Reds Charge U N Planes Strafed Armistice Convoy
Red forces charged that four American jet planes bombed and strafed a marked armistice convoy on the Kaesong Pyongyang highway. The claim came amid revived Panmunjom truce talks as Gen Ridgway returned to Tokyo after a secret truce conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munsan
Korea
Kaesong
Pyongyang
Matthew B. Ridgway
U. N
Tokyo
Kangdong
China
Tuesay
Kaesong-Pyongyang
Wesong
U.N. Command
North
Panmuniom
U.N
Red
Adm
R. E. Libby
Claude Ferrenbaugh
Reds
U. N. Command
Fathers of Quads Exchange Cigars
In New York a Brooklyn father and an Arkansas father celebrated their quadruplets born to each family. Joseph Graber and Leonard Ponder spoke on a TV program, trading cigars and sharing pride in 12 children total from the two births. Ponder planned a Washington trip with Rep Tackett to introduce him to Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn
Arkansas
Joseph Graber
Fanny
Leonard Ponder
Murfreesboro
Ark
Graber
Ponder
America
Washington
Boyd Tackett
D-Ark
Dewey M Duncan
Tackett
Congress
Embezzlement Charge Filed Against Grundy Postmaster
Postmaster Percy V. Dennis Jr. of Grundy faces an embezzlement complaint by Post Office Inspector Roger W. Grapes alleging he wrongfully used an O D parcel for his own use, with charges filed in Bristol. The Post Office Department said action would await a formal report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Percy V. Dennis Jr
Grundy
Post Office
Roger W. Grapes
Dennis
Roanoke
Grapes
George Warren
Washington
Post Office Department
Smalts and McCormac Honored At JCC Founder's Day Banquet
Claude B. Smalts Jr. Winchester florist and city councilman won the Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Young Man of the Community 1951 at the JCC Founder's Day Banquet at York Inn. H B McCormac Jr. received the Outstanding Boss award.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude B. Smalts, Jr
Winchester Florist
Junior Chamber of Commerce
York Inn
H. B. McCormac, Jr
Virginia Woolen Company
Winchester
Allen T. Hawthorne
Smalts
Jaycees
Red Cross Drive
Chamber of Commerce
Salvation Army
Exchange Club
American Legion
Moose
Snowbound Addict On Streamliner Tells His Story
Dr. Walter Roehl of Middletown Ohio recounts aiding a narcotics addict on a snowbound San Francisco to Sacramento Streamliner. The man, a businesslike passenger, raged and cried as Roehl used morphine injections to calm him and kept him confined in his compartment until the escape at Sacramento.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Walter Roehl
Middletown
Ohio
Roehl
Egyptian Guerrillas Move Incidents to Port Said
Cairo reports that guerrilla incidents were shifted to Port Said at the northern Suez Canal end last night. A British communique says no one directly affected, despite reports of heavy fighting and casualties among British and Egyptian forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Egypt
Port Said
Suez Canal
Canal Zone
Egyplian
Liverpool
al Ahram
al Misri
Interior Ministry
Staion
Notice for Headquarters Company drill this Monday evening
All members of Headquarters Company 3rd Battalion are urged to attend drill at 7 30 PM. The notice mentions pictures to be taken and includes a garbled line about a Dalmatian and a phone contact 107 W.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steve's Delicatessen
S. Braddock B&i
Pella
Winchester
E. W Armstrong Company
E. Piccadilly St
Virginia
3Rd. Bn
Salf Dalmation Pune
U N Rejects New Russian Terms For Ending War
The United Nations General Assembly rejected new Soviet terms for ending the Korean War and sent Andrei Vishinsky's atomic proposals to the Disarmament Commission for study. Votes on cease fire and retreat from the 38th parallel failed to gain support. foreign troop withdrawal proposals drew similar opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
United Nations General Assembly
Korea
U N. Disarmament Commission
38Th Parallel
Korean
Andrei
Vishinsky
Disarmament Commission
Selwyn Lloyd
Vishnisky
Panmunjom
Lloyd
United Nations
Ott Transferred To Waco Texas From McCroy’s Store
Ott of 612 Watson Ave transfers after five and a half years as manager of McCroy's Store here. He will fly to Waco Wednesday and start there the next day. L. W. Wilt of Grafton replaces him locally on Monday. Mrs. Ott and their two sons will join him in Waco when housing is ready.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Ott
At Least 457 U N Warplanes Lost in Korea
Tokyo reports the U S Air Forces say United Nations lost at least 457 warplanes since Korea began, a record high Allied loss total. 97 jets and 15 props shot down. 338 Red planes destroyed, 204 Russian jets among them. 826 enemy aircraft hit in 19 months, including 133 jets and 230 props lost to ground fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
U. S
United Nations
Air Force
Churchill Starts Home After United States Visit
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill left Washington by train after a two week visit aimed at strengthening Anglo American ties. He saluted Korea War veterans at Union Station, shook hands with 49 men, and praised their service while signaling a possible American commander of Western sea power. Churchill secured a pledge of one million tons of U S steel in exchange for British tin and aluminum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Winston Churchill
America
New York
