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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1943
Page
3
Produce steady with apples around 3.00 to 3.82 per box while poultry and eggs show light receipts. Cattle and hogs rise on select lots with vealers strong, sheep and lambs active, and prices listed for various weights and classes in the Federal State Market News Office report.
Chicago livestock sales show salable hogs at 25 000 with 41 000 total. slow to steady on good and choice 200 300 lb hogs at 13.75 top. under 200 lb weaker. over 300 lb and sows steady to 15 lower. Cattle 14 000, calves 800. fed cattle and yearlings strong. cows 10 15 higher. vealers 15.00 to lower. fat steers 13.75 16.50, top 17.00 for strictly choice 1030 lb yearlings. hogs and sheep activity mixed with lambs and kids steady to higher.
The USO launches a drive to fund shelter and comfort services for troops overseas. Volunteers collect donations for lodging, meals, and recreation spaces intended to ease long deployments. Funds support lodging, transportation, and morale activities for service members and their families.
New York December 27 prices drifted after a steady start with few gains and slow dealings. Steel and rail shares fell slightly despite walkouts and a carrier strike threat while winners included Hercules Motors Douglas Aircraft Boeing United Aircraft Chrysler American Telephone Union Carbide and Oliver Farm. Losers were U S Steel Bethlehem Santa Fe Southern Pacific General Motors Westinghouse U S Rubber and Deere with curb traders showing resistance from N J Zinc Glen Alden Coal Cities Service and St Regis Paper.
Chicago December 27 grain prices show a firm undertone at the open as trade remains quiet. Wheat May futures at 1.65 7-8 to 1.66 with other months higher by 3-4 to 7-8. oats hold 79 1-2 to 78. rye around 1.25 5-8 to 1.23 3-8 for May July and September.
The Star presents local market listings as published but disclaims responsibility for any typographical errors. Readers are advised to verify figures and notes with the original notices and market vendors.
Market items list Patent Brand feed by bag and barrel with prices per cwt and per bbl. Mixed Feed, Corn Meal Feed, and Dairy Feed are noted as unavailable. Livestock quotes cover heavy hens leghorn fowls young ducks cows bulls lambs with price ranges, reflecting a late 19th or early 20th century agricultural catalog style.
Listing of feed bag weights and prices with items like 10 Ib bag per 100 lbs and 24 Ib bag per bbl, plus 48 Ib bag per bbl. Includes items such as paten Brenda and assorted middlings mixed feed scratch feed chick grower broiler with prices, and creamery butter at quoted rate.
Iowa City scientist says milkweed juice can tenderize tough beef from average cows. Professor Walter F. Loehwing of the University of Iowa botany department notes that before the war papaya and pineapple juice were used. import curtailment has pushed about 500000 pounds of milkweed juice into use annually.
North Camp Polk Iowa December 27. Induced at Camp Upton New York into service, Willis Conway got two sizes too large government pants. He began altering them for himself and soon for fellow soldiers and officers, turning a civilian bowling alley operator into a military tailor.
In Tellico Plains Tennessee December 27 a bear hunter campfire tale recalls a 72 year old mountain man who quit moonshine after it began hurting him. Newspaperman Bert Vincent asks how much would hurt a man and the guide replies a quart and a half a day is too much.
A sick war veteran in Mountain Home Tennessee offered a dollar for a letter writing volunteer. The Atlanta Journal carried his appeal from C. L. Dunlap of Veterans Hospital annex no 2 and received six telegrams and over sixty letters. He feared a flood of mail from China and South Africa.
The Sigma Chi fraternity at the University of Virginia with 25 members volunteered as blood donors for the Red Cross, supporting relief efforts during December 27.
Soviet dispatches declare success in decisive offensives across Ukraine and White Russia. Vatutin’s forces rout about 150,000 German troops near Kiev, seizing Dominations and rail hubs while pushing toward Zhitomir, Korosten, and Brusilov. In Vitebsk region Bagramian’s units advance from Gorodok, tightening siege and cutting roads to Polotsk.
Premier Tojo told the Diet that Allied fighting is fierce at various fronts as the war enters a decisive phase. He said Japanese Army and Navy are repulsing counterattacks while reassessing supply lines in the Southwest Pacific and Solomons. Hirohito opened the Diet’s 84th session warning of grave danger and demands total effort.
German high command claimed British and French commandos raided defenses along the English Channel on Christmas Eve but were spotted near wire entanglements and wiped out. Allied confirmation of the raid was not issued. The report coincides with heavy air attacks on northern France and Roosevelt revealing Eisenhower to lead the planned western invasion.
The commander-in-chief praised American and English troops for adapting to appalling conditions and treacherous weather as Allied forces press the Italian campaign. He said attacks will continue but the campaign must remain slow to keep Germans on the defensive.
Simple funeral services were conducted at the late residence on South Stewart street for Mr. Russell, lifelong member of Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church. The service was led by Rev. Dr. Ronald S. Wilson. Interment followed in Mount Hebron Cemetery. Active pallbearers included Judge Burr P. Harrison and John M. Steck Jr. among others. Honorary pallbearers listed numerous doctors, lawyers, and local figures across several states.
Culpeper Virginia reporting on December 27 describes local shoe merchant Mark Gayle injured in a Route 29 crash in Madison County. His wife child and mother, riding with him, escaped serious harm after the car overturned several times. They received first aid and returned home. The accident occurred near Brightwood during a family visit.
Paul Mallon surveys daily editorials and stories on page four noting shifts in public mood. He highlights recurring angles, sources, and the newspaper’s framing of events with concise commentary.
General Eisenhower reviews wartime progress from 1942 to 1943 and outlines aims for 1944. He notes Italian surrender boosting Allied fortunes and cites plans to include French forces in Europe operations while stressing unity to avoid friction. He acknowledges his new continental invasion role and the need for strong alliance partnerships.
At an RAF base in England on December 27 a Halifax rear gunner named P. C. Ratcliffe was earlier listed missing after an Essen raid. A German prisoner camp letter confirmed his safety and his father in Dublin sent £1 to a group of girls who packed his parachute, saying their careful packing likely saved him.
At Camp Van Dorn Mississippi the division mess sergeants and cooks school uses a numbered method to standardize kitchen tasks. A class of 30 students trains in roasts and other basic meals with ten percent of mess personnel listed as former civilian cooks.
Camp Claiborne Louisiana December 27 A survey of Army opinion shows only two percent expect to stay in the Army after the war. Eighty six percent plan to return to their pre induction jobs. Most say they are doing the same type of work in service and will need little brushing up. Twelve percent are undecided until peace appears more certain.
Nikolaos Pahoulis a 27 year old Greek youth who commanded coast guard units before the war escaped Athens and was held briefly by the Japanese at Yokohama. He later worked in California shipyards before joining the Navy in the United States.
JOINER Ark December 27 Mayor Joe Dean, town barber and chief executive, recalls gutting a four and a half pound bass to find an open-faced gold pocket watch inside. He produces the watch to prove the tale of the big mouthed bass.
In Akron on December 27, huskies at a war plant crochet the large nets that cover the envelopes of the Navy subhunting blimps. It takes 275000 knots to complete one net.
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