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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1949
Page
7
Mrs. A. L. Rohrer of Beckley led the West Virginia Women's Christian Temperance Union as it opened its 66th annual convention in Martinsburg. Speakers included Dr. Oliver Ikenberry of Shepherd College and Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin of Evanston. The event drew delegates and Air Force officers amid discussions on union policies and missionary education.
A paratrooper fell with a collapsed chute and was saved by a fellow jumper who grabbed the trailing shroud lines during an air ground demonstration at Eglin Field. The rescue occurred yesterday in the presence of Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray and other high Army and Navy officials.
The coal dispute showed no near breakthrough as union leaders, including UMW officials, were absent or declined comment. Northern and western operators walked out of talks at White Sulphur Springs, and the White House said President Truman plans no direct involvement in the coal or steel disputes. Southern operators and UMW bargainers held five months of talks with no clear progress, despite rumors of a possible breakthrough from Bluefield.
Russia declared its Yugoslav ambassador in Washington unfit to continue representing the Tito government in the Soviet Union. The move followed Moscow’s claims of slanderous Yugoslav charges and cited Rajk treason plots in Hungary as the basis for espionage accusations. The note stressed no break in diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia.
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