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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1943
Page
4
The Evening Star announces postal delivery conformity and reader feedback for prompt service. Advertisements due by 9 PM daily. Subscription options listed include mail or motor route at one year 4.00 in advance and other regional rates. national reps and office in Winchester noted.
On Saturday June 5, 1943, a church service features a reading from Acts 1 13 14 about the ascent to the upper room and the group united in prayer along with women Mary mother of Jesus and the brethren.
The article notes sustained Allied air raids cause major damage to Germany and Italy. Observers estimate German production could fall 25 to 30 percent, with cities like Rostock, Cologne and Karlsruhe facing power, telegraph and supply disruptions. Civilians walk long distances seeking lodging and blame London.
Secretary Morgenthau praised the second war loan campaign oversubscribed by 5 billion dollars calling it the greatest advertising operation in history. He cited 73,938 newspaper ads worth 4.564 million dollars and 4,000 hours of radio time plus posters and car cards. He noted local newspaper ads stimulated sales at key moments.
Fragment discusses how the Civil War’s end affirmed victory and informed the administration about a new free enterprise approach. It argues experience validated independence and guided policy on economic expansion and governance in the postwar era.
The editorial notes Europe trembles as invasion readiness dominates Allied and Axis previews. Eisenhower pledges united action to drive Germany Italy and Japan from Africa to Tunisia while Churchill anticipates a vast naval landing. Readers are urged to favor strikes that rally captive peoples and underground forces behind enemy lines.
The Richmond News Leader reports a daring World War I air raid by British Mosquito bombers on Jena, noting Allied victory is secured. It lauds Zeiss optical works in Jena for superior lenses and credits pilots and workers for delivering refined optical glass and precision equipment.
The piece argues Hitler did not invent all his methods and traces ideas to Frederick the Great. It cites Frederick’s Political Testament urging a ruler to project fearlessness and a dangerous, glory-driven principled stance as a model for his heir.
AP notes the House debated whether seven Southern states have a constitutional right to require a poll tax for voter qualification. The body did not resolve the broader issue, instead signaling a national contest over Congress versus state autonomy and the political maneuvering for votes.
The article notes that "Virtue, Liberty and Independence" serves as Pennsylvania's state motto, highlighting its historical significance and role in state identity.
Jean and Mrs. Parkinson discuss Curley and Rosita at Rancho Casolina after a three day visit. Melvin Marsden’s disappearance shadows the scene as talk turns to Curley’s elusive lifestyle and the war’s distant reach.
Five years ago Winchester Park sponsored two exhibition matches while U S government reports accuse Japan of using poisonous gases in China and vows retaliation if Tokyo continues its war. The final Midway battle rages as Roosevelt warns of consequences.
Ten years ago officials enforced a Roosevelt directive requiring the return to the treasury of all gold exceeding $100. The Handley High School senior class of 1933 held its final exercises.
Twenty years ago, Mason officers laid the cornerstone of a new school as taboe dacvies sradh nasives in city. The article notes events from twenty years ago and hints at local developments with aged inscriptions and historical references.
Albert Harper of Chambersville Frederick County dies after a long illness. Edith Brown, daughter of Mr and Mrs Few Brown, leaves for a visit in Annapolis.
Phia visits the Misses Conrad on Market Street in what appears to be a social or familial call. The brief note records the meeting at their Market Street residence.
Oscar Barr advertises for 10 000 pounds of wool at Market and Piccadilly. Miss Edith Garten wed Mr Edgar C Hottel at Market Street Methodist Church. Miss Mary Small of Philadel- continues in the clipped notice.
WAAC cadets at Lowry Field Colorado are being trained by the Army Air Forces Photographic Division to become expert Army photographers. Lt Jameson Dowdy praises the program emphasizing quick learning and skilled instructors. The corps offers many roles from auto and airplane mechanics to cryptographers and weather observers, with enrollment open to U S citizens aged 21 to 44 who have two years of high school education and no dependents under fourteen.
War Labor Board says Roosevelt hold the line order allows wage adjustments to equalize pay for women replacing men on unchanged jobs. William H. Davis writes to Secretary Perkins that increases need WLB approval when jobs were previously held by women or aim to raise women’s pay to men’s level in other plants.
William R. Hamilton led the 1894 Philadelphia National League club with 196 runs in a season. The nearest mark came in 1921 when Babe Ruth scored 177 home runs. A sea lawyer is a Navy slang term for one who argues the exact meaning of regulations.
Officials explain that a planned $15 deduction per acre for not planting 1943 war crops was canceled to ease weather setbacks. Wet spring and floods across the east, Midwest, and West postpone planting. farmers urged to sow emergency feed crops and increase acres of soybeans, peanuts, dry beans, peas, potatoes, and canning crops where possible.
Los Angeles officers at the Firestone Park sub station conduct routine search operations for 8-year-old David Newton who has vanished 11 times in 16 days. Eleanor Newton says she attempted restraint and dressed him in girls clothes, a tactic that briefly worked before David reportedly found old trousers while his mother slept.
Arm Of Coincidence in HaHledon New Jersey and a New York insurance office pair enlisted in the WAAC together. They reported to the same training center and unit. After basic training Anderson became an assistant to the chaplains and Cambridge joined the classification office. A week later both auxiliaries again worked together in the chaplains' office.
A set of trivia questions asks about Formosa’s cession to Japan, dervish religion, US war 1801 05, a tiny Mediterranean principality, envelopes cadets or posters, Asuncion capital, VIII of England wife, Hamilton Burt incident, Ananias relation to Sapphira, and whether apples make jelly true or false.
Dr Clendening critiques Aldous Huxley and Bates eye exercise methods arguing keratitis punctata and corneal issues limit vision and cannot be corrected by exercises. He notes Huxley’s youth blindness and praises scientific insight while condemning unproven therapies as dangerous and misleading.
The Open Door Bible Class of the Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church will meet at 9.45 Sunday morning. Rev. W. D. Smith will teach the class. All members are urged to be present and visitors will receive a cordial welcome.
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