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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1946
Page
2
Va Woolen moves ahead in the league standings with a 2 to 1 victory over Royal Crown. The win solidifies Va Woolen’s top spot as the standings shift following the late inning result.
Virginia Woolen defeated Royal Crown 22 to 1 in a league softball game yesterday. Larrick and Whitlock led pitching duties as Woolen used solid defense and timely hits to overpower Royal Crown, with Virginia Woolen scoring early and adding runs in each of the later innings.
City workers walkout continues as 450 police guard the streets. Picketers with placards cry for support while cars and pedestrians clog downtown traffic. The union and city failed to reach a settlement by 5:35 a.m., leaving the demonstration ongoing.
Answers to the Daily Quiz on page 4 list Manuel Roxas as item one. The second item notes repatriation of prisoners exchanged between Bell and the allied powers. A third item places a ceremony in New York harbor. Grace Moore is named in item four. The quiz identifies smaller schools in item five. The sixth item cites November 11 with a time and Paris reference. The tenth item mentions a brother who became King George VI.
Funeral services set for Mrs Virginia Bowen Keyser of Washington Virginia, who died after a short illness at University Hospital Charlottesville. She was daughter of Andrew J Bowen and Bessie Simpson Bowen of Rockland and survived by two brothers Andrew J Bowen Jr and E Maurice Bowen. She formerly taught at John Kerr School. Burial at Keyser family grounds Pleasant View near Washington.
Scout Executive Herbert Wil announced that seventy five scouts from seven troops earned citations at a Camporee held Sunday on Handley School grounds. Patrols included Fox Troop 1 Woolf Troop 2 Blackfoot Apache Troop 3 and Flaming Arrow Troop 40. Troops 2 and 9 earned Pioneer citations with leaders from E B Cooper Winchester, Henry Bush Presbyterian Church, Ray Garrabrandt Brad dock St Methodist, Harold Teets Trinity Lutheran Stephens City, Harold Rowe Market Street Methodist Winchester, Harry scoutmaster Lions Club, and Julian Armel Troop 40.
E O Seldon Gore Virginia announced a May 30 meeting at Timber Ridge Christian Church High View to clean the cemetery and church interior. Helpers should bring tools and attend at 8 a m. All interested are urged to participate.
Alexandria a 10 year old girl identified as Mabel Marie Moyer 19 a War Department employee from Singers Glen Virginia killed in a auto mobile bus crash near Accotink Witnesses say the driver fled Abingdon five year penitentiary sentence for Ellen Talbert Clark second degree murder in fatal shooting of James Emmett Newton Jr deferred until July 15 Richmond investigation into fatal clubbing of a 22 year old supervisor at Virginia Industrial School for Boys Beaumont to resume Garwood Tenner 16 Roanoke charged with murder in death of supervisor Clarence Hubbard during attempt to stop a riot at the facility
Mrs. Madeline Myers announces Miss Janet Cameron from V. P. I. will visit to present food demonstrations for home demonstration clubs and 4-H leaders. The event at Northern Virginia Power Company kitchen begins at 10 30 with vegetable and salad prep, followed by an afternoon session on canning vegetables and fruits.
Louis Calhern, star of The Magnificent Yankee, wins the Barter Theater award for outstanding American actor on the New York stage. The prize includes a ham and an acre of land on a mountain near Abingdon Virginia.
Behalem Valley high school principal resigns after school directors push to ban two novels The Grapes of Wrath and Strange Fruit from the library. The action sparks debate over censorship and literary selection in the district.
Twenty two candidates will be inducted into the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Winchester Lodge No. 876 on Braddock Street tomorrow at 8 p m. Exalted Ruler W Lee Fisher will lead the initiation with a social session to follow in the club rooms. The lodge roster will reach about 400 members, a new high.
The Reliance Woman's Missionary Association hosts an Ascension Day of Prayer at United Brethren Church on Thursday May 30 at 7:45 PM replacing the regular Wednesday service. The public is invited.
In Smithfield Smithfield Va speakers denounced the CIO at a mass meeting called by a citizens committee opposing packing house unionization. Remmie L. Arnold of Petersburg and Travis urged workers at Gwaltney to vote against CIO affiliation in the impending NLRB election affecting about 118 workers.
James C. Petrillo ordered a strike by Chicago musicians at a local radio station and warned of possible prosecution under the Lea bill. He announced the action in Chicago on May 28, signaling a high-profile labor dispute and tension with federal regulation.
In New York on May 28 the Security Council sub committee on Spain weighed a proposal from Spanish Republicans and allies that they may use force to overthrow Franco if the United Nations does not act against him. Premier Jose Giral signaled that Republicans at home and abroad stand ready to start fighting with broad support if the UN refuses intervention.
A national conference of CIO AFL and railroad brotherhood officials to oppose President Truman's labor legislation was proposed today by the CIO United Auto Workers. UAW President Walter P Reuther denounced the President's program as clearly unconstitutional.
Pennsylvania Railroad reported to the flood emergency committee that two cattle cars filled with pigs are lost in the flooded Lock Haven area and a state forester with a walkie talkie was sent to locate them.
Alfred J. Degutis, 43, freed by a warehouseman after being locked in a railroad refrigerator car for more than two weeks near Yakima Washington, told hospital attendants he weighed 196 pounds on entry and now weighs 142 pounds.
Rome May 28 A Savoia Marchetti transport was stolen from Forlanini airport near Milan and Espresso suggested the plane might have carried Mussolini's body to Spain. Five men in flying suits arrived before the regular crew and started the plane. Officials said the transport had fuel for a trip to Spain. Mussolini's body was stolen from an unmarked grave in Milan on April 22 and has not been traced.
Five inmates at Sandstone Federal Prison serving sentences for draft law violations were fed by tube after a hunger strike. On the prison physician’s recommendation tubes were inserted and liquid nourishment given yesterday and today, the 16th day of the fast.
Kansas City May 28 Joseph M Stack national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars charged that many employers are racketeering by using discharged service men as cheap labor under on the job training provisions of the GI Bill of Rights.
President Truman's personal plane the Sacred Cow will fly from Missouri to Washington bringing relatives of the first family to attend Margaret Truman's graduation exercises tomorrow.
Ward reports the death of Frank Willis aged 98 of Lost River West Virginia, died in Youngstown Ohio after a lingering illness. He was born in Lost River to John L. and Rachel Willis. Survived by daughter Jennie Pryor of Youngstown sister Bertie Hollingsworth of Cumberland Maryland brothers Joseph A. Willis of this city and Harvey D. Willis of Strasburg. A number of nieces and nephews survive.
Serine Byrd Mrs. Rachel Ford and Mrs. Bettie Crawford with son Joseph H. Willis depart for Youngstown where activities described as fun or vices are planned.
Annapolis Md May 26 Dorothy Harrive a University of Maryland coed with green eyes and blonde hair was chosen to present the colors to the most efficient Naval Academy company midshipmen. The 24th company led by Midshipman James B Wilson won a tight contest and picked the color girl for 1946 as his fiancée bestowed the honor.
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