Lovesick youth dies after gun battle with posse
In Vandergrift Pennsylvania a 17 year old, John Fallone, dies six hours after being shot by state police while hunted for 16 hours. He killed three people and wounded two others including Gladys Smail, 15, who remains in critical condition. Fallone invaded the Smail home Wednesday with a rifle and dynamite and was found with a 2 caliber automatic rifle and 500 rounds. he never regained consciousness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vandergrift
John Fallone
Armstrong County Memorial Hospial
Gladys Smail
J. Warren Small
William Smail
Fallone
Gus Zanos
Apolia
Smail
Io Gladys
Fal
Jane
Memorial Hospital Births and Discharges List
Admitted four new mothers and several discharges recorded at Memorial Hospital. Notable entries include Mrs Addie Kloster Baldwin Chester Staten Topeka and Mrs Joyce Sunderland along with newborns and families listed at multiple addresses. Births include a daughter to Mr and Mrs Lee Zimmerman and daughters to Mr and Mrs Nolan and Mr and Mrs Weems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Addie Kloster
Baldwin
Chester Staten
Topeka
Llaurena Shobe
Lyons St
Charline Flood
Lee Zimmerman
Learnard
J. W. Nolan
N. Y. St
E. L. Weems
Men Charged In Passing Bad Checks Here
Two men face pore Court charges for passing worthless checks. G L Mize, 33, Kansas City MO, released on 1500 bond after preliminary hearing, bound over to February term of District Court for a 4000 check on Aug 10 at Westview Hotel. Arthur Cobb, 31, Eudora, on 1000 bond after prelim, accused of 44.86 check on Aug at Langston Service Station. Lloyd C Miller, 24, 741 Conn, ordered sent to State Reformatory for burglary and grand larceny at a local filling station. Miller paroled after pleading guilty to a worthless check in June. parole revoked by Judge Frank Gray Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. L. Mize
Kansas City
Westview Hetel
W. 6Th
Arthur Cobb
Eudora
Langston
Lloyd C. Miler
State Reformatory
Miller
Frank Gray
Trigger Burke Faces Death In Sing Sing Electric Chair
New York reports that Elmer Burke a 38 year old gunman and jailbreaker was sentenced to die in Sing Sing Prison Electric Chair the week of January 33. He showed no emotion during the verdict. A jury convicted him of first degree murder in the July 23 1952 barroom slaying of shoreman Edward Walsh known as Poochy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Elmer
Trig) Burke
Sing Sing
Edward
Poochy] Walsh
Bank Blotter Droodle Test Triggers Guard Ejection
A visitor claims to have examined a bank blotter and tried to test staff with psychological questions and a mock robbery. After a brief exchange, security guards ejected the man from the premises citing rude behavior.
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Ofce
Unsolicited grant for research to Kansas University
A $3,500 grant was awarded to Kansas University to support the basic research of Dr. Harold W. Barrett, associate professor of biochemistry. The Smith Kline and French Foundation of Philadelphia funds the donation to advance charitable educational and scientific aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas University
Harold W. Barrett
Smith, Kline and French Foundation
Philadelphia
Barrett
Aksel Repaid For Acting As Colorado Host
President Eisenhower hosts old Colorado friend Aksel Nielsen at the Eisenhower farm in Gettysburg. Nielsen, a Denver mortgage banker and Rocky Mountain fishing lodge owner, visited after lunch with Clifford Roberts, Augusta National board chair, who stayed briefly before heart attack. The President’s brother Milton Eisenhower, PSU president, also visited and overnighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gettysburg
Eisenhower
Colorado
Aksel Nielsen
Nielsen
Denver
Rocky Mountain
Clifford Roberts
New York
Augusta
National Golf Club
Roberts
Augusta National
Milton S. Eisenhower
Pennsylvania State University
Taylor's Testimony Revealed by Probers
Washington The Senate Investigations subcommittee released testimony given two years ago by William Henry Taylor denying membership in the Communist party or an espionage ring. Taylor, a former Treasury Department employee, now assistant director of the IMF, faced an adverse loyalty finding last year. The transcript shows he testified he never was a member of the Communist party or an espionage ring. Elizabeth Bentley had earlier named a William Taylor among Treasury staff as part of a Soviet espionage network in World War II.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
William Henry Taylor
Communist Party
Taylor
Tecaniry Department
International Monetary “ Fund
Byron N. Scott
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Subcommittee
Osth
Elizabeth Bentley
William Taylor
Treasury Department
Deaths and Funerals in Rogers City and Baldwin
Willisa Garratt 66 died December 4. funeral December 7 at Westminster Church Rogers City with Rogers City Masonic Lodge conducting graveside rites. She is survived by her husband Marie Selike Garratt and son Willis, plus extended Garratt relatives. Paul J. O Neil 70 a lifelong Baldwin area resident died early today at Olathe hospital. funeral 2 30 Sunday at Wellsville Methodist Church with survivors including four sons, a daughter, and ten grandchildren.