Homburg
Union Station
Korea
Atlantic
Churchill
Four Children Die in Log Cabin Fire
A fast moving blaze in Botetourt County killed four Negro children aged one to six in an upstairs bedroom of a log cabin near Gala. Rescuers could not reach the children. Mr and Mrs August Brown lost their youngsters but saved their 66 year old blind grandmother carried out in a chair. Cause of the fire remains unexplained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Brown
Brown
Galais
Fincastle
Botetourt County
Livestock Association Banquet Called Tops by J. Fred Stine
I Fred Stine says the Northern Virginia Livestock Association's sixth annual dinner drew over 200 cattle sheep and hog producers with George W Litton of the Animal Husbandry Department delivering remarks on plans and needed support He highlighted future department expansion and a new tract development while praising the Pasture Improvement Program as a key 1951 agriculture milestone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Litton
School For Animal Husbandry
Association
R. R. Kenelds
John T. Wolfe
Red Cross chief vows return to Panmunjom amid protests
Dr Otto Lehner, head of the International Red Cross in the Far East, said he will return to Panmunjom on Monday despite North Korean protests claiming his prior visit violated the neutral zone. He carried a letter from Geneva to North Korea and China urging direct talks on humanitarian duties and pledged neutrality in aid to POWs, refugees, and civilians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
Otto Lehner
International
Red Cross
Far East
tWk
Lehner
Panmunjom
Reds
Panmunijom
International Committee For the Red Cross
Kim Tl Sung
North Korea
Peng Teh-Huai
ICRC
Red Cross Society
Geneva
Virginia's 1952 Traffic Toll Hits 29
Two auto accidents in eastern Virginia raised the 1952 traffic death toll to 29. Mary Lorrane Peffer, 23, of Sussex County, died en route to a hospital after an incident on US Route 460 near Ivor while her husband repaired a flat tire. John M. Bailey, 30, a Navy enlisted man, was killed instantly in Norfolk when struck by a taxicab while crossing a street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
Mary Lorrane Peffer
RFD
Waverly
Sussex County
HL. Mundie
Ivor Southampton County
John M. Bailey
Bailey
Norfolk
Railroad Pact Sets 49 Hour Week for Yard Workers
Secretary of Labor Tobin announced a labor pact covering yard service employees of 36 railroads. The agreement provides a 49 hour work week and a four cent hourly wage raise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Tobin
Festival Officials To Hold Policy Meeting Monday
The 1952 Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival schedules a policy forming meeting at 7 30 p m on Monday in Mansfield Handley Boulevard. President H B McCormac Jr leads a wide agenda including exhibits relations with Bicentennial Commission and parade planning plus safety, police, parking and membership goals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenandoah
Mansfield
Handley Boulevard
H. B. McCormac
McCormac
Bicentennial Commission
Apple
Piremen
U N Reports New Rioting in Tunisia
The Tunisian delegation at the United Nations said a fresh outbreak of rioting in Tunisia left seven killed and 25 wounded. Reports through French censorship described clashes at Mateur and Bad Souika as police and troops confronted demonstrators during anti-French protests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
United Nations
Tunis
Fariier
Tunisia
Acc
Mateur
Mediterranean
Bizerts
Isis
Mater
Souika
Seven survivors reported after Northwest flight crash near Vancouver Island
A Korean airlift plane with 43 aboard crashed into the North Pacific while attempting an emergency landing at Sandspit Airport on Moresby Island. Seven were rescued within hours, with officials cautious about any further survivors. The Northwest Airlines crewed flight carried military personnel from Tokyo and Alaska bound for McChord Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattles
British Columbia
Vancouver
Bie
Far East
McChord
Wash Air Force Base
Queen Charlotte Islands
Air Force
McChord Field
Hecate Strait
Military Air Transport Service
Northwest Airlines
Northwest
Flight 324
Tokyo
Shemya
Aleutian Islands
Anchorage
Alaska
Japan
Next of Kin
Sandspit
Moresby Island
Queen Charlotte Chain
Hunting season ends with 26 casualties in Virginia
Richmond reports the Virginia hunting season closed with 26 casualties over three months including 13 wounded and 13 killed. Officials cite more hunters and more young participants as factors. last year had nine deaths and ten wounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
State
Geme and Inland Fisheries Commission
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Eisenhower
Susan Eleen Eisenhower
Fort Knox, Ky
Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Maj
John Eisenhower
Dwight David 2d
Ike
Barbara Ann
Sacramento
Tennessee
Sneedville
Tenn
Eunice Winstead
Charlie Johns
Jones
Funice
Charlie
Eunice
Evelyn
The
Ernest A. Grows
U S
James van Fleet
Gross
Assembly 1
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Ott
Waco, Texas
West Va
Beyond Va
Winchester Evening Star
C. F. Sehenck
J. P. Arthur
Frank Armatrong, Jr
H. Delmer Robinson
Tom Baldridge
Thomas G Scully
William P. McGuire
Labouchere
Coast Guard
Seattle
United States
Grove Furniture CO
Gilles Bray
Stephens City
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