Indiana Borough Drunk Driving Incident On Holiday
One arrest reported as Indiana Borough police managed traffic and holiday crowds. William Thomas Ray, 28, of Indiana, jailed after rear ending a car on Wayne Avenue near Grant while intoxicated, injuring no one seriously though Mrs Watson sustained a strained neck. damage to both vehicles estimated at 127 dollars. Respectively, Thomas Byers, 18, of Indiana, paid fines for drunkenness. Another incident involved Paul Young in a Route 80 collision with a truck, with injuries and estimated damages. Local police also detained Stanley Katzo for drunken behavior after a porch incident.
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Indiana
William Thomas Ray
Mqnor
Ray
Wayne Avenue
Grant
A. R. Watson
Watson
Thomas P. Byers
Hiram B. George
McCrory
Philadelphia
Bob Depp
Cypress
Punxsutawney
Paul Young
Saint Mary's
Route 80
Young
Depp
Survey Corps
Department of Highways
Charles Milter
Cloe
Stanley Katzo
Elkin
North Sixth Street
Lady Stunt Flyer Killed In Air Show
Deborah Ta reports Miss Marge Hurlburt 32 of Painesville Ohio died during a Fourth of July air show while performing with the Flying Tigers. She held the women’s international air speed record and had joined the troupe days earlier. Her plane crashed while executing a low roll in front of about 2500 spectators at a Cleveland area field. She taught school in Ohio and served 20 months with the WASP ferried many aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deborah
Marge Hurlburt
Painsville
Flying Tigers
WASP
Tampa
Fla
Hurlburt
Ohio
Cleveland
Women's Airforce Service Pilots
Taylorsville School To Hold Reunion
Taylorsville School hosts a reunion with former students and teachers listed from Davison to Harrisburg. Guests are urged to bring old photos, a noon basket picnic in the church grove, and attendance hopes it may be the last in the old building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davison
Johnstown
Mollie (McCrea) Cameron
Marhindale
Mont
Jessie Hadden
Pittsburgh
W. R. Calhoun
Indiana
Homer Price
Ford McLeister
Syracuse
N. Y
Stella (Barr) Miller
New Castle
C. C. Clawson
Columbus
Ohio
Ray Fyock
Harrisburg
James Gilhousen
Home
Church Grove
Br. H. B. Buterbaugh
Mabel (Reed) Templeton
Ollie
Napp
Nichol
R. D
Mollie (McCrea
Flying Saucers Reported Across Northwest Sky
The Seattle Coast Guard man photographed a tiny light in the evening sky while reports spread of flat round discs seen near Emmett Idaho and Ontario Oregon. Witnesses from Portland to Port Huron described saucer-like objects moving northward at high speed and not fireworks or aircraft.
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Emmett
Stevens
Smith
Ontario
Oreg
CAA
Boise
Blue Mountains
Portland
Ore
Marky Hornondege
Portand
New Orleans
Lillian Lawless
Lake Pontchartrain
Port Huron
Mich
BE. J. Smith
Seattle
United Air Lines
Ying
Idaho
Twin Fats Park
Twin Falls
Lilian Lawless
John R. Warner
Michigan
Coast
Britain and France Hope Russo Decision Is Not Final
British foreign office said invited nations should be free to decide their own course. Moscow radio reported the invitation without comment as London pressed for European economic unity with U.S. aid. Leaders from Czechoslovakia, Poland, and discussion with France and Italy point to a July 14 Paris conference on a integrated Europe.
