Two Killed Four Injured In U S Route Crash Near Kernstown
A head on collision between a car and a truck on U S Route near Kernstown left two women dead and four others injured. The victims include Mrs. Florence Giles and Mrs. Virginia Lindsay. Driver R L Jan and several passengers sustained serious injuries. The truck driver Ralph Ritenour escaped unharmed. A tire blowout is blamed for the crash. Coroner's inquest pending outcomes as injuries are treated at Memorial hospital.
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U.S. R.il
Kernstown
Florence J. Giles
Ohio View
Bever
Virginia W. Lindsay
Briar Cliff
Pittsburgh
R. L. Jan
Staunton
Elora James
Bruses
Maude R. Neely
Elworth Ave
Pitsburgh
Memorial Hospital
Ada M. Shenk
Stephens City
Shenk
Ralph Lee Ritenour
Ritenour
Love Letters Win Acquittal for SS Sergeant
Ludwig Fischer, former SS sergeant, was acquitted by a US War Crimes court in OTDachau Germany after letters he wrote to his sweetheart while in military service proved he was not at Buchenwald at the time of alleged inmate murders. The postmarked letters from Germany Austria and Czechoslovakia showed dates that supported his alibi.
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Otdachau
Germany
Ludwig Fischer
United States
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Fischer
Buchenwald
Stephens City Fire Co Revises Rolls and Plans Updates
Stephens City fire company members meet to update the constitution and by laws with a six person committee. They plan to decide on leasing or deed of the May Deed Well site and discuss vehicle identification for fire zones. A new fire truck chassis is expected early next month and assembly by December. Officers will send membership renewal cards to confirm rolls.
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Stephens City
Stephens City Fire Company
Winchester
Clarence Tevalt
H. R. Mills
P. E. Lineburg
Howard Massie
David Petrie
R. E. Ayler
Ayler
F. L.woolf
16 400 New Beds Needed in Virginia Hospitals
Virginia officials say the state will need at least 16 400 new and replacement hospital beds over the next 15 to 20 years. The plan envisions a national program with the federal government covering one third of approved building costs, while localities fund the remaining two thirds.
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Richmond
Virginia
Officials for General Election Announced
The electoral board announced the general election workers for districts across the area. Judges and clerks are listed for Back Creek Gore Lamps Russells Gainesboro Yeakleys Ashtons Dolans Opequon Middletown Old Forge Newton Stonewall Brucetown Neffstown White Hall Shawnee Carpers Valley Kernstown Greenwood and other districts with names of judges and clerks. Officials can pick up official ballots at the county clerk’s office on Saturday Nov. 1.
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John W. Harper
Electoral Board
Back Creek
Dry Run
H. 8
Brill
Elijah Pifer
R. P. Sager
Willia Himelright
Susanna W. Cooper
Gore
Robert M. Muse
W. W Oates
J. J. Pugh
J F. Morrison
A. M. Pugh
Clinton Barr
John R Mc
Gainesboro
Nat Smith
Oh Adams
Boyd Ramey
Sage
Lucy Mauck
J. W. McTlwee
Yeakleys
J. W. Harper
Claude A. Carper
A. D. Cather
J. L. Courtney
Willie V. Fries
Ashtons
A. P. Whitacre
C. Lee Whitacre
William Baker
Ernest Gray
Arnold Dailey
Dolans-Russell Pletcher
H. B. Dick
C. G. Baker
Roy Bohrer
R. E. Patterson
Stonewall
Albin
Wood W. Baker
Sam E. Brown
S. I. Hawkins
H. M Bond
Brucetown
S. W. Shewbridge
Wilson Whitmore
Hunter Brown
Cory Swimley
Loring Woore
Neffstown
Clayton Pingley
Henry Lewis
Harry Stotler
Esten O. Rudolph
D. D. Clevenger
White Hall
John Smith
C. W Lamp
Greenwood
Jesse Carpenter
W. N. Bayliss
C. J. Fawcett
H. T. Snapp
Harry Glaize
Mr. Harper
Thursday Ban On Poultry At Decision Point
Virginia shoppers saw some relief in food prices with sweet potatoes cheaper and poultry costs rising slowly. In Winchester the new price showed poultry still affordable while cereal and meat prices edged higher. The Citizens Food Committee debated ending poultryless Thursdays and weighed grain savings from reducing hatchings.
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Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Richmond
L. M. Walker Jr
Washington
Walker
Winchester
Virginia
Citizens Food Committee
Poultry and Feed Industris
Europe
Charles Luckman
Barter Theatre Play Monday at Handley High School
Barter theatre company will perform Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at 8 p m Monday at Handley high school with William Battaile sponsoring. Tickets at $3 and season passes honored. Barter players recently staged Twelfth Night and head to Martinsburg Fron Royal Harrisonburg and Warrenton next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Battaile
Winchester Junior Board of Trade
Barter
Handley High School
Oscar Wilde
Barter Theatre
Martinsburg
Fron Royal
Harrisonburg
Warrenton
Bartaile
Little Assembly Boycott Started by Red Bloc
Russia and Czechoslovakia began their boycott of a year-round United Nations Assembly seating proposal. Delegates from both nations left seats vacant as a sub-committee opened, with neither entering the room during its first meeting. The two countries had said they would not participate in the Little Assembly.
