U N Truce Envoy Chides Lee in Fierce Prisoner Talks
Allied truce negotiator Rear Admiral Libby warned North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee Sang Cho that his stance was becoming arrogant during a three hour and 45 minute subcommittee session on POW exchanges. Lee delivered a list of 48 foreign civilians held by the Communists, claiming all such civilians are held by the Reds, while the UN has sought about 55 names plus additions. The session produced no progress on the airfield dispute and the UN requested accounting for more than 50 000 Republic of Korea Nationals held by the North.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munsan
Korea
Lee Sang Cho
R. E. Libby
Libby
Lee
U. N
U. N. Command
Republic of Korea
Danger of Higher Prices This Year Seen by Wilson
Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson warned a real danger that inflationary pressure could push prices higher this year. He testified before a Senate House Committee on the President's economic report explaining shortages as the mobilization program proceeds and civilian economy must endure some suffering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Senate House
Wilson
Governor McKeldin threatens special session over transit strike
Maryland Governor McKeldin said he is prepared to convene a special session of the General Assembly if a settlement in the Baltimore transit strike is not reached by noon tomorrow. He warned both sides to agree on a settlement or face legislative action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Baltimore
McKeldin
General Assembly
Sunday Dinner Roast Turkey Special
Special roast turkey dinner offered by Lee Jackson priced at $1.25. Includes festive Sunday meal and home style serving in a local dining room setting. Limited quantities available for this weekly event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Speciat
Lee Jackson
Riots in Cairo Demand Revenge as British Ties Threatened
Rioters burned more than 25 buildings in central Cairo as mobs roamed the streets crying for revenge on Britain. Police fought demonstrators with tear gas and gunfire. eight rioters were reported dead and many wounded. Britain dispatched ships to the Suez Canal. Egypt threatened to sever diplomatic ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cario
Egypt
Cairo
Britain
Suez Canal
Malta
Canal Zone
Liverpool
Russia
British Turf Club
Hermitage
Mother Changes Story of How Daughter Died
A 21 year old mother led police to a gas company waste pit where three year old Sherrie Kader’s body was found. After hours of questioning she offered conflicting explanations of the child’s death and implicated others, including her four year old daughter and Chinese stepfather, while investigators sought a coherent account.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Sherrie Ellen Kader
Jada Z. Kader
Sherrie
Vickie
Bob McKeown
Kader
Eugene Sing
McKeown
Sing
Ling
William Browne
Community Chest Plans Annual Meeting Feb 19
Winchester and Frederick County Community Chest directors met at the George Washington Hotel to report canvass progress toward a $5000 deficit. The February 19 meeting will be the Chest annual meeting open to the public with voting members and director elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester and
Frederick County
Gay Nineties Revue Nets $250 For Polio Fund
Berryville reports nearly 250 dollars raised at the Gay Nineties Club revue A Ballroom of the Nineties at the Community Building. About 350 attendees enjoyed a square dance after the show with music by Shorty Smoke and the Boys. W A Dearmont aided as a veteran teacher of schottische and polka. Members wore period costumes including a velvet opera coat worn by Mrs H B Harris who acted as chaperone. C M Polnamus heads the club founded as the first of its kind in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berryville
Clarke County
March of Dimes Fund
Shorty
Smoke
W. A. Dearmont
White Post
Presen
H B Harris
United States
C.M. Polnamus
General Assembly Weighs Four Poll Tax Bills in 1952 Session
Richmond reports the 1952 General Assembly considers four bills to repeal the poll tax. Senators Baldwin and Breeden of Norfolk sponsor the latest measure as lawmakers revisit repeal amid past failures and earlier Campbell amendments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Assembly
Richmond
Virginia
Assembly
Levy
Rob_. F. Baldwin, Jr
Edward L. Breeden, Jr
Norfolk
Six Building Permits Issued In Winchester
Winchester issued six building permits for two new houses on Miller Street and Lambden Avenue and multiple remodeling projects. Perry Wright’s service station remodeling costs 1500 dollars. W. E. Jones plans a 1500 dollar brick dwelling on South Loudoun. Margaret Keffer Hitt’s stucco dwelling remodeling costs 750 dollars. Elmer Orndorff plans a 1500 dollar brick dwelling on Millwood. Harry Atkins erects a brick veneer dwelling on Miller Street for 9000 dollars. Joseph Hershberger proposes a 10000 dollar brick dwelling on Lambden Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Miller Street
Lambden Avenue
Perry Wright
Braddock
Boschwen
Braddock St
W. E. Jones
South
Loudoun St
Margaret Keffer Hitt
Gray Ave
Elmer Orndorff
Millwood Ave
Millwood
Harry Atkins
Clearbrook
Miller St
Joseph Hershberger
West Bend St
Lambden Ave
Ike Headquarters Opens To 1500 Invited Backers In Winchester
The Winchester Frederick Eisenhower for President Club opened its headquarters at the northeast corner of Loudoun and Piccadilly Streets with a noon ceremony and a Municipal Band concert. H B McCormac Jr presided while Mrs G T Binner cut the ribbon and officers distributed soda crackers and slim snacks to about 1500 expected visitors by 5 p m. telegrams of regret from Senators Lodge and Duff were read and the arrangements committee pledged ongoing support for the Eisenhower campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Charles Anderson
Russell
Fred Glaize, Jr
Clyde Logan
Ralph Hardy
Thomas Whitham
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Sen James Duff
Ike
Senator Lodge
Eisenhower
Massachusetts
Frederick
Senator Duff
Winchester-Frederick
1952 License Tabs To Cost State More Than Full Plates
Richmond reports the 1952 switch to license tab plates to save steel will cost more than it saves. DMV chief John Munce says issuing tabs creates high administrative costs and requires cross-file checks with 1951 records, with 1.15 million sets affected and about 300 thousand full plates still needed for others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Division of
Motor Vehicles
John Munce
DMV
Bureau of Administrative Services
Munce
Crawley F. Joyner Jr
Midwestern Democrats Push Truman Barkley Ticket for 1952
Delegates at the Midwestern Democratic Conference urged Truman to be standard bearer in 1952 and support renomination of vice president Alben W. Barkley. The resolutions called for party unity, anti corruption stance, and backing for honest governance amid talk of Stevenson or Kefauver as alternative candidates. Barkley recovered from a stomach upset as he addressed the session in Jefferson City Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell
Kansas City
Democratic Conference
Truman
Chicago
Alben W. Barkley
Barkley
Jefferson City
Adlai Stevenson
Ilinois
Illnois
Michigan
Minnesota
Stevenson
Illinois
Kefauver
D-Tenn
India Edwards
National Committee
Kerr
D-Okla
Humphrey
D-Minn
Barkley Humphrey
Edwards
Tsiang Calls Yalta a Disastrous Mistake at U.N.
