New Congress Convenes Amid solemn ceremony and tension
The 82nd Congress opened with formal swearing in of new and reelected Senators. Vice President Barkley led the session as Democrats pressed for unity and Republicans urged President Truman to articulate international goals. Several seats faced seating disputes and a committee probe shadowed Butler’s election.
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Jack Bell Washington
Congress
Truman
Barkley
Senate
Aiken
Bennett
Utah
John Butler
Capehart
Ind
McFarland
Arizona
Butler
Tydines
D-Md
Tydings
James H. Duff
Pennsylvania
British New Chamber
Berryville Boy Held for Jury In Dad's Killing
Tommy Everhart, 14, is held for the Clarke County grand jury on murder charges for shooting his father, Stanley E. Everhart, 36, with a shotgun. Bail set at 5000 dollars. he remains jailed until the January term indictments.
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Berryville
Dad
Tommy Everhart
Harold G. Potts
Stanley E. Everhart
Clarke County
Trial Justice Court
Beulah Everhart
Robert L. Milburn
Commonwealth
Edward McC. Williams
Tommy
Carrie Circuit Court
Winchester Warms to 60 Degrees for Warmest Day Since December
Winchester recorded a 60 degree high this afternoon the warmest since December 3 when 67 was posted. Overnight low fell to 32 marking the first time since December 24 the minimum was not below freezing. Weather forecaster expects mild conditions with possible rain while road crews warn thaw could damage roads. limited ice remains in some secondary pods.
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Winchester
Soviet mobilization plan includes all citizens and assets
The Army Information Digest outlines a 4.5 million strong Soviet force built on comprehensive mobilization from farm horses and tractors to 212 million people. It notes universal military training for children, universal conscription at 19, recalls up to age 50, and home defense recall if needed, with continued coverage on page 11.
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Elton C
Fay Washington
Russia
Soviet Union
Army Information Digest
Forty and Eight Amateur Show slated for February first
Plans are set for the Second Annual Forty and Eight Society Amateur Show at Handley High School on February 1. Winchester Voiture 1078, Ted Mack, and The Original Amateur Hour will judge the local winner, with eliminations January 22 26 at Capitol Theatre.
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Handley High School
Winchester Voiture 1078
Ted Mack
Ellen Gaunt
Middletown
William F. Schenck
Capitol Theatre
Carl Campbell
Charles Dorton
Percy Stultz
Eugene Dearing
Bernard Groves
P. G. Ireland
Ralph Grubbs
Virginia Hopes for Large Share of Travel Funds
Speaker Gene Sakers, secretary of the Winchester Chamber of Commerce, urged Virginia to gain a bigger portion of the nation s 12 billion annual travel expenditure. He noted Virginia now earns about one third of Florida tourism revenue and described a recent Goodwill Tour to Florida to study hospitality and tourist promotion.
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Virginia
Gene Sakers
Winchester Chamber of Commerce
Winchester Lions Club
George Washington Hotel
Lakers
The
Lions Club
Florida
Winchester
Shenandoah Valley
America
Old Dominion
American Legion to Honor Post Commanders at Banquet in City
American Legion Post to honor past commanders at a banquet in Winchester. The event at Sarah Zane Fire Hall on Wednesday January 10 features State Senator Curry Carter as principal speaker introduced by Senator Harry F Byrd Jr. Several past commanders listed as residents of Winchester with a few living in other states. A large turnout is anticipated.
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American Legion
Charles M. Zuckerman
Conrad Hoover
American Legion Post
Sarah Zane Fire Hall
Curry Carter
Staunton
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
Zuckerman
Walter M. Shade
C. F. Schenck
A. C. Halyosa
Eugene Dearing
Larry E. Hill
M. B. Clowe, Jr
W. H. Louthan, Jr
Robert S. Baker
Winchester
Mr. Barton
Richmond
Committee Gives Up All Hope Today Of Truce in Korea
The United Nations cease fire committee announced it abandoned hope of a Korea truce after two weeks of talks. The panel presented terms from General MacArthur's command including a 20 mile demilitarized zone and one for one prisoner exchanges. The report urged continued peace efforts despite the setback.
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Korea
Max Harrelson
U.N
General Assembly
India
Sir Benegal N. Rau
Rau
Lester B. Pearson
Canada
Assembly
Nasrollah Entezam
Iran
MacArthur
U. N. Command
Red China
38Th Parallel
Peiping
U. N
Richmond Leader Lists Byrd Automatic Tax Cut Among Top Stories
Richmond News Leader editors named the Byrd automatic tax reduction bill as one of 10 top stories of 1950. The measure by State Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. would return excess general fund revenue to taxpayers via a 10 to 20 percent cut in the 1951 state income tax, depending on surplus. The only other legislative story on the list was Governor Battle's school construction program.
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Richmond
Richmond News Leader
Byrd
Harry F. Byrd
Winchester
Frederick
Clarke
Shenandoah
Virginia Senate
Governor Battle
Accidents In West Virginia Involve Drivers From Winchester
Two motor vehicle crashes near Martinsburg involve John Lester Low of Winchester and Ernest Edward Armel of White Post. Low’s fogged vision caused a rear-end collision on Shepherdstown Road injuring none reported, with $350 damage. Armel’s rear-end crash on U S Route 11 at Tabler’s Station involved Harry James of Martinsburg, with $150 damage.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
John Lester Low
Winchester
Ernest Edward Armel
White Post
Here
Low
George Newton Grove
Martinsboro
Grove
Shepherdstown
Arme
Truman Signs $3.3 Billion Tax Bill with Excess Profits Levy
President Truman signed a $3.3 billion tax bill imposing a 177 percent excess profits tax on corporations and lifting overall tax collections to about $45 billion annually. He urged further revenue measures and warned some provisions may favor certain firms while promising review. The bill raises the normal corporate rate to 47 percent and retroactively taxes excess profits.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Treasury
America
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Marine Recruiting Station Opens Tomorrow in Winchester
The Marine Recruiting Station in the basement of the Post Office will officially open tomorrow at 1 p.m. with ceremonies on the Post Office steps. Lawrence Fries leads the local office, assisted by T-Set, as Major M. B. Clowe Jr and Capt. Loyd attend to welcome the new office. Police Chief J. Thomas Boyd will speak, with Fries and See also present.
