VFW Opposes Chambers Visit at Winchester Rotary Meeting
VFW members oppose allowing Whitaker Chambers to address the Winchester Rotary Club. Local leaders vow strong dis cen by any future links to Communism. Officers were installed at last night’s meeting with J Douglas Butler as commander and I Woodell as department official.
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VFW
Chambers
Winchester
Robert Dailey
Richard K. Eddy
Elmer Lauck
Kenneth Lineburg
Roy Earle
Jack Fretwell
Glenn Seabright
Ernest Nesselrodt
Butler
Will Snonaker
Jack Knode
Noah Edwards
Phil Barnhart
Richard D. Kern
Chamber
Whitaker Chambers
Two Young Men Missing After Truck Crash Near Strasburg
State Police report no positive identification for two men believed to have died in a truck crash near Cedar Creek Tuesday night. Frank McFarland 18 and John Orndorff 19 of Stephens City are unaccounted for while relatives insist they were victims. Driver Bart Fallon of Buffalo NY is being questioned after surviving the wreck.
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F. L. Woolf
Strasburg
Frank McFarland
John Orndorff
Stephens City
Cedar Creek
Jeannette McFarland
Baltimore
McFarland
Robert McFarland
Dorothy McFarland
Spillman McFarland
Orndorff
John and
Leona Brill Orndorff
Cecil
William
Horace Orndorff
Madge Strasnider
Kernstown
Woolf
Bart Francis Fallon
Buffalo
N. Y
Winchester Memorial Hospital
James Kincaid
Temple Bell Wigginton
Ava
Naomi Har
Alecia
Gore Ball Club
P. O
Winchester
Barkley to Crown Queen at Shenandoah Festival
Vice President Barkley plans to crown Miss Anne Carleton Hadley as Queen Shenandoah XXIII at the Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester. He will drive to Winchester early morning April 27 with Mrs. Barkley, marking his second consecutive festival participation after crowning Miss Margaret Thors last year.
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United States
Anne Carleton Hadley
Edward W. Barr
Department of the Queen
Miss Hadley
Barkley
Margaret Thors
York Inn
Kentucky
Winchester Peneent
U S Employees Face Trial in Prague on Spy Charges
Lubos Elstner and Dagmar Kacjerovska, translators for the U S S R, stand before the Prague State Court on spying charges and alleged distribution of hostile propaganda. Elstner pleads innocent while Kacjerovska pleads partly guilty as Western reporters are invited to cover the case at Pankrac Court.
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Worft
Prague
Lubos Elstner
Dagmar Kacjerovska
Elstner
Miss Kacerovska
U. S
Ministry of Information
Pankrac Court
Former Socialite Dies a Pauper in Los Angeles
Genevieve Gray aged 80 once married Philadelphia millionaire Charles Theodore Wernwag and later Olin Finney. She inherited a $1,000,000 estate in 1914 and later lived on the state old age pension for a decade. She and Finney divorced in 1923 amid desertion claims and spending disputes.
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Los Angeles
Genevieve Gray
Philadelphia
Charles Theodore Wernwag
Wernwag
Olin Finney
Pickets Resume Protest as West Virginia Plant Standoff Continues
In Berkeley Springs workers at Victor Products Corp resume picketing after a town ordinance limits gatherings near the plant. Police release, no arrests today. yesterday 38 pickets were jailed, later released on bond. CIO UAW Local 842 says walkout followed company failure to arbitrate, mirroring strikes at Victor's Hagerstown plant.
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Berkeley Springs
W. Va
Victor Products Corporation
Circuit Court
Cio-United Auto Workers Union
E. T. Michael
Uaw-Cio
Victor
Hagerstown
Economic Observers Cheered By General Production Gains
Washington reports gains in production and buying power for the first quarter of 1950. National income rose after January, home building hit a record, and per capita income reached 1323 dollars. Prices for city families fell about 1 percent from a year earlier while overall output stayed up from last year. Unemployment remains a concern though not alarming, as forecasts call for a good year ahead.
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Washington
General
Congress
Council
Leon Keyserling
Desperados Caught While Asleep In Stolen Auto
Three escaped Virginia convicts were captured asleep in a stolen car after a farmer tipped authorities. Deputy McNish and three armed helpers halted the trio at rifle point in Washington County Virginia. Federal warrants accuse the men of unlawful flight kidnapping and interstate transport of a stolen vehicle.
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West
Adam Nuckols
Tyler Hodges, Jr
George Able
Roscoe Mutter
Damacus
O. C. McCourt
Pineville
W. Va
Okey Cougar, Jr
Charleston
Mutter
Tennessee
McCourt and Cougar
Here
Snowstorm Spreads Across Western Maryland and Nearby States
A spring snow storm hit western Maryland and surrounding areas, dumping two to five inches in Garrett County, Frostburg, and nearby West Virginia and Pennsylvania towns. Roads were plowed and salted, while peach crops in Romney appeared unaffected for now despite cold forecasts.
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Cumberland
Maryland
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Pretéstburg
Garrett County
Frostburg
Thomas
W. Va
Deal
Elkins
Maryland Roads Commission
Mid
R. L. Sumner
Mountain Fruit Sales, Inc
Romney
Bomb Explodes At Harvard University Injures Student
A home made bomb exploded on a window sill at Thayer Hall Harvard University injuring one student and shattering many panes. Robert Dobbie a 21 year old from Allentown Pa suffered facial lacerations. Police attributed the blast to pranksters. The event disrupted an annual meeting scheduled for Monday April 17 with a program and refreshments.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Thayer Hall
Robert Dobbie
Allentown
Yard
Alvin Randall
Bragg's Poultry Store Ad Offers Fresh Chickens
Local notice advertises clearance on chickens and dressed fryer and roaster birds. Preshy killed and dressed poultry with free delivery. Address listed at 504 S Loudoun St. Phone 8775. Includes dress shop note.
