States Rights Fighters Rally Against Truman Fair Deal
Southern states factions prepare a two year campaign against the Truman Fair Deal at the Third States Rights meeting in Jackson Mississippi. Leaders condemn the Truman Welfare State and call for a south wide rebellion while GOP leaders debate timing a showdown on civil rights and employment legislation. Senator Taft plans to back Scott’s plan to limit debate and force a vote, with Wherry arguing Monday is too soon to gag southern Democrats who aim to block the measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Republican Policy Committee
Robert Taft
Ohio
Scott As
Illinois
Kenneth Wherry
Nebraska
Rebekah District Convention Draws Large Grafton Attendance
About 200 women from Monongalia Marion and Taylor counties attended the Rebekah district convention in Grafton. The event opened at 10 a m with a prayer by Mrs Bella Pitzer of lodge 64. Activities included welcomes, rituals, lodge reports, committee appointments, lunch at Andrew's church served by the Women’s Society of Christian Service, corsage favors, and a memorial service followed by a piano solo before adjournment and busreturn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monongalia
Marion
Taylor
Rebekah
Grafton
Bella Pitzer
Eda Watson
Andrew's Church
Women's Society of Christian Service of the Church
Paul Warden
Esther McKee
Mayme Fiedler
Neva Thorne
Grace Billington
Idaline Knotts
Esther Moker
CIO Proxy Attacks Electrical Union as Communist Core
Atlantic City CIO leader Philip Murray called the Independent Electrical Workers Union the hard core of Communism in America. He told Steelworkers delegates the union’s leadership serves Moscow. The I E W U was expelled by CIO while AFL head Green offered potential talks on unifying the rival labor groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
Philip Murray
Independent Electrical Workers Union
America
Steelworkers Union
Murray
Independent Electrical Union
Moscow
The
CIO
Communist Party
AFL
William Green
Othe Afl
Green
Colored Freight Train Riders Caught Sentenced
Three arrests reported in Ona C. Jeffreys court for past two days. Roosevelt Johnson and Joseph Lindsey, both colored from Georgia and Louisiana, were fined ten dollars and costs for riding freight trains. in default they go to county jail. Dowden W. Finley of West Main street faces a non-support warrant with hearing scheduled later this week. Gordon Blake and Homer Reed, both colored, were charged with drunken driving and permitting an intoxicated person to drive after a collision with a car driven by Buddy Day of Grafton. hearing set for Friday evening May 12 at 6 30 p.m.
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Justice Court
Ona
Eva L. Finley
Paul R. Messenger
Gordon Blake
Homer Reed
G. F. Ranall
Buddy Day
Grafton
Digger Trapped in Well Faces Slim Rescue Prospects
In New York Brooklyn man Domi nick Atteo, 49, is trapped at the bottom of a collapsed well since yesterday morning. Doctors say he seems to be sinking fast as rescue teams labor with crane and bucket shovel to free him while his wife, Marie, collapses at dawn from the stress of the vigil.
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New York
Dominick Atteo
Brooklyn
Aztec
Attec
Atteo
Marie
Cassell to be ordained at Jackson's Mill
The West Virginia Synodical Women's Missionary Society meets May 14 to 18 at Jackson's Mill while the West Virginia Synod of the United Lutheran Church in America holds its annual convention in Am er. Cassell, son of Mr and Mrs E M Cassell of East Main St, is to be ordained May 15 by Rev E F K Roof and will begin duties as pastor of Mount Calvary Lutheran in Westernport Maryland after graduation May 19.
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West Virginia
Synodical ‘Women's Missionary ’ Society of the United Lutheran Church
Jackson's Mill
A. Breuninger
Oakland
Maryland
West Virginia Synod of the
United Lutheran Church In America
E. M Cassell
East Main Street
Cassell
Gettysburg Theological Seminary
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania
At & P.m
E. F. K. Roof
Mount Calvary Luthern Church
Westernport
Fuente
Martha Lee
Dunnington
May 14 Named M Day Origin Story at Grafton
Miss Jarvis of Grafton conceived Mothers Day after the Civil War to heal feuds. In 1903 Grafton held the first Mothers Day services as mothers united under her leadership. West Virginia proclaimed it in 1912 and Congress plus President Wilson ratified a national holiday four years later.
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Jarvis
Grafton
Mothers of
Mrs. Jarvis
West Virginia
Congress
Wilson
Bonnie Sawyer
Anna Ward Jarvis
Woodrow Wilson
Truman Cross Country Trip Sparks Heated Idaho Fracas
President Truman visits Idaho for a Pocatello speech announcing a national science foundation to advance peaceful atomic progress. He warns Cold War tensions persist while Republican leaders pledge to contest his claims. Police report two intoxication arrests in Boise as Magnuson joins the cross country tour and a mood control bill looms on the veto horizon.
