Flemington father of 10 freed on bond in murder case
Charles B. Gaines, 53, a coal miner and father of ten, is free on $4,000 bond awaiting a September retrial after a five and a half hour deadlocked jury failed to reach a verdict on the murder charge tied to the slaying of James Richard Branson in a strip mine garage. The jury reported no possible chance of agreement after hours of deliberation.
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Flemington
Charles B. Gaines
James Richard Brunson
Merle Watkins
Gaines
Branson
Casner Elected Rotary President in Local Election
Charles Casner, local businessman and president of the Tygart Lake Development Corporation, was chosen as Rotary Club president at a recent annual dinner meeting at Fetterman Methodist Church. Walt ers Jr. will step down in July. John Jenkins became vice president and other officers named include Charles W T Lockard secretary treasurer and M vu Burroughs sergeant at arms. New directors named are William D. Sergeant Nathan Mendelson Dr. Charles Haislip Charles Jarrett Charles Casner Charles W. T. Lockard Jed W. Robinson Roy Burnside.
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Charles Casner
Tygart Lake Development Corporation
Rotary's Club
Fetterman Methodist Church
Casner
William D. Sergeant
Nathan Mendelson
Charles Haislip
Charles Jarrett
Charles W. T. Lockard
Jed W. Robinson
John Jenkins
Roy Burnside
Fatal Injury From Truck Crash Near Strange Creek
Mrs. Bessie Given Butcher aged 54 sustained fatal injuries while attempting to jump from a careening truck near her home in Strange Creek Braxton County. Her husband remained in the vehicle until it overturned and escaped injury.
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Sutton
Bessie Given Butcher
Strange Creek
Braxton County
National Guard Plane Crashes Near Charleston
A Texas National Guard F-51 fighter crashed eight miles northwest of Charleston around 10 a.m. today, likely killing the pilot. Authorities withheld the victim’s name pending kin notification. The plane departed Kanawha airport at 9:53 a.m. en route to Orchard Field Chicago.
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Kanawha County
Union
CAA
Charleston
James Williams
Fred Alley
Kanawha
National Guard
New York
To Charge Young Pennsylvanian In Police Kidnaping
West Virginia police plan to charge 26 year old Orville Kittle of Pennsylvania with kidnapping two Weirton officers ten days ago after they detained two men for questioning about a $5,400 Follansbee bank robbery. He was arrested in Mapleton Pennsylvania on a car theft charge. Police say the officers were abducted and taken to Ohio, then released, with another three men and a young woman captured in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Shinnston
West Virginia
Wierton
E. E. Stout
Orville Kittle
Mapleton
Pennsylvania
Weirton
Follanshee
Ohio
Kittle
Nashville
Tenn
Yangtze Valley Cities Fall To Reds In Red Onslaught
News dispatch reports Yangtze valley cities and ports collapsing to communist forces. Nanking officials flee and Li Tsung Jen along with Ho Ying Chin and Pai Chung Hsi depart for Hangzhou to meet Chiang Kai Shek. Red forces reportedly overrun multiple towns, with fears of wholesale desertions and looming isolation of Shanghai and Nanking.
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Nanking
Yangtze Valley
Li Tsung-Jen
Ho Ying-Chin
Pai Chung-Hsi
Central Front
Hangchow
Chiang Kai Shek
Chiang
Yangtze
Kiangyin
Kweichih
Wuhyo
Shanghai
Red Radio
Wuhu
Anking
Pukow
Crowds Flock To Farm Site As Delaware Murder Plot Emerges
Dover Delaware crowds gathered at the farm of Mrs Inez Brennan as police say she admitted plotting the deaths of two men from lonely hearts correspondence. Her son Robert 15 waited arraignment on murder charges while son Raymond 23 faced accessory after the fact charges and George George is held in San Antonio as an accessory. Delaware authorities requested Texas police custody for George as Col Herbert E Barnes confirms Brennan and family involvement.
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Dover
Del
Inez Brennan
San Antonio
Texas
George
Air Force
Lackland Air Base
Delaware
Herbert E. Barnes
Brennan
Robert
Back Pay For Baltimore And Ohio Employes
About 425000 dollars in retroactive wage increases will appear in the May 12 paychecks for roughly 4900 Baltimore and Ohio railroad workers in the Cumberland area. Superintendent R A Morrison of the Cumberland division said the amount covers new contract raises from a recently signed agreement with non operating unions. The majority of affected workers live in Cumberland with about 3000 residents involved. others are from the Cumberland Brunswick Maryland and Cumberland Grafton divisions in West Virginia.
