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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1939
Page
11
In Berlin, August 31, rationing under Nazi rule meant money buys little. A dollar or 1000 marks cannot buy basic items like shaving soap, dresses, or shoes without special tickets. Rolls failed, deliveries were late, and drivers were requisitioned as authorities imposed wartime controls. Residents faced shortages and fear, recalling World War I austerity.
The line reflects lingering wartime memory and notes the odd practice of turning on hot water only on Saturdays in the most modern apartment buildings. It conveys a sense of scarcity and the social mood of the era.
James Zimmerman, a Greensburg high school janitor, was stung by a wasp while cleaning a second floor window but did not suffer a sting. He leaned out to strike the insect, lost balance, and fell, sustaining a brain concussion.
In Pittsburgh on August 31 a stout band of Grand Army of the Republic veterans marched in their seventy third parade. Some among the 1 700 surviving G A R members joined the encampment procession behind departmental banners through the downtown Golden Triangle in a solemn, uphill mile long march.
Four hose companies and a ladder truck joined two fire chiefs to respond to an alarm at the Helzberg Diamond Shop. A fireman stomped out a cigarette butt that had burned through cardboard.
Harrisonburg gears up for a two day Rockingham Turkey Festival with coronation Monday at Madison College and evening parades. Police announce emergency traffic rules, closures of businesses during parade hours, and the first World War veterans parade in a decade. Officials project crowds up to 50 000 as 40 floats 16 bands and 20 fire units take the streets.
The rail carriers in Virginia and Buxton Lines Inc petition the State Corporation Commission of Virginia for authority to cancel certain commodity rates deemed obsolete. A 1929 order defined classes of traffic as commodity rates and ordered a hearing in Richmond at 10:00 A M on October 3, 1939, for interested parties to present testimony.
Chief Boice urged residents to stay indoors during the parade and use police phones only for emergencies. Information booths will be set up elsewhere. A reader asks about a green rose and learns Viridiflora, originated in Baltimore around 1850.
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