Iran Quake Reports Massive Casualties and Damage
The Associated Press reports a severe Iran earthquake with around 200 killed and thousands injured. Damage includes the collapse of parts of the Gowhar Shad Mosque in Meshed, Khora gan Province, as tremors affected eastern Iran for hours.
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Associated Press
Tehran
Ikhan
Meshed
Bleshed
Gowharshad
Khoragan
Iran
West Bromwich
Eng
Braves Edge Indians 1-0 In World Series Opener
Johnny Sain and Cleveland’s Bob Feller pitched a pitcher’s duel as the Braves won the first game 1 0 before about 39 000 in Boston. Tommy Haine drove in the only run with a single in the eighth, Masi scoring as a pinch runner.
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Jack Hand
Associated Press
Braves Field
Boston
Johnny Sain
Cleveland
Bobby Feller
Boston Braves
Sam
Feller
Indians
Sais
Tommy Halntes
Braves
Phili Masi
Art Nehf
New York Giants
Joe Bush J
New York Yankees
Pel Sentes
Mitchell
Mike McCormick
Doby
Ricket
Boudreau
Holmes
Robinson
Dark
Torgeson
Gordon
Kellner
Eliot
Judnich
Braves Elliott
Rickert
Debu
Salkeld
Elliott
Hegan
Daby
McCormick
Stanky
Keltoer
Helmer
Milwaukee
Jett Heath
Perc
A. B. Chandler
Deby
Keltner
Mitchell Taok Holmes
Ldeep
Truman Digs Up Political Skeletons In Philadelphia Speech
President Truman attacked Governor Thomas E. Dewey during a Philadelphia rally accusing him of using a slogan about two families in every garage while promising to push labor legislation to repeal Taft Hartley. He contrasted Hoover era housing pledges with current GOP rhetoric.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Hoover
GOF
Mr. Trawan
Dewey
Patteson and Neely Campaign Rally Schedule Outlined
Raleigh County Democratic events announce October 23 gathering in Beckley with Senatorial candidate M. M. Neely and gubernatorial candidate Okey L. Patteson. Prior rallies planned for Sophia October 12 and Pemberton October 14 with refreshments and a get-together afterward. Robert C. Byrd arranging a October 13 Negro rally at Morton Reeves Elementary School with speakers W. L. Lonesome and Mrs. Mary G. Carper.
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Patteson
Neely
Werats
Raleigh County
Harry Anderson
Democratic Committee
M. M. Neely
Fairmont
Okey L. Patteson
Mt. Hope
Beckley
Sophia
Pemberton
Robert C. Byrd
Morton- Reeves
W. L. Lonesome
Mary G. Carper
Anderson
Vishinsky Hears Opening Debate at United Nations
The United States indicted Russia before the United Nations Security Council on a charge of menacing peace with the famine blockade of Berlin. Andrew Vishinsky attended, criticized the session as illegal, and left in a rage after hearing Philip C. Jessup accuse Russia of pressuring Western powers from Berlin. President Truman summoned Secretary of State Marshall from Paris. John Foster Dulles is abroad and warns of tense U S Russian relations.
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Associated Press
United States
Russia
United Nations Security Council
Berlin
Andrew Vishinsky
Boyrott
Philip C. Jessup
Soviet Union
Jessup
Columbia University
U. S
Germany
Truman
Marshall
Paris
John Foster Dulles
U. N
GOP
Thomas E. Dewey
New City Parking Lot Opens At Fayette And Howe
Mayor G. C. Hedrick announces a city run parking lot at Fayette and Howe Streets is complete and ready for use though unmarked. The lot is expected to hold about 100 autos while General Manager A. K. Minter takes a leave of absence. James D. Lilly will lead streets and sewers and handle complaints, with contact numbers 4545 at night and 5547 in the morning.
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G. C. Hedrick
Fayette and Howe Streets
Hedrick
A. K. Minter
James D. Lilly
Minter
Lilly
St Albans Girl Killed By Car on Route 60
An 11 year old girl Violet Spencer died after being struck by an automobile on U S Route 60 West of St Albans. She was the daughter of Myr and Mrs Ellis Spencer of Smith.
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Associated Press
ST. Albans
Here
Violet Spencer
Myr
Ellis Spencer
Smith
West Virginia Chamber Plans Nov. 15-16 Meeting
The 13th annual West Virginia Chamber of Commerce gathering will be at White Sulphur Springs November 15 and 16. Dr. Virgil Jordan of the National Industrial Conferences Board will keynote the annual dinner on the 16th. The chamber’s business meeting and director elections occur on the morning of the 16th. Dr. Charles S. Tippetts and George E. Sokolsky are slated speakers for the event’s first day events and dinner.
