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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1944
Page
4
Public notice from the Winchester Virginia post office urges readers to report any delays or irregularities in The Star delivery. Subscribers can help maintain a perfect delivery system with prompt reports to the office.
Reprinted editorials debate silver in postwar finance as Bretton Woods panel weighs stabilization rules. Gold remains the favored international payment standard, with silver likely limited to domestic use, though concerns about a silver bloc pressuring high prices persist.
A historical scripture citation quotes Psalms 79 verse 9 asking for God's help and salvation for the glory of His name. The text blends supplication for deliverance and purification of sins.
The article explains labor evaporation as workers quitting jobs during wartime. many do not transfer to nearby war plants, with only about 25 to 30 of 50 quitting workers finding new employment. Reasons include shifting to less essential work, returning home, or quitting altogether while patriotism is noted as not in question.
Seek Farm Loans Emphasizing the rapid come back farms can make in the United States when the nation is engaged in the greatest war in history is the record of farm financing by American life insurance companies. Ten years ago life insurance firms were liquidating land but now hold mortgages totaling $829 million with $60 million added in the last year. The farm land foreclosures peaked at a billion dollars and are now decreasing. Demand for city mortgages grows due to a housing shortage, with city properties forecast to stay favored for years.
Experts studying postwar trends say civilian life will wait for Germany to fall and possibly Japan. Demand for gasoline and high prices will persist until victory. Durable goods production should resume with a world market, and prices may rise about 25 percent from 1942 levels.
Dick Kern aged 23 is promoted to captain and serves in an anti aircraft unit in North Africa. The report notes local notices about events including a Berryville class on food produce and conservation, road projects in Frederick and Clarke counties, and a county dog confinement order in Mountain Falls. Virginia Woolen Company plans and civic talks are listed along with a Lions Club talk by H H Shockey.
Twenty years ago all Sunday Schools in Frederick County planned a union picnic at Kline's Woods near Vaucluse. Miss Martha Keating was appointed superintendent of Winchester Memorial Hospital.
An old Berryville to Winchester stage line is replaced by a modern passenger and freight motor car with an 18 horsepower engine. Mr W J Marple is seriously hurt after a fall from a tree. Mr and Mrs John Hoover and son John Jr depart on the Snoh andoa Special to visit relatives. Hoover works for The Star.
A government expert visits the city to study possibilities for a cold storage plant mainly for peaches. The Rev Julian Sibley will deliver the annual sermon to the Rouss Hook and Ladder Company at the Presbyterian Church on Sunday. Postmaster Bentley Kern reports several unclaimed letters at the local post office.
Forty five years ago Miss Bessie McCarty sustained a cut to her hand today from a knife. Winchester native Mr. Harry S. Marshall is in Jamaica overseeing a large fruit evaporating plant project. Frederick County officials re elected W H Dinges as chairman of the Board of Supervisors.
Marginal land in Virginia yields average returns over $3 per acre for a group of northern Florida style tree farmers who track costs and sales. Warmer Florida climates may boost growth, but Virginia shows promise as unproductive land becomes an income source. Forest product demand rises as supplies dwindle, with nearby states benefiting from proximity to large markets.
The Chindits are described as an airborne force in Burma named by Gen. Orde Wingate after stone-winged temple dragons. The unit is a mixed force of British Indian Gurkha and Burmese soldiers, not a distinct Asiatic race.
In Santa Fe City Magistrate Joe A. Berardinelli’s court first time traffic offenders receive a friendly briefing on driving regulations and a courteous apology for any bother rather than the standard fine and reprimand. The judge calls it good business.
The text argues that German Christians prayed on D-Day to justify guilt rather than confess sin and that similar reverence appeared in Japan. It contends that God’s responses align with perfect knowledge and righteous prayer, not self serving motive.
A quiz back page asks seven questions about the Army Field Artillery School in Oklahoma a senator who created the Federal Reserve the Soviet ports on the Atlantic moon phases Baghdad capital living or dead Alfonso XIII Panay island in the Philippines the Pathetique Symphony typical generation length and the only Central American republic not touching the Caribbean. The text instructs turning to page 2 for correct answers.
HAL BOYLE details Lt. Alfred Williams of Louisville and his unit engaging a German tank force near a French farmhouse. Reports describe multiple tank kills, paratrooper assaults, and close-quarters fighting. Capt. Ezekiel Glazier notes intense counterattacks, while Allied aircraft report activity across the sector.
In this health column, Leptus species chiggers inhabit woodlands and blackberry bushes across the United States from New York to Georgia, with a second species in the Midwest. They cling to skin at hair follicles, cause intense itching, and can trigger fever in widespread infestations. Prevention includes dusting skin and clothing with sulfur powder. treatment uses antiseptics or carbolic to relieve itching.
In Russia hardened German troops counterattack with dug in tanks as a young tank lieutenant named Williams leads from the front. Colonnel and Mitchell praise Williams for tur ning back repeated assaults, keeping lines intact four hours after the action. Army HQ reports no dent in the sector despite fierce fighting.
A sharp campaign phrase asserts that purchasing bonds will prevent war by deterring aggression. The statement frames public debt as a peace measure and wartime finance strategy.
In St. Petersburg a passerby aided a stranded woman motorist by tossing a brick through her car window after the window refused to open. The dramatic aid led to the immediate arrest of the helper, nicknamed Sir Walter, by authorities.
New York OPA rules tenants not to pay rent for pets and orders a Manhattan landlord to refund $11 to a tenant charged $1 weekly for 11 weeks for his dog Rusty a chow.
Mary Norman, widow with a decorating shop, juggles her son Dr. Matthew Norman’s marriage to Irene Murray and Judith Lambert’s feelings as Matthew plans his medical career. Judith visits and contemplates love as Matthew jokes about a future office staff and Nellie the cook. Mary, Irene, and Judith navigate family ties, ambition, and an upcoming East coast gathering.
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