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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1941
Page
4
A devotional caption echoes a biblical exhortation to store treasures in heaven, urging readers to value eternal deeds over earthly wealth and warning that earthly riches decay and are susceptible to theft.
In New York a fifth avenue diamond expert, tracing two generations of cutters, readies the first cut on the 726 carat Presidente Vargas from Brazil. One blow may yield a 20 carat piece or shatter the stone. Harry Winston paid 700000 for the gem and hopes for up to 2000000 in finished stones after cutting.
The nation now has over 1 000 city and county, plus 32 state police radio systems. About 300 local and six state systems were added in 1940. Police radio aids crime prevention and emergency services such as floods and fires, with interzone links enabling cross state message transmission and coordinated pursuit and disaster response. Detroit pioneered municipally owned radio in 1928, and many cities now have two way police car receivers and transmitters.
The Petersburg Progress Index discusses ongoing debates over censorship of war news. It notes President criticism of certain papers over reporting a British battleship and endorses voluntary censorship to avoid government control. It calls for clearer guidance from defense authorities and highlights Secretary Knox praising press cooperation.
New Orleans Observer summarizes William Shirer’s Atlantic account on Belgian and French action. It cites perceived French retreat orders, alleged top down Fascist and bottom Communist treachery, British neglect of youth, and the toll of war on Lord Lloyd after RAF bombing raids.
British and French aid to Norway grows as troops move in. Winchester reports 73 752 barrels of apples in three storages, 5 000 more than 1939. Miss Hathaway Fant marries Pelix DiPrisco.
Forty years ago the annual reception was held for graduates of Valley Female College. A spring meeting of local Republicans was called by Chairman A. C. Brown. Bill Bly drove a traction engine from Edinburg to Winchester but failed to average one mile per hour as in 1900.
The Ladies Aid Society of Mt. Olive A B Church Hayfield and the Worker's Council of Burnt Church protest legalizing Sunday movies in Winchester. They urge observance of the Sabbath and promote church services and Bible reading to guide the nation during perilous times.
Lifes Like That revised edition Weight Control provides expert diet, vitamin, calorie and exercise guidance. It includes a 100 calorie portion list of common dishes to aid menu planning and shows how to manage weight without drugs or gimmicks. Send ten cents postpaid to Information Bureau Washington D C for a copy.
In Edwin C. Hill’s piece, women emerge from Lent into brighter fashion as color becomes a social signal. The essay links color trends to news interest, expositions, and a shift from puritan restraint to mass produced flexibility in cloth, driven by dye patent transfers and industry changes.
In Upper Marlboro Maryland Daniel Sealock 39 of Bradbury Heights faced a whipping post sentence for wife beating but a reconciliation led the State to seek a continuance. A conference with Mr and Mrs Sealock followed and Mrs Sealock withdrew prosecution as she did not wish to press charges. Sealock testified he could not recall the incident clearly.
Carleton Sykes sought petitions to remove a knitting mill feeder stream when his two year old daughter Sandra Jean Sykes wandered to the bank, fell in, and drowned in Oriskany Falls New York.
Answers to seven questions include the elephant sound tusk trumpet, Malta a British possession, Monaco as the gaming revenue base, the Hero of the Maine referring to someone tied to the Maine event, and a regulatory federal agency for railroads. The one mile indoor record, antihelminth medicines, Hoover’s birth state, Akron dirigible disaster, and Thomas Carlyle as author of Heroes and Hero-Worship.
A note explains that data is plural in use and takes a plural verb while datum is the singular form. It emphasizes correct agreement in phrases like The data are enclosed.
Four year old Samuel Shafer Jr. leaned from a second story window and plunged 16 feet to a brick sidewalk. An ambulance arrived to find him pale and still. a doctor examined him and told the family there was nothing wrong with him besides being scared.
The text argues colors link to memory and mood with denim blue as a play color. It contrasts romanticized work clothes with practical uniforms. European peasants use colors for festive attire while work colors stay gray black or brown. Khaki serves protection for ranks and gold braid marks officers.
Fisherman in Hamden on opening day of the Hamden Rod and Gun Club stocked stream caught the most fish without a license. Envious club members watched a blue heron continually strike from a stump overhanging the water, plunging its beak into the stream about every five minutes.
Reader questions about medical fads and their persistence run through Dr. Clendening’s column. The piece argues that cures labeled as suggestion or real medicine depend on the person and context, noting Coueism’s rise and fall and the role of organization in keeping a fad alive.
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