Thomas accuses Truman of concealing spy facts
Thomas accuses President Truman of concealing facts about Communist spying and says the American Activities Committee has reports of another espionage ring. He claims a leak in a closed session and vows to expose more about agents funneling government secrets to Moscow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
P. J. Parnell Thomas
Trun
Thomas
House
American Activiies
Capitol Hillarings
Moscow
Truman
United States
Essee
60 Are Injured As Northern Railway Passenger Derails
About 60 persons were injured when ten cars of the Great Northern Railway Oriental Limited derailed near Rugby North Dakota. Thirty five were hospitalized, two in critical condition, and 25 received scene first aid. Names given: Lars Molland, 62, Benson Minnesota, others not learned. Three coaches sleepers and a diner left the rails. the rear eight cars stayed on track.
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Rugby
N.D
Great Northern Railway
Oriental Limited
North Dakota
Lars Molland
Benson
Minn
Babe Ruth Dies at 53 After Cancer Battle Worldwide Mourning
Babe Ruth, the former Yankee slugger, died of throat cancer at 7:01 p.m. BST. He was 53. Vigils outside Memorial Hospital Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases drew thousands as tributes poured in from around the world. A mass is planned for Thursday at St Patrick’s Cathedral. funeral details were pending. President Truman led national tributes, hailing Ruth as a hero and sports icon who inspired clean sport.
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New York
Babe Ruth
Memorial Hospital Center For Cancer and Allied Diseases
Ruth
St. Patrick's Cathedral
NBC
ABC
Truman
Riverside Drive
Baseball
Taylor County Sunday School Council selects officers
Fred D Robinson, West Grafton principal, re elected president at the council’s all day convention at Simpson Methodist church. Associate presidents named include Mrs C Burl Mason Rev Harry Eckels Everett McDaniel Lonnie Mays. Secretary treasurer Mrs PFJ Bartlett. associate secretary treasurer Mrs Max Phillips. Over 100 attendees from 25 Sunday schools. Committees appointed for year on religious education Bible study leadership and alcohol education with Rev E F Roof Rev A F Shomo W T Gifford Kinney Peters and Fawcett among chairs. Next annual convention set for Thornton Methodist church.
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Fred D. Robinson
Maple Avenue
West Grafton
Taylor County Sunday School Council
Simpson
Route 2
Max Phillips
Thornton
J. R. Cheuvrent
E. F. K. Roof
Marguerite Thayer
Commission On Bible Study
A. F. Shomo
Commission
V.w. T. Gifford
Ministerial Association
Commission On
State school aid totals $1.37 million for 43 counties
Budget director D L Gainer announced a distribution of 1 366 500 dollars in state school aid to 43 of West Virginia's 55 counties. Taylor county received 10 000 dollars for summer maintenance and repair programs. Additional September payments expected to cover teacher salaries.
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Charleston
D. L. Gainer
Gainer
Berkeley
Brooke
Cabell
Calhoun
Dodridge
Gilmer
Hancock
Hardy
Harrison
Jefferson
Lewis
Lincoln
Logan
Marion
Marshall
Mason
Mineral
Mingo
Morgan
McDowell
Nicholas
Ohio
Pleasants
Pochontas
Preston
Randolph
Ritchie
Roane
Summers
Taylor
Tucker
Tyler
Upshur
Webster
Wetzel
Wirt
Wood
Wyoming
Dry Weather To End With Showers Wednesday
Grafton enjoys a period of dry weather but showers are forecast to arrive tomorrow. Temperatures will remain steady with little change. Yesterday reached 83 degrees in the mid afternoon while last night cooled to 57. At 8am the thermometer stood at 68.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graftons
Jury Commissioners Meet To Prepare Year Juror List
Jury commissioners Victor Willhide and Parrish will meet in Circuit Clerk Bailey’s office before 4 40 this evening to prepare the year’s jury list. They will select 40 petit jurors and 16 grand jurors for the September term opening Monday September 13.
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Levy
Taylor County
Victor Willhide
FR. M. Parrish
W. Merle Bailey
Legion officers named for West Virginia
Donald R. Wilson of Clarksburg and Mrs. C E Dotson of Huntington will direct American Legion and Legion Auxiliary affairs in West Virginia for the coming year. Elected at the 30th annual convention here Wilson, a 31 year old attorney and World War II veteran, served in the judge advocate general's department in the African Mediterranean theater. Dotson, head of Huntington unit 16, was a former first vice president of the state department. Other officers include Stephen H Stone Charles Town first vice commander and Dr Ralph D Watkins Chester second vice commander.
