Coal Shortage Reported in 36 Cities By Chamber of Commerce
The U S Chamber of Commerce reports a critical coal shortage in 36 mid sized cities across 10 principal bituminous states with less than seven days supply in dealers hands. The findings note weather has prevented widespread hardship so far and follow President Truman's denial of an immediate coal emergency or full production mandates under Taft-Hartley powers.
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Harold W. Ward
Washington
U. S. Chamber of Commerce Today
Truman
Chamber
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Chambers of Commerce
Northern Miners Weigh No Work Week in Grant Town
Northern West Virginia miners in Grant Town threaten a three day work stoppage amid United Mine Workers District 29 unity concerns. District 29 chief George J. Tiller said no parallel situations are known in the area while local leaders report a mixed vote on returning to work.
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West Virginia
United Mine Workers District 29
Marion County
Grant Town
John L. Lewis
UMW
Distriet 29
George J. Tiller
Beckley
Grant
Denham Accuses Labor Board of Playing Politics
Washington report on a feud over Taft Hartley between NLRB General Counsel Robert N. Denham and four board members. Denham criticized recent board decisions and said they reflect the political climate. Board members, reading his speech in advance, refused comment for now and consider forwarding a complaint to President Truman.
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Mooly
Truman
Lewis
UMW
NLRB
Second Corps
Iinto
Interior Department
NERS
Rob
Denham
Chapman
Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Robert N. Denham
New York
Art
White House
Senate
Two Operators Sign Contracts With United Mine Workers
Two medium sized coal mine operators have signed wage agreements with the United Mine Workers. UMW District 17 leader William Blizzard announced about 35 district operators have signed, with permission to work six days a week if desired. Blizzard noted uncertainty about uptake, saying the move should help meet market demand and ease talk of a coal shortage. Earlier Lexington reports said truck mine operators telegraphed intent to work tomorrow at time and a half for a sixth day.
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Lewis
Truman
Joseph
Moody
Ference
Chicago
Southern Coal Producers
Coal Association
Trasociation
Alli
Ithose
Ian
Associated Press
Charleston
United Mine Workers
William Blizzard
UMW Districk 17
Blizzard
Buzzard
Lexington
Tomorow
Virginia Forecast From January 14 1918
Cloudy mild conditions with rain across the state today and tonight. West Virginia area shows temperatures five to seven degrees above normal with a mild weekend ahead. Rivers near Bellepoint and Greenbrier are about two feet above normal and muddy. Dry normal and clear elsewhere. High yesterday at Oak Hill and Glade Creek noted with rainfall amounts.
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West Virginia
Bellepoint
Greenbrier
Oak Hill
Glade Creek
Acheson Faces Senate Panel on Far East Policy
Secretary of State Acheson testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee behind closed doors on U S policy in Formosa and the Far East amid Republican calls for military input. Acheson warns the Soviet Union is carving northern China away from Beijing, detailing Outer Mongolia and Manchuria as key shifts.
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Don Whetemead
Washington
Acheson
Russia
China
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Formosa
Far East
Capitol Hill
Pacific
Republican Committee
Connally
D- Tex
Louis Johnson
Omar N. Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
House Foreign Affairs Committee
U.S
C. B. Marshall
Harvard
U. S
National Press Club
Orient
Soviet Union
Outer Mongolia
Manchuria
Inner Mongolia
Sinkiang
Moscow
Asia
China to Retain Big Power Seat on UN Council
The Nationalist government in China is expected to hold its seat in the United Nations Security Council for now amid a Soviet push to oust them and seat Mao Zedong’s regime. The United States and Britain oppose the move, with U.S. delegate Ernest Gross confirming a vote against immediate ouster and Britain arguing majority recognition is absent.
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Associated Press
China
United Nations Security Council
Mao Tze-tung
United States
Ernest Gross
U.S
U.N
Security Council
Britain
Alexander Cadogan
Peiping
Russia
United Nations
Mao
Jakob Malik
Russian Officers Helping Commies
The Nationalist defense ministry in Formosa claimed four Russian officers were attached to each Red division aiding preparations for an assault on the Cousan Islands near Shanghai. Nationalists report intensified air and rail strikes, claiming B 25 raids and destruction of multiple targets as Red forces press near Shanghai.
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Associated
Press
Taipei
Formosa
Defense Ministry
Cousan Islands
Shanghai
Red
Cheklang-Klangsi
Simon Legree Tactics OK'd by Labor Board
The National Labor Relations Board ruled a plant boss may dress as Simon Legree and theatrically urge workers to vote, deeming the act a humorous incident not interfering with a fair election. Walter L. Berry Jr. described the stunt at Charrovilles Manufacturing, provoking a vote where 78 favored and 184 opposed the union.
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Associated Press
Washington
Simon Legree
National Labor Relations Board
CIO
Textile Workers
Walter L. Berry, Jr
NLRB
Charrovilles
Whithling
Simon
San Diego
Calif
Berry
Legice
Union
Mr. Berry
State Liquor Sales Down 4.3 Million in WV
West Virginia Liquor Control Commission reports a 4.35 million drop in state liquor store sales for 1949 versus 1948. Total sales fell from 46.82 million to 41.46 million, with December 1949 sales near 4.87 million, attributed largely to miners’ thinner pocketbooks after a 52-day strike and shortened work week.
