Knox Letter Reveals Pearl Harbor Surprise Attack Forecast
Washington reports reveal Navy Secretary Knox predicted in a 1941 letter that war with Japan could begin with a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Testimony shows President Roosevelt was reluctant to boost Pacific Fleet manpower in 1940, with officials debating bluffing Japan and defense priorities.
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Navy
Frank Knox
Japan
Naval Base
Pearl Harbor
Henry L. Stimson
Congressional
Knox
J. O. Richardson
Pacific
Roosevelt
William D. Leahy
Admiral Richardson
Hull
William D. Mitchell
Richardson
United States
Xone
Hawaii
Pearl Harr
S Knox
Stimson
Moseley's Shoe Rebuilders Ad Offers First Class Care
Local shoe repair shop Mosleys Shoe Rebuilders at 31 West Boscawen Street promotes restoring footwear to first class condition. Advertisement emphasizes diligent service and expert repair.
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Moseley’s Shoe Rebuilders
W. Boscawen St
Virginia feed mill burns with estimated loss over hundred thousand
Fire at the Sunshine Stores operated Virginia feed mill destroyed buildings and machinery. About 3 000 bushels barley 2 000 oats 1 000 corn 1 000 rye and 400 wheat stored on the second floor were consumed. Fire started in the west office and spread rapidly despite late reports of no abnormal activity that day.
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Ilroad Company
Sunshine Stores, Inc
Fort Wayne
Ind
Sunshine Stores
Allied Mills
Seldon
West Virginia
Lowery
Miss Davis
Mable Davis
W. Boscawen Street
Sparks
The
Tana Ord
Monte
Bird
Friendship
al- Sarah Zane
E. W. Argenbright
Rouss
Iranians Halted On Soviet Order In Azerbaijan Conflict
Iranian troops advancing from Tehran toward Kazvin to quell separatist disturbances were halted by Russian authorities and told to return to Tehran. Four battalions with gendarmes, moving northward, faced casualties as seven people have been reported killed. Kazvin lies about 100 miles northeast of Tehran, near the route to Tabriz.
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Tehran
Azerbaijan
Kazvin
Tabriz
Ran
Iran
Wanted to move few furniture to Washington
Classified note lists Mrs. Allen Bond seeking to move a small amount of furniture to Washington with a street address 4683. The ad follows with an item for sale three used living room suites at 1245 Loudoun and incomplete continuation The end shows The:.
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Washington
Allen Bond
Loudoun
S. Sgt. Cochran Died In Japanese Prison Camp
Mr and Mrs Seldon Polhamus of Stephenson report their grandson Staff Sergeant Harry Tucker Cochran died in Osaka prison camp in January 1945 after being captured at Corregidor in May 1942. He was 17 when he joined in 1935 and later endured the Death March. Survived by wife Leonede Edwards Cochran and son, plus four siblings and his parents.
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Stephenson
Harry Tucker Cochran
Corregidor
Osaka
T War Department
M Leonede Edwards Cochran
Egypt
Georgia
Set. Cochran
War Department
Hiram W. Cochran
Gettysburg
Della Polhamus Cochran
Frederick County
Clarke County
Sgt
Cochran
U. S. Regular Army
Philippines
Manila
Bataan
Cabanatuan
Richard Cochran
Bertrand Cochran
Nottingham
Thomas Cochran
Harve de Grace
Catherine Gerald
Rising Sun
Forum on Education Planned by JCG and Virginia Groups
The Virginia State Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Virginia Education Association will host a statewide radio forum titled Education As An Investment. From Richmond the discussion features Thomas Boushall as moderator with participants Francis Chase Dabney Lancaster Wilson Gee and Mrs. J Stuart White. The program runs 10 30 to 11 00 p m tomorrow.
