Postal Workers Run Own Bookie Plant in Chicago
The Chicago Daily Tribune reports an elaborate bookie network within the main U S Post Office Building at 433 Van Buren St with thousands of dollars wagered daily among about 15,000 workers. Runners accept bets from 50 cents to 3 dollars and winners are paid by handbook agents who are postal employees. The Tribune demonstrates entry into the system with a reporter posing as a worker and observes bets placed across departments. The paper notes the network takes about five percent of bets.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Chicago Daily Tribune Today
U.S
van Buren St
the Tribune
Some Chinese Reds in Battle
Allied troops trudged through snow and over rugged summits toward Manchuria to confront Communist forces in a tense border area. The distant clash signaled continuing Sino Allied military pressure in the region without confirming orders or outcomes.
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Associated Press
Seoul
Manchuria
United States backs move to ease Franco ban at UN
The United States will back a UN special political committee resolution to revoke the ban on sending ambassadors to Madrid and allow Spain to join UN affiliated bodies. The measure stops short of full UN membership or reversing Franco regime condemnation. Britain plans abstention. Latin American and Arab support grows.
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United States
United Nations
Spain
U. S
United Nations Special Political Committee
Madrid
U.N
Dean Acheson
Tom Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Britain
Franco
Scouts to Assist Ushers at Freshmen Football Night
Beckley scouts report to Stadium at 6 15 PM to help usher for the University of West Virginia freshmen football night game versus Woodrow Wilson. The Lions Club event awaits at the West Virginia ington and Lee venue tomorrow.
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Beckley
Lions
West Virginia
Ington and Lee
University
Five day West Virginia forecast issued for Oct 28 to Nov 1
Five day extended forecast for West Virginia predicts showers Saturday night or Sunday and again Wednesday totaling about a quarter to three-fourths of an inch. Temperatures average two to five degrees above normal with milder Saturday cooler Sunday and warmer by Tuesday. Normal ranges cited for the north and south portions, with high and low readings noted for Glade Creek and rivers at Bellepoint.
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Spiny Peninsula
Sea of Japan
U.S. 8Th Army
ROK
Unsan
Chosan
United Nations
U. S. 8Th Army
Yalu
Manchuria
West Virginia
Teachers Hear Gov Patteson National Leader in Convention
Governor Patteson welcomed teachers at the West Virginia Education Association’s 68th annual convention in Charleston. Notables like John K. Norton and Quentin Reynolds addressed sessions as five groups met. Miss Corma Mowery urged adequate funds and strong teacher corps, while State School Superintendent Trent praised educators for advancing democracy and equal opportunity. Claussen cautioned that racial and religious prejudice and violence must be overcome, a process requiring generations of effort.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Patteson
West Virginia Education Association
White Sulphur Springs
John K. Norton
Columbia University Teachers College
Quentin Reynolds
State Association
Corma Mowery
Clarksburg
National Education Association
America
W. W. Trent
Bernard C. Claussen
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church
Cleveland
Bond Amendment For Schools Gets Patteson Support
Governor Paterson urged passage of the school bond amendment at the West Virginia Education Association convention. He warned the 50 million-dollar revenue gap for the next biennium and said the measure would shift county responsibility for school buildings while the state covers operating costs. He praised ongoing construction in state colleges and emphasized shared funding to improve administration.
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Associated Press
Charleston
Patteson
West Virginia Education Association
WVEA
Police Nab Escapees After 95 MPH Chase
Two juvenile suspects from West Virginia Industrial School for Colored Boys at Lakin led police on a 95 mile per hour chase in a stolen 1941 car, crashes near railroad tracks overturned the vehicle, one youth with a spinal injury was hospitalized and the other jailed. A 1948 car owner reported the theft shortly after. A case of automobile oil and pearl earrings were found in the car.
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West Virginia
Lakin
Mabscott
Charleston
C. & R. Music Company
James Turner
S. Oakwood Avenue
Oakwood
Bluefield
Raleigh General Hospital
Raleigh County
Destructive Northwest Storm Strikes Coast Leaving Deaths and Damage
A Pacific storm swept into the Northwest causing one death and widespread damage from Santa Barbara to Oregon. Winds up to 75 mph toppled trees and flooded basements while coast guard crews handled distress calls and ships in trouble. Two freighters dragged anchor in San Francisco Bay, sustaining minor damage as Sacramento lost power.
