Five Escape Injury When Rammed Car Is Demolished
A 1939 auto was nearly demolished in Clarke county after a rear ramming by Connie Tomblin of Winchester at 4 30 p m Saturday. Ernest Massinio of Baltimore drove the damaged car with his wife and three relatives nursing superficial cuts. Tomblin faces a driving under the influence charge. Thurman Dinges of Winchester is jailed for drunkenness. A second Clarke county crash caused about 400 dollars in damage with no injuries. Winchester police logged a Cork Street two car collision involving a 1946 Buick and a 1936 Oldsmobile, with minor damage to both vehicles.
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R. 1
Clarke County
Lawrence Coverstone
Ernest Massinio
Baltimore
Opequon Creek
Connie Tomblin
Winchester
Tomblin
Thurman Dinges
Massinno
Ruth Crites
Petersburg
Winchester Hospital
Frank Pendleton
Boyce
Cork St
Buick
Raymond Riddleberger
Charles Town
Riddleberger
Olds
John B. Brown
Loudoun St
Youthful Judges Prep for Show and Sale Saturday
Over 100 4 H and FFA members prepare for a beef cattle judging contest at 10 a m Saturday at the Farmers Livestock Exchange with Shenandoah Valley Polled Shorthorn Breeders Assn sale to follow. Entrants from multiple counties compete for prizes from Breeders Assn and local banks. At 1 p m the Breeders Assn sale will feature three shorthorn heifers cows and bulls.
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FFA
Farmers Livestock Exchange Arena
Shenandoah Valley
National Farm Loan Assn. of
Winchester
Shenandoah Production Credit Assn
Watkins quits NATO hearings amid humiliation claim
Senator Watkins of Utah quits the North Atlantic Pact hearings accusing Chairman Connally of humiliating him. The confrontation is described as tense and partisan, reflecting intra party strife during the review.
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Washington
Watkins
Utah
Connally
D-Tex
West Germany Draft Constitution Approved Amid Debate
Bonn reports the constitutional convention backed a democratic federal republic for the Western zones with 53 votes to 12. The plan omits an army provision and sets a bill of rights, banning censorship and the death penalty while outlining future West German government steps and potential East German integration.
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Germany
Toddler Burned In Odd Accident
Billy Good the two year old son of Mrs. Mary DeHaven Good sustained first and second degree burns to his arms and legs after falling onto a hot air furnace register at his grandmother’s home in Northwestern Grade. He was taken to the hospital in satisfactory condition and the injury occurred when rugs over the floor register retained heat from a rekindled fire.
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Billy Good
Mary DeHaven Good
Hayes DeHaven
Soviet Army Says Only It Can Win Modern War
Marshal Sokolovsky in Pravda accuses the United States and Britain of creating artificial tensions and says the new type Soviet army could win a modern war. He claims Western allies conducted limited operations in World War II and sabotaged Yalta and Potsdam. He asserts no peace treaty with Germany exists and warns the anti democratic camp led by the United States plans a new war.
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Moscow
Vassily Sokolovsky
U. S
Britain
Sokolovsky
Germany
Yalta
Potsdam
Russia
Pravda
Miller Sidesteps Challenge To Name Persecuted Men
Virginia races quicken as Francis Miller picks up campaign staff and announces regional contenders for the Virginia House of Delegates. Louis Spilman will run Miller's state campaign from Richmond while traveling the state. Miller accuses Byrd loyalists of punishing critics and says top executives will not be renominated if he wins. He refuses to name individuals to avoid further persecution.
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Miller
Associated Press
Virginia
Louis Spilman
Waynesboro
New Virginian
Francis Miller
Charlottesville
News-Virginian
Richmond
Colilier
Virginia State Federation Labor
Hampton
Alvin Massenburg
State Democratic Central Committee
House
Massenburg
Petersburg
Edward D. Lucas
House of Delegates
Byrd Party
Harry F. Byrd Jr
Winchester Star
Red Spearhead 200 Miles South of Yangtze River
Shanghai reports fighting around Kaiting near Shanghai as Red troops push 200 miles south of the Yangtze. Chinese and foreign firms ordered to turn over 950 trucks and 300 jeeps for military use. Li Tsung-jen reemerges in Canton amid Nationalist leadership jockeying.
