UMW Policy Group Sets Key Contract Demands
John L. Lewis and a 200 member policy committee outline four main aims for a new contract with coal operators: higher pay shorter hours equalized employment and greater safety in pits. They also note additional objectives from the October convention and plan talks to begin next month.
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Lewis
Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
National Bank of Washington
Barnum Colton
Colton
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Thomas Kennedy
Congress
States
Road bids set for May 10 on 12 projects in West Virginia
Charleston April 25 AP The road commission will open bids May 10 on 12 resurfacing projects costing about 310000 funded entirely by the state. Projects include Logan six miles of U S 119 Blair to Ethel McDowell 7.25 miles of U S 52 Johnny Cake to Roderfield Mingo 5.58 miles of U S 82 Gilbert to the Wyoming county line Raleigh 6.181 miles of state 41 and U S 19 Stamford to Prince Bridge Wyoming 12.755 miles of state 10 Elmore to Mercer county line.
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Charleston
W. Va
Road Commission
Logan
Blair
Ethel
McDowell
Johnny Cake
Roderfield
Mingo
Gilbert
Wyoming County
Raleigh
Stamford
Prince Bridge
Wyoming
Elmore
Mercer County
Mystery Witness Names Communist Leaders in Pittsburgh Plant
Milosh Kenezvich, a former communist now employed at the Westinghouse plant in Pittsburgh, testified before the House un American activities committee naming nine or ten leaders in a key industrial area. Judge Blair F. Gunther of Pittsburgh called the American Slav Congress subversive, while Slav Congress officials disputed his claims. Harry A. Sherman of Pittsburgh, ex attorney for CIO locals, also testified.
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Washington
Milosh Kenezvich
Pittsburgh
House
UN American Activities Committee
Kenzevich
Westinghouse
Blair F. Gunther
Slav Congress
Gunther
Harry A. Sherman
CIO United Elect
More Storage Space Sought For Crops
Washington April 25 The Senate approved by voice vote a bill giving the commodity credit corporation board authority to establish a nationwide storage system for farm crops tied to price support loans or purchases The CCC a 5 billion dollar government corporation runs the farmport program through loans on purchases The measure now goes to the House
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Washington
Senate
Chamber
Commodity Credit Corporation Board
CCC
No Price Tag Yet On Farm Program
Secretary Brannan defends a new farm program aimed at ensuring farmer income rather than lowering consumer food prices. The plan would pay farmers the difference between market and support levels, using cash from the treasury, while allowing surpluses to push consumer prices down. Brannan rejects Taft’s $6 billion estimate as exaggerated and notes possible opposition to price rises.
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Washington
Brannan
House Agriculture Committee
Taft
Ohio
Hope
R-Kas
Train to Run on Coal-Synthesized Fuel for May 8 Run
The first American passenger train powered by synthetic liquid fuel from coal is set to depart St Louis May 8. The Burlington line will operate a diesel locomotive and about eight cars carrying officials to Louisiana Missouri and back for the dedication of two new coal to oil demonstration plants. The 188 mile round trip will use about 1200 gallons of fuel from Louisiana.
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St. Louis
Burlington Lines
Louisina
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Louisiana
Burlington
Payment Proposed for Bluestone Dam Lands in Summers Mercer
A federal court report recommends payments totaling 70 995 to landowners for 14 tracts covering 1064 acres in Summers and Mercer counties condemned for the Bluestone dam and reservoir near Hinton. The action funds the government purchase for the project.
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Charleston
W. Va
Federal District Court
Summers
Mercer
Hinton
Congress Debates Truman Health Insurance Plan
Congress starts consideration of President Truman's compulsory health insurance proposal covering about 120 million Americans. The bill, backed by Democrats, would fund medical care including dental and hospital services with a three percent payroll tax split between workers and employers, while excluding railroad workers clergy and federal and state employers.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Senate
House
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
American Medical Association
Elmer H. Henderson
AMA
Taft
Ohio
Humphrey D-Minn
Murray
D-Mont
Senate Labor and Public Welfare
U S Envoy STUART Targeted by Chinese Reds in Nanking
Chinese Communist troops invaded the bedroom of Ambassador J Leighton Stuart in Nanking no one was harmed. The embassy reported a vigorous protest to Red authorities and the U S military attache would deliver it. Soldiers inspected the residence and questioned staff.
