Millikin Seeks Moderate Tax Cut Following House Vote
Senator Millikin chairman of the Senate finance committee discussed a House passed Knutson tax-cut bill in a closed session. The panel will begin hearings Monday with Secretary of the Treasury Snyder likely first witness and will focus on individual income cuts unless a broader substitute is offered. Some senators favor trimming the cut to 4.0 to 4.5 billion to win Democratic votes for overriding a veto.
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Eday
House
Millikin
Senate Finance Committee
Knutson
Milikin
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Colorado
Senate
Stephens City Fire Damages 10-room Dwelling
A southeast fire started from a flu damaged a 10 room house owned by the A J Grove Lime Co in Stephens City. Orndorff and family Jake Bennington occupied the building with others and insurance covered the loss. The fire was contained by a Stephens City Fire Co 400 gallon booster tank with help from the Sarah Zane Fire Co. No water was available at the scene. The occupants may continue living there during repairs.
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A. J. Grove Lime Co
Stephens
Orndorff
Jim Reid
John Orndorfft
Jake Bennington
Stephens City Fire Co
Sarah Zane Fire Co
Four Governors Seek Civil Rights Recall and Nomination Change
Four Southern governors asked President Truman to pull civil rights bills from Congress and to revert to a two thirds rule for Democratic presidential nominations. They met with Democratic National Chairman Grath in a closed session and provided six questions. Governor Thurmond led North and South Carolina, Arkansas, and Texas officials in the request.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
J. Howard Grath
PAI
McGrath
J. Stem Thurmond
South
Lina
R. Gregg Cherry
North Carolina
Ben T. Laney
Arkansas
Beauford H. Jester
Texas
Thurmond
Local Eggs Rise Two Cents as Buyers Lead Trade
Local buyers pushed egg prices two cents higher, with Grade A large eggs quoted at 48 cents per dozen as bids moved decisively in the market today.
Six in Family Perish in Fire in Cambridge
A blaze on Brewster Street, Cambridge, killed six members of the family of H. Alan Gregg, Harvard graduate, his wife Ann, and their four children Susan 9, Alan 8, Peter 3, and Thomas 10 months. Maid Edna Roper, 29, survived but was critically injured. Firemen and chaplain battled through three stories as the house burned, with the six bodies found on the second floor.
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Cambridge
Mass
Brewster St
H. Alan Gregg
Harvard
Ann
Susan
H. Alan Jr
Peter
Thomas
Edna Roper
Henry Kilfoyle
Gregg
Bible Conference Opens at First Brothern Church
Large attendance marked the four day Bible conference on Berryville Ave led by Dr. O E Phillips of Philadelphia. Tonight he speaks on will Russia Invade Palestine with pictures shown. tomorrow the topics are First and Second World Backouts and The Second Coming Of Christ. Rev Paul F Dick invites all to attend.
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First Brothern
Berryville Ave
O. E. Phillips
Philadelphia
Louisiana Democratic governor nominees named in bitter race
Louisiana voters pick the Democratic nominee for governor and six other state offices after a deep factional campaign. Earl King, brother of the late Huey P. Long, leads the Long faction while Sam H. Jones of Lake Charles heads the anti Long opposition.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Earl K.ng
Hury P. Long
Barther
Sam H. Jones
Lake Charles
Virginia to Fight U S Tidewater Case
Nearly 70 state officials led by nine governors urged Congress to grant states ownership of offshore lands within their boundaries. The group backs a bill to renounce federal claims to beds beneath navigable waters up to state boundaries, arguing federal control clouds titles and harms port, harbor, oyster, and shrimp industries, as well as land developed on former ocean beds.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Judiciary Committees
Truman
Supreme Court
Rar
Clark
Interior Krug
Defense Forrestal
Pill
National Association of
Fish-Game Association Plans Protest Over License Fee Boost
Erick County Fish and Game Association calls a special 7:30 p m Friday meeting at city hall to oppose a General Assembly bill raising hunting and fishing license prices. Members may also submit applications during the session.
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General Assembly
Erick County Fish and Game Assn
City Hall
H. A. Snapp
JCC backs Sanders for National Post at Philadelphia convention
The Winchester Junior Board of Trade backs Sanders for national post with about 100 Virginia delegates planned to attend the Philadelphia convention. Ed Molden co chairs Virginia plans, aiming to display local products at a Benjamin Franklin hotel booth. Bobby Grove leads a committee to distribute Winchester and Frederick apples and other items during the five day event.
