Truman Urges Science And Wisdom To Halt World Perils
President Truman told Missouri graduates that abandoning Marshall Plan aid would jeopardize peace. He said the nation must keep supporting free nations to block Communism, citing a healthy world economy beyond 1952. He noted democracy relies on common wisdom and defensive U.N. forces to keep the peace.
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Truman
Ernest B. Vaccaro
Columbia
Western
Europe
United States
University of Missouri
Marshall Planaid
Phi Beta Kappa
Scholarship Society
St. Louis
Russia
United Nations
Marshall Plan
Sae * i
Knowland presses for Forrestal diary in Amerasia probe
Senate debate centers on subpoenaing the diary of the late James Forrestal, with Senator Knowland arguing its contents could reveal if delays in arrests linked to Soviet espionage. New York grand jury activity in the Amerasia case is reportedly proceeding without formal government sanction, prompting calls for expanded congressional inquiry into the wartime paper leaks.
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Associated Press
Washington
Knowland
Calif
Senate
Amerasia
Defense
James Forrestal
Forrestal
Naval Hospital
Here
White House
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee
New York
Grand Jury
Senator Capehart
Rind
Justice Department
President Truman Intervenes in St Louis Taxi Sailor Dispute
In Columbia for a foreign affairs speech, President Truman stopped during breakfast with Mary Jane Truman Roy Harper and Tom Van Sandt to recount interrupting a sailor taxi driver argument near the Jefferson Hotel in St Louis He said he enjoyed piloting a train for a few miles after visiting the engineer's cab and quipped about his throttle hand while chatting with companions.
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Associated Press
Columbia
Truman
St. Louis
Mary Jane Truman
Grandview
Roy Harper
Tom van Sandt
Fulton
Jefferson Hotel
United States
Mr. Truman
Methodists Consider Wesleyan Expansion
Charleston reports the West Virginia Methodist Conference debated a 675000 loan to expand West Virginia Wesleyan College with three new buildings. The 800 ministers and lay delegates met to set pastoral assignments for the coming year and hear reports from boards and societies.
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Associated Press
Charleston
West Virginia Wesleyan College
West Virginia Methodist Conference
Lloyd C. Wicke
West Virginia Weather Forecast Extension June 10 14
Scattered showers or thunderstorms expected this evening and Saturday with warm humid conditions. Temperatures will run 3 to 5 degrees above normal through midweek with scattered thundershower activity from Saturday to Wednesday and precipitation totaling around three quarters to one inch.
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W. Va
Beckle
Ohio Methodists Attack Catholic Church Hierarchy
The Ohio conference of the Methodist Church denounced the Roman Catholic Church, urging Protestant unity to defend American life. More than 2,000 ministers and laymen backed a report asserting the Vatican seeks control, with warnings about threats to public schools and institutions. The Columbus district superintendent Dr. John Taylor Alton led the reading amid applause.
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Associated Press
Lakeside
Ohio
Methodist Church
America
Vatican
John Taylor Alton
Columbus
Ohio Methodist
Ex Magistrate Sentenced in Morgantown Bribery Case
In Circuit Court yesterday James I. Harless, former justice of the peace, was given a one to ten year prison term after being convicted of soliciting and accepting bribes from a supply club operator.
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Associated Press
Morgantown
James I. Harless
McCarthy Attacks Acheson as Red Dean of Fashion
Senator McCarthy denounces Secretary Dean Acheson as the red dean of fashion and urges his firing. He accuses Acheson of backing a 1946 Poland loan that funded the Communist army and secret police, claiming Acheson placed weapons and masters in Poland to subjugate Christians.
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Associated Press
Milwaukee
McCarthy
Acheson
China
Poland
Wisconsin
Truman
Harvard
U. B
Oil Official Denies Coal Losses Due to Imports
Washington oil industry official Charles L. Harding told a Senate labor subcommittee that coal mine layoffs stem from factors beyond foreign oil imports. He cited 1949 diesel use, home heating oil, natural gas shifts, and high cost, marginal mines as key drivers of coal demand decline and mine shutdowns.
