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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jul 08, 1942

Page

6

Radio Highlights and Midnight Theater Schedule

Radio highlights list multiple programs across stations with performances by Paderewski Memorial contributors from Edinborough, Myron Taylor tribute, Atur Rubinstein piano from California, and readers poems. The slate includes The Good Bad Actor mystery, Mr District Attorney crime drama, Rose Marie melodies, Quiz Kids The Thin Man, and numerous music blocks led by Jean Tennyson Jan Peerce George and others.

Antoni Jurasz Paderewski Hospital Edinborough Myron Taylor Atur Rubeinstein California Charlotte Kellogg Manhattan WRC WISV Rudolph Friml Rose Marie Jean Tennyson Jan Peerce Robert Weede George Nelson Eddy The Neir Eddy Basin St Shirley Temple Watergate Wings Kay Kyser M. Beatty Kollege Glen Gray Orchestra Dick Jurgen Orch

Italians Report Enemy Repulse Over Egypt and Sicily

The Italian high command says a strong British force was repulsed with heavy losses in Egypt while R A F planes raided Reggio Calabria and Messina. It notes nine allied aircraft down in the desert and 14 in Malta defense, with several enemy bombs over Messina and Reggio.

Rome High Command Egypt Reggio Calabria Messina el Alamein Malta Strait of Messina

Rainfall Totals and Averages From Winchester Lab

Reported 24 hour rainfall 0.04 inches ending 8 a.m. July to date 0.09 inches year to date 19.19 inches. Average annual rainfall over 29 years is 35.55 inches. Monthly averages for 1913-41 list values from January 2.51 to December 2.43 inches. Courtesy statistics come from the Winchester Research Laboratory.

Winchester Research Laboratory

Men Who Turn Out Fighters Are Complimented

BUFFALO July 8 Lieutenant General H H Arnold army air force chief advised Bell Aircraft Corporation employees their P-39 Airacobra fighters are as tough as American pilots who fly them. General MacArthur reports Lieutenant Paul G Brown attacked eight Japanese Zero fighters single handed. his P-39 wing damaged a Zero causing it to crash while the plane remained intact. You keep making planes like that our fliers will show the Axis what Uncle Sam means when he says we'll fight.

Buffalo N. Y H. H. Arnold Army Air Force Bell Aircraft Corporation Arnold MacArthur Paul G. Brown Uncle Sam

Special Medal For Unsung Heroes of the Sea

The Maritime Commission will award a distinguished service medal to merchant seamen for outstanding conduct or service. Paul Manship of New York, designer of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial, has been asked to create the medal design.

Washington The Maritime Commission Paul Manship New York Manship Woodrow Wilson League of Nations Geneva

Cattle refuse sugar feed as hogs devour it in mix up

In Iberia Missouri Henry Shackleford spread salt for cattle to eat but cattle avoided it while hogs eagerly ate the salt. The error used the family’s entire supply of canning sugar.

Rusty Spur Iberia Henry Shackleford

Ardendale Match Plan Sparks Townwide Curiosity

In Ardendale a tangled plan unfolds as Claire persuades Dian to date Bill and Paul for a week to keep them away from Jerome Carr and to ease family tensions. The quartet hatches a scheme amid romantic entanglements and small town interest. Bill and Paul later free a jammed sedan and discuss a moonlit future plus a camera for posterity.

Bill Ardendale Dian Claire Paul

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