Middletown Extends First-Half Lead In Fred Clarke League
Middletown defeated Berryville 9 to 1 to move to 6 wins and 0 losses atop the Fred Clarke Baseball League first half. Stephens City beat Stonewall 9 to 4 to climb to second place, while Boyce beat Gainesboro 6 to 3 to tighten their hold and threaten progress.
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Middletown High School
Berryville
Fred Clarke
Stephens City
Stonewall
Boyce
Gainesboro
Lloyd
Eugene Clem
Bobcats
Arnold
Middletown
Smallwood
J. Clem
Jenkins
Renner
Stonewall High School
Bryant Harper
Innngs
Buckles
Castleman
Lamp
Rickard
Boyce High School
Frederick County
Denny
Longerbeam
N. Tavenner
Weir
Ration Calendar Update From Associated Press
Ration details outline stamp validity for meats fats and foods in books four blue and red. Notes include stamp numbers Y5 Z5 E2 through J2, and D2 through Suns 30 with June and July expirations. Sugar and gasoline coupons are described with dates and quantities, next stamp validation May 1.
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Associated Press
OPA
Local Marine Leads First Gun Crew Ashore on Okinawa
United States Marine Headquarters reports Marine First Lieutenant J. Lloyd Martin 28 led the first gun crew to fire 155 mm howitzer shells at Okinawa. He commanded the detail that brought the guns ashore and launched the initial projectile amid Guam campaign service and later promotions.
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United States Marine Headquarters
J. Lloyd Martin
H. John Martin
West Piccadilly Street
Okinawa
Martin
Star Team Stopped By Capitol Restaurant in Practice
The Winchester Evening Star was defeated 26 to 12 by Capitol Restaurant in a practice game. Smallwood led the losers with three runs and two hits, while Lovett pitched for Capitol Restaurant and walked five. Duvall and Barnhart combined for twelve walks.
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Winchester Evening Star
Capitol Restaurant
Lovett
Duvall
Barnhart
Smallwood
German Ambassador Von Mackensen Surrenders Near Swiss Frontier
London May 2 German ambassador to Italy Hans von Mackensen and his staff surrendered to Allied forces a few miles from the Swiss frontier and are en route south for internment, according to the Milan radio report.
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London
Hans von Mackensen
Italy
Milan
Convention Debates Enfranchisement Proposals for Service Members
Debates continued on two resolutions asserting plenary revocation powers for amending the constitution. Proposals included voting by armed forces members without personal registration or poll tax, with exemptions for those honorably discharged within three years. Republicans John Locke Green and I. R. Dovel urged poll tax repeal and broader veteran exemptions.
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Privileges and Elections Committee
Peery
John J. Wicker, Jr
Richmond
American Legion
Wicker
John Locke Green
Arlington County
I. R. Dovel
Luray
Halvosa to Speak to Winchester Rotary on Peace-Time Training
A C Halvosa secretary treasurer of O Sullivan Rubber Co will address the Winchester Rotary Club meeting tomorrow on Universal Peace Time Military Training. A Rotarian Basil F Starkey resigns from the club before entering the armed forces.
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A. C. Halvosa
O'Sullivan Rubber Company
Winchester Rotary Club
Halvosa
Basil F. Starkey
Club
Armed Forces
Ambassadors to Moscow Poised to Reopen Polish Talks
American and British ambassadors to Russia plan to return to Moscow within days to join Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov in talks aimed at re forming the Polish government. Harriman and Kerr have traveled to participate in discussions likely to restart negotiations. A high conference source said Stalin’s note left the door open for a settlement despite limited progress since last month.
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San Francisco
Russia
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
W. Averell Harriman
U. S
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr
Stalin
Molotov
Poland
Australians Fight Japs In Borneo
Canberra reports that Prime Minister Chifley told the House the famed Australian division once in the Middle East is now in action against Japanese forces in Borneo.
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Borneo
Canberra
Treasury
Joseph B. Chifley
The
House Tonight
Middle East
End in Italy as German surrender advances in Lombardy
Allied forces push toward Austria as Gen Graziani surrenders the Ligurian army with about 2,000 Germans and many Italian fascists. Schlemmer reportedly refuses surrender amid Hitler’s death ambiguity. 160,000 prisoners counted. Milan area advances and Trieste contested. hospital ship Freyburg surrender of vessels off Istria noted.
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Rome
John
Lombardy
U. S. Fifth Army
Italy
Rodolfo Granziani
Pemsel
Graziani
Lucian Truscott
Schlemmer
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Austria
Tichino River
Novara
Milan
Santhia
Fifth Army
Alessandria
Udine
Venice
New Zealand
Trieste
Congo
Como
Mussolini
Freyburg
Istrian
Adriatic Sea
Answers to the Daily Quiz
The page lists quiz answers including China Hubertus J van Mook Roger Williams Sweden and Finland and a note about Natchez and Robert and the Dutch on Manhattan and prohibition enforcement and a line about Peattie to Yokohama.
