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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1940
Page
9
The piece reviews Hoover’s downfall amid low mood and failed reform efforts. It cites opponents who blamed his administration for not acting on the Wicker commission, Smoot Hawley tariff flaws, and a weak Farm Board. It notes the Oct 1929 stock plunge and rising unemployment while Hoover defends a fundamentally sound economy.
The piece recounts the 1932 campaign amid the Great Depression. It notes Hoover’s relief efforts and party platform clashes over prohibition, while Franklin D. Roosevelt rallies voters with a New Deal. Roosevelt defeats Hoover 472 to 59 in the electoral college.
Barbara Bell Pattern No 1242 B offers a dart fitted waist jumper with a flared skirt and broad shoulder straps. Front scallops and an oblique pocket add individuality while fabrics range from velvet to jersey. Sizes 6 10 12 and 14 years. Pattern No B for sizes 6 10 12 14. Pattern Book 15c and combined offer 25c.
Don Irwin Washington Redskins backfield coach urged focus at Leesburg High banquet and will present the Junior Board of Trade's most outstanding player award to a Handley lineman at the Thanksgiving dance on November 21.
Warden W Reynolds performed an improvised delivery during a Nazi bombing raid when no doctors were available. He proudly holds the healthy newborn as the city endured the attack.
G Walter Mapp, Virginia State Commissioner of Fisheries, calls the decline in the seafood industry an awful indictment of Virginia politicians who let the sea go out with the tide. He pledges to complete a five year program to make Virginia the seafood state on the coast.
The Loyal Order of Moose announced dues will be waived for members enlisting or conscripted for military service. Active service members remain in good standing and receive all benefits while serving. The campaign also aims to place American flags in homes and provide Mooseheart children with flags and care guidance.
Local market listings appear daily in The Star. The paper does not assume responsibility for any errors or omissions and advises readers to verify prices and details.
Market listing shows prices for flour bags 12 to 98 pounds per barrel and mixed feeds. Dairy feed and corn meal priced per bag or sack with figures like 1.60 to 1.95. Livestock quotes include roosters young guineas leghorns broilers and old fowl with cents per pound, plus cattle and lambs with percentage ranges and creamery butter at 30.
London reports that large British fighter squadrons destroyed 11 Nazi planes today. The statement notes four enemy raids were intercepted over London and an attack on Portsmouth was foiled. Two British planes were downed with one pilot saved, and German bombers destroyed rose to two.
University of Georgia students backing Wendell Willkie were forced to flee a campus meeting after a tear gas bomb exploded. Law student Howell Hollis of Columbus said he did not know who planted the device but called the act cowardly and undignified.
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