Barkley Sees Hope Amid Price Control Setbacks
In Washington July 10 the Senate moved to bar price ceilings on milk dairy products and to exempt cottonseed and soybeans from control. Senator Barkley urged restraint as the OPA revival faced further amendments and the chance of a presidential veto. He remained confident the trend could reverse in later votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
OPA
Barkley
D-Ky
Coul
Congress
Banking Committee
Wherry
Rneb
Meat For 5 Million Londoners Held Up By Drivers Strike
The Ministry of Labor intervened to end a three day strike by drivers at Smithfield wholesale market that halted meat deliveries for about five million Londoners. Negotiators proposed suspending three non union workers during talks. Meanwhile 2,000 Southampton dockers planned to return to work as troops unloaded perishable goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ministry of Labor
Southhampton
Market Upswing as Over 1000 Stock Change Hands at Virginia Livestock
Brown Lovett reports the Virginia Livestock Market saw the strongest day this year with over 1,000 head traded yesterday. Cattle, veal calves, sheep and lambs, and butcher hogs sold, prices mostly above last week though below June peaks, with OPA ceilings noted and local price effects spilling into Winchester grocers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Livstock
Brown Lovett
Lovett
CPA
OPA
Winchester
Washington
Associated Press
New York
Price Administration
Absentee Ballots Questioned As Judge Names Replacements
In Clintwood Virginia Judge Cantwell voided eight Dickenson county offices from the 1943 election. He appointed W Trivett treasurer Wilson E Couts clerk revenue W L Rush commonwealths attorney Con an Edwards jailer Gaines Vanover PF Hill Kenady and Orby G McMillan to vacancy posts. Appointees to serve until January 1948 if they accept. Republicans contested the election costs assigned to the contestees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clintwood
Dickenson
J. L. _ well, Jr
Cantwell
Circuit Court
W. Trivett
Gantwood Bank
Wilson E. Couts
W. L. Rush
Commonwealth
Conan Edwards
Birchley
Gaines Vanover
Venue Change Is Sought By Rev Mr Lowe
Rev Mr Lowe a former resident and minister appeals a 30 day jail term and $50 fine for bad check violations. He moves for change of venue claiming lack of disinterested juror and potential prejudice. Motions include dismissal of the warrant and bill of particulars. Judge Burr P Harrison took them under advisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co. W. Lowe
John Rice
Lowe
Burr P. Harrison
1000 Arrested In Cairo As Authorities Foil Strike
About 1,000 people were arrested in Cairo as police prevented a planned general strike. Two hundred alleged leaders of youth groups linked to Kotla Wafd blocs were among those detained as a precautionary measure to stifle the anticipated disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Kotla
Celim Zaki Pasha
Veterans Added to Winchester Workforce at Kurtz Store
On The JOB reports veterans now employed in Winchester. Ralph G. Snapp, 22 months radar man in the European Theater with the U S Navy, joins Kurtz Furniture Store and Funeral Home. Employers are urged to call The Star with names of veterans recently employed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army of Returned Veterans
Winchester
Ralph G. Snapp
U. S. Navy
Kurtz Furniture Store
Star
Hillman CIO Leader Dies of Heart Ailment at 59
Sidney Hillman labor leader and national CIO PAC chairman died at 8 40 am at his Nassau County home. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers president and CIO vice president shaped labor politics since emigrating from Lithuania in 1907. He defended democratic processes and saw strikes as last resort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hillman
CIO
Point Lookout
N. Y
Sidney Hillman
Political Action Committee
Glenwood Avenue
John Cahill
Nassau County
Cahill
Bessie
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Zagare
Lithuania
United States
United Garments
United Garment Workers Union
Thomas F. Rickert
Amalgamated
Chicago
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
AFL
PAC
Virginia Wives On Farms Work But Look Out In Kansas
Mrs. O. P. Strausz a farm wife in Inman Kansas during harvest hauls wheat and peels potatoes while waiting for loaders. She says she moved 15 loads of wheat and cooked one meal between trips illustrating busy farm life and multitasking efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Kansas
New Fire Alarm System To Be Ready Friday
Winchester introduces a four zone 99 code fire alarm system to be ready Friday. Fire Chief E W Argenbright announces installation by Gamewell Company with D F O Connell on site. The control unit sits at the Police Department and 27 key sites have individual codes with 72 others nearby. system cost is 6600 dollars funded by the Winchester Volunteer Firemen's Association and city council appropriation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
E. W. Argenbright
D. F. O’connel
Gamewell Company
New York
N. Y
Winchester Police Department
Reuss
Argenbright
Winchester Volunteer Firemen's Association
Furniture Dealers Holding Price Line Throughout Nation
Directors of the national retail furniture association said five hundred million dollars of furniture inventory in retailers hands is being sold just as before the end of price control. NRFA vice president in Washington stated the policy assures stability in retail pricing and distribution on home goods with or without government price control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
