Attlee unveils six point plan for Indian federal union
In London on May 16 Prime Minister Attlee announced a six point government white paper plan for a federal union of India. A three man cabinet mission drafted the plan after failed talks with Indian leaders. The proposal sets six points including a central union with foreign affairs defense and finance, an all-India legislature, and residuary powers for provinces with regional governments and potential constitutional reconsideration after ten years.
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London
Union of India
House of Commons
Attlee
India
Union of
Hindu Congress Party
Miéilem League
Lord Petwick-Lawrence
Sir Stafford Cripps
See
Ministers Tackle German Question
The foreign ministers of the Big Four, after three weeks of talks, prepared for a 30 day recess to study peace issues. U S Byrnes, discouraged by lack of basic agreement, pressed for continued compromise as differences persist among western powers and Russia. The council adjourned until June 15 pending further discussion.
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Louis Nevin
Paris
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Russia
Byrnes
Theatre Tickets Send Invites to Mrs Wilber A Moore
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Wilber A Moore of 734 Beech Street to tonight’s showings. At the Strand Theatre she can see Night Editor featuring William Gargen Jeff Donnell. At the Dixie Theatre the lineup includes A Game of Death with John Loder and Audrey Long and Riding The Wind with Tim Holt.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Wilber A. Moore
Beech Street
William Gargen
Jeff Donnell
Btrand Theatre
John Loder
Audrey Long
Tim Holt
Dixie” Theatre
Ask Truman To Direct Drafting Of Men Aged 25 29
Washington May 16. The Army asked President Truman to direct the drafting of men 25 to 29 years old due to a potential replacement shortfall from a stopgap Selective Service revision. A War Department official said the president might act today and estimated the 25 to 29 age pool at about 15 000 men.
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Washington
Army
Truman
War Department
Two Killed in Army B-17 Crash Near Fairfax California
An Army B-17 with eight aboard ran out of gas and crashed into a hillside three miles west of Fairfax California. Two were killed and six were badly injured or critically injured. search parties scoured the wreckage as the pilot and co-pilot telephoned Hamilton Field. The crash occurred about 1 50 a m PST, with the field reporting the flight from Los Angeles to Hamilton Field.
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Fairfax
Calif
Here
Hamilton Field
Fourth Airforce
Los Angeles
Sentence Man For Reported Incident Of Wife's Sister
Sam Loomis, 51, convicted of raping his wife's 15 year old sister, was sentenced by Circuit Judge Lewis H. Miller to five to 20 years. The sentence followed a jury verdict 13 hours earlier with mercy recommendation. Loomis, a Letart farmer and pulp wood cutter, had prior charges. the girl testified of improper relations since she was 12.
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PT. Pleasant
Sam Loomis
Lewis H. Miller
Loomis
Masga City
Nadine Loomis
Truman Signals Arbitration In Coal Dispute At 5 30
President Truman asked John L. Lewis and coal operators to submit stalled contract talks to arbitration. Lewis and Charles O Neill said they will report their decision to the President at 5 30 p m EST after a White House meeting. The talks broke down overnight and a third White House conference is planned for today.
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Truman
Lewis
O'Neill
White House
Washington
John L. Lewis
Charles O'Neill
United Mine Workers
Labor
Schwellenbach
Edward F. McGrady
Push for Anna Jarvis Shrine in Taylor County West Virginia
State Senator Ralph Bean and the Legislative Interim Committee favor placing a memorial to Anna Jarvis in Taylor county where she originated and the first Mother’s Day observance occurred. A resolution proposed a shrine in Grafton as a library, while rumors of Charleston were dismissed as unfounded. Dr. Robert F. Gerkin represented the local Anna Jarvis group at the Belvedere club meeting.
