Gov Orders Seizure of Newport News Transit Facilities
Governor Tuck orders state seizure of Citizens Rapid Transit of Newport News at 3 a m July 3 to avert a strike endangering public health and safety. SCC to operate transit. questionnaires go to 300 employees to gauge willingness to work for Virginia.
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Richmond
Tuck
Citizens Rapid Transit
Newport News
Virginia Public Utilities Labor Relations Act
Hampton
Phoebus
Elizabeth City
Warwick
SCC
W. Marshall King
Cris
Commonwealth of Virginia
Attlee seeks emergency decree to counter wildcat dock strike
Prime Minister Attlee asked King George VI to declare a national emergency to safeguard essential food supplies amid a wildcat dock strike spreading to Liverpool and Birkenhead. Labor Minister Isaacs recalled from San Francisco to help end the stoppage as 9,000 workers walked off in two ports and 19,000 idle in London. Unloading of ships began with 1,100 troops on site and thousands more on standby.
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Rowmontersune
Iser Attlee
George VI
House of Commons
Attlee
George Isaacs
San Francisco
Liverpool
Birkenhead
London
Transport and General Workers Union
Idaho City Presses For Fluorination
Dr. Walter Pelton, dental consultant to the U S Public Health Service, predicts public pressure will force fluorination of water supplies. Lewiston Idaho already has a fluorination program supported by townspeople and the medical profession. results will be considered conclusive for years.
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Washington
Walter Pelton
U S. Public Health Service
Lewiston
Idaho
Walnut Springs Church Dedication Draws Dense Crowd
Walnut Springs Christian church in Oranda held a dedication with Rev. John H. Booth of Indianapolis as principal speaker. Officers listed include Rev. Charles R. Sine and Edgar F. Loving. Over $8000 raised toward a $45,000 project.
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Walnut Springs Christian Church
Oranda
John H. Booth
Indianapolis
Disciples of Christ
E. B. Wolford
Woodstock
William J. Hadden
Winchester
Nelson M. Fox
Strasburg
Harry M. Crim
J. Warren Hastings
Washington
Cork St. Christian Church
Mildred Jones
Taylor L. Barr
S. E. Stickley
Edgar F. Loving
Charles R. Sine
Charles R Sine
S. F. Stickley
W. A. Coffelt
J. M. Miller
W. D. Hall
M. Elston Wharton
Kenneth Miller
Alfred Lake W. L. Richardson
Ernest Good
L. M. Pangledeacons
Kenneth Whiller
L. M. Pangle
Pearl Lake
W. L. Richardson
May Hausenfluck
WMS
Mildred Boyer
Ladies Aid
Clinton Mowery
Filipino actor charged in murder of Lilian Velez
Bernardo Anzures a 21 year old actor was charged with double murder in the stabbing of Lilian Velez 24 at a Quezon City home. The actress four year old daughter Vivian witnessed the slaying and identified Anzures as the assailant saying he acted under a spell.
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Manila
Bernardo Anzures
Lilian Velez
Jose Fernandez
Anzures
Quezon City
Vivian
Fernandez
Three Day Typhoid Cure Found Accidentally
Baltimore June 28 two physicians report a new drug chloromycetin that cures typhoid fever in three days, a首次 breakthrough from fungus. It previously took about 30 days. The drug shown success in 13 typhoid cases and earlier aided scrub typhus in Malaya.
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Baltimore
Theodore E. Woodward
University of Maryland Medical School
Rufus L. Holt
Army Medical Department
Washingon
Maby
South Pacific
Woodward
University of Maryland
Army
Kuala Lumpur
Malaya
Camp Pickett to Reopen for Draft Training Sept. One
The Army plans to reopen Camp Pickett in Virginia around Sept. 1 to train about 16 000 draftees for World War II. Inductions are projected at 225 000 to 250 000 in the first year with monthly rates near 30 000. Training centers and civilian recruitment efforts accompany the reopening.
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Washington
Camp Pickett
Virginia
Army
Byrd and
Robertson
Blackstone
Second Army
Fort Meade
Royall
Snake in Car Cited As Cause of Fatal Charles Town Crash
John Bowers a 29 year old laborer from south of Charles Town died when he lost control while trying to kill a snake found in his car. The crash occurred on U S 340 between Charles Town and Harpers Ferry. Jefferson County's fifth traffic fatality of the year.
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Charles Town
John Bowers
Bowers
U. S. 340
Harpers Ferry
L W. Kelly
Victor Products
Rawson, W. V
Jefferson County
Phone Co. to Add Dial Equipment
The Winchester central office will receive additional dial telephone equipment at a $64 000 cost approved by C and P Co as part of a $3 657 improvement program. The new equipment will reduce jams at the local office and allow service extensions to many people awaiting connections.
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Winchester
C. and P. Co
Shooting Match at John Millson Farm Near Berryville
Clark County Wildlife Association hosts a shooting match at John Millson Farm 22 miles northwest of Berryville at 1 40 p m featuring shotgun and 22 rifle events with prizes and public viewing. Also advertisement for sale: substantial frame house seven rooms bath air heat garage in residential section redecorated value 10599 dollars immediate possession listed by B M Sullivan.
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John Millson
Berryville
Clark County Wildlife Association
B.M. Sullivan
Phong
Lion of Year to Be Announced at Winchester Lions Dinner
Winchester Lions Club hosts the annual dinner at the country club with guests from Stephens City Berryville In Wood Bunker Hill Martinsburg Front Royal and Middleburg. James C Hill Vienna Va incoming district governor will announce the Lion of the Year with Alva S Sapp Elkton Va outgoing governor also on the program.
