Dulles Pushes Southeast Asia Front Against Communism
Secretary of State Dulles outlined U S plans for a 10 nation united front in Southeast Asia to deter Communism. He said Indochina loss would not doom all of Southeast Asia and reported meetings with Australia New Zealand Thailand and the Philippines to test coalition support ahead of Geneva talks.
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Washington
Dulles
United States
Indochina
Southeast Asia
Noes
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United Front
Australia
New Zealand
Thailand
Ramon Magsaysay
Philippines
China
Full employment goal urged to 500 billion by 1960
Sen. Hubert Humphrey told a CIO conference the nation should target a 500 billion dollar economy by 1960, up from about 360 billion. He warned against stagnation, urged 4 percent annual growth, and said achieving the goal could yield 70 million jobs, a $4,000 living standard, higher farm output, and possible tax relief.
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Washington
Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
CIO
CIO Delates
U.S
Coal Insurance Rates Hearing Delayed in West Virginia
In Charleston the fire insurance rate plan would cut premiums by 18.4 percent for well protected homes while unprotected dwellings rise 9.9 percent. Insurance Commissioner Gillooly recessed the hearing after a two hour session as the West Virginia Coal Assn asked for a 60 day continuance. He expects to set a new date soon and said overall rates would save about 1.5 million dollars over five years for policy holders, though mining firms would see about 1.18 million more in adjusted premium receipts. Rates on mine property vary: frame buildings up 25 percent, fire resistant mine buildings down 25 percent, with an overall coal industry impact up about 13 percent. The new schedule was filed by the state Inspection Bureau. Gillooly halted cancellations and rewrites for frame mine-property dwellings pending rate approval.
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Charleston
Thomas J. Gillooly
Gillooly
West Virginia Coal Assn
West Virginia Inspection Bureau
Inspection Bureau
Weather Outlook West Virginia to stay cool with rain
Fair tonight with low 36 to 42. Wednesday cloudy and not as cool. Temperatures average four to eight degrees below normal through Sunday. Somewhat warmer Wednesday followed by cooler Thursday and Friday then warmer Saturday and cooler Sunday. Rain expected Thursday and again late Saturday or Sunday totaling half to three quarters inch. Beckley and Oak Hill observed highs near 51 today, lows around 36. Rivers at Bellepoint and reservoirs in normal stages with clear conditions.
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W. Va
West Virginia
Beckley
Noor
Oak Hill
Bellepoint
Bluestone
Greenbrier
New
Martin Luther Writer Sloane Admits Communist Ties
Allen E. Sloane, a 40-year-old freelance writer, testified to the House Un-American Activities Committee that he was a Communist party member during 1943-44. He said he was driven to confess by conscience after years denying the affiliation and noted his work in radio, television, and film, including authoring the motion picture Martin Luther. He claimed he was forced to testify and wished to be a decent person.
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Washington
Allen E. Sloane
Communist Party
House Un-American Activities Committee
Sloane
Martin Luther
Col Schwable to Take Flight Refresher Course
Washington Marine Corps assigns Col Frank H Schwable to a flight refresher course after an inquiry into his alleged false germ warfare confession while a POW in Korea. No charges will be filed. Upon completing the course at Cherry Point North Carolina he will become the Marine representative in the Navy flight safety program in Washington.
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Washington
Marine Corps
Frank H. Schwable
Korea
Cherry Point
N.C
Schwable
Navy
City Council To Hear Traffic Zoning Plans
Beckley City Council will hear recommendations from the Traffic Control Commission and the Planning and Zoning Commission at tonight’s meeting. The two panels will present traffic, zoning, and development plans affecting city streets and growth.
