Clarke County Schools Open With One Thousand Pupils
Clarke county opened its doors to about one thousand pupils for the 1945-46 session. No work permits were issued, and an eighth grade program was outlined after a two day meeting. The Clarke roster lists Berryville and Boyce high and elementary staff, with vacancies in vocational agriculture at both high schools.
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Jberryville
Clarke County
Clarke Schools
Berryville
Boycegg
Eco
Virginia State Board of Education
Richmond
Archie F. Robertson
D. G. Cooley
C. E. Miley, Jr
Boyce
Voc. Ag
Henry M. Davis
Robertson
Martinsburg Man Assigned Here
C Lee Hammersla formerly with National Fruit Products in Martinsburg has been permanently assigned to the personnel department at company headquarters in Winchester Virginia. He has worked in Winchester since June 1 and will move his family there when suitable living quarters are found.
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Martinsburg
W. VA
C. Lee Hammersla
West Martin Street
National Fruit Products Company
Winchester
Ratior Calendar and Meat Fats Stamp Details
The notice covers red meat and sugar stamp ranges with expiration dates through September to December and mentions two red points per pound of used fats. It notes the four stamp book status and that stamp 38 is no longer valid. OPA states no plans to can.
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OPA
Japanese Seek Information on U.S. Troop Ranks Insignia
Tokyo reports that General MacArthur's HQ prepared a chart of insignia for Allied officers to identify ranks and is making one for enlisted men after Lt. Gen. S. Arisue requested guidance.
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Tokyo
S. Arisue
Yokomaha
MacArthur
Start On Tax Reduction As Congress Plans Wartime Tax Cuts
Washington reports Congress begins work on postwar revenue legislation with the House Ways and Means Committee voting to start a tax reduction bill. Two camps form: a flat 20 percent cut for all or erasing the three percent normal tax, targeting about 10 million lower income filers. Chairman Doughton says revisions must be on the books by November 1.
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Washington
Congressional
House
Ways and Means
Congress
Rep. Knutson
Minn
Ways and Means Republican
Doughton
D.N
Treasury
Dutch Tulips For American Graves
Holland donates 110000 tulip bulbs to the U S Army to beautify Arlington National Cemetery Baltimore and Long Island cemeteries with a matching gift next year. First shipment due next month bulbs planted at Arlington in two eight foot beds flanking the walk from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to the fountain.
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Washington
Holland
U.S. Army
War Department
Arlington
Canada Sees Multilateral Trade as Path to Growth
Mackenzie, a 38 year old top civil servant in the trade ministry, warns that multilateral trading is essential to prevent bilateral strain. He notes postwar currency controls hinder world trade and calls for integrated financial and political policies with commercial strategy. He cites Canada’s wartime shift toward richer industrial exports and broader manufactured goods.
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Mackenzie
Trade Ministry
United States
Canada
National Topics To Be Debated At Town Meeting
The 1945 46 Town Meeting committee plans to present national issues at the September meeting, led by A C Halvosa and Rev R B Nelson with participation from local clubs and businesses. The Murray Full Employment Bill before Congress is the focal point, amid potential October coverage of poll tax. A speaker lineup is to be arranged to discuss reconversion and unemployment concerns.
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Murray
Congress
A. C. Halvosa
R. B . Nelson
American Legion Post
A. B. Groves
Ralph Yount
Kiwanis Club
Walter Kneen
Bryant R. Harper
Lions Club
Andrew Bell
Chamber of Commerce
Arthur E. Humphrey
Junior Board of Trade
Rotary Club
Ten Injured In Crash of Train
TIRO O Sept 12 The second section of the Red Arrow from Washington to Detroit was derailed after striking a stalled automobile at the Main street crossing. At least 10 injured. The locomotive and seven cars left the tracks. engine overturned into a ditch. The stalled auto belonged to Floyd Fisher who escaped injury. 125 passengers were aboard. 36 hours may be needed to restore traffic. Six injured to Shelby Memorial Hospital.
