Steel Strike Ends Promises Coal Step Up At Winding Gulf Mines
Coal operators report mills plan to boost production to meet rising orders as the steel strike ends. Winding Gulf fields expect a return to five day weeks after August, with three to four days initially and overall markets pushed by demand from steel agencies. A 60 day termination notice looms from the United Mine Workers, though industry officials expect mills to draw on stockpiles to keep furnaces hot.
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Gulf Smokeless Coal Co
United Mine Workers
Harry M. Moses
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
Tams’ Company
Beckley
Tams
Beneff
Steel Strike Ends As Production To Resume Soon
The 53 day steel strike ends after President Truman and Philip Murray reach a settlement with US Steel chairman Benjamin Fairless. Wage policy to ratify, production to restart in four to five days as furnaces heat up. A $5.20 ton price increase for raw steel and an 16 cent wage bump for workers are approved.
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Rowland Evans
Washington
CIC Steelworkers
White House
Truman
CIQ
Philip Murray
Benjamin Fairless
Murray
Fairless
Fire disrupts Democratic session at Chicago convention
At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago a fire caused by burning newspaper caused confusion as reporters and delegates watched. Fire officials suspect arson to force a recess. 3 people burned slightly while extinguishing the flames.
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Chicago
Anthony J. Mullaney
Amos Heacock
Air Transport Associates, Inc
Seattle
Peter J. Cloherty
Boston
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Mullaney
Darrel Sinclair
Sinclair
Weather and election notes from Beckley and Chicago AP dispatch
Fair tonight with a low around 52 and 40 in places. Saturday partly cloudy and warmer with scattered thunder showers at night, temperatures a few degrees above normal. West Virginia outlook shows showers Saturday and midweek, totals around a quarter to a third inch. Beckley high yesterday and other city reports. Beliepoint river readings noted. Chicago report: Democratic presidential ballot count through Iowa shows Kefauver leading with 1044 votes, Harriman 11, Stevenson 9614, Russell 71, others varying.
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West Virginia
Chicago
Iowa
Harriman
Kefauver
Democratic convention votes on first ballot in Chicago
At the Democratic national convention in Chicago delegates begin first ballot voting for the presidential nominee. Kefauver Harriman and Stevenson lead with Virginia and southern delegations in flux amid a high tension session and a blaze near the podium.
Temperature Reaches 112 Mark at Pierre
The Associated Press reports a heat wave with Pierre South Dakota the hot spot at 112 degrees. Cooler air from the Northern Plains is expected to move eastward bringing scattered thunderstorms and relief from the high temperatures.
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Associatea
Weather Bureau
Plains States
Norther Plains
South Central States
Pierre
Chaldron
Nebr
Goodland
Kas
Coal Tonnage Report Shows Weekly Output Rise
Washington based National Coal Association reports bituminous coal production for the week ended July 19 at 6,575,000 tons, up from 5,325,000 the prior week and below 10,152,000 in the same week in 1951.
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Washington
National Coal Association Today
News blackout ends as Korea talks show deadlock on prisoner exchange
Three week blackout lifted from armistice talks in Munsan Korea as no progress on prisoner exchange emerges. Maj Gen William K Harrison Jr notes no nearer solution since July 4 while UN offers to expand repatriation. Daily sessions continue with limited disclosure and Nam Il questions screening figures.
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Korea
United Nations
William K. Harrison Jr
U. N. Command
Harrison
Nam Il
Red
Hel
U.N
Nam Fever
Nam
Democrats to Name Electors at West Virginia Convention
West Virginia Democrats plan a one day convention in Wheeling with over 900 delegates expected. Leaders travel from Chicago for the state conclave to draft a platform and select eight presidential electors. J. Howard Myers to call the session. U S Senator Mike Monrooney to give the keynote. Unclear if a pre convention caucus will be Sunday night or Monday morning.
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Wheeling
West Virginia
Chicago
Huntington
J. Howard Myers
Senate
U. S
Mike Monrooney
Okta
Women of U S accused of cannibalism by London magazine
London picture weekly Picture Post mocks American women as cannibalistic in its take on the New York ballet The Cage. It claims the show depicts mating in sects ending with the female consuming her mate and calls the work degrading and nasty.
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London
Britain
Picture Magazine
U. S
Weekly
Picture Post
America
New York City Ballet
Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
West Virginia Turns Tollway Expansion Plans Says Clerk Duty
Mercer County prosecutor asked about deeds to the West Virginia Turnpike Commission as the state plans an 88 mile toll expressway from Princeton to Charleston. Funeral services are set for Dr Charles Tanner Knoll, 93, former Jefferson County Court president, who died Wednesday. Bluefield Tele firm awards 4.9 percent pay raise to about 350 employees. District Manager Toral Duckett says rate requests to PSC and Virginia Corp Commission will offset the rise.
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Charleston
West Virginia Turnpike Commission
Attorney General’s
Mercer County
Robert Carr
Princeton
Charles
Tanner Knoll
Jefferson County Court
Molers Cross‘Roads
W. Va
Bluefield
Toral Duckett
West Virginia Public Service Commission
Virginia’ State Corporation “Commission
French Repulse Chinese Attack on Korean Front
French infantry repelled a 500-man assault on T-Bone Hill, near the Wester Front, with heavy losses to Chinese forces. An Allied officer cited 56 Chinese killed and 150 wounded as the action lasted about two hours before the Reds withdrew at 4 am.
