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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1939
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists its advertising rates and display cutoffs with a 2 cent per word rate for non display and 45 cents per inch transient ads. It notes deadlines and local and national advertising representatives and credits the Associated Press for news dispatches.
The notice lists subscription prices in advance for different periods. One year costs 44.54, six months 2.25, three months 1.00, and one month 0.48 with weekly option indicated.
A devotional excerpt emphasizes John 3 16 illustrating God’s love through giving his son so believers may receive eternal life. The passage urges faith and salvation rooted in scripture.
The author outlines a feared rapid mobilization and selective service system if the US entered World War II. He describes a 21 to 30 age draft, 4.1 million Class 1 fighters, 5,500 local boards, registration and lottery based enrollment in about a month, ending with a question on the plan’s likelihood.
The piece notes widespread censorship hindering wartime information flow. In England, the National Union of Journalists condemns the Ministry of Information for failing to inform the public about war conduct. Beaverbrook's Evening Standard editorial calls for harsher measures against Nazism and stronger bombardment, signaling publication frustrations and public confusion.
Telegram from an airline hostess asked Kansas City police to shut off an electric stove where beans simmered. Officers visited the home and turned off the current. They did not touch the beans, showing duty and a hint of gallantry. The tale gifts the cops with a high-spirited reputation.
The Baltimore Sun notes the passing of Rev Dr W A R Goodwin in Williamsburg Virginia. He founded Colonial Williamsburg guiding its restoration with backing from John D Rockefeller and Henry Ford. Goodwin led Bruton Parish Church then taught at William and Mary College and championed turning Williamsburg into a living museum attracting visitors nationwide.
A set of seven questions tests relationships geography sports science and history. Topics include kinship to a niece’s daughter, Alaska territory capital, John Bromwich’s sport, pipe water volumes, woman suffrage amendment, time zones, Florida island chain, pronunciation of harem, polar flight pioneer, and the definition of a spectroscope.
A guide warns against using apostrophes for possessive forms with pronouns like its hers ours yours and theirs. It stresses correct usage and common mistakes in everyday writing.
Mr and Mrs William W McDonald observed their 50th wedding anniversary at home on Valley avenue Judge Philip Williams set September 29 as the date for a bond issue vote to finance an Armory for the City of Winchester Britain and France approved Hitler's Sudeten claims to keep Europe out of a general war
Seventy nine local colored people aged 17 to 66 join a newly established adult colored school aiding those with limited prior education. Nome suffers major fire damage valued at 2 million dollars with Red Cross responding. Miss Maxine E. Ludwig and Mr. C W Derflinger wed in Hagerstown on September 15.
Tom Ryan leaves the local golf club to take a similar position at Belle Haven in Alexandria. The Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans plans a Petersburg meeting on October 8. Arthur Jones is denied a venue change in his embezzlement trial of Jones Woolen Mill funds.
Twenty five years ago Overland a big bay gelding of Robert Barr wins a trotting race at the Hanover Pennsylvania fair. Announcement is made of the engagement of Miss Laura Stevens Dodge and Mr Joseph Griffith. Booster Carnival planned by People of Boyce and Millwood at Page's Grove Dabney Harrison and J R Strode chairmen. The German army presses Allied forces on the Western front after a French Meuse victory. President Wilson refuses to receive German Americans at the White House protesting cruelties.
Forty years ago James Rainsberger Arthur Dean and Ed L Henry join U S Army for foreign service. Congressman James Hays stops at Taylor p House to ask the House of Representatives for an appropriation to erect a monument to Gen Daniel Morgan Revolutionary War hero buried here. Charles H Clark grows a radish in his garden weighing 6 3 4 pounds.
A 1939 King Features panel describes a scarifier used to loosen mud and slime inside pipelines. It notes the device is propelled through the pipe by oil pressure and emphasizes it is not meant to scare people.
Lorena faces capture by three men near Ghost River after a tense pursuit. She is forced to walk ahead as the river bed dries and the cliff edge looms, prompting a desperate leap to escape. The scene escalates with danger and mystery in the Phantom ranch territory.
Lorena Hamilton travels in Arizona to visit her uncle and meets Shot Rogers a Phantom ranch cowboy at the railroad station. Yesterday on a ride she is pulled from her horse and restrained by his grab.
Lorena Brazee, not a fainting type, is captured by three armed Mexicans after her lariat trap suspends her from a saddle on Phantom ranch. She demands release as the men argue, with one threatening to kill her and another insisting she aids their hunt.
A collage of trivia Q and A covering presidents railroads coins Plymouth Rock Holman Hunt Roundheads nickel and the cottonmouth mocassin. It includes dates for Eighteenth Century events and notes on collectors and natural science topics.
Oklahoma City Supreme Court Justice Denver Davison, sponsoring two young attorneys, realized he had never been admitted to practice before that bar. He consulted Judge A. P. Murray, visited Murray's chambers, and took the oath in private to rectify the lapse.
Hollywood notes profile Thomas Mitchell, a middle aged actor rising from obscurity to become cinema’s most feared thief of scenes. His performances in Hurricane Stagecoach Only Angel Have Wings elevate him above publicity, earning praise for Gone With The Wind The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Mr Smith Goes To Washington.
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