Queen-elect Gretchen Merrill heads to Winchester for Apple Blossom Festival
Miss Merrill of Boston arrives in Washington on the way to Winchester for the 21st Apple Blossom Festival. She tours, attends receptions, rehearsals, and a White House visit before returning to Boston.
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Gretchen van Andt Merrill
Boston
Inchester
New York
LaGuardia Field
Bing Crosby
Washington
Merrill
Osbys
Sherry Nethermas Hotel
William Hudgins
I Baldridge
Capital
Maylower
Cortion
Thenderson House
Cam Hudas
WMAL
Virginia State
Amber of Commerce
Hotel Washington
White House
Presd
Harry Tr
Winchester
E. W. Barr
John , Jr
Een
Court
Steck
Schroth
Miss Merrill
Sports Edim
Statler
WTOP
Ith
Clover Holly
Miss . Merrill
Winchester Rty
Virginia
Arlington Memorial Arry F
E. C. Stuart
George Washington
Kiwanis and Exchange Clubs
Iss Merrill
H. Delnfer Robinson
Washington St
Harry Byrd Jr
York Inn
Andrs
Justin Funkhouser
Chars Town
R. Junkhouser
Claymont
Bosn
L M Allens Endow Private Maternity Room for Winchester Memorial
Dr and Mrs L M Allen donate 6000 to the 850000 Winchester Memorial hospital building fund to memorialize Edith Howard Allen. The gift funds Unit 213 private room with lavatory in the maternity section selected by Dr Allen, a longtime Winchester obstetrician and health officer.
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L. M. Allen
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Allen
Edith Howard Allen
Winchester
Farmers and Merchants National Bank of
Virginiia Glass Land Corp
Gore
Novelist Croy and Wife Visit Winchester for Blossom Festival
Novelist Homer Croy of New York City and his wife arrived in Winchester to view the Blossom Festival. Croy, author of West of the Water Tower and other works, is noted for early Will Rogers collaborations and radio humor. Mrs. Croy is listed in Who's Who for books on homemaking and gardening and is ghost writing a daily newspaper column.
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Homer Croy
New York City
Winchester
Croy
Will Rodgers
Lowell Thomas
New York
Dutch Treat Club
Players Club
Harper Bros
Duell
Communist Vote Declines in Two West Germany States
In Ba varia and Hesse the Communist vote fell in local elections. In industrial Hesse they received 7.9 percent from 2,066,428 valid votes, down from 9.3 percent a year earlier. Bavaria showed a similar downturn with 2.7 percent.
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W. Germany
Frankfurt
Germany
Bavaria
Hesse
Train Kills Youth on California Trestle
A Pacific Electric train struck two boys on a trestle over a stream bed in Arcadia California. One boy escaped by leaping to safety while 11 year old George Smith was fatally struck. The incident occurred April 26 as the train bore down on the improvised peril.
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Arcadia
Calif
Pacific Electric
George Smith
NAM appoints Earl Bunting as managing director
Earl Bunting president of the O'Sullivan Rubber Co and NAM board chairman was elected managing director of the National Association of Manufacturers. The NAM board action takes effect May 1. Morris Syre will become NAM president and board chairman until year end. Details of Bunting's status with O'Sullivan were being worked out.
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Earl Bunting
O'Sullivan Rubber Co
National Association of Manufacturers
NAM
Associated Press
Morris Syre
New York
Bunting
Winchester
O’sullivan Company
Bell Re elected TB Association President in Winchester
Stewart Bell Jr. was reelected president of the Winchester Tuberculosis Association at the annual meeting with C. F. Schenck first vice president Mrs. A. C. Halvosa second vice president Harold R. Edwards treasurer and Dr. John Adams Miss Grace Bosserman Ralph G. Hengeveld named to the board. The group reported a year ending March 31 with clinics x rays at Memorial hospital and free X rays for 908 food handlers barbers and beauticians. Christmas seal receipts totaled 4954 with allocations to Virginia and National TB associations and 1000 city council funds for indigent patients.
