Byrd Calls for Watchdog Panel on Military Spending
U S Senator Harry Byrd urges a 35 member Senate Armed Services subcommittee to oversee postwar military expenditures and the preparedness program. He warns of a potential $50 billion peacetime budget and emphasizes scrutiny of efficiency and solvency in defense spending.
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Harry P. Byrd
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Senate Armed Services Committee
Marshall
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Congress
Car Recovered After Police Report of Theft
Warren Jones of 339 W Cork St reported his 1941 Plymouth stolen during the night and informed officers at 10 30 pm yesterday that the car had been found near his residence.
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Warren Jones
W. Cork St
Market Quotations Livestock and Produce Markets
Baltimore market report dated March 29 notes apples weak with liberal offerings and varying prices for Delicious Romes Staymans and others. Poultry demand light. fowl colored scarce. Eggs dull with mixed wholesale prices. butter and receipts listed.
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Baltimore
MD. Pa. Va. W. Va
Baltimore Livestock Market Report Averages Auctions
Baltimore cattle sales mixed with price dispersion as slaughter cattle and beef cows show strength while stock cattle and calves move slowly. Slaughter steers and stock cattle mostly steady with values 18 to 27.50 for steers, calves 12.50 to 30, hogs higher than last Friday across weights, sows around 16.50 to 18, sheep and lambs modest demand.
Chicago Livestock Prices Report March 29
Salable hogs 8700 with 170-240 lb at 22.25-23.25 top 23.25. 250-270 lb 21.25-22.25. 300 lb 20.21. 325-400 lb 19. Most good and choice sows 350-550 lb 16.75-17.75. Cattle and calves: 6500 cattle and 400 calves. red steers 6-29 at 29.25-30. 1225-1300 lb steers 29.25-30. 23.75-25.15 for medium to low good steers. Heifers 25.50-28.50. good beef cows 21-22. common to medium cows 17.25-20. canner and cutters 13-17. Practive top good heavy bulls 23.50. vealers 27-28 for few, 19-26 for medium and good.
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Baltimore
Chicago
Stock Market Reports on Uneven Trading Amid Strike
New York stock activity showed a slightly uneven course as markets operated despite a widespread employer strike restricting some services. Quotation data printed in ticker tape were incomplete due to suspended bureau, with Gulf Oil Chesapeake and Ohio General Motors Deere Boeing and United Aircraft among leaders. Lagging issues included Bethlehem Steel Republic Steel Chrysler Woolworth Douglas Aircraft Pepsi-Cola and Eastman Kodak among others.
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Stock Exchange
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Gulf Oil
Chesapeake and Ohio
General Motors
Deere
Boeing
United Aircraft
Kennecott
DuPont
Warner Bros
Twentieth-Century-Fox
Bethlehem Steel
Republic Steel
Chrysler
Woolworth
Douglas Aircraft
Pepsi-Cola
International Paper
Eastman Kodak
Phelps Dodge
Southern Pacific
Great Northern Railway
Standard Oil
Opening prices higher on Chicago Grain Board
Prices edge up at the opening on the Board of Trade with May wheat at 2.47 1 2 or 2.46 spread, May corn at 2.20 1 3 4, oats around 1.11 1 2 5 8, and the listed July September contracts.
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Board of Trade
Orchard frost damage uncertain across Winchester regions
Local growers report varying frost effects with no widespread damage. Observers note low readings from 18 to 22 degrees, apples like Delicious hit hardest, peaches show scattered 50 percent damage in places, and higher ground orchards may be unhurt.
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Staples
C. E. Staples
Stephens City
Cherry Dale Farms
Kenneth Povinson
Winchester
Edward W. Barr
Dr. Groves
Yorks
J. W. Olcott County
Clarke
Doriggs Bank Arch
Human body needs at least thirteen minerals
The source states that for life and health at least thirteen minerals are essential. The minerals listed are calcium phosphorus iron copper iodine sodium cobalt manganese magnesium potassium chlorine sulphur and zinc.
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Notable Lawyer Clarence Sparrow Fought Death Penalty
The late Clarence Sparrow, renowned American lawyer, opposed capital punishment. He defended clients who faced execution but none of his clients were executed.
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Clarence Sparrow
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First SS payroll deductions begin January 1937
The Social Security Act provisions took effect January 1 1937 and the first payroll deductions for the Federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance started in that month.
Frost Threatens Carolinas Peach Orchards Amid Subfreezing низ
Frost damaged peach, apple and pear trees across the Carolinas and parts of Georgia and Virginia after subfreezing temps. 31 degrees reached Atlanta and Vicksburg briefly while Halifax County Virginia and Charlottesville areas faced heavy potential damage. Richmond weather stations logged 26 at Lynchburg and Roanoke, 23 at Bristol, 19 at Gordonsville, 31 at Urbanna.
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Gulf States
Atlanta
Vicksburg
Carolina
Spartansburg
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Georgia
Halifax County
Virginia
Charlottesville
Weather Bureau
Richmond
Lynchburg
Roanoke
Quantico
Bristol
Gordonsville
Urbanna
Dozen Complete First Aid Course
Twelve persons were awarded certificates for completing the Standard First Aid course at the Seventh day Adventist Church conducted by R. Wayne Ritter. Recipients include Ruth Gruesbeck Esther Luttrell Ira P Luttrell Gertrude Jacobs Charles Jacobs Paul Clowser Kinzel Grubbs Sr Janice White Wilton White Norman Cooper Jeanette White and Donald Loren White. Donald Edgar Barrett earned a Junior Red Cross first aid certificate from Ritter.
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Seventh Day Adventist Church
R. Wayne Ritter
Ruth Gruesbeck
Esther Luttrell
Ira P. Luttrell
Gertrude Jacobs
Charles Jacobs
Paul Clowser
Kinzel Grubbs Sr
Janice White
Wilton White
Norman Cooper
Jeanette White
Donald Loren White
Donald Edgar Barrett
Red Cross
Ritter
Discoverer of Warm Springs springs Georgia
The springs near Warm Springs, Georgia were known to Native Americans as a health resort. Tradition says warriors sought healing there in the warm waters and soft mud.
Old Land Mine Kills 23 at Clark Field and Corregidor
An old U.S. land mine exploded at Clark Field in Manila killing the eight year old son of an American air force sergeant and injuring three girls. Earlier on Corregidor twenty two Filipinos died after triggering a Japanese booby trap in a sealed tunnel.
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Clark Field
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Corregidor
Filippines Army
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