Lindbergh as Billy Mitchell of wartime air force dispute
In Washington an aide labeled Charles Lindbergh the Billy Mitchell of this war as debate grows over his Air Force reserve status. Mason urged restoring his commission, noting Lindbergh test flew and shot down enemy planes, while Roosevelt rebuked critics and Mitchell’s court martial was later overturned posthumously by Congress with a brigadier general promotion.
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Washington
Ep. Mason
R-I
Tony
Charles A. Lindbergh
Billy Mitchell
Uy Air Force Reserve
Lindbergh
Roosevelt Mason
General Itchell
Deren
Tchell
Arid
Mitchell
Congress
Senators Urge End of Draft as Enlistments Climb
Five Senators pressed for an immediate end to wartime conscription on the Senate floor. Revercomb cited Army enlistments of 5 7100 daily in November and proposed ending selective service, while Taft George Willis and Young urged action and noted Navy enlistments.
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Washington
Senate
Revercomb
West Virginia Republican
War Department
Truman
Japan
Senate Military Affairs Committee
George
Navy
Tax deadline reminder with 5 percent penalty
Frederick County Treasurer Harry L. McCann warns taxes are due now and a 5 percent penalty will be added after December 5, 1945. Urban notice appears in the county financial listing with official dates and the treasurer’s signature.
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Harry L. McCann
Treas
Frederick County
Run Down Heels to Repair While You Wait
Moseley’s Shoe Rebuilders offers quick repairs at 31 W. Boscawen St with phone 4914. Public sale of household effects from A Crisman Estate at 808 S. Braddock St. begins 10 a.m. Saturday December 1, rain or shine.
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Moseley's
W. Boscawen St
A. Crisman
S. Braddock St
Pearl Harbor Intel Chief Feared Japanese Attack December Note
Maj. Gen Sherman Miles testified that Army Intelligence feared an attack would coincide with Japan delivering its note at 1 p m on December 7 1941 but could not determine the attack site. Republicans probe the East Wind Rain signal and a missing record as 39 new representatives urge nonpartisanship in the inquiry.
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Washington
Sherman Miles
Miles
Pearl Harbor
Senate House Inquiry Committee
Japan
Tokyo
George C. Marshall
Army
Republican
U.S
Frank Keefe
Army Intelliene
Pearl Hart
Snowstorm Grips Northeastern States Causing Fatalities
The Associated Press reports a major snow event blanketing the northeast from New York City to Attica New York with depths up to 28 inches. At least 16 deaths occurred as the storm caused gale winds in the Boston area and disrupted transportation from New England to upstate New York while Coast Guard units reported three vessels in trouble. The incidents included a freighter aground in Boston harbor and two vessels missing. Snow and prior rain and sleet left Buffalo 12.4 inches and other cities with varying accumulations.
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Associated Press
New York City
Attica
N. Y
Boston
Great Lake
Chicago
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
New England
New York
Coast Guard
Newport
R. I
New Bedford
Mass
Fordham Victory
Spectacle Island
Boston Harbor
Buffalo
Albany
Hartford
Blaze Pays For Victory With His Life
Blaze the Bull Mastiff once famed for a transcontinental plane ride dies after an encounter with Fala the Scottie in Albany New York. Mrs Roosevelt refuses to discuss the dog fight, telling reporters to contact the Associated Press and mind their own business.
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Albany
N. Y
Elliott Roosevelt
Fala
Health Department
de Park
Pound Blaze
New York
The
Herald Tribune
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Associated Press
Withdrawal of POW Labor To Be Reexamined
Senator Byrd says the plan to withdraw war prisoners from labor in Virginia pulpwood and other shortages will be reexamined at a meeting in Baltimore. War Department withdrawal plans are to be suspended pending conference outcomes with Brig. Gen. Bryan and state officials.
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Richmond
Byrd
D-Va
William A. Wright
State Conservation Commission
Virginia
Service Command
Baltimore
War Department
Wright
Washington
B. M. Bryan
Sanian Marshall
Statensans
Bryan
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Death Toll Rises to Five in Lumberton Bus Collision
In Lumberton North Carolina a bus oil tanker crash killed five with Sheriff Wade reporting a new body found. Twenty seven aboard textile workers were traveling home. twenty two survived and were hospitalized. Identified victims include John T. Penny and Leona Hight both of West Lumberton.
