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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1944
Page
10
A home nursing note urges eight hours of rest in a well made bed with no wrinkles to allow free movement and comfort. It stresses practice to make beds quickly and accurately and links good sleep to clear thinking and health. it promotes Red Cross Home Nursing classes for further instruction.
The Polish government in exile said its underground would continue to resist German invaders and avoid conflict with Soviet forces entering Polish territory. It noted limited cohesion with Russians and that on Oct. 27 it instructed underground units to cooperate with Red Army commanders if Polish Soviet relations resumed.
The passage notes that once the frontier was crossed the Poles would have coordinated their move against Germany with the Soviet Union, implying a joint strategy or expected alliance in the event of German aggression.
Middletown Virginia community page lists visits and gatherings among residents. Notable names include Herbert Rhodes Walter Lineweaver Walter Huntsberry Frederick Kline and Stella Hansell. Illness reports mention Mrs R A Larrick and Mrs Lacy Everly with improving conditions noted.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey opened the 167th Legislature calling for a $140,000,000 state surplus to be locked in a special fund for postwar reconstruction and employment. He urged freezing the surplus as the first law of 1944 and outlined plans addressing business, veterans, homeowners, taxpayers, and medical care for the needy.
London dispatch reports Romanian government orders evacuation of all inhabitants from Bessarabia, a border region between the Dniester and Prut rivers claimed by Romania and Soviet Russia. Red Army forces are under 100 miles from the Dniester.
Chinese troops have seized all villages around the Japanese port of Owchihkow on the Yangtze north of Tungting Lake and are pushing toward the city outskirts, a high command announcer said last night.
Chattanooga report notes W. L. Boucher of Nashville testified at a War Labor Board hearing that he recently carried 134 passengers on a 36 passenger bus. He said he transferred them to another vehicle after a door control was fixed.
Gypsy Rose Lee, the author and showgirl, is recuperating at the Fort Bragg post hospital from influenza. She became ill shortly after her walk Sunday and was scheduled for several performances here.
Becket Massachusetts January six. Lawrence Dennis a fifty year old war veteran author and self styled isolationist pleaded innocent to a federal indictment charging consp racy against the United States government. Dennis born in Atlanta Georgia December 25 1893 Harvard graduate author of Coming American Fascism held on two thousand five hundred dollars bail for hearing. Dennis was among thirty named in indictments returned by a federal grand jury in Washington.
In Knoxville on January 6 a crowded bus saw a young woman offer her seat to a young man then sit on his lap after the elderly gentleman had given up his seat for her.
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