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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1945
Page
4
The piece argues morale drops after war ends as troops in Germany question staying on occupation duty. It urges the Army to explain the purpose of policing a defeated Germany and Japan to maintain peace and security, warning that failed occupation could echo post World War I outcomes.
A discussion of public debt around 364 million dollars with bonds expected to top 300 billion in a year. The piece compares Napoleonic era borrowing by Britain and France, whose consols persist as hereditary instruments. interest bearing instruments endure as inheritances and dowries.
The Roanoke editorial denounces President Truman’s proposal for up to 25 weekly unemployment pay for six months as a premium on loafing. It cites Doughton Byrd and a national trend of workers refusing private sector jobs, warning against eroding American work ethic.
A playful quiz asks seven questions covering naval fleets in Japan, The American Legion origin, dictionary usage, OPA rules, alewife meaning, authorship of Story of a Bad Boy, a 1943 Phoenixville war project, minerals in foods, the Soviet Army in Korea, and the phrase Proud as a with a missing ending.
Shawnee District of the Shenandoah Area Council Boy Scouts of America plans a district rally and parade during October. Game Warden F W Pingley reports squirrel hunters in the woods with fair success. First Army has ringed Aachen and pushed into Germany six miles beyond the Siegfried Line.
Reports state German forces are using a super cannon to shell London with shells hurled beyond ninety miles. A new U S destroyer Landsdale is christened and commissioned at Boston Navy Yard. Winchester residents push to create a city recreation department with a full-time director. The Star prints the first Junior Evening Star for the new term with interviews of English children who will live here.
Ten years ago Robert McNally was elected president of The Chanters at the annual meeting. J. B. Redmond and Hugh Crisman left to attend Augusta Military Academy and will have charge of wrestling. Mobilization intensified in Ethiopia with a suspected imminent Italian invasion.
The Rev. R. B. Nelson rector of Christ Episcopal Church becomes chaplain of the Friendship Fire Company succeeding Rev. J. F. Morgan who takes a call to Christian Church in Norfolk. Jesse M. Lupton longtime Clarke County jailor and deputy sheriff dies after 33 years in public service. Handley football opens season versus Charles Town W Va with Hill Yard as all state Virginia center and veterans Sargent Woodward Ritter Taylor Huntsberry Quick Doran Zirkle Hollis Sartelle Hawkins Barr Baker Swank supporting the team.
The White House shows no disfavor to loans by New York banking interests to Allies while Germany faces food shortages. R Gray Williams is elected president of Handley Board of Trustees succeeding Major Holmes Conrad. Chamber of Commerce plans a booster trip to stimulate local trade.
An opinion piece recalls Harry Lauder's fortitude after his son's death and praises enduring sorrow. It ponders whether readers could emulate such courage and notes how the audience supported him during performance. The column also answers a pension question about effective dates for disability and death compensation.
Washington dispatch outlines early Republican protests to Britain’s lending terms. It argues London seeks new loans while promising to restructure other debts, criticizing two British envoys and a Labor influence as groundwork for a socialist shift.
The article explains hypoglycemia causing faintness convulsions and confusion and notes symptoms may occur in children and adults. It covers diagnosis by blood sugar during attacks and two main causes insulin excess or glandular deficiencies. Treatments include sugar intake and occasional epinephrine injections, with emphasis on avoiding fasting and high starch sugar meals during infections.
The Army Navy football game will be played in Municipal Stadium in Philadelphia on December 1, 1945. The event is confirmed for this year amid ongoing wartime schedules and public interest.
In Sweetsburg Eleonore Lawrence, an Air Raid Defense worker, becomes entangled with a Counter Intelligence Corps cell led by Carlotta the Nazi queen. Bill Steuben attends a masked lecture in a grim chamber as nine masked agents learn espionage rules and reveal a dangerous, hypnotic lure.
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