Deep Sea Diver Sets Record At 4500 Feet
Otis Barton, using the Benthoscope off Santa Cruz, plunged to 4,500 feet, breaking his previous record of 3,028 feet. He described surreal marine life, lantern fish, and unusual creatures as he descended and reported the bottom remained 2,000 feet below. He planned no immediate deeper dives.
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Otis Baden
Berrauda
William Beebe
Barton
Jeltylich
Tom
Bermuda
Barten
Island
Santa Cruz
Santa Barbara
Calif
Cal
Otis Barlow
Last Court Trial Near Jury Stage in West Virginia
Attorneys for Clayton Webb and Billy James Jarrell of Pine Knob began summing up their case against Carolina Motor Express Motor Lines and Osborne O. Coleman of Indianapolis in Federal District Court. If concluded today, the August Beck fer term closes and jurors are dismissed by Judge Ben Moore. Plaintiffs claim injuries from a collision near Whitesville on March 10 involving a Motor Lines truck and a Webb truck with Darrell as a passenger, seeking 23000 each.
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Clayton Webb
Billy James Jarrell
Pine Knob
Carolina Motor Express Motor Lines
Osborne O. Coleman
Indianapolis
Federal District Court
Southern District of
West Virginia
Beckfer
Ben Moore
Motor Lines
Webb
Darrell
Whitesville
Keyser Repeals Obscene Literature Ban
Keyser officials repealed the city ordinance banning obscene literature and profanity after finding it duplicates a state statute. Mayor and council said the measure, enacted two weeks ago, prohibited the printing use or sale of obscene literature or objects and profanity.
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Keyser
Associated Press
James H. Swadtey
Focal
Virginia Weather Report Fragments and Forecast
Fragmentary weather notes show Virginia data for Bellepo Greenbrier and Oak Hill with rivers muddy. Includes yesterday’s high and low, 0.21 inches rainfall, today’s clouds, possible showers, and light temperature change.
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Ann Beckley
Bellepo Greenbrier
Oak Hill High
Glade Creek
Six Die in Rail Crossing Crash at Ogallala
Six persons were killed in a car train collision near Ogallala Nebraska as the Overland Limited struck and hurled their 1948 automobile about 80 feet. The accident occurred at a railroad crossing late last night.
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Associated Press
Ogallala
Neb
Union Pacific
Overland Limited
Gifts for Presidents Nothing New Despite Freezing Unit Battle
The Associated Press notes gifts for Presidents date back long before investigations into five percenters. Thousands of gifts have poured in for Truman, including hats valued up to 200, a bowling alley, swimming pool, and horseshoe-pitching court. Many items are personal, with delegates delivering turkey, fish, fruit, or candy. all gifts must be catalogued for the White House move.
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Associated Press
Washington
White House
Harry S. Truman
Capitol Hill
Executive Mansion
President Truman
United States
Missouri
Frank John D. Roosevelt
Mr. Truman
Truman
Jsifts
Pacific Northwest
Trumans
White ‘House
Margaret Short Dies in Hospital in Prosperity
Margaret Short of Prosperity dies in a Beckley hospital after a brief illness at 38. She worked 10 years at Beckley Insurance Agency and was born in Prudence Fayette County. Survived by husband Carl Short and mother Hattie S Short, four brothers Robert Leonard Coley George Coley and John Coley. King Rose Funeral House will move the body to Prosperity for wake at 4 p.m. today. Funeral at Prosperity Baptist Church Thursday at 2 p.m. Burial in Short Cemetery. Pallbearers named as Junior Dearting Harold Lilly C O Neye Harry Neal Glenna Stover D enyvillee Stover.
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Margaret Short
Beckley
Beckley Insurance Agency
Prudence
Fayette County
Robert Lee Coley
Hattie Sshort
Carl ‘Short
Prosperity
Robert
Leonard’ Coley
Harold Lilly
C. O. Neye
Harry Neal
Glenna Stover
Denyvillee Stover
Two Sought for Attack On Mail Carrier in West Virginia
Police in Cabell County seek two women in connection with a brutal assault on a 40 year old rural mail carrier near Sall Rock. The victim Joseph Swann was beaten about the face and head and left in a briar filled hollow. Authorities said the attack occurred as he delivered mail and he survived with serious injuries.
