Surprise Note Involving Truman In Inquiry ECA Reports Slackening
The Economic Cooperation Administration reports a slackening in European recovery growth in its first year. Nations earned enough to cover about one fifth of their Western Hemisphere imports, highlighting a core problem while continuing to pursue boosts in production currency stabilization and trade as Congress outlined.
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Washington
Economic Cooperation Administration
ECA
Europe
Congress
Twin Children Help Drive Hustead Farm Life
Twin children Mary and Martin Hustead actively participate in the 192 acre Taylor County farm owned by Mr and Mrs Earl Hustead near Wendel. Mary manages the cottage and poultry while Martin maintains a well kept lawn and livestock. The farm centers on dairy cows and calves, sheep and sows with pigs, plus hens for year round eggs, reflecting a family run operation.
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Earl Hustead
Wendel
Earl Husteads
Taylor County
Mary
Martin
Hustead
Iustead
Budget cuts eyed to trim Britain's spending
London reports the treasury will cut government spending by about five percent to save at least a large sum next year. A government source says the move stems from Britain's financial crisis and is commanded by Chancellor Sir Stafford Cripps, not prompted by U S suggestions. Meanwhile in Miami two hurricanes push north along the Atlantic. One brushed Cape Hatteras near shore, another moved toward the Bahamas and then northward, with a boatman drowned while attempting to recover a loose skiff.
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London
Bisury
Treasury
Britain
Sir Stafford Cripps
United States
Miami
Fla
Atlantic
Cape Hatteras
N. C
Bahamas
Harry
Trun
North Carolina
Florida
Turks Island
Nebraska man kills wife then commits suicide in Minnesota
The bodies of Lloyd N. Osborne and his wife Helen, both Omaha residents, were returned today after Osborne reportedly hacked and strangled his wife during a nightmare and then ended his life with poison in Grand Marais Minnesota. Cook County attorney J Henry Eliason identified the victims.
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Grand Marais
Minn
Omaha
Cook County
J. Henry Eliason
Lloyd N. Osborne
Helen
Federal Inspectors Complete Audit of Six State Hospitals
Board of control President Joe F Burdett announced federal technicians finished an inspection tour of four state mental hospitals and two tubercular institutions. A grant of 1,154,058 was approved for construction and improvement work. five institutions were judged satisfactory, while Spencer mental hospital’s report pending receipt.
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Charleston
Board of Control
Joe F. Burdett
Burdett
Spencer Mental Hospital
Worth Backs Down On First Testimony About B-36 Bomber
Cedric Worth retreated from earlier statements claiming he wrote the anonymous memo that spurred the B 36 bomber investigation. He testified before the House Armed Services Committee that he had heard Vinson told a navy officer Worth authored the document. Kimball, Worths superior, was to testify later as Worth admitted an error in claiming he told Kimball four or five days ago.
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Washington
Cedric
Navy
Dan Kimball
House Armed Services Committee
Kimball
Rep
Vinson
Dga
Worth
Kimbail
Joseph B. Keenan
College For Priests To Be Established
Morgantown reports a post graduate college for newly ordained Franciscan priests to be built on a 23 acre estate near the city. The site includes a 23 room main house and three smaller houses donated by Mr and Mrs Thony Pietro. The college will be named College Of Our Mother Of Good Counsel and may later become a boys school.
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Morgantown
Thomas DeLucca
Thony Pietro
Advertisers Scheduled For Friday's Sentinel Paper
Tomorrow's Sentinel lists advertisements already scheduled including Delaney's Electrical Appliances, West Virginia State Fair, Grafton Finance Co, Welfare Finance Co, Malone's Drug Store, Caplan's Jewelers, Grafton Jewelry Co, Loar's Jewelry Co, Manos Theatre, Dixie Theatre, Grafton Drive In, Twilite Drive In, Russell's Radio Service, Ivandale Inn, Cheat Lake Supper Club, Moose Dance, Partish Agency and others.
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Sentinel
Delaney
West Virginia
Bluestone Bridge Nears Christmas Completion Says Chief
HINTON P says Bluestone Bridge may be completed by Christmas with Construction superintendent James Garner noting no definite prediction. A March collapse killed five workers. earlier plans had October completion and a spring finish. A temporary steel pier stands between the first two concrete piers as a derrick is prepared to raise steel work.
