Labor Bill Frayers Split Over Coal Strike Tactics
Rep Hartley denounces John L Lewis as rebellious and mutinous as he urges new provisions to tame the union movement. Rep Landis favors concessions to end the soft coal stoppage ahead of July 8, when miners return to work after a 10 day vacation. Government seizure authority ends next Monday. Negotiations linger as industry seeks to revive talks amid contract deadlock and wage, welfare, and royalty disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Hartley
R-Nj
Landis
R-Ind
House
John L. Lewis
Rep. Hartley
Truman
Lewis
Rep. Landis
House Labor Committee
United Mine Workers
Congress
Waiion Welfare and Retirement Fund
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Wheeling
Coal Association
Charleston
Marshall Plan Doubts Linger Ahead of Paris Conference
Washington officials say the United States backs Secretary Marshall’s European recovery plan centered on self help. Some doubts arise from Treasury Secretary Snyder’s remarks, potentially influencing the Molotov Bevin Bidault talks.
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Associated Press
Washington
Secretary of State
Marshall
Minter Plans New Drift Mine on Devil's Fork
B C Minter Coal Company will open a drift mine on Devil's Fork above Amigo aiming to produce 1500 tons daily of Pocahontas No 6 coal. Virginian Railway will extend tracks to the mine three miles from Amigo, with about 100 workers and a four track tipple at Amigo No 2. The project expands the Pocahontas No 6 seam operations to bolster dwindling No 3 and nearby seams.
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Minter
Devil's Fork
Amigo
B.C. Minter Coal Company
Virginian Railway Company
E. G. Minter
Holow
Pocahontas No. 3
Pocahontas No. 6
Rhodell
Beckley
Petroleum Group Meets In Beckley
The West Virginia Petroleum Association general and executive committee, representing 12 major oil companies in West Virginia, Ohio and Virginia, is meeting at the Black Knight Country Club. Twenty six members attend a business session that began at 11 a.m. Lunch followed at 12 30 p.m. and a golf match was planned for the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia Petroleum Association
West Virginia
Ohio
Virginia
Black Knight Country Club
License Plates Extended to July 10 by Officials
Charleston date extended the validity of 1946 47 license plates until midnight July 10. Registrar Don McClaugherty of the Road Commission License Bureau said heavy demand and a Sunday holiday before the June 30 deadline necessitated the extension.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Don McClaugherty
Road Commission
License Bureau
Truck Operators Get Freight Rate Boost
The Public Service Commission granted a flat 15 percent increase until April 30, 1948, in freight commodity rates for West Virginia truck operators except milk haulers who were raised earlier, and haulers of household goods and iron and steel, who have separate petitions pending.
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Associated, Press
Charleston
The
Public Service Commission
West Virginia
Marshall Denies Seeing Lilly At President Hotel In Court Case
The state continues to link William Henry Lilly to ballot theft at Raleigh County Court House. Emile Marshall denied telling hotel staff Lilly and two others were counting ballots in room 311. James Simon implicated Lilly earlier but repudiated the claim.
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Marshall
Lilly
President Hotel
Olive Marrical
Register
Logan
William Henry Lilly
Road Commission
Raleigh County Court House
Emile Marshall
Blegro
Thesident
W. A
Red) Thornhill
Raleigh County
Senate
James Edward Simon
Negras
Senta
Chauncey Browning
Margaret, Hartley
Marc Front
Thornhill
Ned H. Ragland
Simon
C. C. Lewis
Court House
C. C. Chambers
Minor Changes Shown In Area Coal Walkout
Areas in Beckley report coal mine activity near yesterday levels with few signs of a return to work. In Winding Gulf 17 mines operate today versus 13 Tuesday and 15 yesterday while New River sees 15 of 46 active. Tonnages hold steady though loading declines show a 62,100 ton drop versus the prior week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley Area
Winding Gulf
New River
Street Scene on Main Street Shows Man Reading Paper
A man stands on a bustling Main Street reading a newspaper with the bold question Who said crime doesn't pay prompting curiosity among passersby and reflecting urban daily life.
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Main Street
Cuban Labor Minister challenges Chibas to duel this weekend
In Havana, Labor Minister Carlos Piño Socarras challenged Sen. Eduardo Chibas to a duel after a Senate speech. Both men seek Cuba’s 1948 presidency. Chibas has reportedly fought several duels recently. Sources say the speech accused ministers and officials of planning illicit sugar business.