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Huntington
Donald R. Wilson
Clarksburg
C. E. Dotson
American Legion and Legion
West Virginia
Wilson
Dotson
State Department
Legion
Stephen H. Stone
Charles Town
Ralph D. Watkins
Chester
Harry W. Miller
Fayetteville
Anthony V. Callaway
Beckley
Robert E. Lester
Charleston
Frank B. Everhart
Terra
Donald Wilson
Russians Have Feeding Troubles Of Their Own
In Berlin in the Russian zone, worsening economic troubles accompany the Soviet blockade. Krupp workers at Magdeburg struck to protest food shortages, with some arrested. The Social Democrat reports industrial and commercial shutdowns due to lack of supplies, especially coal and seer from western Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Kasischke
Berlin
Germany
Krupp
Magdeburg
Social Democrat
24 000 CIO UAW Strike At Seven Harvester Plants
Chicago August 17 24000 CIO United Auto Workers were called out on strike at seven International Harvester plants. six plants halted production and Ft Wayne Indiana remained in operation employing 5500. Negotiations set for Chicago with Harvester offering further talks but later rejected by union. The strike followed a last minute shift in signals and an incomplete contract proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
CIO
United Auto
International Harvester Company
Ft. Wayne
Ind
International Harvester
Harvester
Richard Gosser
Cio-Uaw
Truman Signs Anti Inflation Limiting Bill
Washington August 17 President Truman signed into law last night the credit curbs he called a tiny fraction of what is needed to fight inflation. The bill restricts time payment buying and bank reserves with rules and an effective date to be set later by the Federal Reserve Board. Truman criticized lawmakers as GOP chiefs retorted, arguing the measure is a feeble response and urging reinstatement of wartime controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Federal Reserve Board
GOP
Two West Virginia men die in separate accidents
George Millard Bailey, 20, of Kopperston, died in a hospital from injuries after an automobile truck collision at Hatcher in Wyoming County. Marvin W. Anderson, 50, of Hackers Valley, Webster County, was killed by a rock fall at Curtin Mine No. 6 in Jerryville.
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Welch
George Millard Bailey
Kopperston
Hatcher
Wyoming County
Jerryville
W. Va
Marvin W. Anderson
Hackers Valley
Webster County
Curtin
Seeths Over Violation Of Secrecy Oath By Committee
The House Un American Activities Committee wrestled with a row over an oath breach by four members or aides after Alger Hiss testifed at a closed session. Morning papers carried details and one member threatened to demand a formal leak probe. The committee plans to reconvene next week to bring Hiss and Whittaker Chambers face to face.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Arbogast
Washington
House
UN American Activities Committee
Committee
Alger Hiss
State Department
Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
World as not in dark as ever over Moscow meetings
Moscow observers discern hints of progress after the latest talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov as Western envoys press for concrete settlement ideas to end the Berlin deadlock. The sixteenth session, the longest since talks began, leaves planners cautious amid drizzling rain and continued reporting back to home governments.
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Moscow
Thomas P. Whitney
Molotov
London
Russia
Berlin
Frankfurt
U.S
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Stalin
Hich
Kremlin
U, S
Walter Bedell Smith
Yves Chataigneau
Britain
Frank Roberts
One Of Those Accused In Spy Hearings Dies
FITZWILLIAM New Jersey August 17 Harry Dexter White aged 56 former assistant secretary of the treasury died here yesterday of a heart attack at his summer home. White served a dozen years as a treasury monetary expert before becoming assistant treasurer of the United States his name emerged during recent congressional investigations into espionage hearings.
Missing Montrose Woman Recovered In Hospital Now
PARSONS August 17 Mrs Agnes Burkey 81 was found yesterday four miles from her Montrose home after three days of exposure. Her husband Jesse 79 reported her missing Friday night while he cut wood for anniversary dinner. About 200 firemen state police scouts foresters and others searched until a 13 year old farmer Roy Harper located her and she told him she was looking for her see.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Harper
Burkey
Charles Burke
del Crosten
Slate fall deadly at Webb Coal No 3 mine
Mond Mullins of Organ Boone county died in a slate fall at Webb Coal Company No 3 mine. William E King, 19, of Sylvester, sustained a spine injury and was listed in serious condition at Charleston General Hospital.
