Living Cost Down Notch Clothing Drop Greatest
The Associated Press reports the cost of living declined three tenths of one percent for the month ended May 15, with no major shift in the nationwide index though city variations widened. Fuels, house furnishings, and apparel fell, while retail food prices eased. The May 15 index stood at 169.2 percent of the 1935-39 average, 0.8 percent below a year ago but well above prewar levels. GM wages tied to the index will not change until the next quarterly adjustment.
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West Virginia News Briefs By The Associated Press
A three lay health and legal authorities issue a call for a full field probe into hooded mob violence in Alabama. The Justice Department will investigate and Congress plans public hearings next week with Birmingham reporters among the first witnesses. Lawmakers urge minimal federal interference, urging local action.
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Taxes rise as April sales show strong gain
Coudersport reports April sales tax receipts totaling 4 884 729 up from 1 821 874 a year earlier. Gasoline tax receipts for April reached 1 479 183 vs 1 353 958 last year. In Wheeling Dorothy Nesbitt named executive director of Florence Criffenden Home for Girls Elm Grove. In Charleston Willie Hodge 50 dies after a fall from basement stairs. In Clarksburg Weston State Hospital seeks a psychiatry nursing school. WV Funeral Directors elect John Altmeyer president with new officers. Ora Murphy, 60, pedestrian, dies on State Route 20 Webster County.
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Dorothy Nesbitt
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Mark Trach
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John D. Altmeyer
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Charleston
Ora Murphy
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Fire damage in West Virginia rises in early 1949
Fire Marshal C A Raper reports April and May losses total 432013 dollars with a 153094 rise from 1948. Five months into 1949 show a 1160300 statewide increase versus 1948. Thirty five arson cases resulted in two convictions including a Berkeley County man given five years probation. A Raleigh County woman was committed to a state mental hospital. nineteen cases remain under study.
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C. A. Raper
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Raleigh County
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Youth Confesses To 25 Robberies
Huntington police say 22 year old James P. F. Nance signed a statement admitting 25 apartment house burglaries since May 29. He claimed robbing an average of $100 per job, including crimes in New Orleans before coming to Huntington. Detective Chief Azet Bryant said Nance was caught after a Huntington housewife reported him leaving an empty dwelling. He said he was released from an Arkansas jail last January after serving a burglary term.
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Arkansas
Pocahontas Girl Is Miss WVU
Miss Anna Davisson of Clover Lick Pocahontas County won the Miss West Virginia University title at Reynolds Hall among eight entrants. She will compete for Miss West Virginia in Moundsville and enter the Miss American pageant, receiving a $1,000 college scholarship. Her mother was WVU’s 1923 campus queen Ruth Johnson of Fairmont. The 1949 winner is a brownette sophomore in home economics.
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Clover Lick
Pocahontas County
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WVU
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Students as Guests of Kiwanis Club at Luncheon
Three county high school students who attended Boys' State and Girls' State at Jackson's Mill were guests at a Kiwanis Club luncheon today. Eugene Terry of Surveyor, Billie Joy Smith, and Mary Frances Wood of Ceckley spoke about their experiences and were introduced by W. E. Viasrum, with about 40 members present.
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Church Continues Ban on Contests in West Virginia
Weirton report notes the West Virginia Catholic Church still bans beauty contests. Miss Mary Jane Gallagher withdrew from a district contest in Moundsville ahead of the state pageant. Bishop John J. Swint had imposed the ban and excommunicated Miss Marinith Ford for defying it. Mrs. Gallagher emphasizes religion over pageants.
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Moundsville
Edmund Weinheimer
John J. Swint
Wheelling
Marinith Ford
Wheeling
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Costly Brocades Sought by FBI
The FBI hunts for $10,000 worth of angel-silky satins and gold-threaded brocades intended for Mrs. Perle Mesta’s diplomatic wardrobe. The materials, imported from France and Italy and valued at $50 per yard, were to be made into gowns before her sailing trip to Luxembourg. A truck theft in New York is linked to the missing shipment.
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Alger Hiss Denies Spying for Reds in Court
In New York Alger Hiss denied ever being a communist or helping Soviet spies. He faced jurors amid questions over Whittaker Chambers and government secrets. Hiss's wife Priscilla Hiss kissed him as the trial continued, with issues about a 14-year-old defendant and perjury charges appearing in the proceedings.
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Body of Escapee Found in River Near Prison Bus Escape
Guard Captain Hill Lewis said the body of Jimmy D Fortner 35 of Mingo County autotheft case was found in the West Fork River near Gypsy where eight inmates fled a prison bus. Five escapees are accounted for four recaptured. Ferrner was located about a quarter mile from the escape site.
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Screen writer’s wife seeks divorce naming daughter as co respondent
Leah Ruth Fowler sues Frank Gilman Fowler charging adultery with her daughter Patricia Stamai. In an affidavit she says detectives found Fowler and the daughter entirely naked in the daughter's apartment. Wire recordings and pictures are to be used as evidence. The couple married in 1930 and have a son, Barrie, 15. Fowler is a concert pianist known professionally as Lee Keith.
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Two Charleston Men Face Possible Death Sentences
Two Charleston men, Louis Jeddison Ricks 23 and Cleothus Hollinshed 21, pleaded guilty to rape and faced possible death sentences asJudge Cyrus W. Hall deferred sentencing to July. Police said the 19 year old South Charleston girl was raped in a truck, at an isolated site, and in a cemetery with one man holding her while the other drove.
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Cyrus W. Hall
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South Charleston
Brooklyn Man Hurt At Bus Terminal
Charley Banks of Brooklyn fell backward while boarding a parked bus at the terminal this morning. He suffered a scalp laceration and was transported to Raleigh General Hospital by City Police. Hospital officials reported his condition as satisfactory.
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Man Captured in Gruesome Iowa Slaying Case
Edward Beckwith, 27, of Morrison Iowa, admitted to his mother that he killed and mutilated a 22 year old tavern keeper Jean Stahlhut. Police plan to file first degree murder charges as a posse nabbed him in a cornfield after patrons identified him as the last person in the tavern.
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Buddy) Beckwith
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Lions Open State Convention Today
In Clarksburg the Lions Clubs began their state convention with early registration of about 1,000 delegates and members. A business meeting set reports, committees, and next year’s convention site, plus a dinner and entertainment. Tomorrow’s speakers include Jennings Randolph and Selwyn A. Dodge. Officers to be elected Saturday afternoon.
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