Truman Defends Democratic Program Against Socialist Label
President Truman accused Republicans of insulting the intelligence of the American people by labeling his program socialism. In a Washington speech at the Jefferson Jackson dinner, he urged Democrats to fight in the 1950s campaigns, denouncing GOP critics, defending defense and foreign aid, and pledging a fair program for health education and social security while dismissing socialism as a tag. He mocked Republican scare tactics and warned against returning to McKinley era policies.
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Washington
Truman
Trumran
National Guard
GOP
Liberty
Herbert Lehman
New York
Truman Rejects Sensor Pressure in Fiery News Conference
President Truman angrily defended his independence at a weekly news conference, insisting he will not be censored. He attacked reporters for asking about his Russian policy and warned he will grant exclusive interviews as he pleases, despite the White House custom.
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Washington
Feb
Truman
Crustain
King Gross
Big Mahngar 'Mo
Car Bus Crash Kills Advertising Man and Wife Near Washington
Pittsburgh report states advertising man Mr Jack N Hallen and his wife of Charleston West Virginia were killed in a bus automobile collision on U S Route 40 eight miles west of Washington Pennsylvania. Deputy coroner H A Brownlee identified the couple as the sole occupants of the car. The investigation and full details were to be continued in later columns.
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Pittsburgh
Jack N. Hallen
Lewis St
Charleston
W. Va
Washington, Pa
H. A. Brownlee
Guardsmen Aid Flood Area as Homeless Rise in Louisiana
National Guard units using assault boats and trucks moved into Avoyelles Parish and surrounding counties to evacuate refugees. Brigadier General Hufft ordered a high knoll in Marksville as a refugee gathering point as floodwaters from the Mississippi and Black rivers expand infiltration into east central Louisiana.
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Ferriday
Naanal
Louisiana
Avayelles Parish
Catahoula
Concordia Parishes
Raymond Houlft
Louisiana National Guard
Camp Beauregard
Alexandria
Hufft
Marksville
Vote Holds FEPC Off Floor
The House failed to clear action on a civil rights bill creating a Fair Employment Practices Commission. A mixed bloc kept the measure in the rules committee with 7 votes needed for floor action. Northern Democrats and Republicans split over sending the measure forward.
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Washington
A & To
House
Hiles Sammitves
Menage Jure
Fair Employ- Smett Practices Commission
Allen
Delaney
Aladden
McSweeney
Sabath
Survey Ordered On Road to Park
The State Road Commission will study a route to make the Coonskin Park area accessible. Gov Patleson told the Citizens Advisory Park Committee that Ray Cavendish will set up a survey to produce preliminary reports. The plan would show if roads could run east and connect with State Routes 14 and 16 and U.S. Route 119. Funds are limited so immediate aid is unlikely. The committee says better access from the East side of Elk River to a bridge at Bream would ease traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue and Washington Street. Engineers warned reconstruction of the river road would be very costly, especially the one mile stretch between the incinerator and Elk Two Mile bridges, including flood-slip repairs.
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State Road Commission
Ward
Coonskin Park
Patleson
Citizens Advisory Park Committee
Ray Cavendish
Yestern
Bream
U. S
M. I. O'Neale
City Incinerator
Elk Two Mile
Rescuers Push Search for 5 OF B-36 Crew
Rescue teams press on along Princess Royal Island in British Columbia for five missing B 36 crew members after eleven were rescued on Feb 15 and 12th man later identified as injured. Naval officials report shouts and shots heard during the search as survivors recount parachute snags and harsh conditions.
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Michord Air Force Base
Wash
British Columbia
Princess Royal Island
U. S. Coast Guard
Seattle
Vitale Trippodi
Brooklon
Vancouver
Deadlocked mining talks lead to gun battle amid coal strikes
Day long negotiations failed to end the mining deadlock as a none union West Virginia pit saw a running gun battle that felled four men. Picket violence spread across Pennsylvania and Kentucky while independent miners push to operate during the nationwide 372 000 member UMW strike.
