Mrs McCartney Succumbs After Long Illness
Virginia Firestone McCartney widow of L J McCartney died yesterday after illness at 315 EB Cork St Roanoke She was born May 3 1866 in Daleville Botetourt County and belonged to Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church She survived by two daughters Kathleen McCartney and Mrs Roger Ferger a sister Mrs BE Bateman Funeral 4 PM Kurte Funeral Home Loudoun St Roanoke with burial Thursday 3 PM Evergreen Cemetery Roanoke
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Virginia Firestone McCartney
L. J. McCartney
EB. Cork Bt
Paulina Moomaw Firestone
Moe
Daleville
Botetourt County
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Kathleen McCartney
Handley High School
Roger Ferger
Cincinnati
Ohio
BE. BE. Bateman
Roanoke
Kurte
Loudoun St
Ronald 8. Wilson
Robert A. Whitten
Evergreen Cemetery
Mrs Shewbridge Rites Thursday at Green Mill Cemetery
Grave side services for Nellie Biser Shewbridge wife of Edward C. Shewbridge will be held Thursday at 10:30 a m at Green Mill Cemetery Berryville Rev Henry G Lane rector of Berryville Episcopal Church will officiate She is survived by her husband Lt Col Courtney Shewbridge of Indianapolis and two other sons Benjamin of Towson Md and Hope Birkard of Dallas Texas along with a daughter all named in the notice
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Nellie Biser Shewbridge
Edward C. Shewbridge
Courtney Shewbridge
Indianapolis
Ind
Green Mill Cemetery
Berryville
Henry G. Lane
Te Episcopal Church
Mannington
W. V
Benjamin Shewbridge
Towson, Md
Hope Birkard
Dallas
Texas
George R. Taylor Services Today
Funeral services for George R Son Taylor were held this afternoon at Omps Funeral Home at 3 o clock. Rev J B Duckwall conducted the service. Pallbearers named Philip B Russell Thomas L Edwards Gilbert E Notson George R Seal W Russell Merrell and Douglas Cain. Interment followed at Mt Heeron cemetery.
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George R “Son” Taylor
E. Germain St
Omps
J. 8
Duckwall
Philip B. Russell
Thomas L. Edwards
Gilbert E Notson
George R. Seal
W Russell Merrell
Douglas Cain
Mt. Heeron Cemetery
Twin mix up at Miller's HardwareStore photograph confuses shoppers
The Star ran a photo showing Earl Crowser with a color guide for Mrs. Harry Carpenter at Miller's Hardware Store. It later emerged that Mrs. Carpenter is twin sister Eltha Butler from Cross Junction, causing renewed confusion.
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The
Star
Earl Crowser
Harry Carpenter
Miller's Hardware Store
New Bomb Sight Unveiled Amid Budget Hearings
The Defense Department unveiled its new K-One bombing system with a one ton weight and a price of 2450000 dollars, about 31 times the World War I Norden sight. Air Secretary Pinsetter cited self calculations and all weather operation while air force MPs guarded the display during the Senate hearing.
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Washington
Defense Department
Senate Appropriations
Armed Services
Norden
Pinsetter
Air Force
Finletter
Sidney Buchman Cited for Contempt of Congress
Sidney Buchman movie writer and producer was cited for contempt of Congress by the House for refusing to testify before the Un American Activities Committee. The roll call vote stood 314 to 0.
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Washington
Sidney Buchman
Congress
House Today
UN- American Activities Committee
Lindsay to Lead Safety Committees for Apple Blossom Fete
Lindsay, a member of the Lions Club of Clarke County and the Winchester Freder ick Historical Society, will name 20 committees to help run the 25th annual Apple Blossom festival in Winchester. He and his wife Louise Bennett of Baltimore have a son Robert M. Lindsay Jr., a Virginia Tech student.
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Tiae
Winchester
Berryville
Lindsay
Lions Club
Clarke County
Winchester-Frederick
Farm Sales Directory for February and March
A list of scheduled auctions and estate sales in Virginia and West Virginia. Items include farm machinery livestock real estate household goods and shop equipment hosted by various executors attorneys and estate trustees with dates from February 6 to March 1 across Winchester Middletown White Hall Stephens City Boyce and surrounding areas.
