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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1943
Page
7
The 24 hour rainfall ending 8 a.m. is None with year to date 21.43 inches. Thirty year average annual rainfall is 36.11 inches and monthly averages for 1913-41 are listed from January 2.49 to December 2.46 inches. Data provided through Winchester Laboratory.
Washington reports that coffee will be removed from rationing within days. Officials indicate top Office of Price Administration and War Food Administration approval is the remaining step. Coffee has been rationed since last November and imports exceed consumption as the Atlantic shipping improves.
Madrid dispatches report Mussolini questions where Europe’s boundaries begin amid Hitler meeting. Axis press frames Sicily campaign as Allied plan invasion defense, notes Italy bears main burden with limited German aid. Corriere della Sera links Italian defense to shared Japanese aims.
A 73 000 square foot ordnance exhibit in Wanamaker’s shows weaponry from tiny cartridges to tanks. Col. David N. Nauseman says the display demonstrates ordnance quality for families and bond buyers. Some items, like the M 7 anti aircraft director, are kept secret from the enemy.
Wartime readers urged to support servicemen by writing letters and sending The Star to keep in touch. The notice promotes morale through correspondence and hometown connection during military service.
Iran’s central bakery system expands to feed the capital as governments shut private bakeries. Three warehouses were converted into ovens with oil heated brick ovens across 28 government breadshops. The operation runs 94 hours daily employing 2,000 workers and delivering 3,000 loaves per shop to a city of 763,000.
In Johnstown Pennsylvania July 23 a strike threat stops at Bethlehem Steel Corporation plant as Ralph Hough announces the discharge of a worker who led recent walkouts. The company cites labor action disrupting open hearths and risking production with potential 2000 ton loss. Local union leaders decline immediate comment.
INDIANAPOLIS July 24 In self defense backyard farmers formed the Victors Gardeners Roasters Club to curb tall Victory garden tales. Founder Elmer Taflinger an Indianapolis artist joined the effort claiming no true gardener would spread exaggerated stories.
The Winchester Safety Council warns smoking in bed is deadly noting fires start from cigarettes and pipes. Unattended fires in beds or bedding fuel a blaze that can gut homes and kill family members.
Washington reports the 1944 Republican platform will be built at a Mackinac Island meeting September 6 and 7 with 49 Official Republican Postwar Council members invited. Subcommittees will form and figures like Willkie Hoover and Landon may be consulted. The council aims to present an international cooperation based program guiding postwar recovery and federal reform.
Grimes July 24 notice reports a joint Sunday school class gathering at Galilee Church ending with a weiner roast hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mason. Virginia Stiles is back home after a hospital stay. Helen Kerns visited her sister. Early fruit picking starts with good prices. Bird activity appears down from recent years.
The article profiles a 47-year-old airman, a former shoe-store owner from Asheville with a World War I pursuit pilot background. He joined the Air Force in 1942, trained through multiple stations, and flew as co-pilot in raids on Rouen Amiens and Paris while serving as operations officer for a Fortresses group. His sons both joined the Air Force, and his persistence to return to flight is highlighted.
Chrysler Corp completes its 10000th medium weight tank at the Detroit tank arsenal. Attending were Major General FE B Rowcroft and Brig. Generals W P Boatwright and John K E K Christmas, plus E J Hunt. First order placed August 15 1940 and production tempo accelerated through 1942.
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