Robbery at Farm Bureau Office in Bluefield Va Looted Safe and Merchandise
Virginia Side police hunt vandals who looted the Farm Bureau office in Bluefield Virginia with about $1000 in merchandise and valuables. Thieves ripped open two safes, ate fruitcake, and left a lean haul after entering through the roof and using an elevator shaft. Police say about $125 in gifts and war bonds plus a diamond ring were taken. items valued around $1000 in cigarettes and meat were left. Investigating officers include State Trooper A E Andes and Bluefield and Virginia Side officers.
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Virginia
Farm Bureau
Bluefield
Earl Blankenship
Roy Cox
R. R. Wall
Tazewell
J. B. Brown
Leon French
W. Va
Truman Optimistic On Nation's Business Outlook
President Truman expressed optimism about the U S business outlook and said he will address taxes and the budget in January messages to Congress. Postmaster General Donaldson predicted broad budget cuts for the next fiscal year, while noting postal revenues run above last year.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Donaldson
Mr. Truman
Tobin
Prayers Help Douglasville Mill Seek Reopening
In Douglasville Georgia after the cotton mill closed last March prayers urged by Rev Claude Rainwater drew food aid and small cash gifts. An Atlanta wholesaler sent oranges and hams while locals contributed groceries and money totaling at least 75 dollars as interest in reopening the mill grows. M T McDearmid the mill superintendent noted textile groups have inspected the mill with interest in buying and reopening it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglasville
Atlanta
Claude Rainwater
Otis Redman
M. T. McDearmid
General Textile
Religious Training Ban Is Explained for Schools
Charleston December 22 county school superintendents were told that state limits on religious training in public schools do not bar opening exercises Bible reading or elective religious courses. State Superintendent Trent said the court rulings concern released time and that schools may conduct devotionals while avoiding external agencies using school facilities or students.
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Charleston
W. Va
W. W. Trent
Wirt County
Department of Education
Trent
U. S
Japs Press Moscow for News on Missing Prisoners
In Tokyo a crowd of about 200 Japanese gathered at the Soviet Embassy asking for news on relatives captured during World War II. After armed guards blocked entry, eight visitors were admitted and told to return on December 28. General MacArthur condemned Soviet failure to account for about 376,000 missing prisoners and urged an impartial investigation.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
International Red Cross
Russia
Father of Three Killed in Hit and Run Near Huntington
In Huntington West Virginia a 27 year old father of three, Herley Raymond Baumgardner, was struck by a hit and run driver on U S Route 60 while walking with his wife. He worked at the Guyan Country Club. The wife did not see the vehicle and no description was obtained. This was Cabell county's 15th traffic death of the year and the area’s sixth fatality in eight days.
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Huntington
W. Va
Here
Herley Raymond Baumgardner
Guyan Country Club
Jack Milam
Baumgardner
Cabell County
Cleveland Transit Walkout Shocks City During Christmas Rush
Four thousand two hundred Cleveland transit workers walked out halting street cars and buses. Traffic jammed, shoppers stranded, and city officials debated pay and vacation rules while police dispatched extra officers. Mayor Burke called the strike shocking and vowed a fight to the finish.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Transit System
William H. Gray
Retail Merchants Housing Board
AFL Transit Union
David Ralph Hertz
Thomas P. Meaney
Thomas A. Burke
Church Ponders Ownership Of $600 Left At Trun Way
In Zanesville Ohio on December 22 the Trun way Methodist church faced a mystery over $600 found in two boxes beneath the pulpit after a youth meeting. Five members claim they left it by mistake and each offers a different version. The church board turned the money to Sheriff Beal for safekeeping and may seek a court ruling on ownership.
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Zanesville
Trunway
Clifton Garrabrant
Harry Bealmear
Five Killed In Flash Fire In Charleston Rooming House
A flash fire in a frame rooming house for Negroes in Charleston West Virginia killed five occupants including 38 year old Mrs Katie Cora Winston. Her body was found on the second floor with her two small children Sammy 3 Beatrice 2 beneath her in her arms. Two men Henry James 42 and Eugene Clark about 30 also died. Police said Clark was the only body burned with the others dying of suffocation after a gas heater allegedly started the blaze by being too close to a wall. Mrs Winston re entered the building to try to save her children and was seen outside it is reported. The husband Milton Winston 29 and her three children by a previous marriage escaped. The fire occurred early and the structure only suffered smoke damage. The rooming house sits above church meeting rooms on the ground floor.
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Charleston
W. Va
Katie Cora Winston
Sammy
Beatrice
Henry James
Eugene Clark
Bernard Simms
Clark
Winston
Milton Winston
J. M. Sturgeon
Church of God
Death Threats Aimed At Maritime Chief Curran
Death threats in red paint smeared the garage of Joseph Curran president of the CIO National Maritime Union in Franklin Square New York. Curran led efforts to purge communists from the union and recent left wing groups had seized NMU headquarters in Lower Manhattan but were ousted by Curran’s backers. Curran said the threats his family would not be scared and tied the incident to Marshal Stalin’s birthday.