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Shanghai
Kaiting
Hangchow
Lake Poyang
Yangtze
Shanghai-Nanking
Canton
Li Tsung-jen
Kenelin
Rouss Firemen To Parade At Valley and Virginia Events
Rouss firemen voted to send a marching unit to the Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen's Assn. convention parade at Mechanicsburg this summer and to the Northern Virginia Assn. parade at Front Royal next month. They will decide on entering the aerial truck based on other local equipment. Some gear must stay in the city for local protection.
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Rouss
Cumberland Valley
Barr's Weed Spraying Service Ad at Apple Hill
An old classified notice promotes custom weed spraying for corn grain and pasture fields using Weed-No-More. It lists contact numbers Barr's Phone 3838 and Winchester 3263 and mentions a building lot near Apple Hill four miles from Winchester.
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BARR
Apple Hill
Winchester
Bebe
Ford Insists Strike Can Be Settled Quickly
Ford Motor Co refused outside mediation offers and maintain the dispute should be arbitrated by a company union expert. The CIO UAW rejected the idea as a mass demonstration led by Walter Reuther and Dearborn Mayor Hubbard highlighted the strike affecting 65,000 workers coast to coast.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
CIO
United Auto Workers
UAW
Walter Reuther
Orville Hubbard
Dearborn
Rouge
Hubbard
George Edwards
Ford
John S. Bugas
Bugas
Daniels Declines Navy Secretary Post
Friends of Jonathan Daniels said he has declined the post of secretary of the Navy after a weekend conference with Secretary of Defense Johnson. Daniels edits the Raleigh News and Observer in North Carolina according to reports from Washington.
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Washington
Jonathan Daniels
Moscow Lifts Berlin Blockade Early Thursday
Moscow radio reports the Soviet zone commander orders restoration of transport trade and communications in Berlin. The blockade ends at 12 01 a m Thursday and traffic will resume into the eastern sector as British experts prepare. A Four Power agreement in New York set a Paris meeting May 2 to discuss Germany's future.
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Nazi Germany
East Germany
Council of Foreign Ministers
Paris
Germany
U. S
Washington
West Germany
London
Moscow Radio
V. I. Chuikov
Moscow
New York
Councils of
Too Many Byrds In Congress, Says President Truman
President Truman reportedly told veterans there are too many Byrds in Congress. Gilbert A. Harrison cited that Truman urged voters to elect lawmakers who view issues in national terms rather than narrow aims. Senator Harry F. Byrd is the only Byrd in Congress, and he has opposed many of Truman’s proposals.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Gilbert A. Harrison
American Veterans Committee
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Byrd
Mr. Truman
Mon C. Wallgren
Washington State
National Security Resources Board
Wallgren
Pilot and Nurse Survive Mount Hozomeen Crash Six Days Later
Vancouver pilot Bill Grant and nurse Sheila Cure returned to civilization after six days adrift in the mountains eight miles from Granbrook. Stranded by ice and snow, they endured cold and hunger with only a square of chocolate daily until rescue by RCAF crews and pararescue teams.
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Vancouver
B. C
Associated Press
Bill Grant
Sheila Cure
Mount Hozomeen
Grant
Granbrook
Coquihalla Pass
Big Bend
Princeton
Miss Cure
RCAF
Truman weighing labor bill versus Atlantic pact in Senate
Senate leaders report no decision on whether to advance the administration labor bill or the North Atlantic pact first after a White House conference with President Truman. Lucas said action on both matters is expected to take substantial time and that Truman will indicate priority.
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Jack Bell Washington
Senate
Lucas
D-Ill
White House
Firebug Suspected In Forest Blazes Near Star tannery
Two suspicious fires broke out at the R. P. Sager farm south of Star tannery, late last night. Sheriff DeHaven and deputies, aided by forest wardens and bloodhounds, could not locate a suspect as investigation continues.
