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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1940
Page
17
The piece argues that women seeking equality show power, envy male control, and mismanage public life after seizing domestic authority. It cites Dr Erskine’s critique of feminism, calls for balanced reforms, and notes women’s overreach in education, alimony, and public morality.
A 24 year old dance hall operator freed after a 24 hour sentence vows to break Delaware Sunday blue laws. Haniel Marvel of Houston and eight dancers at the Hillbilly dance hall in Bowers Beach refused to pay fines for last Sundays violations. Marvel says he will reopen next Sunday and if arrested will file complaints against other Sabbath violators.
Ten colleges will sail in preliminary races at Annapolis for entry to the thirteenth McMillan Cup regatta at Barnegat New Jersey June 26 to 28. Lieut Charles Adair U S N said Brown Cornell Dartmouth Harvard Michigan Pennsylvania Tufts Trinity Coast Guard and the midshipmen will compete in the eliminations.
Baseball standings show Cincinnati, Brooklyn tied for first at 18 8 with .692. New York 15 11, Chicago 16 13, Philadelphia 11 4 78. St Louis 12 10. Rain affected games. scheduled Today include Cincinnati at New York Walters vs Schumacher and St Louis at Boston Warneke vs Posedel.
Virginia with federal aid has started wildlife restoration projects costing 50526.77 dollars. Three of seven projects are finished restoring deer in Thomas Jefferson and George Washington National Forests and adjacent counties. Restoring wild turkey spans Thomas Jefferson National Forest and Mountain Lake sanctuary in Giles and Smyth counties. A statewide survey examines how clearings in forests affect wildlife populations.
The report lists statewide surveys on wild turkeys and forest wildlife in Giles Roanoke Augusta counties and Jefferson and GW National Forests. It notes 43 states share a $2,776,628 program cost with the federal government paying 75 percent and the state 25 percent, overseen by 125 experts.
The Old Bay Line marks 100 years with an anniversary trip from Baltimore to Norfolk aboard Chesapeake Bay steamer. Governors, mayors, and line leaders attend the birthday event in Baltimore, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Newport News, reflecting a century of mergered river and bay travel.
A high German command indicated about 11,000 German soldiers were lost in the blitzkrieg on the Belgian and French fronts. No figures were released for the Netherlands campaign. This is the first authoritative statement of losses since the western campaign began.
A wartime dispatch paraphrase notes Col Gen von Reichenau informing Louis Lochner that the German forces had lost only one tenth as many as the Allies captured. It states about 110,000 Allied prisoners taken in the west and references an invasion that began May 10.
Hutchinson Kansas May 23 The Chamber of Commerce offered 25 cents for each name of a roeitens poetry contest as the census count nears thirty thousand with doubts over final totals.
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