Bond selling contest standings tallied with names and totals
Mrs Gladys Good of Bell leads the bond drive with 16 bonds sold and 400 dollars credit. Eva Hottel of J C Penney tops money with 2050 dollars from four bonds. List records contestants from Worths McCrorys Wend ers to Leggetts and Pifers with bonds totals and amounts in a local store bond selling contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Good
Bell
Zorpha Baker
Worth’s
Julia P. Beaver
Workingman’s Store
Mr. Boyd
McCrory’s
Canby Casey
Montgomery Ward
Oe Ann Casilear
Wender
Labor Ministers Face Open Debate as Election Campaign Opens
The article notes a wartime coalition shift with Labor and Liberal withdrawals ahead of the July 5 election. It mentions leaders Orrison and vin and Jowitt, plus Churchill’s postwar plans and a Truman mission to London. Strong entities include Churchill, Truman, Stalin, and Davies, with reference to the Big Three.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Orrison
Minster
Home Security
Ernest Vin
Illiam Jowitt
Nasonal Insurance
Daily Mail
Answers to the Daily Quiz
Answers to the Daily Quiz list correct responses for ten questions covering topics from history and botany to geography and finance. The item notes World War I Belladonna a trade route pipeline through Burma to China and a comment on complexion. It also lists entities such as Senator A B Chaner and Greece with a closing note about local sports features.
Ration Calendar Updates for Meats Fats and Processed Foods
The Associated Press notes ration details through June and August across Book Four and Book Three stamps. It lists stamp codes and validity dates for meats fats processed foods and airplane stamps with dates indicating expiry and extensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Funeral today for six year old Howard Edens
Howard Edens six died in Winchester Memorial Hospital after an operation. He was born November 10 1938 in Hancock county Tennessee and was the son of Joseph T and Louise C Stanley Edens. He is survived by seven brothers and sisters and his parents. Funeral services were held at 2 pm from the Church of Christ and burial followed in Mount Hebron Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Edens
J. T. Edens
Stephenson
Charles Town Pike
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Young Edens
Hancock County
Tenn
Joseph T
Louise C. Stanley Edens
Lee County
Bernice
Imogene
Ruby
Frances
Bruce
Elizabeth
Patricia
Church of Christ
C. R. Line
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Lieutenant Rhodes Visits Winchester During Short Leave
Lieut. John R. Rhodes of the Army Air Corps, long stationed in the Pacific, arrived in Winchester to visit his mother Mrs. C. C. Rhodes and sister Miss Jane Rhodes on North Washington Street. He will depart in a day or two for a new assignment in Texas. Rhodes previously worked for The Star as a reporter and earned his air corps wings in Texas before flying combat missions in the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Rhodes
Army Air Corps
Pacific
Winchester
C. C. Rhodes
Jane Rhodes
North
Washington Street
Texas
Rhodes
The
Star
Air Corps
Broadcast From Virginia Woolen Mill At 3 15 P M
A special band broadcast at 3 15 tomorrow afternoon over WINC will originate from the Virginia Woolen Company. Grant Pollock announcer will visit the mill for interviews with workers engaged in vital war work to explain the need to buy War Bonds. About 85 percent of Woolen Company employees regularly purchase War Bonds through payroll deductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WINC
Virginia Woolen Company
Grant Pollock
Adams Infant Buried Saturday
David Charles Adams four day old son of Strother and Gertie Strawderman Adams of 18 West Boscawen Street died Friday May 25 at Winchester Memorial Hospital Private services were held at Mt Olive Cemetery Saturday afternoon Rev T J Hawkins Bradodck Street Methodist Church officiated
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Charles Adams
Strother
Gertie Strawderman Adams
West Boscawen Street
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Mt. Olive Cemetery
T. J. Hawkins
Bradodck Street Methodist Church
Junior Board To Meet Tonight
The Winchester Junior Board of Trade will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at the George Washington Hotel. Notices mailed Saturday by president Robert Grove urge all members to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Junior Board of Trade
George Washington Hotel
Robert Grove
Dionne Quintuplets Turn Eleven With Birthday Party
Dionne quintuplets Annete Cecile Emilie Marie and Yvonne celebrate eleven years. The Oliva family attends a high mass and a birthday luncheon. A concert at 8 p.m. features all twelve Dionne children. gifts include three bicycles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Callender
