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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1944
Page
4
Public notice from The Evening Star Publishing Co in Winchester Virginia urging readers to report delivery delays and irregularities to improve service. Instructions include ad deadline at 9 PM the day prior and transient rate 50 cents per inch with contract rates on application. Bible verse Psalms 92:12 is quoted.
A Chungking spokesman rebuts claims of lavish American aid to China noting only 153.6 million dollars in lend lease exports reached interior forces by June 1944, less than half a percent of total exports since the program began.
Forrestal says Japan’s supply problem in the Pacific wars is three times as severe as in Europe and that American power can win, but transport remains the obstacle. Japan counters with its own difficulties outlined by Lieut. Gen Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, a staunch fascist warlord.
The article notes a critical food shortage in Japan, fleet inactivity failing to stop American naval advances, bottlenecks in plane production with many planes defective, and morale drops from setbacks. Wilfrid Fleisher argues General Tatekawa may have spoken on Tokyo radio without realizing U S monitoring by the FCC, a view later echoed by assessments of Japan’s reluctance to fight and aircraft quality.
This editorial outlines how totalitarian regimes suppress or control media and warns Americans to safeguard press freedom as a core right protected by the First Amendment. It notes threats from regulatory actions and hostile rhetoric and praises the American press's wartime service during National Newspaper Week.
A war era column urges readers to support soldiers abroad and in Hardy County as the long struggle continues. It notes most servicemen won’t be home for Christmas and stresses mailing Christmas boxes before the deadline.
Local police search for the guilty vandals who caused considerable damage at S V A school. The report notes the incident as part of a roundup of Year Ago items.
Ten years ago Mrs Ian McCallum starred as Widow Cagle in the Little Theater Guilds production of Sun-Up. Admiral Byrd returned to Little America after seven months at his outpost. Twenty years ago Winchester stores advertised a dollar day sale in November during a convention of the National Association of Commercial Secretaries at the Willard Hotel in Washington. Emmett's promotes new fall clothes for women.
Thirty years ago a charming revival of the old time basque is predicted by the Star pattern service. Gowns are full length and costly, concealing milady's figure as Paris withholds a war communique while Germans advance through Belgium and Russians retreat in Galicia.
W S Heitt discovers a turtle bearing his initials carved 21 years earlier. A lamp explodes as he burns it, causing a blaze. The incident ties memory to a cautioned spark and an accidental fire.
Forty five years ago Capt Haddox presided over a Friendship Fire Company gathering with 115 members present to decide on forming a band. The item notes Henry Sheetz's death from a fall from an apple tree in Woodstock and reports Cape Town authorities stating the Boers destroyed an England armored train with wide sympathy for the English.
A reflective piece cites Ruskin on wealth as life and its powers. It argues money is not wealth in itself and warns against valuing only material things. It extols love courage and fidelity as higher measures of a well lived life.
The page 2 answers reveal that the 1944 Miss America winner was selected during the Atlantic City pageant. The feature lists other trivia questions from the quiz please check for the correct names and details in the continuation.
Washington analyst surveys the Dumbarton Oaks program noting a permanent international war department via a military staff advising the security council. The plan envisions a one vote general assembly, an 18-member economic committee, and limited independent power, with major authority resting in the security council and United Nations centers.
The article outlines white blood cells or phagocytes, their constant count of about five thousand per cubic millimeter, and their role in immune defense. It covers leucocytes rising in infection, conditions like leucocytosis, and diseases like typhoid, measles, and leukemias, with notes on goiter and carbonated drinks implications.
A Little Rock note cites Emerson on mortality rising one percent per extra pound after age forty. It quotes a Scotch proverb to live long with a wee bit of punny, plus Burgess on eating as art, and Cornaro on abstaining from certain foods.
The draft outlines a strengthened League of Nations with disarmament tas, but critics note only broad charters and no new guarantees. Leadership, Russia, and the United States determine the program's fate amid past failures and future ambitions.
A reader asks if the Chinese pay physicians to stay well and the paper cites a fallacious statement with underlying facts. The response references the Information Bureau address in Washington, asking readers to enclose three cents for return postage.
Mr Thatcher tends a sheltered rose garden behind a white house on Town creek in Talbot. Anne Wilson, returning to work in New York, meets Thatcher who invites her in and speaks of peace a little world away from the big world. He hints at gossip about Anne and Dan Smith as the chapter ends.
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