Hollywood Figures Today Show Shifts In Careers
Hollywood figures run wide range of post screen activity from stage to TV and touring. Joan Blondell rests in New York after a play tour while Madeleine Carroll and Rosalind Russell stay busy on stage and TV. Olivia de Havilland and Rex Harrison with Lilli Palmer headline Broadway runs. Judy Garland plans Los Angeles stage with a San Francisco stop.
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Gene Handsaker
Hollywood
Joan Blondell
New York
Madeleine Carroll
Andrew Heiskell
Life Magazine
Charlie Chaplin
Laraine Day
Leo Durocher
New York Giants
Olivia de Havilland
Shaw
Edward Everett Horton
Henry
Rosalind Russell
Bell
Joan Bennett
Chicago
Roz
Playhouse of Stars
Paulette Goddard
Spain
Judy Garland
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Rex Harrison
Lilli Palmer
Jose Ferrer
Ditto
Sterling Holloway
Broadway
Claude Jarman, Jr
Tennessee
Jennifer Jones
David O. Selznick
Boris Karloff
Black Castle
Rod la Rocque
Wilma Banky
Mountain Lion Band to Parade in Shenandoah Apple Blossom Fest
The Mountain Lion Band of Charleston West Virginia with 70 Charleston High School students and 8 majorettes will march in both parades of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival on May 1 and 2. Under director B G Williams the blue and gold group is a top state rated ensemble.
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Mountain Lion Band of
Charleston
W. Va
Huntington
Music War Council of America
Roanoke
Ton
Besr
Mountain Lion Band
Know Your Bank Week Proclaimed by Winchester Mayor
Mayor M. B. Clowe Jr proclaims April 21 to 26 as Know Your Bank Week with the theme Dedicated to the Ladies. He urges citizens to visit banks to understand services and banks' role in the free economy and inflation fight.
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M. B. Clowe, Jr
Virginia
Winchester
Sawyer's Power to Disburse Funds Sparks Debate
Sen McFarland of Arizona declines to comment on Sawyer's plan to empower a figure to take money belonging to corporation stockholders and order disbursement to workers without corporate officers consent. The discussion follows a Republican move and Sawyer's continued scrutiny.
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Sen. McFarland
Arziona
Senate
Sawyer
Monkey Has 50 Word Vocabulary
Muriel the douroucouli monkey in Charleston can talk. Ernest P. Walker of the National Zoological Park presented recordings and a douroucouli English dictionary showing about 50 recognizable words with defined meanings such as danger and hello.
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Charleston
S. C
Muriel
Ernest P. Walker
National Zoological Park
American Society of Mammalogists
Mr. Walkers
Holstein Breeders Set Roanoke Host for 67th National Convention
R G Connelly of Blacksburg named chairman of Virginia Holstein-Friesian Club executive committee to organize the 67th Holstein Friesian Association of America convention in Roanoke in June. The host group will handle convention week with committees including H v Cram president, L A Drewry secretary treasurer, L J Crowley and H J Wilson directors, P M Reaves sale chair, P Bo Dotielas publicity chair, G R Pursley and I Fred Stine also on committees.
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R. G. Connelly
Blacksburg
Virginia Holstein-Friesian Club
Holstein- Friesian Association of America
Roanoke
Mr. Connelly
Virginia Holstein Group
National Association
H. v. Cram
Virginia Holstein Club
L A
Charge Man Assaulted School Principal's Wife
Randle Breeden, 41, released on 3000 dollars bail after being charged with raping Mrs. Mabel Dodson, wife of Standardsville High principal, at her home in Joletts on April 4. Breeden, a farmer and former Dodson employee, was arrested and jailed in Page County. a preliminary hearing is set for May 14 before Trial Justice John H. Booton.
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John H. Booton
The
Dodsons
Father slain in argument over meat ends in life sentence
Spencer Moyers a 52 year old lumber camp worker pleaded guilty to shooting his father during a dispute over a couple of pounds of meat and received a life imprisonment sentence yesterday in Franklin West Virginia.
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Franklin
W. Va
Spencer Moyers
Taft and Eisenhower hold opposite views on Pa primary
Taft and Eisenhower backers clash over Pennsylvania primary importance with Taft predicting no immediate impact and Eisenhower supporters urging the vote as decisive. Democratic delegates and write in potential not binding. Kefauver praised for public morals while Harriman gains NY county chair support. Stevenson noted as content with Illinois renomination.