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Garner
September Term Civil Docket Opened by Taylor County Circuit Clerk
Thirty six civil cases were listed for the September term opening of Taylor County Circuit Court with a grand jury to meet at 9 a.m. on September 12. Chancery cases were prepared and will be announced tomorrow. The docket includes cases like Brady Curry et al vs P W Lumber assumpsit and City National Bank of Fairmont vs Harold Bunner among others.
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W. Mette Bailey
Taylor County
Aiganuuuay
Brady Curry
P. W. 2Lumbly Lumber
James Holliday
H. G. Bailay
Chester Lapeer
Howard Bennett
James H. Farley
DeLoyd Thompson
Waldo Phillips
Beatrice M. Johnson
James R. Deegan
Francis Lucas
City National Bank of Fairmont
Harold Bunner
Howard
Raymond Fast
Howard Shaw
Forrest Bowman
Estella Phillips
Henry Daft
Joe Lyons
John Carder
Charles B. Taylor
David Paden
Assumpsit
K. H. Trippett
Julian R. Barton
Robert Stempky
Jackson Marks
Gertrude Pitzer
Julian Barton
The
Huntington Orthopedic Hospital
Ernest White
Marcus Mayle
Orland Parsons
Cyrus E. Poling
Admr
John T. Miller
Harry L. Kerns
Balaimore & Ohio R. R
Bower Mine Inc
Lucy 8. Tompkins
Ashford E. Reed
Charles ‘L.’Difion
Lynn’ Moore
Charles R. Weaver
Walter L. Currey
the Fairmont
Robert 'W. Fawcett
Floyd’ R. Utterback
Selah
C. Watring
George R. Campbell
Ursel J
Reed
Lawrence Boyce Posts Bond After Peace Warrant Appeal
Lawrence L. Boyce of Latrobe Street, found guilty in a peace warrant case, posted a $300 peace bond with Magistrate Ona C Jefferys and appealed to the Taylor County Circuit Court. The arrest occurred August 18, with his mother Mrs Nettie M Boyce of Blueville present. his brothers and Dorothy Stasko assisted. He had previously pleaded guilty to an assault warrant, paying a $25 fine plus costs. Additionally, Roger D Teter of Elkins West Virginia won a $2000 university scholarship in a Fisher Body model car design competition for the Junior division ages 12 to 15.
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Lawrence Boyce
Lawrence L. Boyce
Latrobe Street
Ona C Jefferys
Taylor County
Oris Boyce
Uty
Ray Matthews
Nettie M. Boyce
Blueville
Boyce
W. P. Samples
Dorothy Stasko
Detroit
Roger D. Teter
Elkins
W. Va
Fisher Body Company
Nation's Miners Maintain 3 Day Week Across Nation
White Sulphur Springs reports continued three day work weeks for most of the nation's soft coal miners as unions and operators resume contrast talks. Meetings set for September 15 by Northern Western operators and UMW officials, with Southern Producers Association talks deferred to September 14. Steel companies resuming steel and coal talks September 15 at White Sulphur Springs, CIO United Steel Workers and steel industry panels awaiting a ruling due August 30. Some miners foresee a common pattern emerging from CIO steel actions.
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Sof Co
United Mine Workers
Mississippi
UMW
John L. Lewis
Northern and Western
Union
Southern Coal Producers Association
Bluefield
W. Va
Steel
White Sulphur Springs
CIO
Steel Industry
Steel Companies
Cio-United Steel Workers
Traveling salesman accused of 68 affairs across 12 cities
Los Angeles wife files for divorce alleging John Edward Monroe conducted 68 intimate relationships with 11 women across 12 cities in five counties between 1943 and 1948. She cites romances beginning in Edgar town Massachusetts and extending to California, Hawaii, and international stops, noting Monroe is a traveling salesman.
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Los Angeles
John Edward Monroe
Edgartown
Mass
Helleview
Fla
Sydney
Australia
Manila
P. I
Kyoto
Wakayama
Japan
Ensenada
Baja
Nelta Marie Monroe
Hurricane Alert Shifts Toward South Florida
An erratic Atlantic hurricane recurred West northwest and prompted Grady Norton, Miami chief storm forecaster, to urge Northern Bahamas and Southern Bahamas to prepare. At 11 am the storm lay 480 miles east southeast of Miami moving 15 mph, seemingly steered by a high pressure system.
