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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1949
Page
9
Britain has secretly agreed to buy nearly 1,000,000 tons of coarse grains from Russia in the coming year. Informants say part of a barter deal was discussed privately in Moscow last week ahead of Britain's three month standstill on dollar spending. Talks on a one-year British Russian trade pact have been ongoing.
U S and Britain may hold high level talks in six to eight weeks to map long term solutions to the British economic crisis. Secretary of State Acheson could participate, with Snyder and Holman reporting on European conditions and dollar shortages impacting U S goods purchases by Britain.
A Senate group proposed expanding the North Atlantic Pact into a world alliance against aggression. The plan would remove veto power and permit any democracy to join, with international control of atomic energy and an international police force.
Mundt says the world wide pact will be offered as a resolution tied to the arms for Europe program. President Truman plans to send the arms plan to Congress next week. The alliance would be open to any UN member agreeing to play by a new set of rules.
Yesterday's high reached near 90 with a low around 63 in Oak Hill. Rainfall totaled 0.39 inches. showers and scattered thunderstorms expected Sunday and Monday. Temperatures slowly rise to hot and humid by weekend with above normal averages.
The stock market opened higher but soon slipped into fractional losses as many issues turned negative. U S Steel started at 21 3/4, then fell. Bethlehem Steel Studebaker U S Rubber Montgomery Ward Sears Roebuck Caterpillar Douglas Kennecott Dow Chemical du Pont Johns Manville Southern Pacific Westinghouse Electric rose, while Chrysler Spiegel and several others fell.
Ta k eshi Yoshimata, 18, a Nisei from the Minidoka Relocation Center, left Seattle for Annapolis after being appointed to the U S Naval Academy by Rep. Thor C Tollefson. Yoshimata, Renton High School senior, earned straight A’s in science and math. his brother Rob served in the Army. his father is a gardener. He aims for a naval career and plans not to let down his sponsors.
Roy Arnold Wood, 23, a former bricklayer who killed a Belmore police officer last year, hanged himself before the scheduled execution at the Maryland Penitentiary. He used a half razor blade hidden in a mattress. he died from neck wounds after bleeding. Fellow death row inmate Monard Fram, 32, also killed during a robbery, was executed at 12:25 a.m. as planned. The warden called the act the most fantastic death by own action in state history and officials ordered a full investigation.
Congress sent a long range housing bill to President Truman after Senate approval and House acquiescence. The measure funds a vast slum clearance program and provides ten thousand public housing units amid a largely quiet vote.
A federal jury trying Alger Hiss requested clarification from Judge Samuel I. Kaufman on the portion of the charge about corroborative and circumstantial evidence after six hours of deliberation. The court halted while a reporter obtained copies of the judge's hour-long charge as the jurors waited.
Hiroshima voters approve a plan to make the city a shrine of peace. In yesterday’s election 71,852 of 78,962 eligible ballots cast in favor as the plan is carried through by the diet’s action.
Westbrook Pegler criticizes American labor unions as unrighteous during a four hour House subcommittee hearing. He cites six inch files of alleged union abuses as evidence and predicts possible subpoenas for his letters. Kennedy withdraws from the committee amid tense exchanges with Chairman Jacobs.
King George VI may declare a national emergency Monday if Britain's dock strike ends. The government would seek a proclamation to restore life essentials as 10,200 stevedores idle and 1,900 soldiers unload food from 105 ships. Edge pinned on communists exploiting the dispute amid Western Europe recovery.
A near inch of rain brought relief to Raleigh County amid a 90 degree heat spell. County Agent H. B. Thomas called the shower very beneficial noting the ground was parched by drought, while Huntington and western cities stayed hot. Temperatures cooled to 77 in Beckley but hit 90s elsewhere, with forecasts predicting return of heat.
Lee Buddy Scott was sentenced to 99 years in the Richmond State Penitentiary for the murder of Dana Marie Weaver, a Roanoke high school classmate. Judge Dirk A Kuyk denied a motion to set aside the verdict. Scott, who will be 17 in September, could be eligible for parole in 12 years and may be released earlier for good behavior.
U S Treasury data show Americans bought 2.25 billion dollars in Series E bonds in the first half of the year, a postwar record, while department store sales fell about four percent. June savings bonds rose while cash-ins declined, reflecting lower prices and continued saving. inventories were cutting rapidly.
The National Coal Association estimated bituminous production last week at 1,365,000 tons due to miners' vacation. Normal weekly output runs around 11,000,000 tons. The reduced figure reflects nonunionized slip operators and small shafts. Menges of the United Miners returned after paid operation but on a three day work week during contract negotiations. Production compared with 1948 shows 255,968,000 tons versus 287,877,000.
Washington The House Un American Activities Committee invited baseball star Jackie Robinson to testify and address Paul Robeson’s loyalty remarks. Prominent Black leaders including Negroes leaders seek to appear to refute Robeson, arguing American Negroes would not fight a war against the Soviets.
The Senate Appropriations Committee cut the Atomic Energy Commission budget, rejecting a House total of 1.090 billion dollars in cash and contract authority for the fiscal year starting July 1. The move followed opposition from subcommittee leaders O Mahoney and McMahon who warned of a fight to override the reduction.
The United States demanded a protest to high Chinese Communist authorities over the jailing of U S Vice Consul William M Olive in Shanghai and the incommunicado detention and harsh treatment of Olive and two fellow consular officers who sought to aid him. Washington instructed the Nanking and Peiping embassies to file immediate protests and to press for access and humane treatment.
Benjamin Beuhring Brown age 54 prominent West Virginia attorney dies at home. He was senior partner in Brown Jackson and Knight and served as president of Lewis Land and Coal Company and as director of Kanawha Valley Bank West Virginia Building and Loan Association Slab Fork Coal Company Scalia Coal and Coke Company and Ragte Land Company.
Huntington hosts the 18th annual West Virginia Chess Congress during Labor Day weekend September 2 5 with 50 to 74 players expected. Four former state champions and the defending co champions are among entrants as two rounds are played Saturday September 3 and three on Sunday with one on Labor Day.
At about 10 30 last night a freight train backed into a Ponting sedan at a Skelton area crossing. G A Mohler Jr suffered a broken nose and head cuts while E C Minter Jr had a broken ankle and head injuries. Both were taken to Beckley Hospital with Mohler dismissed and Minter listed as satisfactory. No arrests were reported.
Fire swept two Union Pacific streamliner cars near Afton California as the City of Los Angeles train neared a remote siding about 130 miles west of Las Vegas. One car destroyed and the other badly damaged. 245 passengers escaped injury. Cause not determined.
In a South Side Chicago basement a 3 year old neighbor boy, “Whitey” Laux, was allegedly hanged as part of the Hangmen Noose Club led by 3 year old Robert Munday. Investigators say the older brother Charles gave conflicting statements before denial. Police recovered Whitey’s body in a basement sack, while Edith Munday searched with neighbors. the incident prompted detentions for both youths.
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