House Approves Investigation Of Two State Units
West Virginia House endorses a five member committee to probe the Pruntytown boys’ industrial school and the Lakin state hospital for Negro insane with reports due to the House and Governor Neely. Finance moves to raise 780000 yearly via liquor price increases faces possible debate as bills on school board elections and party platform declarations advance.
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HOUSE
Neely
Charleston
W. Va
Boys
Pruntytown
State Hospital For
Lakin
House of Delegates
Arnold
Reformatory
Liquor Commission
Senate
Communist Party
The
American Legion
Perry
D. Logan
Rairden
R. Mason
House Finance Committee
Judge Upholds Mine Shut-down Order
Circuit Judge T H S Curd at Welch upholds the Page Coal and Coke shutdown at Pageton McDowell county for refusal to employ rock dusting and fire bosses. The order, seen as far reaching, allows continued operation until March 1 for appeal and underscores miners safety obligations.
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Charleston
W. Va
T. H. S. Curd
Welch
Mines Department
N. P. Rhinehart
Page Coal and Coke Company
Pageton
McDowell County
Page Company
Rhinehart
Supreme Court
Ira Partiow
Madison
Partlow
State Supervision Of Hospitals Is Proposed
Charleston West Virginia February 11 1949 State action aims to create a five member hospital supervision commission with the health commissioner as ex officio chairman four physician members and inspectors to license private hospitals Also a separate bill seeks two year vocational college training in high schools with county superintendents as presidents and deans named for school ledgers The day also lists various House bills on scrip gambling alcohol sales and insurance policy terms with several names and districts cited
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Senate Education Committee
School Board
House Finance Committee
Ballard
Mercer
Ohio County
Road Commission
Senate Insurance Committee
State Auditor's Department
Insurance Division
Charleston
W. Va
Wylie
Wyoming
House
Hatten
Blasts Kill Five in Philadelphia
Five people died and 26 were injured as three gas explosions and a fire ripped through a row of brick homes on Greenwich Street in South Philadelphia. A policeman James Clarke and Frank Ruhl died amid rescue efforts. residents Angelina Trevotala Lena and Marie Trevotala were among those affected. Authorities called it the worst disaster in 29 years with illuminating gas believed to have accumulated in cellars. Fire spread to eight other houses and mass damage was reported across the block.
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Philadelphia
Latin Quarter
Greenwich Street
James Clarke
Frank Ruhl
Angelina Trevotala
Lena
Marie
Herbert M. Packer
Bureau of Housing and Sanitation
British Liner Georgie Reaches New York Ambush Escape Tale
New York Feb 11 The armed camouflaged liner Georgie known as the chummed ship by crew members due to a string of escapes from bombs torpedoes and mines arrived with 567 passengers She is the first British liner to reach New York since mid November Her 449 crew are commanded by Captain A C Greif The 12 day voyage from Liverpool via Bermuda followed a dangerous route past Norway Dunkirk Iceland the Mediterranean and the Red seas with survivors of torpedoed ships and relatives maimed by bombs aboard.
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New York
Georgie
England
A. C. Greif
Erpool
Bermuda
Norway
Dunkerque
Iceland
Mediterranean
Red Seas
British Fleet Roars At Ostend In Bold Night Bombardment
Allied naval and air forces again struck Ostend and northern France in a daring raid as RAF and British warships pounded harbor works. The admiralty reported no casualties with fires seen, while Berlin claimed British shells on the Flemish coast and Rotterdam targets faced ongoing air attacks.
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London
RAF
Ostend
English Channel
Boulogne
France
Admiralty
Genos
Berlin
Flanders
Hannover
Air Ministry
Germany
Rotterdam
Holland
Bollogne
Cherbourg
Mediterranean
High Command
AFL Urges Reestablishment of War Labor Board
The American Federation of Labor criticizes anti strike and compulsory arbitration proposals in Congress and calls for President to reestablish the World War era national war labor board. AFL Executive Council pledges to send a statement to all congressmen opposing federal regulation of labor relations on defense work. John P. Coyne reports aims to limit wage and fee practices in defense projects and warns of peak workload ending by mid March with 370000 unemployed expected.
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Miami
Fla
American Federation of Labor Today
Congress
National War Labor Board
Federations Executive Council
William Green
AFL
John P. Coyne
Building and Construction Trades Council
Coyne
Oyne
Toone
Willkie Calls for All Aid to Britain in Lease-Lead Plan
Wendell Willkie urged the lease-lead bill with edits and told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that without American aid Britain could not hold out. He proposed sending most bombers and five to ten destroyers monthly, and warned that if Britain falls the U S would face war soon after. He backed narrowing of aid to Britain and allied nations while urging swift passage.
