Efforts Made To Avert Nationwide Telephone Strike
National Federation of Telephone Workers President Joseph Beirne arrives in Chicago to urge settlement of the Illinois Bell strike. Illinois operators walkout, now five days old, snarling service. NFTW and Illinois union push for a settlement as 500,000 workers idle nationwide amid wage disputes and talks of arbitration and possible wider action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Joseph A. Beirne
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Chicago
Illinois
Beirne
New York
NFTW
Illinois Telephone Traffic Union
Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Ernest Weaver
Federation
Ilinois
General Motors
Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
John W. Gibson
Labor
Schwellenbach
Washington
Atlantic City
N. J
CIO Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Sidney Hillman
Tomor
Snow Falls Across Virginia Mountains in 1945 46 Winter
Snow blanketed the Alleghany Blue Ridge area with new low temperatures across Virginia for the 1945 46 winter season. Covington Radford Roanoke Waynesboro and Pulaski reported snow with Roanoke logging a low of 28 degrees at 7 30 am and mountain peaks remaining snow covered while ground remained bare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Virginia
Covington
Radford
Roanoke
Waynesboro
Pulaski
Alleghany-Blue Ridge Mountains
Weather Bureau
Ichmond
Mercury
Doctor resumes practice in Winchester on North Braddock
Announcement that Dr. R. F. Cline has resumed his medical and surgical practice in his former office on North Braddock Street in Winchester. The note is dated November 23 and appears in an old newspaper notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. F. Cline
North Braddock St
Winchester
Star Will Have New Home At Boscawen and Kent Streets
Harry F. Byrd Jr announces plans for a new 15 000 square foot two story brick newspaper building at the northeast corner of Boscawen and Kent streets. Architects Hunter and Caldwell of Altoona design a colonial style structure with space for The Star on the first floor and Byrd interests on the second. Excavation began this morning with future expansion in mind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star
Boscawen and
Kent Streets
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
the Star
Hae Star
Pure. Co
R. Anderson
Boscawen
Kent Strets
Kent Street
Hunter and Caldwell
Altoona
J. Howard Shockey and Son
Winchester
The
Byrd apple _ interests
Eisenhower Kept In Ashford General Hospital
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower newly named chief of staff has entered Ashford General Hospital White Sulphur Springs West Virginia on doctor orders to prevent complications from a severe cold His hospitalization suspends plans to return to Europe and fulfil engagements while Mrs Eisenhower improves at Boone Iowa with pneumonia.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ashford General Hospital
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Army
Eisenhower
Howard M. Snyder
House Foreign Relations
Germany
Boone
War Department
Europe
George C. Marshall
Truman
Senate
Patch's Body Sent To West Point
Lt General Alexander M Patch Jr whose body is en route from San Antonio to West Point for final rites. The B 25 bomber carries the general and includes Lt Col Charles Rowley and Maj G G Bartlett. Funeral services tentatively set for 2:30 pm Sunday at the United States Military Academy cemetery.
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San Antonio
Tex
Alexander M. Patch
West Point
N. Y
4Th Army
Brooke General Hospital
Charles Rowley
Patch
United States Military Academy
G. G. Bartlett
John M Warner
Ben
New York
General Patch
Staunton Military Academy
Staunton
Rouss Spring Park
Winchester
United States Army
Dr. McKee To Reopen Office Here
Lt Col John B McKee formerly of this city resumes practice at 114 West Boscawen Street on Monday November 26. He led the Cardio Vascular Section at Percy Jones General Hospital Battle Creek Michigan and served as medical consultant to the 9th Army in the European Theater of Operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. McKee
West Boscawen Street
McKee
U. S. Army Medical Corps
Percy Jones
Special Notice on Misplaced Coats at Thanksgiving Dance
Persons who took coats by mistake from J. B. T. Thanksgiving dance should contact Ed Molden at 4169 for return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Molden
Freight Train Demolishes Truck Near Winchester
A 1936 Chevrolet truck loaded with baled hay was destroyed when struck by a freight train about one mile north of Winchester at 8:30 this morning. Roy Dove 33 of Mountain Falls Route Winchester driver said vegetation hid the crossing. His passenger Maynard Dove 19 suffered cuts and bruises. The truck owned by Roy Titus Dove was valued around 600 dollars. The engine suffered damage to the cow catcher steam pipes and superstructure.
