State Trooper Mitchell in Washington Tied to Gore Assault Case
State Trooper E B Mitchell in Washington DC assisting the probe into the shooting and beating of Robert Bennear near Gore. Palm prints, clothing samples, a blood sample and the bullet are to be analyzed. Capt Funk notes new leads on a red headed hitchhiker last seen between here and Gore and possible sightings in Philadelphia.
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Mitchell
Washington
Gore
E. B. Mitchell
Washington, D. C
Robert Bennear
Bennear
Capt. Funk
F. M. Funk
Punk
Here
Route 50
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Cc. L. Sutton
St. Petersburg
Fla
Sutton
Thomas
Winchester
Thomas Motion Picture
Romney
Cumberland
Mrs Truman Observes Quiet 94th Birthday
Mrs Martha Truman kept a quiet 94th birthday observance at Grandview Missouri after a Sunday visit from her son President Harry S. Truman.
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Grandview
Martha Truman
Harry S. Truman
Arkansas to appear at Cotton Bowl in Dallas in January
Dr Gayle Scott president of the Southwest Conference says the University of Arkansas will be in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas in January. The announcement places Arkansas in the prestigious post season game amid expectations from conference officials.
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Dallas
Arkan
Gayle Scott
University of Arkansas
West Coast Ports Finish Strike Turbulence
Longshoremen returned to cargo handling after a 54 day strike ended when APL Masters and Pilots signed an agreement with employers. CIO and engineers strikes had ended earlier. San Francisco and Los Angeles waterfronts slowly recovered while Seattle and Puget Sound ports remained idle due to a local dispute between employers and the AFT Checkers Association.
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Pace Ae
Pacifac
APL
CIO Agene
CIO
San Francisco
Los
Seattle
Puget Sound
AFT Checkers’ Association Lon
Winchester Christmas Seal Sale Aims to Raise Four Thousand Five Hundred
Winchester Tuberculosis Association launches its 1947 Christmas Seal sale with mail deliveries to 3,850 families and a goal of $4,500 to fund local tuberculosis efforts. Projects include free X rays for food handlers, distribution of milk and medicine, sanatorium care, and broad case-finding X rays. The drive cites World War I deaths and local TB tolls, with Emma Parks Robinson as seal chair and colored residents targeted through a separate auxiliary effort.
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Winchester
Winchester Tuberculosis Association
United States
Winchester Red Cross Chapter
Imogene J. Crockett
Emma Parks Robinson
Pepe
Epes Hearing Made Public By South Carolina Governor
Public clemency hearing details reveal Sheriff Heise presented photographs of Mary Lee Williams Epes buried in a Fort Jackson fox hole. Samuel C. Epes of Richmond faces life terms after allegedly guiding investigators to the grave and recounting his wife's disappearance. Governor Williams opened the House doors for the session citing the high-stakes, money-linked case.
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Columbia
S. C
T. Alex Heise
Samuel C. Epes
Richmond
Richland
Mary Lee Williams Epes
Fort Jackson
Epes
Hesse
Jacksonville
Fla
Williams
House of Representatives
State House
Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence for Holding Companies
The Supreme Court ruled 6-0 that the government may dissolve “useless holding companies” under the Public Utility Holding Company Act. The decision affirmes SEC orders to dissolve two large firms, both with New York City offices, under the act.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Public Utility Holding Company
Securities and Exchange Commission
New York City
Byrd Re-elected Senator With Wide Lead in Virginia
Virginia voters gave Senator Harry F. Byrd a total of 252 863 votes in the off year election, defeating opponents by 88 903 votes statewide. Seven counties and one city backed Republicans, with Byrd carrying Appomattox Charlotte Clarke Cumberland Dinwiddie Halifax and Sussex counties, and tolerating smaller margins in urban areas like Norfolk and Roanoke counties. The State Board of Elections confirmed the unofficial AP tallies for the nine districts.
