Two New Labor Disputes Boost Idle Workers To 33000
The AP reports new labor conflicts raise idle workers to over 33 000 with 240 000 idles in New York painters and New York City building service employees, plus 348 mills and camps in the lumber clash demanding 1.10 minimum hourly wage and industry wide bargaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
AFL Lumber and
Pacific Northwest
New York City
Building Service
Manhattan
War Labor Board
WLB
Empire State Building
AFL Building Service
Ford
General Motors
Detroit
CIO
International Oil Workers
UAW
Westinghouse Electric Company
Lancaster
Monongalia County
Seaman Miller Dies in Australian Hospital
William Clayton Miller Seaman First Class U S N R died in an Australian hospital from embolism pulmonary carcinoma of transverse while en route home. He entered the Navy in 1943 and trained at Sampson New York. He was 20 and survived by parents Carson Levi and Mrs Miller two sisters Violet and Melvin Jenkins Winchester and three brothers Willis Henry and Cletis in Coast Guard service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carson Levi Miller
Gore
William Clayton Miller
Seaman Miller
Navy Hospital
Sydney
Australia
Navy
Naval Training Station
Sampson
N. Y
Violet Miller
Melvin Jenkins
Winchester
Willis
Henry
Cletis
United States Coast Guard
Cider Apples Wanted at Ridgewood Plant
Ridgewood Fruit Industries seeks cider apples at its Merriman Lane plant. Contact phone 5938 for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ridgewood Fruit Industries
Merriman Lane
Diamond Cab Service Opens 24 Hours
The Diamond Cab Service operates 24 hours a day with office at West Water opposite the Lutheran Church and phone number 4841 for quick prompt service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Water
Lutheran Church
Heinz Co Receives Cider and Apples Daily
H J Heinz Company receives cider and canning apples daily from 8 a m to 4 p m. The notice lists the routine intake hours for the processing season and identifies the supplier timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Heinz Co
Auction sale of antiques teased in classified column
Classified column promotes an antiques auction sale with dates coded for page and position. Also notes Bloom’s Going Out of Business Sale ending in ten days with bigger bargains and a final tease for remaining inventory.
Claims Facilities At School Poor
Roanoke Virginia. 225 youthful inmates at the Virginia Industrial School for Boys in Powhatan county are ill clothed with inadequate educational and recreational facilities. New superintendent Carroll Minor says underwear has not been provided in 25 years and the state furnishes blue denim for work clothes. Shoes stockings and winter coats are provided, but budget limits cap improvements. Minor warns he may quit if conditions do not improve and notes shifts use for classroom space due to crowding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke
Virginia Industrial School For Boys
Powhatan County
Carroll Minor
Roanoke World News
Minor
Legislative Budget Committee
Extend Deadline For Consignments To Annual Sale
Approximately 200 calves have been consigned to the Northern Virginia Feeder Calf sale in Winchester on October 12. Sale manager J. Fred Stine said consignments may be made through Tuesday, September 25, with at least 300 more accepted. Calves come from pure bred herds in Frederick Clarke Fauquier Loudoun and Shenandoah counties. Last year 434 calves sold with buyers from twelve states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Virginia
Winchester
J. Fred Stine
Stine
Frederick
Clarke
Fauquier
Loudoun
Shenandoah
Allied Council Deliberates Austrian Status And Spheres of Influence
London reports the Big Five foreign ministers meet to resolve Austrian status and Europe’s peace. Disputes over Hungary talks, and Soviet objections to France and China in treaty discussions, frame tense sessions as diplomats seek a face saving path and possible dissolution of the council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Council of Foreign Ministers
Italy
Balkan
Europe
Austria
The
Daily Mail
France
China
Vyacheslav Molotov
Molotov
United States
Britain
Moscow
Council
Virginia high school agricultural enrollment tops sixteen thousand
