Winchester Victory Ship Named For City To Launch 1945
The Maritime Commission will name the Winchester Victory after Winchester and launch the ship at Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard Baltimore around February 2 1945. Mayor Anderson will present the naming plan to the Winchester Common Council for a sponsor a woman to christen the vessel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. Anderson
United States Commission
Ion
D. C
Arterson
Winchester Common Council
Maritime Commission
Rally At John Mann Church Third Rally Sets $2000 Goal
The John Mann Methodist Church sponsors a third rally to raise 2000 dollars for a furnace and repairs. Rev E H Jackson leads with officers each aiming twenty dollars and supporters to raise thirty dollars each from numerous contributors. The event Sunday at 8 pm features Rev I W Johnson of Leetown preaching and Rev Winters of les Town WV. Randolph Robinson leads a visiting choir and all are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orrow
John Mann Methodist Church
E. H. Jackson
Jam
Friends of the John Mann Church
I. W. Johnson
Leetown
Mr. Winters
Les Town
W. Va
Randolph Robinson
John Ann Church
Ration Calendar Highlights Indefinite Validity Notes
The notice lists ration categories and stamp groups for meats fats processed foods sugar shoes gasoline fuel oil with stamps and coupons, indicating indefinite validity and upcoming validation dates, including December 3 and December 21 for certain items, and home canning allowances. It reflects wartime or postwar rationing scheduling with associated stamp series and regional applicability.
Winchester Bond Drive Elevates Juanita Murphy to Brigadier General
The Third Army of Winchester's war loan names Mrs. Juanita Murphy the first Brigadier General after she sold 2300 dollars in E Bonds in five days. She started as a private and rose through private, sergeant, lieutenant, and colonel ranks while selling bonds at Leggett's show department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third Army of
Winchester
Juanita Murphy
Third Army
Murphy
Leggetts
Eva Hottel
Penney’s
Peggy Schindel
Woolworth’s
G. I
Mary Hawkins
Frances Unger
Star
Sanford L. Magerfield
Cost of Growing Apples Higher
Richmond, Va. Nov. 25. Commissioner of Agriculture L. M. Walker Jr. and Delegate Blackburn Moore blame high costs for apple growing on labor costs and other factors. They say pickers' wages have doubled and productivity is halved this season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
L. M. Walker
Blackburn Moore
Conne County
King crisis test votes in Parliament amid cabinet shift
Prime Minister King plans a Monday debate on a confidence motion while appearing to tighten cabinet control over the weekend. Air Minister Power resigns in protest over conscription policy. Defense Minister McNaughton outlines December to January overseas troop deployment of 7,500 infantry and 2,500 advanced trainees from the drafted home army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King
Air Chief
House of Commons
Air
C. G. Power
A. G. L. McNaughton
Cummins
Hemisphere
Military personnel listings for Third Army ceremony
A fragment lists officers and staff including Brigadier General Juanita Murphy and Colonel Penneys, with ranks from major to sergeant, and names such as Eva Hottel Christine Fansler Henrietta Fuller Peggy Schindel Mary Hawkins Sion Woolworths and Mary Butler.
Twenty Five Deer Killed In Frederick County Season
Game Warden F W Pingley reported a four day deer season in Frederick County with about 25 legally killed. About ten were checked at Gore stations and the rest in Mountain Falls area. Several hunters were listed including Charles Lee McDonald Marvin Holtzman Arthur Smith Edgar Smoke with bucks ranging 136 to 149 pounds. Three illegal kills were found amid numerous violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Pingley
Frederick County
Pingley
C. W. Frank
Gore
Mountain Falls
Aea
Charles Lee McDonald
Marvin Holtzman
Wheatfield
McDonald
Holtzman
Arthur Smith
Orchard Avenue
Pancoast
Mount Williams
Mrs. Smith
J. P. Lauck
George Donald
Bettie McDonald
Edgar Smoke
Mrs Nesselrodt 19 Dies After Operation
Mary Virginia Nesselrodt wife of Ralph Calvin Nesselrodt Sea man 1-c U S Navy died at her home 425 North Cameron Street this morning after a ten day illness She was nineteen born November 30 1924 daughter of August Schroder and Mrs Mary E Davis Schroder She attended local schools and was a member of Centenary Reformed Church Survived by husband parents and several siblings Funeral 2 pm Monday at Jones Funeral Home with Dr S L Plickinger officiating Interment Mount Hebron Cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Virginia Nesselrodt
Ralph Calvin Nesselrodt
U. S. Navy
North
Cameron Street
Nesselrodt
August Schroder
Germany
Mary E. Davis Schroder
Savanah, Ga
S. L. Plickinger
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Chicago Grain Quotations Early Trading
Chicago grain prices opened mixed with minor declines for rye and steady moves for wheat and oats. December wheat stood at 1.66 1 8, May at 1.61 1 8, rye led losses with several contracts down, oats around 0.66 to 0.57.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Rye
Bombers Strike Tokyo As Saipan Bases Loom Large
