Nationalists Hit Communist Shipping Off Formosa Coast
Chinese Nationalist forces struck Communist shipping along the China coast as a Red gunboat and over 100 junks and five motorized vessels were damaged. Quemoy and Amoy area artillery exchanges continued with firefights. U.S. officers report no further American casualties beyond two killed Friday.
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Formosa
China
Defense Ministry
Quemoy
Amoy
Reds
Alist Army
Chang
U.S
Britain Urges U S to Halt Nationalist Raids on Formosa
London debate splits along party lines as Daily Telegraph Daily Herald and Daily Sketch urge the United States to curb Chiang Kai-shek forces raiding the Formosa mainland. They warn against widening tension with Communist China while backing American defense and Formosan containment.
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London
United States
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
Daily Telegraph
Churchill
China
Daily Herald
Labor Party
the Herald
Britain
The
Daily Sketch
the Sketch
America
Stewart in county office amid personnel changes
R L Stewart of Beckley was seen in the circuit clerk's office today, replacing Noel Meadows who resigned to join Sixth District Rep Robert Byrd in Washington. Clerk Van Hunter would not confirm Stewart's role, remarking only on potential police contact if misdeeds were alleged.
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R. L. Stewart
Vance Drive
Beckley
Noel Meadows
van Hunter
Register
Stewart
Hunter
Meadows
Washington
Sixth District
Robert C. Byrd
Records Tumble In Swelter Belt
Heat wave across the nation pushes many cities to date records with 90s and 100s. Baltimore ties all time high for date at 96 while Maryland State Fair reports fifty heat prostrations. 104 set in Charlotte and Louisville, plus 101 in Lynchburg, Cincinnati and Dayton as cooler Canadian air spurs scattered storms.
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Associated Press
Green Bay
Wis
Midwest
Philadelphia
Canada
Maryland
Baltimore
Greensboro
N. C
West Virginia Weather Update and Regional Temps
Scattered thundershowers likely this evening with low 60s to 66. Wednesday turns partly cloudy and cooler. Temperatures through Sunday average 3 to 6 degrees above normal, with warmer days, scattered rainfall late week, and light total rainfall except northern portions. Normal highs 70s, lows around upper 60s to 70. Local readings include Beckley and Oak Hill daily highs in 80s to mid 90s and morning values. rivers and reservoirs show normal stages and clear conditions.
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Beckley
Fale Ae
Vverzecenancsevas
Chatexe
OAK Hill High
Bellepoint
Greenbrier
Bluestone Reservoir
Hitlers Youngest General Freed
WERL Germany Former Maj Gen Kurt Meyer Germanys youngest wartime general was released from the British war crimes prison in Werl after more than a decade. He was convicted in 1945 for mass shooting of 18 Canadian prisoners. his death sentence was commuted to life, then cut to 14 years. Time off for good behavior enabled the release.
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Werl
Germany
Kurt Meyer
Meyer
Normandy
Canada
Dorchester
N. B
Johann Neitz
School Pay Held Pending Budget
Raleigh County school system payroll is delayed as the State School Board of Finance reviews the budget. Officials say the approved budget is expected from Charleston at any time. Pending payments include principals coaches band directors and supervisors who began duties before the Aug 30 school start and whose checks were due Aug 27.
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Raleigh County
State School Board of Finance
County Board of Education
Charleston
Two Heroes To Receive Medal Of Honor From President
President Eisenhower scheduled ceremonies at the Summer White House to award the Medal of Honor to two Korean War Army heroes. 1st Lt. Benjamin F. Wilson of Vashon Washington and M Sgt Ola L Mize of Gadsden Alabama will be honored, with Mize the 70th and Wilson the 72nd Korean War veteran to receive the award. The event followed the President’s annual physical at Fitzsimons Army Hospital and included a televised address announcing an immediate start toward an international atomic pool for peaceful use.
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Denver
Lisenhower
Infantry
Benjamin F. Wilson
Vashon
Wash
Ola L. Mize
Gadsden
Ala
Mize
Wilson
White House
Fitzsimons Army Hospital
United States
Russia
James C. Hagerty
Eisenhower
U S to Step Up Air Power In Europe
The United States plans to rotate tactical Air Force fighter-bombers and troop carriers for temporary overseas duty in Europe to boost air power. The program tests unit mobility and provides crew experience, with several squadrons kept on scene to maintain continuous presence in the European theater.
