Dockers Return to Work in Gotham After 29-Day Strike
New York April 3 Longshoremen end a 29 day walkout that shut the port costing an estimated half billion dollars. The NLRB orders a new election to stabilize the waterfront. The ILA bows to the board and says it will be left off the ballot if the strike continues. The AFL opposed ILA tactics and aimed to limit union gains at the docks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Labor Relations Board
International Longshoremens Assn
NLRB
ILA
American Federation of Labor Union
AFL
Afl-Ila
Cold Wave Threatens West Virginia Early April Crops
Meteorologist Leroy Stone of the U S Weather Bureau Huntington warns of freezing temperatures possibly breaking April records. Damage to budding fruit trees and crops expected as subfreezing 15 to 22 degrees is forecast for the Kanawha Valley with a low near 22 and a recovery to about 46 by daybreak. The cold spell is expected short in duration.
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West Virginia
Leroy Stone
U. S. Weather Bureau
Huntington
U.S. Weather Bureau
Kanawha
Sunday Specials in The Gazette Magazine Section
The Gazette's State Magazine section offers a mix of features and articles. Read about the West Virginia Welfare Conference in Charleston and the Edison electric cap lamp for miners, plus conservation efforts, education topics in Florida, and local society pages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wal
Jace E. Knight
Thomas A. Edison
South Charleston
Mercy Flights Aimed to Evacuate Wounded at Dien Bien Phu
French forces at Dien Bien Phu plan a Monday mercy flight evacuation of wounded marked with Red Cross. Gen. Navarre said observers would witness the landing on the shell battered airfield while Vietminh commander Giap may reinforce Hanoi forces. Casualty figures cited include roughly 7,000 killed and 14,000 wounded since March 13.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Henri Navarre
Red Cross
International Press Corps
Christian de Castries
Navarre
Vietminh
Ho Nguyen Giap
Red River
Rayburn Attacks McCarthy At Marshall County Dinner
Rayburn told a Jackson Day crowd in Moundsville that the world may lack heart to control the hydrogen bomb and criticized McCarthy and the Republicans. He urged using the hydrogen force for civilian aims and contrasted Democratic era gains with current GOP policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moundsville
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Marshall County
Field House
Rayburn
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
McCarthy
Yalta
Potsdam
Rayburne
Condit
Page & Col
Butter price cuts boost Charleston shoppers buying habit
Households shifted from sticks to pounds as butter prices fell 3 to 18 cents per pound after a USDA cut in dairy price support. Cheese and margarine prices also eased while large appliance prices saved little on sale tags. The tax cut halves excise on appliances from 10 to 5 percent, lowering wholesale driven retail price slightly, with lingering uncertainty on milk prices.
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Patricia Seets
the Gazette
Charleston
Poundstead
Snew Grocer
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Teenage Repeaters Await Court Trial After New Arrests
Two junior high students held in juvenile court for prior burglaries were arrested again for four breakings and enters and five burglaries at Allen's Department Store on Washington Street. A third youth not involved in yesterday's arrest admitted to three breakings and five burglaries. Police Lt. Atlee Burr noted the teens, aged 14 and 15, were linked to active offenses and had been questioned after the new foray.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stu Jdette
Warance
Frank Riddle
Julpart
Venile Bureau
Riddle
Allen's
Washington St. W
Harry Silverman
Smith
Atlee Burr
Resources Study Urges State Action In West Virginia
Wallace E. Knight reports on the closing session of a conservation assembly in West Virginia. The study's recommendations will go to state officials for possible action in the 1955 Legislature. Rep. Clifford Hope outlined federal cooperation and praised the pilot plant flood and watershed program as a long term, local effort.
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Charleston
George T. Derby
U. S. Army
Clifford R. Hope
House of Representatives Committee On Agriculture
Wallace E. Knight
the Gazette
West Virginia
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce
Clifford RB. Hope
R-Kan
House of Representatives Agriculture Committee
Hope
Fedral
Oull
Freq H. Barrett
Little Kanawha Regional
Aid Talks Rise Over Indochina Fight in Washington
In Washington on April 3, high level talks on Indochina's military situation described as serious by Sen. Knowland discussed possible American support for anti Communist forces in Southeast Asia. No formal confirmation of naval or air aid accompanied briefings by Secretary of State Dulles and Adm. Radford.
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Washington
Indochina
Sen. Knowland
Hanoi
Dien Bien Phu
Vietminh
Southeast Asia
Dukes
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Dulles
Geneva
Red China
Sen
Knowland
Formosa
Free Nations of Asia
Dulles-Radford
United States
Tragic Fires Across Three States Kill Fourteen
Wire dispatches report 14 people from three families dead in fires in Ohio Kansas and North Dakota. At AL Tuttle North Dakota a mother and six children died in a farm home blaze as Elmer Miller and his son helped with chores. In Glouster Ohio a mother Garnet Richards and five of six children perished when kerosene sparked flames in a small cottage. The father and another son escaped.
