Tierney operation to hire 400 men for new coal mine
Premier Pocahontas-Collieries announces a new Tierney mine one mile below Herndon toward Mullens on the Virginian Railway. It will employ about 400 men and produce 1,750 to 2,600 tons daily, with no. 6 seam opened first. Mining starts around May 14 under W. E. Wheeler, with rail spur grading and a future cleaning plant planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Register
Herndon
Pocahontas-Collieries Company
Mullens
Virginian
Lawrence E. Tierney
Lewis and
Lawrence, Jr
Bluefield
Deerfield
American Coal Company
Camar Colleries
Itmann
Pocahontas Fuel
Somet- Solvay
Allied Chemicals and Dye Corporation
Tralee
Tierneys
Parahontas Land Company
Monticello
Monte Carlo Coal Company
Pocahontas 3
Beckley
Pocahontas
Boneacant Weadine Uark
Tierney
W. E. Wheeler
Tipple
Premier
Pocahontas Collieries
Welch
McDowell County
Mullens and
Pineville
Farmer Apologizes For Poor Shooting Against Hooded Riders
Eastman Georgia farmer Otho Wiggins used a .22 rifle to rout a night mob after his farmhand was beaten. He apologized to the hooded shooters in a letter to the Eastman Times Journal editor, signed Your neighbor Otho Wiggins. Two white farmers were arrested on assault and battery and shooting charges, free on $1,000 bond each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Eastman
South Georgia
Otho Wiggins
Wiggins
Negco
Edwin T. Methvin
Eastman Times-Journal
Methvin
Ku Klux Klan
Nightriders
Hooded Brotherhood
Virginia Weather: Fair Skies Mild Wednesday In March Outlook
Mostly fair and moderately cold night with low 20s to 30s. Wednesday expects increasing clouds and milder conditions with rain or snow possible Thursday night into Friday and total precipitation around half an inch. Rivers at Bellepoint above normal and Greenbrier muddy.
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Beckley
Ceers
Bellepoint
General Motors reports record 1949 profits and payroll
The General Motors Corporation announces a 1949 profit of 656,434,232 with payroll at a new high of 1,440,690,450 and record production, sales, and tax payments. Earnings equal 24.64 per share, versus 9.72 in 1948. The report notes backlog in demand and forecasts peak operation may not sustain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
General Mujors Corporation
United
C. E. Wilson
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
Gen- Jers Motors
Oak Ridge Plant Aims as Cancer Research Center
Oak Ridge Tennessee the atomic energy plant could become a leading cancer research center. Dr Shields Warren told the House appropriations subcommittee that Oak Ridge should explore methods to treat cancer with emphasis on childhood leukemia. He noted radioactive iodine and cobalt show promise and costs are far lower than radium. The AEC cooperates with Public Health Service and the American Cancer Association.
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Associated Press
Washington
Oak Ridge, Tenn
House
Atomic Energy Commission
Shields Warren
AEC Division of Biology and Medicine
Oak Ridge
Warren
AEC
Public Health Service
American Cancer Association
Ten German Reds Held After Clash at Volksstimme Plant
About 1,000 Communists clashed with police in Hannover as twenty Red demonstrators were arrested after attempting to prevent a British officer from entering the Volksstimme printing plant. The action followed a British high court ruling sentencing two editors to prison terms for publishing material endangering Western security.
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Associated Press
Hannover
Germany
Volksstimme
Bus boycott protest on cold Princeton Bluefield route
Rosa Brown reports that 38 Negro students from Genoa Junior High and Park Central High refused to board a Princeton to Bluefield bus citing cold conditions. Four did ride. the rest went to the Mercer County Board of Education office to complain about defective windows and the chill. Principal Richard Brown said arrangements to fix the bus were made. the vehicle is operated by Tri-City Traction under a separate agreement. Nearby Raleigh County cases: the Supreme Court set aside a directed verdict granting Bank of Quinwood control of a repossessed 1941 Buick after finding liens must be filed within three months of removal and not after learning of it. The court also denied an appeal in a $7,300 estate dispute from a auto truck collision.
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Associated Press
Bluefield
Princeton
Genoa Junior High
Park Central High School
Mercer County Board of Education
Randolph“Robisette
Richard Brown
Park Central
Tri-City Traction Company
Charleston
Bank of Quintwood
Supreme Court
Raleigh
James C. Lewis
Julius Marcum
Bank of Quinwood
Greenbrier
Foam Flveann
Marcum
Trum Weecee Brier
Raleigh County
Beckley Loan Company
Lewis
Fred L. Fox
W. T. Lovins
C. B. Vencll
Edwin ©. Highlander
Maude B. Highlander
High~lander
Vencill
Circuit Court
Fayette
Wyoming
Pocahontas
Mercer
McDowell
Logan
Kanawhe
J. B. Deck
EB. M. Ashworth
State Board of Education Vocational Rehabilitation Service
Attendance Officials Discuss Eight County Session
H Cliff Hamilton opened a meeting in Raleigh County with a focus on growing school attendance. Representatives from eight counties discussed how to keep children in school through engaging tasks and clubs, aiming to foster future citizens and community well being.
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H. Cliff Hamilton
Charleston
Raleigh
House Labor Committee Backs School Construction Push
The House Labor Committee shelved federal aid to education but urged immediate consideration of a school construction program outlining prospects and policy direction for new facilities nationwide.