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Pittsburgh
None Union
West Virginia
Fai
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
United Mine
Illinois
Back-to-Work Move Aims as Coal Talks Drag On
Washington reports John L. Lewis floated guaranteed work for miners during negotiations on a 200 day year and a back-to-work order. Despite court action and a $2.14 million fine, no progress emerged as talks enter a third day. Cole indicated proposals include shorter hours and possible pay increases, while operators resist higher coal costs.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
David L. Cole
United Mine Workers
Lewis
White House
Smong
Richmond B. Keech
Tait-Hartley
Cole
Laymen Named to Board of Medical Service Inc
A new policy to include public representation on the boards of Charleston hospital and medical service plans was announced. The Medical Service Inc board now includes 12 doctors and six laymen, all prominent professionals. John Hart said Hospital Service will be reorganized to add general public representation, with at least four laymen on its 12 member board.
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Charleston Hospital
Blue Shield
PRA Denas Anan
Ae ES Wau We Lue
Usuliss
Medical Servecw, Inc
John Hart
Medical Service
Board of
Hospital Service, Inc
Hospital Service
Hart
Iretpfare
Board of Medicaine, Inc
Hospital Service Board
Blues Cross Commission
Fourth Union Ousted In Communist Purge
The CIO expelled four unions for alleged Communist alignment with effect March 1. The Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers United Office and Professional Workers and Food Tobacco and Agricultural Workers were dismissed. Inquiries into other unions will follow. about 84,009 members were in the eliminated unions.
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Washington
CIO
United Public Workers
Mill Ang
United Office and Professional
Food, Tobacco and Agricultural
CIG
Painter Defense Rests Its Case in Murder Trial
The defense in the Fred Clifford Painter murder case rests without Painter testifying. Dr. G C Robertson testified Painter was a maniac depressive and suffering from cerebral syphilis. Co defendant Harry Atlee Burdette was previously convicted of first degree murder and scheduled for electrocution April 14. The incident occurred on Summers Street in Charleston.
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Fred Clifford Painter
Clendenin Si
Edward C. O'Brien
D. J. Salisbury
Painter
G. C. Hobertson
Charleston
Salisbury
Robertson
O'Brien
Harry Atlee Burdette
Elk Wo Mile
Mounds-2ville
St. Fests
de. Robertson
Paitter
St. Frasers Hospital
Cincinnati Biological Laboratories
Winter Snow Closes Roads. Sunshine Promised Later
Kanawha Valley saw a light snowfall with temperatures near freezing. Forecasters from the U S Weather Bureau in Huntington predicted rising temperatures and clearing skies with highs around 44 by afternoon. Preston County reported two inches of snow, the state record for the day. Road crews spread chains on Preston County routes and cinder crews worked on mountain highways as travel remained hazardous on Route 219.
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Kanawha
U. S
Huntington
Elkins
Flat Top
Mercer County
Preston County
Martinsburg
Wheeling
Morgantown
Parkersburg
Petersburg
State Road Commission
Thomas
Rantoph
Potato price support cut urged by Senate panel
The Senate Agriculture Committee backed ending all potato price supports until strict production and marketing controls are set. A bill by Sen. Lucas would let the agriculture secretary set quotas by bushels or acres, requiring growers to approve them by two thirds or lose supports. The measure applied to the 1950 crop and later, with about 10 percent of the 1950 crop already in the ground.
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Washington
Congress
Senate Agriculture Committee
Sen
Lucas D-Hd
Secretary of Agriculture
Lucas
Explosion at Dow Chemical Co Building 414 Kills Eight
A massive blast at Dow Chemical in Midland Michigan fatally injures eight workers and leaves at least 13 seriously hurt with several others missing. The explosion at 11 38 a m shattered windows blocks away and collapsed a 100 by 100 foot section of Building 414 where latex rubber paint was produced. Inside were forty maintenance workers repairing pipes when the explosion occurred.
