Tornado kills three in McKinney and Princeton Texas
The McKinney and Princeton area in North Texas reels after a violent tornado that killed three and injured 53 while damaging about 100 homes. The storm knocked out utilities and damaged the Fannie Finch Elementary School, the Texas Textile Cotton Mills, and the city hospital. McKinney damage exceeds 500000 dollars.
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Associated Press
Mckinney
Tex
Princeton
Texas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Kansas
Kentucky
West Virginia
J. H. Maynor
Yola Lowry
Arthur Holmes
Maynor
Lowry
Holmes
R. F. Newsome
Public Works
J. R. Bryan
Fannie Finch
Texas Textile Cotto Mills
City
Beckley Laundry Firms Face Possible Strike Over Wages
Beckley based Richmond Laundry and Drz Cleaners reports temporary operation of its laundry and dry cleaning plant as a potential strike looms after midnight Wednesday when a contract with C10 Laundry and Dry Cleaners Local expires. Union seeks 10 cents hourly raise. company offers five cents. Raleigh Laundry, rebuilding after a two year fire, also engages in contract talks with UCW officials.
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Jess Richmond
Richmond Laundry
Drz Cleaners
Beckley
Richmond
Beckley Do
Raleigh Laundry
United Construction Workers
R. B. Armentrout
Raleigh Landry
Cio
UCW
Kesters
Armentrout
Stassen Invades Ohio to Contest Taff in Primary
Association report from Columbus notes a near record Republican turnout as Harold E. Stassen campaigns to win delegates from Senator Robert A. Taft in Ohio. Stassen targets Northern Ohio districts, facing Taft’s home defense with 750000 voters eligible to cast ballots for at least one Stassen delegate candidate. Taft expects to secure eight delegates, while Stassen argues in Cleveland radio remarks for farm-heavy districts to back eight delegates.
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Stassen
Ohio
Columbus
Harold E. Stassen
Robert A. Taff
Taft
Carrington T. Marshall
Supreme Court
Cleveland
Street Scene Veterans Recall Posts and Rain Delays
Two veterans reminisce about mutual friends and experiences while waiting for rain to stop. A group rides a vintage car, scarred as if through fire, in a quiet street scene highlighting memory and resilience. The procession conveys nostalgia and shared history amid unsettled weather.
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Cvier
Meadows Airs Views as Boreman Attacks Demps
The Associated Press reports Governor Meadows will broadcast Thursday at 7 30 pm EST over the all station network to counter Kanawha County charges while Republican Boreman denounces mudslinging that distracts from state issues. Boreman vows to press charges if Democrats’ claims prove true and criticizes Democratic rivalries. Patteson proposes semi monthly pay days for state employees.
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Associated Press
Meadows
Kanawha County
Herbert 5. Boreman
Parkersburg
Kanawha
Charleston
Ll Seali
Gover
Thomas
Tte
Patteson
Executive Department
Terday
Test Pilot Harold Lilly Dies In Jet Crash At Muroc
Harold Tick Lilly 30 of Beaver, a renowned test pilot, died when his Douglas Sky Streak crashed on takeoff at Muroc Air Base, California. His body to arrive in Beckley Friday. Lilly, a NACA pilot since 1942, previously placed ninth in the 1946 Thompson Trophy Race and learned to fly in Beckley in 1940. He served as a Navy pilot in 1941 and worked at local papers earlier in life. He is survived by his parents, a brother Von Lilly, and three sisters in Beckley, Alderson, and Washington, D C.
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Harold ‘Tick'Lily
Beaver
Beckley
Lilly
Muroc Air Base
Calif
John Victory
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
B. C. Jennings
Tabor
C. A. Lilly
Aviation Week
Army
Cleveland
Muroc
Cal
NACA
Tick” Billy
Shady Spring High School
Concord and
Beckley Post Herald
Charleston
Camp
Raleigh
CCC
Raleigh County
0. A. Lilly
von Lilly
Margaret Dunkley
Vella McMillian
Aldlerson
Claribel Bigelow
Washington, D. C
False Fire Alarm to Be Investigated Today
Oak Hill fire chief C R Weatherford says investigation starts today into a false alarm turned in last night. Fire department response to a Salem Road blaze found only brush burning by Ed Engles, who held a permit. Engles says he did not call the department and that no telephone is near his house.
