Labor Council seeks buy-only-necessary goods protest
Richmond AFL council with about 30 000 members calls for a buyers in protest to curb rising prices. Resolutions urge members to buy only essentials for health and welfare as prices push higher on meats and table items. Senators push to keep feed grain price ceilings and restore OPA authority while amendments aim to protect wholesalers and keep margins at 1940 levels.
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Richmond
Richmond Central Trades and Labor Council
AFL
Organized Labor
Washington
New England
Bridges
OPA
Senate
Reed
R.-aKn
Wherry
R-Neb
Taft
Ohio
House
Virginia Governor vows strict enforcement to curb juvenile crime
Virginia Governor Tuck told the Virginia Sheriffs and City Sergeants Association crime is rising and vows strict enforcement with all resources. He cites gambling dens and gin mills as harmful to youth and says he will act to break up vice, recalling Governor Darden's methods at Virginia Beach.
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Richmond
Virginia
Commonwealth
Tuck
Virginia Sheriffs and City Sergeants Association
Darden
Virginia Beach
Newsprint Price Up $6.80 a Ton
Canadian newsprint producers issued notices for an immediate price increase of 6.80 dollars per ton. The rise, added to the New York price of 67 dollars, aims to offset losses after last Friday’s dollar value shift. With par exchange, manufacturers lose the 10 percent premium they had received since 1939.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
New York
Hughes Sends Message To Army On Propeller Failure
Howard Hughes 41 weakens in life battle and whispers to his doctor a warning about the rear half of the right propeller on his XF-11 crash plane. He asks the Army to inspect wreckage to prevent a repeat as doctors report his left lung failing and crushed chest with nine broken ribs.
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Los Angeles
Howard Hughs
Army
Millonaire
Verne R. Mason
Hughes
Hugh
Howard Hughes
Beverly Hills
German Frauleins Loving Ways Get GI s In Trouble
Ninety six American soldiers were arrested by U S Third Army military police in the last six days for public petting with German frauleins as Gen Joseph T McNarney cracks down on displays of affection. In Nuernberg MP arrested 71 soldiers in four days from July 4 to 9 with fines of 5 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
U.S. Third Army
Joseph T. McNarney
Nuernberg
99 Fire Alarm Locations In City System Delayed
The new automatic fire alarm system is installed but coded transmitter wheels are missing delaying operation. Fire Chief E W Argenbright says a hand test occurred and a further test will occur when the wheels arrive. The system will sound the code twice in each station house and from the Rouss Fire Hall horn. Zone 1 locations include Rosenberger Lumber Co and Winchester Memorial Hospital among many streets and landmarks.
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E. W. Argenbright
Argenbright
Rouss
Tennyson Avenue
Wythe Delegate Comments On Election Laws
Wytheville July 12 Delegate Stuart B Campbell of Wythe County who headed a suffrage commission said only one Cantwell recommendation was not included in enacted laws The omitted proposal would add absentee votes caption to poll books Campbell noted the General Assembly anticipated most recommendations and urged distribution of amended laws to local election officials ahead of upcoming elections
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Wytheville
Stuart B. Campbell
Wythe County
Virginia
J. L. Cantwell, Jr
Dickenson County
Campbell
Cantwell
Dickenson
Wilson Biographer Ray Stannard Baker Dies at 76
AMHERST July 12 Ray Stannard Baker biographer of Woodrow Wilson died at his home at age 76 after a heart ailment. His brother Dr Hugh Baker president of Massachusetts State College said he died at 2 am. Baker wrote as David Grayson and authored sociological and economic pieces and served after World War I as director of the press bureau for the American Commission to negotiate Peace in Paris.
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Amherst
Ray Stannard Baker
Woodrow Wilson
Baker
Hugh Baker
Massachusetts State College
Chicago
David Grayson
American Commission
Paris
Wilson
Veterans Rejoin Winchester Workforce From Overseas Service
The civilian army of returned veterans in Winchester includes Leelon R. McNealy Jr returning to his old job at O Sullivan's after 18 months in the army overseas. Lee Harrison Chapman, a Winchester resident, now serves as civilian government staff at the Sales Food Commissary in Berlin after his discharge a month ago. Employers are urged to call the Star with veterans' names. For sale Maine grown late seed potatoes and garden seeds offered by Winchester Seed Co.
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Army of Returned Veterans
Winchester
Leelon R. McNealy, Jr
North Kent Street
O’sullivan’s
Lee Harrison Chapman
Berlin
Germany
Star
Maine
Winchester Seed Co
Stephens City Garage Ad and VA National Guard Notice
Notice for Stephens City Virginia opening July 15 by Harry S Ritenour owner offering general repair welding battery charging auto parts and accessories experienced mechanics phone Stephens City 45. Also public notice that Every member of Company 115 Virginia State Guard is urged to be at Armory promptly at 730 this evening for regular weekly meeting.
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Stephens City
Harrys. Ritenour
CO. 115
Va.s. G
Va. S. G
Armory
Byrnes cites $14 billion in Soviet possessions in Germany
Secretary Byrnes said Russians have received directly or indirectly $14 billion in German territory and equipment. He noted Potsdam backed detachment of Eastern Germany, including Silesia, under Soviet control later assigned to Polish administration as compensation for Eastern Poland. The Saar issue and Berlin merger machinery were discussed with no decision.
