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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1946
Page
7
George Mikan named top player at Madison Square Garden as DePaul defeats its opponent 33 points lead by Mikan. Metropolitan basketball writers highlight his performance and impact this season in the arena.
Negotiations aim for a complete settlement beyond a single deal as union leaders including R J Thomas Walter P Reuther and George Addes withhold comment. A strike escalates if no agreement today before the UAW CIO convention March 23 31 in Atlantic City. General Motors losses surpass 550 million dollars in unfilled orders with wage losses cited around 128 and 145 million by union and management respectively.
Goering testifies before the International Military Tribunal describing his ancestry as a friend of Cecil Rhodes and Joseph Chamberlain. He recalls WWI’s impact on him and meeting Hitler after a 1922 rally, stating Hitler’s Versailles critique moved him to join the Nazi Party and serve Hitler.
Judge Harrison presided as forgery and related charges were heard. Harrison’s defendant was placed on probation for two years after a revoked sentence. Clark was represented by H. R. Kern Jr. Whetzel faced similar charges and was found guilty by the same judge. Helen High received the same sentence as in the lower court, 12 months on the State Park defect. Oscar Fincham, with attorney Kern, was found guilty by a five member jury on assault charges.
Middletown town council was notified that the new charter, unanimously requested from the State Legislature, has been approved. The legislature acted on the bill last week through their attorney FE Blackburn Moore.
The senior class play Miss Smarty at Stonewall High School in Clearbrook Virginia has been postponed from March 15 to March 22 due to illness among cast members. The 12 member comedy will be staged in the high school auditorium at 8 p.m. according to principal B R Harper.
Extension of the draft law and universal military training act faces swift congressional votes as pay hikes for Army and Navy are debated. President Truman backs the legislation amid wartime needs while Byrnes and Patterson urged caution on funding and timing as lawmakers weigh the extension.
The Winchester records 74 degrees signaling early spring with dusting of spring cleaning supplies and seed orders. Temperatures run 20 degrees above normal in many areas and at least 10 degrees above average nationwide. East Texas and southern Louisiana face summerlike thunderstorms while rain showers hit the southeast and Midwest. The forecast calls for mild local conditions tonight with clouds and possible showers tomorrow as the northeast eyeing a rain move.
John L. Lewis announced a demand for a health and welfare fund for bituminous coal miners, based on a union survey of workers under Workmen's Compensation laws. He presented the proposal at the National Bituminous Wage Conference and signaled further demands for higher pay and a shorter work week.
Musician First Class William R. Sima Jr. faces summary court martial on breach of naval academy discipline and gambling in an officers’ mess after an alleged party at a frigate club. His father Lieutenant William Gaara adeger Farce and two enlisted men are detained as investigation continues.
Winston Churchill left the executive mansion after an extended overnight discussion with Governor Thomas E. Dewey in Albany. The topic of their talks was not disclosed and the pair remained in session until 2 AM before Churchill continued to New York by train.
Lafayette College captured the first Middle Atlantic Conference basketball title with a 52 to 39 victory over Rutgers University at Grace Hall Bethlehem. The Maroon improved to 17 wins and 3 losses as Muhlenberg beat Ursinus 67 to 30 in the consolation opener.
The Chinese Central News Agency said in Mukden that a ferocious attack by unidentified forces on government troops and police began at 1 30 a m and lasted three hours. Government troops retook the areas, with ten policemen killed and more than seventy captured.
Former UNRRA director general, who led the relief agency since its birth, resigns after a physician advised rest. He notes he previously left New York governorship in 1942 to head UNRRA at President Roosevelt’s request.
In Winchester Corporate Court Judge Burr P. Harrison ruled that Nancy O Cooper, owner of a two story apartment house, must move into Mrs Hackney's apartment immediately. The judge had earlier allowed her to occupy either Hackney's or Rutherford's unit and she chose Hackney's, with the immediacy of occupancy still under advisement.
The War Department reports that as of July 1943 the average height of soldiers in the Army of the United States was 5 ft 8? in and the average weight was 150.9 pounds.
Nuernberg March 13. Former German war minister Werner Von Blomberg died of heart failure at the 116th General Hospital where he awaited summons as a witness in the Nuernberg trials. The 67 year old aristocrat sparked a major Nazi era scandal in 1938 by marrying a stenographer Erika Gruhn prompting his resignation to Hitler.
In St. Petersburg Florida on March 13 Joe Jo and Charley Keller pace the Yankees. Jolting Joe posts a 404 average with seven homers and 22 RBIs. Keller hits 339 and has a hit in all 15 exhibitions, contributing one of the team's three homers in the win over Detroit.
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