GOP Senate hopefuls outline campaign pattern
Republican senatorial candidates focus on anti Communism farm policy deficit spending and tax cut plans as core issues in a GOP survey of primary races in Iowa South Dakota and California. Millikin leads on reiterating McCarthy era themes while three signers back Smith's conscience declaration and several push for DOJ Amerasia probe. Hickenlooper wins renomination amid strong Iowa primary showing.
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Associated Press
Washington
Brannan Farm
GOP
Guy G. Gabrielson
Iowa
South Dakota
Ling
Amerasia
Hickenlooper
Riowa
Seta
Baton
Weather forecast for Virginia and nearby regions
Humid and warm today with showers in east and south Virginia and West Virginia. Showers may end by Saturday morning with additional storms midweek. Rain totals near half an inch, temperatures near normal with cooler spells later in the week.
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W. Va
Beckley
Survivor claims instruments faulty in plane crash at Bahrain Island
Jacques Sangnier of Paris, one of 13 survivors, says crew reported faulty instruments as the airliner hit the water 300 feet above sea level. Forty-five killed in total across the two crashes. Indo-China rebels suspected of sabotage per AIR FRANCE officials.
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Associated Press
Bahrein Island
Persian Gulf
Jacques Sangnier
Paris
AIR
Beckley and Mullens Firms Get Charters
The Associated Press reports Better Block Company of Beckley received a charter capturing 75000 dollars. Incorporators include D. O. Means Silas E. Richmond and J. E. Lilly of Beckley. Other charters: Community Recreation Inc of Mullens with incorporators Claude Cook Helen Hall and George V Duncan.
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Beckley and Mullens
Associated Press
Charleston
Better Block Company
Beckley
D. O. Means
Silas E. Richmond
J. E. Lilly
Community Recreation, Inc
Claude Cook
Helen Hall
George V. Duncan
Mullens
Truman vetoes basing point bill to fix delivered prices
President Truman vetoed the basing point bill, a move to let individual businessmen absorb freight costs and sell at uniform delivered prices. He warned the measure would obscure existing pricing laws, noting it as a controversial veto amid partisan splits within the Democratic ranks.
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Associated Press
Washington
Truman
Senate
Kerr Natural Gas
West Virginia News Briefs Highlights set for July academy entry
West Virginia notes report Donald E. Gaston of Vienna will enter the United States Military Academy July 5, the first WV National Guardsman chosen since World War II. Other items cover school construction funds totaling over 170000 to five counties, a vocational agriculture leaders’ election, a Gideons convention in Parkersburg, Roane County population drop of over two thousand in a decade, Braxton County’s excess school levy proposal, and a Clarksburg food preservation conference set for June 20 to 23.
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Parkersburg
West Virginia
Sutton
Braxton County
Charleston
Clarksburg
Gov Patteson Opens Parley Headquarters at Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs Governor Patteson opens a Governors Conference headquarters at the Greenbrier as host executive. He is joined by Mrs Patteson and a 17 member reception committee. Governors A G Crane of Wyoming and Paul A Dever of Massachusetts have already arrived. most others are expected Sunday.
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Ns Associated
White Sulphur Springs
Patteson
A. G. Crane
Wyoming
Paul A. Dever
Massachusetts
Greenbrier
Oil Official Claims Imports Part of Coal's Trouble
Washington an oil company official testified that foreign oil imports are responsible for only a small part of unemployment in the coal industry. M J Rathbone director of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey told a Senate labor subcommittee that coal layoffs reflect other factors and that imported oil does not raise domestic fuel prices.
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Washington
M. J. Rathbone
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Senate
Rathbone
California Scientist Arrested in Pasadena Case
FBI reports the arrest of Dr. Sidney Weinbaum a 52 year old Caltech jet propulsion laboratory scientist on charges of perjury and fraud against the government. The complaint alleges he falsely testified he never joined the Communist Party and later omitted party membership on a security form. Weinbaum’s Caltech employment ended last July and he now works as a research fellow in the chemistry department. He joined the jet lab in 1946 and is a Russian immigrant who studied at Caltech. A federal grand jury will hear his case July 5 with a preliminary hearing soon after.