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M-Set
Lawrence Fries
T-Set
Earl H. Lee
M. B. Clowe, Jr
Marine
Winchester
Capt. Loyd
Washington Marine Recruiting Office
J. Thomas Boyd
Sxts
Fries
Chanticleer Inn
Friendship Fire CO
Allied Efforts to Arm Germans Not Slowed by Talks
Bonn based reports say talks on Germany may proceed next week with Western Allies and the West German government forming three committees. They will decide German unit roles under Eisenhower, occupation controls, and use of German resources. Final approval rests with the Allied High Commission and U S Britain and France.
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Bonn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bhe
Allied High Commission
United States
France
Britain
West Germany
U. S
French
Remington Bentley Testimony Battle Set For Tomorrow
In New York, former Commerce Department economist William W. Remington lost a bid to block testimony by Elizabeth Bentley, his accuser and a former Soviet courier, at his federal perjury trial. Judge Gregory F. Noonan allowed Bentley to testify, while prosecutors presented witnesses who place Remington at 1936-37 Communist Party meetings in Knoxville while he worked for the TVA.
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New York
William W. Remington
Commerce Department
Elizabeth Bentley
Gregory F. Noonan
Remington
William C. Chanler
Miss Bentley
Chanler
U. S
Irving H. Sa
Communist Party
Knoxville
Tenn
The
Tennessee Valley Authority
Guard Instructor Is Assigned Here
Major John C Geiglein former 286th National Guard Division officer reassigned to the Virginia National Guard and will assume duties at once as Third Battalion instructor. He comes from Pennsylvania where his children attend school and plans to move after the current semester ends.
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John C. Geiglein
286Th National Guard
Virginia National Guard
M. B. Clowe, Jr
Geiglein
Pennsylvania
Clowe
Sultan Exiles Brother and Wedding Guests in Aden
In CAIRO the sultAN of Sajeh expelled his brother Ali and all invited guests on the eve of a planned royal wedding. The sultan called out the army, seized the princes palaces, and Ali with his party fled to Aden where the wedding party arrived. The sultan rules a desert realm and British protection surrounds the area.
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Cairo
Egypt
Aden
Sajeh
Ali
Abdu
Karim
Sultan
Arabian Peninsula
81st Congress Ends With Peacetime Spending Record
The 81st Congress, in its final session, spent more than any peacetime body, approving about 110 billion dollars in total expenditures. It boosted taxes by around 8 billion annually, expanded social security, raised the minimum wage, funded defense and foreign aid, and granted Truman sweeping powers over the economy while rejecting key fair deal items. It extended draft provisions, passed civil defense and slum housing programs, and ratified the North Atlantic Treaty. The body also enacted the anti subversives law over veto and rejected statehood for Alaska and Hawaii and other reforms.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Europe
Senate
Alaska
Hawaii
Rhee and Cabinet Flee as Seoul Battles Raged
Chinese Communist forces massed for a full assault on Seoul after breaching a second defense line. U S and Allied troops held a withdrawal line amid heavy fire as President Syngman Rhee and his cabinet evacuated. Air traffic to Kimpo was suspended and communications with Seoul faded as frontline reports described the chaotic exodus and ongoing fighting.
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Tokyo
Seoul
Associated Press
Stan Swinton
Eighth Army
U. S
Syngman Rhee
Swinton
Defense Production Administration Created by Truman
President Truman announced a new Defense Production Administration to unify scattered emergency agencies. William H. Harrison will head the DPA with authority over industrial output transportation fuel minerals and power reporting to Charles E. Wilson. Garbage notice: curbside Christmas tree collection in open trucks January 8 through 13 with two pickups per lot.
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Washington
Truman
Defense Production Administration
DPA
William H. Harrison
National Production Authority
Teumann
Harrison
Charles Wilson Harrison
Charles E. Wilson
Defense Mobilzation
Wilson
Munitions Board
John D. Small
White House
NPA
Interior Department
Defense Transport Administration
Interstate Commerce Commission
Alan Valentine
Economic Stabilization Agency
Mr. Truman
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U.S
40 & 8 Society
Handley
Shenandoah National Bank
Jack Fretwell
Jacksonville
St. Petersburg
Robert C. Harnsberger
Luray Caverns
Robert F. Nelson
Harry M. Tschudy
Hot Springs
J. E. Barnhart
Warrenton
T. E. Clemmer, Jr
Horace R. Burns
Waynesboro
Robert Logan
Luray
Harold Grogan
Abingdon
C. Hill Carter, Jr
Roxbury
Natalie Smith
Virginia Travel Council
Mr. Richards
Roanoke
Parker
Rhode Island
Field
Senator Carter
U.N. General Assembly
W.va
Margaret L. Hodgson
Harry Truman
Marine Recruiting Station
Cora Roberts
Huntsberrys
Huntsberry
Accuser
Sen
Rhee
Cabinet
Clen Clements
Eis
Jim Pringle
Japan
Kimpo
William J. Waugh
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