Courtroom Spellbound As Boy Relates Shooting Violence
National coal strike with widespread job idle days causes 500000+ workers to stay home. John L Lewis’s union faces pressure as royalties and pension funds trigger conflict. Southern producers resist funding, while potential contract talks hinge on Bluefield talks. Violent episodes ripple through Kentucky West Virginia. Governor critiques leaders amid stalled negotiations.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
Kentucky
West Virginia
William Tuelk
Virginia
Lew’ S
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Washington
Southern Coal
Bluefield
W. Va
UMW
Southern Coal Producers Association
Southern
Joseph Moody
The
Southern Coal Producers
UMW Fund
Judge Acquitted In Attempted Murder Trial
The Sentinel reports Judge Robert Carpenter, 44, acquitted by a five-day trial after a 59-minute jury deliberation. Prosecutors said he shot attorney John Lockwood four times in the face, following a July 27 pursuit four blocks. Lockwood represents Mrs. Carpenter in a divorce case. relationships with Mrs. Carpenter and Mrs. Mantful framed the case.
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Atlanta
Robert Carpenter
John Lockwood
Carpenter
Lockwood
Babs Back In America Arrives for Medical Checkup
Princess Barbara Hutton Troubetzkoy, 36, arrives at New York aboard the Queen Elizabeth for a medical checkup. The Woolworth heiress says she is feeling very badly after four operations in Europe for kidney and intestinal ailments. She expects her fourth husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, to follow her to the United States.
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New York
Babs” Hutton
Barbara Hutton Troubetzkoy
Woolworth
United States
Prince Igor Troubetzkoy
Princess Barbara
Europe
Retired Oil Operator John W. Kearns Dies in Ridgeport
John William Kearns 70 a long time oil and gas operator died at his home in Ridgeport yesterday He served as an official of South Penn Oil since 1928 and earlier partnered with Michael Benedum of Pittsburgh in northern West Virginia oil ventures He was retired several years prior to his death
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Ridgeport
John
William Kearns
South Penn Oil Company
Michael Benedum
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
West Virginia Families Hold Life Insurance at Start of 1949
About $4,100 in life insurance was held by the average West Virginia family at the start of 1949, the Institute of Life Insurance reported. The total of $1,899,800,000 was a new high for the state, the Institute said.
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New, York
West Virginia
Institute of Life Insurance
Forty-Four Convictions Fines Metered by State Agency
Sixty four persons convicted of violating state game fish and forestry laws last month paid fines and costs totaling $2,323.15. The conservation commission voted. Violators included a man taking bass undersized for the season and three men who killed deer or possessed deer meat out of season.
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Charleston
Conservation Commission
Ask Death Penalty For Lad Accused OF Killing Father
Upshur County Prosecutor J D Jennings asked the death sentence for 14 year old Jerry Riggs in a trial for the August 9 fatal shooting of his father Harry L Riggs 48 in a cornfield. State police say the boy admitted to shooting after a spanking over money for a bicycle and subsequent theft of 1325 dollars.
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R. C. Culp
Jerry
Culp
Talks on Sharing Atomic Secrets Opening Today
The United States Britain and Canada begin exploratory talks at the State Department on exchanging atomic secrets and uranium for the A-bomb. Truman has promised to consult Congress before commitments, and officials seek a three way understanding while keeping sensitive data restricted.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Canada
Truman
Congress
State Department
U.S
Kingwood Woman Held in Murder
A 65 year old Kingwood woman is held without bond on first degree murder charges after authorities say she killed her 25 year old daughter and kept the body at home for a week. Mrs Jennie McIntee pleaded innocent in magistrate court. Sheriff J H Benson quoted her saying she shot her daughter Mae Piper last Tuesday because she perted me. Piper's body was found on a cot in the home they shared. she had a .22 caliber head wound.
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Kingwood
Jennie McIntee
Preston County
J. H. Benson
McIntee
Mae Piper
Grape Thicket
State aid boosts Taylor County schools with 50000 dollars
The September state aid distribution totaling 5 278 000 dollars for county schools is part of a 36 946 963 dollar legislature appropriation for 1949 50 fiscal year. Counties receive varied amounts from 20 000 to 900 000 with Taylor listed at 50 000 and Kanawha at 900 000.
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W. W. Trent
Kanawha
Wirt County
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Berkeley
Boone
Braxton
Brooke
Cabell
Calhoun
Clay
Doddridge
Fayette
Gilmer
Grang
Greenbrier
Hampshire
Hancock
Grafton Boy Wounded By Found Gun On School Day
Eight year old son of Mr and Mrs Homer Wilson of 15 West Wilford street was shot in the leg when a playmate found a discarded .22 caliber pistol near the Lutheran church. The bullet only damaged flesh, not bone, and the child received medical care at Grafton City hospital. The shooting was ruled accidental and police continue burglary‑related inquiries into the weapon’s disappearance from Tony's Place on September 12. Police Chief Mask said two other eight year olds nearby alerted authorities. Richard McHathaway and Cecil Robinson, classmates, said they heard the noise and helped bring the wounded boy home.
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Homer Wilson
West
Wilford Street
Grafton City Hospital
Tony
Mask
Richard McHathaway
Cecil Robinson
Sea
Supreme Court Denies Hinerman Rape Verdict Appeal
The West Virginia Supreme Court denied Lonnie Earl Hinerman's appeal of a Marshall County statutory rape conviction. Hinerman, 26, was found guilty of raping an eight year old girl and sentenced to 20 years. The decision also refused two other appeals, including a damage suit by Lacy Meadows and a dispute over vehicle ownership involving Bank of Quinwood and Beckley loan firm.
