Soldier in Soviet jail recounts beatings in Berlin
Private John J. Sinkiewicz of Baltimore says he was imprisoned by Russians for ten months after entering the Soviet sector by error. He describes 16 days of interrogation and beatings, claiming mistreatment and torture. He and three British soldiers allegedly hacked through a jail wall to escape to the western sector. The British trio were jailed since March 1948 according to headquarters.
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Berlin
East Berlin
John J. Sinkiewic6
Baltimore
Nkiewier
Fhe
Sonja Henie Marries Park Avenue ceremony ends with cake slicing
Sonja Henie and Winthrop Gardiner Jr married in a seven minute ceremony at Park Avenue Methodist church. Fans crowded the entrance as they left, then a reception at Hotel Plaza featured Gardiner's navy sword slicing a pale blue iced cake. Henie, 33, a world record figure skater and actress, was previously married to Dan Topping, divorced in 1940.
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New York
Sonja Henie
Winthrop Gardiner, Jr
Park Avenue Methodist Church
Hotel Plaza
Gardiner
Henie
Dan Topping
Enough's Enough: Judge Grants Divorce in Macias Case
In Los Angeles Mrs. Ernestina Macias told the judge after 27 years she bore 17 children by Alejandro Macias. The 55 year old unemployed gardener said he wanted more children as the judge ruled cruelty and granted the divorce.
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Los Angeles
Ernestina Macias
Alejandro Macias
Macias
Dr. R. B. Bailey Dies Prominent Wheeling Surgeon
Dr. Russell Brooks Bailey, 68, a Wheeling surgeon and president of the West Virginia State Medical Association, died after a heart attack yesterday. A WVU football center in 1919, he directed state health efforts, chaired cancer groups, and held posts in the American Cancer Society and WV University Alumni Association. Survived by his widow and two children, H. Carter Bailey and Jeann Tatum Bailey.
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Wheeling
Russell Brooks Bailey
West Virginia State 1. Association
Bailey
Wheeling Clinic
American Cancer Society
State Health Board
West Virginia Cancer Society
West Virginia University Alumni Association
Linn
Lewis County
J. H. Bailey
Weston
West Virginia University
University of Cincinnati
Long Island University
Baptist Church
American College of Surgeons
American Board of Surgery
H. Carter Bailey
Jeann Tatum Bailey
Plan Sewage Plant Joint Effort For Two Cities
The mayor of Follansbee will ask Wellsburg city council to consider a joint sewage plant for the two communities four miles apart. The move, announced yesterday, marks the first formal step toward solving pollution problems affecting both towns.
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Follansbee
Wellsburg
GOP Command Should Boldly Seek West Virginia Support
In Charleston Raymond V. Humphreys urged the Republican Party leadership to pursue new backing in West Virginia. He proposed doubling the State Executive Committee size, adding 64 young members, and creating five subcommittees within an enlarged body to study labor agriculture and veterans issues. He spoke at Charleston City Hall to the Lincoln Club of Kanawha County.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Raymond V. Humphreys
Huntington
Young Men's Republican League
Cabell County
Humphreys
Douglas MacArthur
Lincoln Club
Karawha County
Parents and Preacher Clash Over Snake Beliefs
In Charleston a lawsuit over a boy's church allegiance pits Mrs. W. E. Withrow against Rev. Hillery C. Rice of the South Charleston Church of God. Withrow claims alienation of affections seeking 10,000, while Rice and Mrs. Rice deny such beliefs and accuse Withrow of threats to scandalize the church.
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Charleston
W. E. Withrow
Hillery C. Rice
South Charleston
Crisis Looms in Coal Pensions Strike Fears Grow
Washington report says soft coal operators may strike over refusal to pay 20 cent pension royalty. John L. Lewis rushed from White Sulphur Springs to urge welfare fund trustees as rumors circulated of Bridges resigning. Lewis warned northern and western mine owners might stall payments due September 20, signaling a possible nationwide crisis.
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John L. Lewis
Washington
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Lewis
Welfare Fund
Styles Bridges
R-Nh
Bridges
Ezra van Horn
United Mine Workers’ Union
UMW
Diesel power replaces Mallets on B and O line in WV hills
The Baltimore and Ohio Rail road shifts freight power from Mallet steam locomotives to Diesel-electric helpers on three steep Allegheny grades between Newburg and Terra Alta West Virginia. Five new 6,000 horsepower units in service, with two more soon. engines built by General Motors Electro Motive Division. Servicing facilities planned at M and K Junction. Mallets reassigned to other lines where they will replace less efficient power. The Old Mallet remains a historic symbol of the line.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Allegheny Mountains
B& O
Newburg
Terra Alta
W. Va
Electro Motive Division
General Motors Corporation
M&k
M&k Junction In West Virginia
B&o
Two Divorces Awarded In Local Court Thursday
Two divorces were granted by Judge W Merle Watkins in local court on Thursday. Mary Jane Hern was awarded a divorce from Arthur B Hern and restored to her maiden name Mary Jane Moore. Wanda Juanita Shaw was divorced from George Edward Shaw and restored to Wanda Juanita Nicola with a restraining decree to protect her freedom.
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W. Merle Watkins
W. Merle Bailey
Mary Jane Hern
Arthur B. Hern
Mary Jane Moore
Wanda Juanita Shaw
George Edward Shaw
Wanda Juanita Nicola
Shaw
Acheson reports on Cold War unity with allies
Secretary of State Acheson was to brief President Truman on coordinated U S British and French actions in the Cold War with Moscow. The meeting focused on Yugoslavia and Balkans plus Germany and Austria with a possible future session on anti communist strategy in the Far East.
