Coal Output in West Virginia Rises. National Pace Ahead
Coal production in southern West Virginia fields ran nearly 10 percent above the national pace by late October. The Katawha Coal Operators report dated Oct 29 shows downstate tonnage 28 percent above January-October 1954. Logan field led with 15,835,400 tons in ten months, 33.3 percent ahead of last year. River tonnage and export loadings also rose as operators attribute gains to stronger abroad demand and overall prosperity.
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West Virginia
Katawha
Proton
Logan
Chesapeake and
Gulf
Assi
Belev
Tepe
Pocahontas
Rinefield
Food Prices Seen Stable for 1956 Says USDA
The Agriculture Department predicts 1956 food prices will stay about the same as 1955 while farm output rises. Domestic demand remains strong and overall food supplies are expected to match this year’s record totals. Prices paid to farmers fell, but marketing costs rose due to higher wages and other expenses.
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Ashington
Agriculture Department
Senate panel opens probe of GM big business
Senate Antitrust subcommittee launches hearings on General Motors as the world's largest manufacturer. economist Quinn of Michigan State, author of I Quit Monster Business, testifies Tuesday as opening witness. Other economists from Chicago and an NY firm back the study on bigness and corporate concentration.
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Washington
T. K
Michi
Monitor Equipment Co
New York
Corwin D. Edwards
University of Chicago
Donald A. Moore
Harlow H. Curlice
Gas-Soaked Woman Trapped Under Car in Charleston
Pauline Pack, 23, of 313 Reynolds St, escaped serious harm after a midnight collision left her trapped under a car and drenched in gasoline. Fire crews washed the street as she received minor cuts and eye irritation and was taken to Charleston General Hospital in satisfactory condition.
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Charleston
Pauline Pack
Reynolds St
Miss Pack
Bartlett
Charleston General Hospital
Ford Family to Share Control of Ford Motor Co with Public
The Ford Foundation plans to convert its holdings to enable public voting influence after Jan. 1. Initial sale would give about 14 percent of shares to the public with a 60 percent voting stake, while the Ford family retains a 40 percent voice through new voting B stock.
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New York
Ford Foundation
Ford Motor Co
America
Ee Eae
Gil
Ford
Eee E
Henry Ford
Ford Motor: Co
Keith Funston
New York Stock Exchange
Ford Family
Geneva talks stall as Big Four fail on key issues
Nov 6 Geneva report says Soviet and Western ministers fail to agree on major points after three days of secret talks. Western experts reject lifting embargo on strategic goods while Moscow balks at broad free exchange. focus remains on European security and German unification amid stalled East West contact plans.
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Geneva
Russia
Iirn
Soviet Bloc
China
W. Va
Lyonaville
Swiss
West Virginia
James Holcomb
Hom
Clay
V. M
Nicholas County
Yes
Molotov
John
Foster Dulles
W.l
United States
Harold Macmilla
Logan
Gawleyments
Delbert Blan
Kenship
Nelle
Lling
Blankenship
Columbus
Ambar- Ohio
Lockwood
Western
Red China
Chiang Kai-shek
Moscow
Exploding oven injures Charleston housewife
Mrs Gladys Carter, 24, of 2128 Lippert Street sustained first degree burns to her face and both arms when a gas oven blew up as she attempted to light it. She was taken to St Francis Hospital and listed in fair condition.
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Charleston
Gladys Carter
Lippert St
St. Francis Hospital
Arabs Routed In Gaza Clash Amid Israeli Tension
In Jerusalem Palestine Truce Chief Burns conferred with UN armistice officials as fighting flared near the Gaza strip. Israel blamed Egypt for incursions while Jordan and Egypt reported fatalities and clashes, and Sharett planned a US visit to seek arms and border guarantees.
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Jerusalem
INS
Palestine
EL. M. Burns
United Nations
Burns
Middle East
Beit Kama
Gaza Strip
Cops Capture Roaming Turkeys In Downtown Lot
A passerby reported two turkeys escaping from a broken window in a Bill Painter parking lot on Dickinson Street. Patrolman Bob Sigman chased them on foot and seized the birds, which the owner recovered at police headquarters. Painter plans to curb their wandering with an ax.
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Klea Risk
MacCorkle Ave
S. E
Bill Painter
Dickinson St
Bob Sigman
Painter
Marked Border Truce Plan Core Hints at Settlement
Assistant Secretary of State George W. Allen said the United Nations peace plan for the Middle East might win acceptance from Israel and Egypt. He described a plan to mark the boundary and withdraw armed forces from a demilitarized zone while noting a large Soviet arms shipment to Egypt and warning against any preventive or aggressive war.
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Washington
INS
George W. Allen
Israel
Egypt
United Nations
Middle East
Allen
Demili
U. N
Desert
Msyel
Veryicay
U. S
Britain
France
United States
E. L. M. Burns
Holy Land
State Department
U. M
Future of party at stake in clash between Mendes-France and Faure
In Paris Pierre Mendes-France and Edgar Faure of the Radical Socialist party clash over December parliamentary elections. Faure pushes quick elections under the 1951 voting system, while Mendes-France seeks more time and a new election law to define the poll. The party fate hangs on the battle over timing and electoral reform.
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Paris
Pierre, Menides-France
Edgar Faure
Radical Socialist Party
Faure
National Assembly
Mendes-France
Council of the Republic
Mendes- France
Mendes
France
Dulles and Tito Confer on Eastern Europe Independence
U S Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Yugoslav President Tito held a seven hour face to face meeting on Brioni island and Vanga about independence for Eastern Europe states. They agreed on gradual settlement of the German question and discussed Near East tensions. They expressed shared views on preserving national self determination and caution toward Arab dealings with Russia.
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Brioni
Yugoslavia
U.S
John Foster Dulles
Tito
Adriatic
Vanga
Europe
Belgrade
Dulles
Hungary
Bulgaria
Albania
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Egypt
Col
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Near East
Balkan
Allance
Greece
Turkey
Cyprus
New York
Pennsylvania
Balkans
United States
Middle East
Russia
The Private Life of Adolf Hitler reveals his mindset
A former valet describes Hitler’s beliefs about England France and Russia and how his 1939 invasion of Poland and the Holocaust were guided by his self described military genius. The chapter on Page 2 presents a sensational portrait of the dictator.
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Hitler
England
France
Poland
Russia
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
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