Bilbo Secretary Ties Solon To War Contractors Payments
Edward P. Terry, former Bilbo secretary, testified before Senate war contract investigators about an understanding that Mississippi war contractors would repay debt from the 1940 campaign. He recalled advances and payments totaling around $4,000 and a long list of supporters who later faced losses.
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Huey Long
Justice Department
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Player
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Dillon
St. Louis
Senators urge Marshall chaired China peace conference
Republicans Senator Flanders of Vermont and Senator Murray of Montana called for an international conference to end China's civil strife with General Marshall presiding. They urged broad participation from Chinese parties and noninvolvement by the U S, Russia and Britain in Chinese politics, noting the danger of prolonged chaos.
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China
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America
Russia
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Johns Hopkins University
Chiang Kai Shek
Harley F. McNair
Chicago University
H. H. Fisher
Hovevey Library of War
Stanford University
Foster Rhea Dulles
Ohio State University
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Truman
Marshall
Kuomintang
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United States to propose seven member Greek crisis probe
The United States will ask the United Nations Security Council to name a seven member on the spot investigating committee to examine conditions on both sides of the Greek frontier. The proposal includes the five permanent members plus Poland and Brazil with seat on the panel. Greece's dispute debate continues as Albania and Bulgaria participate as counsels though non members. The session opens general debate on Greece's charges. The UN atomic energy commission defers a vote on international control until Friday at Soviet insistence.
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China
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Constantin Tsaldaris
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Bernard M. Baruch
Court Offices To Close Christmas
Most Raleigh County courthouse offices will close next week from Tuesday noon to Friday morning for Christmas. Closures include the circuit and county clerk offices agriculture assessor sheriff and courts. Health department and prosecuting attorney’s office have not set vacation time. closing time for the department of public assistance will be announced tomorrow.
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Circuit
Agriculture
County Health Department
Prosecuting Attorney’s Office
Department of Public Assistance
Four Counties Complete Secondary Road Plans
The Associated Press reports preliminary surveys finished in Boone Webster Pocahontas and Grant counties with seven others under way. Road officials say magisterial districts held initial meetings as residents chose preferred improvements. Construction slated to begin early next year after Roads Administration approval.
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Road Commission
E. L. Worthington
Public Roads Administration
Boone
Webster
Pocahontas
Grant
Lewis
Taylor
Randolph
Raleigh
Ohio
Calhoun
Preston
Miners Hospital Plan Announced in Kentucky
A campaign to raise 500000 dollars for a miners hospital was announced by a United Mine Workers District 34 committee covering the Big Sandy and Hazard fields. Chairman Tom Raney of Pikeville said the hospital would serve miners and the general public and be located for convenient access to both coal regions.
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Hazard
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Sitreet Scene Echoes Holiday Pranksters At President Hotel
A Beckley cabby and a companion joke about favorites while a group of boys pelts passers by with snowballs. The snowballs are described as two inches of stew on a car parked near the President Hotel.
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President Hotel
Rites For Soldier Killed In Belgium To Be Held Friday
Funeral services for Corporal James M. Lewis 18 of Princewick who died November 9 from injuries in a Belgium vehicle accident will be held Friday at 2 p.m. from Coal City Church of God with Rev. William E. Winters Rev. D H Estridge and Rev Estel Garrison officiating. Burial will be in Coal City Cemetery. The body will be moved from Caffee Funeral Home tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock to the residence at Princewick and remain until the hour of the service.
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Princewick
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Coal City
Education needs study spurs prison system group action
Charleston reports a special legislative committee on education began studying education needs tied to prison conditions. The panel faces a setback after November elections but aims to salvage beneficial measures including a proposed Department of Correction to oversee state prisons and county jails.
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Charleston
George D. Strayer
W. T. Hammack
U.S. Bureat ‘of
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Department of Correction
Coud
Parcon
Forecast of Fur Coat Prices Dip Ahead
Washington D C. Athbert M Day director of the fish and wildlife service says fur coat prices should fall soon as mink pelts sell 24 percent lower and American processed sealskin pelts average 46.64 a coat versus 80.28 last September. He notes price lag between wholesale and retail and cheaper skins from Manchuria may reduce costs. He adds more trapping will occur at lower rates and consumer resistance helps push prices down.
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Washington
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Fish and Wildfire Service
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Manchuria
Gas firm wins right to tap major pipelines in Pittsburgh area
Governor Martin authorized emergency tapping of large and small pipelines to ease natural gas shortages in Pittsburgh. Perrott of Kees Gas Co of Pittsburgh sought waivers to use lines in Greene County until April 30, citing industrial users losing up to 10,000,000 cubic feet daily. Rights of way may be altered in the future, as objections from coal operators, railroads, and the United Mine Workers exist.