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Ohio
Kansas
North Dakota
AL Tuttle
N. D
Bismarck
Elmer
Miller
Glousier
Glouster
Garnet Richards
iChildren Mildred
Robert
Lawrence
Freda
William
Charles Edwin
Wage Statement Request Coupons Draw 6000 Plus Payers
More than 6,000 persons have sent in their Wage Statement Request coupons to the Social Security Editor at The Gazette. The notice notes this is the next to last printing of the coupon in 1954 and invites readers to request their savings data by sending the coupon on page 4.
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Florida
A. L
Shorty) Hardman
the Gazette
Charleston Senators
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Gazetteer
Wvo Campus
Eiten
Seeey-E
Tdinan
Oppor
Puneen
Woods and Waters
Bectlen
Gazette
Senator Russell on Hydrogen Bombs Ending Mass Army Era
Senator Richard B. Russell argues the hydrogen bomb ends mass troop concentrations and large naval fleets. He says future warfare will rely on dispersed forces, with landings and fleets no longer feasible, prompting a global rethink of military strategy and tactics.
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William K. Hutchinson
INS
Washington
Richard B. Russell
Dga
Senate Armed Service Committee
International News Service
Russell
France
Adams says Mullins pressed removal petition against Londeree
W B P Adams led five petitioners seeking the state Supreme Court to remove Joseph W Londeree from the South Charleston mayoral ballot. Adams said Mullins, a councilman at large and street committee chair, compelled the effort though Adams insists he was the only Democrat involved. The petition cited Londeree’s Federal reservation residence as a factor.
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Terry Turner
the Gazette
Joseph W Londeree
South Charleston
W. BP. Adams
Supreme Court
Londeree
Staunton Mullins
Mullins
Loudon
Adams
Jazz Band Escapes Soviet Zone For West Berlin
An 18 member German dance band led by Karl Walter and featuring Christa Bach fled from Chemnitz in the Soviet zone to free West Berlin. American officials described the group as a top jazz outfit that had stayed behind the Iron Curtain playing provocative American jazz.
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Bemlin
Christa Bach
West Berlin
Chemnitz
Walter
Karl Walter
Graft evidence labeled flimsy slows Road Commission probe
A legislative committee studying graft in the State Road Commission says current corruption evidence is too flimsy for definite action and seeks more information. The executive secretary, and a committee member who spoke off the record, noted plans to weigh affidavits and potential witnesses before proceeding, while Cecil Underwood urged patience to evaluate the findings.
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del. Underwood
State Road Commission
Lucian Maddox
FBI
Hits
Jin
House
Cecil Underwood
R-Tyler
Legislative Committee
Western Big Three Push for U N Disarmament Commission Meeting
The United States Britain and France urged an early U N Disarmament Commission meeting to explore secret talks on atomic energy control as part of a phased disarmament effort. Russia signaled openness while T F Tsiang planned a commission session next week amid broader debates over hydrogen bomb tests and standstill demands.
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United Nations
N. Y
U. N. Disarmament Commission
United States
Britain
France
U.N. General Assembly
Russia
Sir Pierson Dixon
Andrei Vishinsky
T. F. Tsiang
Disarmament Commission
Pacific
U.S
India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Berlin
U.N. Disarmament Commission
U.N
Lewis may seek court action to halt union contract breakaway
Louisville report says John L. Lewis may press court action as operators in Kentucky Virginia and Pennsylvania cancel UMW contracts to go non union. Spokesman cites legal risks and warns against cutting miners pay to lower costs amid weak markets. Marlowe Coal Co. gave 60 days notice of contract cancellation for two Perry County mines. Stearns Coal & Lumber operates Stearns Kentucky mine under a new contract.
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Louisville
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Louisville Times
Lewis
Washington
Kentucky
Virginia
Pennsylvania
UMW
Marlowe Coal Co
Perry County
Stearns Coal & Lumber Co
Stearns, Ky
March survey shows mixed business up but steel down
An Associated Press survey across 51 cities finds March business activity higher than January and February but behind March 1953. Unemployment eased in many areas, auto and retail sales rose with high inventories, while steel production fell to a four year low.
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New York
Associated Press
U. S
Brass _roots
Eisenhower
Union Chi Chamber of Commerce
Federal
Reserve Statisticians
Main St
Vail St
West
Virginia
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Washington
Census Bureau
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State Magazine
Page Sm
Skip Johnson
Conservation Commission
Asia
Radford
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Senator
War
Free World
Iron Curtain
Hannibal
Clausewitz
Mau Mau
Nairobi
Kenya
Andrew Stephens
Royal Air Force
Kiamibu
Iia
Stephens
Big 3
Mines Desert Union Banks
Ee Rennergee Survey
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