Hagerstown to Meet Winchester Park Sunday
Hagerstown will host Winchester Park at Rouss Park Sunday in a Maryland baseball clash. Park comes in at four and four after a shutout loss last week, while Hagerstown lists three pitchers including Shrader and Crowther ready for duty.
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Winchester Park
Hagers Athletic Club
Rouss Park
Hagerstown
Maryland
Williamsport Wildcats
Winchester
Heurich Brewers
Park
Guy Griffith
Hagerstown Nine
eCrowther
Shrader E
Vand Snook
Hagerstown Athletic Club
Maryland-Pennsylvania
Chambersburg
Carlisle
Waynesboro
Williamsport
Lonaconing
Sandy” Baker
New Crop of Labor Disputes
Labor unrest spans multiple plants with walkouts and partial disruptions. Key sites include Mack Manufacturing Plainfield and Allentown plants, New Brunswick CIO UAW talks over seniority, and Dixie Bus Service in Memphis facing continued strikes. Returning workers rise at Packard Ford and Aluminum Co of America plants while others remain idle in East Chicago and Connellsville.
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Chicago
New Brunswick . J
Mack Manufact Corporation
Internation Plainfield Motor Company
Plainfield
N. J
Mack Manufacturing Corporation
Mack
Detroit
Packard
Ford Motor Company
Budd Wheel Company
Motor Products
Contiental Foundry and Machine Company
East
Ind
Aluminum Company of America
New Kensington
Ration Calendar Details Stamp Validity and Expirations
The Associated Press outlines ration dates for meats fats and processed foods with book four blue stamps and book four red stamps, listing good through dates for various stamp groups. It covers sugar stamp validity through August 31 and notes upcoming stamp changes plus indefinite shoe stamps and gasoline coupons with their expiration details.
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OPA
Place Dies In Hospital In Frederick County
Frederick Lee Place aged 50 died at Winchester Memorial Hospital where he was a surgical patient He was born Light Place Gainesboro in Frederick County unmarried and lived his life at the home place He is survived by two brothers Allen Place Winchester and Harley Place Gainesboro Funeral services will be held at Parlett Funeral Home Gainesboro Sunday at 4 30 p m conducted by Rev Mr Palmer Wesley Chapel Cemetery interment follows Pallbearers were Forest Ragent Joseph Davis Claskin Brown Janney Davis Conrad DeHaven and Ellis Baylis
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Joseph
Annie
Light Place
Gainesboro
Frederick County
Mr. Place
Home Place
Allen
Forest Ragent
Joseph Davis
Claskin Brown
Janney Davis
Conrad DeHaven
Ellis Baylis
Stettinius Praised For UN Work At San Francisco
Senator Byrd praised Secretary of State Edward Stettinius Jr. for his role at the San Francisco United Nations Conference. He noted Stettinius’ appointment to the American Security Council seat and as U S delegation head in the General Assembly, calling it a chance to advance permanent world peace.
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Washington
Senate
Byrd
E. R. Stettinius, Jr
San Francisco
Stettinius
Security Council
United States
General Assembly
Jubilee Church Plans Bible School
Jubilee Church of the Brethren begins a two week Vacation Bible School starting Monday July 2. All children are invited to enroll.
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Jubilee Church
Bible School
Church of the Rethren Ae
Committee to curb discrimination in employment issued
The panel, created by executive order of the late President Roosevelt, aims to prevent employment discrimination on the basis of race color creed or national origin as the Senate debates cloture against southern opposition.
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Senate
Roosevelt
Allied air and sea raids expand in Pacific theater
General Douglas MacArthur announces new air blows against Formosa and the Asiatic coast. Black widow night fighters drop jellied gasoline bombs on Formosa's Ensuiki refinery and start fires visible for miles. Liberators hit the Tanshi refinery on Formosa's west coast. Seventh Fleet recce planes strike Wampoa docks Canton and fuel stores Nanking China. Other aircraft destroy two coastal freighters and oil tanks at Kuantan Malaya.
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Formosa
Manila
Douglas McArthur
Asiatic
Black Widow
Ensuiki
Tanshi
U. S. Seventh Fleet
Wampoa
Canton
Nanking
China
Kuantan
Malaya
Answers to the Daily Quiz Revealed
Answers to the daily quiz printed on Page 4 include Byron Price as Director of Office of Censorship and a list of ten items. The responses reference Horatius Georgie Drew John Milton the number one thousand a quoted line about asking permission and Missouri River.
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Byron Price
Office of Censorship
Horatius
Georgie Drew
John Milton
True
Missouri River
Riley's Market Sold to Harper Brothers in Winchester
Announcement of the sale of Riley's Market at 1 Valley Avenue to Roy and Woodrow Harper, effective July 1. The market has served Winchester and Frederick County for 25 years, with a history dating back to 1919 when George W. Riley and Hoye L. Riley started Riley & Son in Winchester.