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Little Assembly
Red Bloc
Assembly
Return of Rev Hawkins Delights Braddock Street Church
Braddock Street Methodist predicts celebration as annual conference approves Rev T J Hawkins to return as local pastor for another year. Rev Edward Plunkett arrives Oct 29 to lead Montague Ave church after pastoring in Franconia Lincolnia Edinburgh. He is a Lynchburg native with a family and religious training from Randolph Macon Emory and Westminster.
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Braddock St. Methodist Church
T. J. Hawkins
D. C
Maryland
Lynchburg
Edward Jr
Schoolboy Safety Patrol Reorganized At Stephens City
State Trooper C. A. Seale and Principal R. E. Ayler reorganize the Stephens City safety patrol. The 21 members will patrol intersections and buses to aid loading, unloading, and discipline. Henry Ritenour is captain with Roy Beaver as lieutenant and named patrols assigned to streets and buses.
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Stephens City
C. A. Seale
R. E. Ayler
Henry Ritenour
Roy Beaver
Marshall Conner
Martin Ewing
Donald Marks
Everett Rickafoose
Sidney Carbaugh
Hansel Linamood
Lee Gregory
George Giles
Thomas
David Brown
Robert Renner
Dorothy Lamp
Luther Lowery
Lois White
Wayne White
Catherine Heflin
Harold Whetzel
Freda White
Lloyd White
Train Wreck Injures 24 Near St Paul
Twenty four people were injured, some seriously, when a Soo Line passenger train collided head on with a freight at Gladstone near St Paul. The passenger train was en route from Chicago to St Paul. Passengers were buried in wreckage and rescued by fire crews. The injured were taken to Ancker hospital as ambulances and fire units responded.
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ST. Paul
Soo Line
Gladstone
St Paul
Chicago
Ancker Hospital
Move to Trim House of Lords Stirs Up Press
London reports the Labour plan to trim hereditary Lords power with a one year delay limit amid Parliament opening. Prime Minister Atlee says reform is a stopgap before broader changes, aiming to speed bills including nationalizing iron and steel before 1950.
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London
House of Lords
Daily-Herald
Atlee
Labor
Tech
House of Commons
Senators Defend Right of Freedom To Write and Speak
Senator Pepper urges 19 subpoenaed witnesses to claim constitutional immunity and refuse to answer questions. The group includes actor Larry Parks and writer Ring Lardner Jr., who contested the subpoenas as hearings opened. Senator Taylor sent congratulations from Los Angeles on defending free speech and thought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pepper
D-Fla
House UN- American Activities Committee
Comitee
Larry Parks
Ring Lardner Jr
Taylor
Idaho
Los Angles
America
Canada Removes Price Ceilings on Meat and Grain
Ottawa reports Canada lifted price ceilings on meat products oats barley and screenings and ended subsidies for livestock feed. The decontrol order leaves few items under ceilings including rents sugar fats oils and wheat.
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Ottawa
Canada
Henry the Eighths Iron Pants Revealed 34 Inch Girth
London October report details a historic find at the Tower of London. A pair of Henry VIII iron pants matches the top and bottom pieces of his battle suit, showing a 34 inch waist and a six foot stature. The discovery occurred at Scrivelsby Court where the Dymoke lineage hosts the king’s champion.
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Henry the 8Th
London
Charles Laughton
Henry the Eighth
Francis I of
France
Henry
Tower of London
Scriveisby Court
Dymoke
Tower
Farm Income In State Up 27 Per Cent
Virginia farm income for January through August totaled 226.499 million dollars, 27 percent higher than the same period in 1946. Livestock sales contributed 133.33 million, while crops added 93.169 million, with 1946 figures shown for comparison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
Virginia Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
U N Fireworks Expected from Red Speakers
U N tensions rise as Russia readies verbal barrages in the General Assembly debate on banning warmongering. Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky to open the exchange while the Full Assembly backs a Balkan watchdog with a 40 to 6 vote, Greece hosting the headquarters in Salonika by November 21.
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Lake Success
United Nations
Russia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Balkans
United States
Salonika
Greece
Guerrilas
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Albania
Poland
France
Britain
China
Brazil
Pakistan
Netherlands
Mexico
Autralia
Clarke County TB Association Clinic Urges Full Attendance
A Clarke TB Association committee led by Mrs T. E. Backwell of White Post urges every adult in the Boyce Millwood White Post area to attend the October 31 clinic at the Parish Hall in Boyce. The survey kicks off a two year county wide X-ray program to screen all adults for tuberculosis. The Boyce clinic costs 25 cents with transportation provided by the Red Cross motor corps where needed.
