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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1943
Page
4
The Evening Star requests readers report delays or irregularities in delivery to keep a perfect system. Advertisements must reach the office by 9 P.M. the day before publication. Subscription terms include: one year in advance 5.50, six months 3.00, three months 1.75, one month 2, with outside zones adding 1.00. Transient rate 45 cents per inch. contract rates on application.
A wartime newspaper item cites Acts 16:26 about an earthquake freeing prisoners and opening doors, framing the event with a biblical verse for readers on July 28, 1943.
A year after James C. Petrillo ordered the abolition of transcription and juke boxes, his edict remains in effect, facing little negotiation. Critics compare him to John L. Lewis in influence, urging labor leaders to reform. Congress seeks action against Petrillo as public demand grows for decisive moves.
Citizens learn progress in synthetic rubber production will not relieve drivers soon. Expect little relief before next year as rubber goes to armed services. Most will buy used or recapped tires if needed, with limited new tires for high mileage drivers and a spare from an old carcass.
A Roanoke Times reprint argues motorists face stricter rules than any other field. It lists twelve required items from licenses to ration stamps and stickers, and says even with an A card license a driver may buy at most a gallon and a half of gas weekly, limited by Office of Price Administration approval.
An article from Vogue summarized by Gretta Palmer notes that during wars the birth ratio shifts to more boys born, from about 111 to 100 in peacetime to roughly 115 to 100 in belligerent periods. The AMA comments on this intriguing, unexplained phenomenon.
Richmond Times-Dispatch notes Business Week July 10 map and editorial showing the South had the largest per capita income gains from 1939 to 1942. Ten of 17 top states are Southern. Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas more than double, while Virginia and South Carolina up over 80 percent. The South narrows the gap with the nation as prosperity rises before and after the war.
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In Southern England on July 28 soldiers report the bazooka as a morale booster and potent anti tank tool. The weapon fires a TNT charged rocket with on contact detonation and costs about eight dollars to manufacture, with damage comparable to a costly 37 mm anti tank rifle.
Vatican City spans about one-eighth the area of Central Park in New York City, highlighting its compact scale relative to a major urban green space.
Scientists from the British Coal Utilisation Research Association reveal a domestic grate that can burn continuously once lit. It wastes only weekly ash removal, radiates 45 percent of fuel heat versus 25 percent, and cuts fuel use by about 500 percent.
Corporal Julian D. Brazemore of Blackville South Carolina asks to see a horse while stationed in Southern England on July 28. The Army issued him a horse shoeing kit two years ago that remains unpacked. The ordnance unit blacksmith stays busy making gadgets for trucks.
Chronology spans 1870 to 1943 noting key events including Garibaldi's role, Rome annexation, suffrage advances, 1887 alliance with Germany Austria-Hungary, Abyssinia protectorate, 1896 Adowa defeat, 1911-12 Italo-Turkish War, 1915 entry into WWI, Mussolini rise and Fascist consolidation 1922 1923 1924 1925 1927 1929 1930-35 1935-36 Rome Berlin Axis 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 Allied invasion Sicily and Mussolini resignation July 25 1943.
Ross Dominguez pulled his grandson Benny Reyna from a swift flowing irrigation ditch in Clinton Utah. After rescuing the boy he found a $50 bill in his shirt pocket had vanished into the stream.
Jean confronts Parkinson and Cotter as the pair prepare to smuggle TNT drums to sabotage Mexican war plants. Parkinson boasted of Hitler's attention and a plan to strike midnight, while Jean fears the destruction and pleads for mercy.
General Doolittle raids Japan and shakes Japanese complacency as Allied air power is highlighted. A heavy downpour floods Berryville stores while residents in parts of Maryland and West Virginia report seeing parachutists from an unidentified plane.
Hankow authorities order evacuation of all civilians as Japan advances. George deGrange, a local parachute jumper, plans a three mile leap here Sunday aiming for a world record.
Ten years ago a large gathering at a theater drew about five hundred supporters for the NRA program. In Pennsylvania sixteen thousand miners remained employed in a coal field amid ongoing industry activity.
A twenty year old race between Buick and Packard ends tragically as a driver dies when his car sideswipes a parked vehicle while the finish line nears. The incident caps a long speed duel that kept spectators tense as the winner was about to be declared.
Twenty five years ago twelve German towns were bombed by Allied forces. Eighty four men left this week to fill the local quota. Captain Robert Y. Conrads Company serves in the new Fourth Army Corps.
Forty years ago a horse named Fire Escape owned by Mr. Robert Barr won a match race at the Fair Grounds. A German event is planned at Rouss Hall this evening to honor young people. C. E. Howell of Paris Texas buys the estate Milton Valley.
A heavy curb stone shattered a large glass window at Solenberger & Company on Main Street during morning digging. John Barnett displays a tomato weighing 33 ounces at a local market. City curb work prices are set at 10 cents per foot and new stone costs 50 cents.
Questions on history and politics test readers on topics like Trondheim as a German base, veto override majorities, Ulysses Grant tomb location, Dustin Farnum’s roles, the federalist body, a grammar error sentence, and baseball positions for Cecil Hughson and other clues.
The Star's editor voices frustration over OPA and gas rationing. Officials quit or refuse reinstatement amid a fall election, urging readers to seek relief from the Ration Board or the President.
Dr Clendening reflects on wartime medical progress from 1917 to 1920 noting sulfa drugs curb pneumonia and infections, tropical medicine training, improved field hospitals, earlier wound care, blood plasma use, and home front blood donations aiding survival.
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