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THOUSANDS of rtporters cover the world daily to bring your morning news in the Berkley Post- Herald. BECKLEY POST-HERALD VOLUME XLIX--NO. 66 OF THE WEST VIRGINIA SMVM.KSS COAL WEATHER West Virginia: Partly cloudy a few scattered thundershowers in west and south Monday. Member of A i Bureau of Circulations BECKLEY, WEST VIRGINIA, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1949 Associated Wire PRICE 5 CENTS wire IJ Robertson Blasts SENATE SE TM Syrian Chief Slain YUGOSLAVS BID Tfl FIFF IN APQ A TA WADI 111CU1 IXCUUUllC Lewis 'Monopoly' 5 Military Seize iiO WORLD BANK, On Coal Industry President, Premier Die Before Firing Squad After 1 Aid In Fi ht Brief Trial By Army Officers; Leaders Plan Russian Squeeze New Government Of Civilians 01 a clay in mlVll dima e(l on-ihe-spot scrutiny by a Proberi Plan Full-Scale Study Of 'Influence' Of Gen. Vaughan WASHINGTON.

Aug. Senator Says Three-Day Work Week a investi atc rs strove today Lead To'Higher Consumer Prices; UMW fi they called big A CL i i gaps' in Maj. Gen. Harrv H. Urders Short Schedule Maintained jvaughan's account of the case of by the death WASHINGTON, Aug.

1 --Iff)-- AJI i i a i Sena- the home freezers. squad. tor said today a testimony indicates Lewis' who President Tru-; President Hiisni Zayim, who seix.ed power on March 30, commissron to union was a monopoly" a is controlling coal produc- TM mjlltary aide has explained a Premier Mulisen'Bey Bcrazi were executed at a lion which will lead to higher consumer prices. pr a i i 8 a a i a 1)Hef i a senior a f- I i Senator said witnesses heard so far generally agreed 11945, and that he in turn "made i cers powers of inonopoiistic jgifts of these units to certain' A. series of communiques did not specify the charges friends of mine," all called the two traitors, a and dictators.

notables. Hennawi a former fellow Tne Senates special mvestiga- army officer of Zayim. met with a I 4 1 lions subcommittee has of politicians. They asked AKTOI1 IlCWSDOV To Right; Leftists Smashed BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug. Yugoslavia's bid for a Col.

Sami a i World Bank loan is to come under; Onservatlve Grou PS Roll Up Mounting Leads As a spec-; this expects the i arrive tomorrow. neede1 to law unions." Senator Roberfson (D-Va) offered this summary of testimony before the Senate Banking Committee which has dealt with the coal industry and Lewis' United Mine Workers. Witnesses have included coal operators other business representatives. Lewis, who has beep, vigorously Pvst.v»»«»wt Trk ilestimcmy a a11 of tne freezers. Hasem Bey Attessi, former presi-! 1 1 UjCldlll 1 IjaVC were aid or the Albert Verley jdent of the republic, to form a new J.

i IV a Chicago perfume house. (cabinet. He accepted the request! VclDtUTCS A i The comrnitt ee in studying immedately consulta- ezer episode has subpoenaed' "ons. Soap Box Contest AKRON, Aug. subpoenaed of the Verley company.

It! Hennawi, who fought alongside! WASHINGTON, Aug. 14--W 1 )--j also is looking into the activities of i Zayim in the Palestine war, install- criticized in the testimony, has so Fired by a presidential plea, ad-'John Maragon, who has said himself BS chief of the armed! far declined an invitation pear or send a lieutenant. Robertson, presiding hearings will continue weeks on the inquiry into "eco-jthe first two reorganization plansjpass said" he regards! leaders ail over Syria were i Box Derby and a 55,000 college ance. Returns Pass 10,000,000 Votes; Communist- Fail Even In Industrial Ruhr A Germany, Monday. Aug.