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Cumberland, Mad
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
R. A. J. Morrison
Cumberland
Morrison
Cumberland-Brunswick
CunfBerland-Grafton
W. Va
State Asks Jury To Find Curry Guilty Of Malicious Shooting
Walter L. Curry of Currys Ridge stood trial for malicious and unlawful shooting of Charles R. Weaver after a July 25 incident on Wickwire road. The defense sought continuances over health and witness absence, but the court denied both motions. Prosecutor Bord outlined Curry s alleged threats against Guy Weaver and attempts to influence Guy s Marine Corps status, with a radio show aftermath leading to the confrontation.
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Curry
Walter L. Curry
Curry’s Ridge
Charles R. Weaver
Wickwire Road
W. P. Samples
Samples
Joe Hays
Richard B. Bord
Guy B. Weaver
Weaver
Bord
Guy Weaver
Florida
Guy
Marine Corps
Grafton
Pupils urged to take more active school roles
State school superintendent W. W. Trent told West Virginia high school principals that students should have more responsibility in school affairs to develop active, self-reliant citizens. He warned against fostering inferiority and emphasized the principal’s role in promoting participation and belief in the American way of life.
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Charleston
W. W. Trent
West Virginia Association of
Simon
Trent
Officer Breaks Door to Find Man Dead in Bed
Police Chief Joe Mask forced entry into the one room home of William Edward Carter to discover him dead on his bed likely from heart failure. Coroner Ona C. Jefferys said no inquest. Carter, born 1908 in Virginia, longtime municipal parking lot attendant, previously paralyzed twice, leaves two sisters and a brother. Funeral services pending.
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Joe Mask
William Edward
Hambone) Carter
Carter
Ona C. Jefferys
Chief Mask
St. John
Main Streets
Jefferys
Mask
Latrobe Street
Pure Oil
Grafton
Virginia
Lucy McCauley
Baltimore
Maryland
Mary Carter
New York City
Alfred Carter
U.S. Army
Bartlett Funeral Home
FBI pieces stories of 3 men woman held in robberies
The FBI is piecing the stories of three men and a young woman jailed after bank robberies that netted over 40000 dollars. Agents traced them from raids in Memphis to a Hickman county farmhouse where they were captured after a brief standoff, with two confessing.
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FBI
Nashville, Tenn
Memphis
D. S. Hostetter
Hostetter
Baltimore
West Virginia
Hickman County
Truman urges Congress national medical insurance plan
President Truman again urges Congress to adopt compulsory medical insurance as part of a national health program. He proposes government payment of medical bills from a special tax funded fund and seeks federal aid to expand medical schools build hospitals and support public health services. The AMA opposes compulsory insurance and labor groups claim the AMA funds oppose the program.
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Washington (P
Truman
Congress
Capitol Hill
Toree
American Medical Association
AMA
Iron Men Search Begun By Truman
President Truman seeks capable, low paid officials as resignations shake his team. David Bruce named ambassador to France replacing Jefferson Caffery, with Alan Kirk succeeding Bedell Smith in Moscow. Barry Bingham to head European recovery mission. Royall's successor unsettled. Gray urged for Army post.
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Washington
Truman
Army
Royall
Robert F. Bacher
David K. E. Bruce
France
Jefferson Caffery
Adm
Alan G. Kirk
Walter Bedell Smith
Moscow
Bruce
The
Economic Corporation Administration
Barry Bingham
Louisville
Paying People's Doctor Bills With Tax Money Is Proposal
President Truman's national health insurance plan heads to Congress with a proposal to use tax money to pay people’s doctor bills. Supporters and opponents clash as bills already surface, with potential outlays near 6 billion dollars annually and a near three percent tax on payrolls. The plan may surface in an election year showdown.
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Congress
Washington
Truman
White House
Capitol Hill
Explosion Shocks Inglewood At Basin Oil Storage Farm
A massive explosion at Basin Oil storage tanks in Inglewood California sent a blaze into the air and hurled a large boiler onto a nearby street. Fire crews prevented tanks from igniting. no fatalities reported this day though a previous 1948 disaster at the same plant left two women and a child dead.
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Inglewood
Calif
Los Angeles
Poller
Basin Oil Company
Ward
Rooster Headless Rooster Returns Home After Court Win
Pi Lazarus, who has wandered for about 20 days with his head cut off, is back home. Mrs. Martha Green won court rights to keep the mutilated bird, and Judge Stanley Moffat dismissed cruelty charges by the SPCA against Mrs. Green and Alan Ross. The judge ruled there was no state law violation in keeping a mutilated bird.
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Coe
Ae Pi Lazarus
Ike
Martha, Green
Stanley Moffat
SPCA
Green
A . de
Alan Ross
Annexation at Clarksburg for Edgewood Limestone and Perry Mines
Approval moved to annex Edgewood Limestone and Perry Mines into Clarksburg. Action seeks to expand city boundaries and incorporate mineral resources and industrial activity within the municipal limits. No further details on proceedings or dates provided in readable text.
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Clarksburg
I /P
Edgewood
Limestone
Perry Mines
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