Eisenhower Attacks Government Corruption in Denver
General Eisenhower blasted corruption in government as a moral issue of the presidential campaign. He blamed complacency and long power in the party, urged integrity in public office and warned youth that the nation faces a world communist threat. He cautioned against trusting godless dictatorship and cited fear of Chinese and German threats and the Korean War era tensions.
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Denver
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
China
Germany
Baltic
Korea
Ingrid Bergman Fights for Visitation Rights in Italy
Ingrid Bergman, mother of week-old twins, hires lawyer Jerry Giesler and plans to go to the United States if needed to win visits from her 13 year old daughter Jenny Ann Pia. A Los Angeles court recently denied her plea for the child to come to Italy, as Bergman vows to press the case. Greg Bautzer has represented her so far.
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Rome
Ingrid. Bergman
Jerry_.Giesler
Hollywood
United States
Los “Angeles
Jenny Ann Pia
Italy
Greg Bautzer
County Oil Men Name New Officers Discuss Highways
The Bedford County Division of the Associated Petroleum Industries of Pennsylvania met at the Fort Bedford Inn on Wednesday to elect officers and discuss highway issues. Chairman R. G. Salathe stated the group has operated as a local unit for 20 years to serve the industry and customers with fair laws and necessary transport facilities. Officers named include Chairman Donald S. Laher of Everett and vice chairs Carl Barkman, Charles Colvin of Schellsburg, C. M. Ferguson of Everett, and Irvin Foor.
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Bedford County
Associated Petroleum Industries of Pennsylvania
Fort Bedford Inn
R. G. Salathe
Associated Petroleum. Industries of Pennsylvania
fed
Pennsylvania
Donald S. Laher
Everett
Carl Barkman
Charles Colvin
Schellsburs
c. M. Ferguson
Irvin Foor
Weather outlook for Friday with cooler, partly cloudy skies
Partly cloudy and cooler Friday with highs around 75 in the north and about 68 in the south. The forecast notes a mild day with light winds and no precipitation expected.
Truman Hints He Cannot Use Taft-Hartley Act
President Truman suggested it is impractical to invoke Taft Hartley to halt the steel strike. He told visiting students that laws should be carried out when possible, but acknowledged situations where that isn't feasible. He did not say whether the Act would be used, noting Congress has urged its use. The ongoing nationwide strike remains crippling.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
House
Senate
administration
CIO
House Votes to Override Veto of Immigration Bill
Washington June 26 The House voted 278 to 113 to override President Truman's veto of the McCarran Walter Immigration Bill. The measure drew strong opposition from the president who called it discriminatory and said it would perpetuate injustices against many nations. Senate action was anticipated on the following day.
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Washington
House
Truman
Senate
Police Continue Probe Of Safe Robbery In Everett Office
Everett Borough and state police probe a safe robbery at Central Chemical Corporation on Ninth Street. A half-ton safe containing $126 cash, $2,000 in checks, payroll sheets, stamps, and an account ledger was moved from the building after entry through a broken rear window. An electric clock by the safe halted at 12 15 Wednesday indicating the break in time. Chief Willard Kline said no clues have emerged to identify suspects.
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Everett
Pennsylvania
Central Chemical Corporation
Ninth street
Willard Kline
Sem Bloom
Fine Gives Up Trip To Texas Convention
Harrisburg Gov. John S. Fine, chairman of Pennsylvania s 70 member delegation to the Republican National Convention, canceled plans to attend the Governor Conference in Houston next week due to a Texas polio outbreak. The move frees him to focus on polling the members’ preferred choices.
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Harrisburg
John S. Fine
Houston
Texas
Fine
Pennsylvania
New Joint School Formed by Eight Bedford County Districts
A new joint school system for eight townships and boroughs in western Bedford County was formed this week with officers elected. Schellsburg Napier High School hosted the signing meeting as about 1,500 pupils will be served in grades K to 12 with plans to build a junior senior high school for about 1,000 students.
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Bedford County
Schellsburg
New Paris
St. Clairsville
Bedford High School
Roy ‘Cleaver
Department of Public Instruction
Harrisburg
Communists Warn Allies of Expanding War in Korea
In Munsan on Friday June 27 North Korean General Nam Ii warned Allied truce negotiators of expanded warfare in Korea. The remark followed deadlocked prisoner exchange talks at Panmunjom over Koje Island screening and civilian internees. Nam asserted Allied steps threaten expansion while the Allies refused to force POW returns.