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Taft
Eisenhower
Pennsylvania
Sen
Robert Taft
Dwight Eisenhower
GOP
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
Russell
Washington
Allen Ellender
Louisiana
James Eastland
Mississippi
Estes Kefauver
Ellender
Eastland
Richard Russell
Georgia
Louisville
Kefauver
Kentucky Education Association
Henry
Springfield
Mass
Truman
New York
W. Averell Harriman
Jacob M. Arvery
Chicago
Illlnois
Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson
Illinois
Editors Elect Bryan Washington ASNE President
Bryan Washington of the Atlanta Journal was elected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He succeeds Alexander F. Jones of the Syracuse Herald-Journal as the new ASNE president.
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Washington
Wright Bryan
Atlanta Journal Today
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Alexander F Jones
Syracuse N. Y. Herald-Journal
Monkey Lungs Used With Mechanical Heart in Surgery
In White Sulphur Springs West Virginia a surgeon announced the first use of external monkey lungs to supply oxygen to blood during heart lung separation. Five infant patients with congenital heart defects received one monkey lung each in conjunction with a mechanical heart. None survived, but one infant lived three hours and the surgeon called the result encouraging for future efforts.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Executive Order To Save Writing
President Truman signed an executive order to reduce his signing burden. The order allows the secretary of state to affix the great seal to documents after presidential signs without additional authorization, saving the president and future chiefs of state about 165 signings yearly.
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Washington
Truman
Secretary of State
United States
68 Year Old Man Kills His Daughter
In Memphis Tennessee a 68 year old man shot his daughter to death and wounded her husband while they slept in their home early today. The couple's four year old daughter and the accused's wife were unharmed. Police identified the victim as Mrs Mat tie Jones 28 and Wilbur J Jones 37. Virgil Davenport the father faces murder charges saying his daughter and son in law had broken up his home.
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Memphis
Tenn
Pete Wiebenga
Mattie Jones
Wilbur J. Jones
Wiebenga
Kanode and Carpenter Named City Tennis Co Commissioners
Jack Kanode and Richard Carpenter were elected co-commissioners of the Winchester Tennis Club at a meeting in City Hall Recreation Office. Ray Garrabrandt named honorary commissioner. Committees were formed for in town and out-of-town matches and ticket sales. Season tickets available at courts or from committee members. Courts ready May 15. City Tournament set July 4 to August 31.
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Jack Kanode
Richard Carpenter
Winchester
Ray Garrabrandt
Tom Baldridge
P T Grove
Frank Anderson
Bruce Capper
Billie Creger
Bruce Gorham
Arthur Wilson
Virginia Russell
Bobbie Conrad
Sheep Shearing School Set for Berryville Grounds
George W. Litton head of the Virginia Tech Animal Husbandry department announces the annual Sheep Shearing School for northern Virginia counties at the Berryville Horse Show Grounds starting at 9 30 a m on Wednesday.
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George W. Litton
Wills and Appraisements Recorded in City and County
Three wills and two city appraisements are recorded. Ellis E. Harbaugh leaves entire estate to wife Emily. Julian Bullock leaves real and personal property to the Bishop of Richmond with Chalice to Rev J W Ryan and books to the parish, monies to the last serving parish. Estate appraised at 4044.25 with appraisers Grim McFaden Loy. Fred Winkfield estate 33972.83 with appraisers Edwards Brown Hamrick. N D Long wills all property to wife Blanche for life, Cedar Creek farm to son Alva H Long. on wife's death, division to all children.
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Ellis E. Harbaugh
Emily Harbaugh
Julian Bullock
Richmond
J W. Ryan
Claude M. Grim
D. McFaden
Frank Loy
Fred Winkfield
H. R. Edwards
Carl Brown
Sadie Hamrick
Lee N. Whitacre
N. D. Long
Blanche W. Long
Cedar Creek
Alva H. Long
Students to Compete in State Contest at Blacksburg
Day April 23 marks a school event where boys bring their own shears and the top six advance to the state contest in Blacksburg in June. Another school session will be held at Staunton on Friday.
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Blacksburg
Staunton
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Foreign Aid
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Salt Lake City
Europe
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Wlalk- Baylute Television
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Head City
Corporation Court
Peyton J. Marshall
Mervel W. Adams
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