Demo Leaders Talk With Truman
Senate Democratic leaders met with President Truman for an hour in Washington and reported he is satisfied with progress on his program. Lucas of Illinois said a very good record in Congress is ahead, with action expected on foreign aid, social security, taxes, rent control, and CCC funding before adjournment. He noted a determined effort for a fair employment practices bill and that most of Truman’s government reorganization plans may pass, while Taft-Hartley repeal remains unlikely this year.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Lucas
Illinois
Congress
Rere
Florida
Commodity Credit Corporation
Grade
Gore High School Chicken and Ham Benefit Supper
Friday evening April 14 from 5 to 9 at Gore High School. Proceeds benefit the Gore Ball Club. Adults priced at 1.00 and children at 50 cents. Door prize offered.
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Gore High School
Gore Ball Club
Lost cane and Mummers parade head notices
Lost brown cane with black rubber tip reported near Amherst on April 6. Contact Leslie D. Kline at 4378. Mummers heads for the Firemen parade available this week at Friendship Fire Co from 7 30 to 9 pm. Sacred Heart Church Hall hosts events Friday April 14 at 7 pm and Saturday April 15 at 10 am.
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Amherst
Leslie D. Kline
Friendship Fire Co
Sacred Heart Church Hall
Pigeon Fan Burying After Fatal Loft Incident
A 45 year old pigeon enthusiast, who rigged a gun in a loft to scare thieves, will be buried tomorrow in the local cemetery. He believed his birds were stolen and set the device to fire when the door opened.
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San
A and P Defends Against Sherman Suit
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company counters the government anti trust case arguing its expansion was natural growth and that breaking up the chain would cause irreparable economic injury. It claims the suit seeks drastic restructuring of the U S economy and cites vast savings to consumers and workers.
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New York
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
Justice Department
U. S
Rare tribute marks Walter Huston memory in Hollywood
A two minute period of silence was observed in all movie studios today in respect to actor Walter Huston memory.
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Hollywood
Walter Huston
Submarine Sightings Off California Coast Reported
A U S Air Force C 54 crew sighted a surfaced submarine 57 miles west of the Golden Gate at 9 30 a m near the Farallon Islands. Navy officials said no subs were operating there and three other sightings yielded negative results while whales were seen instead.
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Golden Gate
San Francisco
Military Air Transport Service
California
Air Force
Mernan Rumsey
Farallon Islands
Rumsey
Hickam Field
Hawaii
Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Force Base
Calif
Ex Judge Named To Movie Probe
Former New York City Family Court judge Stephen Jackson is hired by the Senate Commerce committee as a technical consultant for its probe of Hollywood morals. He will travel to Hollywood to gather on the spot information as the panel considers legislation to curb alleged movie industry exploitation.
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Washington
Stephen 8. Jackson
Childrens and Family Court
New York City
Senate Commerce Committee
Hollywood
Jackson
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
5 000 Communist Guerrillas Surrender In Week On Hainan
Nationalist dispatches from Taipei report on Hainan where about 2,800 guerrillas remained as 5,000 surrendered in the past week. A three pronged Nationalist drive bombarded infiltrators, with ships and planes sinking hundreds of enemy junks and killing thousands.
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Hainan
Taipei
South China Island
Luichow Peninsula
Huang Han-ying
Anne Hadley Named Apple Festival Queen XXIII
Anne Carleton Hadley daughter of Mrs Alben Barkley wife of the Vice President will reign Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival XXIII in Winchester April 27 and 28 She will leave Newcomb College New Orleans for the festivities and will be hosted by Mr and Mrs Harry F Byrd Jr Her coronation follows a long tradition with former queens including Genevieve Garner and Gretchen van Zandt Merrill Bing Crosby and Bob Hope have previously served as parade grand marshals.
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Anne Carleton Hadley
Alben Barkley
United States
Miss Hadley
Newcomb College
New Orleans
Louisiana
Barkley
Winchester
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
Tennysong Avanna
Eaywuaus
Hadley
St. Louis
Missouri
University City High School
Harry F. Byrd
Gretchen Thomson
Newcomb
John R. Beardall
Anne Hadley
Virginia
John Garner
Genevieve Garner
Lillian Somoza
Nicaragua
Nancy Anderson
Clinton Anderson
Jean Lane
Maryland
Lane
Gretchen van Zandt Merrill
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Grand Juries In Session In Frederick And Winchester
Grand juries met in Frederick County Circuit Court and Winchester Corporation Court today. True bills included the fatal shooting case of Andrew J. Burks at 114 West Leicester Street and a driver charged in the death of nine year old June Elaine Pent. Several defendants faced indictments for vehicle and criminal offenses with jurors led by foreman Julian C. Gregory.
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Frederick County Circuit Court
Winchester Corporation Court
Elliott Marshall
Corporation
Walter Douglas Johnson
Andrew J. Burks
Leicester St
J. Thomas Boyd
Joseph Ritter
Mary Jane Burks
Roy Larrick Foreman
J. Walter Knee
W. E. Stine
Norval Hottel
Carl Haines
Circuit Court
George E. Johnson
Strikes Threaten Nation's Labor Relations Scene
Washington reports threaten strikes across maritime rail and telephone sectors within weeks. Pan American mechanics and flight attendants may strike. AFL Masters Mates and Pilots plans 4000 deck officers walkout at midnight Saturday.
