Forrestal Warns Marine Corps Break Up Amid Merging Plan
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal warned the Senate Naval Committee that outright abolishment or drastic reduction of the Marine Corps could result from legislation to merge the Army and Navy. He criticized concentrated power and urged against premature centralization while noting a need for unified command and improved interservice coordination. He cited the Narvik disaster as proof of risks from lacking amphibious forces and criticized the bill as based on a false premise.
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Washington
Navy
Forrestal
Marine Corps
Army
Armed Services
Senate Naval Committee
Naval Aviation
Senate Military Committee
Germany
Norway
Narvik
Draft and enlistments fail to meet Army needs
Washington May 1 The draft output for April fell short of Army requirements with only 17 000 selectees sworn in during the first two weeks versus a 125 000 monthly need. Enlistments slackened to about 15 000 weekly, about a third of November peak, as Congress debates extending selective service beyond May 15.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Congress
House
Senate
Made Me A Killer shines at Strand Theatre with Robert Lowery
Grafton Sentinel invites F R Myers to Strand Theatre for tonight's presentation of Made Me A Killer starring Robert Lowery and Barbara Jon at the Strand Theatre. Ed Ner appears at the Dixie Theatre Tavern.
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Grafton Sentinel
F. R. Myers
Maple Avenue
Robert Lowery
Barbara Jon
Strand Theatre
Edner
Dixie ‘Thearte
Senate leaders see no end to rent controls
Senator Wagner and Buck agreed there is no prospect of the Senate voting to end rent controls as the Banking Committee weighs extending OPA beyond June 30. Wagner chairs the committee and Buck is a regular attendee. Wagner said the ceiling on rents would not be removed, noting even the House did not go that far.
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Washington
Wagner
Buck
Senate
Senate Banking Committee
House
Fuller Delays Decision On Pulout In Soft Coal Talks
Government efforts to end the month old soft coal strike hit a setback as special conciliator Paul W. Fuller threatened to withdraw. He agreed to reconsider his surprise resignation and will report to Secretary Schwellenbach today. John L. Lewis and mediator Edward McGrady joined Fuller at the Labor Department for a tense hour long conference last night.
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Harold W. Ward
Washington
Paul W. Fuller
Fuller
Labor
Schwellenbach
John L. Lewis
Edward F. McGrady
Lewis
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Kingwood Bank Pays Final Receiver Dividend
Charleston May 1 A final dividend of one percent totaling 2 324 97 was paid today to depositors of the bank of Kingwood Receiver John Hoffman previously distributed 95 percent of the deposit totaling 224 769 09 making 96 percent or 237 094 06 in all announced by banking commissioner A W Locke
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Charleston
Bank of Kingwood
A. W. Locke
John Hoffman
No Violence On Japan's First May Day Observance
Tokyo May Day passed quietly with about 400000 people gathering before the Imperial Palace. Organized labor pressed for a leftist government while police and U.S. forces hunted a fanatic accused of plotting to assassinate General MacArthur during the event.
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Japan
Tokyo
MacArthur
Imperial Palace
Dios Twice-Lives! Three-Year-Old Clings to Life in Rome
In Rome a three-year-old boy Alfredo Mareli, deemed technically dead after a suffocation incident, was revived after doctors inserted breathing tubes and resuscitation efforts. Hospital staff report ongoing life and cautious hope as authorities review the dramatic medical sequence.
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Alfredo Mareli
Rome
Explosions At Earle Cause Navy Losses And Injuries
Five crew members reported missing and 150 injured after three blasts ripped through a train car at Earle Navy Yard in lower New York bay. A pier warehouse burned, a gap torn into the pier, and a destroyer escort lay wrecked. Admiral Foster heads a Navy inquiry as 35 civilians and 134 Navy personnel seek treatment or observation. See EXPLOSION page 2.
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Earle
N. J
Solar
U. S. Navy
Have Earle Ammunition Depot
New York Bay
Third
Naval District Public Information Office
New York
Navy
Paul F. Foster
Appalachian Power faces potential strike amid wage talks
In Charleston and Huntington on May 1 representatives from the AFL Electrical Workers Union and city officials announced Appalachian Electric Power plans to resume wage negotiations with a 15 year old in custody after set fire to an unoccupied residence. Firemen said the blaze caused about 1500 dollars in damage before it was controlled.
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Charleston
AFL
Huntington
Electrical Workers Union
J. P. Davis
Appalachian Electric Power
Pany
Appalac
If Black Market Not Over In 90 Days Washington
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson told the Senate Banking Committee that if meat market conditions are not cleared in 90 days he would favor removing price controls on meat. He hopes on slaughter quotas for packers and anti fraud action to curb black market dealers. He warned this may be the last effort to prove meat controls work and noted pork prices could rise if ceilings are lifted. The Office of War Mobilization advisory board urged extending the OPA for up to a year. See If Black page 4.