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Associated Press
Washington
House Labor Committee
Man Dies in Lanark Home Fire Investigated
State police probe death of an unidentified man in a Lanark house fire. The body, likely Willard Harvey about 40, was found near a metal cookstove. Harvey was seen heading to the house yesterday evening. Joe Podusky was away in Baltimore with his ill mother. The body was sent to Rose Funeral Home Beckley where dental ID is impossible due to reclasification.
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Lanark
Willard Harvey
Harvey
Joe Podusky
Baltimore
Rose Funeral Home
Beckley
Senate Advances Deposit Insurance to Ten Thousand
Washington The Senate passed a bill to permit federal insurance of individual bank accounts up to 10000 dollars doubling the current limit. The measure now moves to the House for action.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
House
American Scene at Tax Deadline
A humorous look at last minute tax filing as a couple bickers over estimates and forms. The narrator notes a $6,491.76 refund miscalculation while his wife drives him to finish the return before midnight, revealing the perpetual struggle to file income taxes.
Video Ban on Robeson Sparks Air Censorship Debate
New York NBC announced the postponement of Paul Robeson's scheduled appearance on Mrs. Roosevelt's show, calling it indefinite and likely canceled. Proponents of the Progressive Party condemned the move as air censorship and civil rights suppression, while NBC cited concerns of misunderstanding and politics.
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Robeson
Associated Press
New York
Paul Robeson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
National Broadcasting Company
Baraeray Arasmeey
Mra
Denny
Elliott Roosevelt
Jones
Roosevelt
Cc. B. Baldwin
Renry Wallace
Progressive Party
Civil War Veteran Davis Dies at 108 in Tennessee
James Russell Davis of Nashville Tennessee, one of the nation's oldest Civil War veterans, died at 108 from a heart attack in Sullivan Missouri. He testified recently at a hearing in Union when J Frank Dalton, age 102, sought to prove he was Jesse James. Davis said he was a James gang member and identified Dalton as James. He concluded with the remark that he has "one foot in the grave."
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Associated Press
Sullivan
James Russsell Davis
Nashville
Tenn
Davis
Union Friday
J. Frank Dalton
Jesse James
James Gang
Dalton
James
Tennessee
Tankers to Refuel B 29s Increase Radius in Combat
The Air Force plans add nine bomber groups of B 29s and B 50s with 20 tanker planes each to extend combat radius from 2 000 to 3 000 miles by single refueling, and possibly farther with multiple refuelings. Tankers would operate from same bases, and in wartime would avoid enemy airspace. A recent report notes a B 50 flew around the world last year with along-route tanker support.
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Associated Press
Washington
Air Force
Strategic Air Command
Defense Department
Raleigh County jury weighs damages in Ameagle fatality case
Russell O Meadows testified that Mayelouise Short hopped in front of his truck on a highway near Ameagle last September and died from the injuries. W G Short, administrator of Short's estate, seeks damages of 10000. Meadows said braking was all he could do to avoid worse harm. The plaintiff alleges Short was in full view and dragged about 60 feet after impact.
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Russell O. Meadows
Raleigh County
Mayelouise
Meadows
W. G. Short
Short
Dorothy
Ex-Labor Leader Christoffel Sentenced to Prison Term
Harold Christoffel, former Milwaukee labor figure, received a two to six year prison term after being found guilty of perjury for lying to the House Labor Committee about Communist affiliation. The sentence, imposed by Federal Judge F. Dickingdn Tetts, follows a retrial after the Supreme Court overturned the first conviction.
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Associated Press
Washington
Harold Christoffel
Milwaukee
Christoffel
House Labor
F. Dickingdn Tetts
Christoffel Reean
Supreme Court
Tetts Inday
Christoffe
Twenty more jurors named by Raleigh County court
The Raleigh County Circuit Court announced today that twenty additional jurors will be summoned for duty this term. The group, to appear at 9 a.m. Thursday, will replace jurors excused for the remainder of the term and includes Beckley residents such as C Ray Spangler Paul R Gilmore James M Dillard Mason E Shanks G M Cameron H A Sloan and others from Mount Hope Clear Creek Cool Ridge and Shady Spring regions. Several cases were continued to the next term: Ray C Call Company v Ampollini and Son George Mills v Wilson Lee Canady Wallace Shumate v Wilson Lee Canady and Paul Bowles v William Edward Nickels. A divorce was granted in the suit Gary S Bennett v Irene Helen Bennett.
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Raleigh County
van Hunter
C. Ray Spangler
Paul R. Gilmore
James M. Dillard
Mason E. Shanks
G. M. Cameron
H. A. Sloan
Albert M. Tieche
Ray C. Call Company
Ampollini and Son, Inc
George Mills
Wilson Lee Canady
Wallace Shumate
Paul Bowles
William Edward Nickels
Gary Stanley Bennett
Irene Helen Bennett
Death Penalty Sought For Confessed Killer in Pa
Lancaster Pa state seeks the death penalty for Edward Gibbs 25 who confessed to killing Marian Baker and Louise Baker a 9 and 11 year old. Gibbs faced Lancaster County quarter sessions on charges of murder and assault after signing a four page statement admitting the killings while pleading innocent.
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Associated
Preas
Lancaster
Edward Ly’ Gibbs
Franklin and
Matera
Gibbs
Lancaster County Quarter Sessions
Marian
Louise Baker
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