West Virginia Library Assn Meeting and Related Events
The West Virginia Library Association meets at Bethany College with Laurence Mumford and Christine Gilbert as speakers. Other events include the West Virginia Heart Association conclave at Huntington with Dr E Cowles Andrus, and a Recreation Festival at Jacksons Mill. A long-reported reunion in Charleston links Lonnie Holt and John Hoge after 27 years. A tour of Europe by 48 state chairmen, Sponsored by Henry Ford, includes a day in East Berlin. WVU faculty visit 89 WV high schools to advise students on college education plans.
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Librarian
Congress
Laurence Quincy Mumford
West Virginia Library Assn
Bethany College
Christine Gilbert
Parents Magazine
West Virginia Heart Assn
Huntington
E. Cowles Andrus
American Heart Assn
West Virginia
Jackson's Mill
Charleston
John E. Hoge
Gordon
Lonnie
John Hoge
Lonnie Holt
Holt
Georgia
D. Boone Dawson
Dawson
Europe
Berlin
Henry Ford
National Crusade
West Virginia University
WVU
Prison Riot Sparks Riot Causes at Missouri Penitentiary
A masked ex-con called the Missouri State Penitentiary a “college of crime” on KWK radio TV saying he learned to crack safes there. He claimed riot causes included poor food and staff issues. four inmates died, 31 injured, $3 million in damage.
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ST. Louis
Missouri State Penitentiary
Mr. X
KWK
Kwk-Tv
Bradykinin linked to pain and blood pressure in venom study
March of Science reports that bradykinin BK a chemical mediator found in human blood and body fluids is released by wasp venom and snake venom triggering pain and could lower blood pressure. Dr M Rocha e Silva and researchers in London and Middlesex Hospital outline BK’s role in pain, vascular effects and potential medical uses.
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
M. Rocha E Silva
Biological Institute of
Rocha E Silva
Rochae Silva
London
C. A. Keele and Associates
Middlesex Hospital Medical School
R. Jacques
M. Schachter
National Institute For Medical Research
Mill Hill
Cattle Egret Arrives in United States Migratory Pattern
The cattle egret, a heron family member native to Spain Africa and warm Asia, has recently migrated to the United States.
Death by Own Action Sparks Storm in British Press
London reports say Edward Alexander Pilgrim, 49, hanged himself in his garden shed after debt from a land plot condemned for municipal housing. The tragedy prompted protests against state condemnation powers, with Prime Minister Churchill’s Conservative Party facing calls for reform.
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London
Edward Alexander Pilgrim
Churchill
Pilgrim
Land Loan Society
Macmillan
Cabby Gets Help But Judge Straddles Fence
St Louis cab driver Elmer J Fisher faced a speeding charge with support from Edwin B Meissner president of the St Louis Crime Commission and ex police commissioner The arresting officer testified Fisher drove 50 mph while Meissner said he followed and observed 30 mph The judge Judge David W Fitzgibbon fined Fisher 10 dollars and placed him on probation from the fine
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St.louis P
Edwin B. Meissner
St. Louis
Fisher
Ex-Red Exposes U. S. Communists Barricade of Smears
Excerpts recount a 1946 House Un-American Activities Committee hearing on Gerhart Eisler. The narrator describes receiving a subpoena, being put on the stand with little prep, and giving testimony that formed the core of subsequent revelations. Mundt’s line of questioning led to Eisler’s two trials and highlighted Soviet infiltration across American life.
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Eisler
House UN - American Activities
Washington
House
Karl Mundt
Gerhart Eisler
Leon Josephson
Josephson
Denmark
Court Will Rule On Conviction of Rep Bramblett
The Supreme Court agreed to rule if Rep Ernest Bramblett was properly convicted on seven payroll kickback charges. Bramblett was found guilty of false statements to the House Disbursing Office regarding a payroll for a woman, netting about 3300. The case followed a stay of judgment as doubt arose whether the false statement statute applies to the legislative branch. The court also took up cases involving Minnesota voting leave, Oklahoma eyeglass law, Aubry Williams death sentence, Chicago water plant plans, and Roy Rogers and Gene Autry lawsuits over telecast use of old films.
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Washington Fi
Supreme Court
Ernest K. Bramblett
Rcalif
U.S. District Court
Bramblett
Justice Department
U.S
Walter Bastian
Bastian
Legislative Branch
Department
House
Minnesota
Oklahoma
Aubry Williams
Georgia
Henry Furst
Williams
Fulton County
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Roy Rogers
Gene Autry
Rogers
Republic Pictures Corp
Autry
Republic
Doomed Wife Seeks Successor for Care of Child in Ad
In London, Kathleen Ford 42 with tuberculosis rehearses an idea to place an ad seeking a second mother, hoping a chosen woman will care for her 8-year-old adopted daughter Sheila and possibly marry her husband Jack. Kathleen has about 18 months to live per doctors.
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London
Kathleen Ford
Jack
Sheila
Mrs. Ford
Kathleen
Parents Causing Most Of Integration Trouble In Schools
U S Commissioner of Education Samuel M Brownell says parents, not children, block racial integration in the public schools of the South. He notes youngsters accept integration and credits parental influence for recent flareups in Washington DC.
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Los Angeles
U. S
Samuel M. Brownell
South
Brownell
Washington
Washington, D.C
Bridegroom Misses Ticket Note From Honeymoon
Houston corporation court clerk Johnny Goyen found a note on an overtime parking ticket stating that as a new bridegroom there are more important things than the ticket. The message on the back promised love and referenced a honeymoon in India. The front asked to see him on return from Karachi with the signer Robert E. Waska, a State Department employee. Goyen will pay the $1 fine himself.
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Houston
Johnny Goyen
Corporation
India
Robert E. Waska
State Department
Karachi
Pakistan
Goyen
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College of Crime
March of Science
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AP Science Reporter
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Beckley
Federal Reserve System
Federal Bank
United States
Federal Reserve Bank
G. C. Hedrick
D. C. Dade
U. S. Bair
Robert Winston
Charles T. Ross
W. Va
Raleigh
George M. Kellman
St.joseph’ Aspirin
Cabby
Judge
Ernie Adamson
Adamson
Ruth Bryan Owen
Germany
Rep
Howard Camp
Cohen Drug Stores
Cohen's Drug Store
Neville St. Beckley
White Sulphur Springs
New Haven
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Penney’s
America
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