The commission is est ia i swung to the right as returns the Yugoslav application for a olu vestcria a i a a election passed 1.0,000,000 to bolster the nation's economic' votes. Pe i a i ml a i rolled up mounting of a i UK Socialists and Communists. Returns from 106 of the 242 elec- en ate Members i lio districls showed the conser Ivative Christian Democrats were leadin the'ieftwing Social Demo- IvCoiriCl crats (Socialists) by about 600.000 Foreign ArmsPlan' The Christjan Free Democrats together nations Eastern Europe. i Upon the commission's decision! imay depend the degree of success! i Premier Marshal Tito will achieve in maintaining art independent: position--half-way between East 1 and West--and i i his own five-year plan for developing Yugoslav resources. Responsible diplomatic officials say they expect the commission of approval to a i part of nomic power of labor organiza-i be 'tested on Congress.

lions and possible adverse effects (n Against formidable ot Vaughan as a good friend He was to tne capital imme- scholarship. Although figures are unavailable i0r arms WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 held nearly half of the votes tallied A sharply divided Senate com- roup ol 25 members today and then adont a seemecl read i' lo writ new re-1 The Communists had polled i'ude on thP HT! strictions oi kind into thoroughly 7.8 per cent of the total on me Dai- aam WJU I vote; Even in the industrial Ruhr -the Social Democrats held a three-to-two leftwing parties. industrial state American occupation paced by the Free will continue. i would convert the i Lewis put the three-day work i I a 8 Federal Security Agency into! Vaughan, in a week into effect during riegotia-j a new cabinet department of White House yesterday, Uons with operators for a i a witil Oscar Ewing, now FSA freezers were given to nun a sassmatecl was discussed in Da- iV A "urn MikeiihooH a contract.

He was faced 'with a ad, expected to be the first sec-1 courtesy by "old friends" David imascus by foreign observers sev- states Pa "ama, Canada, a i a a a P' i stockpile of coal aoove thei a covers health, education i Bennett and Harry Hoffman. Ben-; 1 era! months ago. Alaska in the 78-heat thrill-filled a in a mining equipment ground and the "loss of revenue and some security services. nett heads the Verley firm. (His oooonents were said tn in- races.

8 icuitura! machinery will be to also Hesse. Elsewhere, the Free Demo- given an edge over Socialists in Hesse. Elsewhere, su cn er been expected. i Kui.iMiK uic ins. forthcoming North Atlantic com-! for his union's welfare fund in i Plan No.

2 would transfer i a 1S a Milwaukee advertising elude the wealthy landowner Donald Kelpsch, 14, of Some American and British ff detense plans i tne tree Democrats were running case he chose to strike. The move U. S. Employment Service and the! a re POftedly once associated'Moslem religious leaders and cer-1 was secon losing the finals tok-ials here while thZi II ma Provide lor distribution serves to spread the work related Unemployment Insurance 1 a company. tain government officials dissatis-! erks by a yard.

Third place exoended hv American military The committee has a subyoena fied over Zayim's "one-man" i to Charles P. Muhl, of Cleve-j thousands of Uxes drew i a another 14-year-old. i ma a comm "tee wnen is set up by supplies est returns showed: among his men. Service to the Labor Department. The committee has a subpoena fied over Zayim's "one-man" to Charles P.

Muhl, of Cleve-i direction of the defensp Christian Democrats (conserva- The United Mine Workers con- Tney were submilted bv esi out for Hoffman. A staff investiga-; policies. Higher taxes drew a another 14-year-old. workers mav recommend (committee when it is set KV lives). 3.506,088.

i A A I flTri i i i i i i i i i -r i i i i i i i i the soft coal operators June 30. The operators under the Taft-Hartie mained effective i u.i,." IUU3 senate disapproves. Supporters. 6 U1 A1 autunun, was nun, arid sixth went tolremamed silent on the litest oenera. aays alter the union gave notice plan say this means 4y sena a a account of wha yim was reported considering re- Fred Collins, 14.

of Indianapolis, i a blacklisting some t0 TS a EO toTM aUy and favored i question whether ihe union min- i''leaves big gaps to be filled in. ed Moslems, Zusv reported) ers, in former years had a i onng it.to the: We still want to know what moti-i Syrian broadcasts to the Middle, "no contract, no work 1 policy, But the Senate, the Ex: Hoffman and Bennett to.East said Hennawi told the would continue to work three days ecua committee make gifts valued at about-he is not seizing power and nrtipn KrttK 1 saying: sixth a year ago. sn enemy. Young Derks got everything out i ivision for western technical ne Or Atlantic council under 1 perts for more efficient results. i 12 -nation treaty.

