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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1940
Page
10
Two summer salads offer easy, appealing options. Cottage Cheese and Vegetable Salad blends cottage cheese mayonnaise tomatoes green beans peppers and whipped cream then freezes for 6 to 8 servings. Stuffed Tomatoes with Anchovies mixes anchovies eggs and mayonnaise to fill peeled tomato centers and chills on lettuce before serving.
A home service notice from Evelyn S. Early of Northern Va. Power Company promotes advance-prepared picnic foods and storing them in an electric refrigerator. The guide includes a minced ham spread recipe with smoked ham eggs pickles mustard and boiled dressing.
Stephens City May 30 notes Cecil Peer Russell Ondorff of Winchester and others motor to Charlottesville. Various residents spend weekends with relatives in Roanoke Portsmouth and Washington with dinners and visits at homes of Hiser Lemley Doggett Booth Carbaugh and Tobin families.
Memorial services at Fairview drew a large crowd. Capon Bridge beat Gore 6 to 3 in a Thursday afternoon game. Gore girls defeated Kerns town softball and Gore School rivalries continued with local visits and social events.
Brucetown Virginia notes report visits and gatherings across the area. Mary Gay Marker of Opequon spent the weekend with Rhodelle Whitacre. A bus of local students toured Washington DC. The Best family of Oklahoma City stayed with Mamie Tan quarry and H L Myerly. Guests included Mrs Harry Stipe Shenandoah Junction and Mr Mrs Tom Neill and two sons. Walter Gander and son Wally moved to Alexandria from Washington DC. Helen Jobe Brucetown linked to the move.
West Coast forces show doubled army air corps personnel and a 40 percent rise in the ninth corps area since outbreak of the European war. Helicopters? No. The survey notes more planes at Hamilton and Moffett Field, increased destroyer recommissioning, and 25 retired officers recalled. Federal investigations into espionage and fifth column activity rise, with no change in FBI personnel. A new Coast Guard base with five planes at San Francisco and another at San Diego. The Grand Canal of Eastern China first section opened 486 B.C. and completed 1280 A.D. by Kublai Khan, totaling about 1,000 miles.
A Winchester family visited Mr Day and Miss Anna Price of Richmond spent the weekend with her Price. Mr and Mrs Charles Roland of Berryville visited friends here for several days. Samuel J Swimley Sr was among Step hens City High School students who toured Harrisburg and Hershey in Pennsylvania last week.
Secret Service officials warn Virginians about widespread counterfeit ten dollar notes in southwestern and southside Virginia. Hamilton portraits on 1934 silver certificates with poor Treasury seals and serials are circulating, with suspected handlers moving from Danville and Roanoke toward Richmond.
Reynolds Store notes report Mt Hebron Church cemetery in Reynolds Store, Virginia will be cleaned up on Thursday June thirteenth. local residents with buried relatives are urged to attend. nearby social visits and weekend guests are also listed among residents and families across the region.
A German front-line soldier told a church superintendent to stop sending religious material, saying no victories come from prayers. Quoted in Schwarze Korps, he claimed prayers matter less than who fights with the strongest belief in the Führer.
The House Rules Committee unanimously advanced a bill directing the secretary of labor to deport Harry Bridges CIO leader from the West Coast. Rep Alen urged the measure with immigration support urging preferred status on the calendar. Bridges, a citizen of Australia, would be detained and sent there. A separate note mentions Boulder Dam water flow and a church smelting German people into a block.
Belem Brazil May 30 The 6466 ton German freighter Konigsberg moved down the Para river for the Atlantic in its second attempt to run the Allied blockade. It carried rubber valued at 800 000 dollars and had been in Belem since the outbreak of the European war.
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