United Nations Ends 12 Week Session With Rights Declaration
Paris December 11 The United Nations General Assembly wraps a twelve week session winding down with calls for world peace and disarmament while offering no enforcement mechanism. It approves by 48 to 0 a moral human rights declaration, seeks a binding covenant, and faces Soviet abstentions and vitriolic critique from Andrei Vishinsky. The debate centers on Palestine Berlin and Greece and the absence of concrete nonmilitary progress.
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Arthur Gavshon
Paris
United Nations General Assembly
Palestine
Berlin
Greece
Russia
Andrei Vishinsky
United States
Britain
France
Vishinsky
Hitler
R. Bary
Local area endures sub freezing night at 11 degrees
Last night local temperatures plunged to 11 degrees, five degrees below Thursday’s low, with ice on county highways and U S Route 119 creating hazardous driving. State Road Commission crews spread cinders as they prepared for continuing severe winter weather.
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State Road Commission
Bridge Street
Tueville
Santa Heim transforms Savage into Christmas wonderland
In southern Maryland the village of Savage becomes a festive Santa Home as thousands of youngsters arrive via special trains and autos to a tinseled toy town. Harry Heim, who purchased the hamlet and a 200-year-old mill, has redecorated brick houses, lit 28 000 colored lights, and built a see B AND O page 6 with Santa Claus and eight live reindeer.
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George Bowen Savage
Maryland
Savage
Santa Heim
Heim
Harry Heim
Savage Lock
Stosk and Barrel
Washington Boulevard
Santa Claus
One Dies As Navy Plane Crashes
FRANKFURT Germany December 11 A C 54 Navy airlift plane returning from Berlin crashed at night near Bad Homburg in the Taunus mountains. One crew member was killed Four other aboard were injured including a U S Air Force hostess Diana Day of San Francisco who escaped with slight injuries The pilot Lieutenant Joseph Norris of Lexington North Carolina and engineer Lt Frank T Heffernan of the Bronx New York survived with varying injuries The crash occurred with unclear radio and creased by instrument readings and poor weather.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Berlin
Bad Homburg
Taunus Mountains
Diana Day
San Francisco
Navy
Joseph Norris
Lex Ineton
N.C
Norris
Frank T. Hefferman
Bronx
N.Y
Local V F W Post To Host Council Meeting
Memorial City Post No 3081 VFW will host VFW county council No 7 comprising posts from surrounding areas tomorrow afternoon at 2 pm at the VFW hall. Dale Douglas of Buckhannon council commander will preside. All members urged to attend the important session.
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Memorial City
Veterans of Foreign Wars
V.F.W. County Council
IV. F.W. Hall
Dale Douglas
Buckhannon
Three Men Found Slain Near Cabins in Riverside Canyon
Riverside dispatch reports three men slain near two cabins in a remote canyon settlement north of Palm Springs. Max C. Salter and John A. Regal were identified. both shot in the chest. Henry Tolton’s body lay in a charred cabin with a .38 revolver beneath it.
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Riverside
Calif
Palm Springs
Max C. Salter
Regal
Henry Tolton
Netherlands quits U N negotiations with Indonesia
The Netherlands government ended United Nations sponsored talks with the Indonesian Republic and plans to form an interim government for remaining Indonesian areas. The U N good offices envoy said further talks are pointless unless the Republic shifts its stance. The U N general assembly closes its 12 week session in Paris with Palestine and other issues in focus.
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Indonesia
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Batavia
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Paris
Palestine
United States
Britain
Folke Bernadotte
U.N
China
Isran
Not Ching
Palpine
Chiang Kai-Shek
Washington
Truman
Marshall
Ser
Mare
Tremor Felt Near Pasadena After Big Quake
A strong aftershock was recorded about 100 miles from Pasadena at 9 12 a m PDT by the California Institute of Technology seismograph. Dr Charles Richter called it the strongest aftershock since last week’s rolling quake that rattled Southern California with minor damage. A prior shock was felt at Palm Springs at 1 43 p m yesterday.
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Pasadena
Calif
California Institute of Technology
Charles Richter
California
Palm Springs
Desert
Secret Papers Signal Red Spy Ring in State Dept
Federal grand jury to inspect films from a Pumpkin microfilm trove of government documents. U S Attorney McGahey says House committee authorized the release. Papers allegedly show a Red spy ring operated in the State Department a decade ago, tied to Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
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Des
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U. S
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John F. X. McGahey
House Un-American Activities Committee
Douglas B
Cornell Washington
State Department
House
UN Aan Activities Committee
Russia
Whittaker Chambers
Maryland
Chambers
Moscow
Alger Hiss
William W. Pigman
Appleton
Wis
U.S. Bureau of Standards
Federal
Pigman
Hiss
Henry J. Wadleigh
House’ Committee
U.S
House Committee
Grand Jury
Congressional
Donald
State ‘Department
Washington
Land Jury
Hiss Brothers
Karl Mundt
RSD
Clean City to Shut Water Off for Feeder Main Cleaning
City announces arrangements for cleaning the first major feeder water main in the system. Beginning Monday at 8 a.m. water will be off in east and north hilltop areas, Blueville, and all services east of St John street until completion later that afternoon. Residents in affected zones should draw water Sunday and avoid fire hazards. pressure will be below normal citywide.
