Editorial: Chips Down in the Big Game Against Organized Crime
Editorial notes the Senate Crime Investigating Committee prepares a comprehensive report before March 1 on organized crime’s grip. It warns governors aided by gangsters and payoffs threaten public officials, urging citizens to back congressmen or face gangster influence and corruption.
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Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Unis
Unis Week
America
Elemieals
Allan
Uand
Investi
Senate
House
Washington
Hitler
22nd Amendment as safeguard of democracy and term limits
The piece argues that two term limits are essential to democracy, citing Washington and FDR and noting Nevada ratified the 22nd Amendment. It warns against unlimited succession in state and local offices, using West Virginia and the governor as examples, and urges broader restrictions to prevent self-perpetuation.
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America
United States
George Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Nevada
West Virginia
Thomas F. Stafford
Associated Press
AP News
Brooks & Finley, Inc
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Boston
Cleveland
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Aoe
Focal
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Needed Maneuver Against Warmongers
Tens of thousands are being slaughtered in Korea by unprecedented fire power. The United Nations bears responsibility for prolonging the conflict, while the Kremlin and Mao Tse tung manipulate events. The plea for peace hinges on Russia and China showing sincerity, or the true war mongers will be exposed.
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Korea
United Nations
Kremlin
Russia
Mao Tse-tung
China
Bug Dust And The Transition To A New Phone System
A Riverside column recounts Beckley Newspapers and its appendages struggling with an imperfect switchboard as they move to a better telephone setup. The piece blends community notes about Bob Byrd turning student and senator, a letter from a Beckley officer, and cautionary advice on safe kite flying referencing Ben Franklin.
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Beckley
Mother Beil
Don Ameche
Bob Bird
Sophia
Charleston
Morris Harver
Bob
Avsig
Bob Byrd
Wyoming
Korea
Bug Dust
GLE
Sne
Navy
Truman Dines Amid Lobby Buzz as White House Welcomes Delegations
President Truman flies to Key West then returns to a crowded White House lobby. Girl Scouts, Negro leaders, Socialists, and Detroit dignitaries mingle while officials circulate, greetings rise, and chaos resembles Grand Central Station. Norman Thomas visits, joking about kinship with Dewey, as reporters dub the scene democracy in action.
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ED Creagh
Stal Boyle
Washington
Truman
Key West
Peter
White House
White Mouse
Almog
Phere
Grand Central Station
New York
American Legion
Mr. Truman
Detroit
Well
Legion
Buddy Poppies
Tere
United States
G. Mennen ‘Williams
U. S
Norman Thomas
Thomas
Dewey
Labor leaders walk out of defense wage and manpower talks
Washington labor chiefs say they will not participate in the war time wage and manpower boards after clashing with government officials over a 10 percent cap and the creation of a new manpower committee. They complain that the policy favors big business and narrows union influence in defense planning.
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Washington
Pai
Secretary of Labor
Tobin
Department of Labor
Office of Defense Manpower
Defense Manpower Office
Charles E. Wilson
Wilson
General Electric Company
Arthur S. Flem Ming
Ohio Wesleyan University
Wilan
Son
Congress
Truman
The
Economic Stabilization Agency
ESA
Price Control
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Eric Johnston
Michael V. DiSalle
Toledo
Johnston
Johnson
DiSalie
Ws&b Witte
LABOR
IWSB
Trman
Three Guys Named Mike Romance in Hollywood
Film notes depict Van Johnson Barry Sullivan and Howard Keel pursuing Jane Wyman in a light romantic tale. Wyman plays a small town girl training as an airline stewardess who faces mishaps and social entwining as suitors craft professional and personal paths through glamorous settings and far flung locales.
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Hollywood
Mike
Jane Wyman
van Johnson
Barry Sullivan
Howard Keel
Miss Wyman
Keel
Johnson
Van
Sullivan
Jane
Bobby‘soxers
Miss Wy
Phyllis Kirk
Anne Sargent
Jett Donnell
Nick Cain
George Raft
Italy
Mr. Raft
San Paolo
Sharing
Coleen Gray
Bergman
$45 Million Electric Plant Starts in McConnellsville
Ground breaking began yesterday for a new $45 million electric generating plant in McConnellsville Ohio. The project aims to serve West Virginia and nearby regions, with Peen Ring, president of the Gas and Electric Company, stating the plant will support defense metals and basic industries in the Appalachian Electric Power Company service area.
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Oelated
Mcconnellsville
O.—Con
West Virginia
Nia
Gas and Electric
Com- Ring
Saert
Ich
West
Oldest compositor Menzies Herring dies at 93 in Massachusetts
In Braintree Massachusetts Menzies Herring aged 93 longtime working newspaper compositor dies at home after clocking a Monday shift at the Herald-Traveler His death is reported by the Associated Press with notes on his career and life.
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Associated Press
Braintree
Mass
Menzies Herring
Herald-Traveler
Ptarmigan Flight Probes Arctic Weather From Polar Skies
A B 29 of the 373rd Weather Reconnaissance squadron flies the Ptarmigan Track from Eielson Air Force Base Alaska to the North Pole every 48 hours. The mission gathers temperature pressure and humidity data with dropsondes and radar to forecast U S weather while training crews in Arctic navigation and cold weather operations. The long frigid patrol lasts about sixteen hours over ice and land with meticulous crew coordination and minute detail.
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Central Press
Eilelson Air Force Base
Alaska
Polar
Ptarmigan
Alaskan
North Pole
Pennsylvania Station
373Rd
Pole
Barrow
No-Man’s Sea
Arctic
Miami
Atlantic Seaboard
375Th
Weather Bureau
United States
USAF
Ptarmigans
Pilot crash lands airliner saves 32 passengers
Capt. Paul C. Walters 43 of Kansas City skilled a crash landing of a Mid-Continent Airlines plane in Tulsa. He and Hostess Cecilia Littell guided 29 passengers and three crew to safety before the craft caught fire. Walters is hospitalized with back injuries.
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Associated Press
Tulsa
Okla
Paul C. Walters
Kansas City
Cecilia Littell
Theodore Dreiser and His Biographers
F C Matthiessen's Theodore Dreiser and Helen Dreiser's My Life with Dreiser analyze Dreiser's life and work. They discuss his origins, writing style, and the debates about his place in American literature, noting balanced judgments and the editors' cautious appraisal.
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Theodore Dreiser
F. C. Matthiessen
Stoane Associates
Dreiser
Helen Dreiser
World Publishing
Dreiesr
America
Balzac
Matthiessen
Hurstwood
Carrie
American Men of Letters
Dresser
Isot
Hunter Loses Both Feet on Ohio River Island
The Conservation Commission reports Fred Robinson, 41, lost both feet after being marooned a day and a night on an island in the Ohio River while trapping muskrats. He became marooned February 3 on an island near Belmont in Pleasants County.
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Hunter
Associated Press
The
Conservation Commission
Fred Robinson
Ohio River
Robinson
Belmont
Pleasants County
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Red China
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Power Company
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Boyle
Hal Boye
Nation Today
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Gene Handsaker
Quire
U.S
Poland
U. 5
Bureau of Mines
British Ministry of Fuel and Power
Great Britain
Sheba Peance
Germany
Ruhr
Literary Guidepost
Che Raleigh
W. Va
Hinton
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