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Ralph Bean
Moorefield
Hardy County
Anna Jarvis
Taylor County
Bean
Miss Jarvis
Charleston
Grafton
Legislative Interim Committee
Belvedere Club
Robert F. Gerkin
White Sulphur Springs Seeks Greenbrier Hotel
White Sulphur Springs West Virginia files to acquire the Greenbrier hotel under municipal priority rights after Brigadier General John J. O'Brien informed Chesapeake and Ohio railroad that it has no reacquisition priority. The hotel, used by the War Department since 1942 as a general hospital, will be declared surplus on June 30.
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Washington
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
War Assets Administration
Greenbrier
John J. O'Brien
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
War Department
German Food Ration Cut Made Official Today
In Stuttgart on May 16, eighteen million Germans in the American zone were officially notified that their hunger ration would drop more than seven percent to 1,180 calories daily starting May 27. The German council of minister presidents, now empowered to decide independently, announced a 95 calorie reduction from the prior average of 1,275 calories across three states.
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Stuttgart
Germany
Howlin' Mad Smith Bids Farewell To Marines As He Retires
MARTINSBURG May 16 West Virginia officials led by Governor Meadows toured the eastern panhandle before a nurses graduation ceremony at King’s Daughters hospital training school. CAMP PENDLETON Calif May 16 Lt Gen Holland M Smith known as Howlin Mad bid farewell to the Marine corps in a retirement address, using his signature tough talk to inspire the Leathernecks. See HOWLIN page 6
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Howlin
Mad’ Smith
Martinsburg
West Virginia
Panhandle
Camp Pendelton
Calif
Holland M. Smith
Tarawa
Iwo Jima
Marine Corps
Central Pacific
State Mines Break Records in West Virginia output
In northern West Virginia coal fields the bituminous industry nears full stride during the two week strike truce. Fairmont officials report district 31 output exceeds typical by 20 000 tons with 185 000 tons mined yesterday versus 165 000 expected. Strip mines and Peep mines boost tonnage as Mononghela railroad car loadings hit 60 000 tons, and 2 327 B&O Monongah division cars were loaded, surpassing prior records.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Solid Fuel Administration
Fairmont
United Mine Workers District 31
SFA
Go and Wight
Monongahela
L. J. Miller
Grafton
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Monongah
Miller
Bumblebee Sting Triggers Car Plunge Into Bank
TYRONE Pa May 16 The sting of a bumblebee caused the driver to lose control and send three Pittsburghers to Altoona hospital. Mrs Lidia Schmidt 60 and George F Hazen 42 were seriously hurt. Her husband Charles 66 was cut bruised and stung by the bee as the car toppled over a small embankment and struck a tree fifteen feet from the road.
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Tyrone
Altoon
Lidia Schmidt
George F. Hazen
Universal Health Fund plans urged in Senate debate
Senate opponents of labor control legislation proposed a universal health fund plan for industries in interstate commerce. Senator Pepper of Florida said amendments would be disclosed later and argued the measures would undermine labor, framing them as part of a broad floor fight.
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Washington
Senate
Pepper
D. Fla
Japanese Conservative Yoshida Becomes Premier After Assembly Vote
Tokyo May 16 Conservative Shigeru Yoshida, once jailed as a peace-monger, assumes premier after a tight party vote. Liberal Takekichi Miki becomes speaker and Kenzaemon Kimura vice speaker as Yoshida forms a new government.
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Tokyo
Shigeru Yoshida
Tod
House of Representatives
Yoshida
Liberal Party
Progressives
Takekichi Miki
Kenzaemon Kimura
Miki
Kimura
Arrest in Belva postoffice theft linked to Bennett
State Police Lt C P Taylor announced the arrest of Clarence Bennett of Persinger Nicholas county on a charge of breaking and entering the Community post office at Belva and stealing $110. Taylor said the Belva post office was entered May 4 and Bennett was arrested yesterday at Ansted.
