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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1944
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists editor H. F. Byrd Jr and publishing details. It shows subscriber procedures, delivery notes, and rates for all zones, with yearly, semiannual, quarterly, and monthly options for mail and carrier, plus a Bible verse from Psalms 77:1.
The debate on postwar housing centers on whether new dwelling units will exceed 300,000 per year, with experts citing prewar 1937–41 averages around 515,000 annually and noting urban versus rural focus as a key difference. Projections vary as savings, veterans loans, and new families influence the era of home building.
The article describes American weapons including an incendiary bomb packed in pipe that scatters burning jelly 300 feet, causing fires to inflammable targets, released in clusters up to sixty. It also mentions a flamethrower in use capable of delivering effective fire on targets and contrasts with German weapons.
The text notes a device under development for many months that replaces equipment up to 60 feet and can attack around corners by firing a burning mass into an enemy pillbox, destroying contents inside.
Editorial notes that since D-Day the French interior forces have grown in size and scope. Sabotage targets roads rails canals and communications to hinder German mobilization. In Brittany Lorraine and southern France traffic is disrupted and Paris is cut off from Bordeaux and Toulouse. Guerrilla actions and village occupations continue daily aiding the liberation.
Newport News Times-Herald challenges Dr. Irving Langmuir over a statement on American radar growth. The piece argues U S. Navy scientists pushed radar development despite government censorship and notes Churchill's wartime remarks and ongoing postwar significance.
The Fredericksburg Free Lance Star reports that a Nazi flood of Holland could destroy a large portion of Dutch farmland and raise the fear that the Netherlands might lose territory to Germany in retribution. Dutch leaders warn that flooding could erase Holland as a nation or trigger punitive seizure of German lands if Germany falls.
The Springfield Republican lauds Chicago as the greatest naval training center in the world noting the city hosts 90,000 Great Lakes trainees and thousands at 21 other centers with 192 trains a day. The piece claims Chicago has the lowest juvenile delinquency rate among metropolitan areas.
The Dionne quintuplets are due to regain independence from government oversight in a matter of days. A reflection on enduring songs persists, even as radio repeats threaten to erase them.
One of the longest trains ever to pass through Winchester today carried 128 cars. The O'Sullivan Rubber Company received a large Army contract as 275 freight cars of potatoes were stored in local cold storage plants. The Williams burg Restoration book is missing from Handley Library. The Castleman's Ferry bridge project is halfway done. Berryville council bans hog pens within city limits.
TWENTY YEARS AGO Robert B. Trustaff of Norfolk is named president of the Virginia Bar Association. R. C. Thomas dons a diving suit and lays a new water main across the Shenandoah river to convey the Berryville supply. Mrs. Henkel, wife of Dr. A. D. Henkel, dies at her home.
Arthur Seabright and Edward Jones returned from a clay pigeon shooting match with nearly all the prizes. The event centered in Warren county featured new road bands selling for a total of $1000.
Four automobiles race through town at high speed and vanish in a cloud of dust along the Valley Pike. Professor Hodgson is named president of Presbyterian College in Elkins West Virginia. The Berryville water pipe is repaired thanks to Dr John Crow’s efforts.
Forty five years ago Mr. William Copenhaver fences his premises on S Market street. There were several accidents over the Fourth as children toyed with fireworks. Wheat prices stand at 69 cents per bushel.
The list asks seven questions on geography and history including Kwajalein Island location and a fifth German war. It also covers Great Lakes, tungsten, Burma's colonial status, Napoleon Bonaparte relations, large walls, Morpheus, prosthesis, and Johann Strauss II.
Market report lists cattle hog and sheep values with ranges for butcher good plain and top grades. Veal calves lambs fat sheep hogs sows shoats pigs fresh cows feeders and springers priced per cwt or head for regional buyers.
Mrs Charles W. Tillett of the Democratic National Committee recounts ironing her skirt and blouse in a hotel linen room to press a jacket so she could address clubwomen, illustrating wartime manpower shortages. The anecdote shows resourcefulness and resolve in demanding times.
A terse political item argues that funding public bonds will spur military retaliation. The note frames bond purchases as a trigger for bomb drops, presenting a stark anti-bond stance with emphasis on national security.
Prices shown for patent brand and butter with multiple bag sizes and weights. Includes per bag and per cwt rates, plus several items listed as None or unavailable. Contains miscellaneous feed types and inconsistent entries.
Police in Richmond arrested 483 people during the four day July 4 holiday. Dockets show 255 defendants on Monday and 143 the next day. Detectives received 85 complaints including nine break in cases at Church Hill and investigated a fire at Buhrman and Sons farm implement firm on East Franklin Street caused by acetylene torches. Eight fire companies responded and damage reached the second floor.
Dr Clendening outlines polio patterns with summer peaks in June to September and past epidemics. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is preparing defenses and Kenny treatment is discussed versus natural recoveries, noting Chicago 1948 data and recovery rates.
A narrator recalls struggling to hear a preacher over traffic noise and urges stronger religious and cultural voices to amplify the gospel. The speaker calls for clearer proclamation of God’s love in Christ and brighter prophetic voices in society.
In the Wrightsville cemetery scene Jim Haight disrupts the funeral crowd and escapes pursuit in a stolen car. The car crashes with Jim dead, leaving Hermy and Pat to cope. Carter Bradford confirms the car’s rental and Roberta Roberts’s possible complicity while Ellery Queen ponders the wider moral toll.
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