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Washington
Europe
Tactical Air Force
Strategic Air Command
Air Force
England
Inter
UN Asked to Take Up Attack on U. S. Plane
The United States urged an early United Nations Security Council meeting to address the Soviet attack on a U.S. Navy Neptune patrol bomber off Siberia. Nine crew members survived a night at sea after the two engine plane was damaged by Soviet jets. one sailor died. The U.S. condemns the action as unprovoked.
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U. S
United Nations
N.Y
United States
Russia
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Security Council
Siberia
Lodge
New York
Beverly
Mass
Council
Francisco Urrutia
Columbia
Soviet Union
Ens
Roger Henry Reid
Alameda
Calif
Siberian
Charles E. Bohlen
Urrutia
Kremlin
U.N
Washington
State Department
United States Navy
Atsugi
Japan
Ernest Louis Pinkevich
Navy Department
Vladivostok
Navy
Religious Leaders Call for Fair Elections Plea
Six religious leaders urged race and religion free campaigning in this fall's elections. They urged citizens' committees to monitor local campaigns for bias and sent telegrams to GOP chairman Leonard Hall and Democratic chair Stephen Mitchell. Signers include Bishop Henry Sherrill, Bishop Edwin O'Hara, Rabbi Julius Mark, Hunter College president George Shuster, Mrs. Douglas Horton, and Irving M. Engel.
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New York
Citizens
Leonard W. Hall
Stephen A. Mitchell
Hall
Mitchell
Mechanical Failure Delays Beckley Street Line Painter Demo
Richardson Tractor Co. representatives and city officials witnessed a mechanical line painter demonstration on Neville Street. The engine started but spray nozzle could not be adjusted to the four inch standard, prompting a halt and a plan for a second demo this afternoon. The machine costs about 350 dollars plus 53 dollars for a curb attachment, ordered by Mayor Davis Chief Hall and Street Commissioner Warden to assess city purchase viability.
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Richardson Tractor Co
Charleston
Elmer Davis
Evan Hall
D. E. Warden
First Ave
Neville St
Beckley City
Exhition
Davis
Hall
Warden
Comic Books Destroyed At Canton Fair
Youngsters watched crime and horror comics ripped up at Stank County Fair in Canton Ohio. For every ten destroyed, they received a hard bound book of choice from 1 010 volumes supplied by the public library and the Mayor's Advisory Committee for Good Reading Habits.
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Canton
Ohio
Pair Forfeits Bonds For Road Violations
Two Beckley residents forfeited bonds of 57.50 each after failing to appear for a hearing before Magistrate J. P. Meadows. James Cadle faced a driving while drunk charge and Gladys Craddock faced a charge of permitting an intoxicated person to drive her car. Sgt. C. C. Stewart of Beckley, with the West Virginia Turnpike State Police, arrested both.
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J. P. Meadows
James Cadle
Beckley
Gladys Craddock
Sgt
C. C. Stewart
West Virginia
Petit Jurors Excused for Circuit Court Term
Petit jurors for the current term were excused this morning from further duty until 9 a.m. Thursday. Cases docketed for today were settled or continued.
Beckley Man Arrested for Petit Larceny
Bernard Coleman of Beckley was arrested by Beckley Police on petit larceny charges and lodged in Raleigh County Jail at 10 40 a m today.
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Bernard Coleman
Beckley
Raleigh County
Labor Day Accidents Hit 527 Deaths In Weekend Toll
Presstime Bulletin reports Labor Day weekend fatalities across the United States totaling 527. Traffic deaths numbered 357, drownings 91, and miscellaneous fatalities 79, marking the lowest Labor Day toll since 1948 despite exceeding a nonholiday weekend total.
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Associated Press
Fire Station No 2 Ends First Year
Beckley Fire Station No 2 on Third Ave closed its first year of operation with six firefighters reporting 190 fire calls and 56 first aid calls. Chief Bernard Martin recalled a frigid Labor Day 1953 opening when men stayed at Station No 1 overnight for blankets and to ensure the station opened on schedule.
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Beckley
Third Ave
Bernard Martin
Martin
Creator of Mutt Jeff Succumbs
New York Bud Fisher 69 creator of the famous Mutt and Jeff comic strip died in Roosevelt Hospital of cancer. Fisher started the strip for the San Francisco Chronicle in 1907 and was later signed by William Randolph Hearst. Born Harry Conway Fisher in Chicago on April 3, 1885.