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Philly
Winchester Junior Board of Trade
JCC
Virginia
Joe Saunders
Alexandria
Ed Molden
Winchester Club
Jim Tilley
Bristol
Les Fry
Portsmouth
Molden
Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin
Grove
Bobby Grove
Winchester
Frederick County
East
Tom Baldridge
Chinese Reds Shell Mukden in Manchuria Advance
Chinese Communist troops move heavy artillery toward Mukden as famine and bombardment strain the city. Reports say the loss of Faku tightens a northern Communist block and opens a path for assault on Mukden. A missionary describes families starving and children fed rough millet, amid bombardment.
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Tsingtao
China
Mukden
Manchuria
Pieping
N. O. Dahlsten
Berrien Springs
Mich
150 Stitches Taken To Mend Heart and Abdominal Wounds
In Phoenixville Pennsylvania on February 23 three doctors operated for five hours stitching about 150 wounds to Wal ter Wood twenty five after a bullet pierced his heart lung stomach and spleen The operation left Wood alive and doctors said he was improving The surgeon said he practically held the man s heart in his hands during the operation
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Phoenixville
Walter Wood
Wood
R. W. Brant
Dempsey's Father Dies in Utah
Salt Lake City report states Hyrum Dempsey aged 91 died yesterday, father of former world heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey.
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Dempsey
Utah
Salt Lake City
Hyrum Dempsey
Jack Dempsey
Retail Merchants Meeting at City Hall
A Retail Merchants meeting is set for Tuesday February 24 at 7 30 pm in City Hall to establish holiday closing dates and to elect officers.
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City Hall
Snow Blankets Farms and Orchards After Weekend Flurry
A four inch snowfall left fields and orchards with good moisture while melting slush limited traffic in places. Roads remain clear in Virginia counties though ice buildup on vehicles caused a two car collision injuring three, including Doris Jean Strole of Shenandoah college.
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Winchester
Roanoke
State
Frederick
Clarke
Harrisonburg
Doris Jean Strole
Shenandoah College
Rockingham Hospital
Virginia
Leesburg
Snow Scene Wins Camera Club Picture of the Month
The Winchester Camera Club selects Charles Murphy for February snow scene as the monthly winner. Members submit one print monthly and public votes decide the winner displayed at Valley Photo Center. Miss Willetta Catlett modeled at the February meeting and many attended the March 18 gathering inviting all amateurs.
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Winchester Camera Club
Charles Murphy
Murphy
Valley Photo Center
Willetta Catlett
Winchester Knitting Mill
Russians Build New Central Asian Cross Desert Railroad
Grad ing and embankment are finished for a 250 mile cross desert route from the Amu sea. Seventy thousand volunteer collective farmers laid the roadbed in one month. A special track-laying machine is now laying rails, reported by the railway newspaper Whistle.
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Moscow
Amu Sea
Whistle
President Truman seeks 14 month rent control and new housing push
President Truman urged Congress for a 14 month extension of rent controls and a long range housing program to produce 1,000,000 dwellings a year for ten years. He cited urgent needs to lower costs, speed up construction, and aid low income families while warning rent levels may rise if controls lapse.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Senate
Fandiotas
Taft and Mrs Roosevelt Back UN Force for Palestine
The United States moves into a decisive week with State Department talks on Palestine. Senator Taft supports a UN backed moderate force in the Holy Land, while Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt backs an international UN force for Palestine.
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Taft
Washington
Palestine
State Department
United Nations
Eleanor Roosevelt
U. N
Holy Land
Berryville to Get New Veterans Post
Ww I Woodall of Staunton will lead a 2 p m Sunday meeting at Berryville court house to organize a Veterans of Foreign Wars Post. He will be aided by Robert L Saunders Jr Ellis W Leake G Frank White and Neil W Kimball. Officers will be elected and installed and the charter will stay open for 90 days.
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Ww. I. Woodall
Staunton
Court House
Berryville
Woodell
Robert L. Saunders Jr
Ellis W. Leake
Harrisonburg
G. Frank White
Neil W. Kimball
Washington
State Relief On Need Basis Pushed In Senate Bills
Virginia Senate members push Mitchell Commission plan to allocate funds by need rather than population. Measures transfer aid to blind administration, set two thirds state one third local matching for old age and blind aid, and propose new recreation division within the planning board. Senator Fenwick seeks universal military training and doctors propose clinics for chronic alcoholics with ABC funds.
