Overseas Clothing Drive Collects Ten Truck Loads
Ten full trucks gathered yesterday in Winchester under the Winchester Ministerial Association to aid relief efforts. Rev. William J. Hadden reported 6 to 8 tons of items netted with drives by Boy Scouts and local businesses. Additional clothing went to churches and fire halls, destined for Church World Service in New Windsor Maryland for processing and shipment overseas within 30 days.
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Winchester Ministerial Assn
William J. Hadden
House To House
Winchester
Hadden
Church World Service
New Windsor
Interdenominational Church Relief Distribution Agency
Tax Payment Deadline in City Next Saturday
City taxes on real estate and personal property are due December 6 with a 5 percent penalty after that date. City Treasurer W A Baker says about 91 percent of the $310000 estimate may be in the treasury next week if collections stay on track. The State poll tax of 1 50 is due December 6 but can be paid by May without losing ballot rights. six months before election applies to the poll tax law for general elections, not for primary eligibility certificates.
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W. A. Baker
Baker
Fire Destroys Coatesville Hotel and Stores
Fire swept the neon Grand Hotel in Coatesville Pennsylvania damaging the Trunk building and threatening nearby shops. About 50 guests evacuated as flames and water ruined Christmas merchandise at Woolworth and Newberry with Kinney shoe store also damaged. Damage estimated at 500000 dollars.
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Coatesville
Lincoln Highway
Second
Third Ave
F. W. Woolworth
J. J. Newberry
Kinney Shoe Store
Colder Weather Heads for City
The weatherman forecasts colder temperatures with a 25 degree mark possible tonight as a mass of cold air grips the nation. The central West shivered with mid winter levels and sub zero readings in the Dakotas Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa and Illinois. Grand Forks North Dakota hit 17 below zero the nation’s coldest this season while Chicago posted 4 above zero as the cold front moves east. Sub freezing temps lingered into Pennsylvania with no further below freezing readings reported.
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Winchester
Middle West
Associated Press
Mercury
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Illinois
Grand Forks
N.D
Chicago
Pnnsylvania
Local Hunters Set Sights on West Virginia Deer Season
Large numbers of local hunters are expected to cross into West Virginia as the six day deer season opens Monday. Checking stations in Hampshire County include Martins Service Station Davy's Trading Post Capon Bridge Long's Store Yellow Springs Micl's Store Bloomery and Loy's Store Rio. Stations are also located in Hardy County.
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West Virginia
Hampshire County
Martins
Davy’s
Capon Bridge
Long’s
Yellow Springs
Micl
Bloomery
Loy
Rio
Hardy County
Walda Winchell Returns to Home
Walda E. Winchell, 20, daughter of Walter Winchell, returned home after a police search that began when she was reported missing Wednesday. Attorney Ernest Cuneo announced the development in New York.
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New York
Walda E. Winchell
Walter Winchell
Ernest Cuneo
Winchell
S. Loudoun
Winchester
R. Schneider & G. Miller
Amherst St
Partition Vote Faces New Delay
New York dispatch reports Columbia's surprise move to defer final United Nations action on the Soviet American Palestine partition plan until spring. Dr Alfonso Lopez reportedly built support including Arab-led anti partitionists for the deferral. London dispatch notes French delegation may back partition if it is deemed best.
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New York
Palestine
Columbia
United Nations
United Nations Assembly
Alfonso Lopez
London
Navy
Thanksgiving Dance Night at Ole Mill Wheel
A Thanksgiving Dance is planned at the Ole Mill Wheel on Berryville Pike with weekly events each Wednesday Friday Saturday and Sunday night. The notice notes the venue and recurring schedule for social dancing.
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Ole Mill
Berryville Pike
Clarke Urged To Set Mammoth Rat Banquet
Public sentiment in Clarke county pushes a one day rat eradication campaign after estimates that rats destroy vast grain annually. Col James M Thomson urges community funding and a mass poison drive using two tons of meat poisoned with red squill prepared for U S Wildlife Service collaboration.