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Register
Oak Hill
C. R. Weatherford
Salem Road
Ed Engles
W. Bays, Jr
Engles
Greeks Execute Revolutionists in Athens
In Athens 152 people convicted of murder were executed following the 1944 revolution upheaval. Appeals were denied by pardons boards after the assassination on Saturday of Justice Minister Christos Ladas, described as a Communist plot.
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Associated Press
Athens
Greece
Christos Ladas
French Report Says Bomb Killed 300 in Indochina
Le Populaire d Indochine reports a French army plane bombed a May Day gathering in a jungle clearing in French Indochina killing about 300 people. Viet Minh members were said to be present at the meeting.
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Associated Press
Saigon
French Indochina
le Populaire d‘Indochine
Viet Minh
United Revolutionary Front
Colombia Breaks Diplomatic Ties With Russia
Colombia severs diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union marking the third Latin American move after Chile and Brazil. President Ospina Perez blames international communism for the April 9 revolt and cabinet actions followed Pan American Conference pressure amid Liberal Party divisions and claims of Communist influence.
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Associated Press
Bogota
Colombia
Russia
Mariano Ospina Perez
Cabinet de
Chile
Brazil
Joie
Ospina Perez
Liberal Party
L500
Nves
Jorge Ellecer Galtan
Grango Velez
UN Trusteeship Council fails to devise plan for Jerusalem
Lake Success report shows no agreement on enforcement provisions for a Jerusalem cease fire. Delegates voice dismay at a toothless plan while pressing for a neutral commissioner to ensure essential services. A plenary session of the Palestine Assembly awaits further U.N. moves amid talks of an emergency neutral authority.
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Associated Press
Lake Success
United Nations Trusteeship Council
Jerusalem
U.N
Benjamin Gerig
United States
Council
Special Palestine Assembly
Old Walled City
Holy Places
Assembly
U. N
Palestine
Martin Predicts House Will Revive Two-Year Draft
Washington The House will order a two year draft revival Speaker Martin predicts it will pass. The House Armed Services Committee approved its bill 28 to 5 and it will be added to the schedule soon. The draft plan ties universal military training with the two year service in a three way clash among House Senate and the administration.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Martin
R-Mass
House Armed Services Committee
Congress
Senate
Senate Armed Services Committee
Army
Royall
Air Force
Andrews
Defense Forrestal
Micahlouse
Auto Union Seeks Ford Wage Boost in UAW Drive
Detroit reports CIO United Auto Workers demand a 30 cent hourly pay rise and other concessions for 120000 Ford Motor Co workers as part of a wage drive against the big three. Ford talks to open around July 14 with 11 objectives. May strike options loom. Chrysler and GM negotiations continue with wage demands.
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Register
Detroit
Ford Motor Co
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
UAW
Chrysler Corp
General Motors Corp
Court Rules Film Producers Violate Anti-Trust Laws
The Supreme Court ruled the five major film companies violated anti trust laws through price fixing and distribution agreements. It allowed lower courts to proceed on whether to divest interests in theaters and opened potential damages for independent theater owners, with a $435 000 Philadelphia case upheld.
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Washington
Supreme Court
New York
Loew's
Paramount
Warner Bros
20Th Century-Fox
Columbia Pictures Corp
Universal Corp
United Artists Corp
Philadelphia
William Goldman
Erlanger
Committee Opens U N Veto Talks
The House Foreign Affairs Committee debated overhauling the U N charter to curb Russia’s veto power. Resolutions propose convening an international conference and possible U N charter revision with Congress backing an arms and aggression reform. Secretary Marshall Monitor Tow and Ambassador Warren Austin were slated to testify. Austin missed the session. Some members advocate excluding Russia if it refuses cooperation.