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New York
Bud Fisher
Mutt and
Jeff
Roosevelt Hospital
Fisher
San Francisco Chronicle
William Randolph Hearst
Harry Conway Fisher
Chicago
Five Hurt in Bus Crash West of St Clairsville
Five persons were injured when a Greyhound bus bound for Wheeling West Virginia crashed a guardrail and plunged down an embankment nine tenths of a mile west of St Clairsville Ohio. Eight treated at Martins Ferry Hospital three released. In hospital was Alma Wentz 53 Wellsburg West Virginia with injuries to left shoulder and left chest in fair condition.
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ST. Clairsville
Ohio
Wheeling
W. Va
Here
Martins Ferry Hospital
Alma Wentz
Wellsburg
Flanders files new charges against McCarthy
Sen. Flanders charges Sen. McCarthy with covering up forgery and violating the Espionage Act. The Senate panel met in closed session to decide whether unnamed witnesses should testify as protest from McCarthy's lawyer over a partisan brief arose. Flanders noted a Sept. 2 letter to Chairman Watkins about McCarthy's use of FBI memo summaries from Ft Monmouth radar lab.
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McCarthy
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Committee
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Watkins
Utah
MecCarthy
McCarthy Army
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Army
Ft. Monmouth
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J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Army Intelligence
Subcommittee
Hoover
Vermont
Walter Winchell
Watkins Committee
Wisconsin
Sen. McCarthy
Mundt Subcommittee
Court Grants Airport Space to Air Guard
Raleigh County Court approved a one year lease allowing the West Virginia Air National Guard 8167th Squadron Replacement Training Unit to use 200 square feet in the administration building and 200 square feet in the implement building at Memorial Airport. The Guard may use runways taxiways and apron space, store fire and crash equipment, with Memorial Airport retaining first priority and a $1 per month token rent. The lease can be terminated with no further liability if occupancy is challenged by state or federal action.
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Air National Guard Command
West Virginia
Memorial Airport
Raleigh
Anthony J. Sparacino
Robert L. Davis
J. K. McLaughlin
State Air Guard
Air Guard
8167Th
Home Town Honors Set for Maj Yeager
Hamlin West Virginia prepares to honor Maj Charles E Yeager with a Civil Air Patrol swearing in ceremony upon his return from Edwards Air Force Base California to Ramstein Germany He is due to arrive around September 22 and perform the ceremonies three days later as part of the welcome home events
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Hamlin
W. Va
Charles E. Yeager
Civil Air Patrol Squadron
Air Force
Maj
Yeager
Edwards Air Force, Base
Calif
Ramstein
Germany
Contested Miss America Pageant Draws Picketing War
In Atlantic City Violet Fuchs claimed to be Miss Connecticut and wore the pageant badge, clashing with officials who recognized Dorothy Anne Hopkins as Connecticut’s official entry. Patricelli, promoting Violet, filed breach of contract suits seeking 210000. Preliminary judging begins tomorrow ahead of Saturday’s crown.
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Atlantic City
N.J
WAC
Middletown
Connecticut
Violet
Lenora Slaughter
Dorothy Anne Hopkins
Storrs
Conn
Dorothy Anne
Connecticut Junior Chamber of Commerce
Alfred Patricelli
New Haven
Patricelli
Brewster’s Board of Education tenure debated in Supreme Court
The West Virginia Supreme Court heard arguments on the legality of Huntington editor Raymond Brewster’s appointment to the State Board of Education. Brewster, president of the board, was renominated for a nine year term in 1952 by Gov. Patteson, while Gov. Marland sought Homer Gebhardt’s confirmation in 1953. The Senate rejected Gebhardt, confirming Brewster, with legal questions whether a vacancy exists and if Brewster serves as a valid holdover.
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Charleston
Huntington
Raymond Brewster
State Board of Education
Supreme Court
Brewster
Okey Patteson
Marland
Homer Gebhardt
Senate
Asst
Arden Curry
Board of Education
Curry
Paul Chambers
Logan
Patteson
Kanawha
Frank Taylor
Baby Delivered After Woman Falls to Death at Parkland
An expectant mother, Elrena Marie Harris 23, fell from a third floor window at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. Doctors performed a Caesarean section minutes later and delivered an 8 pound 6 ounce boy named Peace Justice Pierce McBride. Verdict withheld pending investigation.
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Dallas
Parkland Hospital
Elrena Marie Harris
Patricia Walker
Rod Bell
TV Boon or Curse Investigated by Nuffield Foundation
A two year study in London by a British research group seeks to determine if television helps or harms youth. The Nuffield Foundation formed a nine member committee of educators psychologists and experts to oversee the inquiry.
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The
Nuffield Foundation
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