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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1945
Page
2
Mrs. F B Godfrey of the Women’s Division of Service of the Methodist Church will visit Win tomorrow and Friday and speak Thursday evening at 8 oclock at Braddock Street. On Friday she will speak at Market Street Church at 10 oclock in the morning.
About 125 scouts and friends took part in Rock Day activities last Saturday. Phil Hunter said Adrien ne shelter was built, the kitchen nearly finished, and much grounds cleanup completed. The Scout commissioner was helped by W. W. Baker and Ralph C. Gemmill.
May snowfall blankets Omaha as heavy snowflakes persist for about an hour. Temperatures linger in the low 30s marking Nebraska's first May snow in several years.
The report details the collapse of Nazi Germany as surrender terms are ratified in Berlin. Field Marshal Keitel and allied leaders meet to accept unconditional surrender while German forces in Norway, Austria, and Czechoslovakia prepare to lay down arms. Soviet and Allied advances continue across Eastern Europe.
The ration calendar lists red stamps Y5 Z5 and A2 through D2 valid through June 2 for meats and fats, with other red stamps through August. Blue stamps H2 through M2 valid June 2, N2 through B2 through June 30, and other blue stamps through July 31 and August 31. Shoes airplane stamps 1 2 and 3 valid indefinitely per OPA.
Acrey E Nicholson son of Mrs Cynthia E Shade 45 Race street was wounded in action during April in the European Theater of Operations.
Stonewall will play at Berryville on Thursday instead of Friday to avoid clashing with the district literary and track meet in Bridgewater on Friday and Saturday.
The governing body re elected Dr. Hunter H. McGuire Dr. B B Dutton John H Rosenberger J Sloan Kuykendall Frank N Hack Clifford D Grim and Pred L Glaize Jr to the Executive Committee An amendment adds one more member The annual reports praise last year as the most satisfactory in the institution's history Administrator Homer Alberti notes uncertain postwar times but expects continued hospital demand Virginia Reid Hollar reports nursing staff cuts due to wartime enlistments while Cadet Corps nursing students rise to 74 College grants funded new dietary lab library furnishings and lounge equipment
Crowds greet dawn with cheers and flag displays as planes buzz Moscow. Children roam apartment streets shouting Wake up Victory while national anthems and global songs mingle in the city’s joyous chaos. Red flags appear across streets as celebrations spread.
The article notes chafing dishes were used before chimneys were invented and were re introduced in England later. It discusses how later households adopted portable warmers for serving and cooking before built in hearth designs became common again.
May 9 London reports buoyant crowds marking a second V E Day celebration while Paris Brussels Amsterdam Copenhagen Oslo see street revelry. Churchill cautions that other foes remain. Hampstead Heath decoy village burns in the largest V Day bonfire.
Charles Redmond, 23, colored, of 115 W Leicester Street, is arrested by city police on larceny charges. He was picked up on the complaint of Homer E Alberti, hospital administrator, after petty thefts at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Alberti cited a hospital hat, sugar, and a nurse’s radio as missing. police recovered the items.
At May meeting the Clarke County Board of Supervisors named A. MacKay-Smith chairman of a committee to compile a Clarke county history of World War II. The board also tentatively approved the secondary road budget as set by Resident Engineer F. M. Yeljott. Routine matters closed the session.
WFA will buy 150 more cars of Virginia apples under its ongoing program, raising the total to 650 cars in the region. The apples, donated to schools and charities, are urged for home canning despite small size and lower grade. WFA also plans to buy dried apples and vinegar from the 1944 crop if growers meet minimum prices.
A. R. Marks of Stephens City will explain proposed inclusion of Bible teaching in Frederick County Schools curriculum. He speaks at White Hall Methodist Church at 10 and at Rest at 11 o clock Sunday, outlining plans to several local churches.
Denver May 9. The thief who raided Lloyd Sherman’s ice box fled with 1350 dollars hidden in an ice tray. Details of the crime are sparse but the theft involved a single suspect shortly after the incident.
A political cartoon caption argues that funding bonds will lead to increased military action. The piece frames bond purchases as enabling war confidence, critiquing fiscal policy and national security priorities.
Harry B. Nickens, a well known colored citizen of Winchester, died yesterday at his home 438 North Kent Street. He was 68. Survived by wife Sarah Jane Ellis and several children and siblings. Funeral services Friday afternoon at 2 o clock from St. Pauls A. M. E. Church led by Rev. John Newman. Burial in Orick Cemetery.
