Ford-CIO Reaches Settlement Ends Auto Strike Threat
Detroit July 22 A 13 cent an hour raise for 116000 CIO production workers ends a national strike threat after 21 hours of talks. UAW CIO wins premium pay vacation improvements and group insurance revised. Fringe benefits add about 3.5 to 4 cents per hour. Contract expires July 15 1949. Ford estimates 32 million annual cost.
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Detroit
CIO
Ford Motor Company
United Auto Workers Alsl
Uaw-Cio
Ford
Chrysler Corp
Governmnt
Bureau of Standards
Chrysler
John S. Bugus
Ford Company
Bugas
Ford-Cio
Resurfacing Job Delayed Two Weeks In County
Wet weather has delayed the Route 250 resurfacing project in Marion County. Lacky Haller, county supervisor for the State Road Commission, said the Anderson Company must complete the work before resuming on Main and Pike streets in Clarksburg. The schedule shifts to night work to finish the job. The delay will push completion further into the month.
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Jay
Pounty
Harish Junty Line
Marion County
Pike
Clarksburg
Haller
Gutie Haller
Rail traffic 13 paralyzed for 8 hours by waters
Torrential rains across the Monongah division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad last night and this morning blocked the main line between Clarksburg and Parkersburg for nearly eight hours. A landslide near No. 9 tunnel and washouts west of Ellenboro delayed trains, with the Westbound National Limited and Diplomat held in Clarksburg for four hours. Freight movement also suffered as other washouts and a Portrer Falls track failure affected service.
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Monongah
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Clarksburg
Parkersburg
Grafton
Fairmont
Monongah Division
Pennsboro
Ellenboro
No. 9
Hughes River
National Limited
Diplomat
Porter Falls
Brooklyn Junction
Antioch
Colfax
Benton's Ferry
Pairmont
Con
Powerless To Aid As Son Brother Crown
Burlington July 22 A paralyzed farmer faced the Patterson Creek tragedy as his 10 year old son Russell Edward Barber drowned while wading. His brother Philip James Barber 25 jumped to save him and disappeared with the child’s body recovered later by firemen. The farmer’s eight year old son was sent for help.
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Burlington
William
Barber
Russell Edward Barber
Patterson Creek
Philip James Barber
William Barber
Coal Trucks Found Carrying Heavy Loads In Taylor County
Thirty three coal truck drivers were warned for overloading during state police checks across Flemington Simpson Webster and Pruntytown with a new 18000 pounds per axle limit. No arrests were made. In Wheeling Cotter Rainey six was Wheeling's first polio case prompting a ten day quarantine request for his parents by Health Commissioner Dr. John Gilmore.
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Taylor County
Flemington
Simpson
Webster
Pruntytown
Wheeling
Ter Rainey
John Gilmore
Consumers' Sales Tax Collections Show Gain in Charleston
Charleston July 22 A gain of more than 3.7 million dollars over fiscal 1947 in consumers sales tax collections for the year ended June 30 was reported. Tax Commissioner C H Koontz said the two percent levy on all retail purchases brought in 22,799,126 during the last year, up from 19,094,846 in the prior year. The gain boosted the rise in the yield of the state's two major taxes to nearly 10,000,000.
