Protests Mount Against Tariff Cuts and Tragedy
State Department tariff cut plans draw Republican protests over job losses while a Huntington triple murder case ends with the motive unknown. William A. Blanks Jr. killed his family and himself after bludgeoning and stabbing them. Judge Watkins noted earlier brain surgery at birth and a later normal development. Psychologist calls the murder a short circuit action.
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Associated Press
Huntington
William A. Blanks, Jr
Fairmont
Harry £. Watkins
William
William A. Blanks
Watkins
Young Blanks
Vincent J. Daly
Huntington State Hospital
Johnson seeks Raleigh County Board of Education seat
M A Johnson of 206 Granville Avenue filed notice to seek nomination for the Raleigh County Board of Education in the August 1 primary. The Beckleyan notes he was chosen to fill the unexpired term of Dr Robert W Cham ed and would be a permanent successor. Johnson, a Virginia Tech graduate, has lived in the area 15 years and owns West Virginia Belt and Cable Co at Price Hill. he served in the U S Navy during World War II.
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M. A. Johnson
Granville Avenue
Raleigh County Board of Education
Beckleyan
Robert W. Chamed
Bers
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Johnson
West Virginia
Price Hill
U. S. Navy
Cold and fair weekend forecast across Virginia and West Virginia
Extended outlook shows cold tonight with lows 14 to 18 in the east and 18 to 20s west. Saturday remains cold but milder later. weekend expects fair skies, with light Monday rain and a total precipitation around a quarter inch. Temperatures trend toward normal by early next week.
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W. Va
Beckley
Dallas youth wounds three in hotel club shooting spree
A Dallas area youth left a note saying he would kill and opened fire at a night club before fleeing. Three victims Guillermo Texeira Vera Lee Dorris and Kenneth McRight were wounded as officers pursued the gunman and captured him after a running gun battle.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Tex
Will Fritz
Arthur V. Gittings
Bethlehem
Guillermo Texeira
Lima
Petru
Braniff International Airways
Vera Lee Dorris
Kenneth Leon McRight
R. T. Mullins
Tresa
Air Force
Scheaves
Mueller
Air Force Intelligence Squadron
Wyoming Jury Panel Excused Till Monday
Wyoming circuit court jurors were excused until 9 30 a m Monday by Judge D M Bailey after the suit between H M Bailey and H L Morgan over a store bill was completed. The panel awarded Bailey the full amount of 486 08 in damages.
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Register
Kefauver Plans On the Spot Crime Surveys by Senate Panel
Senator Kefauver announced that a five member Senate crime investigation committee will visit several cities this summer to survey criminal activities. He noted Kansas City would not be avoided and aims to keep politics out of the probe into interstate crime syndicates with a report due by January 3. A separate resolution would authorize hiring a counsel at twenty thousand dollars annually.
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Associated Press
Washington
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Senate
Tennessee
Seramiftee I
Kefauger
Senate Judiciary Committee
Barktey
Dewey Criticizes GOP Record As Selfish Interests Rise
Former New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey told a Princeton audience that the Republican Party’s record has been blemished by self-serving leaders who hide behind free enterprise. He contrasted GOP support for free labor with those who subordinate labor rights to property, saying no Republican president backed such reactionary positions. Dewey urged a return to genuine individual freedom.
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Associated Press
Princeton
N. J
Thomas JE
Dewey
New York
Princeton University
Abraham Lincoln
Herbert Hoover
GOP
Modern Robins Hoodesque Forgery Ring Nabbed in NY
Police arrested William C. Davis and Bertha Kraker on forgery and grand larceny charges. The couple allegedly passed $5,000 in bad checks at New York department stores and then distributed purchased merchandise to derelicts in the Bowery, often buying items for about a third of the check value.
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Associated Press
New York
William C. Davis
Bertha Kraker
Bowery
Greece forms new government under Plastiras mandate
Athens Greece Premier Sophocles Venizelos resigned and retired Gen Nicholas Plastiras was given a mandate to form a new cabinet. Plastiras leader of National Progressive Union sought a broad center coalition as urged by U S Ambassador Grady. Venizelos said he recommended Plastiras as premier designate after his party placed third in elections.
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Associated Press
Athens
Greece
Sophocles Venizelos
Nicholas Plastiras
Plastiras
National Progressive Union
U. S
Henry F. Grady
Venizelos
Liberal Party
Paul
Tatai
Grady
Benizelos
United States
Rail Proxy to Tap Key on Anniversary
Roy Barton White, a former telegraph operator who rose to the presidency of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, will attend a ceremony marking the anniversary of his first job. The event will be held in Cleveland and Dana, Indiana, where he began his career, and he will send a serve code message to C. G. Schulte. White previously worked for Schulte as an operator clerk at Montezuma, Indiana, and will speak at a Cleveland Safety Council dance tonight.
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Associated Press
Baltimor
Roy Barton White
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Cleveland
Dana
Ind
C. G. Schulte
White
Schulte
Montezuma
French Traitor Seeks Vindication for Petain
Paris aging Marshal Philippe Petain, serving life on Ile d Yeu for treason and collaboration, asks for a court reversal. His attorney Jacques Isorni said a new trial would start next month based on new facts, including Leahy memoir passages.
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Associated Press
Paris
Marshal Philippe Petain
Ile d'Yeu
France
Jacques _Isorni
Vichy
Isorni
Petain
Tsorni
D. Leahy
U. S
Atlantic
Convicts Captured After Week of Virginia Louisiana Crimes
Three Halifax County escapees George Able Amos Nuckols and Tyler Hodges Jr were captured near Abingdon after a spree of thefts robberies and shootings across Virginia Louisiana and West Virginia. Federal and state charges include kidnaping attempted murder armed robbery and unlawful flight. The trio allegedly shot a Damascus police officer and a Louisiana filling station operator before fleeing to Virginia and returning. They were found asleep in a green sedan, identified as belonging to two West Virginia victims.
