McCarthy Accuses Acheson of Aiding Communists
Senator McCarthy at a Diamond Jubilee speech in Atlantic City charged Secretary of State Acheson with betraying the United States in Asia. He alleged the Acheson Lattimore axis shaped Far East policy and urged Truman to fire Acheson and Jessup, calling for removal of those he labeled as Moscow sympathizers.
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Associated Press
Atlantic City
N. J
McCarthy
Philip Jessup
U. S
Truman
Jessup
Acheson
Lattimore
Sons of the American Revolution
Johns Hopkins University
Far East
State Department
Asia
East
Washington
Pacific Northwest
Politburo
Moscow
Senate
Chavez
Job Total Increases But Not Quite Enough
The Labor Department estimates more people will be employed this year than last, with unemployment remaining heavy in some areas. Between January and March there was sharp job improvement, and about 60 million may be working at mid-year. Employers in about three-fourths of 100 major areas expect payroll gains. in a quarter, gains may be sizable. The report notes unemployment will persist even with high overall employment.
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Associated Press
Washington
Labor Department
Department
Bureau of Employment Security
Robert C. Goodwin
Goodwin
Three Persons Saved From Death in Drama Above Niagara Falls
Philadelphia report on Pennsylvania GOP primary battles for U S senator governor and other offices. Duff and Fine against Grundy and Kunkel with Cooke as alternative governor ally Williams runs as an independent. Democratic slate features Dilworth and Musmanno opposed by Morris and Davis. Myers unopposed.
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Niagara Falls
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
U. S
James H. Duff
Superior Court
John S. Fine
Nanticoke
Joseph R. Grundy
GOP
John C. Kunkel
Harrisburg
Jay Cooke
Duff
Grundy
Richardson Dilworth
Henry Arthur Morris
Mahanoy City
Michael A. Musmanno
Pittsburgh
John F. Davis
Reading
Francis J. Myers
Niagara Falls helicopter rescue saves woman from rock
Two Niagara Falls men escaped death as a rope rescue at Horseshoe Falls failed. A helicopter crew, after their craft overturned, pulled Mrs. Jeannette Bugay to safety with a rope from the wreckage. She was hospitalized in uncertain condition as her husband spoke of family stress and missing children.
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Associated Press
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Horseshoe Falls
Niagara River
Jeannette Bugay
Sigmund
Park
Herbert Sedita
John Paonessa
Horseshoe
Sedita
Paonessa
Bell Aircraft Corporation
Owen Q. Niehaus
Joseph A. Cannon
Niehaus
Cannon
Mrs. Bugay
Bugay
Siamese Twins Die During Operation
Beverly and Brenda, Canadian Siamese twins aged six months, died on the operating table in Royal Alexandra Hospital Edmonton after a 12-man surgical team severed the fused flesh at their abdomens. Father Bud Townsend said doctors did everything possible as the girls died within hours of the procedure.
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Associated Press
Edmonton
Alta
Canada
Beverly
Brenda
Eardly
Allin
Royal Alexandria Hospital
E. C
Bud) Townsend
Townsend
Betty Townsend
Job and Sales Hikes For State Listed By U. S. Bureau
West Virginia retail sales in 1948 rose to 1.281 billion, over three times 1939. Wholesale trade jumped 266 percent from 284.2 million to 1.0397 billion. Service trades receipts rose to 58.8 million from 17.7 million, hotels from 6 to 14 million. Employment climbed to 67,598 in mid November 1949 from 44,942 in 1939.
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Associated Press
Washington
West Virginia
Census Bureau
Veterans Hospital Opening Set November First
Veterans Administration Hospital in Beckley will receive patients November 1 with Robert G. Campbell as supply officer announcing the date. Carl R. Gray VA administrator will attend the dedication ceremonies on December 16. Interior work on the 200 bed facility has begun and is expected to be completed in August.
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Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
Robert G. Campbell
Campbell
Washington, D. C
Carl R. Gray
Turkish Leaders Losing Election
ISTANBUL Turkey unofficial returns show Celal Bayar's Democrat Party winning a landslide gain of about 343 to 390 seats out of 487 in the new Parliament. Ismet Inonu's regime remained silent as polling suggested a decisive opposition victory.
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Associated Press
Istanbul
Turkey
Ismet Inonu
Inonu
Celal Bayar
Democrat
People’s Party
Democrats
President Truman to Deliver Chicago Jubilee Speech
President Truman closes Western tour with a 10:30 p.m. Chicago Stadium speech aired by NBC networks and radio. Crowd expected up to 300,000 Chicago Democrats fill streets for the Jefferson Jubilee pageant after a three day White House conference at the Blackstone Hotel.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Truman
Wis
Blackstone Hotel
White House
$20 000 Damage Suit Filed Here Today
Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation of Charleston filed a $20 000 damage suit in Raleigh County Circuit Clerk's office alleging coal mined by the Toney Coal Company from propane belonging to the plaintiff. The defendants are the Toney Coal Company and Thomas R. Wilson Jr., special receiver of the company.
