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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1942
Page
4
The Evening Star of Winchester Virginia urges subscribers to report delays or delivery irregularities. Readers are asked to notify the office promptly to help maintain a reliable delivery system.
The notice lists subscription prices by mail and carrier, detailing one year six months three months and monthly rates. It references a column or feature titled Tribulations of Today with a biblical quotation from Isaiah 65 17 and a note about joys tomorrow.
The article argues that war on the Axis extends beyond troops to economics. Britain and the United States use financial power to deny Germany and allies essential goods by buying up supplies like gloves and dried fruit, narrowing the enemy's resources.
The article notes cavalry active in early counter offensives near Rostov and Moscow, with Timoshenko favoring mounted units. It compares European adoption, Lloyd George’s criticism, and shifting balance as Russia expands to forty mounted divisions while Germany boosts cavalry to match.
The Russians view horses as year round war implements and employ light carts with machine guns. One in eight cavalrymen carries a light machine gun or grenade launcher. Cavalry is trucked to the front, though 20 percent must remain with horses. Woods in Russia provide cover against air attack.
Reprinted editorial argues the March 22 Würzburg document shows the Nazi regime attacks on religion mirror a broader assault on human rights. It cites church property seizures, priest expulsions, imprisonment without proof, and calls for release of prisoners, return of property, and respect for faith amid WWII.
Sergeant Irving Strobing of the Signal Corps sent a final message from Corregidor and recorded thoughts as the last assault peaked. He praised General Wainwright and comforted family with a note of pride that courage and spirit outlived lost guns and men. The fate of Strobing remains unknown, yet his words honored those who fought on amidst destruction.
A fiancée asks for permission to be buried at her late fiancé’s national cemetery grave in Kentucky. Authorities note only spouses and unmarried children of enlisted personnel or officers may be interred there, restricting interment to those relations.
Market quotations for Baltimore and Chicago show steady to weak prices across poultry eggs butter cattle hogs sheep and live cattle at regional markets. Notable figures include steer and hog price ranges, with fresh meat and lamb values listed, reflecting a general mid June trading tone for market levels.
The market showed no clear trend with sluggish activity and mixed gains and losses near midday. Early lists included Dow, Du Pont, Union Carbide, J C Penney, General Motors, Consolidated Edison and Sears Roebuck with declines around one to two points. mixed performers appeared among Aircraft, Union Pacific, American Gas and Republic Aviation.
Teachers will issue special use sugar permits tomorrow from 2:00 to 5:30 P M at Star Tannery Middletown Stephens City Kernstown V A Gore Mt View Gainesboro and Clearbrook. Permits next week will be announced later.
Thirteen students completed the Red Cross sponsored Home Nursing course in Cedar Grove under instructor Rebecca C Larrick. The class includes Mrs Ada V. Smith Mrs C D Dye Mrs Beulah Fries Mrs Pauline Lewis Mrs Lucille Bennett Mrs Eva Chapman Miss Irene Champan Miss Edna Miller Mrs Jessie Tinsman Mrs Susan Dick Mrs Cornelia Reese Mrs Louise Himelright and Mrs Amy Hart.
FRONT ROYAL Virginia June 11 An addition to the American Viscose Corporation plant for yarn manufacture will be ready about November 1 The 40 by 80 foot reinforced concrete building will be partly contractor built with about half the work done by the Viscose Corporation Plant manager Gerald S Thompkins says a small personnel increase is planned.
Grain prices from Baltimore and Winchester markets show Wheat No 2 Red Winter at about 1.18 1-2 for June and Corn around 95 to 98 cents. Winchester reports Wheat at 1.13 dollars per bushel and Corn at 90 cents based on deliveries at margins.
In April 1939, discussions on supply problems involved key figures Harry Hopkins, General George C. Marshall, Admiral Ernest J. King, and Secretary of State Hull. The dialogue spanned military and non military zones as policy considerations moved forward.
Frederick county calls for volunteers to man 14 airplane spotting posts under Civilian Defense. Mrs. Fred Whitacre selected president of the Frederick County Home Makers Association.
