Truman urges rapid approval of vast arms aid program
President Truman called for swift passage of a 1.45 billion dollar arms aid plan as essential to peace and regional defense. He argued Soviet pressure threatens freedom and urged continued support for Greece, Turkey, Iran, Korea, and other allies while warning that economic recovery rests on security.
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Standstill at Raleigh County Memorial Airport as pickets thin
Seven United Construction Workers pickets stood at the airport entrance at 10 30 am while activity stalled after a mass protest Saturday. Earlier, more than 150 pickets erected a barricade of trees causing work to stop and injuries reported. Sidney Box said there was a rumor of up to 1500 pickets today, but only a few passed through. Atlas Construction and Sam Palino Construction had not answered Box. Palino planned talks with officials, but no authorization to negotiate with the union was given.
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Raleigh County Memorial
United Construction
Sidney Box
UCW
Robert L. Davis
Box
Atlas Construction
Sam Palino
J. D. Palino
Elkins
Polino
Senate May Review Rent Control
The Senate debated whether to reconsider a 17.5 million dollar appropriation for rent control and housing expediting operations. Director Woods warned cuts risk lifting controls in a third of areas and relying on volunteers in two thirds, while a House-Senate conference trimmed the presidency’s funding and the bill awaits House action.
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Associated Press
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Senate
Tighe Wonds
Woods
Congress
Truman
Office of Housing
Senate House
Douglas
House
Veterans Administration
Atomic Energy Commission
Rent Control Agency
Weather Summary for Virginia and Nearby Areas
Partly cloudy with showers in southern portions and continued cloudiness into Tuesday. Regional notes show yesterday's high and low across locations including Beckley and Glade with rainfall measurements and morning precipitation trends.
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South Portion
Prisoner Takes Own Life In Cell
Blaine Edgar Jones, accused in a rape slaying, was found dead by hanging in his Pike County jail cell. A 22 page statement he left was locked in a safe awaiting Sheriff D. C. Moore. Jones, from Richlands Virginia, faced charges including rape and robbery. The case involved 19 year old Lois Collins, wife of six months. The slaying occurred in March at Mrs Pete’s Pike County home.
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Guthrie Crowe
Frankfort
D. C. Moore
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Richlands
Lois quiCollins
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Pike County
War of words flares between Tito Yugoslavia and Soviet Union
London dispatch reports escalating exchanges as Tito's regime rejects Moscow pressure and accuses Russia of threatening wartime measures. Yugoslav officials counter Soviet claims of mistreatment of citizens and accuse Moscow of double crossing over Austrian territory and Carinthia.
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Austria
Communist International Information Bureau
Raleigh
Beckley
Daily Telegraph
Yaroslavia
Hiller
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Daily Mail
Echer
Rampage of Nature Wreaks Havoc Worldwide
Nature unleashes自然 fury across the globe over the weekend causing deaths and vast damages. A tropical hurricane threatens Florida while Yellowstone wildfires kill at least 78 in Wyoming and scorch 100000 acres. Earthquakes shake Europe and Asia with powerful tremors near Himalayas and New York area seismographs record strong activity.
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Associated Press
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Florida
Nassau
Bahamas
National Forest
Payelle National Forest
Idaho
Britain U S economic talks loom amid gloom and bitterness
Washington prepares for preliminary and main negotiations as Britain faces a crisis. American and British delegates, led by Snyder and Cripps, seek proposals to ease dollar and gold shortages while forecasting difficult talks and potential pound devaluation.
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Associated Pressay
Washington
Britain
Acheson
State Department
Bevin
Snyder
Stafford Cripps
United States
Congress
German Communists Form Free Communist Party to Oppose Kremlin
In Berlin the Free Communist Party emerges from a split with 50 former members joining amid claims of 4000 active members in the Russian zone and 600 in Western Berlin. Karl Schulz says the group rejects Soviet dictatorship and vows resistance including underground arms. He forecasts a Soviet dominated East Germany by September and a revolution for German unification.
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Vet Thumbs Way Back to Prison
Frederick W. Wade 33, a former Army private, reported to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary after hitchhiking from Tacoma Wash. Wade was released May 20 1947 on habeas corpus after a 20 year sentence for rape by a German Army court martial, later reduced by clemency. The Supreme Court upheld an appeals court reversal of his release, prompting his return to prison.
