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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1954
Page
6
President Eisenhower signed an executive order granting a full day off the day before Christmas and a half day on December 31 for federal employees. The rule applies to DC and other federal agencies, excluding essential workers in hospitals and similar jobs.
Ebensburg Pennsylvania Harry Gossard 99 of Conemaugh Borough indicted by a Cambria County grand jury for the murder of 6 year old Karen Maul found in a cemetery near her home with a candy wig and an apple. District Attorney Fred J Fees said trial is set for December 13. Gossard in jail and autopsy says suffocation by large object.
In Germantown Maryland two more women died from the Marylander Rest Home fire raising the death toll to six. Dr Elizabeth Hampson 87 died at Suburban Hospital Bethesda from smoke exposure and Anne Lamborn 83 a former Washington school teacher died at Washington Sanitarium Takoma Park after rescue from the blaze.
Elijah Thompson, 22, of Beaver Falls, indicted by a Beaver County grand jury for the murder of 16 year old Helen Dean Bryant from Hopewell Township. Prosecutors say he beat her with a rock and slashed her last October 25th. he was arrested about 10 hours after the body was found. Court appointed E. Calvin and John Hudacsek Jr as defense attorneys. No trial date set.
The trial of six individuals and nine corporations of the Schine theater chain on civil and criminal contempt charges was postponed in federal court and rescheduled for Thursday. Judge John Knight advanced the date after conferring with Schine attorneys. The government says defendants failed to dispose of 39 theaters as ordered in 1949 under a Sherman Act suit.
A half million dollar fire damaged a three story apartment and shop building in Johnson City, with over 100 firefighters battling the blaze from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. No injuries were reported, and the interior of the Main and Willow streets building housing a clothing store and restaurant was wrecked. The cause was under investigation.
Hatoyama poised to become prime minister as Yoshida resigns after four hours of heated debate. Hatoyama, once education minister and wartime disfavored figure, argues for steady U S relations and warns Russia cannot be trusted to ruin peace. Occupation purge ends his public life as he readies for a nine year late return to power.
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