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Nanking
U. S
J. Leighton Stuart
U. S. State Department
Washington
Stuart
Shanghai
George Vine
China Daily News
International News Service
Central News Agency
Nanhsiang
Kashing
Grand Canal
Shanghai- Hangchow
Shanghai-Nanking
Soochow
Wuhsien
Edward Anderberg
Anderberg
Philip Fugh
State Department
Russia offers to lift Berlin blockade if four powers parley
Moscow announces via Tass that the blockade could end if a date is set for a big four foreign ministers meeting on Germany. It calls for lifting reciprocal restrictions on communications and trade ahead of the talks while acknowledging Berlin and currency issues.
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Russia
Berlin
London
Germany
Ussia
Moscow
Tass
J. A. Malik
United Nations Security Council
U. S
Philip C. Jessup
U. N
Stalin
J.kingsbury Smith
International
Paris
Foreign Ministers’council
Britain
France
U.S.S.R
Dynamite Threat Targeted Evarts Mayor in Harlan County
In Evarts Kentucky state police investigated an attempt to kill Mayor Elihu H Bailey who found 24 sticks of dynamite under his bedroom window. The fuse burned out and no arrests were made. Bailey became mayor in 1948 pledging to clean up bootlegging and gambling.
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Evarts
Harlan County
Elihu H. Bailey
Lewis Dalton
Bryan Middleton
Middleton
Britain expands fleet to China amid Yangtze clash
Britain will send two aircraft carriers and submarines to Hong Kong to reinforce existing forces as Parliament weighs criticism over Communist shelling on the Yangtze. Officials say no troop reinforcements are planned. aim is to safeguard communications with Hong Kong and maintain ties with China’s leadership.
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London
Britain
China
Hong Kong
Admiralty
Attlee
House of Commons
Yangtze River
Shanghai
Ralph Stevenson
Nanking
Yangtze
Winston Churchill
Amthyst
Consort
Black Swan
Amethyst
A. V. Alexander
Daily Mail
Manchester Guardian
Guardian
Southeast Asia
Malaya
Burma
Indonesia
Indochina
Jury Still Not Picked For Ralph Newberry Trial
Jury selection continued in Bland county circuit court for the decapitation murder case of Ralph A. Newberry 37 as 11 jurors remained to complete a 21 member panel. Twenty four veniremen were disqualified after examination by Judge V L Sexton Jr Commonwealth Attorney John R Boggess and defense attorney J Livingston Dillon.
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Ralph Newberry
Katheryn Newberry
Ralph A. Newberry
Bland County Circuit Court
Alenweanta Ewrilt Kha Winkatl
V. L. Sexton, Jr
John R. Boggess
J. Livingston Dillon
Big Walker Mountain
Newberry Farm
Samuel
Newberrys
John A. Newberry
Bland County
Boggess
Walter G. Burton
Joseph C. Shaffer, Jr
Princeton
W. Va
Tazewell
T. D. Hubble
J. W. Burton
R. N. Brown
Charles G. Waddell
Clarence Hanks
Harvey Gross
Milton Neel
E. M. Davidson
John H. Pruett
O. A. Harmon
Dewey Ashworth
W. W. Bruce
W. H. Linda
Newberry
Four Brennan brothers kept in murder cases in New Jersey and Virginia
In Dover Delaware four Brennan relatives are held for murder and accessory charges in a string of killings from 1947 to 1950. Robert Brennan 15 and his brothers George 17 Raymond 23 and their mother Katheryn Newberry are linked to the Wooldridge murder and other slayings including Hugo Schulz and Mrs Bessie Watkins. Prosecutors describe orders given by Katheryn and actions from the Brennans in a network of alleged crimes involving Lonely Hearts correspondence. Court proceedings in Bland and surrounding counties continue with juror selection and arraignments, while defense and prosecution teams clash over evidence and bail.
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Inez Brennan
Lonely Hearts
Barnes
Brennan
Robert
George
Raymond
Hugo Schulz
Concord
N. J
Wooldridge
Brennan Farm
Ernest C. Keith
Keith
Miss X Survives Series of Operations in Glendale
Glendale doctors used a new transfusion method to save tiny Miss X born to RH negative mother and RH positive father after earlier infant losses. The three pound five ounce full term baby was born with stomach liver appendix and parts of intestines outside her body and three operations restored the organs. A hospital spokesman predicted she would make it.
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Glendale
Calif
Miss X
Russia Holds Key To World Peace Declares Vandenberg
Senator Arthur Vandenberg declared that Russia's leaders hold the key to world peace and outlined a program Moscow could adopt to secure it. He warned any peace would require deeds, a Berlin blockade end, and universal disarmament under mutual, good faith. He spoke at a Roosevelt association dinner receiving the Roosevelt medal.
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Russia
Vandenberg
New York
Arthur Vandenberg
R-Mich
Kremlin
Moscow
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Berlin
Michigan
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Theodore Roosevit
United
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