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China
Hubertus J. van Mook
Roger Williams
Sweden
Finland
Ae “Natchez
Robert Iat Temnoliet
Sion
Manhattan
McFadden Rites Held Here Today
Final rites for Mrs. Jessie Hodgson McFadden wife of Jas McFadden were held at her sister’s home 118 East Clifford Street conducted by Rev Ronald S Wilson and Rev Harold D Shifler. Interment was in Mt Hebron Cemetery with pallbearers named Elmer Norman Edward Murnan Louis Grimm James Grant Jacob Yost Harry Willis Howard Grove Thomas Trier. She died suddenly Monday in Parsons West Virginia. survived by husband sister Mrs Margaret Hodgson Goss and brother Joseph Hodgson.
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Jessie Hodgson McFadden
Jas. McFadden
Parsons
W. Va
Edward Goss
East Clifford Street
Ronald S. Wilson
Harold D. Shifler
Mt. Hebron Cemetery
Elmer Norman
Edward Murnan
Louis Grimm
James Grant
Jacob Yost
Harry Willis
Howard Grove
Thomas Trier
McFadden
F. Brook
Laura Snapp Hodgson
Margaret Hodgson Goss
Joseph Hodgson
Hitler Dies in Berlin as Doenitz Succeeds
Reports from Hamburg and Berlin claim Adolf Hitler died at the Reich Chancellery with Grand Admiral Doenitz named his successor. Doenitz ordered continued resistance to the Bolshevik advance as Allied forces press Berlin and northern Germany.
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Berlin
Fuehrer
Wilhelmstrasse
Goering
Goebbels
Himmler
Bormann
Doenitz
Hitler
Reichs Chancellery
Foreign Office
Germany
Moscow
Wagner
EWT
Siegfried
Anton Bruckner
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Laval Ordered Out of Spain by Franco Officials
A German plane carrying Pierre Laval Marcel Dassant and Abel Bonnard was ordered to leave Spain immediately by Generalissimo Francisco Franco after landing at Barcelona. Also, Luxembourg radio reported a German capitulation in Holland was imminent with armistice talks said to be ongoing for over a day.
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London
Luxembourg
Holland
Stalin says 120000 Germans killed or captured after encirclement
Marshal Stalin announced that more than 120,000 Germans had been killed or captured following the encirclement of the German Ninth Army southeast of Berlin.
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London
Marshal Stalin
Ninth Army
Berlin
New Contacts With Reds Established North of Magdeburg
In Germany on May 2 the Ninth Army reports new contacts with Soviet forces north of Magdeburg in the Arneburg and Wittenberge areas about 45 and 60 miles northwest of Berlin.
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Ninth AR
Elbe
Germany
Ninth Army
Magdeburg
Arneburg
Wittenberge
Berlin
Rostock Taken by Red Army, Stalin Announces
Rostock on the Baltic was captured today by the Red Army according to an announcement from Marshal Stalin. The report comes amid advances on the Baltic coast as Soviet forces push toward German-held positions.
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Rostock
London
Baltic
Red Army
Stalin
British Capture Luebeck Seals Northern Germany Pocket
Reuters dispatch from First Army Group headquarters reports British troops seized Luebeck on the Baltic, cutting off Denmark and splitting the German pocket in northern Germany.
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Luebeck
London
Reuters
Q1st Army Group
Baltic
Denmark
Germany
German Field Marshal SCHOERNER pledges to Doenitz in broadcast
Field Marshal Schoerner the southern eastern front commander pledged allegiance to Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz in a broadcast order of the day. He urged German soldiers to fight on for freedom.
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London
Victory messages praise Allied triumphs and Axis capitulation
The text extols the success of Allied armies and urges Japan and Germany to grasp the meaning of the events. It emphasizes the swift power now ready for capitulation or destruction of the enemies of mankind and notes congratulatory messages to Gen. Mark W. Clark and British Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander.
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Japan
Germany
Mark W. Clark
Harold Alexander
Allies reach near Innsbruck as Kiel area shifts
Allied forces push across northern Germany and into Austria and Czechoslovakia. The Elbe bridgehead expands toward Hamburg while Seventh Army nears Innsbruck and Third Army closes on Passau. Daring advances leave German resistance light and territory rapidly falls.
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Kiel
Hamburg
Elbe
Supreme Headquarters
Iice
Eisenhower
Alpine
Brenner Pass
Italy
Innsbruck
Austraan
Tyrol
Czechossovakia
Austria
Passau
Danube
Denmark
Schleswig-Holstein
Luebeck
Baltic
Leer
Emden
Oldenberg
Bremen
If We'll Buy The Bonds they'll drop the bombs
A terse wartime banner warns that funding bonds may temper aggression but risks escalating hostilities. The line frames a political stance linking public debt to military action amid escalating tensions.
