Potter Finds Probe Bared Double Guilt
Opaque testimony outlines mutual accusations in the McCarthy Army row. Stevens recalls Clifford’s advice not to appear until Symington returns from Europe. Welch fights to show memos were cooked. McCarthy aims to force loyalty-board testimony and press for more probes.
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Potter
McCarthy
Sen. Symington
D-Mo
Europe
Clifford
Army
Stevens
Joseph N. Welch
Ft. Monmouth
N. J
Schine
Loyalty Board
Eisenhower
Claris Clifford
Quantico
Mundt
Symington
Subcommittee
Ralph Zwicker
Glenville Given 5 Scholarships
Glenville State College received five four year scholarships for the 1954 1955 year from the West Virginia Board of Education. Recipients include Joanne Ash Tyler County High School Phyllis Bush Coxs Mills Troy High School Nancy Craig Walkersville Walkersville High School Shirley Jones Fenwick Richwood High School Betty Lou Williams Ethel Logan High School. Alternates are Lyla Jean Stump Grantsville Calhoun County High School and Sue Adolt Weston Weston High School.
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Glenville
West Virginia Board of Education
Calhoun County High School
Sue Adolt
Weston
Weston High School
Service Slated Today for Mrs Gladys Duty
Funeral services scheduled for 2 p m at Hissom Holiness Tabernacle for Mrs Gladys Virginia Duty 46 of 33 Pleasant St who died Tuesday at a Beckley hospital Earl G Hissom to officiate and burial in Culloden Cemetery at the family residence Allen Mortuary Hurricane is handling arrangements Brownell denounces McCarthy call as open invitation to violate laws and opposes allowing loyalty board questioning in a National Editorial Association remarks transcript outlined by the White House line of authority broader than individual action
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Hissom Holiness Tabernacle
Gladys Virginia Duty
Pleasant St
Earl G. Hissom
Culloden
Cemetee
Allen Mortuary
Hurricane
Baltimore
Brownell
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
McCarthy
Assa
Eisenhower
Mrs Dora Johnson Dies at Kilsyth Age 75
Kilsyth Fayette County. Mrs Dora Johnson 75 died at her daughter’s home after a long illness. Survivors include two sisters in Georgia, two daughters, five sons, 36 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren. Services set for 2 p m Saturday at Kilsyth Baptist Church with W C Combs presiding. Burial Beards Fork Cemetery Williams Mortuary directing. Body to be taken to daughter Retta Mitchell’s home at 11 a m tomorrow.
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Kilsyth
Dora Johnson
Fayette County
Retta Mitchell
L. D. King
Atlanta
Rita Hayes
Dalton
Elsie Williams
Cripple Creek
Edith Nibert
Powelton
Troy
Gallager
Elbert
Earl
Chesapeake
James
Carbondale
Charles
Oceana
Kilsyth Baptist Church
W. C. Combs
Beards Fork
Williams
Sophia
Ibson
Viola Allie
Sisssonvilla Rd
Irelang
Kanawha County
St. Francis Hospital
Tupper's Valley
Esterson
Amnie
Ethel
Richwood
Ernest
Olumbus
Bernard Ingles
Karachi
Pakistan
Opi
Duathen
Rey
Sittman
Bueesbella
Makran
Kharan
Pede Huse
Ena
Lacy
Oak
Hnl
John L
Army Orders Pvt Schine to Return to Duty
Pvt G David Schine was ordered to report back to Army duty at 8 am EDT Friday. He had been assigned temporarily to Fort Myer during the McCarthy hearings and will be recalled to Camp Gordon for MP training, with further orders to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
David Schine
Army
John F. T. Murray
Army Legal Staff
McCathy
Schine
Fort Myer
Murray
Camp Gordon
Body of Woman Found in Pocahontas Apartment
Northeastern United States forecasts show cool air, fair skies from New England to the mid-Atlantic while warm humid air and possible thundershowers persist from the Gulf to the Ohio Valley. In Pocahontas Virginia, deputies clash during eviction, uncovering a decomposed woman’s body in an apartment room as two so-called Hindus resist arrest.
