Boston Mayor Curley Set for Thursday Commital Hearing
Boston mayor James M. Curley, sentenced to six to 18 months for mail fraud, is to be taken to district court in Washington next Thursday at 10 a.m. for committal. He lies in a Cohasset hospital with diabetes and hypertension, reported improving and possibly leaving within a week.
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Associated Press
Washington
James M. Curley
Boston
U. S
Sidney S. Sachs
Curley
Truman Vetoes Taft Hartley Labor Bill
President Truman vetoes the Taft Hartley Labor Union Control Bill calling it against public welfare and economic freedom. House Republicans press for quick override votes as the bill faces passage opposing his objections. The measure limits strikes and boycotts, bars closed shops, restricts union conduct, and denies bargaining rights to some officers or sympathizers.
Army Jet Plane In Speed Record At Mojave
MUROC Calif An army jet plane the P80 R has regained the world speed record for the United States at 623 8 miles per hour. Col Albert Boyd of Ashe ville NC guided the Lockheed built fighter over a 1 86 mile course above the Mojave Desert near Muroc Army Airfield. The record may not be official until certified by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale.
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Associated Press
Muroc
Calif
United States
Mojave
Muroc Army Airfield
Albert Boyd
Asheville
N. C
P&o-R
Federation Aeronautique Internationa
Paris
Mars
Col
Boyd
Air Fores
Air Materiel Command
Wright Field
Ohio
Col. Boyd
True Love Uses Gallows and Gun in Suicide Case
In Harahan Jefferson Parish Louisiana John Steiner used a home made gallows and a .22 caliber rifle to end his life. His body found yesterday with a hood over his head hanging from a scaffold joined to his house. Sheriff John Stuart described the method and noted a note saying he acted alone.
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Associated Press
Harahan
Jefferson Parish
John Steirer
John Stuart
Steiner
Navy Reservists Receive Charter in Beckley Dinner
Lt Commander Phil Hill presented the Beckley chapter charter of the Reserve Officers of the Naval Services at a El Chico dinner. He urged continued defense funding and reporting of Communist activities. The Beckley unit is the state’s third chapter, joining Charleston and Huntington. Lt Cmdr J W Walters presided with officers Lt M Johnson, Darrell Lowe, Lt Hulett Smith, and Lt Kenneth Boyles.
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Phil Hill
Charleston
Beckley
Reserve Officers of the Naval Services
el Chico
Hill
U.S.S. Lexington
Huntington
Cmdr
J. W. Walters
M. Johnson
Darrell Lowe
Hulett Smith
Kenneth Boyles
Republicans Press Early Cashing Of GI Bonds
The Associated Press reports the Treasury warns cashing $2 billion in GI terminal leave bonds now would lift inflation in the current economy. Republicans push a bill to redeem bonds immediately, instead of five years, with hearings arranged by Chairman Andrews of the Armed Services Committee. The Treasury argues holding bonds preserves purchasing power and helps resist deflation later. Speaker Martin notes Treasury savings from cashing bonds now due to higher interest rates.
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Associated Press
Washington
The
Treasury
Congress
House
Andrews
House Armed Services Committee
Treasury Department
Martin (Mass
Rent Bill Goes To White House
President Truman faces a decision on extending rent controls as the Senate completes passage of a measure to extend rent controls through February 15 next year. The bill relaxes some limits and raises caps if leases run past December 31 1948, while removing most construction curbs except for recreational buildings. Housing officials warned material shortages could wreck the housing program if unchecked building resumes. Senator Sparkman urged passage as preferable to a sudden end of controls, noting rejection would end rent limits on June 30.
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Associated Press
Washington
Truman
Senate
Frank R. Creedon
Creedon
Rute
Sparkman
D-Ala
Police Seek Driver in Hit-Run Fatal Near Skelton
State police search for a two toned sedan driver after it struck and killed 54 year old John Millerik Cranberry as he stepped from a bus on a Saturday morning near Skelton. The impact hurled him 114 feet and the car, last seen toward Prosperity, had only a spotlight lit. Notify authorities with any information.
