Gas Lines Survey Finds Few Leaks But Not Alarming
Pittsburgh gas expert D Johnson told Winchester City Council that a city ordered survey found only a few minor leaks and no fuel line leaks on tested premises. The 154 page report covered about 2500 dwellings and businesses with tests from meter to consumption point.
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D. Q.johnson
Pittsburgh
Consumer Utilities Co
Winchester
Comexpense
State Cotton Commission
Neil
William A. Starkey
2 Gas Company
Johnson
General House
Clarke Water Color Contest Prizes and Plans Announced
Newly named committee chairs announced for the Luta Poyner Hendricks water color contest to be held Friday and Saturday at Berryville Community Building. Prizes include 25 and 15 dollars for top awards plus secondary prizes. children's section adds 3 and 2 dollars. Event, sponsored by Genevieve Hendricks of Loudoun County, aims to attract art lovers with additional exhibits and continued committee support.
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Luta Poyner Hendricks
Berryville
Oa Massey
J. R. Beardall
Roberta Winter
E. Perlin
W. D. Wisecarr Jr
Genevieve Hendricks
Loudoun
Frank E. Tappan
Norman C. Scott
Massey
Oneral
F. L. Ay
W. C. Owens
Patoliand
G. C. Spon
Graham Dougherty
L. N. McKinney
Cd T. White
Arthur
J. C. McKown
Missy Lewis
Sarah M. Sipe
Mary Thompson
Walter Lee
W. E. Clevenger
James Hill
Malvin Angerbeam
Albert Long
William E. Sparrow
B. Watkins Jr
Fies Thompson
Doubled Tax on Company Profits Sought
London government moves to double taxes on company profits and sharply raise levies on alcoholic drinks and many consumer goods. Chancellor Hugh Dalton proposes restricting advertising deductions to half of advertising expenditures.
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London
House of Commons
Hugh Dalton
Dalton
City and County Pension Plan Urged by Public Workers
A Virginia study committee heard requests to extend State retirement benefits to Commonwealth's attorneys, treasurers, clerks of the courts, revenue commissioners, sheriffs, sergeants and deputies. Richmond official E Glenn Jordan called city and state officers “so many orphans” without a pension, urging action.
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Richmond
Virginia
Capitol
Virginia Advisory Legislative Council
E. Blackburn Moore
Berryville
Commonwealth
Revenue
House of Delegates
E. Glenn Jordan
Clarke Farm Rats Cause $50,000 Yearly Grain Loss
Former New Orleans publisher James M. Thomson argues in a farm letter that Clarke county rats, mice and groundhogs damage about $50,000 worth of grain yearly on 500 local farms. He estimates national losses at $600 million and 300 million bushels, urging stronger rodent control and noting his Gaylord farm experience.
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Tate Wade
James M. Ga. Y
Gaylord
Clarke
Fish and Wildlife Service
Department of Interior
New Orleans Item-Tribune
Thomson
Clarke County
America
Tax Receipts Forecast May Beat Budget by Two Billion
Government analysts say tax collections for the current fiscal year ending June 30 may exceed the 41.7 billion dollar budget estimate by about 2 billion if revenue stays strong. Last year’s total was 43.2 billion. Revenue for July 1 to Oct 31 ran 12.1956 billion, ahead of last year’s pace.
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Washington
Europe
Marshall
Budget Bureau
Japs Stage Parade For Boost in Wages
Tokyo observers say thousands of Japanese unionists marched in downtown Tokyo and before the Diet to press wage increases for government workers. Many marchers were with communications and railway unions. The crowd, estimated at 150000 by Kyodo, sang the Internationale and carried red flags.
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Tokyo
Diet
Kyodo
Mrs H A Snapp Elected Vice President in Richmond
The Associated Women of the Farm Bureau Federation in Richmond elected Mrs. H. A. Snapp of Hayfield as vice president. The November 12 gathering announced the result, highlighting Snapp as a key leader in the group.
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Richmond
Associated Women of the Farm Bureau Federation
H. A. Snapp
Hayfield
Soviet A bomb yarn deemed propaganda
Washington officials say such atom bomb dispatches are Russian propaganda and local Russian audience bait designed to provoke nerves in the cold war. The Paris L Intransigeant tale of a test explosion is treated as rumor and experts dismiss the report as unreliable.
