Probers Plan Link Between Crime Wealth and Politics
The Senate Crime Investigating Committee will probe wealth of racketeers to see if it taints politicians. Plans include tracing profits and connections to governing bodies, with perjury charges eyed against Frank Erickson as part of ongoing efforts.
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Washington
INS
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Inday
Cashman Kefauver
D-Tenn
Kefauver
McFarland
D-Ariz
Senate
New York
Frank Erickson
Erickson
Manhattan
Plan
McFerland Group
Kefatver
Costello Erickson Linked by Records in Gambler Case
Seized records show a close financial link between Frank Erickson and Frank Costello in Texas and Oklahoma asset deals tied to gambling interests. The District Attorney seeks retention of the material for grand jury use while revelations tie Erickson to a $687,538.76 take from the Colonial Inn operation with Detroit’s Purple Gang and other underworld figures.
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WEW York
INS
Frank Erickson
Frank Costello
Texas
Oklahoma
John A. Mullen
Gene Sessions
Ericksons
Frank S. Hogan
Erickson
Washington
Senate
Swern
Sol Gelb
Erickson and Costello
Farm Casino
Miami
Fla
Costello
Gellefied
Jmrge Meillen
Elf
Southwest
Alfred J. Scotts
Distict
Stile
Combine
Joe Adonis
Lansky Brothers
Detroit Purple Gang
Swanky Colonial Inn
Hallandale
Via
Dion
Detroit
Purple Gang
President Sees End of Deficit Financing
President Truman said he favors preventing World War III over balancing the budget but expects the government to eventually end deficit financing. He blamed Republicans in Congress for the unbalanced budget while endorsing France’s plan to overhaul steel and coal industries and urging a new European outlook.
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Washington
Truman
Crisp
Paul
France
Germany
Jenann
Bomber Burns With 16 Dead In Azores Crash
A U S Air Force B 23 bomber en route to England with 16 aboard crashed on landing at Lagens Base Terceira Azores. Eleven crew and five passengers, all believed military, were killed. Home base Barnsdale Field Shreveport La. Detailing officials said the plane diverted due to engine trouble and no high officers were aboard.
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Azores
England
Ponta Delgada
Sao Miguel
U.S. ‘Air Force
Britain
Lagens Air Base
Terceira
Barnsdale Field
Shreveport
301St
Laxenheath
Eng
Air Force Program
Salvadore Pelle
Barksdale Field
Baruch Urges Immediate General Mobilization Act
Bernard M Baruch told the Dow Graduate School of Business that Congress must enact a nine point general mobilization order with sweeping powers to mobilize men and resources if the cold war turns hot He condemned a standing draft without control over profits prices and wages and urged a comprehensive plan to deter Russia and prepare for a possible shooting war He outlined nine essential elements starting with an impartial selective service system and warned time is too tight to delay.
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New York
INS
Bernard M. Baruch
Congress
America
Washington
U. S
Russia
Dow Graduate School of Business
Wease
Plans for Arm ed Forces Day parade in Charleston revised
Traffic delays prompted Virgil Frizzell to overhaul plans for Arm ed Forces Day. The parade starts 1 PM on Kanawha Blvd and Brooks, moves to Virginia and Reynolds, ends at Reynolds and Brown playground. Maj General Andrus speaks, four F 16 fighters fly over, and a footbridge is built by the 20th Engineer Co. U S Marine Corps Reserve. Open house events are delayed.
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Charleston
Trafic
Virgil Frizzell
Kanawha
Brooks St
Clendenin
Virginia
Reynolds
Reynolds and
Brown Sts
Clm
J Andrus
Vorminally
167Th
Air National Guard
Andrus
20Th Engineer Co
U. S. Marine Cams Reserve
Hille River
Frizzell
Coal Toll in West Virginia Mines 66 Years of Fatal Deaths
In 66 years of record keeping, West Virginia coal mining has claimed 17882 lives. From 1883 to 1949, 499,603,822 tons mined. most deaths were daily shaft falls. Major explosions at Eccles and Benwood spurred safety laws, with ongoing improvements noted yet the toll remains high.
