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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1945
Page
6
The Quota Club of Winchester reports tripling their pledge total in the 7th War Loan Drive at the Bond Booth on Main Street. They challenge other Winchester clubs to match or beat their bond sales as part of a community effort.
The Winchester White Sox seek better fortune after two early losses to Stephenson and Hancock as they head to Leesburg Sunday. Players are told to meet at 12 o clock Sunday at 1398 Loudoun Street for transport to the game.
A provocative speech warns that funding through bonds could enable aggressive military action. The statement frames bond purchases as enabling bombs and calls for reconsideration of financing decisions amid security concerns.
R Pifer president of the Winchester Retail Merchants Association announced stores will not open until 10 Monday morning so owners and employees can attend the bond rally at the Capitol Theater. Clerks meet at 8 45 to depart at 8 50 for the rally which starts at 9. The U S Treasury film The All Star Bond Rally will be shown along with combat movies and brief remarks by six World War II veterans. The rally aims to plan Retail Divisions activities during the drive with a goal of 110700.
A. L. Frye announces Frederick County Agricultural Workers' Council will meet at 10 30 tomorrow in the county courthouse. Topics include postwar employment surveys, agency programs aiding returning veterans, and aiding veterans seeking farm locations. All members urged to attend.
Mrs. Cora Chapman of 137 West Boscawen street received word from her son Private Clayton W. Chapman reported missing in action in Germany since April 14. In a May 5 letter written on Red Cross stationery he said he had been a prisoner of the Germans for three weeks and was then in good hands. Chapman is with the Hell on Wheels Second Armored Division of Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges First Army, entered service May 26, 1943, trained at Fort Knox, and arrived overseas November 1943. wounded Sept. 16, 1944, then returned November 30. He holds the European Theater ribbon, Good Conduct ribbon, and Purple Heart.
New Yorkers greeted Meatless Friday with a cynical laugh today as Meatless May looms. Vegetables and canned goods fill diets while fish becomes scarce and egg baskets sit empty. Poultry options are limited and few oldtimers recall chicken taste.
Washington May 18 The CIO United Automobile Workers president R J Thomas says assembly lines should start auto production now to build over 200000 cars this year. He claims steel and materials exist to support the plan and urges WPB to approve the higher quota without delay despite July 1 production start.
Dr J T Baldwin head of Blandy Experimental Farm Clarke county will address the Camp Fire program at the Boy Scout Camporee this weekend at Handley playground. Commissioner Phil Hunter announces start about 8 15 pm with Baldwin speaking on Brazil experiences followed by Scout stunts and group singing as two hundred boys are expected from Shawnee District. Visitors urged to attend.
RICHMOND Va May 18 Three and three clergymen were elected to the standing committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia which concluded its 150th council here Named to the committee a body which passes on some of the most important questions to come before the church were The Rev W Leigh Ribble rector of Grace and Holy Trinity Church Richmond The Rev A C Zebriskie D D dean of the Theological Seminary Alexandria The Rev Churchill J Gibson D D rector of St James Episcopal Church Richmond John B Minor Richmond Gardiner L Booth Alexandria and A R Hoxton Alexandria
Fritz Kuhn and other Germans are expected to be sent to Germany on a repatriation ship and then handed to American military authorities for disposition. Kuhn's wife and son Walter were interned with him at Crystal City but were sent back to Germany on February 15, 1944 aboard the Gripsholm.
Veterans and service members from Winchester cross town and nearby towns are profiled. Hugh F. Dailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Dailey, graduated from Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Infantry. Pfc. Donald E. Legge of Winchester fights with Major General Griner's 27th Infantry Division on Okinawa, a Saipan veteran awarded the Purple Heart. Lamont Wesley Carter, Seaman Second Class, completed recruit training at a naval center and seeks advancement. Pvt. Guy R. Nicholson, formerly of Martinsburg Pike and Bethlehem Ship Yards veteran, is stationed at Camp Wheeler Georgia. Charles M. Dick, Seaman First Class, returned from leave and led his unit as Honor Man. Clarence Lester Peffer, Seaman Second Class, transferred to Atlantic Fleet mine craft training center Creek Virginia.
London May 18 King Haakon of Norway announced in a speech on Independence Day that if his government had not fled to England in 1940 its members would not have been able to protect their children. Dispatches from Oslo report crowds in the streets for the first Independence Day celebration since 1939.
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