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Riley's
Valley Avenue
Roy
Woodrow Harper
Brothers
Riley
Winchester
Frederick County
George W. Riley
Hoye L. Riley
Augusta
W. Va
Gerrard and
Riley & Son
B. W. Largent
Riley’s Market
Hoye L
Leonard W. Riley
Roy Harper
Northern Virginia Power Company
Pendleton County
Pineville
Haye L. Riley
Leonard Riley
Harper’s
Mrs Shreck Dies At Her Winchester Home
Mrs Jennie Shreck age 76 wife of John W Shreck died at her home 129 East Pall Mall Winchester at 415 yesterday afternoon after eight months of ill health She was born September 29 1868 near Stephenson Frederick County She leaves her husband a son the Rev L L Shreck two daughters Ruth Feltner of Cumberland and Mildred LaFollette of Winchester four grandchildren and four great grandchildren Funeral arrangements not yet set with services likely Sunday Body at Jones Funeral Home
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Jennie Shreck
John W. Shreck
East Pall Mall Street
Winchester
Joseph and
Eliza Murray Shreck
Stephenson
Frederick County
L. L. Shreck
Ruth Feltner
Cumberland
Mildred LaFollette
Jones Funeral Home
Unity Essential To World Peace
Philadelphia June 29 John Foster Dulles adviser to the American delegation at the San Francisco Conference said unity of the United Nations is essential to lasting peace. He argued unity comes from substituting common peacetime goals for wartime victory and that intolerance repression injustice and want become shared perils guiding future peace efforts.
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Philadelphia
John Foster Dulles
San Francisco
United Nations
Dulles
Foreign Policy Association of Philadelphia
Nazi Germany
Japan
Broiler Allotment Now Extended in Several States
The War Food Administration said civilians in Virginia West Virginia Georgia Arkansas Missouri and Oklahoma will be allotted 30 percent of poultry marketed in commercial areas. The 70 percent remaining will go to government for war needs. Last week New Jersey Delaware Maryland also targeted 30 percent for civilians. North Carolina remains restricted.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Virginia
West Virginia
Georgia
Arkansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
WFA
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
North Carolina
Napoleon's plunder fed the Louvre's art trove
V E A paintings taken as war indemnities from Italy Germany and the Netherlands were placed in the Louvre. It is said that at one time half of Europe's masterpieces resided in Paris. About 2000 of the choicest works levied by Napoleon were housed there.
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Germany
Netherlands
Louvre
Europe
Paris
AT and T unveils postwar mobile radio telephone plan
American Telephone and Telegraph announces a plan for a mobile radio telephone system modeled on walkie talkie devices. Drivers in cars or trucks would use portable radios to contact a central exchange linking to any conventional phone. Each vehicle would have its own call number and a driver could be reached by dialing that number. AT and T has asked the FCC for authority to plan service in Baltimore.
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New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
A. T
A. T. and
Federal Communications Commission
Baltimore
Khaki-Clad Ghost Very Much Alive
New Bedford, June 29. A khaki clad ghost returned to New Bedford and read an obituary sketch of his death in Germany last year. Sgt Alan Grimshaw, wounded in 1944, inspected insurance and social security payments collected after his death. His brother and attorney confirmed the payments were returned after his survival was established.
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New Bedford
Mass
Alan Grimshaw
Germany
Sgt
Grimshaw
Eighth Airforce
Brunswick
Japan
New Bedford Standard Times
St. Kilian’s Church
Truman seeks Senate ratification of UN Charter
President Truman works on a message urging prompt Senate ratification of the United Nations peace organization charter. Press Secretary Ross says the message will be brief and read in about five minutes.
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Kansas City
Truman
Senate
United Nations Peace Organization
Charles G. Ross
United States
Capitol Hill
Washington
Ross
Central
Ware
Independence
Federal
Jesters’ Club
Kansas
Alf. M. Landon
Eddie Jacobson
Jacobson
Haberdarchery
Yellow Transparent Apples Enjoy Seasonal Comeback
Virginia's Yellow Transparent apples, once deemed secondary, are rebounding this season after late frosts spared these varieties. Growers in Winchester report strong demand as stored fruit remains scarce, with two inch fruit fetching around four dollars per bushel in eastern terminal markets and smaller sizes slightly lower.
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Virginia
Winchester
Teenager Sentenced for Parental Murder in Michigan Kitchen
In Detroit on June 29, Elven P. Keht, 15, who beat his mother to death with a skillet on Feb 15, was given five to ten years in prison. Judge Murphy said he would seek reformatory placement due to youth. Keht confessed, saying he was angered by a rebuke.
