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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1941
Page
9
Market quotes from Baltimore and Chicago dated Oct 14 show cattle, calves, hogs, and sheep with mixed demand. Cattle steady to weak, hogs mostly lower on lighter weights, sheep steady to down, with prices for canners, cutters, and prime stock listed. Shows detailed ranges for weights and classes across both markets.
New York stocks drift as traders await Moscow battle result with mixed price trends. Commodities and bonds show weakness while pound sterling rises to 4.04 as market activity resumes after the long weekend.
Baltimore market reports prices for Wheat No 2 Red Winter at 1.11 to 1.12 a bushel and Corn at 84 to 87 cents per bushel. Winchester Market lists Wheat 1.05, Barley 65 cents. prices reflect mill deliveries versus year-ago levels. The text also notes a question about Myron C. Taylor’s religious affiliation, answering Episcopalian.
Winchester area district leaders met in a Round-up meeting to hear progress reports. Henry Covington and Dan Seivers submitted 1941 Shenandoah Area camp reports. Horace Browne P G Ireland and Eugene Cooper named to nominate chairman and vice chairman for the December district meeting.
New York date October 14 Senator Nye of North Dakota says he agrees with Charles A Lindbergh that the Roosevelt administration the British and the Jews were prime movers in guiding the United States into war.
H Reese Dean former assistant cashier of Provident Savings Bank Preston Maryland began serving a four year sentence in the Maryland penitentiary for embezzling four thousand seven hundred seventy dollars and seventy cents He was convicted yesterday and sentenced today. The other item notes a War Department jacket contract to Casey Jones Inc Baltimore for seventy five thousand dollars with the Huntington West Virginia mill as the production site.
Boston reports a steady inquiry level for domestic wools with moderate sales. Fins combing Delaine wools sold at 41 to 43 cents grease and three-eighths blood combing bright fleeces mostly 47 to 50 cents grease.
Local markets are gathered daily. The Star warns it does not assume responsibility for typographical errors that may occur.
German forces push toward Moscow with encirclement claims around Kaluga and advances to Mozhaisk while Soviet reports of heavy losses for the invaders surface. Izvestia notes Russian air superiority and resilient railway supply lines as battles intensify across Orel Bryansk Rzhev and Valdai Hills sectors.
Attorneys for the McCullough coal corporation of Garrett county said they would take their efforts to the U S Supreme Court to block the abandonment of the Confluence and Oakland railroad line. A three judge court dismissed the petition filed in federal court by the coal firm and the public service commission. The Interstate Commerce Commission had ruled the 19 mile line could be abandoned for a flood control dam project on the Youghiogheny River.
Berlin reports the dissolution of Sokol the Czech national sport organization by the Bohemia Moravia protectorate under Gen Heinrich as ordered by the new Reich's protector. The move ends a long standing athletic and cultural federation once based across Czech lands.
Washington reports the Federal Works Agency approved Virginia Defense public works projects for operation and maintenance of schools. Norfolk city and county own 75 000 each, Warwick County 66 000, Radford 18 090, Alexandria 30 000. Funds are to be pooled by the government.
In Baltimore on October 14 Judge J Craig McClanahan sentenced Alfred Logan Alexander, 54, to three years in the house of correction for larceny of 1779 dollars from city funds. The document also includes a quiz-style Q and A section with varied topics.
A large set of field officers from second lieutenants to major generals have been relieved since the Louisiana war games. The reshuffle mirrors World War I style purges to refresh leadership, with top commanders shifted quietly to avoid morale damage. The move targets guard and reserve officers, many part time, as three guard divisions and one corps commander are among those relieved.
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