Marriage in Middleburg Church Unites Atkinson Holter
Lieut Mary Neville Atkinson and Lieut William C Holter wed yesterday at Emmanuel Episcopal Church Middleburg. A garden supper followed at Mansfield home of the bride’s parents. The groom’s family and friends returned from leaves and European duties to attend the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Neville Atkinson
Thomas Atkinson
Middleburg
William C. Holter
USA
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Mansfield
Holter
Europe
Clinton Oo. Holter
Chippewa
Wis
Ralph Larson
Germany
Camp White Rock Girls Enjoy Visitors Day At The Camp
Nearly a hundred parents and friends visit Camp White Rock as Girl Scouts greet them with stories of swimming lessons, crafts and outdoor cooking. Under Miss Helen Massey the camp thrives in its second week with four units led by Miss Campbell Hawthorne Anderson and Slonaker. Waterfront director Mrs Ressigue oversees swimming tests and life saving drills as campers prepare for a banquet and an outdoor camping trip later in the week. Benjamin Franklin is noted for inventing the harmonica.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Rock
Helen Massey
Charlotte Campbell
Dorothy Hawthorne
Iris Anderson
Daily Slonaker
George Ressigue
Plasma From Home Town For Warren Soldier
Pvt. Mack M. Norris of Front Royal received blood plasma labeled by Mrs. Stokes of Front Royal during World War II. Norris served with the 28th Marines, fought on Iwo Jima, was wounded March 3, and later treated at Pearl Harbor and U S Naval Hospital Oakland. He earned the Purple Heart and Presidential Citation. Registration for the next Winchester mobile plasma unit run runs August 3–10 at Room 22 over People's Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mack M. Norris
Blue Ridge Ave
Front Royal
Iwo Jima
Stokes
North Royal Ave
Pvt
Norris
28Th Marines
Winchester
People’s Drug Store
Valuable Pit Bulldog Sonny Boy Dies at 12
An obituary notice states Sonny Boy an American Pit Bulldog owned by Mrs. Fred Yeakley on Courtfield Avenue died yesterday at age 12. The dog was pedigree registered and well known in the community and by his owner who loved him dearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sonny Boy
Fred Yeakley
Courtfield Avenue
Dr Bryant to Bring Vesper Message at Luray
Winchester district Methodist superintendent Dr R O Bryant will deliver the vesper message at Luray Singing Sunset Vesper Services on Sunday July 22 at 8 oclock. Mrs E J Grant violinist with Mrs E D Freeland will perform Francks Panis Angelicus as special music. If rain, service moves to the Methodist Church and carillon recital canceled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. O. Bryant
Winchester
Methodist Church
Luray
E. J. Grant
E. D. Freeland
C. Franck
R. E. Newton
Charles T. Chapman
Carillonneur
Speedy Victory In Pacific Stressed In Potsdam Notes
Continued from Page 1. A formal issuance of a joint communiqué is noted as key. Discussion has moved to Asia and Japan with emphasis on saving American lives. Observers cite Japan and Russia’s future role as major topics. Leahy Marshall King Arnold are said to have prepared extensive data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asia
Japan
Truman
United States
Potsdam
Russia
William D. Leahy
George C. Marshall
Ernest J. King
Williams Buried With Full Military Honors
First Lieutenant Nellie G. Williams Army Nurses Corps killed July 9 in a Riverside California bus collision received full military honors at a Flint Hill Virginia church service on July 18. She served from 1942 to 1944 in Africa and Europe and returned to duty at Torney General Hospital Palm Springs California before the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pull
Nellie G. Williams
Army Nurses Corps
Riverside
Calif
Flint Hill
Williams
Armed Services
U. S
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Torney General Hospital
Palm Springs
Callif
Edward M. Einer
Los Angeles
Newport News
L. C. Vaughn
Chelf
Remount
Front Royal
H. S. Barksdale
John S. Browning
James M. Settle
Randolph Devers
Lauck
Frank P. Clark
Warren Anderson
Carter Dearing
Washington, D. C
Warren Eastham
Arlington
Bessie F. Cary
Alexandria
Virginia Philips
Harrisonburg
Aubrey Purdam
Charles Shank
Arthur Hart
Luray
Sperryville
Curtis Chappelear
Paris
John C. Williams
Marshall
Bessie Smith
Smother Hart
Susie Hart
Warrenton
Rites Yesterday For Mrs. Lupton
Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie H. Lupton were held yesterday afternoon at 2 from Jones Funeral Home. Rev. Robert W. Long of Arlington led services with a quartet singing Abide With Me Asleep in Jesus and Nearer My God To Thee. Pallbearers were Claude Grove John Bywaters Robert Snapp Carl Brown Emmett Dorton and Delmar Robinson. Interment will be in Mount Hebron Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie H. Lupton
Jones Funeral Home
Robert W. Long
Arlington
Philomena Laren
Constance Buckley
William Miller
Joseph Hodgson
Jesus
Claude Grove
John Bywaters
Robert Snapp
Carl Brown
Emmett Dorton
Delmar Robinson
Mount Hebron Cemetary
Tokyo Area Under Heavy Allied Air Strikes
Allied air forces swarm Tokyo region with 1,500 planes wrecking defense works and war plants north of Tokyo. Carrier raids attack Yokosuka Navy base 18 miles south of Tokyo while weather limits damage estimates.