Neither I Meanwhile the official Belgrade I nor Vandenberg wish to (press--and government officials--! a the start of tne 'ms flow. General Vandenberg was said senators already to have in closed meetings of the i combined foreign relations and Social Democrats (socialists) Free Democrats (right wingers 1,395.111. Communists 780,008. Two extreme rightwing groups, the German Party "and the German Rightist Party, had polled together v- TM ead gifts valued a week-or any other number-i ur ed re ectl both plans. to Vaughan." after today.

i( 9 senators vote against a Lewis was but another this answer it was put "There is no change in the sit-'reorganization effort may depend! uation. The United Mine Workers 'on the outcome of the vote. will go ahead and work on He said former President Hoover 1 i ITT three-day week, just like they've a his concein. Mr. Truman! I A been nomg.

saicl were in ine i 1 WU-TVIC ff contract negotiations recommendations of the Hoover i the union and Northern and West- i commission which studied the EOV-' ern operators are currently in ernment and up extensive 1 cess until August 23. So are.tnose: a i fnr nhant people of his lrim racer a was Quoted i his enin hea 27.36! 4- i seconds, the next three in 27.22! "We free Republic of seconds an then took the finals' 27.16 seconds over the 975.44- turn mclme carved his- rr.cer from-an which tin f) ri .11 fV HPtl vl UplU One broadcast gave this descrip-; ms father helped cut down. tion of the coup: Jn or tne coup: AJI the work on the racer, under AA'GOLA. Ind Aug 14 lator Three carloads of Syrian Army, derby rules, was done by the! An outboard motorboat a i rode to Zayim home early jyoungster. He said he needed 12 i seven persons overturned in ripar' 1C r-r i rr t-4 U.

I i i i proposals for changes. er forme i i morning and forced their a months tc whip his car i'ntoTharn-! Lake" in after a brief fight with shape. con. drowning smal' chil: and arrested. Although he and the car wereidren armed services committee any re- nearly 500,000 votes.

These two on this country's deci- had been expected to at- as to where these arms shall tract many former Nazis. go. The 2D members of the two I In Flensburg. in the British zone I committees are considering the'members of a rightwing bloc legislation as a body. marched through the streets sing) Lrie general also has ing "Deutschland senators.

any move Itional I make, the program merely a stop-i many, after affair until the defense com- elected over a Danish minority mitteo can get into operation. Sen- candidate. denb was the i i Out of 31,000,000 eligible voters Western Germany, reports said 70 per cent had 'balloted. was higher than had been expected. compromise.

involving the H. C. Frick Coal company. Lewis has indicated in general terms that he wants a pay increase, a shorter work day, and an increase in the 20-cents-a-ton royalty the mine operators pay into the Miners' Welfare Fund. He has rejected offers by the North-West operators to renew the old contract, unchanged, for 20 months.

In announcing that the Senate Banking committee will continue a i a toda 'hearings, Robertson said addition-: ne U. S. Weatru al testimony will deal with this 'temperauires were "quite Welfare Fund accumulated by! a it" in the Great Lakes region payment of 20 cents a ton on coal i the northeastern area and mined. He said it show a Pacific Coas payment "is not deductible by the The CagDa ns a one shot i military tribunal was his mount weighed in a a engagement which two were led immediately and sentenced'total i wounded early today. to death 3 fter i a PLAINS HAVE RAINS DCCT AP IT AtHji Uf U.

0. REPORTS FAIR DAY CHICAGO, Aug. 14 without charge for 10 rin Syria Thundershowers hit the plains- Police Lt. George Bicek, said i arising mainly states, but much of the nation a the three men were guests' at a fighting. The father of the children a champ five-year-old daughter of one' oo- me were saved.

The others ra three rb sa i is -iextre northeast corner of WHITE DENIES TROUBLE TWENTY RED OFFICERS -j REPORTED MASSACRED HAMBURG. Germany, Aujp. British-controlled Nichols and Odel Emberton, 28, i i to former Tennessean, were held i Zayim had The U. S. Weather Bureau rainstorms were operators as a business expense, trated in the South Central plains! and cannot be classed as a pension a near the Canadian border for it fund for tax purposes because: the most part.

Although rainfall I went to his room The nthPr, fni tne miners have no vested interest: was light in most of the wet area. llowVd broke thT'lock on Ember" had a 4.83-inch i ton's door, and entered Saturday which dropped: i temperature from 93 to 69! p- XT within an hour. The Kansas storm a nnes 'Are (Jut nrnrA-ouirn i mro bor by glisty winds of PERFORMER FALLS, DIES to velocity. Seattle, had a low tern; of 57 last night Muhl, for third place, -T XT party last night. During the fes- I Colonel Hennawi, who is in his a movie camera He is a trombonpU Orville Bremer of I of us considered the crhnni and the other (other a Brahmin," he said.