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Associated Press
Washington
United Nations
Russia
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Congress
U.N
Marshall
Warren Austin
U. S
Austin
Eaton
U. N
Six Die and Twenty Six Injured in Bus Car Crash
Six persons were killed and 26 injured in a collision between a car and a bus three miles east of Chandler Arizona last night. Five of the dead were occupants of the car and the sixth was the bus driver. Lt. Arthur Adams at Williams Air Force Base said 21 percent of the injured were military personnel.
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Associated Rices
Congressional Hearings Ordered on Labor Law
WASHINGTON Congress hearings on tightening up Taft Harley labor activity were ordered by May 24. Senator Ball of Minnesota notes threats of nationwide railroad coal and steel strikes. Ball chairs the special watchdog committee set up by the 1943 law. The Senate House group will hold the hearings. Railroad brotherhoods are currently exempt from the act.
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Associated Press
Washington
Taft
Harley
Senator Ball
Ball
Senate House
Beckleyan Held For Scrip Theft
Elmer Buchanan of Beckley is jailed in Raleigh County awaiting grand jury action after allegedly stealing $300 in scrip from the New River Company at Mabseod. He was given a hearing before Justice J. P. Mendows and sent to the June 1 grand jury on $3,500 bond. the theft date is listed as April 17.
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Elmer Buchanan
Beckley
Raleigh
New River Company
Mabseod
Guchanan
Justice of the Peace
J. P. Mendows
Buchanan
Weather summary for Beckley and Greenbrier area
Scattered showers and thunderstorms wrap up today with a cloudy Wednesday. Official Beckley readings show yesterday’s high and last night’s low, with early morning precipitation. Greenbrier and nearby rivers around Bellepoint remain muddy at two feet with minor flooding risk and slight high readings anticipated.
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Beckley
LOTAY
Glade Creek
Cerereveees
Esvecsesaes
Bellepoint
Alabama Democrats weigh walkout over civil rights plank
The Associated Press reports Alabama Democrats vote on leaving the party over Truman era civil rights programs. Delegates face two paths: a pledged anti Truman slate or a walkout if the Philadelphia convention endorses a civil rights plank.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Truman
State Supreme Court
Aggineate
Mabama
Harge
Soy ’S
Philadelphia
Sgs
Reylox
Supreme Court rules residential bans on Negroes unconstitutional
The Supreme Court, in two 6 to 0 decisions, barred courts from enforcing private racial covenants that exclude Negroes from neighborhoods. It allowed private groups to form voluntary agreements but held that redress under the Fourth Amendment is unavailable for those barred by such covenants. The rulings prompt debate on applicability to other minority groups and were commented on only privately by government attorneys.
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Associated Press
Washington
Supreme Court
Vinson
Arabs Battle Near Jerusalem as Mandate Near End
Reports say Arab fighters attacked Jewish settlements south of Jerusalem and shelled areas near Lydda airstrip. In Jerusalem area skirmishes continued as UK mandates wind down, with UN truce mission visiting Amman to confer with King Abdullah. Jewish and Arab spokesmen disputed casualty tallies after night clashes at Yehudia and Kefar Etzion, while Mevo Ayalon and Neve Yaakov reported shelling but no injuries.
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Associated Press
Jerusalem
Lydda
Kfar Fizion
Aras
Palestine
United Nations
United States
Ayman
Trans-Jordan
King Abdullah
Tthe
The
Arab League
Mekor Haim
Kefar Etzion
Gordon MacMillan
Britain
Amman
Slate Fall Kills Besoco Miner
James G. Bragg a 25 year old Besoco coal miner died at a local hospital from head injuries after a slate fall at Leconny Smokeless Fuel Company No 3 mine Besoco He was loading coal when the accident occurred at 6 p m and died about 11 50 p m He was transported to Calfee Funeral Home with funeral arrangements incomplete
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James G. Bragg
Besoco
Leconny
J. C. Swift
Bragg
Calfee Funeral Home
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Lord
the Land
Friends of the Land Organization
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