Fitch Services Here Tomorrow
Funeral services for Robert Owen Fitch of 416 N Braddock will be held tomorrow at 4 p m at Jones Funeral Home with Rev Forrest B Og Yesbey officiating. Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers are named. interment will follow at Mount Hebron Cemetery. The body rests at the funeral home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Owen Fitch
N. Braddock
Maplewood Nursing Home
Jones Funeral Home
Forrest B. Og Yesbey
Braddock Street Methodist Church
L. J. Burleson
Harvey L. Fishpaw
E. T. Mayer
R. E. Buncutter
R. A. Campbell
Quiz Answers From Page 4 Reveal Names and Facts
The page lists quiz answers: 1 Wiley Flanders Hickenlooper Republicans Monroney Kennedy Democrats Morse Independent. 2 Bizet. 3 Lucky. 4 No. 5 Korean war. 6 Department of National Defense. 7 Cheerful. 8 Nicholas II last Czar of Russia. 9 Harriet Beecher Stowe. 10 A story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiley, Flanders
Hickenlooper
Monroney
Kennedy
Morse
Bizet
Department of National Defense
Nicholas II
Czar
Russia
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cole Suspends Two More FHA Officials
The Housing and Home Finance Agency suspended two longtime FHA officials for alleged serious irregularities. James E. Hicks of Washington, Region 2 director, and Andrew Frost of Albuquerque, New Mexico, assistant state director, face charges outlined by Administrator Albert W Cole. The suspensions stem from an investigation into oversize loans and windfall profits linked to apartment construction and FHA guaranteed home improvement loans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
The
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Federal Housing Administation
Albert W Cole
James E. Hicks
FHA
Andrew Frost
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Cole
William F. McKenna
Soviet note flawed on U S role in Tuapse seizure
Nationalists say the Soviet note offers no proof the United States influenced the ship seizure. The Tuapse, 485 feet long, was built in Copenhagen for Russians and completed last year. The United States protested ship deliveries as strategic goods banned to Iron Curtain countries after Red China's Korea War intervention. Denmark rejected the protests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Denmark
U. S
Trade Controversy Now Lies With 1955 Congress
Senate rejection of a three year extension to the Reciprocal Trade Act shifts the debate on broadened foreign trade policy to the 1955 Congress. The chamber approved only a one year extension to the old law by a 71 to 3 vote, while defeating the Democratic plan 45 to 32.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Millikin
R-Cole
Senate Finance Committee
Sen
George
D-Ga
Senate
Armed bandits rob Burma airliner of 500000 dollars
Four bandits held up the pilot at pistol point aboard a Burma airliner on a Rangoon to Akyab flight. They forced a landing on a deserted beach and removed 20 cash boxes worth the equivalent of 500000 dollars bound for the local treasury, then let the plane resume its route. The plane carried 3 crew and 14 passengers. It was the second such robbery against the airline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rangoon
Burma
Union of Burma Airways
Akyab
June 26 through July 23 Auctions In Frederick and Warren Counties
A sales directory lists multiple auctions around Berryville Winchester Front Royal and Manassas with dates from June 26 to July 23. Items include real estate furniture antiques farm machinery cattle and packing shed equipment. Auctioneers noted include Snider Duvall and Artrip with dozens of locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Elizabeth Tomblin
Fenton Bros
Berryville
Senseny Road
W. D. Orndorff
E.S.T
W. J. Suter
Hillsboro
Loudoun County
Leonard C. Bowman
Harry R., Kern, Jr
Frederick County Court House
E. T. Snider
W. E. Edwards
Winchester
Apple Pie Ridge
Chas. R. Duvall
Virginia Horizon Farm
Manassas
Virginia Hereford Assn
Eugene K. Davis
First St
Front Royal
W. F. Artrip, Jr
Harrison Maury
Clearstook
Chas Duvall
George Roberts
H. D. Robinson
Fred F Sturm Co
Chas. Duvall
E.S. T
Frank M. Hardy
N. Kent St
B. M. Roszel
Stonewall Ave
Tactical Atomic Weapons Seen Bar To Russian Drive
Rep. 8S. Cole says tactical atomic weapons may deter a Russian advance across Europe. He urges a peacetime atomic crusade with allies if Russia balks on civilian atomic energy. Cole’s prepared speech notes nuclear forces could deter, while NATO defenses reduce Soviet penetration risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Arbor
Mich
Cole
Russia
Europe
Chaiman
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
United States
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Kenneth Matthews
Atomic Energy Committee
NATO
Red Army
English Channel
Churchill Arrives in Washington for Talks with Eden
Prime Minister Winston Churchill lands at Newark then Washington with Prince of Wales entourage and is greeted by President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower. He meets Nixon and Dulles, speaks of the English speaking family and aims to discuss family matters with Eden as the two leaders proceed to the White House for talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
Eisenhower
