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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Nov 28, 1944

Page

2

Handley High wins Scrap Flag by high per pupil average

Handley High School led November scrap collection with an average of 14.6 pounds per pupil and total 10 692 pounds. Joan Kerr School was second with 4 913 pounds at 10 45 per pupil. Handley Elementary third with 3 598 pounds and 7 94 per pupil. Local chairman Ben Belchie urged continued participation and warned the drive is not finished until surrender of Germany and Japan. December dates to be announced.

Handley High Sam Announ Ben Belchie Joan Kerr School Handley Irginia Avenue Douglas Hool Belchie Germany Japan

Answers to the Daily Quiz Revealed in Notre Dame Page

The page lists quiz answers including names such as William Dudley Pelley and William D. Leahy. It includes items like Furefathers' Day and references to the Solomon Islands and Alaska. The United States is noted in relation to the quiz content.

Notre Dame William Dudley Pelley Furefathers William D. Leahy Lomon Islands

Ration Calendar Details Indefinite Validity By AP

The ration schedule lists meat fats and processed foods, stamps A through Z8 and A5 through P65 valid indefinitely with no further validation until December 3. Gasoline coupons 13A and B4 through G5 cover four to five gallons. shoes stamps and heating season coupons are noted with indefinite validity and new period stamps.

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Market Quotations Report from Baltimore Trading Activity

Market notes from Baltimore dated November 28 show dull produce with apples selling in a wide range and several varieties quoted. Poultry receipts are light and market firm with unchanged quotations while butter trading volume remains modest at 43,504 pounds.

Baltimore Bas. U W. Va Grimes

Baltimore Livestock Market Prices November report

Baltimore and Chicago livestock quotations show cattle, hogs, sheep and calves trading with varied steady to lower tones. Cattle mostly steady, hogs weaker in lighter weights, strongest demand for good weights, sheep and lambs mixed with higher bids for top native lambs and yearlings.

Baltimore Athens Chicago W.F. A

Chicago Grain Quotations

Chicago grain futures opened unevenly lower with corn and rye down. Wheat prices for Dec May July and Sept listed, alongside Dec May July oats and rye and barley figures for Dec and May.

Chicago

New York Stocks Edge Higher Amid Slow Trading

Idle funds drift into the New York market as fractional gains fade. American Telephone and Chicago and Northwestern rise slightly for 1944 while American Locomotive and Baldwin show activity. Major movers include Southern Railway Chrysler U S Rubber Westinghouse and Du Pont with several declines noted in U S Steel Bethlehem General Motors Southern Pacific Goodrich General Electric and Philip Morris. Curb favorites include Fansteel Pittsburgh Steel and Brewer.

New York American Telephone Chicago Northwestern American Locomotive Baldwin Locomotive Southern Railway Chrysler U. S. Rubber Westinghouse du Pont U.S. Steel Bethlehem General Motors Southern Pacific Goodrich General Electric Philip Morris Fansteel Pittsburgh Metallurgical Brewster Aero Pennroad St. Regis Paper Cuban Atlantic Sugar

Local Markets Corrected Daily by The Star

Local markets are listed as correct ed daily though The Star disclaims responsibility for typographical errors that may occur.

The Star

Thanksgiving Day Service at Christ Episcopal Church

The usual Thanksgiving Day service will be held at Christ Episcopal Church at 10 A.M. A half hour of praise and thanks. Those who cannot attend the union service at Market Street Methodist Church at 11 A.M. are invited to this service. The prayer thanks Jesus for love, understanding of suffering, forgiveness, and the Life and Spirit empowering healing, teaching, and children’s prayers.

Christ Episcopal Church Market Street Methodist Church Jesus Christ

British War Economics Shows Exports Halved and Debts Rise

The White Paper reports UK export values cut from 1.884 billion in 1938 to 928 million last year, a 29 percent drop in volume after price adjustments. It notes asset sales abroad of 4.26 billion dollars and foreign debts of 9.2 billion dollars, with civilian purchases shrinking by 21 percent due to wartime impact.

United Kingdom

Allied Forces Press German Lines Across Rhine Front

U.S. and French forces drive toward Rhine frontier with Patton’s Third Army reaching near Saarbrucken and Merten as Seventh Army widens toward Strasbourg. German lines erode in Alsace and Vosges while British clear pockets north of Venlo and monitors report Rhine bridges contested near Colmar.

Strasbourg Vosges Alsace Ralph Royce U. 38. First Tactical Air Force Rhine Switzerland Basel Patton George Third Army 95Th Merten Alzing Oberdorff Holling Brettenach Remelfranc Tromborn Remering Saarlautern St. Avold-Saarlautern Hombourg Seinghousse Saarbrusken 26Th Infantry Fourth Armored Wolfskirchen Sixth Armored Lixing Wah Ebersing Rhone-Rhine Canal Dannemarie Vosges Mountains U. S. Seventh Army Venlo Germany Cologne Eisenhower Aachen Saar George S. Patton Pat Saarebourg Horace L. McBride Saabrucken Harry L. Twaddle Riag T. Avold Lorraine Reich Eennelree Seventh Army Alexander M. Patch Siegfried Line Bombourg Saarbrucken Forbach Hagenau France Karlsruhe Neustadt RAF Neuss Freiburg Ninth Army Julich Kirchberg Koslar Merzenhausen Courtney H. Hodges First Army Inden Lamersborg Jungersdorf Langerwehe Saverne Gap Mutzig Molsheim Belfort Rimbach Colmar

Former Resident of County Is Dead

Death notice notes Mrs. John Sherwood formerly Miss Madge Bentley of Stevenson Frederick county died at her Salins Kansas home. Surviving husband two daughters and a son and one sister Miss Laura Bentley of Riverdale Md. She was a near cousin of Annie Pearl Grim and Robert and Claude Grim of Winchester.

Annie Grim South Loudoun Street John Sherwood Salins Kansas Sherwood Madge Bentley Stephenson Frederick County Laura Bentley Riverdale Annie Pearl Grim Robert Claude Grim Winchester

Improving From Arm Fracture

H. Clay deGrange a Winchester fruit grower and shipper, was reported by Memorial Hospital attendants to be improving from an arm fracture suffered last week. He was injured after winning at the army bond show at Handley High School grounds and tripping over a wire near Jefferson street.

H. Clay .deGrange Winchester Memorial Hospital deGrange Handley High School Jefferson Street

WAC Film At Local Theatre

Lt Frances D Robinson of the Woman's Army Corps announced today that a movie To the Ladies is being run the first three days of this week at the Capitol Theater. The WAC film concerns the need of medical technicians and is described as one of the best ever put out by the War Department.

Frances D. Robinson Woman’s Army Corps Capitol Theater WAC War Department

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