Truman Cant Get On Alabama Ballots
President Truman faces long odds to win a spot on the Alabama ballot as efforts to nominate 11 pro Truman electors proceed amid labor backing. Senator Sparkman questions any path but a special legislative session, while Alabama aims to assemble a slate in Birmingham on August 28. If Alabama’s 11 votes matter, Southern public opinion could sway toward Dewey without a Truman ticket. Pro Truman efforts also extend to South Carolina and Mississippi where ballots appear possible.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Truman
Alabama
Sparkman
Ala
Alaabama
Thomas B. Dewey
South Carolina
Mississi
Trident
Benjamin F Poe Dies at 79 A Longtime Grafton Merchant
Benjamin Franklin Poe retired merchant of Grafton dies at St Marys hospital Clarksburg at 10 30 am after major surgery He 79 had run a grocery store for over fifty years retired around 1939 and served as president of the Home Building and Loan Association He leaves wife Bessie I McGill Poe son Benjamin Lewis Poe and siblings Clarence Lucy Burdett Poe and Mrs Clay V Miller Funeral arrangements handled by Bartlett Funeral home
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Benjamin Franklin Poe
Grafton
Home Building and Loan Association
St. Mary's Hospital
Clarksburg
St. Mary's
Poe
City Hospital
Andrews Methodist Church
Masonic Lodge
Nathan Hall
Harriett Ford Poe
Bessie I. McGill Poe
Benjamin Lewis Poe
Knottsville Road
Clarence” Ti Poe
Beech Street
Lucy Burdett Poe
Clay V. Miller
Walnut Street
Bartlett Funeral Home
Levying Bodies Meeting Today In Taylor County
Taylor County four levying bodies meet to finalize 1948-49 budgets and tax levies. County court met at 10 a.m. and recommended a levy at last year’s rate following state guidance. Flemington adopted the proposed budget and levy without changes as county obligations total 27880 dollars. Levyes would raise rates to 13.55 cents Class I, 27.10 cents Class II, and 54.20 cents for Class III and IV.
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Taylor County
State Tax Commissioner's Office
Flemington
D Aquino Awaiting Arrest as Tokyo Rose
Iva Toguri D Aquino awaits arrest in Tokyo for the Tokyo Rose wartime traitor charges. The U S Justice Department orders her return to San Francisco to face a federal grand jury with 15 Japanese witnesses. The case centers on broadcasts that became enduring legends among American troops.
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Tom Lambert
Tokyo
Iva Toguri D'Aquino
America
U.S. Justice Department
San Francisco
D’aquino
Japan
Tom Clark
D'Aquino
Charge girl with felonius shooting in Wheeling case
State trooper William Casey said 19 year old Morlerice Bowman of Clinton was charged with feloniously shooting her father’s 30 year old Wheeling paramour Elwood Bowman. Mrs Stella Sutton was wounded by a .38 revolver and reported in critical condition at Ohio Valley General hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
William Casey
Clinton
Casey
Mlorerice Bowman
Stella Sutton
Accidental Gunshot Fatality Ends Dewey Croston Life
Dewey Croston 26, a Barnesville resident and former Taylor plant worker, died after dropping a cartridge and accidentally shooting himself in the heart. He was born August 4 1922 in Barbour county, a father of three, husband to Georgia Harper Croston, and survived by his parents, three children, and three brothers. Funeral arrangements not yet announced.
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Faruet
Dewey Croston
Taylor
Barnesville
Barbour County
Jamies Croston
Cecila Parsons, Croston
Philippi
Georgia Harper Croston
Dewey Croston, Jr
Rosa Ann
Freeman Leo Croston
Robert Croston
Zanesville
Fred Croston
Canton
Ohio
Leo Croston
Webster
Leo Crosston
Grafton Sentinel invites Thomas M to tonight’s Cary screening
The Grafton Sentinel invites Thomas M of 425 West Washington Street to attend tonight’s presentation of Cary and the wife starring Cary Grant Loretta Young and David Niven at the Ditle Theatre, the current attraction.
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Grafton Sentinel
Thomas M
Washington Street
Cary and
Cary
Grant
Loretta ‘Young
David’ ‘Niven
Ditle Theatre
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St. Mary’s Hospital
D’ Aquino
Tokyo Rose
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