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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1940
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists advertising rates with 2 cents per word, minimum 25 cents, and a 45 cents per inch transient rate. Display ads with border must be in by 9 PM daily. Contracts rates offered by mail or carrier, plus a religious quotation appears at the end.
A Richmond Times Dispatch report quotes anonymous Byrd supporters while Senator Byrd denies involvement in Virginia legislation. The piece argues Byrd did not influence the General Assembly and defends his focus on national duties, criticizing attempts to shift blame for price program failures onto him.
Report says a Swedish inventor's multi strand cable, energized by electricity, may neutralize magnetic mines dumped by Nazis. British authorities plan to fit it on all ships after Queen Elizabeth sailed New York Harbor without detecting mines, suggesting a potential shift in anti war tactics.
Reprinted Farmville Herald editorial extols the value of cheerful greetings and a sunny disposition. It praises a man who meets problems with calm, gathers facts, and avoids rash conclusions, suggesting widespread cheer would improve life and even create a utopia.
The Union Herald cites Dr. Charles Stelzle asserting a coming era of female dominance in public life and finance based on 17 million insureds. He notes longer lifespans since 1912, static birth rates, reduced immigration, and a shift toward women controlling most national wealth, urging women to prepare for larger roles.
Deseret News recalls Benjamin Franklin's May 1787 proposal to open the Constitutional Convention with prayer and his famous reply that if a sparrow cannot fall without God's knowledge then an empire cannot rise without His aid. Franklin’s rationale highlights faith in divine oversight guiding the fledgling republic.
H Dennis Hoover is named principal of Middletown High School with A Moyers as a noted counterpart. Czechoslovakia’s formal dissolution marks a regional shift after wartime visions fade. Ryland Conner becomes Park Association president at the annual meeting, with William Stryker as vice president and Sandy Baker as baseball team manager.
Families along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers brace for possible spring floods as guardsmen are deployed to aid evacuations. George B. Wright, 76, a leading citizen of Middletown in Frederick County, dies. Mr and Mrs J S Braithwaite host a Crags Junction party for Kenneth Lewis.
Ten years ago more than 6000 mourners viewed the late President William H. Taft as he lay in state, while Virginia lawmakers halted bounties on predatory animal scalps. The Overbrook Presbyterian Church in Richmond extended a call to Rev. Dr. F T McFaden.
Government experts say all royal meat sold must be inspected to fight hoof and mouth. A new tax on freight carried in Virginia by railroads passed by the General Assembly is expected to add 160000 dollars yearly to the Old Dominion coffers. Germans apologize for sinking an American vessel by an armed Hun merchantman now interned in Newport News.
In Winchester several promoters discuss building an ice and cold storage plant with local business men. Sam Miller is named superintendent of the woolen mill at Brucetown operated by the Crawford Woolen Co. T. B. Patton becomes president of the Fairfax Club at its organization meetings.
The Daily Quiz asks seven questions about geography and civics including Klondike location, highest US peak, graduation hats, White House residents, window blast effects, and the five smallest independent countries. It also asks about mail acceptability, Florida’s nickname, and the card game associated with finesse.
Guidance on proper phrasing replaces awkward terms with precise wording. It cautions against using fix for plight condition or situation and suggests concise alternatives like tight situation.
A discussion on corneal transplantation details donor sourcing from healthy fellow eyes and the varying outcomes. It cites an India case where a transplanted cornea restored sight in a patient with front eye disease while the back remained diseased, illustrating donor contracts and surgical limits.
The plan lists a daily reducing diet for Thursday during Lent. Breakfast includes half a grapefruit, hominy grits, coffee with cream and sugar. Lunch features kale, a corn muffin, and coffee or tea with lemon. Dinner offers creamed tomato soup, chicken, peas, bread with butter, lemon sherbet, and coffee with cream. Daily calories stated as 875.
The article notes corneal transplantation gains in use with improved results yet warns donor scarcity. Dr Castroviejo of New York cites cooperation among oculists as a key factor in utilizing available corneas. An editor's note promotes Dr Logan Clendening's pamphlets on diet digestion infant care diabetes feminine hygiene and hair skin care.
Winchester ministerial association announces a Good Friday service from 12 noon to 3 PM at United Brethren Church. Brief addresses on the seven words of Christ, hymns, scripture, prayers, and meditation will be featured. attendees may leave during intermissions. A full program will be published next week.
A first person narrator is suspected in the Alfred Markham murder at a Rio Vista clubhouse party. He recalls sneaking to fetch a dropped knife, evading police routines, and being captured by a liquor‑smelling giant after a staged body reenactment. The scene ends with him aboard a boat toward a warehouse, bound and blindfolded, in a cliffhanger continuation.
Robert N. Dennis of Brooklyn is said to own over 100 000 stereopticon slides the world s largest collection. The slides were exhibited in New York City by the Photographic Society of America and the Metropolitan Camera Club Council. The British novelist W Somerset Maugham surname pronounced mawm.
A reader reference lists Q and A items from the Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau with replies from Frederic J. Haskin and others. Questions cover Hoover salary, Polish relations, publishers convention dates, Gargantua the circus gorilla, athlete peak ages, origin of Boy Scouts, air mail casualties, French religion, Hinda Wassau, towns named Chicago, President Roosevelt's mother birth, 1980 New York Fair theme, and a Rip Van Winkle quote.
An advertisement promotes a large five color map of Europe showing current and pre World War boundaries. The reverse side provides essential information about every European country. Price ten cents. Mail to Washington DC with ten cent coin and address.
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