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Beckley City
Traffic Control Commission
Planning and Zoning Commission
Logans Countian Drowns Near Denison Texas
Air Force officials report Billy R. Murphy son of Mrs Esther Belcher of Logan West Virginia drowned while trying to swim to shore from an overturned canoe near Denison Texas Two companions clung to the canoe and were rescued
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Denison
Tex
Air Force
Billy R. Murphy
Esther Belcher
Logan
W. Va
Fuiction At High Level Cited In Welfare Report
Circuit Judge Harlan M. Calhoun summarized a 411 page welfare study for a West Virginia legislative committee. The report cites friction between the Department of Public Assistance and juvenile court judges, urging coordinated cooperation to improve child welfare and legislation. Present were Dr. Charles E. Kenney and Judge Wagner, with HEW staff Beth Muller and Nathan Spiller.
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Charleston
Harlan M. Calhoun
Moorefield
West Virginia
Calhoun
Department (of Public Assistance
Department of Public Assistance
Charles E. Kenney
DPA
F. Morton Wagner
Bluefield
Washington
Beth Muller
The
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Children’s Bureau
Nathan Spiller
Department
France Ready to Discuss Armistice in Indochina
France said it would discuss the Communist plan for an Indochina armistice alongside its own, but rejected major Communist terms. Paris stressed it would not break off talks in Geneva though opposition to key provisions remains. Viet Nam and U.S. delegates voiced similar concerns as Western talks paused and a possible third plan emerged.
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Britain
Indochina
Geneva
France
French National Assembly
U.S
United States
Korea
Viet Nam
Laos
Cambodia
French Union
McCarthy May Take Witness Chair Today
In Saigon Indochina French airlift plans run amid Dien Bien Phu wounding evacuations as Giap agrees to talks on evacuating the wounded. In Washington Dirksen proposes suspending McCarthy hearings while Mundt and the Army oppose any unfair process. McCarthy may be called to testify after a vote, with Stevens under treatment and unavailable for this afternoon.
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Saigon
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Henri Navarre
Paris
Vo Nguyen Giap
Vietminh
Navarre
Giap
Radio Hirondelle
Swallow
Far East
Radio
Hirondelle
Hanoi
Washington
Sen
Dirksen
R Ill
Army
Mundt
R-Sd
Sen. McCarthy
McCarthy
Stevens
The
State Road Probe Group In Session
Charleston officials report the special legislative committee investigating the Road Commission met to review reports and information already on hand. R Lucien Maddox noted the session would focus on further consideration of prior materials as members toured the West Virginia Turnpike. The trip was arranged by Turnpike Commission general manager Okey L Patteson.
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Charleston
Special Legislative Committee
Road Commission
R. Lucien Maddox
West Virginia
Turnpike Commission
Okey L. Patteson
Commission
Wilfred Kitching Named Salvation Army General
British Commissioner Wilfred Kitching was appointed general of the Salvation Army, succeeding retiring Gen Albert Orsboron. The High Council announced the decision after 12 days of secret talks at Sunbury on Thames. Kitching, 61, became commissioner of the British section in 1951 after nearly 40 years of service.
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London
Wilfred Kitching
Salvation Army
Albert Orsboron
Kitching
High Council
Sunbury-on-Thames
Army
Survivors Oppose Cash For Church in Africa
Relatives of Alice Victoria Conklin appeal Sunday to the State Supreme Court from a lower court ruling upholding her will. Nine siblings and a niece seek to overturn a $600 bequest for a Pilgrim Holiness Church in Northern Rhodesia.
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Charleston
McDowell County
Africa
State Supreme Court
Alice Victoria Conklin
Jail inmate Wilson held on DUI charge after wreck
Norvell C. Wilson aged 36 from Sophia is in the Raleigh County Jail awaiting a hearing on a driving while drunk charge after a automobile crash arrest by Sheriff John C. Ward.
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Raleigh
Norvell C. Wilson
Sophia. Wilson
John C. Ward
Attorney Asks Power To Curb Red Unions
Charles W. Taylor of Prosperity jailed for second offense drunk driving after a January Raleigh County Criminal Court conviction. eight months in jail and a ten year license revocation. Washington officials seek broad powers to dissolve Communist infiltrated unions and bar subversives from defense plants, with Senate bills introduced to implement.
