Rural counties prepare for fall school term in 1946
County Superintendent R P Rohrbaugh reports enrollment expected near 3700 in Taylor county for the 1946 47 term opening Wednesday September 4. Grafton High shows minor declines while Grafton Junior High and city schools show gains amid cleaning and calendar planning by the Board of Education to guide teachers and parents for the year.
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Taylor County
R. Pirgil Rohrbaugh
Rohrbaugh
Grafton
Grafton High
Grafton Junior High
County Board of Education
Danville Case: Farm Hand Charged in Teen Girlfriend’s Death
In Danville Illinois a farm hand Robert Beatty signed a statement admitting fatally stabbing Lois Nelson, 19, after an outing to a ball game and the movies. Sheriff Wayland said motive remains unclear as Beatty led officers to the body in Kickapoo State Park, claiming the weapon was his step father's. The victim’s clothes were torn and five chest wounds were found. Beatty plans to be charged with murder.
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William Wayland
Robert Beatty
Lois Nelson
Wayland
Beatty
Kickapoo State Park
Danville
Alfred Newton Receives Theatre Invitation at Local Show
The Sentinel invites Alfred Newton to tonight's presentation at 1121 West Main Street featuring Alan Ladd Geraldine Fitzgerald in Renegades with Evelyn Keyes, Willard and Larry Parks at the Grafton Theatre.
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The
Grafton, Sentinel
Alfred Newton
West Main Street
Alan Ladd
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Renegades
Evelyn Keyes
Willard
Larry Parks
15 Year Old Confesses Robberies in Huntington
A 15 year old youth confessed to robbing two Huntington businesses the same night he escaped from the Cabell County detective home. Detective Sergeant John Rule reported the youth, captured last night, had admitted participating in at least six robberies while awaiting juvenile court action. He and another inmate escaped last week and the pair allegedly entered two restaurants.
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Huntington
Cabell County
John Rule
Calcutta Riots Toll Put At Over Three Thousand
Reuters reported the Calcutta riots killed more than 3,500 and left about 5,000 injured as fighting continued in the corporation street area. Military police moved through bloodstained sites while refugees crowded rail stations and food distribution collapsed amid shortages.
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London
Reuters
Bombay Free Press Journal
Calcutta
Corporation Street
Donald Huthee
Celeneree
Siars
New Market
Weston notes mild Caribbean aftershock disturbance
Weston Massachusetts reports a mild disturbance in the Caribbean area described as an after shock from recent earthquakes. Officials note the event was detected by the college seismograph stations and recorded today.
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Weston. Mass
Weston College
Carribean
Britain and U S Oppose Russians on Dardanelles
United States and Great Britain oppose Soviet proposals to share military control of the Dardanelles with Turkey. France joins in opposition and London predicts an international conference with U S participation this year. Britain informs Moscow of the stance.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Dardanelles
Foreign Office
London
France
Britain
Turkey
Moscow
Mediterranean
Black Sea
Beckley Votes on Proposed City Manager Charter
Residents of Beckley voted in a special election on a proposed charter establishing a city manager form of government. Voters indicated support for the new charter and elected members of a charter commission in a prior election.
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Beckley
Work For Return Of Mines To Owners Before Too Much Longer
Government moves on two fronts to speed the return of federally operated soft coal mines to private ownership. Adm Morell invites John L Lewis negotiating committee to meet September 10 with Ezra Van Horn led group to craft a labor management contract replacing the May 29 government agreement. Also sets stage for supreme court test on unionization of mine foremen by production workers.
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Harold W. Ward
Washington
Adm
Ben Morell
John L. Lewis
Ezra van Horn
Cleveland
Moreell
Supreme Court
Lewis
Jones and
Aang Steel Corporation
Mississippi aunt for negroes chase ends for one brother
Johnny Craft, one of three Negro brothers sought after the ambush shooting of four white men, surrendered at the Hinds county jail in Jackson wearing marine fatigue clothes. He walked 600 miles to the capital and said he was unarmed. Search for the remaining two brothers continued as state police and deputies tightened lines in Sullivan Hollow.
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Smith County
Jackson
Craft
Sullivan Hollow
Bag ‘Brothers
Sullivan
Issi ‘Arte Obey
Liberty
Mississippi
Lake Strikers Look to Murray in Lake Strike
Detroit Aug 20 The CIO National Maritime union awaits Philip Murray decision on CIO steelworkers backing the Great Lakes shipping strike. The walkout reaches day six with talks ongoing between strikers and two shipping companies. The lake carrier's association says 86 percent of its 316 freighters still operate, with the strike binding 44 ships.
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Detroit
CIO National Maritime Union
Philip Murray
CIO
Great Lakes
Lake Carrier’s Association
Cleveland
Hershey Says Impossible To Fill Draft Demand
Charleston August 20 Gen Lewis B Hershey national selective service director said it would be impossible to fill the Army 185000 man need by next March from the present supply of 19 to 29 year old eligibles He added that while the draft might yield 25000 a month for the first month or two next month the supply likely would be no more than 10000 in following months
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Charleston
Lewis B. Hershey
National Selective Service
Hershey
Decision on price ceilings to be announced tonight
Washington August 20 The price decontrol board will announce tonight at about 7 p m whether ceilings will be restored on meats, milk and other basics with a network radio explanation at 9 p m The board may reimpose controls on live stock dairy grains cotton seed and related products but any new ceilings would not take effect until Friday Porter said See NATION page 4
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
OPA
Paul Porter
Porter
Nation
Truman reverses vacation course on Atlantic voyage
President Truman abandons plans for a Maine coast trip due to weather. Aboard the yacht Williamsburg, the party heads southward with no fixed destination, remaining at sea for the moment. Williams burg will not anchor tonight as the journey continues aboard Wells escort vessel.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Truman
New England
Williamsburg
Maine
Charles G. Ross
Wells
Eastport
Ross
Atlantic
Quonset Point
Pilot Missing After Plane Crashes Near Cape Henry
NORFOLK Va Aug 20 One pilot was reported missing and another parachuted to safety when an unidentified plane dived into a formation of four Navy one seater aircraft near Cape Henry yesterday Lieut M C Mason of San Diego bailed out after his plane was struck while attempting to avoid a collision The Virginian pilot gave an account noting the plane disappeared after the impact and crashed into the formation
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Norfolk
Cape Henry
M. C. Mason
San Diego
Calif
Aoe
Final Tax Notice Warns of Delinquent Property Sale
Delinquent 1945 taxes due since July 1 are threatened with selling real property to recover back taxes. The notice urges timely redemption to avoid added expenses and finalizes the year's delinquency process.
