America’s Voice Stir in House Chambers
The Senate debate over the State Department cultural relations program spills into three areas. The House cuts 1948 funding requests for the Voice of America broadcasts and tabers appropriations panel plans a news conference. State witnesses face hearings on legal status for the cultural division while a Greek language shortwave service is added abroad. Assistant Secretary Benton warns that failing to reverse the cut could force him to leave.
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Washington
State Department
House
Department
Marshall
Taber
R-Ny
Appropriations Committee
Voice of America
House Foreign Affairs Committee
William Benton
Congress
Tabor
Russia
Capitol Softball Team Runs Over Stephens City 24 4
The Capitol Restaurant softball team defeated Stephens City under the lights by 24 to 4. Pitcher Jack Fretwell held the county team to four hits while Capitol collected 28 hits off Shiflett and Mauck. Larue hit two homers, with White and Grim each adding one.
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Capitol Restaurant
Stephens City
Jack Fretwell
Shiflett and
Mauck
Larue
White and Grim
Behind the Silken Curtain Crum’s Europe Palestine Inquiry
Book review of Behind the Silken Curtain recounts Bartley Crum as part of the Anglo American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine. It covers six American and six British members studying Palestinian immigration and Jewish refugee conditions, tracing influences from the Balfour Declaration to the League mandate and Woodrow Wilson era sympathy.
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Bartley C. Crum
Europe
Committee of Inquiry
Palestine
League of Nation
Wilson
Jordan Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley Authority
Walter Clay Lowdermilk
Soil Conservation Service
Department of Agriculture
Pal
Estine
Dr. Einstein
Evan Wilson
State Department
Near East
Soviet Union
Continents
Bartley Crum
Washington
London
Vienna
Cairo
Jerusalem
Virginia Garden Clubs Convene May 19 21
The Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs will hold its thirteenth annual convention in Richmond May 19 21 with delegates from about 201 federated clubs. President Mrs C B Nettleton of Covington announced the plans and said the theme is He who Adds Beauty Adds Lasting Glory.
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Richmond
Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs
C. B. Nettleton
Covington
Northern Virginia Phone Workers Postpone Strike
A strike by 350 telephone operators in Northern Virginia has been deferred by the Washington Telephone Traffic Union. The action would have affected workers in Alexandria Arlington and Falls Church and was postponed to a future date per WTTU president Mrs Mary Gannon who notified Governor Tuck.
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Northern Virginia
Alexandria
Virginia
Washington Telephone Traffic Union
Arlington
Falls Church
Mary Gannon
WTTU
Tuck
Governor Delays Action in Telephone Strike Case
Judge L McCarthy Downs of the State Corporation Commission traveled to Alexandria to arrange seizure of telephone facilities during a walkout but the governor said the state would take no action while the utility remains in operation. The governor acknowledged receipt of the message.
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L. McCarthy Downs
The
State Corporation Commission
Alexandria
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