United States pushes world disarmament plan at UN
U S Ambassador Benjamin Cohen urged all governments to propose disarmament ideas at the new 12 nation Disarmament Commission at United Nations headquarters. He called for a world census of armaments, warned Russia against blocking talks, and framed the goal as freedom from fear of armaments and a world with no secret armies or weapons. Secretary General Trygve Lie said the commission could improve peace prospects.
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Associated Press
United Nations
N. Y
U. S
Benjamin Y. Cohen
Soviet Union
United States
Cohen
Dep
Uty
Jacob A. Halik
Moscow
House of Peace
Age Reed
U. N
Warren R. Austin
Sion
Commission
Trygve Lie
House Panel Slashes Federal Budget by Ten Percent
The House Appropriations Committee proposed a 10 percent cut in the seven billion dollar federal budget for the next fiscal year starting July 1. They rejected new job proposals, trimmed travel and communications funds, halted annual leave accrual, and capped public housing starts at 25,000. The 6.27 billion dollar bill funds independent offices including the Atomic Energy Commission and Veterans Administration, with 706 million in cuts from President requests.
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Associated Press
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Bis
House
Atomic Energy Commission
Veterans' Administration
Rep
Thomas
D-Tex
Maritime Administration
Police Raid Targets Taxi Company in Numbers Bust
State and city officers swooped on Robertson Taxi Company at 12 40 pm seizing a quantity of numbers slips and cash. Mrs Otho Robertson and William Vaughn were arrested and charged with possession of numbers slips as Beckley and Raleigh police coordinate in the first such raid in years near 337 South Fayette Street.
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W. E. Webb
Beckley
Evan Hall
Robertson Taxi Company
South Fayette Street
Otho Robertson
William Vaughn
Mullens
New Raleigh
Robertson
Vaughn
Hall
Raleigh Register
Pioneer Hotel
West Virginia brief notes include raids and resignations
West Virginia reports show 15 slot machines seized in Morgantown area raids destroyed publicly in Wellsburg. A spring meeting for women workers of the University Agricultural Extension Service is planned for Charleston in March 2022. Cecil Willard, first World War draftee from West Virginia, buried in Charleston after body found on an Elk River houseboat. Rev. Frederick F. Bush to resign as rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Martinsburg to lead St. Matthews in Wheeling. Logan County ballot issue orders include listing Mrs Raymond Walls for Republican Executive Committee on May 13 primary, amid disputes over election registrar status.
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Morgantown
West Virginia
University Agricultural Extension Service
Charleston
Cecil Willard
Goff P. Lilly
Willard
Elk River
Martinsburg
Frederick F. Bush
Trinity Episcopal Church
St. Matthews Episcopal Church
Wheeling
Bush
Berkeley County Red Cross Chapter
Cairman
The
Chamber of Commerce
Tressurer
Berkeley Couuty War Memorial Association
Logan
C. C
Chambers
Logan County
Dalle
Raymond Walls
Man
Republican Executive Committee
Fannie Napier
Napier
Luther Sampson
Roba
Weather Forecast Notes West Virginia March 15
Considerable cloudiness and colder tonight with lows 20 to 25. Saturday mostly cloudy and gathering cold with rain or snow likely at night. Extended forecast for West Virginia March 15 to 19 shows temperatures 4 to 6 degrees above normal. Rain Saturday and Saturday night and again Monday, totaling about half to three quarters of an inch.
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West Virginia
Senate Showdown Delays Foreign Aid Vote
Senate debates over Eisenhower testifying and joint versus separate hearings stall action on Truman's 7.9 billion foreign aid request. Connally defers to Harriman for questioning while McMahon pushes Eisenhower testimony. Hickenlooper calls the moves partisan but notes Eisenhower as a key witness amid a jurisdictional clash between Connally and Russell.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Connally
D-Tex
Foreign Relations Committee
W. Averell Harriman
Harriman
Congress
Sen. McMahor
D-Conn
Gen. Eisenhower
Sen Hickenlooper
Russell
D-Ga
Armed Services Committee
Woman Killed Near Welch in Route 32 Collision
An unidentified woman was killed while crossing U S Route 32 about one mile west of Welch. State Police could not establish her identity as she died en route to Welch Hospital after a car struck her. The driver fled the scene and was released after agreeing to appear before a Welch magistrate.
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Associated Press
Welch
U. S
New Tax Bureau Law Wins Senate Approval
President Truman sees the tax bureau plan as a purge of corruption and gains Senate passage 53 to 37 after days of debate. Supporters say eliminating political patronage in appointing collectors is the key reform, with seven collectors fired or quit in the past year. Senator George led opposition, urging Treasury and the president to clean up the bureau nationwide.
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Associated Press
Washington
Truman
Internal Revenue Bureau
Senate
Congress
Ste.i
Con
George
D-Ga
Treasury
Robert L. Johnson
Tional
Citizens’ Interval Revenue
Hoover Report
River Line Armed Forces Day Attack Proposed May 17
The 150th Infantry Second Battalion under Lt Col Daniel D. Holliday plans a river line attack demonstration on Armed Forces Day May 17 with Army Engineers at Prince. Headquarters and Company F are in Beckley with other National Guard units in Gassaway Ronceverte and Richwood. The exercise will show equipment used at the Prince project under the national slogan Unity Strength Freedom.
