Snyder Promises Veto of Tax Cut Bill Amid Budget Stance
The Treasury Secretary told the Ways and Means Committee that President Truman would veto any tax cut lacking offsetting revenue, arguing the plan to cut income taxes without replacements risks widening the deficit. He defended the administration’s plan as fair and necessary to protect budget surpluses while easing cost of living for low income families.
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Associated Press
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Congress
Truman
Hlouse Ways and Means Committee
GOP
Knutson
R-Minn
Ways and Means Committee
Krutson
Farm Officials To Judge County Land Use Contest
Five Raleigh County farm agency officials will judge a conservation and land-use contest to be sponsored in 1948 by the Raleigh County Bank and Beckley Newspapers Corporation. Cooperation of rural aid agencies and agricultural leaders with 173 contestants was pledged at a luncheon meeting yesterday.
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Revercomb
R-Wva
West Virginia
Baltimore & Ohio
Raleigh County
L. F. Silberberger
H. B. Thomas
Franklin Lilly
Raleigh County St. Adjustment Agency Committee
John Cooper
Floyd F. Rothlisberger
Southern Soil Conservation District
Raleigh County Bank
Lacy Daniels
Speed Mankin
Glen Daniel
C. M. Bennett
Abraham
Charley Wallace
Odd
W. H. Riffe
Crab Orchard
J. P. Crook
White Oak
T. L. Proctor
Mount Hope
Wade H. Trump
Beckley
Raleigh County Farm Agency
Raleigh County Bank and
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Senate debate over rent controls and hikes
Senator Bricker urged Congress to permit landlords to raise rents up to 15 percent for tenants who did not sign leases. Senator Myers pledged to fight to strengthen rent controls in line with Truman. The rent control law expires February 29 and hearings on extension begin.
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Associated Press
Washington
Bricker
Ohio
Congress
Myers
D-Fa
Truman
Senate Banking
Winter influenza rate increases nationwide says Health Service
Washington report shows influenza striking at a higher rate this winter with 54,893 cases since August, vs 36,640 for the same period in 1946-47. No widespread epidemic indicators yet, according to a Health Service statistician.
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Washington
United States Public Health Service
Health Service
Weather Moderates As West Virginia Roads Reopen
Crews in Raleigh County clear icy spots and resume cindering red dog and rock based roads as temperatures rise from four below zero. State crews report safe primary and secondary paved highways without chains and note continued slipperiness on rural routes.
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State Road Commission
Raleigh
Beckley
George Gadd
Gadd
Way
Glen White Road
Crab Orchard
Crab Orchard School
Five Die in Chicago Furniture Building Blast
Chicago reports five killed in a blast that blew out a north wall of a four story brick structure at 619 North Saint Clair Street housing Provus Brothers Furniture. Investigators say a gas explosion caused the devastation. two bodies recovered and four injured as police name victims Isadore Provus Benjamin Chemers Harry Garlland Benjamin Berkowitz and an unidentified man.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Loop
iMore
Near North Side
North St Salles Street
Frovus Brothers Furniture Company
Isadore Provus
Benjamin Chemers
Provus
Harry Garlland
Benjamin Berkowitz
Henry Homme
Berkowitz
Hommel
Gertrude Friedman
Marshall Pidgeon
Funeral set for Josephus Daniels editor and Woodrow Wilson aide
Josephus Daniels 35 editor and publisher of the Raleigh News and Observer and last survivor of the original Woodrow Wilson cabinet died yesterday. Funeral services are at 2:30 p m tomorrow at Raleigh's Eucton Street Methodist Church conducted by Bishop W W Peele with eight pallbearers from the Daniels household. He will be buried in Oakland Cemetery Raleigh.
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Tar
Associated Press
Raleigh
N.C
Josephus Daniels
Raleid News and Observer
Woodrow Wilson
Eucton Street Methodist Church
Daniels
W. W. Peele
Richmond
Oakland
The
News and Observer
Senator Wylie Fined for Street Assault in Mullens Court
State Senator Ward Wylie of the ninth district received a 6 dollar fine and costs after pleading guilty to one count of assault and battery from Magistrate R. M. Stovall. The case arose from an early Sunday incident at the V F W club and a later street confrontation involving World War II veteran Bob Jenkins and James Richmond, who were also involved. Richmond was fined 5 dollars and costs. The second charge over the club room fight was continued or dismissed at Jenkins request.
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Register
Mullens
Ward Wylie
R. M. Stovall
Wylie
Bob Jenkins
James Richmond
Jenkins
Stovall
Richmond
Donations Pour in For Fire Victims in Raleigh County
Clothing poured into the Raleigh County Red Cross after a fire destroyed an East Beckley apartment building Wednesday morning. Home service secretary Mrs Paglis Earwood said no more clothing is needed but furniture bedding dishes and cooking utensils are still required. Donations can be arranged for pickup and delivery via the Red Cross office in the Bair Building or by calling 7391.