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Associated Press
Havana
Carlos Piio Socarras
Eduardo Chibas
Chibas
Senate
Chinas
Hich
Baruch urges work or fight law for mobilizing nation
Bernard Baruch, addressing the Armed Forces Industrial College graduates, calls for a universal work or fight law for men and women to enable full mobilization in future wars. He warns against improvisation and urges readiness in military, economic, and spiritual realms. He outlines universal training and civilian dispersal surveys as key steps.
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Associated Press
Washington
Bernard M. Baruch
America
Russia
Armed Forces’ Industrial College
Baruch
40000 Shipyard Workers Strike Across 10 yards
The Associated Press reports a strike by more than 40,000 repair and construction workers in ten shipyards, nine owned by Bethlehem Steel. The stoppage affects over 60 vessels as talks on contract removals stalled at midnight. Bethlehem VP J. M. Larkin cites current wage levels as driving costs and warns of near extinction for US shipbuilding.
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Associated Press
New York
Bethlehem Steel Company
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
CSO
J. M. Larkin
Bethlehem
Larkin
Pittsburgh
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co
Youngstown
Chicago
Federal Coal Mines Administration
Policeman to retire after 17 years in Falls City
Falls City Nebr. Larry Park, a 40 year old chief of police, announced plans to retire after 17 years on the force. An ad in the Falls City Daily Journal quoted him saying he wants to see happy, carefree people and that he will leave when the coal is returned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
John Pizza
Calumet
Falls City
Nebr
Larry Park
Smith
Falls
City
Daily Journal
Oil City
Ted
Steel Mills To Taper Off in Thirty Days
Coal stoppage idles 50,000 West Virginia miners as Northern District mines halt and Pocahontas reports absentees. Wheeling and Weirton steel plants plan two weeks to assess stockpiles while rail and steel jobs feel the impact. Alabama and Youngstown follow with mass layoffs as federal tonnage figures show declines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Charleston
West Virginia
Northern Mine Workers District
Kanawha Coal Operators
Associatign
Pocahontas
Wheeling
Wheeling Steel Corporation
Panhandle
Weirton Steel
Air union urged for Western Hemisphere defense
Lt. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that North and South America must pursue a complete integration of air forces. He urged legislation to authorize U S cooperation with Western Hemisphere nations in a military standardization program, including supplying arms, to enable rapid, mobile air power across the hemisphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press i. Washington
Hoyt ‘S. Vandenberg
Army Air Forces
North
South America
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
Western Hemisphere
Vandenberg
Forest Leaders Meet in Charleston To Discuss WV Forest Council
Six Beckley area men join West Virginia industrial and agricultural leaders in Charleston for a meeting on forming a statewide Forest Council. Delegates include Floyd Rothlisberger and B A Wright from soil and forest districts, W H Trump and Fayette County protectors EN Winston and Robert Kessberg, Ward Ashford, and Governor Clarence W Meadows outlines a coordinated long range forest resources plan.
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Beckley
West Virginia
Charleston
Fores Council
Floyd Rothlisberger
Southern Conservation District
B. A. Wright
Southern Soil Conservation District
Beckley Soil Conservation Office
W. H. Trump
Fayette County
EN. Winston
Robert Kessberg
Ward Ashford
Fayetteville
Clarence W. Meadows
Beckley Taxi Operators Convicted in Liquor Conspiracy
Federal Judge Ben Moore holds sentence for Roy R. Farrow 48 of Beckley after a jury found him guilty of illegal sale of liquor and conspiracy to sell and transport liquor at Bluefield. Co defendants are Dennis Peter Smith 57 and Paul Lively England 31 of Beckley. Farrow and his brother Ray own Radio Cab Company.
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Ben Moore
Roy R. Farrow
Beckley
Bluefield
Dennis Peter Smith
Paul Lively England
Farraw
Ray
Radio Cab Company
Russian Youth Group Shifts From Military To Industrial Training
The decree dated June 19 from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet directs large groups of youths to industrial education and service in the USSR. It mobilizes youths aged 14 to 17 for craft and railway school training, 16 to 18 for factory work, and 19 for underground mining and metal and oil industry tasks, signaling a reduced military emphasis.
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Pres Moscow
U.S.S.R
Presidium
The
Supreme Soviet
Georgia Plans Franklin Roosevelt Peace Tower at Warm Springs
Georgia authorities unveil a mountaintop monument named Franklin D Roosevelt Peace Tower to be built near the Little White House he used as a second home. The state accepts the Roosevelt cottage as a national shrine accompanying 3,000 acres of pine and forest land along Dowdell’s Mountain.
