Acheson Calls New Dangers To Congress
Secretary of State Acheson urged Congress to back balanced collective forces by Western powers to counter Soviet power. He cited London talks and warned of a time of decision to strengthen NATO and Western European ties, while noting no immediate war threat but looming defense and economic costs. He praised Franco German coal steel partnership as pivotal to European recovery.
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Associated Press
Washington
Acheson
Congress
Russia
West
Truman
Johnson
London
Library of Congress
House
Senate
United States
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Kremlin
Schuman
Bevin
New Violence Expected As Japs Go on Trial
Tokyo reports the rush trial of eight Japanese accused of attacking American soldiers at a Communist rally recessed overnight and set to resume. Prosecution studies motion pictures of the Plaza assault as 200 students and workers demand release. If convicted, the eight face up to 10 years in prison and fines.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Imperial Plaza
U. S
MacArthur
Charles A. Willoughby
Japan
Communist Party
Berlin
Eiichi Tanaka
Osaka Students Federation
Osaka Commercial College
Ballot-Conscious House Hints At Slow Senate Pace
Washington House leaders blame Senate for a legislative pileup likely to extend the session past August. With many members campaigning for re election, the House plans more holidays while four major bills remain on the program including tax revision rent control extension and military acts to non-Communist nations plus Export Import Bank start up.
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Senate
House
McCormack
Massachusetts
Rep. Priest
Tennessee
Congress
Education Foundation of West Virginia chartered in Charleston
The Education Foundation of West Virginia Inc, a non profit to aid students through school, was chartered in Charleston. Secretary of State D P O'Brien issued the charter. Incorporators include Phil M. Conley Virgil L. Flinn and Earl H. Wilson of Charleston.
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Associated Press
Charleston
D. Pitt O’brien
Education Foundation of West Virginia, Inc
Phil M. Conley
Virgil L. Flinn
Earl H. Wilson
Weather notes from Glade Creek and rivers report
Weather overview reports Glade Creek high yesterday 74 and low 54 last night. Today forecast near 61 with light rain. Rivers at Bellepoint about two feet above normal and muddy. New River below dam about four to five feet above normal and rising.
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Glade Creek
West Germans Clash With Red-Led Youth At Border
West German police faced thousands of Free German Youth members returning from East Berlin as they gathered near Luebeck Helmstedt and Hof. Violent incidents included stone throwing and clothing theft but officials reported the Berlin rally passed without violence. Police conducted rapid medical examinations for the blue shirts to prevent disease spread as border tensions persisted.
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Associated Press
Frankfurt
Germany
Berlin
West Germany
Luebeck
Free German Youth
FDJ
Helmstedt
East Zone
Hof
East Berlin
No Man’s Land
Schleswig-Holstein
Englishman acquitted in New Delhi club assault case
Bearded John Edwards, an Englishman, was acquitted of assault after a courtroom verdict in a New Delhi hotel. The judge cited provocation by Ambassador Oscar Tascheret’s party who reportedly disrupted a floor show and blew horns during the incident on May 5.
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Associated Press
New Delhi
India
John Edwards
Argentina
Ramenshwar Dayal
Edwards
Oscar Tascheret
Berkeley Springs to Reestablish Police Force Tomorrow
Berkeley Springs will again have a police force starting tomorrow with officer George Thomas Phillips, formerly of Bethesda, Md. The town previously had only one officer who resigned a month ago, leaving the department without full staffing. Phillips, 27, officially begins duty June 1 to resume local law enforcement.
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Associated Press
Berkeley Springs
George Thomas Phillips
Frank Kight
Phillips
Bethesda
Kilgore presides over Davis and Elkins College commencement
West Virginia seniors receive degrees at Davis and Elkins College 46th commencement. Honorary doctor of laws awarded to former Governor H G Kump. Seven Presbyterian ministers also receive degrees.
