Rent Meeting Sparks Battle Over Control at City Hall
A heated mass meeting on rent control at City Hall erupted into clashes between landlords and tenants. A Washington hearing was scheduled for Friday with a 60 day postponement request. Five landlords and five tenants will attend, while James P. Reardon was chosen to represent Winchester landlords. A transport committee was formed to arrange travel to Washington. DR L M ALLEN will not be in his office rest of the week.
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Washington
D. C
Ansell B. Solenberger
Solenbergers
W. S. Sargent
Ivan D. Carson
3Rd and
D Streets
S. W
Winchester
James P. Reardon
Mr. Reardon
J. T. Kremer
Rebert J. Smith
W. M. Richards
Rebert Smith
A. C. Oates
B. H. Hamman
York Inn Fourth of July Dance With The Sophisticates
Gaunt's Drug Store announces a School Trustee Electoral Board meeting at the School Board office at ten o'clock on July 18 to appoint a school trustee for Stonewall District. Clarence E. Lemley, Chairman.
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York Inn
School Trustee
Stonewall
Clarence E. Lemley
Local Cabs and Shops Announce July 4 Closings
The Yellow Cab Noonan’s Cab Cartwright’s Cab will close on July 4. Golden Glow Coffee Shop and Boyd’s Drug Store also close for the holiday. An antique sale is listed for Thursday July 5 at 1 p m at Southern Inn with Pier glass and other antiques see H T Busey Extrix.
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Noonan
Cartwright
Golden Glow
Southern Inn
Pier Glass
Unanimous support hoped for ratification of World Charter
Senator Green spoke of optimism that the United Nations Charter may be ratified unanimously as Foreign Relations Committee prepares to open hearings on the pact. Edward Stettinius Jr and Leo Pasvolsy will explain the charter's provisions as debate aims to reveal all factors before any opposition views. Governors at Mackinac Island reported broad approval of the charter among leaders and the public.
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Washington
Green
D.R. I
United Nations
Foreign Relations Committee
League of Nations
Senate
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Truman
United States
Stettinius
Leo Pasvolsy
State Department
Dumbarton Oaks
San Francisco
Effort to Break FEPC Deadlock on War Agencies Funding
Washington awaits a House move to end the FEPC funding stalemate in the 771 million dollar war agencies bill. Chairman Cannon plans to ask the Rules Committee to allow a new bill without FEPC financing, while FEPC supporters push to amend for continued funding or a race discrimination prevention agency.
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Washington
House
FEPC
Cannon
D-Mo
House Appropriations Committee
Senate
Fair Employment Practice Committee
Legislative Branch
Rules Committee
Roosevelt
Governors Press Small Business Aid in Reconversion
Mackinac Island Michigan July 3 The nations governors urged measures to give small business a head start in reconversion and farmers an even break with industry to avoid handouts. Gov Lester C Hunt Wyoming warned that without a jump for small business survival risks. Governors Sparks and Stassen spoke on farm efficiency and foreign policy reorientation.
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Mackinac Island
Mich
Lester C. Hunt
Wyoming
Chauncey Sparks
Alabama
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Dwight H. Green
Illinois
E. P. Carville
Nevada
Hunt
Ford Reopens Rouge Plant Plans New Assembly Complex
Ford Motor Company resumes car production at the Rouge plant and announces four new assembly plants as part of a 150 million postwar program. Two sites will be in St. Louis and Atlanta with others undisclosed. Henry Ford II says Ford and Mercury assembly will run separately nationwide and Mercury will share Lincoln production. Sales of Lincoln and Mercury will be handled by an exclusive dealer network after the war.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Rouge
St. Louis
Atlanta
Henry Ford II
Mercury
Lincoln
Super-Forts Hit Again At Japs Big Oil Centers
Guam reports another round of B-29 strikes on Japan's oil centers including the Maruzen refinery near Osaka. Fifty planes hit before dawn, following a record 600-plane raid, with two bombers lost and most crews saved. Airmen described effective hits and widespread destruction of urban industrial targets in the latest Allied campaign amid light anti-aircraft fire.