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Richmond
Harry F. Byrd
U.S. Senate
State Board of Elections
Byrd
Charlotte County
Buchanan
Carroll
Floyd
Grayson
Page
Scott
Smyth
Norfolk
Senator Byrd
Roanoke
Virginia
Appomattox
Charlotte
Clarke
Cumberland
Dinwiddie
Halifax
Sussex
Associated Press
Social Democrats Demand New Japanese Election
Tokyo reports the Japanese Diet reconvened for its 91st extraordinary session amid indications of a further dissolution demand and a general election early next year. Emperor Hirohito to open session with the reading tomorrow. The opposition presses to dissolve Parliament after the current session or December meeting.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Terminal Leave Pay Delays From Vets Claims Errors
Veterans faced delays in terminal leave payments as Army finance officers report one in eight applications returned for missing notarization or essential data. About 4,800,000 claims have been filed, around 600,000 returned, and an equal number paid.
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Washington
Army Finance
Gedee Goer
Thanksgiving Shooting Match and Farm Sale Advertisements
A page of local notices lists a Thanksgiving day shooting match at Garber's Ice Cream Plant on Front Royal Road with prizes and guns offered. Other items include a farm equipment auction at J. B. Clowser farm near Hayfield, a Sunnyside shooting event with turkey prizes, plus early holiday specials at N and P Style Shoppe and a Winchester News Co. ad.
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Garber’s
Front Royal Road
J. B. Clowser Farm
Hayfield
John Middleton
Winchester News CO
S.loudoun
Sunnyside
Turkeys
L. F
Buck” McDonald
Winchester Brownout Tonight Under War Time Order
Wartime lighting curtailment to 60 watt marquee limit and reduced interior illumination goes into effect at 6 PM in Winchester. Officials say coal shortages threaten schools and industry but city has coal to last through the strike while gas and cider plant supplies are monitored.
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S. Lee Grant
Winchester
Leslie D. Kline
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Kline
Burglars Loot $2,000 From Winchester Wholesale Grocery Safe
The Winchester Wholesale Grocery Corp. on 345 W Boscawen street reported a late Saturday burglary. The safe was pried open with entry via basement window and the back door, with 1500 to 2000 dollars missing and possible merchandise taken. Police and state troopers investigated.
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Winchester Wholesale Grocery Corp
W. Boscawen Street
Homer B. Garber
Garber
Punk
Winchester
Montgomery Ward
John Smothers
Mitchell
Wisecarver and
Thompson
Many Veterans Not Entitled To Compensation
The Veterans Administration announced that 15 percent of veterans who filed unemployment compensation claims a year or more ago are no longer entitled. About 50,471 have exhausted their $20 weekly adjustment allowance over 52 weeks, with potential totals rising toward 115,000 by January 1.
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Washington
Navy
Veterans Administration
Thanksgiving Dance at Winchester Armory
Phil Young and Orchestra perform at the Thanksgiving Dance in the Winchester Armory on Thursday November 28. Table reservations via Cal 4633.
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Winchester Armory
Phil Young & Orchestra
Cal
Two Cars Stolen In Winchester Over Weekend
Police reported two cars stolen in Winchester over the weekend. A 1941 Pontiac was taken from Greystone Terrace and later found abandoned near the river in Clarke County. The second vehicle, a 1936 green Pontiac Sedan with Virginia plate 303 047, remained missing.
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Winchester
George Caselear
Greystone Terrace
Clarke County
Billy P. Forney
Loudoun Street
Virginia
Clark Street
Stuart Corrects Impressions Of Chinese On Treaty
Shanghai dispatch reports United States official denounces Chinese claims that the treaty creates a new series of unequal agreements. The most favored nation clause is not a pretext for fresh unequal treaties, official says.
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Stuart
Shanghai
Wanted Cider Apples Heinz Co Auction Notice
For sale all farm grown cider apples at Clowser farm 3 miles west of Hayfield. Auction at 1 p m Friday November 9 1946. Organized by H J Heinz Co. location noted as 10 29 1p 11.
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H. J. Heinz CO
Winchester Urges Power Conservation Amid Wartime Scarcities
The State Corporation Commission orders power companies to halt window lighting decorative lighting and outdoor lighting as part of an early rationing plan. Mayor C R Anderson calls on businesses and citizens to conserve coal and electricity to prevent worsened shortages if coal mines halt work.
