Miners Celebrate 54th UMW Eight Hour Day
Politicians converge on miner celebrations across Raleigh Wyoming Fayette and nearby counties for the 54th anniversary of the United Mine Workers eight hour day. Leaders praise John L. Lewis as candidates campaign in regional observances and miners mark a holiday with speeches and parades resulting in a day of idleness for about 475000 workers.
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Charles Hurst
United Mine Workers
Raleigh
Wyoming
Fayette
UMW
House of Representatives
C. E. Jones
Oak Hill
Vote expected today in Kerr Kefauver fight for party nomina tions
The Associated Press reports a record voter turnout shaping the Democratic and Republican contests across Nebraska and Wisconsin. Kerr pursues Kefauver in Democratic ranks while Taft Eisenhower and Stassen vie for GOP delegates. Weary by Truman’s withdrawal, party leaders weigh Stevenson and Barkley as possible moves.
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Nebraska
Wisconsin
Truman
Kerr-Kefauver
Robert Taft
Earl Warren
Harold Stassen
Estes Kefauver
Taft
Dwight Eisenhower
Stage Center
Stassen
Mary Kenny
Douglas MacArthur
Macarthur
Kenny
Eisenhower
Robert Kerr
Oklahoma
Kefauver
Kerr
Washington
Alben Barkley
Adlai Stevenson
Fhlinvis
Stevenson
St. Louis
Chicago
Dennis Roberts
Rhode Island
Providence
Put Up or Shut Up Day Tests McGrath Morris Clash
Washington reports a fresh rebuff in the McGrath Morris feud as Morris presses for names and addresses of top Justice officials tied to outside income forms. McGrath questions propriety of Morris questions and delays distributing the forms, while Morris hints at resignation if the President does not back him.
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Washington
Hunter Newbold Morris
McGrath
Justice Department
Morris
House Judiciary Subcommittee
Justice
Truman
Weather Outlook for Appalachia With Showers and Cooling
Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms early tonight with cloudy conditions tonight and Wednesday. Cooler Wednesday especially in the west. Lows in the mid to upper 40s. Extended forecast for West Virginia Ohio West Pennsylvania and West New York shows near normal temperatures with a cooldown midweek and a warm spell Friday and Saturday followed by cooler Sunday. Precipitation and river readings are noted for Beckey Hill Glade Creek and Greenbrier with normal stages and some misty or muddy conditions reported.
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W Va
Ohio
West Pa
West
Virginia
Osk Hill
Glade Creek
Briellepoint Greenbrier
Bluestone
McCreery Sentences Young Woman to Year in Jail
Criminal Court Judge Harry L. McCreery revoked probation for Dorothy Cook 25 of Beckley and invoked a one year county jail sentence on a petit larceny guilty plea. He held she violated probation requiring her to leave the county for three years during the January term.
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Harry L. McCreery
Dorothy Cook
Beckley
McCreery
Ms. Cook
Dancer Seeks Miss Sober Title After Divorce
In Los Angeles Selma Mary Fini 23 obtained a divorce from Silvio A. Fini 34 after testifying he berated her for refusing to drink. She seeks to restore her maiden name Selina Mary Sober and return to sobriety.
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Los Angeles
WPR
Selma Mary Fini
Silvio A. Fini
Selina Mary Sober
Kimball Sees No All-Out War in Immediate Future
U S Navy Secretary Dan Kimball stated in a news conference that there will likely be no all-out war in the immediate future and that Russia is managing without such a conflict. He called for honorable peace in Korea if possible and warned the Chinese Reds against invading Formosa, saying the United States would clobber them, with Seventh Fleet protection of Nationalists.
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Kimball
Tokyo
U. S. Navy
Dan Kimball
Russia
Korea
Thei
Formosa
U. S. Seventh Fleet
Two Men and a Woman Arrested on Various Charges
City Police arrested Virgil Sparks 21 of Epperty on reckless driving charges. The arrest occurred Monday night at Crab Orchard. Two men and a woman were detained on a variety of charges in the early hours.
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Virgil Sparks
Epperty
Thomas banker dies after highway crash
W V bank and bottling company head W Delton A Kight, 54, died moments after an auto crash on U S Route 219 in Randolph County. Officials say he suffered a fatal stroke while at the scene. He led a bottling works and chaired Miners and Merchants Bank of Thomas.
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Thomas
W. Va
Deltona
Kight
U.S. Rt. 219
Randolph County
Miners and Merchants Bank
New Investigation At State College Is Expected Soon
Reverberations over the firing of Fairmont State College President George Hand continue as the American Association of University Professors and the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education plan an inquiry. Dr Luella Mandel, dismissed last year, accuses the board of retaliation. 400 students urge impartial review by North Central Association and seek board meeting details in Charleston on April 23.