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Associated Press
Northwest
Pacific
California
Plains States
Mercury
Wichita
Kas
Tulsa
Okla
Santa Barbara
Oregon
Coast Guard
San Francisco Bay
Sacramento
Meat shortage warned without higher U S output
Washington based meat economist Carl H Wilken warned that a shortage and rising prices loom next year unless the government enacts incentives to lift production. He cited surveys showing consumers may need 155 to 160 pounds per person in 1951, well above Agriculture Department forecasts.
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Washington
Carl H. Wilken
Raw Materials National Council
National Independent Meat Packers Association
Agriculture Department
Wilken
Body of Wyoming Hunter is Found
William Howard Halsey 45 a native of Wyoming County died reportedly of a heart attack after exertion while squirrel hunting near his New Richmond home. A search party found his body atop a mountain at 11 50 p m yesterday. Survived by parents a daughter nine sisters and three brothers. Funeral set for 2 p m Monday at New Richmond Community Church with burial in Jackson Cemetery.
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Melvin Pratt
Salem
Herbert
Oceana
Woodrow
Otis
New Richmond
Garner Byrd
Archie Cecil
Charles Donathan
Henry Blankenship
Hester Moran
Pearl Halsey
Estel Perkins
Rhodell
Vance Ray
Charleston
Orville Cook
Tralee
New Richmond Community Church
O. A. Sparks
Garland Phillips
Jackson Cemetery
Pineville
Coal Tonnage In Week Ended Oct 21
The National Coal Association estimated bituminous production at 11,750,000 tons for the week ended Oct 21. In the same week of 1949, during the United Mine Workers strike, output was 2,471,000 tons. For the week ended Oct 14 this year production was 11,500,000 tons.
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Associated Press
Washington
National Coal Association Today
United Mine Workers
Pay Increase Granted at Martinsburg Stocking Company
Interwoven Stocking Company and the American Federation of Hosiery Workers have negotiated a six cent hourly wage rise and a six percent piece rate increase under the work contract. The firm employs about 1,500 in Martinsburg and roughly 100 at a Berkeley Springs branch plant.
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Associated Press
Martinsburg
Interwoven
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
Berkeley Springs
Eisenhower Open to Heading Pact if Offered
General Dwight Eisenhower said he would accept leadership of the North Atlantic Pact military organization if offered, though delaying any immediate action while serving as Columbia University president. He stressed US strength is needed and cautioned that real strength must back words, and noted no rush on a presidential bid. He spoke at a Columbia WV alumni event and planned a Washington trip.
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Charleston
Dwight Eisenhower
North Atlantic Pact
Columbia University
West Virginia
Eisenhower
United States
Columbia University Club of
Washington
U S Philippine graft charge repudiated by Philippine president
Manila article accusing Washington of graft faced repudiation by President Elpidio Quirino who said he did not authorize publication and promised disciplinary action. The piece, issued by Malacanan press office, claimed Filipinos faced harsher graft than the U S and referenced the Bell mission report to President Truman.
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Associated Press
Manila
Washington
Philippines
Elpidio Quirino
Malacanan
Philippines White House
Federico Mangahas
Quirino
Bell Mission
Truman
Daniel W. Bell
U. S. Treasury
Republic
U. S
Myron Cowen
United States
General MacArthur
Nellis Group to Get No Accident Award
In Montcoal a 10 year record without a major accident earns the Nellis car shop crew a No Accident Award. Armco Steel supervisors host a dinner meeting at 6 pm in the Ruffner Hotel Charleston with Ladies Night observed. Crew recipients include Paul Carter C O Pierpont Arnold Barker Ernold Barker Dell Kingery Baren Chandler Truman Barker and Edward Kinder.