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Charles W. Taylor
Criminal Court
Harry L. McCreery
Taylor
McCreery
Raleigh County
Washington
Congress
Capitol Hill
Atty
Brownell
White House
Subversive Activities Control Board
SACB
National Labor Relations Board
Sen. Ferguson
Michigan
Senate
Republican Policy Committee
Justice Department
Department
Snow Helps Curb Forest Fires in Greenbrier County
An inch and a half of snow in Greenbrier County was reported today to District 4 of the West Virginia Conservation Commission. The Beckley office reported no fires burning in the area forests.
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Greenbrier County
District 4
West Virginia Conservation Commission
Beckley
West Virginia Society names two year’s son and daughter
Col M L Benedum of Pittsburgh oil group and Lt Col Ruby G Bradley chief nurse Fort McPherson Ga win this year’s West Virginia Society son and daughter of the year awards to be presented May 22 at the Sheraton Park Hotel banquet. Col Bradley will speak at Beckley Armed Forces Week events including a nurses meeting Friday and a program Saturday at Woodrow Wilson High School field.
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Virginia Society
M. L. Benedum
Ruby G. Bradley
Sen
Neely
D-Wva
Benedum
Bridgeport
W. Va
Benedum Trees Oil, Co
Pittsburgh
Col. Bradley
Beckley Armed Forces
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
Woodrow Wilson High School
Baruch calls for free currencies and privatized lending
Bernard Baruch told a New York audience that governments should stop lending to governments and allow private industry to flourish. He urged freeing world currencies and reducing tariffs, arguing for adherence to natural laws of supply and demand as a guiding framework.
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New York
Bernard Baruch
Bible Seller Charged In Extortion Attempt
State police in Nitro charged James T. Hutchinson, 35, of near Hanna, Mason County, with attempt ed extortion and obtaining money under false pretense for selling Bibles and encyclopedias to relief clients with vague promises their relief checks would be raised to cover the payments.
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Charleston
Nitro
Cpl. Co. C. Stewart
James T. Hutchinson
Hanna
Mason County
Hutchinson
Molotov Rejects Asian Defense Pact at Korea Conference
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov told a 19 nation Korea conference that Western plans for an Asian defense pact serve colonialism and cannot advance peace. He said such schemes cannot gain popular support.
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Geneva
V. M. Molotov
Senate May Vote Today On Fixing U S Court Size
Washington Senate leaders debate a constitutional amendment to fix the Supreme Court at nine justices and bar retiring justices from running for president. The measure, authored by Sen. John M. Butler, requires two thirds in the Senate and would compel retirement at 75 for most federal judges and limit presidential bids by sitting or former justices.
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Senate
U.S
Washington
Supreme Court
John M. Butler
R-Md
Eisenhower
Butler
Congress
High Court
Logan jury to probe cesspool fund in intra party fight
Logan County grand jury to investigate possible law violations tied to a Democratic internecine dispute over Joe Manko a former state mines inspector. Circuit Judge C Chambers urged jurors to do their job as the May term began noting the so called flower fund could be a cesspool or debauchery fund if misconduct is proved.
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Logan
Logan County
Joe Manko
Ambherstdale
C, CC. Chambers
Manko
State Mines Dept
Heart Drug Also Delays Blindness
Los Angeles reports that diamox, a heart medicine repurposed to treat glaucoma, reduces eyeball fluid pressure and slows blindness. Dr. Earle McBain of San Rafael and Stanford University Medical School presented the finding to the California Medical Association, noting the drug is taken by mouth to help eliminate fluids and slow abnormal pressure on optic nerves.
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Los Angeles
California Medical Assn
Earle McBain
San Rafael
Calif
Stanford University Medical School
McBain
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Ohio County
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W. G. Stathers
Harrison County
Minnesota
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George M. Humphrey
Sen. Humphrey
Coal Assn
Col. Schwable
Logan Countian
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Ruby Bradley
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Baruch
Baruch School of Business and Public Administration
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