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Tiro
Red Arrow
Pennsylvania
Washington
Detroit
Floyd Fisher
Main Street
Shelby Memorial Hospital
Shelby
Car Crash Sends Four to Hospital in Front Royal
S. Lee Grant Bursey and Bixby sustained minor injuries after a collision that sent Kuhn and Hoyton to the scene. Kuhn was hospitalized with lacerations and a man identified as Hoyton, held on drunken driving charges, was in custody in Front Royal jail.
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Bursey
Bixby
Grant
Hollis
Kuhn
Hoyton
Kuhns
Warren County
Front Royal
T. J Starett
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Omp
G. G. Snarr
Front Royal Pike
Winchester
Star Full Coverage: Local National World Events
The Star offers complete coverage across local national and world events. Readers receive up to the minute reporting, analysis and timely updates from reporters and wire services. Stay informed with concise summaries and in depth features across politics economy and society.
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the Star
Demobilization Pace Aims 6 Million Discharges by July
Undersecretary of War Patterson told the Senate Military Committee that the Army plans to discharge 6 million men by July 1 and reduce strength to about 2.5 million by mid 1946. He rejected Congress creating a demobilization policing agency and noted few combat veterans would be sent to Pacific occupation forces, with no one over 45 nit units deployed.
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Washington
Patterson
Senate Military Committee
Johnson
D.-Cole
Congress
War Department
Stimson
George C. Marshall
Bridges
Pacific
Europe
Meat Ration End Decision Nears Showdown
The push to end meat rationing quickens as officials weigh whether to remove meat from the ration list by October 1 or later. OPA head Bowles urged a swift ruling to set next month's point charts while Hutson weighs livestock marketings and the impact on housewives and butchers.
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Washington
Albuquerque
N. M
Anderson
OPA
Chester Bowles
Bowles
J B. Hutson
Hutson
Biddle Gets Post On War Court
President Truman names Francis Biddle as American member of the Allied Military Tribunal to try Axis war criminals with Judge John J. Parker as alternate. Also announced resignations and several federal judicial appointments including Bennett Champ Clark to the D C Court of Appeals and Prettyman and Miller to the same court.
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Washington
Bil Truman
Francis Biddle
U. S
John J. Parker
North Carolina
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Neil Dalton
Louisville
Bennett Champ Clark
Missouri
U. S. Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Thurman Arnold
E. Barrett Prettyman
Wilbur K. Miller
Owensboro
Prettyman
Justin Miller
Clark
Fred M. Vinson
Secretary of the Treasury
Owen J. Roberts
Supreme Court
Alexander Holt
District of Columbia District Court
John J. O’connel
Pittsburgh
U. S. Third Court of Appeals
Death by own action shocks Tokyo cabinet purge talks
High officials report Field Marshal Sugiyama’s death by his own action in Tokyo. The Tokyo radio, recorded by the FCC, cited no location. Sugiyama, former army chief and war minister in Kaisei’s 1944 cabinet, had been under scrutiny as MacArthur named Tojo era ministers for custody and possible purge.
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San Francisco
Gen
Sugiyama
Tokyo Radio
Federal Communications Commission
Army General Staff
Kuniaki Kaisei
Tokyo
MacArthur
Hideki Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Higashi-Kuni
Hirohito
Europe
Japan
Marines Ease Release Criteria for Training Personnel
The Marine Corps lowered its point score threshold for releasing male personnel from 85 to 70 points and authorized release of Marines aged 35 and older.
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Washington
Marine Corps
Stray Rifle Shot Breaks Window In Neighborhood
Earl Polhamus of 419 Dunlap avenue reported a .22 caliber rifle bullet was found on his living room floor after breaking a window yesterday afternoon. Glass covered the room floor while his wife and small child were nearby. Police noted similar incidents in the area as several neighborhood youths were seen with rifles near the brick yard and quarry.
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Earl Polhamus
Dunlap Avenue
Star
Former Japanese Prisoner To Speak At Berryville Church
Rev. W. F. Junkin Jr will address Berryville Presbyterian Church Thursday night at 8 30. He was interned by the Japanese in the Philippines for three years and has just returned to the United States. He had been studying Chinese in Manila before becoming a missionary to China. The public is invited to attend.
