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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1940
Page
6
A solicitation from the Household Arts Dept of the Winches ter Evening Star asks readers to mail ten cents and provide their name address and pattern number to a New York address for receiving a Uiis pattern.
New York radio notes announce Good News Variety reducing WEAF NBC broadcasts from an hour to 30 minutes starting March 7 with Dick Powell as host and Mary Martin as vocalist. Engineering crews added a demagnetizing coil to watches to calm magentization effects while mic proximity slows timing. Short Wave Forecast and program listings follow with fallouts in Texas station counts and nightly lineups across WEAF WABC WJZ MBS and WOR.
Berlin reports that Roland Freisler Secretary of State in the justice ministry urged all German law enforcement to punish listeners of foreign broadcasts under the September order. He told Deutche Justiz that judges must impose penitentiary sentences and in the most flagrant cases death.
Present and past rainfall data show a 24 hour total of none ending 8 a m. January to date 1 38 inches year to date 1 38 inches. Average monthly rainfall over 27 years 1913 to 1939 lists January 2 56 February 2 04 March 2 90 April 3 23 May 3 53 June 3 79 July 3 59 August 3 69 September 2 35 October 3 19 November 2 35 December 2 39. Average annual rainfall for the 27 year period is 35 53 inches. Courtesy of Winchester Research Laboratory.
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