Trieste clash wounds seven as Yugoslav protests flare
Seven Americans six soldiers and one British man were wounded in Trieste during a clash with pro Yugoslav demonstrators. The disturbance occurred near the harbor as police dispersed the protest in defiance of a military government ban. An Associated Press photographer Daniel Jacino of New York was among the wounded.
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UNRRA
Trieste
Venezia Giulia
U. S
Gorizia
Associated Press
Daniel Jacino
New York
San Giacomo
Jacino
Thousands See Stock Car Race At Airport Speedway
Thousands attended the first stock car event at Airport Speedway where entries fell short due to a Labor Day crash in Richmond and car breakdowns. Teague Glenn Dunaway won the 30 lap finale as dust rose despite track treatment. future races will favor lighter cars. Next Sunday jalopies return with local and other drivers, including three new Winchester entries. PUBLIC SALE of Household Goods Sept 12 11 am Mrs Albert Bowers Route 11 near Clearbrook Va.
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Airport Speedway
Richmond
Tive
Teague
Glenn Dunaway
Oross Kermit Batt
W. L. Lichliter
Speedway
Winchester
Albert Bowers
Clearbrook
Child Believed Identified in Terre Haute Kidnapping Case
Police chief confirms 3 year old Madeline Toby To bias found in a cheap rooming house in Terre Haute with a woman suspected of abducting her from Kansas City. The case centers on a suspected kidnapping with local authorities coordinating with Kansas City probes.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Forest Braden
Madeline
Toby) Tobias
Kansas City
OPA Ceilings On Meat Are Effective Now
OPA ceilings return to canned meats lard and shortening today and to fresh meat tomorrow completing the farmer to consumer price control chain. Canned meat prices will revert to June 30 levels while lard and margarines rise modestly. Fresh meats ceiling rises about three and a half cents from June 30 with some cuts up to 16 cents a pound higher. Officials say a new meat famine is unlikely and rationing is not being restored despite debates on reorganizing oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
OPA
OPA- Agriculture Department
Meat Lists Return With Slaughter Controls In Virginia
Slaughter controls are reinstated by the OPA to ensure equitable meat distribution. Ceiling price posters will be displayed at meat counters as prices take effect September 9. Quotas for cattle calves and hogs are set at 90 90 and 70 percent respectively, with enforcement to prevent black market sales and enable traceability.
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Virginia
Palmer Bright
OPA
Deester
Richmond
Bright
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Gen. Bright
Special meeting called on bowling team entries
There will be a special meeting at the fire hall Monday night Sept 9 at 8 p.m. All members must attend. BH W Rainsberger Jr Captain. Also an office notice for Dr L M Allen with hours listed.
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W. Rainsberger, Jr
Sargent
Byrnes Leads Postwar Germany Unity Call Display
In a wartime era scene Byrnes calls for a united Germany. Behind him sit Robert Murphy Sen. Arthur Vandenberg Sen. Tom Connally and Gen. Joseph T. McNarney with an International Radiophoto credit.
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Robert Murphy
Arthur Vandenbere
R.-Mich
Tom Connally
D.-Tex
Byrnes
Joseph T. McNarney
Byrnes Speech Sparks East West Debate On Potsdam
Diplomatic officials argued over Secretary Byrnes Stuttgart remarks and whether they advance a single world order or split spheres. Critics say the speech abandons the Potsdam pact and risks deepening Russia-West tensions while supporters view it as a necessary shift toward economic unification and bold diplomacy.
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Washington
Byrnes
Stuttgart
Germany
Russia
Moscow
Potsdam
United States
State Department
Impersonator Arrested as OPA Officer in Harrisburg
John Campbell Williams Jr of Oates Avenue faces federal charges for impersonating an OPA officer. Arraignment scheduled this afternoon in Harrisburg after he allegedly visited the Rationing Board on September 3 and identified himself as an OPA official and examined a Winchester at the National Fruit Product Company plant where he worked.
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John Campbell Williams, Jr
Oates Avenue
OPA
Harrisburg
Williams
Trend of Commodity Prices Reaches New 1946 High
The Associated Press reports the weighted wholesale price index of 35 commodities rose to 149.10, a new 1946 high. Comparisons show prior levels of 140.60 the day before, 145.91 a week earlier, and 145.93 a month earlier, with 107.90 a year ago. The index uses 1926 as the base.
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New York
Associated Press
Man Killed After Being Struck On Route 11 Near Winchester
Martinsburg resident Wilson Adams a 64 year old laborer was killed last night after being hit by a car on Route 11 near the Oak Grove Tavern nine miles north of Winchester. Major Frank Bain of Charles Town and Washington D C was not charged after a coroner's inquest. Adams leaves three children two brothers and a sister and the body will be removed for funeral services with interment in a nearby cemetery.
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Wilson T. Adams
Martinsburg
Oak Grove Tavern
Winchester
Frank P. Bain
Charles Town
Washington, D. C
Adams
Frederick County
Weset
Virginia
Major Bain
F. L. Largent
Mrs. Bain
H. ]. Pifer
J. Sloan Kuykendall
C. A. Seal
J. S. Fant
Gainesboro
David
Susan Clark Adams
Lawrence W. Adams
Hanover
Howard O. Adams
White Hall
A. C. Nadenbousch
Hedgesville
W. Va
Hayes Adams
Orrville
P. Whitacre
van Shirley
Gerrardstown
Lawrence Adams, Jr
Earl B.ard Marvin C. Wnadenbousch
Ledgesville H
J. R. Collis
John Oliver
Accidents Over Week End Injure Three People
Two injuries from a 1946 Plymouth taxi collision with a 1936 Pontiac sedan at the N Loudoun Wyck intersection. James Nicholson found not guilty. other driver charged with reckless driving. A second Saturday night wreck on 448 National Avenue involved a 1931 Ford vs a truck with $150 damage. Garland Elliott treated at hospital for a facial cut.
