Taft Demands Truman Be Specific In Denunciations
Senator Robert A Taft blasted President Truman at a Rockland Maine rally accusing him of dismissing charges of Communist influence with broad claims. Taft urged the President to name the lies and be specific while noting he has not ruled out a 1952 presidential bid, hinting he may decide early next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockland
Robert A Taft
Truman
Ohio
United States
Taft
New England
Virginia Population Grows Mostly in Children and Elderly
1950 Census figures show Virginia's total population rising 640,907 to 23.9 percent. Children under five increased 137,470 or 56.3 percent, and those 65 and older rose 59,628 or 38.5 percent. Male excess widened, nonwhite growth lagged white growth, and rural residents composed about 56.9 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Roy V. Peel
Bureau of Census Department of Commerce
Connally proposes billion-dollar cut in economic aid
Senator Connally announces a proposed 1 billion dollar reduction in the economic aid portion of the Administration's 8.5 billion dollar foreign aid request. Two committee decisions were discussed including retention of the point four program and possible restructuring under a mutual security administration. Senator Lodge seeks restoration of 265 million for Western Europe military funds amid House cuts totaling 290 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
Connally
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Foreign Relations and
Armed Services
House
State Department
Lodge
Europe
Western Europe
London 4 Czechoslovakia to attend Peace Treaty Conference
Czechoslovakia informed the United States she will attend the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco next month becoming the third Communist state to accept the U S invitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Czechoslovakia
United States
San Francisco
U. S
Museum at VMI Library to Get Confederate Gifts
Roanoke says the Museum of the Library at Virginia Military Institute will receive Confederate memorabilia from Col. Jennings C. Wise of Cloverdale Class of 1902. Items include a postal cover with stamp No 11 from 1863 and a framed Confederate flag with 13 stamps. Wise notes alumni and friends aided the collection and presentation is expected this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
VMI
Roanoke
Confederate States of America
Jennings C. Wise
Cloverdale
Reuben C. Akers
Appomattox County
Lynchburg
Akers
New Market
Wise
Webber's Plumbing Opens with Prize Winners
Grand opening at Webber's Plumbing and Heating 22¢ N Cameron Street last night awarded prizes to entrants. Noamie Richard of 339 National Avenue won a large washing machine, Mrs Margaret Sisk of 525 Ross Street received a General Electric grill, Mrs E W Smallwood of Clearbrook won a GE fan, and Dante Lutz of Charles Town WV took a GE iron. Webber's becomes exclusive dealer for Norge appliances in the Winchester area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webber
Cameron Street
Noamie Richard
National Avenue
Margaret Sisk
Ross Street
General Electric
E. W. Smallwood
Clearbrook
Dante Lutz
Charles Town
W Va
General Electric Iron
Norge Appliances
Winchester
Russian MIG 15 Secured Intact by U S Air Force
The first MiG 15 fighter shot down and recovered intact is now at Wright Patterson AFB Ohio. An official says it undergoes exhaustive engineering analysis. The jet was downed off the West Korean coast and landed in shallow water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Air Force
Air Materiel Command
Wright - Patterson Air Force Base
Ohio
U.S
Wisconsin Battleship Wisconsin: Midshipmen Cruise and World War II Era notes
Article recounts the battleship Wisconsin with a six week training cruise called Midshipmen Cruise Dog. It notes 800 middies aboard and on other ships, the ship’s launch December 7 1943, cost over 100 million, displacement 52560 tons, 33 knot speed, 108 foot beam, 860 feet long, heavy armament including 9 16 inch guns and 20 5 inch guns, decommissioned 1948 and recalled, commanded by Captain Thomas Burrowes who served in World War II and at Eniwetok tests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Philadelphia
Berlin
Bougainville
Portsmouth
Missouri
U. S
Thomas Burrowes
Washington, D. C
Naval Academy
Eniwetok
Timberville Peach Crop Nearing Peak
Timberville reports its peach harvest in full swing as Elberta and Georgia Belle varieties begin, with Hales soon to follow. The 80 percent of normal crop is smaller due to drought but praised for quality and color. rainfall shortages keep yields below other regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timberville
Elbertas
Georgia Belles
Hales
Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Mammoth Strike for Peron Rule
Five million members of Argentina's government labor union walked out in a nationwide strike demanding President Juan Peron and Eva Peron rule for six more years. Hundreds of thousands gathered in cities and towns converging on Buenos Aires for a mammoth demonstration organized by the CET the Peronista Party and Eva Peron’s Women Peronista Party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan D. Peron
Eva
Governmet
General Confederation of Labor
CET
Peronista Party
How's Your I. Q. Answers Revealed Page Four
Answers to the quiz printed on Page 4 list: aircraft carriers. a martin is a bird and a marten is an animal. Zoe Akins. murdered a king. George Gordon Noel Byron. Western Germany. treason. Martha. Randolph Turpin. Soviet Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin
Marten
Zoe Akins
George Gordon Noel (Lord) Byron
Western
Germany
Martha
Randolph Turpin
Soviet Russia
Taft Signals 1952 Presidential Bid In January Decision
