Tazewell Man Beaten Fatally By Brother
Titus Lambert 50 of Shawver's Mill was beaten to death by his 48 year old brother Bowen Lambert of Rocky Gap on a desolate Clearfork highway near the Bland county line. Bowen Lambert, injure d, and his wife Lena Lambert are charged with murder in a joint warrant. No coroner's inquest was deemed necessary.
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Tazewell County
Titus Lambert
Shawver’'s Mill
Bowen Lambert
Rocky Gap
Clearfork
Tazewell
W. M. Price
Bland County
Bluefield Sanitarium
Lena Lambert
P. C. Kegley
Price
Titus
J. J. Davidson
Clear Fork
Bland
Fire guts Grundy drug store causing heavy losses
A blaze at the Grundy Drug Company destroyed the main building and stock, with damages estimated at 50 000. The fire started in the prescription department and was discovered between seven and 7 30 am. Firefighters and a borrowed extinguisher battled the flames. the two story fireproof structure housed apartments above and was partially insured.
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Prescription
Grundy Drug Company
Grundy
Buchanan- Williamson Supply Company
F. E. Morgan
Florida
Suffrage Reform Bill Advances in Virginia Senate Committee
The Virginia Senate privileges and elections committee unanimously approved five of six suffrage and registration bills and a joint resolution to repeal the poll tax, moving Campbell's reform program closer to enactment amid a heated exchange with Senator Neff. The panel also laid aside a vacancy-filling bill not essential to voting changes.
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Richmond
Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
William Neff
Abingdon
Stuart B. Campbell
Wythe
Campbell
Neff
Senate
House
Breeden-Tyler
Horror Photographs Shown At Trials
At Nurnberg the international military tribunal viewed motion pictures of German soldiers smiling as an axe swung toward Yugoslav victims and SS men with corpses and dogs. The Yugoslav government supplied the film for its first trial showing, drawn from Nazi snapshots. Several defendants recoiled as images of dogs attacking and photographers grinning were shown.
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Nuernberg
International Military Tribunal
France Closes Spanish Border Over Spain Crisis
Paris reports the French government orders the France Spain border closed effective March 1. The move aims to pressure Franco's regime and seeks U S and Britain support for a broader international action, potentially involving the United Nations if Washington and London do not act.
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Paris
Spain
United States
Great Britain
France
Francisco Franco
Washington
London
Britain
United Nations Security Page
Truman Puts Krug In Ickes Cabinet Spot
President Truman selects Julius A. Krug to be interior secretary, a surprise choice announced after leakage to the Senate. Krug, 38, formerly head of the war production board, will assume office March 15 pending Senate confirmation. the move mirrors Roosevelt era reshuffles and ends Ickes tenure in protest.
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Washington
Julius Albert Krug
War Production Board
Truman
Interior
Senate
Krug
Wisconsin
Baltimore
Edwin W. Pauley
Navy
Harold N. Ickes
Dudgeon
White House
Senator O'Mahoney
D-Wye
O'Mahoney
Interior Department
Roosevelt
WPB
Police Ordered To Disperse Pickets At GE Plant
Acting Sheriff William J. Morrow ordered police to disperse mass pickets in front of a General Electric plant unless the CIO abandons mass picketing. The injunction limited entrances to ten pickets per gate as officers, deputies, and police prepared to enforce the order.
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Philadelphia
William J. Morrow
General Electric Company
CIO
Morrow
Common Pleas
Thomas D. Finletter
Bernard Samuel
New Uses For Soft Coal To Be Sought
Pittsburgh reports Bi tuminous Coal Research Inc plans over 40 projects in the coming year to find new soft coal uses in industry railroads and homes. About half of the $400 000 program will be at Batelle Memorial Institute Columbus Ohio with work on automatic stokers for residences. Locomotive development will occur at Johns Hopkins University and Purdue University and other labs toward a coal fired gas turbine motive power.
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Pittsburgh
Bituminous Coal Research, Inc
Batelle Memorial Institute
Columbus
Johns Hopkins
Purdue
Peron Trails in First Argentina Vote Count
Unofficial returns from two provinces show Jose Mborini leading in Argentina’s re election with 3148 votes to 1589 for Juan D Peron. Results cover 24 precincts in San Luis and 10 in San Juan, areas viewed as sympathetic to Mborini.
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Peron
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Josemborini
Juan D. Peron
Labor Party
San Luis
San Juan
Walkie Talkies Used By Peoria Burglars Story
Peoria burglaries used walkie-talkie gear to dodge detection. Walter L. Rhodes, 24, of East Peoria, arrested on burglary and robbery charges. Capt. Fred Nussbaum said Rhodes confessed to more crimes in Peoria East Peoria and nearby towns. a second suspect is sought. Rhodes described a two man team using walkie-talkies to warn each other during break-ins.
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Peoria
Til
Fred Nussbaum
Walter L. Rhodes
East Peoria
Nussbaum
Rhodes
Illinois
Illinois. Capt. Nussbaum
Chicago
House Advances Highway Measure in Virginia Legislature
In a four hour session the Virginia House advanced to engrossment and third reading the governor road tax bill amid debate. The Senate moved swiftly through a short calendar and considered controversial measures in committee. The session featured levity from Senator Robinette as a fish ladders bill faced defeat.