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Lumberton
N. C
C Wade
Wade
Ben
John T. Penny
Leona Hight
West Lumberton
Japanese Field Marshal Terauchi Surrenders to Mountbatten
In Rangoon on November 30, Field Marshal Juichi Terauchi surrendered to Admiral Mountbatten outside the governor general's palace in Cochin China. He turned over antique swords dating to the 13th to 15th centuries, as illness delayed his move to Singapore. The soldiers’ surrender followed Tokyo's capitulation.
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Rangoon
Juichi Terauchi
Asia
Adm
Louis Mountbatten
Terauchi
Cochin-China
Singapore
Hirohito
Southeast Asia
Tokyo
Virginias Health Commission urges compulsory student exams
A nine member commission recommends compulsory periodic medical exams for all Virginia school children and extension of public health services to 757 000 rural residents. The plan would add 24 local health departments bringing total units to 51 and would cost about 2.26 million dollars annually for extensions. The report urges broader hospital insurance and details school health service reorganization and education programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
General Assembly
I. C. Riggin
Department of Health
Rucker
Charlottesville
Crippled Children’s Hospital
Major General Cook to speak at Lions Club luncheon
Major General Gilbert R. Cook former commander of the 12th corps and leader of the France invasion will address the Lions Club luncheon on Tuesday December 4. He holds the Distinguished Service Medal and Croix de Guerre among other honors and led American forces in Orleans. The event benefits the Winchester Frederick County War Memorial drive aiming to raise 150000 for a Veterans Community Center.
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Gilbert R. Cook
12Th Corps
Patton
Third Army
France
Lions Club
Cook
Orleans
St. Bartholomew
Quota Club
Junior Board of Trade
Winchester-Frederick County
War Memorial
Winchester
Frederick County
War Memorial Association
W. R. Strader
War Dept to study German artificial limbs in Germany
Battle Creek Michigan November 29 The War Department will send a commission to Germany to study new prosthetic limbs attached to the wearer's muscles. Secretary of War Robert S Patterson said the group will evaluate German work and may bring a few patients back for further study here.
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Battle Creek
Mich
War Department
Germany
Robert S. Patterson
Patterson
Actress Barred From Episcopal Church Wedding
Riverside California November 30 Actress Bette Davis barred from an Episcopalian wedding by Bishop W Bertrande Stevens ruling that a divorced person cannot wed in an Episcopal church. The ceremony shifted to St Francis chapel at the Riverside Mission Inn where Davis and artist William Grant Sherry planned to marry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside
Calif
Bette Davis
St. Francis Chapel
Riverside Mission Inn
William Grant Sherry
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Laguna Beach
W. Bertrande Stevens
Los Angeles Episcopal Diocese
Miss Davis
Harmon O. Nelson
Arthur Farnsworth
Sherry
Last of U. S. Forces To Leave Ie Island
Manila reports Ie Island near Okinawa will be placed on caretaker status February 1. The last of more than 40 000 air force personnel will evacuate by that date, with only a few army caretakers remaining. The airstrips will be kept in surface condition for possible future use, and civilians will not be allowed to return.
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Manila
Ernie Pyle
Ie Island
Okinawa
Air Force
Army Air Forces
Western Pacific
Mother Secures 10 Day Serum Supply for Tuberculosis Baby
In Petersburg Virginia a mother of a 23 month old boy with military tuberculosis wins a 10 day supply of Strep tomycine. Camp Lee officials sought permission from Baltimore Third Service Command to obtain serum from McGuire Hospital. Navy continues search for additional supply as President Truman and others become involved.
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Baltimore
McGuire Hospital
Richmond
Langmuir Warns Russia Could Lead Atomic Race
Dr. Irving Langmuir told the Senate atomic energy committee that if an arms race begins Russia could build its first atomic bomb in about three years and outpace the United States. He cited Russia’s population, incentives, lack of unemployment, unity of science, planned program, and access to German expertise plus uranium resources as advantages. He urged immediate contact with the Soviet government to reach a tentative agreement modeled on the Truman Attlee Mackenzie formula.
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Washington
Irving Langmuir
Russia
United States
General Electric
Senate Atomic Energy Committee
Langmuir
Great Britain
Canada
Army weighs air crew football players release case
The Army asked its Hawaii commander for a report on the alleged return of 54 football players to the United States by air though they had too few points for discharge. An Army newspaper editorial said only 13 would qualify under the soon to take effect 55 point rule. A War Department statement said no Army member is to be returned from a theater under the point system without enough points.
