Tragic Death as Truck Hits Toddler in Yard
Ronnie Lee Saltis 16 months died after a uncle's one ton International truck backed from the Saltis home yard in Gabe Fork. The accident occurred as the child played on the steps. Coroner Ona C. Jefferies ruled it accidental. The truck struck the head, crushing it, with no witnesses.
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Ronnie Lee Saltis
Ardy Saltis
Emma Saltis
Gabe Fork
John Saltis
Flemington
Saltis
Ronnie
Mary Saltis
K. H. Trippett
Galloway
Ona C. ‘Kievies
Jefferies
Jefferys
Miners Begin Anticipated Strike Amid Contract Talks
In Pennsylvania 75,000 anthracite miners walked out as old contract expired, while 5,000 continued maintenance to guard against floods and cave-ins. Negotiators in New York reported little progress in wrapping a new pact after four weeks of talks. Independent miners near Shamokin kept working under lease or royalty terms, with no daily tonnage estimate. Virginia reports about 500 miners not involved in negotiations.
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New York
Pennsylvania
AFL
United Mine Workers
Shamokin
Virginia
Grafton Sentinel Teases Harvey Girls at Strand and Dixie Bill
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Edna Posing of Walter Street to tonight’s Strand Theater program featuring Judy Garland and John Hodiak in the Harvey Girls or A Letter for Evie with Marsha Hunt John Carroll and Hume Cronyn, plus a Tim McCoy western at the Dixie Theatre.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Edna
Walter Street
Judy Garland
John Hodiak
Strand Theater
Evie
Marsha Hunt
John Carroll
Hume Cronyn
Tim McCoy
Dixie Theatre
Government acts to implement soft coal contract gains
Washington June 1 The government moves to put into effect health and safety advances won for soft coal miners by John L Lewis. The wage stabiliz ation board approved the pay boost provisions with President Truman endorsing them. Focus shifts from the soft coal pact to easing the hard coal strike as 76,000 miners idle in Pennsylvania. Rear Admiral Boone leads a survey of medical, housing, and community facilities in mining areas as Dr. Sayers opens talks with mine officials. Drive on page 3.
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Karl R. Bauman
Washington
John L. Lewis
Wage Stabilization Board
Truman
Lewis
Pennsylvania
Joel T. Boone
Navy
Medical Corps
R. R. Sayers
Bureau of Mines
United’ Mine
Truman Receives Honorary Degree At Washington College
President Truman arrived in Chestertown to accept an honorary doctor of laws from Washington College and to address the commencement. The White House party included Maryland Democratic contenders for the U S Senate nomination, incumbent Senator George Radcliffe and Governor Herbert O Conor, in the run up to the June 24 primary.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Chestertown
Truman
Washington College
White House
Maryland
U. S
George Radcliffe
Herbert O’conor
Miners Return, West Virginia Output to Normalize Next Week
West Virginia coal fields report more workers back at the pits with production rising toward normal levels. Lt Cmdr E J Lobato notes 1,230 still absent but expected to be loading by Monday as three mines in Marion and Monongalia counties reopen. Kanawha region sees UMW meetings delaying full resumption. Charleston operators report crews returning but some owners delaying until Monday.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Cmdr
E. J. Lobato
Fairmont
Marion
Monongalia County
Lobato
Kanawha
United Mine Workers
UMW
William Blizzard
UMW District 17
Eskdale
Montgomery
Whitesville
Kanawha Operators Association
Truman
Explosion at Kent Manufacturing Kills Youthful Worker
CHESTERTOWN Md June 1 An explosion in a small powder house at the Kent Manufacturing company today killed a youthful employee the only occupant The scene was about a half mile from Washington College where President Truman was to receive an honorary degree Sheriff W Henry Gsell said the blast was accidental and distant from the president's planned route.
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Chestertown
Kent Manufacturing Company
Washington College
Truman
W. Henry Gsell
Miller speaks on attitudes of life at Grafton High
Thurman Dusty Miller editor of the Wilmington Daily News delivered the commencement address to 111 graduates at Grafton Senior High School. He spoke on attitudes shaping life and urged students to value time, people, citizenship, and goodwill while making the most of each day.
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Thurman
Dusty) Miller
Wilmington
Ohio
Daily News
Grafton Senior High School
United States
Miller
Expect Soft Coal To Be Running Full Time By Monday
Expect full time operation by Monday for about 400,000 soft coal miners across 25 states to ease fuel shortages for railroads utilities and coal users but steel output remains below normal for weeks. A Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. spokesman said production will recover slowly with Pittsburgh Youngstown area at 8.5 percent capacity after a 59 day dispute ending.
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U. S. Steel
Associated Press
Carnegie-Ilinois Steel Corp
Pittsburgh- Youngstown
President Prefers Small Towns and Small Business
President Truman declared no single man or group would ever control the country in a speech at Washins college where he received an honorary degree. He described himself as a small towner who favored small business and small educational institutions over larger ones.
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Chestertown
Truman
Washins College
UN Committee Renews Moral Condemnation On Spanish Question
New York June 1 UN submitted a falangist government and recommended the Security Council refer the Spanish question to the General Assembly. A delegate, unnamed, said after a month of debate the committee’s recommendations urged peaceful resolution and calling the matter internal to the UN body.
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New York
United Nations
Security Council
U. N
General
UN Committee
Famous Reinet Divorce Case Faces Courts Today
In Miami and Winston-Salem two state courts hear a divorce suit filed by Richard Joshua Reynolds against Elizabeth Dillard Reynolds. Reynolds alleges mental cruelty and cites 1941 home intrusions during his mayoral bid. his wife counters with separation and custody claims. Separate report notes Betty Furness’s June wedding to Hugh Ernst in Las Vegas.