Morgantown Plant Strike Halts Ammonia Work
A Morgantown strike called by the Building Trades Council halted preparations to resume ammonia production at the Morgantown Ordnance Works. United Mine Workers District 50 reports 90 percent of Heyden Chemical plant workers are in its union. The walkout, deemed unauthorized by one observer, blocked about 550 employees as wage-rate disputes over construction versus maintenance work stalled negotiations with Col. A N Bell.
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Morgantown
Morgantown Building ‘Trades Council
AFL
Morgantown Ordnance Works
Paul J. Phillips
United Mine Workers District 50
Heyden Chemical Company
Army
Ordnance Department
Phillips
District 50
APL
Heyden Chemical “Pompany
Ae Ho
Ai Oh
A. N. Bell
T. H. Blount
Trades Council
Heyden Company
Britain seeks sole trusteeship for Palestine at UN next month
London reports Britain will ask the United Nations trusteeship council to appoint her sole trustee for Palestine as the League of Nations dissolves. The government insists it will not abandon the mandate in the Holy Land and had not contemplated doing so. In Jerusalem a Jewish agency spokesman said transferring British trained Arab legionaries from Transjordan to guard duty in Palestine was bitterly resented by Jews.
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London
Britain
United Nations Trusteeship Council
Palestine
League of Nations
Holy Land
Ernest Bevin
United Nations Assembly
Jerusalem
Jewish Agency
Transjordan
Twelve Injured In Bus Street Car Crash Today
Twelve persons were injured when a Shafer Coach Lines bus collided with a Sewickley Coraopolis street car on West Carson Street in Pittsburgh. The bus driver, Henry Iacovucci of Aliquippa, RD 2, was the only occupant hurt, treated at South Side Hospital for head injuries.
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Pittsburgh
Shafer Coach Lines
Sewickley-Coraopolis
West Carson St
Henry Iacobucci
Aliquippa
South Side “Hospital
Arrest in car theft at Fairmont by 19 year old
State Trooper E D Hamilton said he jailed Marjorie Dale Novatter age 19 in Marion county jail charged with stealing an automobile from Vernon E Davis of Fairview. Novatter was arrested Saturday night by Trooper E C Meeks after the car wrecked near Hundred.ELKINS HOMESTEAD Commercial properties from the Tygarts Valley association and Kenwood corporation at the Tygarts Valley homestead project in Dailey went on the public sale block today including a saw mill trade center building filling station plant and a stone quarry.
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Fairmont
E. D. Hamilton
Hamilton
Marjorie Dale Novatter
Marion County
Vernon E. Davis
Fairview
Kenwood Corporation
Tygarts Valley Homestead
Dailey
F¢ District Court
Pickets Prevent Entry At Clarksburg Plant Strike Enters Third Week
In Clarksburg on August 20 a group of non striking workers faced entry denial at the Clarksburg Publishing plant as about 20 printers and 20 to 25 others blocked access. Police, under Judge Douglas Harnish, maintained order with roughly 100 non striking staff outside. Firm president Cecil B. Highland said access was barred to non strikers by the pickets. Union head L V Caveney declined comment on the company action and court move to test the rally.
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Clarksburg
Douglas Harnish
Harish
Cecil B. Highland
L. V. Caveney
International ‘Typographical Union
Mines Must Institute Full Benefits Of Laws
Government directed managers of government operated soft coal mines to provide employees with full benefits of workmen's compensation and occupational disease laws where coverage is elective. The order implements a May 29 settlement between Interior Secretary Krug and John L. Meene Mine Keatagee Cree Tt, with a report due by August 6 and an extra 30 days to report. See MINES page 6.
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Washington
Coal Mines Administration
Recretie of
Interior Krug
John L. Me
Keatagee Cree
Tito denounces Yugoslav downing of American plane
In Washington, Undersecretary Acheson accused Yugoslavia of an outrageous act after Yugoslav pilots shot at an unarmed American transport, forced a second to land, and caused a C-47 to spiral and burn over the Jul ian Alps. Five crewmen were aboard. two parachutes opened.
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Tito
Washington
Acheson
State Department
Byres
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
You Oslay
Julian Alps
U. S. State Department
Morgan freed from UNRRA post in Germany
London reports the War Office announces Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan is released from duties as UNRRA chief of displaced persons operations in Germany. The release follows UNRRA director-general La Guardia challenging an unnamed source over dispatches and a Soviet Russia reference.
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London
War Office
Prederick Morgan
UNRRA
Germany
PF. H. la Guardia
Frederick Morgan
Diac Morgan
la Guardia
Impress Dispatches
Primary Elections In New York State Attract National Attention
New York state held 21 congressional contests drawing national notice as observers watch if the Midwest trend of unseating incumbents will move east. Prospective candidates for governor are highlighted as the PRIMARY page 4.
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New York State
New York
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