Hallowe'en Program Draws Big Bluefield Crowd
Thousands of Bluefield residents thronged downtown for a festive Hallowe en program with minimal vandalism. Police logged minor damage including rocks through windows and items stolen from garages while a 1947 Mercury on Commerce Street was damaged. Fire department answered no serious alarms as confetti and soap window art marked the night. City Recreation Director Tony Lotito called the event one of the most successful on record with parades from South Mercer to Commerce Street.
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Bluefield
Hallowe'en
Beaver High School
Legion Junior Drum and Bugle Corps
Genoa
South Bluefield
Commerce Street
Uptown
Tony Lotito
Mercer
Princeton Avenue
United States proposes Palestine plan for independence by July
The U S suggested immediate withdrawal of British troops from Palestine and the creation of sovereign Arab and Jewish states by July 1. American Delegate Herschel V. Johnson called for a three member U N commission to advise the new nations during the transition while Britain maintains order until independence.
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U.S
Johnson
Britain
U. S
U. N
Palestine
General Assembly
Assembly
Basements Blasts Near RCA Building Shake Rockefeller Center
A series of basement explosions around the 70 story RCA building in New York's Rockefeller Center caused oily smoke and fire crews to converge. Officials attributed the blasts to lubrication oil in a transformer, with no injuries reported and NBC and ABC studios insulated by their own power systems. Smoke entered the lobby as fire crews reached the transformer beneath the sidewalk.
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New York
RCA
Rockefeller Center
L. 8
Herrick
National Broadcasting Company
American Broadcasting Company
Consolidated Edison
Treple’e Flower Shop
50Th Street
Heaven Hill Distillery Plans 60 Day Whisky Shutdown
Louisville Oct 31 Heaven Hill Distilleries Bardstown will stop mash for whisky at midnight joining nationwide 60 day shutdown urged by a food committee. John K Skaggs Jr attorney said Heaven Hill LA would drop objections. Jefferson Circuit Court had ordered continued production despite the holiday.
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Louisville
Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc
Bardstown
National Citizens Food Committee
John K. Skaggs
Heaven Hill Corporation
Los Angeles
Calif
Jefferson Circuit
Bardstown Company
Scott Miller
Minister Backs Sunday Movies Fight in Altoona
Episcopal canon John R. Leatherbury urged St. Luke's parishioners to vote yes on Sunday movies and Sunday sports, insisting the Bible does not condemn entertainment on Sundays. The issue, to be decided in the next Tuesday election, faces strong opposition from the Altoona Blair County Ministerial Association.
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Altoona
Pennsylvania
John R. Leatherbury
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Altoona-Blair County
Soviet Allow Brazil and Chilean Ambassadors to Leave Moscow
Brazilian Ambassador Mario de Pimentel Brandao said he and his staff had permission to depart Russia and would leave Sunday. Chilean Ambassador David Cruz Ocampo expected to be allowed to leave soon. Brazil and Chile broke relations with the Soviet Union on Oct 21. Officials said the embassy staff could move to and from the Hotel National, where they lived, for their protection after reports of the Rio de Janeiro embassy being stoned.
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Moscow
Mario de Pimentel Brandao
Russia
David Cruz Ocampo
Brazil
Chile
Soviet Union
National
Rio de Janeiro
Creedon resigns as housing expediter for private energy work
Frank R. Creedon quits his federal post to join private industry and oversee an atomic energy program for General Electric. He is linked to GE's Knolls laboratory near Schenectady New York, a major site for government contracted atomic research and industrial power applications.
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Washington
Frank R. Creedon
General Electric Corporation
General Electric
Knolls Laboratory
Schenectady
N. Y
Price Controls On Sugar Lifted Amid Credit Debate
The sugar price lid ends at midnight with installment buying controls expiring at Saturday. Experts say no immediate price rise is likely, though some foresee a possible impact from a world sugar surplus and European aid. Washington officials warn easing credit could fuel inflation as Congress debates extending controls. Senator Taft supports extending credit controls. Down payments and balance terms for major appliances are freed after six years.
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Washington
New York
Europe
Truman
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Republican Senate Policy Committee
State Bar Meet In Progress Here
Opening day sessions of the two day state convention of the West Virginia Bar association were held at the West Virginian hotel. Judge Harold A. Ritz spoke on A Half Century of Progress and recalled early law practice in Bluefield. The gathering included executive council meetings and an afternoon program focusing on The Bar Association and the Selection of Judges and The Unauthorized Practice of law.
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West Virginia Bar Association
West Virginian
State Judicial Association
Harold A. Ritz
Charleston
State Supreme Court of Appeals
Ritz
Bluefield
Mercer County
Clarence E. Martin
Martinsburg
State Bar Association
National Bar Association
Association
Albert S. Kemper, Jr
Richardson and
McNeer
Bar Association
Stanley C. Higgins, Jr
Fayetteville
Will Fea
Hundreds Of Unions Rush To Beat Deadline
In a last minute push to comply with Taft-Hartley provisions hundreds of unions led by the CIO United Auto Workers signified adherence to non communist oaths and financial filings. Some unions challenged the NLRB’s authority over pending cases while others began filing affidavits and awaiting further preservation of rights.