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Guam
Japan
Maruzen
Osaka
Nippon
Malaya
Cpl. W. H. Power
Carrollton
Chester C. Gibbons
Hayward
Calif
Nimitz
Twenty-first Bomber Command Headquarters
School Board Elects Haldeman Chairman in Reorganization
At a Frederick county school board meeting Paul M. Haldeman was elected chairman succeeding Fred J. Larrick. Charles E. Bass and a vice chairman were chosen, with Elizabeth Lucas Sheetz reelected as secretary and bookkeeper. The board plans July resolution and September payrolls and will tour five high schools on July 9 to assess repairs.
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Frederick County
Elizabeth Lucas Sheetz
Leslie D. Kline
General Assembly
British Leaders Cross Swords In Election Tilt
London scene as Prime Minister Churchill and former Deputy PM Attlee lead last minute drives for Britain's national election. Churchill presses for answers on Labour executive committee controls while Attlee defends democratic party procedures amid a heated London campaign.
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London
Churchill
Clement Attlee
Britain
Conservative
Atlee
Laborites
Walthamstow Stadium
Attlee
Labor Party
Labor
Daily Mail
Harold Laski
Arthur Greenwood
Fuehrer
Thousands Return to Hampton Roads Port in Late June
Norfolk reports forty three thousand troops debarked in the last two weeks of June for hospitalization discharge rotational leave or redeployment to the Pacific. The surge doubles May totals and strains six thousand port workers as inbound shipping rises. Officials say absenteeism and turnover create a need for two hundred more workers, including stenographers clerks and mechanics. The port ranks as the second largest cargo port on the east coast and will handle a major load of returning veterans.
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Norfolk
United States
Hampton Roads
Star Tannery residents recapture two German POWs
Three Star Tannery residents stopped and captured two German prisoners of war, Kurt Spiller and Wolfgang Brueckmann, after they reportedly fled the M. J. Grove quarry near Middle Town last Thursday. The escaped men, at large over four days, were found with letters and a bag in a roadside stop near Vance Cove in Frederick County. Police were alerted and the prisoners were transported toward Winchester for custody.
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M. J. Grove
Middletown
Star Tannery
Kurt Spiller
Wolfgang Brueckmann
Lee Orndorff
W. L. Spitler
H. Peer
Peer
Will. Orndorft
Spider
Pennsylvania
Winchester
War in Brief: Borneo to China and Burma actions update
AP reports Balikpapan operation near oil center advance to 1,500 yards. Japanese fleet refineries struck near Shimotsu Honshu. British subs sink 10,000-ton cruiser. 10 enemy ships destroyed. planes damage eight. Chinese forces break encircled Liuching. coastal forces reach 132 miles south of Shanghai. Burma action: Sit Tang River crossings repelled 200 miles north of Rangoon.
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U. SS
Southwest Pacific
China
Liuching
Liuchow
Shanghai
Burma
Sittang River
Rangoon
Leopold III Expected to Abdicate Crown
Brussels July 3 A cryptic Palace statement reported by Belga suggests King Leopold III may abdicate. The agency says convensions ended and Attorney General Corne is asked to communicate with Regent Prince Charles and former Prime Minister Acilie Van Acker who resigned in protest to Leopold's return.
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Bruusels
Belsian
Leopold III
Cornie
Charles
Acilie van Acker
Leopold
Akron Rubber Strike Faces Senate Probe And Seizure Push
CIO union leaders at Goodyear and Firestone demand a Senate committee investigation as the War Labor Board moves toward seizing Goodyear Tire and Rubber in Akron. About 16,700 workers strike for 17 days while 24,000 others stay out nationwide.
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Associated Pres
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Akron
CIO
Senate
United Rubber Workers
Goodyear
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
War Labor Board
Cio-United Rubber
Goodyear Tire and Fi Company
Ohio City
Arkon
C. V. Wheeler
WLB
E’m
Notice to Our Customers from Cammers Quality Cleaners
We will close our plant from July 8 to July 16 for employee rest and vacation. Please call for garments before that date as no garments will be available during the closing period. Thanks for your patronage and cooperation. CAMMERS QUALITY CLEANERS 1188 Braddock St.
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Cammers Quality Cleaners
Braddock St
Public sale of household goods in Winchester
Household goods at 502 South Cameron Street Winchester to be auctioned at 10 a m on July 7. Eliza Dif genderfer appears in notice and page reference indicates more details inside Page 3.
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S. Cameron St
Winchester
Eliza Dif
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H. T. Busey
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Golden Gate Charter
Senator Green
Tom Reedy
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P. M. Haldeman
Donald Doane
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Honshu
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