I daUgh er of 0 Hol gland I BrahmLns are the highesi of four of Hindus and oppose inter-) 33. saved his youngest caste marriages. Dolores, by holding her i White disclosed yesterday a clinging and Poppy Cannon, food editor: and Nicholas said it was the other concen- ay around. Bulletin SHANNON. Ireland, for the first since the game sponsored the (ABC) radio 3 "America's Town Meeting the I 0y LODGEPOLE Hold Picnic PITTSBURGH.

Aug. 14 tl First names were out at a picnic i J- here today. airliner little writer city injuries 15 An early rcdar into 40 miles west of Lime-'not delermined. not immediately Her physicians said her nown whether this was a Trans- riition remained critical. ocean Airlines charter aircraft with 47 passengers previously re- SYDNEY Australia, ported overdue on a flight from Aug.

15 iVP) Australian "We now he were of ideal weather. The was i overturned when it struck of a speeding boat, -on- The mothers of the four children were on shore in a cabin where the families were visiting friends a a Coiir: cil lhe dam on July 25. There was no confirmation or the story from any official sour- The newspaper said the bomb was exploded in a plot to kill Soviet Marshal Konstantin Ro- kossovsky. who commands a line of communication troops in the Soviet zone of Germany. During the war he commanded the Soviet armies which drove German troops from present Polish western territories.

The newspaper quoted "reli- ahlr sources of the German provincial Kovernment in Branden- find ourselves on a i 28 peo-! laughing. Mrs. Edilh Sampson, chairman I the executive committee of i DFTrp TAUnnnAtir RITES TOMORROW Bruenger air show, is the of J. C. Jones, San Antdnio, Sheriff W.

W. SchQltz said the! NEW jr him to 'The .18. PP PLANS YORK. Aug. l'4-Bandits A EJ, i i i Hi re to work on a payroll motor procession.

t(Kia a mountain road in Sardinia' Mrs. White said she was born in killed three police; Capetown. South Africa, in 1907 guards and fled with 9,000.000 lira Her father, a Weishmar. died 10 and drift to the ground. Todav however Taylor's chute failed to open and he plummeted a 60 fee Mrlh KILLS ALL 32 ABOARD BOGATA.

Colombia, The crash of a commercial airliner in the Andes mountains West of Bogota yesterday killed all 32 persons aboard. Most of the passengers were on way to Giradot on the Magdalena river to spend a three-day holiday. The Saeta airline plane hit a brought Bogota today. "ML3. I'll be said kce is about 30 miles west Pf.

a 35-hour week and long in greeting. "LFM." Shannon Airport turned the, other. "Talked to you ne Transocean Airliner was en a dozen times--so that's what you i to lne United States. It was ot tne aemands was grant- vesterdav Bended national way it went through da call letters, not! Eastern Standard Time). The last ihe miners in a tne a i contact with the plane was from Canberra last night to a hand grenade attack -II course, at 11:00 p.

GMT, airport of- 'heir ranks of Communists. The fictals said. Home base for Trans; Labor government charges the ocran Airlines is at Oakland. Calif, walkout, which ignored lhe Com- Shortly before the crash a state monwealth's machinery for com- of emergency was declared at pulsory arbitration of labor Shannon Airport because no radio pules, was inspired by Commu- contact had been made with the nists. missing American airliner for Australia has about 24.000 more than three hours.

miners. Flares were sent Tip over the airport in attract the attention of HOME. Aug. dl 01 iNegro Women R1ILO iUmUAlVUn ALBERT DAVIS, 86; NPEVA rsnco M-Q -T-O Aloert Davis. 86.

of Manle Muse proud AI Dert 5 6 Ma le have hw marry Mr. White Meadow, diea at ms home yes' an 7 7 I eacners Slowly Replacing AIRLINER CRASH IN S. A. Vefs To Fill College Ranks Officials Plan Guard As Three-CountTrialOpens A i. 1, high, ecre'ary H.

mother now Virgini5 He was 3 member of the Bap; i Church in Maple Meadow. )He was born June 12, 1863, county. the son of Hugh and Ruhamah Bryson Davis. Survivors include: three daughters, Mrs. Parthena Bisgs.

