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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1950
Page
1
The House Armed Services Committee voted 31 to 0 to extend the Selective Service Act for two years and keep a draft ready. It bars inductions until Congress declares a national emergency and tightens presidential powers on mobilizing industry.
A six officer court martial convict Colonel Ralph C. Tilley, 54, of bigamy for marrying Jonilde Bruno in Italy and for harboring her. He is sentenced to two years at hard labor, discharged from the army, and forfeiture of pay rights. The verdict was announced as his American wife Elizabeth Tilley and Bruno were not present.
About 350 Manassas families switch to daylight time while schools stay on standard time. Prince William County Schools plan to remain on standard time though Manassas follows the DC daylight schedule.
In Chelsea Alabama a 14 year old girl was killed and her 21 year old boyfriend wounded on the front steps of her home by shots from two suitors. Sheriff Luther Bozeman said one suitor Fred Wells 21 surrendered and fired the shots amid jealousy. Roderick Salser aided the girl as he was also shot in the side.
Private sale lists a 1949 Mercury four door sedan in excellent condition at a very cheap price. Contact Kern Motor Co for details and inquiry.
President Truman said he is not alarmed by the cold war situation and expects a lower defense budget next year. He cited optimism for peace and noted the upcoming fiscal year beginning July 1 1951. He defended current plans as prudent and called the budget tight and affordable.
Special Senate committee led by Estes Kefauver will probe crime in cities nationwide with a staff of investigators. The panel will explore whether a nationwide crime syndicate exists or if crime is mainly local. The Justice Department says no evidence of a national syndicate. gambling remains the focus amid widespread crime laws.
Soviet dispatches suggest Joseph Stalin may not meet United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie in Moscow. Lie hopes to discuss world peace but officials expect only minimal contacts with Foreign Minister Vishinsky or Molotov, leaving little chance for progress on Cold War tensions.
The House Ways and Means Committee voted down measures to cut liquor and beer taxes. A proposal to lower the $9 a gallon whiskey tax to $7.50 faced defeat, as would a 50 cent cut on the $8 per barrel beer tax. No wine tax cut was proposed.
In Rotterdam demonstrators protested the unloading of Atlantic Pact arms from the Empire State. Police dispersed protesters using sabers injuring one man and arresting several without disclosed totals while a second shipment discussion remained conflicting.
The State Department ordered re inspection of two wartime escort vessels, Papua and Tobago, bought by the Egyptian Steamship Line. They are being fitted out at Baltimore for the Khedivial Mail Line and still carry mounts for 3 inch and smaller guns from World War I.
President Truman formally nominates Stanley Woodward as ambassador to Canada and sends the nomination to the Senate for confirmation. Woodward, a close friend of the President, would succeed Laurence A. Steinhardt who died in a plane crash last month.
Formosa reports quote Gen Chou Chi-Jou on one hundred Chinese Communist divisions being Sovietized. Russia promised 600 planes with 237 in Shanghai area and 20 jets identified. Soviet submarines basing at Singapore, Dairen, Port Arthur, and 34 warships totaling 37 000 tons received from Japan. 23 000 Soviet advisers and technicians in Red China. Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Cheng urge reporters to witness the life and death struggle.
The United States Chamber of Commerce endorsed a modest export program to aid backward lands while supporting Truman’s point four plan. Otto Seyferth of Muskegon Michigan was elected president for 1950, a former machinist helper and AFL organizer. The group urged international economic cooperation and Marshall Plan support, while opposing broad government subsidy schemes and large tax increases.
Congress completed action on a bill authorizing water projects with an estimated cost of 1.73 billion dollars.
In Tokyo a 13 year old boy Minoru Tanaka slipped into a manhole to retrieve a ball and died from methane gas. His father a neighbor and a fireman who descended also perished. All four victims suffocated.
Senator McCarthy says a witness can testify that Amerasia Magazine associates gathered and sent atomic secrets to Russia in 1945. He claims A-bomb data reached the Soviet Union six months before the first bomb drop, naming Frank Bielaski as the potential witness amid a Senate probe into State Department security.
Four babies born to Mrs. Arthur Seifert near Sleepy Eye Minnesota in two and a half hours at a hospital. The newborns include three girls and a boy with weights from two pounds four ounces to four pounds five ounces. All were reported doing nicely in incubators and the mother in fair condition.
Mathews Virginia crewmen recovered an unidentified man from a pound net in Chesapeake Bay three miles south of Wolf Trap Light. The body showed no identifying marks and had been in the water for some time. Two men remain missing after the sinking of the tugboat Lorain near Windmill Lighthouse on April 9.
Detroit report to the American Psychiatric Association cites 12 doctors saying Antabuse is safe but not a home remedy. They warn some drinkers may die if they drink after taking the drug and emphasize psychiatric supervision for willpower. Reports from San Francisco Albany and Montreal show mixed success with about half remaining dry or reducing drinking.
President Truman rejected the Pepper loss as a fair deal setback and said it did not reflect national policy. He indicated Florida issues differed from the national picture and discussed train trips and invitations, Idaho politics, and Virginia Tennessee prospects with reporters.
Two Kansas City men testified they ran a racing news service grossing about 40 000 dollars annually from a 7500 dollar investment. They refused to answer questions about a large Kansas City gambling racket, citing potential self incrimination.
The Charlie Rouss Fire Co. schedules its regular monthly meeting for Friday at 8 p m. All members are urged to attend. Robert Legge, president. Friendship Fire Co calls a meeting for Thursday at 8 p m. All members requested to attend. Robert S. Ryan, secretary.
The 100 day Chrysler strike, settled with 89 000 UAW workers returning to work. Pension and insurance gains, wage increases in parts plants, and vacations are outlined while unions and Chrysler officials trade blame over the lengthy dispute that cost nearly $1.5 billion in lost sales and wages.
Chattanooga lines from Nashville to Jacksonville halted as Greyhound drivers walked out in a wildcat strike. Union officials deny authorization though members of the AFL Amalgamated Association. About 27 drivers accused of taking cash from fare boxes. workers held in a Chattanooga hotel and questioned by inspectors.
James Wood Consolidated High School expected to be completed and turned over to the Frederick County School Board by June 15. Superintendent J M Saunders of English Construction Co. says the project is about 92 percent finished with painting in progress and 70,000 feet of asphalt tile being laid. Grounds grading for football and baseball fields has also been contracted.
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