Taft Scores Biggest Victory of Campaign in Illinois
Illinois primary results show Senator Taft leading the Republican tally with 619 887 votes from 7 251 precincts while Kefauver tops the Democratic side with 379 288 from 6 612 precincts. Stevenson, write-in for governor, secures 429 244 votes. Taft appears to control 48 of 50 Republican delegates, Stevenson likely to hold all Democratic delegates. Eisenhower and Stevenson write-ins.
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Associated Press
Robert Taft
Estes Kefauver
Illinois
Taft
Ilinois
Harold Stassen
Gen
Dwight Eisenhower
Kefauver
Aldai Stevenson
Tlinois
Ike
Stassen
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Fisenhower
Earl Warren
Douglas MacArthur
Sen
Humphrey
Minn
Kerr
Oklahoma
President Truman
Douglas
Russell
Georgia
Oscar Ewing
Supreme Court
Doug Taoise
Rayburn
Taft Taft
Senator Taft
Los Angeles
Washington
Europe
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Paris
Winchester and Frederick County Schools Extend Easter Holidays
Pupils in Winchester and Frederick County schools receive two holiday days for Easter, with Good Friday and Easter Monday off. James Wood High School and all county elementary schools dismiss Thursday and return Tuesday. Also notices: Clearbrook Volunteer Fire Dept annual meeting April 14 at 8 p.m.. Golden Glow Restaurant serves breakfast 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. and dinner 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
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Winchester
Frederick County
Robert E. Ayler
James Wood
Winchester Council Delays Health Center Building Decision
Winchester Common Council postponed action on a resolution to authorize the city manager to enter an agreement with the Winchester Frederick County War Memorial Association for Kent Street property to build a health center a 700 seat community hall and parking. The plan totals about 155 650 with 75 000 from the War Memorial fund and a 50 000 Hill Burton federal grant leaving roughly 30 650 to be raised by the city. A special session will be called within two weeks to resume consideration.
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Winchester Common Council
Finance Committee
Winchester-Frederick County War Memorial Association
Kent Street
Evening Star
War Memorial Organization
War Memorial Group
William Battaile
Dudley Martin
War Memorial Fund
Hill-Burton Act
Common Council
Two Air Force Planes Collide Over Camp Edwards
At Camp Edwards Massachusetts Otis Air Force Base announced two aircraft collided in the firing range area three miles from the base flight line. All 12 men aboard the F 94 jet and the C 47 transport are believed dead. Captain Robert W. Stephenson stated the collision occurred during flight training.
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Camp Edwards
Mass
Air Force
Otis Air Force Base
Robert W. Stephenson
Three Colleges Name Princesses For Shenandoah Apple Blossom
Three colleges supply Princesses for the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival Queen’s court. Miss Margaret Entzminger of Stratford College Danville Miss Joan Ellen Rivera of Radford College Radford and Miss Helen Muriel Fry of Virginia Intermont Bristol are introduced as 1952 festival princesses.
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Margaret Burns Entzminger
Joan Ellen Rivera
Helen Muriel Fry
Stratford, Radford
Virginia
Shenandoah
Southwestern Virginia
Stratford College
Danville
Radford College
Radford
Virginia Intermont College
Bristol
Entzminger
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Fassifern School For Girls
Hendersonville
N. C
Stratford Hall
Blue Pencil
Stratford Players
Delta Psi Omega
National Dramatic Fraternity
Miss Entzminger
Stratford Traveller
Mademoiselle College Board
Miss Rivera
Santurce
Puerto Rico
Virginia Intervent College
Lambda Sigma Pi Sorority
Miss Fry
Northlands
Buenos Aires
St. Paul's School
Phi Beta Music Fraternity
Virginia Intermont
Attempted Red Trap Break Up By U N Troops
An outnumbered United Nations advance unit broke up an attempted Communist trap west of Mundung Valley on the Eastern Korean Front. The Reds attacked from three sides and targeted the rear before UN forces withdrew and later fought back to their front line. Jet strikes resumed and the Iowa shelled Red rail lines on North Korea's east coast.
