Senate Votes Deeper Cuts in Labor Dept Funding
Senate leaders push economy as they approve a 1.676 billion dollar appropriation for labor department and federal security agency programs, shaving tens of millions below House totals and far under President Truman's request. Byrd hails the cut and GOP factions clash over specific agency reductions.
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Washington
Senate
Labor Department
Federal Security Agency
House
Capitol
Truman
Byrd
D-Va
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
State, Commerce, and Justice Departments
Army
Navy
Veterans Administration
McCarran
D-Nev
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Pepper
D-Flo
National Cancer Institute
Rural Life Sunday Service at Gainesboro VA Speaker Byrd
Harry F. Byrd Jr. will be principal speaker at Rural Life Sunday services May 11 at 2 30 p m at Gainesboro Frederick County Council of Churches host pastor Rev B W Johnson presides B F Strother Frederick Council president presiding R E Ayler Stephens City High School principal will introduce Byrd Mrs Dorothy Larrick Tillotson to sing two vocal selections Invocation Rev R S Goode scripture Rev John Teter welcome address Rev Mr Johnson response A R Marks Stephens City recognizing county organizations Ployd Wine benediction Rev Raymond I Booze Stephens City
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Harry F. Byrd, Jr
Rural Life
Gainesboro
Frederick
Dorothy Larrick Tillotson
J. Goode
John Teter
Mr. Johnson
A. R. Marks
Stephens City
J. Ployd
Raymond I. Booze
Grand Vifw Farm Sale Attendee O Neal This Saturday
Grand Vifw Farm invites attendance by O Neal at a Saturday sale with tomato and cabbage plants and Irish Cobbler potatoes advertised. Winchester Seed Co lists items and prices. Hershey's Drive-In Restaurant opens offering steaks chops fried chicken seafood and curb service.
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Grand Vifw Farm
Will O’neal
Winchester Seed Co
Hershey’s
Truman Calls Nation to Fire Prevention Fight
President Truman urged national action at the first National Fire Prevention Conference addressing costly fires and auto accidents, promising a health program link and rehabilitation for victims. He warned 1947 losses could top 750 million dollars without broader safety measures.
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Washington
Truman
Mr. Truman
Congress
Addres
Exchange Club Plans Pilot in Light Plane Races
The Exchange Club of Winchester enters Billy P Forney a local G I student with a valid private pilot certificate in a Sunday May 11 cross country light plane race. The event sponsored by Exchange Club Cumberland Md offers 200 prize for first 100 for second and 50 for third. Planes depart Mexico Farms Cumberland at 3 45 pm EST staggered to give Cubs long leads proceed to Martinsburg W Va and then Winchester Valley Airways Bufflick Road final leg arrives about 4 20 pm.
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Exchange Club of
Winchester
Billy P. Forney
G. I
George J. Schecter
Valley Airways
Cumberland
Eder
Mexico Farms
Martinsburg
W. Va
Winchester Valley Airways
Bufflick Road
Berlin's Modern Apothecary Opens in City
Berlin's Apothecary in Berryville opens in 21 E Boscawen Street in the Dr Walter D Myers building. E P Berlin pharmacist of Berryville operates the store on the ground floor with remodeled English half timber styling.
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Berlin
Winchester
Walter D. Myer
E. Boscawen Street
E. P. Berlin
Berryville
E. C. Stuart
Rolfe DuPuy
Navy records sought for Kerrie murder trials
Frederick Circuit Court ordered Hall and Ridgewell to obtain their medical and service records from the Bureau of Naval Personnel to aid the prosecution. Ridgewell, of Portland, Maine, faces trial May 20, Hall, from St Louis, is set for May 22. Both plead not guilty.
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Frederick Circuit Court
Elliott Marshall
Commonwealth
J. Sloan Kuykendall
William Charles Hall
George Richard Ridgewell
Frederick Currie
Grosse Point
Mich
Seaman
Here
Bureau of Naval Personnel
U. S
U. S. Navy
William Hall
George Ridgewell
Ridgewell
Portland
Currie
Hall
St. Louis
Court Appoints 70 Justices In Gainesboro and Opequon
In Frederick County court Judge Elliott Marsh appoints Lee A. Butler of Cross Junction and Robert E. ONeal of Middle Town as justices of the peace for Gainesboro and Opequon districts to handle bond issues for traffic offenses. They cannot try cases. a third magistrate may be appointed later at Gore. The 1934 Trial Justice Act allows such appointments for bonding and warrant issuance returnable to trial justice.