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F. F. Trimble
White Hall
Amd
Farmers Livestock Exchange
Winchester
W. E. Edwards
Miller's
Middletown
Frederick County Court House
Stephens City
George Washington
Carlton Dyke
Greenspring
W. P. Presgraves
Old Salem Road
Boyce
Clarke Couna
Katie C Punkhouser
C. H Madagan
Double Tollgate
Raymond Balanger
Inwood
W. V
Millie J. Bowman
E. Piccadilly St
Trail of Girl Abductor Clings to Cold Lead in Germany
U S Army agents press a broad search across West Germany for Pvt. Eugene F. Walters, accused of kidnapping Mamie Ruth Shelton after a highway robbery near Hanau. Walters fled with a 45 caliber pistol and jeep while Miss Shelton endured a night in a stalled car before two MPs found her.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Mamie Ruth Shelton
Eugene F. Walters
Hanau
Miss Shelton
Walters
West Germany
Shelton
Franklin B. Burns
Hot Springs
Kidneapper
Pin Weels Saved In Fireworks Bill
In Richmond the House General Laws Committee saved pin wheels, whirligigs, and spinning Jennies from prohibition. If the bill passes, Virginians may still set off these fireworks on private property, though limits of two inches long and one fourth inch in diameter were proposed for legality. Deputies argued the measure recalls a 1950 fireworks debate and warned about public risk during consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
House
General Laws Committee
Virginia
C.N. Payne
Pittsylvania
Frank P. Moncure
Stafford
Payne
A. H. Richardson
Dinwiddie
Economist backs limits on CIO steelworkers wage demands
New York University economist Dr. Jules Backman testified that the wage demands of CIO steelworkers cannot be justified or paid for by gains in output per manhour. He spoke before a Wage Stabilization Board panel as a steel strike loomed for February 23.
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New York
New York University
CIO
Jules Backman
Wage Stabilization Board
U.N. Reports 306070 Korea War Casualties
United Nations releases total casualties in Korea from start of war through December 31. The figure covers 47,138 killed, 183,273 wounded, and 76,659 missing or captured among U.N. forces. Discrepancies exist with AP tallies, especially for South Korea figures.
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Paris
United Nations
U.N
Korea
Associated Press
Republic of
South) Korea
U. 8 S
U. S. Defense Department
Nineteen Groups Plan Festival Parade at Shenandoah Apple Blossom
Sam N. Johnston announces the Grand Feature Parade for the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival to be directed by nineteen committees on May 1 and 2. Winchester Lions Club sponsors for the ninth year with committees to be named soon.
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Sam N. Johnston
Winchester Lions Club
Johnston
The
Lions Club
House General Laws Committee Kills Lynch Bill
The Virginia House General Laws Committee killed the Lynch Bill preventing lawmakers from profiting on state business. Subcommittee members cited no evidence of needed reform and praised legislators for serving Virginia at modest compensation. The panel also discarded the Pollard and Cassell measures on worker rest breaks and workers compensation, with a separate action already approving a $28 maximum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
House
General Laws
General Assembly
Frank Moncure
Stafford
George
Aldhizer
Broadway
Arthur H. Richardson
Dinwiddie
Virginia
Assembly
Cassell
Latvian refugee claims he fought his way from Soviet Embassy
A 25 year old lumberman, a Latvian refugee living in Sweden, says he fought his way out of the Soviet Embassy with a knife after being attacked by six Russians who sought his passport. He escaped to a Swedish factory where police later questioned him. two Russians fled in the embassy car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Sweden
Adolf Otemov
Clarke County Enacts Rabies Quarantine and Fox Control Measures
Clarke County adopts a rabies quarantine starting February 18 with inoculation for all dogs by March 31. Dog owners face misdemeanor charges for leaving dogs at large unless muzzled. Warden Levi establishes a dog pound and calls for inoculation clinics by Dr. Casey and Dr. Cameron. Fox trapping permits issued. tail bounty begins immediately. landowners may hunt on their property without a permit, others need hunting licenses.
