Sherman Named Denfeld Successor as Chief of Naval Operations
President Truman named Vice Admiral Forrest P. Sherman to head the Navy and to take command amid congressional probes. Sherman pledged few changes in leadership and aimed for a fighting Navy at sea, signaling disagreement with critics led by Adm. Denfeld.
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Washington
INS
Truman
Adm
Forrest P. Sherman
Nevy Usl Jellsus Sherman
Louis E Denfeld
White House
Navy
Matthews
Shermin
Pentagon
Denfeld
Defense
Johnson
Sherman
Somie
Gauley Parkway Bid Opening Set for Falls View Parkway
The State Road Commission will open bids November 13 for the Gauley Bridge section of Falls View Parkway. The project, estimated at 800000, includes four lane grading over a nine-tenth mile stretch, two lanes paved, embankment filling along the Kanawha River, and an island crossing at Ganley Bridge with a later span across Ganley River. The bridge contract is expected to be awarded about two months later.
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State Road Commission
Gauley Bridge
Falls View Parkway
Bureau of Public Roads
Kanawha River
Ganley
Love Swindler Engel Convicted In Romance Scam
Chicago reports the international con artist Sigmund Engel known as the Love Swindler was found guilty of fleecing widow Mrs. Reseda Corrigan of 6700 dollars. The 39 year old widow fainted at verdict as Engel faces one to ten years in prison with new bond set at 25000 dollars and a motion for a new trial scheduled for Nov. 9.
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Chicago
Sigmund
Sam) Engel
International Inverswindler
Reseda Corrigan
Romeo
Engel
Rising Mercury To Ease Area's First Cold Snap
The Kanawha valley area was expected to escape the two day cold wave as temperatures rise. The United Fuel Gas Co weather office forecast an afternoon high near 62 degrees after a 39 degree low yesterday. A further cold blast was forecast to drop to 34 degrees tonight. Snow flurries spread into the Northern plains and Gulf states as winter moved in.
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Kanawha Valley
United Fuel Gas Co
Fice
Plains
Gulf States
Hadley Plans Quiet Wedding for Barkley in St. Louis
Mrs. Carleton S Hadley announced plans for her November 18 wedding to Vice President Barkley in St Louis chapel of St John s Methodist church. Bishop Ivan Lee Holt will perform the ceremony with Rev Alben Godbold assisting. President Truman has a conflicting engagement.
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Hadley
St, Louis
Carleton S. Hadley Todey
Atben W. Barkley
Truman
St. John's Methodist Church
Ivan Lee Holt
Alben Godbold
Barkley
David M. Barkley
Paducah
Two Charleston Robbery Suspects Admit Holdups
Two gun-toting office workers connected to three South Charleston robberies pleaded guilty at a city hearing and were held for grand jury action. Ralph Anderson Coffman, 21, and Richard Carlton Berlin, 37, reported for work at the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals plant in South Charleston when arrested. Berlin faces three armed robbery counts. Coffman one.
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South Charleston
H. A. Master
Ralph Anderson Coffitan
Myers Av
Dunbar
Richard Carlton Berlin
18Th St
Set
Basil E. Smith
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Local Loan and Finance Co
MacCorkle Av
Valley Drive- In
U.S. Rt
St. Albans
A. V. Fitewater
Brand
Berlin
Coffman
Kanawha County
DuPont Raises Pay for About 3000 Hourly Workers
DuPont de Nemours announces a five cent pay hike effective immediately for about 3,000 hourly workers at the Beile plant. Plant Manager Fred A. Otto says most of the roughly 1,000 salaried employees also received increases. Company says coal burner installations aim to conserve coal during a miners strike and notes no union representation among Du Pont workers.
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Beile
E. T. duPont de Nemours
Fred A. Otto
Otto
CIO Cocke, Gas and Chemical Workers
DuPont
Police Rioters Clash with Strikers in Krugersdorp
In Krugersdorp near Johannesburg South Africa police and native strikers traded gunfire in a pitched battle. One worker was killed and four wounded earlier in the day as protests over new service contracts escalated. No casualties were reported from tonight’s clash.
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South Africa
Johannesburg
Krugersdorp
Explosions Hit Post Office Building Amid Fire Alarm
A blast damaged the top two floors of the Post Office Department building in Washington after most of the 3,000 occupants fled. Several injured and two women feared buried were later ruled safe. investigators probe a transformer room short circuit as a likely cause. Firefighters cleared debris by evening. Wayne Coy, FCC chairman, monitored reports.
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Washington
Lai
Post Office Department
Wayne Coy
Federal Rmmunications Commission
Commission
Coy
Post Office
The
Communications Commission
Pennsylvania Ay
White House
Truman Forecasts Peacetime Federal Spending Record
President Truman predicted this fiscal year will reach a peacetime spending high of 43.5 billion dollars with a 5.5 billion dollar deficit for the year ending June 30. Budget revisions reflect higher outlays and lower receipts driven by price declines and corporate profits.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Frank Pace
Gov
FBI Captures Phoenix Jail Escapee James Tatum
James Luther Tatum 28, long pursued after escaping the Maricopa County jail on Oct 22, was hunted by the FBI and arrested in El Paso Texas. Hoover announced he fled in a stolen car and carried 20 cents. Two escapees were killed and two captured during the Oct 23 breakout.
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Washington
James Luther
Jack) Tatum
Phoenix
Arizor
FAT
Tatum
Maricopa County
Oet
FBI
el Paso
Hoover
Gazette For Sale Ad Promises Quick Cash From Used Goods
Readers are urged to place Want Ads in the Gazette to quickly convert unwanted items into cash. Listings include a Speed Queen washing machine priced at 200000 and multiple furniture pieces, tools, and small appliances with notes on condition and urgency.