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Montcoal
Nellis
Armco Steel Corporation
Ruffner Hotel
Charleston
National Association of Foremen's Club
Paul Carter
C. O
Pierpont
Arnold Barker
Ernold Barker
Dell Kingery
Baren Chandler
Truman Barker
Edward Kinder
West Virginia News Briefs: Fatal, Accidental, and Domestic Incidents
West Virginia brief items report a drowning when Andrew J. Berry, 40, lost control of his car and plunged into the West Fork River near Weston. In Parsons, 19 year old John McCumber was accidentally shot in the arm by his father while deer hunting. In War, Deputy Sheriff Joe Runyan says Doris Whittaker, 25, is being questioned over the fatal shooting of her stepfather Eura Davidson of Bartley Hollow. In New Martinsville, Lovil, charged with shooting his wife after an argument over supper, waived preliminary hearing on felonious shooting.
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Andrew J. Berry
West Fork River
Paul Ebbert
Parsons
John McCumber
War
Joe Runyan
Doris Whittaker
Eura Davidson
Bartley Hollow
New Martinsville
Lorman Lovil
Prices Rise on Flour and Tires Across Markets
New York mills announce a 10 cent per hundred pounds increase on most major family flour brands effective tomorrow after a 15 cent hike today, price set at 7.70 per hundred pounds in New York. Seiberling Rubber boosts auto truck farm tire prices in Akron, with white sidewalls up 10 percent and other tire increases around 7 to 4 percent, matching Goodyear moves.
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New York
Akron, O
Seiberling Rubber Company
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Hatchet Attack Trial Opens in Wheeling
Mrs. Virginia Cottrell, 33, stands trial on a mayhem charge over a hatchet attack on her husband Doyle Cottrell, 41, a roofer, at their Wheeling home on September 14. Doyle was critically injured but survived.
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Wheeling
Virginia Cottrell
Doyle Cottrell
Cottrell
Armed Forces Slow Mobilization Pace Across Services
Washington reports a easing pace in mobilization after the Korea invasion. Secretary Pace cites plans to release National Guardsmen and reservists next summer, halt enlist ed reserve calls for the Air Force, meet Navy reserve needs, and limit Marine reservist recalls as the four services implement new recall and discharge procedures. A Fort Lewis order pauses overseas reservist shipments and pace hints at more troops flowing to Europe, though no National Guard units will be sent overseas.
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Associated Press
Washington
South Korea
Pace
Air Force
Navy
Naval Reserve
Marine Corps
Secretary of Defense
Marshall
Fort Lewis
Wash
Department of the Army
Europe
Army
Defense Secretary
Air Reserve
Air National Guard
Air Guard
Death Rate Low Among Wounded
Washington reports the death rate among American wounded arriving in Korea and Japan hospitals is under two percent. Maj. Gen. Raymond Bliss, back from a month at the fronts, contrasted this with World War II and World War I mortality rates and praised the Korean war medical service as vastly superior. He cited 15,000 battle casualties in three months and noted the medical force operated with about 40 percent fewer doctors than in 18 months after Pearl Harbor.
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Associated Press
Washington
Korea
Japan
Army
Raymond W. Bliss
Bliss
Douglas MacArthur
U. S
Pearl Harbor
Solon Says War Materials Being Loaded for Reds
Senator O Connor of Maryland charged that a ship bound for Communist China is loading large cargoes of petroleum products scrapped tires and galvanized pipe at American ports. He said the loadings began or will begin in Baltimore Philadelphia and New York and urged customs and the Treasury to recheck the cargo.
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Washington
O'Conor
D-Md
China
O’conor
Senate Commerce
Baltimore
Philadelphia
New York
Treasury Department
U.S
Department of Commerce
Commerce Department
U. S
Korea
Second Negro Band Festival Planned in Huntington
A second annual State Negro Band Festival is planned for Huntington next spring with bands from seven states, led by Mrs Arrena Gipson of Douglas High School Band Music Club. It will occur May 11 and 12, a week after the white high school bands festival, with invitations sent to St Louis and Indianapolis and others to Kentucky, Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio.
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Associated Press
Huntington
Arrena Gipson
Douglas High School Band Music Club
West Virginia
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