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Washington
Pan- American Airways
Charles F. May
AFL
May
Ion
New York
Brotherhoods of
Locomotive Engineers
CIO
Communications Workers of America
Radio Producer Hugh Ernst Dies by Suicide in Hotel Room
New York radio producer Hugh Ernst, 39, husband of actress Betty Furness, killed himself with a shotgun in a Westbury Hotel room last night. A clipping about a pending divorce was found in the room. Ernst phoned the New York Journal American at 11:40 p.m. and invited pursuit of a story. Police recovered two notes and did not release their contents.
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New York
Hugh Ernst
Betty Furness
Ernst
Miss Furness
New York Journal-American
Clearbrook Firemen's Meeting Notice
Annual meeting of the members set for Monday April 17 at 8 p m. Election of directors and Clearbrook Volunteer Fire Dept noted. A note of thanks to Ward 2 voters for support from R Clark.
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Clearbrook Vteer Pire Dept
R. Clark
Mystery Witness Budenz Subpoenaed in Red Spy Case
Ex Communist Louis Budenz was subpoenaed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify as the mystery witness McCarthy claims can prove Owen Lattimore's Communist ties. Budenz, former Daily Worker editor, has renounced Communism and returned to the Catholic Church. Lattimore denies Communist affiliation and sought cross examination. committee denied this request.
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Washington
Louis Budenz
Senate
Owen Lattimore
Senate Foreign Relationshb
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McCarthy
Lattimore
The
Daily Worker
Tydings
Connally
D-Tex
Crime Probe Sidetracked by Democratic Split in Senate
Democratic lawmakers show a split over who should lead probes into crime and gambling. A compromise proposal by Senate Leader Lucas of Illinois aims to merge inquiries from the Judiciary and Commerce committees while a policy group weighs the plan amid fresh talks with Justice Department officials on banning interstate gambling information.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Judiciary Commit
Senate Commerce Committee
Senate Commerce
Department of Justice
Judiciary and
Commerce
Lucas
Illinois
Bus Service Here to End in Winchester
Thomas Woodward president of Winchester City Transit Lines filed notice with City Manager Lee Grant that service will discontinue on April 15. The company cites daily losses around 40 dollars, with receipts around 106 dollars needed to break even, despite cost cuts. The firm began operations in December 1948 and notes a prior unsuccessful attempt by a local concern costing about 35 thousand dollars.
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Eugene Miller Thomas Woodward
Suffolk
Winchester City Transit Lines
Lee Grant
Woodward
Winchester
U S Moves For Deportation Of Harry Bridges
Federal government seeks immediate revocation of Harry Bridges citizenship to pave a federal hearing on deportation to Australia. Bridges, CIO longshore boss, was convicted of perjury at his 1945 naturalization hearing for denying Communist ties. Judge St Pee Harris sentenced him to years. two aides received two years.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Australia
CIO Longshore
Coui Ag
Pee B. Harris
United States
Briges
Hawaii
Missing Virginia Elliott Found by Police
Virginia Elliott of West Union West Virginia was located by Winchester police after a tip. She identified Orval Spurgeon as a man who said he was her husband, but she said they were not married and had been in Washington. Welfare authorities to handle the case.
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Virginia Eliott
West Union
W. Va
Orval Spurgeon
Winchester
FP. M. Punk
Maurice Lake
Braddock
Boscawen St
Funk
Miss Elliott
Spurgeon
Washington
Third Dust Storm Hits Nation's Wheat Lands Again
The third big dust storm of the year swept wide areas of Kansas Oklahoma and surrounding states with winds up to fifty mph. Farmers fear more trouble from April winds as dry spells continue. Weather officials note soil erosion and a forthcoming drop in winter wheat output to 764 million bushels.
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Mid- America
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Colorado
New Mexico
Ft. Hays
A. F. Swanson
Highway Patrol
U. S
Salina
Pawnee
Weather Bureau
Texas
Clorado
Four Boy Scouts Die In Lake Erie Tragedy Near Euclid
Four members of a Euclid, Ohio, Boy Scout troop were found dead in Lake Erie after being swept from a drifting canoe at dusk. An air sea rescue search failed to save them as wind whipped waves up to 50 miles per hour. They were identified by authorities as members of the Euclid troop.
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Cleveland
Lake Erie
Harbor
R. Carle
Euclid
Five Day Weather Outlook for Virginia
Five day outlook for Virginia from tomorrow through Sunday April 16 shows temperatures a little below normal with cooler midweek and warmer Friday and Saturday. Showers are expected Saturday with total precipitation around a quarter inch.
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Virginia
Officials say no knowledge of B-29 clash with Soviet planes
Washington officials disclaimed knowledge of an aerial gunfire exchange between an American B-29 and Russian planes. They ordered an immediate investigation after a Soviet protest was received. The State Department said the protest was the first information it had and an inquiry is under way to determine the facts. Michael J. McDermott announced the Soviet protest about an hour after Moscow disclosed it.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Michael J. McDermott
Moscow
Wanted Experienced Auto Salesman in Winchester VA
Help wanted for an experienced automobile salesman with a major company. Steady position offered with postal box contact at P O Box 727 Winchester Virginia. Apply now for reliable employment.
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P. O
Winchester
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