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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1944
Page
4
The Evening Star publishes daily except Sundays from Winchester Virginia. Advertising deadlines are 9 PM the day before publication. Readers are asked to report delays or irregularities to maintain proper delivery. Transient rates are 0 cents per inch with contract rates on application.
A biblical psalm verse appears in the October 14 1944 Saturday issue. The line from Psalms 92 13 emphasizes that those planted in the house of the Lord will flourish in the courts of our God.
Dr. Colter Rule, 32, a Columbia University physician, contracted tuberculosis after high altitude lung tests at Welfare Island. Dr. Artell E. Johnson recovered after fourteen months. Tests showed altitude exposure renews tubercular lesions and warned pilots of risks while aiding Army manpower in aviation.
A wartime dispatch reports General Eisenhower urging enslaved labor in Germany to revolt and Allied guidance for uprisings in Austria Belgium and the Netherlands as a coordinated push advances with internal support from Germany Austria and Hungary aimed at overthrowing the Nazis.
Reprinted editorial discusses corn pone recipes and argues the dish should use sifted water ground white corn meal with salt and water. It notes a reader’s alternative recipe with soda salt buttermilk baking powder and water, and weighs traditional versus sweeter corn breads while praising white corn’s flavor.
The piece argues the Little Steel wage controversy hinges on labor recovering living costs, weekly take home, and basic hourly rates. It notes postwar shifts as V E Day frees goods, suggesting wage rises may fall on Treasury funding and raise inflation or debt, delaying price controls.
A year after General Clark entered Naples, Allied advances and German losses are recalled. The piece notes Red Army progress on Kiev, Mediterranean air operations, and shifting fronts from Naples toward Berlin with Aachen Bologna and Warsaw as distant points.
The article notes better Navy press relations in the Pacific as Admiral Nimitz’s joke about a sea battle circulated, then was countermanded. It highlights how fast modern press services function and that radio stations briefly aired a current action claim before correction. The episode shows cooperation between press and Navy.
Kiwanis Club sponsors establishing five pickup stations in the city to aid servicemen. Robert Lee Grant, a key figure in the George Washington Hotel project, is staying in a Hollywood hotel. Winchester women try the latest hair fad, the cold waves.
The Novick Transfer Company moves 10 million tons monthly and is the region’s largest trucking firm between Roanoke and Baltimore including Washington. Winchester Memorial Hospital is designated standard by the American College of Surgeons and has met the standards for years. Clarke County’s annual vocational fair at Boyce features notable displays and draws many patrons.
James Clarence Jenkins sixty from Clarke county dies after illness. Col B M Roszel to speak at a banquet by the Presbyterian Church Young Men's Bible Class. Hauptmann on trial in the Lindbergh kidnapping case admits having more ransom money when arrested.
J. H. Enders receives the top prize in a Clarke County Woman's Club yard improvement contest judged by Mayor John Goldsmith and Frank M. Wray. Dr. Hunter H. McGuire departs to Staunton for the Medical Society of Virginia convention.
obituary notice notes the sudden death of Mrs Lucy Young of Berryville. The B and O Railroad announces changes to the Valley line with two trains discontinued. Wheat prices in Baltimore quoted at 1.137 8.
The Third Battery, U S Artillery, camps at Fort Myer area overnight. Clarence Glaize, once a local resident, now a noted businessman, visits old friends here. News comes of the first elopement tied to the Hagerstown Fair as an angry father chases the couple through town.
Dr. William P. McGuire returns from Baltimore where he assisted in a mayoral operation on Winchester Mayor John J. Williams. City Council approves an ordinance to construct the City Hall. Prof. J Madison Spurr announces an upcoming Union Cornet Band concert.
A reflective piece discusses Kempis on peace and warns against merely halting war. It argues peace requires universal opportunity and justice, not cynicism, with calls to oppose oppression and uplift all nations. A Q&A section asks about a yellowhead currency note and the Hartford meeting of Allied generals with answers detailing interpreters.
War correspondent reports German defenders rely on fixed pillboxes and outdated units. He notes convalescents and aging veterans defend the western border while ace mobile troops push counterattacks. Recruitment strains and poor training undermine Nazi resolve amid Allied push to the Rhine.
Dr Clendening explains adolescence as the rise of acne tied to skin changes and nutrition. He cites vitamin A supplementation showing improvement in 79 of 100 cases, notes initial flare ups, and offers general care tips for diet, milk avoidance, and gentle facial cleansing.
The Rev. L. L. Shreck will teach the Golden Rule Bible Class at Braddock Street Methodist Church tomorrow morning at 9 45. All class members are asked to be present and visitors are invited to attend.
The Rev. Norman Cooper will teach the Grace Lutheran Church Men's Bible Class tomorrow at 9 45 a m. All members are urged to attend and visitors are cordially invited.
A reader asks seven quiz questions across geography grammar history sports and government. It requests the correct answers on page 2 and includes items on Dewey birth place metric units volume Belmont Park location l oped grammar Dizzy Trout 1944 season leeward camel pacing Maine Minnesota or Washington northernmost Alaska Governor selection method.
The War Department states that the average ski trooper can travel from ten to forty miles in a day. The actual distance depends on climate, terrain and other variable factors.
Anne travels with Mr. Thatcher in a sunlit town while tangled loyalties unfold. Russell presses for marriage as Anne contemplates leaving for New York after a vanished husband’s note and a dramatic family crisis erupts when Laura bursts in with news of a dying mother.
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