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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1940
Page
4
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Campaign materials present the Franklin D Roosevelt for president and Henry A Wallace for vice president ticket. The slate emphasizes wartime leadership and New Deal reform as key policy aims.
Reprinted editorial notes John Zahand of Indianapolis as a forgotten candidate. Zahand, leader of the Greenback party, has run for president since 1924 and was defeated by Coolidge Hoover and Roosevelt. His party failed to qualify for Indiana's ballot, leaving Zahand unable to vote for himself.
In a tale of royal ambition and peril, Crown Prince Carol and Magda Lupescu face arrest amid Romanian political turmoil and rising Axis influence. The Seville police detain Carol and his adviser as Romanian fascists seek sacrifice, while Nazi pressure reshapes the kingdom's fate.
The International Association of Milk awards medals to thirteen unsung heroes for bravery in emergencies. George E. Cleary of Philadelphia saved a man from a fire and stopped an armed gunman with milk bottles, while Albert Knuemann of St. Louis rescued a child from danger.
The Lynchburg News questions Gallup accuracy amid a surge in new voter registrations in large states and cities. It notes past poll failures by Digest and Herald and asks if Gallup adequately sampled new registrants and folded them into results.
Former King Carol of Romania and his red haired companion Mme Lupescu have been arrested in Seville, Spain and may be sent back to Romania to face high crimes against the state. They fled Nazi pursuit and sought passage to the United States, but Hitler’s actions complicate their case. Carol denies Spain’s detention rights, yet the issue hinges on political power rather than justice.
Carroll Sealock reportedly gathered 167 bushels of apples in a Clarke county orchard, setting a local one day harvest record. Meanwhile the Market Street Church ladies staged a Bride's Pageant featuring gowns worn by Winchester brides spanning 1789 to 1939.
Five years ago two auto accidents at Sunnyside left three dead and three injured over the weekend. A football game between Mercersburg and Hagerstown saw John Ferra, 17, suffer a fatal neck injury when tackled. Frederick County farmers vote 231 to 13 to continue the National corn hog program.
Ten years ago Sheriff Pannett seized 13 slot machines at Frederick county locations and arrested five filling station operators. Major Walter L. Simpson resigned as superintendent of Winchester Memorial Hospital. Mr and Mrs George Baetjer returned to Winchester after a voyage and visit to Japan.
Twenty five years ago in Iran news Capper writes to the Editor opposing a Court House monument. Premier Vianine and the entire French cabinet resign Aristide Briand to form a new government. The Buick Saxon valve for head engines is advertised by R. E. Lincoln.
Forty years ago Charles E. Miller, speaker at a Democratic rally at Rock Enon, was thrown from Stuart L. Forney s buggy on the way home. Second prize awarded to Frederick county apples from orchards of William Heitt, James Robinson and L Lupton at Paris Exposition Missouri. Annie's win first prize.
Dr. Logan Clendening explains hypertension as a common, often symptomless condition that rises with age. He describes arterial pressure mechanics, normal benchmarks, and a Mayo Clinic study showing 80 percent of people with high readings at forty may develop permanent hypertension in 10 to 20 years, even if symptoms appear later.
Reader queries cover topics from currency stability to Lake Mead size and slavery in the South. The exchange rate places the German mark around forty cents on the New York Exchange, while Lake Mead is cited as the world’s largest artificial lake.
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The Handel Trio performed a concert at the town hall. The ensemble presented a program of classical works, delighting a full audience with precise phrasing and balanced harmonies.
The publication details how many presidents refused third terms and how many served out unexpired terms. It notes the youngest president was 42 and the oldest 68, and invites readers to obtain the booklet with information on presidents and their wives for ten cents postpaid. Information Bureau Frederick J. Haskin, Washington DC. Enclose ten cents with name address and payment.
Kit Reilly, a young ballad singer, pursues a radio audition in the Sembler contest guided by Vance Healey as Nana Harris contemplates retirement. The prize includes $5,000 and a one year contract, while Nana weighs quitting the demanding radio life as Howard Balch and Fran Le Maze prep for a club show and the judging day.
A compilation of trivia questions and answers covers when Gallup started experiments in 1933, the Magnolia Cut-Off route length and location near Cumberland Maryland, who coined a famous line, Roman branding, origins of rocking chairs in America, Huey Long's 1935 filibuster duration, and Paul Murphy as a leading chess figure with a memorial in New Orleans.
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