Miners Ready To Draw First Pension Money
Washington reports aged coal miners will start receiving pensions next month under the United Mine Workers welfare fund. Eligible bituminous miners age 62+ with 20 years in the industry and union membership may retire to receive $100 monthly, with retroactive payments for those retiring since May 28, 1946.
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United Mine Workers Welfare Fund
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Republican
Welfare Fund
Ezra van Horn
T. Alan Goldsborough
Goldsborough
Lewis
Union
United Mine Workers of America
Fund
U. S
U M.W
Stump Elected President of West Virginia Bar Association
John S. Stump Jr of Clarksburg was elected unanimously as president of the West Virginia Bar Association at the 62nd convention in White Sulphur Springs. Albert S. Kemper of Bluefield was succeeded as president. New district vice presidents include Hugh R. McPhail Grafton E E Hamstead Morgantown Rupert A Sinsel Clarksburg Taylor Vinson Huntington Albert A Barkley Welch and William M Woodroe Charleston. Executive council picks Fred L. Davis Parkersburg Robert T. Donley Morgantown Ernest K James Charleston Charles E Mahan Jr Fayetteville C W Strickling Huntington. Thomas B. Jackson Charleston named as delegate to the American Bar Association meeting with potential second delegate if needed. James Les Thompson Hurricane reelected librarian.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
John S. Stump, Jr
Clarksburg
West Virginia Bar Association
Albert S. Kemper
Bluefield
Hugh R. McPhail
Grafton
E. E. Hamstead
Morgantown
Rupert A. Sinsel
Taylor Vinson
Huntington
Albert A. Barkley Welch
William M .Woodroe
Charleston
Fred L. Davis
Parkersburg
Robert T. Donley
Ernest EK. James
Charles E. Mahan, Jr
Fayetteville
C. W. Strickling
Thomas B. Jackson
American Bar Association
James Les Thompson
Hurricane
Wallace Claims Credit For Talk Wallace Claims Credit For Talk
Wallace, Progressive Party presidential candidate, claimed credit for starting negotiations with Russia on the Berlin crisis and urged support for his party’s antiwar and civil rights positions. He rejected Communist influence and called current spy hearings a distraction while criticizing inflation and housing shortages.
Fire Rages Through Scenic Badlands Grazing Area
Rapid City, S D Aug 21 A fire raced through a rich grazing area in the badlands with 250 U S air force personnel from a nearby base fighting the flames Capt Thomas Siegler said the blaze covered an eight to ten mile front and had moved four or five miles by 7 pm EST The burning area lies about 50 miles southeast near Scenic S D separated by the White River The grazing land had been taken over as an air to ground gunnery range and only seven unoccupied ranch houses remained cattle appeared moved out The 250 airmen were supplied with food to last through the night and would dig fire breaks with picks and shovels
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Rapid City
S. D
U. S. Air Force
Here
Thomas Siegler
Scenic
White River
Siegler
Air Force
Parents Worry About Royce And No Wonder
Eliaville Georgia, August 21. Mr and Mrs L T Phillips are worried about their 12 year old son Royce. At age four he swallowed poison and was saved by a stomach pump. A year later he drank kerosene and nearly died of pneumonia. He was kicked in the head by a mule and recently fell from a pecan tree breaking both arms.
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Eliaville
L. T. Phillips
Royce
Japs Believed They Won War in Hawaii Scam
About 3000 Japanese residents in Hawaii were induced to join an "absolute victory" club after Japan's surrender. Promoters charged $10 each, promising Emperor Hirohito would visit and demonstrating Japan's victory. The scheme targeted isolated Japanese communities. advertently, a phony show on U S Army Day failed to materialize. The Better Business Bureau is reviewing potential legal action.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Japan
Donald Billam-Walker
Better Business Bureau
U. S. Army
Billam-Walker
Hirohito
Smith Nominated By Nationalist Crusade
Gerald L. K. Smith, founder of the Christian Nationalist Crusade, was named president of the group with Harry A. Romer of St. Henry, Ohio, as vice president. Don Lohbeck said the party cannot win this year but aims to elect candidates in 1952. A Rev. Leland L. Marion spoke for Smith at a 200-person gathering in St. Louis.
