Advisor Declares President Irked At Early Release
A Key West report says President Truman will ignore Southern coal operators’ request to use Taft Hartley to force full coal production. White House aides say Truman is displeased by the operators’ publicity, and will not be swayed by the seven page letter from Joseph E Moody of the Southern Coal Producers Association.
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Ernest BR
Vaccaro Jap
Key West
Fla
Truman
John K. Lewis
Trusman
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
Crumen
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Congress
Dry Friday grips 8 million New Yorkers for water saving
New York observes a dry Friday with 8,000,000 residents urged to curb baths showers and dishwashing for a 24 hour period to conserve scarce water. Officials monitor reservoir savings to decide on possible weekly repeats and stricter measures if demand remains high. The effort includes beards for babies by Parents Magazine staff and a focus on voluntary conservation rather than panic.
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Associated Press
New York
Sahara
Stephen J. Carney
Caimed
Iwater
He Warner
Dixiecrats Warn Against Stricter Housing Measure
Washington reports two Dixie lawmakers warn the Truman Administration against broadening civil rights housing rules if Congress is to back home building legislation. Officials say the administration will use executive powers cautiously, as new covenants restricting tenants by race or creed go into effect February 19. FHA and VA announce denial of loans or guarantees where public covenants are filed after February 15. Unwritten covenants and pre February 15 deals remain unaffected.
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Associated Press
Washington
Dixie
Truman
Congress
Bud
Sparkman
Ala
Johnston
D-Sc
Federal Housing Administration
Veterans Administration
Philip B. Perla
Jury Gets Cross Suits in Raleigh Court
A Raleigh County Circuit Court jury is to weigh evidence after noon in cross suits Lee Woods versus George Hatcher. Verdict expected this afternoon. Case arises from an automobile accident on the road between Odd and Besoco on April 28.
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Raleigh County
Lee Woods
George Hatcher
Odd
Besoco
Virginia and West Virginia Weather Summary for Dec Day
Forecast covers Virginia and West Virginia with highs in the 30s to mid 30s, tonight’s lows 20s to 30, and warmer Saturday followed by a rise and fall pattern into Tuesday. Expect rain or snow Sunday and Wednesday, with total precipitation around two to four tenths of an inch.
Two of Six Injured As Fliers Bail Out
Six airmen aboard an Air Force C-82 cargo plane ditched near Reno Nevada after midnight. Two suffered broken legs and arms when they bailed out. five hiked out and were later picked up by motorists on Highway 40. A rescue team moved to retrieve the man with the broken leg.
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Here
Washoe County
Ernest Gray
Chennault Saved From Saboteurs
HONG KONG an attempt to sabotage the Civil Air Transport plane carrying Maj. Gen Claire Chennault as he prepared to depart for Taipei was foiled police detained suspects and the field witnessed a scuffle before Chennault took off for Formosa. Police halted a free for all as two other CAT planes faced sabotage attempts.
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Associated Press
Hong Kong
Claire Chennault
Taipei
Chennault
Formosa
Nem
Robert Rousselat
Noel
Men of Presbyterian Church Sponsor 3 DP’s in Beckley Home
Three displaced persons from Augsburg Germany will be sheltered by Beckley’s Men of the Presbyterian Church early next year under sponsorship. The trio Arvids Veidins his wife Klaudia and his mother were former Riga Latvia residents now at the Augsburg camp. Veidins a former telegraph operator is a bookkeeper and his wife works for the International Refugee Organization in Augsburg. They expect to reach New York in February or March and board a Bremen ship to Beckley. The church will provide transportation from New York to Beckley and arrange jobs and housing for three years with welfare support. Donations are being collected to cover expenses.
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Europe
Beckley
Presbyterian Church
Augsburg
Germany
Riga
Latvia
C. S. Donnelly
Oak Hill
Arvids Veidins
Klaudia
Veidins
Elfrida Daugaviele
Rey. Donnelly
Vpiof CU
Vam Alle
New York
Man posed as Santa aide charged with rape
In Lake Placid, a 28 year old laborer George C Haskin of Ogdensburg faced rape charges for abducting seven year old Babbette Wilcox claiming to be a Santa helper. Police said he dumped her after more than two hours. The girl, bruised and frightened, was under a doctor's care at her home. Bail was denied pending grand jury action.
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Associated Press
Lake Placid
Babbette Wilcox
Santa
Stm
George C. Haskin
Ogdensburg
Babbette
Horace Wilcox
Haskin
Harry FE. Blaisdell
Essex County
Elizabethtown
St Agnes Church
Te Village
Ile
T'Ichabod
Santa Claus
Mullens Trucker Forced to Dump Coal on Highway
Mullens trucker P G Mingo says he was ordered by miners on Matoaka Shawnee Road to unload about eight tons of coal near Lashmee. A spokesman said workers starve on reduced weeks and demanded the coal be dumped by hand. He planned to confer with Mercer County law enforcement before proceeding.
