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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1944
Page
4
The report shows 24 hour rainfall ending at 8 a m none. April to date 2 61 inches year to date 12 83 inches. It lists average monthly values for 31 years 1913-1945 with January 2 51 February 1 95 March 2 92 April 3 15 May 3 60 June 3 83 July 3 60 August 3 74 September 2 31 October 3 45 November 2 46 December 2 43. Courtesy Winchester research Laboratory.
Radio listings outline tonight’s programs across WMAL WTOP and other stations. Notable items include Groucho Marx and Nancy Walker in a baby kidnapping plot segment on WMAL at 6:4 p m and a slate of news sports music and mystery features across stations including K C and WRO.
One year ago reports say Axis forces faced stronger resistance on the African front as Allied offensives continued. Bombing raids hit Wilhelmshaven while production slowdowns affected war effort in the United States and Britain.
Major General Philip Hayes announces a new station and job assignment program for the Women's Army Corps. Eligible women can enlist and choose the branch, a specific job, and the post, with openings at posts across Pennsylvania Maryland and Virginia near homes or husbands.
Walter Horner former resident dies in Maryland while Forty Years Ago Richard Schindel suffers serious illness in Hagerstown. Father William McKeefry gravely ill with Typhoid. Farmers and Merchants Bank announces prize for largest corn yield. Berryville’s Jane Moore wins Star popularity contest. Recruiting underway to meet Mexican situation.
Forty five years after her work, Miss Mary Magill author dies at Laburnum. William Newman suffers paralysis stroke. Mrs Lillie Timberlake and her son Charles laid to rest in Mount Hebron.
The fragment asks seven quiz questions with multiple choices and a note to turn to page 2 for answers. It references Rumania’s Black Sea coast, tarantella meanings, America First Committee director, Jefferson's Declaration amendments, Batavia location, Sugar cane in the continental US, the Ottoman Empire, and lakes linked to Huron and a New York newspaper founder James Gordon Bennett.
A 1944 tag sale in Winchester and surrounding areas saw high pre-purchase participation, reducing last minute congestion. Andrew Bell of the Motor Vehicles Division and officials from the Winchester Chamber of Commerce credit a large placard and public cooperation for smoother processing, with sales continuing daily 9 am to 5 pm.
Tokyo government forms home guard corps in 13 key centers to guard and alarm during emergencies. The units will be inspected periodically by home ministry officials. A training program will cover telegraph offices and other centers for special duties during air raids.
The Evening Star of Winchester Virginia announces daily publication except Sundays and invites reader notices of delivery delays. Rates for transient ads are 50 cents per inch with contracts available. ads must reach the office by 9 PM the day before publication. Psalms verse is quoted at Bible passage.
The National Education Association reported a 29 percent fall in teacher training enrollments from 1941 to 1943, with 1944 likely lower. The draft and defense industry wages pull students away, risking crowded classrooms and lowered qualifications after the war. Citizens are urged to back plans protecting postwar education quality.
A wartime appeal stresses the need for home front letters to service members abroad. Families and friends are urged to devote a fraction of time to write and cheer the lonely men and women away from familiar life, described as a duty beyond simple kindness.
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