American B-29s based in China and Saipan hammered toward Tokyo at over 400 miles an hour. Brig Gen Emmett O Donnell said defenses were low and accurate fire scarce. The raid, under Brig Gen Hansell, follows the Saipan campaign where air strips for bombers were rapidly built.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marianas
Japan
China
Saipan
Emmett
Rosie) O’donnell
Jamaica
N. Y
Ens
West Point
Philippines
Java
Australia
Heywood
Hansell, Jr
Twentyfirst Bomber Command
Twentieth Air Force
Kyushu
Tokyo
Berryville Upsets Stonewall 26 to 20 in football
Berryville high school upset Stonewall 26 20 in a hard fought game. Berryville took an early lead with Whites running touchdown and a second quarter safety. Stonewall answered with Driver to Gibbs and Carper 50 yard run and a Stickles TD. Final period Bodenshatz score gave Berryville the win as both teams finish season next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berryville High School
Stonewall
Berryville
Driver
Gibbs
Clarke County
White
Lloyd
Carper
Stickles
Bodenshatz
Strasburg
Boyce
Negro Committee Aids Seal Sale at Winchester Tuberculosis Drive
Emma Parks Robinson retires as chair of the Negro Christmas Seal Sale committee with workers Sue Tokus Louise Davis Hattie Gibson Jennie May Manuel Rosa Galloway Marsha Taper Anna B Ransom Elizabeth Washington Bertha Hogans Maggie Brooks James T Robinson Flora Robinson Estelle Mitch all joining this year. The group notes Negro death rates are three and a half times those of whites due to housing and other conditions, and targets a $100 quota to aid the Winchester Tuberculosis Association in outreach to Negro communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Parks Robinson
Winchester Tuberculosis Association
Sue Tokus
Louise Davis
Hattie Gibson
Jennie May Manuel
Rosa Galloway
Marsha Taper
Anna B. Ransom
Elizabeth Washington
Bertha Hogans
Maggie Brooks
James T. Robinson
Flora Robinson
Estelle Mitch
Emma Robinson
Negro Committee
Grange Members Attend National Convention in Winston-Salem
White Hall Grange members B F Strother J M Strother and J B Lewis returned from the National Grange session in Winston Salem N S where Strother was named state lecturer and Mrs J M Strother joined a Seventh Degree class A Grange resolution urged Congress to limit rollback subsidies and empower the War Food Administrator with fund use final say. Master Albert S Goss pressed broad aims for living standards farm policy and reduced agency duplication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Strother
J. M. Strother
J. B. Lewis
White Hall Grange
Winston-Salem
N. S
National Grange Convention
Virginia State Grange
National Grange
Congress
Grange
Commodity Credit Corporation
Albert
Goss
French Closing Trap In Vosges Forces Hold High Ground
Allied forces press the push into German positions in the Vosges with heavy tanks and artillery. British units near Venlo advance through mined flats toward Grubbenvorst as Patton’s troops push across the Saar and into the Albestroff area. Adverse weather limits air support, but bombers continue over Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wurm
Geilenkirchen
Julich
Gereensweiler
Holland
Maas
Venlo
Maashees
Wanssum
Tiennais
Grubbenvorst
Veni
Miles C. Dempsey
Patton
Butzdorf
Luxembourg
Saar
Sarrebourg
Postdorf
Remering
Hilsprich
Sarralbe
Albestroff Forest
Saarbrucken
Germany
Death of Baseball Commissioner Landis at 78
The illness kept him from attending a World Series for the first time in nearly 24 years as commissioner. He died a week after a committee recommended his re election for a seven year term at the expiration of his current term on January 12, 1946. Landis had observed his 78th birthday the previous Monday with Mrs. Landis and secretary Leslie M. O Connor at his bedside. O Connor said no funeral services would be held per Landis wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Landis
Baltimore Market Reports Show Light Receipts and Stable Prices
Livestock and produce quotations from Baltimore and Chicago dated Nov 25 show light receipts across commodities. Cattle prices mostly steady to weak from week prior with top steer bids around 16.50 and cows 6.50 to 10.00, hogs steady near 14.65, lambs and sheep with mixed moves, Chicago channels note higher futures and uneven demand.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Livestock
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Length of the Lima Pucallpa Highway
The new Lima Pucallpa Highway runs 522 miles linking Peru to the Atlantic Ocean. It crosses Anticona Pass at about 16 000 feet above sea level.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima-Pucallpa
Peru
Atlantic Ocean
Anticona Pass
Stock Market Report Nov 25 Mixed Gains Led By United Corp
The New York market held its balance as buying supported prices while leaders paused in the minus column. Earnings and dividends buoyed sentiment. trading stayed quiet with about 400000 shares changing hands. United Corp preferred rose to within a point of a yearly high. Schenley reached a 1944 peak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United Corp. Preferred
Schenley
Answers to Daily Quiz on Page Four
Correct responses mirror the quiz on Page Four: Part of New Guinea Occidental Franklin D Roosevelt David's Silk The rose From either A half wild horse of the southwest plains Shakespeare San Salvador.
