Fear Monarchist Revolt in Italy as Umberto Falls
Rome reports nearly 100000 Republican demonstrators marching on the Viminale after a rally urged action as the cabinet delays proclaiming the end of the monarchy. Police and troops girded for possible violence while De Gasperi’s cabinet declared a national holiday to mark the republic’s birth. Monarchist leaders allege election irregularities and await final Supreme Court ruling before leaving Italy for Portugal.
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Rome
Viminale Palace
Giuseppe Romita
Interior
Piazza del Popolo
George Bria
Italy
Umberto II
Alcide de Gasperi
Umberto
Portugal
Supreme Court
Slaying of Paper Maker Whitcomb Tracked to Madman
Boston police sought a madman in the shooting death of William A. Whitcomb 73 president of the Great Northern Paper Co. He was killed in his downtown Boston office after posing as a Treasury agent. The attacker spent minutes in the eighth floor office before leaving calmly, pistol in hand, as executives and secretaries watched in shock.
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Boston
William A. Whitcomb
Great Northern Paper Company
John F. McCarthy
Treasury Department
Ben
Whitcomb
Doddridge County Bank Winds Up Affairs Today
Charleston June 11 The closed Doddridge County Bank of West Union paid out to day to depositors of 13 years ago at the rate of nine cents on the dollar Banking commissioner A W Locke announced approval of a nine percent dividend totaling 34620 42 It is the first and last dividend to be paid by the institution which closed July 18 1933 Proven claims amounted to 384671 28.
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Charleston
Doddridge County Bank of West Union
A. W. Locke
American Hurt In China Fight Prompts Peace Talks
Nanking June 11 Chinese Communist and government leaders held their first direct peace meeting in weeks as truce violations flamed in east central China. An American was wounded in a mysterious anti-aircraft attack on a U S plane. Chou En Lai conferred with Yui Ta Wei after meetings with U S General Marshall. Restoration of communications is a basic condition for permanent peace. A Communist spokesman charged the government with heavy attacks against Communist held areas north and west.
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Harold K. Milks
Nanking
China
U. S
Chou En-Lai
Yui Ta-Wei
Chou
Officials warn on holdout by market price controls
Morris Verner of the Civilian Production Administration said widespread withholding of clothing and other goods from the market until July 1 is likely due to price control uncertainty as Congress debates extending the OPA. An anonymous OPA official said price ceilings will stay on major commodities until final action, with potential delays in lifting petroleum and machinery controls.
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Marvin L. Browsmith
Washington
Morris Verner
CPA
Verner
Civilian Production Administration
Senate
OPA
Paul Porter
Congress
Porter
Willie Francis Prison Appeal Rejected by Court
A report from Jerusalem says the U S Supreme Court denied Willie Francis’s appeal and will hear his case in the new term next October. Police surrounded the electric chair area after an earlier listing error, with no casualties and several unexploded mines seized by military authorities. The case moves to the October term as Francis maintains he should not face execution.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Willie Francis
Francis
Willie Page
Jewel heist loot to be returned to Hesse family
Washington reports Maj. Gen. Livya Parks announced $1.5 million in jewels recovered from Col. J. W. Durant and wife Capt. Kathleen Nash Durant and Major David S. Watson would be held as evidence and returned to the German house of Hesse. The case raises questions whether the trial occurs in the United States or overseas.
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Washington
Livya Parks
United States
WAC
Parks
War Department
Bureau of Public Relations
J. W. Durant
Kathleen Nash Durant
David S. Watson
Hesse
Kronberg
Germany
Durant
CROWN
Propose Early Sale Or Lease Of Institute Plant
Washington June 11 P War Assets administration proposed early sale or lease of the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation synthetic rubber plant at Institute West Virginia. The styrene unit, linked with the U S Rubber processing plant, was among ten synthetic rubber factories included in the proposal.