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Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation
Charleston
Raleigh County
Toney Coal Company
Thomas R. Wilson, Jr
Glen Daniel Youth Struck by Auto At School Route
Scotty Wilson, seven, ran from behind his father's truck at Trap Hill Elementary No. 13 School at 8 am and was hit by a car. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Fred Wilson of Glen Daniel and was admitted to Beckley Hospital with a probable broken left thigh. His condition is reported as satisfactory.
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Scotty Wilson
Trap Hill
Fred Wilson
Glen Daniel
Beckley Hospital
Soviet Zone police branded menace in Berlin trial
United States judge in Gary Ind. sentenced six young troopers of the Soviet zone’s People’s Police to two years each for wearing semi military uniforms and carrying machine guns while trying to cross into the U S sector in Berlin last April. The judge warned the East zone authorities have built a full army and trained tens of thousands with tanks and artillery, calling it a violation of four power rules. One year sentences were given to two others who pleaded guilty.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Hors Esterman
Fritz Kallwitz
Gustav Klein
Rudy Philip
Wilhelm Mueller
Karl Heinz Schmidt
Germany
East Zone
West Virginia Obituary And Fire Briefs In State
West Virginia brief notes the death of Rt. Rev. Michael Joseph Coughlan 63 longtime St Francis Xavier Church Moundsville and his recent promotion to monsignor. It also reports a Phoebe Philippi fire destroying several buildings with damage estimated 60000 to 70000 and an inquest into a St Marys death. A Washington tariff inquiry is requested by six WV congressmen into oil glassware and pottery imports, citing harm to coal and manufacturing.
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Wheeling
Michael Joseph Coughlan
St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church
Moundsville
Philippi
L. R. Bowers
Washington
Tariff Commission
West Virginia
Commission
Oscar B. Ryder
White Bamangwato Queen Births Premature Daughter
Ruth Khama, white queen of the Bamangwato, gave birth to a daughter at a Serowe hospital. Her Negro husband Seretse Khama has permission to leave for the protectorate. Mother and child are reported fine.
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Associated Press
Johannesburg
South Africa
Ruth Khama
Serowe
Bechuanaland Hospital
Seretse Khama
Protectorate
London
Ruth Williams
Serowe Hospital
Moikangoa
Lobatsi
Ruth
Five Cases Continued In Raleigh County Circuit Court
Fifteen cases were dismissed and five continued to the next term during the May term opening of Raleigh County Circuit Court led by Judge Ben H. Ashworth. Dismissals included chancery suits such as Delia Shafer v Edward Shafer and Laura Thompson v Carl Thompson, plus other civil actions. Five cases continued involve Nelson Jackson against Ashland Oil and Mining Co et al and four other continuations.
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Raleigh County Circuit Court
Ben H. Ashworth
Matthew M. Corey
James A. Thompson, Jr
Betty Lee Thompson
Delia Shafer
Edward J. Shafer
Laura Thompson
Carl Thompson
Genevive Redden Tolley
Lottie Redden
James FE. Tolley
Catherine Bowman
Millard Bowman, Jr
J. A. Rucker
Charlotte Rucker
Jessie Wills Pettry
Golden M. Pettry
Virginia Hodson
Ermil Hodson
Charles Hughart
H. H. Christian
Joe Weighehovic
Josie Kozar
C. M. McKinney
Ray Burmeister
Wayne E. Pettry
Consolidated Bus Oea Acorn Refining
Pauline Miller
Orundavinkier Gro
Renova Ni
Nick Johnson
Oscar Vecellio
Nelson Sidney Jackson
Ashland Oil and Mining Company
Charles T. Smith
Kermit Webb
Edward Ray Lilly
Norman Rumburg
Sherman Turner
W. R. Caffee
C. K. Foster
Zachari Karantonis
Robert Lucas
Ashworth
Contempt Hearing Idle Four Island Creek Mines
Seven United Mine Workers faced contempt charges in Mingo Circuit Court over alleged violations of a temporary injunction. The group, including UMW president John B. Reed, were ordered to show cause while approximately 144 miners were subpoenaed. Island Creek Mines Nos. 24 25 26 and No. 7 in Logan County idled. other Logan mines mostly unaffected. Court proceedings drew about 144 witnesses and spectators. deputies reported orderly conduct.
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Associated Press
Williamson
Island Creek Coal Company
Mingo
Logan County
United Mine Workers
John B. Reed
UMW
Island Creek
Rockhouse Fork
Pigeon Creek
Delbarton
W. A. Curry
Freed Americans Arrive in Manila After 18 Months Imprisonment
Two U S airmen freed from Chinese Communist captivity arrived in Manila by plane from Hong Kong. Marine Master Sergeant Elmer C Bender of Cincinnati and Navy Chief Electrician Wilcot C Smith of Long Beach Cal Gained medical clearance in Hong Kong before flying to Manila aboard a Navy flying boat. They will not speak about their experiences until official channels approve publication.