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Fairmont
George H. Hand
Fairmont State College
State Board of Education
American Association’ ‘of University Professors
American Association of Colleges For Teacher Education
Luella R. Mandel
Hand
Actation
W North- Central Association of Colleges and Secondery Schools
Charlesto
Serviceman's Hazard Pay Plan Faces Uncertain Fate
In Congress today a popular plan to grant monthly hazard pay to U S service members in Korea faced an uncertain path. Veterans say the proposal likely will be dropped in a house senate conference committee after Senate approval as a rider to a cost of living boost affecting over 12 million servicemen and women.
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Washington
Korea
Congress
Senate
House
SRC to link county office into $100000 statewide radio network
The State Road Commission plans a 10 station system linking Buckhannon and Raleigh County offices to a statewide network. Two radio equipped cars will aid maintenance and emergency reporting. The project costs exceed 100000 with 250 mobile units and multiple transmitters planned across several towns to connect Charleston and regional points.
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Raleiga
State Road Commission
SRC
Harold Lambert
Lambert
Charleston
Buckhannon
Commission
Harold D. ‘Eskew
Buckhannons
Tallmansville
Kwatt
Mounds
Wille
Clarksburg
Keyser
Huntington
Parkersburg
Weston
Elkins
Kenny Mountain
Alderson
Kenney Mountain
Lewisburg
Princeton
Sutton Kling Convicted of $64,000 Bank Hold-Up
Willie Sutton and Thomas Kling were found guilty of a $64,000 bank robbery in Queens after a nine hour deliberation by an all male jury. Judge Peter T. Farrell ordered them jailed pending sentencing with no date set. Each faces up to 30 years and possibly more due to prior records.
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Sutton
Kling
New York
Willie
Bation
Thomas
Seup) Kling
Queens
Peter T. Farrell
Manhattan
Trus Company
Willie Sutton
Thomas Kling
Steel Located for Second New State Building in Charleston
Budget Director Denzil L. Gainer said National Production Authority approved 401 tons of steel for the second state office building in Charleston. A $1.7 million bond issue funds the project, which will lease space to Employment Security and Workmen’s Compensation departments. Site at Washington Street and California Avenue, near the Capitol, with construction resuming after steel delivery.
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Charleston
Denzil L .Gainer
State Office Building Commission
Yes’verday
Washington St
California Ave
California
Capitol
Washington
Duffy Sts
Gainer
Law-Knapp Urges Jury Over Self-Defense Sham
Natman Knapp urged the Beckley jury in the murder case of 22-year-old John Gray to reject any claim that self-defense could be a sham. The assistant prosecutor pressed jurors to weigh the facts of the February shooting in East Beckley as defense attorney Erna Payne argued that Wood faced six shots after Gray backed him into a wall. Payne cited Wood suffering from Sucosis and two recent strokes as evidence he was no match for Gray.
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Natman Knapp
John Gray
East Beckley
Erna Payne
Wood
Gray
Hinton Beckley Line Out Disrupts Telephone Service
Telegraph trouble cut Beckley and Hinton line communications this morning around 9 15 with service rerouted. Manager Theodore Robinson Sr of Beckley C and P notes cables remain intact though cause undetermined inhabiting Glade area.
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Beckley
Hinton
Theodore Robinson, Sr
Beckley C
Joe
Glade
ISO
OPS to Open Branch Office in Beckley
The Office of Price Stabilization will open a field station in Beckley on April 8. It will operate Tuesday afternoons from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Wednesday mornings from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 a.m., with an OPS representative at Beckley City Hall to answer questions from local business people.
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Office of Price Stabilization
Beckley
OPS
Beckley City Hall
Truman Leaves White House With Substantial Savings
President Truman, announcing he would not seek another term, has earned a $100,000 annual salary since 1949 plus a $50,000 tax free allowance. Earlier pay was $75,000 taxable, with fears of debt upon exit. Living at Blair House during the White House remodel cut expenses, aiding his finances.
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Marvin L.arrowsmith
Washingon
Harry
Truman
White House
Trians
Blair House
Pennsylvania Avenue
U. S
House of Representatives
William Marland
Okey Patteson
Cyrus Kump
Kump
Shafer
Sophia
Robert Byrd
Hedrick
Marland
Amherst Suit Seeks 500000 Over Coal Contract
Amherst Fuel Co and Amherst Coal Co sue J H Dillon Co of Richmond in Kanawha County Circuit Court seeking 500000 for breach of a 1949 to 1951 coal sale agreement with the Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad. Amherst Fuel is the sales agent for Amherst Coal which operates Logan County mines. Herbert Jones of Oak Hill and Charleston is president of both firms.
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Charleston
Amherst Fuel Co
Amherst Coal Co
J. H. Dillon Co
Richmond
Kanawha County
Dillon
Amherst
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Amherst Fuel
Logan County
Herbert Jones
Oak Hill
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Tit ‘Er
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Shinnston
West Virginia
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Senator Kerr
Tennessee
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Western Maryland Railroad
Ridgeley
Burton Crow
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Charles W. Jeffers
Gracer’s Swing Club
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Stender
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Island Creek Coal Co
Logan
Ray Peters
Ruth Smith
Neville Street
Robert Jenkins
Welch
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State College
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Register
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Edward H. Green Huntington
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Robert C Byrd Sophia
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