Bishop Reports $180,000 Given Aged Home Fund
Bishop Lawrence J. Shehan announced that advance gifts totaled 180000 for the Catholic Diocesan Building Fund for the Aged. The diocese seeks a minimum 1 million to construct a home for aged persons in Trumbull near the Merritt Parkway. A pre campaign committee met to report, with training sessions planned in Danbury Norwalk Stamford Greenwich and a May campaign by the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women.
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Catholic
Lawrence J. Shehan
Trumbull
Merritt Parkway
Notre Dame High
Danbury
Norwalk
Stamford
Greenwich
Council of
Catholic Women
Shehan
Threat to kill Archbishop Cushing prompts around the clock guard
In Boston on March 2 AP reports an unidentified man telephoned police headquarters and threatened to kill Catholic Archbishop Richard J. Cushing and blow up the Holy Cross cathedral. Police posted round the clock protection after the calls as the archbishop, spiritual leader of over 2 million Boston Catholics, conducted Mass and a public procession.
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Boston
Thomas O'Toole
O ' Police
Holy Cross
South End
Official Weather Bridgeport and Vicinity Forecast
Cloudy with little change in temperature today tonight and Tuesday Highs around 43 to 34 Lows near 35 Southerly winds five to ten miles per hour Temperature readings show yesterday and year ago values Barometer around 30.0 Humidity at 8 pm about 70 percent Tide times listed Almanac notes March 3 is the sixty second day of the year and winter's seventy second day Sunset and sunrise times provided
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Bridgeport
Churchill Leaves Sickbed for Lunch in France
Sir Winston Churchill, 83, left his sick bed at a holiday home in Roquebrune Cap Martin to lunch with his family and hosts. He had been stricken with pneumonia and pleurisy two weeks earlier but recovered enough to dine today with Lady Churchill, his daughter Sarah, and Mr and Mrs Emery Reves.
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Martin
France
Winston Churchill
Lady Churchill
Sarah
Emery Reves
Bride-To-Be Irene Arzedi Returns After Cross-Country Bus Trip
New York dispatch reports pale and weary Irene Arzedi reappeared at her Brooklyn home eight days after vanishing five hours before her planned wedding to Joseph Pinto. She had been traveling cross-country by bus, saying she could not explain why she left, while crowds cheered and relatives described isolation from reporters. The 29-year-old bride-to-be had planned a Feb. 22 church ceremony before disappearing and traveling across the country to Los Angeles briefly.
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New York
Irene Arzedi
Brooklyn
California
Miss. Arzedi
Miss Arzedi
Los Angeles
Arzedi
Joseph Pinto
Welcome Given Negro Family Norwalk
A Bridgeport born Negro couple, the Randalls, began settling their new $35,000 home in an all white Norwalk neighborhood. Tonight they and their children hosted an informal reception at nearby Comestock Hill, half a mile from the Apple Tree Lane residence. A party of fourteen adults and fourteen children attended, described as a very successful gathering by organizers William Atkins and his wife.
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Norwalk
Robert J. Randalls
Wiliam Atkins
Comestock Hill
Apple Tree Lane
Randall
Pope Pius XII Celebrated on 82nd Birthday and 19th Anniversary
In St Peter's Square, about 10 000 pilgrims and Romans cheered Pope Pius XII on his 82nd birthday and 19 years on the papal throne. The frail pope appeared at his window to bless the crowd, marking a day of routine devotion shadowed by a Florence court verdict convicting one of his bishops.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
St. Peter
St. Peter's Square
Vatican
Italy
Florence
Koreans Welsh On Return Of Plane Captives
Panmunjom dispatch reports North Korean negotiators reneged on promising to release two American pilots and a West German couple aboard a hijacked South Korean airliner. UN command prepared to accept any released passengers, with further talks to follow if none arrive.
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Panmunjom
Korea
South Korea
Red
Foreign Ministry
Willis P. Hobbs
Vallejo
Calif
Air
Springlike Warmth Sparks Bridgeport Sneak Peek
Bridgeport area enjoyed a warm preview of spring with a Friday high near 50 degrees the warmest day since December 24. Forecaster in Stratford cautions that snow remains possible in March despite mild trends and notes past snow records for March and April.
