Booster Day at Park Faces Orange and Williamsport Twin Bill
Booster Day at Park schedule features a doubleheader Sunday against undefeated Orange of Virginia and Williamsport Wildcats. Park aims for sixth straight win as Brumbaugh and Mentzer take pitching roles with practice set for Friday evening.
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A. Ryland Conner
Ced
Orange
Williamsport Wildcats
Wildcats
W. G. Higginbottom
Ore
Brumbaugh
Sandy Baker
Mentzer
Brumbaugh King
Winchester
Linville
Maurice Miller
Williams
Baker
Registration of Rental Units Continues Here
Lunsford Loving district rent executive aided by the Junior Board of Trade urged property owners to register rental units under the Rent Control Regulations which took effect July 1. About 35 people representing 125 rental units sought help at City Hall last night and more assistance was planned at 7 30 p m tonight and tomorrow with OPA aides at City Hall Thursday and Friday from 11 am to 4 pm.
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Lunsford Loving
Winchester
City Hall
Junior Board of Trade
Loving
OPA
Answers to the Daily Quiz Corrected List
The page prints the quiz answers with items including Guinea-a-year-man Codicil Major Royal Oak True 7 Lord Wavell 8 The first year 9 Sculptor 10 Oversubscribed.
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Louisiana
Royal Oak
True
Lord Wavell
Sculptor
Ratior Calendar and OPA Stamp Validity Details
The notice lists wartime ration stamp validity for meats fats and processed foods under Book Four blue and red stamps with expiration dates through July to September. It includes sugar stamps 36 and shoe stamps from Book Three with indefinite validity. several coupons and their allowed quantities are noted, along with general statements about plan cancellations and coupon values.
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The
Associated Press
OPA
Puei
Kenney Threatens Air Strikes on Hirohito Palace
General George C. Kenney declared to Emperor Hirohito that Allied air power can reach anywhere in Japan and nothing is out of bounds for American airmen, including the Emperor's palace. The remarks were reported from Manila on July 25.
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Manila
P. I
George C. Kenney
Far East
Hirohito
Churchill Ready To Hear Returns After Potsdam Trip
Prime Minister Churchill arrived in London from Potsdam to learn the fate of his Conservative government as the general election votes were tabulated. He wore civilian clothes and proceeded to 10 Downing Street after landing.
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London
Churchill
Potsdam
No. 10
Downing Street
Fined $50 For Reckless Driving
The Court of Trial Justice W. Erle Edwards disposed of cases including Joseph Thomas Kirby of Bloomery Star Route for reckless driving with a $50 fine and costs. a 30 day jail sentence was suspended. A. A. Bennett of Cedarville Virginia was fined $15 and costs for speeding.
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Court of Trial
W. Erle Edwards
Joseph Thomas Kirby
A. A. Bennett
Cedarville
Police Court Disposes Drunks and Reckless Driver
Judge John Rice presides as Silas Luttrell of Cross Junction is fined five dollars and costs for drunkenness. Louis Dunn of 337 8 Braddock Street also taxed five dollars and costs for drunkenness. Wilford Mowery of 327 Kerr Street pays ten dollars and costs for reckless driving. Charles Robert Keeler of Middletown cited for drunkenness with five dollars and costs.
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John Rice
Silas L. Luttrell
Cross Junction
Louis Dunn
Braddock Street
Wilford Mowery
Kerr Street
Charles Robert Keeler
Middletown
Daladier testifies on Petain Riom trials and France’s collapse
In a courtroom scene Daladier recalls Vichy seizing power after the Riom trials he fought to defend republican institutions. He describes Petain’s rise and the 1940 armistice while denouncing collaboration and praising Allied actions in North Africa.