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Wills E. Garratt
Willisa Garratt
Westminster Presbyterian
Rogers City
Mich
Memorial Park
The
Power Company
Chamber of Commerce
City Planning Commission
Masonic Lodge
Phi Kappa, Phi Fraternity
Marie Selike Garratt
Willis Howard Garratt
John R. Garratt
Ky. St
Vernon Garratt
Fred Howard
Euedora
John Garratt
Howard
Maggie Jones
Lonnie Conley
N. J. St
Missouri City
Paul
O’neil
Paul J. O'Neil
Baldwin
Olathe Community Hospital
Edith Pearson O'Neil
Forrest O'Neil
Frank O'Neil
Wellsville
Wayne O'Neil
Independence
Donald O'Neil
Chicago
Ralph Caruthers
Wellsville Methodist Church
War Hero's Son Accepts His Honor With Engaging Shyness
Concordville Pa a 15-year-old, Corky Kelly III son of World War II hero Captain Jim Kelly, received the Eagle Scout award in a quiet church ceremony. He earned 21 merit badges over about four years and shared the moment with his mother and stepfather. Captain Kelly died early in the war after his plane hit a Japanese battleship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concordville
United States
Philadelphia
Corky" Kelly
J. Watson Pedlow
Kelly
Haruna
Kefauver Dives In Republican Primary News
U S Senator Kefauver's continued coverage notes Republican primary dynamics in New Hampshire with Gov Lane Dwinell and White House aide James Magerty discounting White House influence. Adams denies White House involvement as mutations of farm policy and labor union voting patterns shape the 1956 landscape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lane Dwinell
New Hampshire
James C. Magerty
White House
Adama
Sherman Adams
Eisenhower
Hagerty
Adams
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Maebashi Court Delays Ruling In Soldier Assault Case
A Japanese court postponed the assault trial of four U.S. soldiers to await a U.S. constitutional test on trying American troops abroad. Judge Tsuneo Yamaguchi delayed hearings to February 10 after defense attorney Frank Scolinos sought time to pursue the test in U.S. federal court, with steps under way in Chicago for one defendant, Cpl. Alan C. May. The defendants include Cpl Walter R. McKenzie, Pfc Kenneth C. Reynolds, and Specialist 3 Jessie Nortyke, each facing charges of assault, battery, and inciting a pinball parlor riot that injured six Japanese police.
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Maebashi
Japan
U.S
Tsuneo Yamaguchi
Frank Scolinos
Scolinos
U.S. Far East
Chicago
Alan C. May
Walter R. McKenzie
Detroit
Pfc
Kenneth C. Reynolds
McGee
Ark
Jessie Nortyke
Minneapolis
Kas
Record year reflected in Douglas County finances and traffic
Douglas County mortgages reach a seven million debt record, far above pre WWI levels of about one million. County car-truck registrations exceed 16,000, up nearly one thousand in a year and 65 percent in a decade. Traffic injuries dip slightly from 1954 while 747 accidents and 120825 in damage set Lawrence records. Fire losses hit 350000, more than doubled 1954.
