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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1939
Page
4
Publication statement shows The Evening Star Publishing Co based in Winchester Virginia issues daily except Sunday indicating a regional newspaper distribution pattern and local editorial operation.
Classifieds charge 2 cents per word with minimum 25 cents and names and addresses counted. Memorials and Cards of Thanks 10c per line. Display ads with border due by 9 PM the day before publication. Transient rate 45 cents per inch. National reps listed.
A standard copyright notice from the Associated Press confirms exclusive re-publication rights for AP dispatched and local news published in the paper. The notice emphasizes that AP retains first use of its material and readers receive content under license.
Scientists hail sulfapyridine as a major medical breakthrough that could sharply reduce pneumonia mortality. Trials in England and major U.S. cities show death rates dropping from 50–70 percent in severe cases to 5–10 percent, with common pneumonia potentially falling to 2–3 percent. The drug is cheap, easy to administer, and could be used early, altering death statistics within months.
John Gunther and Pearl Buck spoke at a New York gathering praising Chinese resilience amid aggression from autocratic powers. They warned Japan faces a draining conflict but China shows morale, unity, and a long struggle to revive small industries as Time favors the Chinese cause.
The Capital City newsletter notes Virginia highway fatalities declined from 796 in 1937 to 690 in 1938, the third straight yearly drop. Factors cited include stronger state police presence, education campaigns, stricter licensing, safer highways, and ongoing experiments with reflectors and white center lines.
The New York Post notes 5 percent higher department store sales nationwide last week than 1938 and a stronger first quarter 1939 national income. Vehicle and freight car output rise, GM truck sales surge, and February air traffic climbs, signaling improving conditions as employment rises.
Miss Dana Virginia Nelson is named Princess Handley to represent Handley High School in the court of Queen Shenandoah XV. Mr and Mrs Edward C Jackson gain congratulations on the birth of a son. Governor Price signs House Bill No 319 with a rider by Senator Aubrey G Weaver authorizing changes to Route 50 by the State Highway Commission.
Five years ago J. P. Arthur announced a special cadet for the eleventh Apple Blossom Festival. Blinding rain and low ceiling caused Lieut. Thomas A. Wood, army mail flier, to die on a farm in Iowa. Samuel Insull, 74, a Chicago fugitive, refused to leave a Greek steamer and return to America.
Mr and Mrs Peter Yates Brinton of Richmond Virginia announce the engagement of their daughter Polly Yates to Burr Powell Harrison. The wedding is set for June 15. Miss Virginia Tayloe Boyd returns to Wellsley College after Easter with her father.
Agnes Conner, three years old, daughter of Mr and Mrs Isaac Conner, dies in a fire at her uncle John Conner's home three miles east of Stephens City. C E Koontz of Frederick County Farmers Bureau will address farmers at Gore on Saturday. Charlie Haines and his horse dance when they encounter dangling live wires on a city street.
A note indicates The Star had no paper on this day, with Forty Years Ago items awaiting publication.
A notice states readers may obtain factual answers by writing to The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau in Washington D C with Frederic J Haskin as director and enclosing three cents for a reply.
Readable items list several Marguerite Clark film titles including Wild Flower The Goose Girl Gretna Green The Princess and the Pauper and more. Also notes on a weather term poganip and various trivia Q A exchanges with dates places organizations. The passage includes local crime briefs about a purse theft and a divorce case in Sioux City.
A Winchester Evening Star information notice invites readers to mail ten cents for a booklet titled Americas Favorite Poems. The ad emphasizes classic verses loved nationwide and provides a mail-in coupon form to Washington D C.
A Trinidad Asphalt Co executive explains cutting monthly work from sixteen to nine hours daily by enforcing a four to six off period for leisure. The result: happier, fresher workers who accomplish more with reduced staff. Apply the method by scheduling focused nine hour days and relaxed intervals.
Lena Ackerman, penniless and in flight from a harsh boarding house, confronts eviction after a dinnerless day. Mrs. Peterman pressures her toward a YWCA shelter while a hopeful stranger offers help, and Lena braces to descend into a tough street-facing night.
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