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P. Motors
Greek Sailors Climb Ship Mast Defy U S Authorities
Three Greek sailors climbed 50 feet to a yardarm on the freighter Aris, defying immigration officers who want to return them to Greece. A fourth man vanished. police question a drowning tale.
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U. S
Baltimore
United States
Greece
Tiey
CIO Committee Votes to Expel UE and FE Unions
In Cleveland on November 1 the CIO convention's resolutions committee voted to expel the United Electrical Workers and the United Farm Equipment Workers. The action targets nine to nineteen other unions accused of pro Communist sympathies, with UE as the CIO's third largest affiliate at about 450000 members and FE around 20000. The committee also planned to charter a right wing UE group to organize a separate union. The proposal now goes to the full convention for approval.
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Cleveland
United Electrical Workers
United Farm Equipment Workers
CIO
Pease
Fire Inspectors Start Job Today in Charleston Survey
Fire prevention inspection teams begin a two day citywide survey of public buildings schools hotels churches and other structures in Charleston. The effort is coordinated by the Fire Prevention Association of West Virginia with about 60 inspectors from major insurance companies working in pairs alongside city firemen and boy scouts starting at 3 am.
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Charleston
Fire Prevention Assoc
West Virginia
Herbert Fahlgrend
Parkersburg
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Fanigren
Tanu
This Air We Breathe Scientific Handling Readers
Avisco uses careful handling of caustic soda carbon disulphide and acids in converting pulp to rayon at its Kanawha Valley plant. Despite strong chemicals the fumes are reported as low concentration and less noticeable on plant grounds.
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Avisco
Charles BE
Armentrout Gazette
American Visease Corp
Kanawha Valey
Birth of Series in Paper Pulp Conditioning Process
The document describes paper-thin wave pulp sheets submerged and dissolved, producing a pulpy substance moved into heated storage for fermentation. After several days the fermented mass proceeds to further processing in two series, with a reference to turning to Page 3 for more details.
Steel firms reopen talks amid hopeful steel coal settlement
Pittsburgh reports renewed negotiations as Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp joins CIO United Steelworkers in talks led by Philip Murray. Cyrus Ching floated a path to peace, with Bethlehem Steel settlement seen as a key to broader coal and steel deals. John L. Lewis plans a policy meeting in Chicago to address the 43 day mine shutdown.
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Pittsburgh
CLO
United Steelworkers Union
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
CIO
Philip Murray
Cleveland
Murray Tola
Bethlehem Steel Co
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Murray
Victor Lawrence
Jones & Latxnilh
Lewis
Chicago
Illinois
Ching
Washington
Hinta
Cyrus 5
Bethlehem Steel
Steel
Steel Company
Bethlehem
America
U. S. Steel Corp
U. S. Steel
Jin
Benjamin Fairless
U. S
Lewis’ War Council
Mid Air Collision Kills 55 on Washington Flight
A Bolivian fighter and a Eastern Air Lines DC4 collide above National Airport killing 55 with one survivor badly injured. The crash near the Potomac River occurred as both craft attempted to land. Rescue crews dredge the river while officials name notable passengers.
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Washington
Thetve
Ig Erick Rios Hridaux
Eastern Air Lines
Boston
Newe Orleans
Gien D. Tigner
Potomac River
Potomac
Bridoux
George J. Bates
R-Mass
Congress
Helen Hokinson
New Yorker
Cardner W. Taylor
First Savings and Loan Assoc
New York
Michael J. Kennedy
Tammany Hall
Fort Deposit
Civilian Aeronautica Administration
CAA
Bridock
Two Women Held In Miners Death
Deputy Durrett reports two women, Cleo Skyles and her mother Florence Barker, are jailed in Kanawha County on murder charges in the fatal shooting of 20 year old Jack Dempsey Skyles, an employee of Hatfield Campbell Creek Coal Co. The miner died en route to Charleston hospital from four .88 caliber gunshots.
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Harlow
Sheriff's Office
Hatfield-Campbell Creek Coal Co
Jack Dempsey Skyles
James Durrett
Skyles
Charleston
Cleo
Florence Barker
Kanawha County
Durrett
Government seeks million-dollar bail for convicted leaders
In New York on November 1 the government asked for bail of 1,000,000 dollars for 22 convicted Communist leaders facing appeals. Special assistant Irving S. Shapiro cited Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, proposing 100,000 dollars bail for seven leaders and 75,000 dollars for the other four. All have been jailed since their convictions.
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New York
Petal UN
Irving S. Shapiro
U. S
The
T U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Ithig
Eral J. Howard Mccain
Shapiro
Everything Black P-38 Pilot Says
Bolivian pilot Erick Rios Bridoux, sole survivor of the worst U S airplane disaster, remains unaware that five people died in the crash. He was conscious after nine hours, suffered a concussion, possibly a broken back, and asked to reach his wife at Alexandria Hospital. He has two Bolivian children.
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Washington
INS
Erick Rios Bridoux
Eastern Airlines
Bridoux
U. S
Gte
la Paz
Bolivia
Charleston Skies Report for Wednesday November 2
The Charleston sky notes show sunrise at 4:28 pm and sunset around 6:47 pm with a Hunter's Moon. Arcturus rises and Venus and Jupiter appear low in the southwest, Mars and Saturn visible in the east, and a warmer, breezy forecast for Virginia and Western Pennsylvania with partly cloudy skies later.
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Keeveres
Hunter
Arcturus
Venus
Tupiter
Pam Mars
Saturn
West Virginia
Kiomal
Virginia
Warine Hennessee
Warate
Pennaylusia
Ada
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Jones & Laughlin
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