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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1941
Page
7
In Washington the assignment of 57 year old Maj. Gen. Frank M. Andrews to head the Caribbean Defense Command was announced. The move aligns with a policy shift placing airpower in charge of all forces where aviation is the primary defense weapon.
Local markets page notes daily corrections and clarifications from The Star while stating no responsibility for typographical errors. The notice underscores accuracy efforts and the need for readers to verify quotes and prices.
Short patent brar bags and per barrel prices show varied rates from 5.40 to 5.90 for different bag sizes and blends. Creamery butter sold wholesale at 37 per unit.
Col Knox notes papers will likely hire more staff as demand rises. He cites a surplus of available events and questions how long this condition will last. Christian predicts higher salaries due to supply and demand laws and reports newspapers using college students for training alongside experienced workers to balance staffing.
Hopkins reports merchantmen would deliver supplies to China Malaya and Singapore. He says every ours that moves anywhere in the world aids the war effort and works with the Ministry of War and their representatives. He declines comment on U. S. aid to Soviet Russia or Turkey and notes ships would fly home.
The American Clipper departed 24 hours late from New York for Europe carrying 40 passengers including an unofficial good will mission to Portugal. Fifteen headed to Lisbon, four to Horta in the Azores, and the rest to Bermuda. Led by Jose Bensaude, the group bears greetings from Joseph W. Martin and Leverett Saltonstall to President Carmona. Paul C. Patterson of Baltimore planned weeks in London to observe and learn.
Grimes area social visits include Margaret Taylor from Martinsburg staying with the Taylors Mr Harley Strother and two Pittsburgh children visiting the Grimms also Mrs John Leigh and family and Mrs Henry Stucky called on Lucy Leigh Several meetings of the county school superintendents were held at White Hall Church to plan summer work Farmers began threshing with fair yields despite rain delaying threshing and hay making and local residents noted visits from Washington DC residents Earl Hottinger and Lucille Gordon earlier in the week
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Gruver worked on their Reliance home and plan to move in, with Mr. D. N. Gruver and others visiting family across Hyattsville and Charlottesville. Clara Belle Grover slowly improves. Mrs. Poole of Waynesboro and Mrs. J. F. Judy’s family return from West Virginia. Haying and crop gathering face delays due to rain as residents host relatives and travel to Charlottesville Edinburg and Strasburg for health and dental care.
United States plans to build more ships under lend-lease to supply Britain and other democracies. Soviet dispatches report heavy fighting near Smolensk and Dnieper counteroffensive pushing Germans back 19 miles. German reports claim gains around Bessarabia and occupation of Hotin Siroca Orhei and Chisinau.
At a meeting last night Round Hill 4-H Club chose delegates to attend the state 4-H Club camp on August 18 at Fort Valley. Attendees from Round Hill include Betty Cochran Gretna Carper Burl Carpenter and Garren Cather. A national defense program is planned for September and a party will be held August 8 at the home of Hilda Whitacre. A yard party is set for August 15 on the Round Hill school grounds. A committee led by Jack Larrick Nelson Carpenter Roy Cather Naomi Ruchman Albert Pingley Winnie Carper and Mary Gay Marker handles arrangements.
Local notes report Cathleen Haymaker gaining weight and improving after a stay at Blue Ridge Sanitarium. Earl Coulson works in Newport News shipyard with help from ex-principal Albert Purcell. The community welcomes a new son to Roy and Shifflette family and updates on hospital stays, college courses, and church services through July.
Brush Creek Virginia notes show visits from Mr. and Mrs. J B Heironimus of Hagerstown to Mrs Laura Dailey and Mrs Ruth Bern. Rev J R Collis from Martinsburg at his cabin near Siler. Kerns and family, Whitacre and Lamp families appear in visits and illness concerns. Mrs Smith, Commodore Smith's mother, is ill and neighbors assist at night.
Miss Tris Poland spent the week end in Winchester with Mr. and Mrs. R. N. McKee. Ruth Flannigan, summer guest of her parents, left Friday to join her husband at Fort Benning. M. C. Baker of Washington visited Friday night with Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Riley. The Riley party attended a Frederick Maryland motorcycle race on July 5. Peggy Davis of West Virginia visits her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Strasnider. Mrs. N. R. Smith of Gainesboro stays with her daughter, Mrs. J. N. Whitacre.
Cross Roads Virginia notes visitors including Mr and Mrs Leslie Fletcher of Hayfield visiting Mr and Mrs Woodrow Line. W R Berryhill and family and Hortense Smith of Winchester spent Sunday with Mr J B White. Rev M L Zirkle of Wilville West Virginia will preach at Fairview Church Sunday at 3 pm. Sunday School will be 4th epent Wed Valley West Virginia.
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