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Elton C. Fay
Washington
Europe
Russia
United States
Paris
Irkutsk
Prague
Moscow
United State
New Mexico
Atomic Energy Commission
Navy officer awarded Chevalier in French Legion of Honor
Decorated Berryville native receives Chevalier rank in the Legion of Honor. The ceremony aboard the French cruiser Georges Leygues near Annapolis Roads honors his 1945 command of the Panama Sea Frontier, under Admiral Beardall, former Naval Academy superintendent.
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Berryville
Georges Leygues
Annapolis Roads
Admiral Beardall
Naval Academy
Panama Sea Frontier
All DC-6 Craft Are Grounded Probe Started
Aviation experts opened a thorough inquiry into a DC-6 fire likened to Utah crash victims. President Truman’s DC-6 Independence was grounded and airlines halted DC-6 operations pending cause analysis. An unquoted informant suggested the fire likely started in the heater compartment beneath the pressurized cabin.
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Gallup
N. M
Utah
Washington
White House
Truman
Douglas Aircraft
American
President
Friendship Train Splits Into Two Sections in Nebraska
The Friendship Train arrived in Nebraska with at least nine carloads of grain and foodstuffs awaiting distribution, not counting four Colorado cars added at the state line. The train had collected 45 carloads of foods and was split into two sections after entering Nebraska at Sidney.
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North Platte
Neb
Nebraska
Colorado
Sidney
80 Wardens Ready For Deer Season
RICHMOND NOV 12 The commission of game and inland fisheries announced that 80 regular and special wardens will patrol 21 counties west of the Blue Ridge for the deer season starting November 15. Most counties including aaron and Buchanan will have open shooting seasons this year due to a notable deer comeback in Virginia mountains. Last year 1345 bucks were legally killed west of the Blue Ridge.
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Richmond
Blue Ridge Mountains
Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries
Aaron and
Buchanan
Virginia
Blue Ridge
Incompatibility Not Ground for Divorce in West Virginia
West Virginia Supreme Court ruled incompatibility cannot be a divorce ground, stating marriage is not a status to quit. The decision reversed a Harrison County circuit court ruling granting Hallie L Harbert a divorce from Lulu Harbert for cruel and inhuman treatment.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia Supreme Court
Harrison County
Hallie L. Harbert
Lulu
DeGaulle Presses Western Alliance With U S and Britain
Paris, Nov 12 Gen Charles De Gaulle urged France to lead in forming alliances with the United States, Great Britain and other nations to counter Communism. He called for immediate treaties on equal terms and for France to organize western Europe for defense, including closer ties with Italy. He warned against a revived German Reich and urged Allied control of the Ruhr if a unified Germany emerged.
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Paris
Charles DeGaulle
France
United States
Great Britain
Rally of the
French People
RPF
DeGaulle
Britain
de Gaulle
A. S
America
Europe
Italy
Reich
Germany
Foreign Ministers
London
Foreign Ministers Council
Delaplane Driver Fined $100 for Hit and Run
William Marshall Legg of Delaplane was fined $100 and costs today in Police Court on a hit and run involving property damage. He was arrested by State Trooper C A Seale after an army truck struck a 1939 sedan owned by Charles Williams Shane of White Post at the Loudoun and Gerrard Street intersection. Legg drove off after the collision when Shane indicated he would call police.
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William Marshall Legg
Delaplane
Legg
C. A. Seale
Charles Williams Shane
White Post
Loudoun
Gerrard Sts
Shane
Lynchburg Textile Wages Increased
Consolidated Textile Corp and the CIO Textile Workers of America announce a nine percent wage rise retroactive to November 10. The minimum is 87 cents per hour, scaling to 1.42 dollars for an average of 1.11 dollars. Local union leader Boyd F. Payton reported the agreement.
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Lynchburg
Consolidated Textile Corp
CIO Textile Workers of America
Boyd F. Payton
Upper South
Consolidated
Secretary Marshall Says 30 Cents of Every Dollar Spent in China
Secretary of State Marshall told the House foreign affairs committee the United States aims to aid China with funds used at about 70 percent efficiency. He noted total China aid around 300 million dollars over 15 months and urged immediate Europe aid to keep supply lines. The discussion paralleled Senate questioning. Taft pushes cuts to the 2.657 billion bill for Europe and China aid through next June.