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Senate
State Senate
Mitchell Public Welfare Commission
Edward L. Breeden Jr
Norfolk City
George Warren
Bristol
Robert O. Norris
Lively
Mitchell Commission
Virginia Commision For
Department of Public Welfare
Robert Y. Button
Culpeper
State Board of Education
Division of Recreation
Charles R. Fenwick
Arlington
State Planning Board
Fenwick
General Assembly
Congress
James E. Gardner
Richmond City
Medical College of Virginia
University Hospital
Charlottesville
ABC
Gardner
Richmond
Roanoke
Wallace to Tell Congress His Stand On Foreign Policy
Henry A. Wallace speaks before a House committee on foreign aid and policy, seeking to present his views as an independent presidential candidate. He criticizes the administration’s foreign policy, especially the Marshall plan, arguing it risks war and seeks to rearticulate his stance in a formal forum.
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Wallace
Congress
Washington
Fed
Henry A. Wallace
House
White House
Foreign Affairs Committee
German Boys Plan To Rebuild Oradour Village
German youth magazine Benjam in seeks permission from British and French authorities to organize a youth trip to Oradour to aid its reconstruction after its destruction on June 10, 1944. The plan aims to break with the past and live in peace with nations worldwide. Welco me attendance announced for a Bible conference at First Brethren Church on Berryville Avenue at 7:30 tonight with the topic Will Russia Invade Palestine.
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Hamburg
Benjamin
Oradour
Reach
Orans
Two Crashes Slightly Injure Pair of Motorists
State Police investigated two county accidents over the weekend with about 700 dollars in damages and slight injuries to two people. Rudolph and Stump in the Star Tannery area were involved. Wymer and Mrs Rudolph were named injured.
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Po LP Woolf
Star Tannery
Ford
John Paul Rudolph
Strasburg
Cecil Ralph Stump
Richard Wymer
George Rudolph
R. 50
Wester
Lester Cecil Whetzel
R. 3
Winchester
Kenneth W William Sargent
Mt. Ranier
Whetzel
E. B. Mitchell
Sargent
Willie Meadows
W. Clifford Sr
Pork Prices Break On Chicago Market
Hog prices fell from a dollar to a dollar twenty five a hundred pounds on the heaviest supply in two weeks. Cattle were mostly steady to strong, with numbers also the largest in two weeks.
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Chicago
Security Guards Seize Opposition HQ as Prague Faces Crisis
In Prague on February 23 Communist led security police seized the Czech National Socialist party headquarters and arrested foes of the Reds including Dr Dzenek Marjanko Zdenek Uhl and Jiri Ptakt. Police also ferried protests and Benes urged democracy while amid a cabinet crisis and tightened passport controls.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Czech National Socialist Party
Ministry of Interior
Reds
Dzenek Marjanko
Ministry of Justice
Zdenek Uhl
Medical Students’ Union
Jiri Ptak
Engineers' Union
Adimir Krajina
Benes
Kiemont Gottwald
Edward Benes
Sur- Zorin
Vishinsky
Bucharest
Honor student held after newborn strangling
A 19 year old University of Illinois pre legal student Muriel Ostrowsky of Lawrence New York was held without charge after State's Attorney Bresee said she admitted strangling her newborn baby with a stocking. She declined to name the father a University of Illinois student from Chicago.
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Champaign
Til
John Bresee
County Hospital
Muriel Ostrowsky
Lawrence
N. Y
University of Ilinois
Bresee
University of Illinois
Chicago
Reuther Attacks Scarcity Policy by Steelmakers at A D A Meet
Walter Reuther leader of the CIO Auto Workers denounced steelmakers for creating an economy of scarcity claiming their policy blocks ending shortages. He spoke at the Americans for Democratic Action convention urging independence from fear of Red accusations and calling for democracy to work and free the economy.
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Philadelphia
Walter P. Reuther
Cio-Auto Workers
Reuther
The
Americans For Democratic Action
William Green
Federation of Labor
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Fish-Game Assn
Sanders
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Snow Scene
Camera Club
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Anti-red Party
Robert Whitehead
Wm. M. Colmer
E. Rankin
International Soundphoto
France
Klement Gottwald
Czechslovakia
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