Fire Roars Through Berryville Straw Rick and Outbuildings
A strawrick barn on Mrs. F. G. Myers Norod Farm burned for over 12 hours after a spark ignited dry grass. Berryville firefighters fought two blazes with a bulldozer used to topple the rick and later battled four outbuildings near the Lindy farm. Losses include meat, fuel, tools, and vehicles. A bucket brigade aided by May Ashbury and a Newhall relative confined flames briefly.
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Norod Farm
F. G. My
Iryville
Beryville
Lindy Farm
Charles B. Ashbury
Berryville
Bergville Fire Co
Byrd
Moore and Dorsey
Charles Own Fire Co
Aasary
Bucket Brigade
May
W.a
4& Bucket Brigade
Asbury
Norman
Tom Asbury
New Arms for Uncle Sam House Grants Cash Urges Speed
The House appropriations committee approved a 332 million dollar bill to fund atomic weapons and research plus relief for occupied countries and VA personnel. It provides 150 million for the Atomic Energy Commission without cuts and authorizes 659 million for the year, while urging rapid wartime and peacetime use of new atomic secrets. It also funds Alaska road construction linking Seward and Anchorage and adds 3 million for VA payrolls to retain about 3,000 workers.
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Washington
Alaska
House Appropriations Committee
Veterans‘ Administration
House
President Truman
Maritime Commission
Post Office Department
Air Force
Atomic Energy Commission
Congress
Commission
Carroll L. Wilson
Armed Services
Los Alamos
N. M
Wilson
David E. Lilienthal
Seward
Anchorage
Interior Department
Army
Royall
Veterans’ Administration
Fruit Growers Plan Weather Oriented Meeting At Courthouse
The Frederick County Fruit Growers Assn will hold its March April meeting at the courthouse at 8 p m Friday. County Agent I Fred Stine says the session will cover taking over an emergency farm labor camp on Fairmont Ave and securing labor for the apple harvest. Weather Bureau rep Charles B Carney will discuss frost and freeze services and meteorologist David Bruce will outline the Produce Weather Service available locally.
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Frederick County Fruit Growers Assn
Court House
Fred Stine
Fairmont Ave
Walker McC. Bond
Weather Bureau
Charles B. Carney
Washington
David Bruce
Winchester
Jewels Auctioned In Estate Sale at 95 Lee St
The Genevieve M. Burton estate sale attracted a large crowd on Saturday at 95 Lee St with receipts totaling 2623 dollars. Irvin Cather paid 435 dollars for a 1.375 carat diamond ring and Mrs. William Maskell bid 420 dollars for an emerald ring with two diamonds. Mrs. Clara Buncutter bought a turquoise diamond ring for 185 dollars and Mrs. P. W. Burton purchased many family heirlooms from Arkansas. Auctioneers were Coleman Dunn and Brown Lovett.
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Genevieve M. Burton
Lee St
Irvin Cather
William Maskell
Clara Buncutter
P. W. Burton
Arkansas
Coleman Dunn
Brown Lovett
Winchester Clean Up Paint Up Week Proclaimed
City mayor proclaims a Winchester Clean Up Paint Up Week as visitors from across the region arrive for the Apple Blossom Festival. Community effort urged to clean and paint local properties during March 12th to 17th. Also notes office hours and an antiques auction at Headley’s Auctions on Braddock Street April 1st.
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Winchester Union Board of Trade
Prem
Inchester
Virginia
Pri
Winchester
Sec
Charles R. Anderson
Expects No War Says Adviser On Germany
The top governmental adviser to General Lucius D. Clay in the American occupation zone in Germany said last night that he cannot imagine anything more absurd than a general war threat. He spoke after reports of rising tension and urged calm and careful diplomacy in the postwar area.
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Richmond
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Sullivan Sub Yarn Denied in Moscow
Tass the Soviet news agency denied reports of submarines sighted off the United States being Russian. The agency called the claim absurd and slanderous. John L. Sullivan told a Senate committee that submarines seen off the American coast did not belong to any nation west of the Iron Curtain.
