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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1944
Page
3
Baltimore and Chicago livestock quotations from December 28 show light receipts due to icy roads and an active trading session. Prices cover calves hogs sheep cattle and various classes with steady to higher trends and ceiling figures noted for select hogs and sows.
A brief note from The Star touts comprehensive reporting across local national and world news ensuring timely updates. It emphasizes steady coverage and authoritative insights for readers seeking thorough understanding.
New York stock trading showed renewed strength as steels rails and select industrials attracted buying after a downswing. Optimistic European war news supported a technical correction rally with active dealings and modest to moderate gains across many issues near mid-session including a few larger advances.
Chicago grain prices slip in early trading on December 28 as profit taking weighs on demand for futures. Wheat May opens at 1.64, corn May at 1.10 1/2, oats May 0.661 and rye May 1.12 with barley May at 1.09 1/8.
The Star lists daily local market prices for Patent brand flour and various feeds, including 10 and 25 pound bags, per hundred pounds, per barrel, and per cwt. It also shows prices for corn meal and mixed feeds, with numerous none values for certain items. Prices cover both bulk and retail formats, with ranges for bags and sacks across several bag weights.
The Associated Press reports a British broadcast quoted a German high command order dated August 31 confirming Nazi Field Marshal Guenther Von Kluge killed himself. The note cites the responsibility for Normandy as reason and states he resigned as western front commander before dying by his own hand. Von Runstedt had previously been supreme commander, then relieved.
Clear skies were general across Virginia after a freezing rain that began yesterday, leaving icy roads and pedestrian hazards. Temperatures were expected to fall tonight with a low around 20 degrees in many areas, down from 30 in Richmond and 24 or lower elsewhere.
John Gibbs Jr son of Mr and Mrs John Henry Gibbs of Shockeysville Winchester enlisted in the Navy via the local recruiting office and was sent to Bainbridge Naval Training Station for boot camp last week. Born December 16 1926 in Baltimore he swore in one day before his 18th birthday and has lived in Frederick County about twelve years attending Stonewall High School. His older brother Raymond is a seaman first class at Oceana Naval Air Station Norfolk and a brother Robert and sister Rosalie live at home. Gibbs worked at Oscar Nebel Hosiery Mill on Braddock Street in Winchester at enlistment.
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