Daily Telegraph Pres straw vote launches in Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph starts a presidential straw vote to gauge reader preference among seven leading candidates Eisenhower Kefauver MacArthur Taft Truman Warren with a write in option and daily tally to publish results in the next issue. voters must be eligible and send one ballot.
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Daily Telegraph
Dwight D. Eisenhower
NATO
Europe
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Senate
Douglas MacArthur
America
Robert A. Taft
Harry S. Truman
Missouri
East
California
Earl S. Warren
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Stassen
Taft
Warren
Truman
Kefauver
Presidential ballot straw vote seeks reader choice
The Daily Telegraph invites readers to vote for President in 1952 by marking a ballot with an X beside their choice. Ballots must be returned to the Bland Street office before midnight February 29, with DEMOCRAT among the options.
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Daily Telegraph
Bland Street
Wardens Cite Pen Idleness as Danger at WV Penitentiary
An investigating team from the National Wardens Association called the West Virginia penitentiary at Moundsville deplorably idle and dangerous. They blamed too few prison industries and lacking vocational and recreational facilities for the idle population. The 22 page report released by Governor Patteson highlights outdated, overcrowded facilities and criticizes Warden Orel J. Skeen and the State Board of Control.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
National Wardens Association
Moundsville
Patteson
Stassen Questions McGrath Wealth In Office Amid Probe Call
Harold Stassen announced he had heard that Attorney General J. Howard McGrath became a millionaire during public service. He urged a congressional inquiry and sent a telegram asking for sources of wealth since Rhode Island governor. Stassen spoke at a National Republican Club event and said no answer had been received.
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New York
Harold Stassen
Atty. Gen
J. Howard McGrath
Stassen
McGrath
Rhode Island
National Republican Club
Fire leaves 60 homeless in Wytheville apartment blaze
Fire destroyed about half of a 15 family frame building formerly Villa Marie Academy in Wytheville. Firefighters took five hours to extinguish the blaze, with damages estimated at 22,500 dollars. All 30 plus residents escaped, though some fourth floor furnishings were lost.
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Wytheville
Villa Marie Academy
East North Street
Dan Johnson
M. M. Perkins
Johnson
Bank Robber Wounded After Middleton Gunfight
In Middleton Tennessee 36 year old bandit Robert Bondurant held up the Bank of Middleton with hostage Madden. Citizens armed with guns confronted him as he fled the bank. Bondurant was shot numerous times and captured after a car chase. One hostage Madden was lightly wounded. about 3000 dollars recovered. FBI says Bondurant faces robbery charges with 25000 bond. Town marshal Terry Hodge reports the dramatic confrontation as locals unite to bring the suspect down.
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Tennessee
T. L. Madden
Memphis
FBI
Robert H. Bondurant
Memhis, Tenn
A. I. Means
Bondurant
Middleton
Madden
Otis Bissel
F. Lester Simpson
Simpson
W. D. Sasser Jr
Hodge
Lasser
Parole System Blamed for Moundsville Mutiny
West Virginia House Republican leader Del Cecil Underwood condemned the parole system as corrupt and inefficient after last October’s mutiny at the Moundsville penitentiary. He charged Governor Patteson and the Board of Public Works with cutting $40,000 from probation and parole and criticized plans to spend 20,000 for three new officers, noting hundreds of eligible inmates have never been interviewed.
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Morgantown
W. Va
House of Delegates
Moundsville
Del
Cecil H. Underwood
R-Tyler
West Virginia University
Young Republican Club
Patteson
Board of Public Works
Underwood
Department of Probation and Parole
Parole Department
North Pole Air Base Wage Probe Reveals High Pay
Senate investigators exposed that mechanics earned 17000 dollars per year and laborers 13000 on a secret North Pole air base project code named Blue Jay. More than three million dollars in pay accrued en route, with workers kept in screening centers and on standby pay before deployment. Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick defended the wages as necessary for dangerous, remote construction.
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Probe
North Pole
Washington
Senate
Downey Rice
Rice
Air Force
Lewis A. Pick
Army Engineers
Blue Jay
Pick
North Africa
Atlas
French Morocco
Prison survey praises Warden Skeen and plans for Moundsville
A survey by the Wardens Association after last October's riot at Moundsville Prison found the warden and board progressive, with plans for further development. The panel noted the current warden handles a large idle population amid an alarming situation where 800 of 1,750 inmates were flagged. The survey followed an overnight mutiny that caused no injuries.
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Patteson
Association
Roy Best
Moundsville
L. E. Chapman
Florida State Penitentiary
Raiford
W. F. Smyth Jr
Virginia State
Richmond
Oil Workers Vote Strike to Hit Refineries
In Denver on February 21 a coalition of 22 CIO AFL and independent unions called a nationwide strike date of March 3 for about 200000 oil and gasoline refining workers to demand higher wages. The action followed last night’s agreement among these unions forming a united front.
