Death comes suddenly to Daniel Carper in Winchester
Daniel Carper 66 of Clarke county died suddenly at 7 this morning at his home 678 Berryville avenue Winchester He was a farmer and member of Braddock Street Methodist Church Survived by his second wife Beatrice Jenkins two daughters Mrs Charles Lynn Miss Mildred Carper one daughter Mrs William L Etrosnider and a former wife Lena Painter Also survived by three sisters and three brothers Funeral service Thursday at 3 p m from his home with interment in Mount Hebron Cemetery
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Stewart
Alberta Grim Carper
Frederick County
Clarke County
Winchester
Methodist Church
Woodman of the Orld
Lena Painter
William L. Etrosnider
Strasburg
Beatrice Jenkins
Charles Lynn
Mildred Carper
Joseph Shenk
Charles Shenk
Berryville
Charles Gore
Harry Carper
Baltimore
Warren Carper
Stephens City
Stewart M. Carper
Berryville Avenue
This City
T. J. Hawkins
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Press freedom urged as keystone of liberty
The speaker argues that printed records secure all freedoms and that truth in print keeps society free. He warns leaders to act on press freedom, calling for worldwide protection and accountability, referencing Hiroshima and the responsibility of power to preserve civilization through the printed word.
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Cooper
White House
Congress
United States
Hiroshima
County Hears Plan for Centralized High School Facility
The board discussed funding from the State Literary Fund to finance a new centralized high school with an auditorium and gymnasium. Estimated cost reached about 350000 based on a 600 student base and growing enrollment. The county superintendent noted a 10 percent annual increase and current space shortages with classes in basements and attics.
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State Literary Fund
Kline
Gore High School
Ration Calendar Details Stamp Validities
OPA notes no plans to cancel ration stamps. Meats Pats and sugar stamps cover various ranges from A1 to E1 with expirations through late year. Shoes stamps 1 to 4 are valid indefinitely under Book Three.
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Associated Press
OPA
London Strikers Slow To Return
London workers in a back to work movement appeared to reverse an earlier decision to return to jobs. About 40,000 remained idle as 4,000 British troops unloaded ships and military stores for shipment to the Middle East amid wage demands of five dollars per day compared with three dollars ninety.
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London
England
Middle East
George Isaacs
Christmas Loot From Esberg Liquor Store Burglary
Police seek a farsighted burglar who raided Arthur Esberg's liquor store in Albuquerque. The thief took 77 casts of whiskey and 50 cases of high grade liquor bound for Christmas sales, with loot valued at 3000 dollars. Target is a Merry Christmas arrest.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Arthur Esberg
Esberg
Reopening Fight Over Federal Agency Streamlining
Wheeler urges bigger Congressional role in streamlining amid Senate Judiciary Committee deliberations on government reorganization. House has passed its version. Kilgore says Truman favors a single administrator for a National Science Foundation coordinating peacetime lab work, while scientists favor a board. The atomic energy bill would create a nine member unpaid commission with vast powers over research and production.
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Wheeler
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
House
Kilgore
D-Wva
Truman
National Science Foundation
White House
Atomic Energy Dill
U. S
Japanese tank that never used and Korean exodus in Japan
A wartime boast about an unused Japanese tank mirrors a broader loss of confidence as U S forces seize key naval assets. Meanwhile a vast migration unfolds with 1.5 million Koreans in Japan seeking to return home, 250,000 of them forced laborers living in squalor while awaiting transport on ships returning Japanese troops from Korea.
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Japan
Kyushu
Hakata
Honshu
Senzaki
Korea
Aaron Williams Dies In Hospital
Aaron Williams a 46 year old colored native of Clarke county died this morning at Winchester Memorial Hospital after a week as a patient. Death was from pneumonia. He worked with race horses and fell ill in Laurel Maryland where he was employed. He was the son of the late Robert Williams and Sarah Williams Eubanks and left a large family including 10 siblings in several states. Funeral arrangements had not been set.