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Winchester
Stine
Maynard Dove
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Roy Titus Dove
Young Dove
Japanese Rioters Loot Army Warehouse in Sendai As War Lords Surrender
An American Army warehouse in Sendai was looted by about 200 hungry Japanese including 94 women, with 180 arrests. Reports say no Americans were guarding the warehouse. In nearby Tokyo area, war leaders listed for surrender to Allied jailers include Gen. Koiso and Baron Araki with Kuzuu also surrendering, amid ongoing postwar actions.
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Tokyo
Sendai
Hokkkaido
Honshu
Kuniako Koiso
Pearl Harbor
Hideki Tojo
Sugamo Prison
MacArthur
Japan
China
Sadao Araki
Yoshihisa Kuzuu
Black Dragon Society
Rebels Seize and Shoot Officials in Azerbaijan Prov
An Iranian general told radio authorities that 20 officials and landowners in Azerbaijan province were seized by rebels and shot, signaling intense rebel activity and regional instability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tehran
Azerbaijan
Dr Miller To Resume Practice In Winchester
Commander James A. Miller of the U S N R Medical Corps will resume surgical practice in Winchester on January 1. He was stationed in Norfolk and is on terminal leave at his home 312 Fairmont Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Miller
Medical Corps
Winchester
Miller
Norfolk
Fairmont Avenue
Meat Rationing Ends Tomorrow With Sugar Staying
Washington reports meat rationing ends at 12:01 a m Saturday while all food fats including butter margarine lard and shortening are freed from the ration. Sugar remains on the list with no immediate lift planned.
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Washington
Anderson
Handley Football Awards Highlight 1945 Team
Winchester Junior Board of Trade named four outstanding linemen and backs from the Handley 1945 squad at a Thanksgiving dance honoring the team. Richard Huff James Taylor Frank Taylor and Donald Miller received sweaters. The event celebrated Martinsburg’s first unbeaten untied season with silver footballs presented to all players and to three named managers and players.
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Handley
Winchester Junior Board of Trade
Richard Huff
James Taylor
Frank Taylor
Donald Miller
J. Pinckney Arthur
JBT
Martinsburg
JET
Jimmy Saxe
Sam Brooks
Robert Cole
Adrian LaRue
Richard Owens
George Garber
Gordon Nelson
Bryan Minnigerode
Beverly Lamb
Alton Powell
Howard Hart
Donald Garber
Alson Smith
John Campbell
Kenneth Lake
Jack Duvall
Godfrey O
Wody Baker
Mac McIntyre
Phil Mattingly
Richard Wolfe
Donald Bush
Jimmy Rose
William Wolverton
William Whiting
Joe Ryan
Tony Lazzarera
Marshall Novick
Goering Attracted By Girl's Ankles
In Nuremberg Nov 23 the top Nazis heard first press reports of the trial. Gustav Jodl and Alfred Rosenberg reviewed American reactions while Herman Goering fixated on the secretary’s ankles in the prosecutor’s box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mernberg
Stars and Stripes
Gustav Jodl
Alfred Rosenberg
Reichmarshal
Herman Goering
Charles Dubost
Orthopedic Work Ad Promotes Mr Gurley Consultation
Moseley's Shoe Rebuilders at 31 West Boscawen Street invites customers to discuss orthopedic issues with Mr. Gurley. Advertising notice appears with phone contact 4914 and dated November 23, 1924.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Gurley
Moseley’s Shoe Rebuilders
W.‘ Boscawen St
Bevin and Churchill Clash Over Greek Plebiscite Delay
In the Commons Bevin and Churchill debated delaying Greece’s monarchy plebiscite for up to three years. Bevin proposed a vote by March 1948, while Churchill argued delaying the issue is wrong as it remains a burning question in Greece.
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London
Winston Churchill
Ernest Bevin
Labor
Bevin
Greece
Britain
Great Britain
United Nations
United States
Canada
de Gaulle
Italy
Grand Jury Indicts Two in Frederick Circuit Court
A grand jury in Frederick Circuit Court indicted J. T. Miller on three counts of larceny for stealing steers of A. E. George Miller. Miller pleaded guilty, received a suspended penitentiary term and three years probation. Edward Alexander was charged with felonious assault on W. V. Fries. trial date undecided. Jury foreman W. Bayliss and members pose were listed.