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Petain
Hitler
Dieppe
Daladier
France
Republic
National Assembly
Vichy
Louis XVI
Riom
Paul Reynaud
Leon Blum
Maurcie Gamelin
Bourrasol
Gaston Cassagnan
French Africa
North Africa
North
Africa
Reynaud
Pierre Laval
Laval
Aussies Liberate Choiseul Island in Solomon Group
Australian troops announced by radio that Choiseul in the Solomon Islands has been liberated. They say a small landing force harried Japanese on Bougainville as American Marines moved in 1943. Bougainville operation aimed to neutralize Rabaul and secure airstrips for Allied advance.
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San Francisco
Choiseul
Solomon Island
Federal Communications Commission
Bougainville Strait
Bougainville Island
Bougainville
Down Under
Bougainsville
Solomon Islands
Rabaul
New Britain
New Ireland
Island
Heavy Rains Harms Crops Across Virginia States
Rainfall in Virginia creates wettest July on record. Tomatoes suffer in eastern counties and tobacco in low-lying areas. peanuts and peas show scattered damage. Northern wheat shocks sprout. corn and soybeans dampened. Pasture improves versus last week and year. Counties listed include Alleghany Highland Rockbridge Bath Botetourt Shenandoah Rockingham.
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Richmond
Virginia Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Alleghany
Highland
Rockbridge
Bath
Botetourt
Shenandoah
Rockingham
Housing Program Gets Approval
War housing programs in Staunton Harrisonburg and South Boston Virginia were approved by John B Blandford Jr administrator National Housing Agency. Plans include 45 Staunton units and 40 Harrisonburg units and 15 South Boston units with caps for white and negro occupants and rents or sales terms. Ten Staunton and thirteen Harrisonburg units are reserved for rent during the war emergency.
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Atlanta
Virginia
John B. Blandford, Jr
National Housing Agency
NHA
Robert K. Creighton
Staunton
Harrisonburg
South Boston
Creighton
Japs Lived On Top Of Airfields
Major Emerson J. Watson described Japanese troops living atop Philippine airfields. He recalled huts hidden under disguises that guerrillas later cleared away for American troop carrier planes. Watson led a squadron ferrying personnel and supplies across the Pacific from Brisbane to Luzon.
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Washington
Japan
Philippines
Emerson J. Watson
Pacific
Watson
John N. Watson
Knoxville
Tenn
317Th
Brisbane
Australia
Luzon
Britain’s Pacific Naval Might Amid Allied Forces
In San Francisco Admiral Sir James F. Somerville announced Britain’s ships are now fighting in the Pacific alongside American fleet units. He added Britain’s “second eleven” is in Burma waters tackling a war larger than many expect.
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Britain
Pacific
San Francisco
James F. Somerville
England
Burma
Somerville
Washington
Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff
Indestructible Faith Healer Invites Darden to Mass
Rev. Bill Parsons leader of the Stone Creek Faith Healers survives a copperhead bite after 48 hours and asks Virginia Governor Darden to attend mass demonstrations next Sunday. Attorney General Staples studies legal options to ban snake handling protests while Gov Darden opposes the practice citing freedom of worship. Parsons invites followers in six states to the annual convention.
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ST. Charles
Stone Creek
Virginia
Darden
E. P. Staples
Richmond
Attorney General
Bill Parsons
Elmer
Parsons
Elimination of Minor Price Controls May Be Planned
The OPA under Davis and Bowles moves to gradually end controls on minor commodities selling well below ceilings. A large number of items could qualify such as custom jewelry fur coats liquor and scrap aluminum while major price ceilings remain for food clothing fuels and rents to prevent higher costs.
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Washington
William H Davis
Davis
Chester Bowles
OPA
Bowles
Budget Chief Attacks Morgenthau Plan to Reassign Budget
Washington July 25 Budget Director Harold D Smith challenged Henry Morgenthau s proposal to shift the budget preparation back to the Treasury He said the Budget Bureau has never been Treasury controlled and is a part of the President s staff Morgenthau urged Treasury policy control over spending lending borrowing and insuring by agencies including the RFC and FDIC under a stricter government financial policy setup Nor can the Treasury act as a real watchdog without this change.