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Lonnie Earl Hinerman
Roberts Ridge Farmer
Marshall County
Supreme Court
James B. Bailey
Hinerman
Raleigh
Lacy Meadows
Glen Morrison
Wycoming County
Jean Crouch
James C. Lewis
Bank of Quinwood
Beckley
Vandenberg Rallys GOP Behind Foreign Aid Plan
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan rallied Republican support for the administration's foreign military aid program. Senate leaders planned a quick final vote with little organized opposition in sight. Supporters predicted a decisive victory on the $1.314 billion package to re arm friendly nations.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Michigan
Senate
Court to decide if confessions were under force
A three judge panel in Dover is to decide today if four confessions by 16 year old Robert Brennan were obtained by force in the lonely hearts murder case. Defense argues statements were coerced. Brennan and mother Inez face murder and accessory charges in Wooldridge slaying last October in Dover. Wooldridge body found at a Dover dump. statements allege burial and cremation actions.
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Del
Delaare
Lonely Hearts
Benjamin R. Donolow
Robert Brennan
Wade N. Wooldridge
Stone Mountain
Carpenter
Brennan
Wooldridge
Inez Brennan
Outbreak Of Wild Trading As Pound Devalued Spreads Globally
In Washington and major markets, frantic trading followed Britain's pound devaluation. London reopened after a holiday as brokers crowded the floor. gold, oil, rubber and industrial shares swung wildly. Paris barred foreign issues while dollar trades dominated in the later session. the dollar opened around 350 francs and finished near 330.80. Gold flows surged in Johannesburg, and Rome Milan saw sharp lira shifts as global markets reeled.
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Britain
London
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Milan
Johannesburg
South Africa
Paris
Sidney
Australia
Ranch Foreman Injured In Helicopter Crash
Vernon Texas report says Tony Hazelwood foreman at Waggoner Ranch was injured when his helicopter crashed while corralling cattle. He suffered three broken ribs and facial cuts. Two other men escaped injury. He plans to rely on horses henceforth.
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Vernon
Tex
Tony Hazelwood
Waggoner Ranch
Hazelwood
Crematory plan to dump garbage approved in Moundsville
Moundsville Mayor Wilbert Minor announced the State Mines Department approved a plan to dump the city garbage into the 450 shaft of the old Parrs Run Mine in east Moundsville. The arrangement ends the need for immediate repairs to the city incinerator, idle for two weeks and prone to trouble.
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Moundsville
Wilbert Minor
State Mines Department
Parrs Run
Fire kills dog as two families lose home in blaze near Graf ton
Twenty Grafton volunteers fought a noon fire that gutted a five room frame house known as the old Jacobs place near Route 119 close to Graf ton Drive-In theater. The dwelling owned by Mrs Lemma Jacobs housed the James Bailey Knotts family and left them and an elderly woman homeless. A small dog died trapped in an outbuilding as three other outbuildings were saved despite a dry creek and limited water.
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Route 119
Grafton
Lemma Jacobs
Earl Jacobs
James Bailey Knotts
Grafton Volunteer Fire Department
Jit
Brave Child Testifies in Grandpa Slaying Trial
A 12-year-old boy testified that his grandfather Charles J. E. Miller shot his mother Nora Burl Duvall in January, with the trial in Taylor County Circuit Court entering its second day. Mrs Miller described rushing to aid her daughter as blood flowed from her face, drawing tears from the court. Prosecutor Richard Bord urged a first degree murder verdict as the trial continued.
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Rosemont
Charles John Edgar Miller
Flemington
Vie
Taylor County
Ergin
Junie) Duvall, Sr
Richard Bord
BRAVE
Third Trainman Dies After Mishap
Newton North Carolina reports a derailment in which a diesel locomotive leaped its track and plunged down an embankment. Fireman Merman Bishop, 51, of West Asheville, died after being trapped beneath the locomotive. About 50 passengers were injured. thirty remained hospitalized at Catawba hospital.
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N. C
Merman Bishop
West Asheville
Bishop
Catawbah Hos
Tried In Slaying That Happened 14 Years Ago
Harrisburg report on the 1935 double murder of Emilio Givannetti and Laura Givannetti in Swatara Township. The defendant, Guentino Carlucetti, previously adjudged insane, now on trial for murder after state hospital authorities deemed him fit. Prosecution alleges premeditation and mental deterioration while awaiting trial.
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Harrisburg
Guetino Carlucetti
Carlucetti
Emilio Givannetti
Laura
Swatara Slaton
Fairview State Hospital
Gioannetti
Abandoned Florida village unearthed with bones and debris
Three men from Davie report discovering an abandoned Everglades village about 30 miles west of Port Lauderdale. The high hammock site contained about a dozen buildings and a sugar mill, with human and animal bones, broken canoes, pottery fragments, copper caldrons, and other debris among rotting structures.
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Davie
Hully Stirling
William Hill
L. P. Harvey
Fort Lauderdale
Stirling
Port Lauderdale
Youth Killed by Flagpole Fragment in Ravenswood
In Ravenswood a 13 year old boy, Dean Roush, was killed instantly after a six inch deep piercing by a torn flagpole section at the high school grounds. Police Chief Grover Hall reported toys had swung on the ropes of the 60 foot flagpole, causing a section to tear away and strike the boy.
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Ravenswood
Dean Roush
Grover, Hall
Principals Asked to Register Students for Selective Service
Charleston high school principals were urged by state Superintendent W W Trent to register students for selective service at age 18. He said the move would save time and money for both students and the selective service. He also asked principals to appoint a faculty member as director of school savings to work with State Director Bernard Payne on U S Savings Bonds drives.
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W. W. Trent
Trent
Trept
Bernard 8. Payne
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