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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1946
Page
7
Mrs. Anna Edwards a well known radio evangelist from Frederick Maryland will conduct a special service tonight at 7 30 o clock at the Mt Pleasant West Virginia Church. The public is cordially invited.
Russia's position on international atomic controls faces opposition from U S senators. Senator George T. Murray warns against veto power and the risk of deadlock in U N talks. Senator Edwin C Johnson shares concern that failure to reach agreement could spark a new arms race.
Ballots counted at Marcus Hook and Wilmington show 8,987 votes for the Textile Workers Union of America CIO to 1,747 for the UCW district 50 AFL with 141 ballots for neither. About 82 percent supported TWUA amid ongoing negotiations.
Supervisors approved a $1000 total fire protection appropriation for five districts, with $600 for Shawnee Gainesboro and Backcreek. The school fund tops $350,278.96, split among state receipts $110,306 and county levy $67,000, plus loans and other funds to total $433,302.98. Levy rates include 40 cents general county, $1 county school, and 60 cents for a new high school building.
Mrs. Fannie Buckley Shiley 65 wife of Samuel R. Shiley died at her home near White Post Clarke county yesterday afternoon. She was born December 26 1880 at White Post and was active in Meade Memorial Episcopal Church until health failed eight years ago. Survived by husband two daughters Arthur Shiley a son a brother and a sister and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at Meade Memorial Church with interment in Green Hill Cemetery Berryville.
An American military court in Wels Austria sentenced 29 young girls to six months each for loitering and begging near American military establishments. Most were about 14 years old. Fourteen other girls charged with the same offense were found ill and hospitalized.
The Virginia Democratic Central Committee met to call a state convention and draft rules for nominating a senator. With Senator Glass dead, options include a convention rather than a primary, though candidates like Edward Meeks J Cloyd Byars and potential entrants Howard Smith and A Willis Robertson are discussed. The meeting touched on delegate selection method mass meeting or special election and binding under the unit rule.
A bus carrying Spokane Western International League baseball players plunged down a Cascade Mountains slope near Snoqualmie Pass. Six bodies were found at the scene and one died at a Seattle hospital. Injured players were taken to King County and Snoqualmie Falls hospitals with one transported to Ellensburg. The crash occurred about four miles west of the Snoqualmie Pass summit, 3,000 feet high, after the bus severed a guard rail and tumbled 300 to 500 feet.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad announced that the All-India Congress Working Committee rejected British plans for an interim Indian government until a constitution is adopted. The committee, however, accepted the Cabinet Mission's long term proposals toward independence, conveyed to Viceroy Wavell and the mission by telephone. Azad said there are no conditions, but interpretation applies.
The Surgeon General's Office analyzed inductees in January and May 1943 to estimate average soldier height. The result, 68.11 inches, applies to the sample, not the entire World War II male population.
In Frankfurt and Berlin the U S Army trains German pedestrians to cross safely to protect soldiers. Police use loudspeakers and signs at intersections to enforce crossing rules as army safety officers cite inexperience with fast traffic and war weariness as factors.
Washington reports that over 1.37 billion dollars of non home building has been approved since March under government construction controls. A Civilian Production Administration release notes 11 weeks produced 31 457 approvals and 14 971 rejections for store factory office and other non housing construction.
The Star announces a corps of 30 correspondents stationed throughout Frederick County to cover every section, promising wide local news coverage and timely reporting from multiple communities.
Australia suggested a single master committee to draft atomic energy control plans and reconcile differences between United States and Russia programs. The plan leans toward a US style supreme control authority, similar to Baruch's international atomic development idea, while opposing Russia's two-committee approach for information exchange and control.
The schedule lists Mrs. Madeline B. Myers guiding Wayne county demonstrations with meetings at The Stonewall HDC and Evan dale HDC, plus a county can market mass meeting at the Winchester courthouse. A reader asks about Air Corps units in Bataan, and the War Department cites the 24th Pursuit Group as evacuated to Bataan in early 1942 and later designated as the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the 1st Division under Selick, then part of Luzon Force under Wainwright, receiving a Presidential Citation for defense of the Philippines.
Winchester Town Meeting at Sarah Zane Hall invites attendees to submit questions to Dr Vernon Nash, national director of field work for World Federalists USA. Nash, Rhodes Scholar 1916, has long promoted world federation and has held academic positions in journalism. Grant Pollock will moderate.
Commander Davis noted district growth from 1769 in 1945 to 4494 in 1946 with 16 new posts formed in the last year. Herbert Brasington said the state has 320 posts vs 186 in 1945, with 53 000 members now compared to 27 000 a year ago and a 100 000 goal. Harry Newman reported five colored posts represented and Julia Howard, discharged WAC, to join as first female member of the Seventh District.
Trooper E B Mitchell resumes duties here after discharge from the U S Army. He served with the Signal Corps in the Pacific Theater, stationed in the Philippines for six months and Korea for three months. He entered service March 14 1945 and lives with his family at 49 West Bend Street.
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