German Exodus Report Scouted by U S Constabulary
Frankfurt June 26 United States constabulary officer Col W J Sutton said he found no confirmation of reports of a large exodus of Germans from the Russian zone to evade conscription into uranium mines or the armed forces. He noted rumors and conflicting reports while German officials reported 4500 arrests and 3000 turned back at Coburg in five weeks.
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Frankfurt
Germany
W. J. Sutton
U. S. Constabulary
Sutton
Wolfgang Jaenicke
Associated Press
Bavaria
Jaenicke
Adolf Uhsler
Coburg
Baltimore to inaugurate overnight sleeping service
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad announced that overnight sleeping service will start July 6 between Columbus Ohio and Wheeling West Virginia and the east. It will also operate between Washington and Morgantown and Fairmont West Virginia.
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Baltimore
Columbus
Wheeling
W. Va
East
Washington
Morgantown
Fairmont
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Call For Repeal Of Federal Excise Taxes On Highway Users
The Travelers Protective Association urged Congress to repeal all federal excise taxes on highway users. A resolution from its annual convention notes these taxes, reenacted repeatedly, cost automobile owners over $8 million in 1946 and calls for sending copies to President Truman and Congress.
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Richmond
Travelers Protective Association
Congress
TPA
Truman
Two Walk Away From Prison Farm
Deputy penitentiary official Roy Adkins announced a general alert for recapture of two prisoners who escaped from the prison farm near Moundsville West Virginia earlier this week. Fugitives Hollie Starcher 32 and James Everett Grady 35 both have 10 year terms for kidnapping a Warwood policeman and unarmed robbery respectively.
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Moundsville
Hollie Starcher
Ohio County
Warwood
James Everett Grady
Wood County
Soviet Youths To Get Training In Industry Push
Moscow reports a Soviet decree authorizes mobilizing youths aged 14 to 19 for industrial training and coal mining. The order, published by the Journal of the Supreme Soviet, shifts emphasis from military service to skilled labor in factories and mines. It covers youths 14 to 18 for schooling and 19 for underground work, expanding the nation’s labor reserves during a five decades.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
The
Supreme Soviet
Council of Ministers
Russia
Cherry Crop Yield Forecast Favorable
Eastern panhandle growers predict a crop that may match last year’s 800 tons after frost losses. The Shenandoah Valley Cherry Growers association met in Keysersville to assess probable harvests. Heaters kept fruit safe from unseasonable weather and prices are expected around 10 to 12 cents per pound. Pendleton and McClung were reelected to the association board with Pendleton serving as president.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Panhandle
Willliam Pendleton
Charles Town
W. N. McClung
Boar of Directors
Pendleton Asociation
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Roy Adkins
Turkey
U. S
Prici
Bluefield
Penney’s Street
Penney’s
Penney’s Best
Penney
Princeton Avenue
Rene
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