Butler Acquitted By Jury Today
Hai Ww. Butler was acquitted of driving while under the influence after five deliberating minutes in Winchester Corporation Court. Jury foreman Herbert W. Miller and members Samuel Giles J W Galladay Ralph Chrisman and William E.Brine served. Butler was remanded from Police Court after a May conviction with $200 fine and costs. Attorney Harry Kern represented him.
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Winchester Corporation
Hai Ww. Butler
Herbert W. Miller
Samuel Giles
J. W. Galladay
Ralph Chrisman
William E. Btine
Butler
Harry Kern
Admiral Stump warns Japan may quit before total defeat
Charleston West Virginia May 29 Rear Admiral Felix B Stump veteran carrier division commander and two Navy Cross recipient fears Japan will sue for peace before feeling the full might of Allied arms He returns to the Pacific after 25 months at sea and urges renewed pressure to force surrender The Clarksburg resident was educated at the Naval Academy class of 1917 and recently met Navy Department officials in Washington for talks
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Charleston
W. Va
Felix B. Stump
Naval Air
Pacific
Clarksburg
West Virginia
John Ss. Stump
State Department
Stump
Ore
States
Parburg
the . S. Naval Academy
Navy Department
Washington
United States Rejects Japan Protest Over AWA Maru Sinking
The United States rejects Japan’s protest about the April 1 sinking of the relief ship AWA Maru. A State Department note warns Tokyo against retaliatory actions toward American POWs and notes a court martial will determine responsibility for sinking the unlit vessel near Formosa.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Japan
Tokyo
Asia
Straits of Formosa
The
United Sates
All In Behind the Attack Buy War Bonds
Citizens rally to buy war bonds as government appeals for support. Local leaders urge participation to fund military efforts and demonstrate public resolve during wartime.
Ration Calendar Update From War Time Food Stamps
The notice lists ration validity for meats fats processed foods sugar shoes and fuel oil. Stamps and coupons across Book Four Blue and Red, Book Three airplane stamps and Tine coupons run through specific dates from June 1 to Sept 30 with extensions and planned new stamps. Ration boards will accept applications for increased allowances by June 11.
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OPA
Raton
O Sullivan Campaign Offers Rubber Heels for Bond Pledges
O Sullivan announces a Bond Pledge Day on Thursday May 31 from 11 a m to 4 p m. Windsor shoe repairmen will attach brown rubber heels to pledged buyers shoes. O Sullivan volunteers will staff a Bond Booth before the County Courthouse and circulate in stores.
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Winchester
O’sullivan
O'Sullivan
O'Sullivan Rubber Co
Civic Clubs
Mystery Shopper Reports War Bond Purchases Across Stores
Mrs. Gibson Baker, representing the American Legion Auxiliary, visited 12 stores and spoke with 20 clerks in a mystery shopping survey. She awarded one dollar in War Stamps to Mrs. Emma Massie of Lovett Brothers, noting salesmanship by a single saleswoman.
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Gibson Baker
American Legion Auxiliary
VFW Initiates 24th Buddy Poppy Sale in City
Winchester Post No. 2123 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars begins its 24th nationwide Buddy Poppy drive with a goal of 15 million for 1945. Commander J. E. Keffer says proceeds aid rehabilitating wounded servicemen and support veterans dependents including widows and orphans. The sale runs today and tomorrow locally.
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Winchester Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
J. E. Keffer
Keffer
British War Casualties Reach Over Million
Prime Minister Churchill announced that British Empire armed forces suffered 1,128,315 casualties in the war with 307,201 killed. Civilian losses totaled 60,585 killed, 86,175 seriously injured, and about 150,000 slightly injured across Britain and fronts including the Far East.
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London
Churchill
No. 10
Downing Street
Far East
British Empire
Commons
Britain
Japs Move Out From Air Base Near Chungking In China War
Chinese forces push along the highway into Indo China reaching Shulo and Pinoyang while advancing toward Nanning Liuchow and Shaoyang. The high command reports heavy casualties on both sides and suggests Japanese withdrawal toward the Yangtze and possibly the Yellow River as allied forces press the Chihkiang corridor.
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Chungking
Indo-China
Shulo
Yungning
Nanning
High Command
Japan
China-Indo-China
Pinoyang
Pinyang
Hunan Province
Tanton
Shaoyang
Pagching
Hsihsiakow
Shanhsien
Lunghai
Henan-Shensi
Liuchow
Kwangsi
Yangtze
Yellow River
China
Russia
Netherlands East Indies
Southeast Asia
Manchuria
China- Indo-China
Thailand
Burma
Malaya
New Sixth
Paoching
Elizabeth Barr Granted Divorce From Geor ge Ross Barr
Elizabeth Barr was granted a full divorce from Geor ge Ross Barr in Winchester Corporation Court. Judge Barr P. Harrison awarded Mrs Barr custody of two children and ordered Mr Barr to pay 22.50 weekly alimony and child support. The couple married in July 1927.
