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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1947
Page
2
A suspect identified as Timothy Spellman of Brooklyn was arrested about 45 minutes after a hit and run in Martinsburg. Police were alerted by radio and Sgt. F L Woolf detained the man who was held for West Virginia authorities. The incident involved a 1:30 Soca event and the suspect fled the scene before being captured.
The United States urges Yugoslavia to stop issuing ultimatums to British and American troops in the Trieste area as dangerous actions could lead to serious consequences. American Ambassador Caven Dish Cannon presented the protest in Belgrade after Tito's troops demanded alterations to the provisional boundary between the British US zone and Yugoslavia.
Front Royal Sept 24 Capt James Schuler proprietor Skys Haven turkey farm near Springfield was awarded five ribbons at the Eastern States Poultry Show. He established his farm three years ago and has shipped 90 000 eggs and poults to 44 states.
A garbage truck caught fire in the morning but was extinguished with no damage to the vehicle. City official S. Lee Grant said the blaze likely started from hot ashes and that some paint on the truck was scorched.
Sales directory items list auctions and estate sales with dates October 4 1960 and October 11 1960. Locations include Capon Bridge Winchester Kernstown Clearbrook and nearby routes with goods furniture antiques household items farm cattle horses hay grain and machinery.
The State Corporation Commission authorized two intrastate fare increases for six Virginia railroads effective Oct. 1. Minimum fares under 75 cents rise by five cents, and round trips under 200 miles may be charged twice the one way fare. Railroads named are Baltimore and Ohio Chesapeake and Ohio Chesapeake Western Norfolk and Western Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Commodore Richard P. Glass of Lynchburg Virginia named to assist Secretary Sullivan. He will head public relations and comes after two years leading the civil relations division of the Office of Public Relations.
The report details votes on Korean independence, Italian peace treaty revision, the Greek issue, war criminals return, and Palestine solutions. Major powers backed a 55 nation security agency plan. Yugoslavia objected to a procedural change, but the assembly approved it as part of the agenda. A note adds a St Helena tortoise likely witnessing Napoleon.
Ralph P. Yount and Lewis H. Hyde announce the association under the firm name Yount, Hyde and Co. CPAs. They will operate from the old Star Building after remodeling, temporarily at 130 W. Clifford St. Yount is a Yale and Benjamin Franklin University graduate, licensed in Virginia and DC, active in civic groups. Hyde, a Yale A B and NYU business grad, Naval Reserve veteran, and licensed public accountant, serves on local boards and clubs.
Tokyo reports over 1.1 million people made homeless by floods across northern Honshu. About 999 dead, 984 missing, and 1,616 injured as 415,211 homes were destroyed or inundated. Temporary villages rise atop levees as water slowly seeps away.
The Warren county board of supervisors hired Winchester attorney J Sloan Kuykendall to defend against all suits by Front Royal over annexation. They declared opposition at a special meeting, opposing the ordinance that would set town boundaries to include adjacent industries, new subdivisions and portions of the Norfolk and Western and Southern railways.
A tropical storm that formed in the Caribbean crossed Florida and moved through the Carolinas. The Miami advisory placed its center about 50 miles northwest of Charleston at 10 am with winds 35 to 45 mph. Heavy rains flooded Savannah streets and coastal cities as warnings remained along the coast.
Richmond report shows total state revenues from July and August totaling 36,686,172, up from 30,653,592 in the prior year. General fund collections were 2,912,397 this year against 2,943,155 last year. Comptroller Henry G. Gilmer released the two month summary.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will respond to Andrei Vishinsky's charge of U S war mongering. The plan, approved by Secretary Marshall and White House, places the late president's widow in the United Nations Assembly debate on Russia's measures and inciters of war as part of the U S delegation assisting Ambassador Warren Austin.
Richmond Virginia September 24 Attorney General Abram P Staples will be sworn as an associate justice of the late Supreme Court of Appeals when the court convenes in Richmond on October 6. He will be introduced by Harvey B Apperson outgoing member of the State Corporation Commission who will be sworn in as attorney general. On the following day H Lester Hooker chairman of the SCC will conduct swearing in ceremonies for W Marshall King of Fredericksburg who is succeeding Apperson.
Answers to the daily quiz printed on Page 2 list the 10 correct responses: Seventeenth. Mrs Mina Edison widow of Thomas A Edison. Ecuador. Wichita. 1933 November 16. The Messenger of the Sacred Heart. Applejack. Rudyard Kipling. Thursday. Lockjaw.
Reverend Harry C Rickard arrives at Castle Field Merced California as first chaplain since reactivation last May. He hails from Luray Virginia and is to conduct Protestant services at the Superfort station with his wife Mrs Rickard. He graduated Boyce High School 1927 State Teachers College 1933 and Duke University 1938 with a B D. They will reside at 1201 Circle Drive Merced.
The CIO United Electrical Workers voted 3 817 to 596 to repudiate the anti Communist faction led by James B Cary. The measure urges members to drive USMDA from leadership and, if disruption continues, drive them out of the union.
In Trieste 12,000 workers walked out in a general strike called by the Communist led Sindicati Union to protest Allied military government suspensions. The strike was only partly successful with half the stores open and streets accessible under guard. Nine union members were arrested for assaulting workers who refused to strike amid clashes over a machine gun killing of an 11 year old girl in the Free Territory.
Hanns Eisler, the Hollywood composer born in Germany, told the House committee on un American activities that he once applied for Communist party membership but was never active and dropped out. He testified as the inquiry opened into whether alien Communists have stayed in the United States illegally.
Senator Taft faces hecklers as he defends the Taft Hartley act in Seattle praising the law and urging tax cuts to lower living costs. A bandaged Taft noted a taxi door incident injuring his hand amid mixed pro and anti labor crowd reactions. He urged supporters to credit lawmakers who backed the law and called for national unity.
H. E. Alberti Memorial hospital administrator attends the 49th annual convention of the American Hospital Association in St. Louis.
A truck stolen from Miller Bros Flowershop last Saturday night was found abandoned in Morgantown by local police. The vehicle was not damaged and Mr. Miller will travel to Morgantown to recover it and return it to Winchester.
A 50 year old husband obtained a habeas corpus writ to bring back his 16 year old wife, in training school after a juvenile court deemed her incorrigible delinquent. Vice Chancellor John O. Bigelow signed the order for production in chancery court Monday. Mrs. Doris Anderson Olcott of New York was named as the bride.
James W. Harkrader of Highland Pulaski County Va died last night at his home on the eve of his 104th birthday He remained active until three weeks ago and had worked as a farmer for many years The item also notes a historical reference to the 1609 Ojeda settlement on Colombia’s Gulf of Uraba.
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