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Armed Forces
Army Engineers
Prince
150Th Infantry
RCT
Daniel D. Holliday
Beckley
National Guard
Gassaway
Ronceverte
Richwood
Defense
Robert A. Lovell
Plaintiffs Win Court Decisions In Two Circuit Cases
Juries in two circuit court suits returned verdicts for the plaintiffs totaling 6750 dollars. One verdict awards 6500 to Florence Meadows as administratrix for Frank Meadows death from a collision caused by Bertie Jane Lucas on State Route 3. Another verdict awards 250 to Ed Simms and son for unpaid rights to land in Greenbrier County. Charles M Wallace of East Beckley was fined 10 cents and jailed 60 days for moonshine and liquor charges after a Beckley arrest.
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Florence Meadows
Frank Meadows
Bertie Jane Lucas
Meadows
Lucas
East Beckley
Charles M. Wallace
T. N Thurman
Eisenhower gains momentum in early primary sweep
Gen Dwight Eisenhower sees rising backing from California and Minnesota supporters after a New Hampshire primary win over Taft. William Russell and Estes Kefauver plan Florida and California campaigning as Truman weighs a possible 1956 bid while Stassen and Taft push campaign schedules.
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Minnesota
Launcheo
Eisenhower
Washington
Eag
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Hisenhower
Walter E. Edge
Harold E. Stassen
Wisconsin
Chicago
Taft
Southwest
Truman
Earl Wares
California
Sen
Russell
Georgi
Florida
Kefauver
Tennessee
New Hamphire
Key West
New York City
White House
General Motors Reports 1931 Net Profit Decline
General Motors Corp reports a 39 percent drop in net profits for 1931 to 506,199,560 from 834,044,039 in 1930. Factors cited include higher taxes lower civilian production costs and more defense work with slimmer margins. Dividends on preferred stock reduced earnings to 5.63 a share versus 9.39 a share the prior year.
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Associated Press
New York
General Motors Corp
Amere Gas seeks stock transfer to Columbia Gas System
Amere Gas Utilities asks the Public Service Commission to approve transferring all Amere stock from Atlantic Seaboard Corp. to Columbia Gas System Inc. Assistant secretary C. Hockman said the move would eliminate the last sub holding in the Columbia system as Atlantic Seaboard sells its Amere holdings to Columbia.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Amere Gas Utilities Co
Public Service Commission
Atlantic Seaboard Corp
Columbia Gas System Inc
C. Hockman
Amere
Atlantic Seaboard
Columbia Gas System
PSC
Columbia
Hodge Street Repaired By City Crew
City street crew graded widened and leveled Hodge Street from Chip Street to Sunrise Avenue on Friday. T E Bazzarre Jr city recorder noted the improvement and a tree blocking an alley behind the Berkeley College building was removed by Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company workers.
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City
Hodge Street
T. E. Bazzarre, Jr
Chipp Street
Sunrise Avenue
Beckley College
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Wworkers
Bazzarva
Ghent Man Arrested On Moonshine Counts
William Allen Mann of Kent was jailed Thursday by federal officers on charges of possession distribution and sale of moonshine. He appeared before U. S. Commissioner W. H. Chrisley of Beckley for a preliminary hearing Friday and was returned to jail for failure to post bond.
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William Allen Mann
Kent
U. S
W. H. Chrisley
Beckley
Red Coastal Guns Fire On U S Ships Off Wonsan
Red shore batteries engaged U S Navy ships off Wonsan in Korea as coastal artillery fired thousands of rounds. The Manchester and Fox took near misses but suffered no damage while carrier planes supported the ships and silenced the emplacements. Ground actions near Punch and the western front were limited with no further reports Friday morning.
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Associated Press
Sequl
Korea
Manchuria
U. S
Wonsan
Manchester
Fox
Won- San
Kyes
McGinty
Navy
Wtegu
U. S. Eighth Army
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
Yordon
Personal Notes Add Zest To Straw Poll At Raleigh
The Raleigh Register reports a largely personal presidential straw poll where voters write comments on ballots. Taft leads with 260 votes, Truman 38, Kefauver 13. Eisenhower 38. Independent and first time voters appear, total ballots cast 08.
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Zess
Raleigh Register
Register
Tait
Truman
Taft
Eisenhower
Bom
Kefauver
Russell
Youth Survives 137 Mile Snowbound Train Ride
Duane Enright a 13 year old from Grand Island Nebraska rode outside a speeding Union Pacific City of Portland train for 137 miles through a snowstorm clinging to car steps. He toured from Grand Island to San Francisco with plans for work, as his mother Mrs Arthur Bedker later arrived.
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Associated Press
North Platee
Neb
Duane Enright
Rone
Grand Island
Duane
San Francisco
Arthur JD. Bedker
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