Police Seize Half of French Mines Amid Nationwide Calm
Paris reports Interior Minister Jules Moch says police occupied about half the key northern French minefields, taking 280 square miles in seven hours and making 15 arrests. Areas range from the Belgium border to Douai Lille road and include the Valenciennes mine group. No Resistance Noted as pickets comply. CGT mounts limited sympathy strikes.
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Paris
Jules Moch
Belgium
Douai-Lille
Moch
Valenciennes
Douai
National Federation of Labor
CGT
St. Etienne
Edwin F. Brown Succumbs at 68
Edwin F. Brown 68 died at home in Winchester after a lengthy illness. Born in Winchester, he worked in Fort Worth before returning home in 1933. Survived by widow Ruth Whitlock, sister Mrs. T A Painter of Swannanoa and brother Henry W W Brown. Funeral at First Brethren church 2:30 p m Wednesday with Rev. Paul E Vick. interment Mt Hebron Cemetery. pallbearers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin F. “Ned” Brown
Stais
North Ave
Winchester
J. Few
Cornelia Luke Brown
Winchester Public Schools
Snenanaoan Valley Academy
Fort Worth
Texas
Ruth Whitlock
I. A. Painter
Swannanoa
N. C
Henry W.W. Brown
Paul E Vick
Mt Hebron Cementary
James Davis
George A. Ebsriole
Robert S. Bell
Marion Anderson
Alien Bond
de Eis
Educators Attend Virginia Education Association Session
Garland Quaries, superintendent of City schools, and R E Ayler, director of instruction, depart for the Virginia Education Association meeting in Richmond. About 3500 Virginia educators began arriving for the annual convention opening Wednesday with the City and County education groups represented.
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Garland Quaries
R. E. Ayler
Frederick Bounty Schools
Virginia Education Assn
Richmond
Old Dominion
Dixon to Open Virginia Tour
Former Gov. Frank M. Dixon of Alabama will speak in Charlottesville and Danville and Winchester as he opens a Virginia tour in support of the Thurmond-Wright States' Rights ticket.
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Dixon
Charlottesville
Frank M. Dixon
Alabama
Thumond-Wright
Wanted Expert Mechanic Pine Motor Co
Advertisement seeks an expert mechanic for Pine Motor Co with a partial address and contact. Also promotes a free ironing school by a factory representative for a Simplex Mangle Ironer, scheduled Tuesday October 26 at Bayliss & Patterson Electrical Co on N Cameron St, dial 5526.
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Pine Motor CO. Ce
Arrow
Bayliss & Pattirson Electrical Co
Invitations for North Atlantic Alliance Talks Go Out
Washington reports invitations to a Western European Union led pact draft likely after next week's presidential election. Nations include United States Canada Britain France Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg with others possibly joining later. Talks explore a mutual defense pledge and paths to a North Atlantic alliance.
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Washington
North America
Europe
United States
Canada
Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Italy
Iceland
Norway
Denmark
Robert A. Lovett
Senate
Germany
Austria
Russia
Congress
Pearl Harbor
Bevin
Paris
Western Europe Union
Rest Bevin
Council of the Union
Telephone Union And Company Men Meet with Tuck
In Richmond on October 25, union and management conferred with Gov. Almond and A G J Lindsay Almond Jr to decide if a labor dispute exists under Virginia public utilities labor relations law. The Virginia division of the Communications Workers of America claims a dispute. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co of Virginia denies one. Federal conciliator Thomas B Morton attended with company and union representatives to resolve potential service interruptions.
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Richmond
Ana
Luck Anda
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Virginia
State Public Utilities Labor Relations Act
Communications Workers of America
Atred Atkinson
Kerepnone Company
Arthur L. Lamp
Thomas B. Morton
Lambdin
Victor B. Fitzpatrick
Atkinson
Akron Woman Fractures Skull In Route 50 Crash
Miss Olga Kovach of Akron Ohio is in serious condition at Winchester hospital after an automobile crash on Route 50 Saturday night. She sustained a fractured skull and other injuries.
