Patrolman testifies Wright fatally shot Deputy Dotson
Princeton jury heard Patrolman Roy Martin describe seeing Charles Wright fire from his gun toward Deputy Sheriff W. Calvin Dotson in a downtown shootout after a jewelry store burglary. Wright, 20, is charged with murder. witnesses located watches from the crime scene and identified them for police.
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Martin
Wright
Dotson
John R. Morris
Associated Press
Princeton
Charles Wright
W. Calvin Dotson
South Charleston
Roy Martin
Mercer County Criminal Court
Jack Crotty
Charles Clements
Crotty
Clements
Robert Clements, Jr
Robert
Callaway Pleads Guilty In West Virginia Tax Case
Franklin Elias Callaway known as the McDowell county Numbers King pleaded guilty in Charleston federal court to four counts of income tax fraud for 1944 to 1947. He admitted understating income by about 358 thousand dollars on totals of roughly 486 thousand reported, with taxes underpaid by about 284 thousand. Sentencing set for January in Bluefield.
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Callaway
Franklin Callaway
McDowell County
Numbers King
Elmhurst
N. Y
Charleston
Bluefield
Ben Moore
Northfork
Alan McBride
Intelligence Unit
U. S. Treasury Department
Moore
McBride
7 Henritze
McDowellles Court
Alonzo Harris
Lewis C. Haynes
Internal Revenue
Harris
Keystone
Portsmouth
Ohio
Franklin Elias Callaway
Omega
N&w
War
Williamson
Dowell Numbers
Mr. Callaway
Harold
Bo) Smith
Cameous Columbus
Howard
Numbers
Smith
U S Forces Close In On Red Targets In Korea
U S forces push toward the front in northeast Korea in frigid weather. Marines seize Hagaru at Changjin reservoir while Seventh division patrols approach Pujon reservoir. Cold freezes equipment as 90,000 Chinese troops hold the northwest front amid near zero temperatures.
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U.S
Seoul
U. S
Korea
Hagaru
Changjin
Pujon Reservoir
Tenth Corps
Seventh Division
Manchurian
Second Corps
Eighth Army
Ha‘garu
Marine Headquarters
Polar Bears
Pungsan
Kapsan
Hyesanjin
Attu
Aleutians
Missing six year old Eddie Collins sparks cross state hunt
Eddie Collins disappeared from a Williams Grove area country school as two men in a maroon car lured him away. His mother Mary Collins suffers nervous exhaustion while police search extends to California and Florida. Eddie had been living with Roy E. Richwine Jr and Mrs Richwine since divorce from his mother. The Richwines own a speedway and amusement park. district attorney notes kidnapping as a possibility pending more information.
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Williams Grove
Eddie Collins
California
Florida
Eddie
Here
Mary Collins
Harrisburg
Roy E. Richwine, Jr
Mrs. Richwine
Charles Collins
Richwines
Collins
Richwine
Cumberland County
Pennsylvania
William R. Mark
Rife Country Day School
Mark
Frank C. Russell
James D
Cecil Collins
Tampa
War With China Has Started Says AP Chief
Russell Brines reports from Tokyo for the AP Managing Editors convention that the Korean conflict has evolved into a larger war against Communist China. UN forces have advanced toward Manchuria and Siberia while 90 000 Chinese troops block the frontier and reinforcements mass across the border. Gen MacArthur seeks authority to bomb Chinese concentrations across the border.
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Atlanta
China
Russell Brines
Associated Press
Tokyo
AP Managing Editors Association
Korea
Brines
United Nations
Siberian
MacArthur
Moscow Broadcasts Shortest Communique
On all fronts units of the people's army waged defensive battles on the same positions as before.
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Moscow
People’s Army
Natural Gas For City Only Weeks Away As Pipe Arrives
Bluefield will soon have natural gas with construction starting next week. Two carloads of six inch pipe arrived to connect Princeton to Bluefield with a line 75 504 feet long at an estimated cost of 200 000 dollars. Amere Gas Utilities will supply the gas.
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Bluefield
Princeton
Republic Steel Corporation
Youngstown
Ohio
Jim H Shott
Bluefield Gas Company
Amere Gas Utilities Company
Athens
Police Probe Death By Gas In Frederick Maryland
Frederick authorities investigate the death of Norman M Myers 24 found at home with carbon monoxide poisoning. Officials say suicide or accident possible, not murder. Evidence at scene includes open gas range jets, overturned table broken bottles, smashed car windows and a Buick sedan parked nearby. The ignition key was on but engine not running.
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Frederick
R. W. Baer
Norman Mason Myers
Nito
58 Pilgrims Die In Alpine Plane Crash In France
Alpine guides recover the wreckage of a DC-4 carrying 58 pilgrims and one American passenger Giuseppe Butera 65 of Brooklyn New York. The crash occurred on Mount Obiou amid fog as the flight diverted from its Rome Bastia Corsica Marseille Lyon route to shorten the journey for the pilgrims returning from Rome.
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Grenoble
France
Mount Obiou
Marac Af Hndiae
Rome
Pius XII
Giuseppe Butera
Brooklyn
N. Y
Valette Dosia
Ciampino
Bastia
Corsica
Marseille
Lyon
Paris
Alps
Alfred Ohmstead
Montreal
Notre Dame de la Salette
Violence Flares In Phone Strike Across Cities
Six day strike by CIO Communications Workers of America sparked clashes in Philadelphia where 150 pickets fought with police. Seven arrests followed as non striking operators faced attempts to enter. Federal mediators reported a continuing deadlock while service remained near normal in New York and other locations.
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New York
Philadelphia
U. S. Senate Labor Committee
Minnesota
Virginia
Mississippi
South Dakota
CIO Communications Workers of America
American Telephone and Telégraph Company
Pittsburgh Dailies Reach Deal With Striking Workers
Pittsburghs three daily newspapers end a six week strike by signing new contracts with room workers and truck drivers. Wages rise 10 cents per hour on return to work and gain an additional 3 percent after nine months.
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Pittsburgh
Tonight
Truman urges $4 billion excess profits tax on corporations
President Truman asks Congress to pass a temporary excess profits tax of four billion dollars per year retroactive to July 1 to help finance defense needs. The plan, backed by business group CEO, proposes temporary raises in income and corporation taxes and a new defense levy to balance 1951 costs.
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Truman
Washington
Congress
Rep
Coughton
House
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
Treasury
Committee For Economic Development
CED
UN Council Set To Resume Chinese Troops Debate
The U N Security Council will meet at 3 p m EST on Thursday to resume discussion on Chinese Communist troops in Korea. The session was convened by Council President Ales Bebler of Yugoslavia and focuses on a U S backed resolution calling for the withdrawal of Chinese Reds and pledging respect for Peiping frontier interests.
Dynamite Truck Blast Wrecks Pa Town and Injures
An explosive laden truck collided with a car near Greensboro Pennsylvania causing a devastating blast. One person is feared dead and five hospitalized with others slightly injured. The explosion leveled a store and seven homes and damaged more structures.
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Greensboro
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Dan Wells
Harold Edgar Wikel
Ceedings
McDowell Numbers
King
The
Commies
Puson
Mukden
Fusan
Chicago
City
Holy City
PerishIn
UN Council
Baughman
Connellsville
Liberty Powder Co
Mt. Braddock
Jimmy
Jimmy's Coal Co
Newton
Leroy Minor
Waynesburg
Poland Mines
Minor
Smiley
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