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Register
Mullens
P. G. Mingo
Lashmee
Princeton
Ptay
Mercer County
Mingo
Earl White
Roanoke
Matoaka-Shawnee
Lashret
Lashmeel
West Virginia University observes University Day
Morgantown officials say Harald F Slassen former Minnesota governor and UPenn president will speak at West Virginia Universitys University Day observance on February 7. Coroner John Dugan reports Charles Black 52 of Short Creek Brooke County died by his own hand in a hotel room just before arraignment on a drunkenness charge. Spencer reports a draft shortfall forces closing of several Roane County one room schools after eight and a half months. Clarksburg notes Hurst H Koblegard 52 vice president of a family named wholesale doggoods firm died of a heart attack at a banquet. Ripley reports the body of a liveborn baby found in a creek near Fletcher Jackson County with no clue to the childs identity.
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Morgantown
Harald F Slassen
Minnesota
University of Pennsylvania
West Virginia University
Wheeling
John Dugan
Charles Black
Short Creek
Brooke County
Spencer
Roane County
Myles Spencer
Clarksburg
Hurst H. Koblegard
Doggoods
Ripley
Fletcher
Jackson County
Oliver JD. Kessel
Protestant Union Studies Workable Plans for Unity
Greenwich Conn delegates to the Conference on Church Union study a workable plan to unite Protestant churches in America during a three day session. Nearly 20 million American Protestants represented. seven sponsoring churches debate merger timing and form, with two union models discussed and variations in inclusion of broader membership.
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Greenwich
Conn
Conference On Church ‘Union
America
Actus
abepServens
Methodist Church
Disciples of Christ
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Presbyterian Church In
U.S.A
Congregational Christian Churches
Moravian Church
Land
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Fire at Lexington Controlled Today
A morning blaze in Lexington Va was brought under control by 6 am, causing damage up to 1.6 million dollars. Adair Hutton department store and J Ed Deaver and Son mens wear were destroyed, with offices on the Stuart Building’s second floor wiped out. Water damage hit Tolbys Hardware and McCrunns Drug Store, while Tolby’s and Ewing Studio areas suffered extensive loss.
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Associated Press
Lexington
Adair Hutton
J. Ed Deaver and Son
Virginia State Virginay Department
Stuart
Tee
Tolby
McCrunn
Ewing Photographic Studio
E. P. Tompkins
County Foroner
Recreation Needs Survey Planned by Broad Civic Group
A wide coalition of civic fraternal labor and women’s groups will study Berkley recreation needs. A volunteer committee, sponsored by Build a Better Community, will conduct the survey with a final capact to be given May 15. At a memorial Building meeting John G. Scherlacher WVU recreation consultant urged streamlining committees to advance the survey and education facilities. The council dinner set for January 17 will discuss organizing the best men and women for the effort.
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Berkley
Memorial Building
John G. Scherlacher
West Virginia University
Veriacher
Beckley
Gus Fo Walker
Appalachian Counabof
Boy Scouts
Santa Claus called unholy fraud by Catholic Review editors
The Catholic Review, organ of Washington and Baltimore archdioceses, argues Santa Claus distracts from Christ’s nativity. In its Christmas issue editorial Unholy Fraud, Rev. John Sinnott Martin calls Santa a foolish fiction and warns the Santa image undermines parental authority and Christian teaching. The piece urges keeping Christ in Christmas and returning Santa to a minor role.
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Joseph C. Goodwin
Washington
Catholic Review
Catholic Archdloceses
Baltimore
Santa Claus
Santa
Review
John Sinnott Martin
U S Steel raises prices as probe eyes steel market
U S Steel and peers lift prices about one dollar a ton while lawmakers plan a probe to curb a potential broader increase that could inflame inflation. Senator O Mahoney says action may follow Christmas, citing higher production costs and new pension and insurance obligations.
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Peitsbulghl
Big
U.S. Steel Corporation
America
O'Mahoney
D-Wya
Congressional Economiec
Christmans
U. S. Steel
Benjamin F. Fairless
Phillp Murrhys Steelworkers
Insurance Fond
U.S. Steel l
Grogan construction founder dies at 50 in Minnesota
Eugene G. Grogan founder of Vecellio and Grogan Construction dies at Saint Marys Hospital Rochester Minnesota at age 50. A West Virginia resident since 1916 he helped start one of the state's largest firms with wife Jemma Vecellio. Survived by his mother three sisters four brothers and many relatives. Funeral Sunday at Beckley First Christian Church with burial in Martinsville Oakwood Cemetery.