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Clarke County
Europe
Col
James M. Thomson
Clarke’ County
County Board of Agriculture
Court House
J. Wilmer ‘Carpenter
Thomas Blackwell
White Post
Col. Thomson
J. W. Olcott
U. S. Wild Life Service
University of Massachussetts
Olcott
Mr. Olcott
New Orleans Item
U. S.epartment
Agriculture
Anderson
Department of Agriculture
Mall
United States
Agriculture Department
Colonel Thomson
Youthful Baptists to Skate at Berryville Rink Tonight
Young people from First Baptist Church will skate at Berryville rink tonight. Cars leave the Winchester church at 7 30 p m. Miss Zubie Ingle, director of education, is in charge.
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First Baptist Church
Berryville
Winchester
Zubie Ingle
Bigamist jailed as bad example
Lorenzo Brokenbaugh aged 59 admitted four marriages without divorce. Judge Raymond Macneille sentenced him to nine to 18 months in prison in Philadelphia. The judge said he would be jailed where women cannot reach him and called him a bad example for men with one wife.
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Philadelphia
Lorenzo Brokenbaugh
Raymond Macneille
Wreck Blocks B. and O. Tracks Near Summit Point
A B and O freight derailed 14 cars near Summit Point West Virginia after a Winchester pickup of apples and potatoes. Debris blocked the line forcing westbound passenger train 55 to reroute via the Pennsylvania Railroad. No injuries reported. Three perishables and two brick loads wrecked. nine empties also involved.
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Winchester
Summit Point
W. Va
Baltimore and Ohio
Strasburg Junction
Brunswick
Strasbourg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Martins
Winchester man convicted in check forgery case
D L High of Winchester was convicted on two counts of forgery in Shenandoah County Corporation Court. Judge Elliott Marshall imposed six months on the second count with five months suspended and two years probation. He waives a jury trial and faces release after time served.
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D. L. High
Winchester
Elliott Marshall
Arnold Lee
Shenanddoah Valley National Bank
J.C. Penny Co
Robert Woltz
Lutheran Scout Troop I Charter Night At Grace Church
A charter will be presented to Boy Scout Troop I of Grace Lutheran church at a 7 30 p m Tuesday program. The troop, recently re activated under the Men’s Bible class sponsorship, will have Harry A Nelson scoutmaster and Herbert Wilkins scout executive presenting the charter, to be accepted by Eston Tevalt troop committee chairman. Parents and Bible class members are invited to attend a movie titled Levit Trail Citizenship.
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Grace Lutheran Church
Harry Albert Nelson
Herbert Wilkins
Eston Tevalt
Explosion costs boy eye and hands in cap accident
In Norton Virginia on November 29 a five year old boy Johnny Belcher from Wise County suffered severe injuries when a dynamite cap he played with exploded. He lost his right eye and right hand and two fingers on his left hand.
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Norton
Johnny Belcher
Wise County
Insurance Agents To Hear Rep Gary Address Meeting
Richmond will host a lunch conference of the Virginia Association of Insurance Agents as Representative J. Vaughan Gary addresses the mid year meeting Friday.
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Rep
Gary
Richmond
J. Vaughan Gary
Virginia Assn. of Insurance Agents
For Sale Viking walk in cooler by Molden Electric
Notice sells a new Viking walk in cooler with white porcelain front two reach in doors and an entrance door sized 8 by 6 by 7 feet at a reduced price. Listing provided by Molden Electric Co located at 41 29 1p 31.
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Viking
Molden Electric CO
Truman Sees Army Navy Grid Battle In Philadelphia
President Truman traveled to the Army Navy game arriving by special train at 11 19 am in Philadelphia. The 102 000 crowd streamed into Municipal Stadium for pre game ceremonies and a 144 chair box was prepared for Truman. Army scored a touchdown in each of the first two quarters with both extra points good.
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Philadelphia
Truman
Municipal Stadium
Mammoth Horseshoe
Army
Army Transport Carrying 21 Is Missing
A United States Air Force C-47 carrying 21 aboard disappeared on a Pisa to Frankfurt flight. The 17 passengers and four crew members left Pisa after noon yesterday and were due at Frankfurt about six hours later. An intensive search covers the entire route.
