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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1944
Page
7
Women readers note the Little Garden Club will gather Monday at 3 PM at Mrs J Sloan Kuykendall’s Amber Street home. The program features a special exhibit of white zinnias grown from club seed.
Dr and Mrs Randolph Shields, formerly of Chapel Hill North Carolina, traveled to Memphis Tennessee where Dr Shields becomes assistant professor of pathology at the University of Tennessee Memphis. They have spent much time in Winchester since returning from China years ago and Mrs Shields is sister to Miss Frances Page and Mr Nelson Page of this city.
Miss Enola Smith underwent a tonsillectomy this morning at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Mr and Mrs John Henry announce the birth of a son Jerry Lee on Sunday July 23 at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Mrs Henry was formerly Miss Getline Seabright of this city. Other notes include births, operations, and returns from Winchester Memorial Hospital for residents of Middletown Va Marshell Va and local addresses.
Due to worsening European transport conditions Christmas parcels for prisoners of war should be mailed by the end of July. The Red Cross offers a Christmas package with turkey pudding sausages butter ham cheese bouillon tea honey jam candy nuts fruit dates pineapple gum playing cards cigarettes tobacco pipe game and a wash cloth for each prisoner and internee.
All persons having claims against or owing the estate of Howard Elijah Shull will please contact the undersigned at 14 Rouss Avenue Winchester Va Bertha V Kline Admx Estate of Howard Elijah Shull.
Berryville locals report visits from Lt Jack Russell and Col Joel Griffing while families host birthday parties and leave for trips. Lieut Lloyd A Parker returns from the Caribbean then heads to Norfolk. Staff Sgt Lynwood Ritter arrives for furlough from Camp Shelby. Nearby funeral attendances list many attendees from Washington and Richmond. Surgical dressing folding boards donated to Berryville’s dressing room.
Boards speed up 2x2 and 2x4 surgical dressings while more workers are urged to the rooms. Dressings arrival is imminent and completion is requested to meet high demand. Mrs G H Carroll and daughter Gitte Carroll of Cumberland Md visit Berryville guests of Mr and Mrs Will Carroll. Mrs Carrolls recently in Washington DC with Mrs J Carroll. Mrs Herbert Whiting returns from Roanoke Va after visiting with her son Pvt Beverley Sting of Camp Forest.
Pvt Lee H Chapman stationed at Camp Hatge Texas spent furlough with mother Cora Chapman before entering the Army. Sgt James H Allamong, son of Mr and Mrs Carson Allamong, crew chief on a B 24 at Charleston Army Air Base, wife Ruth Lineberg joined him in October 1943. Pvt Weaver Welch has arrived at Sheppard Field Texas. Navy service update for B M Lineberg wounded but not seriously. Pvt James Keffer Jr stationed in England with K 9 Corps after serving with 29th Division. Pfc Holmes W White completed engineer equipment course at Fort Belvoir after Army enlistment in 1943. John Gus Chambers attends Navy School for Aviation Ordnance at Memphis.
Team. He enlisted in the Navy on 15 1942 and received his training at Bainbridge. Chambers attended Handley High School.
A violent storm system yesterday killed at least three people and caused a fourth death by heart attack. Winds reached 90 mph at Wichita airport with 3 12 minute duration blowing out control tower windows. Hutchinson and Muskogee saw 64 and 80 mph winds respectively. Mr and Mrs England injured when their house toppled in Sallisaw. Rains offered relief to drought areas boosting crop hopes.
Commander Frank X. Murray of the Pennsylvania American Legion appeals to Senators Davis and Guffey and the public to halt a Jeannette banquet plan amid Italian war prisoners. He denounces the event as insulting to the fallen and urges rescinding orders for similar entertainments. He vows the Legion will not permit any smearing of Anzio crosses and calls for citizen protest to the War Department.
The War Department announced Pvt. Perry F. Manuel of East Radford Virginia received the Silver Star for heroic actions in December 1943 during a battle in Italy. He administered first aid under heavy fire, was wounded, and guided two German soldiers back to American lines after dressing one man's hand. The prisoners provided crucial information for later operations.
SEATTLE July 28. Philip Gott of Chicago president of the National Confectioners' Association told candy dealers that chocolate allotments for civilians were cut another 10 percent this month. The civilian chocolate supply now stands at 60 percent of the pre war level. Sugar supplies for the candy trade are also limited.
Reports from London indicate public speculation that Lt General George S Patton Jr the former U S Seventh Army commander may lead armored forces cracking German lines in Normandy. No official word on Pattons whereabouts, but he is widely seen as a formidable and recognized commander. Local sports are featured in The Evening Star Daily.
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