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Paris
Byrnes
V. M. Molotov
Germany
Silesia
Poland
Soviet Russia
Poin
Council of Foreign Ministers
France
Russia
Berlin
Army Recommendation Calls For Draft Age Boost To 34
The War Department recommends raising the top draft age from 29 to 34 as induction resumes in September. Officials cite law changes that limit underage conscripts and urge a broader pool, noting ongoing manpower shortages and the army's stance against inducting men over 35.
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Army
Washington
Truman
War Department
American Council On Education
Selective Service
George A. Irwin
Irwin
160 Million Bushel Apple Crop Expected For The Nation
The July 1 USDA estimate puts the 1946 national apple crop at 106,465,000 bushels, just under the 1944 bumper yield of 123 million. Last year’s crop was reduced to about 60 million due to early freezes.
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United States Department of Agriculture
William Dunn Shot by Officer on Handley Campus Inquiry
William Dunn, 21, of 215 W Cork Street, was admitted to Winchester Memorial Hospital at 1 15 this morning with a gunshot wound to the right leg. Police Chief C W Hollis said Officer Robert Millburn shot Dunn during an investigation of a disturbance on the Handley campus and the officer has been suspended pending investigation. Dunn’s condition was listed as satisfactory.
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William Dunn
Cork Street
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Dunn
Robert Millburn
Handley Campus
C. W. Hollis
Bertha Kaufman
Howard Lewis
Lewis
Samuel Salasin
Educators Gather for Madison College Conference
Teachers and administrators from Frederick County and Winchester join Stonewall High School and Stephens City in Madison College Harrisonburg for the third institute of public education. Leading educators discuss the national teacher shortage and strategies to address it with speakers from the U S Office of Education and the NEA.
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Bryant R. Harper
Stonewall High School
R. E. Ayler
Stephens City
Frederick County
Winchester
Madison College
Harrisonburg
Institute of Public Education
Madison
Ernest V. Hollis
U. S. Office of Education
Ralph McDonald
Samuel P. Duke
Virginia
Dr. McLedge Moffett
Radford College
Eisenhower Accepts Brazilian Invitation
Rio de Janeiro reports that General Dwight Eisenhower chief of staff of the U S Army has accepted President Eurico Caspar Dutras invitation to visit Brazil soon an official announcement says the acceptance was conveyed from Washington
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Rio DE Janeiro
Dwight Eisenhower
U.S. Army
Eurico Caspar Dutra
Brazil
Antique Collection Auction and Local Events in Winchester
Antique collection at Patton's Hall Loudoun Street Winchester Va July 17 1946 by R Schneider and G Miller. Dance sponsored by Clarke County Junior Board of Trade and Junior Women's Club at Community Building with Kenneth Wendell and Orchestra Friday July 12 2 dollars per couple plus tax. Ru Ja Beauty Shop to reopen Monday July 15 phone 6309 for appointments next week. Ice cold watermelons for sale corner 10 p.m open until.
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Loudoun St
Winchester
R. Schneider
G. Miller
Junior Board of Trade and
Junior Woman’s Club
Clarke County
Kenneth Wendell
Berryville
Ru Ja
Byrd Defends War and GI Bill Support in Virginia
Senator Harry F. Byrd rebutted claims of his Democratic rival that an invisible government ruled Virginia. He accused Martin A. Hutchinson of ties to power over 25 years and cited Hutchinson’s state posts since 1920. Byrd noted his GI Bill advocacy and Civil Service Veterans preference work while opposing a building materials subsidy.
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Pentagon
Vandenberg
Ant General
Army
Navy
Marine
State Department
Richmond
Virginia
Harry F. Byrd
Martin A. Hutchinson
Byrd
Hutchinson
General Assembly
Comepee
Eta
Civil Service Committee
Senate
United States
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May
By Clarke Beach
Hoyt S. Vandenburg
U.S
Central Intelligence Group
CIG
Africa
Europe
Great Britain
Sicily
Ninth Air Force
GG-2
General Staff
Milwaukee, Wis
West Point
Senate War Investigating Committee
D-Ky
Illinois
Mead
D-Ny
Henry Garson
Internal Revenue
Ferguson
Ting May
Washinggton
Henry Carson
Befor the Mead
Carson
Albert W. Jacobson
Jacobson
Garson
House Military Committee
Columbia
Head
War Investigating Committee
Sena
Rosenberger Lumber Co
Loudoun and
Boscawen
Wolfe
Washington Sts
Shirley
Cork Streets
Palace Theatre
Clifford and
Loudoun
Cecil and
Stewart and
Clifford
Courtfield
Germaine and
Germaine
Handley Ave
Leicester St
James and
Handley
Montague and
Valley Ave
H. J. Heinz Company
Ave
Bellview Ve
O'Sullivan Rubber Co., Inc
Old Mill
Virginia Apple Storage
Jack Hotel
Piccadilly
Loudoun Sts
Wythe
Ians
Kaufman Hotel
Atlantic City
N. J
Kaufman's
Atlantic City Hospital
Stratford Mill
London
John Constable
Walter Hutchinson
Lord Swaythling
Winchester Evening Star
the People’s Paper
Eisenhower
Dutra
Uni
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