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Associated Press
Springs
Franklin B. Roosevelt
White House
Georgia
Roosevelt
Dowdell
Six Known Dead In Train Wreck Near Shiloh
The New York Central St Louis Special derailed near Shiloh Ohio injuring six to seven on board. Both locomotives and two rail camp workers were killed and a rail camp worker was believed buried. The wreck scattered cars and narrowly missed a nearby work train with about 200 laborers aboard.
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Associated Press
Shelby
New York Central Railroad
St. Louis
Shiloh
Cleveland
State Highway Patrol
Fans: position three feet from window to vent heat
Westinghouse engineers report a night cooling method by turning a fan toward an open bedroom window. Placing the fan about three feet from the window and directing air outdoors can lower room temperature by as much as 14 degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric’ Corp
Plane Missing With Six Aboard Over Manila
The Associated Press reports a C45 transport plane with six aboard disappeared after taking off from Nichols Field at 8 p m Wednesday on a night flight over Manila. Army officers fear a crash in a remote mountainous area while authorities withhold passenger identities pending kin notification.
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Associated Press
Manila
U.S. 13Th Airforce Headquarters
Nichols Field
Rkre
Pasengers
Man Arrested After Escape From Drowning
Clarkburg reports Elmer K Phil lips aged 40 was arraigned on a drunken driving charge after he and two companions escaped drowning when their automobile plunged into Elk creek and nearly submerged.
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Associated Press
Clarksburg
Elmer K. Phillips
W. J. Murphy
Regina Pickus Found Not Guilty in Arson Trial
Regina Pickus, 30, operator of a Beckley clothing shop, was found not guilty of arson after a four day Raleigh County trial. The state dropped charges against her father Louis Pickus. A fire at Clothes Line in the President Hotel building March 8 led to questions about an extension cord device and lighting paper and boxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regina Pickus
Raleigh County Criminal Court
Louis Pickus
President Hotel
Miss Pickus
R. R. Smiley
CIO Urges Immediate Action To Prevent Economic Collapse
The CIO asked Congress to act now to stop rising living costs and warns no steps have been taken so far. It backs a federal price inquiry, public exposure of profiteering, and a price control plus rationing program if foreign demand and crop failures persist. The statement was prepared for joint committees on President Truman's economic report.
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Associated Press
Washington
CIO
Congress
Federal
Mmil Rieve
Joint
Congressional Committees
Truman
Rieve
Beckley Board Plans Recreation Center From C and O Building
Beckley recreation board accepts a $1 800 offer from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to buy a former Army recreation building at White Sulphur Springs. Bids will be sought to dismantle and move the structure to Beckley for re erection with moving costs about 2 000 dollars funded by local subscriptions and civic groups.
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The
City Recreation Board
Beckley
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
White Sulphur Springs
Civitan Club
G. Peregoy
Beckley, Moose and Ellis Clubs
Recreation Board
Board of Education
Civilan Club
Beck- Jeyans
Re-Recreation Board
Woodrow Wilson
Institute School
Recreaton Board
Beckley Junior High School
McCreery Cemetery
Collis Amon
Berkley
Peregoy
Orl Pal
Floods Threaten Des Moines as Rivers Merge
The Des Moines and Raccoon rivers near Des Moines threaten record flooding with about 1,800 evacuees from 63 blocks around the river junction. The Des Moines river measured 26.37 feet at Zn Avenue, just below the 1903 peak, as Missouri River levees struggle against rising floodwaters downstream.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
David Lidele
Red Cross
Raccoon
Weather Bureau
Zn Avenue
Iowa
Missouri
Weather report for Virginia with scattered showers today
Scattered showers or thunderstorms today and tonight with Friday partly cloudy skies. Little change in temperature. Precipitation 0.06 inch in the 24 hours ending at noon. Forecast calls for scattered showers again in the afternoon or at night. Noon readings show slight temperature variations and no major changes expected.
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Welfare Fund
UMW
Flartley
Marshall Plan
Okehed
Shockley Creek Coal Company
Semoco
Eccles
Snyder
Secretary Marshall
Harvard
Harvard University
Paris
Molotov
Petroleum Group
Anhandle
United
Air Union
W. Hemisphere
Area Men of Forest Meeting
F.D.R. Peace Tower
Taft
Chamber of Commerce and the Recreation Board
C. C. Maples
G. C. Baker
Robert Chambers
Recreation and School Board
Rginia
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