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Charleston
C. H. Koontz
John Benda Sr. Dies After Illness at 65 in Flemington
John Benda Sr aged 65 a longtime Flemington merchant died after six months illness in a Clarksburg hospital He was born June 26 1883 in Czechoslovakia to Andrew and Julia Benda He married Elizabeth Martiska Benda on June 20 1907 and they had 10 children The family includes Julia Pollard Elizabeth Elizabethia and Pauline Benda Ludmilla Westbrook Anna Whitescarver Helen Marra John Benda Jr Andrew V Benda and Michael Daniel Benda Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 10 a m from the late home with Rev EF Roof officiating Burial will follow at Benedum Cemetery in Bridgeport Graham Funeral Home in charge of arrangements
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John Benda
Flemington
Clarksburg
Czechoslovakia
Andrew Benda
Julia Matas Benda
Elizabeth Martiska Benda
Benda
Lutheran Church
Taylor County
Julia Pollard
Galloway
Elizabeth Benda
Pauline Benda
Ludmilla Westbrook
Anna Whitescarver
Pruntytown
Helen Marra
John Benda, Jr
Andrew V. Benda
Paul Benda
Michael Daniel Benda
U.S. Marine Corps
Quantico
Michael
George Benda
EF. K
Benedum
Bridgeport
Graham Funeral Home
Revercomb Blasts Lovett On UN Visa Charges Last Night
Senate investigators pressed a probe into alleged Communist influence at the U.N. visa program. Robert C. Alexander, assistant chief of the State Department visa division, was recalled for testimony after Secretary of State Marshall denied a security threat. Revercomb, WV senator and judiciary subcommittee chair, criticized the response and promised a full fact revelation.
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Revercomb
Lovett
Don Whitehead Washngton
Senate
State Department
United Nations
U.S
Subcommittee
Robert C. Alexander
Department
Alexander
Marshall
U.N
R.-W.va
Charleston
W. Va
Kidnapers Slay Family Of Three In Mansfield Ohio
Police study autopsy reports and fingerprints in the Mansfield reformatory family slaying case. John E Niebel the 50 year old superintendent, his wife 52 and their daughter Phillis 21 were found shot in a cornfield after being kidnapped from their home. Authorities pursue fingerprints and coroner findings as they search for suspects.
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Mansfield, O
Mansfield Reformatory
John E. Niebel
Reformatory
Phillis
Richland County
Theodore Lutz
D. C. Lavender
Niebel Nome
Frank E. Robinson
London
Niebels
Lavender
Niebel
18 Year Olds Press for Volunteer Military Service
Washington observers expect a special congressional session to consider widening the pool of volunteers for the armed forces. Senate aides report a draft report by Secretary of Defense and Halls staff on selective service changes. Thousands of 18 year olds signed up at recruiting stations to join now and avoid a draft for 21 months at age 19. Congress estimates only 161,000 can be accepted next year amid about 1.2 million eligible teens.
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Washington
Congress
Gurney
R-Sd
Senate Armed Services Committee
Secretary of Defense
Yugoslav Party Meets as Tito Speaks on Civil War Fears
Belgrade July 22 The fifth congress of the Yugoslav Communist party resumed with a marathon speech by Marshal Tito after an eight hour blast. Interior Minister Rankovic, who leads the security police, followed up discussing party organization as Belgrade press covers Tito's address to 2300 delegates.
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Osgood Caruthers
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Yugoslav Communist Party
Sup
Tito
Alexander Rankovic
Rankovic
UDBA
Borba
Montenegro
Milovan Dulas
Eduard Kardelj
Famed Scottsboro Defendant Patterson Escape Report
Montgomery wire reports 35 year old Haywond Patterson, once named in the Scottsboro rape case, remains at large after escaping Kilby prison. He was serving 75 years for the 1931 rape and was among eight black men who broke out, with five recaptured soon after. Three others, including Patterson, remain fugitives.
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Montgomery
Ula
Haywond Patterson
Scottsboro
Kilby
Patterson
Ala
Bevin says Britain will not back down on Berlin blockade
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin declared in London that Britain will not back down on demands to lift the Russian blockade of Berlin before four power talks on Germany. He said it is impossible for a self respecting government to discuss while troops are cut off from normal communications and 2.5 million people are used to pressure a decision.
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Tom Williams
London
Ernest Bevin
Britain
Berlin
House of Commons
UMW Says Coal Co.s Also Guilty If Union Violates Act
Washington July 22 United Mine Workers attorney argued at a National Labor Relations Board hearing that if the new soft coal agreement violates the Taft Hartley act then coal companies agreeing to it are jointly guilty of violations. Welly Hopkins said captive steel company mines are equal participants and should be charged if the contract’s union shop clause is illegal. NLRB will respond later. He denied the week long walkout between July 6 and 13 was a union directed strike.
