Park To Play Remount Nine Here Sun
Park faces the Remount soldiers Sunday in Winchester with a strong local lineup and fresh talent from across the country. Remount hopes to upset Park after a win over Williamsport and will rely on pitching duo tentative starters and a bolstered staff to carry them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Park Nine
Charles Perkins
Front Royal
Diamond Sun- Remount
Weap
Pledge
Creswell
Goodman
Peresta
McCarthy
Derrick
Brim
Prance
Lee
Mattis
Percy
Sandy” Baker
Williamsport
Patton
Keller
Emmert
Burch
Michael
Laibey
Johnson
Bryan
Brumbaugh
Wildcats
Garrabrandt
Lewis
Perry
Anderson
Former County Woman Loses Husband In Italy
Private Milo C. Kepner died in Italy on April 20 from wounds in action after seven months in the service. He served with an Engineers combat regiment and had been on the Anzio beachhead. He was married to Elsie Gordon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Gordon, formerly of the county, and the couple had celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary earlier. Mrs. Elsie Kepner lives in Middle River, Baltimore.
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Milo C. Kepner
Elsie Gordon
Middletown
Pvt
Kepner
Myrtle Kepner
Hanover
Italy
Anzio
Engineers Combat Regiment
Heavenly Gospel Chorus to Present Musical at Zion Church
The Heavenly Gospel Chorus of Mount Nebo Baptist Church Happy Creek will perform at Zion Baptist Church Boyce Clarke county at 8 o'clock Sunday night May 21. Rev. H. C. Johnson is pastor.
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Heavenly Gospel Chorus
Mount Nebo Baptist Church
Happy Creek
Zion Baptist Church
Boyce
Clarke County
H. C. Johnson
Answers to the Daily Quiz
The page lists quiz answers including Gov Thomas E Dewey, a quote about obligation, San Antonio, Maple, Paul G Hoffman, White, Mallets, Sugar cane, Million, and Quentin Reynolds.
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Thomas E. Dewey
New York
San Antonio
Paul G. Hoffman
Quentin Reynolds
Lodge Honors A Deceased Member Of Winchester Lodge No 21
In memory of Lydia Chapman who died May 1 1944 the Winchester Rebekah Lodge No 21 honors her as a charter member and devoted worker. The resolutions express sympathy to her family and request publication and minutes copies. Adopted May 16 by Ruth Bucher Jessie Mee Lupton and Nellie Mason.
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Lydia Chapman
Winchester Knd Lodge No
Winchester Rebekah Lodge No
Odd Fellow
Winchester
Ee Ee Lodge
U S Bombers Hit Berlin in Major 30 Day Offensive
US heavy bombers smashed targets around Berlin on the final day of a 30 day offensive as Allied raids stretched from the Mediterranean to northern France and Belgium. German reports claimed battles over Osnabruck and disrupted broadcasts signaled raid impacts on Berlin.
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Britain
Mediterranean
Europe
Vichy
France
Belgium
Berlin
Osnabruck
Germany
DNB
High Command
Transocean
U. S
German Leaders Named to Anti invasion Command
Reports confirm Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt as supreme commander with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel as a subordinate. Moscow and Berlin dispatches note renewed Red Army activity along the central front and in eastern Poland with attacks on rail hubs and fronts near Stanislawow and Vitebsk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Erwin Rommel
Poland
Red Army
Berlin
Sarny
Rowne
Zdolbunov
Moscow
Stanislawow
Old Poland
Dnestr
Tiraspol
Vitebsk
Carpathian
Kiwanis Leaders Visit Winchester Club for Annual Address
Kiwanis official Martin T. Weigand led an annual visit praising Winchester Kiwanis for growth and civic work. He was joined by W. Herbert Gill Maynard Price Frank Shull Sr and others from DC and area clubs. A prize was awarded to Dr. E C Yost and a committee was formed to draft resolutions on charter member T Russell Cather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin T. Weigand
Capitol District
Kiwanis Clubs
Winchester Club
Mr. Weigand
W. Herbert Gill
Washington Club
Maynard Price
Frank Shull
Robert Tiffey
Crossdale Witts
District of Columbia Club
Weigand
Winchester Kiwanis Club
W. G. Hardy
Jesse Oakes
Andrew Bell
E. C. Yost
Garland R. Quarles
G. G. Snarr
James P. Reardon
Andrew Bef
WAC Recruiting Week Is Extended
A program marking the Heavenly Gospel chorus fifth anniversary is set for next Friday night May 26 at Odd Fellows Hall Millwood Va. The 8 p m program features Royal Four Quartet Front Royal White Post Chorus and Willing Four Quartet Berryville. Rev H C Johnson announced details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heavenly Gospel Chorus
