Taft Raps Arming of Ring Around Russians
Senator George of Georgia backs arming Western Europe citing German manpower for defense and fusion of German industry with Atlantic Pact nations. Senator Taft of Ohio opposes arming Europe, urges the US to deter Russia with air power and atomic bombs, and predicts voting against the arms aid program though not seeking a fight.
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Associated Press
Washington
George
D-Ga
Germany
Western
Europe
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
Taft
Ohio
United States
Russia
Senate
State Department
East Germany
Administration Ders
Berlin Parade Reveals East German Prowess and West Tension
AP reports in Berlin that a massive East German youth march and police force display failed to topple West sectors, while Soviet praise for Russia and anti West chants dominated. The crowd, including 10,000 East Zone police, echoes Hitler era parades as a deadlocked Berlin crisis looms.
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Russia
East Zone
Wehrmacht
Hitler
Unter den Linden
Memorial Day Observances Honor American War Dead
Americans pause to remember the fallen as Memorial Day ceremonies span cemeteries at home and abroad. Arlington National Cemetery hosts a five hour tribute with General Marshall to speak while wreaths are placed by a White House aide. An official flags ritual covers national cemeteries in the United States and overseas, honoring over 581,000 graves at home and 125,000 abroad from World War I and II. Memorial services were held nationwide yesterday in anticipation of the holiday.
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Washington
Arlington
Va.) National Cemetery
George C. Marshall
White House
Adam Eisenhauer
Truman
Armed Forces
United States
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Wreck Evidence Heard by Court in Becktown Case
Testimony from five witnesses described the March 17, 1949 wreck between Charles Clemons and Williams Dairy. Clemons seeks 600 dollars for damages to his truck. Williams claims 500 for damages to his truck. Court recessed after noon. other cases were reset or dismissed.
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Charles Clemons
Orville L. Williams
Williams Dairy
Clemons
Williams
Beckley
Harper
John Cabe
Charles Underwood
Elbert Stover
T. T. Harper
Nelson Sidney Jackson
Ashland Oil and Soved Company
Beckley Community Chest Directors Meet to Elect Officers
The 21 directors of the Beck ley Community Chest will meet at 7 30 p m Wednesday in the West Virginia Athletic Association office Memorial Building. W M Duncan president says the session aims to elect officers for the ensuing term and to present a resume of the past year s work.
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Beckley Community Chest
West Virginia Athletic Association
Memorial Building
W. M. Duncan
Duncan
Outlook Gloomy As Senate Seeks To Speed Pace
Washington reports a gloomy outlook as the Senate aims to catch up with the House on major legislation. The pending price bill to legalize uniform delivered prices and curb anti trust prosecutions faces uncertain fate after two rejections. Democratic Leader Lucas hints at night sessions to advance work while other measures await action. The House has passed a farm price support agency expansion of 2 billion and a broad social security expansion, plus a 29 billion omnibus appropriation for operating funds for the new fiscal year.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Senate
Lucas
Illinois
Farm Price Support Agency
Omnibus
Two Men Charged In Rail Ticket Office Robbery
Fonie Houston and Arthur Edmondson, both 33 and 37 from Hemphill, were charged with a $150 armed robbery of a Norfolk & Western Railway ticket office in Welch. They waived preliminary hearing, were held for grand jury, and bonds were not set. Ticket agent Russell Woods was threatened with a pistol while the receipts were taken. Special officers arrested the pair 30 minutes after the holdup, witnessed by nearly 50 spectators.
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Associated Press
Welch
Norfolk & Western Railway
Fonie Houston
Arthur ‘Edmondson
Hemphill
E. Lonnie Mitchell
McDowell County
Russell Woods
Adolph Bary
John Shaffer
Houston and
Edmondson
Welch Street
Fire Hits Pineville Building Damages At $10000
A morning blaze in Pineville caused about $10000 in damages to Cook's General Store Building. Fire originated in a fuse box and trapped owner Bernard Cook in the upstairs apartment. He escaped after breaking a window, as firefighters led by Fire Chief Joe Hansbarger fought the flames and the roof was perforated to speed control.
