Secret NFL Draft Keeps Cards Close to the Chest
National Football League owners wrapped a secret 300 player draft early today with only a few backs named. Doc Blanchard tops Pittsburgh Steelers interest while Jim Conzelman seeks a sleeper. Picks showed limited detail as teams plan 11 game seasons starting late September.
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New York
National Football League
Midwest
Doc Blanchard
Army
Blanchard
Pittsburgh Steelers
Los Angeles
Cleveland Rams
West Point
Jim Conzelman
Chicago Cardinals
Boby Dancewicz
Notre Dame
Boston Yanks
Pittsburgh
John Strzykalski
Marquette
Air Force
Green Bay Packers
Leo Riggs
Southern California
Philadelphia Eagles
Can Rossi
UCLA
Stan Koslowski
Holy Cross
Washington Redskins
Local Servicemen Reported In Far Places Abroad
Pvt Herbert G Davis son of Mr and Mrs Homer Davis Route 3 Winchester entered the armed forces February 6 1945 and trained at Camp Wheeler Ga arriving overseas September 1945 and stationed on Luzon P I Pvt Lawrence Grim Technician Fourth Grade has been near Manila P I and arrived in the United States at San Francisco Calif his wife and parents live in this city Sgt Grim expects discharge soon Pvt Virgil L Whitacre son of Mrs T Nichols 577 North Cameron Street has been in the Army since August 25 1944 stationed in France overseas ten months and due home sometime in January
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Herbert G. Davis
Herbert Class Davis
Homer Davis
Route No. 3
Winchester
Armed Forces
Camp Wheeler
Luzon
P. I
P. B. Wright
Lawrence Grim
Manila
San Francisco
Calif
Sgt
Grim
Virgil L. Whitacre
Virgil Lee Whitacre
T. Nichols
North
Cameron Street
France
Homer
The Truman Congress Standoff And Its Delays
Analysis of how both parties use delay to block or push items in Truman’s program. The piece contrasts measures on unemployment compensation and FEPC, noting committee tactics, potential filibusters, and the long-running disputes shaping action or inaction in Congress. It cites Camp and Johnson, and compares to Roosevelt era procedures.
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Arthur Krock
NEW York Times
Washington
Representative Camp
Georgia
Capitol
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Ways and Means Committee
Truman
Congress
FEPC
Rules Committee
House
Itn
Senate
Johnson
Colorado
Roosevelt
Thomas
Utah
Camp
Transferred service members updated in wartime notice
Private Frank G. Duckworth reports transfer to the U S Marine Air Station Cherry Point North Carolina attached to the Ninth Marine Air Wing Fleet Marine Force awaiting assignment for an indefinite period. Private Elden W Spaid a Lehew West Virginia native has enlisted in the Regular Army for 18 months serving with the 222nd Infantry Regiment 42nd Rainbow Division in Vienna Austria under United States Forces in Austria.
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Frank G. Duckworth
Parris Island
S. C
Winnie D. Grim
Millwood Avenue
U. S. Marine Air Station
Cherry Point
N. C
Ninth Marine Air Wing
Fleet Marine Force
Pvt
Duckworth
F. G. Duckworth
Marine Wing Service
Air Corps Sta
USMC
Spaid
U. S
Austria
Elden W. Spaid
Walter M. Spaid
Lehew
W. Va
222Nd Infantry Regiment
42Nd Rainbow Division
Vienna
Mark W. Clark
United States
William Clowser Arrives in New York City
A special message from the Associated Press notes Technician Fifth Grade William H. Clowser Jr. and passenger aboard the 88 Thomas Bickett are due to arrive in New York. USNI stands for United States Navy Inductee, designating men who entered the Navy through Selective Service.
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The
Star
Associated Press
William H. Clowser Jr
Thomas Bickett
New York
USNI
W.A. A
U. 8 S. Navy
Navy
Local Army Boxer Denzil Fawcett Builds Record at Camp Wheeler
Stephens City soldier Denzil Fawcett known as Red earns a growing boxing reputation with a 14 wins and 1 draw in 20 bouts. He was last stationed at Camp Wheeler, reflecting his active boxing schedule while in the Army.
