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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Aug 03, 1944

Page

12

Clarke Native Promoted to Lt Colonel in Army Nurses Corps

Lt Col Katherine Jolliffe a Clarke county native was promoted to the second highest ANC rank. She serves as principal chief nurse of McGuire General Hospital Richmond and has 14 years in the army with postings at Walter Reed Fort Snelling Fort Hayes and Fort McClellan.

Katherine Jolliffe Clarke County Army Nurses Corps Nurses Corps Jolliffe Boyce High School McGuire General Hospital Richmond McGuire New Orleans Walter Reed General Hospital Washington Fort Snelling Minn Fort Hayes Columbus Fort McCellan Ala Army School of Nursing Army Medical Center P. E. Duggins Surgeon-General ANC

Rites Held This Afternoon For Claude B. Stickley

Funeral services were held at 4 oclock at Jones Funeral Home for Claude B. Stickley 55 of Frederick County a farmer sportsman and prominent lodge member who died Tuesday at Winchester Memorial Hospital Masonic rites followed at Mount Carmel Cemetery Middletown with pallbearers C L Wright W R Campbell Julian Kline W Erle Edwards J B Beverley Jr and Mack Hart assisting

Jones Funeral Home Claude B. Stickley Winchester Memorial Hospital Frederick County Allen Jones U. S. Navy Cedar Cliff Presbyterian Church Mount Carmel Cemetery Middletown C. L. Wright W. R. Campbell Julian Kline W. Erle Edwards J. B. Beverley, Jr Mack Hart

Complete Coverage Of Local National World Events

The Star promises comprehensive reporting across local national and global events with up to date developments, analysis and summaries. Readers gain access to stories spanning city government entertainment weather sports business and international affairs.

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Allied Push Deepens in Normandy as Paris Drive Looms

Allied forces press the Normandy front with a German retreat under way. Churchill credits the Russian campaign for the German strain while American advances in Brittany and Cherbourg threaten Brest. German divisions in Normandy and western Europe are uncertain in number as the Allies close in.

Normandy Hitler France Germany Sean Mr. Churchill Paris Brest Cherbourg Vire Brittany East Prussia Europe

Six New Poliomyelitis Cases Reported in Virginia

Six new polio cases were reported to state health officials. Counties affected include Wythe Amherst Patrick and Southampton. State Health Dr I C Riggin will mail reminders to physicians about two treatment centers at Roanoke Hospital and Lynchburg General Hospital. Thirteen counties funded $15867.24 to the Virginia Emergency Polio Fund per John B Middleton of the National Foundation.

Richmondd Wythe County Amherst Patrick Southampton I. C. Riggin State Health Department Roanoke Hospital Lynchburg General Hospital Virginia John B. Middleton The National Foundation

Clark Blames C. J. O. For His Defeat

In St Louis on August 3, reports from 4,328 of 4512 precincts show Roy Vic Kittrick leading Bennett Clark 165,726 to 145,856 for the Democratic senatorial nomination. Clark conceded defeat late yesterday and blamed the CIC Political Action Committee.

ST. Louis Roy Vic Kittrick Bennett Clark McKittrick Clark C.I.C. Political Action Committee

Huge Bomber Assaults Across France Reported

Allied forces launched heavy air strikes over France targeting fuel dumps bridges rail links and barges. American bombers attacked Paris Loire area and northern central targets while RAF Lancasters and Fortresses hit German flying bomb bases in Northern France.

France Paris Loire Valley Beine Eighth U. S. Air Force Ines U. S RAF

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