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PI Ille
Pineville
Cook
Bernard Cook
Joe Hansbarger
Four hundred thirty four Marshall students graduate
Four hundred thirty four students received earned degrees at the 113th annual commencement of Marshall College. Honorary doctorates of literature were conferred on Raymond Brewster, member of the State Board of Education and editor of the Huntington Herald Dispatch, and James Blaine Shouse, retired former Dean of Marshall Teachers' College. Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, editor emeritus of the Richmond News Leader, addressed the class.
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Associated Press
Huntington
Marshall College
Raymond Brewster
State Board of Education
Huntington Herald- Dispatch
James Blaine Shouse
Marshall Teachers’ College
Douglas Southall Freeman
Richmond
Wiatt Smith Rites Conducted Today
Services were held today for Wiatt Smith 64 former Huntington Herald-Dispatch managing editor and columnist. He died Saturday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church Rev Sylvester Stand officiated with burial at Ridgelawn Cemetery.
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Untington T Femara
Wiatt Smith
Huntington Herald-Dispatch
Smith
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Sylvester Stand
Ridgelawn Cemetery
Lilly Reunion Cancelled for 1950 in Beckley
The Lilly Reunion Association decided at its Beckley meeting to cancel the 1950 reunion due to illness of President A. A Lilly and officerouts. They will retain reunion grounds and plan to hold it again in 1951. Officers and directors of the group were named and a sympathy gesture was sent to President Lilly.
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Lilly
Lilly Reunion Association
Beckley
W. T. Lilly
A. A
Abe) Lilly
Charleston
Bunche and Pandit Honored Amid Racial Unity Calls
At West Virginia State College commencement Dr Ralph Bunche and Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit received honorary doctorates and were praised as international human rights advocates. Walter Reuther urged economic justice to achieve industrial peace, criticizing racial discrimination and the nation’s skewed spending on weapons over social needs. The Charleston ceremony, tied to the city’s 50th anniversary, featured Gov. Patteson and highlighted calls for world and domestic racial reforms.
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Ralph Bunche
United Nations Trusteeship Division
Vijaya Lakshmi, Pandit
India
United States
Bunche
Madame Pandit
State Capitol
Charleston
Patteson
America
Reuther
Negro College
Washington
China
Countian Refused Top Court Appeal
C B Vencili was refused a second appeal to the State Supreme Court from a Raleigh County verdict of 7500 dollars in the death of Edwin Landlander in a car track collision between Odd and Resaco. J N Berthy Jr was denied a third appeal from Webster Circuit Court ordering return of property to his father. The court granted an appeal to Naomi Jones who sued for separate maintenance but was div orced, with Ashley Jones, half owner of Jones Greater Shows, involved.
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C. B. Vencili
State Supreme Court
Raleigh
Edwin L. Highlander
Odd
Resaco
J. N. Berthy, Jr
Webster
Naomi Jones
Cabell County
Ashley Jones
Jones Greater
Showers Forecast for Memorial Day Across East
The Weather Bureau predicts showers tomorrow across the Eastern half of the nation from the Plains to the Atlantic Coast, mainly in the afternoon, with normal temperatures. Last night showers occurred in Nebraska Kansas Illinois Indiana and along the Atlantic Coast while Augusta Georgia experienced a flash storm with winds up to 90 mph causing damage but no injuries.
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Weather Bureau
Plains States
Atlantic
Nebraska
Kansas
Illinois
Indiana
Augusta
New Soviet Move On Peace Treaty Awaited in Orient
In Tokyo the Soviet mission chief and his wife departed with a 50 member group amid speculation that Derevyanko’s recall signals a new Communist push. Observers link the move to potential Japanese peace terms and align it with upcoming talks between Dulles Bradley and MacArthur. The issue centers on whether Japan will permit continued American bases after a treaty.
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Orient
Associated Press
Tokyo
Japan
Kuzma Derevyanko
Moscow
Kremlin
John Foster Dulles
Secretary Johnson
Omar Bradley
MacArthur
Southeast Asia
Derevyanko
Spy and Husband On Honeymoon Spy and Husband On Honeymoon
New York reports the former Jud ith Coplon and her attorney husband honeymooning after the rabbi at their Brooklyn wedding praised her innocence amid two espionage convictions. The couple, both 29, plan to travel to Upstate New York while Coplon appeals, free on 60000 dollar bail.