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Seoul
United Nations
Mundung
U.S. Eighth Army
U. N
U. S
Iowa
North Korea
Recaptured Soldier Faces Court Martial for Desertion
Recaptured U S soldier Robert Natskakula, 23, Natrona Pennsylvania, faces court martial in West Berlin for desertion after crossing to the East in 1950. He appeared at a press conference with British Corporal John Keither Waller, who had returned to his unit after desertion.
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Berlin
West Berlin
U. S
Robert Natskakula
Natrona
Natskakula
John Keither Waller
Gerhart Eisler
Soviet Zone
East Berlin
Waller
Winchester Council Approves Signal Light Bid
Winchester Common Council authorizes a contract with Hawkins Electric of Hyattsville Maryland for a synchronized traffic light system at 21 815 32 dollars. Lights on order with a 120 day delivery. installation to follow. The meeting also addressed a revised subdivision ordinance and SPCA shelter approval among other actions.
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Lee Grant
Winchester Common Council
Hawkins Electric Company
Hyattsville
Maryland Company
Common Council
County Board of Supervisors
Commonwealth Attorney
Board of Supervisors
Spca Shelter
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Rouss Park
Abram’s Creek
Police Department
H. W. Butler, Jr
Doctor to Join Trappists in Clarke County
Dr. John T. Thornton Jr. of 22 N. Braddock Street leaves pediatrics after four and a half years to enter the Our Lady of the Holy Cross Monastery in Clarke County on the Shenandoah River. He will depart Winchester late this month and join the monastery as a brother in May.
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John T. Thornton, Jr
N. Braddock Street
Our Lady of the Holy Cross
Shenandoah River
Clarke County
Thornton
University of Virginia At
Charlottesville
Wheeling
W. Va
Patton Leads Clean Up Campaign For Apple Blossom Week
Harold Patton chairs a Junior Chamber of Commerce Clean Up Paint Up Week committee with Woodrow Moore Elmer Locke Nelson Grim Leary Baker and Lewis Bailey. The drive runs April 14 to 19 to prep for the Apple Blossom Festival with a Before and After window display on Loudoun Street and a sound truck tour to promote the project.
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Harold Patton
Chamber of Commerce
Woodrow Moore
Elmer Locke
Nelson Grim
Leary Baker
Lewis Bailey
Wonder
Loudoun St
CIO Workers Strike Bell System Nationwide
The CIO Communications Workers Union ordered a nationwide strike against Bell Telephone System. Picket lines are to be set up at Bell installations across the country. About 300,000 workers are expected to be affected. CWA president Joseph A. Beirne said orders were sent for picket lines to begin at 1 p.m. local time.
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Washington
CIO Communications Workers Union
Bell Telephone System
Bell
Joseph A. Beirne
CWA
Oklahoma City Jolted by Quake Shakes Midwest
A powerful earthquake centered in Oklahoma rattled Oklahoma City and parts of Texas Kansas Iowa and Missouri at 11 30 EST causing desks and equipment to quiver for about 30 seconds with reports of a girl fainting and no immediate damage. Major cities including Tulsa Ponca City Topeka Wellington Wichita Independence Omaha and St Joseph felt the tremor.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas
Iowa
Missouri
McPherson
Kas
Hutchinson
Midwest
North America
New Madrid
Mississippi River
Reelfoot Lake
Tennessee
Tulsa
Ponca City
Topeka
Wellington
Wichita
Independence
Omaha
St. Joseph
Grunewald Cited For Contempt By House Vote
The House cited Henry W. Grunewald for contempt of Congress for willful refusal to discuss his link to big money tax cases in tax scandal probes. The roll call was 332 to 0, with Grunewald absent under doctor care and his conduct sent to the U S attorney for prosecution after five prior attempts to compel testimony.
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Washington
House
Henry W
Grunewald
Congress
United States Attorney For Prosecution
House Cuts Army Operations Budget Amid Budget Fight
The House voted 94 to 79 to cut the Army maintenance and operations budget by 435.6 million dollars as part of the defense bill for the next fiscal year. Rep. Johnson California pressed for an additional 135.6 million cut while the Appropriations Committee had already slashed 300 million. Supporters argued waste in Army programs. opponents warned crippling effects. Budget cutters plan similar action against Navy and Air Force budgets later in the day.
