Russia Agrees To Return 186 Ships to U.S.
Washington June 16 Russia today agreed to return 186 vessels it received from the United States during World War II and proposed to buy 167 others but the purchase offer was rejected. Talks on the lend lease account resumed after a lapse with Moscow promising to settle for 306 million dollars, a figure the U.S. had earlier rejected. The Soviets had received about 123.6 billion dollars in supplies including 670 ships, with 316 scrapped or lost and 171 unfit for navigation.
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Washington
Russia
United States
U.S
International Court
Moscow
Charleston Council Approves Sewage Plan and Bonds
The Charleston city council unanimously adopted an ordinance placing control of the sewage disposal system under a new sanitary board and tentatively authorized sale of 1.5 million dollars in revenue bonds for initial system additions. The ordinance takes effect after a public hearing at 9:00 a.m. July 8 in city hall. The meeting also set a five day work week for municipal court during June July and August and discussed traffic improvements on Southside Bridge area, parking bans on Piedmont Road, and a base pay request for city firemen.
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Sanitary Board
Senate
Wll
Citizens Traffic Advisory Committee
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Kanawha River
Washington St
Pennsylvania
Council
Capitol St
Morris St
S Point
Richards St
Greenbrier St
Italy approves Schuman coal steel pool plan in vote
Rome reports Italy ratified the Schuman coal steel pool plan in the Chamber of Deputies by 265 to 98 after Communist opposition. The Senate had approved the ratification last March. Christian Democrat leader Gaspare Ambrosini urged ratification as a step toward European unification and peace.
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Rome
Italy
Schuman
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Chamber
Christian Democrat
Gaspare Ambrosini
Mayor Opens Bid To Acquire AAA Ball Club
Mayor Copenhaver launched a city wide drive to relocate Toledo’s AAA baseball team to Charleston. He convened about 20 business leaders who tentatively underwrite a 40 000 cash offer, with fan support and fundraising to cover the rest. A progress report meeting is set for 3 pm today. The chamber of commerce had earlier failed to reach an agreement with owner Danny Menendez who demanded 50 000 cash plus a ballpark lease.
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the Gazette
Copenhaver
American Association
Toledo
Charleston
es + Copenhaver
Danny Menendez
Charleston Chamber of Commerce Committee
City Hall
Commerce Groun
Menendez
Cincinnati
Deal H. Tomplins
Chamber
Commerce Group
Toledo Elfip
Seak
Air Spotters Begin 24-Hour Civil Defense Duty
The Defense Department ordered 24 hour border airwatch starting July 14 as Operation Skywatch mobilizes hundreds of thousands of Civil Defense volunteers to monitor skies from Maine to California. Gen Twining notes Soviet capability to strike U S metropolitan targets with bombers. program unveiled after Civil Defense leaders’ conference.
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Defense Department
Civil Defense
North Carolina
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Pacific Coast
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Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
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New York
New Jersey
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Rhode Island
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Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
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South Dakota
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Idaho
Oregon
California
Nathan F. Twining
Air Fores
Heat Wave Buries Nation in Record Heat and Death Toll
An AP report details a brutal heat wave driving months records in cities from Springfield to Detroit. At least 115 lives lost with 12 directly from heat and 102 drownings. one Iowa resident killed by lightning. The scorching muggy air stretched from the Gulf to the Great Lakes and east to the Atlantic as a cool front neared.
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Associated Press
Mercury
Iowa
Springfield
St. Louis
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Columbus
Huntington
W. Va
Detroit
U. S
Gulf of Mexico
Great Lakes
Atlantic Coast
Carbide Names Ragland Jr to New Gas Dept Manager
T R Ragland Jr, longtime superintendent at Carbide and Carbon Chemicals South Charleston plant, is promoted to manager of the new Gas Procurement Department with New York headquarters. He will oversee negotiations and purchase of natural gas and refinery hydrocarbons.
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New York
Spectra
T. R. Ragland, Sr
South Charleston
W. Va
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Co
New Gas
Donald B. Benedict
Ragland
Virginia Miliary Institute
Carbide and Carbon
Union Carbide and Carbon Corp
Fas
Diamond
City Cools as Heat Peak Hits 97 Degrees
West Virginia sweltered as Charleston posted 97 degrees the year's high while forecasters predicted relief. Meteorologist Walter Wolfe cited a Rocky Mountain air mass and a cooling front of thundershowers to begin tonight with cooler temps tomorrow.
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West Virginia
Walter Wolfe
U. S. Werther Bureau
Nion
Kanawha
Wolfe
Rocky Mountain
Mercury
Eisenhower Promises Farm Brains for Issues
Ike Promises to apply the nation s best brains to agricultural problems if he becomes President. GOP rivals call a temporary truce in campaigning as Eisenhower rests in Denver. Russell gains Georgia delegates while Kefauver and Harriman compete for D C delegates. Truman congratulates Harriman on his campaign push.
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Dwight D. Hisenhowe
Farm Journal
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Eisenhower
Denver
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Washington
East
Midwest
Richard EB. Russell
Georgia
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Russell
W. Averell Harriman
Bismarck
North Dakota
Kefauver
Harriman
District of Columbia
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
Towa
Truman Harriman
Truman
Sweden Says Soviet Jets Fire On Air Vessel Off Baltic
In Stockholm on June 16 Soviet pilots fired on an unarmed Swedish Air Force flying boat about 60 miles from the Estonian coast. Seven crew members were rescued by a freighter, with two wounded. A crowd of 5,000 demonstrated outside the Soviet Embassy demanding Stalin's hanging, while police moved in.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Baltic
Stalin
Constantine Rodionov
Foreign Office
Noble Merton Long Dies in Hospital
Noble Merton Long, 50, a Kanawha Valley pioneer, died Monday morning at Mountain State Hospital after a cerebral hemorrhage Saturday. He lived at 1720 Seventhly and co owned Long Johnson and Fisher mortuary. A member of Emmanuel Baptist Church and Beni Kedem Temple, he was a 32d degree Mason and AF AM 30. Born May 2, 1902 in Sistonville, he was educated in Kanawha County schools and graduated from Cincinnati College of Embalming in 1928.
