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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1946
Page
4
DeLisser Inc based in New York at 11 East 44th Street is listed as a national representative in the Winchester Evening Star. The brief notice identifies the agency handling national representation for the publication.
The article reports James Caesar Petrillo, head of the American Federation of Musicians, promising to strike against national networks and halt phonograph production if the Supreme Court sustains the Lea Act. It notes Petrillo’s confidence in courts’ and politicians’ timidity and critiques past enforcement of labor laws.
The Charlottesville Volunteer Firemen threaten to withdraw protection from the University of Virginia after students at the Chi Phi house hurled beer bottles and abuse during a brush fire response. The incident followed a near hot Friday night raising tensions between campus life and city services. Dean Ivey F. is expected to push for stricter discipline.
The New York Times argues the Case Bill is imperfect yet contains urgently needed provisions. It warns a veto could empower labor leaders and cripple the economy, citing votes in Congress and Supreme Court concerns about robbery and extortion as felonies.
A. F. Whitney heads the Trainmen's Brotherhood and tells reporters the union has 47 million dollars in its treasury and will spend all of it if needed to oppose President Truman in the upcoming election. The piece critiques the concentration of power when a single union can control such funds and sway national politics.
An essay by Earl L. Douglas urges readers to look forward not back and look outward not inward. It warns against dwelling on past mistakes and personal woes and counsels lifting eyes to the sunlit world and the justice of God for enduring hope.
A series of Q and A discusses citizenship by marriage, skippets as treaty seals, eligibility for dependents of service members, the British Oscar equivalent, loco parentis pensions, NROTC V-5 programs, and Army medical officer service. It covers Cable Act implications, Public Law 126 requests, and current Navy ROTC status with aviation training options.
The Jacksonville Florida journal notes uncertainty over NC and SC governor remarks, while highlighting Virginia and Florida senators exchanging a notable message yesterday, described as no secret.
About 2000 city students visited Mt Hebron Cemetery to lay spring flowers on the graves of Judge Handley John Kerr and Lucian 8 Lupton. Mrs Christie Fansler leads in the War Bonds sales contest with 5375. Handley High School will award eighty two diplomas at 8 pm for the class of 1945.
A quiz feature asks seven questions on topics from labor talks to history. It covers a mine strike spokesman, military demobilization, a Roosevelt memorial stamp, the Wasserman test, a crooner’s wife named as Ideal Mother, a 1945 46 play prize, Lincoln Washington or Grant quotes, the last German Kaiser, a xylocarp classification, and the King of Birds.
In South Bend a man reports losing a wallet with $230 at a ball game. Later he says another finder returned the wallet containing $228 by placing it in his door letter slot. The incident highlights the honesty of a local anonymous finder who asked for no reward.
Mrs. Fannie Crenshaw offers a $2000 reward for the recovery of jewels stolen from her home. The drought relief note notes farmers still seek additional rain to end the water shortage.
State Senator E Lee Trinkle of Wytheville seeks the Democratic gubernatorial nomination and will address the Empire on Thursday evening June 23. Col Harry H Baker longtime Winchester resident died at his South Washington Street home from a heart illness. A number of members of the Orland Haines families gathered here for the
Chapter scene in a suntan coated bar where Don Corbett, a Ninth Air Force bombardier with a Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal, contemplates home. He drinks with a weary lieutenant, weighs embalming fluid priced drinks, and grapples with reintegration while observing returning airmen and available women. The night ends with Corbett deciding to seek his own path and avoid the tempting crowds.
The piece notes diamonds began to gain popularity for engagement rings toward the end of the 15th century, with the Venetians credited for introducing the custom, though widespread use did not occur until about two centuries later.
The War Department cannot determine exact Allied personnel losses on the China Burma India airlift. From December 1941 to August 1945 the Army Air Forces reported 1,263 killed 494 wounded and evacuated 1,575 missing interned or captured across the CBI theater.
A small party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shuster was noted near here. A movement to organize a state militia in towns the size of Winchester is revived in Richmond. B. R. Lineburg is slightly injured when his team ran away down Market Street.
Joseph Zamoiski of Baltimore, a pilot, was stopped by a Virginia state trooper who joked about his pilot license. He showed his airplane papers and was released with a warning to slow down on the ground.
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