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Lee A. Butler
Cross Junction
Robert E. O’neal
Middletown
Gainesboro
Opequon
Elliott Marshall
Gore
Winchester
A. J. Tavenner
W. Erle Edwards
AT and T Drafts Counterproposal to Long Lines Strike
Washington May 6 Negotiators for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company working on the long lines department are drafting a modification of the government wage proposal. The aim is to settle the strike by offering a $4.50 weekly wage boost.
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Washington
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
AT and T Long Lines Department
Arbitration terms filed by Chesapeake and Potomac in Virginia
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company submitted proposed arbitration terms to the Virginia Federation of Telephone Workers and called for withdrawal of state and federal strike notices during arbitration. The VFTW said negotiations would resume this afternoon while the union found the terms unacceptable and offered no firm proposals.
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Richmond
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Virginia Federation of TelePhone Workers
VFTW
Thomas W. Stone
British court sentences Kesselring to death by shooting
A British military court in Venice on May 6 convicted Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, former supreme German commander in Italy, of war crimes against the Italian people and sentenced him to death by firing squad.
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Venice
Albert Kesselring
Italy
Seventy Pounds Pennies Found in Subway Heist
In New York on May 6 at 3 a.m. Transit Patrolman Stanley Hastings followed three youths loading a heavy pail onto a subway train and discovered 70 pounds of pennies. The trio admitted collecting 112 dollars in pennies from gum machines using a stolen locker key.
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New York
Three Younsters
Transit
Stanley Hastings
Hastings
Body of young woman identified in Anacostia River case
The body of a blonde young woman identified as Jewell M. Thompson, 28, of Takoma Park Maryland, was identified by Washington police. The nurse student was found in the Anacostia River near the Naval Air Station on Sunday morning.
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Washington
Anacostia River
Jewell M. Thompson
Takoma Park
Pson
Naval Air Station
Five Relatives Killed in Louisa Kentucky Shootings
In Louisa Kentucky on May 6 a five member family murder spree left 18 month old Law rence Skeens dead and his mother among the victims. Oliver Hurley, 40, named by authorities as the killer, lies in a Wayne West Virginia funeral home after being shot by a special agent yesterday.
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Louisa
Lawrence Skeens
Oliver Hurley
Crown
Wayne
W. Va
Ice
Hirohito and MacArthur meet as Japan debates postwar role
In Tokyo Emperor Hirohito conferred with General MacArthur for a fourth time amid Japanese speculation over whether the United States would defend Japan under the new antiwar constitution. No details were released but observers note anxiety over Allied troop withdrawal and guarantees of protection as Premier Yoshida plans a May 20 cabinet resignation with Diet’s special session looming.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
MacArthur
United States
Japan
America
Shigeru Yoshida
Hillary Brant First Entrant In Winchester Derby
Hillary Brant Jr 14 son of Mr and Mrs H M Brant of Martinsburg Pike is first entrant in the second annual Winchester Soap Box Derby to be held Friday afternoon July 4 Brant runner up in Class A last year sponsors Zero Pack Company Massie Jr appointed general chairman with committees for publicity judges track location finance parade concessions race chairman and more Local winner earns all expenses paid to Akron Ohio for nationals Boys may sign up at B and M Chevrolet Co
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Hillary Brant, Jr
H. M. Brant
Martinsburg Pike
Winchester
Brant
Young Brant
Zeropack Company
Joseph A. Massie, Jr
Junior Board of
Trace
Chevrolet
General Motors
Massie
James March
C. Ridgely White
Philip B. Glaize
Edwin Glaize, Jr
Gene Schumacher
Carl Lewis
William Battaile
Howard Melton
Hilltop
G. T. Binner, Jr
Kenneth Thomas
Johns. Scully
Thomas L. Rudd, Jr
Russell Newcome
Douglas Cather
Chester L. Riley
Akron
Ohio
B and M Chevrolet Co
Five Day Virginia Weather Outlook
Rain begins Wednesday night with a rising trend Friday and Saturday and a small change Sunday. Temperatures average normal to four degrees below normal for the period.
