Baby Dies As Fire Sweeps Erie Home
An Erie fire gutted a second floor of a frame church killing Walter Johnson Jr. The coroner said suffocation was the cause. Parents, five children, and a neighbor’s man were present as firefighters arrived. Investigators reported two minor children admitted causing the blaze by playing with matches. The four surviving children escaped the building as power and crowd control challenges arose. Damage estimated at 1500 to the structure and 2500 to contents.
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Hamot Hospital
Walter Johnson Jr
Warren W. Wood
Walter Jolson
Ieee
W. H. Humphrey
Buffalo
Bion United Holy Church of America
Parvan Prink Piswski
Police
Melat
Jubhson
Woul
Sind
John
Fremen
Albert Anderson
Ed Gonsider
Anderson
Resisatuton Intit
Kalator
Mario Puznoni
George Woecher
Wood
Bagnoni
Ue Buthing
Pilewski
Polish Guards Flee from Danish Fence Patrol
Polish guards fled from a Danish fishery inspection patrol after an incident near Ram Holm yesterday. Police said two uniformed Poles slipped ashore following a confrontation with another crew member and the Whipper, steering into the Danish pot amid tense maritime enforcement.
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Agenne
Denmak
Bes
Tom Teleshin
New Jersey Train Plunges Through Bridge Into Bay
A Jersey Central commuter train plunged from a raised Newark Bay bridge to the water near Elizabethport at 9 a m. Two coaches capsized with passengers missing or believed dead. The crash halted ferries and mobilized Coast Guard response as crews searched the bay for survivors and victims.
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Bridge
Bay
Newark Bay
Jersey Central Railroad
North Jersey
Elizabethport
Jersey City
Lyo
Allan Hethport
Jersey Central
New York City
Coast Guard
Mexvy
Marines Leave Lebanon As Battalion Returns Home
The United States announces most of the 2,012 Marines from the 1st and 2nd Battalions of a Marine unit are sailing home from Lebanon. Towing of equipment begins yesterday as a second battalion heads to the U. S. with about 1,990 men and 8,000 Army personnel remaining in Lebanon for guard duties. An emergency UN General Assembly meeting in the Middle East prompts the redeployment, with the fleet renamed and ongoing international actions noted.
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Lebanon
Avi
U. 8
U. S. Navy
Ue St. Marie Ficiment
Leb
Que Marie Baualion
UN General Assembly
United States
Nesby
Camille Chamutis
Vein
Agab Republic
Jay Maminerskinl
Raetical
Calm Prevails In Little Rock Corry Youth Trial
Theodore Kolstee, 20, of Spring Street, faces trial in Angelina County Texas for assault with intent to aid an armed holdup. Apprehended July 23 after shooting at a service station owner and family. bloodhounds captured him. Compan ion Eugene Piey, 22, awaits sentencing for armed robbery. Gov Faubus closed a local matter with proclamation as schools reopen and federal plans loom. The guard is Alvin Smith, 60.
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Theodore Kolstee
Springstreet
Angelina County
Tex
Kolstee
Diboli
Lufkin
Tolstee
Sunset Drive-in
Waterford
Uis
Eugene Piey
Marion Street
Police Patrol School Area Await Action By Government
Spectators gathered near Central High in Little Rock as police radio cars circled the grounds. Cars with white and Black riders circulated without disturbances while Gov. Faubus ordered the school closed citing fears of violence. U.S. marshals and armed state troopers kept watch as reports of possible Justice Department action circulated. federal court activity paused.
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Little Rock
Ark
API
Central High School
Lite Rock
U.S
Faubus
Fother Three
L. C. Bates
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Central High
Department of Justice
Department
U. S
U. S. Supreme Court
Central
Horace Mann
Federal
John E. Miller
Fort Smith
Justice Department
Corryite Gets Jail Term in Exe County Court
Acaymond D Miles of 315 West Pleasant Street was sentenced to 11 months in Exe County jail by Judge Samuel Rossiter after a jury conviction for a morals offense from a prior term. He faced molestation charges involving a five year old child in Ponth Ward. The judge noted prior probation and a 231 month relapse sentence. The U S is sending Ghana a 560000 gift of corn to relieve food shortage as a state of emergency is declared in the northern region.