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Montgomery
C. P. Taylor
Clarence Bennett
Persinger
Nicholas County
Belva
Taylor
Bennett
Ansted
Rail unions report operators reject modified wage proposal
Washington May 16 Union leaders said railroad operators rejected a modified wage increase offer. A. F. Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Alvanley Johnston of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers said they still seek a minimum 18 percent raise or 144 dollars a day, while operators offered only 1.28 dollars a day per a presidential fact finding board. Federal seizure talks loom as the 250000 rail workers prepare to strike Saturday at 4 p m EST with Truman warning he may take over the lines.
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John B. Owen Washington
Truman
A. F. Whitney
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Whitney
Alvanley Johnston
Engineers Brotherhood
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Ilinois Central
Johnston
Brotherhood of Railway
Gromyko returns to UNO council session
Soviet delegate Anrei A. Gromyko rejoined the United Nations Security Council as it opened talks on 34 proposed rules. New French envoy Alexandre Parodi sat in for Henri Bonnet, with Rafael De La Colina representing Mexico amid shifts in the council lineup.
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Francis W. Carpenter
New York
Andrei A. Gromyko
United States Security Council
Gromyko
Alexandre Parodi
Henri Bonnet
United States
Mexico
Rafael de la Colina
Luis Padilla Nervo
Paul Hasluck
Fairmont B&O Workers Receive Furlough Notices
Several hundred Baltimore and Ohio railroad car shop and roundhouse workers in Fairmont received four day furlough notices as a precaution due to the nationwide engineers and trainmen walkout. Four supervisors were not affected by the order.
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Fairmont
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Cancellations of Deed for Standard Garage Property
Circuit Judge Francis L Warder ordered cancellation of the deed conveying Standard Garage property to E. S. Hamile. The written opinion cites Brooks F. Martin’s weak condition, grossly inadequate $5,000 consideration for a $10,000 to $15,000 value, and alleged fraud in procurement tied to misrepresentations about business conditions and the bridge project.
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E. S. Hamile
Francis L Warder
Circuit Court
Warder
Brooks F. Martin
Grafton
South Grafton Bridge
Army officer seeks to join wife in leprosarium
Maj Hans George Hornsbostel, 65, a veteran of two wars, asks to spend his remaining years at his wife’s side in Carville Louisiana leprosarium. Surgeon General Parran and others are backing the appeal amid Carville’s reported denial. In Charleston West Virginia, John Wesley Clark, claimed oldest WV resident, dies at 119 at his friend’s home in Lincoln County.
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San Francisco
Carville
Hans
George Hornsbostel
Washington
Thomas Parran
Charleston
John Wesley Clark
West Virginia
Lincoln County
Reason For All Those Food Shortages Is Unprecedented Demand
Expert analysis from the Agriculture department foresees record per capita food consumption in 1948 driven by unprecedented U.S. appetite. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics warns consumer demand will outpace supplies despite bumper domestic food availability and improved futures.
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Ovid A. Martin Washington
United States
Bureau
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Chartered plane goes down near Richmond in heavy weather
A southbound chartered airliner crashed near Byrd airport in Henrico County after takeoff from Richmond during a storm. The Viking aircraft, en route Newark to Atlanta with 24 passengers and crew of two, was lost about 1 10 a m in dense overcast and rain drenched pines, 26 people reported dead including 20 men 3 women and 3 children. Bodies were recovered as planes from Eastern airlines diverted.
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Richmond
Byrd Airport
Doran Creek
Newark
N. J
Atlanta
CAA
William Walton
Henrico County
Byrd
Eastern Airlines
New York
Charles City
Doran Road
H. W. Hershaw
Weber On Trial Today as Collins Defies Court
Charleston May 16. Marvin Weber 21 and co defendant in a murder case pleaded guilty today. Judge Cyrus W Hall ordered evidence to be presented before sentencing. Weber faced possible life imprisonment after pleading to first degree murder. Collins, 22, was yesterday sentenced to die on September 14 for the April 18 murder of Denver D Red Hill, a Charleston salesman and former athlete.
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Charleston
Marvin Weber
Cyrus W. Hall
Weber
Richard Lee Collins
Hall
Denver D
Red) Hill
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