Navy develops 45-foot load carrying rocket for ships
Navy announces a new 45 foot load carrying rocket designed for shipboard launch that can reach 235 miles high, doubling the altitude of the German V-2. Fresh homemade chocolates for Mother's Day advertised from Colonial Kitchen. Lost Irish setter Queenie. contact Hunter Grim at 4104.
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NAVY
Washington
Queenie
Hunter Grim
E Blackburn Moore to Seek Re election to House
E Blackburn Moore announced his candidacy for re election to the House of Delegates representing Winchester Frederick and Clarke since 1933. His seniority marks him as a leading figure in the legislature and he is noted as a hard working effective lawmaker and chairman of the Democratic Caucus.
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E. Blackburn Moore
House of Delegates
Moore
Winchester
Frederick
Clarke
General Assembly
Governor's Legislative Advisory Council
Democratic Caucus
Compromise Seen In Fight Over Voice Of America
A tentative accord would provide the State Department 10 million dollars for Voice of America broadcasts to Russia and Europe. The plan followed a meeting led by Secretary of State Marshall and House Appropriations Chair Taber after Taber's panel rejected full funding of 31.38 million for cultural relations. Conditions include loyalty and unified leadership of the State Department.
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Voice of America
Washington
State Department
Russia
Marshall
Taber
House Appropriations Committee
Department
Britain Moves Toward Nationalizing Inland Transport
The Labour government won approval in the House of Commons to nationalize inland transport including railways buses trucks subways street cars and canals. The bill now faces a likely heated tussle in the House of Lords as opposition looms and a constitutional clash could arise.
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London
Britain
House of Commons
House of Lords
Aneurin Bevan
Laborite
Bank of England
Air Transport
Cable and Wireless, Ltd
Soviet Press Day Article Defends Free Press Model
Izvestia in Moscow radio remarks praise Soviet press freedom as belonging to a free people and service to the public. It contrasts Western media as corrupt and dishonest and criticizes Hearst style deception while noting democracy needs a free press.
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London
Izvestia
Moscow Radio Today
Russia
David Zaslavsky
Zaslavsky
U. S
Hearst
Former Soldier Confesses to 1941 Baltimore Girl Killing
Bradley Casteel, 30, held on drunkenness at Norfolk City Farm, told police he shot and buried a Baltimore woman named Anne Richardson six years earlier. He described meeting her at Fort Meade in 1941, taking her to Big Stone Gap, digging a five foot grave in Bone Hollow, and burying the body. Authorities pursue verification as records for Anne Richardson remain elusive.
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Norfolk
Bradley Caseel
Norfolk City
Baltimore
Bone Hollow
Big Stone Gap
Wise County
Leon Nowitzky
Casteel
Anne Richardson
Fort Meade
Mda
House Nears Vote On Controversial Turkish Policy
Debated measure advances on a nine hour rule despite divisions. Rep. Eaton backs the plan as the House weighs implications of Turkey policy amid Greek Turkish tensions and post Moscow meeting shifts. Senate already passed the measure 67 to 23.
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Rep
Eaton
R-Nj
Mareshall
Moscow
Foreign Ministers’ Council
Marshall
Harold
Minnesota
House
Bender
United Tes
Owens
R-Iii
Uncle Sam
Sante
Democratic House
Martin
Mass
Eratic
Senate
Trinity Church Marks 250th Anniversary in New York
Trinity Church at Wall Street marks its 250th birthday as skyscrapers loom over its spires. The church holds noon services daily and manages holdings valued at 50 990 000. Rector Rev Freders Fleming leads staff ministering to workers in the financial district. Spiritual and aesthetic role emphasized by Emil Sherman of the New York group.
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New York
Trinity Church
Wall Street
Financial District
Trinity
Freders. Fleming
Emiil Sheram
New Henry
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