Sherman Urges UN China Blockade Backed by Nations
Admiral Forrest Sherman testified in Washington that he hopes for an effective United Nations commercial and naval blockade of Red China but cautioned against a unilateral U.S. action. He warned Soviet leaders might oppose a solo blockade with force, and that Russia could respect one if backed by the UN. Sherman cited mine threats in Korean waters, noting thousands of mines and ongoing destruction efforts, while reporting strong UN advances and high enemy casualties with many prisoner releases.
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Associated Press
Washington
Forrest P. Sherman
United Nations
Red China
United States
Sherman
Apora
Russia
U.N
Senate
Douglas MacArthur
China
Russell
D-Ga
Combined Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees
U.S
Joint Committeees
Vladivostok
Oiher
Sher‘rman
Korea
U. S
Big Business Accused Of Scuttling Controls
Washington CIO accuses big business of bribing labor to join in scuttling price controls and sharing the profits. Carey cites the National Association of Manufacturers and the U S Chamber as guilty, urges extension of the Defense Production Act amid inflation fears. OPS sets ceilings for spring canners and demands stores file price charts by midnight.
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Associated Press
Washington
CIO Today
cIo
James 8. Carey
Senate Banking Committee
National Association of Manufacturers
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Carey
Congress
Marshall
Office of Price Stabilization
OPS
Logan Man and Companion Held in Kidnaping Case
Logan State police arrested Eddie Stewart of Langley Air Force Base and Miss Jean de Haven of Phoebus Virginia for kidnapping Stewart’s daughter Mary Ruth Stewart age 4. The suspects are jailed in Logan awaiting Michigan authorities, with the charge filed by Stewart’s former wife who now lives in Bowagiac Michigan. The girl was abducted from Michigan and brought to Logan County.
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Associated Press
Logan
Hutchinson
Air Force
Michigan
Eddie Stewart
Langley Air Force Base
Jean de Haven
Phoebus
Fanny Brice Funeral Rites Set Thursday
Rabbi Max Nussbaum to conduct funeral for Fanny Brice in Temple Israel Hollywood. The 59 year old comedienne died yesterday from a massive cerebral hemorrhage after a stroke last Thursday. Many show business big names expected to attend the Jewish rites.
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Associated Press
Hollywood
Max Nussbaum
Fanny Brice
Comedienne
Temple Israel
Beckleyan MIA Pfc Adolph Calloway Reported Lost
Beckley resident Pfc Adolph C Calloway son of Mr and Mrs Charles C Calloway 119 Sour Street East Park Beckley is reported missing in action per Casualty List 315 released by the Department of Defense.
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Adolph C. Calloway
Sonior
Charles C. Caloway
Sour Street
East Park
Beckley
Department of Defense
Mrs. R. Thompson Succumbs, Burial Rites Thursday
Rhoda M. Thompson 79 of 220 Hillson Avenue died Tuesday evening in a local hospital. Born November 10, 1871 at Sand Lick, she was daughter of Susan Peters and Henderson Shumate. Widow of former Raleigh County sheriff George W. Thompson, she lived in Raleigh County all her life. Funeral at First Christian Church Thursday at 2 pm with Rev A H Wilson and Dr Ritchie Ware officiating. burial Sunset Memorial Park. Body at Keyser Funeral Home until one hour before services. Survived by five daughters five sons a sister and a brother many grandchildren and great grandchildren. three sons preceded her in death. Active pallbearers named.
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Rhoda M. Thompson
Hillson Avenue
Sand Lick
Susan Peters
Henderson Shumate
George W. Thompson
Raleigh County
First Christian Church
A. H. Wilson
Ritchie Ware
Sunset Memorial Park
Keyser Funeral Home
H. J.reed
Crab Orchard
A. R. Gwinn
Lee G. Holliday
A. Wayne Reynolds
Frank H. Davis
Beckley
Q. C. Thompson
Chi Cage Heights
Charles A. Thompson
Hinton
Gilbert Thompson
George Thompson
Arthur Thompson
W. W. Watts
James Shumate
Stover
Oscar
William
Virgil
Robert Thompson
Harold Reed
George Reed
Noel Reed
Philip Wayne Thompson
Earl Thompson
Charles Ray Thompson
Two Homes Smashed In Malden District
A series of heavy carth slides from the hillside along U S Route 60 at Reed in Kanawha County Malden district destroyed two homes. No injuries were reported. Damage is estimated at 17000 dollars. One home belonged to Lee Lancaster and was occupied. The wreckage occurred yesterday morning and again yesterday.
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Malden
Associated Press
Charleston
Kanawha County
Reed
Lee Lancaster
Raleigh County Honors Dead With Legion Memorial Day Service
Post 32 of the American Legion observed Memorial Day with a one hour ceremony at Wildwood Cemetery in Raleigh County. Rabbi Abraham I. Shmedling spoke on peace and war while Veterans Administration chaplains led prayers. the Woodrow Wilson band played. a color guard fired volleys and taps ended the service.
