Counsel For C P Company Fights Question Line At Hearing
Charleston coverage details Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company vigorous objections at a public service commission hearing. Attorney Robert Spilman Sr. challenged lines of inquiry by Form er C Nee Meadows as outside the rate increase case. The commission ordered provision of information believed to bear on the proposed postwar rate rise.
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Charleston
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Public Service Commission
Robert Spilman
C Nee V
Spilman
Meadows
Burton R. Young
Western Electric Company
Board to Discuss Spending $10 Million School Aid
Charleston board of school finance met to plan distributing ten million dollars in building aid over two years. State Superintendent W W Trent noted counties seek urgent repairs and asked about matching requirements. The fund provides a fifty thousand dollar county grant, with remaining funds allocated by enrollment if matched in five ways. Some counties request extra to guarantee a nine month term.
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Charleston
Board of School Finance
W. W. Trent
Trent
Truman Sends Atlantic Treaty To Senate Attorney Samples To Represent Man
John Edger Miller, an aged Fremington miner, was indicted for murder by the Taylor County grand jury at the April term. He will enter pleas tomorrow at 10 a.m. in Taylor County Courthouse. Miller, charged with the January shotgun killing of his 35-year-old daughter Nola B. Duvall, will appear in person. Miller has counsel W. P. Samples. he has been jailed since the slaying nearly three months ago. Also to enter pleas are Walter Curry for attempted murders of Guy Weaver and the Widkwite road incident, Wilbert Z. Hall and Elbert Boyce for malicious assault, and Donald Moran for malicious assault and resisting arrest. Attorney page 8.
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Charles
John Edger Miller
Fremington
Taylor County
Tomorow
Taylor County Court House
Miller
Nola B. Duvall
W. P. Samples
Walter Curry
Guy Weaver
Amr
Widkwite Road
Wilbert Z. Hall
Elbert Boyce
Donald Moran
Resistsee
Page
City And County Money Problems Will Be Studied
Charleston West Virginia committee on interstate cooperation announces its first project a study of municipal and county finances funded by a 1950s legislative appropriation of 16500. Members include five lawmakers from each house Tax Commissioner Koontz Budget Director Gainer Attorney General Partlow and Road Commissioner Cavendish Dr Carl Frasure of West Virginia University chairs. The panel also will review state local relations personnel issues legislative process and constitutional revisions and will prepare recommendations for the 1951 legislature.
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Charleston
Ray Cavendish
Carl M. Frasure
West Virginia University
Second Holdup Man Appears Tomorrow
The second of two youths charged with robbing passengers on a Baltimore and Ohio train near Martinsburg last March 9 will be arraigned tomorrow in Federal court before Judge Harry E. Watkins. Lyman Ramsdell of Youngstown Ohio will plead, as George L. Ashton of Youngstown had pleaded guilty weeks ago. Sentence was deferred pending probation report. The two were accused of halting the Washington to Detroit Ambassador and taking about $1,000 from passengers.
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Fairmont
Baltimore and
Ohio
Martinsburg
Tomorow
Lyman Ramsdell
Youngstown
Harry E. Watkins
Russell Barrett
George L. Ashton
Watkins
Washington
Detroit
Ambassador
Government Moves to End Washington Newspaper Strike
Washington step in to end a strike by pressmen and stereotypers on four daily papers. A peace conference is set for this afternoon with the Washington Publishers Association and the unions agreeing to talks. The unions seek higher pay and shorter hours, with government mediation by Howard T. Colvin and Cyrus Ching assisting. The strike began shortly before 8 a.m. yesterday, halting Morning Post Times Herald Evening Star News and Times Herald.
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Washington
Washington Publishers Association
Howard T. Colvin
Federal Mediation and Conviliation Service
Publicity claim eyed in five year old's alleged holding
Beverly Hills police investigated a reported holding against the will of a five year old for 33000 dollars. Chief C H Anderson called it an attempt by the boy's father to gain publicity to cover gambling debts. The mother retrieved the money from a bank and safety box, while the boy, a military academy student, said he saw the abductor in the home with his father before the incident.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
C. H. Anderson
Anderson
Joey Goodman
Joe Goodman
Goodman
Mary
Sunset Boulevard
Papa
Convict Seven German Diplomats For Extermination Role
A U S war crimes court convicted seven high German diplomats and officials as willing accomplices in the Nazi extermination of six million Jews. Wilhelm Keppler Hans Heinrich Lammers Richard Walther Darré Otto Dietrich Hans Kehrl Gustav Steengracht von Moyland and Gottlob Berger were named among those found guilty of Jewish persecution. Ernst Woermann and Ernst Weizaecker were also implicated. The judgment details how officials aided mass murder across Europe, with several others convicted or acquitted in the trial's final days.
