Trustees Faces Liability Claims In Coal Fund Disbursement Case
Testimony described how a multi million dollar fund was disbursed with acts of dissipation attributed to Lewis and Bridges. Van Horn backed ex miner George Livengood in seeking an accounting from the U S District Court. A coal operators spokesman argued trustees may bear liability and sought dismissal of Livengood's complaint against him.
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Lewis and Bridges
van Horn
George Livengood
Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court
Livengood
Peak Efficiency Urged To Protect Farm Gains
Mrs Sayre urged farm families to unite to safeguard gains and warned women could shape world policy if they accept responsibility Women could influence world outcomes in democratic nations and men looters are fewer except in Australia Farm Bureau cautioned against Washington driven “danger signs” in farm policy Government controls not a solution. Brannan plan would pension farmers while limiting production Our farmers are not on a gravy train per Lynn Prices have declined to trigger supports. domestic duties should not blind women to global developments
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Lynn
Farm Bureau
Washington
Mrs. Sayre
Brannan
American Farm Bureau Federation
Clyde Bonar
Burlington
Left
West Virginia Farm Bureau
Raymond Sayre
Ackworth
Iowa
Associated Women
AFBF
Associated County Women of the World
J.C
Jack) Lynn
AFBY
Washington, D. C
Register Farm
Denfeld ousted as Navy leader amid Azores crash fallout
Admiral Louis Denfeld faced an angry demonstration from 250 sailors near the Pentagon after Secretary Matthews and President Truman announced his removal for opposing defense cuts favoring Air Force bombers. Denfeld pledged to fight for the Navy yet signaled acceptance of leaving if it aids the service, with no official successor named.
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Elton C. Fayap
Washington
Louis Denfeld
Navy
Naval
Pentagon
Denfeld
Matthews
Truman
White House
J Parnell Thomas to Stand Trial on Defraud Charge
Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff set Rep. J Parnell Thomas's trial for November 7 on government defrauding charges. He rejected another delay after private physicians reported the 54 year old congressman has a stomach disorder. Thomas once chaired the House Un American Activities Committee and faces indictments for payroll padding and kickbacks.
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Associated Press
Washington
Alexander Holtzoff
Rep. J. Parnell Thomas
Holtzoff
Thomas
House Committee On UN- American Activities
U. S
George Morris Fay
William H. Collins
Bids on Five Beckley Streets To Be Opened Saturday
City bids on five Beckley streets will be opened at 10 a m tomorrow at a special City Council session. Streets listed include Canaday Street from F to G, Glenn Avenue, John Street, Beaver Avenue and an alley off Reservoir Road.
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Beckley
Phil H. Wilson
Canaday Street
Glenn Avenue
John Street
Beaver Avenue
Reservoir Road
Silent State Police on Ghent Armed Robbery Arrest
Beckley police report two Ghent men Rudolph and Arlis Maddy were arrested on an armed robbery charge and jailed in Raleigh County. James Vick of Maple Fork paid a $10 fine on a road violation and posted $500 bond on a peace warrant filed by Vick.
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Beckley
Ghent
Rudolph
Arlis Maddy
Raleigh
James Vick
Maple Fork
J. P. Meadows
Howard Billips
Billips
Meadows
Vick
Raleigh County Criminal Court Ends Term Praises Jurors
Judge W A Riffe praised the October term jurors as dismissed after the Darby murder case was moved to January. One guilty plea occurred as Johnny McGowan accepted petit larceny for auto theft and grand larceny charges, with sentencing set for November 8. Laura Thomas's charges were nolled and Balaskey’s case moved to the January term.
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Raleigh County Criminal Court
W. A. Riffe
Riffe
van Hunter
Johnny McGowan
Laura Thomas
McGowan
Frank Balaskey
Reds Pick George Allen as Yugoslav Envoy in War Ties
Washington reports that the administration named George W. Allen ambassador to Yugoslavia to face Moscow angry at U S policy while Rep. Mike Mansfield nears selection to head Voice of America. Allen will leave his post as assistant secretary of state for public affairs as Cavendish Cannon resigns due to ill health.
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Associated Press
Washington
George W. Allen
Russia
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Voice of America
Allen
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Iran
U. S
Moscow
State Department
Mansfield
Truman
Cavendish Cannon
Cannon
Six Die as Plane Falls in London
An American flier survived a London Airport amphibian crash that killed six aboard. The Superior Oil Co. aircraft from Los Angeles crashed in fog after takeoff. sole survivor co pilot Earl Oscar Sivage, 33, of Los Angeles and Cairo, was burned but escaped the cockpit. Victims included Robert Allen 45, vice president of Superior Oil, James Lewis 40 of Caplan Livingstone and Lewis, Los Angeles, Sir Hugh Weighman 50, W. J. Horne 40, officials of the Central Mining Investment Trust of London, pilot Joseph Jordan of Los Angeles, and radio officer Andrew Cole of Long Beach.
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Associated Press
London
Superior Oil Co
Los Angeles
London Airport
Earl Oscar Sivage
Cairo
Robert Allen
Superior Oil Company
James Lewis
Caplan, Livingstone and Lewis
Hugh Weighman
W. J. Horne
Central Mining Investment Trust of London
Joseph Jordan
Andrew Cole
Long Beach
Calif
Cerdan Among 48 Aboard Air France Constellation Crash
A Paris to New York Air France Constellation crashed near Sao Miguel Azores killing all 48 aboard. French boxer Marcel Cerdan and 11 Americans were among the dead. The craft struck Algarvia Peak in bad weather shortly before a planned Santa Maria landing. Rescue teams found 37 passengers and 11 crew dead eight hours after the wreck. Also perished were violinist Ginette Neveu and several notable figures. Cerdan was en route to a title bout with Jake La Motta at Madison Square Garden.
