Veal calf theft: gunmen seize truck driver on Route 18
On U.S. Route 18 near Fairmont a tractor trailer's load of veal calves and sheep was seized by armed men. Frank Lewis was abducted and released near Evansville, and the (Randolph) Rockford cattle buyer reports uncertain losses as the haul vanished en route to Pittsburgh.
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Morgantown
Randolph
Rockford
Lost Creek
Harrison County
Frank Lewis
Fittsburgh
Ay Lewis
Arnettsville Hill
Fairmont
Lewis
Evansville
Pittsburgh
City approves street lighting service contract with Monongahela Power
City Manager Curtis D Decker signs a 20 year contract with A C Spurr of Monongahela Power to supply street lighting. The deal costs about 5800 dollars in the first year and 26 dollars annually for each additional light. Old residential fixtures will be replaced over five years and the city pump station will be repaired as standby.
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Monongahela Power Company
Curtis D. Decker
A. C. Spurr
Funeral Friday for Berle Poe, Grafton Merchant
Benjamin Franklin Poe, a prominent Grafton merchant for over 50 years, will lie in state at Bartlett Funeral home after 7 PM tonight. Funeral services at 2:30 PM Friday at Bartlett with Grafton Lodge No 15 A M and Knights Templar escort, Rev J H Carson of St Pauls Methodist officiating, burial in Bluemont cemetery. Poe died at St Marys hospital Clarksburg at 79 after transfer for treatment.
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Benjamin Franklin Poe
Grafton
Bartlett Funeral
Grafton Lodge No. 15
A. M
Knights Templar
J. H. Carson
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Bluemont Cemetery
Poe
St. Mary's Hospital
Clarksburg
Grafton City Hospital
Seek Dark Sedan In Sensational Killing
Police hunt a dark sedan seen at a lonely beach where a young stenographer was raped and killed and her escort shot in the head. Detectives in Atlanta notify authorities that Dr Guy L Sink a Atlanta dentist reported seeing a 1941 or 1942 Plymouth.
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Ormond
Fla
Atlanta
Guy L. Sink
Consumers' Sales Tax Collections Advance
Charleston August 18 The tax department reports June business sales tax receipts at 2 305 558, surpassing the previous high of 2 233 877 set in December last year due to higher commodity prices and boosted tax percentages. Commissioner C H Koontz notes the rise reflects cost of living.
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Charleston
C. H. Koontz
Koontz
Walter Taylor Retires From Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Walter B. Taylor of this city, after more than 30 years with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, retires. He served mainly as brakeman or flagman on the Parkersburg to Grafton run and last worked March 21 due to illness, beginning his service at Grafton on August 3, 1903. He also worked intermittently on Newark divisions.
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Walter B. Taylor
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Mononah Division
Buckhannon
Taylor
Parkersburg
Grafton
Mr. Taylor
Newark
Walter
Theatre Ticket Admits Rhea Fisher to Tarsan Show
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs. Rhea Fisher of 101 East Washington Street to attend tonight's presentation of Tarsan's New York Adventure starring Johnny Weissmuller, current attraction at the Dixie Theater.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Rhea Fisher
East
Washington Street
Tarsan
New York
Johnny Weismuller
Dixie Theater
Americans to Observe Palestine Truce Observer Force
Secretary of State Marshall announced that the United States France and Belgium will send 300 armed forces members as truce observers in Palestine. The U S will provide 125 enlisted men including some from Mediterranean ships while France and Belgium contribute equal numbers. Count Folke Bernadotte had requested a larger force but the proposal was sent to the U N Security Council for action.
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Washington
Marshall
United States
France
Belgium
Palestine
U. S
U.S
Mediterranean
Folke Bernadotte
United Nations
Bernadotte
U. N. Security Council
Allied and Soviet Forces Stage Separate Maneuvers in Berlin Area
In Berlin Grunewald Forest American foot troops conduct night defensive drills as Russians wind down summer maneuvers near zonal frontiers. Hamburg reports say British troops participated in the exercise in theory, while U.S. and French units joined on the Rhine near Heidelberg for their first postwar joint war games. About 1,500 troops were involved in the joint maneuver.
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George Bria
Berlin
Grunewald Forest
Hamburg
Gaston
Americcan
Rihigie
Heidelberg
U.S
Lambeth bishops urge Christians to oppose Marxist Communism
Call to Christians to oppose Communism distributed in 100 languages by the Lambeth conference reports. The 329 archbishops and bishops declare opposition to Marxian Communism while urging work to end war and restraint on atomic weapons, with no legislative authority but strong church influence.
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London
Lambeth Conference
Conference
Canterbury
G. F. Fisher
Church of England
Protestant Episcopal Church of
United States
Gas Explosion Kills 2 at Butler Pennsylvania
Two men died and two others were seriously injured when a natural gas line exploded near Prospect on newly laid Route 422 in western Pennsylvania. The blast damaged property worth about 50 000 and destroyed three trucks and a carryall valued at 35 000, shaking homes up to five miles away. Charles Elis 60 of New Bethlehem welder for Manufacturers Light & Heat Co was killed. Clifford Grimes of Slippery Rock burned badly and rushed to a New Castle hospital. he works as a fireman for the same firm. At McKeesport Richard Carter 22 of BALTIMONY Ohio is noted in connection with GAS EXPLOSION page 3.
