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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1941
Page
4
The item lists advertising rates and deadlines for The Winchester Evening Star, noting display ad deadlines, regular rates, and circulation details. It includes quotes about wisdom from Proverbs. The piece functions as a notice of paper operations and a Bible verse.
The Malaya entered New York harbor on a Sunday, visible to millions, while Knox urged secrecy. Critics call the request pointless as a 30 000 ton battleship arrives in broad daylight flying the British flag and crews ashore.
The Budget committee and General Assembly should carefully consider a 316000 appropriation to advertise Virginia’s advantages. The piece argues that targeted ads in magazines and newspapers would attract more tourists and new industrial investment, offsetting wartime travel shifts and future defense-job layoffs.
The piece notes that seventy four German submarines have been destroyed since the war began. It compares this to sixty one lost at the start and discusses the unknown rate of German submarine production and the difficulty of replacing a depleted underwater navy.
The piece reports 400 prisoners from destroyed U boats including Commander Kretchmer after Allied naval actions. Admiralty notes ongoing hunts for stealthy foes and cites weekly ship losses of 77,575 tons, with a revised total of 146,098 tons for the week of March 16, highlighting the submarine as Britain’s gravest menace and a risk to allied policy.
The Petersburg Progress Index reprints Pensacola’s report of fifteen houses posted and quarantined as the federal drive to suppress prostitution near army and navy hubs intensifies. A Florida law penalties facing those after official quarantine, seen as a deterrent and preventive step for public health and morality. Local citizens urged Camp Lee and surrounding areas to quarantine and keep vice away from the reservation. Authorities should cooperate to keep ill repute away from gates, viewing public opinion as essential to success.
In Massachusetts a law allowing church run beano with a 10 percent gross receipts tax faces backlash. A Holyoke pastor says the tax chops the church’s revenue as beano brings in about $3,000 weekly, with $300 to the state and $1,700 to others, leaving the church only $1,000.
Norfolk based Major Raymond Bottom urges Governor Price to adopt statewide daylight saving time for Virginia to aid defense efforts. He cites success in Britain and U S during past emergencies and argues New York's summer time schedule supports nationwide adoption with little inconvenience.
News of 1911 style notes a tightening German grip on Norway amid a new spring offensive on the Western front with French forces reportedly holding. Also mentions U S political shifts, local theater plans, a marriage announcement, a fire company anniversary, a moonshine seizure, and Verdun and Meuse fighting details.
Forties era report notes Mr and Mrs Luther Miller visiting friends in Martinsburg. The city hall building commission moves to sod the front grounds. Several West Virginia lumbermen cause drunken disturbance on Main Street in a livery.
A compilation of Q and A items from Frederic J. Haskin covering topics from U S Army ski patrols at Camp Murray to eyeglasses origin and Vatican City name, with timelines for post office rural delivery, Met Opera notes, and other trivia. The piece lists multiple questions and concise answers, including figures on California population growth and New England shipyard output.
A page 2 answer key addresses questions on corn production leading states, knot speed versus distance, physics of projectiles in a vacuum, ballot systems, the 1940 Kentucky Derby winner, comparison of greyhounds and setters, Powhatan rescue legend, a Rosa Bonheur query, suffragette versus painter, and Calvin Coolidge’s full name.
A recent answer misstated geography in this quiz. The River Jordan flows into the Dead Sea, not the Red Sea, correcting the prior claim.
A brief note clarifies common error with adjectives ending in ty such as cowardly gentlemanly leisurely and orderly. It explains typical misuses and how to apply correct spelling and usage in writing.
Washington discusses swapping British Western Hemisphere and Pacific holdings for repayment of Britain's unpaid debt to the United States. The plan envisions ceded territories including Bermuda Bahama Leeward Windward Islands Jamaica and possibly Venezuela and British Honduras offset by a lump sum debt settlement. It argues military and economic value and envisions a peaceful sovereignty transfer with no profits or disruption.
Lexington April 11 officials said about 130 of this year's 140 Virginia Military Institute graduates will receive commissions. Roughly 100 will enter the army for a year of service after graduation, with about 15 passing preliminary tests for Flying Cadet appointments.
The column discusses scarlet fever prevention limits and contagious period, plus adhesions after surgery. It notes the serum is not 100 percent effective, the current scarlet fever is milder, and quarantine may last six weeks. It also covers possible anemia as a cause of cracked tongue and advice on tea leaf consumption.
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