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Washington
Wendell L. Willkie
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Britain
America
United States
Clark
Willkie
Roosevelt
LaGuardia
New York
James B. Conant
Harvard University
Europe
Great Britain
British Empire
Greece
China
Congress
England
Johnson
Calif
Reynolds
N. C
Death of Krivitsky Attributed to Self by Friend
Washington reports a close friend of Gen Walter G Krivitsky contends the Russian's death on his Charlottesville area farm was self inflicted not the OGPU. Notes on the farm and a .38 pistol are cited as evidence.
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Washington
Walter G. Krivitsky
OGPU
Ellel Wolf Dobert
Krivitsky
Blue Ridge Mountains
Dobert
Charlottesville
OGUP
Secret Service
Louis Waldman
G-men
Albert Godman
Leon Trotsky
Mexico City
Chicago
Mexico
Italians Bomb Port of Piraeus in Night Raid
Italian planes bombed the port of Piraeus last night causing some casualties in a densely populated area five miles southwest of Athens. Athenians sheltered in underground valleys as anti-aircraft fire lit the sky and rockets burst over the Parthenon and Acropolis.
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Athens
Piraeus
Here
Parthenon
Acropolis
Lincoln Day Rally At West Virginian Tonight
An informal birthday commemoration for Abraham Lincoln starts at 8 o clock tonight at the West Virginian hotel. The Bluefield Republican Women’s club hosts with H C Callaway as MC, featuring Iph Shupe, Hugh Ike Shott, Judge Howell M Tanner, and a Patsy Mingo performance, followed by a reception for officers and new members.
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Abraham Lincoln
United States
West Virginian Hotel
Bluefield Republican Women's Club
Blair Stone
H. C. “Callaway
Iph Shupet
Bluefield Young Alican Club
Young Republican Clubs
Des Moines
Iowa
Hugh Ike Shott
Daily Telegraph Printing Company
Congress
West Virginia
Howell M. Tanner
Shupe
Patsy Mingo
J. A. Hammond
Nazi Transport Planes Sighted In Southeastern Europe
Reuters reports thousands of German troops crossed into Bulgaria from Romania and about 1000 Nazi aircraft landed on Bulgarian air fields. Beside this, 31 tri motor transports were seen moving toward Bulgaria and Romania, with Turkish officials noting officers declaring Our goal is the Bosporus and the Mediterranean.
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Associated Press
Rumania
Bulgaria
Bulgarian
Reuters
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Balkan
Europe
Budapest
Bosporus
Mediterranean
Churchill
Britain
Romania
Bosphorus
Otrat Politika
Scandinavia
Soviet
Russia
Senate Group To Act On Seating In West Virginia
Attaches of the senate elections committee predicted final action on the West Virginia senatorial seating contest next week. They said the panel would meet Thursday to discuss the contest between Dr. Joseph Rosier of Pairmont and Clarence Martin of Martinsburg and to decide what to print in the hearings records.
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Washington
Senate Elections Committee
West Virginia
Joseph Rosier
Pairmont
M. M. Neely
Neely
Clarence Martin
Martinsburg
Homer A. Holt
Pieske Harlarly M. Kilgore Beckley Democrat
West Virand
Ao Om Rosier
Bold French British columns press into Libyan desert
British and Free French columns drive across 600 miles of Libyan desert taking Cufra area oases and threatening Italy's lines of communication. Leclerc’s motorized unit reports storming the air base in February and continuing operations in southeastern Libya and southern Ethiopia with South African forces advancing along the frontier toward Lake Rudolf.
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Cairo
Egypt
Ethiopia
Libyan
Italy
London
Leclerc
Cufra
Libya
Italiian
Lake Chad
French Equatorial Africa
Murzuch
Mussolini
Tripoli
Lake Rudolf
Greeks Repulse Mass Attacks Besieged Tepeleni Holds
Greek forces report repulsing two hour long Italian mass assaults in central Albania near Tepeleni. Greek officials say the city remains isolated in no man’s land as Valona and Berati fronts continue. British air raid damage and supplies movements are noted along the coast.
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Bitoli
Yugoslavia
Albania
Tepeleni
Valnoa
Italy
Costal
Valona
Berati
el Basani
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Page Coal and Coke
Scott Street
McGue
Isreal Winbush, Jr
Maybeury
R. W. King
King
Mama
Wyoming County
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McDowell
Casto
Wood
Cyphers
Jones
Blankenship
Jones R
Barbour
Shinn
Harrison
Parley
Mingo
Augh
Taylor
Washington, D. C
McClung
Wanawha
Genoa
U. S
Wilkie
DGPU
Stalin
O Gpu
Duce
Ugo Cavallero
Pe Ee A
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