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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1948
Page
2
The general staff said a guerrilla radio broadcast last night reported rebel peace overtures from the provisional government of Greece. It quoted Markos Vafiades as always ready to accept any initiative toward peace, provided there is no foreign interference, and urged democratic rights and national independence.
The list includes answers across theater, politics, literature, and geography. It mentions A Streetcar Named Desire, cential nominee, Moonstone, Bert Louis Stevenson, Taft and Stassen, a landlocked republic, smaller than tenpins, equality findings among races, Japan, Submarine, and twelve Republican conventions held in Cicag.
Colonel Frank Howley, American commander for Berlin, charges that the Russians employ 16 German police officials and other workers with criminal records in the Soviet occupied zone. He presented the men's police records to Maj. Gen. Alexander Kotikov in Berlin.
July 5 item details free baseball twinbill at the Park on the holiday sponsored by region Junior Baseball Day with the junior team in the opener and the senior nine at night. City council bans fireworks leading to a new annual celebration and a slogan search. Children admitted free and rides home provided. transportation to the market offered to those without rides. Committee chaired by Bill Louthan with members Manuel Sirbaugh Zucker man Grubbs and Garber coordinating plans.
Braddock St. Methodist triumphed 7-4 over undefeated Loudoun St. Presbyterian to become the league’s sole perfect team. Montague Ave. Methodist beat Cork St. Christian 4-3. Sacred Heart Catholic-Baptist game postponed for special services. Junior League saw Christ Episcopal defeat Market St. Methodist 8-7. City League tonight features Royal Crown vs O Sullivan, Jewel Box vs Winchester News, and Virginia Woolen vs Rosenberger on three diamonds. Allen’s paper wheels are not used on modern locomotives due to braking heat and current wheel design.
Notice urges timely safety inspection before the rush, stating approval needed by June 15. Details imply a municipal or regulatory deadline for vehicle inspections and compliance.
Washington reports more than 3000 Mundt-Nixon anti-communist bill fees gathered in the capital from New York aboard three special trains. Former Rep. Jerry J. O Connell praised protesters as patriotic defenders of liberties. Police maintained order at Union Station as two mass meetings were planned and delegations prepared to visit congressmen.
Clarke County led with 83 new contributions totaling 3702, pushing county gifts to 39585. Upperville Middleburg area held highest average 318 with 37 new subscriptions worth 2092, area total 17197. Wardensville aims for 5100 memorial goal despite absence. Dinner speakers Rosene rger Arthur Fr Grove White and W Nelson Page. invocation by Rev James B Roe.
June 5 to 19 sales in Winchester Capon Bridge Rippon Brucetown Ridgeway Berryville include livestock farm machinery antiques real estate gas appliances furniture and household goods plus electrical appliances and miscellaneous items. Listings specify dates times and locations across West Virginia and Virginia with multiple sellers and estates.
The Army expects its storage cases to preserve weapons for 50 years without attention while the Navy anticipates cocoons to hold for 20 years. A jai alai ball is four ounces and made of rubber thread and a chamois skin cover, propelled by players at high speeds.
Private Hoover, a regular at an illustrating firm in the city, joined the 34th Division after Pearl Harbor. He fought in Algeria and Tunisia, and on November 29 1942 defended a battery against aircraft, was killed by a nearby bomb, and was posthumously awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart with department records noting him as the first clearly known local casualty after the United States entered World War II.
States declared a state of war and the American Legion post voted to add his name to Captain Robert Y. Conrad who fell at his post leading his former Virginia national guardsmen into action in France in October 1918 near the close of World War I. Pvt. Hoover was the younger brother of John F. Hoover, local branch manager for the Wash
Post, who served overseas in the late war with an infantry outfit of the 83rd Division, saw action in France, Luxembourg and Germany. He was the uncle of John Frederick Hoover Jr. of Winchester and a nephew of Mrs. Benjamin M. Neitzey, with whom he resided in Washington, and of Fred E. Willis of Hollywood, Florida.
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