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Munsan
Korea
Nam Ii
Panmunjom
Namil
Koje Island
North Korea
China
Senate Sends Pension Measure to House
The Senate passed tonight and sent to the House a bill to raise Old Age and Survivors Insurance benefits by about 300 million dollars yearly. It attached a provision to add roughly 200 million dollars a year to federal payments to states for direct assistance to the aged, dependent children, the blind, and the disabled.
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Washington
Senate
House
250000 Men Are Now Idled By Steel Strike
Pittsburgh June 26 More than a quarter-million workers in steel using industries are temporarily jobless today in the 25 day old strike by United Steelworkers. Relatively large steel supplies remain on hand in plants of steel consumers. The walkout is costing USW members about 49 million dollars weekly in pay losses. The nation loses about 1,859,000 tons of steel production weekly while mills under new contracts or not dealing with USW produce around 252,000 tons. Before the strike the industry ran at full capacity at 2,090,000 tons weekly. this week it operates at 12 percent capacity. The American Iron and Steel Institute cites about 9,100,000 tons of steel lost.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers
allied
USW
American Iron and Steel Institute
seys
Wheeling Police Chief Resigns After Heart Attack
Wheeling West Virginia June 26 James E Stanley who had led the police force for two years and served since 1919 resigned today after suffering a heart attack in January The 67 year old chief said his resignation was by physician advice.
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Wheeling
W. Va
James E. Stanley
Mrs Churchill Advised to Rest for Several Weeks in London
Mrs Win stone Churchill aged 67, wife of the Prime Minister, was advised by her doctor to rest for several weeks. The No 10 Downing Street statement did not disclose the nature of her ailment.
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London
Winstone Churchill
No. 10 Downing Street
Churchill
Labor official urges changes to Pennsylvania constitution
State College, Pa. June 26 A national labor official said Pennsylvania should change its state constitution to permit a graduated income tax. Arthur Skider, tax consultant for the American Federation of Labor, argued that if the constitution bars a graduated tax it should be amended.
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State College
Pennsylvania
Arthur SKider
American Federation of Labor
Eight Wounded in Kentucky Prison Riot Ends
Eddyville Ky June 26 approximately 75 mutinous convicts surrendered after eight hours of rioting in Kentucky State Prison eight inmates were wounded and a guard injured Warden Jess Buchanan stated no concessions were granted and hostage Charles McChesney walked free upon surrender. Guards stripped prisoners for weapons as state police and guards guarded the yard. The riot began when inmates refused a drill and power loss disabled radios during a boxing match.
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Eddyville
Kentucky
Jess Buchanan
Walter Stephen
Earl Henderson
W E. Watson
corrections
Charles McChesney
McChesney
Buchanan
Archdeacon William Crittenden Installed Bishop of Erie
Archdeacon William Crittenden of Cincinnati was installed as bishop of the Erie Diocese at St. Pauls Cathedral in Erie Pa. Officials and hundreds of clerical and lay leaders joined a ceremonial procession through the city to mark the installation on June 26.
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Erie. Pa
William Crittenden
Cincinnati
Episcopal Church
Erie
St. Paul's Cathedral
Pope Receives Taylor Ameche and Family in Vatican
In June 26 private audience at the Vatican City Pope Pius XII welcomed Myron Taylor former U.S. President envoy to the Vatican. He also received actor Don Ameche and his two sons Donnie and Ronnie in the special audience setting.
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Vatican City
Pope Pius XII
Myron Taylor
U.S
Vatican
Don Ameche
Donnie
Ronnie
Power Failure Toll From Bedford County Wrecks
Three crashes on Bedford county highways early yesterday caused about $2000 in damage with no injuries. A late night incident cut power to a wide area when a car forced off the road collided with a utility pole near the Grange Hall on Route 200. Dennis Szocs of Youngstown illegally passed a truck on a hill and was charged with improper passing. Robert W. Dumpert, 20, of Bedford, escaped injury with $8500 damage to his Mercury. The pole sheared and Moonlite Drive-in lost power briefly. Continued on page 2.
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Bedford
Bedford township
Robert W. Dumpert
town
Grange Hall
Dennis Szocs
Youngstown
Ohio
Szocs
Justice of the Peace
John Anderson
Dumpert
North Pole Faces Melting Ice At Adirondack Workshop
A hot spell shrinks the North Pole at Santa's Workshop in Whiteface Mountain, Adirondacks. The ice diameter fell from 1814 inches to 127% inches, threatening toy production at the commercial shop that uses the North Pole as its address.