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Miami
Florida
Atlantic
Grady Norton
Bahama Island
Miam
Norton
Attends Annual GAR Encampment
John W. Snider local justice of the peace and member of the Sons of the Veterans of Union Soldiers leaves for Indianapolis Indiana to attend a GAR event. He travels with his secretary Miss Tiny Poole and will stay a week. Snider is among 11 Sons of Veterans members and one of three active participants in Memorial Day ceremonies at the state's only National Cemetery. Magister Ona C. Jefferys and Ed N. Locke join as the other active members.
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John
W. Snider
Sons of the Veterans of Union
Reno Campy No
Grafton
Indianapolis
Indiana
Diana
Snider
Tiny Poole
Valley Falls Road
Mr. Snider
Sons of Veterans of the Union Soliders
National Cemetery
Ona C. Jefferys
Ed N. Locke
GAR
Grand Army of the Republic
Truman extends invitation to Dixiecrats amid civil rights clash
President Truman welcomed southern party bolters while demanding alignment with the 1948 Democratic platform. The move comes as States' Rights leaders threaten to open Washington headquarters, signaling renewed party tensions over civil rights.
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Washington
Truman
Democratic National Committee
High Command
Congresa Toy
Co 4
Mr. Truman
President Truman eyed Maragon trip to Europe in 1945
Senate investigators revealed a Vaughan memo stating President Truman was personally interested in Maragon's August 1945 trip to Italy for the Albert H. Verley Perfume Co. Chicago. The note cites Mrs Ruth Shipley and a military transport permit listing individuals authorized by the president. The records aim to show how Maragon and perfume agents secured passage to Europe.
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Italy
Perfume Company of
Chicago
Washington
Senate
Harry H. Vaughan
State Department
Truman
John’ Maragon
Vaughan
Maragon
Albert H. Verley Perfume Co
Mara~gon
Perfume Company
Europe
Judge rules allergy to spouse not grounds for divorce
Joyce Holdridge testified she broke out in cash near her husband Nolan, but Judge Roy Brockmann dismissed the claim as cruelty. Nolan Holdridge has filed for annulment amid nationwide controversy sparked by the ruling.
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Roy Brockmann
Joyce Holdridge
Taffy
Nolan
No Turkey Shortage In State This Year
Charleston dispatch reports no turkey shortage in West Virginia for Thanksgiving as the Federal State Crop Reporting Service forecasts production at 682000 birds, a 37 percent rise from last year’s 498000. No price per pound was released.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Federal
Sims Says He Will Not Pay All Awards
Charleston reports Auditor Edgar B. Sims says only seven of 49 state claims approved by the 1949 legislature have been paid. He says many have not been formally submitted and he will pay only if the state gains value in services goods or land. Five of 36 Road Commission claims approved have been paid so far. Nine claims were formally rejected including a $5,000 award to J W Coole of Marietta Ohio due to a court finding of improper imprisonment.
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Charleston
Edgar B. Sims
Sims
Road Commission
Supreme Court
J. W. Coole
Marietta
Coole
Jackson
Firemen Discover Pot Of Black Beans On Trip
Firemen respond to a call near Graf ton Avenue after smoke from a kitchen pot led neighbors to fear a fire. Investigators found no blaze at the Smith residence though the pot burned. residents noted two prior bean pot mishaps in the community.
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Smith
Gummy” Poe
Bankers Meet Opens At White Sulphur Springs
Fleming and Yates attend a three day West Virginia Bankers association convention opening today at White Sulphur Springs. Officers will be elected by the trust division and a past presidents breakfast will be held tomorrow. Evans Woolrell Jr. of Indianapolis, president of the American Bankers Association, is the principal speaker on the 56th annual affair. Other speakers include Col Major of Paducah Ky Romer Steffen of National City Bank New York and Dr Marqus Nadler a finance professor at New York Boulou.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Jay Fleming
First National Bank
Arthur G., Yates
West Virginia Bankers Association
White Sulphur Springs
Trust Division
Evans Woolell, Jr
Indianapolis
Ind
American Bankera Association
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John Maragon
Turkey
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