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Howard Clark
N. Loudoun
B.C. Whitlock
W. Boscawen Street
James F. Nicholson
S. Cameron Street
Wyck Street
Larrick
N. Loudoun Street
Jessie Peacemaker
Stephenson
Thompson
Nicholson
John Rice
Ernest Barrett
Rt. 1
Winchester
Dennis A. Cole
National Avenue
Garland A. Elliott
Page County
Winchester price control panel finds OPA violations
More than a dozen alleged price control violations were reviewed at a Winchester meeting attended by two District OPA representatives. C A Hobert said one man is accused of selling an automobile for $400 above the ceiling. The local OPA had a signed statement and docketed the case within 12 hours for a bucer investigation.
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Winchester
OPA
Hobert
Meeting to select delegates for Staunton district convention
Allen Gray, chairman of the City Democratic Committee, calls a meeting for 7:30 Thursday night in the City Hall chamber. The purpose is to determine how delegates will be chosen for the district convention in Staunton on September 28 to nominate a Democratic Congressional candidate to succeed A. Willis Robertson.
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Allen Gray
Democratic Committee
Te Cece
Richmond M ayor William C Herbert Dies in Hospital
Richmond mourns mayor William Curtis Herbert who died in a local hospital after two weeks of illness. He led wartime defense and public safety efforts, supervised selective service, and headed transportation. Herbert, born in Richmond, served in the army air service and later held executive roles before his 1948 successor is chosen.
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Richmond
William Curtis Herbert
Herbert
Department of Public Safety
Old Point Comfort College
Elizabeth City
American Locomotive Company
Southern Railway
Butler and Pearman, Inc
Army
Air Service
San Antonio
Kelly Field No. 2
869Th Aero Squadron
R. E. Lee
Soldiers Home
Continental Baking Company
Atlas Banking Company, Inc
Missing Baltimore girl linked by moccasins to skeletal find
A battered pair of moccasins marked with the brand Avo were found near the armless skeleton of a girl, strengthening the claim by Mr and Mrs William Hildreth that the remains are their 17 year old daughter who vanished from Baltimore nearly two years ago. Police say the discovery, made in a suburban area, ties to the family from Charlottesville, Virginia, in the ongoing case.
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Baltimore
William
Hildreth
Batimore
Oscar Grimes
Baltimore County
Charlottesville
Senator Bridges Protests Rails For Yugoslavia
Washington dispatch reports UNRRA diverted steel rails earmarked for China to Yugoslavia due to embargo on relief shipments. Senator Bridges condemns the move and accuses Yugoslav UNRRA officials of ordering the diversion. State Department says no delay in shipments to China and cites church and envoy tensions over the shooting of American planes.
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Washington
Sept
UNRRA
China
Yugoslavia
Bridges R. LN
H. Gaetee
F P. H. LaGuardia
Roger Tubby
State Department
Truman
Army Engineer Corps
Berryville Jail Escapee Captured in Pennsylvania
Sheriff W. Smallwood Jr. reported one of the Berryville jail escapees, Jackson, was captured in Harrisburg Pennsylvania. Arthur Rowles remains at large with no confirmed sighting. Jackson faced two counts of forgery and was believed to have frequented Harrisburg before capture.
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Berryville
Marrone
W. Smallwood, Jr
Clarke County
Rowles
Arthur Rowles
Jackson
Frederick
Smallwood
Harrisburg
U N Assembly Urged to Postpone Sept Meeting
The Foreign Ministers Council backed by Soviet Russia asked the United Nations General Assembly to delay its September 23 session in New York by one month to avoid clashing with the Paris Peace Conference. The United States did not join the request.
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Paris
Foreign Ministers Council
Russia
United Nations General Assembly
New York
National Maritime Union backs strike amid wage board dispute
Joseph Curran of the National Maritime Union pledges support for the AFL seamen strike demanding restoration of a wage stabilization board pay cut and a matching raise for his members. The nationwide stoppage enters its fifth day with halt of half a million workers and widespread port disruption.
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Associated Press
Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union
CIOU
AFL
WSB
Curran
Labor Department
San Francisco
Harry Lundeberg
Stabilization Board
Lundeberg
Striking Sailors Union Pacific
Ns Tional Union
Ashington
CIO
West
Ors
Association of American Railroads
Washington
New York City
New York
AAA
Hockman Fined For Scattering Apples In Traffic
Marshall W. Hockman of 8S Loudoun Street was fined 10 dollars and costs in police court after scattering a load of apples on the traffic island at Valley Avenue Gerrard and Loudoun Streets. He said brakes failed and swerved to avoid two cars. Officer Wisecarver made the arrest.
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Marshall W. Hockman
Loudoun Street
Valley Avenue
Gerrard
Loudoun
Hockman
Eddie Barr
John Rice
Wisecarver
Holmes C. Poole
Rt. 1
Wilke
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Tobias Child
S. Cameron St
L. M. Allen, M. D
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Staats Theatre
James Byrnes
Man
Bain
Shenandoah Vinegar Company
W. C. Herbert
Senator Bridges
Rails
Rowles At
U. N. Assembly
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