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Associated Press
Pasadena
Calif
FBI
Sidney Weinbaum
California Institute of Technology
Jet-Propulsion Laboratory
Richard B. Hood
Los Angeles
Weinbaum
U. S
Howard Y. Calverly
Industrial Employment Review Board
Communist Party
Ulogany Simpson
Hood
Caltech
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ernest Tolin
Calverly
Harriman Named Special Assistant to President Truman
President Truman appointed Ambassador W Averell Harriman as special assistant to the President to aid in carrying out the United States broad international responsibilities. Milton Katz of Massachusetts will succeed Harriman as United States special representative in Europe for the Economic Cooperation Administration with ambassadorial rank.
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Associated Press
Washington
Truman
W. Averell Harriman
Harriman
United States
Europe
Economic Cooperation Administration
Milton Katz
Massachusetts
Court Action Planned Against UCW Pickets
Pickets march for fifth day in protest of Richmond employees naming CIO Local 1639 as their negotiating agent. Richmond president Jess Rich sought a circuit court injunction to limit pickets and require peaceful conduct. Lou Fox released on $1000 bond. district UMW official says Fox not UCW/UMW member.
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Richmond
Jess Rich
Ralesunty Circuit Court
ERK
Craneville
United Construction
Lou Fox
Beckley
Jess Richmond
George J. Titler
District 50
United Mine Workers
Sidney C. Box
UCW
UMW
Fox
Ing Cio
West Virginia fugitive held in Baltimore after prison escape
A man listed as a West Virginia Penitentiary fugitive was held on $18,000 bail for grand jury on assault with intent to murder robbery and weapons charges. James Wilson 46 also used the names Marshall Henry and James Smith and was identified as the 1942 West Virginia escapee from Moundsville. Police say two liquor store holdups led to a car escape with Wilson diving from the getaway vehicle. Albert McCoy 42 of Baltimore is jailed on three counts with $7,500 bond.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
West Virginia
James Wilson
Marshall Henry
James Smith
Moundsville
Wilson
Albert McCoy
Contract Breach Charged in Suit
In Raleigh County Circuit Court Jack Wyatt of 123 E Main St sues Wade Bailey doing business as Bailey Jewelry Co for 2000 claiming a verbal agreement over employment rent and utilities was broken. Wyatt’s attorney says damages include losses and unpaid items. Bailey’s lawyer admits Wyatt was employed and discharged after more than 2200 worth of merchandise was lost or stolen.
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Raleigh County
Jack Wyatt
E. Main Street
Wade Bailey
Bailey Jewelry Company
Wyatt
John Fox
Fayetteville
Bailey
W. A. Thornhill
Monongalia County population grows by thousands
Preliminary 1950 census figures show Monongalia County up to 60,182 residents from 51,252 in 1940. Morgantown's population reaches 25,413, up from 16,665, aided by suburban annexations. The county now ranks among West Virginia's six largest cities, surpassing Weirton which is estimated at 24,143.
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Associated Press
Morgantown
Monongalia County
James B. Wills
Elkins
Weirton
DP Bill Expands U S Displaced Persons Influx
President Truman signed a bill extending the 1948 displaced persons program for another year and increasing the intake to 136000, with up to 153000 already arrived. The act adds 5000 war orphans, 54744 people of German ancestry, and up to 15000 refugees on temporary visas, while removing certain farm and Baltic State quotas and extending entry dates for Eastern European DPs.
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Associated Press
Washington
Truman
America
United States
U. S
Europe
Turkey
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Romania
Congress
Baltic States
Germany
Austria
Italy
Ex-Pug Captured After 3rd Escape
Homer Cook, a 26 year old ex soldier and pugilist from Muskogee Oklahoma, was captured in Munich by U S Army MPs and a German officer three days after his third jail escape. He said he broke out to see his girl Anna Sporrer and planned to marry her.