Odd Fellows Hall
Millwood
Royal Four Quartet
Front Royal
White Post Chorus
Willing Four Quartet
Berryville
H. C. Johnson
Crimea Beach Evacuation Through Last Hour of Combat
Describes endgame along the Crimean coast with Red Army shelling and a doomed German retreat. Details raft makeshift by Germans using gasoline tanks and crates to reach Romania as mass escape efforts falter. General Birinzov cites about 30,000 escaping between April 4 and May 5 amid 200,000 who remained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Army
Romania
Birinzov
Chersonne
Boehme
MacArthur seizes Wakde Island in Dutch New Guinea
Allied forces landed 6th Army troops at Toem near Wakde, northwest of Hollandia, taking Wakde and nearby Saotemanai Island within a day. The airfield at Wakde would give air cover over Dutch New Guinea and potential Liberator strikes, with light casualties reported and heavy Japanese mortar fire at times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacArthur
Wakde
Dutch New Guinea
6Th Army
Hollandia-Aitape
Toem
Hollandia
Insoemanai Island
New Guinea
Pacific
Hitler Line Myth Debunked by Rome Radio
German broadcast denies any Adolf Hitler line in Italy as false. Rome radio echoes the claim, stating no such front exists and that Allied forces have not reached lines on the Italian front, though German units have pulled back to prepared rear lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Adolf Hitler
Italy
Rome
Office of War Information
Berlin
Mrs. Nixon To Be Buried Today
Funeral services for Mrs. John Nixon were scheduled at 5 o’clock this afternoon at the family home 1010 Amherst Street. The Rev. T J Hawkins of Brad dock Street Methodist Church to officiate with interment in Mt Hebron Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Nixon
Amherst Street
T. J. Hawkins
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Mt. Hebron Cemetery
French Americans Break Hitler Line at Cassino Front
Allied reports say Americans and French breached the Hitler line around Cassino with advances in the Liri Valley. British Polish and Canadian troops consolidated gains north of Cassino as German positions weakened. Allied air forces hit targets in the Balkans and Romania while German activity near Gaeta and Naples suggested German troops were destroying dumps.
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Monticelli
Liri
Hitler Line
Eighth Army
Cassino
Mark W. Clark
Formia
Fifth Army
Naples
Gaeta
Balkans
Ploesti
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Nis
Romania
Turnu-Severin
Monte D'Oro
Esperia
Monte Santa Maria
Pontecorvo
Aquino
Rapido
Anzio
Itri
Jungle Fighters Hold Off Japanese Near Pingka
Allied reports praise for Chinese units in the northern front as American Y-Force chief of staff commends their effort. Chinese forces contest pockets along the Ma Mien Pass trail and a separate column strikes Chaitou, inflicting about 400 Japanese casualties before reinforcements move to assist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pingka
Frank (Pinky) Dorn
Y-Force
Mamien Pass
Chaitou
British Fliers Demand Full Report On Deaths
Exien urged Britain’s ministry to obtain from Germany a full immediate report on how the men died and an explanation of the circumstances. The request seeks facts at once and protection for the reporting power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exien
Capon Bridge Graduation Set With Leslie Kline Talk
Capon Bridge High School will award thirty diplomas next Wednesday night as Leslie D. Kline Frederick County schools superintendent delivers the commencement address. Ruth Moreland is valedictorian and Noreen Eaton salutatorian. three graduates serve in the armed forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capon Bridge High School
E. H. Coberly
Leslie D. Kline
Frederick County
Ruth Moreland
Noreen Eaton
C. W McDonald
The
Christian Church
Romney
Cacapon State Park
Berkeley Springs
Lost River Park
Moorefield
Isabell Anderson
Betty Brock
Freda Catlett
Angalea Coffman
Opal Davis
Freda Frye
Creola Hahn
Elaine Mowery
Ethel Nealis
Dorothy Pugh
Betty Roberson
Betty Saville
Hilda Sirbaugh
Rosalie Whitacre
Geraldine Woolford
Armand Bennett
Clyde Coffman
Charles Fryn
Odell Haines
Robert Haines
Guy Oates
James Poland
Wallace Sirbaugh
Donald Sowers
Dwight Whitacre
Roland Hockman
Vernon Hockman
Hobart Kline
Evacuation Ordered For Genoa Harbor Coastal Areas
Fascist authorities ordered evacuation of Genoa harbor and 30 mile coast south to Moneglia including Pieve Rapallo Porto Fino Sestri Levanto Lavagna Chiavari and Santa Margherita by midnight Saturday and said those who stay will be arrested.
