Contempt charge looms over miners strike case
A federal contempt order seeks action by the United Mine Workers and John L. Lewis to end the coal strike. Judge Keech set a Friday deadline for the 372,000 idle miners to return to work as court costs and potential fines loom. The government accuses the union of knowingly violating the restraining order, while coal shortages intensify amid freezing conditions and rationing in several districts.
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Harold W. Ward
Washington
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Herve
Richmond B. Keech
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Judge Keeca
UMW
White House
Lewis
Union
New York State
District of Columbia
Statler
McGrath
H. Graham Morison
Kaymoor Miner Jailed After Picket Line Fight
One Kaymoor miner is jailed in Fayette County and a second is in Oak Hill Hospital after a fight that started at the Kaymoor picket line. Carl Culwright faces felonious assault charges. Mrs. L Booth, wife of the injured man, says pickets from Whipple organized a canvass urging women to stand guard. Culwright was arrested yesterday and is to appear before Magistrate R C Godsey at 7 30 p m Thursday.
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Register
Oak Hill
Fayette County
Oak Hill Hospital
Kaymoor
Carl Culwright
R. C. Godsey
L. Booth
Wally Stull
Booth
Coal Shortage Strains Cold Areas Across Nation
The coal strike enters its eighth month with deep impacts. Schools in St Louis will close for days as coal runs low. Jones and Laughlin Steel plans plant shutdowns affecting 23,000 workers in Pittsburgh and Aliquippa. Rockford declares emergency. Brazil Indiana may lose pumping capacity. Miners endure subzero conditions while unions pledge solidarity and potential wider action as Independent Progressive Mine Workers eyed a midnight strike.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Aliquippa
Civic
Rockford
Ill
Rockford Forest Preserve
Brazil
Ind
Virginia forecast shows rain and snow across regions
Cloudy with light showers in the north and rain in the south. Temperatures stay near normal with a milder midweek. periods of rain at period start and near Friday or Saturday, totaling about half an inch. Friday and Saturday turn colder with mixed precipitation in some areas.
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W. Va
Oak Hill
Creres
Glade Creek
Bellepoint
Greenbrier
New
Flames Kill Eight Members of Family in Michigan Farmhouse Fire
In Addison Michigan a farmhouse fire killed farmer Gerald Beagle 44 and seven of his children Geral dine 14 Barbara 12 Eloise 10 Norma Mae 9 Paul 8 William 5 and Linda 23 months old. The mother Dorothy Beagle survived badly burned and cut, treated at a local hospital, as firefighters described the blaze rushing through the two story frame house.
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Associated Press
Addison
Mich
Here
Gerald Beagle
Geraldine
Barbara
Jean
Eloise
Norma Mae
Paul
William
Linda
Dorothy Beagle
Beckley Home Wrecked by Explosion and Fire
A gas leak under a South Oakwood Avenue home caused a blast and fire that damaged a Beckley house owned by Paul Hutchinson. Firefighters battled the blaze until 5 30 am, with $4 000 total loss including $2 500 in furniture. No injuries reported among residents or responders. Local gas officials traced the leak to a rusted pipe feeding the meter.
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Oakwood Avenue
Clark McDaniel
W. Woodyard
Amere Gas Company
Bernard Martin
Martin
Paul Hutchinson
Richmond
Harper Road
Raleigh Avenue
City Avenue
Esso Standard.Oil Company
S .W. Woodyard
Amere
Gas Company
Moscoe Dingess
Calloway Heights
Oakwood
Shawn
American Gets 15 Year Sentence in Hungary Bond Suit
A Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company verdict orders recovery of 1393.28 on a bond from Harvey C. Bailey of Beckley. Raleigh County Circuit Court Judge Ben J H Ash directed payment as part of a broader set of divorce and support rulings including $75 monthly for several plaintiffs and dismissals of related actions.
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Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company
Harvey C. Bailey
Beckley
Raleigh County
Ben J H. Ash
Worth
Geraldine. Coldiron
Harry Coldiron
Winifred Holstein
Mary Molstein
Daisy Lively
Robert Lively
Louise Ford Alston
George Alston
Helen Barker
Walter Barker
Fannie Mae Lewis
Talmadge Lewis
Arlene Meadows
Earl W. Meadows
Constable Replaced In Raleigh District By Adkins
James Richmond, the Richmond District constable who resigned today, was replaced on recommendation by William Russell Adkins of Abraham during a Raleigh County Court session. In other business, court officials authorized regular payments to magistrates, constables and deputy sheriffs.
