Company 115 Musters Out After Meritorious Virginia Service
Company 115 of the Virginia State Guard, formed February 28, 1941, was mustered out after almost six years of service. Capt. W. A. Baker led the last drill as Gen. Goodwin and Gov. Tuck praised the unit for its record and loyalty to the Commonwealth before officers received discharge and cups of appreciation were awarded.
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Virginia State Guard
Commonwealth of Virginia
W. A. Baker
Tuck
EB. E. Goodwin
Company 115
Goodwin
Virginia, State Guard
National Guard
Everett A. Hellmuth
Alexandria
11Th Battalion
State Guard of
Virginia
Baker
Gen. Goodwin
D. D. Spillman
E. Holmes Newcome
John E. Kercheval
P. R. Hudson
U. S. Army
Col. Hudson
Waler
Capt
Hellmuth
Capt. Baker
Jean Captain Strauss
Smith
Golden Glow
The Star Moves To New Building On Boscawen Street
The STAR will relocate from 33 E Boscawen Street to the corner of Boscawen and Forty first. Most work will shift within a week with 90 percent in the new building while casting and printing run from the old plant. A new press is still being finished and wiring delays may affect Monday publication.
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Boscawen Street
Boscawen and
Her
the Star
Senator George Out For Cutting Truman Budget
Senator George of Georgia urged trimming the 1948 budget to 35 billion dollars and possibly lower. He called for delaying tax cuts until income covers government expenses by two billion and maintaining a one billion dollar debt payment plus a one billion dollar reserve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator George
Truman
Washington
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Grass Fire At Gulf Oil Plant Doused By Local Fire Team
A grass fire at the Gulf Oil Corporation bulk plant on Martinsburg Pike was extinguished by the Lupton Orchard Company fire truck before threatening the property. The blaze, likely from a trash fire, burned about 50 square feet.
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Gulf Oil Corporation
Martinsburg Pike
Lupton Orchard Company
Defense Council Takes Malmedy Case to Supreme Court
Lt. Col. Willis M. Everett Jr. of Atlanta, defense counsel for SS troopers condemned for the 750 American soldiers killed in the Malmedy massacre, travels from DACHAU to Washington to seek Supreme Court review and a possible army review by the judge advocate general. Everett accuses interrogations and trials of fraud and brutality, claiming most evidence is illegally obtained.
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Dachau
Germany
Washington
Ceesus Supreme Aes
Ite
Willis M. Everett, Jr
Atlanta
Malmedy
Everett
Army
Supreme Court
U. S
Crash Kills Six Navy Plane Overshoots Field
Six men and a woman aboard a U S Navy DC 3 transport were killed when the aircraft overshot a landing field and caught fire last night in Halifax Nova Scotia.
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Halifax
N. S
U. S. Navy
Little Sally Objects To West Virginia Name Change
Nine year old Sally L Darnall writes Governor Meadows vowing the state name will stay "over my dead body." In reply Meadows denies proposing changes and says lawmakers will decide, praising Sally’s frankness and home state pride.
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Sally
Gov. Meadows
W. Va
Charleston
Sally L. Darnall
West Virginia
Clarence W. Meadows
Anne Bailey
Ner
Meadows
Little Sally
MacArthur at 67 Keeps Up High Power Schedule
General Douglas MacArthur observes his 67th birthday with a quiet day of work and a family lunch. He remains physically fit, speaks confidently to correspondents, and continues lengthy days at his office in the American embassy, with no special observance planned.
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MacArthur
Communists Defeated After South Manchuria Raid
Six Chinese Communist divisions swept into Manchuria and were routed in a decisive engagement near Chitamu, 60 miles northeast of Changchun. Government dispatches say the Communist forces crossed the Sungari River before being driven back by government troops.
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Nanking
Manchuria
Chitamu
Changchun
Peiping
Sungari
Harbin
Robbery at Coney Island Bath Houses Stolen Cash Boxes
Five bandits robbed Silver's Bath at 4 a.m. taking 150 steel deposit boxes. They tied up manager Bernie Hellman and loaded strongboxes into two waiting cars. Authorities estimate $25,000 to $50,000 in cash and valuables were taken.
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New York
Coney Island
Silver
Bath
Bernie Hellman
Plane Crashes at Croydon Killing Eleven on Takeoff
A Spencer Airways DC-3 bound for Rome with 23 aboard crashed during takeoff from Croydon Airport in light snow. Eleven dead, eight others missing, ten survived. five crew on board. Relative witnesses recall the moment the twin-engined plane faltered and dropped into an unoccupied Czech Airlines craft, both catching fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Spencer Airways
South Africa
Croydon
Czech Airlines
Mystery illness claims 60 patients in New England hospitals
Boston reports 60 deaths in Massachusetts and Rhode Island hospitals from a mysterious influenza diarrhea blamed in part on a nurse shortage. Dr. Clifton T. Perkins cites 2,500 vacant posts in Massachusetts mental hospitals where 40 patients have died in six weeks. He warns against alarming families of the 30,000 patients while noting staff shortages forced patients to aid each other.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Clifton T. Perkins
Department of Public Health
High Infant Death Rate in America Sparks Alarm
Catherine E. F. Lenroot, head of the labor department children's bureau, said that infants face greater danger in the United States than in World War II combat. She cited about 430,000 infant deaths between Pearl Harbor and V J Day due to poor medical and hospital care.
