Homecoming parade highlights Edinboro event
Edinboro State Teachers College drew about 5000 for a homecoming parade featuring a Phi Sigma Pi float by M. M. Nast of this city. The day includedTri-State conference activities, Yeshiva University friends, and a Ritz Carlton Hotel gathering in Philadelphia for Earl G. Harrison as principal speaker. Firefighters probed cause of a West Pleasant street garage fire, with locals suggesting matches by children. Police logged minor incidents including a jaywalking charge and a purse found on First Avenue. Local utility upgrades included 1000 telephones monthly and a $1.3 million expansion in East 10th Street building. The paper also notes the death of John G. Welms, 78, a longtime Cory City resident and retired Quaker State Refining Co. foreman, and ongoing double-parking enforcement near West Main Street. A public assistance surge in September raised totals, regional chrysanthemum displays attracted visitors, and Letter-Writing Week promotion ran October 16–22. A cold front is due midweek with a dramatic sky display observed Saturday night.
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Edinboro State Teachers College
Phi Sigma Pi
M. M. Nast
Wih
Af Cole
I.oe
Friends of
Yeshiva University
Ee- Vse
Earl G. Harrison
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Ritz-Carlton
Philaddelphia
Lad Kills Brother to End His Suffering
Los Angeles police report an 18 year old, Richard Manning Eliot, killed his 10 year old brother Robert James Elliott with a pistol after an accidental discharge. Richard, who was 15, is jailed on suspicion of murder. The brothers were alone at home after watching a western when the gun went off.
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Asocrsmees
Los Angeles
Police
Robert James Elliott
Richard Manning Eliot
Edward Ream
Robert
Richard
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Douglas Celebrates First Birthday in Hospital
Yakima Washington October 17 0 8 Justice Williams Douglas marked his first birthday yesterday in a hospital room his wife unable to kiss due to a cold keeping her at the doorway of the room.
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Douglas
Yakima
Wash
Justice Williams
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Ilse Koch Faces German Trial After Prison Transfer
Ilse Koch, famed Buchenwald commandant’s mistress, is moved from an American camp to a German prison to face her own countrymen. Authorities feared Jewish demonstrations in displaced persons camps did not materialize. Koch expressed distress at being handed to German police as her murder hearing proceeds with the court recalling wartime officials and defense attorneys who have since died.
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Ilse Koch
Associated Press
Landsberg
Germany
Buchenwald
Tise
Tse
Wing charged in murder tied to infant's death near Corny
Testimony says Wing ambushed his sister Harri et Ormsbee in a field south of Corny killing her infant son by a second shot after reloading. He allegedly attempted suicide but only wounded himself in the neck. Judge Gourley has jurisdiction over Wing's due process claim.
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George Ormsbee
Harriet Ormsbee
Wing
Corny
Ormshee
Gourley Hhas
Lindley
McClelland
Dishley
Damian Mo
Jacob Shugald
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Ralph Welcht
West Pleasant Street
Henry Fil
Gould Street
North Center Street
Eleanor Koyach
Nell McKay
Galhation Mi Co
Eagle Breet
McKay
Fee
Powell
Poople
Philadelphia
American Legion
Legion
Nbw
Harrisburg
Erie
D. BE. Carnahan Disable Manager
Pennsylvania ‘Tele~phone Corporation
Telephone Company
East 10Th Street
Carnahan
Phoenix
John G. Welms
Ol City
Welms
Quaker State Reflninir Co
Theodore Welms
Maple Avenue
Cory
Oval
West Main Street
Oi City
Jones and Laughlin Steel Comp
Pennsylvania
Erie County
Pashke
North East
W. 8. Post Office Department
Uncle Sam
Dalus L. Lacy
Warren
George Tinke
West Churchfleet
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Tinko
Hunt
Cory Memorial Hospital
Beory
Tim
Midwest
Weather Bureau
Virginia
West Virginia
East Main St
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Foster E. Davis & Son Fire & Casualty Insurance
Center St
Hormel
Clothes
Gourley
Otto Herbst
O. B. Porter
Hirk
Common Pleas
Orson Graham
Bernard Foley
F.H. Bowman
Sahara Desert
Timbuktu
French West Africa
Christian
Alliance
Pennsylvania Electric Company
E. T. Cherry
Dalvie
Manoper
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