Dulles Opposes Hoover Plan for Western Hemisphere Arsenal
New York February 28 John Foster Dulles challenged Herbert Hoover's idea of a Western Hemisphere Gibraltar. He warned against shedding the U.S. ally and inviting Russian encirclement. Dulles said solitary defense is never impregnable and favored not being committed to a broader series.
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New York
Bec
John Foster Dulles
Herbert Hoover
Gibraltar
U. S
Acheson
Dallas
Dulles Speaks Out on Foreign Policy and Arsenal of Retaliation
Read editorial on page 4 discusses Dulles proposing a flexible counter-attack concept called an arsenal of retaliation. Dulles spoke in New York to the American Association for the United Nations, seen as a reply to Hoover but denied as such. Truman defended the policy against isolationism, while diplomatic circles foresee Republican rifts over postwar foreign policy.
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Hoovers
Hoover
Europe
Fred Dlone
T. Ss
Atlantic
Pacific
Britain
Japan
Formosa
Philippines
Truman
Washington
Republican Party
America
Dulles
Radio and TV Hit By Cobalt Restrictions
Washington report notes government limits on cobalt use, cutting civilian consumption to one third in January 1950 and requiring National Production Authority approval for purchases above 25 pounds after February. Industry warns color TV delayed, as shortages of nickel, copper, aluminum, and cadmium affect set production. 13 regional offices to handle price and wage problems also announced by the Economic Stabilization Agency.
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Washington
Assoc
Economic Stabilization Agency
Yugoslav Parliaments Hear War Threats and Korea Plan
Yugoslav Foreign Minister Edvard Kardelj warned the Parliament that the world moves toward a third world war as China’s Korea intervention heightens risk. He advocated UN guided peace, a four point Korea plan, and denounced Moscow’s claimed progress while pledging a heavy defense budget and unity against Soviet influence.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Edvard Karriel
Red China
Korea
38Th Parallel
China
Karedelj
Soviet Union
United Nations
U.N
Moscow
Russia
Asia
Kardelj
North
South Korea
U. N. Commission
United
Romana
Hungary
Bulgaria
Albania
Study finds most tots under nourished in nation
Cleveland dispatch reports a nutrition study showing 75 percent of 2,664 children lacked sufficient energy and key nutrients. Dr Pauline Beery Mack notes long lasting effects of poor diets. The Penn State mass studies span seven years across socio economic groups with only one fourth meeting recommended intakes for energy protein minerals and vitamins.
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Cleveland
Pauline Beery Mack
Mack
Ellen H.riccnards Institute
Pennsylvania State College
Pennsylvania
National Research Council
Passenger Runs Ended on Campbell's Creek Railroad
Wallace F. E Knight reports the final Campbell's Creek line passenger trip from Reed to Putney ending 40 years of service. Engineer George Morton, Fireman Ernie Fleck, and Conductor Fred Halil led a veteran crew on the 19 mile run, now mail and coal only.
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Knight
Esterday
Campbell's Creek
Reed
Putney
George Morton
Reed Yards
Tops
Spring Fork
Coal Fork
Midway
Rensford
Tad
Rattlesnake
Cinco
Blount
Annaford
Texin
John Eskew
Frank Barton
Inside Today Amusements and Random Listings
Fragmented OCR text lists amusements and various items such as art, racing, cooking, and puzzles. Names and places are garbled but imply a newspaper page segment with entertainment and activity notes.
George the Ghost Still Running Lift At Logan Hospital
Special to The Gazette. Logan's playful ghost, known as George, returns to Mercy Hospital to operate the elevator. Nurses report the signal button lighting, the cage cycling between floors, as the unseen prank continues after about five years.
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Logan Hospital
the Gazette
Logan
Mercy Hospital
George
Mercy
Taft Forecasts 10 Percent Living Standard Cut
Senator Robert A. Taft told the Masonic Club in Cincinnati that the American standard of living is due for a 10 percent reduction. He urged President Truman to present a definite program and said the public must be told all problems facing the nation. He questioned whether defending Europe could ruin the U S economic life and noted the key issue is the size of the military force required.
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Cincinnati
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Masonic Club
Taft
Truman
Europe
Tait
Engineers Seek Better Terms in Rail Peace Pact
Cleveland dispatch reports the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers urges more favorable terms in a proposed three year peace pact between railroads and four unions. BLE leaders to return to Washington to press for changes while Trainmen Firemen and Conductors meet soon to review the plan. The accord, worked out in Washington and backed by President’s aide John R. Steelman, would provide wage increases and benefits for about 1.3 million workers, with government operation of rail lines since August 26 to curb a potential strike. Negotiations and final approval by local union chairs remain pending.
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Cleveland
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
John R. Steelman
White House
BLE
James P. Shields
Washington
Steelman
Army
ELE
Shields
Iheeral
Merchants Upgrade Gifts for First Baby in Kanawha County
The Gazette announces expanded prizes for its Your Baby And Mine contest with Charleston and South Charleston merchants adding gifts for the first baby born in 1951 in Kanawha County. Entries require birth certificates and physician notarization, must arrive by Jan 4, and the winner will be announced soon with judges' decision final.