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Stewart Bell Jr
Winchester Tuberculosis Assn
C. F. Schenck
A. C. Halvosa
Harold R. Edwards
John Adams
Grace Bosserman
Ralph G. Hengeveld
D. W. Lupton
Mary P. Farmer
H. R. Edwards
W! Memorial Hospital
T. B
T.B. Assn
Bell
E. W. Lacy
John Troxell
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Leason
Virginia Tuberculosis Assn
National Tuberculosis Association
Association
S. Loudoun St
Bellasserica
Pension fights as miners demand more than $50 a month
John L. Lewis and operators clash over pension funds in a dispute spurred by Ezra Van Horn. A court challenge to the tentative plan prompted Lewis to dispatch workers back to action. A Philadelphia study says current royalties can fund only a $50 monthly pension at age 65.
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Walrington
John L. Lewis
Cay
Lewis
Deering
Pension Fund
Ezra van Horn
Sen. Bridges
R-Nh
van Horn
Publc
Welfare Fund
Philadelphia
Oleomargarine Tax Backers Win House Vote 235 to 121
Washington April 26 A House armed services subcommittee voted to let the Army Navy and Air Force use oleomargarine as they see fit It instructed Cal to draft a bill repealing laws banning margarine in the Navy and limiting its use in the Army and Air Force The roll call to take up the repealer was 235 to 121 making House passage of the tax repeal likely with a full vote anticipated soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Armed Services
Army
Navy
Air Force
Cal
Margarine Anderson
Full Armed Services Committee
Arab Legion Reinforcements Hurtling Toward Palestine
Cairo reports say King Abdullah ordered Arab Legion reinforcements from Trans-Jordan to Palestine in line with an Arab League plan to invade before the British mandate ends May 15. Jerusalem fronts show Jews and Arabs mobilizing south of the city as fighting gears up around Jaffa and Acre with heavy shelling and prisoner escapes. France aims to form a volunteer police force to protect Jerusalem with potential volunteers from New York City as the UN moves to safeguard the holy city.
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Cairo
aArab
Abdullah
Arab Legion
Trans-Jordan
Palestine
Arab League
Holy Land
Lake
France
Holy
Jerusalem
New York City
United Nations Assembly
New York
William T. Manning
Grand Priory
Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem
Lord Inverchapel
United States
Startling tip names suspect in Reuther shooting case
Detroit April 26 Police Commissioner Harry Toy disclosed a startling tip naming a man believed to have planned to shoot Walter Reuther. The informer, a minor CIO United Auto Workers official, said the other man carried a gun on April 20 the night of the shooting and planned to kill the UAW president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Harry Toy
Walter P. Reuther
Toy
CIO
United Auto Workers
Reuther
UAW
Fire damages trailer loaded with mirror glass
The Clearbrook fire truck rushed 17 miles to Gainesboro after two trailer tires blew out of a Roy Stone Transfer rig. One third of a cargo of mirror glass from Pittsburgh to North Carolina survived. the rest burned. Firefighters suffered burns but contained the blaze before it spread.
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Clearbrook
Gainesboro
Pittsburgh
North Carolina
Frank Copeland
Martinsville
Roy Stone
Copeland
DeHaven
Winchester
Rose a Week Legacy Loses in Court Test
In Richmond on April 26 a court of appeals ruling voids a dead soldier’s will gift of a perfect rose a week to Mildred Fitzpatrick named by Valentine Lawless of Norfolk who was killed overseas in 1944. The court found the bequest not legally perfect.
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Richmond
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Valentine Lawless
Norfolk
Mildred Fitzpatrick
Forrestal backs limited defense spending amid 66 vs 70 group plan
Secretary Forrestal told a Senate appropriations subcommittee that a 66 group air force would yield best results under a capped budget. He and the joint chiefs favor a 70 group force in military terms but acknowledge broader factors. He cites an overall services program needing about 3.481 billion dollars plus 11 billion previously requested, as the House supports the 70 group plan and the Senate weighs a 3.158 billion House bill to start it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joint Chiefs of Staff
House
Senate
Marshall Studies Support Methods For West Europe
Washington April 26 A program of military backing for the anti Communist bloc in Western Europe nears final planning. Secretary of State Marshall returns from Bogota to push work as Congress and President Truman consider approval. Potential forms include revived lend lease and a practical US European alliance.
