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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1941
Page
11
The Navy announces unlimited recruiting for classes V-2 V-3 V-6 without prior reserve quotas. 17 to 36 year olds with no prior naval service may enlist as apprentice seamen, undergo recruit training, and be assigned to naval stations. 17-18 enlist for until 21. 18-36 for four years.
Sam Nahem, a bespectacled lawyer pitcher making his first Cardinals start, held the Pittsburgh Pirates to three hits in a 3 to 1 victory. An unearned run scored for the Pirates in the eighth on errors by Martin Marion and Harry Walker. The Cards built a one run lead early and secured it with a seventh inning insurance run.
Dr C K Drinker of Harvard predicts air warfare reaching 43 000 feet within years as aviation medicine grapples with endurance and oxygen limits. He notes 30 percent of trainees may fail after three months and stresses need for better oxygen masks and testing. British, American, and Canadian doctors collaborate on aviator health issues amid bitter cold and high altitude challenges.
Judge Frank P. Patterson softened a temporary injunction and allowed 358 striking service employees at West Penn hospital to picket within limited areas near the facility. The order pauses until hearings decide if the original injunction will become permanent. Hospital leaders testified the CIO backed walkout disrupted service to about 400 patients with wage demands from 38 to 45 dollars monthly plus room and board for residents and 25 dollars extra for outsiders.
In Los Angeles on April 24 Herman Johnson a secretary treasurer of an AFL flour workers union sat on a railroad spur to block freight to a strike-bound plant. V O Milling Co officials asked the city attorney for guidance. he said no law forbids track sitting.
Air marshal William A. Bishop says Britain is finding the answer to Germany's night bombing raids. He notes three months lead in night bombing, cites methods to hinder night bombers, and warns invasion remains on Hitler's menu but Britain will endure.
Brooklyn Dodgers win 4-0 on Whitlow Wyatt four hitter while Pete Reiser is struck by a pitch and knocked unconscious but later found to have only a bruised cheek. Reiser faces a week to ten day absence. Wyatt allows two runs in first frame and Dodgers build lead with early offense. Barbara Hutton first husband was Prince Alexis Mdivani, married 1933 and divorced 1935.
The advertisement claims Vinol helps stimulate appetite in puny children and promotes use of IV iron and vitamin B complex. Read by readers at People's Drug Store with an emphasis on weak, skinny youngsters needing nourishment.
London April 24 report of a raid damaged the United States embassy with smashed windows on two floors. Staff were uninjured. Other targets included St George’s Church in Southwark, the Overseas League in St James’s Street, and Thomas Wallis department store in Holborn. At Grosvenor Square the main damage was in Minister Harriman’s offices with glass scattered across the room.
Babe Ruth agreed to a post June 1 golf match with Ty Cobb in New York to aid British war relief. Ruth said he needs six weeks to train for the battle of the left-handers and will meet Cobb after June 1 with funds going to a British relief agency.
Charlottsville April 24 The body of Dr James A Chiles 31 associate professor of physics at the University of Virginia was taken home to Spartanburg D C where his father heads the department of modern languages at Wofford College Funeral services and burial will be there Shot in the stomach at his rooming house on West Main street last night he died at 245 am at the university hospital despite transfusions and other attempts Coroner Henry Gordon had not rendered his verdict tonight
Readers of The Star are cautioned that news from most of Europe is subject to censorship before transmission to the United States, limiting details of developments and events for American audiences.
On April 24 in Baltimore a request to elect a Coadjutor Bishop for the Maryland Protestant Episcopal Diocese was formally presented by Bishop Edward T. Helfenstein at a special diocesan convention. A special committee will report later today and the May reg a diocesan convention is expected to decide.
Pleasant task of lining up princesses for the eighteenth Apple Blossom festival includes Miss Natalie Sanford of Danville representing Averett College Miss Kitty Keyton of Montgomery Alabama a Arlington Hall Junior College princess and Miss Mary Alice Finch of Houston Texas representing Warrenton Country School of Warrenton. Marie Dionne weighed 31 ounces at birth.
Two Virginia youths Edwin V Balch of Richmond and Lloyd G Haynie of Alexandria joined 350 cadets graduating from basic training at Randolph Field Texas. They progressed from civilians ten weeks earlier to second lieutenants flying officers in the expanding Air Force after ten weeks of elementary flight instruction and pilotage fundamentals.
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