Virginia House approves first major 1952 legislation
The House of Delegates passes by 92 to 2 a bill to place state and local government employees under Federal Social Security. The bill, emergency legislation, now goes to Governor Battle for signature. Dissenters were Delegates Delamater Davis and W R Smith.
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Richmond
House of Delegates
Senate
House
Virginia Advisory Legislative Council
Delamater Davis
Norfolk
W. R. Smith
Petersburg
Battle
Egypt swears in new government under Aly Maher Pasha
Cairo reports a new government led by Aly Maher Pasha took the oath at Abdin Palace as King Farouk endorses a shift aimed at easing Britain Egypt tensions. Maher pledges to pursue Nile valley unity and British withdrawal while amid ongoing martial law and deadly riots.
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Cairo
Farouk
Britain
Egypt
Aly Maher Pasha
Abdin Palace
Mustapha FE
Nashas Pasha
Nahas
Suez
Nahas Pasha
London
Ismailia
Virginia Weekend Traffic Toll Matches Last Year Record
The Associated Press reports 16 people died in Virginia weekend crashes raising 1952 toll to 62, one less than the 1951 figure. Multifatal wrecks included a drawbridge plunge near Portsmouth killing three and a Route 10 collision killing two soldiers.
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Virginia
Old Dominion
Elizabeth River
Portsmouth
Garland Forbes
Old Trap
N. C
Abner Burgess
Riddle, N. C
Quentin Cahoon
Elizabeth City
Young
Five Capital Airlines passengers injured in downdraft
Eighteen aboard a Capital Airlines coach were jostled when a downdraft dropped the plane 2200 feet near East Liverpool Ohio before leveling off. Five passengers were injured and taken to Berea Community Hospital. stewardess Genevieve Foster suffered a possibly fractured nose. The craft landed in Cleveland and the passengers transferred to another flight.
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Cleveland
Capital Airlines
Berea Community Hospital
William Mason
Washington
Cleveland Hopkins Municipal
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Liverpool
Arthur J. Gerard
Kawkawlin
Mich
Gerard
Genevieve Foster
Alexandria
Norma Chafin
Butane Gas Explosions Hit Mattoon Illinois Business District
Seeping gas from an underground tank triggered six explosions and multiple fires in Mattoon causing an estimated one million dollars in damage. Sid Williams the barber at Ho tel Byers was critically burned and three guests sustained minor injuries. National Guard and State Police evacuated three theaters as fire crews from three towns battled the blazes. Police Chief Larkin Jones said the first blast came from the underground tank behind a drug store with other blasts from sewer gas seeping into nearby buildings. Fire Chief John Storm set damage at about one million dollars.
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Mattoon
Byers
Sid Williams
National Guard
Larkin Jones
John Storm
Newsman Dies in Richmond After Illness
Roy Catesby Flannagan, 54, a longtime Virginia newspaperman and book author, died in Richmond yesterday after an extended illness.
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Richmond
Roy Catesby Flannagan
Virginia
Police Probe Two City Burglaries After Weekend Closings
Two local businesses, Lovetts Shoe Store and Glaize and Brother, were entered after hours Saturday. About $76 was stolen from Lovetts. at Glaize the first and second floors were rifled but nothing else taken, an acetylene torch found near the ground floor safe. Police Captain Francis Funk investigates, noting doors and windows showed no tampering and a back passage had been forced but could not reach the front office.
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Francis Funk
Police Department
Lovetts Shoe Store
Loudoun St
Glaize and Brother
Fairfax Lane
Cameron & Lovett’s
Glaize
Churchill Pleased With Trip to U S
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, returning from a Washington visit, told about 100 reporters aboard the Queen Mary that the trip refreshed friendships and created new ones. He said he would not discuss policy and noted he was recovering from a cold with a hoarse voice. He avoided answering a question about Egypt.
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Southampton
England
Winston Churchill
Washington
Churchill
House of Commons
Egyp
Prme
Harrisonburg Fire Company 1 First to Sign for Parade
Fire Company No. 1 of Harrisonburg was the first unit to enter this year’s Sheandoah Apple Blossom Festival Firemen’s Parade. Harry F. Rainsberger announced the entry, noting the Firemen’s Parade is a longtime festival favorite. Donald C. Bowman, quarter master, entered the unit.
