Multi-location world briefs from Crookston to Bonn
A digest of terse reports: a Northwood Ho fire in Crookston left unknown dead and five others missing, with four injured after leaping from the blaze. A Mexican airliner with 18 aboard vanished near Monterey, wreckage found on a mountain. In Wood County, jurors found a trial “all wet” as roof leaks caused a recess. Charleston’s clerk J R Auff named state purchasing director. Mrs Cor dell Hull dies at 79 in Staunton. In Seoul, Korea, President Ku when age disputed, says may be 78, 80. A Rochester manhunt for Anthony Merdella continues after a prison escape. Pope Pius XII plans to attend the final Lenten sermon on April 9. Henry L. Knight of Bethesda jailed for Neutrality Act violation. South Korean coast guard captures two small Chinese vessels. West German President Haus signs amendments to legalize rearmament.
Play Fair With Your Newsboy Struggle for Fair Wages
The Sentinel argues households paid on a twice monthly payroll should pay newsboys weekly. The boy buys papers daily and collects weekly year round. Biweekly collections would yield four weeks of unpaid work annually, effectively giving him a four week margin. Critics urge weekly payments for fair compensation.
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The
Sentinel
Planned watch tower alert system for local units
Construction starts Monday on a watch tower atop five 15 foot poles on Hospital Hill. Harman Brothers bid 758 dollars to build the glassed observation structure donated poles by Monongahela Power. CAP and GOC raise funds led by Arthur Yates as financial director with 200 collected of 758 needed. Brown notes 1150 GOC members and 24 hour alerts for Atlantic Coast cities. Two films shown, The Last Bomb and D Day Minus One, at the meeting.
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Ground Observer Corps
CAP
Hospital Hill
City
Harman Brothers
Monongahela Power Company
GOC
Arthur G. Yates
First ‘National Bank
John Brown
Yates
P. O
Atlantic
Brown
Grafton
Jheeen
Japan
Normandy
State Revokes Sportsman Club Beer License in Charleston
Beer licenses issued to Danny W Wyckoff for the Sportsman Club on Latrobe Street were revoked by State Beer Commissioner Burton Crow. The action, effective April 3 after a March 11 hearing, followed liquor violation convictions from a February 4 raid on Wyckoff and Sam Speno’s Domino Club. Speno’s license was revoked March 4. Wyckoff’s trial was delayed and an appeal to the Taylor County Court loomed.
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Danny W. Wyckoff
Sportsman Club
Latrobe Street
Burton Crow
Crow
Charleston
Wyckoff
Taylor County
Justice of the Peace Court
Beer Commission
Sam Speno
Domino Club
Speno
Wyck
House Group Favored AEC Budget Slashes For 1965
A Senate committee approved a 1965 Atomic Energy Commission budget totaling about 1.34 billion dollars, with cuts of 162 million from the administration request. The panel preserved 87.07 million for reactor development and authorized limited public housing funding while trimming TVA and Veterans Administration allocations.
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AEC
Lewis Lysie
Bote
Tennessee Valley Authority
Housing Home Finance “Agency
General Services
Gattine
Moody
Barry
Pacific
Ploslong
ABC
Tennessee Vatley Authority
TVA
Veterans ‘Administration
Ita
Juveniles’ Bridge Jump Case Delayed Auction Planned
Circuit Judge Merle Watkins delayed a decision in the two juvenile case involving a staged fake bridge leap from St Marys Street bridge. Juvenile officer Mary Sheets and Taylor County Prosecuting Attorney Richard Bord were asked to assemble facts on costs to fire departments and equipment and report findings.
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freUnnesday
Ide Panie
St. Mary's Street
Merle W. Watkins
Mary Sheets
Taylor County
Richard B. Bord
Jude Watkins
Miss Sherts
Lone Eagle's Son Secretly Married in Chicago Area
Public records show silent ceremony last Saturday uniting Jon Morrow Lindbergh, son of the famous aviator, and Barbara H. Robbins in Evanston Illinois. The 23 year old bride is listed as a Northwestern University coed though the university says she was not registered this quarter. Lindbergh, a senior at Stanford, is described as a mountain climber and marine biology student.
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Evanston
Ill
Jon Morrow Lindbergh
New York-to
Northwestern University
Lindbergh
Stanford Universit
Pide Atle
Cant
Girl, license gone in Chicago mirage license tale
Chicago IP County Clerk Richard J. Daley sent a letter to two men who paid $5 for a so called mirage license asking why it was never used. One man replied that his girl possessed the license and he could not locate her.
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Chicago
Richard J. Daley
State Legion Commander Urges Greater Vet Support Of Program
West Virginia Division Commander E Gaujot Bias urged stronger American Legion membership to sustain state and national programs. He noted WV quotas lagging but pledged ongoing progress with a smaller group and called for more World War II and Korean War veterans to join. Dignitaries Ellis Stillman Tommy Jones Joe Haldeman attended. cake with 35 candles marked the 35th anniversary.
