Auction and property notices with fire incident details
A garbled listing mentions property sales at 155 Rasselas Homer and other addresses with bids of 6 500 and 6 3130 estate Brown. It also reports a house fire at a Lenox Street area injuring and displacing a family, with damage estimated and neighbors noting incidents near Wattsburs.
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Rasselas
Homer
Washington Targarage
W. Brown
Gbnd Avenue
Homer G. 130Th Center
Livams
Bath
Lenoxmith Street
Ata
Seleays
Ixtures
Rasselas W
Watt
Wattsburs
Roperty
Charles Ar Phillips
Hanley
Navy transport plane missing with 42 aboard
A Navy four engine transport with 42 on board including two officers wives and five children is presumed lost between the United States and the Azores. The float was a second attempt after an earlier plane turned back with trouble. A vast search by Navy and Coast Guard with carriers destroyers and cutters covers a 120 mile Atlantic band. The crew numbered 21 and 21 passengers including civilians and Navy men on route to new stations. Six Pennsylvanians were among the 42, including Noel Robert Moore of DuBois.
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Associated Press
New York
Navy
United States
Azores
Patuxent River Naval Air Station
Porty Lyautey
Africa
Coast Guard
Nay
U. S Eastern Seaboard
Atlantic
Agares
Air Force
Gilbert. Jacobsen
Brooklyn
North Africa
Tdi
Noel Robert Moore
DuBois
Local crash at East Main and East Streets injures no one
A collision at the East Main and East Street intersection Saturday evening damaged two cars driven by Paul Clark and Allison Gifford. Both drivers, one from East Main street and the other from East South street, were unhurt. Police report wet roads and excess speed contributed to the crash. Damages were estimated at $500 for Clark and $75 for Gifford.
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East Main
East Streets
Paul Clark
East Main Street
Allison Gifford
East South Street
East
East Main Streets
Snd
Giffard
Nichols
Clark
Main Street
Gifford
Tachen Islands Bombed by Reds
The Chinese Nationalist Defense Ministry said Communist planes bombed the Tachen Islands for the first time. One raiding plane was shot down. Flyers did not release casualty or damage details. Communists also bombarded Yiklang Island as Tachens are defended by over 20,000 Nationalist troops and civilians number about 30,000.
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Tachen Islands
Associated Press
Taipeh
Formosa
Defense Ministry
Here
Cheklang
Fangshow
Toumen Island
Yiklang
Orioniver Mountain
Chellelang
Voters in three districts consider school union plan
Voters in Concord and Wayne townships and Elgin will decide on switching from Corry Area Schools Jointure to a union plan. If approved the three districts share a single elected board while preserving their joint boundaries. Increased state aid is cited as making the switch financially feasible despite tax concerns for a new Wayne Township elementary school.
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Concord
Wayne
Born of
Corry
Wayne Townships
Wayne Township
Elgin
Vigil at Congressman Bender’s Home After Bomb Finds
Private detectives guard Rep. George H. Bender’s Chagrin Falls residence after two dynamite-filled cars were found nearby. Bender, head of a House subcommittee probing jobber plots, suspects an attempt to frighten him. A separate item notes Gordon Dung of Chicago named chief hurricane forecaster at Miami.
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Cleveland
Chagrin Falls
George H. Bender
Pinkerton
Bender
House
Washington
Weather Bureau
Gordon Dung
Chicago
Miami
Fis
Close Probe Concludes in Fatal Shooting of Hunter 14
State Police at Corry closed the investigation into the accidental shooting death of 14 year old Robert Hartman of North East. The youth was killed by his brother Jack, 11, whose shotgun blast while aiming at a rabbit pierced the back and lungs. The incident occurred Saturday afternoon about 95 p.m. on a farm two and a half miles north of Beaverdam between Beaverdam and Wattsburg. The Hartman family, including older brother Gerald, 15, and father Gerald, witnessed the accident. The body was sent to Turner Funeral Home in North East. services are incomplete.