National Retail Furniture Association Today
NRFA
Washington
DeLacy Leads In Washington Primary Vote
Rep Hugh DeLacy Democrat Washington leads in early returns over radio announcer Howard Costigan in a tight primary race. The piece notes two Roosevelt family members on opposite sides and mentions other Washington and Utah ballots yielding routine results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rep. Delacy
Washington
Associated Press
Hugh DeLacy
D-Wash
Howard G. Costigan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Utah
Senate
House
Notice of Hickory Club special meeting to dissolve
Notice to all Hickory Club members of a special meeting to dissolve the corporation. Meeting to be held at I O O F Hall on July 12 at 8 o clock. The notice appears in the Commuter dated June 26 with sequence 7 3 10 1p 31. A further item notes Blue Valley Cream Station will close at 12 pm Wednesdays in July and August and a Saturday night 8 30 event led by C M Russell. Also a Wanted ad for a reliable all round cook for Chanticleer Inn and a community dance sponsored by Clarke county Junior Board of Trade and Junior Womans Club with Kenneth Wendell and Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanticleer Inn
Junior Board of Trade and
Junior Woman’s Club of
Clarke County
Kenneth Wendell
Condition Of Howard Hughes Remains Critical
Two film stars Lana Turner and Jane Russell visited Howard Hughes at Good Samaritan Hospital as his condition remained critical after a Sunday crash with him at the controls. Turner, seen recently at Catalina Island and Palm Springs with Hughes, lingered for hours and cried as she left, while Russell arrived but details of her visit were not provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Lana
Jane Russell
Howard Hughes
Miss Turner
Catalina Island
Palm Springs
Good Samaritan Hospital
Hughes
Miss Russell
The
Helldiver Crash Kills Two Near King George Court House
A Navy Helldiver crashed two miles northeast of King George Court House around 1 30 p m during a thunderstorm en route from Oceana to Annapolis Maryland. Both occupants died and investigators at Dahlgren Naval Proving Ground withheld names.
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Fredericksburg
King George Court House
Oceana
Norfolk
Anacostia
Dahlgren Naval Proving Ground
Ru Ja Beauty Shop to Reopen Next Week
The Ru Ja Beauty Shop announces a reopening on Monday July 15 with telephone 6309 for appointments next week. Also listed are a Kernstown Methodist Church yard party July 11 to 12 with plate lunches and home made ice cream and a separate notice for Maine grown seed potatoes and garden seeds from Winchester Seed Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kernstown Methodist Church
Maine
Winchester Seed Co
Patton’s Hall
Loudoun St
Winchester
R. Schneider
G. Miller
Twenty-Five Armed Forces Killed In Mount Tom Crash
HOLYOKE MASS July 10 Twenty five army navy coast guard men the entire crew and passenger list of a converted flying fortress carrying homeward bound service men from Gander Newfoundland were killed when the plane crashed into Mount Tom near West Springfield. Salvage crews worked on the misty hill as bodies lay scattered along a cratered wreckage, about 20 recovered by daybreak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holyore
Mass
Army
Navy Coast Guard
Gander
Newfoundland
Tom
New England
Connecticut
Stanover Field
Chicopee
War official seeks probe into Batavia overpayments
Undersecretary of War Kenneth Royall told the Senate War Investigating Committee he asked the Justice Department for a full inquiry into more than 1 million dollars in overpayments to Batavia Metal Products under a war contract. He also asked the Attorney General to probe Erie Basin Metal Products, an affiliate, and said a preliminary report on Batavia already exists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royall
Justice Department
Batavia Metal Company
John W. Henderson
Washington
Kenneth Royall
Batavia Metal Products Company
Senate War Investigating Committee
Illinois
Tom Clark
Erie Basin Metal Products Company
Clark
Batavia
Roy Royell
May
Overmars Royall
Bataviadu
Plan To Form New Moose Lodge By August 1
The Winchester Loyal Order of Moose reorganizes with steps toward a new lodge by August 1. T L Joynes reports 40 new members show interest. 75 members planned by end of July for charter. Bill Battaille to lead. old lodge members transfer to the Assembly. Martinsburg Lodge to conduct initiation rituals. A new lodge hall may be fitted in the Holliday Building on Rouse Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Loyal Order of Moose
T. L. Joynes
Bill Battaille
Rar
William Swisher
Holliday
Rouse Avenue
Winchester Lodge
Martinsburg
Officials seek to avoid clash with Paris Peace Conference
New York July 10 The United Nations Secretariat weighs reshuffling arrangements for the General Assembly in September to prevent a date conflict with the Paris Peace Conference. About 5 000 people would need new housing and timing clashes threaten Security Council and other meetings as October also sees peak convention activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United Nations Secretariat
General Assembly
Rewtan
Wie
Trveve Lie
Lie
Security Council
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Winchester Evening Star
the People's Paper
James Mead
Hugh B. Mitchell
Benjamin J. Fields
Margaret L. Hodgson
Moose Lodge
Peace Conference
U.N. Assembly
Atomic Energy Commission
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