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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1944
Page
7
Social news reports Lt. Paul D. Everly of the Third U. S. Marine Corps honored by his brother-in-law and sister at Roseville near Boyce with a farewell gathering. Also covers local marriages, Junior Board of Trade dances, garden club events, and hospital auxiliary notices.
A reader notice lists weekly meetings for St Joan's Guild Lions Club Eagles Rebekah Met Kiwanis D A R Old Fredericktown Garden Club Elks Rotary Turner Ashby W O W across multiple venues for Monday to Friday including Christ Episcopal Golden Glow West Germain Street Cecil Street Leicester Street and various lodge halls.
At the invitation of Edward A. Stettinius Jr undersecretary and UVA Board member, delegates to the Dunbarton Oaks Conference were welcomed. Colgate W. Darden Jr governor of Virginia, R. Gray Williams rector, and Dr. John Lloyd Newcomb, UVA president, led tours. The visitors saw Monticello Ash Lawn and Montpelier, homes of Jefferson Monroe and Madison.
The Women’s Bible Class of Pudoun Street Presbyterian church will be guests of the Ever Ready Bible Class Tuesday September 12 at a picnic at Dorothy Briggs’ home on Millwood Avenue. Members should meet in front of the church at 6:30 for transportation.
The second formal meeting of the Women's Volunteer Corps of Winchester Memorial Hospital was held at Nurses' Home on W. Clifford St. Chair Hyman Fine reviewed six months of service totaling 605 hours and praised wing women with over 100 hours. Plans for 100 hour recognition and new shift coordinators were announced. Calls for information were extended to interested women.
Mrs. John W. Rosenberger hosts the Fort Loudoun Chapter D A R meeting at 2 30 Wednesday afternoon at 210 West Line Street with assistant hostesses Miss Mary Robinson and Mrs. W T Colbert. Miss Clara W McQuown will speak on Peace How to attain.
An advertisement urges students to buy high quality school supplies from Brooks Pharmacy. It lists pens pencils tablets notebooks ink crayons rulers and related items as essential tools of education. The message emphasizes that using better supplies leads to improved performance.
Mr and Mrs L W Leech and son return to Toledo after ten days visiting Mrs Leechs mother Mrs Clayton Hollis in Winchester. Mrs Myers heads to Roanoke to visit her mother Mrs Stauffer. Mrs Livingood returns from hospital with daughter and grandson visiting South Washington Street. St Joans Guild meets tonight and U D C chapter set for Thursday.
A tropical disturbance in the Atlantic shows signs of veering away from the Bahamas and Florida. At 10 A.M. its center was 550 to 560 miles east of Nassau, moving northwest at about 10 mph with hurricane force winds near the center and gales outward 150 miles. The slower motion could bring a turn to a more northwest or northerly direction within 12 to 18 hours, placing the center well north of the Bahamas.
German prisoners of war have arrived in Winchester and signed contracts with local growers storages and processing plants including E W Barr H W Butler Dr W D Myers and others along with Virginia Cold Storage National Fruit Product Company and National Fruit Company in Martinsburg W Va Bahamans are expected Friday with 125 to start September 18 1944 State Convicts from the Highway Camp at Stephens City have supplied twenty workers for farms in Frederick Clarke and Shenandoah Counties to harvest and process corn and other crops
Stine says workers are fully used by farmers and will not join apple orchards until corn cutting ends. He notes Emergency Farm Labor Program recruitment has stabilized wages and worker availability for growers, but the priority now is securing workers in processing plants storages and packing houses to prevent bottlenecks in fruit delivery.
French forces push toward Dijon as American units move north and east from Belfort, clearing hills to the Saone and advancing toward Arnay Le Duc Saulieu Autun and Auxonne while bombarding the southeastern Riviera by Allied ships. The Dijon corridor would sever key highways and bring German positions within about 55 miles of northern France troops.
Col. Benjamin Davis Jr. of New York, commander of the all Negro 32nd fighter group in the U S 15th Air Force, received the Distinguished Flying Cross from his father Brig Gen Davis for leadership over northern Italy on May 9 when he led a group in an attack against over 100 enemy fighters.
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at four o'clock for the late George R. Miller at the home of his parents in the Red Bud section of Frederick county. Interment was in Mount Hebron Cemetery. Pallbearers were Hugh Ritter, Lee Smith, John Smith, Maynard on Woodrow Reed, and Bruce ze.
Two severe earthquakes were recorded by Fordham University's seismograph, estimated to be about 9,709 miles from New York, likely in the Dutch East Indies. The report notes Rev. Joseph J. Lynch among the observers.
Puzzle fragment shows numbered clues including 1 Cubic meter 21Ri¢ 8 one of the Great Lakes 37 39 Girl's 41 Color ny.
A Fordham seismologist notes two quakes occurred at 6 04 50 a m EWT and 6 07 18 a m, detailing precise timing of the tremors.
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