Navy Bennington Fire Kills 100, Injures 220 at Sea
AP report details a major peacetime disaster aboard the aircraft carrier Bennington after a fire broke out while training. About 100 crewmen were killed and 220 injured as helicopters evacuated the wounded to Newport hospitals. Navy and White House leaders launched investigations.
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Quonset, RL
Navy
Bennington
Naval Air Base
Newport
Hobson
Wasp
mid-Atlantic
Leyte
Boston
Naval Air Station
Potter
Pearl Harbor
Cuban
Eleven Puerto Rican Nationalists Arrested in U S Conspiracy Case
Eleven leaders of the Nationalist party of Puerto Rico were arrested on seditious conspiracy charges to overthrow the U S government. Detainers issued for six more, including four jailed for the March 1 shooting of five House members. FBI probe traceable to 1936 reveals party ties to violent Puerto Rican actions and an attempted assassination of former President Truman in 1950.
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White House
Navy Secretary of the Navy
Charles A. Thomas
Washington
Brownell
Nationalist Party of
Puerto Rico
U. S
Chicago
New York City
San Juan
Nationalist Party
House of Representatives
Federal Correctional Institution
Danbury
Conn
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Truman
United States
Bizu Campos
Gonzalo Lebron Sotomayor
Dolores Lebron
Rose Collazo
Bronx
New York
Oscar Collazo
Atty
Gen. Brownell
Island
Monongalia Plans Fall School Integration
Monongalia County Board of Education aims to integrate about 210 Negro students and 14 Negro teachers into white schools by next fall. Board President Rebecca Conaway urged action to lead in complying with the Supreme Court ruling ending segregation. Superintendent Floyd Cox to consult WVU about merging Negro and white schools. Two thirds of Negro students now at Monongalia High would move to University High. State officials note no current plans to combine schools. statewide compliance expected.
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Morgantown
Monongalia County
Floyd B. Cox
West Virginia University
University High School
WVU
Monongalia High School
University High
Cox
State Department of Education
Charleston
W. W. Trent
West Virginia
James F. Sneed Dies After Heart Condition
James Frederick Sneed 65 of Dry Hill died at 9 30 am in a local hospital from a heart condition after a prior heart attack. He ran a building and real estate business, born April 9 1889 in McDonald to Isaac and Mary Sneed. Survived by wife Ethel Lilly four daughters two sons five sisters three brothers and many grandchildren. Body at Quesenberry and Webb Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements.
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James Frederick Sneed
Dry Hill
Sneed
McDonald
Isaac
Mary Sneed
Ethel Lilly
Roscoe Meadows
Panama City
Fla
Dave Knight
St. Petersburg
Kenneth George Adkins
Cleveland
Dallas
Texas
James Frederick Jr
U. S. Navy
Joseph Hubbard
Mount Hope
Anna Simms
Whitesville
Roy Nichols
Edith Sneed
Charleston
Edgar Perry
Huntington
Everett
Harvey
Orgas
Jess
Quesenberry and Webb Funeral Home
Department Store April Sales Rise in West Virginia Cities
Department store sales in April rose from April 1953 in West Virginia's two largest cities and statewide. The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond reports Huntington up 13 percent, Charleston up 7 percent, and statewide sales 10 percent higher than a year earlier.
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Richmond
West Virginia
Federal Reserve Bank of
Huntington
Charleston
West Virginia Weather Update and River Readings
Cloudy tonight and Thursday with scattered showers and mild highs. Beckley reports a high of 79 yesterday and a low of 56 last night, with today’s morning temperatures around 10 to 74 at noon. Oak Hill shows a high yesterday and a low around 52 overnight, with today’s readings near 55. Rivers at Bellepoint Bluestone Greenbrier and New are at normal stages with clear conditions. Bluestone Reservoir remains at normal stage and clear.
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Beckley High
Ccceeesee
Ccesee Seaue
Gteusa
OAK Hill High
Bellepoint
Bluestone
Greenbrier
Woman Charged In Bank Thefts
IRONTON Ohio a 62 year old widow Fronia Sexton head of the Citizens National Bank of Ironton was jailed after an arrest in Portsmouth and released on 5000 bond. Bound for a federal grand jury in Cincinnati she allegedly embezzled 114000 since January and resigned as bank president.
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Ironton
Ohio
Fronia Sexton
Ashland
Ohio River
Tri-State
West Virginia
Kentucky
Citizens National Bank of
Cincinnati
British plan for Indochina talks fails in Indochina bloc
Presstime Bulletin reports a British bid to start immediate military discussions between rival commands to end the war in Indochina did not gain support from anti-Communist delegations. Laos and Cambodia objected to Eden's four point plan, fearing possible partition of their nations.
