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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1944
Page
8
Eye witness Vern Haughland of the Associated Press reports from Green Island yesterday on the Allied landing. He notes the operation proceeded with efficiency and precision observed from the air, marking a successful Pacific front action.
A wartime observer reports the Nissan Island landing at Guadalcanal as an overwhelming success. He describes air and naval defenses, the speedy unloading of troops, and a dramatic three-airplane Japanese attack thwarted by anti aircraft fire.
Washington reports the Fourth War Loan drive surpassed its 14 billion dollar goal by at least 191 million. Although the drive ended at midnight, purchases reported after will count toward the final total announced March 2. Individual purchases yesterday remained over 3.7 billion short of the 5.5 billion quota.
Limited civilian mail service between the United States and parts of Italy under United Nations forces was resumed today. Post office officials said letters and postcards would be accepted in the United States for delivery to Sicily Sardinia and the Italian provinces of Bari Brindisi Cantanzaro Cosenza Lecce Matera Potenza Reggio Calabria Salerno and Taranto.
Health ad explains Nature produces two pints of bile daily and claims Carter's Little Liver Pills increase bile flow quickly. It promises improved digestion within about thirty minutes and a path to feeling better, urging a 25 cent purchase.
War era analysis notes Field Marshal von Rundstedt’s calm assertion of readiness for an Allied invasion. It highlights German defenses including flooding and anti-tank measures, the German reserves for counterattacks, and the Allied underground army in France comprising Fighting French leaders, civilian saboteurs, and disbanded French Army remnants poised to assist invasion day. The piece laments potential destruction of cultural sites like Monte Cassino monastery and Rome’s relics if siege occurs.
In Bern on February 16 Benito Mussolini compared himself to a Japanese warrior and said he sentenced his son in law Count Ciano to death. He claimed Japanese honor would understand his conduct and cited an interview with a Japanese correspondent reported by Der Bund of Chiasso.
Daingerfield Texas Mr Wyndham Wyndham 73 was laid to rest this afternoon in Mount Hebron Cemetery He died Sunday at his home 308 West Boscawen Street where he lived with his sister Ida L Wyndham Surviving sisters are Georgia Wyndham of Washington DC and Nellie Evans of Berryville The Rev L G Bridgers United Brethren Church pastor officiated pallbearers named Alfred Chapman John Chapman Marsden Lichfiter Charles Haun John H Dunn Perry B Wright
Classified notes show multiple want ads and sale notices from Falls Church Va to Winchester W Va. Items include an orchard hand position with salary 125 to 140 dollars per month, housework help, farm work and delivery boy posts, boarders at 400 N Loudoun St, kitchen helper at The Griddle, loan request for 700 dollars, and several sale items such as a Wurlitzer radio, ladies coat, 1940 Ford cars, and furniture. Several entries request contacts via local stores or care of Star newspaper.
The Democratic State Central Committee will meet in Richmond on February 25 at 4 p m to decide time and place for the state convention. The May convention would base representation on Roosevelt votes from 1940, seating about 2350 delegates, with rotation among Richmond Norfolk and Roanoke. Combs and Pollard hold current national posts.
Word reaches friends of Daniel E. Wright promotion to full colonel. A Winchester native with overseas service in the current conflict, he returns to lead as chief sanitary engineering advisor for the MNRRA. He spent months on furlough in the United States with his wife, Grace Wright, at St Petersburg Florida.
Mrs Ella Bray Brown age 80 widow of William Lee Brown died recently. Funeral held this morning at Macedonia Church with burial in Refuge Cemetery. Pallbearers named Frank De Jires C A Armel John Sargent Milton Cadwalader George Cadwalader and Harry Cadwalader.
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