Iran Faces Civil Unrest as Azerbaijan Talks Stall
May 14 Tehran reports show the Iranian army preparing for possible conflict while the central government pursues a peaceful Azerbaijan settlement. Premier Qavam defends government aims, but Azerbaijan leaders press for local control, demanding a governor general choice and control over military commissions, signaling a rift that risks wider confrontation.
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Tehran
Azerbaijan
Shah
Ahmed Qavam
Russia
Avam
Sis Azerbaijan
Baijan
Jafar Pishevari
Pishevari
Allied order to purge fascist and militarist books in Germany
Berlin May 14 Allied four power council orders destruction of Nazi and German military memorials and the banning of books glorifying Nazi theories and German military tradition. The move faces Allied debate as some quarters criticize it as Nazi book burnings.
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Richard Kasischke
Berlin
Allied Conical Council
Vivian Cox
American Armed Forces Division
Theatre ticket listing for Harter at Strand or Dixie
The Grafton Sentinel invites Joseph Harter of 42 West Bluemont to attend tonight's Strand Theatre showing They Were Expendable with Robert Montgomery John Wayne and Donna Reed or Dixie Theatre showing Yolanda and the Thief with Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer in the same evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Grafton Sentinel
Joseph Harter
West Bluemont
Robert Montgomery
John Wayne
Donna Reed
Strand Theatre
Yolanda and the Thief
Fred Astaire
Lucille Bremer
Dixie Theatre
Mary W. Isner
Maple Avenue
Dakota
Vere Hruba Ralston
Niagara Falls
Tom Brown
Zasu Pitts
Grafton Theatre Opera House
Two Inmates Escape At Moundsville Penitentiary
State prison officials reported the escape of two inmates from the penitentiary farm near Moundsville. Deputy Warden Leo Callison said Chester A. Sexton from Logan county and Walter William Rummel serving sentences for grand larceny escaped Sunday night.
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Moundsville
Leo Callison
Chester A. Sexton
Logan County
Walter William Rummel
Texas Guards Block Roads As Strange Malady Strikes State
Texas mobilizes 300 state guardsmen to bar nonresident youths from Corpus Christi area while a polio like illness spreads from South Texas to the Panhandle, killing at least one. Rockport and Kleberg County declare quarantines. San Antonio enacts bans and closures. new case tallies revise upward with several deaths, and measures extend to trains and buses with strict self quarantine.
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Corpus Christi
Texas
Nueces County
South Texas
Panhandle
Rockport
Gulf of Mexico
Kleberg
King Ranch
Nueces
San Antonio
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station
Amarillo
Dallas
Kleberg County
Fined For Cruelty To Inmates Of Lakin School
POINT PLEASANT May 14 Three former employees at the Lakin Industrial school for negro boys were fined $10 each by Circuit Judge Lewis H Miller on cruelty charges. Former superintendent Edgar Phillips and Emerson Brooks pleaded no contest. Clarence McCoy pleaded guilty. Arthur Edgerton pleaded guilty to felonious cutting of superintendent Ellsworth Harpole and received an indefinite penitentiary term.
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Point Pleasant
Lakin
Lewis H. Miller
Edgar Phillips
Emerson Brooks
Clarence McCoy
Arthur Edgerton
Ellsworth Harpole
Soviet Proposals On Bulgaria Evacuation Spark Talks
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov proposed a troop withdrawal from Bulgaria if Allied troops left Italy, but U S Secretary Byrnes and British Foreign Secretary Bevin objected. Bevin suggested Romania for Soviet departure from Italy, and a commission of military experts to assess ItalyAustria lines of communication was discussed.
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Paris
Molotov
Bulgaria
Italy
U. S
Byrnes
Bevin
Austria
Romania
Britain
Foreign Ministers Council
London
Stop Gap Draft Bill Bans Fathers And Teens
Senate leaders accept House prohibitions on drafting fathers and teenagers to avert expiration of the draft act at midnight. President Truman ready to issue an emergency order to preserve selective service machinery if action fails, while Elbert Thomas leads a closed session on strategy as the Senate debates extending the law to July 1.
