Editorial: What Happened in Four Hours at the Courthouse
The piece recalls the Ted Brown and Mason Farley affair tied to the numbers racket. It questions the court and sheriff actions, noting Brown remains a deputy with unchanged pay and access while bond postings by officers are shut down. The editorial calls for prosecution scrutiny and asks who is protecting Brown.
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Ted Brown
Mason Farley
Brown
Farley
A. J. Lilly
E. van Dorsey
Dorsey
John C. Ward
Ray McCray
H. G. Farmer
Numbers Syndicate
Numbers
E. C
Boney) Brice
Raleigh
Sheriff Ward Exonerates Farley Amid Rhodell Visit
Sheriff John C. Ward released a statement exonerating Deputy Mason Farley from numbers racket links based on a Rhodell visit on May 10. The report notes Farley’s mileage shows two separate trips for warrants and serving paperwork, while Ward’s investigation continues with staff coverage planned during his two week vacation.
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John C. Ward
The
Register Today
Mason Farley
Farley
Rhodell
Ward
Squire
J.K.) Cole
Squire Cole
Lacy) Meadows
Clifford) Roberts
Charles E) Howard
Howard
Sheriff Ward suspend Brown over bond handling in Rhodell case
The sheriff details an investigation into Deputy Mason Farley and bonds given in Rhodell on the questioned date. He says Farley’s Rhodell visit was coincidental and announces Tea Brown will be suspended for disobeying orders on bonds, with further probes into deputy involvement in lotteries. The statement also covers McCarthy Army hearings and the battle over monitored telephone call transcripts.
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Ernest Blankenship
Odd
Jonben
Rhodell
Ward
Register
Register Office
Farley
Beckley
William Vaughn
Mullens
E. C. Bree
Ted Brown
Brown
Rhodes
Howard
Pioneer
Mason Farley
Squire Cole
Mayor Meadows
Roberts
Meadows
Tea Brown
Washington
McCarthy Camp
Army
Sen. McCarthy
McCarthy
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Sen. Symington
D-Mo
Roy M. Cohn
Ray Jenkins
Cohn
Stevens
Sen
Court limits deputies Janitorial staff to jail supervision
Raleigh County Court ordered Ted Brown and Ray McCray to stop active police work and to cease acting as bondsmen. Both men, hired as courthouse janitors, were serving as special deputies to supervise jail inmates. The court kept their salaries intact and noted the sheriff agreed with the decision. The court declined to rule on potential links to the numbers racket, deferring to sheriff's investigation.
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Raleigh
Ted Brown
Ray McCray
Brown
McCray
Raleigh County
John C. Ward
Eisenhower silent on Southeast Asia action
President Eisenhower said he has not reached a decision on possible congressional action to authorize U S intervention in Southeast Asia. Senator McCarthy announced his investigation subcommittee has alarming information about Communist infiltration of CIA and hydrogen and atom bomb plants, surpassing prior Army radar lab charges at Ft Monmouth.
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Cohn
McCarthy
Sen. McClellan
D-Ark
Stevens
Army
Welch
Washington
Eisenhower
United States
Southeast Asia
Sen. McCarthy
Central Intelligence Agency
Ft. Monmouth
N. J
Auditor Demands Sugar Bowl Audit From WVU
West Virginia University has reportedly received no share from the Sugar Bowl gate receipts and has not yet been reimbursed for about $30,000 in expenses from its January game loss to Georgia Tech. State Auditor Edgar B. Sims harshly urged WVU President Irvin Stewart to produce a full accounting and disclose who profited from the event.
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Charleston
Edgar B. Sims
West Virginia University
New Orleans
Georgia Tech
Sims
Irvin Stewart
West Virginia University Today
Stewart
Plant Site Picked At Willow Grove
The Columbus Dispatch reports Baltimore & Ohio official Fielding Lewis confirmed 1300 acres were optioned for a plant along the Ohio River at Willow Grove near West Virginia Route 2, about 30 miles from Parkersburg and 20 from Pomeroy. He noted 12 farms were optioned for an unnamed industry with construction costs well above Jackson County tax valuations. Additional site possibilities along the Ohio River between Marietta and Pomeroy were disclosed.
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Columbus
Ohio
Columbus Dispatch
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Ohio River
Willow Grove
W. Va
Fielding Lewis
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Jackson County
W.va
Lewis
Marietta
Pomeroy
Wife of Russian Deserter Missing in Moscow
Western officials report the wife of Soviet defector Captain Nikolai Khokhlov vanished from her Moscow apartment weeks ago and is believed held by the secret police. The 31 year old woman, wife of Khokhlov who deserted to oppose a Red assignment, may be with her 18 month old son and her 14 year old sister who also disappeared.
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Bom
Germany
Nikolai Khokklov
West
Moscow
Yaina Khokhlov
Khokhlov
Frankfurt
Georgi S. Okolovich
Senate May Tailor Social Security Bill
Washington reports the Senate will tailor the House passed social security expansion bill. The measure would add about 9,700,000 people, raise the wage base from 3600 to 4200, boost monthly benefits, and allow retirees under 75 to work without losing benefits. Some senators seek larger benefits and direct payments to disabled workers. Physicians lobby for coverage amid AMA opposition.