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iBy
Associated Press
Huntington
Cabell County
Sall
Rock
Joseph Swann
Townsend plan gains pace in Congress for old age pensions
Washington report says Townsend supporters press to secure 218 signatures to force a House vote on the old age pension plan. Rep Blatnik and Rep Angell rally colleagues while Mrs Ford notes impact on Social Security debate as Ways and Means backs expansion. Townsend backers seek to bypass committee and bring legislation to floor for a final vote.
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Associated Press
Washngton
Congress
House
Rep. Blatnik
D-Minn
Blatnik
aAngell
R-Ore
J. A. Ford
Townsend Jblan
Ways and Means
Townsendles
Francis E. Townsend
Ali
Times
Ford
Ways and Means Committee
Lit
Flugr
Calloway Heights tax plans discussed by City Council
City Council approved property tax levies totaling 103929.77 with 30589 to fund long term bonds. Tax rates by class and area outlined, while Calloway Heights annexation map proposed by Chamber of Commerce to guide future voting eligibility and boundary changes drawn for further study.
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Thomas F. Stafford
Chamber of Commerce
Calloway Heights
F. A. Freeman l
Stafford
Chamber
Council
William Laren
Clarence Bibb
Corporation Line
Harper Road
Anthony Scalise
Bernard Martin
A. K
Constable Roy L Childs Case Action Delayed
Shady Springs district residents sought to discharge Constable Roy L Childs in Raleigh County Court. The court stated no jurisdiction and referred the petition to Circuit Court where impeachment could be sought. Attorney F W Mann said he was hired only to present the petition in County Court.
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Shady Springs
Raleigh
Roy L. Childs
F. W. Mann
Circuit Court
Mann
Bailiwick
Six Killed as Trucks Crash in Mississippi Revival Crowd
In Fulton Mississippi a lumber carrier struck an open-bed truck carrying a large revivalist crowd near a church. Six were killed and about 20 injured along a 100-foot stretch. Two of the injured are in very critical condition. The lumber truck was driven by R Y Booth of Newburgh Indiana.
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Associated Press
Fulton
Miss
Highway Patrol
G. I. Habis
R. Y. Booth
Newburgh
Ind
Blind Man Pretends Blindness to Beg in City
New York reports Beecher Beth MacLeod, 20, who after leaving the Navy posed as a blind man with a cane and tin cup, earning about 13.5 a day for months. Detected driving to park then beg, magistrate Ramsgate jailed him six months in the work house.
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Associated Press
New York
Beecher Beth MacLeod
Brook Iyn
Charles £. Ramsgate
Hoover Defends FBI Record Amid Coplon Trial Criticism
J Edgar Hoover advised FBI and other law enforcement officials to not fear public criticism when their record is clean His editorial in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin responds to scrutiny sparked by the Judith Coplon espionage trial and the leak of top secret FBI reports highlighting names of prominent individuals.
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Associated Press
Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Hoover
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
Aires
Judith Coplon
Justice Department
Russia
Dr Ritchie Ware Injured In Wreck Near Alderson
Dr Ritchie Ware pastor emeritus of the First Christian Church, riding from Richmond with his car traveling toward Beckley, collided with a Covington, Virginia driven vehicle on the Alta Alderson road. Ware was hospitalized at Greenbrier Valley Hospital in Ronceverte. his injuries described as not serious though his car was badly damaged. Mrs Darlene Reed and Miss Barbara Hubbard were uninjured. The Reed car was headed toward Alderson. Ware’s vehicle veered off and traveled about 200 yards before stopping.
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Ritchie Ware
Woodlawn Avenue
Greenbrier Valley Hospital
Ronceverte
Alta-Alderson Road
S. C. Ballard
Lewisburg
Sgt. Ballard
Ware
Beckiey
Darlene Reed
Covington
Cattle Inspection Set for Thursday for New River Breeders
Cattle inspection for the fall show and sale of the New River Hereford Breeders Association will be held tomorrow afternoon. J B Thomas said the date was moved up from August 19 by a team from the State Department of Agriculture and West Virginia University. Inspectors will visit C C Lewis and H E Brammer at 4 p.m. and Minor Scott at 5 p.m. and H G Farmer at 4:30 p.m.
