Last of Crash Victims Gathered for Trip Down Hill
The Charleston Gazette reports that the last bodies of the 50 people killed in a Friday night Capital Airlines crash were retrieved from a wooded hillside in West Virginia. Troopers and airline staff collected personal effects as crowds collected along the perilous five mile hike to Red Cross headquarters, with work continuing through rain and darkness to reunite remains.
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Judith Bryan
Brodhead's Dental Plate Powder Ad Misread
A fragmented ad promotes Brodhead's Dental Plate Powder claiming it cushions the denture and helps you laugh eat and talk. The text is incomplete but suggests starting today to improve comfort with dental plates.
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Brodhead
Mountain Plane Crash Patrols Through Wreckage
Big Army record notes indicate an explosion on impact with gasoline aboard. Maj. Miller says the blast lit the entire mountain and the crew likely did not see the strike. Rescue teams, law officials, and guardsmen scoured the slope, finding wreckage, torn parachutes, and scattered body parts along a 1000 foot area. Pilot Wheelock reports tremendous speed and a possible tree strike that hurled the tail, with radar not used. Within 12 hours all bodies were removed, praise goes to state and local agencies for the salvage effort ahead.
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Perkinsville
National
Wheelock
Vermont
Rent Bill Sparks Debate Over 15 Percent Hike Provision
Spence and Taylor label the 15 percent front hike as a mandatory across the board increase while Cain argues the provision reestablishes voluntary contracts and will not force blanket rises. Creedon notes a 19 percent April gain in new homes started but warns federal controls curb building material availability and holds up over 2.0 billion dollars of non-residential projects. He forecasts continued government aid for home builders and export controls to protect supplies, though housing construction lags through May with 200,602 total units year to date, under last year’s pace.
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U.S
State Teacher Group To Be Banquet Host
West Virginia Classroom Teachers Association to host a banquet July 8 in Cincinnati during National Education Association assembly sessions. Miss Mowrey of Clarksburg noted about 25 delegates from across the state will participate in a dramatic presentation Reflections of a Teacher. The WV delegation will nominate its CTA head for NEA executive committee. election occurs July 21 in Cincinnati with participants from all states and territories. A national conference of the department will follow at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
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Hawaii
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Refugees and housing clash mark congressional timetable
The house shows little chance of action this year on refugee admission amid a crowded four day calendar of priority bills including financing for government. West Virginia senators Kilgore and Revercomb dispute immigration changes while debates include using migrants for farm labor and calls for permanent residents.
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Hindus Urged to Accept Dominion Split in India Debate
Congress leaders pressed for acceptance of a dominion status plan backed by the Muslim League, arguing partition into Pakistan and Hindustan is likely. Nehru warned that Britain’s paramountcy cannot vanish quickly, while Patel framed the choice as division or Balkanization and urged unity despite riots.
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Ford Foremen Strike Strains Labor Talks Across Plants
UAW reports a pact clash as 3800 Ford foremen threaten a boycott and demand labor leaders weigh action. Ford resumes final assembly at Rouge next week amid earlier assaults on strikers while other plants face wage and layoff disputes.
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Hoover seeks new steps to aid world reconstruction
In a continued address Hoover criticizes Soviet obstruction to peace and calls for intensified Western aid. He endorses Truman doctrine focus, estimates 1943 46 exports at 13.5 billion and 1946 47 at 15.5 billion, with imports around 7.2 and 7.7 billion, noting a large export surplus that funded gifts and loans. He warns productive gains and reduced consumption needed to sustain exports and cautions against wartime controls as costly to freedom.
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Arabs Plan Strike as UN Partition Debate Intensifies
Reports from Cairo and Tel Aviv describe Arab and Moslem groups supporting the Palestine Arab executive committee’s boycott stance while urging a general strike in Syria Lebanon and Iraq. Zionist factions may back some partition form. A bomb threat in Tel Aviv prompted heightened security as a military court prepares to sentence Leumi members for the Acre prison raid.
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Portugal purges officers as Salazar tightens grip
The government ordered purge of two naval officers and 11 army officers pensioned and inactive, with Vice Admiral Jose Mendes Cabecadas among the targets. Other named officers include Manuel Lourenco Neves Pires De A Matos and Jose Garcia Marques Goudinho. Playwright Carlos Tavares Alfonsa Dossantas is also named. University professors were warned against misguiding youth. Carmona remains president, Salazar as premier since 1932.
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Antonio Oscar de Fragoso
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Maritime Walkout Continues Over Wage Review Proposal
A lockout follows an NMU dispute with operators after an committees head Frank J. Taylor of the American Merchant Marine Institute states operators will not exceed a contract extension with a December wage review. ACA and marine cooks seek continuation of current contracts. NMU wages start at 150 pounds monthly for ordinary seamen, 183.50 for able-bodied seamen, 204 for electricians, and 277.50 to 588 for marine engineers.
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Mongols Ousted in Four-Day Frontline Fighting
Central News reports four days of air attacks as Mongols withdraw on June 8 leaving 31 dead, with heavy Chinese casualties. In northeast China Chinese Communists push offensive, severing rail arteries and threatening Peiping and Tientsin as reported by Associated Press correspondent John Roderick.
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City battles flood as power and water falter
Loveless notes power and water outages after last week’s high flood. Water imports from neighbors arrived as pumping continued. A mile-long sandbag barrier in South Ottumwa failed under the surge but mitigated the flood’s flow.
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Eles
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Loveless
Acheson Reports on Soviet Hold Over Eastern Europe
Acheson notes Western criticisms of Russian actions in Europe and Asia. He suggests Soviet-backed regimes have denied political freedoms and forced economies into exclusive ties with the USSR, impacting cooperation with Marshall plans.
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Presidential group to probe air transport safety
President Truman appoints a special nine member board to study air transport safety in the United States. The panel will examine mechanical and human factors, recent accidents, and how new equipment aids safety, with hearings as needed and reports to the president and Congress.
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West Virginia Vocational Agriculture Meet Opens
KEYSER June 19 High school teachers from across the state gather for the 35th annual West Virginia convention of vocational agriculture teachers at Potomac State College. Dr Carsie Hammonds of the University of Kentucky will speak on good teaching while sessions discuss year ahead in vocational agriculture and on the on farm training program for veterans.
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Department of Agricultural Education
University of Kentucky
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Greenbent
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Ripley
C. W. Hill
West Virginia University
Wallace and Reece clash over third party hope
Wallace argues Republicans want him to form a third party and frames the issue as a clash between American liberalism and Democratic totalitarianism. He criticizes the House Un-American Activities Committee and notes the Southern Conference for Human Welfare as a communist front. Reece pins Wallace’s prominence on the Democrats and urges party leadership to decide the Wallace question.
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Levy Labor Bill Debate Stalls Over Strike Powers
President Truman reviews a labor management study bill with provisions for eight day injunctions on national emergency strikes. Advisers split on halting possible soft coal strikes as government analysis continues. The measure, supported by many in Congress, seeks swift action but faces veto risks and partisan debate.
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Truman
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