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Aaron Williams
Clarke County
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Laurel
Robert Williams
Sarah Williams Eubanks
Carlisle
Moses
Hugh Williams
Berryville
Howard Williams
Millwood
Wyman Williams
Washington
Robert
John
Rey
Asham Williams
Pennsylvania
Page Johnson
Alice Berry
Maregretta
Avalos Denies Being Master Of Argentina Coup
War Minister Avalos, leader of the army that toppled Peron, says he is not the boss and was carrying out army orders in Argentina's government revision. Alvarez, civilian contender for interior minister, seeks cabinet of notables while vice admiral Vernengo Lima acts as foreign minister.
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Buenos Aires
Eduardo Avalos
Juan Peron
Argentina
Associated Press
Avalos
Peron
Edelemiro Farrell
Juan Alvarez
Farrell
Alvarez
Interior Ministry
Foreign Ministry
Tomas Lebreton
London
Vernengo Lima
Hog wins at State Fair after weight cut stunt
Jimmy Trawler walked his hog to meet the 300 pound limit for the New Mexico State Fair entry. The prize hog earned a victory and then sold for 50 cents a pound in the Junior Livestock Sale, totaling 149.50 dollars.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Jimmy
Berlin Parties Defy Bloc in U S Zone Says Eisenhower
Eisenhower says four Berlin parties publish newspapers and that a bloc is not encouraged in the U S zone. Each party's paper is allotted 100000 copies by Soviet authorities, the Communist paper 200000, all subject to Soviet censorship.
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U. S
Berlin
Eisenhower
Centralized high school plan debated by boards
Supervisors and school board members discussed relief for crowded high schools and agreed to pursue a centralized high school. They appointed officials to explore temporary prefab buildings from the Surplus Commodities Corporation and to study improvements at Stonewall, Stephens City, Middletown, and Gore high schools.
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Stonewall
Stephens City
Middletown
Gore High School
H. C. Light
C. E. Pingley
Bryant Harper
Leslie D.kline
Board of Supervisors
Surplus Commodities Corporation
War Fund Drive Heads Announced in Winchester and Frederick
Lt. Thomas G. Scully announced chairmen for four soliciting committees for the Virginia War Fund Drive in Winchester and Frederick county. The drive aims for 19000 with house-to-house canvassing by Beta Sigma Phi and the Girls Athletic Association.
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Winchester
Frederick County
Thomas G. Scully
J. H. Yost
Harold C. Brown
W. Nelson Page
J. Victor Arthur
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Girls Athletic Association
Dorothy McCann Rice
Beta Sigma Phi
Lucille Sencindiver
Earl Shade
G. T. Binner, Jr
Junior Board of Trade
Virginia War Fund
National War Fund
USO
United Seaman's Service
Philippine War Relief
American Field Service
USC Clubs
United Seamen’s Service Centers
USC
Virginia War Headquarters
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Rouss Avenue
Thomas G. Sceuly
Beatings in NC Cited in Belsen Trial Defense
In Lueneberg Germany on October 16 the defense for Ilse Grese and three other SS guards argued that corporal punishment in North Carolina camps was comparable to German practices. Maj. Cranfield urged the court to judge reasonable conduct, listing the brutalities described from a North Carolina convict camp. The Grese sisters and other guards faced multiple charges tied to camp atrocities at Auschwitz, Belsen, and Oswiecim with testimony from Ilse and Helena Grese.