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Moscow Radio
London
Moscow
Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press
Russia
Klement Gottwald
Jan Masaryk
Prague
Josef Cyrankiewicz
Warsaw
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Britain
Georgi Zarubin
France
Alexandre Dogomolov
Paris
Bevin
American Society
Georges Bidault
Foreign Office
Rome
Greece
Portugal
Netherlands
Denmark
Turkey
Belgium
Switzerland
Eire
Iceland
Brothers collide in Costa Mesa highway crash
In Costa Mesa California two brothers Thomas Conley 46 of Lynwood and George Conley 40 of Costa Mesa collided on a highway holiday drive both unaware the other was nearby the Conley brothers told officers none were injured in the crash and both families were out for a drive
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Costa Mesa
Calif. Tutu
Conley
Thomas Conley
Lynwood
George Conley
Eleven Dead and Thirty Hurt In Tornado Storm
Grand Forks North Dakota July 5 Eleven dead and about 30 injured after a tornado tore a 0 mile path from Windy Gates Manitoba into North Dakota and Minnesota. Seven victims were Mexican sugar beet workers from San Antonio slain when a house collapsed near Auburn. Marie Isabel Gutierrez, 13, survived and recalled the noise. Two brothers ages 7 and 11 months perished. The storm ripped a 20 foot steel bridge from its foundations near Minto. Farm buildings wrecked but crop loss uncertain. Witnesses described a funnel storm with several smaller vortices.
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Grand Forks
N. D
Windy Gates
Manitoba
North Dakota
Minnesota
San Antonio
Tex
Auburn
Oslo
Minn
Warsaw
N. C
Marie Isabel Gutierrez
Henry
Ralph
Forest River
Minto
N.bd
Shangri-La to Be Inactivated Navy Carrier to Retire
SAN FRANCISCO July 5 The Shangri La famed aircraft carrier built with war bonds and named after FDRs reply to Doolittle planes will retire. One thousand two hundred crew will attend a farewell at Scottish Rite Auditorium before deactivation at Hunter s Point Naval Yard and reassignment. The ship saw action in Okinawa and supported atom test drones at Bikini before ending service.
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San Francisco
Shangri-La
Jimmy Doolittle
Tokyo
W. P. Cogswell
Hunter's Pont Naval Yard
John S. McCain
Okinawa
Bikini
Erie County Team Wins 5100 Pound Horse Pull
Waterford’s William Loop led the Erie County team to victory on the first pull, earning $75. Twelve teams competed across 5100, 4800 and 4500 pound pulls with placements listed for Eugene Mitchell Kuhns Brothers George Porter William Eckels Loughry Crawford Brothers Shields Ritchie Tomb and others.
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Erie County
William Loop
Waterford
Jack
Dan
Loop
Eugene Mitchell
M. C. Hetrick
St. Charles
Deb
Iseman and Sons
Shelocta
Kuhns
W. F. Shields
Penn Run
James L. Ritchie
Shebota
Walter Tomb
Homer City
Bevin Sends U S Warm Message to America
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin delivered a July Fourth message praising American victory and noting that nothing can separate the United States and Britain. Ambassador Lewis W. Douglas chaired the dinner honoring the event and Bevin issued his jocular remarks on the Revolution.
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London
Ernest Bevin
United States
America
U. S
Lewis W. Douglas
Bunker Hill
Yorktown
Bevin
Drownings and Fatal Wrecks Leave Several Dead
A holiday boat accident at Nottery Lake near Murphy North Carolina left six Georgia family members dead as the craft overturned in eight feet of water. Victims were Claude Beaver and his daughters Mary Jo and Perline, plus sisters Clelia Carman and Evelyn Foster and their brother Marvin Foster witnessed from shore. Separate crash near Tallahassee Florida killed six, including Clyde White family members Montez 18, Conley White, Mrs. Joan Plaskie, and a Bristol Virginia resident. One three year old missing in the wreck was believed burned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Ertel
Shillown
Murphy
N. C
Georgia
L. B. Nunnally
Nottery Lake