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Abingdon
Halifax County
Virginia
Louisiana
FBI
George Able
Amos Nuckols
Tyler Hodges
Damascus
William Roscoe Multer
West Virginia
Here
O. C. McCourt
Pineville
Okey Cougar, Jr
Charleston
Republicans Back Truman Foreign Policy Debate
Three Republican senators accused President Truman of seeking a rubber stamp Congress for his foreign policy while Senator Morse defended bipartisan cooperation. The dispute arose after Truman told a United Nations group he aimed to elect a Congress that believes in international cooperation, prompting rebukes from Senators Ferguson Wherry Knowland Morse and Connally. Lucas urged limiting partisan fights to focus on national interests.
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Associated Press
Washington
Truman
United Nations
Ferguson
R-Mich
Afr
Wherry
Knowland
Calif
Morse
Ore
Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hase
State Department
Lucas
Illneis
U S Challenged to Start Social Revolution in War Torn Nations
A symposium at the American Academy of Political and Social Science heard George Hakim urge a global social revolution beyond Point Four. He argued two thirds of humanity suffer, calling for transformation of semi feudal orders into new industrial systems to raise living standards. A Seattle tremor was also reported at 3 05 am with no damage.
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U.S
Iladelphia
United States
Truman
American Academy of Political and Social Science
George Hakim
Legation
Lebanon
Hakim
Academy
U. S
Associated Press
Seattle
Taxi firm files $1,000 counter suit over February crash
Otha Robertson, operating Robertson Taxi Company, sues Norma Richardson Pointer in Raleigh County Circuit Clerk’s office over a five car collision at Beavers Avenue and Westmoreland Street in February. Pointer also seeks $10,000 in personal property damages in a separate filing dated March 23.
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Otha Robertson
Robertson Taxi Company
Norma Richardson Pointer
Beckley
Raleigh County
Beaver Avenue
Westmoreland Street
Norma Pointer
Coal factions unite plan to curb oil imports with tariff
A coal industry session in Washington plans a major push to block foreign oil imports especially bunker C residue used for boilers. Delegates warn oil competition could cost 100,000 jobs in mining and railroading as they back a bill by Rep. Gussett to impose a 1.05 tariff per barrel.
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Harold W. Ward
Washington
Johan L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
CIO
Potter
Venezuela
Rep
Gussett
Texas
Trespassers Hit Connoley and Porterfield Homes Again
Benjamin Porterfield and Wil lam Connoley of 818 and 884 Johnstown Head report a fourth intrusion since September as a truck or car crashes through Connoley s fence and into Porterfield s lot before returning to Johnstown Road. Police investigate detouring vehicles, citing a sharp under-elevation curve on the 800 block of Johnstown Road causing the early morning incidents.
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Benjamin Porterfield
Willam
Connoley
Johnstown Head
Beckley
Porterfield
Johnstown
Armour and Company
Anthony Scalixe
Johnstown Road
Eight-Inch Snow Halts West Virginia Roads
The Associated Press reports eight inch snowfall across the North Area causing snow plows and cinder crews to clear roads. Charleston and mountain highways saw significant accumulation, disrupting travel and prompting widespread maintenance efforts.
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Associated Press
Charleston
West
Cold wave brings record lows across the East today
The Associated Press reports a North cold front drove record low temperatures in the eastern United States. The Weather Bureau warns of more frigid weather tonight but forecasts a return to milder, spring-like conditions over the weekend.
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Associated Press
Washington
Weather Bureau
Pardon Granted for Former Boston Mayor James Curley
President Truman pardons former Boston mayor James M. Curley who had been convicted of mail fraud. Details to come from the Justice Department. Curley previously served five months after 1947 commutation while in federal prison at Danbury Connecticut.
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Associated Press
Washington
Trumnan
James M. Curley
Boston
House
Justice Department
Truman
Danbury
Conn
Democratic Congress
Clarasburg
Weston and
Elkins
Mill Creek
Durbin
Randolph County
Pocahontas County
Fayette County
Sewell Mountain
Princeton
Flat Top Mountain
Wility Officials Warned of Using Word Localism
Atlanta Journal editor Wright Bryan urged Southeastern Electric Exchange members to guard against government overreach into private power while noting that federal river development could help the public if run by private firms. he warned against labeling such efforts socialism or using phony cost claims to scare the public.
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Associated Press
Call
Sald Wright Bryan
The
Atlanta Journal
Bryan
Southeastern Electric Exchange
Pineville youth to face trial for two robberies
Eddie Thomas 23 of Pineville is set to appear before Magistrate W. P. Wilson in Pineville after confessing to robbing two local firms. He aided by officers during a bridge stop near Annetta Drive Inn where 93.05 of stolen cash from The Dug Out was recovered. The Dug Out, a McCall property run by Gore and Harland Jr, was broken into and about 130 stolen. Thomas also confessed to Gulf Service Station robbery two months earlier.
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Register
Pineville
Eddie Thomas
W. P. Wilson
Annetta Drive Inn
W. O. McCall
F. L Gore
Fred Harland, Jr
Thomas
Olwe! Cook
Gulf Service Station
Coal Tonnage in Week Ended April Reports Drop
Washington reports the National Coal Association estimates bituminous production at 11,425,000 tons for the week ended April, down slightly from 11,433,000 tons in the same week of 1949. A fragmented line shows 11,910,000 tons for another April week, indicating fluctuating output.
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Washington
National Coal Association
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