Festival Queen Ready With Gowns For Apple Blossom Week
Miss Anne Carleton Hadley 18 arrives in Washington to prepare for the 23rd Apple Blossom Festival queen ceremony. She travels from New Orleans to attend fittings and television appearances with Alben Barkley assisting as her stepfather. Local broadcasts feature Hadley and archival festival footage from WMAL TV and Channel 5 programs.
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Naval Airport
Weomb College
New Orleans
Shenandoah Valley
Shenandoah XXIII
Alben W. Barkley
United States
Margaret Thors
Florenz Hinz
Wmal-Tv
Channel 7
White House
Bryson Rash
al Nelson
Department of Publicity and Promotion
Channel 5
Peggy Hay‘maker
Marvin Hutchinson
Philip Whitney
Anne Carleton Hadley
Washington National
Newcomb College
Queen Shenandoah
Winchester
Ticket Purchasers Urged to Hurry for Apple Blossom Tickets
Charles Pine director of the Apple Blossom Festival Department of Public Entertainment announced a deadline extension for pre festival ticket sales. Tickets for the Queen Ball Stag Luncheon Square Dance Teen-Agers Dance Pageant and parade seating are at Molden Electric Company until 5 pm tomorrow then at event sites. He urged residents to buy early and noted new attractions this year.
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Charles Pine
Department of Public Entertainment
Molden Electric Company
Weather Outlook For Virginia: Five Day Span
Five day forecast covers tomorrow through Sunday April 30. Temperatures near normal with a cool Thursday and milder Friday through Saturday, turning cooler Sunday. Showers expected Wednesday and again Friday or Saturday. Total precipitation around one half inch.
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Virginia
Notice of Friday April 28 1950 Local Holiday
The Star will not be published on Friday April 28 1950 due to a local holiday. The Evening Star notes the publication cancellation.
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Evening Star
Man Acquitted On Burglary Count
Boston man Louis B. Ranson Jr. was acquitted by a jury after deliberating under 15 minutes on a night breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny charge. He was arrested Feb 28 for entering Marvin Nichols’s home at 1008 S Loudoun St. The defense was led by attorney Robert E. O’Neal of Stephens City.
U S Protest Over Seizure of Five American Boats
The United States protested to Mexico over the seizure of five American shrimp fishing vessels in the Gulf of Mexico. Ambassador Walter Thurston filed the protest in Mexico City seeking an explanation. Mexico claims nine mile jurisdiction and charged the fishermen with invading Mexican waters.
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Washington
United States
Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
State Department
Mexico City
Walter Thurston
Thurston
Foreign Office
Department
Census Nears Finish in Winchester City
Vincent Hollis says the 17th decennial census in Winchester is almost done with only one enumerator remaining and 40 callbacks to make. The unfinished area lies within Cameron Street Highland Avenue Piccadilly Street to the city limits as the county census will continue for several more weeks.
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Winchester
Vincent Hollis
Cameron St
Highland Ave
Piccadilly St
Navy to Build New Type Submarine
The Navy seeks Congress authority to build 112 vessels of varying types including a radically new atomic powered submarine and converting a cruiser into a guided missile combat ship. Adm. Forrest Sherman told the House Armed Services Committee the plan, presented to Secretary Johnson on February 13, would cost about 335 million dollars.
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Navy
Congress
Adm
Forrest Sherman
Naval Operations
House Armed Services Committee
Defense
Johnson
Sherman
Industrialist Fights Rails Over 130 Mile Ore Belt Plan
An Ohio industrialist says railroads oppose a 130 mile belt to move coal and iron ore between Lake Erie and steel mills. The plan aims to streamline output and reduce transport costs amid growing demand for steel production.
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Pittsburg
Ohio
Lake Erie
Truman Defends Reds Yet Critics Push for Wider Inquiry
President Truman told a Federal Bar Association audience that communism at home poses no major threat and urged faith in loyalty programs. GOP critics led by Wherry Brewster Ferguson and Mundt pressed for broader State Department investigations while a Senate subcommittee prepared to question security division conduct. Louis Budenz and Owen Lattimore cases were advanced for closed testimony.
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R-Wis
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Federal Bar Association
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Senate Foreign Relations
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Lodge
R-Mass
Europe
Tydings
D-Md
Louis F. Budenz
Fordham University
Owen Lattimore
PBS
Lattimore
Far East
Department
Budenz
Paul Porter
Valley to Spend to Advertise Shenandoah Valley Tourism Drive
Shenandoah Valley Inc plans a 20 000 advertising budget starting May 1 to lure Eastern Seaboard residents to the 200 mile valley between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains. President Kenneth R Hyde says 15 000 is already in sight and vows to double tourist business if funds hold.
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Roanoke
Shenandoah Valley, Inc
Shenandoah National Park
Virginia
Eastern Seaboard
Blue Ridge
Alleghany Mountains
Shenandoah Valley
Kenneth R. Hyde
Hyde
The Wages Of Sin Captures A Deadly Drive In
In Princeton West Virginia Frazier Harless a 24 year old Bluefield truck driver killed Irving Carper after Harless and Eva Carper 30 took the latter to a drive in movie Harless fled to the police desk two shots were fired and Harless died from his wounds. Eva Carper and the husband Irving Carper 36 face murder charges.
