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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1943
Page
4
The unsigned item urges subscribers to report any delivery irregularities to maintain prompt service. It includes subscription rates for mail and carrier delivery, lists offices in New York, and references a May 3 1943 date with scattered Bible quotes and wartime commentary on Allied campaigns in North Africa and Sicily.
Fragmentary text describes a plan where the government buys farmland then sells or reallocates it. The wording suggests a collectivized approach, renaming or reframing property under a state influenced scheme. The source is incomplete and lacks a full outcome.
The Alexandria Gazette reprints an editorial urging renewal of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, expiring June 30. Secretary Hull champions the pact, noting it has fostered 27 nation accords, boosted US industry and farm exports, created jobs, raised living standards, and strengthened hemispheric solidarity while offering a practical path to broader world trade and peace.
A sentence notes that a person’s mouth is about the same size as his eyes prompting discussion among readers about facial proportions and perception.
The article urges advertisers to rely on The Star for direct outreach and measurable outcomes. It emphasizes effectiveness over fancy campaigns and positions local media as the key to connecting with customers and tracking success.
Washington reports that Democrats and Republicans backed an amendment to let Congress veto Hull tariff rates within 30 to 60 days of secretary action. Hull pressed to keep powers unrestrained, triggering renewed party warfare in the House Ways and Means Committee amid Senate confidence.
After an executive session Republicans unveil amendments including a 60 day veto on Congress and limits on the administration's trade policy. The piece discusses invasion timing across Norway Denmark France and Tunisia with air superiority as a key factor and notes American and British air dominance and potential Tunisian offensives toward Bizerte and Tunis.
The text describes Allied moves toward Tunis after breaking two points, aiming to aid the Eighth Army in the eastern mountains and potentially seize Bizerte from the rear. It notes Bizerte’s sea-facing fortifications and a French dune line on hills southeast of the city. It adds that Allied attack methods show a tightening noose from all sides and cites Roger Babson predicting a war end after the 1944 elections.
Dr. Clendening collects the history of diphtheria antitoxin development from Behring's early work in Berlin to Biggs in New York. He notes the clearance of the disease from 1880s New York and cites 1941 deaths as a small fraction of the 1890s fatality rate, attributed partly to ignorance rather than lack of medical skill.
Winchester reports a practice blackout as Justice A J Tavenner dies of pneumonia at Memorial Hospital. Nazis plan bombing of towns. F M E Mielke 85 of Germany dies after being struck near Cedar Creek. Anne Eubank Davis wed Edmund Pendleton Dandridge Jr in Lynchburg. Also notes of social events and ten year obituaries with Apple Blossoms crowd and European voyage plans.
Twenty years ago Grace Church announced a 75000 dollar expansion including a new parish house as part of a larger program. The plan accompanies notes on local church growth and fundraising.
Agatha and Clemantine return to their rooming house after a kidnapping. They fear discovery as they notice missing items and a hidden microphone in the closet while recalling Willard and a radio tube clue. They debate destroying clues and fear police attention as the spy hunt continues.
A quiz page asks: 1 author of The Year of Decision 1846, 2 messenger of the gods in Rome, 3 hummingbirds fly backward true or false, 4 president of the PGA, 5 Iceland relative to Greenland, 6 chairman of the Maritime Commission, 7 autobiography Up From Slavery, 8 Yangtze River location, 9 title of ecclesiastical head of a diocese, 10 meaning of R I P.
Specimens of leather tanned by ancient Egyptians have been preserved to the present, showing durable craft from early civilization. The finds suggest skill in tanning methods and material use that endured across centuries and cultures.
In Richmond on May 3, the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board announced a new rule requiring customers to use their own ration coupons for purchased alcoholic beverages. The measure aims to ensure equitable distribution amid dwindling liquor stocks.
In Santa Clara California on May 3 seismologist Dr Albert J Newlin of the University of Santa Clara reported a series of earthquakes that began at 9 56 a m Pacific time yesterday and lasted two hours He cited the tremors as very destructive but could not specify distance or direction.
Forty years ago J. P. Shade known as Poke Shade collapses and dies while planting fruit trees on his Cedar Grove area farm. Miss Susan Warr Prince marries Mr. St. Elmo Burgess of Baltimore in Washington to join the Burgess family here.
Forty five years ago Miss Annie Lowr Lowerys home was burglarized. Mrs. Charles J. Carter aged 63 died at her Wadesville residence. A horse belonging to Mr. Dain terfield Wyndham ran away but Wyndham was unhurt.
The second war loan drive raised about 17 billion dollars, roughly 4.9 billion more than the goal, with most from non banking sources. The treasury will announce the final total around May 10. Morgenthau praised the campaign’s success and signaled higher goals for future drives.
In Denver, Rev Armand W Forestall a Regis College seismologist said earthquakes continued for an hour and escalated to destructive violence. He reported the events as occurring about 11 am Mountain War Time yesterday, noting the quakes originated thousands of miles away.
Berlin radio reports Victor Lutze chief of staff of the Nazi Storm Troops died in a Potsdam hospital from injuries in a automobile accident. Lutze, 52, succeeded Roehm after his 1934 purge, and was a longtime Hitler ally. He lost an eye in World War I and had been active in the Ruhr and governor of Hanover.
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