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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1944
Page
4
The Evening Star published in Winchester Virginia announces its postal details and urges subscribers to report delays or irregularities to aid a perfect delivery system. The paper operates daily except Sunday and is affiliated with DeLisser Inc as national representative.
Psalmist notes that God set earth borders and created summer and winter. The verse from Psalms 74 17 reflects divine sovereignty over natural order.
The piece argues that federal takeover of insurance under interstate commerce would upend seventy five years of state regulation and imperil trillions in assets and the security of millions. It warns that federal control could undermine private life savings and threaten the nation’s financial system amid New Deal push for social security and broader government reach.
Editorial notes revive Yugoslav history with Lubasiich and Tito seeking accord in wartime Yugoslavia. King Peter reportedly abroad in London for unity talks while Subasic meets Tito, signaling a potential postwar royal role despite past obstacles. Mihailovic’s stance looms as a secondary question.
Reports say both Axis camps rely on holding back forces as a key tactic to reinforce interior positions. Germany is said to be reserving strength to bolster its tactical advantage when best needed.
The piece argues Germany and Japan rely on concealing forces and surprise rather than true victory. It notes Japanese and German air and naval capabilities could threaten but cannot withstand American naval power. Over time Allied supremacy would negate these tactics as America mobilizes overwhelming strength.
The author laments widespread inefficiency among workers and service providers on the home front describing shortages of discipline and proactivity. He contrasts loyal workers with grumbling ones and notes frustrations from poor service and unreliable promises as society endures wartime hardships. He envisions a day when citizens can again complain reasonably.
Raymond Carper shows a forty four inch potato plant still growing. Carl F. Massey, president of Fruit Heart Laboratories, Orchards, Inc., dies suddenly at his home. An appeal for more workers in the surgical dressing rooms. H L Maury becomes president of Gainesboro District Religious Council at the 28th annual meeting. Kenneth Gilpin plans to sell his Kentmere breeding establishment at Saratoga sales in August.
Ten years ago the local gas war restarts as another station lowers price to nineteen cents per gallon. Edward G. Butler delivers an engaging talk on Delphinium at the Winchester Clarke Garden Club meeting.
Forty eight delegates with State Democratic chairman H. F. Byrd travel to New York for the Democratic national convention. H. B. Harris is elected president of the newly organized Berryville Chamber of Commerce. Annie Moore and Katherine McDonald prepare to sail today on the Lancastria from Southampton, England, after three months in Europe.
Thirty years ago the C. V. R. R. begins its first sixteen day excursion on Thursday June 25 with a six dollar sixty cent round trip to Atlantic City Cape May and South Jersey resorts. Leave Winchester at 7 25 a m. A desperado is captured by four teen police officers in the mountains fourteen miles from Luray.
Forty years ago the City Council approves plans for the Handley Library to be built at the northwest corner of Braddock and Piccadilly streets. George F. Sheetz and Genevieve Burton narrowly escape death when their train collides head on near Vincennes Indiana while traveling to the World's Fair in St. Louis.
Forty five years ago Miss Rose Hardy, teaching in Washington, receives the model teacher distinction. Miss Charlotte Conner leads in Winchester's Most Popular Business Girl contest. An automobile frightens Dr Lippit's horse causing a runaway. owner jailed. Horses grazing in the colored graveyard may be seized by authorities.
An 88 year old French priest denounces the Allies in a pulpit speech, is sent to a concentration camp, escapes with underground aid, returns to denounce Hitler, and prays in German before guards, prompting Nazi officials’ consternation. Sixteen lines detail his endurance and repeated prayer amid guard changes.
A quiz page asks seven questions on topics from politics to geography. It lists items on CIO PAC leadership senses Calpurnia Alaska purchase and tennis scoring while prompting names and terms for several historical and linguistic queries.
Fifth Army reports an unofficial estimate of 80 000 to 100 000 Germans killed wounded or captured over 41 days of the Italian offensive. With 27 000 prisoners already taken and a rule of thumb of one to two wounded per prisoner, the Allied drive has forced multiple new divisions into Italy including Luftwaffe units and Balkan troops. One U.S. unit has taken 1 200 prisoners, about 800 of whom are non Germans.
A Virginia correspondent asks about how long disease germs survive outside the body. Dr. Clendening explains tuberculosis can persist indefinitely outside a body, contagion mainly via contact and milk, and notes kissing or sharing utensils risks vary by age and immunity. He covers syphilis, gonorrhea transmission, scarlet fever as a fomite risk, and contrasts measles, chickenpox, mumps with scarlet fever.
Rome military governor Maj. Gen. Harry H. Johnson forbade tenor Beniamino Gigli to sing at a Rome opera house concert for Allied soldiers. The ban cited his Fascist and Nazi associations and time not opportune for an artist with those ties.
A brief notice urges the purchase of Independence Day bonds during July to support World Freedom initiatives. Officials emphasize patriotic funding and national goals through the bond drive.
Virginia hatcheries show a sharp drop in May operations from 1943 levels. The Virginia Crop Report Service cites reduced feed supplies and poorer rations as causes for the declines, with eggs laid and chicks hatched roughly halved from the previous year.
In Wrightsville, Pat urges Cart to resign as prosecutor to defend Jim Haight. Cart refuses, insisting he must ensure Jim gets a fair trial. The town mutters as Bradford outlines a circumstantial case that James Haight planned to kill his wife Nora by poison, with a larger motive of money and inheritance. The defense fights the glare of a hostile crowd and a complex court record unfolds.
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