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Princeton
W. Va
Frazier Harless
Bluefield
Harless
Eva Carper
A. E. French
Irving Carper
Festival Rally Planned for Shenandoah Apple Blossom Workers
Invitations go to 500 Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival workers to meet Queen Shenandoah XXIII and her court at a rally tomorrow evening at the George Washington Hotel. Fulton Lewis Jr will broadcast live from the hotel ballroom with seating from 7 to 7:15 and a 30 minute seating window before his remarks on festival plans. John Morgan will MC the introductions for thirty eight princesses. Tony Bennett will perform, and the Utah Centennial Chorus will sing at a civic luncheon and again in the evening for the workers.
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George Washington Hotel
Ity
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Mr. Lewis
L. G. Sjostrom
United States
John Morgan
Anne Hadley
Tony Bennett
Bos Hope
Bob
New York City
Festval Workers
Bennett
Columbia Records
New York
Utah Centennial Chorus
Rail Dispute Talks Set for Thursday in Chicago
Government mediated talks to resolve a rail labor dispute begin Thursday at the Palmer House Chicago. National Mediation Board Chairman Francis A. O Neill said union and major railroads agreed to the negotiations to avert a strike that would have started the next day over an extra fireman on diesel locomotives.
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Chicago
Francis A. O'Neill
National Mediation Board
Palmer House
O'Neill
Baby Found Alive After Bronx Kidnaping in New York Hotel Storeroom
An 18 year old hotel chambermaid Evelyn Jordan admitted snatching Chamela Holden, a two pound eleven ounce premature infant, from Lincoln Hospital. The baby was found alive in the Hotel Coburg storeroom in Manhattan after a bus-driver tip led to Winchester. The mother, Mrs. Clifford Holden, identified the infant and stated she looked well. The motive cited by investigators relates to replacing a lost child.
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Associated Press
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Lincoln Hospital
Bronx
Chamela Holden
New York City
Marcus Kogel
Chanet
Coburg
Pennsylvania Station
Jordan
New York
Washington
Mrs. Jordan
Professor Kills Two, Then Self at Peru College
Dr B K Baker psychology professor at Peru State Teachers College shot and killed Dr William Nicholas college president and Dr Paul Maxwell another instructor before taking his own life Nemaha County Attorney Fred C Kiechel reported Bakers body found at home and a note beside it described disposing of Nicholas body and claimed Nicholas tried to fire the wrong person.
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B. K. Baker
Peru State Teachers College
William Nicholas
Paul A. Maxwell
Nemaha
Fred C.kiechel
Baker
Kiechel
Bedford woman pleads guilty in abortion case
Mrs. Dartha Louise Fulton, 42, a Bedford divorcee, pleaded guilty to performing an abortion on an 18 year old in January. She was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary.
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Roanoke
Dartha Louise Fulton
Bedford
Lattimore and McCarthy Barred From Secret Hearing
Senate investigators barred Senator McCarthy and Owen J. Lattimore from secret testimony by Louis Budenz in a closed session. Budenz had alleged Lattimore’s communist ties, which Lattimore denies and plans to answer in a public hearing. McCarthy threatened to protest and study Budenz’s charges further.
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Senate
McCarthy
Lattimore
Budenz
Committee
Red Guerrillas Near Yulin Press Report
The Hong Kong press says Red guerrillas moved within four miles of Yulin on Hainan Island as Nationalist forces evacuated emergency HQ. Nationalists faced a siege by 15,000 Communist fighters with 60,000 guerrillas looming and a potential 125,000 Nationalist troops under pressure.
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Five Finger
Hainan
Yulin
Hong Kong
Torgau Remembered Five Years After Historic East West Meeting
Five years after American and Soviet troops met at Torgau on the Elbe the mood has shifted from shared jubilation to iron curtain suspicion. Veterans recall the goodwill of that day and the shrinking space for press access as Cold War tensions solidified.
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Strehla
Elbe River
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Elbe
Nyet
Berlin
Nyets
Associated Press
Byrd Jr Named to AP Board as City Rep
Virginia publisher Harry F. Byrd Jr was elected to the Associated Press board representing cities under 50 000. He defeated Dolph Simons of the Lawrence Journal World 4747 to 3885. Also reelected were Robert B McLean and Norton Chandler. New members include Paul Miller Robert B Choate James M North Jr and Mr B.
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Harry F. Byrd, Jr
Virginia
The
Associated Press
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Dolph Simons
Lawrence
Kansas
Journal-World
Robert B. McLean
Philadelphia Bulletin
Norton Chandler
Los Angeles Times
Paul Miller
Rochester
N. Y
Democrat and Chronicle
Robert B. Choate
Boston’ Herald
James M. North, Jr
Fort
Phone Strike May Be Postponed
A CIO Communications Workers of America official said there is a possibility the nationwide telephone strike set for tomorrow may be delayed. Conciliation Director Cyrus Ching said he would send a top aide to break the deadlock in negotiations. Virginia cases would see little effect with local service and toll calls within the state continuing.
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CIO Communications Workers of America
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Ching
Washington
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