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Frederick
J. T. Miller
A. E. George
Harrison
Miller
Edward Alexander
W. V. Fries
Hull Repeatedly Told Cabinet War With Japan Inevitable
United States prosecutors at Nuremberg demanded punishment for 20 Hitler aides on charges of spreading aggressive warfare. They aimed to prove a plan to murder millions with new documents and tied Nazi financing to Krupp and I G Farben.
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Hull
Japan
Nuernberg
Hitler
United States
International War Crimes Tribunal
Counse
International Military Tribunal
U.S
Sidney 8S. Alderman
Krupp Steel
I. G. Farben Chemical Trust
Thomas Dodd
Hjalmar Schacht
British Hold Large Share of Port in Soerabaja Push
British Indian troops use Sherman tanks for the first time in the Soerabaja offensive and seize two thirds of the city by nightfall, capturing Hotel Oranje. Indonesian resistance fades under tank fire with about 40 casualties. Dutch civilians in Ambarawa attacked. 16 killed at a camp used by Indonesians and later surrounded by British forces.
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Batavia
Java
Soerabaja
Hotel Oranje
Simpang
Semarang
Ambarawam
Aneta
Ambarawa
Health Of City Improves Prompting School Reopen
City health officer Dr. L M Allen reported that influenza and cold cases have improved enough for Winchester and Frederick county schools to open Monday morning. The ban on under 18 public gatherings will be lifted Sunday allowing attendance at church and Sunday School. The illness is described as mild, with no widespread alarm, and conditions have improved since schools closed last Friday despite poor rain.
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L. M. Allen
Winchester
Frederick County
Allen
Roosevelt Plans for a Tentative Pact with Japan
A pencilled note in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s handwriting outlining a possible six month truce with Japan in late 1941 was entered into the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee records. The draft proposed resuming some economic ties, limiting Japanese troop movements in Asia, avoiding the tri partite pact, and introducing talks with China, but it was never sent.
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Parben Aes
Roosevelt
Japan
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Indo-China
Manchurian
Br't
Siam
Churchill
Illness Fatal To Mrs. Ernie Pyle
Mrs. Ernie Pyle widow of famed war correspondent died at 7 30 a m in Albuquerque New Mexico at age 44 from complications of influenza She had been ill since Ernie Pyle was killed on Ie Shima in April and was hospitalized at St Josephs Hospital She and Ernie married in Washington in 1925 while he worked as city editor of the Washington News They had no children
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Albuqueque
N. M
Ernie Pyle
Pyle
Ernie
Ie Shima
St. Joseph's Hospital
Albuquerque
Washington
D. C
The
Washington News
Ex Secretary Hull Testifies He Expected War With Japan
Cordell Hull told Senate House investigators he expected war with Japan before Pearl Harbor and that he and President Roosevelt sought to gain time. He said they avoided a showdown and never gave Japan any ultimatum while preparing diplomatic talks before December 7, 1941.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt
Senate House
Hull
Dan
Frank Walker Proba
Sapa
Man Barkley
D-Ky
State Department
United States
Welcome Home Veterans From Frederick Clarke Winchester
The Star welcomes veterans from Frederick Clarke counties and Winchester who have discharged and return to civilian life. The list includes Roy A. Miller Charles H. Small Donald R. Grubbs Stewart Mowrey William Stephenson Huyett Jr Clarence Cather Archibald Burns Charles I Inskip Preston H Jackson Julian F Blanchfield Ernest G Kent Sylvester N Reed Robert M Dunn Eugene Goss William M Sutler, with daily updates to add more names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick and
Clarke Counties
Winchester
Star
Roy A. Miller
Charles H. Small Donald R. Grubbs
Stewart Mowrey
William Stephenson Huyett, Jr
Clarence Cather
Archibald C. Burns
Charles I. Inskip
Preston H. Jackson
Julian F. Blanchfield
Ernest G. Kent Sylvester N. Reed
Robert M. Dunn
Eugene Goss
William M. Sutler
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gen. Eisenhower
Dr. McKee
By Ovid A. Martin
Bowles
Chester Bowles
White House
OPA
Wesley Owens
Eee
W. Bayliss
Elsworth Pose
Julian C. Kline
H. J McAboy
Albert G. Robinson
Daniel de Luce
Krupp
Gustav Krupp von Boies Halbachhi
Dodd
Wilhelm Keitel
Rudolf Dix
Schacht
Red
Nazis Dodd
Reichsbank
Nazi Party
Reichschancellor
George von Schnitzler
I. G. Farben
Schnitzler
Albert Vogler
Steel Combine
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