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Geneva
Indochina
Laos
Cambodia
Anthony Eden
Methodist Conference Opens In Charleston
Charleston hosts the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church opening a five day session at St Mark's with about 1500 ministers and laymen expected. Bishop Lloyd C Wicke presides as 545 ministers receive potential assignments and salary discussions are considered.
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Lloyd C. Wicke
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Charleston
Charlestonernoon
Gary Marland
John T. Copenhaver
St. Mark’s
Charles C. Selecman
Dallas
Tex
Wicke
Clyde Hensley
Lewisburg
Harry F. King
Wheeling
Selecman
John Wesley
Methodism
General Board of Education
Nashville
Tenn
Directors of
Christian Education
Municipal Auditorium
Jameson Jones
National Methodist Youth Fellowship Organization
Hinton Man to Direct Presbyterian Project
HINTON The Presbyterian Churches in West Virginia hired Ray Woodrum of Hinton to supervise the Bluestone Conference Center project at Bluestone Lake. The 300 acre site, approved by the Presbyterian Synod, will begin June 15 and aim to seat about 400 people. The facility includes a dining and assembly hall, an administration building, a health lodge, a caretaker’s lodge, 20 cabins and five unit lodges with total estimated cost around 250000 dollars.
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Hinton
Presbyterian Churches
West Virginia
Ray Woodrum
Bluestone Lake
Presbyterian Synod of
Ith Man Charged In Theft Series
Winfred Clay of Naoma waived preliminary hearing on three burglary counts in a Marsh Fork series. He faces action of the June Grand Jury along with six area suspects. Bond set at 1000 dollars per count, posted by his father, and he was released.
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Naoma
Marsh Fork
John C. Ward
Winfred Clay
Clay
J. P. Meadows
Pocahontas Drys Win By 93 Votes
The Pocahontas County drys won a local option election in Marlinton by 93 votes, 1714 to 1621, ending liquor sales in Cass and a nearby establishment outside Marlinton. Marlinton had already voted dry, with Durbin having done so two years earlier.
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Marlinton
W.va
Drys
Pocahontas County
Cass
Durbin
Wreck Drivers Arrested Fined After Accident
Two truck drivers were arrested by State Police after a collision near Raleigh Hill bridge. Both paid $5 fines and costs after pleading guilty before Magistrate J. E. Mays at Beaver. James L. Tyler of Montgomery Alabama faced obstructing traffic as the tractor trailer was hit from behind by Cletus C. Crawford. Crawford, of High Point North Carolina, was charged with tailgating according to police.
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Raleigh Hill
J. E. Mays
Beaver
James L. Tyler
Montgomery
Ala
Cletus C. Crawford
Highpoint
N. C
Quinnimont youths waived hearings in grand jury looting
Two Quinnimont youths 20 and 18 waived preliminary hearings today before Magistrate J E Mays in connection with looting the Table Rock School and two homes in Grandview. They were sent back to jail for failure to post $500 bonds for the June Grand Jury. A Grandview juvenile arrested with them will get a hearing Saturday before Juvenile Court Judge Harry L. McCreery.
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Quinnimont
J. E. Mays
Table Rock
Grandview
Bobby Vance
Dorman Redden
Harry L. McCreery
Council Meets Tonight Invoking Prayer At City Session
The Rev. Marlow Fralick pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist Church will open tonight's City Council meeting with the invocation. The session starts at 7:30 p.m. and follows a quorum shortfall that postponed the regular Tuesday night session. Mayor Elmer Davis said no special matters are anticipated.
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Marlow Fralick
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Elmer Davis
Beckley stores close Monday for Memorial Day observance
Beckley business establishments will close Monday May 31 for Memorial Day observance as decided at the January Beckley Business Bureau meeting. President Sidney Fink said shops will stay open all day Wednesday June 2 to offset the holiday closure.
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Beckley
Beckley Business Bureau
Sidney Fink
Tractor accident kills farmhand on Judge Maxwell farm
Sherman Flesher a 67 year old farmhand on the farm of former State Supreme Court Judge Hay mond Maxwell near Clarksburg was killed when a tractor overturned and crushed him.
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Clarksburg
Sherman Flesher
State Supreme Court
Haymond Maxwell
Here
Seven Die In Head On Crash West Of Fort Pierce
A head on collision between two cars near Fort Pierce Florida killed seven people and left four others hospitalized. State Highway Patrolman Robert Gray said all victims and injured were Black.