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Lueneburg
Germany
Irma Grese
Belsen
North Carolina
United States of America
Maj. L
W. Cranfield
Cranfield
Gres¢y
Ilse Lothe
Hilda Lobauer
Joseph Klippel
Josef Kramer
Oswiecim
Idle Coal Miners Seek State Aid
A delegation of soft coal miners visited Harrisburg to seek public hearing support for jobless compensation during the western Pennsylvania strike. John P. Busarello of the United Mine Workers argued the unemployment bureau misclassifies workers as in dispute delaying benefits for about 60,000 idle miners. He said state law requiring supervisor inspection blocks work while supervisors are on strike, demanding compensation after one week of waiting.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
John P. Busarello
Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers of America
Pvt Delbert Rogers Dies After Illness at Newton D Baker
Delbert Rogers 34 son of Mrs Rosa Rogers Hawkins died Sunday morning at Newton D Baker General Hospital Martinsburg after long illness from a poisonous disease contracted in Italy during North African and Italian campaigns He served overseas and later lived with his mother in Martinsburg Surviving are his mother brother Cliff Rogers Arden and sisters Ollie Line Frederick County and Myrtle Payne Winchester Funeral arrangements set with services at Pine Grove Methodist Church and burial in church cemetery
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Pvt
Delbert Rogers
Rosa Rogers Hawkins
South
Cameron Street
Robert L. Rogers
Newton D. Baker General Hospital
Martinsburg
Italy
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington, D. C
Newton D. Baker Hospital
Pine Grove Methodist Church
Cliff Rogers
Near Arden
Ollie Line
Frederick County
Myrtle Payne
Winchester
Brown Funeral Home
Arden
John McAfee
Church
Denies Country Short On Oil
Ralph T. Zook, president of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, warned that prolonged cheap foreign oil imports could have sparked a German Japanese invasion of the United States. He spoke at the association’s 16th annual convention in Tulsa, noting the group’s 16 year history and past fears of oil shortages.
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Tulsa
Okla
United States
Ralph T. Zook
Zook
Independent Petroleum Association of America
Bradford
Germany
Jack Dempsey Checks Up at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey entered the Brady Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for a physical checkup and is expected to stay about a week. The ex-champion, who served in the Coast Guard since wartime, was granted leave after returning to the Pacific Coast from a tour of island bases.
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Baltimore
Jack Dempsey
Brady Clinic
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Coast Guard
Pacific Coast
Strikes Expected To Be Short Lived Says Industrialist
Joseph Gerl president of the Sonora Radio and Television Corp told Pittsburg radio dealers that the current wave of strikes appears to be a mere adjustment between labor and management driven by wage structure, production and efficiency concerns under continued price controls in Washington.
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Pittesburg
Chicago
Joseph Gerl
Sonora Radio and Television Corp
Pittsburg
Washington
Jon Hall Back in Hollywood After Army Hospital Treatment
Actor Jon Hall returns to Hollywood after six months in the Army and time in Army hospitals in California for a gall bladder ailment. He will need rest and further treatment before resuming acting and has joined his wife Frances Langford in the city.
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Hollywood
Jon Hall
California
Frances. Langford
Navy Cook Richard Zoner Drowned in Japanese Waters
Richard Jonathan Zoner 18, a U S Navy ship's cook third class, was drowned October 4 in Japanese waters likely due to a typhoon. He was buried on the island of Aiea after being assigned to an LCI leaving Okinawa toward Tokyo Bay. Born January 14 1927 he had served since February 1943 and earned a high school diploma in Conneautville Pennsylvania. His parents Mr and Mrs Carl J Zoner of Middletown report a torn telegram with the details and a map showing the Okinawa departure. He had two younger brothers David and Billy.
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Middletown
Richard Jonathan Zoner
Carl J. Zoner
Midletown
Zoner
Okinawa
Tokyo Bay
Navy Department
Aiea
Young Zoner
U. S. Navy
Harmonsburg
Great Lakes
Ill
South and West Pacific
Conneautville
American Viscose Corporation
Front Royal
David
Billy
Indonesia Denies War on Holland Amid Java Tensions
London reports quote Free Indonesia radio denying any war declaration on the Netherlands by the Indonesian Republic on Java. All-India radio notes British reinforcements landed in the Dutch East Indies to handle native disturbances while plans for Java defense are said to advance. Lt. Gen. Slim reportedly approves broader military handling of the Java situation.
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London
Free Indonesia Radio
Java
Netherlands
All-India Radio
Dutch East Indies
Netherlands New Agency
Aneta
Indonesian Peoples’ Army
Soekarno
William J. Slim
Southeast Asia Command
Plea For Fight On Inflation Curb
Boston October 16 recon version Director John W. Snyder urged retailers and wholesalers to curb inflation until manufacturers meet wartime demand. He cited seven million new households needing furniture and appliances and said boosting production is the first defense against rising prices.