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Douglas County
Lawrence
Trinity Episcopal Church
Plymouth
Pates
Hollywood stars fly to bring Christmas cheer abroad
About 100 entertainers boarded a plane from Burbank to visit U S military bases worldwide to spread holiday cheer. In Lawrence dozens of residents addressed the Christmas gift problem by sending Journal-World subscriptions, each order including a gift card.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burbank
Calif
U. S
Lawrence
The
Journal-World
Adv
Six New Deaths Add To State Road Toll In Kansas
Six more people died in Kansas traffic incidents raising the year total to 554, with multiple fatalities reported near Hutchinson on Highway 17 and near Manhattan on Highway 18. Names include Hutchinson residents Donald Lee Cornett 19 Billy Ray Cornett 22 and Clarence Doyle Scheverman 27, Fort Riley soldier Laurence Proulx 22, and the injured Patrick Hartshorn 29. A child David Pail Rolf 4 died yesterday after a two car collision near Aliceville, while his mother was injured. Albert Ruta 43 of Douglas Nebraska died in a collision on U S 81 eight miles north of Salina.
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Kansas
Kansas Highway 17
Hutchinson
Donald Lee Cornett
Billy
Ray Cornett
Clarence Doyle Scheverman
Ft. Riley
Kansas Highway
Manhattan
Laurence Proulx
Detroit
Mich
Patrick Hartshorn
St. Michael
David Pail Rolf
Aliceville
Paul Rolf
Albert Ruta
Douglas
Neb
U.S. 81
Salina
Aids Director at K U to Move to New York
Dr. Dennis Trueblood, director of the aids and awards office at Kansas University, will become assistant director of the Commission on Educational Organizations of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. He departs KU after July 1954 tenure and will aid workshops on school tensions and interfaith education. Dr. Laurence C. Woodruff notes a successor is not yet chosen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis Teuebloon
Kansas University
Commission On Educational Organizations
National Conference of Christians and Jews
New York City
Trueblood
K.U
Indiana University
Alzo D. Henderson
E.W
Universitye and Alumni Association
Hendersson
Michigan University
Bids Sought for Haskell Land Use Through Dec 28
Sealed bids for permits to use 602 acres of land owned by Haskell Indian Institute are due by December 28. The parcels include two grazing tracts totaling 284 acres and two farming grazing tracts totaling 318 acres. Bids to the superintendent. permits run January 1 1956 to December 31 1960. James P. Howell of the Haskell office can provide land details. Farming operations have been discontinued per a national policy change last spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haskell Indian Institute
Haskell Institute
James P.howell
Haskell Business
Haskell
Settlement approved in $3500 compromise case
District Court approved a $3500 compromise settlement Thursday in a lawsuit against O B Temple of Marysville over injuries suffered by Betty Foster Church 867 Lincoln Street in a car truck accident on October 4 1954 near Tee Pee Junction a mile north of Lawrence. The semi trailer truck driven by Temple collided with a car driven by Willie Allen of Baldwin injuring five occupants including a 15 year old girl Allen died later of injuries.
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O. B. Temple of
Marysville
Betty Foster
Lincoln St
Teepee Junction
Lawrence
Temple
Willie Allen
Baldwin
Allen
County Traffic Fine In County Court
Chester Archie Staten of Topeka was fined 25 dollars plus costs Thursday in County Court for driving with out a license running a stop sign and failing to yield right of way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester Archie Staten
Topeka
Flu Symptoms Alarm Lawrence Residents
A new flu strain has many locals fearing appendicitis like attacks with nausea vomiting and abdominal tenderness. Children appear especially affected and symptoms last about two days according to a local doctor.
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Areca
Attacks Kill Brothers in Detroit Heart Attacks
Albert Schwens ter, 69, died at work after a heart attack at Nicholas Schwens ter's sheet metal shop. Nicholas, 72, rushed to the shop then collapsed and died from a heart attack on returning home. A separate note announces a divorce granted Thursday in District Court for Nellie Mae Jackson and Jesse Jackson. A Christmas gift subscription pitch appears at the end.
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Detroit
Alhbert P. Schwenster
Nicholas
Nellie Mae Jackson
Jesse Jackson
Market at a Glance Mixed Corners in Grain and Livestock
Stocks rose irregularly after five days of declines with gains to three points and losses to about three. Kansas City prices show wheat, corn, oats and soybeans with mixed moves. cattle and hogs steady or higher, with top cattle at 71.00 and hogs around 12.00, while futures list modest opens and closes across wheat and soybeans.
