Truman Attends Funeral for Guard Killed Protecting Truman
White House policeman Pvt. Leslie Coffelt was buried with full military honors at Arlington Cemetery after protecting President Truman from assassins at Blair House. The funeral drew the President and Mrs. Truman, Secret Service, and Army staff as investigators pursue the Puerto Rican gunmen.
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Walengton
White House
Truman
Leslie Coffelt
Army
Fort Myer
Arlington Cemetery
Blair House
Oscar Collazo
Griegolio Torresola
Masonic Order
John W. Suter
Inquirer Sends $1000 to Mrs Coffelt Widow of Blair House Guard
The Philadelphia Inquirer sent Mrs Cressie Coffelt a $1000 check honoring her late husband, Arlington VA resident and Blair House police officer Cressie Coffelt, who was killed protecting President Truman during the Blair House guard incident. Walter H. Annenberg, the paper's editor, described the award as an extension of its longstanding duty-payment policy to line of duty casualties in the community.
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Hiladelphia
Philadelphia Inquirer
Cressie Coffelt
White House
Blair House
Washington
Coffelt
The
Inquirer
Philadelphia
Fairmount Park
Arlington
Truman
Walter H.annenberg
the Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquires
Daughter-in-law Held for Assault
Lane rice L. Houston, 27, was arraigned on charges of beating her estranged husband's mother who refused to babysit. She was ordered to appear November 15 for a preliminary hearing in Centinela Township court. Frances E. Housdon, 58, said her grandsons were driven back to their mother in Lawndale after an uninvited visit to Hawthorne.
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Gardena
Lanerice L. Houston
Lawndale
Woman Survives Car Crash on Fico Avenue
A 62 year old woman, Charlotte Fijalm of 321 Ellis Street, escaped serious injury after being thrown from a car on Fico Avenue near Ninth Street. She suffered a sprained left ankle and bruises. Passenger Cecilia Vasquez of 1456 Newport Avenue sustained a left wrist fracture and bruises. Vic Janich, 26, of 1974 Daley Avenue, driver of the pickup truck, was uninjured.
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Fico Ave
Ninth St
Charlotte Fijalm
Ellis St
Cecilia R. Vasquez
Newport Ave
Vic Janich
Daley Ave
Bickue Truc
Quadruplets born in Australia two boys and two girls
Melbourne reports the birth of quadruplets two boys and two girls to Mrs Frederick Gordon Ogle 28 and a clerk husband. The boys weighed five pounds each and the girls three pounds. This is the second quadruplet birth in Australia in three months with Mrs Pe Sara of Bellingen having the first set in August.
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Melbourne
Australia
Wanan
Frederick Gordon Ogle
Pe Sara
Bellingen
New South Wales
Gift of Valor Shines Yet Lt Logan Weathers Remembered
In Korea and Okinawa Lt Logan Weathers of Shelby earned the Distinguished Service Cross for risking his life to save a unit and reclaim a battalion. A recon platoon leader, he returned to Chinju to search for missing men, bombarding enemy positions and advancing despite losses. His death prompted reflection on whether his sacrifices served a meaningful purpose.
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ARMY
Korea
Logan Weathers
Tarhee F
Shelby
Netlan
Okinawa
Weathers
Chinju
Pusan
Masan
Eral
Cpl
Clifford M. Williams
Mansfield
Vega
Leutenant
Williama
Williams
North Carolina
Virginia
Big Business Leaders Back Higher Taxes and Tight Controls
At SEA ISLAND GA Nov 4 AP the nation’s top industrial leaders endorsed inflation as the main issue and approved tighter federal credit and higher taxes. The 90 member business advisory council of the Department of Commerce met with defense officials and supported a gradual NPA driven production control plan slightly ahead of military needs. Some leaders warned against too rapid controls risking idle plants before contracts. Most said inflation, not regulation, is the key problem as defense plans proceed.
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Korea
Sawyer Nairt
Sawyer
National Production Authority
William H. Harrigan
NPA
Commerce Department
Actal
Defense Agency
Westhers Remembered as Platon Leader in Wartime Epitaph
The speaker honors a young platoon leader named Westhers, praised for courage. He notes the memory is personal to his wife, his corporal, and a man who only saw him once, each carrying a different reason to recall the fallen lieutenant.
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Leutenant
Westhers
Enery
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Washington Protestant Episcopal Cathedral
Army Band
Army Guard of Honor
Washington Post
Tye
Charles G. Ross
Puerto Huco
Wait
North Korea
Wwong
U.N
Unsan-Kum
Eighth Army
U. S
Sudong
Changjin Reservoir
Majon
Capital Division
Kilchu
Associated Press
Hal Boyle
U. K
Long Beach
6Th
Pine Avenue
U Yardstige Stores
Stan Lanoth
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