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Corry Barracks
North East
Pennsylvania
Robert Hartman
Hartman
Jack
Saurday
Beaverdam
Wattsbug
Harry Musser
Union City
Gerald
Gerald Hartman
Musser
Duckle
Stem Memorial Hospital
Negro Held in Girl Slaying in Beaver Falls
Elijah Thompson Jr. a 23 year old unemployed laborer, is held for grand jury action on a murder charge in the slaying of 16 year old Helen Jean Bryant. The body was found partially disrobed near her hillside home and authorities believe an attempt at rape occurred though no conclusive evidence exists.
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Associated Press
Beaver Falls
Elijan Thompson
Helen Jean Bryant
Thompson
Elijah Thompson Jr
Aliquippa, Pa
Matt Zvonar
Hopewell Township
Margaret Sanders
Richard P Steward
Beaver County
Zyonnr
Itelen Dean
Here
Conemaugh
Brute Pope
Cambria County
Karen Mauk
Joseph Gove
Kar
Strike Closes Decatur Public Schools Nationwide
A janitors maintenance men and bus drivers strike closed 20 of Decatur Illinois 26 public schools. The action disrupted classes and forced cancellations across the district as workers seek contract concessions.
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Decatur
Ill
Eye Surgeon Dr David Rhodes Dies at 65 in Pittsburgh
Dr David Hen FY Rhodes, 65, chief of Mercy Hospital Ophthalmology, longtime Mercy physician since 1924, died today in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
David Hen FY Rhodes
Mercy Hospital
Pratt
Pennsylvania vote looms large in 195? election
Pennsylvania faces a close race as Philadelphia and Allegheny County, with about five million voters registered, decide a governor, 20 congressmen, all state house and half the state senate. Republicans claim a decisive win. Democrats warn of a GOP gain and national overtones shaping turnout tomorrow.
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Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Dem
Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Philadelphie
Pittsburg
Morrow
Congress
Howe of Representatives
Shire Senate
Compcrts
Compaten
Allegheny County
Allegheny
Joseph 5. Clark
GOP
George M
Republican State Aid
Penniaylvania
Iir
Gay
Lloyd H. Wood
Tessoning
Pennsylvane
General Assembly
Wood
Lender
Frank
Truscott
Roye B. Furman
Gaypelle ME Dixon
Geninvieve Bint
Tudge
Experior
Robert & Woodyide
George W. Griffith
Ralph P Bell
Chester
Rhodes
PF. Chase
California
Gettysburg
Dispatch backs leader in governor race in Erie
The Erie Dispatch endorses Democrat George M. Lend er for governor in tomorrow's election, marking the paper's 124-year history of endorsing a Democrat for governor.
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Dispatch
Erie, Pa
Erie Dispatch
George M. Lender
Snow Blankets Findley Lake Area Snapping Power Lines
A late Saturday storm dumped heavy snow across Findley Lake and Sherman counties, snapping phones and power lines. Winds stalled snow, leaving 14 inches on the lake shore and causing outages from Corry to nearby towns. Findley Lake and Sherman districts bore the brunt while areas east and south reported lighter or no snow.
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Toaly
Norte
Finchey Lake
Lake Firso
Findley Lake
Sherman
Corry
Warren
Hpartinaburg
Sind
Ol Cty
Findley Lake Phone System Damaged by High Voltage
A high voltage surge damaged the Findley Lake village switchboard owned by Chauqui-Evie Telephone Go of Westfield. Samuel Nixon, president, cites $10,000 in damages and a temporary switchboard to be used until a Rochester replacement arrives. Local lines to Erin are rerouted via Pittsburgh as crews repair the system after yesterday's outage. Weather and snow conditions also affected travel and warnings persist.
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Findley Lake
Sherman
Chauuiiqui-Evie Telesphone Go
Weatfield
Niagara-Mohawk Power Company
Samuel Nixon
Rochester
N.Y
Uh Kvith
Pittsburgh unions seal three year wage contract
About 200 workers in Pittsburgh gain a five cent hourly pay increase under a new contract negotiated by AFL affiliated unions Building Service Employees Local 29. The pact runs three years with annual wage reopenings starting November 1. Wage scales were not disclosed.