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Denver
CIO
AFL
Riot at Koje Island stockade kills GI and 69 Koreans
A Communist led riot at Koje Island stockade in Pusan area killed one American soldier and 69 Korean civilian internees while injuring many others. About 1,500 inmates attacked U S security troops with improvised weapons before U S troops regained control. An investigation and Red Cross involvement followed as UN personnel continued processing civilian internees.
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Pusan
Korea
Jose Island
U. S
U.S
Koje
International Committee of the Red Cross
United Nations
U.N. Command
Motel Owner Accuses Wife Of Romance With Golf Pro
SAN ANTONIO Feb 21 A tourist court owner was charged with murder and freed on 5000 bond in the pistol slaying of his wife Jessie May Lindsey 29 who he said dated golf pro Joe Moore Jr of White Plains NY Moore who played in the Texas Open last year sobbed and said he wished he could trade places with her Lindsey signed a statement saying he must have shot her after she asked what if I have gone out with him Bond signed by his brother and a business man Mrs Lindsey a known local golf enthusiast and her husband played as an amateur at Texas Tech A homicide verdict was given by a Justice of the Peace.
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San Antonio
Tex
Reuben L. Linsey
Jessie May Lindsey
Joe Moore Jr
White Plains
N.Y
Moore
Lindsey
F. H. Lindsey
Lubbock
The
Great Plains Life Insurance Company
O. C. Bloss
Abilene, Tex
Texas Tech
Justice of the Peace
John N. Ogden
UMW Pickets Siege Non-Union Coal Pits in Kentucky
Four hundred United Mine Workers picketed two Leslie County coal mines near Hyden, halting production at pits that normally employ about 60 men each. The action ends a 10 month drive to unionize Leslie and Clay counties amid violence and arrests, with the FBI and state troopers stepping in.
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UMW
Kentucky
Hyden
United Mine Workers
Leslie
Clay
John L. Lewis
Lewis
FBI
New Hyden Coal Company
Citation Coal Company
Leslie County
Elmer Begley
Charles Vermillion
Charles Baker
Tom Raney
UMW International Board
Citation
Guthrie Crowe
George Wooton
Arrests seen in Wise County widen probe into officials
Wise County Commonwealth's Attorney Burleigh Hamilton said the arrest of Appalachia Police Chief Charles Blair on bribe charges may be only the first in the county. He indicated other officials could face action while noting Blair posted a $1000 bond and returned to duties before a March 7 preliminary hearing.
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Appalachia
Wise County Commonwealth
Burleigh Hamilton
Charles Blair
Hamilton
Blair
Commonwealth
Wise County
Wise
Maren
W. R. Young
Young
John L. Lewis Attacks Mining Safety Record Before Congress
United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis told a House labor subcommittee that the mining industry is “a mortician's paradise” and that stricter federal safety laws are needed. He argued enforcement of the current code could have prevented coal mine explosions since 1940 and urged elevating the Bureau of Mines to an Interior Department agency with power to shut hazardous mines.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Congress
Bureau of Mines
United Mine Workers
House Labor
Rep
Price
Interior Department
Senate
MacArthur Denies Backing Eisenhower Candidacy
Gen. Douglas MacArthur released a statement through Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney denying support for Dwight D. Eisenhower's political candidacy. He said he holds no personal feelings regarding President Truman. The denial follows reports of possible MacArthur involvement in Washington politics.
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New York
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Far Eastern
Truman
MacArthur
Maj
Gen
Courtney Whitney
Royall Delivers Keynote at Ninth District GOP Convention
Bristol Va February 21 William Archer Royall former Tazewell County commonwealth attorney will deliver the keynote address and preside at the Ninth District Republican congressional convention here Saturday.
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Bristol
William Archer Royall
Commonwealth
Tazewell County
Williams Charges Nunan Flourished As Tax Lawyer
Sen Williams accuses Joseph C. Nunan and associates of a flourishing tax practice while in the Internal Revenue Bureau and cites four cases totaling nearly two million dollars in claimed 1944 to 1946 taxes. He criticizes waivers allowing Nunan to represent taxpayers and questions bureau oversight during their tenure.
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Williams
Nunan
Washington
Joseph C. Nunan
Internal Revenue Bureau
Sen. Williams
R-Del
Senate
Internal Revenue
Lawrence Bardin
Racine
Wis
Bardin
Alvin Bardin
Bardins
Eulberg Brewing Company
Portage
Denmark Brewing Company
Denmark
Eulberg
Treasury
Bureau
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West
Democrat
Orel J. Skeen
State Board of Control
Wythe
Lone
Morticians
Paradise
Doug
Royall
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