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Bridgeport
Woman burned in Danbury fire
Mrs Margaret Shannon, 57, of 85 Lake Avenue, suffered second and third degree burns over her body when her clothes ignited in the basement of her home in Danbury. She was in critical condition at Danbury Hospital. Police, led by Walter Wayman and Richard Esposito, investigated. Mrs Shannon had been despondent after her husband John Shannon died Jan 30. he had been a city court probation and attendance officer and a Democratic leader. Living with her are her daughters Nancy and Katherine and several of her five sons.
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Danbury
Margaret Shannon
Lake Avenue
Danbury Hospital
Nancy
Katherine Shannon
Man to Reach Moon by 1968, Scientist Says
Niagara Falls NY March 2 Associated Press interview with Dr Walter Dornberger, ex-V2 program leader, now Bell Aircraft official. He predicts manned space flight in 10 to 15 years and landing on the moon in about a decade, citing speedier access and lessons from past rockets.
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Tim Smith
Niagara Falesny
Mars
Walter Dornberger
Earth
Dornberger
Germany
Space
Bell Aircraft
Columbus
Berlin
Associated Press
Russia
United States
River Yields 14 of 26 School Bus Dead
The mud covered bodies of 14 youngsters and their bus driver were recovered from the Big Sandy river near Prestonsburg Kentucky as searchers hoped to find 12 more missing children. The bus crashed Friday morning after hitting a wrecker truck and a tow vehicle, with 21 survivors escaping through an open emergency door. Officials moved bodies to a hastily set morgue at Prestonsburg Armory while Navy personnel and the Corps of Engineers worked the river.
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Prestonsburg
Maron
Levisa Fork
Prestonsburg Armory
Corps of Engineers
Navy
U.S. to Review Policy On A Weapons Tests
The Eisenhower administration plans to review and may revise the U S policy on agreeing with Russia to suspend nuclear weapons tests. Conditions deemed essential before a shift include no near link between test suspension and halting production, with Dulles and President Eisenhower weighing advice from a blue ribbon disarmament panel.
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Eisenhower
U. S
Russia
State Dulles
U.S
Harold Stassen
Dulles
Board of Advisors
Walter Bedell Smith
Alfred Gruenther
Robert A. Lovett
John J. McCloy
Stassen
Budget Reform Sparks House Fight Over Accrued Expenditure Plan
Washington March 2 AP Lively debate over Hoover commission budget reform proposal aims to limit annual appropriations to expected agency spending. Plan would end yearBalances, replace direct appropriations with contract authority for long term projects. Support comes from many Republicans and some Democrats led by McCormack. opposition includes Speaker Rayburn and key Appropriations members Cannon Taber. A showdown was set for Wednesday or Thursday per Rep. Brown.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
Hoover Commission
House
Senate
McCormack
Massachusetts
Sam Rayburn
House Appropriations Committee
Cannon
D-Mo
Rep. Taber
New York
Rep. Brown
Ohio
Burglars Enter Stores and Offices Over Weekend
Detectives investigated breaks in four business establishments and three offices. Walters Dry Cleaning at 633 Main Street reported a rear door forc ed and loss of a table radio and 350 cash. The nearby South End poolroom at 629 Main Street was entered via a rear door with a cigarette machine emptied. Officials of the Modernized...
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Walters
Main ‘Street
South End
Main Street
Sinking of Uskadar Ferry Claims Hundreds of Lives
Navy planes and boats searched for victims after the Uskadar ferry sank off Izmit Turkey in a powerful storm. Reports say 220 bodies have been recovered with as many as 350 to 400 feared dead and at least 40 escapees. Most victims were students returning home for holidays. The disaster occurred as a strong wind and heavy seas battered the vessel near the port, causing the ship to shudder and capsize after two massive waves.
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Middle East
Uskadar
Istanbul
Izmit
Turkey
Broke Dad 19 Couldn’t Steal Food, Cops Feed Wife Baby
A 19 year old father lacking money to feed his pregnant wife and child tried to steal from a Columbus market but aborted the act after breaking a window. Police gave family aid by delivering food, and the storekeeper did not press charges, later releasing the man.
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Columbus
Ohio
John Held Jr 69. Roaring Twenties Artist Dies in Belmar
John Held Jr., famed for iconic Roaring Twenties flappers, died at 69 in Belmar New Jersey. A self taught artist he rose to fame with crisp line drawings and characters of independent youth. He moved to New York in 1919 from Salt Lake City and left behind a diverse career in sculpture pottery and fiction along with a fourth wife Margaret.
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Belmar
N. J
John Held Jr
Held
New York
Salt Lake City
Westport
Conn
Fairfield County
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