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New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Gulf of Mexico
Ohio Valley
Jackson
Gilbert
H. A. Porter
One Big City Envisioned By Mayors
Mayors Copenhaver and Londeree advocate a unified Kanawha Valley city linking Charleston South Charleston Dunbar Nitra and St Albans. They foresee a Greater Charleston with monthly meetings and a three councilman per city structure, while noting merger is unlikely now. A key aim is reviving the Kanawha Turnpike and promoting regional economic unity.
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Kanawha Valley
Copenhaver
Londeree
Charleston
South Charleston
Dunbar
Nitra
St. Albans
Landeree
Kanawha
Kanawha River
Chesapeake and Ohio
Suggested Sept 7 as elections date on expansion issue
Mayors and civic leaders outline a proposed Spheres of Influence line linking Kanawha River, Valley Street, Danner Hollow, Churchill Circle, Weberwood, Oakhurst Drive, and back to Charleston and propose an annexation vote by residents. They stress no raiding of areas for canvassing and say actual boundary depends on resident vote, with field examination of neighborhoods conducted after two hours of discussion at The Gazette auditorium.
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Londeree
Charleston
South Charleston
Copenhaver
Wetherwood
Greater Charleston Association of Municipalities
Gazette Auditorium
Frank A. Knight
Kanawha River
Valley St
Danner Hollow
Churchill Circle
Weberwood
Valley Drive
Oakhurst Drive
Bownemont
Sunnyside
Vandalia
Wonderee
South
South Charles
Gazette
Conenhaver
Lon«deree
Miner Karl Boone Dies From Injuries After State Fall
A 30 year old Wharton coal miner Herbert D. Baird died in Madison General Hospital from injuries sustained in a Monday fall. Baird worked for Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates at Wharton No. 1 mine and suffered a broken back.
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Madison
Wharton
Madison General Hospital
Herbert D. Baird
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Wharton No. 1
Weather Across the Nation Friday Forecast Summary
Forecasts show a cloudy day with scattered thundershowers in Charleston and warm highs near 86 to 87. Ohio and surrounding states expect mostly cloudy skies with showers or thundershowers and warm temperatures. Winds and specific times noted, with Tennessee and Kentucky partly cloudy and warm.
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Charleston
West Virgina
Maryland
Virginia
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Kentucky
Obituary notices from Gazette parcel recount local deaths
Multiple obituaries and death notices list William Barnett, William Castleberry, Hattie Sommerville, Viola Boggess, Sarah Washington, and others. Surviving relatives include sisters, brothers, wives, and children. services set at churches and mortuaries in Point Pleasant, South Charleston, and surrounding areas. The notices note long illnesses, veteran status, church affiliations, and burial details with local mortuaries handling arrangements.
Funerals and obituaries from scattered notices
Multiple notices list burial times and sites for Mrowe Alsle 78 in Ronds, Kapp Frederick Fifi Nitro, Vermievr on India Cook 75 Athens, Warren Olson 40 Veasey Street, Esterson Amnie Ethel 37 Richwood, and Karachi Pakistan related merging talks with Baluchistan. Services scheduled at churches and mortuaries with attendances by family, Masons, and local clergy. graves at Red Warrior Cemetery Orlin Heights Sun Set Memorial Park.
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Kapp
Frederick Fifi
Nitro
Rock Hranch Church of Trod
Basil Walser
Orlin Heights
U S Protest Over Soviet Cartoon Mocking Forrestal
The United States protested to the Soviet government over a Krokodil cartoon depicting Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal’s 1949 death scene. The note condemned the piece as scurrilous and shocking, calling it a total disregard for civilized decency and tied to anti American attacks in Russian press. Forrestal died May 22, 1949, after falling from a window at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
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Moscow
Krokodil Magazine
Defense
James V. Forrestal
Forrestal
U.S. Naval Hospital
Bethesda
Krokodil
United States
U. S
Note
Stevenson Attacks GOP Foreign Policy By Platoon System
Adlai E. Stevenson in Lansing attacked the Eisenhower administration and said Democrats could win the House this year. He described leadership as inadequate and indecisive, called the Army McCarthy hearings a melancholy spectacle, and blasted Dulles Knowland and Nixon over a foreign policy he labeled a platoon system.