Rockland Maine Taft hints he will seek the Republican nomination and expects to be forced into a decision by January. He told Portland Republicans hard organizational work is key and that if Republicans unite, he can win. He says he has not yet decided about entering the race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockland
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Portland
Taft
New England
Body Is Exhumed For Poison Tests In Santa Monica
James Kneen, a 74 year old contractor who died in 1944, had his body exhumed by court order for poison tests. Affidavits from the widow’s former husband and others raise suspicions amid a pending contested divorce and claims of sudden illnesses before the death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Monica
Calif
James Kneen
Kneen
Marguerite Mayo Kneen Hammet
A. B. Hammet
Hammet
Hammets
Stephens City Fire Company Nets $795
The Stephens City Fire Company announced at its monthly meeting that the summer yard party netted $795 for the organization. Officials discussed changing the Fire Hall heating system from coal to fuel oil and a plan to install a stop light on Main Street for fire alarm use. H. R Miller presided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephens City Fire Company
Main Street
H. R Miller
Probe of Boyle Washington loan inquiry demands thorough review
Senator Bricker of Ohio called for the most thorough investigation into whether William M. Boyle Jr the Democratic National Chairman used political influence to secure RFC loans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyle Washington
Bricker
Ohio
William M. Boyle, Jr
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Divorce suit seeks dissolution over prison sentence
The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony on the ground of defendant Jack G. Grimm's Virginia State Penitentiary sentence. Address unknown. due diligence shows no county or city reach. Grimm must appear within ten days after publication to protect interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack G. Grimm
Virginia State Penitentiary
Virginia
P. J. Marshall
Raymond E. Perrine
Identity mix up after fatal Abingdon crash reveals teen death
State Police identified a dead youth as Norman Bennett but his father said the deceased was not his son. The injured rider George Keen, 15, of Jaeger West Virginia, was hospitalized with a possible skull fracture after a stolen car overturned on U S Route 19 following a 15 mile chase through Russell County. Keen had longtime association with the Bennett family, police said, and fingerprinting and photos were to confirm identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abingdon Va
Westerda
George Sherman Keen
Jaeger W. Va
Norman Lee Bennett
Roderfield
McDowell County
Bennett
Abingdon
Chicago
Keen
Eannett
J. E. Dixon
Dixon
Washington
Russell County
Soviet Press Attacks Truman Peace Message
Moscow papers denounce President Truman's congressional message as attacks on the U S S R. They refer to the Soviet peace proposals referenced in the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet's resolution and Shvernik's accompanying letter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Truman
Soviet Union
Congress
Presidium
The
Supreme Soviet
Nikolai Shvernik
Train crash in Belgrade kills ten, injures thirty
Ten persons were killed and 30 others injured when a speeding Belgrade passenger train derailed en route to the Hungarian border. The accident occurred last night as the train jumped the tracks near Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
East Lindsey Auction Entries Sold at Clarke County Door
Sales Directory item lists auctions on Aug 22 and Aug 30 in Clarke County with buyers and locations. Items include livestock, farm machinery, complete household furnishings, furniture, and household goods from sellers E A Lindsey Mrs George Feltner Sam McCarty and James Perks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindsey
Millwood, Clarke Co
Clay Hil
Liverstock
George W. Feltner
Glaize
Sam McCarty
Clowsers
James Perks
Berryville
Marvin's Chapel
Tenant Admits Slaying Woman in Dekalb County
Decatur Georgia reports that a 48 year old Black tenant admitted confronting and strangling Mrs Garnett Gabriel. Police Chief Hoyt Sutton said the man known as Homer Almond moved into a Tucker house earlier this year. Evidence including items belonging to a 5 year old Atlanta insurance executive's wife was found in a stump hole near the tenant house. The victim's body was found face down behind a basement furnace. Details remain limited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Garnett Gabriel
Dekalb County
Hoyt Sutton
Sutton
Homer Almond
Almond
Gabriel
Tucker
Atlanta
Politburo term linked to Communist policy body in U S
Budenz explains the term politburo as the Communist party policy body in the United States, later abandoned. He says Lattimore received some politburo instructions through Field and was valued for gaining Soviet support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rade
Frederick Spencer
Budenz
Communist Party
Lattimore
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HST
Call Jones
Nore
Preda Utley
Far East
WINC
John W
Rosenberger
Winchester & Potomac Railroad CO
Winchester, Va
Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company
J. Sloan Kuykendall
J.H. Strauch, Jr
Winchester Furniture CO
South Main St
Webber's
N. Cameron
Mammoth
Peron
I. Q
Elizabeth S. Grimm
Frederick County Court House
Carl Alabaugh
Dunn, Auctioneer
P. W. Plumly Annexe
Johns-Manville
Eer
Ida P. Guard
Stephens City
A. W. Mathews
FE. Hart ST
C. J. Brumback & Sons
N. Cameron St
Glaize & Bro
Willys
Chapman Motor CO
R. Johnston Bittner
Wayneboro, Airport
Goodyear
Buncutter Tire CO
Braddock St
Falling Springs
Shepherdstown
Shenandoah Junction
Jefferson County
West Virginia
Guernsey
Sam M. Skinner
Lewis
Bowlus
Null
Vickers , Hensell
Coca-Cola Company
Winchester Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Inc
Valley Avenue
Coso
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