Raleigh Register (Newspaper) - May 28, 1952, Beckley, West Virginia Revenge Moves Putting On Berlin Reds Sound Shooting Order in Land SINCE OLDEST INSTITUTION Not listed but our phone number it BECKLEY W VA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON MAY Briton Says Commie Power Doubled During Truce Talks L Higher Food Ceilings May be Listed Tonight Defense Minister Says Reds Could Hit With Force LONDON UP Lord Alexander Britain's defense minister said day Communist forces in North Korea have been almost doubled since the cease fire talks began last July He said the Communist forces now are not far short of one million men compared with just over last July He added that the reinforcements were mostly Chinese The Communist forces have taken full advantage of the lull in the fighting to reinforce re- organize and re-equip their ar- TOKYO W Soviet rines in the Pacific are close to their bases in Russia and Red China and aren't likely to do else the new commander of U S naval forces in the Far East said today The Russian subs are the main potential threat to the forces of Vice Adm Robert P Briscoe He is openly optimistic about them or anything else that might oppose his fleet Protest Baby Ban West Virginia News Briefs he told the House of Lords The enemy's strength in armor and artillery has steadily mounted and they are believed to have over 500 tanks and Alexander said There have large in- creases in the numbers of anti- aircraft and heavy mortars and field artillery and rocket launchers have also made their appearance Alexander said that despite the air superiority of the United tions over the battle area the Communists have been able to build up large stocks of supplies in the past ten months As for the possibility of a sudden A FORMER WAC major Mrs Alba C Thompson and her husband Re- serve Col Loren B Thompson sit in Washington at a hearing of the Senate armed services committee where she is protesting against withdrawal of her reserve sion because she had a baby Her husband argued that a married WAC who has children is only I performing the function for which our Creator intended her and urged adoption of an amendment which would dismissal of women from the reserves because of motherhood International attack Alexander Communist There is no evidence at present of an imminent enemy attack but with reinforcements the Communists are now in Neely Raps Holt In Senate Blast WASHINGTON Matthew M Neely has renewed his long D calling him a political chameleon political de- BLUEFIELD tfi State Police said the fatal shooting of Donald Eugene Thompson 22 of near Montcalm was suicide Trooper L D Mullins said son shot himself in the head day in the bedroom of- his home He was having domestic difficulty Mullins said By WILLIAM 0 YARN WASHINGTON government is expected announce tonight ceiling boosts of about each for a wide range of food items lo a penny That's how much the of Price Stabilization Military Patrols Still Banned on Main Highway By O'MALLEY BERLIN Communist East Germany tightened its squeeze on Berlin another notch today Orders went out to Red police to shoot to kill anyone caught without a proper pass in the Iron new three-mile no- man's land along the West German border The shooting order was the latest i a series of revenge moves I the Bonn government's the West It all but seal off the city which trembled in fear of a resumption of the 49 siege The Russians continued their ban on Allied military patrols j ling the j Autobahn sole highway link be- the isolated and the West j Regular civilian traffic continued I to flow normally but a new i la for transit visas adopted by the Reds yesterday could choke off i traffic between West Berlin and the Bonn republic at any time The Russians also let a escorted U.S Army convoy use the highway and an American officer they don't mind through travel miry uon i mind through travel increases would bring lo the but or some reason object to our CARBONDALE 111 ft George H Hand dismissed recently as president of Fairmont if said he nation's food hill would go up about TOO million dollars a year under he up and down has figures were challenged four food distribution groups In Paris the Big Three between ARROW INDICATES HELMSTEDT western terminus of the allied highway route from West Germany to Berlin which the Communists closed to allied military patrols perhaps presaging another Berlin blockade The said the adjustments would OPS officials said the action necessary because earnings of the have declined me West Virginia have groce nave declined University graduate was hired