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Washington
House
Eisenhower
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
Sen
Millkin
R-Cole
Senate Finance Committee
American Medical Assny
Dials Set for Gilbert Area Dial Service
Gilbert area residents will receive dial telephones by year end as C and P Telephone Co funds a $257000 project to install a dial central office in Logan. R T Collison, Logan central office manager, said the board approved the expenditure.
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Logan
Gilbert
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
R. T. Collison
Mingo County
Flash Explosion Kills Two on Sub
A flash explosion in drydock aboard the Navy submarine Sirago at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard killed two civilian painters Racuel Senechel and Joseph E A Rousseau, both ages 28 and 40, and injured Engineman First Class John Perry who was on watch. The shipyard commander ordered an investigation and six other civilians were uninjured.
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Portsmouth
N.H
Navy
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Robert F. Cronin
Racuel Senechel
Somersworth
Joseph E. A. Rousseau
John Perry
Columbiana
Ala
Demo Farm Protest Vote Doubled in South Dakota
South Dakota Democrats failed to reach their goal of protest votes against the farm program yet drew about twice their 1952 voting strength. Results across Nevada and Alabama echoed mixed anticipation with Mundt Holum unopposed in SD, Pittman leading in Nevada, and Folsom shaping Alabama governor race.
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Associated Press
South Dakota
Nevada
Alabama
Joe Foss
Ed C. Martin
Senate
Karl E. Mundt
R-Sd
Kenneth Holum
Mundt
Holum
Vail Pittman
Charles Russell
Walter Baring
Clifton Young
Rnev
James E. Folsom
Council Weighs Land Purchase
City Council discussed buying 68 acres adjoining the lamp property and approving a street light at F St and Route 3. It also weighed a packer style garbage truck, five sidewalk tracts, and heard a demonstration of the truck by Cary Hall Machinery Co as part of preparations for a July levy election.
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F. St
Elmer Davis
D. E. Warden
Beckley Water Co
Davis
Warden
F St
Route 3
Cary Hall Machinery Co
Too Much for Police at Braintree Station
A three year old boy held at the Braintree police station for two hours damaged files by pulling drawers, disordered a teletype, interrupted the phone system, and struck Lt. Francis Maguire with a flashlight before patrolmen placed him in a cruiser to search for his parents.
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Braintree
Mass
Francis Maguire
Demo Gains in West Virginia Municipal Elections
Registered Democrats surged in Morgantown and Richwood sweeping Republicans from control. S. J. Angotti Cliff Hough and Kenneth E. Kincaid defeated GOP incumbents to give Democrats several city council seats while incumbents Romeo Casi Leonard Walker Ray Phillips and Mayor T. M. Forman were re elected. Richwood mayor James Barber defeated Clifton Cutlip, with Carl Hamrick elected mayor. Other towns show mixed gains with Peoples Party wins in McMechen and Northfork noting council control shifts and mayoral returns.
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Associated Press
Morgantown
Richwood
West Virginia
S. J. Angotti
Cliff Hough
Kenneth E. Kincaid
Romeo Casi
Leonard Walker
Ray Phillips
T. M. Forman
James Barber
Clifford Cutlip
Cutlip
Carl Hamrick
C. L
Westover
L. N. Miller
Clarence Satterfield
Cecil R. Gates
Wayne Arnett
Lost Creek
Porter M. Rogers Jr
Rex. Gwibell
Wilda Gatrell
Oceana
L. W. Beane
Leland Tilley
James Harless
Vaughan Cozort
Ouida Shield
New Haven
Charles Cundiff
Basil Harrah
Milt Stephen
Floyd Capehart
Karl Wiles
Recorder
Northfork
Peoples’ Party
Citizens’ Party
Ald
Peoples
J. Robert Anderson
Citizens
Anthony Francs
Welch
B. F. Howard
Domestic joke backfires in Portland divorce court
Robert G. Forbes, 69, testified he acted drunk to fool his wife Mildred Forbes, 55, in their six week marriage. He said she struck him in the eye with a whisky bottle after he came home drunk, nearly causing a serious injury.
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Portland
Maine
Robert G. Forbes
Mildred Forbes
Forbes
Plans for Change In Road Agency Studied by Solons
A legislative committee in Buckhannon West Virginia studied a proposal to reorganize the State Road Commission into a bipartisan autonomous body. The plan would create a self-governing commission with staggered terms and a road commissioner under contract. The panel also considered funding debates over a $2,600,000 emergency allocation from the State Linking Fund for secondary roads.
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Buckhannon
W.va
State Road Commission
John Amos
Road Commission
Ralph Bean
Senate
William Flannery
House
Marland
Market Gain as Columbia Pictures Reports Nine Month Earning
New York stock trading opened with limited progress as Columbia Pictures rose over a point after announcing earnings for the 39 weeks ended March 27 totaling 3.26 dollars per share, compared with 15 cents a year earlier.
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New York
Columbia Pictures
West Virginia Weather Summary With Cloudy Outlook
Partly cloudy tonight with a low near 56. Thursday will be cloudy and warm with scattered thundershowers. Highs and lows from Beckley and Oak Hill listed. river stages near normal with Bluestone and Bluestone Reservoir described as slightly muddy but clearing. Local stations report temperatures and conditions, noting clearing river levels and normal Bluestone readings.
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Beckley
Keeauag Ae
Bellepoint
Bluestone
Greenbrier
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