11 Mar 1961
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1961
Page
1
Military authorities said no verdict yet in the Havana trial of American adventurer William A. Morgan and 13 others charged with conspiring against the Castro government. A military trial reportedly sent him to...
Mrs Johnson told a reporter that her husband found a bag in the street and tossed it in their station wagon. The couple drove a block before curiosity led them to inspect the bag containing $240,000, which astonished them and caused Mrs Johnson to react in disbelief.
Newark dispatch reports an eight month old girl, Joyce Tomasiello, killed by her father Patsy Tomasiello in a brutal attack. Police describe the infant slammed to the floor, forced through a storm door, and out a window before death. The father was detained with no charges immediately filed. he faces mental observation after recent jail and probation records. Local authorities note a military trial context mentioned by officials without final verdict.
Mrs Johnson recalls a call to David E Taylor a former Chicago policeman who warned against alerting police as agents arrived in three cars within minutes. Johnson planned to call a man about an apartment job while sons Richard 16 Clement 13 and Durance II watched from school and neighbors noted the commotion.
Windom Minnesota finally learns Gehart Sogge who served as staff sergeant in World War II is officially recognized as deceased in a noncombat air crash. After 16 years of research by the Logge family Red Cross FBI Scotland Yard a Windom law firm and others the army confirms no evidence he reached London and burial records indicate he perished near the St Dozier air strip Sept 25 1944. The Logge family expresses relief amid lingering emotion.
Appeals court agreed to hear lawyer Luis Carro this morning as Morgan and Maj. Jesus Carreras faced possible execution within 24 hours if the verdict stands. Morgan, once a Cuban revolutionary hero, pleaded innocence and praised the revolution while awaiting Friday’s proceedings at Las Cabanas Fortress.
The Kennedy administration seeks a compromise to resolve Senate and House differences on the emergency feed grain program. A key clash centers on granting the secretary authority to sell government surplus grain below support and market prices, which could lower prices and push farmers to comply with a plan offering higher supports at 1.20 per bushel for corn and acreage reduction payments.
W Ray Scheuering, former West Point aide and Municipal Auditorium director, was shot to death in a scuffle with an off duty policeman on a New Orleans expressway. The policeman and accomplice Glowacki were booked for murder. Glowacki wounded.
The Greensburg Catholic Diocese hosts a marriage preparation course in Indiana. Attorney James Moore of Indiana speaks on A Catholic Lawyer Looks at Marriage at 3:00 p.m. at St. James Chapel. Father Joseph D Andrea will discuss Church Laws Concerning Marriage. Indiana County course director is Father John A Sieczkowski.
A blind mother and father and their 12 children were rescued from a predawn basement fire in Detroit. The infant Robert survived as the father groped to wake seven daughters and pass them to safety. Patricia, William, and Kathleen were hospitalized. Neighbors aided, Suzana Ladas guided the mother to safety.
In Miami the weather produced shocks from static electricity as humidity fell to 15 percent, near the city’s low, while the typical after noon humidity averages around 60 percent. The report notes shocks occur when walking on carpet and brushing hair amid the dry air.
Across the South, boycott actions and campus protests continue as groups press for integrated lunch counters and desegregation. In Rock Hill about 400 Negroes voted to boycott stores for 40 days through Easter, while Duke University and North Carolina College faculty joined sit-in protests at local movie houses. James Farmer announced four girls would apply to Winthrop College in September, and in Louisville a buy nothing for Easter campaign was pledged. In Martinsville six youths picketed stores, and at Johnson C Smith University a student was reinstated after 30 days in jail for a sit-in. Ole Miss faced opposition to student editor Barton amid suspected pro segregation campaigns.
In Dorchester Boston a 34 year old steel worker, unemployed due to a back injury, stood on a seven story roof about to jump. His seven year old son Billy and Rev James M Rogers urged him to pray, leading to the man embracing his son and stepping back to safety with the boy guiding them.
CAPE GIRARDEAU Missouri AP A man sought in the slaying of a policeman and wounding of two officers was captured during an extensive manhunt. Sammy Ayer Tucker 26 of Bakersfield California identified himself. Police said they were a trio believed to have escaped from a California jail.
Obituaries note Anthony Lands 49 of Alverda died March 8 at NIH Bethesda. Born February 26 1912 he was survived by wife Bruna, two sons and siblings. Lou Fine Sutton widow of Edward died March 9 in Miami Florida. Services in Oakland Cemetery Indiana. H Day Myers 1961 Indiana resident dies after long illness born 1896. Clair Mentch 68 of Brooklyn New York born 1899 native Penn Run. George W Simmons 55 formerly of Indiana died Feb 27 in Troy Missouri. William L John Radaker died March 11 Plumville born 1889. Multiple survivors listed with funeral plans at Robinson Lytle’s and Donald E Bowser Funeral Home. Interments in Oakland Brush Valley Lutheransberg and Lutherburg Cemeteries.
Indiana Public Schools present a radio broadcast Sunday at :15 p m in partnership with the Indiana Council of Girl Scouts marking the 49th anniversary of the Girl Scout movement. The program titled Just a Little Chicken Coop features Eileen Conrad Dave Kunselman Lyn Gray Kathy Brown Linda Getts Lois Brady Gaye Hitchings Virginia Stanko Rees Derwart Rodney Kimmel and Bob Miller with Kaye Stewart at the piano. Mrs Vicki Wadas sponsors the Senior Broadcasting Club.
A 21 year old student at a Queens rabbinical seminary admitted setting five fires on campus. Police say he told investigators he acted out of anger at school authorities. Pesach Pasternac, a Cuban born resident raised in Israel, faces arson charges.
Three weeks after mobs attacked whites at the Lagos embassy, Nigerians held a peaceful royal baby-naming for Cynthia Gelinas, the first white child honored by the Ondoboyindo Yoruba family. Oba Adetoyese Laoye One presided, praising the Gelinas couple as ideal whites for Nigeria.
Mr and Mrs Elmer J Kensinger were arraigned on child neglect charges after authorities say their 19 year old daughter Elaine Kensinger was kept confined in a filthy room for seven years. They were held on 2100 bail each. Grandmother Florence Kensinger described long term mistreatment and isolation from family activities.
Former Gov John S Fine was released on 1000 bail after a federal grand jury issued a corrected income tax evasion indictment. The charges relate to Newport Excavating Co and include Albert Biscontini of Kingston. Defendants’ attorneys argued the amended indictment was vague and defective.
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