United 30 Conference Struggles With Charter Revisions
A small nation opposition to a Big Five veto on future changes to a world security charter is splintering. Conference leaders aim to settle this issue tonight as three conference committees push to complete work before a final UN session next Saturday. The other two controversies are also under debate.
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San Francisco
Truman
Britain
France
Australia
General Assembly of
United Nations
Russia
Henri Rolin
Belgium
Manuel Tello
Foreign Affairs
Mexico
League
Alberto Lleras Camargo
Colombia
Rolin
Peter Fraser
New Zealand
Herbert V. Evatt
Evatt
Canada
Brazil
South Africa
Case Against Grocery Firm Taken Under Advisement
The Office of Price Administration charged Winchester Wholesale Grocery Corporation with four sugar related offenses in Alexandria. After hearing evidence, Commissioner Travers Williams took the case under advisement and said a suspension may be warranted, with a later decision to follow.
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Office of Price Administration
Winchester Wholesale Grocery Corporation
Federal
Alexandria
Travers Williams
Region 4
J. Ray Larcombe
Warrenton
OPA
Garber
Larcombe
Homer Garber
C. W. Hollis
Sgt
Funk
Alcoholic Tax Unit
John Lennon
Winchester
Cholera Strikes Chungking Amid Sanitation Crisis
Chungking authorities report unofficially over 2000 people ill with cholera as the city tightens controls. Eating houses and soft drink shops are closed to U S personnel while foreigners seek inoculations. Poor sanitation and public unawareness heighten danger. no American soldier cases reported.
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Chungking
U. S
Auction Sale of Mrs Bell E J Bakers Estate
Antiques and household effects of Mrs Bell E J Baker of 21 South Washington Street to be sold Thursday at 1 PM. Auctioneer W W Baker conducts the sale as executor. Proceeds to estate and listed items include furniture and houseware.
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Bell E. J. Baker
S. Washington St
W. Baker
Dr. Charles W. Dabney dies at Asheville at 98
Dr Charles W Dabney former president of the University of Tennessee 1904 to 1920 and ex president of the University of Cincinnati dies in Asheville North Carolina four days before his 99th birthday due to heart ailment He was an advocate of free public schools in the South and authored Universal Education In the South Funeral arrangements are pending His daughters Katharine Ingle and Mrs Alexander Thomson were summoned home after his illness.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Charles W. Dabney
University of Cincinnati
University of Tennessee
Asheville
N. C
Dabney
Rober L. Dabney
Thomas J
Stonewall’) Jackson
Gottingen
Davidson College
Washington and Lee University
Yale
Johns Hopkins
Mary Brent
South
Katherine Ingle
Alexander Thomson
Western College
Oxford
Snow Ends in Rocky Mountains Blizzard Region
Snow ceased in the Rocky Mountains after heavy falls at Red Feather Lakes Colorado and lighter totals in Wyoming and Montana. Temperatures fell to 21 at Big Piney Wyoming while Texas and California faced heat and fog. A New York wind uprooted trees and caused outages as the heat wave lingered in the Northeast.
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Associated Press
Rocky Mountains
Texas
Red Feather Lakes
Colorado
Wyoming
Montana
Big Piney
Wyo
Wink
California
Imperial Valley
Belmont
New York
New York City
South
New England
Midwest
Summer Uniforms For U S Heroes In Europe
General Eisenhower and 23 staff members will wear New York tailored summer uniforms nine to twelve hours after measurements, with 50 outfits ordered from Fifth Avenue stores. Factories in Rochester and Boston produced them for dispatch to Europe for Allied command use.
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New York
Eisenhower
New York City
Supreme Allied Commander
Europe
Fifth Avenue
Rochester
Boston
President Truman's planned 16500 mile journey in weeks
President Truman will travel about 16500 miles in 30 to 40 days. The itinerary includes Washington to Olympia to San Francisco back to Washington then to Kansas City and Independence then back to Washington, across the Atlantic to meet Stalin and Churchill near Berlin, and a June 23 UN closing session address in San Francisco.
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Truman
Washington
Olympia
Wash
San Francisco
Kansas City
Independence
Atlantic
Stalin
Churchill
Berlin
White House
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Mon. C. Wallgreen
Senate
At By Independente
Middle West
Thomas F. Dever
New York
Navy Chiefs Urge Peacetime Training To Guard World Peace
Secretary James Forrestal urged peacetime military training as a defense against world dominion by force. He cited letters from Fleet Admiral Halsley backing compulsory training and warned against inertia that could invite Mussolini and warlords. Admiral Nimitz said the next war may strike the homeland, stressing national survival.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
Secretary of the Navy
James Forrestal
Mussolini
Hitler
Nimitz
Heat Wave Delays Pimlico Big Stakes Day
Extreme heat near 90 plus degrees slows arrivals for Pimlico's 55th Preakness Stakes day. Hoop Jr. seeks Derby victory glory while Pavot and Derby Victory attract strong wagering support as 4:12 p.m. post time nears. Track records and fast conditions mix with wartime spectators and a crowded five-stake program.
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Pimlico
Hoop Jr
Walter M. Jeffreds
Pavot
Case Ace
F. W. Hooper
Hilltop Oval
Americans Advance In Cagayan Valley With 37th Ohio
American forces led by Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beigler and the 37th Ohio Infantry reached open countryside in the Cagayan Valley, breaking through Japanese defenses to liberate Santiago and Echague. The Sixth Division joined from the south, moving along highway No. 4 near Bagabag as typhoon season nears.
