State education budget debate voiced at Jackson's Mill
Jacksons Mill July 26 delegates heard Willard E. Givens of the National Education Association say education costs could reach five percent of national income, about 6 billion dollars, but current spending is under three percent at 2.5 billion. He warned illiteracy remains high globally and urged federal aid to equalize salaries as 300,000 teachers have left since Pearl Harbor. Special guests included Mrs John H. Davis of Weston and M Berry of Salem.
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Willard E. Givens
National Education Association
State Education Association
Russia
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Givens
Pearl Harbor
John H. Davis
Weston
State Federation of Women's
The Grafton Sentinel invites H E Knight to Saratoga Trunk
The Grafton Sentinel extends an invitation to H E Knight on Maple Avenue to attend tonight's double feature at Strand Theatre with Saratoga Trunk starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Also showing A Walk In The Sun with Dana Andrews and The Border Patrolman with George O'Brien at Dixie Theatre.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
H. E. Knight
Maple Avenue
Saratoga Trunk
Gary Cooper
Ingrid Bergman
Strand Theatre
Dana Andrews
George O'Brien
Dixie Theatre
Globair seeks intra state service and temporary certificate in West Virginia
West Virginia briefs report Globair Inc and Mid Atlantic Airlines applying to the Public Service Commission to substitute Globair for Mid Atlantic as the intra state air service applicant. Globair seeks a temporary passenger freight and mail certificate for the Martinsburg to Parkersburg route. Hearing set for August 9. In Beckley Judge Ben Moore convicts Kathleen White King of fraud via matrimonial ads. Lewisburg notes future Farmers of America Four H junior show at the State Fair in August 1924 per Secretary Sydenstricker.
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Charleston
Globair, Inc
Mid-Atlantic Airlines
Public Service Commission
Globair
Mid-Atlantic
Martinsburg
Parkersburg
Beckley
Ben Moore
Kathleen, White King
Harvey
Lewisburg
Future Farmers of America
Four-H Club
Robert Sydenstricker
Russia seeks showooma atomic proposal at UN meeting
In New York on July 26 Soviet delegate Andrei Gromyko opened debate on an internal method to outlaw production and use of atomic weapons. The plan has little support beyond Poland, with the U S urging a strong system of controls before relinquishing its nuclear edge. Evatt called the proposal impossible as the debate continues at the United Nations atomic energy commission.
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New York
Russia
Andrei A. Gromyko
U. S
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Poland
United States
Herbert V. Evatt
Atomic Commission
Two Fugitives Captured After Chase in Mingo County
In Williamson on July 26 two fugitives from Mingo county jail were wounded and recaptured by a posse of Sheriffs and a state trooper after a wooded chase through Ben Creek. Deputy Riley Varney reported the prisoners as Lloyd Cantrell and Reg Brown. Cantrell is hospitalized with a leg wound in Williamson. Brown was moved to Pineville Jail.
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Mingo County
Ben Creek
Riley Varney
Varney
Lloyd Cantrell
Reg Brown
Cantrell
Brown
Pineville
Japanese War Crimes Trial Details Atrocities In Nanking
The international tribunal hearing the Tojo case heard Chinese witnesses describing systematic civilian killings and rapes by Japanese troops in Nanking in 1937. Witnesses recount mass executions with machineguns and forcible marches of civilians to the city outskirts.
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Nanking
International War Crimes Tribunal
Hideki Tojo
Underwater Atom Bomb Would Have Caused Heavy Loss
Vice Admiral Blandy says an underwater atomic blast would have killed all crew if ships were manned in Bikini lagoon during the test. The explosion sank the Arkansas and carrier Saratoga and left Nagato listing while radioactivity contaminated 36 square miles. Drone timing and near-misses highlighted the test's deadly power and shock effects on crew.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Appalachian
Bikini Lagoon
William H. P. Blandy
Arkansas
Saratoga
Nagato
Hughes
Don Whitehead
New Mexico Sands
Bikini
Charles McMurtry
Associated 4
William E Kepner
Army
May 6 700 to Appear Before Munitions Probe
Washington July 26 Congressman May of Kentucky failed to appear for testimony on wartime intervention for a munitions group. He is ill and will miss at least a week, with Senate War Investigating Committee noting the absence and recording related Labor Department files about Murray Garsson.
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Alex H. Singleton
Washington
May
Mead
D-Ky
Senate War Investigating Committee
Kentucky
Ferguson
R-Mich
Labor Department
Murray Garsson
Garsson
Department
Perkins
Chicago
Los Angeles
Military backers fight to keep civilian control of atom power
Washington July 26 backers of direct military involvement in atomic energy planning prepared a last minute bid in the House to overturn the Senate House conference report. The panel kept a strong patents provision and approved a five member control commission with at least one armed forces member. The two chambers must agree on the bill before it reaches the White House.