Beck- A MisS Pearl Lester, Aug. a Mrs Br a Trump of pians were laid casr and attempt to get a death bar one sister, Mrs. Josie Stover, college training. airport tn attract the attention of HOME. Aug.

75-year i for Blaine Ed- penalty." Ohio: six grandchil- Concord, Fairmont Marshall lhc a in the 't was at- old woman trudged into the main gar Jones. 32-year-old- Rirhlamis K'Jnyon anticipated i i rir nine and West Liberty 'have 'even tfn approach the Shannon 'piazza of Verbania vesterday. un- Va Xavv x-eteran who eoes r-n seating a ur because of the nd tnree great grandchil- increases over vear's arra blind strapped a knapsack from her back tr or vv given the case. A dr The pilot of the missing plane and started to walk away a here tc rr orro TM a pane! of .15 has been drawn. Preceding him in death were ntified as Capt.

J. Bessey. The knapsack exploded with 0 1 i i rfennji Mrs. Loi? Collins circuit court room can Wlf e. Mrs.

Laura E. Cook roar. The blast killed the woman Us March. commooate approximately gr-0 Davis, and two sons. John K.

ind At: 34 and injured 15 other persons. Jones, named in a thre-coont aunyon 8 gers Worke- nfirial Police said the knapsack prob- i uu Stephenson. who Tne bocl will remain at the said more than 800 teacher, are Li k.nf in TNT. high ex- -ill r.e.r the e. funeral home until 3 p.

rr, voday when will te removed to i home at Maple Meadow. NEW YORK At-2 14 I a 21 a he i was arrested at the Bland Funeral services will be held -1 1 bride; County. Virginia. i a School-going teachers are replac: vided by the 1947 legislature for mg war veterans in advanced college training. college summer school en- Sv pt in rape bbery as 'r veekeno -L 5 bv and murder, has been held in an Pecterf the courironm to be vtfrve.ui as.u.m? nis prison since he con- Howmg with spectators.

i nere will not a mme tomorrow. i u-- i vprp D. Large numbers of veleran. have principally for the UMW ioeen attending both summer and -emergency teachers." LVJ Slovulr i college terms to catch up without the usually required train- rorrner ilOVaK Minister heir interrupted 1 been called in to Held As Suspected said But numbers of meet a teacher shortage. NEW YORK.

Aug. the hav graduated. Many teacher General MikuJas Ferjencik. former i 7h nine state colleges under nuicalei: also Slovakian minister of defense, was i Jurisdiction of the Board of Edu- we er an effort to detained as a suspected Commu: graduated 1.909 students in TU tram ngl tcontiiup nist today on his arrivsl from the year ended iast June, com- rk sho arc con Europe displaced person. pared with 1.153 in the same per- 1 acuit from Ir.jpector Edward Ferro of the of the preceding year.

area, said miners kept calling him to ask about published reports of possible walkout. Former Under'secretary Slate 8 robheci the -y- ar bride County, Virginia. correctional home tomorrow at 2 p. m. Sumner Welles arrived here by Mx months He Denied raping a July 19 when guard rec- Ooff and Virgil Har- plane todav from Amsterdam jogmzed him as the man wanted officiating.

Burial will be in bringing the ashes of his wife. Ma- Sheriff D. C. Moore said Jones ke count He had beer. 1 family cemetery in Maple thild'a.

would be brought here tomorrow object of a nation-wide search for i Meadow. Today's Baseball tne situation. It will has in the past" Marshall, Fairmont, Concord Gl on Ellis Island investigation. Lexvisburg. ATT 4 A A ui wt mean koiiicu ail Aug.

j4 Kisco. N. Y. Mrs McElrov was a trances. 4 and otner Doctors determined today Mar- cousin of M-s Welles K- Jone5 sairi he hit the -TMunR W.T- which Mitchell, author of "Gone The said We i v.

firSt a on the head with a eg x- The Wind" a i Commo -ealt: 's bank after posing as a fea e7al Mor.day is. Welch, itured skull and pelvis when pending further they been spurred on. am son. 5a.d, by mgner pay scales pro-, vale ana KmgH-ood. They were able to make x-rays gain admittance' I said he then i I -i, tonli two nn2s and entered by Jones, "we will try the a watch and fled.

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