CIO elects Webber as Virginia State Council head
The Virginia State CIO Industrial Union Council elected Rev. Charles C. Webber as president a day early with no opposition. Webber, a former minister, pledged to grow CIO membership in Virginia and lead the CIO-PAC to recruit 200,000 first class voting citizens by next August.
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Roanoke
Virginia State Cio Industrial Union Council
Charles C. Webber
CIO
Webber
Cio-Pac
Virginia
Yeggs Pry Open Safe At Richmond Stadium
Safecrackers pried open a city stadium safe in Richmond last night and stole $1,500 in receipts from city operated concessions. Acting recreation and parks director James Williams said the loss is covered by insurance.
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Richmond
Richmond City Stadium
James Williams
City Department of Recreation and Parks
Hungarian Baron Buys Home at Delaplane
Louis Kei del of New York City sells his 36 600 acre Fleetwood Farms in Fauquire County in two sections as announced by Alga McKay Smith White Post broker.
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Louis Keidel
New York City
Fleetwood Farms
Fauquire County
Alga McKay Smith
White Post
Robbery Attempt Fails. Bandits Flee in Car Near Amherst
Two white men tried to rob a small Negro store run by Frances Wright on U.S. Route 60 near here. Wright and a boy were inside when the men entered with a gun. She locked the cash register as one shot was fired. the robbers fled in a car, initiating an intensive search by state and Amherst County officers.
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Here
Amherst
Frances Wright
Two Men Detained In Watchman's Killing
Norfolk police held 23 year old Harry Lee Riddick and Walter Cherry a seaman from Berkeley after warrants charged murder in the fatal shooting of 60 year old A E Lawton a night watchman at a South Norfolk junk yard. Cherry is hospitalized with a gunshot wound. Police reported a break in at the H Eichelbaum and Company yard office with little missing.
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Norfolk
A. E. Lawton
South Norfolk
Harry Lee Riddick
Walter Cherry
Berkeley
H. Eichelbaum and Company
Lawton
Population growth forecast shifts from peak late to uncertain
A 1960 census forecast raises doubt about reaching a population peak. Projections vary with high, medium, and low estimates of 180 million, 169 million, and 161 million respectively, reflecting changing birth rates, death rates, and immigration.
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Census Bureau
U. S
Papers Guard Free Speech Says Battle
Governor Battle urges Virginians to observe National Newspaper Week and protect free speech and a free press as a cornerstone of American liberties. He notes newspapers have long been a mainstay of liberty and vows to safeguard these rights.
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Richmond
Wythe County School Reopens as Polio Epidemic Wanes
Roanoke reports Wythe County schools reopen signaling a lull in the nations worst polio epidemic. In Wytheville and the county 180 polio cases and 16 deaths were recorded, and 5,800 local children returned to classes with relief at the peak passed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke
Wythe County
Wytheville
Supreme Court Reassembled for New Term
Washington The Supreme Court opened a new term with major cases looming on communism race relations and national issues. Lead appeal comes from 11 top U S Communist Party leaders convicted in New York for conspiring to advocate violent overthrow of the Government.
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Washington
Supreme Court
U. S
Communist Party
New York
Navy seeks Congress approval for flush deck carrier
Admiral P Sherman said the Navy will ask the next Congress to approve construction of a flush deck carrier.
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Washington
Forrest P. Sherman
Navy
Navy and Marine casualties in Korea reach 1970
Washington reported Admiral Sherman said that Navy and Marine Corps casualties in the Korean war total 1,970.
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Washington
Forrest Sherman
Navy
Marine Corps
Questions and Answers from The Winchester Star Bureau
A reader quiz section presents facts on glove fashion curves sleep in horses presidential vote highs World War damages and ACTH source. Answers note long glove style began with Sarah Bernhardt in 1870 and horse sleep positions, the 1940 presidential vote peak, WWII greater property damage, and ACTH deriving from hog pituitary glands.
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Q. Please
Sarah Bernhardt
Senate panel probes Chicago crime rackets and slayings
The U S Senate crime investigating committee sent George H White to Chicago to issue subpoenas on racketeering bosses as hearings set to begin. Investigators will also explore the unsolved murder of William J Drury and the fatal shooting of attorney Marvin Bas amid two gang style killings.
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Chicago
U. S. Senate Crime Investigating Committee
George H. White
Kansas City
White
Federal Narcotics Bureau
William J. Drury
Marvin Bas. Drury
Massive Bo Tanical Specimens Stored at Kew Gardens
About 6 million sheets of botanical specimens are housed at the Kew Gardens herbarium near London, forming a vast historical and scientific archive for plant research and conservation.
