U S Denies Soviet Teacher Kidnapping Charge
In Washington Ambassador Bedell Smith told Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov the United States is not involved in illegal actions regarding the case of Soviet school teachers in New York. Molotov accused authorities of collusion in a kidnapping linked to Michael Samarin and wife Oksana Kosenkina.
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U.S
Associated Pt. Washington
Walter Bedell Smith
Molotov
United States
New York
State Department
Smith
Kremlin
Michael Ivanovitch Samarky
Oksana S. Kesenkina
Moloton
Samaria
Kosenkina
State Aarshall
Samarin
Moscow
Case of Red Teachers Complicates Berlin Talks
Moscow seeks Samar surrender and punishment after Oksana Kosenkina's consulate leap. Samarin renounced Soviet citizenship and spoke to the FBI and HUAC. Molotov presses Bedell Smith as Soviet protests mount, signaling new strain in U S Soviet ties amid Berlin blockade talks.
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Robert A. Lovett
Molotov
Smith
Kremlin
Moscow
Soviet Union
Berlin
Michael Ivanovitch Samarin
Aart
Samarin
Kosenkina
Russia
FBI
House
State Department
Marshall
Ex Assistant to FDR Denies Spy Ring Link
Former Roosevelt aide Lauchlin Currie testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee denying any connection to a Communist spy ring. He called Elizabeth Bentley's assertion hearsay and insisted he has never been affiliated with communism or any related group. The hearing unfolded amid concurrent tensions in Moscow and a controversial protest from the Soviet Foreign Ministry over a Soviet citizen in New York.
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FDR
Associated Press
Washington
Lauchlin Currie
Roosevelt
House on-American Activities Committee
Elizabeth T. Bentley
Miss Bentley
Currie
United States
Organizationac
New York
Roosevelt Hospital
Vitch Samarin
FBI
un-American Activities Committee For Protection
Samarin
House Committee
Russia
Thomas
R-Nj
Police Guard Russian Teacher from Soviets
A strong police guard blocked Soviet officials from the hospital room of Russian teacher Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina who leaped from the Soviet consulate after alleged imprisonment. She fears consulate officials and refuses to see them as she remains in critical condition with internal injuries and a fractured leg.
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Associated Press
New York
Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina
East 61St Street
Fifth Avenue
Kosenkina
Zottl
Cheparnykh
MES
Two U S Air Lift Planes Crash Near Berlin
Two United States four engine C-54 planes collided with heavy rain at Templehof Airdrome Berlin. One struck a fence and burned but crew of three escaped. the other landed on a half finished runway, was damaged, crew unhurt. Firemen quelled the blaze. watchers narrowly escaped injury. This morning’s crashes marked five American fatalities since the Berlin blockade began.
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Associated Press
Benlin
United States
Berlin
Templehot
Local Polio Group Seeks 3000 From Foundation
The Raleigh County chapter asked the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for a $3,000 advance. Secretary Mrs. Carl Price noted expenses exceed income, leaving a balance of $1813 from the 1948 drive. William Nace was elected chairman, and Dr. J. M. Coram heads the medical advisory committee. The chapter faces ongoing costs for braces, year‑round infant care, and hospital bills, with 18 patients helped last year.
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Raleigh County
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Carl Price
National Organization
William «Nace
J. M. Coram
Raleigh
Greve Maples
A.K. Wilson
W. A. Burke
Burke
Price
Sve
Wheat Sells Below Floor Despite Support Efforts
Wheat prices fall under government support as farmers flood markets and storage space runs short. Government loan based parity remains the main support, with unofficial reports of widespread farmer loan uptake and higher September export plans aimed at propping up values.
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Associated Press
Chicago
GOP May Accept Red Hunt as Political Issue
Republicans signaled openness to Truman’s call to treat the congressional Communist hunt as a political issue. They countered the president’s attack by branding Senate and House investigations as a Red herring and lambasting them as rife with bias.
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GOP
Red Hunt
Mr. Truman
Senate
House
Mediation Efforts on Jerusalem Peace Rejected by Jews
UN Palestine mediator Count Folke Bernadotte said Jews in Jerusalem rejected his latest peace proposal. Arabs accepted the cease fire order, while sniping and the Latrun water station blast complicated efforts to secure Jerusalem's water supply and stabilize the fragile peace.
