Soviet Aviation Day Showcases Superspeed Jets
Moscow marked Aviation Day with four new superspeed jet aircraft in a grand display of air power. Foreign observers and Soviet officials watched hundreds of fighters and bombers streak across the sky. An air attache praised the jets as extraordinarily fast and noted the show featured only modern aircraft with no obsolescent types.
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Moscow
Russia
U.S
Alan G. Kirk
Leslie C. Stevens
U.S. Naval
Bug interrupts Bloomer Girl as star faints on stage
Dallas report says Janette Fabray suffered a hysterical reaction when a bug fell into her costume during the second act. The operetta was halted and the closing night canceled after the incident. Chares R. Meeker Jr. attributed Fabray's insect fear to a childhood locust swarm and noted costumes had been sprayed with DDT for open air shows. No insects affected six prior performances.
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Dallas
Tex
Janette Fabray
Chares R. Meeker, Jr
State Fair Casino
Miss Fabray
Secret Blair House Conference May Be Reported
Senators may get a direct report from the Blair House hush hush conference. A closed session was planned at 9 30 a m with Chairman McMahon indicating a possible briefing. President Truman called the meeting last Thursday night with high level military atomic diplomatic and congressional leaders present. Fewer than half the atomic committee members attended.
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Washington
Senate House Atomic Committee
Blair House
McMahon
D-Conn
Truman
Atomic Committee
Flemington man pays fine for second license offense
Robert Ricketts of Flemington paid a $50 fine plus costs after appearing before Magistrate Ona C Jefferys for a second offense of operating a motor vehicle without a valid operator's license. He was arrested by State Trooper E L Duckworth.
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Robert Ricketts
Flemington
Ona C Jefferys
E. L. Duckworth
House Advances Defense Budget Reform Bill
The House moved toward giving Secretary of Defense Johnson more power over the armed forces by brief debate on a bill to reorganize military budgeting and accounting. Rep Vinson said the House bill would be linked to the Senate bill in conferences, while a presidential plan to act by executive order remains ready. The session also advanced housing loan insurance for military post contractors and prepared hearings on a broad military construction measure.
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Washington (P
House
S of Defense
Johnson
Rep
Vinson
D-Ga
House Armed Services Committee
Senate
Congress
Jong
Steel Production Flows Undisturbed
Pittsburgh dispatch reports steel flow from the nation’s furnaces largely undisturbed as mills quietly began limited idling after Truman’s pledge for a 60-day truce with CIO United Steelworkers. Some furnaces were banked for extended idleness, but industry-wide shutdowns were not complete, with many firms resuming full operation by Friday and shipments already boosted last week to cushion the impact.
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Pittsburgh
Truman
Philip Murray
CIO
United Steelworkers
U. S. Seel Corporation
One Person Hurt In Weekend Mishap On Webster Road
A Saturday afternoon crash on Webster Road involved three cars and left Arlie Garnet House with a chin cut. The 1938 DeSoto driven by House collided with Winfred Woodrow Stalnaker’s 1941 Chevrolet, causing $1,000 in damage. Stalnaker and the truck operator fled the scene.
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Webster Road
Arlie Garnet House
DeSoto
Winfred Woodrow Stalnaker
Route 3
Moatsville
Hearing May Be Last For C P Rate Increase
Charleston dispatch reports a possible final Public Service Commission hearing on the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone petition for a third postwar rate increase. Attorneys for the company and commission aimed to finish testimony soon as witnesses, including Montgomery city attorney William G. Thompson, prepared to discuss C P’s ties to Western Electric amid cost pressures.
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Charleston
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Public Service Commission
Commission
William G. Thompson
Montgomery
Thompson
C&p
Western Electric Company
Set Up Fact-Finding Board Public Hearings On Steel Dispute
The steel dispute fact-finding board will open public hearings July 28 in New York after an organizational meeting at the White House. Chairman Carroll Daugherty said delaying to July 28 allows both sides to prepare evidence. The board will meet two days earlier in New York with steel industry reps and United Steelworkers to handle procedural matters. Rosenman requested the record note his New See Public Page 3.