Pope Pius XII expressed gratitude for the end of the war in Europe and urged that a lasting peace be built on justice and mutual confidence. He called for swift reconstruction, release of prisoners and internees, and the return home of those displaced to aid rebuilding and end misery. He prayed for the war in the Far East to end morally and justly.
Robert Bunnelle, managing executive for the Associated Press in the United Kingdom, was suspended as a war correspondent in the European theater. Capt. Harry Clark of SHAEF London notified him by phone, with a written statement promised from Paris. The suspension is linked to the SHEAF probe of a Germany surrender story by Edward Kennedy.
In liberated Italy only a small number of Americans have been repatriated since the program began on January 17. Allied officials report 20 heads of families have shipped home, with 43 other applications under review. Citizenship proof, war effort necessity, and conclusive eligibility remain major hurdles.
Alaska May 9 The Weekly Mirror found the winner of the Guess W E Day war bond contest was Andrew Raumaker of Boise Idaho. Investigation showed Raumaker is a dog belonging to Gertrude Raumaker a former Kodiak resident. A clause limiting entry to a person ruled out the dog and the prize went to a local woman who was 50 minutes off.
Flurries hit Council Bluffs as Iowa cools with sub freezing readings in the northwest. Spencer recorded a 23 degree low with several northern and central cities also below freezing.
Admiral Chester Nimitz says several minor U. S. fleet units were sunk by Japanese air attacks off the Ryukyus but the Pacific campaign continues. He notes about 3,000 enemy aircraft destroyed since March 18 and Okinawa as a critical objective in the island hopping approach toward Japan.
The Rev. Robert B. Nelson announces Holy Communion at Christ Episcopal Church for tonight at 8 o clock and tomorrow at 11 o clock in observance of Ascension Day.
Air resistance slows a dropped bomb from an airplane at a one mile altitude, taking roughly 19 seconds to hit the ground.
Staunton Virginia May 9 Herbert J Taylor 76 longtime Commonwealth Attorney and civic leader dies at home after six month illness He chaired the City Democratic Committee and the Commission for the Blind and served on the State Democratic Committee and Mary Baldwin College trustees Also survived by wife Charlotte two daughters Mary Garland and Charlotte and son Alfred F Taylor Funeral services set for 5 pm Thursday at First Presbyterian Church Staunton
In Waunconda Illinois on V E Day Douglas Crooks opened a candy shop with a 13 foot Nazi flag on the floor and invited customers to wipe their feet. He said business was good all day.
Mr and Mrs Sam Urdanoff of Denl slow Morgantown West Virginia received a telegram on May 9 7 announcing their son Jordan J Urdanoff 21 died of wounds suffered while fighting in Germany during World War II The family heard President Truman proclaim final Allied victory in Europe moments earlier.
Allied reports describe German garrisons across western France with tanks and armored cars. An estimated 25,000 troops stood in Lorient on the Bay of Biscay as Gen Wilhelm Fahrmacher's forces held a Brest peninsula pocket. American artillery and infantry aided Gen Edouard De Larminot’s interior forces to contain the Germans, while 19,000 Germans were said to hold a 30 mile perimeter around La Rochelle near the Gironde estuary.
Quisling sports leader and former Olympic pole vaulter Charles Hoff, who once toured the United States, was arrested last night in Oslo after a broadcast from London.
Churches across the city reported high attendance at V-E Day services last night. Estimates ranged from 150 to over 500, with Braddock Street Methodist drawing about 500 and Loudoun Street Presbyterian overflowing seating.
Kansas City May 9. Bob Witter, a high school student, says good news of Germany surrender may return them to making harmonicas as he tries to play a battered mouth harp.
Goering and Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, commander on the western front, are in custody of Lt. Gen. A. M. Patch's Seventh Army. Goering claimed Hitler condemned him to death for proposing a takeover on April 24 and said S S troops arrested him before Luftwaffe members freed him.
The page lists correct quiz responses: Penns Woods. by six white horses. Oliver. Franz von Papen. one month. April 13. about 93 million miles. Hoover. no. Molotov.
Rhodes Drug Store advertises Calpinol as a treatment for poison ivy poison oak eczema and athlete’s foot urging readers to buy at their local drug store. The copy presents a direct consumer health remedy with a simple call to action.
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