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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 01, 1944

Page

5

Seek Funds To Purchase Heifers For War Torn Lands

The Young People of Jubilee Church of the Brethren near Winchester sponsor a drive to raise about 1000 for one dozen milk producing heifers to aid liberated European children. Heifers will be inspected and bred before shipping under a national Brethren plan with 1000 heifers already earmarked for export. The drive follows Time magazine praise of the post war effort.

Jubilee Church of the Brethren Front Royal Pike Winchester State Department Europe Churches of the Brethren Brethren Goshen Indiana Westminister Time Magazine United States

Social Roundup in Middletown Area Reveals Weekend Visits

Middletown Virginia figures list weekend guests including Dr. E. M. Steele from Stephens City and Mrs. Sydney Larrick of Beckley W Va. The report notes hospital observations for Joseph T. McGolerick and convalescence for Mrs. Willey after a minor operation. Also mentions staff changes at Newton Baker Hospital Martinsburg and various family visits from Winchester Clifton Forge Roanoke Warrenton and East McKeesport.

Middletown M. H. Rhodes E. M. Steele Stephens City James T. Beeley Paul Rhodes Winchester Sydney Larrick Beckley W. Va Howard Larrick Jo Ann Leroy. Withrow Clifton Forge Annie Henretty Nannie Miller W. H. Huber Bernice Burdette Maude Carr Washington, D. C Edinburg Earl Humpston Frank Roanoke B. L. Humpston Raymond Reeder Billy Carole East McKeesport Jas. L. Willey Willey Winchester Memorial Hospital Amye Clark Warrenton, Va George

Market Quotations New York Amid Caution and Tax Shifts

Market news notes Specialties including sugars rising in leadership as many leaders face limited profit gains. Dividends and prospects remain the main investment theme though early climbers lacked follow through. Weekend caution trimmed accounts ahead of year end tax adjustments. War news keeps the reconversion issue alive.

New York Wee

Moscow Snow Closes Roads After Mild November

Moscow reports a heavy snowstorm on December 1 following a November described as the mildest in 35 years. Grass remains green in fields near the capital despite the snowfall.

Moscow

Chicago Grain Quotations Early Trading Steady to Firm

Chicago grain quotes show grain futures steady to firm in early trading. Wheat gains small while rye fluctuates. December and May futures listed for wheat corn and rye with small fractional moves.

Chicago Rye

Baltimore and Chicago Livestock Prices Reported

Baltimore market shows steady poultry eggs and cattle with steady hogs Calves and sheep nominally steady with various price ranges listed Chicago hog and cattle prices ease slightly on limited demand with broad ranges for each class de live market activity noted across cities

Baltimore Baltimore Livestock

Wanted Farm Help at Blandy Experimental Farm

Job notices list positions for a farmer with monthly salary and house in Boyce Virginia managed by J. T. Baldwin Jr at Blandy Experimental Farm. Also ad for dining room help and bookkeeper in nearby towns with brief terms. Prices and dates shown in 1951 1931 1939 style classifieds.

J. T. Baldwin Jr Blandy Experimental Farm Boyce

Market Report Shows Mixed Livestock Demand and Steady Prices

Good quality shi cows bring 18.50, bulk beef cows 8.00 to 10.50, not enough sales to form a market. Dealers steady at 15.50, mostly 15.00 down. Stocker and feeder trade at a standstill. Salable sheep 3,000 of 10,000 total, scattered early sales steady with lamb bids weak to 25 cents lower. good native lambs fetch 14.50.

Baltimore Chicago Livestock Chicago

Heavy War Bond Purchases Seen at Woolen Company

Employees of the Virginia Woolen Company have bought war bonds totaling $721,400 since January 1, reflecting strong patriotic support and steady monthly purchases by workers.

Virginia Woolen Company

Anniversary Gets Red Salute

Pravda saluted the first anniversary of the Tehran conference with eulogies of Allied military prowess and friendship. It said Nazi attempts to break the Soviet British American alliance had failed while noting Hitlerite sympathizers linger in neutral countries and even in Britain and the United States.