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Washington (P
New York
White House
Carroll Daugherty
Steel Inustry
CLO United Steelworkers
Samuel S. Rosenman
Truman
Rosenman
Burial Thursday For Grafton Hero Edsell Poe
Burial services set for 10 a.m. Thursday at National Cemetery for Staff Sergeant Edsell Neil Poe of 230 Barrett Street who died on April 2, 1944. Poe, a B-17 tail gunner, was born in Grafton on March 26, 1923 and served after leaving the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Surviving are wife Lenora, a son Edsell Jean, and brother Norman Lee Poe. his parents Virgil O. Poe and O t t ie L. Campbell Poe preceded him. He belonged to First Christian church and local fraternal and veterans groups. Military honors will be given by American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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National Cemetery
Edsell Neil Poe
Barrett Street
Austria
Virgil O. Poe
Ottie L. Campbell Poe
Grafton
Lenora Ridenour Poe Clarke
Fairmont
Edsell Jean
Sons of the American Legion
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Last of 14 Escaped Convicts Sought in Ohio Woodlands
Akron police and Barberton officers hunted the last of 14 convicts who escaped from Moundsville state penitentiary on June 3. Eddie Starcher, 22, serving 10 years for grand larceny, was believed to be the fugitive. All others had been captured. search waned as reports of continued escape faded.
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Akron
Moundsville
W. Va
Eddie Starcher
Barberton
Advertisers Scheduled For Tuesday's Sentinel Paper
Tomorrow's Sentinel lists ads already scheduled from General Motors Corporation Lucky Strike Bartons Roberts Main Street Store Penney's Parrish Agency Caplan's Jewelers Grafton Jewelry Company Loar Jewelry Company Mangs Theatre Grafton Finance Company Malone's Drug Store and others.
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General Motors Corporation
Lucky Strike
Bartons Roberts
Penney's
Parrish Agency
Caplan's Jewelers
Grafton Jewelry Company
Loar Jewelry Company
Mangs Theatre
Grafton Finance Company
Malone's Drug Store
Prohibition Ends For Kansas As Liquor Legalized
Kansas ends its dry era as liquor is legalized after a 1937 move allowing beer under 3.2 percent. Voters approved repeal by a margin of 422,294 to 358,310, and the state licenses more than 260 stores to retail intoxicants while bans on saloons and public drinking remain.
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Topeka
Kansas
Uquor Control Office
Dr Brannon Case Before Court Over $256 Payment
In Charleston the court of claims heard a Morgantown physician’s petition seeking 256 dollars for medical services to 16 patients in December 1936 that he says were not paid. The case waits for Brannon’s military discharge. Also, Robert B Lowe seeks 217.67 dollars in damages from Safe Road Commission for damage to his home August 18 1948 due to dynamite road widening.
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Charleston
Court of Claims
Morgantown
State Public Assistance Department
Dorsey Brannon
Brannon
Robert B. Lowe
Fairview
Marion County
Safe Road Commission
Lowe
Newburg Man Charged With Hazardous Driving After Wreck
Charles Warren Lee, 47, of Newburg, faces a hazardous driving charge after a Saturday night wreck on U S Route 50 near Thornton. He claimed he was blinded by an approaching car and misjudged the intersection, crashing into a gasoline pump and the Mac's Service station. Corporal G F Randall arrested him. he is to appear before Magistrate Ona C Jefferys on July 21.
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Charles Warren Lee
Newburg
Ona C. Jefferys
Thornton
Lee
Newburg Road
Mac
Thornton Road
G. F. Randall
Miriam Friedman Receives WVU Appointment in Anatomy
Miss Miriam Friedman of Maple Avenue has been hired as a technician in the anatomy and histology department at West Virginia University School of Medicine. A Grafton native, she earned her Bachelor of Science last spring after graduating from Grafton Senior High School.
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Miriam Friedman
Harry Friedman
Maple Avenue
School of Medicine
West Virginia University
Grafton
Grafton Senior High
Brewster Assails Truman Plan For Operating In Red
Senator Brewster argues against Truman’s budget approach to running the government in the red, says it could dominate 1950 elections. He criticizes pumping up spending and cites prior economic distress. McGrath counters, accusing some Republicans of courting a depression for political gain.
