Explosion Tragedy Kills Baby in Huntington Fire
An 18 month old black baby died and two relatives injured when a two story frame house exploded and fire swept the area in Huntington. Fire crews fought flames as neighbors and store owners aided victims and attempted to reach the child trapped in rubble. The blast, likely from gas, shattered windows and sent debris across the block as rescuers worked amid intense heat.
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Huntington
Theusiness
Clifford Jarrell
Robert Nicol
Frank Burks
Gibson
Scotty
Nicol
Taylor County Fair appoints committees for September event
The annual Taylor County Fair is set for September 12 to 14 with all committees named for exhibit planning. The fair will use vacant Maple avenue lots with the street blocked to allow ground access. Exhibits include County School Bus Garage indoors and open outdoor plots for livestock, dairy, and crops. Amusements by Earl South Amusement Co will add rides. Catalogues with prize lists come by September 1. commercial exhibitors should contact Frank Kunst.
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Taylor County
Maple Avenue
Operation Little John Michael de Ville Blues Baby Pictured
Seven year old John Michael de Ville, described as an invalid since infancy with a heart condition and bluish skin, is shown at La Guardia Field after arriving from France to undergo a Blalock operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The procedure, noted as successful for blue babies, aims to correct his condition.
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John Michael de Ville
LaGuardia Field
France
U.S
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Chambers Replies to Board of Trade on Prone Service
Paul E. Malone president of the Taylor County Board of Trade says subscribers in Grafton complained about slow telephone service and asked officials to push for faster service and new equipment. Francis C. Chambers Grafton manager responded, with a letter on file with telephone company officials. CHALMERS page 2.
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Chambers
Board OF Trade
Taylor County Board of Trade
Grafton
Paul E. Malone
Malone
Sentinel
Local Trade Board
Francis C. Chambers
Chalmers
Third Victim Of Plant Blast Dies In Ohio Fatality
A third death from the Ohio Apex plant explosion was reported as W. D. Wilkinson, 39, of Plymouth, died from burns. Delmar Stallings, 37, a laboratory sampler, also perished, and Lonnie Kilgore, 40, of Nitro, died en route to hospital after being trapped beneath debris. Eight workers were injured as a 600 foot steel building was wrecked by the blast and ensuing fire.
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NITRO
Ohio Apex, Inc
W. D. Wilkimson
Plymouth
Delmar Stallings
Lonnie Kilgore
Tito backs off under U.S. ultimatum for seven internees
Belgrade Aug 23 Premier Marshal Tito agreed to meet the United States demand to release seven Americans and ordered his air force not to fire on foreign planes without clearance. Tito promised U.S. Ambassador Patterson access to inspect downed C-47s near Ljubjana and Bled as U.S. officials pressed for satisfaction within 48 hours or UN action. Two grave reconnaissance teams planned to inspect the shoot down site amid reports five crew members died in the incident. Observers cited divergent accounts of parachute escapes and search outcomes.
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George Palmer
Belgrade
Marshal Tito
United States
Yugoslavia
Tito
U. S
Richard C. Patterson
Ljub- Vana
Bled
Patterson
United Nations
Foreign Office
U.S
Zagreb
London
Truman Faces Party Rift Over Flood Control Cuts
President Truman, already clashing with Republicans over his budget revision, now faces a major split with four Democratic leaders in Congress. They condemn a $300,000,000 cut in flood control and rivers and harbors for 1947 and 1948 as beyond his authority and call a national protest in New Orleans on September 20.
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Clair Johnson
Washington
Truman
Congress
New Orleans
Senate
McKellar
D.-Tenn
Overton
D.-La
Senate Commerce Committee
Mansfield
D.-Tex
Yugoslavia may file UN complaint over Danube shipping
Moscow radio said Yugoslavia filed a complaint with the United Nations Security Council about Danube shipping, while Yugoslav delegate Dr Andrija Stampar said the note sought discussion by the Economic and Social Council and did not mention the United Nations specifically. He said the letter was delivered to Secretary General Trygve Lie with Sept 11ECOSOC session in view.
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New York
Moscow
Yugoslavia
United States
United Nations Security Council
U.N
Economic and Social Council
Danube
Andrija Stampar
United
Trygve Lie
U. N. Secrrtary
United Nations
Tass
Belgrade
Dr. Stamper
United Nations Economic and Social Council
Security Council
Strosnider Grants Peaceful Picketing Order
In Clarksburg Judge Homer Strosnider issued an order permitting peaceful picketing at the Clarksburg Publishing Company plant while requiring striking printers to allow non striking employees to enter. The ruling follows earlier denials and state Supreme Court backing, with Rep M M Neely of Fairmont noting an exception to the writ.