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Bern
Switzerland
Genoa
Chiasso
Neue Zurcher Zeitung
Moneglia
Corsica
Pieve
Rapallo
Porto Fino
Sestri
Levanto
Lavagna
Chiavari
Santa Margherita
Knight Rites Saturday In Md
Funeral services for Clarence Elwood Knight of Clarke County who died in Baltimore will be held Saturday morning. Family and friends meet at 8:15 at William Cook Inc Funeral Home and proceed to Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic Church for high mass and funeral rites at 9. Burial is in Holy Redeemer Cemetery in Baltimore. Pallbearers include Richard L Bromley Nelson Bromley Donald Duvall William Carlisle Jr Monroe Hardesty and two Baltimore friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Elwood Knight
Clarke County
Baltimore
William Cook Inc
St. Paul and
Preston Streets
Little Flower Catholic Church
Holy Redeemer Cemetery
Richard L
Nelson Bromley
Donald Duvall
William Carlisle, Jr
Winchester
Monroe Hardesty
Washington, D. C
Thomas Cooper Guilty On 2 Counts
Thomas C. Cooper, listed as 4 West Cork streets, was found guilty on two of three charges in the Trial Justice Court of W. Erle Edwards. He paid $100 and costs and had a 30 day jail term suspended for driving under the influence. A $10 fine and two days in jail were imposed for driving with a revoked license, not suspended. He was acquitted of operating a car with faulty brakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas C. Cooper
West Cork
Baltimore
Trial Justice Court
W. Erle Edwards
Cooper
Mrs. Julia Clark Laid To Rest After Illness
Funeral services were held at Brad dock Street Methodist Church for 85 year old Mrs. Julia Clark who died Wednesday after a prolonged illness. The Rev. T. J. Hawkins led the service and burial followed at Mt. Hebron Cemetery with pallbearers Harold Rowe Paul D. Slonaker Clyde Siebert Amos Shryock Charles Markel and Austin Martin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Julia Clark
T. J. Hawkins
Mt. Hebron Cemetery
Harold Rowe
Paul D. Slonaker
Clyde Siebert
Amos Shryock
Charles Markel
Austin Martin
War Bond Campaign Encourages Public Support
Civic leaders urge citizens to purchase war bonds as part of a broad national effort. The campaign promotes patriotic duty and financial backing for military actions, aiming to unify communities through savings.
Middletown to Play White Sox Here Sunday
The Middletown Minks will host the Chicago White Sox in a Sunday afternoon game at the old Fair Grounds. Sam Ensogna, the Middletown manager, announced the matchup after the White Sox were routed 24 to 0 at Middletown last Sunday, held to two hits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
White Sox
Park In Shape For Season At Winchester Park
H Russell Potts secretary of Winchester Park says the park diamond is now used for softball games and grass on the playground is cut for use by teams from any organization. Work begins next week to prepare the tennis courts for summer while playground equipment will wait until school is dismissed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Russell Potts
Winchester Park
Potts
House Votes to Authorize Million Tons of Landing Craft
The House approved Navy authorization to build about one million tons of landing craft amid calls to send much of it to General MacArthur. Debate centered on Pearl Harbor blame as Rep Fish condemned piecemeal legislation while urging rapid construction. The chamber also approved a $65 million naval ordnance bill with $15 million for rocket gun development.