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Olga Kovach
Akron
Ohio
Winchester Hospital
Cars Damaged In Route 11 Collision Near Kernstown
A 4 p m collision on Route 11 near Kernstown caused about $100 damage to each of two cars. A 1941 Ford driven by Ruth Replogle of 704 S Stewart St and a 1937 Dodge coupe owned by Robert Richard Strosnider of Stephens City were involved. The Dodge was reported at a standstill at impact.
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Kernstown
Henry Renner
Ruth Replogle
S. Stewart St
Robert Richard Strosnider
Stephens City
Dewey Weighs Cabinet Makeup Ahead of Victory
Albany reports say Governor Dewey studying possible cabinet posts as election nears eight days away. Names repeatedly linked include John Foster Dulles and Roger Straus, with talk also centering on Elliott Bell for the Federal Reserve role and Harold Stassen for either secretary of state or defense.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Chicago
Cleveland
Boston
New York City
Dewey
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Roger W. Straus
Straus
Senate
Vandenberg
Sen
Arthur Vandenberg
Rmich
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Clifford R. Hope
R-Kan
Agriculture
Interior
California
Arizona
Sam Ford
Montana
Defense Post
Martin Dewey
Harold E. Stassen
GOP
Minnesota
Stassen
National Defense
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania
Teenage Couple Slain at Eau Claire Country Club
Police hunt a killer after teenager Raymond Smith 18 and Gertrude Bauman 17 were found shot dead on the Eau Claire country club grounds. Coroner says the girl was raped. bodies located near a stream and river bank after a Saturday hike.
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Eau Claire
Wis
Wallace Stokes
Raymond Smith
Eau Clair Country Club
Gertrude Bauman
Virginians borrow over 25 million from small loan agencies
Virginia small loan agencies issued 25,583,068 dollars in loans of 300 or less last year to 151,187 borrowers. The average loan was 169 dollars, with 3,042,340 dollars in interest at 12 percent, contributing to a gross income of 3,109,639.24 dollars for the agencies.
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Richmond
T*e
Bureau of Banking
State Corporation Commission
Truman Launches Final Campaign Stop In Chicago
President Truman begins the wind-up of his 1948 bid aboard the campaign train with a Chicago Stadium speech at 10 p.m. He reiterates support for Israel and states Dewey injected Palestine into politics. The White House release defends a nonpartisan foreign policy stance and notes de jure recognition will follow a permanent Israeli government.
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Truman
Elevon
Chicago
Washington
Cleveland
Boston
New York
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Thomas E. Dewey
GOP
Israel
White House
Margaret
Palestine
Gov. Dewey
Dean Allange
American Christian Palestine Committee of New York
Asfange
United Nations Special Committee
United Nations
Nine Registrants Take Physical Exams Today
Three city and six county men left Winchester by bus for Alexandria for pre induction medical exams. Passing would qualify for induction on November 23. Col Mills F Neal said rejections run about five of six so far. Bus left 9 40 a m and return expected 7 35 p m. Names include Howard Hillyard and Clay Smith and Eldridge Sirbaugh plus Hart Gainesboro Smith Castleman Hildebrand Rosenburger Willis.
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Winchester
Alexandria
Col
Mills F. Neal
Selective Service
Howard Hillyard
E. Cork St
Clay Smith
Chambers Answers Hiss Libel Suit Files Perjury Claim
Whittaker Chambers, in a federal court answer, denies Alger Hiss libel and slander charges of $50,000 and repeats his accusation that Hiss is a communist. He adds that Hiss committed perjury when denying communism before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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Baltimore
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
Hiss
House Committee On un-American Activities
Chambers
House Committee
John T. Kline
Nuclear weapons fit into wider war plans not sole reliance
Washington reports that planners weigh atomic bombs among several wartime and peacetime tests. Officials stress A bombs are deadly but not decisive alone, with conventional forces remaining the main focus as about $12 billion in defense outlays target troops, armor, ships and aircraft.