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Acaymond D. Miles
West Pleasant Street
Exe
Miles
Samuel ¥. Rossiter
Rossiter
Toy
Ponth Ward
Ghana
Accra
United States
West Afan
U. S
Julube
Talks Begin In Warsaw As Quemoy Airlift Resumes
In Formosa, a first sizable convoy since the blockade began reached Quemoy by sea and air with U.S. escorts and Nationalist transports. American jets aided the operation as Washington and Peiping diplomats opened talks in Warsaw, seeking a cease fire and a path toward peace amid the Formosa Strait crisis.
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Warsaw
Taipet
Formosa
Quemoy Islands
U. S
U.S
Pescadores
Matsi
Caine
Que
Poland
Fron
United States
China
Far East
Jacob Beam
Wang Pingnan
Geneva
Sn Formosa Strait
Pei.ping
Eisenhower
Dulles
Washington
United Nations
Formosa Strait
Wane
Peiping
Mao Tze-Ying
Milk Truck Runs Wild Down Spring Street
A runaway milk truck rolled down a Spring Street hill in Erie shortly after morning hours. Driver Charles Mack Jr. parked the Sterling Milk Co vehicle, set the emergency brake, and began delivering milk when it started rolling backward. The loaded truck traveled about 350 feet, crossed the road, and ended on the front porch of Milton Spaulding’s home. no injuries were reported and truck damage awaits company assessment.
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Milton Spaulding
Springtree
Suday
Ford Engineer Walter Morton Dies in Florida
Walter Thomas Morton a 67 year old retired Ford Motor Co engineer died Saturday in New Smyrna Beach Florida. Morton spent decades with Ford and was widely known in the industry and community.
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FORD
New Smyrna Beach
Fla
Walter Thomas Morton
Ford Motor Co
Atlanta Violence Leaves Black Man Fatally Hurt In Clash
In Atlanta’s northwest, a Black man was fatally struck by a policeman amid a weekend of disturbances. A trolley was fired upon and windows shattered as crowds clashed with police. Detective crews hunted individuals, while patrolmen faced injuries and arrests during the chaotic events.
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Atlanta
Herbert Jenkins
T. B. Woods
H. B. Todd
Joseph Franklin Defec
W. C Dempsey
N. C. Oliver
Joseph Franklin Jeter Jr
Dempsey
Accounting Firm Change Sees Fuller Acquire Johnson Business
Lord accounting head R Elwin Fuller takes over the Harley P Johnson public accounting business. Transfer notices reach Johnson clients by today's mail. October 20 effective. Fuller, Westminster College graduate, served in Army Finance during WWII and later worked as general bookkeeper at First National Bank of Evtec. Johnson to consult for weeks. Mrs Lucille Church will remain with the firm.
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R. Elwin Fuller
Ant
Ajax Ton Works
Harley P. “Johnson
Lellers Delailng
Johnson Business Service
Filler
Westminster College
Hal
al the
First National ‘Bank of
Evtc
Johnson
Lucille Church
Volcano erupts near Tokyo sending ash plume high
AP reports Mt Mhara, a reactive volcano about 60 miles south of Tokyo, erupted yesterday sending smoke and ash over 2,000 feet. No casualties were reported. The last major eruption in October injured 654 people and killed a sightseer.
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Tokyo
Mhara
Japan
Hold Airmen In Japan Robbery Case Details
Basic Steven Schreckengost 19 of New Kensington Pennsylvania and A 2/C Roosevelt Wardaw 25 of Buffalo New York are in military custody for a taxi robbery in Tokyo. They, assigned to the Glith Aircraft and Warning Squadron at Johnson Air Base near Tokyo, allegedly confessed to robbing cab driver Hidetsugu Hasegawa and attempting to force him toward Johnson Air Base.
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Semen Yari
Steven Schreckengost
New Kensington
Nother Jairman
U. S
Air Force
Schreckengost
Roosevelt Wardaw
Buffalo
N. Y
Johnson Air Base
Tokyo
Johnson
Hidetsugu Hasegawa
Train Mishap Kills 18 on Drachenfels Route
An AP report from Bonn says a cog train carrying sightseers to the Drachenfels dropped off the tracks above the Rhine. Eighteen were killed and about 60 injured as the steam engine crashed into a ditch and cars derailed on the steep descent. The accident halted further visits for the day.
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Bonn
Germany
Drachenfels
Dragoon's Rock
Rhine
Pearling Fleet Approved For Canberra Operations
A 15 to 10 pearling fleet entered 1958 operations in Australian waters under Australian control. The move signals expanded activity by Canberra authorities in the sector amid ongoing maritime developments.
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Canberra
Australia
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