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Washington
Catherine E. F. Lenroot
Labor Department
Children’s Bureau
America
Pearl Harbor
Miss Lenroot
Paa
State Agriculture Meet set for February 7 in Richmond
The State Board of Agriculture will meet in Richmond on February 7 to discuss generally the proposed two state live stock diagnostic laboratories. State agricultural commissioner L M Walter Jr, announced the meeting noting no sites or construction acts are likely in the near future despite regional requests to be considered.
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Richmond
State Board of Agriculture
L. M. Walter, Jr
Augusta Sheriff Probes Fatal Shoting of Miss Houser
Staunton Va Jan 25 Sheriff C M Gilkeson continued the investigation into the fatal shooting of Miss Ruby Houser 43 a housekeeper at J Charles Williams Middleburg road home. Lewis Roosevelt West 43 a Williams farm tenant is jailed on a charge of shooting and killing from a kitchen porch while Houser washed dishes alone in the house.
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Staunton
C. M. Gilkeson
Ruby Houser
J. Charles Williams
Middleburg Road
Gilkeson
Lewis Roosevelt West
Williams
Augusta County
Miss Houser
The
Talmadge Appeals On Radio Amid Governorship Fight
Georgia Governor hopeful Talmadge urged citizens to support his bid, citing alleged attempts to bribe lawmakers before the Jan. 15 vote that named him governor. Speaker Fred Hand planned a probe into influence buys as Talmadge attacked Arnall and the Atlanta Journal over “planned confusion.”
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Atlanta
Eesman Talmadge
Georgia
General Assembly
Talmadee
Talmadge
House
Fred Hand
Assembly
Ellis Arnall
The
Atlanta Journal
Arnall
South
Actress Tarameney Day wins delay in California divorce case
Tarameney Day, wife of baseball star Leo Durocher, secures a temporary delay from Judge George A. Dockweiler on a move to set aside her California divorce decree issued last Monday. Day had previously filed for divorce in Juarez Mexico after obtaining a California interlocutory decree, delaying finalization under California law.
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Tarameney
Leo Durocher
California
Miss Day
George A. Dockweiler
Juarez
Mexico
J. Ray Hendricks
Durocher
Boy Kills Father To Protect Mother in Maine Village
In Poland Maine Sheriff Gendron reports a 47 pound high school freshman named Jean Anderson said he fatally struck his father with a baseball hat to protect his mother during a Thursday altercation. The boy said the father was abusing the mother and pulling her hair as a sister Joan aged 15 considered hitting the father with a poker before fleeing into the snow.
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Poland
Louis A. Gendron
Maine
Here
Jean Anderson
Gendron
Joan
Frederick County School Board to Sell Property at Public Auction
The Frederick County School Board announces a public auction of school property to be held in front of the County Court. Auctioneer Roy P. Duvall and chairman Bass oversee the sale. Hiett Chase is noted among the officials.
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Frederick County
Hiett Chase
Bass
Prederick County School Board
Roy P. Duvall
Republicans In Senate Seek Compromise On Tariffs
Senate Republicans clash with State Department officials over preserving the reciprocal trade program while adding a check on tariff reductions. Senate leaders Vandenberg and Millikin discuss a possible appeal formula with Under Secretaries Acheson and Clayton, amid calls to retain some authority for tariff cuts.
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Washington
Senate
State Department
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Millikin
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Veterans Homes Still Luxury In U S Says Fleming
Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, administrator of the office of temporary controls, says home ownership will remain an unattainable luxury for most war veterans in 1947. He notes veterans may rent more homes as income classes move into about 1,000,000 dwellings to be built this year, and calls for cost reductions, building-code revisions, and government construction for low income groups.
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Washington
Philip B. Fleming
Office of Temporary Controls
Women’s Patriotic Conference On National Defense
Fleming
Federal Works
Britain and Soviet treaty stance amid Stalin note
Foreign Office disclosed that Britain and Foreign Secretary Bevin agree the 20 year Britt Russian alliance endures but warn a new variant would remove burdensome terms. Stalin’s note prompted cautious press optimism about improved ties with Russia as Soviet and British positions wavered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Bevin
Berg
Stalin
Bevin
Foreign Office
Russia
Pravda
Ridgewell Is Indicted For Murder
A special Circuit Court Jury indicted Richard Ridgewell of Maine for the murder of Frederick Currie near here on December 23. J. 1. Stover was foreman. other jurors included Deputy Sheriff Robert Haxty McKeever and L. A. Hyde and H. P. Prod.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Ridgewell
Maine
Frederick Currie
J. 1. Stover
Robert Haxty McKeever
L. A
H. P. Prod Hyde
Herbert
Well Disciplined GOP Rolls Along According To Plan
The well disciplined Senate Republicans under Senator Wherry faced a final vote on a special war investigation committee. Brewster chairs the panel, created after earlier battles, with Tobey arguing the small business focus belongs to the Banking Committee he leads.
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Washington
Senate Publican
Wherry Neb
Tobey
Senate
Brewster
Maine
Banking Committee
Virginia farm land prices seen falling late this year
Dr. Harry M. Love of Virginia Tech predicts Virginia farm land values will drop later this year after November prices ran about 96 percent above the 1935 39 average. He urges farmers to liquidate debts while prices remain high and warns a 1940 level return could trim values by roughly 50 to 60 percent.
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Blacksburg
Virginia
Harry M. Love
Virginia Tech Agricultural Economics Department
Love
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