Ont
Canada
Annette
Cecile
Emilie
Marie
Yvonne
Oliva Dionne
Dionne
Quints
Rain totals reach 3.54 inches for the month in Winchester
Heavy rain fell Saturday in Winchester with about an inch measured by the Research Laboratory report. The month’s total rose to 3.54 inches near normal as skies cleared and temperatures climbed to 82 after a low of 62.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Why a caisson used in Roosevelt era ice transport
In horse drawn field artillery six horses pull the caisson. The two front horses are lead horses, the next pair form the swing team, and the third pair are the wheel team. A seventh horse is ridden by a file closer to give turning orders. this horse is not attached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Virginia State Guard Company 115 to Assemble for May 30 Parade
All members of Company 115 Virginia State Guard are notified to meet at 1 30 o clock Wednesday May 30 at the John Kerr School Building corner of Cork and Cameron streets to take part in parade and ceremonies. Equipment will be issued there and members are ordered to wear kaki uniforms. Some men are requested at the armory at 1 o'clock to load gear. All servicemen invited to join the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia State Guard
John Kerr School
Cork and
Cameron Streets
Clarke Residents Register For Canning Sugar This Week
Archie F. Robertson announces Clarke County residents may apply for canning sugar on May 29 and 30 from 3 to 6 and 7 to 9 PM at Berryville Boyce Williams Millwood and White Post schools. Bring Ration Book Four with spare stamp 13. Limit 15 pounds per person and 8 in a family, 5 pounds for jams. Applicants answer 1944 and 1945 sugar and fruit questions and note if they grow their own fruit. Sugar stamps mailed later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie F. Robertson
Clarke County
Berryville High School
Boyce High School
Williams Training School
Millwood School
White Post School
Rudolf Blohm Arrested by British in Hamburg
The Associated Press reports British authorities in Hamburg arrested Rudolf Blohm, director of Blohm and Voss shipyards and former shipbuilding commission chairman, for allegedly sabotaging the work of British port authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Hamburg
Rudolf Blohm
Blohm and Voss
Shipbuilding Commission
Ministry of Armaments
Toda
CBS
Spain Refuses to Release Belgian Quisling DeGrelle
A Belgian quisling Leon DeGrelle fled to Spain and Spain reportedly refused to extradite him. Officials offered no comment but the Franco government was said to have made a decision in the case as Germany collapsed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
Spain
Leon DeGrelle
Quisling
Franco
DeGrelle
Germany
Plan Hitler Trial Dead Or Alive
Allied officials contemplate a trial in absentia for Adolf Hitler as a war criminal if he is found dead or alive. The War Crimes Commission would decide on proceedings, with some urging that an in absentia trial be ordered if Hitler is believed alive and liable for notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Adolf Hitler
War Crimes Commission
Hitler
Davies Lunches With Eden and Winant in London
Joseph F. Davies visiting London on a special mission for President Truman arranged a luncheon with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and U. S. Ambassador John G. Winant. Davies spent a week end in the country with Prime Minister Churchill during his trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Joseph F. Davies
Truman
Anthony Eden
U. S
John G. Winant
U.S
Russia
Churchill
Trials To Begin Soon in Nazi War Crimes Case
Paris May 28 Trials of Germans accused of offenses against American troops will start within weeks, says Justice Robert H. Jackson chief US counsel for war crimes. Principal Nazi leaders may await tribunal details agreed by United States Britain Soviet Russia and France. Jackson vows no delay for battlefield atrocity cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Robert H. Jackson
United States
Britain
Soviet
Russia
France
International Military Tribunal
Jackson
Supreme Court
Truman
Ronald S Wilson to Receive Honorary Doctorate
Dr. Ronald S Wilson pastor of Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church and Mrs Wilson depart for Elkins West Virginia to attend the Davis and Elkins College commencement where he will be awarded the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by Dr. Purdum. He will deliver the Baccalaureate sermon at Augusta Military Academy Fort Defiance and then at Stephens City High School that evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronald S. Wilson