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Virginia State Junior Chamber of Commerce
Virginia Education Association
Wll
Virginia
Richmond
Thomas Boushall
Morris Plan Bank of
United States Chamber of Commerce
Committee On Education
Francis Chase
The
Virginia Journal of Education
Dabney S. Lancaster
Wilson Gee
Virginia Education Commission
Denny
J. Stuart White
Federation of Parent Teachers Associations
Strassburg bankers host regional meeting guest speaker
Frederick P. Storm of the Union Trust Company of Maryland spoke on pensions for bank officers and employees at a bi annual Regional Clearing House Association dinner in the Presbyterian Church social room. About 75 bankers from Clarke Frederick Warren Shenandoah Page counties and Winchester attended with guests Roland Mays Rev Harry Crim and Shirley H. Smith presenting the speaker.
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Frederick P. Storm
Union Trust Company of Maryland
Baltimore
Tlearing House Association of Bankers and Bank
Clarke
Frederick
Warren
Shenandoah
Page
Winchester
Presbyterian Church
Roland Mays
Harry M. Crim
Shirley H. Smith
Shenandoah Andmittee
Jap War Leader Shigeru Honjo Chooses Suicide Over Trial
Baron General Shigeru Honjo, a noted wartime leader linked to Manchuria, killed himself in his Tokyo office by hara kari after being ordered imprisoned. He left a letter saying he could not face Allied trials and wished his title not pass to his eldest son Kazou.
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Tokyo
Shigeru Honjo
Manchuria
Japanese War College
Honjo
Kawamura
Kazou
Organization For Relief of
MacArthur
Ceiling prices on autos cut for 1946 models
The Office of Price Administration says ceilings on some new cars will be below those on comparable 1942 used cars. The rule reflects 24 months of storage charges added to early 1944 ceilings, and shows the 1946 Ford model with a retail ceiling of 882 dollars, down 30 dollars from the 1942 used-car ceiling.
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Washington
OPPA
OPA
Thanksgiving Weather Outlook For Area
The forecast for November 21 to 24 calls for a fair but chilly Thanksgiving with occasional rain at the start and again Friday or Saturday. Temperatures rise tomorrow then fall Thursday before warming again toward week’s end. Snow is not expected, though recent rain left the area damp and windy.
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Winchester Research Laboratory
U.S. Must Stay Powerful to Keep World Peace
Treasury Secretary Vinson declares at the 27th National American Legion convention that the United States must stay strong, push international dialogue, and lead world prosperity to prevent a future war. He warns against complacency while urging continued use of reciprocal trade, the Export-Import Bank, UN relief, rehabilitation, and the IMF to foster global cooperation.
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U. S
Ed M. Vinson
United States
National American Legion
Vinson
Treasury
London
Export-Import Bank
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation, Administration
International Monetary Fund
Eisenhower backs allowing wives of soldiers to join troops overseas
General Dwight D. Eisenhower said wives of occupational troops should be allowed to go to Europe after occupation forces are established. He made the comment before leaving for the American Legion convention in Chicago as his wife recovers from bronchial pneumonia at a Boone hospital. He noted the policy would grant every GI’s wife the same rights as an officer’s wife.
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Eisenhower
General Eisenhower
Washington
Germany
Two Women Share Ward Births in West Frankfort Hospital
In Benton Illinois on November 20 two women named Mrs Earl Sanders, living on the same street, each gave birth within the same hour to a daughter. Both deliveries were attended by Dr. G G Moore at Union Hospital in West Frankfort.
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Benton, Ill
Earl Sanders
West Frankfort
Union Hospital
G. G. Moore
Chinese Reds reportedly seize Changchun in Manchuria clash
Reports from Chungking claim 4,000 Communist troops entered Changchun as Nationalist forces pushed 35 miles inside Manchuria amid a fast moving contest for control of the industrial region. Chinese and Russian diplomatic maneuvers and new terms for troop movements were also reported.