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Fort Pierce
Fla.p
Robert Gray
Schine violated instructions on New Year leave
Washington Pvt. G David Schine's company commander testified he left Ft Dix N J on New Year's leave in violation of orders but was allowed to stay home after a call from Roy Cohn. Capt. Miller said Schine was reported absent without leave though no action was taken and records show no AWOL. He denied granting preferential treatment and said McCarthy did not press him to testify. Miller recalled Schine offering a Florida trip and said Schine claimed service to reform the American military. He had scheduled guard duty for Dec 31 and told Schine not to leave without authority and that a Christmas pass did not qualify him for New Year's Day. Schine could not be found in the company area.
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Washington
David Schine
Schine
Ft. Dix
N. J
Roy Cohn
Fort
Joseph J. M. Miller
Miller
Carthy
McCarthy
Florida
Trusty Parker Jail Elevator Leaves Man In Escape Plan
Earl Asbury, a 25-year-old Dry Creek man and trusty at Raleigh County Jail, told a jailer he was going after a newspaper between 6 and 6:30 a.m. He failed to return. Asbury had operated the jail elevator on dayshift. He was sentenced to a year for non support and had served five months, eligible for release in five more.
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Earl Asbury
Dry Creek
Raleigh
Fred Aaron
John C. Ward
Asbury
Power outage ends after transformer repair near Beckley Hotel
A 25 minute power interruption ended at 11 20 a m today after Appalachian Electric Power Co crewmen repaired a transformer near the Beckley Hotel. The business district from the hotel to Bank of Raleigh and City Hall was affected.
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Appalachian Electric Power Co
Beckley Hotel
Bank of Raleigh
City Hall
Death of Raleigh Bank Cashier Everette N. Smith
Everette N. Smith 55 bank cashier and trust officer of Bank of Raleigh died at 12 50 a m at a local hospital after a cerebral hemorrhage at his home 125 Quesenberry Street Tuesday evening He was a native of Raleigh County born February 19 1899 and a long time Beckley employee Surviving relatives include his wife Zaida Bailey a son James Everett Smith five sisters and five brothers Funeral services set for 2 p m Friday at the First Christian Church with burial in Sunset Memorial Park and Masonic rites at the grave
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Everette N. Smith
Quesenberry St
Smith
Bank of Raleigh
Raleigh County
Crow
Charles
Rosa Ellen Prince Smith
Beckley Institute
Charleston Business College
Appalachian Boy Scout Council
Salvation Army Citadel
Beckley
First Christian Church
Beckley Lodge
Royal Arch Masons
Mount Hope
Coal City
Carlos Martin
Glen Morgan
Clarence Underwood
Lexington
Stella Levy
Washington, D. C
Sunset Memorial Park
Masonic Lodge
Keyser Funeral Home
Utility Property Valuations Hiked By 41 Million
The State Tax Department released tentative 1954 valuations showing a total utility property tax base of 481,639,400 with Class 1 at 40,895,000 and Classes 3 and 4 at 720,744,700. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway again carries the largest single increase, with class changes highlighted for Virginian Railroad Appalachian Electric Power Beckley Water and others reflecting mixed shifts from 1953.
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Charleston
State
West Virginia
Milton J. Ferguson
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Virginian Railroad
Down
Appalachian Electric Power Co
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Beckley Water Co
United Fuel Gas Co
Bluefield Gas Co
Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc
Consolidated Bus Lines, Inc
Boxscore On Safety Check
The boxscore details Tuesday safety testing on Valley Drive with 1400 vehicles tested 1044 passed and 356 failed. Major failure causes include rear lights 161 exhaust system 92 front lights 74. Other rejects include steering 34 tires 34 glass 47. Windshield wipers 8 brakes 5 horn 5 rear view mirrors 2. To date 32895 vehicles checked 501 failing.
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Valley Drive
Lewis and UMW Add To Banking Interests
Washington reports that John L. Lewis and associates linked to the United Mine Workers have gained majority stock control in Hamilton National Bank, after earlier involvement with National Bank of Washington. Hamilton directors named Barnum L. Colton as president, and merger prospects with National Bank of Washington are discussed. The UMW holds a substantial treasury and welfare funds, suggesting seeking investment outlets and cost savings.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
National Bank of Washington
Capital
Lewis
Hamilton National
Hamilton
Barnum L. Colton
National Bank
Riggs National Bank
The
A. D. Lewis
John
Union
Welly K. Hopkins
Colton
National
the National
Hamilton National Bank
American Security Trust Co
American
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Ith Man
Pocahontas Drys
Grand Jury
Charles Schine
Sen. McCarthy
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