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Skelton
C. C. McGraw
John Millerik Cranberry ‘Miner
Millerik
Former Governor Gore Dies at Clarksburg
Howard M. Gore former West Virginia governor and long time public servant died in Clarksburg hospital at 69. He served as secretary of agriculture under Calvin Coolidge and later as a Public Service Commission member. Gore's career included state agriculture leadership and a term as governor beginning 1925. He was born October 12 1877 in Harrison County and studied at West Virginia University.
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Associated Press
Clarksburg
Howard M. Gore
West Virginia Public Services Commission
Gore
West Virginia
Calvin Coolidge
Public Service Commission
United States Department of Agriculture
Istate
William G. Conley
John W.smith
Lewis County
J. Blaine McLaughlin
M. M. Neely
Alex M. Mahood
Princeton
Wae Gees
Harrison County
Solomon D. and
Mariette
P. Rogers Gore
Hejand
West Virginia University
United States Sentried
Roxiline Corder Bailey Ator
Taylor County
Henry D. Hatfield
New Virginia Nearly Became West Virginia Four Years Earlier
The 1861 Wheeling convention debated naming the future state New Virginia Kanawha or Virginia West, with Kanawha favored for river drainage and political reach. Voters later approved a restored Virginia government before Congress admitted West Virginia on June 20, 1863 per Lincoln’s proclamation.
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Associated Press
Charleston
West Virginia
Virginia
Kanawha
Voiers
Abraham Lincoln
Robbery Trial Ready For Jury
Four men Ralph Wayne Hedrick Garland Hartwell Levi Lucas and Harry Short face armed robbery charges after escaping Raleigh County jail. Noah Adkins the taxi driver whose vehicle was hijacked is a key rebuttal witness. The defense argues Adkins aided the escape and may have lied in his confession.
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Ralph Wayne Hedrick
Garland Hartwell
Levi Lucas
Harry Short
Raleigh
Noah Adkins
Logan
Adkins
Lucas
Short
Wartwell
C. C. McGraw
Beckley
Ezra Zir‘kle
Army Generals Call For Universal Training
General Jacob L. Devers urged universal military training as the nation’s salvation at the Reserve Officers Association convention in Miami Florida He said the army pushes universal training to replace veterans lost to attrition and to maintain a ready reserve Lt General J Lawton Collins warned defenses are weak and US forces in Europe could be overrun if trouble arises.
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Associated Press
Miame
Fla
Jacob L. Devers
Army Ground Forces
Reserve Officers Association
Congress
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Europe
United States
Isaiah Lilly to Be Buried Today at Flat Top
Funeral services for Isaiah Lilly will be held at 1 30 this afternoon at Flat Top Baptist Church. He died Tuesday night at his son William G Lilly's home in Flat Top from cancer. The Rev J J Bowling and the Rev John Foley will officiate with his son Kale Epling and others listed as survivors.
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Isaiah Lilly
William G. Lilly
Flat Top
J. J. Bowling
John Foley
Flat Top Baptist Church
Supy
Eeers
Kale Epling
Flat
West Virginians Briefs Detail Local Disasters and Legal Actions
Multiple short items report: the death of 6 year old Margaret Estep from a shotgun accident in Putney, and rail upgrades planned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Parkersburg. Charleston notes federal court appearance for rent regulation charges against Oley B Rust Sr and an out of court settlement over the Grand Hotel fire damage suit. Ernest Stevens receives a one to ten year state penitentiary term after pleading guilty to breaking and entering Judge Kenna’s Charleston home.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Oley B. Rust
Parkersburg
Kathleen Trout
Associated
Press
State
Ernest Stevens
Elk Two Mile
Supreme Court
John Kenna
Beckley Woman's Car Fault Not Proven Cause of Injury
Mrs. Jean Crouch of Beckley faced a $80,000 damage suit over a May 28 1945 collision near Ravencliff Wyoming County that allegedly injured a boy. Dr M M Ralston testified the leg shortened by congenital spinal condition not the car strike. Witness Lacy Meadows described the milk delivery scene and the parked wagon incident.
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Jean Crouch
Beckley
M. M. Ralston
Beckley Hospital
Crouch
Ill Dillon
Herman Dillon
Ravencliff
Wyoming County
Dik-Ralsten
K. L. Dillon
Glen Roglers
Glen Rogers
Dillon Supply Company
Kasnawha County
Famed educator sisters slain in mountain cabin case widens dragnet
Retired Denver teacher Emily Griffith and her sister Florence, 87, were found shot to death in their mountain cabin near Denver. Police seek 85 year old former Denver teacher F ret W Lundy, who aided the sisters and was last seen driving away. A note in Lundy’s car urged shipment of his body to Roscoe Illinois.