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Chungking
Manchuria
China Times
Changchun
Times
China
Russia
Moscow
Chung
Muereancote
Great Wall
United States
Trumans to Attend Army Navy Football Game
President Truman will travel by train with Mrs. Truman and Margaret to Philadelphia on December 1 to attend the Army-Navy game. He will sit with the Army in the first half and with the Navy in the second half, returning to Washington the same night. This marks his first out of town engagement since cancelling several fall trips for matters at home.
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Truman
Philadelphia
White House
Margaret
Navy
North Carolina
Georgia
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
B 29 Sets Nonstop Guam to Washington Distance Record
A U S Air Forces report states a B 29 flew from Guam to Washington without a stop, covering 7 368 miles and breaking the prior 7 158 44 mile British record. The plane is expected to reach Washington National Airport around 1 30 p m EST.
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Guam
Army Air Forces
Army
la Geet
Wis
Washington National Air
Egypt
Australia
Frank A. Armstrong
Hokkaido
Chicago
State Farm Probe Is Resumed
A Goochland County state farm inquiry resumed hearings at the State Board of Corrections building with Prison officials yet to testify. Inmates alleged a dying prisoner Kenneth Burroughs was denied medical care and forced back to work before dying within four days, per two prisoners and attorney Howard H. Carwile.
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Richmond
State Farm
Goochland County
State Board of Corrections
Wicumend
Howard H. Carwile
Kenneth Burroughs
William J. Westt
G M Workers In Strike Mood As Arbitration Talks Loom
Detroit awaits GM and CIO UAW reply to a 30 percent wage increase proposal with arbitration as the union’s plan. If rejected, delegates may urge immediate strike action affecting about 300,000 auto workers. Other labor disputes widen nationwide.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
Associated Press
United Automobile Workers
General Motors Corporation
General Motors
General Motors Council
Cio-Uaw
R J. Thomas
Oman
Walter P. Reuther
G-M
G. M
C. E. Wilson
Washington
Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
New York
Nrno
Long Nazi Indictment Opens at Nuremberg Trial
An international tribunal opened proceedings charging 20 Nazi leaders with conspiracy to commit crimes against peace war crimes and crimes against humanity in a sprawling indictment. Prosecutors outlined four counts as defendants including Rudolf Hess appeared in absentia and others faced arraignment the next day.
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Nuernberg
Ang Mes Pe Meg
Due Vas Gue Rness
Wilhelm Keitel
United States
France
Russia
Europe
Rudolf Hess
Martin Hitler
Hess
Hitler
Geoffrey Lawrence
Ernest Kaltenbrunner
Welcome Home Veterans Discharge List of Local Men
The Star welcomes home Frederick Clarke counties and Winchester veterans who have received their discharges and resume civilian life. The list includes Joseph N. Cooke Taylor Boyd Anderson Maurice Lee Nail Murrell Grover Anderson Vivian Costello Lewis Sidney Adam Lattimore Dillman Kerfoot Hibbard Taylor Lee Barr John Benjamin Jones Delmore Addison Miller Ernest William Burch Magnus Grim Newcome Ralph McDowell Patton James Franklin Higgs Hillard Andrew Mooneyhaw Carl Wesley Whitacre Harold Havens Hildum Ned Lupton Cheshire Ammie Moore Locke Jr Warren McGilvery Robertson The list will be updated daily with more names of discharged men and the public invited to share in their welcome home.
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Joseph N. Cooke Taylor
Boyd Anderson
Maurice Lee Nail Murrell
Grover Anderson
Vivian Costello Lewis Sidney Adam Lattimore
Dillman Kerfoot Hibbard Taylor Lee Barr John Benjamin Jones
Delmore Addison Miller Ernest William Burch Magnus Grim Newcome
Ralph McDowell Patton James Franklin Higgs Hillard
Andrew Mooneyhaw
Carl Wesley Whitacre
Harold Havens Hildum
Ned Lupton Cheshire Ammie Moore Locke, Jr
Warren McGilvery Robertson
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