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State Corporation Commission
Commonwealth
C.R. Anderson
Clearbrook Firemen Meet at Stonewall High School
Clearbrook Volunteer Department holds an organization meeting at Stonewall High School at 8 o'clock tonight. W H Lawrence Jr says the new fire truck has arrived and is being readied at the Sarahneail in Winchester. A fire house to store equipment and serve as a meeting place is under construction and expected to be ready for use soon. The new company will provide fire protection for the community's Church, Clearbrook Nite Hall, Brucetown and Stephenson.
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Clearbrook
Stonewall High School
W. H. Lawrence, Jr
Sarahneail
Winchester
Nite Hall
Brucetown
Stephenson
Two Freighters Sink Near Miami in Dawn Collision
Two small freighters sank thirty miles south of Miami before dawn in a pre dawn collision. A lifeboat raft and about sixteen men were sighted eight hours later drifting in the Gulf. Coast Guard planes spotted survivors well offshore about thirty two miles north of the sinking spot. A crash boat and Cutter Tampa joined a mass search with twelve airplanes and other craft after a weak radio report.
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Miami
Fla
Gulf Oneor
Coast Guard
Tampa
Felonious Assault Lodged Against Man After Stabbing
In Lynchburg area theater Luz Lettie Louise Ralkes, 19, was stabbed during a Jose Iturbi piano sequence. Police arrested Raymond L. Ferguson, 24, of Clifton Forge on felonious assault charges after he brandished a hunting knife while fleeing. Ralkes hospitalized for deep shoulder wounds.
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Lynching
Jose Iturbi
Doe
Lettie Louise Ralkes
Raymond L. Ferguson
Clifton Forge
Perguson
Virginia Moves Against United Mine Workers Under Securities Law
Richmond officials file a Virginia Securities Law complaint against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers to seek a cease and desist on Virginia membership solicitations. If memberships are securities, each sale could incur a fine up to 5000 dollars. A three member emergency fuel commission with full power to act in coal crisis was appointed by Governor Tuck to coordinate federal and state efforts.
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Richmond
State Corporation Commission
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
SCC
C. Victor Verne
Better Business Bureau
Virginia
Verne
Tuck
James A. Anderson
John Q. Rhodes
William H. Nickles
Guard
State Guard
Neer
Richmond Times Dispatch
Fuel Commission
J. W. Clarke
Highway Department
Trial May Run Into Next Week as Coal Strike Looms
Federal Judge Goldsborough ordered John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers to stand trial Wednesday for contempt over the soft coal shutdown. The trial could extend into next week as industrial paralysis tightens the coal supply, with counsel for Lewis seeking delays and the White House offering no comment.
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Washington
T. Alan Goldsborough
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Welly K. Hopkins
Lewis
Union
Joseph A. Padway
AFL
Congress
White House
Charles G. Ros
Ross
Spicecrown
Hopkins
Goldsborough
J Fr
Epes Verdict Stands Amid Clemency Discussion
In Columbia Governor Ransome J. faced a clemency question after Samuel C. Epes, imprisoned for murdering his wife, upheld the verdict with the governor indicating he would not alter the end result.
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Columbia
8. C
Ransome
Samuel C . Epes
Temperature Snapshot Shows Mild Span
Temperatures recorded a high of 61 and a low of 38. Year ago the day reached 46 and 23 respectively.
Supreme Court Reverses Grace M. Smith Murder Conviction
The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals reversed Grace M. Smith’s murder conviction from Rockingham County, ruling that conjecture and speculation cannot sustain a criminal verdict. Smith, once sentenced to 20 years, was connected to her husband’s death in Richmond. The case involved separate trials with related testimony and questions of sufficiency of proof.
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Supreme Court of Appeals
Rockingham County
Grace M. Smith
Richmond
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Virginia
Smith
Aremy
Ralph H. Gardner
Commonwealth
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Hamming
U. S. Supreme Court
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Northern Virginia Power Company
Hagerstown
Civilian Production Administration
Consumers Utilities Company
National Fruit Product Co
Shenandoah Valley Apple Cider and Vinegar Company
L. G. Sjostrom
New Smith
Pontiac Sales & Service
Gerrard St
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