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Kew Gardens
London
State Policeman Killed by Two 14 Year Olds
In Hillsboro Oregon two 14 year old boys terrorized a northwest area then killed Officer Dale Courtney 27 a rookie state policeman with a shotgun blast at an abandoned farmhouse where the youths were hiding. The suspects Henry Thomas O'Day Portland and John Wilson Newbery fled from the State Training School at Woodburn Saturday.
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Hillsboro
Ore
Oregon
Dale Courtney
Henry Thomas O'Day
Portland
John Wilson
Newbery
Woodburn
Exchange Club Reaches Chest Drive Goal at Kickoff
The Winchester Exchange Club was the first group to reach its goal as the 1950 Community Chest drive opened. They pledged $35,000 toward the campaign with Lewis Hyde presenting the check to General Chairman Henry Covington during the business section kick off.
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Winchester Exchange Club
Exchange Club
Lewis Hyde
Henry Covington
Bicyclist Injured In Accident Here
Wallace Lee Combs an 18 year old bicyclist on Paper Mill Road sustained minor injuries in a collision with a car at Loudoun and Pall Mall at 7 30 p m Saturday. The auto a 1950 Willys station wagon was driven by Glenn Schwartz of 710 S Cameron St.
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Wallace Lee Combs
Paper Mill Road
Loudoun and
Pall Mall
Willys
Glenn Schwartz
S. Cameron St
James Mathews Taken by Death
James Leonard Mathews former salesman for Cooper Merchandise and Oil Co. died at 1 p m yesterday in University of Virginia Hospital Charlottesville from a heart condition. Funeral at 2 p m tomorrow at First Baptist Church Front Royal with Dr B L Flickinger officiating. Interment Prospect Hill Cemetery Front Royal with Masonic rites. Survived by widow and three children.
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First Baptist Church
Front Royal
James Leonard Mathews
Cooper Merchandise and Oil Co
University of Virginia Hospital
Charlottesville
8. L. Flickinger
Centenary Evangelical and Reformed Church
Winchester
Prospect Hill
Mathews
J. W. Myers Co
Riverton
Sale of Farm and Farmhouse in Frederick County Virginia
Public auction to sell two parcels in Frederick County Virginia on November 4 1950 at 12 00 noon The first parcel is a Shawnee District lot with a six room house and store room The second parcel covers about 95 acres on Cedar Creek Grade with a five room house well stream and electric service Terms require cash or one third at sale and the rest in two equal annual installments The sale is conducted under a circuit court decree in the case Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Winchester versus Lillian L Rinker et al The undersigned are acting as Special Commissioners and Substitute Trustees Kathryn Lineweaver Clerk of Court certifies bond requirements were met.
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Circuit Court
Frederick County
Virginia
Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Winchester
Lillian L. Rinker
County Court House
Opequon
Hugh McA. Rinker
Cedar Creek
Mary R. Hayes
J. M. Steck
M. M. Lynch
Cork
H. R. Benham
H. R. Kern, Jr
Circuit Court of the
County of Frederick
Police Seek Burglars After Weekend Theft Spree
Strasburg police investigate two weekend burglaries. Lloyd's Department Store loss about 250 dollars in men's clothing. Shenandoah Lime and Stone plant reported theft of tires batteries a radiator and other articles.
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Strasburg
Paul Neal
Lloyd’s Department Store
Shenandoah Lime and Stone Company
Relief for Cough Promises Creomulsion Proven
An advertisement urges relief from coughs chest colds and acute bronchitis with Creomulsion claiming to reach the root of the trouble and loosen and expel germs. It notes beechwood creosote plus time tested medicines and states no narcotics with a guarantee or refunds if not pleased.
Tax evader sentenced to year and a day in prison
Federal Judge Sterling Hutcheson sentenced James M. Morgan to a year and a day in prison and fined him $5,000 for income tax evasion. Morgan, 52, Ocean View, operator of a bowling alley, pleaded nolo contendere to concealing over $44,000 in income to evade more than $21,000 in taxes for 1943 to 1945.
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Richmond
Sterling Hutcheson
James M. Morgan
Ocean View
Nolo
United States
Robert N. Pollard, Jr
Morgan
Sales Directory: October 7-21 Estate and Real Estate Auctions
Listings announce estate sales in Winchester and Berryville Virginia with dates and items including furniture household goods livestock and real estate. Auctions cover Mrs Bessie Whitacre Clarence Houghton Mrs Laura Everhart Nellie Mason among others with locations on Loudoun Kent Cameron Gerrard and Glaize avenues and front of Frederick County Court House.
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Bessie Whitacre
Loudoun St
Winchester
Clarence Houghton
Berryville
Laura Everhart
E. Cork St
Nellie Mason
S. Kent St
Elmer E. Orndorff
Cameron &J
Cameron St
BE. Gerrard St
James P. Reardon
Frederick County Court House
J. Randolph Larrick
Frederick County Court E
Glaizeve
Calvin Kibler
Edinburg
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