Sheriff Elmore files $50,000 libel suit against state trooper
Mercer County Sheriff Clarence C. Elmore sues State Police Sergeant C. B. Dye in Mercer County Circuit Court alleging libel in a letter to Prosecutor W. Robert Carr about raids on Mercer county clubs. Dye denies political motives and plans to defend. Burton represents Elmore. Dye expected to be served in Mercer.
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Elmore
Dye
Mercer County
Clarence Co. Elmore
C. B. Dye
Welch
West Virginia
W. Robert Carr
Walter G. Burton
Princeton
Burton
Carr
Town Club
Railroad Veterans Club
Mercer
McDowell
Sgt
Sgt. Dye
Theiff
Dyer
Fewer Veterans Enroll In College
Morgantown West Virginia December 19 War veterans once a large part of the states university enrollment now make up only 59 of this years freshman class A statistical report shows the freshman class totals 820 with 495 in arts and sciences and the rest spread across home economics engineering physical education pharmacy music and the seven in the school
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Morgantown
W. Va
West Virginia University
College of Arts and Sciences
Traffic hits all time high in Virginia travel rise
Virginia highway officials report November traffic up 9.43 percent from a year earlier and 58.82 percent above the 1941 prewar peak. Richmond led gains at 69.04 percent with Staunton district at 38.97 percent. out of state travel also rising.
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State Highway Department
Virginia
Bristol
Richmond
Staunton
GE Special Train 800 View Visits Area
GE More Power to America Special train stops here for a day with nearly 800 invited guests aboard. The display covers 1 000 pieces across eight cars and includes a turbo jet engine and model village. Mayor W L Thornton receives the train keys as L W Bates and J D Mor tensen speak.
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General Electric Company
Roanoke
W. L. Thornton
C. B. Sykes
GE Apparatus
L. W. Bates
AEP Company
J. Dodd Mortensen
Bluefield
Hh A. Falkenau
Triplets Headed Roanoke For Pre-Induction Exhibit Tour
The More Power to America special train, carrying over 2,000 electrical products and techniques, begins in Huntington and will tour 46 states on 30,000 miles. Bluefield hosts among 150 industrial centers with over 300,000 guests, including 1,500 locals invited today. A 47-person staff plus 3 Pullman cars accompany the exhibit crew and hosts. The tour started in April and aims to complete travels by July 1951.
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Huntington
Roanoke
Bluefield
Falkenau
America
Delaware Peach Blossom State Flower
The peach blossom is Delaware’s official state flower. It represents the state’s agricultural heritage and is celebrated on state symbols and events.
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Delaware
German Hero's Statue Returned to Berlin Front of Charlottenburg Castle
Berlin city officials decided to honor Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Hohenzollern with a statue in front of Charlottenburg Castle. The 250 year old Prussian founder statue was removed during World War II and recovered after a boat sinking on Lake Havel last year.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Friedrich Wilhelm
Charlottenburg Castle
Prussia
Lake Havel
Capitalism and the American Way of Life in World War II Era
The piece extols capitalism as the engine of prosperity in the United States, highlighting private capital, government bonds, and taxes funding wartime efforts. It cites unemployment, sickness, and retirement protections, rising educational enrollment, church and school investments, and the nation's share of world production as proof of democratic capitalism supporting freedom and progress.
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United States
Treasury
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Svinie, Ned
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Strigaro Triplets
Bayville
N. Y
Army Induction Center
New York City
Charles J. Brim
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Gaeton
Fed
Arsenal
Law and Comm
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YES
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Enternational Business Machines Corporation
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