Coal Shortage Triggers Cutbacks Across Virginia Industries
Virginia businesses face output cuts as coal shortages deepen. Crompton Shenandoah at Waynesboro trims operations to three days weekly while seeking new coal sources. Danville gains two extra coal carloads for 12 days of gas plant fuel. Roanoke Viscose adds oil. Portsmouth Navy Yard shifts fuel. Fredericksburg Sylvan Industrial suspends departments with 175 workers furloughed.
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Crompton -Shenandoah
Waynesboro
Crompton- Shenandoah
Danville
Solid Fuels Administration
B. A. Pollock
Ville
Viscose
Roanoke
Norfolk Navy Yard
Portsmouth
Dan River
Fredericksburg
Nonceilo
Sylvan Industrial Corporation
the . T’s
Prancipa
Golfer Takes Practice Swing Breaks Both Legs
Moody Weaver, a longtime golfer since 1929, borrowed a wood at Wichita Falls municipal course to demonstrate his swing. He collapsed after the practice, suffering a left leg fracture above the knee and ankle, and a right leg fracture below the knee. an operation was performed.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Moody Weaver
Weaver
Municipal
Negro honored as American Mother of 1946
New York May 2 Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement of Louisville Kentucky a 71 year old mother of seven and grand daughter of a slave is named American mother of 1946 by the American Mothers of Committee of the Golden Rule Foundation She is the 12th recipient since 1935 and will represent American mothers at Mother's Day events.
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New York
Emma Clarissa Clement
Louisville
American Mothers of Committee
The
Golden Rule Foundation
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Clement
Providence
R. I
Livingstone College
Salisbury
N. C
George Clinton Clement
Livingstone
Abbie Jackson
Women's Home Ad Foreign Mission Society
A, M. E. Zion Church
Rufus E. Clement
Atlanta University
Frederick A. Clement
West Virginia College
Ruth G. Bond
Inter-Americanation
Haiti
George W. Clément
Red Cross
Italy
James A. Clement
Hood Theological Seminary
Emma Co
Tuskegee
Ala
Insti
Rations of U S Troops in Europe To Be Reduced
Frankfurt dispatch reports American occupation troops in Europe will have rations cut by 300 calories daily starting May 5. Officials estimate current daily rations at about 3,600 calories, a reduction equivalent to two milk chocolate bars per man.
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U. S
Europe
Frankfurt
U. S. Army
Admiral Nimitz Visits Admiral Nulton in Winchester
Admiral Nimitz Rear Admiral Byrd and Congressman Robertson visit Admiral Louis M. Nulton at his North Loudoun Street home. Nulton served with Nimitz and Byrd during a long naval career and is honored as one of Winchester’s outstanding citizens.
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Chester Nimitz
Richard E. Byrd
A. Willis Robertson
Winchester
Navy
Louis M. Nulton
Nulton
North Loudoun St
Admiral Nimitz
Byrd
Hold Up Rome Radio Staff Amid Fascist Hymn Broadcast
Italian police hunt five men for holding up a Rome radio staff and broadcasting a Fascist hymn. Four others linked to grenade and bomb attacks on Communist and Socialist offices were arrested. Veterans among the suspects denied fascist ties, saying they hate Communists. L Osservatore Romano urged calm ahead of the Paris talks.
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Rome
Munist
Socialst
Vatican
L’osservatore Romano
Italy
Paris
Ex-GI Held In Knife Slaying In Wilkes-Barre
A 38-year-old ex GI and former mental hospital inmate was detained without charge in the Wilkes-Barre shop district murder of Ruth Dattner 35. Police chief J Russell Taylor said the suspect confessed a sudden desire to stab someone and was captured by bystanders who turned him over to officers.
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Wilkes-Barre
J. Russell Taylor
Ruth Dattner
William Mousnick
Taylor
Housnick
Young Queens boy faces murder trial as jury selection stalls
In New York on May 2, jurors remained scarce as scruples against the death penalty slow the selection for 14 year old Jack Turk charged with first degree murder in the strangling of 3 year old Sybil Gurfein. By today 123 jurors had been examined since Monday with 11 jurors and one alternate seated.
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New York
Jack Turk
Turk
Queens
Sybil Gurfein
Queens County
Noted Pathologist Dies in New York
Dr. Simon Flexner, 83, pathologist and director emeritus of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, died at Presbyterian Hospital after a brief illness. A Louisville native, he joined the Rockefeller Institute in 1901 and was its active director upon retirement in 1935. He earned international honors for his medical work.