Mosccow Pravda Communist Party Britain United States

Russian Oil Official Relieved. Barbakov Named Successor

A 40word official notice in Moscow announces I. K. Sedan has been relieved of duties as peoples commissar of the oil industry. Nikolai Konstantinovich Barbakov is named to succeed him with no official explanation given.

Moscow I. K

Chiang Kai Shek and wife deny separation report

A source close to Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek dismissed a London report claiming Chiang and his wife had separated as malicious and mendacious and said the report should be thoroughly discredited.

Chungking Chiang Kai-Shek London Chiang

French Seize Rhine Town

Allied forces push along the Roer line capturing Linnich Julich and Duren while Third Army lines advance near the Saarland. The British Second Army secures Wanssum Broekhuizen and nearby pockets, hamlets along the Roer fall, and American units push toward Linnich with heavy shellfire and difficult terrain.

Hodges U. S. First Army Roer Rhineland Linnich Julich Duren Munchen Bladbach Dusseldorf Cologne Third Army Saar Germany Saarland Coblenz Rhine Ain Strasbourg Eifel Karlsruhe Air Force Holland Wanssum Venlo Broekhuizen Maas Wnssum Bierlingsbeek

Royal Crown Blue Devils Win City Touch Football Title

The Royal Crown Blue Devils defeated the JET Green Wave 14 to 13 in a deciding fifth game to claim the city touch football championship. Hank Lewis connected with Jack Lewis for a 10 yard score and later a 48 yard run set up another touchdown. The Green Wave mounted a comeback in the late third and fourth quarters but fell short.

Royal Crown “Blue Devils Royal Crown Blue Devils Green Wave Hank Lewis Jack Lewis Hink Lewis Lewis Wingfield Godfrey Lake R. Nelson George Weldon Burley Moore Nelson Weldon Cullers Devils Blue G. Weldon B. Lovett R. Crisman C. Mason Duckworth L. McKee T. Wingfield W. Swanson D. Garber G. Lake J. Lewis W. Moore Patton B. Grim FB M. Lake H. Lewis Johnson Field Judge Garrabrandt

Bombers Flatten Fortified Villages Near Roer Lines

Fighter bombers began flattening fortified villages Baal Rurich Glimbach Gevenich and Boslar whose cellars likely became fortresses. The Inde joins the Roer just below Julich seven miles southeast of Linnich and was crossed about four miles south of Juich.

Baal Rurich Glimbach Gevenich Boslar Inde Roer Julich Linnich Juich

Chinese factions may negotiate for settlement in China

General Chou En Lai left Chungking for Yenan carrying new proposals from Chiang Kai Shek for settlement of the Chinese Civil War amid talks among the Big Three leaders.

Chungking Chou En-Lai Yenan Chiang Kal-Shek

Communist leaders to discuss proposals in Yenan capital

A report notes that the proposals will be debated with other Communist leaders in Yenan, the capital of Communist China.

Yenan China

Ford Paying Cash Vacation Share To Wartime Employees

Ford Motor Company disclosed that 3 882 722 dollars will be paid in cash to employees entitled to 1944 vacations who did not take them due to the war. Payments equal one or two weeks wages, based on service length, with total vacation pay reaching 8 128 596 dollars including those who did take vacations.

Detroit Ford Motor Company

Albert B Fall Dies in Texas At 83

Albert B Fall former Interior Secretary dies in El Paso Texas at 83 after years of illness. A central figure in the Teapot Dome scandal he faced investigations and a 1929 conviction for conspiring to accept a bribe over Elk Hills lease following his tenure in the Harding administration.

EL Paso Tex Bert B. Fall Fall Liam Beaumont Dieu Catholic Hospital John Morrison Frankfort Las Cruces N. M Harding Harry F. Sinclair Teepot Dome Wyoming Justice Zutler U. S. Supreme Court Elk Hills Calif Naval Ail Reserve Edward L. Doheny

Taxis Ordered to Resume Service in Moscow

Moscow taxis were ordered to resume operations today after wartime curtailment, with pleasure rides forbidden.

Moscow

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