said competition not ceiling by the higher margins tern a i by Southern Illinois sity as assistant to the preident and professor of economics prices If food retailers and will be some of the otten all the price relief ms m this wide ranSe of have sought and could reflect this cereals canned vegetables regard to their own security The new visa formula tears up an agreement the Western Powers and Russia which had lowed West Berlin and West man authorities to issue interzonal passes for transit travel through of v O was red by the West their prices they said Pickles vinegar olives ithe zone in either ginia Board of Education effective prices to consumers would be canned meats and processed Ko i r of the West peace pact membership in a European cut telephone connections to lin Previously they blocked eight of 12 points along the West German border Special Red guards have been added next month after he for the dismissal of several members of the Fairmont faculty M Cabell County Bridge Commission has set midnight EOT June 30 for ending tor and some long distance lines to the West The visa formula requires all Germans to get an East German permit before stepping on the about five cents a week per such as smoked fish and The move had the following zone soil which covers the son OPS is using scare tactics ing oleomargarine cookies foods James and Jan effort to perpetuate canned and others said a statement by the and salmon are not included Association of Retail OPS officials said for the most Co-operative Food Distributors the increases would run 100 miles between Berlin and the West traveling through the area J J f i L t j v Food Chains and the Super cans and on more me away put the entire place i J I i of Market Institute The public should j pensive quality understand foods the higher ceiling rises of that competition is the factor or more Although t u Soviet zone Yesterday the Red German re- gime cut all telephone Three Murdered On Farm Mental Patient Arrested LEESBURG Va woman un two men one of them an relief or start up an airlift airline pilot were slain last night in 1 Tf i 1 Every truck driver on the latest Red employe or canal barge operator moves a senior Allied official They have now arranged things that we have the alternative of in If tolls on the America the Per item On be watching West Berlin wither peake 0 bridge nf -i Tolls have been charged since the bridge was built in 1952 but since 1940 the span has been operated as a self-liquidating public prise Homer Gebhardt executive vice president of the First Huntington which is keeping food prices OPs S d ln some cases down the statement said n has little or nothing to do with More than 50 per cent of all the item higher it increase on an interest payments on and retire them as they mature through 1958 CHARLESTON ment of Samuel Cooper of Charleston to the State Advisory Board of the Department of Public Assistance was announced today of the food below ceilings are those items most frequently by the low and middle income groups The statement are doing more harm than good in the few cases where supplies are 03 Gov Patteson Annulment Four Divorces Granted A marriage was annulled and four others ended in divorce in orders signed today by Judge Ben Raleigh County necessarily j Circuit Court the items The marriage annulled was that Rabbi Cooper will fill an would i expired six-year term of Rabbi The Neely in Cashdan also of short I However OPS officials to reporters that the Ashworth in h nOt cize Holt in bitter terms He to k a rr dieted the defeat of Holt to a major offensive with F Foreign Aid yesterday to and the term will continue until f The OPS 30 194 little warning and could maintain the initial pressure of the attacks election in West Virginia fnr i e can nominee for governor and all other Republicans in the November for some time order will authorize higher margins for all retail food Appalachian Rale Case Adjourned Holt is a former JU S senator and was a Itic candidate for governor in 19441 and for senator in 1948 He Property Assessment Hearings Under Way Trent Divorce decrees were made final in these Vivian Wehausen against Ernest Wehausen with custody of their two children granted the plaintiff Jewel Gregory Hatcher against Theo Hatcher Jr maiden name Jewel Gregory restored to came a Republican two years CHARLESTON Attorneys i and hio and the Neely said the Republican Party and of water electric and i appearing for three of its leased Jin West Virginia nominated a presented political pod as the Board of Political chameleon a Works resumed hearings on