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New York
Simon Flexner
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Presbyterian Hospital
Louisville
Flexner
Rockefeller Institute
Answers to the Daily Quiz Revealed
The page lists correct responses to questions from page 4. Entries include loan half not 4000, increased, does not, Jest, five, Potomac, the morning glory family, a tuffet, Venus, Vermont.
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Potomac
Morning-Glory Family
Venus
Vermont
Mrs Haines Passes Away in Winchester
Mrs Emma Haines 69 native of Stephenson died at 8 45 morning at 62 South Loudoun street after a one week illness. She lived in Winchester 54 years and belonged to Christ Episcopal Church. Survived by four sons Leo Howard Robert Charles all of Winchester two daughters Emma Crim Summit Point W Va Goldie Ebersole Winchester and 15 grandchildren a sister Miss Carrie Henry of Winchester. Remains at Jones Funeral Home with no funeral arrangements yet.
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Emma Haines
Haines
South
Loudoun Street
Stephenson
Franklin
Fannie Henry
Winchester
Christ Episcopal Church
Leo
Howard
Robert
Charles Hairies
Emma Crim
Summit Point
W. Va
Goldie Ebersole
Carrie Henry
Jones Funeral Home
Miss Eddy To Be Buried Tomorrow
Miss Gertrude Virginia Eddy, 85, dies Tuesday night. Pallbearers at her funeral Saturday at 4 p.m. are Thomas Eddy, Robert Carr, Floyd Carr, Warren Eddy, John B. Eddy and Virgil Prince. Services at Kurtz Funeral Home with Rev. T. J. Hawkins and Rev. R. Bowen Moore. Burial in Mt Hebron Cemetery.
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Gertrude Virginia Eddy
Thomas Eddy
Robert Carr
Floyd Carr
Warren Eddy
John B. Eddy
Virgil Prince
Eddy
Winchester
Kurtz
T. J. Hawkins
Braddock Street Methodist Church
R. Bowen Moore
Middletown Methodist Church
Mt. Hebron
GIs Ordered to Stop Public Romance in Berlin Streets
Berlin May 2 Maj Gen Walter B Keating new commander of the American garrison issues blunt edict to all officers. Troops urged to return to an austere lifestyle and forego public demonstrations of romance with German girls on Berlin streets.
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Berlin
Walter B. Keating
Keating
U. S. Berlin
Former Sailor Gets Life Term for Slaying Mother
William B. Pyles, 22, testified he was drinking and unable to remember the March 18 shotgun killing of Pearl M. Royce, 40, at James Royce’s Glen Echo Heights home. A Montgomery County circuit court jury convicted him after about an hour of deliberation, and he faces life imprisonment.
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Rockville
William B. Pyles
Sevare
Montgomery County
Pearl M. Royce
Cabin John
James Royce
Glen Echo Heights
Middleboro Band Draws Crowds at City Hall Pavilion
Middleboro High School Band entertained crowds at City Hall Pavilion this morning. The band arrived in two buses from Middleboro Kentucky and drew favorable comment from onlookers and organizers.
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Middleboro
City Hall Pavilion
Kentucky
Merger of Power Companies Approved
The Federal Power Commission authorized the merger of four Virginia power companies, all subsidiaries of Potomac Edison, as an economy measure. Northern Virginia Power Company in Winchester was approved to acquire facilities of Page and Massanutten in Luray and the Va. Power Company in Virginia.
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Washington
Virginia Power Companies
Potomac Edison Company
Frederick
Price rise warning follows prematur e burial of price control
Atlantic City OPA administrator Paul Porter warned that any premature end to price controls could push average price increases of 30 to 50 percent. Los Angeles transit workers voted 3142 to 31 to strike over higher wages, threatening mobility for nearly a million residents. Berlin stories questioned, British officer called Hitler identification claims nonsense. Schacht on Munich 1938: Britain and France handed Hitler concessions on a silver platter. Philadelphia judge Bolger says accepting another faith does not disinherit a will beneficiary.
