Disappearances of Two Aged Men Stir Local Curiosity
The article notes two unsolved cases in Sullivan County, Walter Gettinger 83 and Andrew Campbell about 91, both swallowed up or gone with extensive searches and no trace. It cites continued efforts by volunteers, mentions Busseron bottoms searches, and reflects on fate and coincidence amid public interest. It ends with an anecdote about Uncle Charlie Mitchell on the Garment of Life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan County
Walter Gettinger
Sullivan
Andrew Campbell
Gettinger
Busseron
Ellis School House
Steel price hike possible if steelworkers settle strike
Economic Stabilizer Roger L. Putnam said the steel industry could receive a price increase beyond $3 a ton if it negotiates a wage agreement with striking workers. He noted Steelman advised a friendly hearing on prices if a settlement is reached, while the Senate moves to urge President Truman to invoke the Taft Hartley Act to end the 17 day CIO United Steelworkers strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Roger L. Putnam
Putnam
Defense
John R. Steelman
Steelman
T H
House
Truman
Senate
CIO
United
Eisenhower backer criticizes Taft in Denver remarks
A Eisenhower spokesman said the general joined the race to avoid an international catastrophe if Taft won the Republican nomination. He called Taft an isolationist like Hoover and said the United States could be vulnerable to attack. Eisenhower held two off the record press conferences with Washington reporters and urged background notes with no direct quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Eisenhower
Taft
Hoover
United States
Gibraltar
Rock of Gibraltar
Washington
Rotarians Observe GE Day at Linton Clubhouse
Linton Rotary members hosted a GE Day meeting at noon in the Linton Municipal Golf course clubhouse. Guests included representatives from General Electric lamp and factory divisions and GE employees attended as honored guests. A luncheon was served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linton
Cool Breezes Fail to Sell in Indianapolis
Indianapolis overheated readers see columnist Ed Sovola selling pre packaged cool breezes in cello bags for 10 cents. He rigs a refrigerating unit and freezing chamber in a grocery, but shoppers pass, with one inquiry about bulk air. Sovola laments no takers amid a 96 degree heat wave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
U.P
Ed Sovola
Soyola
Loyola
USSR Germ Warfare Charges Raise UN Security Council Session
Soviet delegate Jacob Malik convened the United Nations Security Council to present germ warfare allegations against the United States in Korea. Western delegates planned to dismiss the claims as a propaganda "big lie" while reconsidering the Geneva protocol on bacteriological warfare. General Ridgway testified that U N troops in Korea did not use germ warfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
N. Y
U.P
Jacob A. Malik
United Nations Security Council
Russia
Malik
Council
Kremlin
USS
Korea
Matthew B. Ridgway
U.N
Far East
Rome
New York Rail Dispute Ends
New York rail service returned to normal after the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers called off a strike that disrupted Long Island Rail Road for two days. An agreement in the contract dispute was reached at 5 p.m., with transport lines and freight movement resuming across the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.P
Long Island Railroad
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
New York City
Long Island
J. Frank Doolan
Rairoad
UN Demands Proof On Prisoner Camps In North Korea
At Panmunjom the United Nations pressed Communist liaison officers to prove that five camps housing Allied prisoners in North Korea are at the locations claimed five months earlier. Maj Gen William K Harison signed the note noting air reconnaissance failed to confirm Red camp markings and that camps 2 6 9 and 10 could not be found at listed sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panmunjom
Korea
United Nations
North Korea
U.N
Red
William K. Harison
Third Person Dies As Result of Wreck
Robert Fulton Aikman a 62 year old salesman for the Washington Motor Company died Tuesday in the Mary Sherman Hospital Sullivan from head injuries after a crash at 11 p.m. Friday June 13 on US Highway 54 southeast of Sullivan. Two others died at the scene Floyd Edwards 35 of Cleveland Ohio and Dalton Lee Middleton 17 of Hymera Ind. Seven others were injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Fulton Aikman
Washington Motor Company
Mary Sherman Hospital
Sullivan
Highway 54
Mr. Aikman
Floyd Edwards
Cleveland
Ohio
Dalton Lee Middleton
Hymera
Ind
Color Added To Linton Firm Office Fiasco
Greene County Loan Company on South Main Street received an unwanted splash of orange paint when an unidentified youth rode by on a bicycle and dropped a small can nearby. The paint splashed a three foot area on the sidewalk in front of the door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greene County Loan Company
South Main Street
Tom Marcellino
Acheson Criticizes Soviet Action Against Swedish Plane
Secretary of State Acheson said Russian fighter planes shot down a Swedish plane in an indefensible act. He voiced shock and concern, urged Swedish government handling, and praised U S aid and French leadership in Indo China as countering Red aggression. He cited reports from Jean Letourneau on Indo China forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.S
Dean Acheson
Acheson
Indo - China
Red China
Jean Letourneau
Indo-China
Southeast Asia
Communists Fail to Dislodge U.S. Troops Near Chorwon
In Korea, Communist forces abandoned a bid to drive back U.S. Army 45th Division units from three hills west of Chorwon. They did not attack for the first time since last Friday, but shelled Allied positions as 103 Reds were killed and 54 wounded in the latest abortive assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
Korea
U.P
Chorwon
Boy chases dog to reclaim bone in Memphis
A boy spotted a large dog outside his window grab a bone he had given his pet. He hopped on his bicycle and chased the dog, successfully retrieving the bone without harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
U.P
George James
Fort Wayne Blast Kills 12 Year Old Girl
A prefabricated home was destroyed by a butane gas explosion near Fort Wayne Indiana killing 12 year old Carolyn Staszak and badly injuring her mother Ruth and father Aldelbert plus younger brother Aldelbert Jr. The blast sent debris across the neighborhood, blew out walls, and scorched clothing. Sheriff Harold Zeis attributed the blast to cooking gas eight miles north of the city and the family had returned home from work hours earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
Ind
Carolyn Staszak
Aldelbert C. Staszak
Ruth
Carolyn
Aldelbert, Jr
Harold Zeis
Zeis
Staszak
London
304 Non Reds Flee at Camp KOJE ISLAND Prison Riot
304 non Communist prisoners bolted from Red guards during the breakup of two prison compounds on KOJE ISLAND Korea. U S 2nd Division troops herded 5 600 prisoners from Compound 85 and 5 400 from Compound 605 into 500 man enclosures with fixed bayonets. One escapee showed wounds from a beating by Communist squads. Washington said diplomatic moves seek neutral military observers to inspect the riot torn POW camp as nations respond to invitations.
