Forrestal Nominated A N Head
President Truman names James V. Forrestal to be secretary of defense as unification of the armed services moves forward. Forrestal, a former under secretary of the Navy, rose from bond firm executive to top Navy administrator in World War II.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
James V. Forrestal
Forrestal
Capitol Hill
Washington National
Grandview
Trum
Congress
James Forrestal
Beacon
N. Y
New York
Roosevelt
Navy
Frank Knox
Mystery Car Crash Leaves Arm Amputated in Raleigh
Daniel Hubbard of Cameron Street suffered the amputation after a car incident on West Cork Street. Driver Hector Ritter, a Spanish War veteran, was fined 100 dollars and given a 30 day suspended sentence for DUI. Hubbard is hospitalised at Winchester Memorial Hospital after the accident. police plan further questioning.
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Daniel
Hubbard
Cameron
Ted
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Mr. Hubbard
H. B. Ritter
E. Leicester St
W. Cork St
Mr. Ritter
J. Thomas Boyd
Georgia
Hector B. Ritter
Leicester Street
Old Man's Money, Young Man's Love
Llewellyn Parker, 72, claims his estranged wife, 37, married him for money and plans to divorce after securing a large wardrobe. She allegedly said she would live with him long enough to gain wealth and then find a younger man to support her in style.
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Chicago
Llewellyn Parker
Consolidated County HS Plans Being Studied
Preliminary plans for a proposed consolidated county high school building have been prepared by Dixon and Norman Richmond architects and forwarded to school authorities. If approved, the next step is a State literary fund loan application followed by bids from contractors. The two story Colonial design features a cafeteria library play courts auditorium gymnasium and agriculture shop with a center entrance and side corridors.
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Dixon and Norman
Richmond
Leslie D. Kline
Dixon
Winchester
State Literary Fund
Board of Supervisors
Hermit in Shack Leaves $125000 Estate
Los Angeles reports eighty year old William Heckel who lived in a tin shack with no electricity gas or water left an estate estimated at about $125000. Bank notes totaling about $65000 were found along with stock certificates in two safety deposit boxes possibly worth $60000.
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Los Angeles
William Heckel
Tenants Sign 15 Percent Rent Increase Under New Law
Rent control officials in Front Roy al at the county Courthouse report a surge of visitors, mostly tenants, seeking guidance on leases tied to the new act effective July 1 allowing a 15 per cent rise through December 31, 1948. Landlords also seek advice while tenants worry about evictions and the act permits eviction only under specific conditions such as personal use, sale, remodels, or non housekeeping arrangements.
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Front Royal
Senn Ge
Need
Wheat Year Brings Record Yields Across Clarke County
Dry spell fuels threshing boom as Frederick and Clark counties push wheat barley and oats to market. Clarke county yields include 41 bushels per acre on the Oble Fiddler farm and 66 bushels per acre on a barley field. Threshing crews flock to fields near Berryville Winchester and Green Springs as oats suffer from wet weather and growers race to store grain before rains return.
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Frederick and
Clark
Sever Milling Co
Ralph Beaver
Clarke County
Frank Beaver
Herman
Fred Stine
Winchester
Oble Fiddler
Berryville
I. K. Morehead, Jr
I. K. Morehead, Sr
Clinton Palhamus
James Fiddler
Russ Sullivan
Col. T .H. Cawthorne
Paper Mill
Ray Rosenberger
John Gold
William Dawson
Green Springs
White Hall
Zion
Isaac Kern
Charles Hensell
Butsler Welch
Grover Teets
Rose Hill Farms
Ernest Clevenger
Lee Whitacre
Rep Smith Seat Contest Ended in House
The House formally dropped the election contest against Rep Howard Smith of Virginia after GOP rival Lawrence Michael, defeated last November, challenged the seat on principle related to the poll tax. The case was brought by Republican John Locke Green, Arlington County treasurer.
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Washington
House
Howard Smith
D-Va
Smith
John Locke Green
Arlington County
Lawrence Michael
GOP
Woman Burned as Fire Destroys Four Room Home at White Post
Josephine Washington, an elderly colored woman, was seriously burned when flames razed the four room log house she shared with Thornton Washington at White Post. She was taken to Winchester hospital with first to third degree burns on face arms and neck. The blaze started in the kitchen stove and quickly engulfed the house, while neighbor Jessie Williams escaped unharmed as Berryville Stephens City and Lupton Orchard Service Co. fire crews battled the flames.
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Josephine Washington
Thornton Washington
White Post
Winchester Hospital
George Wedlock
Winchester
Jessie Williams
William's
Lupton
Melvin Renner
Willard Gray
Mine Boss Union Dissolves Under Taft Hartley Law
John A. McAlpine president of the AFL United Clerical Technical and Supervisory Employees of America announced all locals of the 30 000 member mine bosses union are dissolved effective Thursday. Assets will pass to the United Mine Workers as the union blames Taft Hartley for the collapse calling it a slave labor act.
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Pittsburgh
John A. McAlpine
United Mine Worker
Afl-United Clerical, Technical and Supervisory Employee of America
McAlpine
UMW
State Education Chief And Bride Take Trip
G. Tyler Miller Virginia state superintendent and his bride Miss Elsie R. Shirey of Front Royal voyage on a northern wedding trip returning to Richmond August 10. They married yesterday in Silver Spring Maryland by Rev. Philip C. Edwards. Mrs Miller formerly supervised music in Warren and Norfolk counties.