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Washington
Marshall
China
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Europe
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Kee
D-W. Va
House
Harriman
Senate Foreign Committee
France
Italy
Austria
Taft
Ohio
Senate Republican Policy Committee
GOP
Frid v
Taft's Abrupt Opposition To the $2,657,000,000 Estimate By Secretary of State
Congress
White House
Rerdaho
Rhepublican
Dworshak
United States
Meters to Run 120 Minutes under New Change
Police Chief J Thorgas Boyd says 268 local meters will be altered to allow 120 minutes of parking. Conversion already on E Boscawen St and on Loudoun streets. work today on E Piccadilly supervised by Officer Robert Boyce. The meters will take 1 to 10 pennies or 1 or 2 nickels as dimes proved too small.
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J. Thorgas Boyd
E. Boscawen St
Loudoun
E. Piccadilly
Robert Boyce
GOP May Favor Extension of Rent Controls
Republican leaders remained divided over extending rent controls. Sen McCarthy warned extending beyond February 29 may be necessary. House Banking Chair Wolcott said if rental demand is not met by March 1 an extension could be considered. Members expect rental availability may miss the February deadline.
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Washington
McCarthy
R-Wis
Wolcott
R-Mich
House Banking Committee
Banking Committee
1948 Democratic National Convention Set for Philadelphia
The Democratic National Convention was fixed for the week starting July 11 in Philadelphia. The Republican convention in the same city is scheduled to begin three weeks earlier on June 21.
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Washington
Philadelphia
Labor Party Pushes Bill to Curb Lords Power
The Labor government presses a bill to curb Lords powers by shortening delay time from two years to 12 months, amid a 345 to 194 Commons vote. Debates over Lords composition and potential Labor peer additions shadow the reform as a broader push to mobilize unemployed through a new national labor regulation effective December 12.
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Labor Party
London
House of Lords
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Lords
Labor
Ian Mikardo
J. Parker
The
Commons Today
One Assertion Called Lie By Morgenthau
Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Myers testified to the Senate war investigation that after consulting Treasury Secretary Morgenthau he and his wife bought $4 million in government bonds during the war and realized a paper profit of about 90 thousand dollars Morgenthau called his testimony an outright lie Myers said the Treasury discouraged speculation in government bonds He also said he bought about 1000 dollars of aircraft stock for Lt Gen Ira C Baker and discussed a bond deal with Gen H H Arnold
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Washington
Bennett E. Myers
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Meyers
New York
Morganthau
Senate War Investigating Committee
Treasury
N. Meyers
Senate
Ira C. Baker
Air Force
Hughes
Howard Hughes
Marriner Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Eccles
Ferguson Meyers
Senate War Investiga’ Committee
Ferguson
Army
H. H. Arnold
The
Armed Forces
Arnold
Vintage Wedding Gowns Highlight 1800s Fashion Review
A fashion revue at Stonewall High School features an 1800s wedding gown, the Mrs Godfrey Miller gown from the 1800s, modeled by Will C Miller. Also shown are an 1858 Martha Moffett gown and a 1890s dress suit owned by Mrs H C Light, with other apparel and men’s attire in the program.
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Stonewall High School
Youth Fellowship
Clearbrook Presbyterian Church
Godfrey Miller
Will C. Miller
Loudoun St
aMr. Bittengir
Martha Moffett
M. H. Bittengir
Rockbridge Co
H. C. Light
Sportsmans Mountain View Hunt Club Clarifies Affiliation
Notice states the club has operated six years and is not affiliated with any other count club. Signed by Members of Sportsman's Mountain View Hunt Club, Palls, Va. Op-
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Sportsmans Mountain View Hunt Club
Sportsman’s Mountain View Hunt Club
Palls
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Col. Thomson
Rat
Canton Anderson
Secretary of Agriculture
Thomson de
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Soviets
John R. Beardall
West Virginia
U. S
Court House
Sam Baldwin
Rest
Coleman Dunn
Carroll
Patton Grocery Bridge
N. Loudoun St
Carroll Bush
Montague Avenue Methodist Church
General Meyers
George Isaacs
16Th St
Arlington
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