Amerasia Case Revived Prompts Cover-Up Charges in Congress
The Amerasia wartime secrets case reemerges amid Republican accusations of a cover-up. Senator Rydings says full story will come, as House hearings break secrecy over the 1946-47 investigations. Navy ties and OSS official Bielaski are noted, with disclosures of secret documents in the Amerasia raid.
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Washington
Amerasia
Congress
Rydings
State Department
Tydings
Senate
McCarthy
House
Rep. Hobbs
D-Ala
Hobbs
The
Navy
Andrew Roth
Roth
Naval Intelligence
Brooks
Frank Bielaski
Office of Strategic Services
OSS
Brooks-Bielaski
Amerasia Magazine
New York
Home Burns At Starford in Fire Disaster
A Starford bungalow owned by the Grant Learn family burned to the ground when an air stove exploded. Firefighters arrived about 1:30 p.m. and found the structure beyond saving. Five people lost their home. Red Cross provided shelter clothing and food.
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Grant Learn
Mrs. Buterbaugh
Learns
American Red Cross
Two Ton Betty Nabbed by Constables in Graceton
Mary Vargo also known as Mary Novak and Trigger Woman, 33, was arrested yesterday on a Beaver Falls warrant for larceny and surety of the peace. Constables Baker and Schrecengost of Indiana took the prisoner. The report notes her weight at 208 pounds. Also listed are local fruit market ads featuring Strawberries three quarts for one dollar.
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Mary Vargo
Mary Novak
Alia
Trigger Woman
Betty
Graceton
Beaver Falls
Baker
I. W. Carson Elected To School Board
I W Carson treasurer of Syntron Company Homer City was elected to fill a board of education vacancy caused by Haney W McCann’s resignation. Carson, a Duquesne University finance graduate, has lived in Indiana 14 years and has two children in public schools. He serves as Boy Scouts treasurer and is active in local civic groups.
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I. W. Carson
Syntron Company
Homer City
Washington Street
Indiana
Eee
Board of Education
Haney W. McCann
McCann
Public Utilities Commission
Harrisburg
Carson
Duquesne University
School of Finance and Commerce
Samuel
Sara Jane
Horace Mann
William Penn Council
Boy Scouts of America
Indiana Chamber of
L W. Carson
Highway Patrol Adds Plain Patrol Cars for Holiday Travel
Harrisburg May 23 State Police Commissioner Col C M Wilhelm said extra patrol cars will patrol highways during the Memorial Day weekend and the preceding days. He warned traffic would be unusually heavy. Some patrol cars will be conventionally colored.
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Harrisburg
Col. C. M. Wilhelm
Wilhelm
iMilk in Paper Containers May Cost More
Harrisburg May 23 The State Milk Control Commission postponed a hearing in Hollidaysburg to consider raising milk prices in paper containers by one cent per quart in all or part of the Johnstown milk marketing area. The current retail price in the area is 19 cents per quart.
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Harrisburg
State Milk Control Commission
Hollidaysburg
H. N. Cobb
Cobb
Johnstown
France Charges Russia Breaks Four Power Demilitarization Pact
Paris protests Moscow after Russia allows a 50 000 man militarized police in Eastern Germany claiming this breaches the four power demilitarization pact. France says the force has military gear and contradicts prior commitments to disarm Germany and decrying Russia's peace rhetoric as weakened by its actions.
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Germany
Central Council
France
United States
Britain
Russia
Red River Flood Crest Drops in Winnipeg
Winnipeg and St Boniface faced relief work as the Red River crest fell today. About 80 000 homes damaged or destroyed and 100 000 refugees fled the flood zones in what officials call the worst flood in over a century. The army urged further evacuations while dikes hold and recovery begins amid floodwater draining toward Lake Winnipeg.
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Winnipeg
Man
Red River
St. Boniface
Red River Valley
Greater
Lake Winnipeg
P.R.R Names Freight Agent For Indiana
Indiana Pa May 1 1929 Pennsylvanian Railroad announces 8 R Galbreath former Vandergrift native will serve as Freight Agent at Indiana Pa He is married with two children and has 13 years with the railroad including service in the UV military His family will relocate to Indiana in the near future
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R. Galbreath
Vandercrift
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Indiana
Mr. Galbreath
Railroad
Black Lick Man Sues Over 1948 Route 22 Crash
Walter J. Lyda of Black Lick files a $10,000 damage suit in court against Harrison Shields Transfer Company of Mt. Lebanon and its owners over a truck car collision on Route 22 in West Wheatfield Township on April 26 1948. The suit cites damage to Lyda owned car and the Mt. Lebanon truck. The case links to a local incident and names the involved parties.
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Walter J. Lyda
Black Lick
Harrison Shields Transfer Company
Mt. Lebanon
West Wheatfield Township
Lyda
U S Acts To Help Chinese
The U S government weighs extending Economic Cooperation Administration aid to Chiang Kai-shek's Formosa. Dr Raymond Moyer in Taipei says Washington may extend the program beyond June 30. Nationalists claim repulsed a Communist attack on Wanshan Island and foresee a renewed effort. Western China guerrillas fight near Urumchi as Berlin braces for a Communist youth march.
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Associated Press
Economic Cooperation Administration
Formosa
Washington
Chiang Kai-Shek
Raymond Moyer
Taipei
ECA
State Department
Wanshan
Ladrone
Sgaima
West China
Sinkiang
Srinagar
Kashmir
Nea
Urumchi
Germany
Wife Held in Butler Death
Butler Pa May 23 A District Attorney Clyde Shumaker reports Jack Parks 26 was killed in his home before dawn today and his wife Mollie taken into custody. No charge yet against Mrs Parks autopsy pending. Parks residence is Eau Claire Butler County about 25 miles north of Butler. Death occurred about 4 am.