North Carolina-Georgia
Claude Beaver
Mary Jo
Perline
Clelia
Carman
Evelyn Foster
Union County
Nunnally
Weaver
Marvin Foster
Beaver
Tallahassee
Fla
Clyde White
Montez
Conley White
Joan Plaskie
Florida State University
Bristol
Boy Salutes President Truman at Virginia visit
Three year old Hedgeman Smith darted from his father at the University of Virginia to cry Hi Mr President. President Truman smiled and picked up the boy, then posed for photographers in a brief, cheerful moment during the tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlottesville
Daly
Hedgeman Smith
President Truman
University of Virginia
Hedgeman
Mr. Truman
Ramadier Wins Confidence Vote In French Assembly
In Paris the National Assembly backed Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier by 331 to 246 after a heated debate. Communists and the right Republican Party of Liberty bloc opposed, criticizing the Marshall Plan and Germany policy as Ramadier sought a stay on wages and higher taxes to curb inflation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
French National Assembly
Paul Ramadier
Republican Party of Liberty
Jacques Duclos
Germany
Ramadier
Assembly
Accused Jap Says Trial Is Strain
GUAM July 5 Captain Hiroshi Iwanami a Japanese accused of torture and slaying of American prisoners on Truk Atoll said the strain of his war crimes trial which resumed two weeks ago is getting to him He has lost ten pounds since the trial began He told a correspondent through an interpreter as witness after witness testified that he ordered his men to kill the American prisoners Iwanami and 18 officers and men from Truk Fourth Naval hospital are on trial for the murder of 10 Americans A prosecution witness testified Iwanami personally ordered the prisoners used in medical experiments
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guam
Hiroshi Iwanami
Truk Atoll
Iwanami
Hewitt Leads in Club Championship Final at Noon
Earl E. Hewitt Jr. holds a three up edge on Vernon Fritchman after the first 18 holes in a 36 hole playoff for the Indiana Country Club title. The final rounds resume at 3 p.m. with Hewitt seeking a record fourteenth championship.
Lift One Card Restore Four Licenses In Indiana County
The State Bureau of Highway Safety reported for the week ending June 20 that 255 drivers had cards withdrawn with 43 revoked and 202 suspended. Operating privileges were restored to 793. Blairsville resident George Brazenski had his operator's license suspended for speeding. Restorations included Charles Zadravec Livermore R D 2 Sam Esposity Blairsville Lloyd Putt Penn Run and Theodore W Painter Glen Campbell ROL.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
State Bureau of Highway Safety
George Brazenski
Blairsville
Charles Zadravec
Livermore R. D. 2
Sam Esposity
Lloyd Putt
Penn Run
Theodore W. Painter
Glen
Postpone Award At Black Lick Fire Department
The Black Lick Fire Department announced today that the awarding of a car scheduled for today would be postponed due to recent official orders against altering automobiles.
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Black Lick
Dewey to Tour Republican Leaders in West and Salt Lake
Gov. Dewey will cut his control law campaign until July 1 1949 if conditions warrant. The trip offers private talks with Republican governors and leaders in key mid western and western states, with no speeches expected. He presides a July 14 tax and finance round table at a Salt Lake City conference. The journey includes a Sapulpa stop to visit Mrs. Dewey's parents, marking his first long western trip since reelection. Eclipses and magnesium griddies are noted in a Gazette aside.
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Dewey
West
Salt Lake City
Sapulpa
Okla
Deweys
British impose life sentences for Rome massacre leaders
In Rome the British high command announced life imprisonment for Field Marshal Albert Kesselring Colonel Eberhard von Mackensen and Lieutenant General Kurt Maeltzer for responsibility in the 1944 Ardeatine Caves massacre in Rome which killed 335 Italians in retaliation for 32 German police deaths.
