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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1948
Page
7
For sale Stokes stoker with controls in excellent condition. Complex home apple orchard with six trees listing varieties and seasonal fruit details. Also six two year vines two per variety Early Blue Warden Midseason Red Sutte Late White Champagne offered postpaid with sale ads and planting guide. Salespeople wanted. Waynesboro Virginia.
A finished five room downstown residence with hardwood floors and an unfinished upstairs bath. Electric water heater, near town, best location facing a playground. $2500 down with G I payments. Call H E Rivers Real Estate at 7316 209 N Kent St. Photographs tinted and varnished for lasting color offered at all sizes.
The Clearbrook Volunteer Fire Co met with 24 members present. President W. H. Lawrence Jr. introduced Richmond insurance man Robert Greathouse who spoke on causes and prevention of farm and home fires. E. Earle Shade showed colored movies of a fire-fighting demonstration from May. Only routine business was discussed.
The circuit court of Frederick County Virginia issues a summons by publication to Harman F Martin nonresident. He must appear within thirty days of due publication and act to protect his interests. Publication runs weekly for four weeks in the Evening Star Winchester. A copy of the order is posted at the courthouse and mailed to the defendant.
New York dispatch profiles Norman L. Chinhoy a Peruvian Airways travel agent born in Australia who spent six weeks visiting the United States. He praises honesty, critiques commercialization, notes fewer police in the U.S., prefers San Francisco to New York, and explains Chinese-Lima trade and currency issues. He laments costly bone return voyages and says he now sells more round trips while remaining unimpressed by Manhattan’s skyline.
The Regular Army's 31st Infantry Regiment, organized in August 1916, earned the nickname American Foreign Legion for its career abroad. It has served in the Philippines, Siberia, Shanghai, China, and today is with the 7th Division at Seoul, Korea.
The Virginia Association Future Farmers of America elected an 18-year-old Rustburg high school honor graduate of 1947 as president. The FFA has 7193 state members and over 250000 nationwide. Frederick County shows chapters at Handley Garatesboro Gore Stephenstown with 124 members. Clarke County has 35 in Berryville and Boyce. Stevens will attend the national convention in Kansas City next month. Pauline Dick will join Dowell J. Howard as FFA secretary and treasurer attendee.
Gen. MacArthur orders war crimes charges against Admiral Soemu Toyoda and Lt. Gen. Horoshi Tamura. They face GHQ level trials by Nov 1 for crimes against humanity and war crimes. Prosecution shifted focus from class A to B and C offenses. Remaining 18 suspects under investigation.
The statement recalls wartime actions by a high ranking Japanese commander in chief of the combined fleet from May 1944 to May 1945 amid Allied campaigns in the Pacific and Indian Ocean theaters.
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