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Richmond
House of Delegates
Senate
House
Senate Committee On
Williams House
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Delamater Davis
Virginia Advisory Legislative Council
McCue
Wyatt
State Department of Education
Portsmouth
Lloyd M. Robinette
Jonesville
Robinette
Tidewater
Soldier's Sentence Reduced by War Department Clemency
Pfc. Alex Ondi of Cleveland had his wartime court martial sentence of 75 years reduced to five years. The action, announced by Undersecretary Kenneth C. Royall, followed a clemency board review after Ondi twice refused a patrol order in January 1945 in Luxembourg.
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Washington
War Department
Pfc
Alex Ondi
Cleveland
Kenneth C. Royall
Army
Department
Colii
Luxembourg
Oach
Army Discipline Barracks
Green Haven
N. Y
Royall
Consolidated Lines To Vacate Bus Terminal In Years
The Consolidated Bus company must vacate the present terminal site as soon as possible. President Jack Craft told Bluefield city board that he plans a modern terminal after leasing the current property for ten years with Flat Top Insurance. The public service commission ordered the terminal vacated at the start of the war, and Greyhound has begun building a new south Bluefield terminal, while Consolidated seeks a quicker move but cannot promise a definite date beyond one to three years.
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Consolidated Bus Company
Jack Craft
City Board of Directors
Craft
Consolidated Company
Flat Top
aAuwnare
Hue Ter
Public Service Commission
Greyhound Company
Bluefield
Greyhound
Bland and
Federal Streets
Consolidated
Pauley Likely to Stand Pat on Navy Post
Washington reports indicate Edwin W. Pauley will not withdraw his nomination for under secretary of the navy. Senator Saltonstall urged withdrawal if the committee clears him. Pauley said he would consider it and Truman continues to back him amid senate scrutiny into his oil dealings with Japan.
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Washington
Edwin W. Pauley
Pat
Truman
Saltonstall
R-Mass
Senate Naval Committee
Pauley
Capitol Bill
Senate
Navy Department
Tobey
R-Nh
Japan
PMWA Votes To Quit AFL Over UMW Rift
Springfield Ill Feb 26 The Progressive Mine Workers of America voted to withdraw from the American Federation of Labor. Delegates representing 35 000 PMWA members approved the withdrawal at a special convention over AFL readmission of the United Mine Workers. Ratification by members via referendum will follow.
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Springfield
Ill
Progressive Mine Workers of America
American Federation of Labor
PMWA
AFL
United Mine Workers
Pack er Workers Pay Hike Ordered in Meat Plants
Washington reports a 16 cent hourly wage rise for 131000 packinghouse workers under new wage price policy. OPA says meat bills will rise about 144 percent as price ceilings are raised to allow the increase. Industry officials say the raise is short of packers’ demands and will not curb the black market.
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Washington
OPA
Wage Stabilization Board
Swift, Armour
Wilson
Cudahy
John Morrell
Agriculture Department
Cio-Packing House
AFL
American Meat Institute
Chicago
Chester Bowles
Home Found For Veteran And Family
Unemployed war veteran Leroy Carnes his wife and five children lived in a car for three days before finding a five room cottage. The Joliet Herald News appealed for furniture, and Catholic Charities Chicago paid the first month’s rent.
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Joliet
Til
Carnes
Margaret Haley
Will County
Catholic Charities of
Chicago
New York Union Negotiations Turn Edges as Strikes Loom
The Associated Press reports multiple labor tensions across sectors. A NYC transit strike threat retreats as CIO workers drop exclusive bargaining demand for 32,000 employees. Other actions include a Houston city workers strike ending after a holiday show of force and calls for wage studies.
New York Transit Strike Averted After 11th hour Talks
New York City halted a potential 12 hour deadline strike by 34 000 transit workers led by CIO TWU president Michael J Quill. Mayor William O Dwyer announced the withdrawal of the union’s demand for exclusive bargaining rights and a wage increase. A special mediation committee will study conditions wages and labor relations, and union officers will push members to call off the strike.
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New York
New York City
Michael J. Quill
Cio— Transport Workers Union
William O’dwyer
CIO
Philip Murray
Washington
Quill
O'Dwyer
Murray
Arthur S. Meyer
State Mediation Board
Board of Transportation
City of
Order Restored In Tennessee City
In Columbia Tennessee about 300 weapons were seized by 500 state patrol and national guardsmen during house to house searches after 10 people were wounded and 70 arrested in racial clashes. A curfew from 9 p m to 6 a m was ordered and officials said order had been restored.
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Columbia, Tenn
Eldridge
J. J. Underwood
Jim McCord
Lynn Bomar
Columbia
Bia
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Ickes
Western Senators
Mr. Roosevelt
Donald L. Nelson
Charles E. Wilson
University of Wisconsin
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Consolidated Lines
Packer
Houston
Associated Press
CIO Transport Workers Union
Texas
City Hall
Detroit
Southern Pacific
Louisiana
James F. Dewey
General Motors
Schwellenbach
Joseph A. Beirne
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Tennessee City
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