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Rome
Britishigh Command
Italy
Albert Isselring
Eberhard Onackensen
Kurt Aeltzer
Kesselring
Vene
von Mackenan
Maeltzer
Obituaries from Greensburg area claim 1947 deaths
A sequence of death notices from Greensburg and nearby Indiana County report JOAN J McCUNE age 80, LADIE MARTIN age, JOHN ALLISON ERWIN, N DORIS LIEKERT, and HARRY EDWARD MEYER with biographical details, survivals, and funeral arrangements across multiple towns including Jeannette Blairsville Hillsdale Penn Run and Gastown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan J. McCune
Greensburg
Indiana County
5 .F. McCune
Hillsdale
Zetta McCune
Gertrude Fisher
Jeannette
Betty Craig
Jack McCune
John
Zetta Fisher
McCune
Railway Industrial and Engineering Company
Baptist Church of
East Mahoning Baptist Church
East Mahon
Navy Recruiting Office Opened in Indiana County
The Navy Department announces Chief Petty Officer Thomas M. Ryan will be in the Indiana County Courthouse basement, Indiana, Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Saturday 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. for naval service questions. Enlistment terms lowered to three years. men 18 and older no longer need consent papers. Office opened July 3.
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Navy Department
Thomas M. Ryan
Indiana County Court House
Indiana
Naval Service
Homer City Sailor Returns from Leyte Mediterranean Cruise
Pvt. Joseph G. Kubiak of Homer City has returned to the United States aboard the U S S Leyte after a lengthy Mediterranean cruise. The Leyte visited Istanbul Souda Bay Crete Alexandria Naples and Gibraltar with a Turkish president visiting the ship as a highlight of the trip.
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Joseph G. Kubiak
Homer City
United States
U. S. S. Leyte
Mediterranean
Leyte
Istanbul
Turkey
Souda Bay
Crete
Alexandria
Egypt
Naples
Gibraltar
Army Plane Crash Near Odawara Identified
Wreckage of an Army Night Fighter named Black Widow, missing since Thursday, was found today in the mountains behind Odawara about 70 miles southwest of Tokyo. The aircraft crashed during a routine flight. Names of the three crew members are being withheld pending notification of kin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Odawara
iChurch Services Announcements From Local Presbyterian Churches
Pastor Roy J. Werner delivers inblowing notices for several churches including Rockbridge Rochester Mills Glen Campbell East Union and Arcadia Presbyterians. Sunday School times vary with DST and EST, worship services and Communion at multiple congregations are listed with no service at Arcadia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy J. Werner
Rockbridge Presbyterian Church
Rochester Mills
Glen Campbell Presbyterian Church
East Union Presbyterian Church
Taylorsville
Arcadia Presbyterian Church
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Gazette
Mystery Co
Great Britain
Earth
Fair Grounds
W. C. Dawkins
Virginia Davis
Premier Ramadier
Gov. Dewey
New York
Zarief
Sands
Manhattan Beach
Bennett
Elaine
Isadora
Ellen
Pennsylvania
Ladie Martin
Burrell Township
Martinsburg
W. Va
Virginia
Earl ‘Martin
Coral Luthern Chapel
Charles N. Shhindler
Coral Lutheran Cemetery
John Allison Erwin
Pearl Run
Indiana Hospital
Armstrong Co
Kerns and
Nancy (Olinger) Erwin
Armstrong County
Westmoreland County
Mary Alice (Hindman) Erwin
AR McCombs
A. L. Erwin
New Brighton
Frank B. Erwin
Har
Mony Presbyterian Church
Robinson’s Funeral Home
Albert G. Kouitz
Whitesburg Presbyterain
N. Doris Liekert
Thomas Cobert
Diamondville
Nelson and
Mary (Rice) O'Neil
Harry W. Lickert
Helen Cobert
G. K. O'Neil
Rairish
Black Lick Presbyterian Church
Wm. H. Nicholson
Blairsville Cemetery
Harry Edward Meyer
Near
Kittanning
Charles
Rachel Meyer
Gastown Reformed Church
Minnie Belle
Cessna) Meyer
Lester
Bert LeRoy
Perry L
Shelocta R. D. 1
Blair Shaffer
Avonmore
Harvey Meyer
Charlie Meyer
Elderson
John Meyer
Nettie Thomas
Elizabeth Reefer
Tillie Reefer
Shelocta R. D. I
Harold
Navy Recruiting Office
Homer
iChurch
Amb
Bell Funeral Home
Ulance
Mildred Salsgiver Butterbaugh
Water St
Eugene
Church St
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