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Register
Munich
Germany
Homer Cook
Muskogee
Okla
Cook
Anna Sporrer
Butterlegging Risk Rises as Oleo Taxes Lift Next Month
Federal officials plan a nationwide crackdown on butterloggers as taxes on margarine end June 30. FDA seeks nearly a million dollars to expand enforcement, targeting 60 manufacturers, 4,000 wholesalers, and 100,000 eating places amid expected price gaps and widespread color margarine substitutions.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
Congress
Oleomargerme
Jury Weighing Damage Claims in Raleigh Court Case
A Raleigh County Circuit Court jury deliberated from 10:45 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. on a $10,000 damage suit filed by Frank J. Brubeck against J. W. Van Ness and Crosby Stores Incorporated. The case concerns an alleged oral agreement for Brubeck to manage Crosby Stores at Alley and potential compensation if the store were sold, plus claims of damage to his good name.
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Raleigh County
Frank J. Brubeck
J. W. van Ness
Crosby Stores, Incorporated
Brubeck
Crosby
Alley
Claims for Cold Cures Dropped
The FTC announced five major anti cold drug makers have agreed to stop advertising allegedly false and misleading claims about their products. The firms Bristol-Myers Anahist Whitehall Grove Laboratories Union Pharmaceutical and related firms settled charges of unfair practices. Products include Resistab Anahist Kriptin Inhiston and Antamine.
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Associated Press
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Bristol-Myers Company
Anahist Company, Inc
Whitehall Pharmacal Company
New York
Union Pharmaceutical Company, Inc
Montclair
N. J
Grove Laboratories Inc
St. Louis
Bridges Citizenship Revoked In Federal Action
In San Francisco a federal court granted the government’s motion to revoke the citizenship of Harry Bridges, a prominent longshore labor leader. The ruling marks a major blow to Bridges amid ongoing anti-communist era scrutiny of labor figures.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Federal Court Today
Harry Bridges
CLO Longshore
Second American Held as Member Of Red Spy Ring
SYRACUSE NY FBI agents linked a second American suspect today to the Klaus Fuchs spy ring which fed atomic secrets to Soviet Russia. Alfred Dean Slack, a 44 year old Syracuse chemist, was arrested here as part of the case and declared connected to the ring.
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Red Spy Ring
Associated Press
Syracuse
FBI
Klaus Fuchs
Soviet
Russia
Alfred Dean Slack
Former Army NCO Arrested In Atomic Secrets case
The FBI arrested David Green glass, 28, of New York City, a former U S Army non commissioned officer in Albuquerque New Mexico, on charges of giving atomic secrets to Harry Gold of Philadelphia who allegedly passed them to the Russians.
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Associated Press
New York
Albuquerque
N. M
FBI
Harry Gold
Philadelphia
David Greenglass
New York City
Secret explosive samples tied to espionage case
A Kingsport chemist admitted giving samples of a secret explosive to Harry Gold, the Philadelphia biochemist awaiting trial for espionage. Gold allegedly passed production secrets to Soviet agent Semen M. Semenov. The arrest stemmed from FBI data via Dr. Fuchs, a British scientist serving a long term for betraying atomic secrets. The Kingsport worker, held on $100000 bail in Utica, claims innocence and will plead in Knoxville federal court where the grand jury will hear the case. Conviction carries possible death penalty.
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Night
Harry Gold
Philadelphia
Gold
Semen M. Semenov
Amtorg Trading Corporation
U. S
FBI
Fuchs
England
Russia
Slack
Kingsport
Tenn
Manhattan Atomic Project
Oak Ridge
Utica
Knoxville
A. van W. Hancock
One Boy Bombing Factory Uncovered
ST PAUL Minn A one man police arson squad spent a day hunting down a one day bomb factory Firemen found evidence of arson when fire burned down a garage Nicholas Eve detective Paul Gillem tracked the nine year old culprit and obtained a confession Gee whiz I was through with the bomb and tossed it over a fence I didn’t mean to burn down any garage The boy said the explosion it made was dandy Ingredients of the bomb one red candle one roll of toy cap paper one tin can er with rags and placed into a paper carton
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Associated Press
St, Paul
Minn
Nicholas Eve
Paul Gillem
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