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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1944
Page
9
Mrs. H. D. Whitacre of Gore reports her son Sergeant Hugh D. Whitacre was wounded in action on December 4 in Germany. No further details were released by The Star.
Baltimore report states Montgomery Ward workers reported for duty despite CIO sympathy strike in Detroit. Police and company reps saw no pickets at the 3,000 worker mail order house. URWDS Local had voted to strike over Sewell Avery policies. Avery chairs Montgomery Ward.
The last will of Leslie D. Pitter dated November 24 is recorded for probate by the Frederick County Clerk. Widow Pearl Ritter is named sole beneficiary for life with division to his children afterward. Mrs. Ritter qualifies as executrix under a $3,000 surety bond with appraisers Reardon Foster McCann Bywaters Armel named.
President Roosevelt said he avoided predicting the war’s duration and noted few have spoken with certainty. He mentioned no concrete plans for another Roosevelt Churchill Stalin meeting, calling the timing highly speculative.
Canadian troops break to the Senio river and capture Bagnacavallo eight miles north of Bologna Rimini highway. Allied HQ notes air support and Canale Naviglio bridgehead expansion by Eighth Army, while Fifth Army conduct patrols south of Bologna.
An injured Pelagian farmer told an American command post near Stavelot that 100 Nazi SS troops entered Par fondroy two nights earlier, rounded up villagers including his mother and sister, fired into a barn, and shot him in the leg before the building burned. The account, recounted to Lt. Henry Schmitz of New York City, is regarded with high credibility.
The missing persons bureau reports difficulties locating 17 year old Jane N. Hildreth, a Nottingham School for Girls senior from Northampton, Mass. who vanished Tuesday after arriving in Baltimore to spend Christmas with her mother Elizabeth M. Hildreth.
The Asahi warned readers not to be elated over German success in Europe and cautioned against complacency despite a Nazi counterattack being hailed in Japan. The editorial noted the controlled Asiatic press broadcast by a news agency while urging vigilance.
Robert Rhodiffer has been granted a permit to operate a public dance hall at the Wagon Wheel on U S Route 522 five miles northwest of Winchester.
Paris reports that French industries are reviving to supply Allied air forces with hundreds of needed items. Col. Melvin C. Smith says American air forces have received 2,500,600 cubic feet of hydrogen gas for weather balloons and 3,500,000 feet of film for wing cameras.
Relief Methodist Church announces it is fully renovated and will be ready for use on Sunday December 24. The 11 o clock morning worship will be followed by the annual Christmas program. All are invited.
Mrs. C. W. Atkins received word of the death of her mother in law Mrs. W. E. Atkins of Cross Keys Virginia. Mr. Atkins was summoned to her bedside Thursday. Funeral services are set for Cross Keys Presbyterian Church Saturday at 3 p.m.
Friends in Winchester are advised of the death in Charlotte North Carolina last Wednesday of Dr Julian S Sibley born August 27 1867 in Columbia Georgia son of the late W C and Jane Thomas Sibley He served as pastor of the Winchester Presbyterian Church from 1900 to about 1905 Surviving are his wife two sons two sisters and three brothers.
The Kobuki aircraft plant, one of Japan’s largest, was hit hard by B29 raids Monday. Tokyo, struck again before dawn Tuesday by two more Super-Forts, saw further damage as the Mitsubishi Hat sudoki factory near Tokyo suffered severe destruction.
The five day period from Saturday to Wednesday brings below normal temperatures in Zone 4 with brief near normal spells and possible snow flurries and snow in parts. Zone 5 expects mild Saturday then cold rest of the period with brief normal temps and occasional light snow.
Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie Grim Orndorff were held today at 11 o'clock from Jones funeral home in Georgetown with Rev. R. W. Vanderberry officiating. Pallbearers included Stewart Perry Robert Eagle John Shine John Dunn and William Cochran. Interment followed at Mount Hebron Cemetery. The piece also notes a quiz on Netherlands time showing a 19 minute 32 second difference from Western European time.
The Frederick County Board of Education approved paying teacher salaries before Christmas and set January 2 for discussing make up time due to recent snows. Leslie D. Kline announced the resignation of Estelle B. Ragland as primary teacher at Gore with no new appointment yet.
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