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Atlantic City
Paul Porter
OPA
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Transit and Motor Coach Lines
Mernberg
Hjalmar Schacht
International Tribunal Today
Britain
France
Munich
Hitler
Germany
Arabs Reject Recommendations On Palestine
An Arab higher committee official said the group delivered a letter to Britain accusing the Anglo American inquiry report of a near ultimatum and vowing to prepare defense to resume the national struggle. Ahamed Shukairy warned of an uprising like 1936 39 if Britain acts. The committee urged unity for a protest strike and named an emergency body to plan civil disobedience.
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Jerusalem
Arab Higher Committee
Britain
Palestine
Ahamed Shukairy
Shukairy
Izzat Tannous
British-American Commission
Arab Committee
War on campus petting at Illinois prompts crackdown
Champaign May 2 A university of Illinois effort to curb campus petting gained support from the dean of men E E Stafford who called public displays of affection a public display of poor taste He said campus policemen would break up overly amorous couples following a faculty student meeting yesterday and that the school would push for more desirable forms of recreation.
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Champaign
Ill
University of Ilinois
E. E. Stafford
Lini Union
George Trenary Dies at Boyce
George Wheatley Trenary a 65 year old Clarke county resident and former automobile salesman died at 1 30 am at his Boyce home after years of ill health He was born in Warren county March 28 1882 and married Minnie E Johnson in Front Royal 39 years ago She died 27 years ago He is survived by two children Lucy A Trenary and ten C Trenary a number of brothers and sisters Funeral services will be held Saturday May 4 at 2 30 pm from John H Enders Funeral Home Berryville with interment at Mount Hebron Cemetery
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George Wheatley Trenary
Boyce
Marshall Trenary
Valinda Johnston Trenary
Waren County
Warren County
Clarke County
Minnie E. Johnson
Front Royal
Glen Burch
Pine Motor Company
Winchester
Lucy A. Trenary
C. Trenary
New York
W. S. Carper
Bessie Grim
Harley Trenary
Carl Trenary
Millie Gauntamé
Johnston Trenary
John H. Enders
Berryville
Mount Hebron
Barkley Defies OPA Critics Over Price Control Debate
Senator Barkley challenged a statement that a few men seize control of prices and destinies of America. The pamphlet The OPA Must Go was linked to Mark Pickerell of Naperville Illinois. Witnesses urged rent and price control adjustments as Congress weighs extending OPA powers.
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Washington
Barkley
D-Ky
America
OPA
Senate Banking
Senate
House
James C. Down
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Pickell
IV F men may enlist as Army lowers induction standards
In some cases a man classified IV-F could be accepted by one branch. The Army has recently lowered its physical standards for induction. Contact local Army and Navy recruiting officers for guidance.
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Army
Army and Navy
Byrd Urges Cuts in U S Workers Abroad and Home
Senator Harry F Byrd of Virginia urged immediate reductions in government personnel both abroad and at home. He cited a postwar civilian staff report showing an 86822 net increase in U S federal positions in the first five months after V J Day, with larger cuts in War and Navy Department staffing.
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Virginianator
U. S. Senate
Congress
Joint Committee
United States
War and Navy Department
War and Navy Departments
Congress Confronts War Agencies and Personnel Reform
A draft text calls Congress to set a civilian personnel ceiling at 1 650 000 by June 30 1947 and requires rapid liquidation of war emergency agencies. It urges reorganizing plans and peacetime staffing in the executive branch and establishing BY law standards for personnel reporting and publication including nomenclature and program measures.
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Congress
Executive Branch
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Rosemont Estate
R. D. Tavenner
Longwood Farm
J. L. Carper
Boyce, VA
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Minnie E. Carper Boyce
James A. Conrad
Admiral Nalton
Mrs. Haines
Miss Eddy
Downyflake Donnruts
RED Wing Restaurant
Herford
Army of the Rhine
Adolf Hitler
Eva Braun
Philadelphia
Orphans Court
Robert V. Bolger
George Trenary
Buena Vista Farm
Guernsey
D. C
Loudoun County
McCormick-Deering
McCorpie
H. M. Berry C. Preston Engle
G. E. Vickers
Heinz Baby Food
the Food Center
N. Loudoun St
J. G. Holsinger & Son
Court Square
Pine Motor CO
Dodge-Plymouth
Winchester Furniture. CO
Complete Home
South Loudoun St
Virginia Loan & Thrift Corporation
Cammer Tire Co
C. B. Smalts & Son
National Avenue
Leicester ST
Royal Pike
State Road
H. H. Marlow
E. Main St
G.I
Valley Airways, Inc
G. I
Veterans
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