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Washington
Council
John L. Lewis
Compariies
Welly Hopkins
United Mine Workers
National Labor Relations Board
Lewis
UMW
Hopkins
NLRB
Reynaud Will Serve In New French Cabinet
Paris July 22 Premier Paul Reynaud agreed to serve as minister in a cabinet led by moderate conservative Andre Marie Blunt. Socialist Leon Blunt was reported ready to take the foreign ministry. Reynaud’s choice secures 25 votes from the rightist independents in the assembly.
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Louis Nevin
Paris
Paul Reynaud
Andre Marie
Leon Blunt
Reynaud
Two American MPs Held by Russians in Berlin
Berlin dispatch reports Privates Elwood E. Dwinnel of Mabton Washington and George G. Hunt of Camp Ohio were arrested by Soviet troops after accidentally entering the Russian zone during a patrol. They were guided back to American sector by German police and handed over to American authorities.
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Berlin
Elwood E. Dwinnel
Mabton
Washington
George G. Hunt
Camp
Dwinnel
Hunt
West is sentenced to five years in state penitentiary
Ruth Wilma West, 22, of Clarksburg, was sentenced in Taylor County Circuit Court to five years in the state penitentiary for women for violating her three year probation on an armed robbery charge. She had pleaded guilty last April and was placed on probation, later moved from Taylor jail to Old West Virginia Women’s Penitentiary.
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Ruth Wilma West
Clarksburg
Taylor County
Old Sweet Springs Wommen’s
West Virginia
Warren Wayne Limer
Weston
Limer
Moundsvlle
Miss West
West
Kazy Nook Restaurant
Leona Shipp
Flash flood damages half million in Lancaster Ohio
A flash flood on Lancaster s west side caused about 500 000 dollars in damage and left 500 homes isolated. About 2 000 homes were menaced as water from Hunters Run overflowed its banks and families fled by boat with no casualties reported. The flood hit around 1 AM EST after heavy rains.
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Lancaster
Ohio City
Hunters Run
Hocking River
Truman endorses fully Marshall on Berlin crisis
President Truman said prospects for world peace are excellent after a report from General Clay on the Soviet blockade of Berlin. He criticized Marshall’s stance and said the United States will exhaust all diplomatic means to a peaceful solution while not being coerced. Clay briefed the national security council before a press conference.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Truman
Berlin
U. S
Lucius D. Clay
Clay Panto
National
Eee Council
Marshall
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Clay
Belin
Council
Chaincestar
United States
Germany
Mr. Trumin
See Endorses Pige 5
Tee
Massive 39,160 Pound Dynamite Blast Near Pruntytown
A record blasting of about 20 tons occurred at the Mason Brothers strip operation along the old Fairmont road near Pruntytown West Virginia. Atlas Powder Company officials watched the detonation drawing many spectators as a large tremor was felt but no damages resulted, lifting a hill peak.
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Rani Re Area
Mason Brothers
West Virgina
Fairmont Road
Pruntytown
Atlas Powder Company
Clarksburg
ADA Challenges Wallace To Declare Independence From Reds
Americans for Democratic Action assailed Henry Wallace's third party as a tool of the Communists. ADA executive secretary James Loeb Jr said Wallace's candidacy does not obscure the indictment of 12 Communists by a federal grand jury in New York.
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Philadelphia
Americans For Democratic Action
Henry Wallace
Wallace
New York
ADA
James Loeb, Jr
A.D. A
Grafton Sentinel invites Sampson to Whispering City showing
The Grafton Sentinel invites C L Sampson of 233 Thayer Street to tonight's Dixie Theatre presentation of Whispering City starring Helmut Dantine Mary Anderson and Paul Lukas.
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The
Grafton 'Sentinel
C._L. SAMPSON
Thayer
Helmut Dantine
Mary Anderson
Paul Lukas
Dixie Theatre
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