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American Legion
Taylor County
American Legion Post No. 12
Legion
West Virginia
E. Gaujot Bisto
Bias
Dept. Third
Ellis Stillman
Dept
Tommy Jones
Ninth District
Joe Haldeman
West Virginia forecast Cool spell with mixed rain totals
Five day outlook shows temperatures 3 to 6 degrees below normal with a cool Saturday and warmer Sunday. Colder Monday and Tuesday followed by a warmer Wednesday. Rain likely Sunday and again Wednesday totaling 1 to 2 inches, up to 2-3 inches in some areas.
Mercury At 82 Sets '54 Peak
The warmest reading of the year reached 32 degrees after a light shower yesterday evening. Today's temperatures rose from 54 to 60 by noon and are expected to stay in the 60s before colder air arrives tonight. A northeast Canada storm center caused heavy winds and rain across the Midwest and Atlantic states with four deaths.
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Midwest
Canada
Mississippi Wall
Great Lakes
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
New England
Carload shipments in Allegheny region dip in Q2 1954
The Allegheny Regional Advisory Board forecast second quarter 1954 carload shipments at 809,145, down 8.9 percent from 918,121 in the same period a year earlier. The region covers northern and western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia, eastern Ohio and part of Maryland. Dr. Stanley Schwartz uses two radio music systems to calm patients in surgery and waiting rooms with high acceptance of the program.
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Pittsburgh
Allegheny
Allegheny Regional Advisory Board
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Maryland
Grinding Music
Boston
Stanley Schwartz
Soviet Move Grants East Germany Full Sovereignty
The Kremlin said East Germany gains full sovereignty and can seek diplomatic recognition as an independent state while keeping 300,000 Soviet troops in place. Western authorities call it propaganda to boost the puppet regime and embarrass the West as West Germany awaits EDC ratification.
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Berlink
Russia
East Germany
Kremlin
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
European Defense Community
Speeding Man Tries Alibi In 80 Mile Chase
Houston police officer H F Golden pursued a nightclub operator who claimed to be his wife as he led him on an 80 mile chase before stopping to accept a speeding ticket.
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Houston
Tex
H. F. Golden
Senators Split On Air Defense Debate at Senate Hearing
In Washington Senator Richard B Russell urged rapid progress to build an effective air defense against atomic attack while Senator Estes Kefauver urged more work in a continental defense program after the Armed Services Committee reviewed a highly secret report on urgent defense needs. In Norfolk Virginia a man reported a water pump problem and a repairman removed a four and a half foot black snake from the motor of Dr Kranis Helvestine Jr's home.
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Washington
Bhe
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Senate Armed Services Committee
Armed Services Committee
Norfolk
Kranis Helvestine, Jr
Violence Flares On N Y Piers In Dock Strike Turmoil
New York's waterfront again erupts as longshoremen strike halts port operations for over three weeks. A National Labor Relations Board recommended tossing a tied election between the Independent Longshoremen's Association and AFL ILA amid allegations of felonious assault and intimidation. Mayor Wagner sought federal help, with the White House saying the issue falls under federal labor responsibility.
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New York
Longthoremen
Union
Ife
International Longshoremen's Association
AFL International Longshoremen’s Association
Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Eaming
Internat’ 4A
Longshore
Associa Lin
AFL Ila
Robert F. Wagner
Eisenhower
White House
Wagner
Popar-m-ni
Labor
Supreme Court Judge Douglas Leads 189 Mile Hike To Washington
Supreme Court Justice William Douglas and 53 hikers began a 189 mile trek along the C&O Canal from Cumberland Maryland aiming for Washington D C. Only nine reached the day’s end. They faced rugged mud and a washout near Harper's Ferry with the river flooding the canal.
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Supreme Court
Douglas
Point OF Rocks
Willian
Cumberland
Washington
Isaae Walton
Poolesville
Washington Post
Harper's Ferry
W. Va
GIs Reported Dead After Missing In Korean War
The Army announced the deaths of Corporal Bert Harmon of Winding Gulf and Sergeant Carl E. Parsons of Sandyville, both previously listed as missing in action in Korea.
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Washington
Cpl
Iubert Harmon
Winding Gulf
Carl E. Parsons
Sandyville
Korea
Army
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Crookston
Minn
Northwood
Monterey
Mexico
Parkersbumg
Wood County
J. R. Auff
William C. Marland
Lyle A. Smith
Huntington
Alt
Fayette County
Fayetteville
Cordell Hull
Staunton, Va
Hull
John J. McGrath
U.S. Supreme Court
Air Force
Robert W. Toth
Toth
Seoul
Kuilaey Aonice
Koteam
Rochester. N
Monroe County Penitentiary
Anthony Merdella
Rochester
Vatican City
Pius XII
Apostolic Palace
Vatican
Baltimore
Henry Liord ‘Knight
Bethesda Exporter
Poland
Pusan
Coast Guard
ROK Coast Guard
Bonn
Theodor Haus
U.S
Senate
Brendy
Wall
House
Chamber
Ammhent
Benal
Congress
Lane
Jair Force
NAVY
Treasury Department
Department OF ‘Agriculture
Health and
FeNse
U. S
Air Force Ap
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Civil Service
Federal Communications Commission
General Accounting Office
General Services Administration
Interstate Commerce Commisssion
National Advisory Committee On Aeronautics
Selective Service
Small Business Administration
Commission
Lone Eagle
Jacob Adolph Bluma
Pacific Ocean
Cocos Island
South America
Senators
N.Y. Piers
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