CHARLESTON W Hearing a Democratic renegade utility property an Appalachian Electric Power Co petition for a rate increase has been adjourned to a date to be who once held but never filled i a seat in this body Lucille Cole against Paige Cole Lucille Williams re- against name leased Shirlie Tucker Tucker maiden 0 uil me sKies head tween Berlin and the Russian too that's Militar Ike Plans C 1 i Oil WASHINGTON Gen Dwig D Eisenhower will receive a f military ceremonial welcome his arrival here Sunday fro Paris But in recognition of the polite facts of life the military greete will stand aside for a moment the can also exchan greetings with political supporte backing him for the Republic presidential nomination The Defense Department whi has been meticulously ignoring ti political significance of Eise return announced its plans for his welcome Eise hower is due by plane about 3 EST Sunday Top civilian and military officia Minor Re-Count Changes Listed Seven precincts frere covered this morning in the re-count of primary election only one or two vote changes listed The of the Slab Fork District first to be counted is continuing with only two precincts left Votes were today on Killarney Coal town and Midway precincts E Van Dorsey's lead over Jack A Nuckols in the race for Democratic nomination to a lonely farming section near here An escaped mental patient was arrested and charged with I murder Accused is Maurice Ray Fox 39 of Arcola Va who escaped two weeks ago from a Staunton Va mental institution The William Fitzhugh Fox 70 his father Robert O'Connor 34 Church Va Capital Airlines pilot Lillian L Hove 34 817 S Pitt St Alexandria Va Miss Hove had been bludgeoned to death The two men blasted by shotgun pellets Leesburg is about 35 miles from Washington Sheriff Roger F Powell said a neighbor of the elder Fox advised him just before midnight that young Fox had been seen in the area Powell and his deputies then began to search for the hospital fugitive They found the bodies of Miss Hove and O'Connor in the front yard of the Fox home The body of the elder Fox was in an orchard about 200 yards away Residents said O'Connor owned a small plane which he usually kept were Many of them came for lower that its business had declined and it appeared that the to ward trend would continue on It asked for six Marland as opero Judge Commits lo Industrial commissioner was cut by 11 the armed forces with a White nearby Tuesday j House representative are to com- A J Lilly picked up three i prise tne official votes in the county court race in short-term inS party for Eisenhower IIT o which Troops have been ordered out l G McConnell asked a re-count j both for ceremonial purposes and John Ward's lead in the help control the crowd expected had leased some property a independent mining firms All at his home rect testimony now has been heard last night said assessment lo 85 million dolta s have been termini ret C -as listed with i Boys expected Air Transport Appalachian is a rate hike would amount to an ad- in annual enue It would affect about 252.000 n reference He's like to s h Third to I these companies a v j uic a lou don u tentative assessment on million Second was Two others involved In listed with their the Baltimore and Ohio with 75 u same Will Lose Command Eisenhower will see President Truman at the White House either Sunday afternoon or Monday from Fox and often went to the area to do some gardening State troopers organized a posse of 100 men and they found young Fox two hours later at the home of a brother Claude Powell said he was in bed a shotgun beside him Officers disarmed Fox without a struggle and took him to burg jail Chairman C E said the company would likely cross-examine witnesses of the testa nts and the commission when the hearing resumes Appalachian also would be allowed to present rebuttal io testimony of those know when he is going to erupt Holt said he would reserve for- mal comment until he could get Uhe details of Neely's Senate burst 15 and KOJE ISLAND Korea Wl A and Ohio with followed by the Norfolk were placed on three general is losing Man 75 by Juvenile Judge of the T Highway Caution Urged On Memorial Weekend i Light Co Gas ana Power Co Elected By Credit Bureaus CHARLESTON Supt W E Burchett ists to exercise unusual caution on the state's highways on the long same ages nnu Aw were placed on three years d western with an even 75 bation by Juvenile Judge n T TT JL today of Gen Life At Home second to railroads in In sentencing the 10 and 12 Frands T i Staff Writer assessments was tn Communist prisoners of i