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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1938
Page
4
Reader queries span topics from geology and travel to nutrition and history. Notable items include the origin of the Black Hills name, Mount Beacon access by cable car, Liberty Bell origins, Venetian blinds in Georgian rooms, and the large Tempelhof Berlin terminal project planned for 1939.
Rates shown for year and half year and quarterly plans unclear figures. In advance payments list amounts ranging from four dollars fifty to thirty cents, with several typos. The text suggests a newspaper subscription pricing table with multiple terms.
The article marks Carter Glass turning eighty yesterday, noting he is the oldest national legislator and, in the writer’s view, the ablest. It recalls his wish to be forty and expresses hope for his continued health, wisdom, and party guidance.
A year end survey shows nine states enacted or revised waiting period laws between license applications and marriage ceremonies. Illinois Iowa Maryland Minnesota New York Tennessee West Virginia Wisconsin and Wyoming joined twenty six states with delays from two to ten days.
College girls burn silk stockings to protest Japanese actions in China. The act harms buyers and benefits Nipponese profits used to fund the assault on China, offering little economic pressure on Japan.
A Washington Herald summary notes a young American girl named Wallis Warfield Wallis may be elevated by royal custom in Britain. The piece reflects on an unwritten law where a wife can assume royal rank, suggesting the implications for a future royal connection.
The piece notes that Parliament recognizes no morganatic marriage and that if the king wed, the wife becomes queen. It asserts Wallis Warfield would be crowned above thirty-five duchesses and that the wives of two archbishops who opposed her would have to bow to her.
The Virginia Federation of Labor through W. D. Anderson outlines a six point plan for the Virginia Legislature. It suggests redrafting the anti-lynching statute to limit its scope to protecting officers and law with mobs. it argues rights to strike and to work must be preserved in a democracy.
Gen Chiang Kuo, son of Chiang Kai-shek, has built a Mongol power with 100000 troops to push east against Japan. Russia trains and arms the force, aiming to keep Outer Mongolia in China. Moscow also strengthens links with China as Trans-Siberian rail improvements and new roads near Manchuria and Vladivostok expand. If Russian forces strike south while Young Chiang advances, Japanese operations in China could suffer.
News items list Henry Covington Hugh Green and H F Byrd Jr as assistant directors to Fred Read for the Apple Blossom festival. Captain C C Gough is re-elected head of the South End Hose Company. Clarke county supervisors adopt a resolution objecting to a planned Shenandoah National Park fee. Adine Ticker McGuire announces engagement to Thomas Macauley Booth of London.
The report states former President Calvin Coolidge was found dead by his wife on the floor of his Northampton Massachusetts residence. A local city manager P P Pilcher discusses the sewage plant and layout in a national magazine Municipal Sanitation. Winchester Women's Civic League plans final arrangements for a fashion show to be held soon in the High School auditorium.
A group of capitalists plans a million dollar glass sand industry for Frederick county based on information received in the city. W. O. Zinn, a longtime county farmer retired for some time, dies. City Manager L. R. Dettra submits his annual report to the Common Council at the regular session. Plans are underway to spare Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray, convicted murderers, from the electric chair in New York.
Harry C. Stouffer is reelected head of Charley Rouss Fire Company with J. P. Sartelle as vice president. Loring A. Fries, son of T. L. Fries, is killed when a loaded wagon rolls over his neck. John H. Snyder of York plans to buy farmland in Frederick County and settle in the area. Phil H. Powers Jr. of Berryville is elected editor in chief of V. P. I. annual The Bugle.
A Winchester youth returning with a county girl was fired on by a protective father who mistook him for an intruder. The boy reportedly continues to flee between Paw Paw and Cumberland. Socials occur as Mrs Nellie Warren hosts a pink tea for Miss Ada Lupton and Mrs C E Huntsberry entertains for Miss Maude Lyons of DeLand Fila. R T Barton and R M Ward address the City Council on treasury matters with a balance over 7000 dollars.
A nostalgic reflection traces the Hanks family journey from Virginia to Kentucky via the Wilderness Road. Lucy Hanks Lincoln, her illegitimate daughter, and the birth of Abraham Lincoln at a February 1809 log cabin are noted. The piece cites Dick Carlson on four human desires: security, adventure, self expression, recognition.
In a Maine camp Jerry Chandler and Mimi Le Brun confront love and class as a house party watchers debate his stage play about a cobbler who inspires democratic reform. Mimi confesses her mixed feelings toward Andy Fuller while Jerry faces her bold refusal to settle for mere romance.
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