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Stephens City
Berryville
Inwood
Bunker Hill
Martinsburg
Front Royal
Middleburg
Lions Cub
Winchester
Country Club
James C. Hill
Vienna
Alva S. Sapp
Elkton
Hill
William Schenck
Marvin Weaver
John Glaize
John Blackburn
Robert Jasper
Charles Lanahan
James Foster
Hove Riley
Robert Gaines
Richard Veitel
William Battail
Oscar Louderback
Kenneth Rush
Jack Fretwell
Bulgar Minister Rebuffed by Greeks over Talks
Bulgarian diplomat to the United States Dr. Nissim Mevorah formally notified the United Nations that Greece rebuffed renewal talks on severed relations. No diplomatic ties have existed since April 1941 after German forces invaded Greece, leaving negotiations pointless.
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Washington
Greece
Nissim Mevorah
United States
United Nations
Balkan
Bulgaria
Cominform Blasts Tito as Yugoslav Split Emerges
The Cominform charged Yugoslav leaders led by Premier Tito with deviating from Marx Lenin lines and urged a return to true policy or leadership change. Diplomats in Washington said Tito may be sidelined as the first major split appears among eastern bloc satellites.
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Praguiechoslovakia
Cominform
Tito
Soviet
Russia
Yugoslavia
International Communist Information Bureau
Poland
Belgrade
Communist Party
Romania
Communist Information Bureau
Rude Pravo
Communist Party of
Czechoslovakia
Washington
Marshal Tito
Prague
Smith Cooley House Destroyed by Fire Near Middletown
A 200 year old farm house four miles west of Middletown was destroyed by fire at 1 am yesterday. The rambling structure, partly brick and wood, dates to colonial times and was built about 200 years ago by a Hite family member. Fire Chief Hite reported the Middletown department could not save it. Owner Mrs. Lilly Rudd had moved out on Friday to a smaller on the same property and planned to rent the old house. No cause was found for the blaze.
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Smith Cooley
Middletown
Hite
Lilly Rudd
Juveniles Charged With Cash Thefts at Middletown Garage
Deputy Sheriff Henry Renner reported two robberies solved at Paul Hammack's garage in Middletown. On June 20 and 25 the cash register was emptied and the drawer jammed. Two Middletown juveniles were apprehended Saturday and likely to be sent to juvenile court with Winchester police aid.
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Henry Renner
Paul Hammack
Middletown
Renner
F. M. Funk
Winchester Police
Trouble for President California Delegates Weaken On Pledge of Votes
California Democrats keep a wait and see stance on 62 national convention votes while pledges to Truman exist in name only. Delegation chair John F. Shelley says California will caucus at Philadelphia and may shift based on July 12 events.
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California
Truman
Philadelphia
Key West Coast
Associated Press
John F. Shelley
Warren
Dewey
Thuman
District of Columbia
Virginia
Wisconsin
Eisenhower
Vandenberg
Washington
Sen
Baldwin
Morse
McGrath
Grundy Butten
National Democratic Party
Joe Grundy
Grundy
Pennsylvania
Henry A. Wallace
New Hampshire
Progressive Party
Berlin Airlift U S Planes Deliver Food to Blockaded City
United States transport planes arrive at Tempelhof at eight minute intervals to supply Berlin’s western sectors amid Russian blockade. About 120 planes are expected to fly the corridor daily, delivering roughly 300 tons of relief while stores face rationing and hunger threatens 2,000,000 Germans.
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Berlin
United States
Tempelhof
U. S. Army
U.S
Germany
America
ECA
Britain
France
Ber
Quake Wrecks Fukui City in Western Honshu
Three major earthquakes plus a fire devastate Fukui in western Honshu. Early death toll estimates run into thousands, but U.S. occupation officials caution against high figures. At Daishoji near Fukui ten killed and sixty wounded are confirmed. Brig. Gen. Crawford Sams notes damage is localized and no tidal wave indicated. Fukui city population around eighty five thousand.
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Tokyo
Honshu
Fukui
U. S
Daishoji
Crawford Sams
C. C. Carter
First Corps
Associated Press
Fukul
Perjury Charges Jail Motorists State Police Act
Three members of a motor party are jailed on perjury or subornation charges after arrests by state and city police. James Lee Franklin Ray mond Lee Stout and Maurice J Lillis Jr were taken into custody on warrants. Franklin had prior DUI license revocation and faced trial outcomes. officers observed a speeding car and signaled the driver.
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James Lee Franklin
Stephens City
Raymond Lee Stout
Maurice J. Lillis Jr
W. Cork St
C. A. Seale
Martinsburg Pike
J. W. Kincaid
R. H. DeHaven
Franklin
Stout
Trial Justice Court
Jalil
Elliott Marshall
Roy Webber
Foreman
Henry Brumback
Paul Richards
George M. Clark
Ray Sirbaugh
Lillis
Frientle
Window Weatherstrips and Caulking Service Ad
Local ad offers metal weatherstrips and caulking for all window and door types. Immediate service by EB W Armstrong Co at 37 E Piccadilly St. contact phone listed.
Five Gunmen Evade Chicago Police Net
Five machinegun bandits who held up a gambling joint and shot two officers eluded a large Cook county manhunt. The gang fled toward a Des Plaines river crossing after a pursuit from a quarry, leaving weapons and about $1000 at the scene. one suspect, Jerry Malleck, was later traced to his home.
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Chicago
Cook County
Stanley Demski
Jerry Malleck
Treasury
Desplaines
Federal Treasury
Charles Petersen
Western Springs
Petersen
Joseph Clegg
LaGrange
Clegg
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