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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1949
Page
9
Winston Churchill hobby painter offered his first auctioned work titled The Blue Room Trent Park 1934 selling for 5250 dollars. The signed piece, bought by the Brazilian newspaper chain of Assis Chateaubriand, will go to the Sao Paulo art museum.
The sobriquet The Conqueror was already in use for William II before his English invasion in 1066. He earned the name after consolidating power in Normandy by quelling noble revolts and winning key victories early in his reign.
Gil bert Green of Chicago, defendant in a communist conspiracy trial, calls the American war for independence a bourgeois revolution in a 1939 college class. He says the Russian text was used as historical study, not a blueprint for today. Government witnesses note post 1945 party classes teach violent overthrow to seize power.
St Johns Festival Day will be marked at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church at 2 p m tomorrow. King Hiram Lodge 53 A F and A M and Apple Blossom chapter Eastern Star lead events including a sermon by Rev Chester M Comer. Holmes Boyd will perform a musical selection and Garfield Prather reads scripture.
Roanoke begins trial of an Eagle Scout and church choir member charged in the Dana Marie Weaver death. 66 potential jurors summoned. 50 witnesses expected as defense and Commonwealth prosecutors prepare. The case follows Weaver found suffocated in Christ Episcopal parish house kitchen after a May 8 church visit.
A Senate appropriations subcommittee voted to restrain the Atomic Energy Commission expenditures. The proposed amendment to an appropriation bill funding the atomic program will be recommended to the full appropriations committee next week.
Opening session of the United Nations Institute at Shepherd College discusses historical developments of the world community. Dr Helen Dwight Reid of the U S Office of Education will lecture at 7 45 p m on We must earn the future.
The human eye reaches its maximum size at about ten years of age.
President Truman asks Congress to fund a new foreign aid program to assist backward lands worldwide. The plan proposes a 45 million dollar fund for engineering and related help and Export- Import Bank guarantees for private investments, targeting Africa, the Near and Far East, and parts of the Americas on a share-cost basis with local governments. Leaders react cautiously about passage this session.
A Senate investigations subcommittee led by Chairman Hoey pursues tips on fees tied to influence in government contracting. The probe expands from one deal to all federal buying activity, aiming to curb practices and reveal any hidden “back door” access.
In South Harpswell Maine on June 25 a 24 year old wife of artist Stephen Ethier shot herself after a quarrel over using an automatic dishwasher following a supper with guest poet Robert Tristram Coffin. Deputy Norman Emerson cited Ethier as saying the kitchen dispute arose after a grocery order mixup and the dishwashing spat.
A .22 calibre pistol incident left a young wife wounded as she sat at her dressing table. An emergency operation was performed at Brunswick hospital and she was reported in serious condition but with a good chance to live.
The body of nine year old Frances Bricker was recovered a week after she was washed from her home during a Bridgewater flood. Johnny Fishback found the body about 20 yards from the North River bank near a tree that aided Frances and her sister Betty. Her mother Margaret Frances Bricker also drowned in the same flood.
A girl named Frances Bricker and two other people were reported missing during floods. Frances was found dead, ending a weeklong search. her mother and Mrs Bowman were the other missing persons. The girl was later identified as living with grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Moffett Butler. A rescue involved two high school boys who saved a girl clinging to a tree.
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Baltimore and Ohio railroad announces 1100 clerical workers will be furloughed for an indefinite period due to a decline in traffic and revenues. Furloughs begin next Thursday and affect clerical staff system wide.
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