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Raleigh County
American Legion
Brownie
Karen Sue Reed
Post 32
Wildwood Cemetery
Abraham I. Shmedling
Beth-El Temple
Abraham
Rabbi Shmedling
America
Woodrow Wilson
Rev
C. E. Walker
Lyle O. Snyder
Beckley Veterans Administration Hospital
Wildwood
Post 32 Color Guard
Woodrow Wilson Band
Beck- Jey
Kermit A.locke
West Virginia party meetings set for nominating conventions
In Welch the Fifth Congressional Committee of the Republican Party planned a meeting today to decide the time and place for the party's nominating convention for a congressional candidate. In Huntington the 13th child of Lonnie Mills and his wife was born a 13 pound baby girl at St. Mary's Hospital. In Huntington also Mrs. Alice B. Densmore Shute died at 74, mother of Denny Shute. In Charleston the West Virginia League of Municipalities joined protests against United Fuel and American Gas Utilities Company requests to curtail service, with the WV chapter of the American Institute of Architects opposing at a Public Service Commission hearing Friday.
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Welch
Fifth Congressional Committee
Republian Party
John Kee
Wva
Huntington
Lonnie Mills
St. Mary's Hospital
East Lynn
Warne County
Alice B. Densmore Shute
Denny Shute
Akron
Charleston
West
Parades and Observances Mark West Virginia War Remembrance
Statewide observances marked by parades and church services honored war dead amid Korea era fears. West Virginia’s National Cemetery at Grafton and Spring Hill Cemetery in Huntington featured wreaths and rose petals while officials including Lt. Col John Regan and Assistant U. S. Attorney Howard Caplin spoke at Charleston and Clarksburg events.
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Associated Press
Charleston
West Virginia
Grafton
Buckhamnon
GOP
Chapman Revecomb
America
John M. Regan
Boise
Idaho
Tactical Air Command
Langley Air Force Base
U. S
Howard Caplgn
Clarksburg
Spindly Crooner's Wife Seeks Freedom Hearing Augures Divorce
Hollywood couriers and lawyers prepare for an Amere Gas hearing in Charleston on Friday. The Associated Press reports a public services commission review could affect gas sale limits for furnaces as Nancy Sinatra seeks divorce from Frank Sinatra, ongoing legal separation since September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Sinatra
Koreas Fronts Slow By Heavy Rain And Mud
AP dispatches report heavy rains slowed Allied advances in Central and East Central Korea. UN troops pushed to within 12 miles of a Communist base near Kuinhiwa and seized a crossroads above Inje. Ridgway said Reds were defeated but capable of renewed attack.
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Pby
Associated Press
Tokyo
Korea
United Nations
Kuinhiwa
Inje
Matthew B. Ridgway
U.N
Inje-Hyon
North Korea
Stan Carter
Eighth Army
U. N
Memorial Day tribute at United Nations Cemetery Korea
Soldiers in Korea honor fallen mates at the United Nations Cemetery in Pusan with cross-laden graves as Lt Gen Van Fleet sends a message of duty and peace. Allied representatives attend as President Rhee stands through the service and taps echo across the rain striped field.
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Nate Polowetzky
Pusan
Korea
Belleau Wood
Okinawa
Taejon
Hagarw
James A. van Fleet
Eighth Army
United Nations
Mag Geren
John B. Coulter
van Fleet
U. N
Marine Corps
Army
Air Force
Navy
Synaman Rhee
Congress Faces Inactivity Record in 82nd Session
Washington reports the 82nd Congress risks a record for inactivity with five months passed and a summer recess ahead. Major bills stalled. appropriations for the new year lag. measures include foreign aid, trade, defense needs, labor law reform, and housing. Senate, House divisions hamper action as leaders predict delays into 1952. statewide coverage notes New York price war after Supreme Court fair trade ruling.
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Associated Press
Washington
82Nd Congress
Congress
Truman
House
Senate
State Department
House Appropriations Committee
Chamber
India
Means
cnani-House
House Banking Committee
New Labor
New York
34Th Street
Mary's
City Officials To Represent Beckley At Hearing On Heaters
City Attorney William H File Mayor W A Burke City Recorder William P Earew and Councilman Clarence E Bibb expected to represent the city at the hearing Local dealers have retained G Berk Lynch to defend them Witnesses or spectators include E E Bibb Fred Tinder and Robert Foster Amores petition to restrict space heating was made public May 8 Beckley residents have begun registering disapproval Resolutions protesting the move have been sent to the PSC by the City Council and the Chamber of Commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. File
W. A. Burke
City Recorder
Wiliam P. Earew
Clarence E. Bibb
Gberk Lynch
E. E. Bibb
Fred Tinder
Robert Foster
Amore
Beckleyans
PSC
Chamber of Commerce
Senate Bills Target Race Wires To Hit Bookmakers
The Senate Crime Investigating Committee introduced two bills aimed at illegal interstate wagering. One would bar transmitting race results by wire or radio without an FCC license, exempting newspapers and stations, while the other would make covert gambling information transmissions a federal crime. The panel cited racing information networks as essential to nationwide bookmaking and sought licenses tied to moral character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Federal Communications Commission
Crime Committee
Senate
O'Connor
D-Md
Presstime Bulletin Record: Wallard Sets Indy 500 Pace
In Indianapolis Lee Wallard from Albany New York smashed the first 50 miles speed record at the 500 mile race averaging 129.536 mph in a scorching duel with Jack McGrath of Glendale California Duke Nalon’s 1949 mark of 125.211 is topped. In England 62 miners buried 906 feet underground after a violent explosion at a coal mine. the death toll could reach 98 with a rescue worker killed in the attempt.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Lee Wallard
Altamont
N. Y
Jack McGrath
Glendale
Calif
Wallard
Duke Nalon
Easington
Eng
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