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Mernberg
Germany
Europe
U. S
Wilhelm Keppler
Hans Heinrich Lammers
Richard Walther Darré
Otto Dietrich
Hans Kehrl
Gustav Steengracht von Moyland
Gottlob Berger
Baron Ernst Weizaecker
Ernst Woermann
U.S
Otto von Erdmannsdorf
Foreign Office
Ernst Wilhelm Bohl
Reich
Lammers
Dietrich
Hitler
United States and Canada form industrial mobilization committee
The United States and Canada established a joint committee to coordinate industrial mobilization plans in an emergency. The exchange of notes between Laurence A. Steinhardt and Lester B. Pearson creates the United States Canada industrial mobilization committee, citing defense needs and close proximity as core interests.
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Washington
Gypsy Man Held On Forgery Charge
Edwin Martin, 23, of Gypsy, allegedly cashed two Baltimore and Ohio railroad pay checks in Monongah. He appeared before Justice H. P. Hamilton in Fairmont, waived a grand jury action, and faces forgery charges with Marion County Circuit Court convening May 10. Bond set at $1,000, with detention in Marion county jail.
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Edwin Martin
Gypsy
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Monongah
F. J. Regenauer
Justice of Peace
H. P. Hamilton
Fairmont
Martin
Marion County Circuit Court
Marion County
Enrollment Listed at West Virginia University
Morgantown officials announced WVU enrolled 12 785 students for the year ending March 31. Of these 8 377 were resident students and 4 408 were taking extension and short courses.
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Morgantown
West Virginia University
Truman asks Senate to approve North Atlantic pact as step toward peace
President Truman sent the North Atlantic defense treaty to the Senate for approval, calling it one step on the road to peace within the UN charter and U.S. Constitution. He stressed no single action guarantees peace and noted 22 nations signed the pact, pledging mutual aid if attacked. ratification by two thirds is expected after a likely Senate debate.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Speace
United States
Neithass
És ‘Ton
Labour Puts Forth Plan to Nationalize Five More Industries
Britain’s Labour Party announced a campaign platform promising to nationalize at least five major industries if returned to power in the next general elections. The program targets cement, life insurance, sugar refining, water companies, and minerals, and vows to act to prevent a repeat of the 1930 shipbuilding slump while nationalizing key chemical sectors if needed. It also pledges continued rationing, rent controls, expanded education, housing, socialized medicine, blitz reconstruction, and better vacations for workers’ families. Prior Labour moves have already nationalized coal, electricity, railways, canals, and more, with a steel bill pending.
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London
Britain
Labor Party
Bank of England
World Wide Cable and Wireless Communications Company
Set Arraignment Date For Camera Smashing Incident
A Wheeling photographer Nickerson and two men he alleges assaulted him will be arraigned on assault charges on April 21. Eugene Nickerson faces the booking again as Judge Seibert keeps a routine charge. William Lins and Gregory Manos are ordered to appear alongside Nickerson for arraignment on the incident following a fire at Zeller’s.
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Wheeling
George Seibert
Eugene Nickererson
William G. Liss
Lins
Gregory Manos
Nickerson
Wheeling News-Register
Manos
W. Robert Kennedy
Zeller
Concrete Mixer Driver Injured in Embankment Crash
Fred Forman 27 of this city sustained only minor injuries when his concrete mixer truck plunged over an embankment and overturned several times on Country Club road. Wilbur Harold Springer 57 of Route 6 Fairmont, driving a 1947 Hudson, swerved and hit Forman’s 1948 Ford mixer. Springer was arrested for hazardous driving and to appear before Magistrate O. Jefferys on Thursday.
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Fred Forman
Country Club
Frank Handall
Builder’s Service and Supply Company
Harmon Brothers
Grafton
Wilbur Harold Spring
Route
Fairmont
Hudson
Forman
Springer
Ona c. Jefferys
Ford
Driving Drunk Charges Involving Everett Martin
Everett Martin, 30, of Route was arrested on U B Route 119 north of Grafton Sunday afternoon, driving a 1934 mouth coupe. Corporal G F Randal made the arrest. He appeared before Magistrate John W Snider and paid a $50 fine plus costs, with license suspended six months. Thomas Bailey, Route 3, his passenger, was charged with intoxication and fined $10 plus costs.
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Everett Martin
Grafton
Martin
G. F. Randal
John W. Snider
Thomas Bailey
Route 3
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Cal
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Seech
David Fiscus
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