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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1941
Page
4
The Swiss nation marks 650 years since independence and neutrality. It boasts high per capita wealth, a federation of cantons, and a policy of live and let live that curbs oppression. Switzerland is a beacon of peace amid European conflicts, praised for unity and prosperity.
The Danville Register notes that unless the government imposes restrictions on banks merchants and other installment sellers and applies rules to corporate enterprises and agencies engaging in easy installment selling the policy will fail to curb the sale of major appliances and hard goods needed for production.
A columnist argues that strict controls on installment buying clash with government programs that fund and loan for purchasing homes and appliances. He cites EHFA and HUD actions and warns of duplications in directing material shortages toward non defense uses.
The Staunton Evening Leader analyzes the Roosevelt Churchill sea meeting and the implied aims to destroy Hitler, deny peace terms, and support Britain and Russia. It questions whether the declaration signals real action or rhetoric and urges concrete steps to defeat Hitler.
The Grammont Belgium mayor followed a 350 year old Lent tradition by swallowing wine with live goldfish, then each alderman did the same amid a reverent crowd. The remark notes ongoing novelty of goldfish swallowing among local youths, once considered absurd.
Wendell Willkie accepts the Republican presidential nomination in Elwood Indiana his hometown in a formal address. England reports no enemy air raids for the first time in a week marking a lull in German bombings. Richmond’s Grant J. Smith is named president of the state Pen Pals at a convention held in town.
An orchardist in the valley reportedly contracted to sell 25 000 barrels of Yorks at 3 25. September wheat trades in Chicago at 50 cents a bushel. George Miller, Glenn Seabright and John Blount qualify for the state rifle team in Quantico eliminations.
Twenty five years ago the Charley Rouss Fire Co plans a ten day carnival to raise six thousand four hundred dollars for a new auto fire engine. Germany keeps up all night artillery fire on Somme as French and British forces brace for a major assault. President Wilson calls presidents of major railroads to a conference to avert a Brotherhood strike.
Forty years ago in Chambersburg local delegates organized the Cumberland Valley Fire men's and Mayor's association. A board of doctors and businessmen accepted hospital plans with construction to begin at once. The Market Street and Rouss Avenue pond was drained filled and paved after numerous complaints.
Capt H D R M argesson, war secretary, appeals for 100000 women to join war service. He argues Germany’s larger manpower means Britain must use women for both big and small tasks to boost total effort. He notes limited success so far and urges wider participation.
James Donovan, after 25 years on leave from his train job in Kansas City Kansas, remains away from work. His supervisors promoted him to manage city owned utilities a year ago, and he has shown little inclination to return to his former post.
Automobile owners are urged to have gas station attendants check tail lights when turning on headlights and braking. The state police report many lamps out and warn that lives depend on functioning lights on both high and low beams.
A set of historical quiz questions covering pharmacy methods, Pershing's full name, Peter Pan author, gravity effects on ships, diesel engine naming, planetary initials, Parson Weems, Godfrey of Bouillon, Pax meaning, and German campaigns against Russia.
The sentence states that will is used in first person to express a promise as in I will pay you next Tuesday. It explains the usage with a simple example and highlights the temporal commitment implied by the future tense.
Hugh S. Johnson argues the Roosevelt Churchill eight points lack strict promises yet reflect flexible aims in wartime. He compares them to Wilson's fourteen points, noting the dynamic, uncertain nature of World War II diplomacy and the difficulty of precise commitments at sea conferences.
At a banquet of the thirteenth Sour dough Reunion in Los Angeles, over fifty Alaska and Yukon veterans reassessed the era 1881 to 1898. They recalled romance and hardship but downplayed gunfights and gold robberies, noting safer days than in Los Angeles.
The piece contrasts Wilson and Roosevelt's high minded ideals with Versailles negotiators who doubted or twisted the aims. It notes the failure to fully realize freedom of the seas and removal of trade barriers and argues that the aim was a postwar peace allowing nations to live within their boundaries free from want and fear, not a guaranteed destruction of Nazi tyranny.
The text argues the presentation was a powerful but noncommittal gesture unlikely to bind official policy. It notes critics should refrain since no single official utterance appears binding and the motive is presumed sound, reducing grounds for criticism.
In Los Angeles in August a new coin operated doorbell that will ring only when a coin is inserted is showcased at a meeting of American inventors. The device is touted to discourage those deemed not welcome.
Boston reports that German aviation studies cite full meals as aiding dive bombers during rapid acceleration. Yale physician Dr John F Patton notes research in the New England Journal of Medicine on empty stomachs hindering tolerance. He cites Nazi experiments with drugs and pneumatic belts to mitigate blood shift in fliers.
In Nottinghamshire England a Royal Air Force plane crashed into the home of R. W. Brumpton killing six of his seven children aged five to 15. Two fliers also died. Mrs Brumpton and her youngest daughter, an invalid, escaped by leaping from a window as the house burned. The father was at work.
A compiled Q and A column by Frederic J. Haskin answers diverse facts from flight history to geography. Entries discuss the Douglas B-19 test flight in 1941, bloodhound trail length, O Henry manuscripts, Dixie, Shaw lectures, and more with brief confirms or corrections.
Religious solace is offered as guiding truth for citizenship and government. The ad promotes a Red Letter Testament with a special supplement, inviting readers to mail 20 cents for a copy through The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau in Washington, D.C.
A NYC Nose and Throat service reports a hayfever treatment using eight to twelve intra muscular injections of Coli Metabolism Tosse. Early results show 70 percent cured and 28 percent improved among seventy five patients with minimal side effects. Further observation remains suggested but doctors view it as harmless and worthy to try.
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