UN Warns of Barbarous Civil War Threat in Korea
The United Nations Korean Commission warned the General Assembly that a barbarous civil war could explode in Korea any day as two years of UN efforts failed to ease the conflict between the Communist north and the Republic of Korea in the south. The 34 page annual report cites embittered propaganda, hostile activities, and a bitter arms race along the 38th parallel, warning of the serious danger of open military conflict.
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Lake Success
United Nations Korean Commission
Korea
Swoeh Hulu Anne Ove
General Assembly
S of
U.N
Slayer Threatened By Relative Of One Of 13 Victims
CAMDEN New Jersey Howard B Unruh known as a gunman who killed 13 has been moved from Cooper Hospital to New Jersey State Hospital for the insane in Trenton. Prosecutor Mitchell Cohen said the transfer was in the interest of all concerned. A relative of 19 year old John H Wilson who died in the river road mass incident reportedly appeared at Unruh s hospital room and threatened to kill him. Unruh was being treated for a hip wound. The relative s identity was not disclosed.
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Camden
N. J
Howard B. Unruh
Cooper Hspital
New Jersey State Hospital For
Trenton
Mitchell Cohen
Camden County
John H.wilson
River Road
Unruh
Wilson
Death beats father to death in Sandpoint Idaho case
A 15 year old Charlotte Burns was described as a girl who never had anything by neighbor Eleanor Puckett Smith at a preliminary hearing for the first degree murder of her father Charles Burns. Probate Judge J P Harris took the case under advisement after the hearing.
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Sandpoint
Idaho
Charlotte Burns
Eleanor Puckett-Smith
Burns
Charlotte
Charles Burns
J.P
Harris
Telephone Company Denounces PSC Rate Recommendation
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia rejected a Public Service Commission consultant and municipal recommendation to refuse a third telephone rate hike. General manager J R B Crigler stated briefs opposing the increase contain assertions contrary to the record facts, countering Meadows and Wittle from the Kentucky PSC who advised rejection.
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Charleston
Chesapeake and Potomac ‘Telephone Company
West Virginia
Public Service Commission
J. R. B. Crigler
C, and P
Commission
Clarence W. Meadows
Charles E Whittle
The
Kentucky Public Service Commission
Suicide in Elk River Jump Shocks City
Charleston police report 65 year old George Combs of Union Mission leaped from the Washington street bridge into the Elk River. The Reverend Pat B. Withrow, head of the mission, said Combs had been despondent and in ill health for the past year. He had lived at the mission for 35 years and is believed to have come from Lexington, Kentucky.
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Charleston
George Combs
Union Mission
Washington Street
Elk River
Pat B. Withrow
Combs
Withrow
Corans
Lexington
Asks Market Enlargement in War Era Talks
Washington heard an urgent request from Britain to enlarge American markets for British goods during the Three Power economic talks. Sir Stafford Cripps urged broad tariff cuts to help Britain earn dollars and stabilize its finances as it seeks to pay its way in the world again.
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Washington
Britain
United States
Stafford Cripps
Cripps
Girl Killed In Fall On Excalibur Liner
Adrienne Atwell a 20 year old Dallas debutante died aboard the American Export Line ship Excalibur when she and her male companion fell backward down a stairway while their arms were about each other. Boatswain's mate Luis Rivera said he saw the tragedy as the ship docked after a Europe cruise. The victims were Adrienne Atwell and Robert M Willard both of Dallas.
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Boston
Dallas
Tex
Alantic
Excalibur
Adrienne Atwell
Europe
Luis Rivera
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Rivera
Robert M. Willard
Truck Driver Charged With Manslaughter Employment Hike During August
Washington dispatch reports workers expect a sharp rise in the August labor force with census figures due today. Officials predict total employment near 60 million while unemployment slips below 4 million for the year’s first time. The July unemployment peak at 4,095,000 remains the highest since 1942, with a seasonal decline anticipated into September as youth and job seekers leave the labor pool.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Polio Funds Drive Launched Amid Epidemic Peak
United States faces one of its worst polio outbreaks with an expected total near 40 000 cases. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the US Postal Service launch a week long emergency drive aiming at 14 500 000 dollars as Basil O Connor warns funds nearly exhausted to treat victims.
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New York
United States
U. S. Post Office
National Foundation For
Columbia Broadcasting System
Foundation
Basil O'Connor
Propose New Garbage Incinerator For City In Moundsville
The Moundsville chamber of commerce called a joint meeting with city council to discuss a new garbage incinerator after the existing plant broke down yesterday and was repaired briefly. Mayor Wilbert Miner said the 1921 incinerator is inadequate, forcing open-dump burning and fumes. He estimated a suitable replacement at 75000 dollars but noted no funds are available.