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Elizabeth Noonan Barr
George Ross Barr
Winchester Corporation Court
Barr P. Harrison
Trial Justice Court Disposes Multiple Public Drunkenness Cases
In the Court of Trial Justice W Erle Edwards several defendants were fined for drunken in public offenses including Lewis Carroll Williams Stephens City Amos M White Stephens City Moodie Spiker Strasburg and Clinton H Yeakle Stephens City plus driving under the influence for Austin B Crawford Winchester with $10 fines and costs and one 30 day jail sentence suspended for execution.
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Court of Trial
W. Erle Edwards
Ralph A. van Meter
N. Kent Street
Lewis Carroll Williams
Stephens City
Amos M. White
Lacy Sargent
Strasburg
Moodie Spiker
S. Cameron Street
Clinton H. Yeakle
Austin B. Crawford
S. Cecil Street
Russell Lee Oates
Rt. 2
Winchester
Woodrum urges fiscal house be set in order
Norfolk May 29 Representative Clifton A Woodrum of Roanoke urged the nation to set its fiscal house in order after the war. He emphasized private sector jobs and ending war controls while stressing the importance of stable foreign trade and lighter postwar taxes for national security.
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Woodrum
Norfolk
Clifton A. Woodrum
D.-Va
Roanoke
Norfolk Rotary Club Today
America
Cordell Hull
Congress
Two Are Fined For Gambling In Winchester
Hunter Lee Brown, 42, of Winchester, and James Herbert De Haven, 28, Rt. 3 Winchester, were each fined $100 and costs by Judge John Rice after pleading guilty to gambling. Arrested May 21 at Kern's Pool Room on Loudoun Street, $60 to $80 was involved in the pool game. Brown was also fined $10 and costs yesterday for being drunk.
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Hunter Lee Brown
Winchester
James Herbert de Haven
Rt. 3
John Rice
Kern's
Loudoun Street
Brown
Siberian Students Begin Summer Combat Training Camp
The army newspaper Red Star reports Siberian garrisons and students in Siberian military schools have left bases for summer training camps. Lt. Gen. Gavrilenko will lead the summer operation in Siberia, centered at a tent city on the Tomi river.
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Moscow
Siberian
Red Star
Gavrilenko
Siberia
Tomi River
Tomi
Tannu Tuva
Outer Mongolia
Abakan Range
Kuznetsk
Obat Ohsk
Sinkiang
Japs Navy undergoes top command shake up in 1944
San Francisco May 29. Vice Adm. Jisaburo Ozawa replaces Adm. Soemu Toyoda in three top fleet commands in a Japanese naval reshuffle. Toyoda becomes chief of the naval general staff. Koshiro Oikawa named supreme war councillor. Takijiro Onishi takes vice chief role. Toyoda had led the combined fleet since April 1944.
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San Francisco
Jisaburo Ozawa
Soemu Toyoda
Domei
Federal Communications Commission
Toyoda
Naval General Staff
Adm
Koshiro Oikawa
Ozawa
Naval Staff College
Takijiro Onishi
Philippines
Mineichi Kiroga
Robinson to Die for 1934 Kentucky Kidnapping
Thomas H. Robinson Jr. is scheduled for execution June 8 in Kentucky's electric chair for the $50,000 ransom kidnapping of Mrs. Alice Speed Stall in Louisville in 1934. He, a former Nashville law student, lost a lengthy legal fight to avoid the death penalty.
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Louisville
Shackelford Muller
Thomas H. Robinson, Jr
Alice Speed
Nashville, Tenn
Kentucky
Eddyville
Alcatraz
Robinson
Milan
Mich
Miller
Jackson Seeks Quick Review in Nazi Indictments
Justice Robert H. Jackson arrived in London from Paris to push an up-to-date review of Nazi indictments and aid creation of trial machinery. Joseph E. Davies planned further talks with British leaders, with Pacific war considerations reportedly part of the discussions.
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Associated Press
Associated
Robert H. Jackson
U. S. Supreme Court
United States
London
Paris
Foreign Office
Jackson
Joseph E. Davies
Truman
Britain
Brenden Bracken
Admiralty
Davies
Grass Fire Near Radio Station WINC Contained
Two city fire companies responded to an afternoon alarm and quickly extinguished a grass fire near Radio Station WINC. The blaze burned within 25 feet of the radio tower but caused no damage.
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WINC
Twenty six county men leave for Roanoke exams
Twenty six county men from Winchester departed early this morning for Roanoke for pre induction physical examinations. Two were transferred to other boards and seven earlier ordered to report had calls cancelled for being over 30. Those leaving by bus include Boyd B Fries and 24 others, with two transfers named George C Chrismore and Claude M Groves.
