Editorial: Anglo American Unity Faces Its Test After Crisis
The piece analyzes the strain and potential rebound in Anglo American unity following the French crisis and stalled Geneva talks on Korea and Indochina. It questions whether renewed cooperation will arrive in time to meet challenges in Europe and Asia while noting shifts after Bermuda and Geneva events.
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Geneva
Indochina
Great Britain
United States
Dwight Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
Laurel
France
Bermuda
Churchil
Southeast Asia
U. S
State Dulles
Bloc
Anthony Eden
Georges Bidault
Eden
Molotov
United Nations
Central
South America
Muskrats Enter West Virginia Farm Ponds
West Virginia farm ponds gain a new value with muskrats. They provide water for family and livestock, recreation, fishing, skating in winter, and now a potential income source. Muskrats breed in pond margins, burrow underwater, and can threaten dams if burrows reach the bank. proper damming and trapping with steel traps help maintain balance.
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West Virginia
Readers' Forum Letters on Police Tactics and Politics
Citizens defend the State Police and condemn political maneuvering. A Logan Countian letter urges viewing traffic violators as criminals and praises the police while criticizing political posturing by public officials and national leaders.
Be brief. Letters should not exceed 200 words
A brief letter notes that the writer aims for conciseness and asks for a signed submission. The author acknowledges that the name may be withheld upon request and offers to comply with the publication’s guidelines.
Dear Avery Note Suggests Civil Defense Urged at Statehouse
A Wartime style letter from A E Teagan Civil Defense Chief warns Avery of a hypothetical real bomb at the West Virginia Statehouse, suggesting political change and heightened civil defense concern.
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Avery
Statehouse
West Virginia
A. E. Teagan Civil Defense
Forgotten forgiveness and a coast to coast air raid drill
The piece recalls Captain William Van Schaick sparing the Gen Slocum disaster veteran in 1912 after a petition with 250000 New Yorkers. It links historical forgiveness to today as millions prepare for a nationwide air raid drill amid fears of A and H bomb attacks.
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William Howard Taft
Russia
United States
The Gen Slocum Disaster and TV Writer Hal Block
Westbrook Pegler notes the Gen Slocum fire tragedy where 1 021 died and survivors were few. He mentions Capt Van Schaick and post trial reactions, then shifts to Hal Block in Washington planning TV work and his song The Sen McCarthy Blues.
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Hal Block
Washington
Block
Bob Hope
Sen. McCarthy
Knowles Triumphs Rare Stroke At Apawamis Golf Tourney
Ellis Knowles, a New York businessman and amateur golfer, pulled off a dramatic 34 on the final hole at Apawamis, tying the 18th with a niblick to win the National Seniors Tournament. The feat overshadowed rivals including Frank D. Ross as the field of nearly 400 seniors competed for the $100,000 prize.
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Ellis Knowles
Apawamis
al Laney
N. Y. Herald-Tribune
Knowles
Alger Hiss
Laney
Ellis
New York
Toman
Tucson
Apawamile
Rye
Joe Wells
Frank D. Ross
Hartford
Ross
Questions for McCarthy at Senate hearing on communism
Drew Pearson outlines a series of cross examination questions for Senator McCarthy. The piece cites prepared prompts by Pearson and Ray Jenkins and frames McCarthy's anti-Communist rhetoric against foreign aid, civil rights, and wartime policy with Russia and dissident figures.
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Washington
McCarthy
Committee
Ray Jenkins
Joe
Senate
Communist Party
Wisconsin
Russia
Voice of America
Voice
Daily Worker
Korea
George Marshall
Gen. Marshall
State Department
U. S S
Rudolph Aschenauer
Germany
U. S
U.S
United States
Stalin
FBI
Herb Philbrick
Lenin
Bankers eye big unions power as Beck and Lewis link
Victor Riesel reports that Dave Beck and John Lewis plan to pool labor funds to back banking ventures. Beck aims to deposit six figures in Lewis’s Washington banks, signaling a potential financial coalition to expand union influence in industry.
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John L. Lewis
Dave Beck
John Lewis
Washington
Beck
Lewis
Horatio Alger
Mine Workers’ Union
Teamsters
United Mine Workers Treasury
Congress
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
the Gazette
1929 Local and national items from The Gazette June 15
160 acre tract near Institute offered to Charleston for airport site at 200000 dollars. Dr Hugh Robins reports 156 births and 6 deaths in a day. The Civil War First Infantry Div flag seized by Confederates at Cumberland Maryland sent to state museum by John Marshall of Washington formerly of Parkersburg who obtained it from Gen Jay J Morrow. Charles Brush dies at 80 inventor arc light. Ray Keech killed in Indy race mashup at Altoona. Ambassador Dwight D Morrow and Pres Portes Gil discuss church state dispute in Mexico. New Zealand orders plows from Graveley at Dundes.
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Charleston
Hugh Robins
City Health Department
First Infantry
Charles Brush
Cleveland
Ray Keech
Indianapolis
Ind
Altoona
Dwight D. Morrow
Emilio Portes Gil
Mexico
Government of
New Zealand
Graveley’s
Dundes
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