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Harrisonburg
Harry F. Rainsberger
Department of Firemen
Donald C. Bowman
Working Draft Of POW Exchange Plan For Reds
A 14 point U N plan for exchanging prisoners of war in Korea was handed to Communist truce negotiators. It includes voluntary repatriation which the Reds reject. The plan calls for two exchange committees with Red Cross advisers and interviews by Red Cross to determine repatriation choices. Red Cross to visit camps after armistice to distribute relief and interview prisoners. It also requires lists of dead prisoners and burial places within ten days after a signed armistice.
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Munsan
Korea
U. N
R. E. Libby
Lee Sane Cho
Libby
U.N
Red Cross
North Korea
Many Volunteers For Mother's March on Polio
An army of Winchester mothers will canvass the city Thursday evening in a march against infantile paralysis. Mrs. Edward C. Jackson reports strong volunteer response for the 1952 March of Dimes drive with zone captains named. At 7 pm porch lights will beacon hope for polio patients as citizens unite in the nationwide campaign.
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Winchester
Edward C. Jackson
National Foundation For
Laurence Lichiliter
Blanch Noonan
Jack Widmyer
Nina Farley
Hazel Dorton
Herbert McDaniels
Clark Legge
Doris Cunningham
T. F. Simpson
Edna Hyde
Harry Haines
Kathaleen Atkinson
C. J. Cole
Ruby Sheetz
Mariam Clevenger
Lois Lane
Frances Bucher
E. E. Brengle
L. W. Brown
Ethel Hawkins
Basil F. Starkey
Roy Vinal
Charles Lillis
Marvin Wagner
Gilbert Tillotson
Archie Conner
Jackson
Thieves Hit Four Boyce Businesses In Early Morning Burglary
Budding break in at Gardiners Pharmacy Strode's Grocery Clarke County Supply and Boyce Garage occurred between 1 30 and 4 a m. Robberies yielded Ronson lighters watches rings tie clasps a revolver and about 5 in silver from Gardiners plus 20 in silver from the grocery register a bin of beer and a rifle. Strode's was entered by breaking a door glass while Clarke County Supply and Boyce Garage reported no thefts.
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BOYCE
Gardiners Pharmacy
Strode
Clarke County Supply
Boyce Garage
Gardiners
Ronson
Robert Gardiner
American Express
Greyhound
Strode’s
Ike Club Holds Evening Membership Meeting In Winchester
Eisenhower for president supporters in Winchester and Frederick County plan an 8 p.m. meeting at the George Washington Hotel to sign up members. Co chairs Mrs Charles Anderson Amos Shryock and Mrs Alfred Wright J P Arthur lead the effort with the local club headquarters open daily noon to 5 p.m.
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Winchester
Frederick County
George Washington Hotel
Eisenhower
Charles Anderson
Amos Shryock
Police Captain Dies in Petersburg At 50
Capt Emory M. Parrish of the Petersburg Police Department died today at 10:05 a m from a heart attack. He served the department and was widely known in the Petersburg area.
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Petersburg
Emory M. Parrish
Petersburg Police Department
Must Tighten Price Curbs Congress Told
Price director Michael V. DiSalle told Congress curbs must tighten to curb inflation while he creates a top level OPS committee to explore limited decontrol. He warned farmer costs drive food prices, cited vegetable price spikes and urged continued controls to prevent wage pressure and broader price rises.
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Congress
Washington
Michael V. DiSalle
DiSalle
Office of Price Stabilization
Senate House
Truman
di Salle
DiStille
Leatherman Named Publicity Head For Bicentennial
Daniel E. Leatherman will serve as vice chairman of the Bicentennial Commission and head the Division on Publicity for Winchester's two hundredth birthday celebration. He is a former Rotary president and district manager for United Laboratories and has led local March of Dimes drives.
