Control Board Fights Transfer of Mental Tubercular Hospitals
The West Virginia Board of Control opposes bills to transfer supervision of state mental and tubercular hospitals to the health department and abolish the board. A five page statement argues the plan would create a top heavy health department, provoke friction among doctors, and be costly and inefficient. The advisory committee urged a hospital licensing measure to tap Hill Burton funds and outlined proposed shifts in financial and medical control, merit system coverage, and hospital commitments for tuberculosis cases.
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Ases
Stoup
State Health Department
Board of Control
L. Steele Trotter
Healths Department
Health Commissioner
West Virginia
Hill-Burton
Health Department
N. H. Dyer
Three Days Cough Danger Signal Adverts
An old advertisement promotes Creomulsion as a cough remedy claiming quick relief by a special creosote blend. It emphasizes no narcotics and urges early treatment to loosen and expel germ laden phlegm from the lungs.
Mother of Four Slain As Shoppers Look On
In Norristown Pennsylvania a 33 year old waitress Helen Grant was shot dead in public during the Christmas shopping rush. Her husband Thomas Grant 46 surrendered to police and admitted saying he shot his wife and would have shot a taxi driver she was with. Authorities said she was struck by shotgun blasts as she walked to meet him after leaving a restaurant where she worked. No charges were immediately filed against him.
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Norristown
Dee
Helen Grant
James Fratt
Grants
Thomas
Grant
Fratt
Fred
Supreme Court Denies Raleigh Man Appeal
The Supreme Court refused an appeal by James David Rickman from a 3 year sentence in Raleigh County for breaking and entering after a garage theft. Five years were added to the sentence due to a prior conviction amid claims of heavy drinking the night of the crime.
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Supreme Court
James David Rickman
Raleigh County
Belle Alkali Co
Givaudan-Virginian
Beile
Kanawha
W. T. Short
Wyoming
Short
Joseph Scott
Restaurant Entrance Wrecked by Dynamite blast
Explosion at 1450 a m damaged Stouffer's restaurant and nearby buildings in Minneapolis loop area. Police say dynamite sticks were detonated. investigators lack forensic proof against suspects. Minneapolis Restaurant Assoc offers 1000 reward. No one on site as cafe at 89 South Seventh Street is closed Sundays. Also notes missing 11 year old Eccles boy believed to have gone to Charleston. He is described as white, 3 feet 3 inches, 100 pounds, brown eyes, dark hair, gray jacket, brown sweater and overalls.
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Minnerlalid
Bee. Tm. Jy
Loop
Eugene Boerhath
Minneapolis
Assoc
South Seventh St
Tasket Progres
Eccles Bay
Charleston
Cll
Eccles
Plane crash ends test to restore sight in blind man
A two seat Navy trainer crashed during a test near Hoshinsville New Jersey killing two men, John Sprang and John Bucci, as Dorothy Ritter and Ely, a blinded man, hoped power dives would dislodge pellets in his head to regain sight. The plane fell from 3000 feet, nose first, after wing failure, burying the wreck in a 10 foot hole.
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Hoshinsville
N. J
William Dansbury
George Ruth
Navy
John K. Sprang
Philadelphia
John Bucer
Army Air Force
Trenton
Dorothy Ritter
Dr. Farmer's Hospital
Allentown
Sprang
Bucci
de Forest
Ely
Trenton-Robbinsville Report
Lillian
Witness Bert Bessing Testifies at Nurnberg Nazi Doctors Trial
A gaunt Swede and Jew, Bert Bessing, testified at Nurnberg accusing 23 Nazi doctors of cruel experiments over six years in Poland and Gdynia. He described sterilization, skull bone grafts, muscle removals, and injections that left him unable to walk normally, while seeking medical help and hoping all doctors hang.
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Nuuernberg
Germany
Nuernberg
Bert Bessing
Hel
Bessing
Rostock
Gdynia
Poland
Ssing
Peiping
Chungyang
Hitler
Munich
Chungyang siege and Manchuria fighting amid fronts
A report cites Chungyang under siege for 15 months and encircled for 16 days, with government relief near 14 miles away as Communists overwhelmed the garrison. Manchuria fighting includes 6,000 Communists attacking Pulantien and government forces driving them back, while Tehhui is recaptured and Sungari river line holds as border skirmishes continue. Finland pays $259,497 to the U S, reducing principal by $93,000, keeping its record of no default. total payments exceed $7.5 million with about $8 million remaining.
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Wee Ante
Chungyang
Yenan
Taiyuan
Shansi
Manchuria
Pulantien
Dairen
Tehhui
Changchun
Sungari
Mancchuria
Finland
Washington
United States
Treasury
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Ernie Saunders
Shrine Mosque
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Sandra Allen Williams
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