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Stephens City High School
County Man Fined For Driving Drunk
Police Court dispositions report multiple defendants. M C Braithwaite Rt 1 A Winchester was fined 100 dollars and costs for driving a car while under the influence with 30 days jail suspended. Co B Strosnider Stephens City drunk fined 10 dollars, costs. Robert Orndorff Rt 2 Winchester drunk fined 10 dollars, costs. Charles Fox Mt Williams drunk 5 dollars, costs. Maurice Ambrose Mt Williams drunk 5 dollars, costs. Racing cars last week R Ther man Elsen Bluemont and Lynn Earl Follin Lincoln were each fined 10 dollars and costs for reckless driving after speeding on Berryville Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Rice
M. C. Braithwaite
Winchester
Co. B. Strosnider
Stephens City
Robert Orndorff
Charles Fox
Mt. Williams
Maurice Ambrose
R. Therman Elsen
Bluemont
Lynn Earl Follin
Lincoln
Lowery
Berryville Avenue
Miss Ida Cornell Buried Yesterday
Funeral services for Miss Ida Cornell were held yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Hayfield Pentecostal Church with Rev. Luther McFarland officiating. Burial followed in the adjacent cemetery. Surviving are her mother Mrs. Arnetta Cornell at home near Hayfield, father Edward Cornell, brother L. E. Cornell of Winchester, and sister Mrs. Della Loy of Falls Church. Pallbearers were Paul, Daniel, Holmes, Silas McFarland, Ee Cooper and Simon Newin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Cornell
Hayfield
Corens receives maximum term for wife slaying in Maryland
Anne Arundel Circuit Court Judge James Clark sentences Henry H. Corens of Bethesda to 18 years in prison for the murder of his wife Pearl. Corens, 44, was convicted of second degree murder after a six hour deliberation. a head identified as Pearl's was found, body never located. Defense withdrew a motion for a new trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annapolis
James Clark
Henry H. Corens
Bethesda
Clark
George Woelfel
Corens
Anne Arundel County
Pearl
Fairfax County
Maryland
Harold C. Smith
If We'll Buy The Bonds Theyll Drop The Bombs
The phrase links bond purchases to military action reflecting domestic debate over funding defense. It frames public spending as a trigger for wartime escalation and calls for caution in fiscal commitments amid security concerns.
Forger Sentenced to Two Years in Penitentiary
Samuel Forrest Gordon a Warren County native who issued a string of worthless checks last December was sentenced by Judge Burr P. Harrison to two years in the state penitentiary with eight months to serve before probation. Gordon, fugitive and also known as John Franklin Harris or Charles Franklin Boyd, was captured near Wilmington Delaware and brought back for plea of guilty to forgery. additional forgery charges are pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Forrest Gordon
Warren County
Burr P. Harrison
Gordon
Wilmington
Del
Robert DeHaven
John Franklin Harris
Charles Franklin Boyd
Frederick
H. L. Borden
Christmas In May For Sgt Ridgeway
Staff Sergeant Hary E Ridgeway has received nine Christmas packages during furlough. The parcels, mailed while he served in the European Theater of Operations, followed him back to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hary E. Ridgeway
States
First class petty officer can rise to chief petty officer
The Navy Department states a first class petty officer may become chief petty officer without serving as an acting chief first. This clarifies advancement policy for senior petty officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Department
Rheumatic Fever Prevention Through Tonsil Removal and Sulfonamides
Rheumatic fever damages the heart and recurs. preventing throat infections helps. Tonsil and adenoid removal during non active disease and regular sulfonamide use have reduced attacks and respiratory infections in large groups, with long term treatment advised under physician guidance.
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Frances Miller
A. McIlwee
Thelma Meade
Edna Overstreet
C. Patton
Bertha Ritter
Pifer’s
Lelya Ramey
Leggett’s
Clara Shank
Labor
India
Burma
China
International Finance
A. B
Happy) Chaner
Greece
Evening Star
Dionne Quints
William G. Bailey
Wilson
S. C
U. S. Navy
International Soundphoto
Formosa
Philippines
Palau
Arafura Sea
ROTAD
GUAI
New Guinea
Pacific Ocean
Coral Sea
Marshall
Jerrides
Australia
Washington
Okinawa
Gilbert
Islands
Va.s
Clarke
Davies
Eden
Winant
Fred Neher
San Francisco
Sgt. Ridgeway
Herman N. Eundesen, M.D
Tementeck
Rhodes Drug Company
Boscawen
Braddock
SILCO
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