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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1939
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star published daily except Sundays by The Evening Star Publishing Co. of Winchester Virginia with post office entry and city origin details.
Classifieds charged at 2 cents per word with minimum 25 cents. Memorials and Cards of Thanks cost 10 cents per printed line. Display ads with border due by 9 P M the day before publication. Transient rate 45 cents per inch. National reps include Tenney Woodward in multiple cities.
A notice states that Associated Press and this paper reserve exclusive rights to re publish AP dispatches and all local news printed here. The policy covers use in this paper and credit rules for republishing.
A devotional line echoes Deuteronomy 6 5 urging love for God with heart soul and strength. The excerpt frames a spiritual appeal as a guide for personal commitment and daily conduct.
Chicago hosts a national conference April 5 to 7 on interstate trade barriers. Eleven states enforce port of entry rules by state police and tax officials. The focus includes ten major barriers such as taxes on oleomargarine dairy products liquor and purchase preference laws.
The Roanoke Times discusses Tennessee federal judge vacancies as Senators McKellar and Stewart attract numerous nomination contenders. The Bristol Herald Courier criticizes outside letters and editorial sympathy, questions executive veto power, and suggests Tennessee Governor should have a say over nominations.
The piece argues Hitler will continue consolidation toward self sufficiency and domination, predicting Europe will face a widening German advance. It questions whether he will stop or misjudge his power, noting fears of erasure of Czech lands and forecasting a looming test of his resolve and the balance of power.
A reader quiz lists concise answers on history science and biographical facts. Topics include the Tsar Kolokol bell, Esch-Hughes poison act, bullet speeds, Binet tests origin, U S drug stores count, sea water composition, Lola Montez life, Boswell quotation, Knights of Columbus founding, early California and Colorado telephony, Mayor La Guardia’s children ages, and Washington’s peace prep quote.
Senator Norris argues the urban type will lead future Presidents and cites Mayor LaGuardia as an example. He notes LaGuardia was raised on a Western government reserve, shaping him as an Arizona boy despite New York birth.
The article contrasts Presidents Lincoln to Hoover with a look at their upbringings to argue that most leaders were not farm boys. It notes Hoover from rural Iowa and other chiefs of state as urban or town raised, challenging the claim that LaGuardia is a typical farm boy candidate.
Mrs J H Fisher of Middletown is elected president of the Frederick County Homemakers Advisory Board. Dr Wade H Marshall and wife welcome a son born March 20 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. An order sets April 15 for a bond election to fund water system improvements.
Five years ago fourteen men died and eighty were injured after a grease spill on a hot stove at the Federal Transient Bureau building in Lynchburg. Wayne Pugh crashed into a train along Cumberland Valley tracks on Route 50, west of town, as ice caused a skid. An emergency crop loan office opened in Winchester with J. Gray Beverley in charge.
Mrs. William S. Irwin's Boston terrier wins first prize at the Durham North Carolina Kennel Club show. Orchards urged to begin spraying for apris and scale the first of next week as spring arrives early this year. The state highway department plans to take over 793 more miles of county roads by April 1.
Twenty five years ago John Gano dies from a hay bale accident when it fell from a wagon and crushed his chest. Joseph H. Savage empties his bonded liquor warehouse at Kernstown. W C U members express elation. Mrs. Charles L. Crum dies at her West Water Street home after sixteen years of invalidism.
A brief notice notes the Star had no paper for the day, reflecting historical gap in the archive and referencing past events from four decades earlier.
A promotional notice for the Home Doctor Book with topics Care of the Sick Diet for the Sick Infant Care Home Medicines Personal Hygiene. The booklet is offered for ten cents via the Coupon Information Bureau directed by Frederick J. Haskin in Washington D C.
Charles E Garstang an LA architect earned a doctor’s nod and a higher fee by showing restraint. The doctor preferred character over rival smears, rewarding Garstang with the contract after a tense, drawn out interview process.
In the manor case, Mac uncovers a cyanide source on North High Street in Columbus and links it to Mrs. Horace Witherspoon. Ells and Mac discuss trapping the killer by forcing a fourth crime, while an inquest in the Lawnville courthouse proceeds with testimonies from guests and staff.
Senator Byrd challenged the Federal Reserve Board to state whether its stance on deficit spending reflects the board or is the personal position of chairman Marriner S. Eccles. He condemned alleged propagation of deficit theories and urged disclosure of board consensus versus Eccles's views.
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