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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1946
Page
4
Rates listed for one year six months three months and one month in advance. Outside zones incur a $1 surcharge. Carrier monthly rate and single copy price noted. Quote echoes a biblical verse about today being the great day.
The piece argues Kremlin aims to divert attention from home hardships as 12 million soldiers return from abroad. It notes wartime veterans exposed to foreign life and the risk of them resisting strict party control while a power struggle with the army shadows Zhukovs reassignment.
Australia’s extern al affairs minister Herbert V. Evatt argues that small powers the Little Seventeen deserve a voice in the Paris peace negotiations as much as the Big Four. The 1919 conference saw small states push for hearings but gains were limited amid clashes over disarmament and territorial claims.
The Virginia record against lynching stands as among the best in the South, with only North Carolina matching 99 lynchings since 1882. The Byrd anti lynching law is credited for deterring mobs, reducing violence to no lynching for 14 to 19 years, while Georgia faces a recent ghastly crime and calls for severe punishment.
The Lawrence Journal World notes seven vice presidents have become president due to vacancies. Only five of those cases led to later elections, with Tyler Fillmore Johnson Arthur never winning a full term, Roosevelt and Coolidge succeeding to office and then winning full terms. The piece weighs if this history hints at Truman's 1948 prospects.
Observers expect a light turnout in the Winchester and Frederick County primary as Democrats appeal for votes tomorrow. Over 200 Winchester merchants back the Paper Holiday started today with a policy of unwrapped items only.
Officials commented on a slow day but confirmed the American Viscose Plant at Front Royal will likely be in full production by year end with about 2,000 workers to be employed.
Ten years ago in 1926 Edna McNear Cather daughter of a state senator was chosen Princess Winchester at the Tobacco Festival in South Boston. Helen Ludwig and Maynard L DeLawder wed July 31 in Hagerstown Maryland.
The new Wardensville West Virginia branch of Baker and Company wholesale grocers of Winchester is already supplying a large trade.
The Huntsberry building shows strong progress as completion nears and preparations for operations advance at the oil plant. The opening ball at Jordan Springs last night drew a large crowd and was described as grand.
Corbett navigates a wartime political salon aboard a train car as Voorhees Hastings and Rauchmeyer clash with labor board threats. A drunken Kalchis disrupts the scene revealing social divides, unions, and a looming confrontation over national direction. The chapter ends with a cliffhanger as Corbett exits to continue the drama.
D C Fancis Bacon might well be called the father of the modern world. He urged inductive reasoning and experiment before declaring truths. His method of gathering facts and testing theories underpins scientific progress and counters dogmatism.
The State Corporation Commission authorized Charles R. Wagner to set up an airport on the south side of Route 12 in Page County on property known as Kite Farm near the Town of Luray in Richmond Virginia.
The reader is asked to answer seven quiz questions on topics ranging from geography and history to literature and government. The page directs turning to page 2 for correct answers and presents questions about Okinawa, Kharkov, the Kremlin, U. S. Senate figures, plays, and state law.
Virginia Carolina Chemical Corp filed a preliminary fiscal year report ending June 30 showing net profit of 1.7 million dollars or 7.98 a preferred share, up from 955,577 dollars or 4.48 a preferred share prior year. The firm notes accumulations on 213,052 shares of 6 percent participating preferred as 95.50 a share.
Radio comedian Gracie Allen was in Good Samaritan Hospital Los Angeles yesterday for illness. Her physician declined to disclose the condition but said she could return home in two or three days.
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