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Bragg's Poultry Store
S. Loudoun St
Senator Tydings announces Budenz will testify on Lattimore
In Washington Senator Millard Tydings announces at a press conference that former Communist Louis Budenz will testify April 20 regarding Senator McCarthy's charges against Owen Lattimore. He says Lattimore's lawyers will not be allowed to cross examine.
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Millard Tydings
Washington
Louis F. Budenz
Sen. McCarthy
Owen Lattimore
Tydings
State Department
Lattimore
Rebirth of Cracker Barrel Principle Urged by Speaker
Charles B. Coates urged a rebirth of the cracker barrel principle of American self government before the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce. He called for a lobby against lobbies and a shift toward better government as outlined by the Hoover Commission report.
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Richmond
Charles B. Coates
Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
V. S. Chamber of Cerce
Executi
Virginia Association of Chamber of Commerce
Virginia Junior Chamber of Commerce
Virginia State Chamber
George Lescure
VACCE
Stanley A. Rector
Unemployment Benefit Advisers
Washington
E. F. Fielder
Hopewell
Social Security Committee
National Affairs
Coates
Hoover Commission
Hoover
Expert Says Sound Still Beats Planes
Navy aeronautics expert C. C. Sorgen told the American Society of Mechanical Engineers that supersonic planes remain impractical due to high operating costs. He said for years most service combat aircraft will stay subsonic except for high performance interceptors and guided missiles.
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Washington
U. S
Navy
C. C. Sorgen
Bureau of Aeronautics
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Truman blasts McCarthy questions libel at Taft clash
President Truman challenged Taft's claim that he libeled Senator McCarthy and said he has not read all political columns. He cited Taft's reelection bid and suggested the Ohio senator pursues other aims in 1952 while a Senate committee weighs charges amid Budenz testimony.
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Washington
McCarthy
Truman
Wisconsin
Taft
Ohio
Key West
Fla
Kremlin
United States
Senate Foreign Ae
Louis Budenz
Thut
Lattimore
Latti
Budenz
Plane wreckage sighted in Baltic near Deland Island
A German cargo vessel reported a debris field matching an airplane cabin in the Baltic at the southern tip of Deland Island off Sweden. US search forces, aided by the sighting, pursue the missing Navy patrol plane with 10 men aboard, amid Soviet claims and heightened tensions.
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Copenhagen
Baltic
U. S
Deland
Sweden
Latvia
Moscow
Lepaya
Deland Island
Pravda
Oeland
Oernskveldsvik
Wiesbaden
Allahorsce
Lucas Denies FEPC Stall in Senate Row
Senator Lucas rejects claims of delay on an anti discrimination FEPC bill. He argues administration is serious about enacting civil rights legislation if Republicans cooperate, while Taft accuses Democratic delay of political calculation tied to Southern primaries.
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Washington
Senate
FEPC
Florida
Alabama
Lucas
Dr. Luther P. Jackson Dies in Sleep at College Home
Dr. Luther P. Jackson 57 head of Virginia State College history department died in his sleep at his residence on the campus. The Virginia educator was a prominent figure in regional scholarship and public service.
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Petersburg
Luther P. Jackson
Virginia State College
Department of History
Renovation Planned at Red Hill Plantation in Charlotte County
A soil conservation demonstration next fall will renovate nearly 150 acres of cleared land on the Red Hill plantation, the Patrick Henry estate in Charlotte County.
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Chase City
Red Hill
Patrick Henry
Charlotte County
Wind May Make Orchard Heating Ineffective Tonight
Virginia sections report cold forecast with wind reducing heating efficacy for orchards. A 15 to 20 mph wind is expected to drop to about eight mph by early morning, with more cold and possible snow in the mountains. Local cities note intermittent light snow and subfreezing temps across the state.
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Pruit
Virginia
Winter
Radford
State Highway Department
Noke
Pulaski
Front Royal
Richmond
Weather Bureau
Minnesota
Nation’s Soft Coal Industry Faces Wider Woes Ahead
Pittsburgh report notes curtailment of production with forecasts of rising unemployment and mine closures. 1947 output reached 631 million tons. now expected near 400 million as high cost mines exit. NCA foresees 50 000 miners and 50 000 transport workers jobless amid oil natural gas and fuel oil encroachment.
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Pittsburgh
National Coal Association
NCA
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers Union
Pravda Claims Plane Violated Soviet Frontier
Moscow dispatch reports Pravda stating a U S naval patrol plane missing in the Baltic since Saturday violated the Soviet frontier and was pursued by Soviet forces.
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Pravda
Moscow
U. S
Baltic
Falling Mercury Alarms Growers
Henry H Jenkins warned of upcoming frost as a cold snap approached. National Fruit orchard hoped to stay in good shape with blooms delayed by forecasts. Apple growers said trees could weather temperatures down to 18 degrees with limited damage expected if freezes occur.
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Henry
Jenkins
National Fruit Orchard
Fall Proves Fatal for Norfolk Man Prank Melson Fore
Melson Fore 59 former vice president and secretary of Nottingham and Wrenn Co Inc retail coal dealers died after a fall from a third floor fire escape in Norfolk. The incident occurred near his residence while authorities investigated.
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Norfolk
Melson Fore
Notingham and Wrenn Company, Inc
High School Sale Set at Solenberger’s Window
The high school schedules a sale at Solenberger’s Window on Saturday April 15 starting at 10 a.m. Readers are advised to attend for fundraising items and community support.
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Solenberger
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