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North Pole
Whiteface Mountain
Adirondacks
House votes to end price controls and rent limits
Washington June 26 AP The House approved a measure to lift price ceilings on most consumer goods and end federal rent control in many areas. The roll call was 211 to 185. President Truman urged extending all controls for another year starting July 7 but the House offered a plan to terminate federal control and abolish wage stabilization, reducing federal intervention in labor disputes. The bill now goes to the Senate.
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Washington
House
Truman
Saat
Taft Backers Say Senator Nearing Goal
The Taft campaign claims the Ohio senator needs only three delegate votes to win the Republican nomination in Chicago. Campaign manager David Ingalls cites Taft with 601 delegates to Eisenhower's 361, while AP totals show 484 to 407. Lodge counters that Eisenhower will move headquarters to Chicago and predicts a shift toward his nomination as the convention opens July 7.
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Robert A. Taft
Taft
Ohio
Chicago
David S. Ingalls
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Associated Press
Eisenhower
tingalls
ACNE
Cne
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Lodge
Denver
Allied Infantrymen Use Flame Throwers To Win Korean Hill
United Nations infantrymen with flamethrowers captured a hill near Yokichon in a five hour battle against Chinese forces. Armored vehicles supported a Communist platoon on the hilltop, but U. N. troops destroyed bunkers and forced a retreat with flame throwers. Casualties and occupation status were not reported.
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Seoul
United Nations
Yokichon
Eighth Army
U. N
Steve Nelson Jailed Pending Sentencing in Sedition Conviction
Three judges sent Steve Nelson, former Communist party chairman in Western Pennsylvania, to jail today while awaiting sentencing on his sedition law conviction from five months ago.
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Pittsburgh
Steve Nelson
Western Pennsylvania
Communist party
Bedford County Endures Severe Heat Wave Across Roads
Bedford County residents faced another day of extreme heat as readings peaked in the mid to upper 90s. Official highs included 94 at the Turnpike shed in Everett and 96 in Bedford, with unofficial 101 in Bloomsburg and 100 in Reading and Harrisburg. One death from heat related causes was reported in the region.
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Hest
Bedford county
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
Everett
Bedford
Penelec
Saxton
Williamsburg
Blair county
Turnpike
United States
Philadelphia
Bloomsburg
U. S
Lancaster
Pittsburgh
Elmer Castor
Harrisburg
Scranton
weather bureau
Collazo to Die in Electric Chair After Trial
Puerto Rico revolutionary Collazo, convicted in the attempted assassination of President Truman, faces execution in the electric chair. U S District Judge F Letts set the date in a brief federal court proceeding. Collazo received the news silently as Leo A Rover, his court appointed counsel, noted the defendant did not want appeals to spare his life.
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Washington
Jdune
Collazo
dent ‘Truman
U. S
Collaza
Leo A. Rover
Draft Board Calls 28 Youths for Physical Examinations
The Bedford Seel draft board announced 28 young men designated for physicals. Twenty one report for first exam, six for re checks, one transfer. They report July 3 at 6:30 a.m. at Bedford headquarters on Juliata Street and travel to Harrisburg by chartered bus. Names include Richard L Hoenstine, William H Feight, Edward C Roland, Charles M Miller, Gerald E Foor, Thomas W Tenley Jr, Glenn D Ford, Perry J Grabil, Richard R Greene, Jack Leach, Dean Irwin Beck, Calvin Shaffer, Billy Keagy, Jackie Geren Hanselman, Bruce Rice, David Creps Jr, William Wotthopes, Clinton Suerte Breree.
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Bedford
Juliata Street
Harrisburg
horne
Charles M. Miller
Schelisburg
Charles F. King
L. Osterburg
Arland K. Pittman
Everett
Gerald E. Foor
Thomas W. Tenley, Jr
Ridatesburg
Glenn D. Ford
Perry J. Grabil
Imier
Richard R. Greene
Jack Edwin Leach
West
Dean Irwin Beck
Saxton
Calvin Junior Shaffer
Hooversville
Billy Rex Keagy
Bakers
Jackie Geren Hanselman
ae man
Bruce Walter Rice
Imler
David Marsal Creps, Jr
aviiliem
Francis Wotthopes
Itimore
Clinton Suerte
Breree
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Episcopal Diocese
Carter W. Clarke
Japan
Osaka
Itami Air Base
International
ORee
WSB
Senator
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The
Hyndman
Richard L. Hoenstine
Clacsturg
William H. Feight
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Edward C. Roland
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