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London
Tass
United States
John L. Sullivan
U.S
Chinese Students Rough on Bankers in Peiping
A student group in Peiping demanded a donation for institute teachers and undergraduates. Bank officials refused to meet the amount. Students smashed windows damaged desks and other property and several officials were beaten.
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Peiping
Peiping Bank
Berryville Greet Clubwomen District Meet Opens
More than 200 members will meet at Berryville Presbyterian Church as the 4th district of the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs holds its annual institute. Registration at 9 30 a.m. Lunch at Battletown restaurant. Hostesses: Clarke County Junior and Senior Women’s clubs. Speakers include Rev. R K McDonald and Mrs. Rice W Levi.
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Berryville Presbyterian Church
Virginia Federation of Women’s Clubs
Leonie M. Gilbee
Battletown
J. R. Hutchinson
Lyon Village
Sedrick Saunders
Otis Brooks
J. Homer Strange
Gilbert
Walker D. Brookings
J. Shenton Lodge
W. Fred Jordan
John Adrich
William G. Watt
Nelson Linaburg
Clarke County
Dayton School of Music
Ff. L. Ayler
Edward P. Berlin
Joe Moore
Ralph M. Ware
Alph N. Dorsey
Wallace accuses Truman of creating a false crisis
Henry A. Wallace told the Senate armed services committee that the Truman administration fabricated a crisis to push Congress and the public toward war and to justify universal military training and conscription. He warned of corporate profits from war and urged alternatives like greater UN support and air power. He also proposed talks with Stalin to break Soviet‑American deadlock.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Truman
Wallace
Congress
Senate Armed Services Committee
America
UMT
United States
Russia
Alonzo F. Myers
New York University
United Nations
National Council Against
UNMT
Stalin
Marshal Stalin
Charles F. Boss Jr
Methodist Church
Senate Committee
Stockholm
Geneva
Workmen Clear Theater Site for New Loudoun Street Venue
Herman H. Hable of Hable Theatres Inc reports crews are clearing a site at 124 132 S Loudoun St for a brick and steel theater roughly 220 by 660 feet, with 1400 seats and an estimated cost near 100000. The Palace owner says a government ban on amusement construction has been lifted and demolition of on site structures will proceed, opening the venue this autumn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman H. Hable
Hable Theatres Inc
S. Loudoun St
Palace Theatre
W. B. Snider & Son
One Dollar Bills Last Little Longer Than a Year
Washington March 30 B L Kilby commissioner of the Bureau of the Public Debt said currency in circulation is deteriorating. He noted that at the start of the year there were 2949 million bills in circulation including 1970 million one dollar bills and that a one dollar bill lasts only about nine or ten months.
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Washington
B. L. Kilby
Bureau of the Public Debt
Kilby
Wall St. Police Clash With Striking Pickets
In a Wall Street confrontation police and AFL affiliated strikers clashed on March 20. Thirty eight people were arrested for disorderly conduct as violence erupted near the stock and curb exchange, with officers using mounted units to police the scene as roped off areas and escorted groups entered the exchange building.
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New York
Coe
Wall St
Old Slip
AFL Seamen’s
AFL
Exchange
Broad
Fatal Violence Marks Italian Election Drive
Milan's Communist led chamber of labor plans a demonstration after the killing of two Communists near Samoggia and a clash at Lignano amid Italy's April 18 elections. Premier De Gasperi urges defeat of the Communists as Giuseppe De Vittorio warns victory would mean more American aid.
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Rome
Milan
Chamber of Labor
Samogna
Lignano
Italy
Alcide de Gasperi
Giuseppe de Vittorio
Milan Federation of Labor
Dialects Divide Chinese Assembly Interpreters Sought
At the National Assembly in Nanking Chinese delegates request interpreters to grasp Cantonese and Mandarin speech. The scene shows dialect barriers creating confusion among attendees and officials.
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Nanking
House opens ERP door to Spain and Soviet nations
The House, voting 149 to 52, invites Franco Spain into a 6.205 billion foreign aid program. The State Department opposes. The bill keeps the door open for Russia and satellites if they join terms of the European Recovery Program.