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Associated Press
Paris
Azores
Air France Line
Marcel Cerdan
Sao Miguel Island
Santa Maria
Air France
Cerdan
Ginette Neveu
United States
Guy Jasmin
Montreal
le Canada
Remigio Hernandorena
Kay Kamen
Kay Kamen, Ltd
Walt Disney
Philip Salles
New York City
Fifth Avenue
New York
John Abbott
Silbernagel
the Bronx
Edward Sophine
Brooklyn
Glen White Child Is Polio Victim
The illness of Annabel McDaniel has been diagnosed as infantile paralysis, officials of the Raleigh County Health Department announced today. The 18 month old daughter of Mr and Mrs William McDaniel of Glen White is receiving treatment at Morris Memorial Hospital.
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Annabel McDaniel
Raleigh County Health Department
William McDaniel
Glen White
Morris Memorial Hospital
Charleston convict captured in Florida
The Associated Press reports Charleston police arrested Robert B. Bailey in Palatka Florida. Bailey, 35, is charged by warrant with the robbery slaying of Mrs. Rosina Fazio a 56 year old Charleston storekeeper. Rewards totaling 200 dollars had been posted after Mrs. Fazio died in a hospital following injuries from an ear accident.
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Associated Pres
Charleston
Palatka
Fla
Robert B. Bailey
Rosina Fazio
Bailey
Death article: Beatty chose suicide over blindness
London coroner’s court ruled that Hon. Peter Beatty, 39, grandson of Marshall Field and son of a British admiral, killed himself at the Ritz Hotel rather than live blind. He jumped from the sixth floor as his sight failed, and the court said he took his life while distrubed by ill health.
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London
Peter Beatty
Marshall Field
Ritz
Judge Orders Special Circuit Court Term
A special term of Raleigh County Circuit Court will convene at 9 a.m. Monday to act on matters from the last term. Judge Ben H. Ashworth ordered the session with no jury to be summoned. A special judge will be elected from Raleigh County Bar Association members to serve in his absence due to illness.
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Raleigh Counity Circuit Court
Ben H. Ashworth
Ashworth
Raleigh County Bar Association
Hinton Man Missing From Hunting Party
Curtis Thurston 74 a Hinton railroad worker vanished on a hunting trip as rescue squads comb rugged terrain above Blue Stone Reservoir The Rev F A Ferry a hunting party member said Thurston did not appear at a pre arranged meeting place yesterday
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Associated Press
Hinton
Curtis Thurston
Bluestone Reservoir
F. A. Ferry
Thurston
Auctioneer with Heart Sells Bikes for Bucks
Detroit youngsters received bicycles at the police department auction led by Alex Anderson. He ensured kids bid first with a quarter minimum while adults paid later, raising a total of 3,554 dollars as the last bikes went to the children.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Alex Anderson
Anderson
State Groups Act to Avert Hunger at Church Mission Meeting
Directors for the Young People's Endeavor for the Church of God were appointed in Sprague as the state meeting closed. Plans to raise 25000 for home and foreign missions and the Sevierville orphanage were announced, with 1000 earmarked for a Parsons church. Meanwhile Charleston groups sought hunger relief amid steel and coal strikes with school lunch credit and salvaged funds aiding the needy.
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Church of God
Sprague
Glenna Johnston
East Rainelle
Kenneth Lowe
Elkins
Evelyn Road
Huntington
E. J. Gilbert
Mullens
Leroy Imperio
Piedmont
L. A. Carey
Princeton
H. Hall
Smithers
L.S. Lambert
War
Sevierville
Tenn
Parsons
F. J. Dake
Atlanta
Paul H. Walker
Beckley
James Reesor
Canada
Memorial Building
Associated Press
Charleston
Wheeling
Levering Bohar
Wellsburg
Salvation Army
Red Cross
Brooke County
Wellsburg Welfare Group
Benwood
R. P. Deegan
Cops Capture Two Escaped Felons in Chase
In Wilmington two of eight New Castle County Workhouse escapees, John Henry Minor and Jesse W. Palmer, were recaptured after a highway pursuit ends when their stolen yellow convertible overturned near North East, Maryland. Still in prison garb, they surrendered to state police. six accomplices remain at large as the manhunt continues.
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Associated Press
Wilmington
Del
New Castle County
John Henry Minor
Bear Cleve
Fla
Jesse W. Palmer
Tuscumbia
Ala
North East
Bidault Named France Premier in 50-Year Crisis End
Georges Bidault, 50, head of France’s MRP and wartime resistance leader, was confirmed as premier ending France’s longest political crisis in five decades. He presented his cabinet to President Vincent Auriol, backed by center parties and a program similar to that of Moch and Moyer. A cost‑of‑living bonus for low paid workers was promised as coalition unity held. France had been without a government since October 6 resignation of Quiollès.
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Herman Adkins
United Mine Workers
Kingston
Fayette County
Associated Press
Paris
France
Georges Bidault
MRP
Popular Republican Movement
Bidault
Vincent Auriol
Assembly
Bidsalt
Jules Moch
Rene Moyer
Fiemier Henri Quielles
Rene Waldeck Housseau
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Arbutus Darby
Reds
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Manhasset
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Atlantic City
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Irene Zisanitch
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