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Spencer Davis
Manila
Cagayan Valley
Apparri
Luzon
Robert S. Beigler
37Th
Ohio
Isabella Province
Santiago
Echague
MacArthur
Bagabag
Japanese Fear Fresh Borneo Invasion Threat and Okinawa Push
Tokyo radio reports three allied fleet movements signaling a possible third Borneo invasion a first Truk bombardment and increased Okinawa activity. Buckner says Okinawa ground campaign near end with under 10 000 Japanese troops remaining as mines ply Japanese waters and naval bombardment continues.
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Borneo
Buckner
Okinawa
Tokyo Radio Today
Truk Island
Japan
Dutch Indies
Pacific
Balikpap
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
Tenth Army
Truk
Tokyo
Caroline Islands
Reorganization of Poland Discussed Ahead of Big Three Meeting
Poland's former premier Mikolajczyk flew to Moscow for talks on reorganizing the government as preconferences precede the Big Three in Berlin before July 26. Polish London government officials allege a reign of terrorism and call for Russian troops to withdraw. The Berlin summit with Truman Stalin and Churchill may occur between July 5 and July 27, with timing linked to Britain's election.
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London
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Moscow
Warsaw
Britain
France
Middle East
Berlin
Mikolajczyk
Peasant Party
Jan Stanszyk
Jan Drojohowski
Hikolajczk
Commission On
Molotov
U. S
Russia
Wincenty Wites
Poland
Truman
Marshall Stalin
Churchill
Downing Street
Brendan Bracken
Bracken
Harold Lasgi
Labor Party
Truck Crashes Ambulance On Mercy Mission
Two injured workers from the M J Grove Lime Company Stephens City plant remained in unstable condition after a roof collapse and a subsequent collision with an oncoming Ford truck en route to Winchester Memorial Hospital. Driver Shanholtz faced reckless driving charges after a wreck at Ritz Lee Service Station. the Friendship ambulance sustained $400 in damage.
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J. B. Brosius
Adamstown
Robert Diggs
Frederick
M. J. Grove Lime Company
Stephens City
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Friendship
W. H. Shanholtz
William Martin Shanholtz
Rt. 1
Winchester
Shanholtz
Valley Pike
Ritz Lee
Brosius
Diggs
Omps
Mason Nor
Truman backs Byrd-Butler bill in letter to Manasco
President Truman writes to Representative Manasco, praising H. R. 2177 and endorsing the Byrd-Butler bill. He calls it a long-delayed forward step to apply the executive budget doctrine to government corporations formed since 1921.
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Mr. Manasco
Harry S. Truman
Many Americans Held Prisoner in Pacific War
Gen Douglas MacArthur's HQ reports that 1,447 of over 18,000 U S personnel captured at Bataan and Corregidor have been liberated. About 3,260 died. 13,000 remain unaccounted, likely in camps in Japan China or Formosa. Records on scraps reveal fates. many died or were shipped to labor camps or aboard prison ships sunk by Allied forces.
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Tokyo
Shanghai
Okinawa
U. S
Japan
Kyushu
Yaeju Hil
Big Apple
96Th
Yuza
Eleventh Infantry
Canton
Hong Kong
Burma
Leslie J. Morshead
Manila
P. I
Bataan
Corregidor
Douglas MacArthur
the Rock
China
Formosa
Adjutant General’s Office
Army Forces of the Pacific
O’donnel
E. E. Graham
Yokohama
Mukden
Bilibid
Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy Dies at 81 in Charlottesville
Amelie Rives née Amelie Rives, later Princes Troubetzkoy, author famed in the nineties, died after a long illness in a Charlottesville nursing home. Born August 23, 1862 in Richmond, she was granddaughter of William Cabell Rives and summered at Castle Hill, Albemarle. Her first novel The Quick of the Dead stirred controversy for its candid subject matter. She was married twice, first to John Armstrong Chaloner and later to Prince Fierre Troubetzkoy. both marriages ended with his death in 1937.
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Charlottesville
Amelie Rives
Princes Troubetzkoy
Chancellor Street
Prince Fierre Troubetzkoy
Castle Hill
Albemarle
County
William Cabell Rives
Richmond
John Armstrong Chaloner
New York
Astors
Stanford White
Slip
Newynee
Von Ribbentrop Questioned At Headquarters
The German former foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was questioned at Eisenhower's headquarters in Frankfurt by top examiners. He was arrested in Hamburg with an attractive divorsee, identified details emerged, and a poison phial was found hidden. Ribbentrop muttered he would have surrendered earlier and asked to deliver letters to Montgomery and Churchill intact.
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Montgomery
Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Supreme Command
Reich
London
Hitler
Britain
Poland
Ribbentropeft
Hamburg
J. B. Adam
Paisley
Scotland
Ribbentrop
Adams
Tax Revision to Speed Postwar Reconversion Aid
Washington plans to push a business aid tax bill through Congress within a week or ten days. The measure aims to accelerate rebates and credits to industry to boost reconversion cash by about 5 billion dollars, without changing individual or corporate income tax rates. The bill follows joint recommendations by the Senate House Postwar Tax Committee and the Treasury Department.
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Washington
Congress
Doughton
D-Nc
House
Ways and Means Committee
Rep
Knutson
R-Minn
Garbage collection schedule expanded to twice weekly
Beginning June 18 garbage will be collected twice weekly with pickups on specific days: Monday and Thursday for items previously Monday, Tuesday and Friday for others, Wednesday and Saturday for Wednesday, Thursday and Monday for Thursday, Friday and Tuesday for Friday, and Saturday and Wednesday for Saturday.
For Sale Tomato and Sweet Potato Plants
Winchester Seed Co lists tomato and sweet potato plants for sale in a short notice dated June 14. Item appears as a local seed seller listing with no additional context or prices provided.
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Winchester Seed Co
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