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Gerald L. K. Smith
Harry A. Romer
St. Henry
Smith
Don Lohbeck
The
Cross and the Flag
Leland L. Marion
Pontiac, Mich
Army Opens Character Guidance Campaign To Curb Venereal Disease
Washington Aug 21 The Army launches a campaign against venereal disease stressing moral and spiritual values to troops. Secretary Royall orders commanders to promote self discipline, restrict pass privileges for habitual misconduct, and remove officers who undermine discipline. A council led by Lt Gen Willard Paul will direct the program across posts.
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Washington
Royall
Sill
Willard Paul
Imilar
Truman Off On Pleasure Cruise
President Truman sails aboard the yacht Williamsburg for a nine day cruise down the Atlantic coast to Norfolk after a stop at Patuxent naval station to hospitalize a seaman. The trip begins with an anchorage near Solomons Maryland and passes aboard a planned route through Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay.
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White House
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Joseph B. Kennedy
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Yorktown
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Lenore
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Apollo Souchek
Patuxent Naval Test Center
T. A. Turner
Governor Lane
Maryland
Potomac
Delaware Ship Canal
Delaware Bay
Atlantic Coast
Blaze Untangles Fire Sweeps Big Piney Wy Town
Big Piney Wyoming population 300 faced a blaze fanned by a west wind that destroyed the Big Piney hotel the town hall jail two bars and three houses. No injuries reported and damage estimated at $100 with several other buildings and a service station damaged. The fire was under control about two hours after starting at 1 p.m. behind the hotel. Authorities could not immediately determine the cause.
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Big Piney
Wyo
Wyoming
Bill Carr
Sublette County
Carr
Sylvester Briggs
The
Power and Light Company
Furry Farrell
United States Soil Conservation Office
Blaze Rages Through Guam Gasoline Tanks
A large fire swept a U S navy aviation and mobile gasoline tank farm near Apra harbor after an early morning explosion. Fire crews and hundreds of service members fought the blaze as flames and smoke rose about a thousand feet above the city.
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Guam
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Curtain Falls On Greatest Coal Exhibit
The 1948 Industrial Exhibition closed with record attendance of over 45 000, highlighted by a Pioneer Miners reunion featuring 200 miners with 50 years in mining, about 100 wives and 150 guests. Prizes totaling 193 were awarded, with special honors to the oldest miners and longest married couples.
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Pioneer
Ernest Bivens
Feutchenberger Bakery Company
Fred J. Bailey
Pioneer Miners
C. G. Eastwood
Eddie Steele
B. B. Houseman
Atom Secrets Being Shared
United States Britain and Canada continue to share technical information on atomic energy. David E Lilienthal said the three governments maintain a combined policy committee created in 1943 to guide the project, with current members including Marshall Forrestal and Lilienthal for the U S and Franks Munro and Howe for the United Kingdom and Canada.
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New York
United States
Britain
Canada
David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Lilienthal
State Marshall
Defense Forrestal
Oliver Franks
Gordon Munro
United Kingdom
C. D. Howe
Huma Wrone
Excise Tax Aims To Be GOP Next Target
Senator Millikin predicts wholesale revamping of revenue laws with focus on reducing excise taxes such as cigarettes gasoline cosmetics theater travel and telegrams. House and Senate leaders defer broad income tax cuts citing debt payments and deficits while Truman calls for fiscal restraint as election looms.
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Washington
Millikin
R-Colo
Senate Finance Committee
Truman
Congress
Rep. Taber
R-Ny
House Appropriations Committee
Thomas E. Dewey
GOP
Treasury
Colorado
Western Union
Greeks Claim Victory In Grammos Offensive
Gen Stelios Kitrilakis announced at Kozani that the Greek army has won the Grammos campaign two months after its summer offensive against Markos Vafiatis guerrillas. About 5,000 guerrillas were believed to remain but likely fled to Albania as Greek units fought hand to hand.
