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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1944
Page
4
Public notice from The Evening Star of Winchester Virginia urges subscribers to report delays to maintain delivery. The page lists subscription rates and ad deadlines and ends with Psalm 69 5.
Senator Ellender defends private housing against Fulton Lewis and argues federal projects cost more than private builds. He notes postwar demand could reach 600000 housing units annually and urges directing funds to private owners, reducing public subsidies as industry returns to private enterprise.
The nation faces rising the national debt to 240 billion and beyond. Annual interest on the debt currently reaches 3.6 billion with projections of 6 billion a year if debt grows to 300 billion by war’s end. The issue frames a major postwar economic problem for the United States.
The nation must keep employment and national income at peak levels to manage an annual budget approaching 20 to 30 billion dollars plus veterans' relief and the army. With no room to retire principal, inflation plans threaten chaos. A debt larger than all previous world debts tests the country to its foundations.
Reprinted editorial says Allied air raids in eleven days cost 373 planes and about 2,300 crew. It notes a $100,000,000 price, yet values lives and praises high survival and underground routes. It claims 33,000 sorties with only 373 losses and argues Britain and the United States can replace planes and crews while Germany cannot rebuild factories or recover losses.
The article criticizes ongoing changes in Selective Service plans for the draft and urges stable, informed manpower policy. It argues workers must stay on the job to sustain production, warns against political favoritism, and calls for competent administration that can learn from experience to solve manpower issues.
A reflective piece on Jane Addams shows how nightly dreams of being the last survivor fueled a sense of mission. It argues prophets grow from moral pressure and urges readers to act locally to improve blocks and communities, stressing individual responsibility over leaders.
A London broadcast from Eisenhower headquarters warns Europeans to stay off roads as Allied invasion forces move into the continent. Citizens should shelter below ground, avoid enticement onto roads, and use cellars or sunken trenches to stay safe during bombardment.
Delayed dispatch from Bari notes artillery fire to the south of Rome heard plainly as civilians queue for war updates. Germans defend Rome, rail service is disrupted, mail access to northern Italy falls to one car weekly, and food shortages hit 2,000,000 residents. Vatican life described as near normal with 15 meatless days. Swiss Guard strengthened amid fears of invasion while refugees hide in apartments and cellars as Nazis offer rewards for informers.
These local markets are corrected daily but The Star does not assume responsibility for typographical errors that may occur.
Market list shows patent and local wholesale flour prices per bag or barrel, with 10, 24, 48, and 98 pound bags across blends. Dairy and meat items listed include country butter, butter types, various cow and hog prices, poultry like leghorn fowls and broilers, plus miscellaneous feeds and milled grain values.
The Star urges readers to support the war effort by buying government bonds. The call to action highlights bond purchases as a civic duty for Berryville, Boyce, and Clarke County residents amid wartime mobilization.
A letter recalls traveling to a Hollingsworth furnishings sale near Shawnee Springs that was called off, reflects on family roots of the Hollingsworths in Maryland and Pennsylvania, notes local antique interests, and describes glimpses of a Conestoga Wagon-box and a limestone house with a palladium window as part of a sentimental journey.
Dr. Logan Clendening discusses the drop in death rate from acute appendicitis and the key methods of treatment. He cites Dr. A J Ochsner, notes the dangers of laxatives, and explains how early surgery plus rest and careful care reduced Chicago mortality and influenced broader practice. Appendicitis mainly affects the young and misused laxatives cause rupture deaths.
A reader urges reviving the Winchester Historical Society or forming a new one to use the Spring house as a permanent home for Hollingsworth sisters' furniture and historic notes. The letter asks to preserve and publish Winchester history and invites continued yearly meetings.
Ellery Queen visits Wrightsville to write a novel and investigates eerie letters found among Nora Haight and Jim Haight’s belongings. The scene darkens with a masked Halloween intruder and Nora’s fear as Ellery puzzles over envelopes addressed to Jim’s sister Rosemary, dated in crayon. The plot thickens as Pat Wright assists, hinting at family secrets and a suspected jinx on Nora’s honeymoon home.
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