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Washington
Charles L. Harding
Socony-Vacuum Oil Company
Senate
Rep
van Zandt
R-Pa
Harding
United Mine Workers
Damage Hearing Continues in Raleigh Court Case
In Raleigh County Circuit Court a $10,000 breach suit Beaver Coal Corpora tion versus Paul Ross Ross Construction Co. resumes with jurors set for 1:15 p m. The matter concerns alleged failure to restore top soil per contract terms. Other cases Nina V. Ross against Melvin Danberry was continued while H Everett Farley v Hitch cock and Pauline Hancock and Edmond Hitchcock v Farley were dismissed.
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Raleigh County
Ben H. Ashworth
Beaver Coal Corporation
Paul Ross
Ross Construction Company
Nina V
Ross
Melvin Danberry
H. Everett Farley
E. C. Hitchcock
Pauline Hancock
Edmond Hitchcock
Farley
Jury Decides Youth Did the Right Thing
Charleston provoked a striking verdict as fifteen year old Jimmy Basham faced a jury after three hours of deliberation. He testified he shot his father Charles Ted Basham, a 45 year old coal miner, while he slept following a drinking bout, claiming self defense. The jury returned a not guilty verdict.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Jimmy Basham
Jimmy
Charles Ted Basham
Snead Struggles At Open With Five Over Par 75
Sam Snead, popular with fans, shot a five over par 75 at Ardmore to post a 148 midway total in the 50th National Open. He fell behind Merion’s 70 with an 38 on the front nine and a 39 back, his putter misfiring and three putting three greens including the 395 yard 15th.
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Associated Press
Ardmore
Sam Snead
People's Choice
Merion
Snead
Kos Sentenced for Killing Father in Domestic Tragedy
Vincent Kos, 22, pleaded guilty to murder in the February shooting of his 63-year-old father, Matthew Kos, saying his father was “raising hell all the time.” He must serve from two to five years in prison for involuntary manslaughter as part of the plea.
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Pittsburgh
Vincent Kos
Kos
Matthew
Plane Shot Down By Own Gunfire
A US B 29 bomber crashed into the North Sea during gunnery practice off the Norfolk coast. Gunfire from its own 50 caliber guns struck the right outboard engine, setting the aircraft ablaze. Eleven crewmen abandoned the burning craft. four were rescued, three bodies recovered, and search ongoing for the remaining four.
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Associated Press
London
North Sea
3Rd Air Division
Norfolk
Air Force
Four Firemen Fail Smoke-Eating Test B
Four Lexington firemen taking part in a demonstration at the annual Kentucky fire school at the University of Kentucky were overcome by smoke from a demonstration smoke bomb. Fire Chief Earl McDaniel called the incident a reminder of the need for smoke masks in fires.
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Associated Press
Lexington
Kentucky Fire School
University of Kentucky
Earl McDaniel
Three Parleys for School Personnel Scheduled
Charleston Public Schools set three summer conferences for personnel. All will be at Jackson's Mill. July 17 to 19 will host county superintendents and assistants to discuss West Virginia educational problems. A health conference is planned for August by the Health and Education departments.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Education Department
Jackson's Mill
West Virginia
Health Department
Sallack and Munson Discuss Band Director Position
Glenn Sallack, Woodrow Wilson High School band director, met with C. D. Munson, assistant superintendent of Raleigh County Schools, but did not resign. Munson noted petitions to retain Sallack, suggested paying him through summer, and said board had not discussed full year pay. Beckley BBB urged keeping Sallack amid a well rounded program and Charleston visits for the Stonewall Jackson High School post.