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Washington
United States
Air Force
Estimated 51 Million Voters To Cast Ballots November 2
Election experts in 48 states project 51,035,256 people will vote for president on November 2. The forecast, based on 66,811,617 qualified voters and 95,000,000 potential voters per Census figures, estimates turnout below 1940 and 1944 records. Some forecasters anticipate near 60 million per CIO News.
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Washington
CIO News
Associated Press
Census Bureau
Court Upholds Ban on Novel as Obscene
Supreme Court deadlocks 4 to 4 on Memoirs of Hectare Coin ban. New York courts had barred publication and distribution for obscenity, Doubleday and Company fined $1000 in state court. Justice Frankfurter did not participate. Court unsigned opinion leaves state decision intact.
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Washington
Supreme Court Today
New York
Hectare
Supreme Court
Justice Frankfurter
Doubleday and Company, Inc
Doubleday
Berlin Socialists Spark Russian Prosecution Threat
Berlin's Socialists denounced a Russian threat to prosecute six anti communist city leaders over alleged warmongering. The attack cited by Col Alexis Jelisarov targeted Ernest Reuther Otto Suhr Ferdinand Friedenburg Frantz Neumann Kurt Mattick and Rudolf Markewitz as riot linked officials and a danger to peace amid tightened Soviet police presence.
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Berlin
Social Democratic
Alexis Jelisarov
Walter Schreiber
Jelisarov
Ernest Reuther
Otto Suhr
Ferdinand Friedenburg
Frantz Neumann
Kurt Mattick
Rudolf Markewitz
Golden Wedding Honors Mr and Mrs William C Haines
50 year Star Readers mark their golden wedding anniversary today at 707 Berryville Ave. The couple Mrs Daisy Grim Haines and Mr William C Haines recall a half century of life together including three children and many friends. They shared courtship at John Kerr School and a Confederate veterans picnic at Fisher’s Hill before marrying on Oct 25 1898.
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William C. Haines
Berryville Ave
Vishinsky Denounces 6 Nation Move in Berlin Crisis
The United Nations Security Council rejected a six nation plan to resolve the Berlin deadlock as Russia vetoed the compromise. Andrei Vishinsky condemned the move saying only talks would be organized and criticized lifting the blockade in stages tied to currency reforms. The vote was nine to two with Russia and the Ukraine opposing. Bramuglia announced the veto as the council prepared to meet at the Palais de Chaillot.
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Paris
Russia
Berlin
United Nations Security Council
Ukraine
Council
Juan A. Bramuglia
Argentina
Hussia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Assembly
Visninsky
Kney
U.N. General Assembly
Vishinsky
Merlin
Security Council
Sovier
United States
Juan Bramuglia
Bramuglia
Palais de Chaillot
Neu
Rev T J Hawkins and Family Honored at Dinner
Rev Thomas J Hawkins receives farewell gifts at Braddock Street Methodist Church in Braddock, with wife and two sons named. Hawkins transfers to Mt Vernon Church in Danville, leaving Thursday. Successor Rev William Archer Wright and Lucile Cook arrive the same day to take over.
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Braddock St. Methodist Church
Thomas J. Hawkins
Mt. Vernon Church
Danville
Walter Shay
Charles Lanahan
Mr. Shay
Hawkins
William Archer Wright
Highland Park
Richmond
Lucile Cook
Louisa County
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Edwin F. Brown
Dial
Military Alliance
Telephone Union and Company
Tuck
Sunchon
Tom Lambert Sunchon
South Korea
Yasu
Kwangju
Communist Labor Party
Gordon D. Mohr
Sanish
N. D
Stewart Greenbaum
Los Angeles
Cheju Island
Greenbaum
Mohr
Presbyterian Mission
John Curtis Crane
Gulfport
Miss
London
U.N. Council
U. S
George G. Grim
Cumberland
Grim
Co. K
Virginia Calvary
Charles Town
Haines
Rose Crim
Luray
Lillian Hyett
George G. Marion
Floyd Grim
Hai
Floyd
Bertha Carper
Fred Wood
Hyett
Sophia Carper
Fred Goss
T. J. Hawkins
Smith Pontiac Sales
Gerrard St
Rand Valley Ave
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