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Eugene G. Grogan
West Virginia
Saint Mary’s Hospital
Rochester
Minn
South Kanawha Street
Vecellio and
Grogan
Henry County
Beckley
Jemma Vecellio
Beckley Street
Pineville
theascDowell
Jine
Grandview Head
Beckley Water Company
Glade Creek
M. B. Grogan
Martinsville
Lee Green
F. L. Lambeth
Janise Grogan
Henry
Wilbue Grogan
Paton Grogan
Pulaski
Roy Grogan
Bishop
Driver Revived After Carbon Monoxide Incident
Be clarksburg truck driver Joe o N Vrobec was overcome by carbon monoxide while parked near the Raleigh Hardware Building in Mahscatt. Beckley Fire Department rescue squad revived him at 8 10 a m. Fire Chief Bernard Martin said Vrobec, employed by Marcs Metal Company, declined further medical treatment.
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Joe O N. Vrobec
Clarksburg
Beckley
Bernard Martin
Martin
Vrobee
Marc
Charles Levine
Raleigh
Mahscatt
Bomber Crash Near Roswell Kills Six Fliers
An Air Force B 29 bomber collided with a windmill during approach to Walker AFB Roswell New Mexico and burst into flames killing six of the 14 crewmen aboard three seriously injured and five others with minor injuries Rescue teams freed bodies and survivors after two hours of work as wreckage was strewn across the prairie near the runways officials cited no engine trouble detected before impact and noted the crash caused extensive damage to the windmill and surrounding area
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Associated Press
Roswell
N. M
Air Force
Walker Air Force Base
Prairie
Death of Blind Baby Attributed to Starvation
The coroner reported the death of a blind infant attributed to starvation amid a poorly fed household. He described the residence as well furnished, though the child suffered severe neglect. The statement noted vitamin deficiencies observed in other children in the family.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Thomas Nykaza
A. L
Brodie
Brode
Flames Extinguished At Maxwell Heights Home
A fire at Maxwell Heights, at the home of FB. C. Pilageradd, caused about $40 damage. Beckley Fire Department responded after a report by Mrs. Fitzgerald's sister, Maude Paul, the sole occupant, this morning.
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FB. C. Pilageradd
Maxwell Heights
Bernard
Martin
Beckley
Lscone
Fitzgerald
Maude Paul
France to receive U S aircraft carrier under Atlantic Pact aid
French Defense Minister Rene Pleven disclosed in a parliamentary hearing that France will obtain a U S aircraft carrier as part of Atlantic Pact aid. He sought 19450 military credits and urged aid from other pact nations for a French air force of about 60,000.
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Pregt Panus
France
U. S
Rene Pleven
National Defense Committee
National Assembly
Pleven
Great Britain
United States
Holland
Tidy
Russia
Coal Tonnage In Week End Dec 10 Estimated At 9.2 Million Tons
Washington reports the National Coal Association estimates bituminous production for the week ended December 10 at 9.2 million tons, down from 9.25 million the prior week and significantly below the 1948 level of 12 million tons.
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Associated Press
Washington
National Coal Association Today
Strike Threat Clouds Soft Coal Industry Amid Pay Row
Washington reports say soft coal operators clash with John L Lewis over a three day work week as winter demands rise. A full scale strike after Christmas remains possible while operators press for a written standard for welfare fund distributions and threaten withheld payments. James D Francis of Island Creek Coal leads Southern firms pushing for injunctions against the shortened schedule.
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Associated Press
Washington
L. Lewis
Lewis
Truman
Nature and Pension Fund
Island Creek Co
James D. Francis
Divorce Granted After Nonsense Night Court Testimony
In Seattle, Thomas R. Turman testified before Superior Judge Chester A. Batchelor that on his wedding night his wife Viola demanded control of his assets and insurance, threatened actions, and locked herself in a bathroom. The couple had agreed to try for a baby within a year, but their marriage ended uncontested after the bizarre night and morning.
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Associated Press
Seattle
Thomas R&r. Turman
Chester A. Batchelor
Viola
Turmans
Alikce
Batchelor
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Nev.Oxelan
Pikeville
Pike County
Sherman H. Cox
Williamson
Commonwealth
J. A Runyon
Woodrow McCoy
Cox
Runyon
McCoy
Los Angeles
Charles Hage
Fontana
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Charles
Men of
Protestant Union Studies
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U.S. Steel
KE. G. Grogan
Driver
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