Dulles
Christopher Soamés
Churchill
Anthony Rumbold
Eden
John Colville
Kirkwood
Homburg
British Overseas Airways
Richard Nixon
Roger Makins
Anthony Eden
Nixon
White
Telephone Call Solves 42 Year Old Kidnap Mystery
Springfield police traced a 42 year old kidnapping case after a man in Charleston West Virginia identified himself as Robert Wilson Pitman and revealed his birth name. He learned his past from his late father’s effects and phoned to ask about his mother Rose Tracy now in a Burlington Vermont hospital. The man is married with two children and plans to visit the mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Mass
West Virginia
Robert Thompson
Robert Wilson Pitman
Japonica Land
Woodrum Park
Charleston
W. Va
Pitman
Wilson Ambrose Pitman
Rose Ethel Mason Thompson
Ruth Rawson
Rose Tracy
Jericho Center
Burlington
Billy Graham Admitted to Hospital in Germany Briefly
American evangelist Billy Graham was admitted to a hospital in Düsseldorf after waking with a feeling of illness but returned to his hotel room after examination. A German doctor said his chest and abdomen were developed and his condition was not serious, with unconfirmed reports of a gall bladder issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duesseldorf
Germany
Billy Graham
Graham
Britain
Scandinavia
Berlin
Frankfurt
Richmond ABC Store No 110 Tops Q1 1954 Sales
State Auditor J Gordon Bennett reports Portsmouth Store No 110 posted the largest net sales in the first quarter of 1954 amid an audit of Virginia ABC operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
ABC
Portsmouth
J. Gordon Bennett
How to tell temperature from cricket chirps
A veteran quip explains a crude rule: count the number of cricket chirps in 14 seconds, add 37, and that sum estimates the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. The method reflects folk wisdom rather than precise science.
Mrs Purcell Dies At Home Here
Bertha Zeiler Purcell 78 widow of Sheriff Clark H. Purcell died at 2:10 p m at 413 North Braddock Street after a three month illness. She was born October 29 1875 at Reynolds Store daughter of Jacob and Sophia Bohner Zeiler and was a member of Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church. Funeral at her Braddock Street home tomorrow at 2 pm with Rev J S Ducknall officiating. Interment Mt Hebron Cemetery. Pallbearers listed. no flowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha Zeiler Purcell
Clark H. Purcell
N. Braddock St
Reynolds Store
Jacob and
Sophia Bohrer Zeiler
Loudoun Street
Indictment Ties Tax Scandals to Congressional Probe
Brownell announced that the Treasury and Justice Departments continue probe into tax scandals before grand juries in New York and Washington. The indictment followed an IRS Commission er T Coleman Andrews directed inquiry. The conspiracy allegedly involved a law firm using confidential revenue office information to win clients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Ways and Means
Brownell
Treasury
Justice Departments
New York
Washington
Internal Revenue
T. Coleman Andrews
Bolich and Steinberg
Revenue Office
FBI Interrogates to the Modernaire and a Moonlit Hoax
FBI interrogates suspects linked to the Modernaire hotel and Colony Construction Co. Names given as fictitious include Mr and Mrs Colony. Boyer cashed 100 dollar check at Woodstock hotel after 30 dollars from Modernaire change. Police traced checks to Winchester and Harrisonburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Modernaire
Mrs. Colony
Colony Construction Co
Capt
Funk
Mr. Smith
Boyer
Woodstock
Churchill and Eden to Stay With U S Leaders Through Sunday
The British guests will reside with the chief executive and First Lady through Sunday before moving to the British Embassy, shaping schedule and diplomatic notes of the visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Churchill
Eden
Suspected fraudster passes check at Motel Moderne
Sheriff DeHaven said the forged checks totaling $100 were drawn on Colony Construction Co. and signed by W. L. Colony Jr. The Wachovian Bank and Trust Co. in Winston Salem, NC was named as the bank. The sheriff's office and Winchester police have hunted the man since the pass at the Motel Moderne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeHaven
Colony Construction Co
W. L. Colony
Fred F. Sturm Co., Inc
Frederick County
Virginia
Winchester
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Fitch Services
Vivian M. Dellinger
Robert O. Fitch
Jones
Jones Funeral Home, Inc
Snellings Florist
America
SONS
John A. Somers
Abe Somers
J. A. Somers
Exchange National Bank of Tampa
Tampa
Florida
Farmers & Merchants National Bank
W. M. Feltner
P. W. Plumly Lumber Corp
Kent St
Willow Lawn
Chapman Motor CO
Frederick Motors
Martinsburg Pike
Murphy
Black Panther
Wetherill
Penney
Harry Murphy & Bro
Dial
Amherst St
R.R. Crossing
FBI
New Market
Harrisonburg
A-1 Rental & Realty CO
Chevrolet
Heatwolk Motor CO
Harrison E. Maury
Clearbrook, Va
Clearbrook-Brucetown Road
Myrtle Mauzy
Executrix
Chas, R. Duvall
piTtsourGh
N. Cameron St
Oak Grove
W. B. Snider Sons
W. W. Coal Screening Plant
Freeport
Bakertown
Westernport
Sturm Packing House
John Deere
Wigginton
Bean Brush
Lawson
FE. T. Snider
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