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Washington
Hill
D.-Ala
Senate
House
White House
Truman
Congress
Charles G. Ross
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Senate Military Committee
Thomas
William F. Arbogast
Chamber
West Virginia imposes electricity limits as mines resume
In Charleston on May 14 a section of West Virginia faced a power rationing order after a mine truce. About 7,200 commercial and industrial consumers in Monroe Greenbrier Summers and Pocahontas counties were restricted to 24 hours of service per week or 50 percent of normal use. Meanwhile auto license fees for 1946 neared a peak, with May 1 collections exceeding six million dollars despite a four year auto shortage.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Virginia Electric and Power Company
C. F. Nethken
Public Service Commission
Monroe
Greenbrier
Summers
Pocahontas Counties
Road Commission
All Taylor County Mines Are Working Today Many Railroaders Called Back
Lewis W. Baldwin 71, longtime Missouri Pacific president, dies in St Louis after weeks of illness. His retirement in 1923 followed a career as a civil engineer and railroad executive. Taylor county coal mines resume full operation and many Baltimore and Ohio rail workers recalled due to the coal truce Baldwin helped spark. Reppert Coal Company mines also resume full operation, says vice president D C Setler. Page references follow.
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Taylor County
ST. Louis
Lewis W. Baldwin
Missouri Pacific Railroad Lines
Illinois Central
Missouri Pacific
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Lewis
Reppert Coal Company
D. C. Setler
Reppert
Taylor
Brown Sentenced Fifteen Years For Bank Hoax In Japan
Marine Earl L. Brown of Clarksburg West Virginia was convicted by a court martial on May 3 for bank hoax and discipline infractions. He was sentenced to 15 years at the Naval disciplinary barracks San Pedro California and dishonorable discharged. He impersonated an army bank examiner to steal 500000 yen from a bank near Yokohama and was arrested after staying at a resort hotel with a Japanese girl.
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Tokyo
Marine Pfe
Earl L. Brown
Navy
Brown
Clarksburg
W. Va
Naval
San Pedro
Calif
Yokohama
State's Wheat Crop Poorest This Year In West Virginia
Charleston May 14 The State Cooperative Crop Reporting Service says winter wheat prospects are poor though overall agricultural production in West Virginia should be good. Wheat yield may reach 86,000 acres of 100,000 seeded, the lowest harvest since 1943 except for a similar drought year. Total 1946 production is expected about 1,419,000 bushels versus 1,768,000 in 1945 and the ten year average of 1,849,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
West Virginia
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Circus Cancelled At Grafton Showgrounds
King Brothers Circus owner-manager Floyd King cited mud and water at the old fairground as making today’s performances impossible. He said drainage efforts failed, water remained one inch or more, and afternoon and evening shows were cancelled. The circus plans to resume in Mannington and other cities, weather permitting, but today’s Grafton engagement was abandoned.
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Floyd King
King Brothers Circus
Fairground
King
Mannington
Grafton
Rationing Possible If World Food Situation Tightens
Stabilization director Chester Bowles said rationing could be restored if world food conditions worsen. He noted Hoover advised waiting until harvest, but Bowles argued action should be taken if the supply situation becomes tight. Report from Washington by Ovid A. Martin.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Herbert Hoover
German admiral says shooting commandos lawful
Admiral Gerhard Wagner argued before the international military tribunal that shooting uniformed British commandos without trial was proper as they were saboteurs and criminals. Prosecutor Col. Phillimore noted cases where commandos were executed after capture and their bodies wired with charges. See CONTEND page 6.
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Thomas A. Reedy Muernberg
Gerhard Wagner
International Military Tribunal Today
Col
H. J. Phillimore
Prominent coal operator Cabell dies in Charleston
Charles A. Cabell, 76, a longtime Kanawha county coal operator and noted figure in Southern West Virginia mining, died today at his Charleston home after about six months of illness.
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Charleston
Charles A. Cabell
Kanawha County
West Virginia
White House conference aims to prevent rail strike
President Truman convenes leaders of the Big Five railroad brotherhoods and rail operators at the White House to avert a Saturday walkout by some 250000 engineers and trainmen. The session at 3 45 p m EST will include rail industry negotiators and union heads as the administration keeps rail service from halting.