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Franklin Square
Joseph Curran
CIO National Maritime Union
Curran
Big
Seamen’s Union
NMU
Lower Manhattan
Another Bomb Plot Crops Up In Detroit
Detroit reports a fresh anti union dynamite threat directed at the CIO United Auto Workers and AFL bus drivers union headquarters amid ongoing anti union violence. FBI and police investigate and guard union leaders as officials speculate on possible fascist or communist involvement.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
AFL
UAW International
UAW
Walter Reuther
Reuther
Harry S. Toy
Michigan State Committee of
Communist Party
Labor Movement
FBI
Washington
Harvill
Bus Drivers Union
C&O Confiscates Coal to Extend Rail Fuel Stocks
Major eastern railroads study steps to stretch dwindling coal supplies as mining shrinks for holidays. C&O already confiscates coal moving on its lines to secure operations beyond Tuesday when mining resumes. Other lines report two week to ten day inventories, with reductions noted across Pennsylvania New York Central and others.
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New York
Chesapeake & Ohio
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York Central
Truman mum on coal emergency
President Truman said he will take necessary action if the coal situation reaches emergency status. He refused to judge if the three day week in most of the industry is enough to trigger Taft-Hartley emergency provisions or to detail possible measures. He would only say he will act if an emergency is found.
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Washington
Truman
John L. Lewis
Prison lifer freed after risking leukemia patient’s life
Louis Boy, 50, a Sing Sing lifer convicted in 1931 for an accessory murder, is freed by Gov. Dewey on Christmas Eve after volunteering to undergo blood exchange experiments to help an eight year old leukemia patient. He will be on parole for life.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Sing Sing
Nivyuu
Louis Boy
Dewey
Boy
State Parole Board
John T. Moore
Moore
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Twist In Old Yale Warnings To Children
In Huntington West Virginia Roy Fritz of Western Union reports a new twist on Santa warnings. Parents used North Pole dated telegrams signed Santa to scold children with messages like be good and I will be at your house soon. About 450 such telegrams were sent this Christmas season.
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Huntington
W. Va
Santa Claus
Roy Fritz
Western Union
North Pole
Patsy
Sue
Fritz
Hard coal contract talks recessed for Christmas holidays
New York December 22 negotiators for hard coal contracts recessed today for the Christmas holidays without a deal. Sessions resume next Tuesday. Ralph E Taggart said union demands had been rejected by not accepting them. The union seeks 95 cents daily pay and 20 cents per ton for the welfare fund.
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New York
Ralph E. Taggart
Taggart
Union Welfare Fund
Thomas Kennedy
United Mine Workers Union
Mass retreat of Chinese nationalist army from Chengtu
A foreign source in Chengtu reported to the AP that the largest nationalist army on the mainland is streaming westward under Gen Hu Tsung Nan, fighting near Chengtu as heavy clashes rage ten miles from the city, which was the capital until December 8.
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Hong Kong
Sikang
Chengtu
Associated Press
Hu Tsung-Nan
U.S. Seeks Britain Help To Free Two Missing Servicemen
The United States asked Britain to assist in freeing Navy Chief Electrician William C. Smith and Marine Master Sergeant Elmer C. Bender, both Americans held captive in China since October 1948. A British consular report said the pair are alive near Tsingtao. Brig. General Robert Soule, U.S. military attaché in Nanking, was cleared to leave China after a two month delay. exit visa granted December 19 though departure status unknown.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Tsingtao
North China Port
State Department
Navy
William C. Smith
Long Beach
Calif
Marine Corps
Elmer C. Bender
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Soule
Nanking
Soule
Army Drills Pay Cut for Reserve Units Ends May Start
Washington reports drill pay for 78,464 army reserve personnel will stop January 1 for at least six months due to funding limits. National Guard also nears its $350,000 cap, restricting new units and recruiting. About 57,705 officers and 20,759 enlisted in 2,866 training units will be affected, with some zones exempt for definite M day assignments.
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Washington
National Guard
Guard
Congress
Army
Plane Crashes Into Dense Savannah Swamp
A large unidentified airplane crashed in a swamp two miles north of the Savannah river near the South Carolina line. Witnesses saw flames at 9 17 p m and the aircraft possibly originated from Chatham field Savannah with Abilene Texas as a distant target. Coast guard and air force joined the search.
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Savannah
South Carolina
State Highway Patrol
South Carolina State Patrol
U. S. Cost Guard
Air Two
Civil Aeronautics Board
New York
Coast Guard
Chatham Field
Abilene
Texas
CAA
Air Force
Warrants Issued for Five Men in Mine Beating Case
Warrants were obtained for five Pennsylvania men in the beating of Brooke County West Virginia mine superintendent F A Howe at a non union strip mine near Colliers. Howe sustained cuts three broken ribs and a bruised arm. Awaiting arrests, authorities, and an injunction request targets United Mine Workers district 6 and local 6231 over union picket activity and a push for a three day work week.
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Wellsburg
W. Va
Pennsylvania
Brooke County
Richard L. Hogg
Hogg
Washington County
J. George Mahan
F. A. Howe
Robert Ryan
R. E. Hagberg
Howe
West Virginia- Pittsburgh Coal Company
United Mine Workers
Ryan
J. J. P. O Brien
United Mine Workers District 6
Easier Credit Terms Forecast For New Year
The Federal Reserve Board forecast easier installment credit terms for next year and more money in circulation than in 1949. Since wartime controls ended last June 30 terms have loosened, with high car and appliance sales. The board suggested further easing could include smaller down payments, currently about one third of the sale price.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Congress
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Frankie Hooks
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Meaney
CTS
Cuyahoga County
Lee C. Howley
Maritime Chief
Walter Stanley
Stanley
Department of Street Railways
McGrath
Harry T. O'Connor
Jack Harvill
C&o
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U.S
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