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Wilson
St. John Streets
B&o
Three Fork Creek
Blueville
Graftonians
Alliance Talks Considered SeCh:T
Washington December 1 Officials anticipate final defense pact with Western European nations by spring The talks resumed after a three month recess with seven nations to present proposals Britain France Belgium Netherlands and Luxembourg seek a North Atlantic alliance linking the United States and Canada to Western European defense efforts
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Atlantic Alliance
Senate
Bracs F&cks
North Atlantic
United States
Canada
Western European Union
Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
State Lovett
State Department
Can't Use Survey For Distributing State Aid
Charleston Dec 11 A 15 month survey of property assessments in West Virginia is too inconclusive to base school aid distribution on. Tax Commissioner C H Koontz released an incomplete report noting time and funds limits, urging more money and study. He suggests removing public property from calculations and giving the school finance board power to decide when assessment data should be used.
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Charleston
West Virginia
C. H. Koontz
Koontz
Board of School Finance
Pittsburgh musician arrested in brutal slaying case
Pittsburgh police arrested a man today for questioning in the stabbing death of 12 year old Carol Kensinger in her Brush Ka home. The coroner called it the worst child killing seen. neighbors heard no noises. The man has a prior record for molesting children, and detectives say no solid clues exist at present.
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Ace
Carol Lee Kensinger
Albert Jones
East
Police Distret
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Joseph 4. Kensinger
Stanley Gurcet
Carrect
James Kelly
Kensineer
Kelly
Jon
Bowling
Chinese Communists Giving Ground
Chinese Communists encircling the 12th army group gave ground on the south as a government relief column from the Sixth army group pushed north from the Hwai River line toward Pengu, northwest of Nanking. Peiping warned of a critical situation, urging emergency preparations while the Sixth army regained villages and pressed about 22 miles northwest of Pengu, offsetting the trapped 12th with 110,000 troops.
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Seymour Topping
Nanking
12Th Army Group
Iran
Sixth Army Group
Hwai River
Pengu
North China
Peiping
Associated Press
Harold K. Milks
Sixth
12Th
U S Demands Romania Recall Its Diplomats
The United States demanded Romania recall two of its top diplomats arguing espionage links. Washington rejected Romania’s charges as ridiculous and contrary to fact. The move follows Romania's demand for removal of two American and two British diplomats.
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United States
Romania
State Department
Bucharest
Department
Taylor County Trade Group Moves to Oppose Rate Hike
The Taylor County Board of Trade plans legal steps to oppose a 25 percent telephone rate increase proposed by Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co of West Virginia. Jack Nusum, the new executive secretary, will prepare documents for submission to the Public Service Commission ahead of an early hearing. Various cities in the state have echoed opposition, arguing the hike is unnecessary for facility expansion.
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Jack R. Nusum
Trade Board
Chesapeake
Potomac Telephone Company
West Virginia
Board of Trade
Nuzum
Are
Public Service Commission
State Public Service Commission
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Nuzum Plans Talks With Patteson On Bridge Reopen
Taylor county delegate-elect Jack R. Nuzum and Marion county’s A J Manchin will travel to Charleston this weekend to meet Governor-elect Okey L Patteson. They will discuss reopening the Bridge street bridge linking downtown Grafton to the South Side, which was closed last spring for hazardous conditions after state and city surveys.
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Taylor County
House of
Legates
A. J. Manchin
Marion County
Charleston
Okey L. Patteson
Nuzum
Bridge Street
Grafton
State Road Commissions
Mibéts
Patterson
Tygart Ste Nuzum
Contends Opponent Ineligible To Serve In Sheriff Race
Ralph N. Brown of Arthurdale challenges Jesse H. Benson of Kingwood, a Republican who was certified with a 350 vote margin, arguing Benson is ineligible to serve after resigning as deputy sheriff earlier this year. The petition seeks to determine if Benson may serve since state law bars a sheriff from succeeding himself. the appellate court allowed Benson on the ballot but did not rule on eligibility.
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Kingwood
Fi Preston
Ralph N. Brown
Arthurdale
Jesse H. Benson
Benson
Hobart Spindler
Supreme Court
Miner Hub Hodges Dies From Whitesville Mine Injuries
Hubert Hodges, 98, of Clear Creek Raleigh county, died in a hospital after injuries from a state fall in the Anchor Coal company mine at Whitesville yesterday. Roma Broom, 30, of Sylvester, Boone county, was killed almost instantly in the same incident.
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Hubert ‘Hodges
Clear Creek
Raleigh County
Anchor Coal Company
Whitesville
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