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Noble Merton Long
Kanawha Valley
Mountain State Hospital
Mr. Long
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Emmanuel Baptist Church
Beni Kedem Temple
Scottish Rite
AF & AM
Sistonville
Wiliam
Fannie Johnson Long
Kanawha County
Cincinnati College of Embalming
Gienna Richards
Lovely Ex Spy Countess Slain in London Hotel
The Polish countess and WWII spy Countess Skarbek is knifed to death early today at a West End hotel in London. A club porter Dennis G Muldowney, 41, quickly confessed. he was charged with murder and held for July 1. The victim, famed for wartime resistance and honored with the George Medal and Croix de Guerre, recently served as a liner stewardess.
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West Side
Pall Mall
Skarbek
Warsaw
Gestapo
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Winchester Castle
Shelbourne
Dennis
G. Muldowney
Reform Club
Muldowney
George Jennings
Violations in Pct 31 highlight ballot tampering
The Gazette reports Brazen ballot manipulation in Precinct 31 Mammoth Cabin Creek District Ka n awha County during the May 13 primary recount. Alleged double marking favored William Marland over Hedrick and other candidates as officials noted nine and a half hours to deliver ballots with tampered tallies and increases for Marland.
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Cabin Creek
Sherif
William C. Marland
Burl Sawyers
B. H. Herrick
Sawyers
Charles Barmentrout
Steff
the Gazette
Kanawha County
William ©. Marland
Statehouse
Hobart Ash
Adalene Grady Thompson
Con
Justice of Peace
Court House
Marland
E. H. Hedrick
Hedrick
William G. Day
Dr. Hedrick
Chiang Pledges Army Will Liberate China
In Taipei Formosa on June 16 President Chiang Kai-shek addressed cadets at Central Military Academy pledging Nationalist forces will recapture the mainland from Communist rule and rescue China from what he termed Russian directed slavery. He said guerrilla fighters would back a renewed mainland advance, driven by revenge against Communist rulers.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Chiang
Central Military Academy
Whampoa Military Academy
South China
Thompson Plans Special Grand Jury Probe Into May Primary
Judge William 3. Thompson reaffirmed plans to convene a special grand jury to investigate alleged fraud in the May 13 primary in the county. He told the June grand jury not to fear a lack of evidence, noting he will convene a dedicated panel if facts justify further inquiry and that Prosecutor Frank L. Taylor is leading the probe with a trained investigator.
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William 3. Thompson
Frank L. Taylor
Taylor
Red Guns Hit At Allied Lines On Korean Front
Chinese artillery battered Allied lines Monday night as a Communist battalion rested on a six day old hill fight near Chorwon. An American unit said they repelled a seven hour assault and held three knobs on Hill T. The action comes as UN forces defend the western front.
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45Th
Chorwon
U. N
Hill T
Malik Calls Parley To Air Red Charges Of U.N. Germ War
United Nations dispatch reports Russia's Jacob Malik urged a Security Council session to charge the United States and coalition forces with waging germ warfare in Korea and China. He also proposed admitting 14 applicants to U.N. membership, a move likely to face Western rejection.
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Parley
U. S
United Nations. Nly
Russia
Jacob A. Malik
Security Council
Kremlin
U.S
CVN
Korea
China
Council
U.N
U.N. Secretariat
Logan Mother Murders Two Children Kills Self
Logan, June 6 Special 2B year old mother shot her two young sons to death and died herself hours later from a self-inflicted wound. Mrs. James E. (Virginia) Serey 26 former WAC member James Serey 4 Kenneth Serey 11 months. Q F Schwanz Hutchison Coal Co GM said the shooting occurred while the older boy held a bottle for his brother on a sofa. James died almost instantly. the baby lived briefly after hospital transfer. Mrs. Serey died about four hours after hospitalization. Three were shot once in the head with a pistol. They were the sixth Logan county killings by gunfire in two days. Police reported other triple murders nearby earlier.
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Specialia
C. C. Lively
James E
Virginia) Serey
Women’s Army Corps
James Serey
Kenneth Serey
Q. F. Schwanz
Hutchison Coal Company
Hutchinson
James
Ments
Seroy
Lively
Page
Col
Roads to Relieve Traffic Congestion in West Charleston
John G. Morgan Steff reports on an $18 million master plan to relieve city traffic. Phase one includes Lee Street extension and right of way for a West Charleston expressway with federal funds covering half. The project frames a 4 lane divided highway from Kanawha Two Mile Creek to Fayette Street, connecting via Lowell Avenue and Washington Street.
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Lee St
West Charleston
Ray Cavendish
Alamed Cavendish
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
West Virginia
Copenhaver
Cavendish
Washington St
Greenbrierst
Morris and
Bradford St
Kanawha Two Mile Creek
U.S. Rt
Fayette St
Patrick St
Florida St
New York Central Rail
Lowell Av
Virginia St
Fayette “ St
Lowell Ay
UN negotiators call three day recess in Korea talks
MUNSAN June 17 Allied negotiators joined the Communists for a second time in a three day recess in the Korean armistice talks. The Allies said they would not return to Panmunjom until Saturday. The Reds pressed for daily meetings despite lack of progress and suggested no neutral screening of prisoners. The UN Command offered no comment.
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Korea
Nam al
Red
Redge
United Nations Command
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