Blonde Barbara Gall La ory story tied to Georgia kidnap case
AP reports Barbara Gall Laory, 24, known as Blonde, remained hard to pin down as investigators linked her to a kidnapping plot. Police tracked a group said to have visited a family in De coeur Tuseter, with confusion over whether a man and two accomplices involved. Walter D. Neely questioned if any suspects would be tied to the Virginian events.
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Paul. Va
Jane
Barbara Gall Laory
Chet Tom Bile
Dean Georgie
Cleo
Pew Pole
Pete
Auanta
Walter D. Neely
At & Peeleo
Ted Eens
Virginie
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Morrison Man Confesses to Iowa Mutilation Slaying
Edward J. Beckwith, 27, of Morrison, admitted killing 22 year old Irma Jean Stahihut in a tavern cooler after attempting to assault her. Investigators say the victim, mother of a 13 month old, was found slashed and disfigured with wounds to her throat and breasts. No charges filed as of early afternoon.
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Morrison
Iowa
Edward J
Buddy) Beckwith
Max Studer
Irma Jean Stahihut
Beckwith
Cneer
Studer
Stahihut
Harvey
Installment Buying Controls To End This Month
Washington June 4 Congressman Robert Robertson of Virginia said government controls over installment buying will end this month. The controls were set during the war in fields with scarce goods and have been liberalized since, with smaller down payments and longer terms. The Banking Subcommittee holding hearings plans no further action.
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Washington
Cheirmen Ropertson
D-Va
S Semele Banking
Robertson’ Committee
Con
Petersburg Area Receives Money for Cleanup
Patteson announced funds totaling seventy thousand dollars will be drawn for cleanup work in the Petersburg area. The appropriation aims to support the local cleanup efforts and sustain postwar recovery.
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Ae Va
Patteson
Trikken Petersburg
U S Board Renames Mole Hill to Mountain West Virginia
Washington June 24 The board of geographic names approved the request of Mole Hill West Virginia residents to change their town name to Mountain The decision affects spellings on government maps documents and the post office is making the change too
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Washington
Board of Geographic Names
Mole Hill
W. Va
Wheeling Council Backed Gambling Fines Policy 1941 46
A federal court jury heard that Wheeling authorized licensing of gambling devices through regular fines during 1941 to 1946 as a city policy. City Manager Robert L. Plummer testified the council aimed to regulate vice for economic and public safety reasons, with slot machines and consorts fined monthly amid lax enforcement.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Wheeling
William G. Lias
Robert L. Plummer
Plummer
Charles H. Bonnessen
Bennessen
Council
Bonnessen
Thomas Johnson
Johnson
D. Paul Camilletti
Aged con man charged after swindling widow of 8700
Sigmund Z Engel 73 known confidence man is charged after deceiving Mrs Reseda Carmeen 45 and leading her on a New York money chase. Aided by policewomen Alice McCarthy 55 and Ten Hagen, they trapped him in a luggage shop on Michigan Avenue. Capt Daniel Gilbert says Engel fleeced women for over 50 years under 32 names across five countries and held records in Canada England France and Belgium and the U S.
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Chicago
Sigmund Z. Engel
Buvite
Oldster
Chicezo
Attracte
Reseda Carmeen
New York
Michigan Avenue
Aliee McCarthy
Ten Hagen
Parro
Hagen
Engel
Miss Hagen
Engle
Daniel Gilbert
Canada
England
France
Begium
United States
Double Tragedy on Mountain Road Ends in Murder Suicide
Kenneth Hess 22 and Fay Ann Hess 23 of Pilgrim's Knob were shot on a Slate Creek road near Grundy Virginia in a murder suicide. Hess allegedly shot Fay Ann then himself after a separation sparked by her working at Grundy hospital. The couple leaves two young sons and a large family listed in the obituary. Funeral services are scheduled in Raven and Slate with the Jewell Ridge UMWA handling burial arrangements.
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Buchanan County
Kenneth Hess
Pilgrim's Knob
Jewell Ridge Coal Corporation
Fay Ann Hess
Adam Puckett
Hess
Slate Creek
Grundy
Grundy Hospital
Puckett
Clay
Lornie
Geneva
Early
Hubbard
Leonard Rife
Fred, Jr
Columbus C. Hess
Raven
Curtis C. Hess
War
W. Va
Clyde
Harmon P
Shirley Ann
Sybil
Raven Holiness Church
Albert Ball
W. P. Milsap
Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery
Jewell Ridge
UMWA
Rife
Slate
Minimum wage hike favored by senate labor panel in Washington
The senate labor committee approved a bill raising the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour, potentially boosting pay for about 1.25 million interstate workers. Senator Pepper noted exemptions for farm-related and certain non farm workers, while the house committee supported broader coverage in its 75 cent bill.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Pepper
D - Fila
Labor Department
Senate
House
House Labor Committee
Elkhorn Tunnel linked by 1700-pound blast in N and W project
A 1700 pound dynamite blast joined the Elkhorn tunnel bore sections 11 miles west of Bluefield as Norfolk and Western advances a 12 million dollar upgrade. Chief Engineer A B Stone oversaw the detonation classed as breakthrough after 15 months of work. Completion now expected by December 1950 with lining concrete to follow.
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Robert E. Parker
Miami, Fla
Norfolk and Western Railway
Elkhorn Mountain
Parker
N&w
Elkhorn
Norfolk and Western
Bluefield
A. B. Stone
Roanoke
Jov
Henrs
Miami
Fila
Haley
Strum and Dillard Construction Co
Columbus
O. Haley, Chisholm and Morris
B. F E. Crumpler
C. W. Fiery
Roscoe Porter
J. P. Jackson
Western General Division
H. B. Smith
Pocahontas
Harold Freed
Ben Dubeney
Bryan Beard
A. C. Goodwin
Lexington
Haley, Chisholm and Morris
J. H. Adams
Orange
Strum and Dillard
Anti-Communist Greek Premier Dies In Athens
The Greek Premier Sophoulis died in Athens after a stroke at his summer home aged 87. A longtime scholar and politician backed by Western powers, he led the fight against Communist inroads aided by Bulgaria Yugoslavia and Albania. American reports noted hard won successes in stamping out Communist drives.
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Athens
Themistokles Sophoulis
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Albania
Sophoulis
Washington
John L Lewis Three Confabs Recessed Until Tuesday
A Washington dated report outlines Judith Coplon facing espionage charges with cross-examination halting after a brief outburst. Prosecutors push for clarity as defense questions government actions and potential connections to others in the case.
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John L. Lewis
Washington
Judith Copion
Witt & Wild
Hugh Seaver
Hiss Denies Chambers Story in Federal Court
Former state department official Harry S. Hiss testifies in a federal trial denying perjury charges and asserting he never betrayed the country. He refutes secret China town deals and claims no meetings with Russian agents or detours in state documents.
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New York
Aluen Hiss
Chinatown
Whittaker Chambers
Col
Paris Byker
Hiss
State Department
Promins Grand
Heal
Berlin Workers Propose Blockade Of Russians
Berlin strike action by German railway workers seeks to blockade Russian forces in the city. The move follows Western Allied relief efforts and Russian refusal to move a locomotive into the West Berlin strike zone, with options to haul it to the Soviet sector.
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Berlin
Lin
New Polien Commergn Planned By-mmmer pragee
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Polien
Mmmer
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