffalo
N. Y
Marlboro Methodist Church
Marlboro
Thomas Ehlers
Hoolihan
L. M. Wyant
Huntington
W. Va
Stephens City High School
Shenandoah Secretarial School
War Manpow’ Commission
Washington, D
Mr. Hollihan
Seapee’s
South Pacific
Harvard University
U. S. Engineers
War Department
Shoreham Hotel
Washington
Mr. Hoolihan
West Coast
Mrs Ritter and Miss Fox Return to Hagerstown Visit
Mrs L P Ritter and her sister Miss Helen Fox have returned to their home in Hagerstown Maryland after visiting Mr and Mrs Lee Shirley near Winchester for a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. P. Ritter
Helen Fox
Hagerstown
Lee Shirley
Local residents return from Washington and other notices
Mrs. O J Dorsey and Miss Katty Burchell return from a week in Washington D C visiting relatives and Dorsey’s son Pvt Thomas G Dorne at Ft Meade Md. Other notes include Bryan Stottler at home after hospital care, Rev Arthur L Ribble guest preacher at Christ Church, C E Society Mt Pleasant U B Church meeting Friday, Elouise Goshert under observation at Memorial Hospital, Church Federation of Women meet at Handley Library, and Arlington visitors including the O Rear and Seabright families with Ens Steward O Rear returning from Harvard to Colorado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. J. Dorsey
Burchell
Washington
Katty Burchell
Washington, D. C
Mrs. Dorsey
Lester Branner
Arthur L. Ribble
Christ Church
Robert B. Nelson
Gue i
A L. Ribble
C. E. Society of
Mt. Pleasant U. B
C. E. Society of the
G. L. Crim
Arlington
Dayton O'Rear
W. T. O’rear
Harry Seabright
Bernadine
Winchester
Glen O'Rear
Jonnie
Milton O’rear
St. Louis
Ens
Steward O’rear
Billy
Cambridge, Mass
O’rear
Harvard University
University of Colorado
Denver
Helen Patton to Be Married in February
Mrs M 8 Canter announces the engagement of her daughter Helen Elizabeth Patton to Mr C Bruce Gibson of this city. Miss Patton, daughter of the late Russell C Patton, graduated from Handley High in 1937 and has worked at the Treasury in Washington for three years. Mr Gibson is with Montgomery Ward and Co in this city. The wedding will take place in February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery Ward ‘and‘Co
Home Nursing Course Starts January 23
Due to nurse demand, a Home Nursing Course will begin Tuesday January 23 with Mrs Mildred Sowers teaching. Classes run Tuesday and Thursday evenings from seven to nine in the Home Nursing Room at the George Washington Hotel and the starting class can take eight to ten more students. Contact Mrs E C Stuart Jr at 5157 this week for details. Mrs Ralph S Brown of Baltimore, Md., was a weekend guest of Mrs J P Lauck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Sowers
George Washington Hotel
E. C. Stuart, Jr
Asia Rejects Japanese Propaganda Says Regional Talks
At a Pacific relations conference in Hot Springs Virginia delegates from China Thailand Burma India state Japan failed to incite Asia against the white race. Indian Chinese Burmese and Thai delegates say Japan’s propaganda spent its force while Philippine views praise US support as key in countering it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hot Springs
Japan
Asia
Institute of Pacific Relations
China
Thailand
Burma
India
United States
Great Britain
Second Group of Soldiers On Trial in Paris
A second group of five enlisted men from the 716th Railway Operating Battalion began a U S general court martial in Paris on charges of looting supply trains and selling Army cigarettes. Pvt Fred C Jones of Philippi West Virginia was among them. Prosecutors argued the 96th article covers crimes beyond other articles of war while the defense objected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
716Th
U. S
Fred C. Jones
Philippi
W. Va
Carmen C. Harrison
Cannery To Close Season After Strong Year
The Stephens City cannery will suspend operations Saturday January 13 after a successful year. It will reopen when the early garden produce is ready. More than 350 people used the facilities and 12 500 cans of fruits and vegetables and 2 459 cans of pork and beef were processed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephens City Cannery
Major Battle Looms in Pacific Luzon Campaign
U S Sixth Army forces pour landings as Gen Yamashita withdraws toward inland bases amid preparations for a major tank battle on the central Luzon plains. MacArthur says Japanese redeployed from the south. American air power pounds targets from Manila northward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Sixth Army
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Manila
