Lewis Seeks Silence on UMW Pledges Before Convention
John L. Lewis said the United Mine Workers have no pledge against strikes with the War Labor Board and offered forecasts of plentiful domestic coal this winter. He dodged questions on political stance and postwar policy as the biennial convention opened in Cincinnati.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
U.M.W
National Labor Relations Board
War Labor Board
LASW
UMW
W.L.B
Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Federation of Labor
APL
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A.F.L
Ray Edmundson
Springfield
Illinois U.mlw
International
Edmundson
Autonomy
Europe
Belgium
France
Czechoslovakia
Poland
WAAF Officer Identified Robot Bomb Threat Isolated
London reports F O Constance Babington Smith of the WAAFs first spotted the flying bomb model in reconnaissance photos of the German Pennemunde station eighteen months ago. Daughter of Sir Henry Babington Smith, she joined in 1940 and her clue spurred Allied aerial efforts and the growth of spotters and anti aircraft defenses that aided the Battle of London.
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Associated Press
London
Air Ministry
Constance Babington- Smith
W.A.A.F
Pennemunde
Sir Henry Babington-Smith
Bricker Launches Campaign Against New Deal Liberty Claims
Bricker denounces the New Deal as eroding liberty at home and declares the 1944 issue is whether the United States can remain a republic. He outlines four steps to restore domestic freedom and contrasts Republican aims with eleven years of the New Deal.
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Associated Press
French Lick
Ind
John W. Bricker
United States
Columbus
Ohio
America
Bricker
Republican Party
Charleston Boys Indicted in Drowning Death Case
Kanawha County grand jury returns murder indictments against two Charleston youths aged 12 and 14 after the drowning of 11 year old Luke Anderson. Anderson’s body was located in the Ascomated Pass.
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Charleston
Indicted Youths Named in Davis Creek Case
Prosecutor Jd Blackburn Watts states Ralph Withrow, 12, and Carl Walker, 14, were last seen with missing Anderson. The jury reported 114 true bills including 40 misdemeanors. A wool product was reprocessed, woven once, then unraveled and rewoven.
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Davis Creek
Ralph Withrow
Carl Walker
Prosecatoar
Blackburn Watts
Young Anderson
Aotal
James Weir Thanks AP's Kent Cooper for Free News Crusade
James M Weis publisher of Randolph Review Elkins West Virginia sent a telegram to Kent Cooper executive director of the Associated Press praising his effort to open channels of free and unbiased news. The note recalls Cooper's 1914 telegram that sparked a 30 year campaign to improve international news flow.
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Axcuiated Press
New York
James M. Weis
West Virginia Publishers Association
Kent Cooper
Associated Press
Toa
Weir
Randolph Review
Elkins
W. Va
Cooper
la Nacional
Buenos Aires
Associated Press News
McDowell County Schools Reopen After Paralysis Outbreak
McDowell County junior and senior high schools will reopen Monday after a prolonged infantile paralysis vacation, with elementary schools to follow later. The move follows the disease’s seventh local case. Charleston official T Sterling Evans is named West Virginia representative for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, expanding state chapter leadership and plans. Bibby notes a new state headquarters will boost the foundation’s regional program after prior leadership from G B Tiffany.
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Associated Press
Welch
J. A. Bennett
J. E. Offner
McDowell County
Charleston
T. Sterling Evans
West Virginia
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
James A. Bibby
Evans
Chamberlain
Kanawha County
Biboy
National Youth Administration
South Charleston
Wood County
Priory
G. B. Tiffany
Pittsburgh
Bibby
Leader Of 34 Polygamists Vows to Continue After Jail
In Salt Lake City 34 members of the Fundamentalist cult defending plural marriage prepare for a September 15 trial on conspiring to evade Utah anti polygamy laws. Leader John Yates Barlow, 70, says the movement will persist despite convictions, claiming the revelation motivates their work. He notes large Sunday meetings in Salt Lake City and Short Creek with hundreds attending.
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Salt Lake City
Fundamenvast
Utah
Greying
John Yates
Barlow
Cult
Mormon Church
They praving FDR Dewey kinship claim in radio bit
Bruce Chapman, radio host, says Roosevelt and Governor Dewey are seventh cousins once removed. He traces lineage to Richard and Hepzibah Lyman of Northampton, linking Hepzibah’s relative to Katherine Lyman and Warren Delano, whose daughter married James Roosevelt, father of the president.
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Associated Press
New York
Roosevelt
Dewey
Bruce Chapman
Chapman
Thomas £. Dewey
Richard and
Hepzibah Lyman
Northhampton
Mass
Josiah Dewey
Joan Lyman
Katherine Robbins Lyman
Warren Delano
Sarah Delano
James Roosevelt
Beckley Men Plan Attendance at West Virginia Kiwanis Convention
Beckley delegates led by W. R. Fugitt will attend the 25th annual West Virginia district Kiwanis convention in Charleston on Monday and Tuesday. A Monday 3:30 p.m. trustees and international reps meeting is at the Daniel Boone hotel followed by a 7:30 p.m. tribute program and flag service. Fugitt will deliver a Tuesday message as district governor successor. officers to be elected and reports presented. Alternate Beckley delegates: B. E. Carter E. C. Minter G. C. Porter.
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W. R. Fugitt
H. J. Monroe
Douglas Bowers
W. A. James
West Virginia
Kiwanis Club
Charleston
Fugitt
Daniiel Boone Hotel
Fugiit
Beckley
B. E. Carter
E. C. Minter
G. C. Porter
Delinquent Selective Service Registrants Identified
Walter Ellis Terry age 20 of Pemberton Earl Raymond Harlow age 18 of East Beckley and Charles Emory Slone age 23 of Beckley failed to file questionnaires and update addresses with Selective Service Board No 1 and are listed as delinquent.
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Walter Ellis ‘Terry
Pemberton
Earl Raymond Harlow
East Beckley
Charles Emory Slone
Beckley
Selective Service Board
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