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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1938
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists subscription prices and delivery details. Rates shown include Marine year at 3.60, six months at 1.86, three months at .70, and carrier options with various monthly and yearly terms.
Classifieds priced at 2 cents per word with a 25 cent minimum. Memorials and thank you notes 10 cents per counted line. Display ads with borders must be in this office by 9 PM the day before publication. Transient rate 45 cents per inch. Contract rates available. Woodward and Company, Inc. operates in New York Detroit Kansas City San Francisco Chicago Boston Atlanta and Los Angeles.
A probate styled AP dispatch dated December 20 1938 appears with standard agency attribution and boilerplate copyright language. No specific events or persons are described in the readable text.
Senator James Byrnes urges a legislative formula to govern federal relief funds. He cites Virginia North and South Carolina expenditures amounting to 94000000 while New York City spent 561000000, arguing lump appropriations distort fairness and politics. The New York Times supports a nonpartisan, transparent distribution standard.
The Supreme Court paused work to honor Benjamin Nathan Cardozo. Chief Justice Hughes, from the bench, praised his services to the country and said constitutional guarantees of essential liberties are a heritage to be defended at all costs.
A summary of immigrant counts by region from Albania and other areas, noting totals by country and region across decades. The document lists numbers for Great Britain, India, Japan, Turkey, Asia regions, Canada, Newfoundland, and other areas, highlighting a large overall total.
The piece cites Jefferson quotations opposing a third term and notes Pennsylvania Democrats backing a Roosevelt third nomination. It recalls Jefferson’s declared limit of two terms and weighs how crisis themes are used to argue for or against a new run. It also hints at broader historical cycles of crises shaping presidential continuity debates.
The United States' direct debt stands at 39.4 billion dollars with indirect securities adding 5 billion, totaling 351 dollars per person. Critics warn growing interest and taxes threaten the economy while Senator Byrd calls for spending cuts and public revolt, questioning if economic disaster is needed to stop the spending surge.
A compiled Q A column recounts facts from 1882 Knights of Columbus origins to modern trivia. It answers how many bones in the human body and details on pensions, battles, records, seeds, Union Station inscription, bacteriophages, race earnings, the hymn Rock of Ages, shark sizes, Shelley at Oxford, AAA adjustments, invention of the sewing machine, presidential voting, and the Immortal Three generals.
United States unofficially notes Japan will plead self defense in an attack on an American gunboat in Chinese waters. The Supreme Court rules wire tapping by federal agents illegal. Chanters score with a Christmas Cantata at Handley auditorium. Mr and Mrs Halvosa welcomed a son this morning in the local hospital.
The passing of Frank Jacque, a prominent Winchester insurance agent, shocks residents. President Roosevelt serves notice that Congress should pass the liquor tax bill in the first week of January. Over 240 men are employed on PWA projects locally, with merchants noting increased circulation. Lieut and Mrs Julian Lindsey welcome a son in Knoxville Tennessee.
King George battles pneumonia as reports recount a sheriff seizing a 50 gallon still and four barrels of mash near Stephens City. Mary J. Goode dies at 87 after a broken hip in local hospital. Sprint and Petley file a $39,000 suit against Direct Cooperative Fruit Co. for alleged due payment.
Dr and Mrs L M Allen honeymoon in Hot Springs Virginia and plan a southern tour. A Cumberland Maryland lumber yard fire destroys part of the town causing substantial damage. Four financiers in New York face fines of four thousand dollars each for cotton market cornering in 1909. The historic mint bed planted at the White House by Andrew Jackson has been removed at Wilson's order.
William Luption scares prowlers out of a new post office building beside his laundry. John H. Brown, a photographer, is crippled by rheumatism and can barely walk. Fred Lawrence Grim and Miss Lilly B Conner wed in the Reformed Church.
A color map of the United States 21 by 28 inches in five colors advertised by the Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau. It invites readers to send ten cents to Frederick Gaskin in Washington DC for a copy, with coupon and address details.
Excerpt discusses Disraeli’s first failed House speech and a later success, then shifts to interview etiquette and a call to study a public job, followed by General Pershing advocating American fingerprinting and citizen registration as crime prevention, ending with a reader opinion invitation.
On a Texas campus Sara Sue Davis runs a cottage offering romance guidance to students for a fee. T. J. Sanders pursues her after admiring a Rice Stadium sighting, but learns she is central to campus life through faculty, football, and budding romances.
Before Rice Institute’s 1938 season opener with Oklahoma at the new Rice stadium, nightmarish Nightmare, a bench legged bull dressed as an owl, drew attention. T. J. Sanders, regional rep for Columbian Sporting Goods, sought a Rice player to endorse his gear, eyeing stars like Jess Hines Ollie Cordill Ernie Lain and Bob Towne as potential “best individual player.”
The Petersburg Progress Index reprints an Winchester Star editorial arguing deporting Communists violates our institutions. It cites Joseph Strecker in a pending Supreme Court case and condemns deportation purely for political beliefs. The piece contrasts Perkins and the Bridges case, urging constitutional review before action.
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