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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

May 17, 1954

Page

11

Australians Targeted by Soviet Espionage in Australia

The royal commission heard that Kremlin agents blackmailed Australians into spying, with Vladimir Petrov alleging a Soviet spy ring headed by him. He claimed asylum for himself and his wife after defecting from the Soviet embassy in Canberra. The spies focused on foreign ministry and military targets, using five main tactics to maintain contact, recruit others, infiltrate, build a fifth column, and obtain policy secrets.

Canberra Australia Royal Commission Kremlin William Windeyer Vladimir M. Petrov Petrov Russia Soviet Union Windever Red Foreign Ministry Windeyer Canada Igor Gouzenko

Radio Programs Broadcasts on Key Stations

Broadcast schedule lists daytime and primetime radio programs across CBS NBC ABC MBS and other networks. It includes news, sports, dramas, talk shows, music, soap operas and variety programs with several stations and times shown.

Cbs Abe Julius la Rosa Lone Ranger Newa Abe Perry Como MacRae Henry Taylor Abe the Falcon Jack Gregson Barlow Voorhees Nbe Radio Cbs Camaratta Band of America Abc Fibber Molly Night Watch Cbs News & Comment Crossroads Heart of News Abec Abe Melody Cba Abe Deems Taylor All Nets

Radio Schedule and Q and A on Favorite Horses

A TV radio listing details WINC weekday programs from Monday to Tuesday with news, weather, music, and ABC network shows. A question-and-answer segment asks if favorites win more often, noting about 40 percent long term average with daily variance.

George Hicks Quincy Howe the Christophers Henry J. Taylor ABC Bill Stern Just Easy Camarata Turner Calling Edwin C. Hill

Television listings final update note

Erroneous entries or omissions in listings reflect last minute changes and cancellations by broadcasting stations and networks after press deadline.

Evening TV Schedule Highlights From City Stations

Television listings show WNEW Channel 4, WTTG Channel 5, WTOP Channel 9, and WNEW Channel 6 offering a mix of children's programs, dramas, game shows, and news from 4:00 PM to 1:00 AM. Notable entries include Name That Tune, Voice of Firestone, Dennis Day, This Is The Life, Boxing, I Love Lucy, and Studio One, with various anchors and time slots across each station.

Billy Johnson Mark Evans Godfrey WNEW Pinky Lee Footlight Theater Joe Palooka Tony Martin News Caravan Voice of Firestone Dennis Day Robert Montgomery WTTG WTOP Pick Temple Bob Crosby Starlight Theater Esso Janet Dean Perry Como Studio One Garroway Hawkins Falla Betty White Peoples Playhouse

Five Youths Die In Rail Crossing Disaster At Trenton

A car carrying six teens returning from a dance collided with a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train near Trenton Illinois killing five occupants and critically injuring the sixth. Victims are Raymond L. King 22 Marlin J. Goff 19 Horace H. Hooks 19 Kenneth Ray Stewart 18 all of Edwardsville Ill and Eleanor Clark 16 of St Jacob Ill. Donna Reed 18 Highland Ill was critically injured. Witnesses said the car traveled at high speed swerving around another vehicle before striking the train bound from St Louis to New York.

Trenton Baltimore and Ohio Raymond L. King Marlin J. Goff Horace H. Hooks Kenneth Ray Stewart Edwardsville Til Eleanor Clark St. Jacob Donna Reed Highland Henry Kluthe St. Louis New York

Are $100 bills the largest money in circulation soon

The Treasury policy avoids printing high denomination notes and the $10 000 bill is being retired. The $100 bill may eventually be the largest currency note in use.

Treasury

Mrs Wood Speaker At Turner Ashby UDC Meeting

Mrs Dewey Wood of Front Royal spoke at the May Turner Ashby Chapter UDC meeting at Mrs H B McCormac Sr home. She described Confederate wounded care from field first aid to way stations and final hospitalization in improvised buildings, noting hospital care as primitive. Reports from the 4th District.

Dewey Wood Front Royal Warren

Turner Ashby Chapter Wins Confederate Flag at Front Royal Meeting

May 7 session of Warren Rifles Chapter in Front Royal honored Turner Ashby Chapter for largest attendance as the Confederate flag award. Mrs. Berkeley Caffee chaired. Col. R. T. Barton Jr. slated to speak June 6. Virginia Division UDC plans October 5-7 at George Washington Hotel. June 7 picnic hosted by Mrs. Wyatt Richard. One pension application approved. Guests included Mrs. Edgar Hill and Mrs. John Browning and others.

Front Royal Warren Rifles Turner Ashby Berkeley Caffee C. 8 Harlee Virginia UDC George Washington Hotel Col R. T. Barton, Jr Wyatt Richard Edgar Hill John Browning Ferguson Carey Dewey

James Wood Hosts Harrisonburg Twin Bill at Rouss Park

Harrisonburg travels to Rouss Park for a twin bill tomorrow with James Wood. First game set for 3:315. Harrisonburg aims to finish above .500 while James Wood hopes to snap a winless stretch with John Ballowe and Wally Simpson starting for the Colonels.

Harrisonburg Rouss Park James Wood Colonels John Ballowe Wally Simpson

Peevers engaged in TV series Milestone

Wally Cox as Mr Peevers becomes engaged to his TV sweetheart in the popular half hour show. Fall plans shift to a marital situation comedy akin to I Love Lucy. FCC weighs pay-as-you-see pricing for UHF to compete with VHF channels. Motorola quality advertised by Molden Electric Co. Inc.

Mr. Peepers Wally Cox McCarthy Senate Potter Michigan FCC Motorola Molden Electric Co., Inc South Loudoun St

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