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Richmond
G. Tyler Miller
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Elsie R. Shirey
Front Royal
Miller
Shirey
W. H. Reaguer
Reaguer
Culpeper
Silver Spring
Yesteday
Philip C. Edwards
Silver Spring Methodist Church
Lincoln's Sealed Papers Opened For Study
Washington July 26 A collection of Abraham Lincoln's papers sealed for 28 years was opened but yielded no sensational facts according to Roy P Basler. The 194 volumes include correspondence and telegraph notes with hints about hoped originals of the Bixby letter and the farewell speech. Basler said no link to cabinet plots emerged.
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Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Roy P. Basler
Lincoln
Robert Todd Lincoln
White House
Basler
A. Lincoln
Evans
Springfield
John D. Johnson
Tom Lincoln
Virginians Allege Parking Racket Near Griffith Stadium
Rep Gary and Rep Harrison report multiple complaints from Virginians about a Washington parking scam. A visitor paying 75 cents for parking near Griffith Stadium supposedly has their car towed for being in a no parking area after baseball games. Metropolitan Police claim efforts to curb such incidents.
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Washington
Gary
Harrison
Robert J. Barrett
Metropolitan Police
Harison
Griffith Stadium
Gray
Barret
Hundred Attendants For Salt Lake Wedding
Frank Thomas Slaughter, 89, and Isabell L. Jones, 70, honeymoon after a wedding attended by more than 100 children and grandchildren. The bridegroom has 10 children, 50 grandchildren, 30 great grandchildren, and three great great grandchildren. Mrs Slaughter is mother of 16 children. Previous spouses of the couple are deceased.
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Salt Lake City
Frank Thomas Slaughter
Isabell L. Jones
Solons Expect Congress to End This Midnight
Senator Taft said an adjournment tonight would allow leaders to seek a special session, though he did not expect one. House action included a wool price support bill, while nominations and labor board picks await Senate action after appropriations and conferees.
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Taft
Congress
House
White House
Senate
Senate House
Expanded Labor Board
Philip B. Perlman
Maryland
Death Ends 57 Year Marriage at Albin
Mrs. Mary Anna Brown died at 2 30 p m yesterday at the family home in Albin dissolving a 57 year marriage with her death. Born near Winchester September 20 1872 she was a daughter of the late Joseph S and Rebecca Smith Robinson. She leaves husband Hunter Brown three children and a sister two brothers five grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral 2 p m tomorrow at Omp's funeral home with Rev E B Smith officiating. burial Mt Hebron cemetery.
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Mary Anna Ee
Brown
Robinson
Gainesboro
Ann
Joseph 8
Rebeca Smith Robinson
Frederick County
Frields Church
Holmes Yeakley
Hunter Brown
Edgar Brown
Winchester
L. Jackson
Archie Robinson
Wadesville
Hunter Robinson
Omp
E. B. Smith
Mt. Hebron Cemetery
Bulgaria Applies for United Nations Membership
Sofia reports Bulgaria has applied for UN membership in a letter to Secretary-General Trygve Lie at Lake Success. Officials announced tonight that the move intends to join the United Nations.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
United Nations
Trygve Lie
Lake Success
Salesman wanted to call on Virginia and West Virginia banks
Help wanted notice seeks a male salesman with a car to visit banks in Virginia and West Virginia. Immediate opportunity for the right person. See Mr. Cook at George Washington Hotel between 10 am and 2 pm on Monday and Tuesday. Includes multiple dates and local civic notices and funeral info.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Mr. Cook
George Washington Hotel
Weather forecast and Blythe heat record noted
The weather bureau predicts temperatures in the 90s for the Northeastern and Northern Plains states and very hot conditions in the Southwest. The Middle Atlantic should see mid 80s. Blythe California posted a record high of 11 degrees. Cloudy skies end the day for most regions with scattered showers.
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New York
Weather Bureau
Plains
Middle Atlantic
Southwest
Blythe
Calif
Congress Group To Probe Slav Fifth Column
Rep. McDowell charged that Russian satellite embassies fund slavic groups in the United States to foster fifth column activity. The House Un American Activities Committee will broaden probes into possible pan Slavic influence tied to satellite nations. He cited testimony from Dr Mladen Giunio Zerkin and said 20 Slavic leaders were asked to attend hearings.
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Washington
McDowell
R.-Pa
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Pennsylvanian
Mladen Giunio- Zerkin
London
Giunio-Zerkin
America
Community Party
United States
Hae
Dutch Mopping Up Along Java Coast
Dutch forces cleared a broad 150 mile coastal stretch of northwest Java between Batavia and Cheribon under a fiery tropical sun and indicated eastern Java was in Dutch hands. The Indonesian republican army claimed successes in Java and Sumatra, but the Dutch denied most of these.
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Batavia
Castal Java
Cheribon
Java
Sumatra
Mrs Martha Truman Dies. President Leaves for Grandview
Grandview Missouri July 26 AP Mrs Martha Truman mother of the President died at 11 30 am Central Standard Time one hour after the President took off from Washington to be at her bedside Dr Joseph Greene the family physician announced Mrs Truman 94 had been critical since a setback last week She had recently recovered from hip fractures and lived with her daughter Miss Mary Jane Truman
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Grandview
Martha Truman
Washington
Joseph Greene
Associated Pre
Presa
Truman
Man
Iman
Mr. Truman
Terminal Pay Bond Cashing Bill Signed
President Truman signed a bill allowing GIs to cash terminal pay bonds at face value plus accrued interest through local banks after Sept 1. He warned widespread redemption could raise inflation. About 9 million former GIs and some officers could cash bonds. up to $1 billion may be redeemed.
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Washington
Truman
House Armed Services Committee
Wives Also Must Work Says Federal Bureau
The Women’s Bureau urges college bound women to combine home and career and notes the toughest path is entering male dominated fields like medicine law and engineering. It advises exploring established women’s professions and highlights demand in teaching nursing library work and office roles.
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Federal Bureau
Bureau
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