State liquor profit sharing to be argued before Supreme Court
Charleston West Virginia April 20 The legality of sharing liquor profits with cities and towns will be argued before the state Supreme Court on May 3 The court directed State Auditor Edgar B Sims to appear and explain why he should not be ordered to approve a $150000 distribution as of April 1 Sims had refused a treasury requisition and the West Virginia League of Municipalities urged court action Attorney General Ira J Partlow argued the legislature intended to reimburse municipalities for money spent acting as agents of the state If Sims wins a special legislative session may follow to aid hard pressed cities and counties
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Charleston
W. Va
Supreme Court
Edgar B. Sims
Sims
Ira J. Partlow
West Virginia League of Municipalities
Partlow
League
Patteson
League of Municipalities
Third Arrest Made In Killings
The third son of Mrs. Inez Brennan is charged as an accessory to murder in Delaware. Her son Robert and another son Raymond face first degree murder charges for the shotgun killing of Wade Wooldridge. Police dig on the 30 acre farm aim to uncover more evidence and recover bodies buried near an old barn and pigpen.
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Inez Brennan
Delaware
Lonely Hearts
Arne
Lackland
Tex
Air Force Base
Homer Garrison
Texas Department of Public Safety
Herbert Barnes
George
Brennans
UMW Cooperation With Industry Foreseen
George H. Love, president of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., told stockholders that the United Mine Workers union will work with industry to prevent further cost increases. He urged a return to stable times with higher productivity and employment for about 19,000 coal miners.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
George H. Love
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co
Love
Unwa
United Mine Workers
Welch Shooting Toll Reaches 3
Welch county jailer Travis Milton French Jr died after a jail break attempt by prisoner Silas Clark. The incident left three dead, including B H Ross Johnson, a Black patrolman, and Clark who died from gunshot wounds.
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Travis Milton French, Jr
Welch County
French
Giles County
Welch Memorial Hospital
B. H. Ross Johnson
Silas Clark
Keystone
Clark
Johnson
Jack Leedy
Penvir
Lula Rector
Kimball
McDowell County
S. S. Shrader
Bramwell Road
Bluefield
W. A. French
Bluewell
Lilly French
G. W. Grogan
Clinton French
George French
M. L. Robinson
Narrows
Harold French
Peterstown
Welch
Rescue finds miner dead in cave in
A 25 man rescue party spent three hours in a coal mine near Pughtown West Virginia and found Homer Rickard 51 dead from suffocation. Fellow miner Floyd Thomas 58 was trapped but freed himself and aided the others. Rickard worked as a potter and part time miner.
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East Liverpool
Homer Rickard
Rickard
Pughtown
W. Va
Floyd Thomas
Foxes Seize Henhouse Den Near New Barnet
Frank W. Dovey reports a fox den under his henhouse near New Barnet England. A clever vixen and five cubs have been raiding his chicken coop, highlighting predator trouble close to home.
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New Barnet
Eng
Frank W. Dovey
Fox
Air Secretary Symington Says Air Force Needs Joint Military effort
Air Secretary Symington insisted the air force cannot win wars alone. Speaking to the Charleston chamber of commerce, he urged true unification of land sea and air and praised Defense Secretary Louis Johnson for pushing long range bomber programs and mass production while stressing the need for a capable navy and army.
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Charleston
W. Va
Symington
Air Force
Louis Johnson
West Virginia
Thomases
Truman
Robeson declares Negroes will not fight Russia
Paul Robeson told a world peace congress in Paris that American Negroes would never fight the Soviet Union. His address opened a session that heard attacks on the Atlantic Pact atomic policy the Marshall Plan and Anglo American capitalist imperialism from multiple speakers.
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Paris
Paul Robeson
World Peace Congress
Soviet Union
U. S
War Flares Up On China Front
Robeson declared against a war to back colonial powers and slavery, urging friendship with Russia and eastern democracies. He called for reforms, sang Joe Hill, and warned of Africa and wealth tied to immigrant labor, while topics at the Prague congress highlighted antiwar stances and solidarity across nations.
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Robeson
Russia
China
America
Congress
Truman
Africa
Edward Stettinius
Liberia
Stettinius
Rep Coffey Dies In Plane Crash
Congressman Robert L Coffey Jr 30 from Johnstown Pa dies in a jet fighter crash near Albuquerque N M while on a cross country proficiency flight He refueled at Detroit and had taken off from Andrews Field Md en route to Riverside Calif.
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Washington
Robert Lewis Coffey, Jr
Johnstown
Albuquerque
N. M
Air Force
Coffey
Air Reserve
Andrewsfield
Detroit
Riverside
Calif
Chilean Earthquake Death Toll Reaches 57
The south central Chile quake left 57 dead and 150 injured with property damage in thousands of dollars. President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla and two ministers flew to the zone to direct relief as aftershocks followed the 10:25 p.m. tremor, the worst since Chillán 1939.
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Santiago
Chile
Gabriel Gonzalez Vidella
Chillan
Civil Rights Row Flares Anew In Senate Housing Fight
The senate battled over adding an anti segregation amendment to a public housing bill. Capehart urged approval of the Bricker Cain plan, highlighting GOP splits on civil rights and social legislation. The housing bill aims to build 810,000 units in six years and faces a stalled vote.
