Generous Gifts Mark Yule Holiday Season's Start in Winchester
Winchester and Frederick County promote a Merry Christmas with large Yule offerings of cash, edibles, and gifts. Fifty adoptions supply baskets to 40 Frederick County and 60 Winchester families. 75 county and 70 city baskets go to non adopted families. The White Christmas service at First Baptist drew record attendance and donations.
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Winchester
Frederick County
Fellowship Club
Railway Express
1St Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
E. T. Clark
Braddock St
Cevlin
Hoye B. Rig
G. John H. Rosenberger
Helen Moore
Virginia Ave
Winchester Lions
Lola Moore
Elizabeth Brumback
Santa Claus
Patsy Anderson
Betty Jean Bock
Carol Brown
Betty Jane Emerson
Billy Haymaker
Nancy Higgs
Geraldine Kern
Sharon Koon
Evelyn Cauley
Patsy McKinney
Patricia Oates
Katherine Smith
Shirley Alabaugh
Shirely Brown
Alice Campbell
Daisy Clark
Nan Luttrell
Alice Mahoney
Betty Lou Mahoney
Betty Jean Micheal
Arlene Miller
Phyliss Reardon
Mary Smith
Peggy Strother
Glen Webber
Jimmy Adams
Driver gets suspended term in fatal auto crash case
Russell Fletcher, 25, of 325 Atwell Ave, pled guilty in Corporation court to involuntary manslaughter in a Dec 6 crash that killed Floyd G. Potts. Judge Elliott Marall suspended a two year sentence and placed Fletcher on two years probation after waiving indictment.
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Russell Fletcher
Atwell Ave
Corporation Court
Elliott Marall
Fletcher
Harry Benham
Commonwealth
James P. Reardon
Floyd G. Potts
National Ave
Court Refuses To Halt B and C Reorganization
The supreme court declined to review a bondholder's bid to stop the Baltimore and Ohio railroad reorganization. Randolph Phillips of New York attacked the plan citing Senate Banking Committee evidence and U S District Court findings. An $80 million RFC loan is central, extended from 1944 to 1965.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Randolph Phillips
New York
Baltimore and Ohio
Phillips
UU. S. Senate Banking Committee
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
U. S. District Court
Baltimore
RFC
Dancer Given 15 Years in Yacht Slaying
In Havana Patricia Laura Schmidt, 22, was sentenced to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay $5000 indemnity for the yacht slaying of her lover John Lester Mee of Chicago. Judges delivered the verdict after a weekend of study. prosecutions had sought 26 years for manslaughter and 30 years for murder.
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Havana
Patricia
Laura) Schmidt
John Lester Mee
Chicago
Mee
Lester E. Mee
Wilmete
Toledo
Ohio
City Dump Closure for Christmas Day Pickup Change
The city dump will be closed on Thursday December 25 for Christmas. Garbage collection shifts to Monday December 22 and Monday December 29 to cover the holiday.
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the Star
THE
Evening Star
Frank's Shoe Store Sells Discount National Footwear
New shipment offers famous make lizard shoes in black brown and red for dress and casual wear at 7.95, regular 14.95. Also new loafers hand lasted made to sell 6.95, now 3.95 at Frank's Shoe Store, 912 E Piccadilly St.
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Franks Shoe
Piccadilly St
Frank's
FRANK
Orchard Problem Session Attracts Virginia Orchardists
A three day session at Virginia Tech from January 6 to 8 draws more than 150 Virginia orchardists. Dr W S Hough and Dr A B Groves of Winchester lead talks on 1948 practices for marketing insect and disease control with demonstrations of new equipment.
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W. S. Hough
A. B. Groves
Winchester
VPI
Virginia
Hough
Groves
E. L. Overholser
Department of Horticulture
W. F. Young
Staunton
Carroll R. Miller
Applechain Apple Service
Martinsburg
L. S. Buttolph
American Fruit Growers
Hagers
A. H. Teske
Virginia Agricultural Extension Service
R. L. Tracy
Organic Chemicals Corp
Frederick, Md
J. A. Waller
Frank Horsfall
Fred R. Dreiling
Bonham
J. R. Magness
Leon Havis
USDA
Belt
Teske
W. S. Newman
L. B. Dietrich
Dr. Overholser
W. W. Anderson
C. Purcell McCue Jr
Fred Dreiling
Dr. Davis
J. F. Watson
Virginia State Apple Commission
Fewer Chicks Hatched in State
Virginia hatcheries reported 1,744,000 chicks hatched in November, 12 percent below 1946. January through November total reached 33,784,000, up from 33,342,000 last year. Prices on December 1 stood at 15 dollars per hundred for straight run heavy and cross breeds.
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Richmond
Virginia
Theirginia Co-operative
NORGE
Baker & Anderson
Labor leader Jouhaux resigns from CGT splitting France unions
Veteran anti communist Leon Jouhaux resigns from the General Confederation of Labor creating the Force Ouvriere as a new rallying point in France's organized labor. The move fragments the union ranks and signals a major split within the labor movement.
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Leon Jouhaux
France
General Confederation of Labor
Force Ouvriere
International
Labor Party fights Communist influence in Britain
London dispatch reports Britain's Labour Party launching a campaign against Communist infiltration and intrigue within the party. Morgan Phillips warns of attempts to split unions in France, Italy and Britain, while Moscow radio denounces the Marshall plan as war.