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Washington
Henry Morgenthau
Treasury
Budget Bureau
Harold D. Smith
The
Smith
Department
Morgenthau
Congress
Fred M. Vinson
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Norffan
U S Ship Esbjerg Strikes Mine in Baltic Waters
The 2,762-ton U S Steamship Company motorship Esbjerg struck a mine off Stevns Klint in the Baltic last night while sailing from Luebeck to Copenhagen. The report does not indicate whether the ship sank or if there were losses.
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London
Exchange Telegraph
U.S. Steamship Company
Esbjerg
Stevns Klint
Baltic
Luebeck
Copenhagen
War Work Stalled By Fresh Walk-Outs Across Industries
The nation faces rising labor disputes with 60,000 idle workers across more than twenty stoppages. Key plants include Wright Aeronautical in New Jersey halting B 29 engine production and Savannah shipyard machinists. Detroit lumber yards reopened after stoppages, boosting returning workers, while GM and meat markets report new slowdowns amid wage and transfer disputes.
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Akron
Sing
Woodridge
John McGrail
UAW
Chevrolet
General Motors
Cincinnati
St. Louis
AFL
WLB
Detroit
U. S. Rubber Company
Cio-United Rubber Workers
Hollywood
Screen Office
North American
Aviation
Grand Prairie
Tex
Workers Free To Vote Their Choice
A Petersburg labor group condemns the State Federation of Labor endorsement of Moss Plunkett for Virginia governor. The Sun session asserts the executive board acted without consulting affiliated unions and cannot bind members to any candidate. The resolution denounces the board’s action as an improper pledge of union votes.
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Petersburg
William Byrd Hotel
Richmond
State Federation of Labor
Moss A. Plunkett
Virginia
F. E. Tatum
Machinists Union
Joseph Rosario
Portsmouth
Plunkett
Virginia Federation of Labor
Tatum
State Federation Executive Board
Naval blitz drives Japan to endure new phase of war
Allied air and naval forces pounded targets across Honshu and Hokkaido as carrier strikes expanded the campaign around the Inland Sea. Admiral Halsey hailed the operation as a new phase of naval warfare while Tokyo radio reported shelling near Kushimoto and airfield destruction along Honshu.
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Kanagawa Prefecture
Honshu
Tokyo Bay
Kanagawa
Cape Nojima
Tokyo
Hokkaido Island
American Broadcasting Company
Great
Kure Naval Base
Nimitz
Pacific Command
Nippon
Admiral Halsey
Japan
Osaka
Nagoya
Halsey
Kushimoto
Shionomisake
Tokyo Radio
Civilians in Japan Reported Armored by Home Guard
Pilots returning to Vice Admiral John S. McCain's carrier task force from Honshu raids said they saw civilian home guard members handling machineguns. Lt. Thomas E. Flynn of Queens Village New York described the group as resembling converted bank tellers with average aiming.
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San Francisco
John S. McCain
Honshu
Mutual Broadcasting Company
Jack Mahan
Thomas E. Flynn
Queens Village
N. Y
Duplicate NSLI certificate question answered
The Veterans Administration does not replace the certificate. Upon request the Director of Insurance will issue a letter in lieu of the lost certificate that serves as official evidence of the contract. Address the Director of Insurance at the Veterans Administration in Washington.
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National Service Life
National Service
Veterans Administration
Washington
Young Polish Boy Who Fought With U S Army May Stay
A 12 year old Polish lad who fought with American troops in Europe for months and came to the United States as a stowaway may be permitted to remain. He is Joseph Eugene Paremba and is held as deportable while his story is checked. If homeless, he could be allowed to stay. Paremba served with Battery C of the 36th Field Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division and joins the unit in Europe.
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Washington
Europe
United States
Justice Department
Joseph Eugene Paremba
Paremba
America
Batery C
36Th Field Artillery
Health Units Improve Virginia Health and Economy
A Virginia official praised 51 full time Local Health Units for saving lives and boosting the economy. He cited reduced malaria typhoid and tuberculosis fatalities and argued that comprehensive dental care and Health Centers partnering with physicians enhance medical services.
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Virginia
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