Hawkins Trial Opens For Murder In Hawkins County
The trial of Landis Bernard for the September murder of James D. Wood began in Hawkins County Court after a near-exhausted jury pool. Witness Jim Morelock, jailed in Greene County for highway robbery, testified about seeking whisky, a shoe swap, and a plan to go to Kingsport for two women, then described the confrontation on Bernard’s porch and Woods's death.
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Rogersville
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Landis Bernard
James D. Wood
Beech Creek
Hawkins County
Hawking
Jim Morelock
Greene County
Shelburne Ferguson
Morelock
J. D. Woods
Woods
Kingsport
Bernard
John Todd
Will Woods
W. BR. Colbach
Scissors Hold Frees Child From Ash Can
In Newton Massachusetts a wrestler used a scissors hold on a metal ash can trapping seven year old Charles Lamb. Pressure on two sides released him. Fireman Rosario Cavallo off duty aided by two policemen finally freed the boy.
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Newton, Mass
Charles Lamb
Rosario Cavallo
Kid Ryan
Cavallo
Detroit to add ambulance for premature babies March 15
Associated Press reports Detroit will deploy a special ambulance service starting March 15 to treat prematurely born infants needing incubator care. Mothers may accompany them if hospital travel is required. Detroit hospitals estimate about 360 babies last year could have used the service.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Radar Net Plan Will Get Swift Approval
Washington report says two House measures to rapidly approve air force radar defense and a 3,000 mile guided missile test range. Radar network linked with Canada would be supervised by the air force from eight centers with interceptor squadrons alerted to counter air attack. Military men call the system worthwhile though not airtight.
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Washington
Air Force
Armed Services
Capitol Hill
House
Nance
Labor Department
Social Security Agency
National Mediation Board
Railroad Retirement Board
Navy
Nevada Bill Would Issue All Divorces From Slot Machines
Carson City bill proposes divorces issued via slot machine payouts with a silver dollar incentive. Assemblyman C. C. Broak backs the idea, portraying divorce as instantly obtainable through a Nevada casino style process. The plan imagines silver and slot machines delivering divorce decrees.
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Nevada
Carson City
Nev
America
C. C. Broak
Wallgren Faces New Cain Blasts
Senator Cain attacked Wallgren’s fitness to head the National Security Resources Board, promising a longer speech in Washington. He accused Wallgren of softness to Communists and cited a controversial dice-game claim involving Johnny Meyer as part of his critique.
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Washington
Alan Wallgren
National Security Resources Board
Cain
R-Wash
Eye
Washington State
Sense
Roe Vindelberg
Wallgren
Truman
Senate Armed Services Committee
Stewart
Drew Pearson
Johnny Meyer
California
Vets Pension Bill May Be Sidelined
Washington leaders seek to block or modify the Rankin pension bill that would grant all World War II and World War I veterans a $90 monthly pension at age 65. The Truman administration opposes the costly measure, with a Rules Committee meeting called to chart strategy for next week.
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Washington
House
E.S.T
Iit
Jallow
Rankin
Veterans Committee
Rules Committee
Rules
Three Teen-Age Escapees Caught In Knox County
Knox County Detective James Lippert reported three teen age escapees from the Ghigo State Industrial School near Lancaster Ohio were captured today. Identified as Robert Roland 17 Eugene Smith 16 and Ber Staley 18 they said they walked away from the school farm Monday. They were picked up on suspicion and officers found the youths jackets in a cart.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Gravediggers quit CIO union at Calvary Cemetery
About 800 United Cemetery Workers locals members voted unanimously to leave the CIO Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers of America. President Joseph Manning said the move removes Communist suspicions in the dispute over the backlog of more than 1,000 bodies at Calvary Cemetery in Queens.
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New York
Calvary Cemetery
CIO
Francis Cardinel Spellman
United Cemetery Workers
CIO Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers of American
Joseph Manning
Queens
Sullivan County GOP Committee Set to Resign March 15
Sullivan County Republican Organization chair Dr J R Pierce and all executive members will resign effective March 15. A meeting of precinct chairmen and vice chairmen is set for March 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the Blountville Courthouse to fill posts including chairman, vice-chairman, treasurer, and other executive seats. The full-time executive secretary post will not be filled. Outgoing officers include Pierce, Bristol vice chair Jeanne Easton, and Kingsport treasurer Scott H Roller, with several other members named.
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Bill Freehoft
J. R. Pierce
Kingsport
Sullivan County Republican Organization
GOP
Kingsport Times-News
Blountville
Sullivan
J. Otts Miner
Dr. Fierce
Jeanne Easton
Bristol
Scott H. Roller
E. W. Palmer
Samples
Philip Farnham
G. Arthur Schieren, Jr
Roy F. Bell
Biounteville
John Black
A. H. (Ham) Hurd
G. Arthur Schieren
Briatal
Dr. Pierce
Sullivan County
Schieren
Schlieren
T. M. Taylor
John Jennings
Dayton Phillips
Jennings
Carrolll- Reece
Kodak 48 Sales Report Shows 24 Percent Gain in 1948
Eastman Kodak Company reports 24 percent rise in 1948 sales to 435,395,626 with gains in earnings and production. Amateur photography and cellulose product fields led, payroll rose to 159.7 million, dividends maintained, and plant investments totaling 122.1 million over three years. Production expansion reduced postwar delays by year end 1948.
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Rochester
N.Y
Spl
Eastman Kodak Company
Ferley S. Wilcox
Thomas J. Hargrave
Kortsk
Armateur Photographic
Kansans End Prohibition and Legalize Liquor
Topeka Kansas ends 89 years of prohibition as governor signs a state liquor control law. Effective at 12:01 a.m. liquor is legal for personal use with private state-licensed stores allowed to sell package liquor only. 3.2 beer permitted. saloons and public drinking remain illegal. enforcement will target illegal outlets.
