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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1943
Page
4
The Evening Star of Winchester Virginia publishes a daily edition under A P Byrd Jr editor with standard postal and circulation details. Readers are urged to report delivery delays and advertisers to submit ads by 9 PM for the nightly issue. Transient rates apply and Bible verse from Acts 1 3 is noted.
The piece warns farmers to avoid paying boom prices for land, citing World War I experience when land values surged then collapsed. It urges farm leaders to discourage speculation, noting debt that followed the last war boom and the danger of demagogues exploiting distressed farmers.
A captured German battalion commander’s note indicates officers urged surrender to avoid reprisals, prompting concern for German relatives of soldiers under General von Arnim in Tunisia. The message warns of severe punishment for those who fail to surrender.
A wartime letter warns that Nazi prisoners of war will face consequences for their conduct, implying reprisals may extend to relatives. The text predicts growing Allied capture of German troops in Tunisia and suggests broader terror at home could follow as the war advances.
The Bucharest radio announces Ordinance No. 9 penalties six months to four years for public comment on war. Article 13 bars discussion of army operations internal and external politics or news related to these topics. Moscow radio adds prohibition of criticizing Romania's allies and urges venues to report dissenting patrons.
The piece argues that rapid passage of the amended Connally bill signals public and congressional resolve against wartime strikes, especially in coal. It warns that anti strike laws alone won’t end the core issue, inflation, and that effective action must curb living cost rises, taxes, and price policies to stabilize the economy and reduce pressure on labor.
Agatha and Clemantine slip into the administration building to steal a radio tube from Dr. Hill. They navigate a dim library, evade a watching blind student Willard Bacon, and force open a locked desk as a power failure escalates tension. A door creaks and footsteps approach, raising the danger level.
Office of Civilian Defense forms OCD affiliated Hospital Units to assist army in emergencies. Each unit packs 15 physicians from a single hospital and receives reserve commissions with the Public Health Service. Albany Hospital is first to form its unit. others invited include Virginia Medical College of Virginia Richmond Norfolk General Hospital University of Virginia Jefferson Hospital Lynchburg and Lynchburg General Hospital.
A page lists trivia questions on authors geography US presidents and customs. It asks who wrote a work about Africa the chairman of a federal expenditures committee which states are named for presidents a geometric term for ovate a Detroit treason conviction a Japanese caste term the continent by land area which ancestry of FDR the proverb completion and an alias for the card game Twenty-One.
Washington notes on a fragile peace among wartime leaders. Eberstadt mediates between Jeffers and Patterson over machinery disputes, Nelson reshuffles personnel, Whiteside gains broad office control, and debate rages over the Robertson-Forand pay-as-you-go tax plan and its complex withholding structure.
News notes claim 60,000 Nazis killed on the Leningrad front in March as German submarines sink two allied merchant vessels in the Gulf of Mexico. The Igre County fruit growers committee calls high school boys and girls to harvest fruit crop due to local Tabour scarcity. Fire destroys a North Cameron street building owned by Aulick Gibbons of the Yellow Cab Co.
Miss Virginia Tayloe Boyd is named chairman of the Little Theatre of Winchester as Frederick County youths enroll in the new Reforestration Corps established to support the project.
Twenty years ago services were held for Jesse W. Sowers Civil War veteran and former restaurant owner. A communications and postal strike cut Antwerp off from Belgium. Twenty seven years ago Verdun saw a lull after a week of bloody fighting. A U S government safety exhibit train toured Winchester to teach safety first measures. George M. Bowers of Martinsburg won a seat in the U S House of Representatives.
Forty years ago Francis A. Latz a well known Winchester resident and relative of the ey family died in Washington St James 8S Gardiner buys the Shenandoah Normal College at Reliance a notable local transaction
Forty five years ago in Court House Hall Winchester businessmen gathered to oppose the poor railroad service citing existing connections between the Baltimore and Ohio and Southern Railroad systems. Miss Mary Campbell of Stephens City was accidentally run over and bruised by a horse ridden by George Carter.
Allied Headquarters in North Africa reports Italian prisoners being moved from the front as American soldiers exchange light banter. One Italian, speaking perfect English, asked why they laughed, replying that they were bound for New York while the Americans go to Italy.
A medical column explains three nerve types motor sensory and mental. It describes restless behavior tremors sensory overreactions to stimuli and over dramatic emotional responses as habits shaping nervousness and possible mild disease risk.
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