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James Richmond
Richmond
William Russell Adkins
Abraham
Raleigh
United States Breaks Diplomatic Ties With Bulgaria
The United States suspended diplomatic relations with Bulgaria, ordering American minister Donald R Heath and the Sofia legation staff to depart. Bulgaria was told to withdraw its small mission in Washington, with Peter Voutov as chargé d affaires, as the first wartime break in relations.
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Associated Press
Washington
United State
Bulgaria
Donald R.heath
U. S
Sofia
Heath
Washingston
Peter Voutov
United States
Voutov
State Department
Legation
Llewellyn Thompson
Youtov
Thompson
United , States
Forbidden Kiss Sparks Oklahoma School Crisis
In Bethany near Oklahoma City five high school students were expelled indefinitely over a kiss at a basketball game. The episode drew a townwide clash with school rules, with protests by about 250 parents accusing the rule of religious discrimination and plans for a court fight.
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Associated Press
Bethany
Okla
Riddle Riggs
Charlotte McClaln
Oklahoma City
Church of the Nazarene
Women Pickets Jab Youth with Hatpins
Summersville West Virginia sheriff reports a band of about 125 union miners visited the Dix Groves mine near Summersville. Women among them jabbed Ralph Groves with hatpins, drawing blood on his shoulders as men shouted encouragement. Nineteen men named in warrants for conspiracy to cause bodily harm or property damage. no arrests yet, expected today.
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Associated Press
Summersville
Nicholas County
John C. Belt
Dix Groves
Bell
Ralph Groves
Pickets Replace Workers at Mine in Kanawha County
Pickets appeared at Carbon Fuel Company's No. 5 mine in Kanawha County where 15 union miners worked yesterday but did not report for shifts today. Vice President E C Hanna said word of the picket likely deterred workers. The mine normally employs about 180 men and was the only UMW contract operation active yesterday.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Kanawha County
Carbon Fuel Company
No. 5
E. C. Hanna
United Mine Workers
Beckley Man Dead from Fumes at Elkins Camp
An Associated Press report from Elkins says Raymond Ansel Lewis 39 died of carbon monoxide poisoning and three others were ill or recovering. Kermit Lewis 45 and Dean Anson Roark 26 were under oxygen, Joe Pallares 27 was recovering from a frozen foot, all found at an Elkins tourist camp where they stayed while employed by a local contractor. The four men had spent seven to eight days at the camp. a Randolph County coroner certified the death.
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Beckley
Associated Press
Elkins
Raymond Ansel Lewis
West Virginia St
Ashland
Matey Atta
Cryltear
Otto
Kermit Lewis
Sprague
Dean Anson Roark
West Virginia
Joe Pallares
Maryland Ave
Randolph County
Patricia Pallares
Joe
Joe Herrera
Ekins
Mercury Tumbles To Nine in State
The Associated Press reports extreme cold across Northern and Eastern West Virginia with temperatures dipping near zero. Elkins tied at nine degrees, Wheeling ten, Morgantown twelve, Martinsburg fourteen, and Petersburg fifteen as counties endure a severe coal shortage and widespread freezing temperatures. Charleston logged twenty, Huntington twenty two, Parkersburg nineteen, and Flat Top eighteen as readings stayed below freezing across the region.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Elkins
Wheeling
Morgantown
Martinsburg
Petersburg
Charleston
Huntington
Parkersburg
Firemen Stoned By Mine Pickets Near Brookville
Firemen from Summersville and Brookville faced a rock barricade while fighting a fire at a non union mine tipple owned by W. W. Carrier near Brookville Pennsylvania during the no contract no work strike. Carrier said pickets warned they would return and state police were being sent. Two men were injured and authorities sought help from the governor as Sheriffs in Jefferson and Clarion counties tightened security and searched for weapons.
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Associated Press
Brookville
Pennsylvania
Summersville
Nontnion
W. W. Carrier
United Mine
Joe Shaffer
Jefferson County
James H. Dutt
Mercy Killing Trial Moves Toward Evidence Hearings
Dr William N Sander charged in the mercy killing of a cancer patient advanced to presenting evidence as nine jurors were seated. The Manchester jurors include Catholics and Protestants. bail remains $25000 with the defendant free between sessions.
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Byble
Associated Press
Manchester
Wermann N. Sander
Treter
Witie
Dartmouth
Sander
Abbie Borreto
Ellsborough County Hospital
Phinney
FBI
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