Luzon
Yamashita
Batangas
Mindoro
Marinduque
MacArthur
Japan
Leyte
Se Islands
Bataan
Spencer Davis
Associated Press
Adm
Thomas Kinkaid
Lingayen
San Fernando
Baguio
Rosario
Central Plains
Clark Field
Nielson
Nichols
China Sea
Formosa
Admiral Kinkaid
Seventh Fleet
Gulf
Pacific
Daniel E. Barbey
Sixth Army
First National Bank of Berryville Holds Annual Meeting
The First National Bank of Berryville held its regular annual stockholders meeting on January 9 in Berryville. Directors elected for the year include J. Edward Thoma and Ralph M. Ware among others with Thoma as chairman and Ware as president. Officers announced at the meeting include Alfred M. Kerfoot as vice president and Lewis F. Stolle as cashier. The bank reported a strong year with deposits and cash reserves rising and total assets above 1.3 million dollars as of December 30. Resolutions of respect were adopted for directors John T. Lindsey and John Lacy Humston who died during the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berryville
First National Bank
Bank
J. Edward Thoma
A. M. Kerfoot
A. B. Hummer
Hugh N. Ritter
W. D. Burtner
L. H. Bell
A. C. Buckley
Ralph M. Ware
Maurice Longerbeam
Norman C. Scott
John T. Lindsey
John Lacy Humston
Mrs Florence V Willis Buried In Local Service
Funeral services for Mrs Florence V Willis conducted at 125 South Cameron Street at 3 pm by Reverend R W Van derberry and Reverend S L Flickinger. In her 92nd year she died Tuesday after over a year of illness. She belonged to Market Street Methodist Church. Interment followed at Mount Hebron Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence V. Willis
South Cameron Street
R. W. Vanderberry
S. L. Flickinger
Cold Water Poured On GOP Plans For Axis Policing
Democrats scuttled a Republican bid for an immediate postwar policing pact for Germany and Japan. Sen Connally said action now is impracticable while Sen Vandenberg urged a treaty for instant Allied force to keep the Axis disarmed. He argued risks of separate deals to speed world peace. The White House conference was set to discuss the issue with other senators present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Germany
Japan
White House
Connally
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Vandenberg
Senate
Roosevelt
Russia
Britain
George
D-Ga
Thomas
Utah
Barkley
D-Ky
LaFollette
White
R-Me
Austin
R-Vi
Gemany
Pepper
Dfla
Lucas
D-Ill
Republican Party
Controversy Over Use of GI and GI Joe Terms
An army weekly spokesman condemns civilian term GI Joe for soldiers while noting some GIs at Random Halloran Hospital tolerate it. The piece also explains Mennonite name origin from Menno Simons, Holland, as a religious sect leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yank
Army Weekly
Jim
Halloran
Menno Simons
Holland
Soldier Is A GI But Not A GI Joe
New York reports mixed views on the term GI Joe as civilians refer to soldiers. AP dispatches from War Correspondent William White and photographer Harry Harris quote soldiers who distrust the label, preferring simply soldier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bulger
William Smith White
First Army
Harry Harris
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Mrs
Mary Krug
Civic League Womans Civic League
Golden Glow
Miss Krug
People’s Department of the
Kernstown
Quota Club
Quota Club International, Inc
Edgewater Beach
Chicago
Ill
Bucky Allamong
Harvey
Bucky) Allamond, Jr
Harvey Allamond
Clearbrook
Memorial Hospital
Larrick Hockman
Charlottesville
Hockman
Cornelia Livengood
John Livengood
Woman’s Society of Christian Service
Payne’s Chapel
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Raymond Smith
Bunker Hill
Brooks’ Pharmacy
Shenang
Huntsberryc
Winchester—Front Royal
Charlotte E. Wyant
Bryan Stottler
West Cecil Street
Little Elouise Goshert
Harry Goshert
Church Federation of Women
Handley Library
Gaunt
Main and
Valley Ave
Helen Patton
Ralph S. Brown
Baltimore, Md
J. P. Lauck
Tammy A
LST
Leyte Island
Philippines
U. S. Coast Guard
International Soundphoto
Oxfords
Lovett Brothers
Layte Island
First
Nati
Bank of
Axis
By Jack Bell
Doily Gay
Baker’s Drug Store
Court House
Moroline Petroleum
Jelly LY 106
Pifer So Company
the Commercial & Savings Bank
The
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
George Washington Garage
Cammer Tire CO
Handley School
Miller Bros
CBS
Nelson Eddy
Northern Virginia Power Co
Moling
Timberlake
Cc. B. Smalts & Son
National Avenue
the Food Center
N. Loudoun St
Margaret L. Hodgson
HAT and Dress Shop
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