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Washington
House
Senate House Conference
Control Commission
Senate
White House
Baby Patricia Gale Kidnapped at Bluefield Bus Terminal
An 11 month old girl, Patricia Gale Blakenship, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L A Blakenship, was abducted at the Greyhound terminal in Bluefield. Police say a woman in a split blue skirt and white blouse took the child then disappeared. the mother had waited for a bus to Logan from Newton, Georgia. A description and sighting in West Bluefield were reported.
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L. A. Blakenship
Greyhound
R O. Bond
Bond
Myrtle Blankenship
Newton
Logan
W. Va
Elk Creek
Steelman Given New Powers In Truman economic move
President Truman shifts control to Reconversion Director John R. Steelman, absorbing the Office of Economic Stabilization duties. He names John Davidson Clark and Leon H. Keyserling to a three member economic advisory council to help keep jobs and production stable under the full employment bill.
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Washington
Truman
John R. Steelman
Steelman
Office of Economic Stabilization
Chester Bowles
John Davidson Clark
University of Nebraska
Leon.h. Keyserling
Federal Housing Agency
Council
Congress
Nazi leaders branded as conspirators in war crimes trial
In Nurnberg Judge Robert H. Jackson urged conviction of 22 Nazi leaders as conspirators in aggressive warfare. Opening the Allied case against Hermann Goering and the 21 co-defendants followed eight months of testimony as Jackson stated that Hitler’s acts are their acts and share collective guilt.
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Nnernberg
Germany
Robert H. Jackson
United States
International Military Tribunal
Hermann Goering
Jackson
Adolf Hitler
Tax Increases Ruled Out by Congressional Leaders
Washington July 26 Congressional leaders ruled out any tax increases with a firm stance signaling President Truman may seek other anti inflation tools if revived price controls fail Senator George D Ga said there will be no tax increase despite Truman’s claim that Congress might be recalled to act on fiscal measures He added that raising taxes in this period is not a realistic option given the current position and that the president and treasury know it
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Truman
George
D. Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
President
Treasury
Georgia
B&O Shows Deficit Over Six Months
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad reports a six month 1946 deficit of 16,690,163 dollars, reflecting wage increases without fare or rate hikes. Net income dropped 28,424,132 dollars from the prior year, with June showing a 507,923 dollar deficit versus 2,076,186 dollars in June 1945, marking a 2,674,109 dollar month-to-month decline.
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Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Four Negroes Shot Dead in Ambush in Georgia
In northeast Georgia near the Walton Oconee county line a band of armed white men ambushed four African Americans and their wives, killing them with shotguns and pistols. The victims were identified as Roger Malcolm and his wife, George Butler and his wife. Sheriff E.8 Gordon said Loy Harrison, an Oconee county farmer, reported the incident and described a mob between 20 and 90 men, with Harrison held at gunpoint during the ordeal. Malcolm had been released from Walton county jail on bond hours earlier after stabbing his former employer Barney Hester. Details of Harrison’s coroner’s jury testimony were not immediately available.
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Monroe
Gordon
Walton-Oconee County
Georgia
Loy Harrison
Oconee County
Fort Bridge
Harrison
Roger Malcolm
George Butler
Malcolm
Walton County
Barney Hester
Hester
Cone
Sherif Gofabn
George Bernard Shaw Honored on 90th Birthday
In London on July 26 the literary world marked George Bernard Shaw turning 90. He planned a quiet celebration with a few friends at his London flat, continuing his routine of reading, walking, and writing. Shaw has always mocked birthdays as human foibles.
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London
George Bernard Shaw
Trish
Wright
Hasgetendy Nemes
Tonirbawry
Shaw
England
NBC
New York
Record coal car set in Cleveland on July 26
In Cleveland on July 26 a postline of 5,361 coal cars was announced, short of the previous record of 6,230 set on June 6. The report notes the earlier record remains the benchmark in the ongoing tally of coal car shipments.
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Cleveland, O
Heireng Case Heads to Criminal Court in Kidnap Slayings
Chicago July 26 The case against William Heirens, tied to the Suzanne Degnan kidnap and killing and two other slayings, was expected to go to criminal court today. Indictments charging kidnapping and killing Suzanne, 6, and Frances Brown, 33, ex-WAVE, were anticipated before Chief Justice Harold G. Ward after a grand jury session that heard 21 witnesses.
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Chicago
William Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
University of Chicago
Suzanne
Frances Brown
Harold G. Ward
Cook County Grand Jury
Price and rent controls back in effect as OPA revived
In Washington on July 26 price and rent controls resumed with the OPA issuing 142 pricing orders planned to roll into business. Truman signed revival law curbing powers, exempting meat dairy eggs poultry grains tobacco and petroleum from ceilings after August 20. UAW calls for continued buyers' strike and a tax hike looms as the administration faces economic pressures.
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Mashington
OPA
Truman
Uniform safety order for government mines announced
Washington July 26 government seized mines and 4300 affected. Secretary Krug unveiled a uniform safety code with 300 plus provisions on blasting ventilation coal dust and inspections. John L. Lewis demanded the code as a condition to resume work under the strike settlement.
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Washington
Don
Interior Krug
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
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