26 Jun 1944
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1944
Page
1
London dispatches report Premier Joseph Stalin announced the capture of Citebsk. A German bridgehead at Vitebsk was cut off from rear communications according to the Transocean Agency broadcast.
Between 500 and 750 American heavy bombers attacked six oil refineries, an aircraft factory, and a Vienna railway hub from Italian bases amid poor weather. Mosquito bombers targeted Normandy areas, Cherbourg emplacements, and supply dumps, while RAF and Italian forces struck Paris and other German targets with 3,500 aircraft involved in Sunday operations.
Soviet dispatches report Red Army forces fighting through Moscow’s Vitebsk streets drove Germans across the western Drina and seized a central city building. Encirclement of five German divisions, with the town’s east bank flag rising, marks a major objective of the summer offensive as battle widens across Poland and Romania fronts.
The Winchester and Frederick County War Price and Rationing Office will be closed to the public on June 29 and 30 and July 1. The office moves from Loudoun Street to the basement of the George Washington Hotel at North Cameron Street. it reopens at the new location on Monday July 3.
Captain Mifflin B. Clowe Jr. writing to his wife reports a shell explosion near him. Fragments struck his left arm and hand and right knee. He is being treated in an American hospital in Clowe, commanding Company I 116th Infantry 29th Division, which went into action on invasion day and was among the first to engage.
The following Winchester men left for training June 23 at Camp Lee Virginia. Conrad Howard Sirbaugh, Harry Woodward Boyd Jr., Geo wih Hillyard, Robert Blaine Burton, Samuel George Athey Jr., Walter Richard Fletcher, and Wayne Pershing Hawkins. Albert Jones and Clifton Estep have been transferred out.
Chicago June 26 The Dewey faction reports 539 pledged votes and 159 more assured at 12 20 PM on the opening session of the 23rd Republican National Convention. Illinois Governor Dwight Green welcomes delegates as platform talks begin and a crop control plank is proposed as a last resort. Green accuses Roosevelt administration of political meddling with war leadership.
Washington June 26 War Department reports Private Beverley Byrd 23 son of Senator Harry F Byrd was wounded in action June 9 during the Normandy invasion. He serves as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division and was abroad over eighteen months. Further condition details were to follow as available.
Grover Schlack announced another Farm and Home Curb Market will be held Wednesday morning at the City Parking Lot corner Kent and Boscawen streets. Sponsored by the Frederick County Board of Agriculture, it opens at 8 and runs to 12 noon with farm products offered to city residents.
The Lions Club plans a Thursday night event featuring a War Department exhibit of captured enemy equipment in Winchester. A German anti tank gun will be displayed on Reuss Avenue near the county courthouse with no admission charge. The Braddock Street Church Youth Choir will lead singing as 200 song sheets are prepared for this old fashioned community entertainment.
A Virginia ham and southern fried chicken menu drew over six hundred New England bond purchasers to a Winchester Mass. supper last Saturday night. The event, supervised by Aunt Sue Tokes, featured ham, corn bread, cole slaw, chips, coffee, ice cream and cake. Mrs. Ethel Jolliffe led the women’s division of the War Finance Committee as guest of honor.
New England bond purchasers in Winchester Massachusetts take the lead in the E War Bond selling contest according to Federal Reserve figures through Friday June 23 Winchester shows 26.5 percent compared with 20.7 percent in the next city.
Sue Tokes Jennie May reach Boston Thursday night to greet visitors as Mrs Jolliffe travels from Canada where she had been attending events. The gathering continues as crowds await further coverage.
The report details U S infantry mopping up in Cherbourg after a fierce defense as Eisenhower signals the occupation cannot be long delayed. In the Russian theater four armies push into White Russia breaking the fatherland line. Vitebsk sees a trapped Nazi garrison. The Italian front notes Fifth Army advancing near Piombino with Siena activity. In the Pacific Saipan operations expand with Tapotchau peak seized and Garapan within reach. Nimitz tallies 747 Japanese planes downed, 30 ships sunk, 51 damaged in late June actions. Asiatic Front reports Japanese progress toward the Canton Hankow rail line as Americans strike Mogaung base.
Rehabilitation efforts led by the Red Cross continued as thousands were left homeless in Pennsylvania West Virginia and Maryland. Official damage estimates ranged around 3 million dollars with more deaths reported raising the toll to at least 151 and over 1 000 injured. Red Cross relief centers opened in Waynesburg McKeesport and Clarksburg as rebuilding work began for those unable to act for themselves.
Marks Shows Inc will host Winchester Evening Star newsboys tomorrow evening. The 43 truck show arrives from Annapolis Maryland and transports the carriers to the Old Airport carnival for ice cream cake and free admission to rides.
Consignors include T. C. Cather and E. Earl for the Victory Livestock Sale held tomorrow with the Virginia Livestock Auction Market. Credit for all sales goes to the county home demonstration and 4-H clubs.
Fifth Army troops captured Piombino securing a major supply base for operations along Italy’s west coast. American and French forces closed on Siena as German defenses yielded on three fronts. French units moved toward the Ombrone river and toward Siena while other forces advanced from the southwest.
Chinese high command said fighting near Hengyang continued with no change in positions. Japanese east wing captured Yusien and Hengshan while west wing receded near Liangsiang as Tokyo pressed to sever the Canton Hankow railway and split China in two. If the line falls, Japan gains a north south supply axis to supplement sea routes being challenged by the American Pacific campaign.
City police warn motorists who refuse or neglect to secure city license tags that they will be summoned to Police Court. Sgt Francis Punk said the crackdown targets offenders and enforcement will begin in the near future.
Allied forces announced Cherbourg's docks were reached and over one third of the city held as German shelling continued from Cap de la Hague. American troops, supported by sea power, pressed street fighting to clear pockets while Montgomery’s eastern flank captured villages near Tilly-Sur-Seulles. More than 20,000 prisoners were taken since D‑Day, with 3,400 in Cherbourg in 24 hours.
The U S Pacific Fleet reports 747 Japanese airplanes and six carrier flat-tops lost as Allied forces push ashore on Saipan, with American troops and Marines securing the southwestern coast and advancing into the island’s mountains. Admiral Nimitz provides a revised tally of losses amid the Saipan campaign.
Ralph Earl McClure will stand trial in Winchester Corporation Court for a felony on July 13. The clerk is ordered to prepare a list of 30 qualified jurors and issue a venire to City Sergeant G. G. Baker to summon the jurors at 10 o’clock.
Allen T. Hawthorne M D announces office hours will not begin until Saturday. The notice states the office will be closed on Saturday afternoons.
Square and round dance sessions held every Tuesday in Mill Wheel hall. Event listed with date code 6-22-1980 and ongoing weekly schedule for dancing enthusiasts.
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