Doomed Man Seeks Writ For Virginia Death Penalty Case
The convict Harrison filed a petition for a writ of appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals challenging five grounds of error from his trial last September. His lawyers argued the verdict rested on circumstantial evidence and that the Commonwealth failed to prove premeditation in the drowning death in an abandoned quarry near the Petersburg pike. They urged an oral argument on the 600 page record.
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Virginia Supreme of Appeals
Sappeal
Am. Turner
A. Clair Sager
Commonwealth
Petersburg Pike
Harrison
German Prisoner Found Hiding in Barracks Attic
Herbert Heuer a 23 year old German prisoner of war described as dangerous by the FBI was located in a barracks attic at Camp Gordon near Augusta after a five day search across Georgia and South Carolina. Heuer who speaks only German had not escaped Camp Gordon as rumors suggested and was found last Saturday hiding since then with a German speaking background.
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Atlanta
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Georgia
South Carolina
Camp Gordon
Augusta
Herbert @uer
Wes
Heuer
Presbyterian Woman’s Meeting Elects District Chairs
Mrs Slonaker and Mrs Morris lead planning as chairmen for Districts A B and C keep posts. White Cross work chairman named. Berryville to host next year’s gathering at the Presbyterian Church. Rev McLaughlin lauds benevolence and education efforts as 30 of 40 churches in the Presbytery attend.
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Tinsbure
W. Va
J.C. Morris
Woodstock
H. G. Dunling
Germania
Charles Kirk
Romney
Hugh Shipper
Martinsburg
J. A. McMurray
Winchester
White Cross
Berryville
Presbyterian Church In
McLaughlin
Presbytery
Jean Liston
Louisville
L. @. Russell
Jene Assembly
Mobile
Minor Miller
Jay Towden
Massasetta
R. K. McDonald
Keyser
Ancock, Md
Ration Calendar Updates for Meats Fats and Foods
The Associated Press notes book four red stamps A8 to T8 now valid with no further red-stamp validation until June 3. Blue stamps A8 to Q8 are valid indefinitely, five-stamp series to be issued June 1. Sugar stamps 30 and 31 allow five pounds each, stamp 40 five pounds for home use. airplane stamps 1 and 2 valid indefinitely. three gallons B-2 IS and C-3 coupons for five gallons everywhere.
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Associated Press
Methodist Youth Music Festival Planned for May 14
The Third Annual Music Festival sponsored by the Winchester District Children’s Division of the Virginia Conference Board of Education will be held Sunday afternoon May 14 at 3 o'clock in Market Street Methodist Church. Choirs from Braddock Street Market Street and Montague Avenue Winchester Front Royal Luray Grace Church Middletown and Edinburgh Methodist Churches will perform under directors Mrs. H L Riley and Mrs. H Wark Curry.
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Children’s Division
Winchester
Virginia Conference Board of Education
Methodist Church
Market Street Methodist Church
Braddock Street
Market Street
Montague Avenue
Front Royal
Luray
Grace Church
Middleburg
Edinburgh Methodist Church
H. L. Riley
Brad
St. Church, Winchester
Army band to lead parades through Paris and Berlin
London May 11 United States Army band that followed General Eisenhower in Africa and Sicily has now reached London and its director Thomas D Arcy says it will do the same in Europe leading parades through Paris and Berlin.
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London
United States Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Africa
Sicily
Thomas D'Arcy
Europe
Paris
Berlin
Baltimore Market Quotation Roundup May 11 Maryland and Chicago
Market notes from Baltimore and Chicago detail produce and livestock prices. Apples and wine apples firm. eggs and butter steady or unchanged. Cattle, calves, hogs, and sheep show varied swings with steady or higher prices for some classes. larger hog totals and limited test of values noted in Baltimore. Chicago reports slow hog sales with mixed weight effects and steady to lower cattle and calf values. hefty hogs unsold but overall market firmness in some categories.