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Butler
Pennsylvania
Prospect
Charles Elis
New Bethlehem
Light & Heat, Co
Clifford Grimes
Slippery Rock
New Castle
McKeesport
Richard Carter
Baltimony & Ohio
City aide linked to tax theft probe in Philadelphia
Philadelphia grand jury heard that Ma jestic Hotel managing director Jack A. Alexander paid 40 to a tax clerk under indictment in the expanding tax theft investigation. Police said the item did not appear in the clerk's books. Samuel Pitkus and James F. Nuel, former clerks, with Maurice A. Simpson, secretary to councilman Louis Schwartz, were charged with embezzlement and suspended.
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Philadelphia
Majestic Hotel
Jack A. Alexander
Samuel Pitkus
Grand Jury
Maurice A. Simpson
Louis Schwartz
James F. Nuel, Jr
Simson
William W. Felton
Council
Babe Ruth lies in state as thousands pay homage at Yankee Stadium
New York crowds begin lining up before dawn to view Babe Ruth’s body in Yankee Stadium lobby behind home plate. About 50,000 had seen him by yesterday, with many travelers from New England and mid-Atlantic states. Ruth, 53, died Monday night after a long cancer battle at Memorial Hospital.
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New York
Babe Ruth
Yankee Stadium
Monday Night Memorial ‘Hospital
Nineteen girls race halted by stray shot in France
In La Ciotat on August 18 a bicycle race began with nineteen girls lined up. A gun fired wounding one rider named Marcelle Dagobert on her shoulder. The starter shrugged, pocketed the pistol, and the remaining eighteen riders sped away.
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LA Ciotat
France
Marcelle Dagobert
United States weighs recall of Lomakin over Kosenkina case
Washington officials said the United States may request Russia recall Yakov M. Lomakin as consul general in New York due to his role in the refugee school teacher incident. A formal note is being prepared after New York police reports sparked review by the State Department, with Soviet protests reportedly to be answered within 24 hours.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Marshall
United States
New York
New York City
Moscow
Jacob M. Lomakin
Russia
Yakov M. Lomakin
State Department
Soviet Union
Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina
Mikhail Samarine
U. 8
Mrs John Nance Garner Dies At Texas Home
Mrs John Nance Garner wife of Cactus Jack died at 4 30 pm in their Uvalde Texas home at age 78. She was at her husband’s side when she died with their son Tully and granddaughter present. Funeral services are scheduled for 4 pm today with burial in Uvalde.
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Uvalde
Tex
John Nance Garner
Cactus Jack
United States
Ettie
South Texas
Garner
Tully
John J. Currie
Amarillo
Logan raid on bookie den nets fines and charges
Eighteen men were fined ten dollars each plus costs after a state police raid on an alleged bookie establishment at the Logan Smoke House. Six others were held on bonds. Luther Ghiz and Albert Kible charged with owning the establishment and ordered to appear for a hearing before Magistrate Leslie Avis on August 30.
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Logan
Logan Smoke House
Luther Ghiz
Albert Kible
Leslie Avis
Hiss Admits Knowing Chambers Also Known as Crosley
Congressional probe shows a link between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers. Hiss acknowledged knowing Chambers when called to testify before the House Un American Activities Committee. Chambers had testified that Hiss was part of the pre war Red underground and Chambers said Hiss was listed in that circle. Chambers described the underground as Washington based with espionage aims.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
Alger Hiss
State Department
Whittaker Chambers
Red Underground
Hiss
Chambers
George Crosley
New York
House un-American Activities Committee
Carnegie Foundation For International Peace
Time Magazine
Communist Party
Council Hears Report On Boilers In City Pump Station
The city council, after reviewing an insurance inspectors report on boilers at the pump station, learned that boilers four and five were in satisfactory condition while one to three were not. Repairs would be costly, prompting council to proceed with plans for the electrical operation of the street lighting system. J J Sina Jr, insurance firm inspector, presented written details on boilers four and five and verbal notes on boilers one to three.
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J. J. Sina, Jr
Sed Council
Council Accepts Report Finding Petition Invalid
City Council at Gratton West Virginia accepts clerk Dorothy Beavers report that the petition filed July 31 1948 by five electors is invalid for three reasons. The report notes the petition seeks repeal of Ordinance No 179 or a referendum and cites procedural deficiencies.
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City Hall
Dorothy Beavers
Pete Bete
Robert W. Wittman
William R
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Dewey
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California
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Warren
Ruth Bier
Lambeth Report
Lewisburg
Here
Teagarden and Sons
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Springs
West Virginia
Fred M. Vinson
U. S. Suspreme Court
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Maryland
Aloysius White
Main St
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Peters
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Autocamp
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Hisen
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