T. F. Tsiang, Nationalist China envoy, denounces the Yalta Agreement as a disastrous mistake and questions Roosevelt's role. He urges the U.N. to determine U.S. and Soviet conduct toward China since Japan's surrender, while Soviet delegate Malik rebuts and defers the debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tsiang
Yalta
U.N
U. S
Russia
China
Malik
Dean Acheson
Senate
Japan
Mother Walks Four Miles to Hospital With Dying Child
Mrs. Troy Mullins of near Norton relayed that her neighbor Mrs. Richard Hazelwood carried her 7 month old baby wrapped in a blanket and led a 2 year old for four miles to seek aid after a physician would not respond due to lack of payment. The infant died soon after arriving at Norton Hospital from pneumonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norton
Troy Mullins
Near Here
Richard Hazelwood
Norton Hospital
Pravda Says Russia Would Fight Beside Red China
Pravda the Soviet Communist Party organ says Russia would intervene under a 1950 treaty if attacked by Japan or its allies. It notes Tokyo's peace talk with Chiang Kai-shek alarms diplomats, while Red Star accuses the US UK and France of planning aggression against Red China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Red
China
Pravda
Moscow
Communist Party
Shigeru Yasuhida
Japan
Chiang Kai-Shek
Formosa
Peiping
Soviet Union
Far East
Red Star
Armed Forces
Red China
Washington
National Liberation
Southeast Asia
Kefauver to Enter Ohio Democratic presidential primary
Senator Kefauver of Tennessee announced he will enter the Ohio Democratic presidential primary on May 6 with a slate of delegates in most districts and at large. He also remains in the April 8 Illinois and June 3 California primaries as he seeks the Democratic nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Fetes Kefauver
Tennessee
Oho
Ohio
Kefauver
Finois
Brien McMahon
D-Conn
McMahon
Harry S. Truman
California
Truman
Ilinois
Pioneer AP Photographer Reports Prison Photos From China
Frank Pappy Noel, 82, long time AP photographer, sends from Tokyo a batch of pictures taken inside Pyokdong Communist Prison Camp Two. A chain of camera handoffs, dubbed Operation Father Christmas, started with Bob Schutz in New Jersey and passed via a Chinese correspondent to the camp. One captive, Theodore M. Pallas of San Francisco, was shown in hospital care as his mother in San Francisco cried with relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Frank “Pappy
Noel
Associated Press
Pappy
Bob Schutz
New Jersey
Schutz
Pyokdong
Yalu River
Commmunist
Father Christmas
Burchett
Pfe Theodore M. Pallas
San Francisco
Some of Goering's German Air Aces May Fly Again
Secret plans envision a revived German air force of 1500 planes under a six nation European Army. Key figures include Artur Eschenauer and Theodore Blank. U S jet fighters would be supplied while long range bombers are barred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goering
Bonn
Germany
Hermann Goering
Luftwaffe
United States
Reichsmarshal
Theodore Blank
West Germany
European Army Conference
Paris
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Clagett to Head Scout Budget Campaign in Clarke County
William B. Clagett of Berryville named Clarke County chair for the annual Boy Scout Budget Campaign during National Boy Scout Week February 6 to 12. The Shenandoah Area Council presidents and finance leaders announced the drive will run in six of the nine counties. Frederick Warren and Berkeley counties will not be appealed as they are Community Chest members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William B. Clagett
Berryville
Clarke County
B A. Poland
Shenandoah Area
Ben Belchie
Frederick
Warren
Berkeley
Community Chest
Senator Willis Robertson backs cut to foreign aid budget
In Petersburg last night Senator Willis Robertson endorsed reducing President Truman's 1952 53 foreign aid appropriation by at least 2 billion dollars. He urged trimming the executive plan while outlining potential spending reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petersburg
Senato
Willis Robertson
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Mifflin B. Clowe, JR
Girl Scouts
Helen J. Massey
Clowe
Peters
Mary Anne Higes
Highland Avenue Presbyterian Church
Susan Snider
Patsy Aiken
Badia
Duff
Lodge
West Va
Winchester Evening Star
United Nations
T. F Tsiang
Roosevelt
East Asia
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
Chiang
Clagett
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