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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1942
Page
7
New York June 26. A line of autos stretched four blocks at a gasoline station as a woman driver forced her way to the front. Infuriated motorists followed suit and the dealer held a “Sorry No Gas” sign as three conspirators joined four others in cutting ahead. The woman eventually faced a locked pump while the sign remained.
The army adopts fixed text canned messages for soldiers including urgent replies like letter received many thanks and please write. For 60 cents plus tax, commercial agencies accept messages for transmission to Great Britain Ireland Newfoundland Panama Hawaii and the Dutch West Indies. Officials plan to extend to other expeditionary areas. Messages require the soldier’s name rank army serial number and army post office number. Telegraph and radio offices have lists of APO numbers and 102 stock messages. up to three may be combined.
North Mountain Virginia residents report visitors and family news. Joe Bean and wife from Washington spent the weekend at their home. Katherine Lineberg was hospitalized after surgery and Alice Good visited relatives. Mrs. Smith returned from Florida and stays with her daughter.
In Lorain Ohio on June 26 police broke up a youths dice game in an alley. The group fled leaving $1 in change and a car likely belonging to one of the boys. The vehicle was tagged for parking on the wrong side and towed. no callers have claimed it.
A businessman reports a long string of auto mobile thefts across years. He says seven vehicles were stolen in 15 years, with two in June and three more on June 16, plus three in December. He notes the final theft left him with three good tires in the tire trunk.
A Missouri audience member counted 46 stars on the large flag behind the stage at the University of Missouri. An investigation found the flag was made in 1912 before Arizona and New Mexico were admitted to statehood.
In Bradford on June 26 a practice air raid scare embarrassed two young women carrying several beer bottles. A special policeman escorted them to the nearby air raid shelter at the First Methodist Episcopal Church, saying it was the only place to put them.
Charles Harmon was seated on a midtown sidewalk bench when a buried gasoline storage tank exploded under the concrete. The 500 pound chunk of walk rose with a crack tossing the boy and bench five feet into the air.
A preview of Irving Berlin’s This Is The Army with an all soldier cast followed by radio plays and features on WJSV and WMAL including The Year Eighteen Twelve Napoleonic Russia drama, King Peter of Yugoslavia intro, news and music blocks, Am os and Andy, Kate Smith, Dinah Shore, and ends with Orchestra and Moon Dial segments.
Sydney reports Staff Sergeant Sidney Gosney recently back from the war recounts a raid in Coventry England where he sheltered in a gutter during a direct hit. An army surgeon removed a square inch fragment bearing fuse cap number 789 from his body and he now wears badge 789 with the Australian Returned Soldiers League.
A Winnipeg report notes a truck ran away with no driver and then reversed into a tree, causing only slight damage but surprising observers with the unusual momentum reversal. The incident occurred in late June.
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