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Brazil
N. C. Cash Grain
Kansas City
jSep Fr
U. S
Wall Street
New York
Charges Dropped in Des Moines Fraud Case
Charges of fraudulent misrepresentation against Vernon Thomas and Wayne McConkey from Worden were dismissed in district court. They previously obtained about 150 dollars from Mrs. Henry Young on the pretext of cleaning a well. Both pleaded guilty in Jefferson County and were paroled after restitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Vernon Thomas
Wayne McConkey
Henry Young
Worden
Wayne Allphin Jr
Jefferson County
Young
Allphin
Marriage Licenses Issued By Prébate Court To Four Couples
Four marriage licenses recorded include Samuel Bernard Britton 25 of Monroe Louisiana marrying Nancy Jo Moore 20 of Wichita. Howell Hillery Alligood 29 of Lawrence and Ruby Flora Channele 17 of Lawrence also licensed.
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Samuel Bernard Britton
Monroe
Nancy Jo Moore
Wichita
Howell
Hillery Alligood
Ruby Flora Channele
Lawrence
Dog Also a Culprit In £ 300 Theft Here
A break in at Stowits Rexas Drugs Inc. 847 Mass St. the Ninth Street side door shattered top value was about 300 dollars. Police recovered 18 watches six cigarette lighters and toy cash register. A stray dog entered through the broken door biting packages and resting on magazines. Police Chief Hazelett said no definite leads yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stowits Rexas Drugs Inc
Mass
Ninth Street
John Hazelett
Phenix City Move On Corruption Wins Award
Phenix City Alabama earned recognition as an All-America City for its battle against entrenched crime vice and corruption. The award, announced by the National Municipal League and Look magazine, listed 11 communities including Bellevue Illinois Bloomington Ohio Cambridge Ohio Grand Island Nebraska Joliet Michigan Peer Michigan Reading Pennsylvania Riverside California St Paul Minnesota Savannah Georgia.
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New York
Phenix City
Als
National Municipal League
Look Magazine
Bellevue
Ash
Bloomington
Cambridge
Ohio
Grand Island
Neb
Joliet
Peer
Mich
Reading
Riverside
Calif
St. Paul, Minn, Au Ue Vannah, Ga
Card of thanks to fire department and neighbors
Homer and Charlotte Altenbernd express sincere thanks to Lawrence Fire Department Sheriff’s Office and many friends and neighbors for aid during their recent fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Sheriff's Office
Homer and
Charlotte Altenbernd
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Joyce Sunderland
Mary Durr
Mabel Bowman
Pleasant Grove
Margaret
Mills
Frank
Speicher
Conn
Betty Ray
E. 12Th St
Oehlert
Shirley Wulfkuhles
Mildred Sue Gentry
Elm St
Trigger Burke
K. U
Aksel
Probers
Kefauver Dives
Associated Press
Edythe Norman
Vinland
Lecompton
Dist Wilet
James Parsons
Parsons
Leach
Kansas Power and Light Co
Kp&l
Leavenworth
K. C. Livestock
Kansass
USDA
Stags
Turkeys
Farm Toms
Hens
Hensville
Young White Ducks
Young Geese
Young Guindens
Capona
N. Y
Admiral
Allied Ch
Allis Chal
T&t
Afriin Uw
Tobai Wy
Anac Cap
Atchison
Avco Mfg
Rald Lima
Beth Steel
Pont
Eagle P
Flec
Gen Motors
Goodyear
Monsan
Mont Ward
Nat Distill
Uom
NY Central 43% No Am Av. 83% Ohio O11 33%, U Olin
Math Penney
JC Pa RR
Phill Pet Bisey Proct & G
RCA
Revn
St Josead
St Ree Pap
Sears Roeb
Sinclair O
Socony
Ind 50S Ltd
OLN J
Stoke van C
US Steel Westg
Woolworth
Plese
Courtooss Service
Securities Investment CO
Lawrence Mur Ang You Kreider
Avia
Joss
GAO Macro Insetts Wi
Bai
D.J.C
Douglas County State Bank
Bank of Friendly Service
Warren
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