Little Cooley Woman Killed in Mt Hope Snow Crash
Meadville January 8 Mrs Sophia Gawlinski 57 of Little Cooley died instantly when a panel truck and a car collided on Route 27 in Mt Hope during a snowstorm about 430 pm. Four others injured. Mulchin and Armstrong families affected. Coroner to rule accidental death. skull fracture cited.
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Meadville
Sophia Gawlinski
Little Cooley
Mt. Hope
Nicholas Mulchin
R. D
Diamond
Meadville City Hospital
Mulchin
Gerald
Lulu Armstrong
Cleveland
Gawlinski
Armstrong
Imot
Luther J. King
Final Rites Held for Mrs Anna L Markert Knight
A rosary service was held at Bracken Keating Funeral Home for the late Mrs Anna L Markert Knight. Rev Francis Graves led the recitation. Relatives travelled from Syracuse Erie Celoron and local areas to attend the service and burial at Assumption Cemetery after a funeral mass at St John The Baptist Church in Syracuse.
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Bracken -Keating
Anna L. Markert Knight
Francis Graves
John L. Markett
Syracuse
Arthur Jackson
Edward Miller
Erie
Louis Topolito
Céloron
Leo Fy
This City
John C. Mork
Church of St. John, the Baptist
Assumption Cemetery
Week of freedom ends for escaped prisoner
Walter Walchak and Howard Daubert escaped from the Allegheny Workhouse after breaking into Louis Artzberger’s home and holding a family at gunpoint. Walchak, 21, later surrendered at his mother’s home near a library, while Daubert, 20, remained at large. The pair traveled through West Virginia to Washington and New York before Walchak’s surrender.
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Ittsburgh
Jon
Pittsburgh
Walter Walchak
Howard L. Daubert
Walchik
Allegheny
Walshal
Daubert
New York City
Walter Ketchell
Walchak
Louis Artzberger
Artzberger
Wheeling
Clarksburg
W. Va
Washington
New York
Walthak
Library
New Yorke
Senators propose universal military training bill
Senators Malone and Russell introduced a plan to create Universal Military Training after the current crisis. It calls for a draft of youths aged 17 to 19 for one year of training, to begin upon crisis resolution and under a commission’s recommendation and presidential discretion.
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Washington
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R-Ney
Russell
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Senate
Mass Slayer’s Trial Begins For Five Killings
Ernest Ingenito, 26, a New Jersey appliance salesman, goes on trial in Woodbury on charges he murdered five relatives of his wife. Prosecutor Hannold seeks the death penalty for one murder count. defense argues temporary insanity. Three psychiatrists to testify about Ingenito’s mental state at the time of the shootings.
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Associated Press
Woodbury
N. J
Milton Hannold
Gloucester County
Ernest Ingenito
Piney Hollow
Hannold
Ingenito
Frank Sadl
Sahl
Sahil
Ingenio
Sant
Ingenilo
Heroic Medal of Honor bid for missing PA soldier
A 20 year old Pennsylvania soldier, Melvin L. Brown of Mahaffey, Pa., is cited for extraordinary heroism in Korea after firing his ammunition, using grenades, and crushing enemy combatants with a shovel. He will not receive the Medal of Honor in person, as he is reported missing in action after being last seen wounded.
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Washington
Jan
Pennsylvania
Army
Melvin L. Brown
Mahaffey
Brown
Truman
White House
Taft Urges Strong Air Sea Power Against Land Army
Senate speech by Sen Robert A Taft urges concentrating on a powerful air and naval force and opposes sending a land army to defend Europe He calls for a new United Nations type body and blocking amendment of the present UN charter as Russia blocks move International Soundphoto
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Senate
Washington
Robert A. Taft
R-O
Europe
GOP
United Nations Organization of Russia
U.N
Father to Accept Medal for Soldier at Korea Wall
A father, Edward D. Brown, will receive the highest military award on behalf of his son who fought on a 50 foot wall near Kasan Korea on September 4. The son led his platoon under heavy fire to hold a position while the enemy pressed the attack.
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Kasan
Korea
Edward D. Brown
Truman Warns U S Will Fight To Preserve Freedom
President Truman declares the United States will defend freedom and deter Soviet aggression. He outlines a ten point program for military buildup, extended service acts, and defense measures while urging Congress to unite and resist calls to curb aid to the free world. He stresses no dictatorship here and the need for debate to reach wise decisions.
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Free World
Elehth
Abe
Congress
Administration
Two Slayers Are Executed Today in Rockview Penitentiary
BELLEFONTE Pa January 8 two murder convicts in their 40s were executed in the electric chair at Rockview Penitentiary. Clement Shupp 48 of Allentown was executed first for the 1949 shooting of Marion Walck in Fullerton. Four minutes later Alex Agoston 42 of Berwick brought from Bloomsburg for killing Russell Balliet, a Barwick used car dealer, was executed. Shupp showed no emotion, while Agoston cried out during his final moments claiming he did not get a preliminary hearing.
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Associated Press
Bellefonte
Rockview Penitentiary
Clement Shupp
Allentown
Marion Walck
Fullerton
Alex Agoston
Berwick
Bloomsburg
Columbia County
Russell Balliet
Barwick
Shipp
Picketing Ends at Pittsburgh Telephone Company Building
Picketing ended today at the Daventown main building of the Pennsylvania Telephone Company as accounting workers on strike left the site. Bickers continued to parade in front of another building where the accounting department is located.
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Daventown
Pennsylvania Telephone Company
Bickets
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