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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1941
Page
3
With Virginia peaches in harvest, defense and nutrition committees urge homemakers to can peaches. Canning supports food for England and allies, preserves nutrients, and may raise prices this winter. A bushel yields 22 to 26 quarts depending on how sliced and packed.
Ernest L. Campbell was re-elected secretary and treasurer of the Shandoah Farmers Home Mutual Insurance Company at a policy holders meeting in Woodstock. He defeated Ernest L. Wisman by a large majority as about 8,000 votes were cast. P. S. Rhodes was re-elected president and a slate of directors was retained. The company announced nine million dollars in insurance on its books.
Aug 23 report from Cross Junction notes Kenneth Lewis visiting Martinsburg with his uncle and aunt. Updates on Kenneth’s return home and Braithwaite family improvements at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Multiple social visits to and from Martinsburg Winchester and Cross Junction families are listed with several local residents moving or hosting guests.
The Open Dead Bible Class of Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church will host guest teacher Mr. E. P. Brown this Sunday. Class starts at 9 45 a m and a cordial invitation is extended to all.
A Whitman County storm on Wednesday produced lightning that burned more than 15,000 acres of wheat and pasture, and a near-cloudburst that washed topsoil from hundreds of acres of plowed fields. The two phenomena occurred simultaneously, about a half mile apart.
Under the will of Shepherd Strother the Shenandoah Valley National Bank of Winchester as executor offers for sale at public auction in front of the County Courthouse Winchester Virginia the dwelling at 23 Peyton Street with 35 feet on Peyton Street and 75 feet back. The house contains three rooms on the first floor four on the second and two on the third with an attic. Sale terms require one third cash at sale and two thirds by two bonds due one and two years after date with six percent interest and security by deed and fire insurance. Auction set for 12 o clock noon on Saturday September 6 1941.
Soldiers from truck drivers to generals test initiative and fighting ability during the third army war games in western Louisiana. Lieutenant General Lesley McNair defends maneuvers as valuable training, saying such drills improve readiness and defense of the country in wartime. A Fort Bliss first cavalry convoy improvised to block the road when surrounded by enemy tanks.
In Cumberland Maryland Arlo Klinetob defending champion from Pecksville Pa met Edward Alcorn of Pittsburgh in the Allegany Mountains Men's Singles semifinals. Jack Southworth of Pittsburgh faced Barney Welsh of Rockville in another semi. The four advanced yesterday and finals are set for tomorrow.
The armored division found the truck and water wagon left just enough room for enemy tanks to pass but the line slid into a muddy bog rendering the machines useless and easy to capture. Scouts recovered two abandoned 105 mm howitzers and two large guns at each end of the column. Cooks and supply men were credited with bagging 30 tanks, eight immobilized in the mud. An armored division scout car swept through enemy lines at 40 mph, annihilating two squads of infantry.
Carl A. Wollam, the navy's first balloon pilot, devises a cheap light-weight seaplane pontoon made from plywood. Tests on the Susquehanna River at Lock Haven show durability and low weight versus aluminum floats on priority lists. China?
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