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Mrass Pinecliffe
Cole
Far West
Emily Griffith
Denver
Florence
Donald Moore
Boulder County
Ilinois
Lundy
Florence Griffith
Norman Howe
Roscoe
Roy Cummings
Boulder
Colo
Fred Lundy
Rites Set Today For Collins Infant
Funeral rites for Franklin Maynard Collins eleven year old son of Mr and Mrs J M Collins Beaver will be held at 3 p m today at the Methodist Temple with Glenn W Stewart officiating assisted by Dr Ritchie Ware and Rev Ralph Nordland. The boy died at a local hospital Wednesday from a skull fracture suffered in an accident at the Shady Spring High School workshop where his father teaches. He was a Cub Scout and active in the Methodist Temple Sunday school and attended Beaver Elementary School. Surviving are his parents one brother Stephen Edward five and grandmothers Mrs J F Maddy Beaver and Mrs S L Collins Independence Va. Pallbearers are Paul Pettry Cecil Conk Karl Oakes Kermit Oakes Roy Oakes and Holroyd Meador. Burial will be Sunset Memorial Park.
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Franklin May
Nard Collins
J. M. Collins
Beaver
Glenn W. Stewart
Tate
Rites
Methodiist Temple
Ritchie
Ware
Ralph ‘Tv
Nordland
Shady Spring High School
Cub Scouts
Methodists Temple
Stephen Edward
J. F. Maddy
Karl Oakes
Kermit Oakes
Roy Oakes
Holroyd Meador
Sunset Memorial Park
Trail First Beckley Officer on Pension
Beckley police veteran and twice chief W J Trail has been pensioned as the first officer benefited by the police retirement fund. Recorder William P Laren reports a monthly check of 100 dollars has been issued. Trail has not worked since mid March due to ill health.
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W. J. Trail
Beckley
W. A. Burke
William P. Laren
Trail
Robert Winston
Burke
Dee L. Hedrick
Truman vetoes GOP labor bill over unity and tax cuts
President Truman vetoed a Republican labor bill saying it weakens national unity by heightening labor management barriers and politicizing decisions. He links the measure to GOP tax cuts and labor law revisions, noting the veto follows a party push and Senate House support. A nonpartisan inquiry into labor legislation is urged.
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Iso
iPresident
Congress
Truman
House
Truman Attacks Labor Bill as Threat to Free Economy
President Truman rejected the labor measure as a dangerous step toward a totally managed economy and predicted increased strikes. He tested the bill on four criteria, finding it unworkable, unfair, and likely to trigger broader labor disputes and greater government intervention. He warned it would hinder union security and redirect bargaining toward government dictates.
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White House
Congress
National Labor Relations Board
Truman
President warns against labor bill tightening NLRA scope
The President argues the measure would trigger constant inter union warfare and endless litigation, allow quick employer elections, undermine sweatshop protection, limit secondary boycotts, and tighten NLRA operations, risking widespread industrial disturbances and bitter disappointment if enacted.
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Fruman
National Labor Relations Board
Triat
Pam
Jury Picks Sixteen in Newport Yacht Murder Trial
In Santa Ana California a jury of six men and six women is chosen to try Louise Overell 18 and George Gollum 21 for the killing of her parents in a yacht explosion off Newport Harbor. Special Prosecutor Eugene Williams plans a narrative case to present the alleged crime. The trial is expected to run into late August.
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Associated Press
Santa Ana
Calif
Louise Overell
George
Bud) Gollum
Walter KE. Overell
Newport I
Mérek 15
Eugene D. Williams
Jerrors
Weather Outlook With Scattered Thunderstorms Across Regions
Considerable cloudiness with scattered thundershowers in the south and central portions today through Saturday. Little warmth expected Saturday. Beckley temperatures show yesterday's high around 8, last night's low near Bam. Precipitation in the 24 hours ending at 8 today: 0.27 inch.
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South Sand Central
Beckley
Bam
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Ephraim F. Maarean
Howard Moore
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