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Pittsburgh
Office of Commercial Talkings
AFL
Building Service
Batista Is Unopposed In Cuba Despite Gray’s Withdrawal
In Havana Cuba Batista faced no opposition as Ramon Gray Grau withdrew after a ruling by the Superior Electoral Tribunal. Grau denounced the elections as a farce and sought delays but the tribunal denied his request. Critics accuse Batista of forcing his return to power while authorities maintained order with thousands of police and guards at polling sites.
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Associaceneres
Havana
Cuba
Strongmin Pub Qouvlo
Milion Cabana
Curlow
Jaland
Gali
Batia~t
Stondn
Bia
Grau
Local CAP Takes Part in Search and Rescue Drill
Blxwen CAP members joined GAP cadets from Oil City in a SARCAP exercise. Starting at 6:30 a.m. at Oil City airport, they delivered medical supplies to a simulated downed plane near Warren. Major Ned Coxwell piloted the Air Force craft as cadets from Oil City and Corry deployed with first aid teams under poor weather conditions.
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Ovi! Air Patrol
GAP
Oil City
Oi City
Air Force
Ative
Thin Ward
C.A.P. Communications Center
Ned Coxawell
C.A.P
Corry
CAP
Onl
Cory
Four Puerto Rican nationalists receive suspended six year terms
Four nationalist leaders who pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy receive six year suspended sentences. In Norfolk a destroyer rammed a submarine and two other destroyers collided during anti submarine drills with no serious injuries reported. In Washington Bryant Bowles head of a white civil rights group pleads innocent to beating a Black postmaster and demands a jury trial slated for January 5.
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Amsdownog Free
New York
Norfolk
Washington
Bryant W. Bowles
The
Association For the Advancement of White People
Clashes Across French North Africa Kill 14 Over Weekend
Armed clashes in French North Africa leave at least 14 dead as guerrilla actions erupt in Dje bel Mella near Gafia and in Morocco and Algeria. French casualties include one killed and several wounded with reported mass attacks around Constantine.
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Ponts
Tunisli
French
Algeria
Constantine
France
Itelf
Corry UNICEF Tricks or Treats Raises Funds in Snow
About 300 Corry children joined a UNICEF collection despite snow and cold, gathering 205.93 dollars for the drive. A Halloween party followed at the city playgrounds with games, snacks, and music, overseen by Civil Defense police. General chair Dr Elmer Otner praised the effort and thanked supporters. Spring Creek and Columbus youths also contributed to UNICEF from snowbound areas. Rev. Ortner announced plans to accept donations at designated locations.
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Corry
Trumiore
Elmer Ovtner
Spring Creek
Unicef
Columbus
Bradley
Ortner
Voters urged to turnout in last appeals before elections
Eisenhower and Stevenson race to rally supporters as Senate control hangs in balance. White House TV and radio appeals target key states while Democrats push a ground campaign, claiming momentum in some races and denouncing what they call a Red smear.
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Senate
Associated
Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
House
Blxenhower
White Horn
Fluenhower
CBS
Mutual-Abc
Nixon
Enat
Denver
West Coast
Fisenhower
Chicago
Nch
Stephen A. Mitchell
Two Cars Damaged In Bear Lake Intersection Crash
State Police report two cars damaged totaling 500 dollars after a collision at an intersection in Bear Lake. George J. Scott 31 and Miss Anpette Curtis 17 were driving, both escaped injury with Scott cited after he slowed and Miss Curtis’s vehicle struck his from the right of way.
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Annabuip
Bear Lake
Corry
George J. Scott
Anpette Curtis
Columbus
Millers
Scott
Tobacco firm sued for cancer damages by Pittsburgh man
Otto B. Pritchard of Pittsburgh sues Liggett Myers Tobacco Company seeking 4 250 000 dollars alleging Chesterfield cigarettes caused his cancer and other illnesses. He says he smoked from 1921 to 1953 and accuses the firm of malicious misrepresentation about smoking harms.
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Pittsburuh
Liggatta Myers
Tobicca Co
Chesterfield
Otto B. Pritchard
Pittsburgh
Pritchard
Liggett & Myers
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Lions International
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North East Ladies
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General Polyphone Company
Waterford
Erin
George Muuiderlok
Yasterday
Batista
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Oil City Group
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