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T. E. Bakckwell
Whie Post
Boyce Millwood
White Post
Clarke County
Boyce
Red Cross Motor Corps
Four Fliers Missing After Plane Crash
Four men are missing and presumed dead after a U. S. naval plane crashed into the foggy ARGENTIA harbor last night. The navy lists missing aboard as John J. Perrie Warrington Fla Joseph J. Gawoski radio man third class New Britain Conn Alton P. Herrington Martinsville Va and Russell H. Scott Philadelphia.
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Argentia
Nfld
Navy
John J. Perrie
Warrington
Fla
Joseph J. Gawoski
New Britain Conn
Alton P. Herrington
Martinsville
Russell H. Scott
Philadelphia
Grass Fire Destroys Two Acres North of Winchester
Fire equipment rushed to a grass blaze three miles north of Winchester on R. 11 at 1 p m. The two acre fire started on a lot owned by Charles Dietz and was fought by Lupton Orchard Co. and Clear brook fire trucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Charles Dietz
Lupton Orchard Co
Clearbrook
Steel by Plane Keeps Plant Going
Detroit dispatch reports Kai ser Frazer plant in Willow Run kept lines running with a 25 ton shipment of steel sheets flown from a Pittsburgh mill. The load covers about two thirds of a normal day's needs and supports continued production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Kaiser-Frazer Auto
Willow Run
Pittsburgh
Railroads Move to Expand Political Activity in 1948
Railroad unions may launch a strong political program for 1948. Twenty unions in the Railway Labor Executives' Association will meet November 12 to reevaluate policy and methods to boost effectiveness. The AFL and CIO pledge larger national political involvement. some unions may form their own group or work with AFL.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
A. E. Lyon
Railway Labor Executives’ Assn
Lyon
AFL
CIO
PAC
Labor’s Educational and Political League
LEPL
Railway Labor Executives’ Association
Marine Engineers
Cholera Epidemic Strains Cairo as Death Toll Rises
Cairo reports a 28 day cholera outbreak with 3055 deaths in the Nile valley. The public health ministry mobilizes senior students to aid the campaign as 561 deaths occur in the 24 hours ending yesterday, the highest daily toll yet recorded.
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Cairo
Nile Valley
Surprise Move Follows Call For Assembly
Paris reports show France’s cabinet resignations handed to Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier while he stays on to push a new government. Ramadier aims to reconvene Parliament next Tuesday amid rising prices and labor wage demands as De Gaulle’s political momentum grows with the Rally of the French People.
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Paris
France
Paul
Ramadier
Charles de Gaulle
Rally of the
National Assembly
Andre Philip
Confederation of Labor
Belgrade
Char DeGaulle
DeGaulle
Rally of the French People
RPF
Arbitrators Award Gas Co Wage Rise
An arbitration panel of the State Corporation Commission granted Petersburg & Hopewell Gas Co production workers a wage increase of 7 12 cents per hour, meeting the full request of the International Brotherhood of Firemen and Ojiers AFL. The decision was announced in Richmond on October 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Board of ‘Trade
Chicago
Proctor & Gamble
Cincinnati
Richmond
State Corporation Commission
Petersburg & Hopewell Gas Co
International Brotherhood of Firemen and Ojiiers
AFL
Forest Fire Ravages Parched Maine Coast
A massive forest fire near Goose Rocks Beach Kennebunkport Cape Porpoise Wildes in Maine burned about 200 buildings along a 5 mile stretch. Thousands of firefighters and volunteers fought the blaze, with Kennebunkport spared as winds eased. Losses exceed 1 million dollars and nationwide fire reports followed.
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Goose Rocks
Mir
Maine
Cape Porpoise
Wildes
Kenebunkport
Kennebunkport
Raymond Rendall
State
Rendall
New York
New Jersey
New Hapshire
Massachusets
Vermont
Mane
Portsmout Dover
Newington
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
Horace Hildreth
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Stephens City Fire Co
Opequon
Armel
George Riddick
W. P. Werris
George Fluery
Frank A DeFries
Koala Armel
Canterbury
E. R. Neville
Henry Mears
Lloyd Painter
J. P. Bauserman
Crowell Conner
Middletown
Julian C. Kline
C W. Keeler
C. C. Rickard
Howard Owings
Herbert Sones
Old Forge
A. D. Rinker
C. A. Tevalt
C. C. Bauserman
James B. Smith
E A. Fisher
Newton
George C. Shryock
F. Estes Kline
W. S. Cook
J. H. Argenbright
I. W. Scothern
Federal Bureau
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau
Associated Press
H. J. Heinz CO
Vailey Wrecking Co
Martinsburg Pike
Bath
Ken
American Legion
Legion
Rev
Hawkins
Schoolboy Safety Patrol
Trim
U. N
Pine Motor Co
Clearbrook Fire Dept
Hammermills
Kern Motor CO
S. Loudoun St
Frances
de Gaulle
AFL and
BY Max Hall
Maine Coast
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