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Tokyo
Naval
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Yokosuka Naval Base
Yokosuka
Imperial Navy
William F. Halsey, Jr
U. SS. Pacific
Philippines
Nojima Cape
Tokyo Bay
Honshu
Nimitz
Matsushima
U .S
Navy Department
Washington
U. S. Navy
Pacific
March A. Mits
Japanese to Not Defend Yokosuka as Provocation Grows
Radio Tokyo echoed a wait and see stance after Nimitz declared the Yokosuka attack, claiming the high command has no plan for even token defense. A propagandist described the policy as deliberate inaction despite provocation, saying the enemy tactic was assessed as not worth meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ber
Carrier Task Force 58
Radio Tokyo
Nimitz
Yokosuka Naval Base
Yokosuka
E Thomas Byrd Dies at 78 in Front Royal Area
E Thomas Byrd a carpenter died Wednesday at 10 30 AM at his home near Opequon Creek after nine months of ill health He was 78 born April 18 1867 Levels West Virginia He was a Braddock Street Methodist Church member He is survived by his wife Francelie Ellen Kline a son Benjamin Byrd Cannonsburg PA a daughter Thelma May Byrd Winchester and a brother William H Byrd Mountain Lake MD Funeral services will be Friday at 10 30 AM from Jones Funeral Home and interment at Green Lane Cemetery Delray Hampshire County WV Pallbearers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Thomas Byrd
Front Royal Road
Opequon Creek
Emmanuel Thomas and
Mary McDonald Byrd
Levels
W. Va
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Francelie Ellen Kline
Benjamin Byrd
Cannonsburg
Thelma May Byrd
Winchester
William H. Byrd
Mountain Lake
Jones Funeral Home
John Teter
Montague Avenue
Green Lane
George W Herbert Dies In Maryland
Funeral services planned in Williamsport for George W Herbert 74 who died at his home July 16. A native of West Virginia he had lived and worked in Maryland for 25 years and was brother of Mrs. William Trimble of this city.
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Father
Robert Loy
Clifton
Gus Loy
Maynard Loy
Carl Loy
Grant Dodson
Ashby Loy
Walter Kirby
Lohring Boyce
Arthur Cockrell
William Newsome
Medric Oliver
Eddie Prince
Marshall Herman
Fred Hardy
Pvt
Gussie Loy
Leah Jarrell
Walter Pearson
I&j. Wesley Kidwell
Williamsport
George W. Herbert
West Virginia
Maryland
William Trimble
American airstrike hits Japanese targets near Amami Islands
Airfields near Formosa and Ishigakishima were strafed and cratered in long range strikes by Okinawa based marine fighter and torpedo planes. Corsairs and fighter bombers attacked Miyara Airfield and Tokuno Island targets, silencing runways and damaging bridges and buildings. Col. John O. Hunn led attacks on Tokuno with rockets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kuching
Borneo
Guam
Okinawa
Formosa
Amami Islands
Miyara
Ishigakishima
Tokuno Island
Amami
John O. Hunn
Prescott, Ark
Farm machinery exports before World War I
Before World War I U S manufacturers exported about 125 million dollars worth of farm machines annually, reflecting a large prewar export market and the role of U S industry in supplying agricultural equipment abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Pin-up from Sioux Falls Brightens Iwo Jima Foxhole
Marine Cpl. Dick Aniston from Sioux Falls did not choose leg art for his foxhole on Iwo Jima. He posted a picture of Phillips Avenue, his hometown's Main Street, as his pin-up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux Falls
Dick Aniston
Iwo Jima
Phillips Avenue
Main
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Society
Mary Atkinson
St. Holter, USA
James E. Keffer
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Gray Avenue
Phyllis Horton
Isabelle Larrick
National Avenue
Richlands
Virginia
Miss Larrick
Mary Washington College
Emory Larrick
Sebago Lake
Delmer Robinson
Wendell Goode
Arthur Robinson
Cumberland
Jons Rodman
Lt. White
Ridgely White
City
Sapp
Evelyn Sapp
Mrs. Brown
Henry Brown
Lela Rosenberger
Gladys Haldeman
Claude B. Stickley
North
Washington Street
Miss Haldeman
Mrs.Stickley
Chas. J. Beck
Anne Beck
Batmans
Frank Batman
Barbara Ann
Mary Frances
Batman
Newton Bowen
Charleston
Albert Luttrell
Grimes
Gary Lee
Luttrell
Margaret Runkels
Tenn
G. S. Whitacre
Carrie Mullins
Chattanooga
Ollie Sargeant
Florence Whitacre
Lee Whitacre
Hilda
Minnie Carpenter
Bertha Adams
Dearie
Virgie E. Miller
Wilson Miller
Jackson Avenue
Francis J. Bressi
Cosimo Bressi
Phoenix
Arizona
R. A. Whitten
United States Navy
Patuxent River
Navy
Winston Wallace, Jr
N. Loudoun Street
Charlie Carroll
Goldie Stickles
Joseph Stickles
Gary
Cara
NOME
Brooks’ Pharmacy
OPA
Winchester—Front
Roya
Camp White Rock
Benjamin Franklin
Gaunt's Drug Store
Warren
Dr. Bryant
Vesper
CIO
Pureoll Company
Newark
Toledo
Ohio
Port Neches
Tex
Cabin Creek
W.va
Howard West
CIO Oil Workers International Union
WLB
Cleveland
sNyAaci Siadzfem oKshmssg-s
Dodge
Lincoln
Ford
Pine Motor Co
Lt. Williams
Mrs. Lupton
E.thomas Byrd
W. Boscawen Sr
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Winchester, Virginia
Miller Bros
Greenhous
Cather and Moling
Timberlake
Dia
Madam Delia
State of
Madame Delia
Pullman
Martinsburg Pike
Daily Crossword
Royal Air Force
Sandane Tree
Rom
Haydens
Smasher
Fish
Anxious
Fragment
Abe
Ely
Beige
the Order
Lovett Brothers
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