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Washington
Senate
Capehart
Ind
Bricker
Ohio
Cain
Taft
Thye
Minn
Cain-Bricker
GOP
Scores Fleeing High Rents In Miami Beach
Miami Beach workers flee rising rents after decontrol several weeks ago. Burnett Roth says renters move to nearby Miami. figures from Max Goodman show rent jumps from 50 to 125 dollars. Arthur Frishman notes no complaints and defends market pricing of apartments.
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Miami Beach
Fla
County Fair Rent Council
Burnett Roth
Miami
Max Goodman
Arthur D. Frishman
British Sailors Die in Yangtze Naval Shelling
The British naval attache reports 26 British sailors killed and at least 23 wounded when Chinese Communist shelling hit two warships on the Yangtze near Nanking and Shanghai. Seventeen dead aboard the sloop Amethyst and twenty wounded on board.
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Shanghai
Yangtze
Great River
Nanking
New Streamlined Train Tests Revolutionary Rail Designs
American Car and Foundry unveils the ACF Talgo train a low profile modular passenger design lighter by 75 percent than present equipment. The demonstration in New York outlines 20 foot long units with two wheels linked like auto truck trailers and a plan to build two similar trains for service between Madrid and the French border.
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New York
American Car & Foundry Co
Spain
ACF
America
Madrid
French
Goicoe Chea
Oriol
British warship shelled on Yangtze amid Chinese civil war
Shanghai reports a third British warship the sloop Black Swan shelling on the Yangtze while aiding the stricken Amethyst. Casualty tallies rose to 26 dead and at least 23 wounded from yesterday’s shelling of Amethyst and Consort, with 15 or more injuries feared on the Black Swan.
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Shanghai
Yangtze River
Black Swan
Amethyst
China
Great River
Nanking
Nine Brit ships clash as Amethyst aid runs aground
Nine crewmen of the destroyer Consort died in the engagement while aiding the Amethyst aground on Rose Island near Nanking. The Amethyst was refloated after heavy shelling. casualties on the British side totalled 17 killed and 20 wounded, with 60 crew members fleeing toward a town.
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Consort
Rose Island
Nanking
Amethyst
Ralph Stevenson
Peiping
Hong Kong
London
Lord Fraser
Shanghi
2000 Hard Coal Miners Quit Work in Sitdown Strike
In Lansford Pennsylvania on April 20 more than two thousand anthracite miners walked off their jobs to back ten sitdown strikers deep in a coal pit. The action supports a pay dispute and seeks backing from nearly four thousand miners in Coaldale and Tamaqua district pits. Fred Gallagher of the Panther Valley UMW committee called a meeting for tonight as the union weighs a case that may go before a conciliation board.
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Lansford
Coaldale
Tamaqua
Lehigh Navigation Coal Co
Fred Gallagher
United Mine Workers Panther Valley Committee
UMW
Thomas Kennedy
Conciliation Board
Mother Cat And Two Kits Found In Apple Tree Nest
Hudson Mass April 20 A mother cat and two newborn kittens cuddled in a bird nest twenty feet up in an apple tree. Harold Lamburn and wife found the family after a two day search. The nest sits in a large hollow while two bird eggs share the space.
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Hudson
Mass
Harold Lamburn
U S Names Alan Kirk Ambassador to Russia in Peace Move
Vice Admiral Alan G. Kirk, 60, named ambassador to Russia as the United States keeps doors open for a Moscow peace move amid Berlin blockade rumors. Kirk has long naval and diplomatic service including Belgium posting and is slated to replace Lt Gen. Walter Bedell Smith.
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Kirk
Soviet
Russia
Washington
Alan G. Kirk
United States
Moscow
Berlin
Acheson
Belgium
Luzenbourg
Walter Bedell Smith
New York
Senate
Truman
Siciliy
China Station
Wilson
Harding
Navy
Philadelphia
Connecticut
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Germany
Lad Sorry He Slew Mother With Shotgun
A blond high school senior Dale Junior Post seventeen of Farnhamville Iowa confessed I’m sorry I done it Sheriff George Dahike said. Post was arrested in Fort Dodge after a search for his girlfriend Norma Jeann Seymour seventeen. The body of his mother Frances Post forty eight was found in Farnhamville kitchen with a sack of groceries nearby. County Attorney Lewis said the youth’s statement cited anger over not getting car keys. A charge was expected to be filed tomorrow.
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Rockwel City
George Dahike
Dale Junior Post
Farnhamville
Post
Fort Dodge
Norma Jeanne Seymour
Frances Post
Lewis Atricks
City Fears Gas Fumes From Unknown Source
About 1,000 households in Marion Ohio faced fear of explosions as gasoline fumes filled basements in the southwestern city area. Residents stopped using stoves and heating, opened windows, and some moved out while officials investigated. A theory suggested a gasoline truck spilled fuel into a sewer.
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Marion
Safety Service
Edward O. Uncapher
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