ALDERSON A earned today railway employe Ellis Gen F Yount naker fatally shot himself at i KO u thc Pusan home at Northern Virginia Power Co amount i Thp i- Who was The bullet entered his heart W West Vir Blue Ridge APPalachian Electric Power Co i HPr hi r Washington last instantly Methodists opened their 14th r j r i A 4 r he over- motive for his death could annual conference here with part In some I consideration of handed Light assessments was the year olds Carnegie set for gas oil companies had appeared thc third occasions that are down for Commander who Open Stale Conference ower Co j Representatives of 10 railroads inning part in some 30 burglaries of T U jj iut ail within the last month g are by release by POWs on Koje Island Memorial Day week end beginning operating in HUNTINGTON Wi William It is not our aim in ed before lne Hall of Beckley m elected out of your total l dent pro tern of the Associate in a statement are lor the ent amounting to pro tern of the Credit Bureaus of West Virginia at all West Virginians d yesterday property just l hope to help you make it in safety He Among those which said their assessment vas too high were the yesterday Re succeeds J L Patterson of Huntington who died last winter r V I Mrs Mildred N White of be spared from other duties will ton was named to serve out spared from other duties will tersons term on doing road patrol work The 4 r-n All of our men who can possibly and Ohio Chesapeake Senate Tells of Sex Parties in Capital Used By Communists to Gain Vital Information board of directors death rate is up The group chose Clarksburg bring it down by making this i 10 I Its next meeting Oct a safe and sane holiday By KD CREAGH i WASHINGTON made a bassy and Matthew Cvetic of San Francisco general conference a major item of ness The state meeting with official delegates including 500 ministers and 500 laymen will be concluded Sunday afternoon with the reading of ministerial ments for the coming church year In charge of the conference will be Bishop C Wicke of burgh who arrived here Monday for conferences with his cabinet West Virginia Cloudy showers in West this Cloud night I Bridge Bid n r A i Awaits U Si Approval Dr Gaston Foote of Methodist Church of 24 million dollars of the and in The The Southeastern Construction testimony given to the cooler contracts Co of Charleston offered the security to of state road Before a contract can by Joseph Molnar a young bridge and recommended be awarded it and the others writer who said he J he a frequent witness 6 p.m OAK HILL High Low last W a authorities bid submitted i foU trading Molnar added a new experiment Dominate American Was a of C he not developed station to be built here will cost The diplomat was named as Tu beginning in Cvetic a -i ithe U S Bureau of Mines about H- first therefore the c mm Dr G Ernest Sometimes the witness data he gave them was group of Red which E L hc nnd invited several men and that much of it was to influence American and the Rev as on aid yesterday must be re- hc carryings-on for the FBI whose conduct convinced me on another of still in this Bombay iri approval by thc Federal Bureau viewed by the bureau's regional and two other homosexuality witnesses Miss Svoboda The 3 that subversive At none of these parties Miss confirmed years in the Scheduled for was a mo country by any female guests present for the FBI told the to ministers and bS L- D Schmidt of GLADE CREEK representatives men embraced each other w ihQ River some planned features i1 Summers County though the low bid was ii A bid of S3I9.229 by he Keeley of the available this Co of Schmidt explained that by take off their coats Chairman McCarran ofi At various intervals for her widows and wives iNewS A these Soviet agents was to be offered b rs who th n various two insi Soviet agents ap time would disappear intone been Winton R Houck of pension be offered by the three above normal stage muddy Bluestone Reservoir and Normal stages clear below junction a aw on 2 Contracts awarded outright The Bureau of Mines will cognation county surfacing with West Virginia A A versity in operating the station Qf the McCarran j and becoming to rid these treacherous tender to Meanwhile liquor flowed freely Molnar said and his diplomat host York and the other witnesses would turn the conversation Pavlina Svoboda when the men mer employe of the Czech Em- sufficiently intoxicated PHot pun 0 Sa were closed bv 1950 Czech consulates in New been imprisoned Pittsburgh and charges member to be elected to an on trumped-up term was to be sub- as a on order in May will be held