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Associated Press
New York
Judith Coplon
Gir
Albert H. Socolov
Brooklyn
Rebecca Coplon
Upstate
Washington
Max Felshin
Trygve Lie Reports Cold War Peace Efforts
U N Secretary General Trygve Lie briefed Secretary of State Acheson on his peacemaking mission in Moscow and Europe. The two had a 70 minute confidential chat at the State Department just before Acheson briefed President Truman on London talks with British and French ministers. Lie has just returned from talks with Western and Soviet leaders aiming to restart East-West discussions. he called the meeting confidential but gave no further details.
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Associated
Washington
U. N
Trygve Lie
Secreta
Acheson
Moscow
State Department
Truman
London
Lie
Ca Eek
Lin
Fresno plane siege ends as suspect taken to psych ward
John O Reilly 28 a Los Angeles gear cutter terrorized 25 aboard an Oakland bound airliner near Fresno waving a cocked automatic for half an hour. Passengers terrified as he smashed windows and threatened to kill all. He was booked on assault with a deadly weapon awaiting psychiatric examination. His German wife Magda 22 and others offered varying explanations for his behavior.
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Associated Press
Fresno
Calif
John O'Reilly
Los Angeles
California
Air Force
Magdaline
O'Reilly
Joan Herron
Dorothy McKenzie
San Francisco
Heron
Miss Herron
Joseph N. Nuccitelli
Nuccitelli
Don Lieto
O’reilly
Cecil Lyons
Richard Shepard
Oakland
Edward O'Reilly
Dedication Set for VA Hospital in Beckley
December 17 is the tentative dedication date for a new 200 bed Veterans Administration Hospital in Beckley announced by Director Carl R Gray at the conference of service officers in Jacksons Mill. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson spoke at the three day conference confirming a hopeful world peace outlook.
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Veterans Administration
Beckley
Carl R. Gray
Jackson's Mill
Clarksburg
Defense
Louis Johnson
Memorial Day Death Toll Rises In State Crash
Deaths during the Memorial Day weekend climbed with three West Virginians dying in state highway crashes. Donald Edward Kight, 22, of Beryl, died after a car left the road and hit a tree near Scheer in Grant County. Passenger Eston Lloyd Sites, 31, of Piedmont, was injured and listed in fair condition.
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West
Keyser
Eston Lloyd Sites
Piedmont
Carbide Plant to Double Polyethylene Production at South Charleston
Carbide and Carbon Corporations plans a doubling of polyethylene resin facilities at its South Charleston plant. Plant Superintendent T. R. Ragland said the new facilities would be in use by the third quarter of 1951.
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Associated Press
South Charleston
Carbide and
Carbon Corporations
T. R. Ragland
Hearing on Missing Flowers Pending in Beckley Court
A tentative hearing set for 10 a m Wednesday in Magistrate J P Meadows court will decide if C L Schulte owner of Snow Thornton Florists took funeral flowers for personal use. Complainant R O Lawson of Charleston has sworn out a search warrant and reports baskets found in the firm basement match those sent to Mrs Paul Payne s funeral. Lawson claims baskets valued over 20 dollars each. Schulte says flowers were by family request for church and hospital care with other pieces sent to cemetery.
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J. P. Meadows
C. L. Schulte
Snow Thornton Florists
R. O. Lawson
Charleston
Beckley
Meadows
Lawson
Floral Company
Paul Payne
P. m. Schulte
Payne
Presbyterian Church
Pinecrest
Schulte
Keyser Funeral Home
Miser
Snow Thornton
Fire Damage Near Tradewell Supermarket
An estimated $20,000 damage was caused by a fire that swept Tradewell Supermarket in Huntington yesterday.
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Associated Press
Huntington
Tradewell
Fired UMW Leader May Return to Job
The Chicago Daily News reports United Mine Workers Local 7455 ex president Lloyd H. Sidener in Canton Illinois may return to work after charges of dual unionism were dropped and fines canceled. Sidener awaits restoration to local president with back pay while stating he will not return without union reinstatement. An NLRB complaint remains pending in Chicago federal court.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Chicago Daily News
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Lloyd H. Sidener
UMW
Sidener
Canton
Ill
United Electric Coal Companies
Gue
National Labor Relations Board
Senate
NLRB
Federal District Court
Bernard Beasley
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W. Londa Lilly
Harold Wood
Flat Top
Franklin
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