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Koje Island
Korea
U. S
Joe
Washington
Defense
William C. Foster
Child Labor Charges Filed Against Jasper Canner
Evansville June 18 A Jasper tomato canning firm was charged under the Federal Child Labor Act for hiring 40 children ages six to 15. The 48 count complaint by U S Attorney Marshall Hanley names Bles singer Milling and Packing Corp and Leo Blessinger as secretary and general manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
Jasper
U. S
Marshall Hanley
Indianapolis
Blessinger Milling and Packing Corp
Leo Blessinger
Snake on the Loose Spurs Expert Help in Fort Wayne
In Fort Wayne Indiana Sheriff Harold Zeis planned to call zoologists to trap an 18 foot snake after two more witnesses reported sightings near a warehouse. Residents Eugene Lafavour and sisters Violet and Marguerite Schneider described the snake as beige and “like a two by four” as it slithered along a road four miles from the initial sighting.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Harold Zeis
Zeis
Lincoln Park
Brookfield
Chicago
Eugene M. Lafavour
Violet
Marguerite Schneider
Lefavour
Seaway Bill Is Killed by Senate Vote
The Senate rejected the St. Lawrence Seaway bill 43 to 40, sending the measure back to the Foreign Relations Committee for this session. President Truman urged against failure, calling it a grave economic mistake. Senators Taft Kefauver and Connally led the debate, with Taft predicting U.S. partnership or Canada, and Kefauver urging the investment as sound.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
Congress
Truman
Foreign Relations Committee
Herbert R. O’conor
Tom Connally
Tex
Mr. Truman
Robert A. Taft
R. O
Etes Kefauver
Tenn
Taft
Canada
United States
Kefauver
Worthington Man Expires Tuesday
Worthington born 1878 73-year-old Denver Neumeyer died suddenly at home Tuesday evening in Worthington after six months of declining health. Survived by widow Florence Falk Neumeyer three sons Ernest John Ralph and two daughters Donald and Dorothy two half sisters. Body at Myers Funeral Home Worthington. Services Thursday at 2 pm CST with Rev. Lloyd Shannon. Burial in Worthington Cemetery.
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Denver Neumeyer
Worthington
Mr. Neumeyer
Owen County
Freedom
Freedom Methodist Church
Florence Falk Neumeyer
Ernest Neumeyer
Switz City
John Neumeyer
Freedman
Ralph Neumeyer
Donald Wilson
Dorothy Neumeyer
Indianapolis
Willard Hiatt
Virgil Jefferies
Greenfield
Myers
Lloyd Shannon
Worthington Cemetery
Swedish Russian air clash tensions rise after alleged shoot down
Swedish Air Force rejects Russian charge that a Swedish plane fired on Soviet fighters as tensions escalate in the Baltic. Sweden readies counter measures with live ammunition orders and allied patrols while a second plane remains missing.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Russia
Baltic
Air Observer Corps
Copenhagen
Clue Reported In Kidnap Case Involving 1935 Mattson murder
Fort Wayne sheriff says a 51 year old Fort Wayne convict admitted taking part in the 1935 Mattson kidnap murder. Charles Edward Cramer identified. FBI checks planned. Mattson, 10, was kidnapped December 27, 1935, near Tacoma and found 15 days later. President Roosevelt ordered a full investigation.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
U.P
Harold Zeis
Charles Mattson
Zeis
Charles Edward Cramer
Cramer
FBI
Michigan City
Mattson
Tacoma
Wash
Everett
Washington
Franklin Roosevelt
United Mine Workers Leader Forms $10 Million Steelworkers Aid
Washington bulletin reports United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis created a $10,000,000 fund to support the CIO United Steelworkers strike against the steel industry, denouncing its practices as raid and predatory.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
CIO
United Steelworkers
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Robert
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Wayne Blast Kills
Girls
Hurts
Seaway
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