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Washington
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation
Institute
W. Va
War Assets Administration
U. S. Rubber Company
Bread shortages linger despite bumper wheat crop
The Agriculture Department warned bread and flour shortages may persist at least a year even as harvest begins another bumper wheat crop. Improvements are expected within a month but not enough to meet domestic and famine relief needs before 1947 harvest. Meats, soap and fats also tighten in major cities amid a worsening outlook. Actress Martha Scott arrives in Las Vegas to file for divorce from Carlton Alsop, after five years of marriage and with a son.
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Ovid
A. Martin Washington
Agriculture Department
Associated Press
Las Vegas
Nev
Martha Scott
Carlton Alsop
OPA Raises Egg Prices in 32 West Virginia Counties
The OPA announced a one to two cent per dozen price increase for extra large and large grade A eggs in group 1 and 2 stores across 32 West Virginia counties. Grades B and C and ungraded eggs stay the same. Counties affected include Barbour Boone Braxton Calhoun Clay Doddridge Fayette Gilmer Harrison Kanawha Lewis Lincoln Logan Marion McDowell Mercer Mingo Monongalia Nicholas Preston Putnam Raleigh Randolph Ritchie Roane Summers Taylor Tucker Upshur Wayne Webster Wyoming.
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Charleston
West Virginia
OPA
Barbour, Boone, Braxton
Calhoun
Clay
Dodadridge
Fayette, Gilmer
Harrison
Kanawha
Lewis
Lincoln
Logan
Marion
McDowell
Mercer
Mingo
Wyoming Counties
Will Discuss Troop Help With Great Britain
Secretary of State Byrnes said the United States plans to discuss with Britain what military forces it might provide to maintain order in Palestine during increased Jewish immigration. He refused to say the U S would supply troops but noted Britain has raised questions for discussion. He departs for Paris to resume talks with Molotov Bevin and Bidault and urged prayers for progress toward a lasting peace.
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Washington
Byrnes
United States
Britain
Palestine
Byres
United Sates
Paris
Molotov
Russia
Bevin
Bidault
France
Bluefield Bakeries to Close Over Flour Shortage
Bluefield bakeries producing about 65 percent of the bread for southern West Virginia will close Saturday unless a flour shipment arrives. Feuchtenberger Bakery president L D Feuchtenberger said Bluefield plant employees will be furloughed as efforts to obtain flour have failed.
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Bluefield
West Virginia
L. D. Feuchtenberger
Feuchtenberger Bakery
Supreme Court feud spills into public view in wartime clash
Justice Robert H Jackson sharply accused Justice Hugo Black of bullying and threats over a Mine Workers pay case. Lawmakers privately weigh impeachment prospects and a full overhaul of court procedures to curb internal bickering and disqualifications.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
Tne
Supreme Court
Robert H. Jackson
Hugo Black
Congress
Jackson
Black
Nuernberg
United Mine Workers
Senate
House Judiciary Committees
House
Supreme Court feud erupts as Jackson accuses Black
Justice Robert H. Jackson launches public charge that Justice Hugo Black favored decisions benefiting Black's former law partner. He warns the court loses disrepute if ex-partner influence is allowed and says Congress must know the facts as Vinson's nomination stalls.
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Thomas A. Reedy Mernberg
United States
Robert H. Jackson
Hugo Black
Black
Jackson
U. S. Supreme Court
U. S
House
Senate Judiciary Committees
Congress
Ypop
Fred. Vinson
Truman
Senate
Vinson
Officials named for charter vote precinct poll work
City council selects a tentative slate of five per precinct for the July 2 election with three ballot commissioners and two clerks. Names are listed for precincts 13 through 27 with locations and several changes anticipated before election day.