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Raymond R. Murphy
the Gazette
Beckley
West Virginia
Dee
Eccles
Benwood
Rail unions clash as switchmen threaten prestige strike
Western railroads label AFL Switchmen's action a reckless drive for prestige and threaten a derailment of service next Tuesday. AFL official Arthur J. Glover cites a 40 hour week for pay parity, while the railroads demand 16 operating changes. Only about five percent of ground men are in the AFL union, Loomis says, amid looming government intervention.
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Act Afl
Chicago
Western Railroads
AFL
Daniel” P. J.oomis
Assoc
Western Railways
Arthur J. Glover
AFL Switchmen's Union of North America
Washington
Loomis
Shadow operative funded by Democrat aides on Truman tour
Senate disclosures identify Victor Johnston as a Republican shadow who followed Truman on a non political tour. Owen Brewster of Maine says Johnston was paid by John W. Hanes, ex Treasury official, with Hanes possibly aligning with Republicans since Oct. 5.
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Brewster
Washington
Truman
Victor Johnston
Republican Senate Campeign Committee
Owen Brewster
Maine
Tohnston
John W. Hanes
Chicago
Johnston
Mr. Truman
Ferdinand Magellan
Cleland to Head Kanawha County Child Shelter
Donald Cleland 26 son of Rev Ronald S Cleland of the Davis Child Shelter was named superintendent of the Kanawha County Child Shelter below Dunbar by the county court. He pledged to maximize service to the children and succeed Mrs Bess Harrison who was removed after reports of dissension and maltreatment. Cleland a Morris Harvey College senior and former Army Air Corps staff sergeant grew up at the Davis Shelter and aims to use his experience to meet children's needs.
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Donald
Cleland
Ronald S. Cleland
Davis Child Shelter
Kanawha County
Dunbar
Kanawha
Morris Harvey College
Bess Harrison
Cairo
Ritchie County
Charleston
Davis
Charleston High School
Army Air Corps
Italy
Dennison University
Granville
Fliers Describe Kind Treatment by China Reds During Captivity
Two U S fliers held 18 months by Chinese Communists said their captors treated them considerately and never used violence. Marine Sgt. Homer Bender and Navy chief electrician William Smith spoke at a Pearl Harbor press conference after release on May 3. They recounted confinement in small villages, guarded by rifles, and news from a Chinese officer who spoke English.
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Pearl Harbor
Hins Wort
Tsingtao
Homer C. Bender
Cincinnati
William C. Smith
Long Beach
Navy
Smith
Bender
United States
Truman
Shantung
Equipment Set For Park Blitz
Equipment pledges for Operation Coonskin were announced at the Daniel Boone Hotel. Bulldozers graders power shovels and other earth moving gear will be donated by local contractors for a two day blitz to open Coonskin Park for public use. The project is backed by The Gazzlie county West Virginia Contractors Assoc Associated General Contractors of W Va and the Associated Equipment Dealers and other groups. A plan to build Coonskin Trail Road across 800 acres is part of the effort. Pipe and sewer materials will be outlined at a Press Club meeting led by EB R Smith Union Concrete and Pipe Co.
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Coonskin
Charles R. Armenhrout
the Gazette
Operation Coonskin
Oper Coonskin Park
The
Gazzlie
West Virginia
Cewers
Press Club
EB. R. Smith
Union Concrete and Pipe Co
Ocus
Firemen Subdue Tank Car Blaze in South Charleston Yard
A Chesapeake and Ohio tank car carrying carbon bisulfide burst into flame near U S 60 in South Charleston. Firemen fought the blaze for about a half hour as gas sprayed from the top, then slowed when T C Snell climbed the car to shut off the valve. The 500 gallon car valued at 3500 was en route to Goodyear Rubber Co Akron.
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Chesapeake and Ohio
U. S. 60
South Charleston
T. ¢. Snell
Branham
Cab boss Roy Mundy fined in one way street case
Roy Mundy operator of Town Tops Checker White and City taxis was fined 89 yesterday in Municipal Court for going the wrong way on a one way street. Mundy admitted the charge but said he did not knowingly violate the ordinance and denied other charges. The trial began at 2.10 a.m. and lasted over four hours after six city policemen arrested him before dawn on April 29. Local 175 AFLFeamsters had struck Mundy's companies April 26.