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The
Star
Berryville
W. F. Junkin, Jr
Berryville Presbyterian Church
Junkin
Philippines
Japan
Manila
China
Tojo alive as allies laud care at evacuation hospital
Reports say Prime Minister Tojo survived a self inflicted wound and will receive continued care at an American evacuation hospital in Yokohama. Gen Eichelberger orders top nursing and notes the pistol taken from a downed aviator, with four nurses arriving to assist.
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Tojo
Tuki
Yokohama
Set
John A. Archinal
New Guinea
Philippines
MacArthur
Roger Egeberg
Euclid
Ohio
Robert Eichelberger
Eighth Army
Eichelberger
Ichelberger
42Nd General Hospital
University of Maryland
Elizabeth Gunby
Salisbury
Birdie Gorsuch
Baltimore
Elizabeth Nunneless
Washington, D. C
Rebecca Schmidt
Long Green
Jorge Vargas
Japan
Mark Lewis Streeter
Wake Island
Heinrich Stahmer
Col
Josef Alfred Meisinger
Stahmer
Fujiya Hotel
Miyarishita
Adm
Shigetaro Shimada
Navy
Domei
James Perry
Tazewell
Truman Plans Westward Honeymoon Visit to Missouri
President Truman will fly to Missouri on Friday to visit his mother and family in Kansas City and Independence. The White House says the trip departs at 1 30 p m from National airport, arrives in Kansas City about 6 25 p m, and returns Sunday about 6 50 p m. He will pick up Senate Majority Leader Barkley in Paducah on the way back. Mrs Truman accompanies him to Independence where she will stay briefly with daughter Margaret who will remain in Washington until late October.
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Washington
Truman
Missouri
Kansas City
Independence
White House
National
Senate
Barkley
Paducah
Margaret
George Washington University
Buses Collide On Route 50 Near Upperville
No injuries were reported after two Greyhound buses collided on U S Route 50 two miles west of Upperville at about 7 PM. One bus rear ended the other as a loading bus paused to allow a tank truck to clear a bridge. Relief buses transported about 30 passengers.
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Greyhound
Upperville
Answers to the Daily Quiz Revealed for Page Four
The page lists correct quiz answers with names and terms: Mamoru Shigemitsu. White Sands proving ground in southern New Mexico. seven figures Marshall Eisenhower MacArthur Arnold Leahy King Nimitz. Theodore Roosevelt. Dates. eight to nothing. Jack. Victor Hugo. Metropolitan Opera soprano. Minister of Fuel and Power.
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e—dy.vPeter
Mamoru Shigemitsu
White Sands Proving Ground
New Mexico
Marshall
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Arnold
Army
Leahy
King
Nimitz
Navy
Theodore Roosevelt
Jack
Victor Hugo
Metropolitan Opera
Minister of Fuel and Power
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Clarke
Berryville High School
D.G. Cooley
Eva Massey
George D. Grove
Garland Williams
George S. Lightener
Ruth McDaniel
Robert Merchant
Martha Anne Upshur
Catherine Hobison
Garnett ‘Levi
H. JH. Burks
Georgiana Glascock
Stella D. Moore
H. H. Burks
Mabel Glascock
Academy St
William FE. Hart
Walt D. Wisecarver
Mason
Elizabeth Ann Brandt
June Gardiner
Mary D. Sowers
Anne Tell
Eleanor Itmore
Fred Carper
M. Garver
Mary £.Thompson
W. E. T. Williams Training School
Alexander Easley
Nannie B. Easley
H. DeWitt Logan
Lucille Jackson
Emma A. Weeks
Millwood
Alma B. Layton
Louise Bannister
White
Hester T. Harris
Associated Press
S. Lee Grant
Biddle
Chappies
Bulletins
Korea
Honshu
Hokkaido
John Grover
Grover
Singapore
Asia
Indies
Hong Kong
al Cooking
James P. S. Devereux
Devereux
Bibai
Hikkaido
Mother
West
Glaize & Brother
N. Cameron ST
CaCapon Mountain Hunting Club
Intermont
TOY
America
Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Inc
DIAL
E. E. Harbaugh
Mgr
Valley Avenue
Morton Downey
Coca-Cola
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