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Washington
Army
Hawaii
United States
Stars and Stripes
Army Air Forces Hawaiian Flyers
War Department
Hess Accepts Full Responsibility at WWII Trial
Rudolph Hess told the International Military Tribunal he accepted full responsibility for all his acts and wished to continue on trial with other Nazis. The court adjourned without ruling on his mental fitness as Lahousen testified Canaris led a counter espionage clique and planned to murder French leaders after France fell. Prosecution indicated defendants knew of concentration camps and used them to crush opponents.
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Mernberg
Rudolph Hess
International Military Tribunal Today
Hess
Hitler
Fuehrer
Adm
Walter Wilhelm Canaris
Erwin Lahousen
Canaris
Lahousen
German Republic
Ieemanay
Maxime Weygand
Hari Giraud
Feld
Wilhelm Kietel
France
Weygand
Marshal Petain
North Africa
Giraud
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Poland
von Ribbentrop
Fpuerher
Ribbentrop
Wilhelm Keitel
Alfred Jodl
U. S
Thomas J. Dodd
Nationalize Bank of France Proposal Faces Assembly Debate
Paris November 30 The De Gaulle government moved to nationalize the Bank of France and four other major banks with total capitalization of 2 675 000 000 francs 53 500 000 dollars The Constituent Assembly voted to begin debate on the proposal Sunday morning.
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Paris
de Gaulle
Bank of France
Singer Sewing Machines For Sale At Boscawen Street
Two sewing machines offered for sale one electric and one treadle both guaranteed in perfect condition located at 104 W Boscawen St. Contact details not provided.
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W. Boscawen St
York Piano For Sale In Thoroughly Reconditioned Condition
For sale a thoroughly reconditioned and tuned York piano guaranteed. Located at 104 West Boscawen Street. Contact lp-11 for more details.
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Boscawen St
Good Parking At Elite Barber Shop
Elite Barber Shop at 08 South Loudoun advertises good parking and hours from 9 to 8 with a notation (11-30-1p-11) indicating a period or code.
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South Loudoun
Mass death by own action by internees at Swedish camps
Hundreds of German Polish Austrian and Baltic internees attempted mass death by own action to avoid transfer to Russian occupied territories. Some stabbed themselves or wounded others as guards surrounded barracks. About 3 000 prisoners faced hunger strikes and unclear fate as Russia demanded their transfer under military pressure.
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Stockholm
Barra
Russia
Losyrtens
Jap Cabinet Change Did Not Alarm Army G-2
A historical note reports that Japan's cabinet change from Konoye to Tojo did not cause immediate alarm in U S Army intelligence. The Pearl Harbor inquiry discusses differing views between Army and Navy on Japan's stance and potential readiness changes.
Welcome Home Veterans Return to Civil Life
The Star welcomes Frederick Clarke counties and Winchester veterans home from service. Names listed include Colleen Orndorff Eddie G Shanholtz Clarence A Custer Homer E Peer Welby B Carpenter Lorenzo C Lewis Ezra C Deavers. Public urged to help add names of discharged soldiers as list expands. An announcement also advertises Markwood Grant restaurant at 44 E George Washington Hotel offering American food and family dinners by appointment.
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Frederick and
Clarke Counties
Winchester
Star
Colleen Orndorff
Eddie G. Shanholtz
Clarence A. Custer Homer E. Peer Welby
B. Carpenter
Lorenzo C. Lewis
Ezra C. Deavers
Markwood
E. George Washington Hotel
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Itred
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Aot
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Handley
United
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Bryan Minnigerode
Howard Hart
Alton Powell
Gordon Nelson
Frank Taylor
Dick Huff
George Garber
Dick Owens
Adrian LaRue
Donald Miller
Woody Baker
Sam Brooks
Marshall Novick
Richard McIntyre
Johnny Campbell
Kenneth Lake
Donald
Garber
Jack Duvall
Alison Smith
William Wolverton
Philip Kently
Godfrey O'Rear
Jimmy Sax
Otis Snag
Argent
Jimmy Rose
Tony Lazzarera
Richard Wolfe
Donald Bush
William Whiting
Joe Ryon
Bobby Cole
G-2
By Jack Bell
Blaze
Mountbatten
Commission
Maj
General Cook
No. 1
Singer
York
Government of Japan
Konoye
Tojo
United States Army
Far East
C. G. Western Defense Command
Gerow
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