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Rome
Folke Bernadotte
Jerusalem
United Nations Parestine
Geneva
Stockholm
Holy
Bernadotte
Holy Land
United Nations Palestine
United Nations
Tel Aviv
U.N
Latrun
U. Ee
Holy City
Friday the 13th warns of ladders and cats as goblins loom
The piece recalls Friday the 13th superstitions with warnings about ladders black cats and fragile luck. It notes observers hesitating near ladders on Prince and Main Streets and jokes about misfortune and witch werebrew avoidance.
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Lenore
Ito
Frank Admi
Main Street
President Holds Out Little Hope For Inflation Drop
President Truman expressed little confidence in a near drop in living costs as he prepared to act on the Republican anti inflation bill. He challenged Senator Taft’s forecast that prices might level off soon and said he did not agree with it. Washington expected Truman to sign the credit curbing bill after Congress refused broader price and wage controls. The GOP faced criticism as he called Congress do nothing inaction.
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Associated Press
Washington
Truman
Taft
Ohioan
Congress
Thas
Rebels shell Greek army in Albania front
In Greece the Grammos front tightens as Greek troops receive firing orders in Albanian and advance toward guerrilla supply routes. UN Balkans committee urged internment of fighters, while rebels retreat into Albania amid regional tension and cross border activity.
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Albania
Watkins
Utah
Associated
Congress Athens
Granmos
United Nations Special Committee On
Grammos
Greece
Navy Airplane Wreckage Found on Rova Island
On Rova Island 50 miles north of Guam a burned four engine Navy recon plane found on a 1500 foot cliff after failing to return from a weather mission. Roia Islanders sent distress signals as search planes searched for survivors. Rescue crews landed on an abandoned Japanese airstrip to aid, but fate of the crew unknown.
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Associated Press
Guam
Rova Island
Here
Roia
Litle
Two Stop Lights To Be Installed In Beckley
Beckley will receive two new traffic lights at Johnstown Road and South Kanawha Street and at Prince Street and North Oak Avenue. Appalachian Electric Power crews will install the signals, it was announced today.
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Beckley
Wey
T Aday
Johnstown Road
Kanawha Street
Prince Street
Oakwoul Avene
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Red Bloc Denies West Membership On Danube Body
Belgrade reports show the Eastern bloc blocks Western powers from Danube Central Commission. The seven to three vote excludes the United States and Austria, granting seats to Danubian states under Soviet influence. An American proposal to create a mixed commission with Western powers failed in the same vote.
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Red Bloc
Danube
Associated Press
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Austria
Democrats Gather for West Virginia State Convention
North Central West Virginia hosts the opening of the state convention as party leaders expect at least 2,500 attendees including more than 1,000 visitors. Key events include platform adoption, presidential elector selection, an address by Sen Joseph C O Mahoney and speeches by Okey Palleson M M Neely and others.
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The
Associated Press
Clarksburg
West Virginia
Ernest J. Bailey
Aveluaeivin
ALT Pomchae Cuncueremreaaee
Bailey
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
Berlin Division Moves as Russians Leave Kommandatura
Berlin report states the Soviet Union evacuated the four power Kommandatura building on July 1 signaling de facto east west division shift. Russians removed their flag and kept a sentry position until their lines are cleared. An American C 54 airlift plane crash landed at Tempelhof. crew rescued.
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George Bria
Berlin
Kommandatura
Tempelhof Airfield
Allied Control Council
Germany
Allied Control Authority
Raleigh No 4 mine under safety inspection probe
Inspectors and officials from state federal company and United Mine Workers toured Raleigh No 4 coal mine after a Federal Bureau of Mines report. UMW safety director C E Jones said the mine could be closed if conditions are too hazardous until corrections are made.
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Raleigh
Raleigh Coal and Coke Company
United Mine Workers
C. E. Jones
UMW District 29
Federal Bureau of Mines
State Department of Mines
UMW Safety Committee
Jones
Fatl M. Rees
J. C. Muir
Jay Philpott
J. J. Raley
UMW
Mount Hope
Fall Weather Brings Cooler, Less Humid Conditions
Weather outlook shows cooler and less humid air tonight into Saturday. Precipitation totals around a quarter inch in a 24 hour period ending midmorning today. Rivers near Bellepoint remain slightly high and muddy while others drift toward normal levels.
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Beckley
Bellepoint
Greenbrier
Oak Hill
Glade Creek
Bam
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