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Athens
Stelios Kitrilakis
Kozane
Grammos
Markos Vafiades
Kitrilakis
Grammos Mountains
Albania
Two Men Die in Truck Wreck Near Doswell Virginia
Meyersdale Pa Aug 21 two men died in a truck accident on route 1 near Doswell Virginia early today identified as James Martney about 40 and eas, 36 both of Meyersdale Officials of Walker Milk Transportation said they left Meyersdale Friday night bound for Nor ee Va with 3000 gallons of milk The milk trailer crashed into a trailer loaded with mixed cargo Authorities said the accident occurred in Hanover county Virginia and the men were employees of Walker Milk Transportation
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Doswell
James Martney
Eas
Meyersale
Walker Milk Transportation Company
Noreee Va
Mil Hanover County
Berlin Radio Denies Report On Moscow Germany Talks
Berlin radio station charges United Press with misquoting its Moscow coverage. The denial says reports of breakdown in talks are false and notes Reuters attribution. It cites differing Western views on Ruhr four power control and includes a French denial.
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United Press
Moscow
Germany
U.P
U.P. Berlin
Reuters
Riche
France
U.S
Britain
Ruhr
Probe Of Phantom Blazes Ordered In Illinois
Macomb Illinois August 21 Illinois state fire marshal John Craig said he will order an investigation into the 200 phantom fires at the Charles Willey farm near Macomb He stated the fires likely had natural causes and there was nothing supernatural about them A lie detector would be used if necessary and subpoenas will be issued for information though no hearing date or location has been set yet
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Macomb
Ill
Ilinois
John Craig
Charles Willey
Craig
Parents Accused In Torture Of Daughter
Atlanta reporting that Mr and Mrs W Cox, charged with cruelty to a minor, allegedly punished their seven year old daughter by forcing her to hang from a peach tree crotch in a driving rain for over an hour after neighbors complained she stole 25 cents. Police stated the couple were released on $200 bonds after admitting to the punishment.
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Atlanta
Fulton County
Stephen Nicholas
Nicholas
W. Cox
Lomakin Plans Europe Departure Amid Uncertain Return
Soviet Consul General Jacob Lomakin, expelled by the U.S. over the refugee teacher case, booked passage on the Stockholm to Gothenburg for Sweden, but vice consul Chepurnykh suggested Lomakin may stay. Lomakin left the New York consulate, saying he was bound for a Park Avenue address housing Russian UN delegates. An attache said reservations were made two months ago, routine in nature. Meanwhile, refugee teacher Oksana Kasenkina was removed from Roosevelt Hospital’s critical list.
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New York
Jacob Lomakin
U.S. State Department
Europe
Lomakin
Stockholm
Goteborg
Sweden
Zot I Chepurykh
Chepurnykh
Lo‘makin
Park Avenue
United Nations
Oksana Kasen‘kina
Roosevelt Hospital
Clash Over Berlin Police Sparks Occupation Tension
Soviet soldiers beat and abducted German police in the American sector of Berlin as U S authorities fear a broader clash between occupation forces. American officials sought talks to broker a truce between rival German police in Soviet and western sectors amid continued kidnappings and border tensions.
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Berlin
U. S
United States
Annhalter
Paul Markgraf
Monay
Potsdammer Platz
Funeral Honors For Plane Victims In Turin
Dispatches from Rome report solemn funeral honors in Turin for 20 victims of a U S army C 47 crash in the Italian Alps last November. An Italian infantry company and civic leaders attended the ceremony with the U S consul general. The bodies will be flown to Frankfurt today aboard six U S army planes for shipment to the United States.
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Turin
U. S
Frankfurt
Germany
Gersinen
Youngsters rush to dodge draft in Brooklyn marriage surge
New York August 21 Yesterday the president announced married men would avoid the draft. Brooklyn license bureau issued 400 licenses in a half day, about four times last year's Saturday. About 50 couples were turned away to Manhattan. Men 19 to 25 must register Aug 30 to Sept 16, but married men are exempt. Police closed the bureau an hour early as couples rushed to wed. Average would-be groom age was 22.
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New York
Brooklyn
Manhattan
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