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Detroit
Elven P. Keht
Thomas J. Murphy
Elven
State Reformatory
Franklin
Western lawmakers press for quick coal price rise
Ten western Pennsylvania congressmen launched a letter writing campaign to raise soft coal prices. Rep Corbett says the letters target Chester Bowles and James F. Brownlee of the OPA and Economic Stabilizer William H. Davis to urge an immediate temporary price increase to cover higher labor costs and boost production.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Rep. Corbett
Chester Bowles
James F. Brownlee
OPA
William H. Davis
Corbin Fined $150 In Police Court
C W Corbin of Berryville Pike was arraigned before Judge John Rice on illegal liquor possession and fined $150 with costs. A 30 day jail sentence was suspended. J Bradley Vanersdale near Berkeley Springs faces a July 12 preliminary hearing in Magisterial Court. Richard Hoover of 17 East Cecil Street was found guilty of driving under the influence of liquor hit and run property damage and operator's license. sentence deferred to July 14. Calvin Adams with Hoover was fined $5 and costs for being drunk.
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C. W. Corbin
Berryville Pike
John Rice
J. Bradley Vanersdale
Berkeley Springs
Richard Hoover
East Cecil Street
Corbin
Rice
Calvin Adams
Hoover
Four Japanese Admirals Killed in Action
London dispatch reports the death in action of four Japanese admirals. Names listed include Joji Nishimura Yoshio Suzuki Yushiro Wada and Kengei Ando. The report cites the Japanese News Agency broadcast dated June 29.
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London
Joji Nishimura
Yoshio Suzuki
Yushiro Wada
Kengei Ando
Swedish Polish envoy exchange announced in Warsaw
STOCKHOLM June 29 The Swedish government will exchange representatives with the new Polish government in Warsaw. The first Swedish representative will be Brynolf Eng who has been negotiating for coal deliveries from Poland.
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Stockholm
Warsaw
Brynolf Eng
Poland
Soldiers Diverted To Rail Lines To Aid Transport
The War Department announced that 4,000 soldiers will be furloughed for 30 days to work on U S railroads to prevent a breakdown in transport during Pacific redeployment. They are experienced railroaders and will serve as brakemen locomotive firemen boilermakers electricians car repairmen mechanics machinists and helpers.
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Washington
War Department
U.S
Pacific
Earthquakes Expected But Not Harmful to Panama Canal
The canal lies in a quake prone region with about 45 quakes yearly. Most are minor and lack enough strength to damage the canal, according to H G B A.
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Panama Canal
Escaped German POWs Still At Large Near Middletown
Two German prisoners of war escaped from the M. J. Grove stone quarry near Middletown were still at large as of this afternoon. A search spanning more than eight miles by a posse of soldiers and local, state, federal officers yielded no trace. The escapees Baueckmann Wolfgang and Spiller Kurt were described with heights, weights and features.
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M. J. Grove
Middletown
Robert White
Marlboro
J Hoffman
Baueckmann Wolfgang
Spiller Kurt
Wolfgang
Kurt
Children’s Day Service at Fairview Church
A Children’s Day service will be held at Fairview Church near Nain on Sunday afternoon July 1 at 3 o’clock. The Angers Store Trumpet Quintette will perform. The public is invited.
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Fairview Church
Nain
Angers Store
Local Markets Corrections Noted by The Star
The Star notes daily local markets listings are correct but may contain typographical errors. Readers are advised that the newspaper does not assume responsibility for any typos that may appear.
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The
Star
Local Graded Egg Market Prices Noted
Market report lists large extras white and brown eggs at 41 cents per dozen and Grade A whites and browns at 39 cents. Grade B whites and browns 36 cents and medium eggs priced similarly with unclear text in the latter line.
Boy Scouts Sell 336 War Bonds in City Drive
Seventy five scouts mobilized to boost E Bond sales pledging 336 bonds totaling 42 250. They sold 278 E Bonds 13 750 56 Funds 27 000 and two G Bonds 1 500 in a house to house canvass. Troop 3 led with 145 bonds 8 775 earning miniature Jeeps tonight.
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Wendell Barney
War Finance Committee
Capitol Theater
Troop 40
Barney
Troop l Eader
Capitol
Grant Pollock
O'Sullivan Rubber Company, Inc
Palace Theatres
Japanese Moving War Industries from Japan to Manchuria
Tokyo radio announced a large scale transfer of war industries from Japan to Manchuria due to enemy air raids. It described the move as more fundamental than dispersion of munitions and noted Japan’s communications with Manchukuo were disrupted.
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San Francisco
Japan
Manchuria
Nippon
Tokyo Radio
Federal Communications Commission
Asiatic
Manchukuo
Tokyo
Real Estate Meet on Rent Control Tonight at City Hall
Brokers and landlords are urged to attend a mass meeting at 8 pm in the City Hall court room to discuss rent control rules that become effective in the city and county.
Star News Briefs Highlight Local and World Events
The Star offers concise coverage of local happenings and major world events. Readers get quick summaries, quick reads, and updates across regions with a focus on frontline details and relevant names.
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Winchester Memorial Hospital
Golden Gate
Berryville
Boyce & Clarke County
Front Royal Pike
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Broiler
Napoleon
V. E
Ernest B. Vaccaro
Bulletin
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Fairview
Daiswensen
Boy Scouts
Newton D. Baker Hospital
Martinsburg
Harpers Market
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Sue Stickley
John Golden
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