Youth killed in crane mishap at Grove City plant
In Emleton Pennsylvania on May 21 Robert Wells Alteen, 21, of Scrubgrass township Venango county, died after his left arm was torn from his shoulder while helping repair an electric motor on a Cooper-Bessemer crane. He was a Navy veteran, married with a child. Alteen died an hour after admission to Grove City Hospital from shock.
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Emlenton
Cooper-Bessemer
Grove City
Robert Wells Alfeen
Venango Counity
A. M. Winder
Ten Thousand Dollar Fire Destroys Titusville Home
May 21 a fire gutted the nine room home of Mr and Mrs Russel Rodgers at Enterprise while the family was away. The loss is estimated near $10,000 with less than half recoverable by insurance. Neighbors spotted the blaze and alerted Titusville fire units after Mrs Ellsworth Harrison telephoned her husband working at the Titusville Forge.
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Titusville
Russell Rodgers
Enterprise
Ellsworth Harrison
Rodgers
Titusyle
Titusville Treman
Mx Rodgers
Titusville Forge
Lynchings Trial In Hands Of Jury In Greenville
A South Carolina jury was summoned by Circuit Judge J Robert Martin Sr to render an ultimate verdict in the mass trial of 28 white men accused of lynching a Black man. Final arguments concluded amid sectional prejudice as prosecutors urged conviction without death penalty for most. jurors to decide murder with or without mercy.
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Associatea
Presa
Greenville
South Carolina
J. Robert Martin, Sr
Martin
Pete
Samuel Waller
Robert Ashmore
Underground War Radioactivity Threat Across Front Lines
The piece warns of a radioactive airborne threat breaching armor, tracing awareness to Bikini tests last summer and noting that even welding or grinding can release contamination. It cites Britain and Sweden as pursuing underground airfield projects and mentions unverified rumors of prisoner labor in Russia for a vast underground facility. It also lists 20 vessels named Mayflower registered in the British Isles in 1690.
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Bikini
Great Britain
Sweden
Ital
Hussia
British Isles
Erie Man Held on Three Counts
Clifton Rice, 33, was arrested yesterday morning on a warrant sworn by a Warren woman after she accused him of stealing two suitcases, beating her, and threatening harm to her husband. Rice is jailed in default on 1000 dollars bond awaiting a Thursday hearing before Alderman Joseph Kiliszewski on larceny, assault, and peace charges. The plaintiff, Eloise Wilson Wirren, reportedly rekindled ties with her estranged husband, triggering the incident.
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Erie
Clifton Rice
Warren
Rice
Rive
Joseph Kiliszewski
Eloise Wilson Wirren
Italian premier post refused by Francesco Nitti
Rome May 21 Francesco Saveri Nitti announced he failed to form a new Italian government after five days of effort He told reporters as he left Provisional President Enrico De Nicola's residence that he had refused the post of premier offered after Alcide De Gasperi's cabinet resignation He and De Meols would resume consultations to seek a new premier and did not offer any suggestions to the president
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Rome
Francesco Saveri Nitt
Enrico de Nicola
Alcide de Gasperi
de Meols
Suguestius le
Senate confirms two PUC appointments
Harrisburg May 21 The Senate confirmed John B. Conly of Pittsburgh and B Frank Morgal to the Public Utility Commission restoring full strength for the first time since 1945 Morgal had just returned to the post he left on April 1 Morgal was previously a commissioner under Arthur H James Conly is a longtime Allegheny County political associate of Governor and has ties in the region The report notes other disrupted terms and a late note with obituary references for Rudy W Thome of Williamsport
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Harrisburg
James H. du
Senate
John B. Conly
Pittsburgh
B. Frank Morgal
Public Utility Commission
Morgal
Arthur H. James
Conly
Dutt
Allegheny County
Alesing
Rudy W. ‘Thome
Williamsport
Getaber
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