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London
Britain
Labor Party
France
Italy
Morgan Phillips
Hhe
Communist
Daily Worker
U. S.S
State Department
American Federation of Labor
Philips
Paris
General Confederation of Labor
CGT
Marshall Plan
Phillips
Communist Party
Cominform
Gen Chenault Weds Chinese Reporter in Shanghai
General Claire Chennault famed for the Flying Tigers marries 24 year old English speaking Anna Chan in a Lutheran ceremony under a chrysanthemum bell doves released gifts include silver service lace from Miss Chan’s parents. Chan’s father Dr Y W Chan is consul designate at Kuching Sarawak and formerly consul in San Francisco.
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Shanghai
Claire L. Channault
Flying Tigers
Air Transport Service
Anna Chan
Channault
Chinese Central News Agency
Miss Chan
Y. W. Chan
Kuching
Sarawak
San Francisco
Gift and Holiday Notices from Local Stores
Standard Oysters offers gallon at 5.29 while A and P advertises gifts that please with free gift wrap. Berlin's Drug Store notes location at 21 West Boscawen Street. Watson's Cash Grocery announces closure on Xmas Day and Dec 26 with reopening Dec 27 Saturday morning. Also ads for Xmas Eve and Christmas Night dances at Ole Mill Wheel Berryville Pike with partial closings and a Merry Christmas message. Pingley and Carper Cleaners listed.
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Berlin
W. Boscawen St
Watson’s Cash Grocery
Ole Mill Wheel
Berryville Pike
GOP to Draft Own Long-range Marshall Plan
Congress will prepare its own long range European recovery program modeled after the Marshall plan but expected to be smaller than the administration’s 17 billion dollar four year proposal. Speaker Martin and Rep Herter outline a bipartisan eight member board versus a single powerful administrator.
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Washington
Congress
R-Mass
Martin
Herter
Europe
House
Rep. Herter
Truman
Judge Refuses To Set Howard Verdict Aside
Judge Elliott Marshall overruled defense motions to set aside the verdict convicting J. W. Howard of breaking and entering with intent. The 12 jurors had sentenced Howard to five years in the state penitentiary for entering an apartment occupied by three white girls on E Boscawen Street and attempting to force a barricaded door.
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Elliott Marshall
J. W. Howard
Winchester
Dabney Watts
T. G. Scully
A. Howard
Marshall
Jent
Oward
E. Boscawen St
Howard
State Penitentiary
Italian Republic Adopts Charter in 453 to 62 Vote
Rome reports the Constituent Assembly approved a new constitution for the Italian republic by a 453 to 62 margin after 17 months of drafting. The charter outlines the framework for the republic and its governance.
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Rome
Constituent Assembly
Taft Stassen Tie up Evident in New Political Move
Sen Taft heads west for a Minnesota stop after Stassen’s home state visit to Ohio. Both campaigns deny formal pacts though observers see a tacit understanding as they seek advantage from early voting states. Dewey remains a shared rival as each hopes to gain strength if the other falters.
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Washington
Sen
Taft
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Stassen
Ohio
Bothe
Dewey
New York
Philadelphia
Rep. Patrick Drewry Dies After 27 Years in Congress
Petersburg Virginia reports the death of Representative Patrick Henry Drewry at 72 from a heart attack at his home. A Randolph Macon College graduate, he began public office as state senator in 1911, joined Congress in 1920 after a vacancy, and later served as a national committeeman.
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Petersburg
Patrick Henry Drewry
Virginia
Drewry
Randolph-Macon College
State Senate
Walter A. Watson
Congress
Public list names 296 big traders in futures markets
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson released a partial list naming 296 individuals who engaged in speculative futures trading as of October 31, 1947. Among the names is Edwin Pauley, though other government employees are not listed. The list covers traders required to disclose holdings to the Exchange Administration and may expand with further releases as Congress probes potential links between government actions and private speculation.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson
Edwin Pauley
Army
Pauley
Senate
Ac Oe
Congress
Cantary
Benator
Lee Ferguson
NLRB to Take Printers Union Case to Court
Robert N. Denham of the National Labor Relations Board announced the agency will seek enforcement of subpoenas in federal court. The action targets the Printers Union case brought by the American Newspaper Publishers Assn under the Hartley Act.
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Assn
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Offce
Federal
Winchester Steam Lady In-Person Required
In person requirement for the Winchester Steam Lady appears in the notice with a code lp-12-19-3t.
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Winchester Steam Lady
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Order of Eagles
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O. E. Santa Claus
Rockingham
Winchester Research Laboratory
Firestone
Campbell’s
Willis’ Bicycle & Radio Shop
British Labor Party
England
BY Barton D. Pattie
Moscow
Moscow Radio
United States
Germany
Goering
Hitler
Chanticleer Inn
Peoples Cleaners
BARR
Gipt Nylons
Nablus
Resistance Movement
Palestine
Munazimet Shabab
Sechem
Jerusalem
Yazur Jerusalem
Yazur
United Nations
Holy Land
Hagan
Aviv
Gen. Chenault
Pingley and Carper Cleaners
GOP
Navy
Taft-Stassen
Minesota
BY Jack Bell
Rep
Pr Drewry
Clifford Evans, Jr
George Truman
Los
White House
Michigan
Edwin W. Pauley
Royals
NLRB
N. Cameron St
Berryville Ave
Beryville Ave
CB & 8 Poultry Co
Winchester Aerie No
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