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Daniel E. Leatherman
Winchester
William P McGuire
Leatherman
Northern Virginia
Frederick County
Ruth S. Jackson
Lawrence
Kansas
Sarah Leatherman
Virginia L. Lamp
Minneapolis
Minn
Eleanor L. Weaver
State College
Presbyterian Church
United Laboratories, Inc
Cleveland
Ohio
Boy bounces from fifth story window unharmed
Seven year old Albert Magee bounced on his bed and fell from a fifth story window in New York. He landed on soft dirt and walked away uninjured. Police noted no injuries. Nearby, a restaurant ad offered a 50 cent lunch and dinner service hours.
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New York
Albert Magee
Neotice
High Court Vacates South Carolina Segregation Ruling
The Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision vacated a Charleston, South Carolina segregation order from a three judge district court. The court sent the case back for further proceedings to consider additional facts in a filed report. Justices Black and Douglas favored immediate review and ruling on the constitutional question.
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Washington
Supreme Court
South Carolina
U. S. District Court
Charleston
D. C
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Special
Special Court
High Tribunal
High Court
Black
Douglas
District Court
Supreme Court declines Coplon appeals in espionage case
The Supreme Court refused to review three appeals in the Judith Coplon espionage matter. An 8-0 vote left the judgments of two circuit courts intact, overturning Coplon’s convictions in separate trials while she remains free on bond. Justice Clark did not participate.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Judith Coplon
Russia
High Tribunal
Justice Department
Miss Coplon
District of Columbia
High Court
Clark
PBS
New York
United States Circuit
Draft Manpower Cut in State 1952
Richmond report shows 1952 draft manpower reduced from 283 096 registered January 1 to 243 615 now eligible due to exemptions and deferments. Colonel Asher W Harman says supplies should fill yearly quotas with growth from reclassification of 4 F s new rules for married men and normal registration rise. Beginning next month boards will call men 21 or older first then 20 year olds for the rest of the year. Harman notes unlikely 19 year olds will be drafted before 1953.
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Richmond
Asher W. Harman
Selective Service
Harman
West Germany Demands NATO Membership
West Germany says it will not furnish troops for Western defense unless admitted to NATO. The demand interrupted six-nation talks on a Unified European Army, as European foreign ministers announced broad outlines for a single army within the NATO framework.
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Paris
NATO
North Atlantic
Crest of Flood Surges Toward Wheeling
The Ohio River flood crest surged south toward Wheeling West Virginia driving about 7000 people from homes. Six deaths reported in a three state flood as high water affected Ohio and its swollen tributaries. Crests moved past East Liverpool Stratton Empire Brillian t New Cumberland Wellsburg and Steubenville threatening Marietta Pomeroy and Middleport with potential spread to Cairo Illinois.
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Marietta
Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio
Portsmouth
Cincinnati
Indiana
Scioto
Piketon
Liverpool
Oho
West Virginia
East Liverpool
Stratton
Empire and
Brilliant
New Cumberland
Wellsburg
Steubenville
Pomeroy
Middleport
Cairo
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Ohio River
U. S. Army
Parkersburg
Weather Bureau
Marsaiold Cave
New “Undeland
Pennsylvana
Pittsburgh
Alleghany
Monongahela
Clues Sought In Brutal Beatings Near Manassas Farm
Prince William County authorities search for clues into the brutal beatings of two Polish displaced persons found on the Benjamin Muse farm near Manassas. Joseph Markiewicz, throat torn, and Stanley Kozil, skull fractured, were in critical condition at Arlington Hospital. Sheriff Wheeling said no speculation until questioned.
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Manassas
Prince William County
Arlington Hospital
Joseph Markiewicz
Stanley Kozil
Benjamin Muse
Markiewicz
Kozil
Prince William
Turner D. Wheeling
Corrigan Rug CO
Berryville
Wisecarver’s Gents
Floyd Williams
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S. Floyd Landreth
Galax
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Wesley Burgess
Albemarle County
Cismont
Thelma Margaret Apperson
Carl Peyton Nicholson
Mineral
Surry County
Fort Eustis
James J. Mannis
Chattanooga
Tenn
Harold R. Eisner
Six Lakes
Edward L. Miles
Shirley Highway
Glebe
Illinois
Lovett
U.S
Ike
West Va
Beyond
S.C
Coplon
West Germany
Wheeling, W. Va
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