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Washington
Acheson
Truman
Russia
Yugoslavia
Marshall Tito
Moscow
Bevin
Schuman
Balkans
Germany
Austria
Far East
White House
Atlantic Treaty Council
Governor Patteson Aims to Speed Bridge Reconstruction
Governor Okey L. Patteson says a letter outlining obstacles to rebuilding the Bridge street bridge is in the mail to ex Senator William J. Hussion. He discussed the matter with Hussion and Paul E. Malone at a Moose convention welfare dinner in Fairmont, pledging to hasten action.
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Patteson
Hussion
Taylor County Board of Trade
Bridge Street
Okey L. Patteson
William J. Hussion
Mr. Hussion
Paul E. Malone
Board of Trade
West Virginia Moose Association
Fairmont
Husston
Malone
Governor Patteson forms panel to study vehicle laws
Charleston reports Governor Patteson named a 12 member committee to study needed changes in West Virginia motor vehicle laws. The group, drawn from state officials and highway experts, follows a commission on interstate cooperation review and aims to address piecemeal, obscure, or conflicting statutes. The plan cites the uniform vehicle code endorsed at the Washington highway conference last year.
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Charleston
Batteson
West Virginia
Commission On Interstate Cooperation
Patteson
Washington
Grafton Soldier Volunteers For Air Sickness Drug Test
Seventeen year old Private Richard L Newbrough of Lackland Air Base volunteers for Randolph School of Aviation Medicine tests. He sits in a Q 47 aircraft for an hour as Captain James Collins tests a new drug to combat air motion sickness. The program aims to find methods to prevent sickness across 570 volunteers over five months.
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Grafton
Richard’ L. Newbrough
Silas Newbrough
Washington Street
Lackland Air Base
Texas
Randolph School of Aviation Medicine
Newbrough
James Collins
Air Force
Tom Rhodes
Rhodes
Neworough
Grafton High School
Virginia Railway Shops To Close Today
Beckley Post-Herald reports the Virginian Railway Company shops at Princeton will close after today for an indefin ite period. A work order posted at the shops did not specify how many employees are affected. Layoffs at several railroad shops are linked to strike scares from coal and steel industry tensions.
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Beckley
Beckley Post-Herald
Virginian Railway Company
Princeton
Squirrel Supply Good For Season's Opening
CHARLESTON October 15 hunting season opens with an above average squirrel supply. The Conservation Commission also reports good prospects for ruffed grouse wild turkeys quail cottontail rabbits deer raccoons opossums skunks muskrats and mink. Ringneck pheasants and black bear are forecast only fair.
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Charleston
Conservation Commission
CIO Steelworkers Urge Industry to Accept Findings
Pittsburgh report says the CIO United Steelworkers urged steel firms to accept the presidential board’s peace recommendations to avert a strike by September 25. Union President Philip Murray ordered a wage policy committee meeting at 9 a.m. Wednesday as contract talks resume amid extended strike deadline. The issue centers on whether workers should fund social insurance and pension programs, with US Steel reportedly resistant to the board’s recommendations.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
Presidential Board
Philip Murray
Truman
Steel Industry Board
Murray
United States Steel Corporation
Reading
Rajk Pleads Guilty of Overthrow Plans in Hungary
Rajk Laszlo, former interior and foreign minister of Hungary, pleaded guilty to all charges in an indictment for plotting to overthrow the government. He admitted to conspiring with Marshal Tito's Yugoslav officials to assassinate Hungarian leaders and to make Hungary a Yugoslav colony. He was first to plead among eight defendants as trial opened at the Hungarian Metal Workers Union headquarters.
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Budapest
Hungary
Laszlo Rajk
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Rajk
Hungarian Metal Workers Union
Rajck
Major Kuhn Addresses Carlisle Kiwanis on Constitution Day
Major Ernest G Kuhn former Grafton Rotarian spoke to about 100 Kiwanis members at the Molly Pitcher Hotel Carlisle Barracks Pa on Constitution Day addressing popular misconceptions of the Constitution. He serves as instructor at the Armed Forces Information School Carlisle Barracks and is a former Taylor County school superintendent and past WV high school athletics official leader.
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Arlisle Barracks
Ernest G.kuhn
Grafton
West Virginia
Kiwanis Club
Carlisle
Penna
Molly Pitcher Hotel
Kuhn
History Economics and Government Department
The
Armed Forces Information School
Carlisle Barracks
Taylor County
West Virginia State High School Athletic Commission
Taylor Farmers Sign Up for 1949 Conservation Plan
About 480 Taylor County farmers, roughly 60 percent of the eligible 800, signed up to carry out soil and water conservation practices under the 1949 ACP. Cooperating farmers receive about half the out of pocket costs as aid in materials services or cash, with practices including limestone application superphosphate pond building and contour stripcropping. The program is locally administered by 24 community and 3 county committeemen headed by John C. Stout Garland Gawthrop and H. F. McDonald.
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John C. Stout
Taylor County Agricultural Conservation Committee
Taylor County
Garland Gawthrop
H. F. McDonald
Three Civil Cases Set For Trial Soon
Three civil cases have been docketed for trial in Taylor County Circuit Court current session. On Monday, September 26, the dockets include R. Campbell vs Ursel J. Reed and Emma Springer vs Builders Service et al. The West Virginia Tractor and Equipment Company vs Walter Beatty et al. is set for trial on September 27.
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Taylor County
Fe R. Campbell
Ursel J. Reed
Emma Springer
Builders Service
West Virginia Tractor and Equipment Company
Walter Beatty
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