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Gazette
Charleston
Kanawha County
Myrtle Meyer Eldred
South Charleston
Merrill Photo Supply
Voigtander
Bohnert
Parallel Crossed By Allied Patrols 700 Die 20 Captured
Allied patrols repelled three major Communist attacks along the 38th Parallel as U N troops, with American artillery and air support, halted advances north of Seoul. In the Chuncheon area the fiercest fighting saw 700 Reds killed and 20 captured, with the UN line holding against a large massed assault.
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Tokyo
Dee
INS
United Nations
U.N. i
Seoul
International News Service
Lee Ferrera
38Th Parallel
Thoubie
Chunehon
Eas Reds
U. S
Eighth Army
Chunchon
Matthew B. Ridgway
Peninculx
U. N
ROK
Repthite
Korea
Chuejon
Chun- Chon
Seoul Pom
Yonchon
Imtin River
Bread Prices Rise With Milk and Bread Costs
Bread and milk prices climbed in Charleston as dairies like Blossom and Greenbrier raised costs. A one cent per quart rise for milk with additional fractions for varieties, plus a 25 cent per hundredweight wholesale milk bump, were blamed on higher feed, labor, and dairy supply costs. Local bakers and dairies cited increased ingredient costs driving the loaf price uptick.
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Charleston
Guernsey
Blossom
Bertram
Greenweier
Imperial
Mount Vernon
Vailey Bell
Edward R. Johnson
The
West Virginia Bakers Assoc
GM Closes Four More Auto Plants
Detroit December reports General Motors adds four more plants to the shutdown list amid material shortages. The closures affect Buick Oldsmobile and Pontiac lines in Wilmington Delaware and other sites, idling about 16,000 workers and swelling the total to eight plants nationwide.
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Detroit
General Motors
General: Motors Buick-Oldsmobile-Fonline
Wilmington
Del
Observer Sees Meat Rationing In Short Time
An informed U S government official said nationwide meat rationing will be ordered within a very short time. Price controls on meats and other essentials will accompany the action, with a planned three month timetable and a coupon system plus licensing of slaughterers in preparation. Price controls and fall backs will also apply to ferrous and non ferrous metals.
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Washington
INS
Ice and fog cripple travel from East to South
The East and parts of the South faced a dangerous ice spill with freezing rain and dense fog. Snow and slick roads stretched from East Georgia into New England, yielding multiple fatal crashes including a death near Matick Mass and others in Alabama and Louisiana.
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Associated Press
South
South Carolina
Detroit
Florida
Far West
East Georgia
New England
Matick
Mass
Alabama
Louisiana
Charleston, D. C
Frostbitten GI Tells of Korean Ordeal Left Chosin Reservoir
Delayed Tokyo dispatch describes Hubert E. Reeves, Pvt. in the Seventh Infantry Division, frostbitten at Chosin Reservoir. He lies at Percy Jones Hospital Battle Creek Michigan, hands and feet severely frostbitten, doctors unsure on amputation, nurse scene described as he endures morphine shots amid care and grim injuries. Reeves’ mother Wanetta lives Joliet Michigan. report notes gravest condition and potential for recovery or further surgery.
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Chosin Reservoir
Eciter
Hubers
B. Reaves
North Korea
Tokyo
Percy Jones Hospital
Battle Creek
Mich
John Randolph
Wanetta Reeves
Hubert
Jose
Percy Jones
Herbert, Reeves
Joliet
Truman Signs Slaw Help Bill For Yugoslavia Aid
President Truman signed a five million dollar Marshall Plan aid bill for anti Russian Yugoslavia. Defense officials reported twelve months into MAP the delivery of war materiel to allies, including ships tanks planes artillery and vehicles, with Western Europe receiving the bulk. Maj. Gen. Stanley L. Scott noted ongoing growth in arms flow to non Communist nations despite Korean War demands.
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Washington
Truman
Yugoslavia
U. S
Marshall Tito
Europe
Acheson
I Congress
North Atlantic
Tito
Stanley L.scott
Scott
Helgoland Strike Faces British Action Against Squatters
Hamburg dispatch reports Britain moving to seize control of Helgoland, the former Hitlerite fortress. Eight demonstrators remain on the island as British orders bar landings except for fishermen, with penalties up to 5000 marks or one year imprisonment. Prince Hubertus Zu Loewenstein joined the 40 mile journey today.
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Hamburg
Germany
British High Commission
Helgoland
North Sea
Schleswig - Holstein
Fortess
Forbidden Island
Hubertus Zu Loewenstein
U S Writes Off China Investments Losses Seen Likely In China
Hong Kong reports that U S assets seized after the Red regime may total as high as 200 million dollars, but the final figure is uncertain. Many firms wrote off assets months earlier, with banks valuing Shanghai property at millions before writing down to nominal values. Officials expect totals far below 100 million, noting missionary property and schools seized in 1949 complicate the tally.
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Hong Kong
China
Shanghai
Washington
Commerce Department
Reds
Reda
U. S
Charleston Skies Forecast Summary for Saturday
Saturday forecasts show mainly cloudy conditions across Virginia Maryland and western Pennsylvania with temperatures in the mid 40s to upper 40s. Expect some rain in the southeast Virginia coast and a cooler interior with north and west portions remaining chilly. Winds peak around Friday morning with higher gusts.
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Sourideras
Virginia
Maryland
Deere Virginia
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