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Frederick W. Wade
Tacoma
Wade
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Germany
Army
Education aid forum sparks boycott threats and walkout plans
A congressional roundtable on federal aid to education triggers boycott threats as Rep. Steed vows to attend and protest openly while Rep. McCormack backs aid to church schools. NEA voices misgivings about delays and limited progress. Lesinski's panel faces friction over nonpublic school help and related issues.
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Congress
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Religioin Edz
Steed
McCormack
Lesinski
D-Mass
House
Ross Waives to Grand Jury in Shooting Case
Rupert L. Ross 37, dairy salesman, waived to the grand jury on a charge of staying his wife's uncle W Hansel Crist at Oak Hill early Sunday. Crist died from a revolver wound. body found bound on the road near Price Hill. Otis Crist’s funeral arrangements are indefinite. Ross is a Ramsey native and son of Henry and Flestie Crist. survived by six brothers and three sisters.
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Rathey
T. N. Thurman
W. Hansel Crist
Oaks Hill
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Price Hill
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Bradley
Otis
Tyree
Oak Hill
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Ansted
Henry Crist
Flestie Ramsey Crist
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Marvel
Viro
Haymond
Alice
Roach
Leewood
Gertrude
Kingston
Elsie Legg
Victor
Spaatz Sees A-Bomb B-36 as Peace Balance
General Spaatz told the House Armed Services Committee that the B-36 and the atomic bomb are the greatest forces for peace. He recalled decisions in 1946 47 to continue the bomber program and argued the long range bomber won friends without politics. The hearing also noted the board overseeing the B-36 expansion includes Meary Fairchild Norstad and Craig.
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Associated Press
Washington
Garl Spaatz
Air Force
Wussia
Europe
Asia
House Armed Services
Spaatz
Ne . Ig
Vinson
D-Ga
Joseph B. Keenan
Coungel
Lauris Norstad
Louis A. Craig
Highway Deaths Hit 24 in State
Two weekend fatalities raised August toll to 24. Louis Douglas James 18, on MacAlpin Road Raleigh County and Dale Farr 25 on U Route 11 Barbour County, both drivers. Month totals show year over year rise though rear-to-date remains below 1944 levels.
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Associated Prep
Charleston
State Police Accident Prevention Bureau
Louis Douglas James
MacAlpin Road
Raleigh County
Dale Farr
Barbour County
Hawaii Strike Parley Sought by Mediation Effort
Washington urged CIO International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union and seven stevedoring firms to meet in Honolulu or New York for mediation. Cyrus Ching of the U S Conciliation Service offered to convene talks, noting the Hawaii economy is crippled by the walkout begun May 1 with wage demands of 32 cents on top of 1 40.
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Associated Press
Washington
Government Today
Manahan
New York
Cyrus
Ching
U. S. Conciliation Service
Honolulu
Mawati
Hawaiii
Hawaii
CIO International Longshoremen
Peddling the Red Blood for Booze Funds Denounced
At the WCTU convention in Philadelphia Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin accused clinics, banks, and vagrants of selling blood to fund drinking, noting prices up to 56 dollars a pint. H. Cecil Heath of the UK Temperance Alliance linked drinking to disasters in World War Two, citing Eisenhower’s 1946 rank change as part of a broader warning.
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Ushiladelphia
Women’s Christian Temperance “Union
D. Leigh Colvin
WCTU
Colvin
Banka
H. Cecil Heath
London
United Kingdom (Temperance) Alliance
Europe
Normandy
Heath
Pearl Harbor
Dwight .D. Eisenhower
Supreme Headquarters, Allied
Ballard Re-Elected to August Term Circuit Court
Ballard was chosen again by the Raleigh County Bar Association to preside over the August term of Circuit Court which opened today. Judge Ashworth remains convalescing from an operation.
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Beckley Abrney
George L. Ballard
Raleigh County Bar Association
Circuit Court
Ballard
Ben H. Ashworth
Surprise Visit in Chattanooga Ends With Car Crash
Eva Russell 36 drove to visit a friend in Chattanooga Tennessee and found Eugenia Chitty under a bed as a car plowed through a brick wall. Chitty slept on the floor to stay cool. The driver, a novice, said she forgot to turn a corner.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Eva Russell
Eugenia Chitty
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