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Washington
Spain
Gram
Foreign Affairs Committee
Rep. Vorys
Ohio
State Department
Senate
House
Russia
Rep
Hand
R-Nj
Virginia Assembly Adjourns After Quorum Question
The Virginia General Assembly adjourned sine die as a quorum question halted action to revoke a previous bill ordering an investigation of Richmond Newspapers, Inc. Delegates and senators completed routine business and signed more than 150 enrolled bills. Senate President L. Preston Collins noted the death of Sen. W. D Kendig of Kenbridge.
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Richmond
Virginia General Assembly
Richmond Newspapers, Inc
E. T. Hayes
E. Blackburn Moore
Moore
House
Senate
L. Preston Collins
Sen
W. D Kendig
Kenbridge
Five day Virginia forecast cooler near normal temperatures
Five day forecast for Virginia from March 21 to April 4 shows temperatures about two degrees below normal. Mild midweek with a turn to cooler conditions Thursday and Friday. Widening warmth expected over the weekend with showers late Wednesday and again Saturday. Total precipitation around half an inch.
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Virginia
Harrison Seeks Federal Control of Coal Mines
Representative Harrison of Virginia plans a bill to empower the U S government to operate coal mines, reviving wartime powers until March 31, 1949. He accuses John L Lewis and mine owners of wasting public money and causing job losses, urging government authority over the industry.
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Washington
Rep
Harrison
D-Va
United States
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Coal
Steel
Republic
Truman Delays Signing Tax Cut Measure
President Truman may delay signing the 4.8 billion tax reduction bill until the April 5 deadline. Secretary Ross said no action before Truman attends a graduation in Williams burg Virginia and returns to Washington. He also noted the rent control bill action is expected today or tomorrow.
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Washington
Truman
Charles G. Ross
Williamsburg
Ross
Railroads Openly Offer Wage Rise To Three Unions
Railroads agree to raise wages by 1512 cents an hour for 125000 locomotive engineers firemen and switchmen as urged by President Truman's fact finding board. The three unions have not decided to accept and will meet in Cleveland Monday to act on the recommendation. The raise equates to 1.24 dollars per eight hour day.
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Chicago
Eginemen
Truman
Cleveland
Army Chief Bradley Illustrates Bomber Range Vision
General Omar Bradley stands with General Carl Spaatz as a globe diagram shows long range bombers based in Alaska. The image emphasizes air power reach and strategic deployment in the era.
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Army
Omar Bradley
Carl Spaatz
UMW Chief Appears Under Court Order to Answer Interrogations
John L. Lewis, chief of the United Mine Workers, appeared before a presidential board investigating the soft coal strike after a federal court order. He arrived with more than 20 aides and said he was there under compulsion of a U S court and would respond to interrogations without making a personal statement.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Edward M. Curran
Wis
UMW
Labor Artment
United Mine Workers
Minton
U. S
Four Vehicle Crash on Route 7 Injures Two
A four car collision five miles east of Winchester on Route 7 at the Route 659 intersection left two people injured. William Riley Berry of Gainesboro had a bruised shoulder and was treated at Memorial Hospital. O H Glenn of Gainesboro had a forehead cut and other bruises but no hospital visit.
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Winchester
William Riley Berry
Gainesboro
Memorial Hospital
O. H. Glenn
Berryville
BE. B. Mitchell
Howard Shockey and Sons Inc
Jean Cornwell Lanham
Oliver Kirk Sargent
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Berry
Glenn
Co. and
Winchester's Judge Richard Parker remembered by locals
Local residents recall Judge Richard Parker and his lineage from Judge Parker I to Judge Richard E. Parker of Retreat near Berryville. Born October 22, 1810 in Richmond, he served as a lawyer in Winchester and Berryville,-entered Congress in 1849, and led the Virginia judiciary until 1869. He presided at John Brown's 1859 trial. He died November 10, 1893. Also listed is a used Hardie Sprayer for sale on a Chevrolet chassis from Pine Motor Co.
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Winchester
Richard Parker
Richard Parker I
Westmoreland
Richard E. Parker
Berryville
Clarke Co
U. S. Senate
Richmond
Congress
Military Authority
Virginia
John Brown
Judge Parker
Mas Jefferson
Chevrolet
Pine Motor Co
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