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Winchester
Roanoke
Boyd B. Fries
Darrell M. Grim
Leo G. Reid
Charles T. Parrill
Charles E. Galliday
Harry C. Loy
Guy F. Everly
John Robert Edmonds
James C. Malone
James R. Keeler
Raymond Asbury Pitcock
Kenneth B. Ashby
Melvin G. Anderson
Harold C. Hartman
Eugene L. Hulver
James E. Smith
Thomas G. Borden
Boyd L. Whitacre
Tilden E. Strosnider
Herman A. Dyke
Maurice S. Vincent Eldridge L. Ritter
Eugene E. Clark
Harry C. Clark
William E. Ebersole
Joseph R. Jenkins
George C. Chrismore
Claude M. Groves
Has Good Reason For Tardiness
An eighth grade pupil, i Ora Torme, arrived late at Parkside School after visiting the office. The principal later informed the teacher a boy had stopped in the office and purchased a $10,000 war bond.
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Ghicago
Ora Torme
Parkside School
Torme
Navy to reach authorized strength by June 1945
E. S. B. Folie reports the Navy will attain its authorized strength of 3,389,000 by June 30, 1945.
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E. S. B. Folie
Practical Patriotism From the Grave
The Treasury reports a $25 check from Lt. Rudy L Saltzman Spokane Washington sent with a note explaining it is a birthday gift from his aunt and mother of Pvt. Harry Glick. The money supports the Seventh War Loan drive and honors a fallen infantryman killed in the Germany campaign.
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Washington
Treasury
Rudy L Saltzman
Zeigler Field
Spokane
Wash
Harry Glick
Germany
News Freedom Is Being Planned
San Francisco May 29 The United States plans new moves to promote world wide news freedom based on a general free speech declaration to be adopted by the United Nations conference. Secretary of State Stettinius explains freedom of speech includes press information and communications. The delegation favors general principles over precise rights to gain quick accord and doubts Russia will accept specifics on news exchange.
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San Francisco
United States
Stettinius
Russia
Ration Office Closed May 30
The Winchester office of the Frederick county Rationing Board will be closed tomorrow May 30. The announcement was made today.
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Winchester
Frederick
Stettinius Discusses Postwar Role and Big Three Aims
In Moscow and London Harry Hopkins and Joseph E Davies explored a possible Big Three meeting. Stettinius' report outlines three aims: build support for Senate ratification of the league charter, restore the U S role as mediator between Britain and the Soviet Union, and bolster American leadership of democratic ideals.
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Moscow
London
Harry Hopkins
Joseph E. Davies
Truman
Europe
Stettinius
Senate
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Winchester Churches Plan Summer Vespers Series
Six Winchester churches will sponsor Summer Vespers on Sundays at 8 p m from June 10 to September first with sermons by cooperating pastors. First round runs June 10 to July 15 at Braddock Street Methodist Congregational Christian Grace Lutheran Market Street Methodist Loudoun Street Presbyterian United Brethren. Second round repeats schedule with different speakers. Public invited to strengthen local Christian fellowship.
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Winchester
Braddock Street Methodist Church
L. G. Bridges
Chorus To Sing At Cedarhill Methodist Church May 30
The Missionary Chorus of Alexandria will sing at Cedarhill Methodist Church in Cedarhill Va on Wednesday May 30 at 8 p m The service flag for Frederick county boys will be dedicated Parents and friends are invited Public welcome Rev W S Johnson the Cedarhill Va church pastor.
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Missionary Chorus of Alexandria
Cedarhill Methodist Church
Frederick County
W. S. Johnson
Cedarhill
Bombers From Iwo Jima Strike Tokyo Air Fields
Mustangs based at Iwo Jima conducted a 1500 mile round trip raid to three air fields near Tokyo including Kasumigaura naval air station. The raid damaged or destroyed forty two Japanese planes. Official damage estimates will be released after post strike photographs are reviewed.
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Ing
Iwo Jietia
Tokyo
Kasumigaura Naval Air Station
21St Bomber Command
Answers to the Daily Quiz
Answers to the Daily Quiz list ten items with concise solutions. Topics include a 1940 date, a Nazi concentration camp near Munich, the word perennial, the term greater, the word Lightning, the phrase As soon as practicable, painter Edwin Abbey, about two million, boxers John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain, and Peninsula.
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Munich
Edwin Abbey
John L. Sullivan
Jake Kilrain
Peninsula
Kiwanis To See Historic Movie in Williamsburg
The Winchester Kiwanis Club holds a luncheon tomorrow at 12 30 at Sarah Zane Hall. Clyde Hall leads the program with a film titled 18th Century Life in Williamsburg Va to be shown at 1 o clock. The public is invited to attend at 1 00.
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Winchester Kiwanis Club
Sarah Zane
Clyde Hall
Williamsburg
What does ATO mean for a U S warship
The letters ATO after a United States naval vessel name signify an auxiliary ocean tug. This classification identifies the ship’s role as a tug supporting operations at sea.
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United States
Poison Ivy Relief Ad From Rhodes Drug Store
An advertisement urges readers troubled by poison ivy oak insect bites or hives to obtain Calpinol at Rhodes Drug Store. It promotes quick relief and directs customers to the local shop for purchase.
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Rhodes Drug Store
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VFW
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Elizabeth Barr
Trial Justice Court
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White Palace
Okinawa
Edward Grofic
Pittsburgh
Ecolda
Crete
Stee
SILCO
Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Inc
DIAL
E. E. Harbaugh
Mgr
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