In Virginia during 1944 45 16 268 students enrolled in all forms of agricultural instruction across 643 centers Dowell J Howard reported. All day classes operated in 263 schools down from 277. supervised farming yielded 17 009 acres crops 18 102 livestock 321 704 fowls and pupil project income of 1 330 449 40 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
Dowell J. Howard
Howard
Division of Home Economics
Golden Glow Cafe to Stay, Move to Gerrard Street in 1946
The Golden Glow Coffee Shop and Restaurant announces it will remain at its present location to serve breakfasts dinners and fountain service until February 15 1946 and then move to 25 E Gerrard Street. Owner M K Shirkey corrects false rumors in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golden Glow
E. Gerrard Street
M. K. Shirkey
Two Highwaymen Escape With A Quart of Milk
In Cleveland on September 24 two armed men robbed a confectionary beer parlor owner and his wife and fled in a car with three accomplices. Asked for cash they took a quart of milk from Mrs. Reider instead of money, and sped away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Sam Reider
Reiders
Witness recalls Nazi gas chamber horrors at Oswiecim
Sophia Litwinska, 28, a Polish Jewess from Lublin, testified at a trial of 45 Nazis in Lünenberg detailing naked selections by camp commander Hessler for the gas chamber. She survived after a last moment removal and described crematorium processing, screams, and her ongoing health effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lueneberg
Germany
Oswiecim
Sophia Litwinska
Lublin
Hessler
Josef Kramer
September Rainfall Reaches Eight Inches in Winchester
Rain in Winchester for September brings the total to eight inches as of Sunday morning with more showers forecast. Measurements record .23 inch at 7 am Sunday and .49 inch this morning, lifting 1945 total to 44.01 inches. The day stayed cloudy with a brief sun interruption and expectant thundershowers across Virginia West Virginia and Maryland tonight through Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Bloom’s Going Out of Business Coat Sale
Local retailer Bloom’s announces an out of business sale with new fall coats priced from 25 to 29.85 now reduced to 19.85. The notice dates 9 24.1p 3t.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BLOOM
New Fall Coats
Truman to present atomic energy policy to Congress
President Truman will submit recommendations on the development and use of atomic energy to Congress. Press Secretary Ross said the President takes sole responsibility for administration policy while seeking cabinet advice and ensuring Congress decides the final action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Congress
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Truman
Jefferson Island
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Lente
Major Bradshaw to Return Home After War Service
Major W. V. Bradshaw MD chief of reconditioning at Borden General Hospital, Chickasha Oklahoma, will depart Friday for Camp Atterbury Indiana for separation. A Winchester native and 1933 Medical College of Virginia graduate, he served as base medical inspector Iceland and hospital medical inspector at Borden before leading reconditioning. He plans to join his family in Winchester with no definite plans yet.
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W. V. Bradshaw
Borden General Hospital
Chickasha
Oklahoma
Camp Atterbury
Ind
Bradshaw
War Department
Winchester
Medical College of Virginia
Richmond
West Virginia
Kentucky State Health Department
Officers’ Reserve Corps
Fort Knox
Iceland
Shoes Sale Prices Listed In Local Ad
Local advertisement notes shoe selections priced at $1.00 $1.49 and $1.98 per pair for a discount sale.
Milk delivery schedule change at Sanitary Dairy
Beginning Thursday afternoon September 27 milk will be delivered in the evening instead of morning, with Sunday mornings excluded during winter months. Sanitary Dairy announces the shift in delivery times.
For Sale at Blooms Fixtures and Supplies
For sale items include 12 fluorescent ceiling fixtures show cases dress stands tables mirrors desk shelving at Bloom's. Sale notice appears in the local paper with a 9 24 6t date stamp.