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R. P. Sager
Star Tannery
Robert de- Haven
DeHaven
Thomas Rosenberger
Hollis Reynolds
D. Harding Whitacre
Front Royal Rd
Paddy
Ticket Framed by Rightists for Sept CIO Vote
Dayton dispatch reports 300 right-wing delegates at a two day conference nominating a slate to challenge Albert Fitzgerald for CIO United Electrical Workers leadership. Frederick Kelley of Lynn Massachusetts heads the ticket with James E. Carey, former president, aiding campaign as volunteer precinct worker. Carey is secretary treasurer of the National CIO.
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Dayton
CIO
United Electrical Workers’ Union
Frederick Kelley
Harvard
Lynn
Mass
Kelley
The
International
Albert Fitzgerald
Cleveland
James E. Carey
Union
Carey
National Cio
Lonely Hearts Bride Slain Confession Sparks Case in Missouri
A 52-year-old man admitted strangling his Lonely Hearts club bride Mrs. Mahurin near Farmington Missouri on March 17. Authorities said the confession breaks the case. Mahurin claimed the wife’s clothing caught fire from a stove explosion, but patrol tests found no explosion or fire.
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Farmington
Lonely Hearts Club
Missouri Highway Patrol
Set
A. G. White
William C. Mahurin
Here
Mahurin
Highway Patrol
Pingley
Tuberculosis X-ray Clinic Opens in Stonewall
The County Tuberculosis Association launched a drive to stamp out TB with a portable X-ray unit. At Stonewall school at 9 a.m. citizens, Clearbrook Woolen Mill employees, and Stonewall pupils were screened, with the machine later at Stephens City High School from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mrs. A. W. Wright announced the effort.
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Winchester
Frederick
County Tuberculosis Assn
Stonewall School
Clearbrook Woolen Mill
A. W. Wright
County Tuberculosis Association
Stephens City High School
Bruce Approved as Ambassador to France
The Senate foreign relations committee approved unanimously and without debate President Truman's nomination of David K. E. Bruce to be ambassador to France. Quick Senate approval is expected.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Truman
David K. E. Bruce
France
Senate
High School Girl Murdered at Christ Church Roanoke
Dana Marie Weaver a Jefferson High School junior was found dead in the kitchen area of Christ Episcopal Church Roanoke. Police questioned three Virginia Tech students aiding in the probe with details indicating she was last seen before 6 p.m. and suffered head injuries possibly from a bottle attack.
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Roanoke
Blacksburg
Virginia Tech
Dana Marie Weaver
Christ Episcopal Church
Jefferson High School
Frank H. Webb
Commonwealth
C. EB. Cuddy
Tech
West Virginia
Captain Webb
Weaver
Lean SS
Dets
H. L. Britt
C. B. Shelor
Hail and Wind Ravage Jefferson County Crops
A severe wind and hail storm struck the Charles Town area causing heavy damage to Jefferson county crops. Apple orchards suffered severe impact while the full extent on apple trees remained uncertain. orchard manager Clarence Singhas described it as one of the worst storms with many trees uprooted.
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Charles Town
Jefferson County
Clarence Singhas
H. F. Byrd
Jefferson Orchard
Southern Democrats Push for Renewal of Trade Agreements
In Washington on May 9 Southern Democrats pledged to back President Truman’s bid to extend the trade agreements program in its original form. Senator George of Georgia will helm the Senate fight with Byrd and Sparkman lending support. GOP opposition led by Millikin, with Tait and Wherry, seeks to retain 80th Congress restrictions and the peril point provisions on tariffs, while House already defeated these limits. The outcome hinges on Senate floor votes within about ten days.
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Washington
Truman
George
D-Ga
Senate
Byrd
D-Va
Sparkman
D-Ala
Congress
Millikin
R-Cole
GOP
Tait of Ghie
Wherry
Nebraska
80Th Congress
House
Senate Finance Committee
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
Are- Millikin
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