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Denzil
Red” Fawcett
Stephens City
Sundberg Talks on Ideals of FOE in Virginia
Sun ny Sundberg national Eagle speaker and philosopher told Thanchester Ae rie members last night at the Eagles clubhouse that permanent peace requires adopting the Fraternal Order of Eagles ideals of liberty truth justice and equality He praised the humanitarian spirit of the order noting its growing membership and programs aiding youth returning servicemen and postwar employment The talk described Eagles claws wings and the three ours—ourselves fraternity and our country.
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Order of Eagles
C. A
Sunny) Sundberg
Eagle
Thanchester Aerie
Eagles
Winchester Eagles
Sundberg
Virginia
America
Eagle Eyes
Earth
Spanish War Veterans Install New Officers
The Colonel James C. Baker Camp of United Spanish War Veterans installed officers for the year. James E. Beatley led as Commander with William F. Courtney as Senior Vice Commander and Hector B. Ritter as Junior Vice Commander. Past Commander C. Wesley Leighton served as installing officer. Members contributed to the Winchester and Frederick County War Memorial Building Fund, raising $85 with plans to seek at least $100 more.
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James C. Baker
United Spanish War Veterans
James E. Beatley
William F. Courtney
Hector B. Ritter
Harry T. Cook
Henry W. Rutherford
Samuel W. Shewbridge
C. Wesley Leighton
E. J. Netherton
Luther C. Kremer
Charles M. Loughlin
Frank M. Ritter
Winchester and
Frederick County War Memorial
Bonus Bill for State Veterans in Virginia
A bill introduced in the Virginia House of Delegates proposes a general fund of up to six million dollars to pay ten dollars per month of armed service to Virginians who served in the Spanish American War and World Wars I and II. If a veteran dies before payment, the sum goes to the estate. The move comes as Speaker Thomas B. Stanley announced committee assignments ahead of the session.
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Richmond
House of Delegates
Stanley G Garner
Newport News
Thomas B. Stanley
House
Quesenbery Seeks Abolition of State Photographic Examiners
Waynesboro delegate C G Quesenbery announced a plan to abolish several examining boards starting with the state board of photographic examiners. Another bill from Delegate Garner would classify tuberculosis as an occupational disease.
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C. G. Quesenbery
Waynesboro
State Board of Photographic Examiners
Quesenbery
Garner
Senator Read Byron to Secure War Claim Funding
A U S Senator Tillman pressed for $47 000 to pay a South Carolina war claim. He read excerpts from Byron and the poem Childe Harolde in Congress to persuade colleagues. The House had refused, but the reading swayed the conferees to yield.
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Byron
Congress
Tillman
Childe Harolde
House
Childe
Harolde
Salvation Army Revival Services Continue This Week
Revival services at the Salvation Army will continue nightly at 8 p m through the week at 303 South Loudoun street. Envoy J T Adams is the speaker with special singing each night. Guest singers for Wednesday night January 16 will be the Smith quartet.
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Salvation Army
South Loudoun Street
J. T. Adams
Smith Quartet
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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T. M
William S. Dovel
U. S. Navy
East Pall Mall Street
South Pacific
Pearl Harbor
U. S. S. Peiffer
Ald
Mr. Truman
Elliott
Uspa
William Clowser
LEE Boyce
Loudoun St
Roy Duvall
Silco Cut Price Stores, Inc
Loudoun Street
Grooves ‘Em Young
Dennis King
Atlantic
Iowa
James Beatley
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Abbott, Proctor & Paine
New York Stock Exchange
East Main Street
Ile Sete
Iece
General Tire
General
Pien
Geo
Washington Garage
Loudoun
Vire
Pettit
Salvation Army Services
J. W. Grove
J.W. Grove Furniture CO
Loudoun St. Winchester
Ligeia
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