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Bloom's
Baby Carriage For Sale Prewar Thayer
Full size baby carriage in perfect condition offered for sale. contact dial 3211. Ip-1t
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thayer
Emperor Hirohito Ignored U S Peace Requests Says Advisor
Marquis Kaichi Kido, lord keeper of the privy seal, told AP that Emperor Hirohito received the US peace bid and the 1941 peace memorandum but declined to resist the war tide in Japan. Kido said the emperor had no advance knowledge of Pearl Harbor and denied abdication plans, citing Potsdam provisions.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
U. S. State Department
Japan
Marquis Kaichi Kido
Kido
Associated Press
Foreign Ministry
Pearl Harbor
Tokyo Imperial Palace
MacArthur
Russell Brines
Fujita
Allied High Command
New Order
R’sel
Emperor Kohita
Rosevelt
Hikedi Tojo
Koichi Kido
Privy Seal
Seihin Ikeda
Central Leason Board
U. S. Eighth Army
Camillo Osias
Phiippine
Yokohama Prefectural
Allied
General MacArthur
Pleads For Peace On Labor Front
DETROIT Sept 24 Donald R Richberg urged critics of the proposed federal industrial relations bill to either accept it or craft a better law. He called the measure a step toward avoiding constant industrial warfare and said it should be refined in Congress into a workable formula amid wartime conversion fears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Donald R. Richberg
NRA
Congress
Rieberg
Economic Club
Hatch
D-Nm
Ball
Rminn
Burton
Ohio
Supreme Court
Richberg
Speakers Named For First Town Meeting October 5
Robert K. Lamb of the CIO and Dr. Ernest W. Swanson of the U S Chamber of Commerce will debate whether Government should guarantee jobs for all at a Friday October 5 town meeting. The event at the George Washington Hotel starts at 8 p m with free admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert K. Lamb
Ernest W. Swanson
United States Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Lamb
Tydings
Senate
Chamber of Commerce
George Washington Hotel
Two Accidents On Route 522
Two accidents occurred on U S Route 522 over the weekend, but Deputy Sheriff Robert DeHaven said no one was seriously hurt. The first crash involved two Army officers near Creek Creek, about 12 miles north of Winchester, when their 1941 Chevrolet coach skidded off the road into a bank while en route to Camp Lee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert DeHaven
Camp Lee
Creek
Wichester
France swings left in local elections with communists and socialists gaining
Paris reports indicate strong leftward shift as communists win 23 seats and socialists 102 in early returns from 90 counties. Center loses 53 seats while right wing drops 121. runoff set for September 30 and national vote due October 23 shapes Fourth Republic. De Gaulle ministers largely victorious in unsalaried departmental posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
Paul Reynaud
Charles de Gaulle
Lions Club Fun Festival Sets Dates For November Giveway
The Lions Club Fun Festival runs November 6 to 10 at the Armory with a Pontiac sedan as the main prize the first of the make to reach Winchester. Daily door prizes carry utility value and tickets go on sale via club members and partner businesses. Funds support free eye clinics Braille seeing eye dogs and canes for the blind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions Club
Marvin D.weaver
Winchester
Armory
Nips' Research Into Atom Bomb Not Permitted
Tokyo reports say Emperor Hirohito plans to meet General MacArthur at the embassy residence, a historic first if it occurs. Allied control blocks any Japanese atomic research and freezes currencies, while press freedom is expanded and state news control ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacArthur
Veterans from Frederick Clarke and Winchester Return Home
The Star welcomes veterans and former residents of Frederick and Clarke counties and Winchester who have received their discharges and are resuming civilian life honored and well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick and
Clarke Counties
Winchester
The
Star
Juwca
Also Mentioned on This Page
B. L. Weigand
Central Labor Union
Conestoga Transportation Company
Weigand
AFL
United Mine Workers’ United Clerical, Technical and Supervisory Employes Union
Allies’ Council
Charles Chamberlain
See’y Ross
Ernest B. Vaccaro
Major Bradshaw
Sanitary Dairy
U.S
Tojo
Labor Front
Pontiac
Richard Kurtz Eddy Lloyd Atwell Powell
Champe Carter Conner, IV
Elwood D. Anderson
Cecil G. McVay
Kenneth H. Stahl
Carl R. Knutson
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