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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1941
Page
9
Baltimore and Chicago livestock prices listed with cattle calves hogs and sheep quotes. Cattle steady. calves 11.00-11.50. hogs 9.50-10.20. sows 9.0. Sheep unreliable with limited offerings. Chicago shows higher hogs and steady cattle with vealers down.
New York June 13 Rallying stock market as investors lock in profits and hedge against weekend risk. Some leaders fell 1 to 2 points while most losses were fractional. Utility and rail shares showed activity. steels and motors lagged. Transfers around 450000. notable quotes include Al Chem 154 3 8 and US Steel 56.
Chicago June 13 prices for futures rose after dipping to week lows. Wheat July at 1.02, Sept 1.03 1-2, Dec 1.05 3-8. Corn July 73 1-4, Sept 15 1-4, Dec 77 1-4. Oats and soybeans listed with multiple contracts, market notes include bellies and lord futures. Baltimore reports wheat at 98 cents, corn 83 cents, barley 60 cents.
Boston June 13 reports Worstead and greasy shorn domestics slow with some houses seeing fair demand for domestic wools. Eight months Texas wools and fine territory original wools quoted at 1.00 to 1.03 dollars, but overall scoured lots moved slowly. Average bright combing fleece wools quiet with occasional carloads priced slightly under 46 to 47 cents per pound.
A father Willie Shivery 60 and his son Herbert 32 died when their car was struck by a truck six miles south of Elkton Maryland. Maurice Jurgeans and William Jurgeans were injured. Richard Hartman escaped injury. The crash occurred as the car pulled aside to pass an oncoming truck after a Knights of Columbus meeting. William Katz owner of the truck was treated for minor injuries and released.
Allied advances reported in Syria and Damascus negotiations hinder entrance to the capital. French warships at Alexandria join the Free French as crews desert by the thousands. In Europe, a major RAF raid hits the Ruhr in its heaviest blast yet, with several Luftwaffe Messerschmitts repelled.
Twenty members of the Retail Merchants Association failed to reach a decision on closing a half-day weekly during July and August. Ten voted for and ten against. Andrew Bell was tasked to poll the merchants again soon to settle the issue.
The Rev. Mr. Gheslin of Renick West Virginia will preach at Opequon Presbyterian Church at 8 p m Monday night and at Burnt Church Tuesday at the same hour. The Opequon Presbyterians plan to call a pastor to succeed Rev E Summers McGavock.
Election commissioners completed an official canvass of returns in Lord Fairfax Tuesday. Landon B. Whitacre received 193 votes, Roy L. Bageant 104, J. L. Hershman 157, C. K. Wright 83, and A. F. Lillard 79. Whitacre, Bageant, and Hershman declared elected.
Harry Mish Jr., a Bunker Hill native, spent winter in Florida with George F. Tibbetts founder of the Gospel Volunteers of the World Inc. He now works as a typist in Speculator New York, and recently passed through Bunker Hill on his way north.
Mayor Fred Larrick of Middletown urged boys and girls to volunteer for an aircraft warning station. He aims to complete enrollment by tomorrow and asked interested youths to contact him immediately.
State Department charge says the Robin Moor was sunk in the South Atlantic on May 21 by a German submarine. Passengers and crew were given 30 minutes to abandon ship before sinking. Berlin asserts willful defiance of Allied discussions. U S counters on contraband definitions in wartime.
Air ministry dispatch describes bomber activity over the Ruhr with hits on Brest and Antwerp docks and targets near Rotterdam. Coastal command planes attacked allied targets and one plane did not return. German raids on eastern England caused some casualties, including fatalities in an East Anglia town. one Nazi plane was destroyed.
Grimes and Whitacre sections report a string of social calls visitors from Winchester Stephens City and Richmond. Local farms bustle with strawberry cherry hay and barley harvesting amid summer break as residents share news of fittings and house projects.
Good Virginia notes list Mr and Mrs Loring Pugh and family trips to Maryland Mrs Theodora Holiday and family traveling with them Miss Doris Pugh and Miss Mary Lee Hammock start employment in Washington Several visits and illnesses are reported including Mr Speelman and Mrs Belle Clark gatherings Laurel Hill Sunday School well attended Miss Hammock and Miss Pugh travel to Washington for a few weeks Eugene Clark buys a car
The Frederick Circuit Court grants divorce to Edna H. Stipe from Marvin H. Stipe on grounds of desertion. The decree settles all marital rights and responsibilities as per court order.
The Ladies Aid Society of Pleasant Grove U B Church will host a lawn party at the church on Saturday evening June 21. Everyone is invited to attend. Reverend M L Zirkle of Wardensville will preach at Fairview Lutheran Church next Sunday at 3 PM with Communion to follow. Sunday School begins at 2 PM. Miss Ellen Oates and others visited ill brother J Robert Oates in Baltimore Wednesday.
A terse instruction urges using the pronoun who rather than a relative clause in a contemporary quotation. The note emphasizes concise reporting and standard grammar in attributions and paraphrase.
Congress members react to the sinkings amid conflicting views. Rep. Mott questions German intent while Rep. Kefauver urges tougher action. Senators Brown Mead and Wheeler emphasize caution and avoiding war, with calls for intensified patrols and possible convoy measures.
The local markets are collected daily by the Star, though not by The Star itself. The report notes daily market data collection practices and highlights differences in how markets are gathered for publication.
The listing shows prices for Creamery butter at 4 5? per pound and flour types with 12 24 48 and 98 pound bags. Various feed and grain items include oats middling bon wain shoe feed horse feed mined feed chick grower broiler mash turkey grower and country butter prices. The fragment quotes multiple bag weights and per barrel or per pound pricing, indicating a general market price sheet.
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