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Roy Mundy
Town Tops
Checker White
Munisigal
Frankston
Mundy
Lafl Feamsters Local 175
Senate Defeats Reorganization of Agriculture
The Senate killed President Truman's Agriculture Department reorganization plan after previously disapproving four proposals. House actions supported two Labor and Commerce reorganization plans, pending Senate response. Debate cited Hoover Commission findings and efficiency goals with a largely party line vote.
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Senate
Agriculture
Washington
President Truman
Agriculture Department
Truman
House
Labor and Commerce Departments
Agriculture Plan
Hoover Commission On
Executive Department
Sen
Sparkman
D.-Ala
Presid ‘Ing
Kilgore
D.-W. Va
Sen. Southman
D-Ala
Textile Workers Union seeks wage raise for synthetic yarn plants
The Textile Workers Union of America plans demand an 38 cent across the board wage increase and 100 monthly old age pensions for synthetic yarn workers. Herbert W. Fayne of New York, TWUA synthetic yarn director, said negotiations begin soon with Viscose Corp. in Philadelphia. The current contract allows a 30 day notice of cancellation if no agreement is reached by June 30, affecting about 35 000 workers across eight plants in Pennsylvania Virginia and West Virginia.
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Washington
Textile Workers Union of America
CIO
Herbert W. Fayne
New York
TWUA
Payne
I Viscose Corp
Headqu
Philadelphia
Insylvania
Virginia
West
House Banking Committee Approves One Year Rent Control Extension
The House Banking Committee approved a one year extension of federal rent controls, limited to cities that choose to keep them. The bill passed 13 to 4 and would auto lift ceilings in places that do not vote to continue controls by June 30, 1941, while preserving local decontrol power and prohibiting reimposition once a locality votes out. Rev Spence D Ky chaired the committee.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
Oitain
Spence D
Slates Fall Fatal To Three Miners In West Virginia Mine
A large vent slab collapsed at the Golden Ridge mine near Monerville 86 miles south of Elkins trapping and killing three miners, while ten others escaped with injuries. The victims were Lugar, 36, of Monroville. Alphe Rawman, 56, of Valley Head. and Adam Ralph Simmons, 38, of Valley Head. The slab measured about 10 by 6 by 8 feet and the collapse occurred inside the mine entrance.
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Monterville
Golden Ridge
the Minds Coal Mining
Elkins
Ag Jue Lugar
Mon- Herville
Alphe Rawman
Valley Head
Adam J Ralph Simmons
Medical Miracles Move Mountains Toward Healthier Life
IS Staff Correspondent describes ongoing research clearing away mountains of maladies to lengthen and improve life. The report highlights rapid advances in medicine and patient care, reflecting strong optimism about future breakthroughs.
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Bop Considine
Incredi
Lasting strides in heart disease and cancer fight
The article highlights the ongoing battle against heart disease and cancer as America's top killers. It notes high death tolls and wartime comparisons, praising government and private research efforts across the country to curb heart trouble and mobilize 9 million Americans affected by these diseases.
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America
Uader
Western nations unite for a 12-nation armed force plan
London May 1817 ministers from twelve Western nations agreed to pool economic and military power into a central Western armed force to deter Soviet aggression. They established a deputy foreign ministers council to implement a six point program and outline United States leadership with a costly annual US share exceeding $1 billion.
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U. S
London
Atlantic Pact
Yank
United States
Council
Canada
Europe
Organization For European Economic Cooperation
Council of Foreign Ministers
Truman
Dean Acheson
Washington
Council For Defense
Achain
Pact Council
Sach
Depmty Council
Depty
Air and Naval Forces May Be Boosted in Western Defense
A senior official said the United States may expand its Air Force and Navy to support a 12 power war against communism in Western Europe. He argued U S ground forces should not be reduced and warned against overreliance on foreign arms aid. His views echo Gen Omar Bradley’s remarks as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Washington
United States
Western Europe
U. S
Europe
Omar Bradley
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Charleston Skies Friday and Visible Planets Listing
A fragmentary page item notes evening sky events for Charleston with star names and planet visibility. It mentions Arcturus and Saturn among visible objects and references times in the late night to early morning, though details are partially garbled.
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Arcturus
Beneb
Thureday
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