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Washington
House
Navy Today
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Rep
Fish
R-Ny
McCormack
D-Mass
Pearl Harbor
Navy
MacArthur
Senate
Long Will Is Recorded In Frederick Court
The last will of Mollie D Adams was admitted to probate and ordered recorded in Frederick Circuit Court. The document, one of the longest in recent months, leaves cash bequests to numerous relatives and church groups, plus specific personal items and jewelry to named individuals. Executors are Sylvia T Lemley and D W Weaver, with appraisers listed in the record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mollie D. Adams
Frederick Circuit Court
Green Hill Cemetery
Stephens City
Sylvia T. Lemley
Stella Hensel
Sydnor McDonald
Albert McDonald
Beryl Powers
James Adams
Myrtle Cline
Roy Adams
Ww. cC. Adams
Nellie Glover
Maggie Ware
Rev. G. W. Staples
W. C. Hodge
Signora Staples
Stephens City Methodist Church
Sylvia Townsend Lemley
Beryl Sowers
Hilda Boyer
Nellie Golliday
Golden Rule Bible Class
Kings Daughters
Stephens City Church
Simon
Sylvia Tremley
Velma Steele
William Weaver
Maurice McDonald
Sylvia Lemley
Stella Hensell
D. W. Weaver
Elmer Steele
Chinese Admit To Being Cut Off In Loyang Defense
A Chinese army spokesman said Loyang in Henan remained surrounded but 80 to 90 percent held. Japanese forces cut the Lunghai line west of Loyang and joined with Shansi invaders, reaching Shanhsien. Chinese offensives in Yunnan and a Burma road push continue with air attacks on Japanese bases Tengchung and Lungling.
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Chungking
Loyang
Henan
Lunghai
Shansi
Shanhsien
Tungkwan
Yellow River
Tungan
Yunnan Province
Joseph W. Stilwell
Burma
Salween River
Charles Levi to Be Buried Saturday in Clarke County
Funeral services for Charles T. Levi a Clarke farmer and game warden will be held from the Berryville home Saturday at 4 pm Rev Dr L A Parker will officiate and interment will be in Green Hill Cemetery Active pallbearers include Kenneth Levi Gordon Levi Rice W Levi Donald Levi Allen Levi and Lee Clark Honorary pallbearers listed by name from W D Wisecarver Coleman Dunn James R Dakeman Julian Glascock Roy E Potts Ralph M Ware W A Bradford Robert Rusk John M Fishpaw W D Burtner EE Blackburn Moore Ralph N Dorsey Judge Loring C Kackley J R Bell Reese Lloyd Joseph F Moore J M H Clagett F W Pingley C H Phillips Dr C H Iden William Holladay W W Smallwood Jr and S S Thomas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles T. Levi
Clarke
Berryville
L. A. Parker
Green Hill Cemetery
Kenneth Levi
Gordon Levi
Rice W. Levi
Donald Levi
Allen Levi
Lee Clark
W. D. Wisecarver
Coleman Dunn
James R. Dakeman
William Holladay
W. W. Smallwood, Jr
S. S. Thomas
Grimes man fined for stealing 1932 Ford motor
Calvin Kane Owens of Grimes Virginia was arraigned on charges of stealing a 1932 Ford motor from Bert Hoover. He was fined 50 dollars, ordered to pay 10.25 costs, and a 60 day jail sentence was suspended with probation for one year. A juvenile from Grimes was tried in Juvenile Court on the same charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvin Kane Owens
Grimes
W. Erle Edwards
Bert Hoover
Miller Jury To Be Locked Up In Murder Trial
Judge Ben Moore ordered the jury of 11 men and one woman sealed in during the remainder of the murder trial of Robert I. Miller, a 67 year old Washington lawyer accused of fatally shooting Dr. John Lind at a downtown intersection last February. The move, a wartime precedent, follows a chamber session delaying testimony and aims to protect jurors due to housing conditions. The prosecution plans to call survivors of the slain doctor as the next witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ben Moore
Robert I. Miller
Miller
John. £. Lind
Moore
Dr. Lind
Smuts Warns of Three Fronts as Path to End War
Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts said a triangular assault from the west east and south could yield a final European decision sooner than expected. He spoke in Birmingham where he was granted freedom of the city and urged viewing all fronts as one effort. He also expressed optimism on the Pacific after Hitler’s defeat.
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Birmingham
Eng
Jan Christian Smuts
South Africa
Europe
Smuts
Pacific
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Jessie Mee Lupton
Nellie Mason
Kiwanian
WAC
Crimea
Philippines
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Netherlands
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Oie
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Hitler
Leslie Kline
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Genoa Harbor
Thomas Cooper
Frederick Court
Thomas Doughty
Pal
Charles Levi
Food Center
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Stark Brothers
Harry Albert Harkness
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