West Virginia Lawyer to Succeed Forrestal in Round-World Flight
Diplomats assign the non stop round the world flight of an American bomber a major place in Cold War strategy. The State Department passed on the chance to stop it, signaling a shift in US Soviet relations. The B 50 flight ending in Fort Worth starkly shows western aims to deter aggression with overwhelming power and feeds arguments for an Atlantic security treaty. Curtis E Lemay discusses implications for strategic air power and future balance of forces.
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Washington
State Department
Russia
West
Fort Worth
United States
Curtis E. Lemay
Barbour Court Term Opens with Indictments on Slot Machines
The Barbour County Circuit Court opened this week with Judge W Merle Watkins presiding. The grand jury returned indictments against two Philippi club stewards for maintaining and exhibiting slot machines. Stuart B Price and H G Muffley were arrested January 28 in raids by state police at the Moose and V F W clubs in Philippi. Six indictments with 12 counts against Price and four indictments with eight counts against Muffley were returned. Nine other persons were indicted with several prisoners due for arraignment today.
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Barbour County
W. Merle Watkins
Philippi
Stuart B. Price
H. G. Muffley
Moose
V.F.W
Price
Moose Club
Muffley
V.F.W. Club
Cloudy A Cold Friday Forecast From Snowy Forecast
A cloudy colder pattern is predicted for Friday after days of snow flurries. Overnight lows were around 30 degrees with yesterday’s high near 39. Today’s temperature rose to about 37 degrees in the afternoon.
Forced Landing Near Pittsburgh Airport Reported
Capital Airlines announced a plane conducted a forced landing near the Pittsburgh area. Initial word indicated no injuries and all passengers were safe, with the aircraft undamaged. The flight was en route to Allegany County airport when the incident occurred.
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Pittsburgh
Capital Airlines Today
Greater
William Davis
Capital Airlines
Allegany County
Grafton Man Aids Gen Rockey on Award Resumptions
The Board of Public Works approved payments from state penitentiary and Pruntytown School for Boys funds for awards to injured or deceased workers. Ray Estep, Lelia Arnett, and George Bernard receive $600 yearly, with judicial interpretation needed. The budget amendments add $13,161.27 overall, including $10,000 for Romney schools and $3,161.27 for the Pines hospital.
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State Penitentiary
West Virginia Industrial School For
Pruntytown
Board of Public Works
Edgar Sims
D. L. Gainer
Ray Estep
Lelia Arnett
G. Arnett
George A Bernard
Bernard
West Boyd Street
Romney
West Virginia Foundation For
Berkeley Springs
Pines
Missing C-47 Crashes in Colorado Mountains Killing All Aboard
Sheriff A E Steinmery said a missing C-47 crashed in the Colorado mountains near Del Rio Texas, killing all nine aboard. The transport, from Hamilton Field to Kelly Field, was last reported over Wink Texas at 8 26 a m Monday and had landed earlier at El Paso. Maj Lucian N Youngblood of Houston, a Doolittle raid veteran, was among the dead. the plane burned after the crash in Tierras Coloradas.
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del R10
Tex
A. E. Steinmery
Colorado Mountains
Mexico
Hamilton Field
Calif
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Wink, T
el Paso
Texas
Course Proposed for Physio-Therapists Training
Charleston reports Delegate Manchin proposed a dedicated course for physio therapists. He urged the state board of education to establish the program at Fairmont State College with Fairmont General Hospital, citing current lack of proper facilities.
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Charleston
Manchin
Widowed Mother and Nine Children Die in Muskegon Fire
A fire at a lakeside frame residence near Lakewood Muskegon Michigan killed widow Maude Clover, nine children aged 3 to 13, and roomer August Tasky. A 17-year-old survivor Howard Clover said stove flames erupted during breakfast as the home burned quickly.
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Muskegon
Mich
Maude Clover
Lakewood
August Tasky
Mercy Hospital
Howard Clover
Clover
Victory Harvey
Montague
Order Permitting Smaller Monthly Payments Welcome
Washington lawmakers welcomed a government order permitting smaller monthly installments on a broad list of consumer goods. The order lowers down payments to 15 percent for most items and maintains one third for autos, with two months to pay the remaining balance, following a January drop in installment credit.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Edgar Kaiser
Kaiser-Frazer Corp
Patman
D-Tex
Lucky Lady II Crew Ends 24 Hour Quarantine Sweep
Fort Worth Texas reports the Lucky Lady II crew sleeping off a 24 hour quarantine after landing at Carswell air base. The fourteen men completed a 94 hour mission spanning seven seas and four continents, 23000 miles, with four mid air refuelings. Captain James Gallagher led the historic flight. The B 50 started as a routine mission but suffered an engine fire before being diverted to Azores.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Carswell Air Base
Chance
James Gallagher
Air Force
Azores
Gallagher
Free Bus Ride Across the United States Stuns Officials
In San Francisco a man rode a new San Francisco Municipal Railway bus on a railroad flat car from Kent Ohio and slept in converted rear seats with meals aboard. He did not pay his fare, and railway officials estimate a $25 bill for the 2,500 mile trip. He vanished afterward.