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Martin
War Perrott
Kees Gas Company
Pennsylvania
Greene County
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Big Inch
Little Inch
Federal Power Commission
Hope Gas Leases Coal Firm Land in Raleigh Boone Counties
A supplement to a lease filed in Raleigh County outlines added land in Raleigh and Boone Counties. The New River and Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company previously leased 4,654.39 acres to Hope Natural Gas, now revised to 4,979.03 acres with three new Crook District tracts in Boone County. The amendment revives and corrects several tracts in the original lease and lists signatories Charles Z. Berwind of the coal firm and C Franklin of the gas company.
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Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company
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Boone County
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West Fork
Workman's Branch
Pond Fork
Crook's Branch
Charles Z. Berwind
Pocahontas
Pittsburgh to Lakes Canal Proposed for Cargo Route
Lt. Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler said engineers study a through cargo route from Duluth and other lake ports to Pittsburgh. Col. W. Be. Lorence outlined plans for an 18 foot canal from Pittsburgh to Lake Erie near Ashtabula, Ohio, via the Beaver and Mahoning Rivers to serve Youngstown, enabling vessels up to Liberty ship size to dock at Pittsburgh Harbor.
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Gazette slams Supreme Court for overturning punitive damages
Charleston Gazette editorialized against the Supreme Court decision reversing a jury verdict of punitive damages in the case of Bayard F. Ennis. Ennis alleged harm from Sheriff D. Earl Brawley after a story about a deputy appointment. The paper warned the jury system and feared loss of judicial power.
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Ennis
D. Earl Brawley
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Supreme Court of Appeals of
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Brawley
Law
Wwe
Penicillin And Blood Coloring Cure Wounds
Penicillin is mixed with hemoglobin to form a red jelly that is applied directly to wounds. The method, tested in American hospitals, aims to heal injuries refractory to standard treatments. Researchers note variable success due to absorption, irritation, and concentration factors.
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Associated Press
Walter
Jean College of Surgeons
Felix Jansey
North
Yelly
Western University
Chicago
Col. Jansey
England
Three Die as Apartment Fire Spurs Fatal Blaze
In Brookline Massachusetts a three story apartment house on Tappan Street burned early today. Three residents two brothers aged twenty-something and a 43 year old mother of three died. two men were injured escaping. Fire damage estimated at 40000 dollars. investigators seek the blaze origin in the building’s lower floors.
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Tappan Street
Yoelma Starrett
Robert
Rupert Lewis
Charles Alexander
Joseph Lennon
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Nine Killed as Bus and Train Collide Near Newberry
A school bus collided with a southbound Southern Railway train at a grade crossing near Silverstreet, seven miles southwest of Newberry, South Carolina. Nine pupils and the bus driver died, twelve pupils were injured and rushed to Newberry County Hospital in critical condition. some bodies were carried on the cowcatcher of the locomotive. Richard Sanders, the bus driver, was among the dead.
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Newberry County Hospital
McSwain Funeral Home
Hollywood Reacts Lightly to Harvard Critique on Film People
Harvard sociologist Carle Zimmerman called Hollywood a synthetic childless population. He urged cleansing the family system. Fath ers Betty Grable and Mickey Rooney announce second children, drawing attention amid quiet responses from others like Bing Crosby.
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Hollywood
Harvard University
Carle Zimmerman
Harvard
Boston Congregational Club
Hearing On Strip Mining Case Continued To January
Testimony in the motion by G. C. Hedrick and others to dissolve a temporary injunction against strip mining on the Shady Spring farm of H. L. Watkins of Beckley Ice Cream Company was resumed and continued to January 6. Watkins obtained the restraining order from Circuit Judge Ben H. Ashworth, arguing the deed granting Hedrick mineral rights is not broad enough for strip mining. Several witnesses testified before Judge Ashworth.
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Shady Spring
H. L. Watkins
Beckley Ice Cream Company
Watkins
Ben H. Ashworth
Hedrick
Ashworth
Circuit Judge Ashworth Orders Payment in Divorce Case
Judge Ben H. Ashworth issued an order directing Roy Coalson to pay $75 in alimony and $32.25 in court costs plus Jorney's fees in the divorce suit filed by Lorine. The record notes 24 hours ending 11 a.m. and proceedings recorded at Greenbrier and New River offices.
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