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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1941
Page
4
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Defense production shortages disrupt fifty cities with large numbers of workers facing unemployment. Maytag of Newton Iowa wins a 1.5 million sub contract for bombing plane parts while aluminum cook ware firms report no substitute materials and ongoing layoffs. Leo Cherne warns despite best efforts, hardships persist.
The National Association of Assessing Officers notes cities have sought to tax British government property in the United States. Detroit questioned taxes on a British built plant for Packard Rolls Royce engines. the British embassy and Secretary Hull opposed. California's attorney general ruled British government assets subject to local personal property tax alike private owners. Some LA and San Diego taxes were levied, with one $180,000 payment by the British Purchasing Commission to Los Angeles County. others on Douglas and Lockheed properties await payment.
Reprinted Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch interview recounts Tom Hanes noting the Duke of Kent prefers bourbon over Scotch. The piece praises the Duke as a down to earth democrat and a man of sound judgment, while gently chiding the interviewer for missing the mark.
West of Stephens City Albert Moyle, 15, suffers a serious wound. The Young Democrats of city and county plan to depart for Richmond tomorrow to attend the convention. Winston Churchill predicts Hitler will attack the United States but foresees the Third Reich fading. Rev. Robert A. Whitten of Portsmouth accepts a call to a church. Berryville’s F B Moore chairs Seventh District Democratic rally at Woodstock Va.
The long time Norfolk and Western employee William Mallory dies in Berryville after a 45 year career. Duke Douglas a local pilot introduces night flying to residents of Winchester County, seen as a novel effort. The Great Winchester Fair is set to open its doors next Tuesday.
Report details strenuous German efforts to retake lost Somme territory amid ongoing battles. Also noted are a Norwegian ship sinking, a British airman earning a cross for downing a Zeppelin, and President Wilson accepting Lincoln’s birthplace as a national gift. Plans for a WCTU picnic on Mrs. Dunlap’s lawn are announced.
Emmanuel Baptist Church in Stephens City marks its fourth anniversary with a week of preaching services starting Sunday September 7. Rev Mrs L V Johnson leads worship with three Sunday sermons and additional services throughout the week featuring pastors and visiting speakers from Happy Creek Virginia Philadelphia Maryland and Baltimore and the Harmony Quartet of Bluefield West Virginia.
The Associated Press coverage of the Russian British campaign in Iran will be televised in New York. Kent Cooper, AP general manager, answers questions with maps and film from overseas and AP HQ as WNBT airs Sam Cuff's The Face of the War around 8 50 PM. Portsmouth NH dockyard purchase details noted.
Quiz asks true or false about wolves and dogs water. It names Esperanto as a universal language and asks smallest state by area Delaware Connecticut Rhode Island. It queries a brown derby symbol, a verse line, and brain disease initial D T. It seeks first Labour Party Prime Minister and Roosevelt cousin relation. It asks author of The Good Earth and who set Falstaff’s music.
The text explains that in sentences using the subjunctive after if the clause expresses doubt or improbability. It notes historic usage like If he be honest and comments on the eneskar mind. The passage analyzes doubt and counterfactual reasoning in conditional structures.
Hugh S Johnson notes Vice President Wallace's SPAB speech left questions about total war needs and production. He argues for concrete records of output over promises, cites 1918 lessons, and urges focus on military requirements and real results rather than lofty rhetoric.
The 1918 War Board did not issue a strong initial statement. It gathered itself and surveyed controlling facts and figures, focusing on conserving civilian supply and duties related to the home front.
Private Leon Kvetko believes women are ready to support soldiers morale. He received 823 letters, mostly from girls who sent photographs, after a Chicago letter complained of loneliness. He enlisted buddies to help after the first 200 letters arrived.
In Hartford on September 5 an elderly Black job seeker tells the interviewer at the Connecticut State Employment Service he has spent much of his life trying not to become dumb. The remark underscores attitudes faced by minority applicants seeking work.
A quiz featuring brief questions and answers from Frederic J. Haskin and The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau. Topics cover world disarmament, Navajo sacred plants, Franklin, yolk composition, cartels, Oscar statuette, Gainsborough theft, Chicago fire population, Independence Hall, Jean Harlow’s death, and Bunyan’s Pilgrim's Progress.
Advertisement promoting a 21 by 28 inch Asia map for ten cents postpaid. It lists Asia, parts of Australia Africa Europe and the Philippines and Netherlands Indies, with population data for the 200 largest cities. Mail order to Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau Washington D C with ten cents and sender details.
Ylena learns Francie, Tate's wife, is the partner in a tangled marriage. Francie vents jealousy and financial hardship while Ylena contemplates revenge and pity. Diane Cromwell ONeill arrives, linking past and present as a tense shop scene unfolds.
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