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Washington
CIO
United Auto Workers
National Labor Relations Board
Auto Workers
NLRB
Philip Murray
John L. Lewis
AFL United Mine Workers
Cio-United Electrical Workers
UAW
Walter Reuther
Paul M. Herzog
International Executive Board
Notifies Board
AFL
San Francisco
George Meany
William Green
Prodigals Want To Return To Carolina
Prodigal sons of North Carolina sought return from Virginia to enjoy higher state taxes and pork knuckles. They petitioned Governor R Gregg Cherry for forgiveness and possible annexation or return to North Carolina. Cherry welcomed them back praising progress and local pork knuckles. Coal production up 12,630,000 tons for week ending Oct 25, NC reports.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Virginia Dam
R. Gregg Cherry
Cherry
Norfolk
Virginia
Washington
National Coal Association
Quaker Groups Win 1947 Nobel Peace Prize Honor
The Nobel committee awarded the 1947 prize to two Quaker bodies the Philadelphia Service Committee and the London Service Council of the Society of Friends. The citation noted long humanitarian work and wartime relief in Norway as well as prison reform abolition and aid to those in distress.
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Oslo
Norway
Philadelphia Service Committee
London Service Council
Society of Friends
Nobel Committee
Gunnar Jahn
Nobel” Committee
Pennsylvania
William Penn
Herbert Hoover
Philadelphia
Plane wreckage found after Alaska crash kills 18
Searchers reached Mount Tamgas on Annette Island near Ketchikan as Pan American Airway Flight 1 crash victims, including an infant, were confirmed dead. Pilot Alf N. Monsen and five crew members perished in the Sunday disaster. wreckage spotted about 200 feet below the summit amid extreme terrain and weather.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
Coast Guard
Mount Tamgas
Annette Island
William L. Baker
Ketchikan Chronicle
Alf N. Monsen
Seattle
Juneau
Baker
Annette Air Field
F. 8. Scheiber
Wesley Monson
Pan-America
Young Monsen
Pacific Standard
Mount Tam
Civil Aeronautics Administration
UN Votes Down Soviet War Criminal Claim at UN
At the United Nations in New York on October 31 the assembly rejected a Soviet push to brand the U S and Britain as harboring war criminals in occupied Europe by 40 to 7. A British proposal requiring evidence before surrender was approved 42 to 7, amid heated exchanges. The session also touched on Palestine partition timing, Dutch troop withdrawal, and designation of United Nations Day on Oct 24.
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New York
United Nations Assembly
United States
Britain
Europe
Andrei Y. Vishkinsky
Vishkinsky
Reeper McNeil
U. S
U. N
Lake Success
Palestine
Holy Land
Russia
Security Council
East Indies
United Nations
Chest Fund drive nears halfway goal as payroll period looms
Campaign chairman W. C. Snyder said more donations are expected with the next payroll period. Contributions totaled 23,261.24 by close of business yesterday from Chest campaign headquarters. The drive aims for 44,750 and committees push to wind up soon with hours to go.
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W. C. Snyder
Law and Commerce
Railroad Unions Demand 30 Percent Wage Rise
Five operating railroad brotherhoods representing about 350000 workers demand immediate consideration of a 30 per cent wage increase and urge that rules negotiations be set aside until the wage issue is settled. They claim workers are depleting savings and going into debt amid inflationary pressures while railroads cite $1 billion in annual costs from proposed rules changes.
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Chicago
Brotherhoods
Railroads
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Allroad
Brotherhods
Maryland elevator operator pleads guilty in threat letter case
Grace F. Smith of Cumberland Maryland pleaded guilty in federal court to sending a threatening letter through the mails. She urged former West Virginia Penitentiary warden M E Ketchum to free Mark McCauley and return him to Keyser for a new trial in the case over State Police Sgt Joseph P Horne’s 1946 killing. The target faced a possible sentence.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Maryland
West Virginia
Grace F. Smith
Cumberland, Md
M. E. Ketchum
Moundsville
Mark McCauley
Keyser
McCauley
Joseph P. Horne
Ketchum
Freres McCauley
Foreign Aid Bill Creates Debate Over World Relief Totals
Congressional estimate puts U S foreign relief spending at 19 to 20 billion dollars since V E and V J days with nearly 60 million earmarked for Russia and satellites The figure excludes Marshall plan outlays and new inflation safeguards are under discussion as Truman seeks emergency aid measures and price controls.
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Washington
United States
Byrd
D-Va
Joint
Congressional Committee
Europe
Russia
Virginia
Council of Economic Advisers
Truman
Stock Exchanges To Close Tuesday On Election Day
The New York stock and curb exchanges will close on Tuesday, Nov. 4, election day, while grain and livestock markets in Chicago and the New Orleans cotton market remain open. New York cotton and commodity exchanges will close. grain markets nationwide stay open. Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco exchanges stay open, while Boston, Baltimore, Detroit and Salt Lake City close.
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New York
Chicago
New Orleans
Chicago Board of Trade
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Boston
Baltimore
Detroit
Salt Lake City
Snake-Handlers Invite All Aailing Persons To Attend Meeting
In St Charles Virginia on October 31 the Southwest Virginia Faith Healers invite all ailing persons to a final summer demonstration atop Black Mountain along the Kentucky Virginia line. Rev Oscar Hutton promises to heal present diseases if believers trust in God, displaying 20 copperheads and rattlers to prove divine power. He claims two tuberculous cases have been cured, one especially severe, and says future care will be spiritual rather than medical.
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St. Charles
Southwest Virginia
Black Mountain
Kentucky-Virginia
Oscar Hutton
Handlin
Hutton
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