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Frankfurt
Germany
United States Airforces
Pisa
Italy
Airforce
Wiesbaden
Pusch
Air Forces
Specific Aims On Inflation Fight Asked
Senate Republicans press the Truman administration to specify anti inflation powers to Congress. Senator Taft opposes blank check legislation but may accept limited steel allocation for priority needs like box cars. Senator Watkins urges concrete plans for the cost of living program and detailed allocation methods for steel coal and wheat. He questioned broad powers and sought details from Secretary Harriman.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Congress
Taft
House Economic Committee
Ohioan
Watkins
Utah
Joint Committee
Harriman
Beep Signal Indicates Recording Across The Line
A new phone sound beep now marks that a caller conversation is being recorded at the other end The beep is legally allowed by the Federal Communications Commission for interstate and foreign toll calls The notice appears in the Washington bureau report of telephone practices and policies
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Taft Opposes Long Range Aid Plan for Europe
Senator Taft backs the $597 million winter aid bill for Western Europe focusing on France Italy and Austria to move the economies but rejects any long range effort to underwrite global deficits. He criticizes a State Department approach and condemns a Marshall Plan style recovery program while noting recent funds to France partly paid debts to Brazil and Belgium.
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Taft
Europe
Washington
France
Italy
Austria
Senate
State Department
Congress
Brazil
Belgium
Communist party sizes surge in Italy China Japan Czech group growth noted
The Magazine Life report shows Italy and China each over 2 million members outside the Soviet Union with France around 1 million and 340 thousand before the war. Romania jumps to 700 thousand in 1947 from 1 thousand in 1944. Czech Slovak rise to about 1.25 million in 1947.
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Moscow
Party Life
Italy
China
Soviet Union
Romania
Communist Party
Mussolini
Europe
Russia
Tastes Improve With Cold Days
Tokyo reports nude shows decline with cold weather after hot seasons. Jiji Shimpo notes performers now favor scenes where a man chokes another to death, reflecting a shift in vogue amid winter.
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Tokyo
Jiji Shim- Po
Factory Wages and Wholesale Prices Hit New Peaks
Government data show wholesale prices for the week ending Nov 22 at 59.2 percent above 1926, a new postwar high. Manufacturing workers earned $50.97 a week in October, a record, as retail sales reached about $10.0 billion in December, indicating rising earnings amid price increases.
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Washington
America
Scientists Restudy Atomic Energy Role
Nearly 50 leading scientists met in Princeton for the second session of a three day conference to reformulate views on atomic energy in world affairs. The Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists heads the group under Dr. Albert Feinstein. Secretary Edward Minnett said no public statement would be issued before the session ends, with a possible release within a week.
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Princeton
N. J
Sesson
Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists
Albert Feinstein
Edward Minnett
Truman Orders Probe of 28 000 War Officers Promotions
President Truman asked the Army to investigate promotion records for 28 000 wartime officers retired on tax free disability pay. The move aims to ensure proper promotion handling and eligibility among retired personnel.
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Philadelphia
Truman
Army Services
Winchester Elects Doris Crompton as First Woman Mayor
Mrs Doris Crompton, newly invested mayor of Winchester England, sends Christmas and New Year greetings to Winchester citizens and to Mayor C R Anderson in a shared holiday tradition. She notes memories of wartime service and invites visiting townspeople to call on her in the mayoral parlour. She succeeds Alderman C H Bones.
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Winchester
Doris Crompton
England
Crompton
C. R. Anderson
Anderson
United States
Mrs .Crompton
C. H. Bones
France passes defense law to curb strikes amid unrest
In Paris on November 29 the National Assembly debated a Law for the National Defense granting Premier Robert Schuman six months power to crack down on strike agitation. It targets those provoking stoppages with imprisonment and fines. Police expelled workers from rail centers as demonstrations intensified and a clash between Communists and centrists interrupted the session.
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Paris
National Defense
Robert Schuman
National Assembly
National Defense Committee
Schuman
Assembly
Marseillaise
L'Humanite
CeSoir
France
Florimond Bonte
Edouard Jerriot
Bonte
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