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SAN Francisco (P
San Francisco Municipal Railway
Kent
Ohio
Missing B-29 Refueled Bomber
Air force officials disclosed a missing B-29 in northern Luzon, once refueling the globe circling Lucky Lady, as Brig. Gen. Jared V. Crabb described a nine crew plane that failed to return from refueling the B-50. Search shifted toward Baler Bay after witnesses saw a B-29 at low altitude near Clark.
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Manila
Air Force
Luzon
Globe
Lucky Lady
Jared V. Crabb
Clark Air Base
Baler Bay
Clark Fair
Crabb
Ford Motors Seeks Early Talks With UAW
Ford Motor Co asked the CIO United Auto Workers for early informal talks amid economic worries. The letter questioned the UAW pension proposal of 100 dollars monthly for 106,000 Ford workers, suggesting pensions require wage cuts or higher car prices. Ford said the nation faces an atypical postwar period with weak consumer demand and a seller’s market ending. The company wondered if workers would accept wage reductions to fund pensions and noted potential price increases. John S. Bugas signed the letter, with copies to all represented employees. union response unavailable.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
UAW
Auto Workers Union
John S. Bugas
Mrs M Vicker Dies After Illness in Webster
Mrs Mary Florence MevVicker 84 and longtime Webster resident died at 5 28 pm yesterday at daughter Della Sutherland s home 319 West Main Street after a week long serious illness Born February 48 1865 in Barbour County she was daughter of Joseph and Margaret Marteney Her husband Elsworth McVicker died March 1940 Survived by five daughters Nora Moss Philippi Route 3 Lotta Getz Webster Della Sutherland Grafton Zepha Biddinger Seattle WA Mary Daughtry Arlington VA 19 grandchildren 13 great grandchildren See MRS M VICKER page 8
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Mary Florence MevVicker
Webster
Della Sutherland
West Main Street
Barbour County
Joseph Marteney
Margaret Finley Marteney
Elsworth McVicker
Nora Moss
Philippi
Route 3
Lotta Getz
Grafton
Zepha Biddinger
Seattle
Washington
Mary Daughtry
Arlington
Virginia
M’vicker
Truman May Accept Forrestal Resignation Today
President Truman is expected to accept James W. Forrestal’s resignation as secretary of defense and name Louis A. Johnson to the post. An official announcement is anticipated at the 4 p.m. news conference. Johnson, a West Virginia lawyer and former assistant secretary of war, is a longtime figure in Democratic finance circles.
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Washington
Truman
James W. Forrestal
Defense
Louis A. Johnson
West Virginia
White House
Forrestal
Roosevelt
Navy
Johnson Long
Democratic Finance Committee
Hugielas
Army
Kenneth Royall
Air Force
W. Stuart Symington
Johnson
Clarksburg, W. Vai
American Legion
Attempt To Relax Matching Phase Of State Aid Again
Charleston report: House of Delegates considers easing county matching for a 10 million state aid fund for school buildings. Aimed at counties with 35 percent 1940 1950 assessment gains. amendments debated, some defeated. Debate continues as supporters seek broader eligibility while opponents warn of weakened requirements.
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Charleston
House of Delegates
Drampshire
Tetrick
D-Harrison
Blockaded Russians See Food and News Through Cordon
In Frankfurt German authorities ringed the Russian repatriation mission with barbed wire and floodlights to stop food smuggling and prevent escapes. Morning Stars and Stripes is issued inside, as a Russian officer asks for water and a newspaper. One visitor, a Russian colonel with Col. Sterling Wood, reported seeing conditions inside, while the siege continues.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U.S. Army
Edward L. Covak
Duluth
Minn
Mission House
Stars and Stripes
Seminarians and Cardinal Bury 600 Unburied Bodies
Francis Cardinal Spellman led 100 seminarians and priests through picket lines to Calvary cemetery in New York to bury about 600 unburied corpses on a raw windy day. The group, from St. Josephs seminary Yonkers, traveled in ten buses past silent protesters, proceeding with the burial amid strikebound conditions.
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New York
Francis
Cardinal Spellman
Seminarians
Calvary Cemetery
St. Joseph's ‘Seminary
Yonkers
Grafton Welcomes Newest Citizens
Newborns and births highlighted as Grafton welcomes new citizens. Old Doc delivers news at City Hospital of a baby boy born at 9 17 p m weighing seven pounds eight and three quarter ounces to Mr and Mrs George Plymale route 3. Also noted is the birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Robert Lee Humphreys of Pruntytown born February twenty four, weight stated as a half pound more than aver t.
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Gtork
City Hospital
George Plymale
Route 3
Robert Lee Humphreys
Pruntytown
Robert Lee
Ann Boyd
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Barbour Court
Gen. Rockey
Taylor
G. A. Bernard
Richard A. Flanagan
Marine Corps
Grafson
Keller E. Rockey
Atlantic Command
Caribbean
Vieques Island
Puerto Rico
Grafton Man
James V. Managan
U.S. Marine Corps
West Virginia University
University of Southern California
Flanagan
Fleet Marine Force
Atlantic Area
Norfolk, Virginia
Rockey
Marines
Atlantic
California
Sheriff's Office
Oscar Gonzalez
Villa Acuna
Whitehead Ranch
Gonzalez
Roomer
U.S
Ford Motors
CIO Auto Workers
UMW
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