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Kransing
Mich
INS
Adlai E. Stevenson
Hisenhower
House of Representatives
Lansing
Michigan
Illinois
Legislative Branch
John Foster Dulles
Stevenson
Dulles
Sen
Knowland
Nixon
Shvernik Re-elected President of US Union Council
MOSCOW June 17 The US Union Council of Trade Unions announced the re election of Nikolai M Shvernik as its president The council has been meeting in the Kremlin Palace on charter revision Shvernik a long time Soviet trades union leader was formerly president of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet equivalent to president of the Soviet Union
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Moscow
Usunion Council of Trade Unions
Nikolai M. Shvernik
Kremlin
Shvernik
Presidium
Supreme Soviet
Mule to Missile in Youths Double Double Ace Directs Airmen
Maj. Germont Garrison, a former Kentucky schoolteacher who rode a mule to work, leads the Air Force air-to-air rocketry competition in Yuma. He is a double ace from World War I and Korea, with 11 victories in WWI and 10 in Korea, now directing the lead collision course firing as jets advance from gunpowder to guided missiles.
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Yuma
Ariz
Kentucky
U. S
Germont Garrison
Somerset
Korea
Five and Dime Store Fire in Montgomery County
Fire tore through the Five and Dime store on a Mont gomery street, flames reaching about 70 feet. Fire Chief Nowinskie said an overheated electric air conditioning motor sparked the blaze, with circulating fans blowing the flames higher. Mutual aid from nearby departments assisted, while adjacent buildings suffered heat damage and residents were evacuated.
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Wonumeneam Five and Dime
Vickers
Montgomery Fire Department
Roger Nowinskie
Nowsinski
Ati
Upper
Kanawha Valley
General Department Store
Kayton Theater
Billbaugh Bakery
Nunley Apartments
Lightning strike blasts cottage cheese during kitchen storm
In Battle Creek Lucille Hart, 15, stood near an open kitchen window when a lightning bolt struck the room. She was dazed but not hurt. the blast sent curds from a bowl of cottage cheese flying across her and the walls.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Lucille Hart
Lucille
Logan GI Wins Best Soldier at Camp Logan
Camp Logan Va June 1 The outstanding soldier in West Virginia’s National Guard was named today as MSgt Donald N Mathena of Logan He is the second Logan man in as many years to win the honor He will receive the Gov Okey L Patteson cup for the achievement A native of Heidrick Ky Mathena is clerk of the Logan County Sanitary Board and has served in the National Guard since December 1947 He is married with one child and attended Marshall College after Logan High School class of 1948.
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Camp Pickett
West Virginia
National Guard
Msst
Donald N. Mathena
Logan
Mathena
Msgt
Marvin L
Wharton Ashcraft
Salem
United Mine Workers of Co. C
Francis X. Coffey
Sanitary Board
Logan County
National
Obituary: M D Baird of Trasper dies, service set
Survived by wife Mrs Herbert Baird two daughters Brenda Lou and Mary Francis both at home three brothers John L of Louisville William J of Trasper and Elmer of Detroit and parents Mr and Mrs M D Baird of Trasper. Service at 11 am Sunday at Missionary Baptist Church Heidrick Ky with Rev Ralph Mooneyham officiating Burial in Burch Cemetery. Body to be moved from Hunter and Hunter mortuary Madison to Mrs Lulu Perrys home at HeidrickSaturday.