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Washington
Europe
State Marshall
Bogota
Truman
Congress
Five Newsreel Outfits to Take Festival Scenes
Five major newsreel companies Paramount Movietone Universal Warner Pathe and MGM will stream to the 21st Apple blossom Festival to film the pageant coronation and parade. Lamar Keen notes crews arrive Wednesday for dress rehearsal with Bing Crosby as grand marshal and wider distribution anticipated in the Mid- Atlantic region.
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Lamar Keen
Paramount
Movietone
Universal
Warner Pathe
MGM
Bing Crosby
W. Va
D. C
Whun Huntingdon
American Troops Quell Korean Rioting in Japan
In Kobe Japan on April 26 U S military police arrested hundreds of Koreans after weekend riots. More than 8000 Koreans were involved in Kobe and nearby Osaka. Lt Gen Robert L Eichelberger arrived to investigate and vows stern punishment for leaders. No Americans were hurt, 38 Koreans and Japanese injured. patrols by armed MPs maintained order.
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Kobe
Japan
0. S
Osaka
Robert L. Eichelberger
U. S. Eighth Army
Yokohama
U. S
Eichelberger
College Bursar To Head State Reorganization
Charles J. Duke bursar of the College of William and Mary will pilot Virginia's state government reorganization. Gov. Tuck borrows him from Ward M. Pomfret. Duke will work as top assistant to consolidate 70 agencies and boards into 30 departments and will have offices near the Governor's Suite in the Capitol.
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Richmond
Charles J. Duke
College of William and Mary
Tuck
Duke
Burch Reorganization Commission
Capitol Building
John E. Pomfret
Ward M
US Plane Attacked Off Cheju Island Amid Korean Unrest
US Army heads report an attack on an American courier plane near Cheju island off Southern Korea amid ongoing political turmoil. Closing notices list film showings and local ads for Virginia firms and a skirt sale at Campbell's Teen Shoppe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
Cheju Island
Korea
Cheju
Realty Sales Tax Upheld Unconstitutional in Virginia
The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals today upheld Roanoke hustings court ruling that a local ordinance imposing a tax of one dollar per hundred on real estate sales is unconstitutional.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Today
Roanoke Hustings Court
VPI Student Drowns in New River Near Prices Fork
Cal vin R. Groves a 25 year old Fauquier County student at V P I was drowned in the New River near Prices Fork during a student picnic. Miss Ethel Johnson of Culpeper attempted a rescue and nearly drowned. Nearby notices indicate poultry and Berryville Ave market hours shifting to close at noon Thursday and all day Friday with no deliveries.
Handley Festival Comes Alive With Toyland Pageant
About 1300 Winchester School students rehearse and perform two Handley pageant shows as part of a festival. Rehearsals began in March with a final dress rehearsal to run Wednesday afternoon. Cast includes many John Kerr pupils and features new numbers plus favorites like Toyland and Apple Blossoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
John Kerr
Green Ballet
March of the Toys
Miss Muffet
State C-C Adopts Tax Slash Program
Richmond April 26 Virginia Chamber of Commerce endorses a long range federal tax reform plan to retire the national debt and foster a stable economy. Proposals include reducing personal tax rates to 15 percent at the starting point and 8 percent in the top income bracket, with corporate rates cut from 38 percent to 32 and then to 25 or less. Reserve seats now for fest pageant and parade at Molden Electric Co.
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Richmond
Virginia Chamber of Commerce
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Crosbys
E. W. Armstrong CO
Olden Electric Co., Inc
Hillyards
Piccadilly Street
L.M. Allens
Mother of Winchester
TB Association
UMW
Zvai Leumi
Jaffa
Haganah
Jewish Defense Army
Acre
Iraq
Haifa
Mediterranean
Clearbrook Company
Bishop Manning
Forrestal
Marshall Studies
West
U.S
Clos
Winchester Credit Corp
Virginia Loan & Thrift CO
Commercial Small Loan & Finance Coo
Campbell
VPI
Handley
C-C
Molden Electric CO
Rhodes Jewelry CO
West Boscawen St
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