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Moundsville
Miner
Food Store Robbery Gut $400 in Moundsville
In Moundsville the State Food Store Supermarket was robbed by a lone young man who brandished a gun and took only large bills from two registers. A half dozen customers were in the store when the cashier was held up after buying gum. No trace of the robber was found.
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Moundsville
State Food Store
Richard Strauss Dies At 85 In Germany
Richard Strauss, famed composer of Till EulenSpiegel Don Quixote and Salome, dies at 85 in Garmisch Partenkirchen. Prolific from childhood prodigy to modern master, his tone poems and operas shaped 20th century music. he faced denazification, political bans, and an extended illness before his death.
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Garmisch Partenkirchen
Germany
Richard Strauss
Strauss
Uur
America
Munich
Bavaria
Garmisch~ Partenkirchen
Austria
Poland
Hitler
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Britain
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Switzerland
Three Nation's Railroads Threatened With Strikes
Three railroads face strikes risking idle work for more than 130000 rail and steel workers. About 30000 workers plan to quit on the Missouri Pacific and at 3 p m tomorrow est. Union officials pressed arbitration but moved to strike over 262 unsettled claims totaling about 5 million dollars. In Pittsburgh, strikes target inter plant carriers serving steel plants with one walkout Saturday and another next Tuesday. In Cleveland and Washington, mediation efforts failed and rail traffic may be restricted ready to halt freight and passenger service. Four unions involved include locomotive engineers firemen conductors and yard workers.
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Washington
Missouri Pacific Rail
Pittsburgh
Rail Brotherhood
Waxes
Frank Douglas
Mediation Boar
Missouri Pacific
The
Road
St. Louis
Cleveland
Brotherhood
Brotherhood of Railroad
Monongahela
Union Line
Union Road
U.S. Steel Corporation
Monon
Two Die in Head-On Collision of Auto and Coal Truck
A Grafton war veteran and coal truck driver, George B. Shaw, faces voluntary manslaughter charges after a head-on crash at the US 500 250 junction near Valley Inn that killed Mrs. Myrtle Hammock and her nephew Oney Smith. The victims were en route to a Philippi clinic for the brother of Mr Smith. The collision is described as a major local highway disaster, with authorities and witnesses detailing the scene and preliminary hearing scheduled for Saturday morning in Magistrate John Snider's office.
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Grafton
Justice of Peace
George B. Shaw
Pike Street
John Snider
U.S
Valley Inn
Myrtle Smith Hammock
Princeton Street
Akron
Ohio
Oney Clarkson Smith
Rivesville
Martin Coal Company
Shaw
Philippi
E. L. Duckworth
Baird Winters
Route 2
Welds
Oneness
Winters
Board of Trade Seeks B&O Plea on Local Staff Move
The Taylor County Board of Trade votes unanimously to send a letter to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad president asking that the 28 personnel slated for relocation to Baltimore offices be kept in Grafton. The board also plans active steps to secure proper representation and discusses street lighting and a possible new bridge on East Main Street with the South Side as a consideration.
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Taylor County Board of Trade
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Baltimore
Grafton
East Main Street
Veteran Is Killed After Going Berserk
SUFFERN New York advertising executive Lee Graves 39 medical discharged Marine went berserk in a restaurant early today police Lt William A Crouse shot and killed him after Graves struck him with a metal chair two others injured four or five persons treated at Good Samaritan hospital Crouse hospitalized with a fractured skull in a fracas with unidentified assailants.
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Suffern
N. Y
New York
Lee Graves
William A. Crouse
Crouse
Good Samaritan
Graves
52 Hopeful American Beauties Begin Second Busy Day
Atlantic City contest coverage follows 52 Mise America hopefuls as they start with a breakfast conference for judges and prepare for a second preliminary in bathing suit talent and evening gown. Chaperones escort contestants to Convention Hall for rehearsals as rules bar dates. Afternoon free for rest or sightseeing. Dinner heightens tension as finalists edging closer to Saturday showdown.
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Atlantic City
Convention Hall
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Old River Road
Armand Harris
International Soundphotos
UN Korean Group
Russellville
Ala
Starley Elizabeth Stokes
William S. Davis
Franklin County Play Boys
Shirley Elizabeth
Wendy Tuka
Slayer
Telephone Company
the Sentinel
Jur
Greg
Three Nation
Missouri-Pacific Railroad
Union
George E. Shaw
Board of Trade
B&o
Illinois
Sylvia Canaday
Colorado
Teresa Giorgian
Chicago
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