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Boston
John W. Snyder
Snyder
Office of War Mobilization
Stettinius Sick Returns Home for Gallstone Treatment
Edward R. Stettinius Jr American representative of the United Nations World Security Preparatory Commission left by plane for the United States for gallstone treatment. His physicians advised the trip after an X ray exam Adlai Stevenson deputy delegate will serve in his absence.
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London
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
United Nations World Security Preparatory Commission
United States
Adlai Stevenson
Delgate
News of Our Men and Women in Uniform
Updates from Berryville and nearby towns on Navy service members. Walter Rutherford Jr. reports from the Alcyone after V J day with promotions and a Guam posting while Donald Burner and Pvt. Douglas Russell also serve. Chaplain J B Bittinger receives a lieutenant commander rank following service aboard the Dorothea Dix in the Pacific.
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USA
J. B. Bittinger
U. S. Navy
Williamsburg
United States Naval Ammunition Depot
Hingham
Mass
That City
Cooper Promoted to Lieutenant Commander in Naval Reserve
Lt Commander Norman E. Cooper of North Braddock Street has been promoted in the U S Naval Reserve. He is a naval aviator engaged in a post war Navy project and is temporarily stationed at the Naval Air Station in Rockland Maine.
Okinawa Sailor Reports Ship Damaged in Sept Storm
Lt. (jg) Charles T. Hancher of the USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hancher, writes from Okinawa that his ship, which has been there since April 1, was damaged and some supplies lost in a September 16 storm. Parents express concern after reports of a recent typhoon causing extensive damage at Okinawa.
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Charles T. Hancher
USNR
J. W. Hancher
Okinawa
Mrs. Smith Heads Miller PTA Group at 200 Attending
Mrs. E. F. Smith was reelected president of the Miller School PTA at a meeting last week with about 200 patrons present. Leroy White was named vice president and Mrs. Annie Baughman secretary treasurer. The seventh grade room won a contest for most parents. A first aid fund was started and a project to electrify the school was launched.
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E. F. Smith
Parent
Miller School
Leroy White
Annie Baughman
Chicago Grain Quotations Opens Mixed on Oct 16
The Chicago futures market opened easy with wheat and barley prices mixed while corn oats and rye are fractionally lower. Opening prices list Wheat Dec 1.76 3 4, May 1.74 3 4 5 8, July 1 661 2 5 8, Sept 1.67 1 2 5 8. Corn Dec 1.18 May 1.17 1 2, May 1.17 1 2, July 1.16 1 2, Sept not priced. Oats Dec 66 5 8 3 8, May 67 3 4, July 66 65 7 8, Sep 65 1 8 3 4. Rye Dec 1.59-1.58 3 4, May 1.50 3 4, July 1.40 3 8 1 2, Sept 1.36 1 8. Barney May 1.17 3 4, July 1.15 3 4.
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Chicago
Rye
Barney
Answers to the Daily Quiz Topics and Answers
Answers cover historical figures and nations. Items include Sir Stafford Cripps and the Allies list Germany AustriaHungary Bulgaria and Turkey Yugoslavia Jefferson Island and a two week period. The deadline notes by Jan 1 1946 and a color pink. Ankara is referenced. A separation center discharges men within a military district regardless of home.
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Sir Stafford Crirps
Germany
Austria-Hangary
Bulgaria
Turkey
Yugoslavia
Jefferson Island
Ankara
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Chappies
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White Palace
War Fund Drive
Carolina
Pvt. Baker
Richard Zoner
U.S. Navy
Stettinius
Walter Rutherford
Walter Rutherford, Jr
Seajman
Alcyone
Guam
States
Donald Burner
Rutherford
Navy
Bainbridge Naval Training Station
Maryland
Shoemaker
Calif
San Francisco
Seattle
Wash
Pacific
USN
Douglas Russell
West Virginia Avenue
South Carolina
Fort Leonard Wood
Fort F BE. Warren
Wyoming
Gladys Barrett
City
Douglas S. Russell
Dr. Bundesen
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Handley Board of Trustees
Clifford D. Grim
Charles F. Coffman
Wm. E. Cooper
Boyd H. Hamman
Charles H. Harper
J. Sloan Kuykendall
John I. Sloat
George G. Snarr
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