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Associated Press
Elkins
U. S
Harley M. Kilgore
Beckley
Davis and Elkins College
H. G. Kump
Presbyterian Church
West Virginia
Neely challenges top oil firms to face probes
Washington Senator Neely leader of the Senate labor subcommittee urged major oil companies to send witnesses to hearings on the impact of oil imports on the coal and petroleum industries. He denied a report of refusals and said hearing from oil company representatives would strengthen the case. J P Jones warned that imports threaten independent producers and could leave ghost towns in oil fields without relief. A note from James Boyd urged tax relief for Western non ferrous metal mining, warning against ignoring Western mining potential.
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Washington
Neely
D-Wva
Senate Labor
Subcommittee
J. P. Jones
Bradford
National Stripper Well Association
Jones
Elbert Thomas
Dutah
James Boyd
Bureau of Mines
Senate
Boyd
Korean Voters Seek Change in One House Assembly
Early returns from Seoul show South Koreans voting for new faces in the unicameral assembly. With 53 of 210 seats decided, independents and nonpartisans captured 31 seats, the ruling party won six, and the Democratic Nationalists also took six. Voter turnout reached about 89 percent as observers note a rebuke to President Rhee’s administration and a shift toward candidates without party labels.
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Associated Press
Seoul
Korea
South Korea
New Republic
United States
Syngman Rhee
Communist Party
Rhee
U. S. State Department
Acheson
U. S
Murder Charge In Williamson Slaying Named
Police Chief H T Maynard says William Warren is held on a murder charge in the slaying of 21 year old Waddell Young, a Black man, in Williamson early yesterday.
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Williamson
Associated Press
H. T. Maynard
William Warren
Waddell Young
Americans Involved Defendant Confesses Plot Against Czechs
Prague radio reports top-ranking defendant Dr Milada Horakova pleaded guilty at the opening session of a trial on charges of leading an underground group. She said Nazi party officials took directives from Western diplomats and admitted sabotage and spying. The indictment links the group to US and French officials, and to exiled Czech leaders, with involvement of several American correspondents and embassy staff.
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Associated Press
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Prague Radio
Milada Horakova
National Socialist Party
Horakova
Communist Party
Hubert Ripka
Laurence Steinhardt
U.S
Maurice Dejean
Peter Zenkl
Czech Socialist Party
United States
Dejean
New York Times
Dana Adams Schmidt
United Press
Helen Fisher
Schmidt
Mary Vince Trent
Jack C. Novak
Milton Fried
Louise Schaeffer
Warrant Not Signed in Case of Missing Funeral Flowers
In a brief hearing in Magistrate J. P. Meadows court Clement Schulte of Snow Thornton Florists was released on $500 bond after an incomplete warrant was not signed. Attorney Thornhill pressed for a signed warrant while constable George Dalton reported flowers found at Schulte's basement. Roy Lawson claimed two baskets as evidence but Thornhill disputed ownership. Meadows noted the proceeding was growing more involved.
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Clement Schulte
Snow Thornton Florists
W. R. Thornhill
J. P. Meadows
Schulte
Paul Payne
Kermit Locke
Meadows
Thornhill
Locke
George Dalton
Roy O. Lawson
Charleston
Melvin Fox Confirmed Mayor of Ansted by State Court
The West Virginia Supreme Court certified Melvin Fox as mayor of Ansted and the other Peoples Ticket candidates after a June 7, 1949 election. Shirley Pridemore had contested 58 ballots by non listed voters but the court found no local registration ordinance required and upheld the tally. The ruling overturned Fayette Circuit Court actions that voided the election.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Supreme Court
Melvin Fox
Ansted
Peoples
Shirley Pridemore
Progressive
Fox
Pridemore
Fred L. Fox
West Virginia Tech Student Pioneers Fall-o-Meter Patent
Franklin Rollings, a WVU Tech physics senior, improves a spark timer to rate fall speed. A 50-foot drop from a roof lays down a paper tape with dots showing fall rate. variable spark rate from 3 to 60 per second lets measurement of slow to fast falls. Rollings plans to patent the device amid humorous notes about家庭 garden misadventures.