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New River
Hereford Breeders’ Association
J. B. Thomas
Raleigh County
Alton J. Anderson
State Department of Agriculture
Ben Creech
West Virginia University Animal Husbandry Department
Thomas
C. C. Lewis
H. E. Brammer
Daniels
Minor Scott
Grandview
H. G. Farmer
Bolt
Rise in Construction Employment Foreseen by Officials
The Federal Reserve Board forecast moderate gains in construction work soon, backing Tobin's prediction of a 1,000,000 employment rise this year. Midyear contract construction employed over 2,000,000, even as factories and mines slowed, aiding the drop in gross national product to an annual rate of 256.1 billion in the second quarter. Private housing pickup is credited to several favorable factors.
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Frep
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Secretary of Labor
Tobin
White House
The
Reserve Board
Contract Constructon
Broad
Commerce Department
Avenue Oo
U S Britain Win Radio War With Reds
The State Department plans heavy reinforcements for the radio war against Russia pending Congress funding. The House Appropriations Committee advanced an $11.3 million SOA budget, supported by Lt Gen Wedemeyer, citing reports that Voice of America and BBC broadcasts are injuring Soviet radio operations. Despite 24 hour jamming, Western programs push through while Berlin crisis lingers.
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John MC Hightower
Associated Press
Wassingson
State Department
Russia
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
House
Senate
Voice of America
Albert €. Wedemeyer
Wedemeyer
British Broadcasting Corporation
Berlin
Nist
Canton
States
Britain
United States
Nationalist Navy Sent to Aid Besieged Foochow
Nationalist spokesman says strong naval forces are sent up the Min River to relieve the Communist besieged city of Foochow. He asserts the coastal city remains in Nationalist hands despite radio contact with Foschow being cut off. The report notes limited confirmation from Commercial radio links.
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Associated Preet
Min
Foochow
Foschow
Renee Hae
Nationalist Denials Amid Kwantung Tensions and Evacuation Request
An official Nationalist spokesman denied Red troop incursions into Kwantung Province as Canton remains the Kwantung capital. Reports spoke of Nationalists withdrawing from Nanjing area, while the foreign office handled a U.S. request for safe passage for the liner General Gordon to evacuate Americans from China. Nationalists blockaded Communist ports including Shanghai.
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OU Meo
Ewee
Kwantung
Canton
Kwanung
Nanhsiung
Namyung
United States
General Gordon
China
Shanghai
Senate Fight Over Truman Plan Echoes 1949 Reorganization Foe
The Senate moved to vote on President Truman's reorganization plan No 2 amid a wide clash over moving the Employment Security Bureau from the FSA to the Labor Department Opponents argue the bureau belongs with labor while supporters say the plan aligns health education and welfare under one cabinet official The vote was set for 4 p m EST with 23 Democrats and 37 Republicans backing disapproval and a handful of administration allied Democrats supporting the plan The debate touched Hoover Commission recommendations and the fate of a proposed independent medical agency
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Heathlack
Milwaukee
Maragon
White House
Pollanud
Justice Department
Agriculture Department
Lasses Co
Wesley
Senate
McCune
Polland
Agriculture Bratman
Francis D. Flanagan
Allied
Maragun
Hoey
Poland
Cress
Pollard
McCarthy
Associated Press
Washington
Truman
Intans
Wansfer
Bureau of Ant ‘Ployment Security
Fed— ‘Eral Security Administration
ESA
Labor Department
J Jerome
Jaicas
FSA
Taft
R-O
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GOP
Hoover
Ewing
Hoover Commission On
Alken Vt, Langer
Lodge
Mass
Margaret Smith
Lakas
Commission On Govern
Yuan
Laro
Oscar Wing
IFSA
Tru
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Allied Molasses Company
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Harold W. Ross
Allied Molasses
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Maurice Nella
Dr. Bartom
Netlis
Virginia
Tae Eeeagres Pawnenebee
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Coplon
U.S
U. S
Alan Kirk
Stalin
America
Azainel
Voice of America Radio Bresccasla
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Posal
Spatt
Hoover Commission
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