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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1940
Page
4
Classified advertising rates are two cents per word with a minimum 25 cent charge and payment due with copy. Subscription rates listed include yearly, semi annual, quarterly, and monthly options. The issue date is Wednesday September 11 1940 and quotes Psalm 23.
Analysis argues Hitler cannot defeat Britain in an air war alone despite German advantages in bomber numbers and proximity to London. British defense concentrates in a limited area while Germany struggles to defend its distant zones, narrowing the air superiority gap though invasion remains contingent on sustained damage.
A Dayton Ohio project details an unmanned plane able to observe or drop explosives using a television link and radio control. The device, built of plastics and priced around 500, could reach speeds near 425 miles per hour. Critics warn of radio interference risks and dangerous misfires if a boomerang return of explosives occurs.
The piece argues that human activity follows the earth’s cycles with summer as a period of sloth and autumn a time for revival. It links farming harvest to transportation and industry, noting September as the turning point when vacation ends and production peaks. It highlights agriculture feeding industry, commerce, and capital.
Newport News Daily Press reprints Virginian Supreme Court of Appeals ruling that Governor Price exceeded authority by raising Secretary of the Commonwealth Raymond Jackson’s pay from 4000 to 5.00 per year for extra duties. The paper endorses the ruling, warns of potential corruption, and urges pay fixes remain legislative.
Opie objects to a ground hog closed season as September to January. The Staunton News Leader and Winchester Star echo the dispute, arguing rodents cause farm damage and ground hog day is a national institution worth defending.
Americans flee war zones as Poland sees crowded evacuations. Miss Helen Mason and Mr. Ernest Rhodes wed at a Church of Christ with parson E A Crowl, a telephone company wire chief, dying suddenly of a heart attack.
Five years ago Huey Long died in a Baton Rouge hospital after lingering several days from an assassin's bullet. Ethiopia sends more troops to the border to counterbalance Italian black shirt soldiers there. Mrs. Marshall Kline is named chairman of the Chanters' dominating committee.
City officials announce the 24 Infantry of the U S Army will encamp here on September 26 as Col B M Roszel gains support in the south for national commander of the American Legion. A survey shows over 5 000 Virginia farmers need drought relief funds.
Twenty five years ago Robert Barr's sulky backed into R M Henry's horse and both riders bolted causing a near panic. Two men are fined by Magistrate Frank Krebs for speeding on Loudoun street. German ambassador warns that a diplomatic break with the United States could mean war with Germany and Austria.
Forty years ago James N. Carr receives a contract for the erection of the new woolen company's building. Deaths exceeding 1 500 are counted as Galveston Texas is visited by hurricane and tidal wave. Superintendent M M Lynch shows that the school population of Frederick county and Winchester has decreased by 225 pupils since 1895.
Reader questions cover topics from Lowell Thomas broadcasts to Napoleon’s body voyage. Notable facts include the first American WWI fatalities Corporal James B. Gresham Private Thomas F. Enright and Private Merle D. Hay, the Royal Exchange Psalm inscription, and the 1912 origin of truth in advertising.
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Guide notes today’s common error in phrasing. It advises replacing archaic relative terms with simpler forms and avoiding awkward clauses when describing groups of people.
Gun Cotton and Trent pursue a mysterious bomber across secret air bases in a high tension sequence. X, Toni, and staff monitor updates as refueling, wrecked instruments, and evasive maneuvers push Gun toward a dangerous, unknown destination.
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