Handley High School awards 122 diplomas marking the largest graduating class in its history. In Monroe Michigan civilians are deputized as officials seek to prevent disorder during a local auto workers strike. Sam Scott Hansbrough earns a B S in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia.
Godfrey Prelip receives the Legion scholarship as the outstanding member of Handley High School’s 99 seniors, the largest diploma cohort in the school's history. Police order the 208 bonus army to move on from Rouss Park toward Washington or their next destination.
Harrisonburg officially opens the Shenandoah Valley baseball league with a match against Winchester on the Equity diamond. Lewis F Cooper and Fred Robison announce Independent candidacies for city council. George Carson is named chairman of the White Hall Farmers Union local.
Twenty five years ago Misses Anne and Bella Carson prepared to report for duty as nurses with the army in France. The draft registration in Frederick county cost only 18 dollars with registrars serving without pay.
A list of ten quiz questions about wartime topics including soap by products for explosives, WAAC role, Pearl Harbor and Corregidor dates, sugar rationing births, bombing base, a government official speech, silver content, Eamon de Valera birth, Japanese funeral practices, and Lincoln’s burial site truth.
Guidance on sentence structure advises placing qualifying clauses so their verb does not join with the previous verb. Examples show incorrect combinations like sprang to the platform on which the dead man lay and shouted versus ing to the platform on which the dead man lay, he shouted.
CHUNGKING June 11. A Chinese spokesman said the land transport link between Allied forces in India and China remains passable despite Japanese advances in Burma. He noted no contact between Japanese and Chinese troops north of Myitkyina and reported 8,000 Japanese forces pushed from Paotow were driven back 12 miles along the Yellow River.
K C George Yen director of the Chinese ministry of information in London said China’s losses up to end of 1941 exceeded two million killed and wounded. He noted China mobilizing over one million Japanese troops in China and Manchuria with 300 divisions under arms and five million in the field and ten million behind the lines.
The Star announces a free service to answer questions of fact or information not requiring extensive research. Send a clearly written question with name and address and a three cent stamp to the Washington Service Bureau at 1013 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D C. Medical or legal advice cannot be provided.
A series of concise Q and A covers where to apply for gasoline rationing permits in a new state, how to identify tin lead or aluminum by chemical analysis or flame test, how to control common chickweed in lawns with ammonium sulphate, and why weight changes in a vacuum due to buoyancy.
Federal Judge Robert N. Pollard denied Odell Waller a writ of habeas corpus, blocking a direct appeal path. Waller, 25, slated for execution by electric chair a week later, may pursue a certificate of error from the Fourth Circuit in Asheville, as civil rights groups press for review.
Navy reports a medium US merchant vessel was sunk in the Atlantic by a German submarine. The sub commander helped injured crew to safety and supplied water and coffee from Santos. The captain died. the rest were landed at East Coast ports after the attack occurred about ten days earlier.
Martinsburg report forecast a 20 percent rise in the eastern panhandle 1942 apple crop. The panhandle, including Morgan Jefferson Hampshire and Berkeley counties, accounts for 85 percent of West Virginia's apples. Miller expects Berkeley county orchards to double 1941 yields and the panhandle to produce about 5,250,000 bushels, with overall crop improving despite injuries.
A special children’s service will be held at Greenway Church on Sunday evening June 14 at 8 o’clock. The public is invited to attend.
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told Harvard graduates that the United States should refrain from imposing democracy on other nations after the war. He urged fostering tranquility, economic order, education, and international law, while letting peoples develop and maintain their freedoms through their own efforts, not by military police.
Morristown Tennessee June 11 Sheriff Ben Creech announced Frank Morgan father of the bride Mattie Pearl Manning confessed to firing the bullet that killed her husband a month ago. Mattie Pearl Manning 14 pleaded not guilty and said she shot her husband of three months because he threatened her and her family.
The Macon club wants the city to tear down or restrict access to the grandstand at Central City Park race track. It overlooks left field and recently hosted 350 comfort paying spectators. Roy Oceans is club president.
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