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Associated Press
Manila
Hong Kong
Elmer C. Bender
Cincinnati
Navy
Wilcot C. Smith
Long Beach
Calif
Reds
Guam
Pearl Harbor
Mabscott Youths Return Home From Hitchhiking Tour
Three Mabscott youths missing since Friday were found safe, returning to their homes last night. The youths are Good, 11, Earl Cole Jr., 12, and Bobby Ellison, 14, who had taken a hitchhiking trip that led them to North Carolina before deciding to return home, according to their mother Mrs. Troy Blankenship.
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Mabscott
Troy Blankenship
Earl Cole, Jr
Earle Cole
Bobby Ellison
John Ellison
North Carolina
Truman ally opposes FEPC in civil rights panel
Jonathan Daniels, North Carolina editor and Truman confidant, spoke at a Chicago civil rights panel during the Democratic conference. He aligned with Southern elements opposing the FEPC bill, denouncing its compulsory features as a tool for Dixiecrats and a hindrance to progress.
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Associated Chicago
Jonathan Daniels
North Carolina
Truman
FEPC
Daniels
National Democratic Conference
Chicago
South
Senate
Coplon Plans to Wed Free on Bond Client in Postcase Romance
New York socialite Judith Coplon, 28, said she will marry Albert H. Socolov, 29, a New York attorney and WWII veteran, within weeks while appealing espionage convictions. Coplon remains free on bail after convictions for stealing government secrets and transmitting them to Valentina Gubitchev. Socolov, Brooklyner, graduate of Ohio State and NYU Law, earned five combat stars as an Army lieutenant in Normandy and Bastogne.
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Associated Press
New York
Judith Coplon
Washington, D. C
Albert H. Socolov
Miss Coplon
Valentin A. Gubitchev
Socolov
Brooklyn
Ohio State University
New York University Law School
Europe
Hedrick Granted Top Court Appeal
The Supreme Court granted an appeal by G. C. Hedrick of Beckley from a $2,000 Raleigh County verdict to Beckley Ice Cream Company. The ice cream firm seeks $5,000 from Hedrick and C. C. Patrick for alleged conspiracy to damage surface land by strip mining. Hedrick claimed no knowledge of Patrick's plan and denied responsibility for surface damage. A strip 50 feet by 19 feet was uncovered. a $1,000 verdict against Patrick was dismissed on motion.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Supreme Court Today
G. C. Hedrick
Beckley
Raleigh County
Beckley Ice Cream Company
Hedrick
C. C. Patrick
Patrick
Microbe from hay aids influenza virus destruction
A California scientist reported that a hay microbe extract called subtilin destroyed influenza A and Newcastle disease viruses in developing chick embryos, marking a potential step toward drugs for flu and a costly chicken disease. Researchers noted no animal trials yet, but the finding challenges virus resistance and could extend to other stubborn viruses if replicated.
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California
Hay
A. J. Salle
University of California At Los Angeles
Salle
All Clues Fizzle In Search for Killer of Woman
Morgan County investigators report no new leads in the redhaired woman murder case. An abandoned car found near Sharpsburg, Maryland, failed to yield identity or motive as hair strands and other items were sent to the FBI. Local officials ruled out rope length and continue to seek John Shriver, though he is not connected.
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Associated Press
Berkeley Springs
Morgan County
Sharpsburg
FBI
Washington
S. D. Helsley
Newton D. Baker Hospital
Martinsburg
Potomac River
West Virginia
John Shriver
State Penitentiary
Moundsville
Three Crewmen Hurt As Train Hits Slide
A Western Maryland freight train struck a rock slide 40 miles west of Hagerstown Maryland in darkness and rain. The locomotive and 15 cars derailed and fell down a 25 foot embankment with injuries to Fireman D F Jones Brakeman C R Vier both of Hagerstown who were listed critical and Engineer W E Turk with cracked ribs.
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Associated Press
Hagerstown
Maryland
Here
D. F Jones
C. R. Vier
W. E. Turk
Turk
Sundial Man Treated For Stab Wound
James Martin age 23 of Sundial was admitted to Beckley Hospital at 1 45 am Sunday for treatment of a stab wound below the right scapula. Authorities said he was bleeding excessively on admission but his condition was good today.
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James Martin
Sundial
Beckley Hospital
Martin
Man Dies in Crash on Washington Baltimore Blvd
Laurel Maryland Randolph Noblin a 33 year old man from Newport News Virginia was killed in a three vehicle crash on Washington Baltimore Boulevard in rainy conditions early today. Three other people were injured in the collision.
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Associated Press
Laurel
Randolph Noblin
Newport News
Washington-Baltimore Boulevard
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