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Miami
Fla
Elizabeth Dillard
Richard Joshua Reynolds
Reynolds Tobacco Interests
Reynolds
Dade County
Winston-Salem
N. C
Eines Rey
Las Vegas
Betty Furness
Hugh
Bud) Ernst
Albert C. Melton
King Umberto Leaves Milan Cathedral Amid Clashes
Italian news agency Ansa reports demonstrators broke police cordons as King Umberto I appeared at Milan cathedral and was guided out through an underground passage. Monarchists and republicans clashed in Duomo square. details on aggressors unclear.
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Rome
Ansa
Umberto I
Milan
Duomo Square
Senate approves Truman strike powers bill with limits
The Senate passed President Truman's strike powers legislation omitting draft provisions. The measure allows for cooperative action to call strikers off, signaling a controlled approach to labor disturbances without conscription.
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Senate
Truman
Senate approves diluted emergency program bill passage
The Senate endorsed a softened emergency program after a week of heated debate by 61 votes to 20, omitting the draft-labor provision critics call the program’s key weapon. The bill was sent back to the House in a form differing from the earlier 306 to 13 House passage following Truman’s plea for authority to draft strikers if the government seizes an industry. The Senate also dropped a seniority denial clause for strikers in seized industries.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Senate
House
Mead elected MMA president at WVU alumni meet
Charles P. Mead, head of National Exchange Bank of Wheeling and former city solicitor, was elected president of the West Virginia University Alumni Association during commencement week. He succeeds J French Robinson of Cleveland. Joseph W. Gibson of Kingwood was elected to the executive council. David W. Jacobs reelected executive secretary.
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Morgantown
Charles P. Mead
National Exchange Bank of
Wheeling
West Virginia University Alumni Association
J. French Robinson
Cleveland
Joseph W. Gibson
Kingwood
U. S
West Virginia
David W. Jacobs
Robert H. C. Kay
Charleston
W. Holt
Red Mead
Pope Pius XII says true peace farther away than year ago
Vatican dispatch reports Pope Pius XII in a world broadcast warns the path to true peace seems farther now than at the end of hostilities a year ago. He says the first resolute step toward peace has not yet been taken and that responsible men trained by war have not shown themselves truly against despotism and domination by force.
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Vatican City
Jus XII
Hero Devereux of Wake Island Marries Today
Wake Island hero Col James P S Devereux U S M C will wed Miss Rachel Clarke Cooke at St Ignatius Catholic church in Baltimore at 4 p m The bride's parents are Mr and Mrs F Irving Cooke of Stevenson Maryland This station note confirms the ceremony details and names the couple and location
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Baltimore
Wake Island
James P. S. Devereux
U.S.M.C
Rachel Clarke Cooke
St. Ignatius Catholic Church
F. Irving ‘Cooke
Stevenson, Md
National Negro Congress seeks UN action to halt oppression
In Detroit on June 1, about 1,000 delegates of the National Negro Congress urged the United Nations to intervene and prevent discrimination against 13,000,000 American Negroes. They sent a letter to Secretary General Trygve Lie, outlining chronic oppression since emancipation and presenting an eight page brief by Dr. Herbert Aoetheker. The petition invokes article 71 of the UN charter. See NEGRO page 8.
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Detroit
National Negro Congress
United Nations
Trygve Lie
Herbert Aoetheker
American Historical Society
United States
Congress
Boy Dies Of Shotgun Wounds In Stomach
Kenneth Willard Burdette aged 15 from Hines Greenbrier County died in an East Rainelle hospital yesterday from shotgun wounds suffered while playing with a companion. The charge struck the boy in the abdomen last Saturday. The state obtained a judgment to reaffirm its claim that a county clerk's bond covers shortages in handling hunting and fishing licenses.
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East Rainelle
Kenneth Willard Burdette
Hines
Greenbrier County
East Rainellé
Charleston
Deaths during long Memorial Day weekend top 165
The first two days of the extended Memorial Day holiday saw at least 165 deaths, with traffic crashes causing over half. An unofficial tally lists 87 traffic fatalities and 48 drownings, plus 30 other violent deaths such as shootings and stabbings.
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Associated Press
Restrain Brother As Two Boys Drown In Anacostia
In Anacostia Washington two brothers aged 7 and 10 along with their 11 year old elder brother were restrained by two youths after the boys waded into the water. Earl Coles told police his brothers removed most of their clothing before the incident.
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Anacostia
Washington
Anacostt
Earl Coles
Richard
Herbert
Five Dead and Thirty Missing After Plane Scare Near Naples
Naples dispatch reports a four engined plane with 39 aboard sank in the sea near Naples. Military police say five bodies were recovered and four rescued while thirty remain missing. The craft was en route from the United States. details on the passengers and immediate fate were not yet determined.
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Naples
Can
Yee
United States
Italy
Charleston Chamber Highlights 1946 Economic Decline
The Charleston Chamber reports a 24.8 percent drop in electrical energy output in 1946 versus 1945 amid coal shutdowns. Retail and bank activity rose. life insurance sales hit a record for the past 15 years while overall cash accumulation and high prices persisted.
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Charleston
Rip
Trade and’ Industry
Chamber of Commiete
Chamber
Life Inno
Peestenaian
Oer
Iiss
Commencement Week Events Start Today
Morgantown reports the start of commencement week with a series of social and reunion events opening today marking the university's celebration of graduates and alumni.
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Morgantown
West Viraginle _amivarsity
A. Tmnt
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