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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1940
Page
4
Classified rates are 2 cents per word with 25 cent minimum. Cash with copy. Transients 45 cents per inch. Copy deadline 8 PM day before. Subscriptions by mail: one year $3.00, three months unknown, six months unknown. Associated Press dispatch rights noted.
A fragment from a 1940 issue includes a Bible verse from Isaiah 26 4 about strength to the poor and needy and refuge from the storm. The page shows heading irregularities with dates and season markers.
A Boone Mill resident lauds Virginia roads after a 2000 mile trip through 12 Northeastern states. Fred Willis, visiting Winchester from Florida, claims a 1500 mile journey found only one road better than Virginia's Valley Pike. The Richmond News Leader notes Virginia highways are vastly superior, with good surfacing landscaping and clear markings.
The piece warns that the five billion defense appropriation is only on paper until converted into battleships cruisers guns and planes. It calls for nonpartisan swift action by leaders to deliver real defense capacity and urges critics to demand tangible results rather than fiscal assurances.
Evansville Indiana youth Gene M Kennard aged 18 won the 1940 Ford Good Drivers League championship with a strong field of runners up. The contest emphasized safe driving habits over perilous stunts, highlighting skill, judgment, and traffic safety.
Reprinted editorial argues congressional defense hearings should be public not secret to inform taxpayers about progress and spending. It cites Senate Naval Affairs Committee discussion on suppressing information and praises Byrd and Tydings for pressing for action and accountability.
Police Commissioner Robert F Stanton highlights residential streets used by large interstate trucks. Loch Raven Boulevard Alameda and Thirty-ninth Street residents protest nuisances. He warns the issue worsens street damage as the city mulls a 5 million loan to fund street repairs.
President Roosevelt issues a special proclamation activating the neutrality act amid ongoing hostilities. German forces press on Warsaw as the government flees, and a British liner is sunk. Lester Arnold and Ralph Grimm advance to finals at the Winchester Golf Club championship.
Five years ago a deadly hurricane devastated lower Florida and the Keys with the death toll rising above 1 000 while the liner Dixie lay grounded in Miami. Italy asked to suspend League of Nations sessions amid Mussolini insult concerns from Ethiopian heads. Winchester sought 89 500 dollars in WPA funds for six projects including an armory a market and a lake swimming pool at Park.
Ten years ago financier and former Confederate soldier James B. Russell marked his 89th birthday. Frederick County Sunday School Association held its 22nd annual convention at First Baptist Church. An historic residence opposite Fort Loudoun was remodeled into an apartment house.
On opening day at Winchester Fair a large, record crowd enjoys good weather while local residents discuss Major Holmes Conrad, a noted lawyer who has fallen seriously ill. The Winchester Inn hosts the final season event as Winchester plans a last chance for the season. The U S government stays calm after the torpedoing of the British liner Hesperia, which remained afloat until evacuees were rescued.
Dr Logan Clendening discusses how vaccination prevents smallpox, citing historical fears from Henry Esmond and a hospital ward example. He notes optimal vaccination age, benefits of simultaneous immunization with diphtheria and smallpox, and calls for prompt protection of every child.
The column lists Q and A items on varied facts. It covers gorillas at the San Diego Zoo, the origin of a Danish saying from Hamlet, decalcomanias on cars, Boardwalk dimensions in Atlantic City, Georgia as the largest state east of the Mississippi, Germany annexing Austria in 1938, national debt limits, longest running serial, tattoo prevalence among sailors, Willkie speeches in book form, mental ages of WWI draftees, first free deaf school in Hartford 1817, Rudyard Kipling’s Vermont home motto, Alaska check vs stabilization fund, hummingbird speed and maneuverability, and John Wesley’s Rule of Life.
A quiz page lists seven questions on constitutional articles Prohibition and repeal amendments canal names titles and famous figures. Items ask origins of a labor act and identify authors actors and a city known as the Bride of the Sea with terms for a leprosy colony.
A language guidance piece explains avoiding up to date when modern is meant and preserving current meanings. It contrasts proper use of up to date for currency and modern for contemporary status with examples and tips.
A letter to the editor praises Andrew Bell secretary of the Winchester chamber of commerce for inviting the Woodmen to a 1941 state rally. The writer credits Bell as the most alert commerce secretary in Virginia for promoting Winchester and securing the invitation.
X explains Belthorn aerodrome as a secret base near Brightlingsea and Wivenhoe while Gun volunteers for a high altitude flight tied to theories about a missing bomber. The discussion hints at foul play and a covert mission connected to regional air routes along the Thames and Essex coast.
Gun travels toward Essex and Belthorn air station to join Squadron Leader Hazeldeane for a hush hush night flight. X explains radio coded instructions while ominous weather and bleak marshlands set a foreboding mood before the story continues.
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