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Washington
House
Rep. Johnson
R -Calif
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
Johnson
Army
Navy
Air Force
Battle Casualties Rise to 107134 in Korea
U S battle casualties in Korea reached 107134, up 178 from last week. Lawn mower sharpening guaranteed at 226 Shawnee Ave, phone 8313.
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Washington
U. S
Korea
Shawnee Ave
President Truman Seizes Steel Mills in Government Takeover
President Truman announced the government would operate the steel industry to avert a union shutdown, prompting lawsuits from Republic and Youngstown firms. Federal court hearings were set as Sawyer ordered the flag flown over seized plants and workers kept at their posts.
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Washington
Truman
United States
Congress
Republic
Youngstown
Walter M. Bastian
Commerce Sawyer
Sawyer
John R. Steelman
Defense
CIO
Philip Murray
Steelman
Ernest
Us&s Steel
Jones & Laughlin
U. S. Si«o Corp
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
Iey
Bolivia Revolt Ousts Military Government Led by Ballivian
Army police and civilians joined a revolution in La Paz and across Bolivia deposing Gen Hugo Ballivian’s military government. Victor Paz Estenssoro’s National Revolutionary Party allied with armed forces as uprisings spread and Villarroel was hanged in 1946 reference. Paz Estenssoro announced return to La Paz.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Hugo Ballivian
National Revolutionary Party
Victor Paz Estenssoro
Argentina
Tlimani
Buenos Aires
Paz Estenssoro
U. S
State Department
Washington
Vivas
Gualberto Villaroel
Villaroel
Child struck and killed by gravel truck in Chesterfield
Four year old Harold Ray Thomason died after being hit by a gravel truck on Broad Street Road in Chesterfield County. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William G. Thomason.
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Richmond
Harold Ray Thomason
Broad Street Road
Chesterfield County
William G. Thomason
Senate Banking Committee Recesses Wage Price Controls Debate
The Senate Banking Committee paused work on a bill to extend wage and price controls amid disputes. Chairman Maybank warned against hasty moves and said hearings could be held next week. The controls act expires June 20, risking collapse of the program without extension.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Maybank
D-80
Truman
Times
Sen
Bricker R-O
Capehart R-Ind
Congress
Capehart
House -Senate
Joint Committee On Defense Action
Winchester City Lockup Condemned for Filth and Danger
A Virginia Division of Corrections report cites Winchester City Hall basement lockup as dark dirty and dangerous to officers. It recommends a new police building with a lockup section and notes sanitation neglect and plumbing issues. The county jail inspected the same evening received a complimentary review.
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Winchester
R. M. Youell
Virginia Division of Corrections
Joseph Ritter
Winchester Police Department
China
First Workers Turned Back By Company Guards
Pittsburgh the large steel plants opened under government seizure orders as far as safe. US Steel said Chicago area mills would resume on the 3 pm shift. Workers reporting at gates were turned away, described by some as a lockout.
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Pittsburgh
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Chicago
U. S. Steel
Thomas Patton
Bethlehem Steel
Washington
U S. Steel Corp
Min Jor
Republic Steel
Cleveland
Kefauver Plans Virginia Beach Visit in May
Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee will visit Virginia Beach on May 10 and 11 as part of his Democratic presidential bid. He will be hosted by Norfolk investment salesman Nick Kostopulos. Also appears ads for a barn rental in Stephens City and a 1951 Dodge Convertible for sale with 80 miles and leather upholstery.
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Kefauver
Virginia Beach
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenon
Nick Kostopulos
Norfolk
Stephens City
Monmouth St
Harold Patton
Patton
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Pres
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Princesses
Southwest
Council
Apple
U.N
U.S
Natskakyla
Communist Campaign For Peace
Dr. Thornton
Trappists
Bulletin
G. Milton Kelly
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