City Directors Ready To Act On Annexation
Bluefield city directors opened petitions seeking annexation of Midway Cumberland Heights Union street head and Grassy Branch areas. Officials outlined steps for petitions and an election with protections for residents and property owners.
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Bluefield
City Board of Directors
Midway
Bramwell Road
Cumberland Heights
Union Street
Grassy Branch
Luther G. Scott
Chamber of Commerce
Elmer G. Barton
T. Courtney Tanner
Scott
E. P. Mitchell
Tanner
Bowen Field
Mitchell
Boston Braves
Boston
Truman Firm On Rights Stand
President Truman declared there will be no retreat in pushing civil rights, praising Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune and affirming continued action against racial discrimination. Labor Secretary Tobin said the fight to end job discrimination will be kept up, with a message to the National Council of Negro Women.
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Washington
Truman
National Council of Negro Women
Mary McLeod Bethune
Labor
Maurice J. Tobin
Michael J. Gavin
Tobin
America
Russia Assailed For Hypocrisy and LA Slaying
A six year old Linda Glucoft was found murdered in Los Angeles with an axe wound and forensic evidence suggests rape. Police pursue 66 year old baker Fred Stroble in a related molestation case after Stroble had posted bond and fled to Mexico.
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Los Angeles
Linda Joyce Glucoft
West
Baker
Bill Brennan
Ray Pinker
Rochelle Glushoter
Linda
Jules Glucott
Lillian
Brennan
Ruben Hausman
Hausman
Crescent Heights Boulevard
20Th Century-Fox Movie Studio
Crescent Heights
la Cienega Boulevard
Richard
Thad Brown
Stroble
Highland Park
Mexico
Brown
Glucoft
Philly hotelmen threaten ban on Virginia visitors
Philadelphia hotel association president Bennett E. Tousley said hotels may refuse reservations to anyone south of Chester if the University of Virginia football team returns to town. He cited Virginia fans' conduct during a previous game, including vandalism and Confederate flags, and planned to meet with UVa president Colgate W. Darden to devise a cooperative plan.
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Philadelphia
Mason-Dixon
University of Virginia
Virginia
Bennett E. Tousley
Philadelphia Hotel Association
Cavaliers
Penn
Tousley
Hotelmen’s Association
Chester
Colgate W. Darden
Virginia University
Darden
Charlottesville
University
Virginia Student Council
Family says wrong body delivered after Azores crash
Roger Neveu charged that Air France sent his sister Ginette Neveu s body to their family in Paris instead of the violinist killed in the Azores crash that also claimed boxer Marcel Cerdan and Ginette s accompanist brother Jaen. He cited mismatched fingernails an Egyptian medal and clothing color as proof and noted Thursday funeral services were postponed.
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Paris
Roger Neveu
Air France
Ginette
Azores
Marcel Cerdan
Jaen
Deer Escapes Enclosure at Cedar Rapids Zoo
A wild deer jumped an eight foot fence into the Cedar Rapids zoo and remained inside. Parks commissioner Richard Jones questions if the animal will leave, noting it has shelter and food at city expense and nearby property.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Zoo
Richard Jones
Jones
Lot Five
Baby Born On Overseas Plane Over Atlantic Flight
A Polish family aboard a Scandinavian Airlines plane between Scotland and Newfoundland welcomed a healthy six and a half pound girl born at 8,000 feet. The National Catholic Welfare Conference pledged ongoing care as sponsor withdrawal prompted by personal circumstances, while the airline stepped in with aid including $75 for a bank account and gifts for the mother and father.
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New York
Rolbiecki
Atlantic
Scotland
Newfoundland
Dahlgren
Ill
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Illinois
James C. Parker
U. S. Air Force
Germany
Louise Boone Receives Six Month Jail Sentence
Louise Boone a 31 year old Bluefield housewife began serving a six month jail term for involuntary manslaughter in the July 11 1948 killing of her husband Clarence Boone on the front lawn of their Frederick street home Mercer county criminal court Judge F Morton Wagner presided after Boone pleaded guilty. The case had previously gone to trial twice with a hung jury and a prior guilty verdict for voluntary manslaughter carrying a one to five year sentence.
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Louise Boone
Bluefield
Clarence Boone
Frederick Street
Boone
F. Morton Wagner
Mercer County
Wagner
Ace Grant
Woman 104 Dies at Tazewell
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Cassell aged 104 died this morning in Tazewell from a cerebral hemorrhage after visiting her grandson E. H. Cassell. Born January 10, 1845 in Smyth County, she spent life on a farm. survived by sons Conley R. Cassell and William H. Cassell. Funeral at Union Church Bastain Va. Wednesday 2:30 p.m. burial Bastain cemetery. cortege from Peery & St. Clair's at 12:30 p.m.