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Seoul
Korea
Eoen
T-Bone
Wester
U. S. Eighth Army
U. S
Old Baldy
Iranians Warned Of Red Plans In Radio Broadcast
Premier Mossadegh's police chief Kazam Sheibani warned Iranians that the outlawed Tudeh party seeks to exploit nationalist unrest to push sinister Red aims. He urged cleansing elements from Nationalist ranks and warned of covert planning by Communists after the riots that toppled Ahmed Qavam and left 35 dead.
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Tehran
Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh
Ahmed Qavam
Red
Kazam ‘Sheibani
Tudeh
Sheibani
Qavam
Mossadegh
Lever
Medics Defend $2 Million Fund At WV Medical Meet
At White Sulphur Springs the West Virginia State Medical Association heard Dr Sobisca S Hall defend a 2 million dollar fund raised by doctors to oppose federal health insurance plans. He contrasted it with the 100 million dollars spent by the Washington bureau on propaganda and noted the fund was raised by physicians, not taxed money.
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West Virginia State Medical Association
Sobisca S. Hall
Clarksburg
Oscar Ewing
Federal Security Agency
Ewing
American Medical Association
Hall
Washington
Fred H. Falls
Cook County Hospital
Chicago
Falls
Tanner. Miller
American College of Physicians
West ‘Virginia Academy of General Practice
Carl B. Hall
Charleston
Jacob, C. Huffman
Buckhannon
Stock market mixed after steel strike settlement
New York stock prices opened mixed with steel shares trading in large blocks then easing in early trade. Decliners included U S Steel Bethlehem Steel Southern Railway and International Paper while gainers included Chrysler New York Central Union Pacific Sinclair Oil United Air Lines Anaconda Copper Philip Morris International Harvester and Philips Radio.
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U. S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
Southern Railway
International Paper
Chrysler
New York Central
Union Pacific
Sinclair Oil
United Air Lines
Anaconda Copper
Philip Morris
International Harvester
Philea Radio
West Virginia Delegates Favor Russell in Unofficial Poll
West Virginia delegates are predicted to back Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia for the Democratic presidential nomination with about 12 to 17 votes on the first ballot. Adlai Stevenson is second with six to seven votes, Kefauver and Harriman near four and one, while further voting could shift if Russell falters. The convention featured clashes over the Dixie issue and party leaders like Jim Farley influencing delegates, signaling Stevenson as likely nominee amid tense tactics and delays.
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Chicago
Tennessee
W Averell Harriman
New York
Stevenson
Virginia
South Carolna
Louisiana
Kefauver-Harriman
Associated Press
Kefauver
Sen
Richard Russell
Harriman
Ewing
Franklin D. Roosevelt
K-H Combine
John McCormack
Massachusetts
Sam Rayburn
Texas
South Carolina
Richard B. Russell
James F. Byrnes
National Party
Byrnes
Peter J. Cloherty
Boston
Agsst
Anthony J. Mullaney
Wllneis
Russell Fadde
Thomas Hennings
Missouri
Dixie
Alben Barkley
Barkley
Russell
White House
Tru’ iMan
oThmas J .Gavin
Kansas City
I ' Truman
Amr More
Randolph Norton
Register
West Virginia
Georgia
Adlai Stevenson
Estes Kefauver
Robert Kerri
Averill Harriman
Franklin
Jimmy Roosevelt
Michigan
Mennan Williams
Blair Moody
Jim Farley
Franklin Roosevelt Jr
Roosevelt Boys
America
South Carollia
Cio-Pac
NAACP
ADA
Disaster Averted In Canning Field
Pittsburgh New York Charles W York executive secretary of the Pennsylvania Canners Association says the steel strike ended just in time to prevent a disaster in the nations canned food industry. He notes loadable stored tin plate and plant openings and adds about 10 percent of annual business may already be lost. He says Pennsylvania tomato farmers likely fare better than Southern and Western states and that canned food prices should not rise significantly, perhaps only peaches.
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Pittsburgh
Charles W. York
Pennsylvania Canners Association
York
Pennsylvania Week Committee
Pennsylvania
California
31st Polio Case Listed in County
A new polio suspect reported Thursday brings Raleigh County’s total for the year to 31. Burl Martin Jr. is the four year old son of Mr and Mrs Burl Martin of E Beckley. Rosemary Fleshman reports good response for baby cribs for polio victims. Boy Scout Troops suspend meetings temporarily due to a minor reaction surge.
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Raleigh County
Burl Martin Jr
Burl Martin
E. Beckley
Rosemary Fleshman
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
President Truman commutes would be assassin’s death sentence
President Truman spares Oscar Collazo, the Puerto Rican convicted for the Blair House plot, commuting his death sentence to life imprisonment. Collazo, 38, had been slated for execution by electric chair on August 1.
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Truman
Blair House
Joseph Short
Oscar Collazo
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