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Eeliphoto
Midland
Mich
Dew Chem
Icat Co
Mine Wives Picketing In Southern Hot Spot
About 200 wives of idle coal miners picket at New River Coal Co mines near Oak Hill West Virginia Carlisle Whipple and Summerlee as John L Lewis order restricts entry. Women search all cars, bars entry except essential maintenance staff. One miner was roughed up at Whipple Bar entrance and a fire boss was ordered away after defying picket lines.
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Illinois
Progressive
John Marekiando
PMW
Ilinois
UMW
Pittsburgh
Duquesne Light Co
New River Coal Co
Carlisle
Whipple
Summerlee
John L. Lewis
Whipple Bar
Gazette
Troop-Carrying Plane Crashes in Yukon During Exercise
A Canadian C-47 with four crew and 10 Americans crash landed on a Yukon lake shore eight miles from the Alaska Highway near Snag during Exercise Sweet Briar. Raiders aboard were testing Arctic defenses. one man reportedly suffered a broken leg. Names and nationalities were not released.
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Xyukon
INS
Alaska Highway
Ear Snag
Yukon Territory
Arctic
Senator Tydings Warns of H-Bomb Devastation
Senator Tydings told the Senate hydrogen bombs could kill 10 million people in a single blast, and an X-bomb could dwarf the H-bomb. He noted estimates placing the H-bomb thousands of times more powerful than the A-bomb and urged world disarmament, citing Einstein.
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Tydings
Washington
Sen
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Albert Einstein
Bridges Flare Up At Perjury Trial
In San Francisco on February 16 Harry Bridges reacted with anger and emotion during the third day of his federal perjury trial. He denounced the U S Attorney General's office and pleaded about potential jail deportation and the impact on his wife and family as Chief Prosecutor F Joseph Donahue pressed the questioning. Bridges, an Australian born longshoreman union leader, testified in his 1946 naturalization hearing that he never...
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
UU. S.attorney General's
Unon
F. Joseph Donahue
Bridges
White House Considers Insurrection Declaration Over Miner Strike
The White House plans a drastic step to force miners back to work. If talks fail and courts request it, President Truman may declare a state of insurrection and use military resources to seize and operate the mines, with a deadline of next Monday.
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Victor Riesei
Gazette
Washington
White House
Congress
Truman
John L. Lewis
United
Lewis
White Hose
Itian
Young Mother Dies After Dare Leads To Fatal Shooting
In Richwoody a 19 year old mother Barbara Shutter Saunders died from a heart wound after her boyfriend Averall Dudding 29 of Calvin claimed he was dared to shoot her with a .22 pistol. Dudding waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to the grand jury. The shooting happened at a house in Persinger where Saunders lived with her uncle George Taylor. Saunders leaves a three year old daughter Sardra Kay and several relatives. The body lies in Summersville pending arrangements.
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Richwady
W. E. Tyler
Averall Dudding
Calvin
Barbara Shutter Saunders
Wyoming
Glenn Stareher
Mrs Saunders
George Taylor
Persinger
Stareher
Dudding
Chief Tyler
Et Hickey
Sardra Kay
SA Sheffer
Mary Shaffer
Bernice Groves
Canvas
Basil
Hookersville
Richard
Boch
Jay Shaffer
Gypsy
D. Ro Simos Sostuary
Summersville
Charleston Skies Forecast Friday February 17
The Charleston weather page lists sunrise at 1 16 am and sunset late evening with moon details. It notes prominent stars including Betelgeuse visible in the southern sky and planets Saturn Mars Venus and Spica with rising and western/eastern positions and various temperatures and times.
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Veeceer Reb
Betelgeux
Saturn
Mars
Spica
Venus
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Willie Willis
Rivera
Dixie
FEPC
Call the Gazette
the Gazette
Gazelle
Independent Minera
Gazette Phato
Board of Medical Service, Inc
Senate Group
Dow
Gene Tunney
Jack Dempsey
Oyney
Charleston Gazette
the State Newspaper
James A. Hill
Oak Hill
Hes
Yukon
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