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Associated Press
Charleston
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce
Virgil Jordan
National Industrial Conferences Board
Chamber
Charles S. Tippetts
Mercersburg Academy
Viice
Federal ‘Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh
George E. Sokolsky
Park Dedication Pageant Set for Grandview State Park
Governor Clarence W Meadows and Dr C F McClintic arrive in Beckley at 2 40 pm for a 3 pm dedication of Grandview State Park Major Woodrow W Dickey Civil Air Patrol liaison in Washington DC attends as guest George Bright Beckley Chamber of Commerce Grandview Park committee chairman Master of ceremonies E F Bibb Sr presides Speakers include Senators Revercomb Kilgore Representative Hedrick invocation by Dr J L Lineweaver benediction by Rev Paul J Smith Woodrow Wilson High School band to perform
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Clarence W. Meadows
C. F. McClintic
State Conservation Commission
Beckley
Grandview State Park
Meadows
Woodrow W. Dickey
Civil Air Patrol
Washington, D. C
McClintie
George Bright
Initiation Fee and Dues Boost Sought by United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis urged the United Mine Workers convention to raise monthly dues to 4.00 and initiation fees to 50.00, with new member dues split among local, district, and international bodies. The plan routes one dollar to locals, one to districts, and two to international. He proposed exemptions for pensions and distress recipients and ending local death benefit payments. The proposal awaits committee study of constitutional changes.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Convention
International
Lewis
Asisen Lewis
UMW
Jecal
National Labor Relation
Heard
Fire Forces Gov Earl Warren and Family Off Train
Flames swept the rear of Gov Earl Warren’s private car early today, driving the governor and his family from bed and halting the vice presidential special. The Aleutian suffered damage. train crews uncoupled and left the car on Chesapeake and Ohio rails ten miles east of Maysville for Cincinnati repairs. W C Kautz received a building permit for a four room house on King Street in St Francis Addition at a $5,000 cost.
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Warren
Chicago
Earl Warren
Chesapeake and Ohio
Maysville
Cincinnati
W. C. Kautz
Office of
City Recorder
King Street
St. Francis Addition
Navy Refuels Planes Aboard Big Carriers
In a Pacific test, 12 short range fighters and bombers flew 2426 miles from Moffett Field to Barbers Point via in-flight refueling. Led by Lt Cmdr William S Bringle, the group landed on two carriers after 11 hours 35 minutes, proving combat aircraft can be ferried long ocean distances with stopovers.
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Associated Press
Honolulu
Navy
Pacific
Enwethee
Motfelt Field
Calif
San Francisco
Barbers Point
Hawaii
J. Hoskins
Air, Police
Princeton
California
Moffett Field
Cmdr
William S. Bringle
Nashville
Tenn
Bringle
Docket for Criminal Court Completed in Raleigh County
The docket lists guilty pleas from James and William Hensley for breaking and entering and related charges, with other inmates from Dear Phelps to W.W. Hicks. Seven murder cases are scheduled for trial including Ethel Mac Perry and James Henry Ingram with dates in October. Several additional cases cover manslaughter, robbery, grand larceny, and various offenses with multiple defendants set for October 11 through October 26.
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Raleigh County
James
William Hensley
Dear Phelps
Elmer Reed
W.W. Hicks
Bastaray
Jake Stewart
Ethel Mac Perry
Sophia
Billy Perry
James Henry Ingram
Mabscott Hill
Matt Suturn
Bell
Earnest Aaron Worrell
Ibeaver
Albert Fred Worrell
Princeton
Willa Allen
Westmoreland Street
Walter Otha Brown
Charles J. Scott
Clyde Bradford
Claude D. Drake
James Dickens
Cecil Hughes
Waldo Manning
Golden Petiy
Walter McMillan
Raymond Holley
Cleve K. Nicks
Paul
Paul‘ine Profit, Attempt To Will, and Maiming; Jack Smith
John Bika
Charles Chambers
Troy Nichols
Dewey Snyder
N. G. Meadow
Frank McKinley Good
W._W. Hicks
Eva Ella Ingrem
Delbert Canterbury
Steve Underwood
Norman Toney
W. B. Spangler
Delmas Roy Wort ‘Ley
Randolph Perdue
Nathaniel Austin
Wayland Redden
Walter Wisnewski
George Milam
Frerett Wilson
William T. Harris
Mercer Street
Wiliam TH
Bil) Harris
Ellison Avenue
James Leftwich
Lee Scalf
Henry Howard
Carl Bragg
Billy ‘Milton
Paul Vennari
Don D. Cooper
James Rallyson
Robert McDowell
Kenneth McDowell
Clarence FB. Woodward
Carl Lester
William Freeman
Natelle Gallio
John W. N. Baker
Dewey Byrd Miller
Maaming
Sterling Muller
Edgar Jarrell
Ross Morris
Ernest Bonds
Garland C. Buchanan
Pavis
Blevins
Carmelo Mcito
Frank Shores
E. F. Stafford
D. E. Wipperman
Kenneth Wilk
Bill Brosky
Blanche Cooper
Ben Navis
Wilson Frazier
I. P. Falin
George Quincy Guminoe
Tierbert D. Geiger
Pauline Hargis Profit
Walter Wis
Hewski
Patil FE
James Rollyson
Hert McDowell
Kenneth Me' “Dowell
Mason Expires at Home After Illness
Wyatt Omer Mason 62 of 215 Grove Avenue died at home Tuesday night after an extended illness. Born January 5, 1886, he was a retired contractor and decorator. Survived by wife Blanche M. Mason two sons William in Baltimore John in Beckley and five daughters Mrs Sorrells of Midway Mrs Clay of Raleigh Mrs Beasley of Durham Mrs Goins of Beckley and Mrs Gunter of Beckley. Also eight relatives including sister, brother, half brother and nine grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are at Calfee Funeral Home.