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Part
New Guinea
Occidental
Franklin D. Roosevelt
David's
Either
Southwest Plains
Shakespeare
San Salvador
Soviet Advance Reaches Tokol and Bag Near Budapest
Russian forces have advanced four miles to Tokol on the island’s western shore and pushed toward Bag, 15 miles northeast of Budapest. Moscow has not confirmed the Tokol advance, while yesterday’s communique says Soviet troops near Budapest captured Bag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokol
Servy Cne
Moscow
Budapest
Bag
Green Wave Faces Blue Devils In City Touchdown Final
Local ball park hosts Sunday city championship between J. B. T. Green Wave and Royal Crown Blue Devils. Key players have watched Washington Redskin games and Eagles defeat to boost morale. Ray Garrabrandt to referee with strict penalties for unnecessary roughness. Game set for 3 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Wave
Royal Crown “Blue Devils
Washington
Philadelphia “Eagles
Ray Garrabrandt
Friendly Grove 4-H Club Elects New Officers
The Friendly Grove 4-H Club met at the Community Hall on Thursday night November 23. President Mary Triplett led the pledge and motto as minutes were read and rolls called. New officers elected include Martha Lee Triplett president Eugene Lee Hulver vice president Kathryn Lucile Hulver secretary Mary Thelma Triplett treasurer Ruth Kathryn Feeley reporter and Nancy Lee Triplett song leader. The president named a Recreation Committee chaired by Nancy Triplett with Harry Hodgson and Lewis Hodgson as assistants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friendly Grove 4-H Club
Mary Triplett
Martha Lee Triplett
Eugene Lee Hulver
Kathryn Lucile Hulver
Mary Thelma Triplett
Ruth Kathryn Feeley
Nancy Lee Triplett
C. H. Harbaugh
Laban Hodgson
Nancy Triplett
Harry Hodgson
Lewis Hodgson
Classified Advertisements WANTED Set for Fall Gardens
A compact classifieds item list requests readers to contact Edward Clark in Winchester Virginia for fall garden plowing. Also includes several WANTED notices for a pin boy, a girl’s bicycle, and a drug salesman position with the National Drug Co. in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
National Drug Co
Philadelphia
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Victory Ship
S. S. Winchester Victory
John Mann Church
J. N
Associated Press
SILCO
Third Army Legion of Merit
Penneys
Mrs
Zorpha Baker
Christine Fansler
Henrietta Fuller
Major Worths
Hodgsons
Woolworths
Sion Woolworths
Ellwood Emmons Mary Butler
Raylass Penneys
National Grange Meeting
Vosges
With
U. S. Employment Office
W. Piccadilly Sr
Northern
Virginia
Stock Market Report
Friendly Grove
Call
H.p
Westinghouse
Hagerstown Equipment Co., Inc
Hagerstown
Maryland
Chevrolet
E. Fairfax Lane
N. Cameron
O’sullivan Rubber CO
Valley Ave
Winchester, Va
Cameron St
Apply Smith Garage
E. Piccadilly St
Spotswood Transfer
Loudoun St
Ford
Hart St
F. T. Ridgeway
Herndon
North Kent
Solenberger’s
Amherst St
Fred Glaize
Stephens City
Robert Alfred Knerr
Frankord Ave
Robert Lee
Valley Pike
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