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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1944
Page
8
Mrs. J. Gray Beverley returned from Bowling Green Kentucky after a two week visit. The item notes other local visits and vacations among residents including Mrs. L. E. Harris visiting Greenwood Lake New York and friends in New York City.
Dates to remember show a V F W Auxiliary meeting at 1619 Valley Pike and an O OF weekly gathering. Lions Club luncheons at Golden Glow Restaurant, Kiwanis at Golden Glow Coffee Shop, and Old Fredericktown Garden Club with Mrs Herbert S Larrick at 3 30 p m Wednesday.
Carpenter Richard M left for Camp Buckner in Durham North Carolina early Saturday to receive a new assignment. Rosabelle and Gloria Dorsey accompanied him to Washington. He recently returned from overseas and spent a twenty one day furlough with his parents at South Cameron Street.
Mrs Allen Richardson departed for Edgarton Massachusetts today to spend several weeks with friends and visit.
Word arrives that Peter Chew has passed the serious stage of his illness and is now at his mother’s home in New York. In another item, Mr and Mrs George E Pully announce the birth of a son George E Pully III on July 15 at Winchester Memorial Hospital with Mrs Pully identified as the former Miss Thoma Thompson of Iowa.
Allied forces push from Arezzo area as German resistance stiffens. Fifth Army units seize Monte Foscoli and Tonajo area while canal and rail targets suffer further damage from American air strikes. British advance reaches near Arezzo. Arno line holds with mines encountered.
Red Army forces pushed toward Berez kartushkaya and along the Pinsk railroad as they drive westward. Moscow radio claimed 100,000 Germans captured and up to 500,000 men annihilated on the eastern front, while Issa river was crossed near Opochka and Sebezh neared from the Latvian border. Red airmen targeted East Prussia as Cossacks, tanks, and infantry advanced, and Moscow displayed enemy captives amid crowd restrictions near prisons.
Nathan Williamson pastor of the Church of Christ announces a two week revival starting July 20 directed by Orlin L. Mankamyer of Cincinnati Ohio. Meetings will be at 8 00 PM nightly in the Friendship Fire Co auditorium East Cork Street with Sunday afternoon lectures. Mankamyer trained at Cincinnati Bible Seminary and has pastored churches in Johnson City Tenn Newport News Va and the Second Church of Christ in Johnson City during the Depression. He emphasizes church establishment, gospel preaching to all ages and has authored tracts and a book for personal workers.
Mrs. Dunbar Sale of Mountain Falls has received the Purple Heart awarded to her husband Tech Sergeant Dunbar Sale. The 26 year old soldier is in a hospital in England recovering from wounds received during the invasion of France. In a June 18 letter he said he was resting and hoped to rejoin his outfit soon. Sgt Sale joined Winchester National Guard Company I 116th Infantry and is attached to the 29th Division in France.
The Miller diamond in Washington hosted a baseball game where Front Royal All Stars beat Rappahannock All Stars 7 to 3. Settlé was the winning pitcher and struck out five batters.
Mediterranean Allied air forces report 24 planes missing from a 750 bomber raid on Ploesti with the heaviest bombs dropped on the target. Ten enemy aircraft were destroyed. The strategic air force cited weather as preventing an accurate assessment of damage to southern Germany targets including Munich and Saarbrucken rail lines.
Tokyo radio admits Saipan is land base and warns no optimism amid heavy Allied air and naval strikes. Nimitz reports land based bombers striking Guam and Iwo Jima as battles rage across Hengyang, Tengchung, Myitkyina, and northern New Guinea.
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