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Topeka
Kas
Kansas
Sunfiowee
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Yranit Carlson
Prison Farm Mates Elect Bob Mitchum Mr Cement Black
Robert Mitchum, serving a 60 day term at a Los Angeles County prison honor farm for marijuana conspiracy, was elected Mr Cement Black for 1949 by fellow inmates. He appeared yesterday as a prospective witness in dancer Vicki Evans's marijuana case, saying brick making is “making bricks” and that inmates voted him Mr Cement Block for 1949.
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Los Angeles
Robert Mitchum
Cement Black
Tdal
Vicki Evans
Mitchum
Young Erwin Girl Appears With Audie Murphy on TV
Claudine Tipton of Erwin, 17, traveled from Erwin with her grandparents to Hollywood to join Audie Murphy on This Is Your Life. She earns a graduation outfit and a gold watch after the show, honoring Murphy as the war hero. The event aired via WKPT as part of a televised tribute in Hollywood. Meanwhile two three year olds named Sonia Hubbard and Sonia Clemens suffered severe burn injuries in separate incidents near Kingsport and Pattonsville, with Hubbard dying in a Pennington Gap hospital after clothing burns from an open grate and Clemens injured when near a burn pile. Sonia Hubbard’s funeral planned at Roller Chapel Church. Sonia Clemens remained hospitalized in fair condition at Helston Valley Community Hospital.
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Claudine Tipton
Erwin
Team
Hollywood
Cal
Audie Murphy
Claudine
Murphy
Audie
Weer
Erwin High School
Wanda Hendrix
WKPT
Sonia
Kingsport
Pattonsville
Sonia Arvella Hubbard
Guy Hubbard
Pennington Gap
Theo Child
Wayne
Shelby
H. Hubbard
Ida Legg
Roller Chapel
Rand Mendenhall
Ella Willis
Legg
Funcre
Helston Valley Community Hospital
Street Scenes and a Quick Comic Pickup
A street scene features a car mimicking a stormy ship as it navigates a parking lot with rising and falling motions. A young man, a known reader of classic literature, discreetly selects a comic from a shelf and pays, then pockets it quickly.
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Young Min
Drive Begins Anew To Strangle Communist Activity In Nation
Senate debate intensifies on measures to require Communist registration with the Justice Department or face prison terms and fines. McCarran and allied senators press for action, citing alleged loopholes and the Coplan case as urgency drivers. Mundt Nixon offer a strengthened bill as additional sponsors join the push.
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Senate
Justice Department
House
McCarran D-Nevt
Senate Judiciary Committee
Wood
Hastland
D-Miss
Olin
Johnson
DSC
Ferguson
R-Mich
Mundt
R-Sd
McCarran
Nixon
Johnstort
Showdown Near On Rent Control Showdown Near On Rent Control
Two Southern senators press to force administration line on rent controls as Senate rules duel looms. Senator Sparkman and Senator Maybank seek to test Myers on if controls will expire March 31 or be extended. Myers, sponsor of a 27 month extension, testifies in Banking Subcommittee as House Republicans push to end controls and hand program to states.
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Washington
Senate
Sparkman
D-Ala
Dixie
Maybank
D-Sc
Myers
D-Pa
Myera
Capitol
House
Rep. Martin
R-Mass
Martin
Fate Of Axis Sally Will Rest With Jury
Federal judge prepared to send Mildred Gillars to a seven- member jury after closing arguments in her Axis Sally case. The prosecutor urged conviction on charges she betrayed the United States by broadcasting for Nazi Germany, while defense contended she acted under coercion and duress and was not a willing participant. The maximum penalty if convicted could be death in the electric chair.
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Washington
Mildred E
Axis Sally
Gillars
Edward M. Curran
John M. Kelley, Jr
Miss Gillars
Nazi Germany
Kelley
Germany
James J. Laughlin
Earthquake Hits Frisco Causes Minor Damages
An early San Francisco Bay area quake triggered burglar alarms and swaying fixtures with rocks rolling from Telegraph Hill. Two shocks were felt from Santa Clara Valley to Sacramento, about 60 to 90 miles away, as a water pipe burst in a Mission District home.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay Area
Telegraph Hill
San Franciscana
Santa Clara Valley
Sacrament
San Francisco Mission District
Swift approval for North Atlantic Security treaty
Washington Senate Foreign Relations Committee gave informal approval to the projected 20 year alliance binding the United States to defend Western Europe. The pact, aimed at projecting unity against Russia, awaits full text publication within a week and a formal Senate presentation after additional negotiations. Secretary Acheson and committee members described the pact as tentatively finished pending final changes.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Western Europe
Congress
Russia
Acheson
Connally
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Police Hunt Woman In Mahoney's Death
New Orleans police seek a woman and a missing gold watch as Louis Eugene Hoover of Louisville Kentucky is charged with the murder of millionaire James Mahoney. An affidavit was filed with Assistant District Attorney Guy Johnson as the case heads to the Orleans Parish Grand Jury in about 10 days.
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New Orleans
Louis Eugene Hoover
Louisville
iKy
James Mahoney
Joseph Scheuering
Guy Johnson
Mahoney
French Quarter
Hoover
Johnson
Orleans Parish
Scheuering
Bristol
Va-Tonn
Solunar periods schedule from Knight's tables
Solunar table text outlines major and minor hunting and fishing periods for days Thursday to Sunday. It explains that major periods begin at listed times and last about one and a half to two hours, with minor periods shorter.
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John Alden Knight
Marehal
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