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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1944
Page
8
Corner column notes Park baseball team aims to begin 1944 season by May 7 with first practice postponed by weather. Writer warns field repairs are urgent to avoid losing a community asset as Winchester eyes a planned recreation program and potential major team spring practice.
Dorman Daniel Dove of 655 N Cameron St Winchester has passed the qualifying test for Navy Radio Technical Training. A 30 year old married father of two, he awaits induction and will enter as Seaman First Class for radio technician school. Dove is a Handley High School graduate (1934) and has worked at Virginia Woolen Co and Miles Music Co. He ran a ham radio station in Martinsburg for three years and has not yet been called for a pre induction examination.
A columnist argues that many European nations tilt toward Soviet Russia as World War II winds down. Czechoslovakia’s stance and Benes’s call for Slavic solidarity mark a broader move toward Moscow, with hopes of preventing Pan German expansion and shaping a new European order.
Charles Lee Keller a retired farmer died at his Ridgeway West Virginia home at 8 40 P M from complications He was born June 22 1863 in Frederick County near Brucetown and spent most of his life near Ridgeway Survived by wife Ella Baker and two children Walter J Keller and Mrs Edgar Abrell and several grandchildren Funeral services set for Paynes Chapel Methodist Church with burial in the adjacent cemetery Pallbearers listed local residents
The British press largely ignored a US House Naval Affairs subcommittee report urging negotiations for permanent possession of eight western hemisphere naval bases leased from Britain in 1940 for 99 years. London papers carried little editorial comment with only brief page one mentions.
Naples reports Marshal Pietro Badoglio announcing a new Italian war government with himself as premier and foreign minister. The navy and air ministers from the previous cabinet stay in place, as does the finance minister. Other posts go to six liberation parties and independents.
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