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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1941
Page
4
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A fragmented line lists year by mail rates in advance four fifty six geonthe per year, one month and three months options with advance prices, showing a pricing schedule for subscriptions. The OCR reads inconsistent terms likely representing a newspaper or periodical pricing table.
A compact reflection on value and wisdom citing Proverbs 8 11 that wisdom is priceless and surpasses gems. It notes many wear rubies and diamonds yet lack wisdom, emphasizing wisdom’s superior worth.
The ticket lists Colgate W. Darden Jr for Governor W M Tuck for Lieutenant Governor and Abram P Staples for Attorney General in the November 4 1941 election.
A historical overview traces the United States shift from strict neutrality after 1939 toward aiding Britain, detailing steps like cash and carry sales, ship transfers, trade ins, base leases, ship reflagging, lease lent aid, and convoying debates. It notes each action aimed to help Allies while avoiding full entry into war, yet edging closer to involvement.
State Hull argues that sending ships through dangerous waters risks sinking and war, noting past US entries followed ship losses. He contends that repealing the cash and carry policy could push the nation toward full engagement, urging frank public discussion.
The Baltimore Sun notes Isador Lubin testifying on price fixing and strikes. The piece condemns twenty years of self indulgence under Harding Coolidge Hoover and Roosevelt, arguing policy shifts harmed labor and agriculture and urging Washington to confront the nation's flawed record.
Petersburg Progress-Index notes Breckinridge Long’s claim that Germany seeks 1,000,000 Italian troops to ease a push on Italy. Berlin denies the charge, calling it evidence of distrust between Italy and Germany as Fascist and Nazi propaganda echoes the feud. The article recalls past German Russian flirtations with such talk.
King Carol of Hungary faces arrest fears as Nazis surge. Magda seeks safety in Shoene while Wendell Willkie meets with Al Smith amid cross party talks. Axis pressure spurs new anti Axis stance in Britain’s war effort.
Aerial raids by fascist insurgents open on Madrid government stronghold while Russia withdraws from the hands-off pact as Italy and Germany sustain aid to fascists. A social shower honors Miss Margaret Anderson, who will wed Mr. Robert Lewis on October 29.
John G. Bowman opposed by T. Russell Cather for State Senator in the district with elections on Nov. A four pound bass caught by Robert Grim of the post office staff while fishing Shenandoah River with Holmes Carper and John Fuller.
Handley defeated Waynesboro 41 to 0 to start the C. V. A. L. season with a decisive win. A Greek wedding was held in Rouss Hall as Steven Ventras and Stella Papade pulos, both Sparta natives and naturalized citizens, wed. Virginia Woolen Co. workers attended revival services at Braddock Street Methodist Church.
Chicago markets report wheat at two dollars per bushel as prices push higher. German Austro forces advance plans aimed at keeping Italy out of World War I. Ira D. Whitacre and Miss Retha M. Hicks wed at the Christian Church parsonage.
The 32nd Shenandoah Valley agricultural Society fair opens with a drum crowd and a couché show drawing big crowds. R T Barton is elected commander of the Turner Ashby camp of Confederate veterans.
A reader quiz lists seven questions on topics from biology and history to government and sports. It asks about crab classification, turkey buzzards, Alsace Lorraine, fiscal year, moth balls, salt flavor over time, Robert E Peary, Senator Wheeler, James Gibbons, and a baseball term horse collar.
A note explains widespread misuse of prepositions such as between and among. It contrasts two persons named Mabel and John with multiple patients at a hospital and cautions on correct usage with people vs things.
Hugh S. Johnson announces a U S government plan to raise war production to one hundred billion dollars over two years to defeat Hitler. He stresses that the effort is practical not fanciful and depends on tonnage weapon mix and flexible munitions output. The focus is on guns tanks planes and adaptable production for timely delivery.
The author argues government war spending cannot raise national income and may destroy wealth. They challenge assumptions equating production for destruction with economic growth, question the plan to spend 50 billion for fighting Hitler, and warn that spending without a clear strategy risks counterproductive outcomes. The piece critiques measuring defense by dollars alone.
The author critiques the focus on expenditure statistics and urges a unified grand staff covering economic military naval and financial aspects. He argues the President as commander in chief should share aims with this staff and avoid relying on sporadic outbursts from specialists.
The largest dry dock in the world is the new $10 million facility on the Delaware River near Philadelphia. It features an 1100 foot long shipway 150 feet wide and can handle a battleship twice the size of the 35 000 ton Washington and North Carolina.
An up to date dictionary offering 20000 words with supplements on new terms foreign phrases common errors and word origins. Includes a bookplate and 382 pages printed on Bible paper bound in imitation leather. Order for twenty five cents postpaid via Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau Washington DC.
SHANGHAI October 24 An American Board Mission hospital in Taiku Shansi province runs a maternity ward where a Chinese mother can register a baby for ten cents Chinese currency or half a cent in American money. Miss Isabel Hemingway, chief nurse, cites high infant mortality and aims to educate through this low cost birthplace program.
The salary of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia is nine thousand dollars per year.
Frederic J. Haskin Information Bureau in Washington D C offers readers answers to any fact question. Send in three cents for a reply and mail to The Winchester Evening Star.
A mixed Q&A fragment covers motor vehicle registrations by state in 1940 led by California and New York, Appian Way length, Carnegie Hall seating, tank weights, a Mississippi cotton champion, Sir Walter Scott novelty, oyster seasons, Great Salt Lake, and Mississippi River freezing in 1899.
A Dr Clendening column recounts the Solferino battle and Henry Dunant’s memory that inspired the Red Cross. It notes the 1863 Geneva congress, the society’s neutral mercy aims, and Dunant’s later obscurity before Nobel recognition.
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