ICC Orders Roads to Install Safety Devices
The Interstate Commerce Commission directed railroads to equip 45000 miles of track with automatic block signals on tracks with freight trains at 50 mph or faster and passenger trains at 60 mph or faster. They must add automatic train stop or cab signal systems for speeds of 80 mph or more, with compliance by December 31 1952 unless traffic is too sparse to justify protection.
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Washington
Juhe
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Arguments On Curry Motion Set For July 1
Circuit Judge Mark L. Jarrett set July 1 for hearings on a motion to set aside a verdict of voluntary manslaughter in the slaying of Wil Hunt and James Roosevelt Thomas. Sam Curry, 38, McDowell County mine foreman, was convicted after a two and a half hour deliberation by a Pocahontas County jury. Curry faces murder charges and a possible one to five year penitentiary sentence, with his $10,000 bond kept until the July date.
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Marlington
Mark L. Jarrett
Sam Curry
McDowell County
Ary
Wil Hunt
Eckman Negro
James Roosevelt Thomas
United Mine Workers Committees
Jarrett
Curry
Pocahontas County
Hunt
Annis Phone Company Facility Light Control Upgrades
A report describes Annis Phone Company workers arranging a new facility with operators positioned away from windows to reduce glare. Venetian blinds will be installed to improve appearance. The operating room is spacious enough to add more positions later if needed.
Renovation at plant shifts offices and adds lounge
The operating room area is being converted into a locker room and lounge with 190m space for operators. Fluorescent lighting and blinds will be installed. The business office stays on the second floor while the plant office is moved. Western Electric will install new equipment and relocate old switchboard positions, with telephone service continuing during the transfer. Renovation of half the new location is underway and women’s lounge facilities are being added off the operating room. The switchboard had been moved to the second floor in 1936. The company asks for public cooperation during the transition.
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Chambers
Western Electric Company, Inc
Bell System
Revercomb Pushes $2 Million Negro Veterans Hospital
Bills in both chambers seek a $2,000,000 veterans hospital at Booker T. Washington Birthplace in Franklin County Virginia. sponsored by Senate Revercomb and House Rogers. J Phillips, president of Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial, says the site honors Washington and aids Negro veterans.
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House
Senate
Booker T. Washington
Franklin County
Virginia
Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial
Revercomb
Rogers
J. Phillips
Booker Tr. Washington
Truman’s Taft-Hartley bill veto decision looms
Reporting on Truman’s imminent choice on the Taft Hartley labor bill, insiders split on a veto. Some advisers expect a veto tomorrow while many officials doubt a definite action. A confidant notes most labor matters officials favor killing the measure, yet Democratic leaders show a 103 to 66 split on veto versus letting it become law.
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Asociate
Euman
Democratic Party
Democratic National Committee
Parkersburg Named Alternate Judge of Court of Claims
Parkersburg officials announced the appointment of Robert F. Gerkin of Grafton and Lloyd Erhard of Charleston to boards and commissions including optometry, with terms extending to June 30, 1950, and the selection of an alternate judge for the court of claims.
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Parkersburg
Court of Claims
Board of Optometry
Robert F. Gerkin
Grafton
Lloyd Erhard
Charleston
Party official cites survey on issue without White House instruction
A party official said national committee members and state chairmen were asked for their considered judgment on the issue without coloration. The committee conducted the check on its own authority, according to the official. A sponge is defined as the cleaned skeleton of a sea creature living at the sea bottom.
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National Committee
White House
England Leads Coal Tonnage Until 1900 When U S Surges
The article notes England produced the greatest coal tonnage globally up to 1900, after which the United States surpassed it and has maintained supremacy since. It also briefly mentions feed grains to be planted in 1947 and fed in fall 1947 through much of the season.
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England
United States
Vas
Charge Boy With Death Of Father Yesterday
Fort Lauderdale reports Chief Deputy says 16 year old Robert Dane Butters shot and killed his father Lester A. Butters, 47, after an argument over a motorcycle. The youth admitted the shooting and said his mother Mae had separated from the father last week.
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Fort Lauderdale
Robert Dane Butters
Lester A. Butters
Mae
Thorok G Snout Instructions for Post-Wash Extraction
The guidance states a soft waver should be used and extracted after each rinse by wringing or spinning. It emphasizes proper handling to ensure removal of moisture and proper shaping for final use. The note appears to describe a routine step in a processing or textile workflow.
Youngster Fatality in Beckley Workshop Accident
Franklin Collins, 11, son of J Collins vocational agriculture instructor at Shady Springs school, died yesterday from injuries suffered Saturday in a school workshop incident. Earlier, Sebastian Cal reported coal found on Breton Island in 1498, but Western Hemisphere coal mining developed much later.
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Beckley
Franklin Collins
J. Collins
Shady Springs
Breton Island
Sebastian Cal
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Supreme Court
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Judiciary Committee
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