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Butler Pa
Clyde Shumaker
Jack Parks
Mollie
Shumaker
Truck Collision Causes Four Thousand Dollars In Damages
A two truck crash yesterday on Route 119 three and a half miles south of Indiana caused more than 4000 in damages. No one was injured. Everett Fyack drove a coal truck, Clifford L. Brown drove another, and the McNaughton truck was owned by RFE McNaughton. Brown slowed for a railroad crossing. Fyack said his brakes failed.
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Route 119
Indiana
Everett Fyock
Clymer R. D. 1
R. E. McNaughton
Clifford Brown
R. D
Fyock
Brown
Gazette
Everett Fyack
Clymer
Clifford L. Brown
McNaughton
Prisoner Dives To His Death At Allegheny Jail
In Pittsburgh on May 23 a 40 year old inmate Frank Mullen died after he balanced on a bunk stoop and plunged headfirst onto a concrete cell floor. The millworker had been arrested Sunday on a wife beating charge. Memorial Day geraniums and plants advertised nearby.
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Fittsburgh
Allegheny County
Frank Mullen
Richard Skidmore
Mullen
Adler Draper Defense Rests In Libel Suit
Hartford May 23 AP The defense rested in the 200000 libel case brought by entertainers Larry Adler and Paul Draper against Greenwich housewife Mrs Hester R McCullough. She testified she believed Adler and Draper were concealed Communists and condemned capitalism Liberals and New Dealers. She said I hate capitalist fat cats and I hate Liberals.
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Hartford
Conn
Larry Adler
Paul Draper
Hester R. McCullough
Greenwich, Conn
Adler
Draper
Frederick H. Wigsin
Adler and Draper
Lack of Money May Delay Dam Completion
Pittsburgh, May 2044 Two Republican Congressmen warn completion of the Conemaugh Dam near Saltsburg will be delayed if a $2,000,000 House Appropriations Committee cut is not restored. Reps James G Fulton and Robert J Corbett say no water is being dammed to date though $26,715,000 has already been spent. They warn the completion date could slip to January 1, 1954.
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Pittsburgh
Conemaugh
Saltsburg
House Appropriations Committee
James G. Fulton
Robert J. Corbett
Army District
Conrad Hardy
Saltsburg Orders Clean Up of Dogs
Burgess Edward Bankert of Saltsburg asks Chief Gus Zanos to address stray dogs after a visit from state dog investigator Mr Westover. Outside Inn Strawberries offered 3 qts for 1.00.
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Saltsburg
Burgess Edward Bankert
Gus Zanos
Mr. Westover
Campania to become cafe ship for Festival of Britain
The British aircraft carrier Campania, veteran of Arctic convoy battles, will be a floating exhibition for the Festival of Britain in 1951. Painted white with an open air cafe on her flight deck, the 16 000 ton ship will tour Britain's coast ports starting in April 1951.
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London
Campania
Russia
Britain
Presbyterians Oppose Catholic Marriage and Mercy Killings
In Cincinnati on May 23 the Presbyterian Church in the USA adopted a resolution by its special Commission on Marriage and Divorce opposing marriages with Roman Catholics under Catholic conditions and condemning legalization of euthanasia as mercy killings. It urged ministers to inform members of the stance and noted parallel action by the Episcopal Church. A separate resolution sought clerical guidance on the marriage of divorced persons for the 1983 General Assembly.
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Cincinnati
Presbyterian Church In the
USA
Special Commission On
Mind General Assembly
Protestant Episcopal Church
Presbyterian Church
Epscopal Church
Chester
Presbytery
General Assembly
Indiana Board Elects Ray Vice President At Meeting
B Dwight Ray of the Indiana Board of Education was elected vice president as the board adopted the year budget and set the millage and per capita tax. He follows Harry W Mee Conn who resigned to join the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission in Harrisburg. The panel approved a 2 mill real estate tax and a $10 per capita levy for all adults.
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B. Dwight Ray
Indiana Board of Education
Mr. Ray
Harry W. Mee Conn
Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission
Harrisburg
Western powers accuse Russia of building 50000 German troops
The United States Britain and France protested to Moscow accusing Russia of creating a 50,000 man German military force in Eastern Germany. They urged immediate disbanding of militarized units and cited postwar pledges and five written agreements including Yalta. The three power move followed talks at the London Conference.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Moscow
Germany
Americate Note
State Department
Yalta
London
State Acheson
Bevin
Schuman
Plan 40 8 Parade Here In Indiana Borough
Indiana Borough plans a short but lively 40 8 parade Saturday evening as the Indiana County Vulture 798 of the 40 8, an American Legion auxiliary, holds its annual Spring Wreck. About 25 new members will be initiated during the event with a public parade at 7 30 p m. A Voiture 46 Wrecking Crew from Westmoreland County will conduct the initiation here. The ceremony follows at the Ary Roomy. Chet de Gare is Dominick Violi and Thomas Murray is correspondent.
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Indiana Borough
Indiana County
The
American Legion
Westmoreland County
Voiture 46
Buzard Free on $25,000 Bail Pending Appeal
Corsica lumberman Ay-R. L. Buzard, convicted of second degree murder in the death of Waldo Ditty during a Septembers street fight, is released on $25,000 bail while awaiting the State Supreme Court appeal scheduled for September 25. He faces a six to 13 year sentence. Ditty was a Corsica coal operator.
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Brookville
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Harry Bookman
U.S
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Learn’s
East Pike
Raymond Jenko
Fred Johnson
William Swartz
Jenko
Cook County
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Swartz
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Adler-Draper
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Buzard
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