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Tom Jones
Rogers Cemetery
Clay Mortuary
Hichmond
Gordon Lee
Boeick Knob
Fayette County
Beckley Hospital
Richmond
Bee Hick Knob Gospel Tabernacle
Virginia Bider
Dorothy Treciak
Joyoa Richmond
Beelick Knap
Amma Guring
Margaret Wenger
Myrtle Pomeroy
Canton, O
E. G. Richmond
Mt. Hope
Frank
Jasse Richmond
Fu Fierce
Fla
Pearl Sutphin
Shady Springs
Beeblle Knob Gospel Tabernacle
Mont Garr
Burla
Trail
Clintonville
Wallace
Wallace and Wallace Mortuary
Rainelle
America
Herbert Baird
Brenda Lou
Mary Francis
John L
Louisville
William J
Trasper
Elmer
Detroit
Mich
M. D. Baird
Missionary Baptist Church
Heidrick
Ralph Mooneyham
Burch Cemetery
Hunter and Hunter Mortuary
Madison
Lulu Perry
City Executives Forge Quick Accord On 38th Parallel
John and Joe meet with Gazette photographer in a casual session, Lon deree and Copenhaver lead the talks. They reach a tentative agreement on the 38th Parallel while arguing slightly over how near Churchill Circle the line should run. The informal meeting covers road-building taxes and Jefferson’s Virginia home amid a friendly lunch.
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Wsam
Londeree
Copenhaver
Churchill
South Charleston
Thomas Jefferson
Virginia
The
Gazette
Landeree
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Roy M. Cohn
McCarthy Investigations
John G. Adams
GOP
Francis P. Carr
H. Strave Hensel
Sen. Potter
Dirksen
Congress
Executive Branch
J. Schine
M’carthy
Gladys Duty
Pvt. Schine
Bluefield
Pocahontas
Jerry Jackson
Pocahontes
A. K. Harvey
Jet
C. H. Gilbert
Abbner White
Virginia - Virginia
Moses White
Frank A.knight
Civic
Karl Boone Miner
Hugh Walker
C. W. Poling
Robert Reed
Charles Schmidt
Imayors
Voers
Evans Lead Div
Trojan Steel Co
Copenhau
the Gazette
Barnett
William
Hansford St
Mamie Whrey
Troutville
Virginia Jones
Palmer Barrett
Clifton Forge
Harden and Harden Mortuary
William Thomas
Veterans Administration Hospital
Marion
Ind
Kanawha Lodge No. 20
AFSAM
Castleperry
Methodist Church
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Cherieston
Thelma Castleberry
Navy
New London
Hattie
Onto River Rd
Ft. Pleasant
Magon County
Ft. Pleasant High School
Heighta Evangelical United Brethren Church
Clair
Eileen Harris
Ohio River Rd
Jack Shiffiett
Ftp. Jey Rd
Linda Cottrell
Clair Lee Jr
Michael
Mra
J. H. Samarvills
Pt. Pleasant
Kent Bale
Weirton
Ben
W. J
J. H. Sommerville Jr
Bervice
Helgats Evangelical United Brothers Church
Reenlief
William H
Laurel Run E
W. B
A. M. Walte
Ratney
Grienler
Cedarville
Gilmer County
George
Ulysses
Orton
Phoenix
Oma Perrine
Gay Stokley
Lost Creek
Rosie Christian
Mary O Jackson
Whitesell
Akron
Bartlet, Mortuary
Gassawey
Lems
Sarah Washington
Quinwood
Greenbrier
Flos
Sle Dorsey
Letha Barnette
Myrtle Helenis
Teddy
Ruth
Okey
Carl
Lokey
Nettie
Kenny
Marissa O'Dell
Orient Hill
Andrew
Helenis
Louisa
Hinton
Leonard
Carl Baptist ‘Church
Joe E. Brown
Carl Cemetery
Wallace and Walace Moretuary
East Hance
BP. m
St. Paula A
Young St. Jie
Police Department
Eamsey
Naomi Jacqueline
Christopher St
County Coroper Goff
Cassia Preston
Elkridge
Mrowe
Alsle
Ronds
Assembly of God
Ronda
Hey
Lee Meadows
Red Warrior
Arthur
Vermievron
India Cook
Athens
John Roy Wolfe
Haven Memorial Park
Princeton
Science
U.S
Red
Avain
Yuma County
Eastern
Central
Western Air Defense Forces
Air Training Command
O Gassison
East Pulaski County
Garrison
Buck' Rogers
Ben W. Chidiaw
Air Defense Command
Logan GI
California
John
Joe
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