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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1948
Page
11
The State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board reported 1947 sales totaling $93,376,841.82, a new one year record. The prior record was $74,975,577.11 set in 1946. England's first poet laureate was Ben Jonson, honored in 1617.
Coast Guard reports the Army funeral ship Joseph V. Connolly broke from a tow line near Cape Race and sank after earlier fire damage. The vessel was en route to New York, with four Arabic newspapers in New York City noted in the dispatch.
Tom B. McCabe, 53, of Swarthmore Pa, is President Truman’s pick to head the Federal Reserve Board, succeeding Marriner Eccles. He discusses his father, William R. McCabe, a former Delaware banker, his local government ideals, and plans to take leave from Scott Paper if confirmed.
Fresno report details the retrieval of 32 bodies from the Los Gatos canyon crash of a chartered plane carrying Mexican deportees. The Civil Aeronautics Authority opened an inquiry into the disaster that killed 28 Mexicans, three crew members, and a U S Immigration guard. no one survived.
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