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Glenn Sallack
Woodrow Wilson High School
C. D. Munson
Raleigh County
Munson
Sallack
Board of Education
Cost
Beckley Better Business Bureau
Bureau
Charleston
Stonewall Jackson High School
B. Fred Hill
Tabloid Wires Cut Over Gambling In Yonkers
Yonkers New York police allege a tabloid newspaper used its 12 trunk telephone lines for gambling. The Yonkers Daily Times says the action to cut service by New York Telephone Company is illegal, while Public Safety Commissioner O Hara notes the wires were used to aid betting on racing.
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Associated Press
Yonkers
N. Y
New York Telephone Company
Telephone Company
the Times
Public Safety
Patrick F. O'Hara
Fred Rusco
George Fanelli
Westchester County
Yonkers Daily Times
O'Hara
Coal Tonnage Estimates Edge Down Before Memorial
Washington The National Coal Association today estimated bituminous production at a low figure to the Memorial Day holiday. The week ending May 27 saw output of 10,200,000 tons, compared with 10,089,000 tons a year earlier.
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Associated Press
Washington
National Coal Association Today
Concord Grad 79 Returns to College at Marshall
A 79 year old grandmother, Martha Hoskins, enrolls for six hours of mathematics at Marshall College to renew her high school teaching certificate. She has taught since 1890 and will teach mathematics next fall in Red Jacket Junior High. Believed oldest student at the college. granddaughter Martha Ann Plunkett is a sophomore.
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Associated Press
Huntington
Marshall College
Martha Hoskins
Red Jacket
Mingo County
Incumbents Favored in 13 Primary Contests
Voters in 13 state primaries have shown strong support for incumbents with 173 House seats decided and only two sitting senators losing. Analysts split on implications for party control, while predicting larger post-primary turnouts and national issue focus in November campaigns.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Pepper
D-Fla
Gurney
R-Sd
Graham
D-Nc
Victor Hunt Harding
House Democratic Campaign Committee
Rep
Martin
Mass
House
Czechs Sentence Eight for Spying
Czechoslovakia ended a treason trial with four death sentences and four life terms for spying for Western powers. The court convicted 13 defendants after an eight day trial, with five others jailed 15 to 26 years. One woman, Milada Horakova, was among the death sentence recipients.
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Associated Press
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Milada Horakova
National Socialist Party
FBI Chief Claims Reds Going Underground
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover testified before a Senate subcommittee that U S Communists are underground and more active than at any time since World War II. He cited strategic areas and industries including New York New Jersey Ohio Pennsylvania California Michigan and warned of a potential 540000 supporters ready to work for the party.
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Associated Press
Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Congress
U. S
United States
FBI
Congressional
Hoover
Communist Party
New York
New Jersey
Ohio
Pennsylvania
California
Michigan
Senate Appropriations
Garbage Disposal and Tax Plan Boosted To State Mayors
West Virginia municipal leaders heard President Charles 2 Mead of Wheeling urge use of land fill disposal as a cost saving method about half the price of incineration. He said it can reclaim sub marginal land for recreation. Delegates at Huntington heard other talks on city financing and taxation.
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Associated Press
Huntington
Charles 2. Mead
West Virginia League of Mun Palities
Mead
Wheeling
Dietz Hollow
W. J. Brennan
Sistersville
A. Page Lockard
Salem
League
W. W. Alexander
Nitro
Brennan
Lockard
Alexander
Quadruple Amputee Married in Florida
In Jacksonville Florida Jimmy Wilson a 25 year old quadruple amputee and former Army sergeant wed Dorothy Mortenson his classroom sweetheart. The couple married last night then headed toward Canada for a honeymoon with Wilson at the wheel. They plan to go to Boulder Colorado where Wilson will enter the University of Colorado Law College. The twilight ceremony was gay with 300 guests and showed no trace of the past tragedy.
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Associated Press
Jacksonville
Fla
Jimmy Wilson
Dorothy Mortenson
Canada
Wilson
Boulder
Colo
University of Colorado Law College
Florida
Vermont
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