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C. O. King
H. F. Church
Merle Fauley
Mabel Ashby
Idella H. Rogers
Vernan Setler
Ocie Bunner
Belle Vankirk
Janice Cline Wright
Elks Club
W. P. Clark
G. R. White
Pearl Carney
Eva Love
W. R. Williams
East. End School
E. F. Clark
Minnie Henderson
L. H. Greenwald
Pearl Hussian
Earl Ride
Boy Killed When Falls From Rear Of Truck
West on June 11. Daniel Joseph Simmers age 12 of Bendale Lewis county was killed when he fell from the rear of a moving truck on a highway near Weston. Witness D A Biffle said Simmers and two other youths hitched a ride. as the truck rounded a curve Simmers fell, striking his head on concrete.
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Weston
Daniel Joseph Simmers
Bendale
Lewis County
Here
D. A. Biffle
Jane Lew
W. E. Eskew
Simmers
Four State Delegates Attend 4-H Encampment
West Virginia sent four delegates to the first postwar National 4-H camp in Washington. Emma Elouise Gaston of Forgantown, a junior at West Virginia University, Martha Jane Burgbacher of Middlebourne, a student at West Liberty State College, Charles E. McCulloch of Henderson Mason county, and John Basham of Mt. View, Summers county, a graduating senior at Hinton High School, were chosen by state 4-H leaders.
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Washington
West Virginia
Emma Elouise Gaston
Forgantown
West Virginia University
Martha Jane Burgbacher
Middlebourne
West Liberty State College
Charles E. McCulloch Tit
Henderson Mason County
John Basham
Mt. View
Summers County
Hinton High School
Maritime strike near GAO confab seeks solution
The maritime labor dispute nears a breakthrough as the Labor Department presses for a compromise and a government official predicts a settlement. War Shipping Administrator Granville Conway says eastern ship operators plan an offer and hopes to see progress today. A House labor subcommittee readies to quiz CIO leaders Harry Bridges and Joe Curran this afternoon as a Friday deadline looms.
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Max Hall
Washington
Labor Department
Granville Conway
House
Harry Bridges
Joe Curran
CIO
Maritime
Health Service Seeks Permanent Venereal Disease Centers
The Public Health Service plans to make wartime rapid treatment centers for venereal diseases permanent after rapid gains in curbing syphilis. Dr. J R Heller says early syphilis cases dropped 50 percent due to quick treatment breaking infection chains. The program runs 41 centers in 24 states and DC, funded in the 1947 federal appropriation with 1 893 523 dollars requested to sustain the centers operated by local communities with government aid.
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Washington
Public Health Service
J. R. Heller
States
District of Columbia
Federal Security Agency
House
County Council Picnic Set for July at Jackson's Mill
Mountaineer county council No 7 Veterans of Foreign Wars, with posts in the central state area, announced by council commander H. B. Harper of West Union, will hold a picnic on July 7 at Jackson's Mill.
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Clarksburg
Mountaineer
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Central State
Jackson's Mill
H. 8. Harper
West Union
Truman veto halts Case Labor Disputes Bill vote stands
Washington June 11 The House upheld President Truman's veto of the Case Labor Disputes bill by a 135 to uphold and 255 to override, five votes short of the two thirds needed for Senate action. The president said the measure would force men to work for private employers in peacetime democracy and fail to prevent or shorten damaging strikes.
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Washington
House
Truman
Senate
Ernest B. Vaccaro
Congress
Bee
Mihailovic testifies he met Germans in 1941 trial
Belgrade report says Gen Draja Mihailovic admitted at his life trial that he met German forces in the second half of November 1941 after a major German attack with five divisions. He defended himself by saying I dont feel guilty and noted many troops could not follow his command.
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William B. King
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Draja Mihailovic
Tito
Midat
Grafton Theatre Hosts Roy Rogers and MacMurray Stars
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs. W. C. Pembroke of 209 Macklin Street to tonight’s double feature at the Grafton Theatre. Roy Rogers performs in Song of Arizona and Fred MacMurray with Barbara Stanwyck star in Double Indemnity.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
W. B. Rendle
McGraw Avenue
Paul Henreid
Maureen O'Hara
Strand Theatre
Tarsana Spas
Alfred Drake
Janet Blair
Marc Platt
Dixie Theatre
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