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Boise
Truman
Idaho
Pocatello
National Science Foundation
United States
Wyoming
Laramie
Russia
Dean Acheson
Kenneth Wherry
Nebraska
GOP
Senate
Warren Magnuson
Washington
Magnuson
Marshall Plan aid totals millions to Western Europe and Asia
The Economic Cooperation Administration announced aid to five Western European nations totaling 3 005 000 with Korea at 5 855 000 and China 116 000. Korea uses 2 000 000 to purchase U S cotton and the rest for industrial goods. China funds cover ocean transport. Miami news notes Eddie Rickenbacker predicting broader Marshall Plan reach and a long term cost. An administration blueprint follows.
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Washington
Korea
China
Economic Cooperation Administration
U. S
Miami
Florida
Eddie Rickenbacker
Asia
Middle East
South America
Dr Allen Speaks For Brotherhood At Fairmont Dinner
Dr Allen pastor of the Presbyterian church in Fairmont was the speaker for the annual ladies and guest night dinner at the Sixth Presbyterian church. He spoke on the role of men’s organizations in church work and urged a Christian revival of faith. He was yesterday named president of the board of directors of Davis and Elkins College. About seventy five attended the dinner served by the missionary society ladies. Harley Haller was master of ceremonies and group singing was led by Dr Charles Wells with Mrs Calvin Morrison at the piano.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Presbyterian Church
Fairmont
Men's Brotherhood
al Presbyterian
Davis and Elkins College
Elkins
the Missionary Society
Harley Haller
Charles Wells
Calvin Morrison
Seventeen Pass Driver's Tests Seventeen Pass Driver's Tests
The Grafton state police detachment recently tested 22 applicants for driver licenses and 17 passed. Names included Francis Anthony Julian, Wilford Franklin Brown Jr, Francis Ray Myers Jr, Robert Lee Burton Sr, George Raymond Burkhammer of Camden, Andy Junior Stevenski, Darrell Shuttlesworth, Glenwood Clevenger of Brownton, Beulah May Austin, Orlando Kenneth Goff, Erwin Leon Coda of Mona WV, Russel Edwin Kirby, Robert Allen Shroyer, Frank Murray Faulkner, James Edward Moats of Moatsville, Ray Frederick Miller, and Ledford Franklin Kirby.
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Grafton
State Police
Francis Anthony Julian
Wilford Franklin Brown, Jr
Francis Ray Myers, Jr
Robert Lee Burton, Sr
George Raymond Burkhammer
Camden
Andy Junior Stevenski
Darrell Shuttlesworth
Glenwood Clevenger
Brownton
Beulah May Austin
Orlando Kenneth Goff
Erwin Leon Coda
Mona
West Virginia
Russel
Four Big Railroads Hit By Major Strike
Four big railroads were crippled by the first major rail strike since 1946 with 18,000 firemen and enginemen on strike. The Pennsy, New York Central, Santa Fe, and Southern Railway halted many services as unions press for extra firemen aboard diesel locomotives. Some trains, including the Central's 20th Century and Pennsy's Broadway Limited, were canceled. Federal mediators in Chicago work toward an early settlement amid mass layoff warnings.
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New York
Southern Railway
Santa Fe
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
The
Southern
Buffalo
Pennsy
Broadway Limited
Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Commodore Vanderbilt
Grand Central Terminal
Central
Cleveland
East
Rocky Mountain
Francis O'Neill
Tailway Mediation Board
Leclar
Oppenheimer Denies Communist Charge Amid Court Testimony
Dr J Robert Oppenheimer top US atomic scientist denies secretly meeting with Communists in Berkeley in July 1941 He states he never joined the Communist Party or attended a party session and notes he knew left wing groups and people during his atom bomb work The record cites Mrs Paul Crouch who testified to Un American Activities Committee in California While other item reports rising use of off street parking in cities including total 828 municipal lots across 380 large cities with 63 new lots last year
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Paul Crouch
California State Senate Committee On Un-American Activities
Berkeley
California
Oppenheimer
University of California
Communist Party
Crouch
Chicago
International City Managers Association
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Taft
Lucas
Electrical Union
Commie
Quebec
Rimouski
International Soundphotos
City Hall
John Callahan
Hustead Kellar
Pearl Street
Mauller
Kellar
Rickenbacker
Eastern Air Lines
Kiwanis International
North Atlantic
Dr. Allen
Brotherhood
Ladies
U.S
Conrad Hilton, Jr
Elizabeth Taylor
Bel Air
Cal
Europe
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