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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1942
Page
4
Public notice outlines advertising rates and deadlines for The Evening Star Winchester with a request for readers to report delivery irregularities. The text also includes editorial mottoes and a Bible quote.
The article warns Britain has developed deadly gases and large bombers to unleash a gas campaign against enemy cities, detailing gas types from acute lung irritants to vesicants and noting extensive casualties in WWI. It discusses aerial spraying, civilian targets, and U S readiness to respond by air raids.
Plans outline decontamination squads to quickly neutralize sprayed areas and minimize production paralysis. Officials emphasize coordinated action and swift cleanup to restore operations and safeguard workers.
A federal ruling opens war production to 140,000 state prison inmates nationwide. State prisoners may supply the government with manufactured goods, including license- plate presses, shoes, clothing, cartridge clips, shells, and parachute cords, boosting war output under new authority.
In Middletown, Fre destroys two stores and multiple houses in the central block. The incident details and affected property are reported amid wartime and agricultural market notes.
Four suspects taken into custody by local police are wanted in at least two other cities. The report notes ongoing nationwide manhunts and possible extradition actions.
A reader’s Q and A column provides brief factual answers on topics from firearm models to census figures. It covers the Arisaka rifle, Canadian Army training duration, Mothers Day paraphrase of the Golden Rule, New Zealand area and population, US housing ownership rate, Angkor Wat details, Notes and Queries origin, and Billy Sunday’s death details.
Hansbrough and Carter mark their half century in the insurance business without ever facing a court case to settle a loss. Col. Lindbergh is reported broke after spending over 200000 to recover his kidnapped son whose buried body was found near his New Jersey retreat. Red Tave wins the Capitol Horse Show championship near Washington.
In a ceremonial event with admiralty dignitaries in attendance, Virginia Adam Nurton wed D. R. Francis in Philadelphia. She is the daughter of Rear Admiral L. M. Nurton. The Supreme Court upholds parts of the Child Labor Law as constitutional.
Reprinted editorial contends a massive German push in the Kerch Peninsula and Ukraine hinges on油 supplies from the Caspian region and Middle East. It warns Churchill misstatements on Nazi concentrations and argues Allied victory depends on curbing German petroleum access and maintaining Russian resistance.
Over 1 600 000 dollars from the Handley fund is moved to this city from Scranton Pennsylvania where the fund has grown through investments in twenty years. About 130 men from the first 300 000 drafted into the army will come from Winchester and Frederick county. An American mission departs for Russia to aid its new republican government.
Forty years ago many Friends Society members gathered at the Hopewell Meeting house. Holmes Boyd wins a bicycle contest between Martinsburg and nearby areas. T K Cartmell and family depart for Virginia Beach to vacation for two weeks.
A Winchester Virginia reader argues the gasoline rationing is unnecessary and questions transportation limits. He notes trucks already carry large fuel and suggests using highway tankers to ease shortages while preserving rubber and warns lawmakers and courthouses miscommunicate the plan.
The article notes Nazi losses around Malta as they attack Britain's Mediterranean base. It cites nearly 100 planes lost or damaged over a weekend and total Axis losses over Malta exceed 1,500, underscoring strategic value of the island amid war in Greece Italy and North Africa. It mentions German overreach and continued British relief including food for 270,000 inhabitants and added Spitfires.
This item lists a series of quiz questions on topics from Ceylonese cloth to Imitation sugar and baseball. It notes a page reference for the answers and includes questions about science, literature, history, and grammar.
The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board said April electric bills fell by 14.23 percent while bottle sales via electric cash registers rose 31 percent from a year earlier. Officials credited wartime use allowing later lighting.
Police responding to a riot call found eight soldiers and sailors with their dates singing and dancing in the city hall court yard while about 300 onlookers stomped and blocked entrances. A sailor lamented the disruption noting it is spring.
A medical column explains how lungs attract germs and mold from air, dust, and plants. It cites Valley Fever in San Joaquin Valley, its spread to other states, varied onset forms, misdiagnosis as tuberculosis, and treatment with sulfonamides or rest. includes a Q and A on paroxysmal tachycardia.
Washington report says Leon Henderson’s team studies a full rationing schedule covering food and clothing. They warn price freezing alone may fail without wage and farm controls, but such freezes are viewed as risky during a campaign year.
A tentative plan proposes a unit based rationing system for all daily goods, with tradeable units and periodic card issuance. The piece notes current production remains high in eggs and milk, but warns of farm labor and fertilizer shortages that could force rationing later.
The speaker contrasts global philanthropy with nation first aims, framing genuine patriotism as pursuing national interests while aiding others. It argues that philanthropists act out of duty to their own country, shaping postwar roles.
In Seattle on May 15 British seamen protested a rum ration cut. The crew threatened to desert after officers arrived to quell a scene on deck with singsong and taunts. Police dispersed the protest and the threat ended.
A woman helper at a Parson s rum mage sale left her purse unattended while serving a customer. On return she found another had sold the purse for five cents.
Mrs. J. W. Noble spent the afternoon gathering 33 four leaf clovers in Garden City Kansas and, during the search, misplaced her new gold wrist watch.
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