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Tazewell
Mary Elizabeth (McCloud) Cassell
E. H. Cassell
Smyth County
James Cassell
C. DD
Pulaski Officials Plan Supreme Court Review After Ruling
Pulaski Virginia November 15 officials said they would appeal a circuit court reversal of a lower court finding in the Pulaski racial discrimination case. A spokesman stated officials were surprised as they believed no discrimination against Negroes existed in Pulaski and expect a Supreme Court petition.
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Pulaski
Circuit Court of Appeals
U. S. Supreme Court
Veep Eligible Invitees Set for Small Wedding in St Louis
Vice President Barkley and Jon S Hadley plan a private ceremony at St Johns Methodist chapel with 34 guests including immediate family except William Vaughan. NBC TV coverage from 10:45 to noon and a luncheon at Mrs Laymans home follow. Afterward the couple may visit Barkleys Paducah home The Angles, with permanent residence to come after congress adjourns.
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St. Louis
Earkley
Jon S. Hadley
William Vaughan
Earn
NBC
T. M. Layman
Richmond C. Coburn
Hadley
Barkley
Paducah
Congress
Ex-Embassy Clerk Guilty of Treason
Washington reports a White House near consensus on seeking a 60 day truce with coal miners after a new strike threat. Advisers split over using Taft Hartley injunctions versus a special fact finding board outside the act to extend the current pause starting December 1.
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Washington
White House
John L. Lewis
Truman
Lewis
Burgman Convicted of Treason for WWII Nazi Broadcasts
Herbert J. Burgman 53, a former U S Embassy clerk in Berlin, was found guilty of treason for Nazi propaganda broadcasts during World War II. He faced possible death or long imprisonment, admitted using the alias Joe Scanlon, and claimed coercion by the Gestapo. Parallel Union issues saw coal price tensions and mass welfare fund layoffs at United Mine Workers.
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Washington
Herbert J. Burgman
U. S
Berlin
Burgman
Maineborn
Mildred E
Sally) Gillars
Iva Toguri D’aquino
Tokyo Rose
Alexander Holtzoff
Hokah
Minn
Debunk
Mid-West
Joe Scanlon
United States
Gestapo
Germany
William A. Paisley
James J. Laughlin
Lewis Pays Up 1.42 Million Fine To U S Court
John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers paid 1,420,000 dollars as contempt fines for defying a court order during the 1948 coal strike. Lawyers delivered the payments to U S district court clerk Harry Hull and to Lewis personally 20,000 dollars. The supreme court had refused to hear the union’s appeal.
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Lewis
U.S. Court
Arthur Edson
Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Harry H. Hull
U. S. District Court
T. Alan Goldsborough
Welly Hopkins
Supreme Court
Warning puts Tuck Truman in same class
Governor Tuck and President Truman are placed in the same class by a mysterious warning received from The Son of Allah. The Chicago postmarked letter urges entrusting parole decisions to jailers and wardens, claiming they know what happens inside prisons.
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Tuck
Truman
Richmond
Allah
Chicago
Lone red hen left after hen house theft
J H Gregory of 705 Harry Street reported to police that burglars stole 16 chickens on November 14 leaving one red hen behind. He vows to give the thieves a 100 pound bag of chicken feed if they return for the lone chick.
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J. H. Gregory
Harry Street
Gregory
Bobby Jones
Set. Jones
More Steel Firms Sign With Union
The CIO United Steelworkers strike closure brings 17 000 more workers back to jobs. Sharon Steel Corp 5921 at Sharon Farrell Pa and Lowellsville O Pittsburgh Steel Co 6969 at Allenport Monessen Pa Babcock Wilcox Tube Co Beaver Falls Pa 2000 McClouth Steel Corp 800 in Detroit Oil City Supply Co Dallas Tex 891 at Oil City Braddock Pa. All contracts are Bethlehem type with company financed 100 pensions and health insurance five cents an hour split between company and workers.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
Sharon Steel Corp
Sharon
Farrell
Lowellsville
Pittsburgh Steel Co
Allenport
Monessen
Babcock-Wilcox Tube Co
Beaver Falls
FBI Man Describes Phoney Memo In Coplon Spy Case
FBI witness Robert J. Lamphere said he planted a fake secret memo in a Justice Department office to fool Soviet agents. He noted Coplon had access to the memo but had no reason to be believed to have passed it to Russians. The defense argued Coplon acted from romantic feelings toward Valentin Gubitchev, not spy plotting.
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New York
FBI
Justice Department
Judith Coplon
Robert J. Lamphere
Miss Coplon
Lamphere
Atomic Energy Commission
Gubitchev
Palmer
Haunting Provision in Will Stirring Probate in Camden
Camden New Jersey November 15 attorney L Scott Cherchesky made one proviso in leaving his estate to sister Mrs Clara Task. It warned that if any money is used to pay cookie debts he will haunt her. Cherchesky estate valued over 3000 dollars probate today.
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Camden
N. J
L. Scott Cherchesky
Clara Task
Task
Cherchesky
Garden State Race Track
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