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Washington
Anderson
Senate Banking Committee
Barkley
D.ky
Aderson
Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion
OPA
Grain needs cut liquor making 40
Nation’s whiskey makers cut production 40 percent to aid famine relief. The move, the sharpest postwar reduction since distilling resumed, comes as government warns the world food crisis will worsen and grain must be diverted to relief efforts.
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Ovid A. Martin Washington
Stalin Slagts at the Reagination by R McCow
A May Day display in Moscow draws hundreds of thousands of workers in a parade led by Soviet leadership, with Generalissimo Stalin emphasizing vigilance against international reaction and the hatching of new war plans while praising the armed forces.
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Rembert
James McCow
Moscow
Stalin
Soviet Union
Missing gems and clothes in Dorothy La imour theft case
Baltimore May 1 An extortion demand for 15000 was revealed after jewelry and valuables valued at 29000 stolen from actress Dorothy La imour were reported recovered. The note arrived Monday at the home of her husband William Ross Howard in Pikesville, after a Baltimore suburb postmark.
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Baltimore. Md
Dorothy Laimour
William Ross Howard
Pikesville
Baltimore
Committee Recommends Admittance of Persecuted Jews to Palestine
An Anglo American commission urged immediate admission of 100000 Jews into the British mandate of Palestine drawing mixed reactions at home and abroad. The White House reported confirmation of the recommendation as details surfaced on May 1 in Huntington.
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Washington
British Mandate of Palestine
White House
Veterans poll on wartime dating at William Jewell College
Liberty Missouri May 1 six veteran students at William Jewell College surveyed 174 coeds from 20 states among the college's 513 students about whether veterans would be better lovers after serving overseas. The campus poll led by veteran and associate editor William Turnage aimed to challenge chatter about veterans resuming dating once they return home.
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Liberty
William’ Jewell College
William Turnage
Correspondents Protest Protective Custody in Manchuria
Five American correspondents detained in Changchun under protective custody since the fall of the Manchurian capital. They protest the arrangement, claim armed guards, limited movement, and loss of two cameras.
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Tom Masteron
Changchun
Ufder
Anna Jarvis Celebrates 82nd Birthday in Westchester
Westchester, Pennsylvania May 1 Miss Anna Jarvis founder of Mother's Day in 1906 celebrated her 82nd birthday today while blind and hospitalized. She inaugurated the Mother's Day now observed in 43 countries and has been confined in a sanitarium there since 1943.
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Westchester
Anna Jarvis
Jarvis
Furloughs Hit B&O Workers Across Monongah Division
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad furloughed over 300 employees since the April coal strike began, with an estimated 500 more out of work across the Monongah division. Most furloughs occurred in shops, train and yard service, with operators heavily affected.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
R. A.J. Morrison
Kee Files Candidacy for Eighth Term in Congress
Charleston May 1 Rep John Kee of Bluefield filed with the secretary of state his candidacy for Democratic renomination to an eighth term in the fifth district. Kee, first elected in 1932 and longtime ranking member of the foreign affairs committee, faces Republican Carl Herman Brunner of Bluefield as the other filed candidate. Jack R Adams of Wheeling entered the Democratic nomination race for state senator from the first district, which encompasses Brooke Hancock and Ohio counties.
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Charleston
John Kee
Bluefield
Secretary of State
Kee
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Carl Herman Brunner
Jack R. Adams
Wheeling
Brooke
Hancock
Ohio
State Fire Loss Climbs To Staggering Figure
West Virginia fire losses rise sharply. A magazine survey says national fire losses for the year ending January 31 surpassed the prior year by 30 million dollars, with WV five year totals showing a jump from 11.85 million to 8.27 million for different periods.
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New York
West Virginia
Molotov and Byrnes Clash on Italy Control Policy
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov and U S Secretary Byrnes clashed over post war control of Italy as the Big Four ministers debated Austrian Tyrol and the treaty provisions. Molotov opposed a general supervising commission, reversing prior Soviet policy, while Byrnes argued it would not violate sovereignty. The talks continued with sessions twice daily to resolve Italian boundary issues.
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Paris
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Italy
Foreign Ministers’ Council
Austria
Tyrol
Byrnes
Molotov
Barcelona Acts Of Franco Are Probed Today
Reports from Barcelona indicate acts by Franco are under probe as the United Nations Security Council subcommittee on Spain prepares to meet privately at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. Exiled Prime Minister Jose Giral provided documents alleging executions and jailing in Barcelona amid tension over Franco's regime and a possible threat to peace.
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Barcelona
United Nations Security Council
Spain
Security Council
Boyle Sees Positive U S Army Offices in Germany
A reader notes American army offices in Germany feel well treated by the occupying zone and compares life there to homeland. The letter mentions housing and rent issues, reflecting on postwar conditions and living arrangements.
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Boyle
Germany
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Sybil Gur- Yein
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