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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1947
Page
4
James Marlow surveys CIO convention plans with 36 resolutions on foreign policy and the Taft Hartley act. Murray seeks union peace while most delegates fear splits over strong anti Soviet or anti government criticisms.
October sales detail auctions across West Virginia and Virginia. Beatty at Kernstown lists horses dairy cows and farm machinery. Price at Ridgeway wagon includes horses cattle hogs and dairy gear. Miller near Gore offers horses cows sheep hogs furniture and a 146 acre farm. Shiley near Clearbrook lists horses cattle sheep hay grain and farm machinery. Royston in Boyce offers household goods.
John L. Lewis, silent at the AFL convention, faces a bid to amend the AFL constitution to abolish the office of vice-president. David Dubinsky pledged to present the amendment on the convention floor, signaling a confrontation with Lewis and allies who favor Taft Hartley era restraints.
Secretary of Labor L. B. Schwellenbach told the CIO that price increases outpace wages and pressed for a 75-cent hourly minimum wage. He argued the postwar market is a seller’s market driven by wartime earnings, savings, and corporate profits enabling price rises. The piece also notes the Nizam of Hyderabad valued at about $2 billion.
In Richmond on October 14 the governor opened hearings for Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals vacancies following Chief Justice Holt's death. Delegations urged seven candidates including Walter T. McCarthy and Kennon C. Whittle, with later supporters of Floridus S. Crosby also to be heard.
Havana report says dancer Patricia Schmidt testified she shot John Mee aboard his yacht last April after he threatened her life. She wept and fluctuated in court while claiming fear for Mee's life and that she acted in self defense.
Three drivers were found guilty of drunken driving when arraigned in Winchester courts. Trial Justice W. Erle Edwards imposed $100 fines on James Henry Dodson of Stephens City and Franklin Edward Puffinberger of Louden Street, while Lester A. Combs of Cedar Creek Grade was fined $100 by Judge John Rice. All three jail terms of 30 days were suspended.
The American Federation of Labor endorsed the Marshall plan for European relief and urged government curbs in grain markets if voluntary cooperation fails. The statement was issued from San Francisco on October 14.
Davy Slow, a longtime Clark County household butcher, died at Winchester Memorial Hospital on Monday. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at John H. Enders Funeral Home Berryville. Interment will be in Milton Valley Cemetery.
Lt Cmdr C Ridgely White will report to the naval intelligence office in Washington tomorrow for two weeks of active duty. He served 38 months with naval intelligence in the war, joined as a lieutenant (jg) in Sept 1942, and discharged January 1946. He plans to return to his insurance office on November 1.
Senator McCarthy says subpoenas will force gray market actors in building supplies to testify under oath about abnormal prices. He notes such trading raises home costs by up to twenty percent and vows to break it up. He declines to name targets but says witnesses must name buyers and sellers or face perjury or contempt.
The first National Labor Relations Board hearing into alleged unfair labor practices by a union began in Baltimore with ITU and Baltimore local No 12 accused of refusing to bargain. William R. Ringer denied a postponement bid and oversaw the afternoon session presenting the case.
Frank Brasser, related to Bloom, Virginia, is appointed secretary of the Herbert Hoover group conducting a nonpolitical survey of the American government.
By written request of the owner, a sale of restaurant and kitchen equipment will be held at the G. W. Patton and Sons warehouse 425 North Cameron Street Winchester Virginia on Tuesday October 21 1947 at 11 a m. Items include an Electrono Fire Hot Dog Cooker two Victor Quick Units a Westinghouse Commercial Refrigerator an Automatic Food Shaping Machine a Five Foot Steam Table an Electric Meat Chopper a Four Burner Roper Gas Stove two National Cash Registers a Philco Radio five Westinghouse electric roasters and a Dalton Adding Machine. Terms Cash. Auctioneer Roy P Duvall represented by FLOURNOY L LARGENT Jr. attorney.
Rexall Drug Co announces a contest with a first prize of a world trip for two on Pan American Airways, with London Paris Honolulu and other capitals included. A four day One Cent Sale runs with thousands in prizes totaling 14000 dollars. Entries require 50 words on why entrants prefer Rexall products. Second prize is a Rio de Janeiro trip, third a Honolulu week, plus 635 other prizes.
A tropical Atlantic storm 500 miles off Florida drew scientists who rode top of the storm in B 17 and B 29 aircraft with ten observers to test dry ice as a means to induce precipitation. The experiment yielded no visible effect on the cloud mass.
Answers listed for page 4 questions include True or False judgments and named entities such as American Newspaper Guild CIO Wyoming and Caribou. The set covers marriage legality, infantile paralysis, dates October 8 11 1871, ordinal th, and naval rank usage ensigns.
The article states the estimated area of the Antarctic continent as about 6,200,000 square miles. It notes this figure as a regional measurement for geographic scope.
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