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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1947
Page
3
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Rep Flannagan says the Marshall plan could boost U S tobacco exports and sees tobacco included as a strong business proposition. An unrelated sentence on human vision remains part of the text.
Pravda argues Britain should abandon rationing and revalue money to overcome its ills. The three column front page editorial notes the recent trade agreement with Russia and claims Russia cut prices while reforming currency. Pravda says Britain lags in economic order and could follow Russia’s lead.
An up to date etiquette guide titled Modern Manners promises guidance on speech table manners telephone taxi cab etiquette calling etiquette and dressing for occasions plus business etiquette. The ad notes a price of fifteen cents postpaid and provides the address 316 Eye St NE Washington DC for ordering.
Paris December sessions of the Chambre des Deputes dramatize France's political crisis. Edouard Herriot, aging speaker, struggles to control a restless National Assembly where Maurice Thorez and the Communist bloc clash with the government amid a mix of businesslike lawmakers and a notable presence of women and colonial delegates.
In Paris the National Assembly endures heated volleys as Thorez criticizes government plans to fire on demonstrators while Premier Schuman presses a blockade against strikes. The assembly splits into pro Communist and anti Communist factions with De Gaulle still seen as a potential option.
Hans Moeser, commandant of Nordhausen concentration camp, was sentenced to death by a U.S. war crimes court in DACHAU. The court also imposed penalties from five years to life for 14 co-defendants, ending two years of trials in which 1649 were tried and 1399 found guilty.
Three American oil groups Shell Standard Vacuum and California Texas unite as the Netherlands New Guinea Petroleum Co to resume fields bombed in World War II. In Borneo Tarakan Louise Cambodia fields expect 100000 tons monthly by end of 1948. Taraka Balikpapan Java wells revived with strong output. Ijepu Djambi and Pangkalan Brandan held by Indonesian Republicans.
City fire equipment was called out twice early today. Four companies responded to a 6:45 a m alarm at the Shenandoah Valley National bank where a furnace room blaze caused smoke but limited damage. A second alarm at 9:30 a m for a chimney fire at 23 West Cork Street was knocked down with no damage reported.
The Rev C B Larrick assisted by Rev Emory Elimere will officiate at services tomorrow for Mrs Elizabeth DeHaven who died Sunday. Friends and relatives meet 2 pm at Omps Funeral Home and go to Pine Grove Methodist church for services. Interment will follow in the cemetery there with Bailey brothers as pallbearers.
At Camp Lee Virginia the general court martial began for Captain Edward P. Kelley who had been chosen by classmates to pick up checks and kept them before leaving due to army life and money problems. He admitted forging signatures on two checks and returned the others by mail.
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