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Clarke County
Wiley
Levi
State Laboratory
Luray
J M Casey
Boyce
Wiliam Cameron, Jr
Berryville
Blue Ridge
Harold G. Potts
Casey
Cameron
Loring C. Kackley
Clerk Kackley
State Game and Fish Game Commission
Romanian Student Says He Pushed Karpe to Death
In Bern Switzerland a 24 year old Romanian law student in custody says he pushed U S Navy Capt Eugene Karpe to his death from a train in Austria on February 24 1950. Karpe a former Naval Attache in Bucharest was found beside the tracks south of Salzburg in the American Zone of Austria. The death has not been explained and ties to Robert Vogeler a U S businessman jailed in Hungary on spy charges are noted.
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Bern
Switzerland
U.S. Navy
Eugene Karpe
Austria
Karpe
U. S
Bucharest
Salzburg
Robert Vogeler
Hungary
Widows to Receive Medals of Honor for Marine Heroes
Three Marine Corps widows will receive Medals of Honor posthumously for Korea era actions. Secretary Dan Kimball will award the honors in his office on Friday. Recipients include 2nd Lt. Robert D. Reem of Elizabethtown Pennsylvania, 2nd Lt. William G. Windrich of Carlsbad California, and Pfc. Walter C. Monegan of Seattle Washington. Each earned the nation’s highest decoration for acts of extraordinary valor during battles in 1950.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Marine Corps
Korea
Secretary of the Navy
Dan Kimball
Robert D. Reem
Elizabethtown
Willam G. Windrich
Carlsbad
Calif
Yudam-Ni
Walter C. Monegan
Seattle
Wash
Local Students Enter Legion Speaking Contest Across Virginia
Handley and James Wood High School students join about 70 Virginia high schools in the American Legion oratorical contest over six weeks. Local winners will be named this week before district rounds in March with zone finals March 20 at Suffolk, Charlottesville, and Salem. State finals are March 25 in Roanoke with $700 in state scholarships and national awards totaling $8,500, including a top $4,000 prize. Contestants base orations on the United States Constitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Handley and James Wood High School
Virginia
American Legion
Morgan W. Strother
Richmond
Virginia Department
Suffolk High School
Lane High School
Charlottesville
Andrew Lewis High
Salem
Jefferson Senior High School
Roanoke
Jeanne Mann Dickinson
RCA to Close Pulaski Plant
RCA will shut its Pulaski television receiver factory around April 1 due to production conditions. Plant manager Earl F. Selby says operations will be curtailed and workers released gradually, with about 900 employed normally. Eighty workers were furloughed last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pulaski
Radio Corporation of America
Earl F. Selby
RCA
Rail route reopened amid Allied actions on Korea coast
Allied forces reopened a vital rail link between Seoul and Pusan and struck targets around Hungnam. Carrier planes from the Valley Forge and Antietam bombed rail, attacked Communist boats, shore targets and front lines. Warships patrolled both east and west coasts as Marine aircraft supported operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
Pusan
Korea
U. S
Valley Forge
U. 8
Antietam
Hungnam
How's Your I. Q. Answers Quiz Item
Answers to Page 4 quiz questions list correct responses. Includes eight, Birmingham Alabama, native mammals, Cass Gilbert, albumen, Oregon, sweet potato, male, and beans with green corn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Cass Gilbert
Oregon
Biblical felleenaneal and related terms puzzle
A clipped crossword style clue set lists items such as Biblical felleenaneal 41 Mountain of Thessaly 45 Coin Jap 44 Peacock imitatives. The readable fragment suggests a wordplay or dictionary grid with multiple short entries. No full context or definition is present.
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Mountain of Thessaly
Coin
Peacock
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Frederick Motors Inc
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Heatwole Motor CO
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Hotel China & Glassware
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Eugene R. Branch
Mar
Roy P. Duvall
Republic Oil Refining CO
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