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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Apr 07, 1944

Page

6

Democrats Call August Primary in Seventh District

The Seventh Congressional District Democratic Committee met at the Kavanaugh Hotel Har risonburg Virginia and unanimously resolved to hold a Democratic primary on the first Tuesday in August 1944 to select a House nominee for Virginia’s Seventh District. Candidates must file by May 1 1944 with Colonel Car roll Menefee and furnish required pledges and petitions. If only one candidate enters they shall be declared nominee.

Seventh Congressional District Democratic Committee Kavanaugh Harrisonburg Virginia Lee House of Representatives Saing Carroll Menefee Congressional Sperryville Commonwealth

Enlistments in Navy From Winchester Area March

Seventeen youths and one man aged 50 volunteered at the U S Navy Recruiting Station in the Winchester Post Office building during March. Recruits from Shenandoah Valley counties sworn in at Washington include Luther Boyce Carroll Gray Smith G Frank Butsler Jr Aaron Zuckerman Billy Lovett Stewart Brown Lester Shickle A Chester Brown from Bluemont Raymond Creel William Lewin Walter Peacemaker Malcolm Campbell Rothwell Broyles Elliott Zipprodt David N Wallace Kenneth E Vannum Earl R Fauver Marvin Sumption. The Navy seeks seventeen year olds and qualified men ages 38 to 50.

Navy U. S. Navy Post Office Winchester Lloyd Mead Shenandoah Valley Chief Mead Washington Luther Boyce Carroll Gray Smith G. Frank Butsler, Jr Aaron Zuckerman Billy Lovett Stewart Brown Lester Shickle A. Chester Brown Bluemont Raymond Creel William Lewin Berryville Walter Peacemaker Sterling Malcolm Campbell Philomont Rothwell Broyles Elliott Zipprodt Massanutten Academy Woodstock David N. Wallace Kenneth E. Vannum Earl R. Fauver Baltimore Virginia Marvin Sumption Lebanon Church

Oil and oil supply shape the coming invasion plans

The article argues that D-Day depends on Allied access to oil and gasoline while Hitler races to secure dwindling fuel sources. It notes Romania's oil output, Romania's role in German supply, and Allied bombing of Ploesti as pivotal. It also compares the European and Far East theaters and the impact of air power on inland campaigns.

Europe France Atlantic England D-Day Hitler Romania Ploesti Ruehrer Rumania Germany Hig Reich Caucasian

Winchester and Frederick County Game Association Meeting

The Winchester and Frederick County Game Association met at Middle town Stephens City and Star Tannery Gainesboro to show films The Heritage We Guard and Bears In Alaska about wildlife protection. It announced bounties on faxes seeding perennial les pedezas restocking fish and game and reported over five hundred memberships sold. Four Frederick County streams have been stocked with trout with cooperation from the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries and the Federal Fish Hatchery at Leetown West Virginia. A Winchester meeting is planned with everyone invited.

Winchester Frederick County Back Creek Paddys Run Cedar Creek Duck Run Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries Federal Fish Hatchery Leetown West Virginia

Let Us All Back the Attack Buy War Bonds

A wartime appeal urges citizens to support the war effort by purchasing war bonds. The campaign stresses collective sacrifice and financial backing for military operations.

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