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Washington
Truman
Brewster
R-Me
Brewster's Mit
McGrath
Rhode Island
Pensacola
Fla
China Fighting Flares Into New Military Push
Central China saw renewed fighting between Nationalists and Communists with reports of Nationalist setbacks. Red forces reportedly moved toward Changsha after capturing Chang, a Yangtze port near Shanghai. Nationalists abandoned Paochi but mounted counterattacks in western Shensi and surrounding regions as rice prices surged and the economy felt strain from the conflict.
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Canton
China
Hong Kong
Defense Ministry
Shanghai
Chang- Sha
Hunan
Dth
Zchang
Yangtze
Changsha
Paochi
Shensi
Bridge Closes Berkley Run for Repairs Near Handley Crossing
The Berkley Run bridge on US 119 near the Handley crossing of the Baltimore and Ohio is shut from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. today through Wednesday for floor repairs. Traffic is rerouted over Trap Springs road as State Road workers replace the bridge floor, with flagmen directing detours at US 119 and Trap Springs, and in West Grafton for southbound traffic.
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Berkley Run
U.S. 119
Baltimore and Ohio
Trap Springs Road
Roscoe Murphy
State Road
Grafton
West Grafton
150 Year-Old Man To Be Arraigned On Murder Charge
Sid Kitts aged 50 from near Genoa Wayne county is to be arraigned on a murder charge for the fatal stabbing of 42 year old Atlin Watts of Genoa. Kitts surrendered to state police and is in county jail awaiting appearance before Magistrate Jess Willard Horne. Watts was stabbed Friday night at a barbecue stand near Wayne.
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Huntington
Sid Kitts
Genoa
Wayne County
Atlin Watts
Kitts
Wayne
Jess Willard Horne
Watts
Lewes
Eng
John George Haigh
Olive Durand-Deacon
David Maxwell-Fyfe
Haigh
Amvets Seek Three Year Readjustment Extension
West Virginia Amvets at their state convention urged a three year extension of the veterans readjustment act and backed a Pacific pact similar to the Atlantic treaty. Lee Martin of Morgantown led the resolutions committee explaining the act aids postwar adjustment, noting a postponed recession and price adjustments.
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Morgantown
West Virginia
Amvets
Lee Martin
Resolutions Committee
Huntington Firm Robbed By Gunman
Clark Adkins, 40, owner of a dairy bar in Huntington downtown, said a gunman robbed him of 260 dollars outside his shop after closing. The assailant, about five feet ten inches, 150 pounds, pressed a pistol into his stomach and demanded the cash.
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Huntington
Clark Adkins
Clark
Teachers Begin Study Of United Nations Now
Morgantown teachers start a two week workshop on international relations with the UN as the topic for the first week. Dr Amry Vandenbosch of the University of Kentucky political science department speaks this week. he is a former state official and UN Conference Secretariat member.
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Morgantown
United Nations
International Organization
Amry Vandenbosch
University of Kentucky
Vandenbosch
State Department
San Francisco
Priests Defy Government in Czech Church Crisis
Catholic priests across Czechoslovakia rejected the communist order by reading a resolution at morning masses pledging loyalty to church authorities. They accused the government of violating religious freedom and labeled state Catholic actions schismatic, asserting clerical signatures were obtained by fraud and that most clergy share their views.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Josef Beran
Vatican
Eas
Prague Catholic
St. Vitus
Beran
Grafton Welcomes Newest Citizens
Three babies greeted Grafton over the weekend at City Hospital as announcements list the Bartletts of Bridgeport with a daughter born Saturday at 12:44 am weighing six pounds. the McCues of Route 2 with a son born Saturday at 6:25 am weighing seven pounds eight ounces. and the Boyces of Route 6 with a boy born Sunday weighing five pounds.
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City Hospital
G. Thomas Bartlett, Jr
Bridgeport
Jack McCue
Route 2
Grafton
Paul Boyce
Route 6
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