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Wyatt Omer Mason
Grove Avenue
J. W. Mason
Mason
Blanche M. Mason
William O. Mason
Baltimore
John R. Mason
Beckley
James Sorrells
Midway
Clyde Clay
Raleigh
Edwin Beasley
Durham
N. C
Arnold Goins
Nolan Gunter
A. B. Pierson
Lundale
B. B. Mason
Bluefield
Clarence
Jenky
Calfee Funeral Home
Reds Buzz U.S. Planes in China
Pilots of American owned airliners flying travelers from Mukden Manchuria report Russian fighters shadowed their C 46s over the China coast between Mukden and Tsingtao near Port Arthur. One pilot said a 9000 foot pass by P 29s occurred while heavy passenger load rode the plane. The second pilot reported Wish 46 attacked by P 39s two miles southwest of Port Arthur.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
Hese
Elevator fall injures bellhop at Oklahoma hotel
Eugene Carthern, a 20 year old Negro bellhop at a Pawhuska hotel, fell five and one half floors down an elevator shaft after unlocking a top floor door. He suffered a fractured right arm but remained conscious.
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Fueza Pawhuska
Okla
Eugene Carthern
Carhern
Princeton Street Workers Strike Over Recognition
Princeton, a city of 7 500, lacked street and sewer work and garbage pickup for a second day as street department workers struck for recognition of United Construction Workers Local No 867. UCW seeks a contract covering wages hours and conditions. the council cites lack of legal authority to recognize.
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Associated Prose
Princeton
United Construction Workers Local No
UCW
United Mine Workers
Charles L. Skeens
Prnion
Merlin Miller
Death Decreed For U.S.-Born Jap Traitor
Tomoya Kawakita a California born Nisei faces execution by gas chamber at San Quentin after being convicted of treason for aiding Japan during World War II. Judge Mathes sentenced the 28 year old to die noting he would have harmed the Pacific fleet or atomic secrets if given the chance. His mother expressed distress while Kawakita maintained innocence and appealed for mercy.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
California
Tomoya Kawakita
Japan
Camp Oeyama
William C. Mathes
Nisei
San Quentin Prison
Morris Lavine
Lavine
Kawakita
Mathes
Pvt
Sadao Munemori
Rose Kawakita
W. R. Fugitt
Manas ‘Rer
Demos Gain Over GOP In Early Registration
Voter registration figures from three counties show Democrats ahead by 4 1,255 over primary totals while Republicans rise by 918. Secretary of State D. Pitt O'Brien said the reports are the first received before the November 2 general election. Other party gains in the three counties total 49.
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Demos
GOP
Associated Press
Charleston
Secretary of State Today
Democrats
Secretary of
D. Pitt
O'Brien
Revercomb Ignored in Warren Speeches
Warren eschewed endorsement of West Virginia Senator Chapman Revercomb during campaign stops in West Virginia. Revercomb appeared on his train but received no public backing. Warren praised Revercomb only at Charleston after Point Pleasant, reflecting a GOP rift rooted in Dewey Revercomb policy clashes over the displaced persons bill.
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Associated Press
Warren
Chicago
Senate
West Virginia
Chapman Revercomb
Thomas E. Dewey
West
Mevercomb
Revercomb
Republican Congress
Dewey
Clarksburg
Pargershburg
Congress
Albany
McCullough Dies in New York Hotel at 39
Wilcer McCullough, 39, aide to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway president and a longtime Cabell county Democratic figure, died today in a New York hotel after a heart attack. He collapsed, lapsed into a coma before a doctor arrived, and never regained consciousness. An attorney, he held many major posts under state and national Democratic administrations.
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Associated Press
Huntington
F. Wilcer McCullough
Chesapeake c and Ohio Railway
New York
McCullough
Cabell County
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Clarence Woodward
William Baer Hatley
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Arthur
Woodward
Harry Stump
Tyree Summers
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Jaming Clay
Thomas Edward Woolwine
Earl Kinney
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Virts
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Glenn Orren
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