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Raleigh County Red Cross
East Beckley
Delayed Parking Ticket Sparks Beclayin Fine
Eldridge Pemberton of Maplewood Lane became Beckley’s first resident to pay a $6 fine for a parking violation after missing the 48 hour window. A warrant issued by Police Judge G Berk Lynch led officers to serve the warrant. Pemberton later reported to the station to settle the fine.
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Eldridge Pemberton
Maplewood Lane
Beckley
Pemberton
G. Berk-Lynch
Edwight Man Held for Felonious Assault
Charles W. Kyle a 26 year old Edwight man is in Raleigh County Jail awaiting grand jury after a hearing before Justice of the Peace Omer Acord Marsh Fork District. He is accused of felonious assault on Annabelle Tanksley of Edwight who was injured with a hot poker and listed in good condition at Beckley Hospital.
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Charles W. Kyle
Edwight
Raleigh County
Justice of the Peace
Omer Acord
Marsh Fork
Kyle
Posey
S Clay
Annabelle Tanksley
Tanksley
Clay
Beckley Hospital
Canada Reinstalls Price Controls
Ottawa imposes price ceilings on meat and butter after lifting controls last fall. Government to seek extension of rent controls to March 31, 1949. Butter wholesale price in Montreal about 67 cents. local retail butter 73 cents per pound. Meat ceilings to be set within days, affecting beef prices in Canada.
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Associated Press
Ottawa
Buller
New York City
Douglas Abbott
Montreal
Ruhr Walkouts Tie Up 75,000 German Workers
About 75,000 German workers joined walkouts in four Ruhr valley cities protesting food shortages. Authorities feared the movement could spread across Germany's industrial heart, where hunger grips millions while coal miners and essential workers remained on the job. Some newspapers blamed a Communist mastermind behind the labor crisis as part of a plan to wreck the Marshall Plan.
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Ruhr
Associated Press
Berein
Ifue
Ruhr Valley
Germany
Passenger Train Derails Near Cross City Florida
The Southland Tampa passenger train derailed about 11 miles north of Cross City Florida at 7 am. Seven cars of the southbound Atlantic Coast Line train left the rails and five were partially derailed. No immediate casualties were reported. W L Fisher of the Cross City Chamber of Commerce cited crew members who came to seek aid in clearing the track.
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Arsocial CO Re
Cross City
Fla
Southland
Chicago
Rioters Attack Canton as British Consulate Burned
The U S consul general in Canton reported rioting Chinese mobs injuring six Britons, burning the British consulate, and threatening American property during a three hour demonstration. The British sent a warship to evacuate Britons if needed, while Americans reported threats but escapes thanks to identification.
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Hong Kong
U.S
Canton
Kowloon
H. A. Boucher
U. S
Texas Company
U.N. Talks Of International Army For Palestine
A U N delegate said the Security Council may act to provide an international military force in Palestine before a United Nations Palestine Commission seeks to enforce partition. President Truman said the U S has not considered sending troops but noted the UN could form an international army in the future to enforce mandates. The State Department reaffirmed that partition decisions remain U S policy.
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Associated Press
Lake Success
United Nations
Security Council
Palestine
U. N
Holy Land
Palestine Commission
Council
Washington
Truman
White House
U.N
iState Department
U.S
Haifa Under Fire as Haifa Battles Rock Holy Land
Associated Press reports Haifa bombings and street shootings blaze across the city as Arab Jewish fighting swells in the Holy Land. Hagana claimed pre dawn bombings killing several, including seven children and one woman. Officials say at least 20 killed. death toll rises beyond 600 in the region since partition.
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Associated Press
Jerusalem
Haifa
Holy Land
Hagana
United Nations
Speeding Arrests Lead to Police Court Dates
Oscar Kirby of Beckley was arrested at 8 a.m. today by city police on a speeding charge and posted a 15 dollar bond for appearance. Walter Cochran of Beckley was arrested last night on the same charge and ordered to appear in Police Court.
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Oscar Kirby
Beckley
Walter Cochran
British coal visit highlights Europe democracy link
British miners visiting Raleigh County compare tactics with West Virginia in a fully mechanized mine. They say coal is the hub of economy and democracy, noting production and worker cooperation as key factors for Europe’s political future.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Great Britain
West Virginia
Mountain State
Europe
Ronald Mann
England
Raleigh County
Mann
America
Serosa
Britain
Tokyo Police Uncover Infant Death Ring in Nursery
Tokyo police say they uncovered a baby murder mill with 40 or more infant deaths. An undertaker, and a man and wife running a nursery, were arrested. The undertaker was found with an infant body in a basket on his bicycle. Four infant corpses were found in orange crates. Neighbors say the nursery advertised to care for babies and collected thousands of yen before the infants starved. Police suspect a working agreement to dispose of bodies.
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Flba Wellman
Kenova
Associated Press
Tokyo
Weather Outlook Mixed Snow Flurries and Cold Temps
Cloudy with snow flurries today as winds shift to strong north west. Much colder tonight with wind and continued flurries, low near zero to 5 above. Saturday mostly sunny and very cold with mountain flurries. Beckley and Oak Hill highs and lows reported. precipitation none in Beckley in 24 hours ending 10 am.
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Beckley Ais Isa
Oak Hill
Glade Cree
Beckley
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