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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1941
Page
10
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German news and analyses debate Hitler's next moves as winter slows Red Army fighting. Potential offensives target the Mediterranean, Turkish frontiers, and French colonies while Britain and Persia Iraq fronts strain. Berlin signals shift in occupation costs as defenses heighten in Dakar and French Africa.
London reports that in eight weeks of heavy attacks British RAF bombers flown over Germany in a single night exceed German nightly raids on Britain in the prior autumn and winter. Officials promise even heavier raids as winter advances. Two daylight waves also hit shipping and shore targets.
New York opinion: National Women's Undergarment Manufacturers Association calls on American women to cut skirt lengths by several inches and promises members will shorten their ties. Delegates say the move would save at least 10 percent in fabrics, potentially millions of yards. AP fashion expert Helen Forrist Hall questions the effect.
J H Funkhouser elected chairman of the board for the ensuing year at the Winchester Service annual meeting. M S Snapp of Bunker Hill named vice chairman. Harmon B Brumback added to the directorate. The cooperative bought the former Sullivan warehouse at North Cameron and Baker for 4000 dollars and will erect a modern warehouse. About 525 persons attended.
In Moscow a Soviet official spokesman conceded that German forces have won notable successes in the initial two months of the campaign. He warned there is no alarm in Soviet ranks and noted the occupied areas are large but limited by Russia's vastness, with many towns ruined and ongoing guerrilla resistance.
Arcadia Oklahoma August 22 Deputy Sheriff Ben Davis lost his shirt at a crap game and did not get to throw the dice. He and Deputy Mike McGrew surprised 35 customers around the gambling table. McGrew warned the last nine out that door go to jail.
George M. Ford 70 of Charleston, former West Virginia superintendent of schools, educator, and lawyer, died at the Veterans Hospital after a long illness. A Kasson native, he practiced law in Princeton and Welch before turning to teaching and rising to state superintendent. He served in the 1916 Mexico border campaign and six months overseas in World War I.
Secretary of State Hull warned Latin American nations against a state of semi slavery imposed by Germany on 15 European countries. He rejected a Madrid newspaper claim that South American states would become United States colonies if they opposed American intervention.
Secretary Hull said the United States would view with concern any attempt by Japan to annex additional Spratly islands and reefs near the Philippines. He noted no official information on Japanese claims and warned against formal maps showing new possessions.
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