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Franklin Rollings
West Virginia Tech
Ing
Jamaica, N. Y
Air Force Plane Goes Down Near Buckley Farm
An Air Force B-25 reportedly broke apart in midair and crashed to the ground five miles west of Buckley cooling in a farm field. Eyewitness Harold Lee described the glowing wreckage and a fast response by Chanute Air Base officers Capt. Woodrow A. Abbott and Lt. Edward S. Weeks as investigators began, with no occupants named.
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Associated Press
Buckley
Harold Lee
Chicago
Chanute Air Base
Rantoul
Ill
Woodrow A. Abbott
Edward
Legal Fee Suit In Court Today
Rose R. Baer of Beckley seeks $1,000 in attorney fees alleged owed to her deceased husband L Leonard Baer by Elizabeth F Holliday and others in Circuit Court today. Witness J Hareman Cites, formerly of State Road Commission, attended the transaction origin. Other orders: Bowles vs Nickels continued to next term. Josie Arthur ordered to recover $200 from Haze Gravina with interest and costs plus $10 attorney fee. Taylor restrained from molesting Augustine Elizabeth Taylor until further order. Parrott divorce case: defendant Bill Present Parrott Jr ordered to pay $87.50 monthly for plaintiff Martha Jane Parrott and three children until further order. Dismissals: Christian vs Louis, Holliday vs Hardin, Thomas vs Inter-Ocean Casualty. Morris granted divorce from Charles Edward Morris with child custody.
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Rose R. Baer
Beckley
L. Leonard Baer
Elizabeth F. Holliday
J. Hareman Cites
State Road Commission
Ben H. Ashworth
Paul Bowles
William Edward Nickels
Josie Arthur
Haze Gravina
Hazel Cook
Alonzo Wayne Taylor
Augustine Elizabeth Taylor
Martha Jane Parrott
Bill Present Parrott, Jr
Allen Christian
Bill Louis
I. O. Holliday
W. H. Hardin
Margaret Thomas
Inter-Ocean Casulty Company
Frances Merrill Morris
Charles Edward Morris
Mt. Top Coal Firm Gets State Charter
The Mountain Top Coal Company of Beckley received a state charter today. The firm with $15,000 capital was incorporated by Eunice Lee Ellison J F Byset and W R Campbell of Beckley.
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Mt. Top Coal Firm
The
Mountain Top Coal Company
Beckley
Eunice Lee Ellison
J. F. Byset
W. R. Campbell
Fatality Record Set Over Memorial Day Holiday Traffic Toll Soars
A nationwide Memorial Day four day period yielded 547 violent deaths, including 330 traffic fatalities, 92 drownings, and 125 other violent accidents. Ned H Dearborn of the National Safety Council condemned reckless driving as turning the holiday into a massacre. West Virginia reported six highway deaths, the lowest in three years, with historical comparisons from 1949 to 1947 provided.
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Ned H. Dearborn
National Safety Council
Associated Press
West Virginia
Jobless pay dip marks improvement in WV manufacturing
The West Virginia State Chamber of Commerce notes April manufacturing value rose by 3.4 million dollars while coal output lagged 2.4 million tons below capacity. Unemployment compensation fell to 1,291,658 dollars in April, the lowest in ten months, signaling brighter economic conditions.
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Associated Press
Charleston
State Chamber of Commerce
West Virginia
Mental Patient At Large From Napa State Hospital
Edmund E. Whitfield, a 25 year old USC former athlete and Yale graduate, escaped from Napa State Hospital after spotting an unguarded door. The six foot four dangerous man has escaped multiple California state hospital days, prompting a woods and hillside manhunt near Napa.
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Associated Press
Napa
Calif
Napa State Hospital
Edmund E. Whitfield
University of Southern California
Yale
Whitfield
USC
California
San Francisco Bay
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