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Washington
Truman
Brotherhoods
White House
Charles G. Ross
Railroad Brotherhoods
Ross
Association of American Railroads
J. J. Pelley
Railroad Association
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Enginmen
H. F. Frazier
The
See Hope Page
DEAVIGE MERGER PROGRESS AT HIGH LEVEL TALKS
President Truman ordered War and Navy Secretaries to finalize an armed forces unification by May 31 after a 30 minute White House briefing. The plan seeks to reconcile major points with regular meetings until differences are ironed out. A Capitol Hill armistice on the merger began to form as Senator Edwin C. Johnson hinted at possible backing for a compromise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin B. Harkinson
Washington
Truman
War and Navy
White House
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Capitol Hill
Edwin C. Johnson
Dcoro
War and Navy Department
miners welfare fund demand by John L Lewis
John L Lewis urged exclusive UMW control of a 70 million dollar miners welfare fund funded by a seven percent payroll levy on operators. He said funds would cover medical, hospitalization, life and health insurance, disability rehabilitation, hardship aid, and possibly cultural work. He opposed a tripartite board, arguing operators should not supervise the fund. The union would not sign contracts until the fund is granted.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United’ Mine Workers
Lewis
UMW
Tripartie Board
Courts urged to bar party official as election registrar
Charleston May 14 County courts should decline to appoint any member of a county executive committee of a political party as an election registrar, attorney general Ira J. Partlow suggested in an opinion for assistant prosecutor Howard W. Carson of Fayette county. He said such action would be violative of good public policy.
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Charleston
Ira J. Partlow
Howard W. Carson
Fayett County
Partlow
Jury Drawn in Red Hill Slayers Trial in Charleston
In Kanawha intermediate court Judge Cyrus W. Hall drew a jury to try Richard Lee Collins 22 and Marvin Curtis Weber 21 for the April 18 fatal shooting of Denver D. Red Hill 39, near Edgewood Country Club. State police arrested the Charleston pair after the slaying as a crowd filled the chamber and aisles.
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Charleston
Kanawha
Denver D
Red) Hill
Richard Lee Collins
Marvin Curtis Weber
Cyrus W. Hall
Hill
Edgewood Country Club
100 Year Old State Lady Dies In Wayne West Virginia
Mrs. Dellilah Shannon dies at 100 in Wayne County and will be buried today. She lived her entire life in Wayne County and is survived by daughter Mrs. Richard Staley of Wayne, son Tom of Black Forks, nine grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren and 11 great great grandchildren.
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Wayne
Dellilah Shannon
Shannon
Wayne County
Richard Staley
Tom
Black Forks
Siamese Twin Girls Die Within Minutes of Each Other
In Portland Oregon on May 14 1929 Siamese twins born to Edward and Mrs Horse Deep River Washington died in hospital. One twin died at 635 pm PST and the other 25 minutes later. The 26 year old mother was described as deeply saddened and relieved. The babies were conjoined at the base of the spine and would not have been able to walk.
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Portland
Ore
Edward Horse
Deep River
Wash
Byrd presses ban on union payments expansion
Senator Byrd said John L Lewis switching from tonnage royalties to payroll levy to fund a miners welfare fund is the same idea, only bigger. Byrd vowed renewed efforts to outlaw company payments to a union representative, as part of a Senate vote series on strike control legislation amid bipartisan lobbying and committee strategy.
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Washington
Byrd
D.-Va
John L Lewis
Virginia
Senate
Murray
D.-Mont
Labor Committee
West Virginia coal mines reopen as 1900 workers return
In Charleston on May 14, about 1,900 northern West Virginia coal miners resumed work boosting bituminous output while an estimated 3,200 workers at 12 operations remained idle. Barrackville, Carolina near Fairmont, and Richard near Morgantown reopened after a two week truce. Barrackville employs around 860 workers and did not reopen due to wage retroactivity issues. Kanawha county mines totaling about 400 workers were idle but expected to resume soon.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Barrackvile
Carolina
Fairmont
Richard
Morgantown
Barrackville
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Lies Declire
Moundsville Penitentiary
Lakin School
Russouang
B& O
Anderson
Hoover
Ovid A. Martin Washington
HOPE
Deavige
Sore Goumiee
Peronnel Gays Fund
Red Hill
Wayne, W. Va
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