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Baltimore
Va. W. Va
Bas
Baltimore Livestock
W. F.a.—Office of Distribution
Stock Market Report Shows Cautious Trading Across Leaders
New York May 11 timid buyers kept to low and medium priced issues while leaders flickered in a slightly irregular area. Practically all gains came from scattered funds but cash positions remained as investors awaited war developments and possible technical reactions after the April decline. Front running names included Gotham Hosiery Houston Oil White Motors RKO Chrysler GM Santa Fe American Telephone Western Union and International Nickel with laggards like U S Steel Bethlehem Great Northern Anaconda Montgomery Ward Du Pont International Harvester Aircraft and General Electric. Bonds were narrow and commodities eased. Forward leaders included Cuban Atlantic Sugar Pantepec International Petroleum and Electric Bond & Share.
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New York
Gotham Hosiery
Houston Oil
White Motors
R-K-O
Chrysler
General Motors
Santa Fe
American Telephone
Western Union
International Nickel
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
Great Northern
Anaconda
Montgomery Ward
du Pont
Internationl Harvester
Oe Aircraft
General Electrc
Cuban Atlantic Sugar
Pantepec
International Etroleum
Electric Bond & Share
Chicago Grain Quotations May 11 Opening Dip
Chicago May 11 futures opened fractionally lower amid broad market weakness. Traders watched early price moves as grains respond to overnight shifts and supply cues from the Midwest markets.
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Chicago
Government wheat crop estimate exceeds trade by early report
Government winter wheat crop estimate was larger than traders expected. Opening prices showed July at 1.69 3-8, Sept at 1.01 65 to 1-2, Dec at 1.44 7-8. Rye moved May 1.28 1-8 to 1-4, July futures incomplete.
September basketball scores and schedules update
The fragment lists dates and records for 7-8 grade games from September 1 to 22. It notes shifts in team standings with sequences 1-22, 3-8, and 1-2, indicating game outcomes and progress.
Haystack Hut Fire Rises Near Nelson Monument
In gar Square a large haystack hut serving as a recruiting base for farm workers burned down after being lit briefly. The blaze drew attention as the structure stood near the Nelson monument and its construction dated back to the war era.
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Nelson Monument
Grant Pollock Named Toastmaster for Bowling Banquet
Grant Pollock has been named toastmaster for the annual banquet of the Ladies Evening Star Bowling League and the Men's B League to be held Thursday May 18 at Yorks. Guest tickets go on sale at the Bowling Alley and must be bought by Monday May 15.
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Grant Pollock
Evening Star
Yorks
Nannie Richardson Dies In Baltimore
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Sugar Hill near White Post for Nannie Richardson who died Tuesday night at the home of a daughter in Baltimore Maryland. A Clarke county native she moved to Philadelphia years ago. She was a daughter of the late Rev. B R Jackson. Her husband is deceased. Surviving are two daughters Naomi Edmond Baltimore Elizabeth Walton California a son Rev H C Jackson of Boyce. Five brothers and sisters and 11 grandchildren also survive.
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Sugar Hill
White Post
Nannie Richardson
Baltimore
Clarke County
Philadelphia
Market Report on Lamb and Sheep Prices
Opening slow with 25 lower and five and a half loads. Good to choice fed western lambs mostly above 15.75. Shorn lambs unchanged. Sheep dull with weak demand. Short deck common wooled ewes 6.50. Aged wethers 7.75 and yearling wethers 10.00.
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Mrs. Slonaker
Lowell Bennett
International News Service
South Orange
N. J
Bennett
Germany
International
Methodist Youth Present
Chicago Livestock
Ciilge Bonon
Gwrniluten
John W. Rosenberger & Co
S. Braddock St
Sigwur Wien
Stock Market Report
Trafalgar Square
Gar Square
Oedeenhy
Raylass
At— Savings
Department Stores
Bell
Bell Clothes Stores
Moility
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