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Associated Press
Charleston
West Virginia
The
Liquor Control Commission
Gcommission
Ohioan Would Penalize Stay-at-Home Voters
Representative Brehm of Ohio proposed penalizing voters who skip two national elections by stripping the right to vote for four years. He lamented that many do not vote and he cannot discern the majority's wishes. He questioned how to reconcile district majorities with national support for Truman.
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Associated Press
Washington
Brehm
R-Qhio
Congressional Record
Truman
Richm
Dems Link Politics Romance in Push for Fair Employment
Washington reports the Truman administration pressed for passage of a civil rights bill to ban job discrimination. Speaker Rayburn and Leader Barkley hosted a Democratic pep rally where Barkley joked about his marriage to Mrs. Carleton as the party pushed for a Fair Employment Practices Commission to enforce anti discrimination rules and expand party unity.
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Associated Press
Washington
Presipees
Truman
Democratic J Congressment
House Rules Committee
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Barkley
Democratic National Committee
HOUSE
Rayburn
Carleton
Crucie
Hadley
St. Louis
Hinself
Sam
Clark Gable
York
William O'Dwyer
Jessiss
The
Treasury
Snyder
Chutch
Tapping of House Telephones Nets Official Protest
Rep Rankin asks House Un American Activities Committee to probe alleged unauthorized tapping of congressional telephone lines. He plans to introduce a resolution when the House reconvenes, saying tapping has occurred on Capitol Hill and in downtown government offices, possibly involving outside groups and not limited to the FBI.
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Associated Press
Washington
Rep
Rankin
D-Miss
House UN- American Activities Committee
House
theYouse
Capitol Hill
White House
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Congress
Blind Man Stoops Restores Sight After 12 Years
In Johnstown Pennsylvania an 11 year old salesman credited a simple act of stooping to tie his shoestring with restoring sight to Foster Wilson after 12 years of blindness. He reported a beam of light followed by fog and a light haze then rapid improvement to near normal vision with thick glasses. Wilson, married with US year old twins, had lost sight due to detachment of eye parts.
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Associated Press
Johnstown
Foster
Wilson
Mie
Frogmen Join Search For 60 in Sunken Sub
Frogmen and divers pressed a rescue effort in the Thames Estuary to reach the sunken submarine Truculent after it rammed by the Divina. Nine known dead, about 52 still trapped, as 18 of 76 aboard accounted for. Royal Navy salvage teams worked with diving gear and escape hatches, hoping signs of life appear.
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Joman Roderick
Chatham
Eng
Wierdlg
Aene Press Cham
Bolles
Slavel
Thames Estuary
Tuene
Royal Air Force
Scotland
Admiralty
Stockholm
London
Sheerness
Navy
Royal Navy
Flood Peril Expands Across Four States as 4000 Flee Homes
More than 4000 people have fled their houses as record rains push rivers across Indiana Kentucky Missouri and Illinois. Weather experts warn of heavier showers along the Ohio and Tennessee valleys while Red Cross army volunteers bolster levees and rescue efforts.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Weather Bureau
Gulf
Mississippi
Tennessee
A. W. Walstrom
Cincinnati
Ohio Valley
Ohio
Hlinets
Indiana
Kentucky
Missouri
Time Army
The
Red Cross
Food Front
Wabash
Rosicake
Ill
Cumberland
Green
Old Shawneetown
Veterans Dividends Exempt From Debt Seizure
The VA announced World War II era dividend checks will be exempt from debt seizures and income tax. Treasury printed large batches while the Post Office plans daily mailings to reach about 16 million policyholders. Veterans may have checks mailed to any designated address but cannot be legally forced to have them held for debts. Secret Service warns merchants to verify IDs beyond social security cards to curb forgeries.
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Associated Press
Veterans Administration
Treasury Department
Post Office Department
Donaldson
Secret Service
A.E. Baughman
Lewis' Mother Succumbs at 91
Springfield reports the death of Mrs Ann Louisa Lewis at age 91, mother of United Mine Workers chief John Lewis. She had been in declining health after a hip fracture and several months hospitalization. Services set for 2:30 p.m. at the residence.
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Associated Press
Springfield
John Lewis
United Ming Workers
Lewis
Washington, D.C
Tomorow
Ann Louisa, Lewis
Rites Incomplete For Mrs. Herring
Funeral arrangements are incomplete for Mrs. Margaret Beatty Herring 58 who died yesterday at her home 702 Washington Street East Charleston of a heart attack. She moved from Beckley to Charleston in 1948 and was active in several organizations including Rattner Memorial Presbyterian Church and the West Virginia United Daughters of the Confederacy. Survived by husband Norman James Herring two sons James H. Herring and Henry E. Herring three daughters and five grandchildren. Body at Shanktin Funeral Home awaiting funeral arrangements.
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Margaret Beatty Herring
Washington Street East
Charleston
Herring
Beckley
Beckley Presbyterian Church
Rattner Memorial Presbyterian Church
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Morris Harvey College
Henry E. Herring
Internal Revenue
Cecil B. Lamim
Wilson
N. C
Don D. Adams
iChipa Lake
Calif
M. Ellison
Gardena
Uency Beatty
Tomahawk
Shanktin Funeral Home
White Sulphur Springs
Wife Killer to Die in Electric Chair
Charles Frances Holober is convicted of first degree murder in the nudist camp slaying of his wife and sentenced to death by electric chair. The verdict announced today in Virginia leads to an execution order pending appeals.
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Associated Press
Afax
Charles Frances Holober
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Bradley
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Mrs. Herring
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