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Clarksburg
Clarksburg Publishing Company
Circuit
Homer Strosnider
Strosnider
State Supreme Court
Rep
M. M. Neely
Fairmont
The Doctrine Of Self Help Is Old Texas Style
District Judge Robert W. Terrell advised an army colonel to “finish off the man in Texas style” with a 12 gauge shotgun after the colonel sought an injunction to stop a San Antonio man from visiting or telephoning his wife. The caller had been receiving 20 to 30 phone calls daily since the affair began six months ago at Goodfellow Field in San Angelo.
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San Antonia
Tex
Army
Robert W. Terrell
Texas
John F. Guillet
Goodfellow Field
San Angelo
San Antonio
Pilots missed by fighter signals
In Yugoslavia two Yugoslav fighters misread signals during aU S Army transport encounter. Capt William Crombie said wing rocking and deliberate dives were misinterpreted. he landed despite gunfire. A Turkish captain was wounded. others evacuated, aircraft wrecked. Crombie and crew released after ultimatum to Yugoslavia.
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Gorizia
Italy
Yugoslavia
William Crombie
East Longmeadow
Mass
Crombie
Marshal Tito
Vienna-Udine
Americar
Lju- Dlajana
Fourth Army
Cromble
WCTU Leader Urges RKO to Cut Temple Drinking Scene
Mrs. D Leigh Colvin, president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, urged RKO Pictures to remove a scene in The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer showing Shirley Temple taking a drink. She called the scene disserving to American youth and objected to its portrayal.
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Chicago
D. Leigh Colvin
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
Shirley Temple
Colvin
Return to AAA acreage control system debated
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson weighs new incentives to keep farmers within government production goals as world food demand may shrink. Current law requires support prices at 90 percent parity for most commodities and 92.5 percent for cotton, aiming to sustain farmer buying power.
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Ovid A. Martin
Associated Press
Washington
Anderson
Agriculture Department
Kilgore Wins Democratic Renomination In West Virginia Primary
Charleston report shows U S Senator Harley M Kilgore with 105 886 votes and J Buhl Shahan 22 614 in the August 6 primary, securing the Democratic renomination while Thomas Sweeney of Wheeling takes the Republican nomination.
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Charleston
U. S
Harley M. Kilgore
Conductress Turns In Lost Purse With $3,000 Reward Offered
In San Francisco on August 23 a conductress named Ethel Jeffers found a purse containing about $3,000 in cash and travelers' checks on a streetcar and turned it in. The loser reportedly waited, and a $1 reward was offered.
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San Francisco
Ethel Jeffers
Order Over Bal lots in Cabell County Packed for Probe
Huntington Aug 23 The Cabell County court ordered all August 6 primary election ballots of precincts 53 and 74 impounded and handed to Prosecutor Edward H Greene for investigation of alleged fraud. Court President Boone Arthur said all officials from those precincts and others would be called before the court together. Officials from four precincts already recounted were to be questioned this afternoon as irregularities are probed in a tight Dem race where Sen Andrew R Winter held a slim lead over Fred Rotroff.
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Huntington
Cabell County
Edward H. Greene
Boone B. Arthur
Andrew R
Snooks) Winter
Senate
Winters
Fred Rotroff
Cabell
Wayne Counties
Andrews Methodists Favor Memorial Plan for Mother’s Day
Church members favor selling the Andrews Methodist church to the State of West Virginia for conversion into a Memorial to the founding of Mother's Day in 1908. The board will decide, guided by a three to one poll. the Mother's Day Memorial committee previously urged sale for a public facility such as a library.
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Andrews Methodist Church
West Virginia
Andrews Church
Yugoslav says Turkish officer held over Yugoslavia flight
A Yugoslav spokesman said the Turkish officer passenger of the U S transport shot down on August 9 was being held because his flight over Yugoslavia was not accidental. Tito reportedly rejected the U S ultimatum and Byrnes called the affair pending.
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Paris
U.S
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Marshal Tito
United States
Byrnes
Washington
Sava Konsanovic
U. S
Haseh
Ore Koscinovic
State Department
May Improves at Prestonsburg After Illness
Prestonsburg Kentucky August 23 Rep A J May chair of the House military committee is improving and will get well. Dr John Archer one of his doctors said May is still confined to bed at his home and has not yet sat up. The physician noted he has been treating the congressman with his brother Dr George Archer and sees him almost daily.
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Prestonsburg
A. J. May
House Military Committee
John Archer
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