Stassen Advocates Trusteeship for Pacific Islands
San Francisco May 2 Comdr Harold E Stassen said it is obvious the United States must retain control of vital strategic islands in the Pacific after defeating Japan He urged a continuing trusteeship over some islands won at American cost while negotiations on a trusteeship policy for the United Nations charter proceed Stassen on leave from Fleet Admiral Halseys staff is the chief American representative in the policy task force for the charter which the big five nations will review at a session tomorrow night
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San Francisco
Harold E. Stassen
United States
Pacific
War
Navy
State
Iny Treior
Great Britain
Russian
China
France
Curfew Vote Delayed By Winchester Council
Winchester council defers final action on a curfew after routine readings and reports. A special meeting is planned to finalize the curfew, recommended by the Winchester police department.
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J. H. Henry
L. B. St
Ugh
A. T. Hawthorne
J. T. Kremer
Winchester Police Department
R. Frank Barr
W. W. Dellinger
Fred L. Glaize
Alan Peery
H. C. Borden
Winchester Poultry Company
Byrd Seeks Change in Dumbarton Oaks Plan at Appomattox
U S Senator Harry Byrd urged removing the five powers consent clause from the Dumbarton Oaks plan during Appomattox county's 100th anniversary celebration. He called for revision and said nations with no future aggression would not oppose striking it. He then left for San Francisco to press the Navy Affairs Committee view that Pacific bases needed for defense remain under U S control. Other speakers included Lt Governor William M. Tuck and Judge Joel W. Flood.
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C. F. Nicholas
Nicholas
Miller
Henry
Winchester Poultry Company
Hawthorne
Dr. Hawthorne
Sam Preston
Winchester Recreation Council
Rouss Park
F. Ellwood Allen
E. E. Baker
Sirbaugh
State Chamber of Commerce
W. P. Miller
C. R. Anderson
Lee Grant
S. G.shendon
Gray Avenue
Virginia Avenue
National
Kern Street
Appomattox
Harry Flood Byrd
Dumbarton Oaks
Appomattox County
San Francisco
Senate
Naval Affairs Committee
Pacific
United States
William M. Tuck
Joel W. Flood
Let People Decide Vote Tax Would Let People Decide
Lieutenant Governor William M. Tuck pledged if nominated to seek a constitutional amendment in January 1946 to end the poll tax as a prerequisite to voting. He said the people should decide this issue under Section 196 of the Virginia Constitution while touring the Constitutional Convention and en route to Franklin, Va.
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Richmond
William M. Tuck
Virginia
General Assembly
Tuck
Franklin
Moss Plunkett
Roanoke
Doentz Ousts Von Ribbentrop In Nazi Government Shakeup
The Hamburg radio reports Admiral Karl Doenitz has dismissed Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and appointed Count Ludwig Schwerin von Krosigk as foreign minister. Schwerin-Krosigk, formerly finance minister, takes the post as Doenitz asserts succession after Hitler's death amid Germanys military rise and decline.
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Doenitz
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Count Lutz Schwerin-Krosigk
Franz von Papen
von Schleicher
Hitler
Franz Boehme
Norway
Oslo
London
Hamburg
Karl Doenitz
Adolf Hitler
Ludwig Schwerin von Krosick
Graf Schwerin-Krosigk
von Ribbentrop
Thefuehrer
Rhineland
Germany
Reds Gain Ground as Berlin Front Breaks
The Red Army seized large areas of Berlin with 100 rubbled blocks in the flaming administrative heart. West and south districts including Charlottenburg and Schoenberg were cleared. In five days the Nazis killed and captured tally to 87 500, with 8 000 German casualties reported yesterday in the capital.
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Brandenburg
Red Army
Charlottenburg
Schoenberg
Heavy frost damages crops across city farms
Frost after freezing temperatures harmed garden crops and fruit with bean and tomato losses. Low areas suffered the worst while some barley may be damaged. Opinions differed on fruit damage as forecasts called for more rain and cooler, cloudy conditions Thursday.
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Thena Research Labora
Truman Launches Retrenchments
President Truman began a broad federal retrenchment drive ahead of V E Day. He urged Congress to cut more than seven billion dollars from current appropriations and shipbuilding authorizations, abolish Civilian Defense, and repeal over seven billion dollars in maritime commission funding and contracts. Other agencies facing cuts include OWI, War Production Board, and S R D.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Maritime Commission
Office of Civilian Defense
Office of War Information
War Production Board
Office of Censorship
Office of Defense Transportation
Petroleum Administration For War
Federal Security Agency
War Manpower Commission
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Byrd Heads to San Francisco for United Nations Conference
Four US Senators left for San Francisco to join the U N delegation at the conference. Byrd Eastland Tobey and Capehart of Indiana will discuss postwar naval and air bases in the Pacific. Capehart is expected to propose that all 46 attendees declare war on Japan to speed the end of the fighting.
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Washington
San Francisco
United States
Byrd
D-Va
Eastland
D-Miss
Tobey
R-Nh
Pacific
Homer Capehart
Blood Donor Effort Hinges On Volunteers’ Service
Blood Donor continues as a daily drive led by Mrs. Eugene Cooper and Mrs. H. K. Benham. Volunteers have served the Canteen Corps faithfully for over a year, often answering urgent last minute calls to supply the final pint needed to reach the quota.
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Eugene Cooper
H. K. Benham
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