Approval Given Plans For New Central Church
Architects plans for a new church on Wilmington road in Neshannock township received full approval from Central Presbyterian Congregation at a Wednesday meeting in the First Presbyterian church. Members worshiping in temporary spaces since their Diamond Street church was destroyed a year ago backed finishing specifications and bidding for construction. Bids could be solicited within two weeks with hopeful bid advertisements by May 1.
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Wilmington Road
Neshannock Township
Central Presbyterian Congregation
First Presbyterian Church
North Jefferson Street
Diamond
Eckles Company
Snowy April Numbers Prompt Ashing on Roads
Gene Schweinsberg city director of streets said salt and ash were scattered on snow covered highways to prevent slipping. During the recent snow period 300 tons of ashes and five tons of salt were used to curb skidding. Wet heavy snow transformed the area into a winter scene, the heaviest of the season and possibly a new state record for late ashing in spring.
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Gene Schweinsberg
State Highway Department
Lawrence County
Daily Weather Report Low Temps and Snow Flurries Forecast
Snow flurries and cooler tonight with lows 15 to 20 degrees, higher in the mountains. Tomorrow partly cloudy and cold with mountain snow flurries. Today’s high 42 and low 20 with .60 inches of precipitation and six inches of snow. river stage 8.8 feet. A year ago same date 175 high, 54 low, .25 inches precipitation.
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United States
Bixbys Return From Round-The-World Flight
The husband wife team Bob and Dianna Bixby landed at San Francisco Airport after a 11 hour 16 minute leg ending their round the world flight from Midway. They did not set a new speed record due to engine trouble delaying further attempts.
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Acme Telephoto
San Francisco
Calif
Bob
Dianna
Calcutta
INSI
Midway
Midway Island
Los Angeles
Huntress
India
Kansas City Police Under Probe Ordered by Governor
Jefferson City April 13 A historic undercover probe of the Kansas City police department is launched on orders of Gov. Forrest Smith. Mayor William E. Kemp requested the inquiry after the gangland slayings of politician and racketeer Charles Binaggio and his associate Charles Gargotta. The governor said the investigation was begun late yesterday and declined to identify the probe’s conductors. Kemp will meet the governor in Jefferson City with four other board members.
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Jefferson City
INS
Kansas City
Senate Demands Mount For Arming U S Military Planes
In Washington on April 18 demands grew in the Senate to arm all U S military aircraft after a Russian attack on a defenseless American Navy plane with 10 crewmen. Senator Russell called the incident a tragic massacre and Senator Bridges said Russian airmen ambushed the aircraft.
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Washington
INS
Senate
U. S
Russia
Sen. Russell
Sen. Bridges
N. H
Mid-April Snow Glazes County Road System
Winter weather blanketed the area overnight catching the highway department unprepared. Alfred Martin reports cindering crews worked through the night on the county road system with Route 422 east of the city deemed most treacherous as traffic displaced abrasive material, creating fresh skid conditions on Skiddy Montgomery avenue in the Seventh Ward.
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Highway Department
Alfred Martin
Martin
Montgomery Avenue
Seventh Ward
Unload Arms At French Port Under Pact
Cherbourg dock workers began unloading the first direct shipment of arms to France under the North Atlantic Pact. The U S cargo included 40 155 mm field pieces and 12 Howitzers. A Communist demonstration nearby quickly dispersed as 150 dockers worked ahead of schedule and unloading neared completion.
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Cherbourg
INS
France
U. S
Cold Weather Cancels Pirates Yankee Game In Pittsburgh
Snow flurries and cold weather forced cancellation of the Pirates vs Yankees game in Pittsburgh. The weatherman forecast a low around 15 tonight with continued cold and partly cloudy skies tomorrow.
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Pittsburgh
International News Service
Pittsburgh Pirates
New York Yankees
Mercury
Disappearance Of Navy Plane Probed By Truman
President Truman stated the United States is conducting a thorough investigation into the disappearance of a four engine Navy plane with a 10 man crew over the Baltic Sea last Saturday. Russia protested an alleged flight over Latvia with gunfire exchange and said the U S plane was driven out to sea. The president declined to comment further until the inquiry concludes.
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Washington
INS
Truman
United States
Baltic Sea
Latvia
Russia
U. S
Youth Shoots His Sweetheart in Indiana County
Mike Bellas, 28, shot and killed his sweetheart Helen Golinsky, 25, at his mother’s home in Jose phine near Indiana. He fired five rounds from a .38 and surrendered to Sheriff Paul Jefferies after the incident following a jealous quarrel when she visited after noon.
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Indiana
INS
Josephine
Indiana County
Paul Jefferies
Mike Bellas
Helen Golinsky
Bellas
Mary Bellas
Mike
Atami Fire Destroys 1500 Homes in Hot Springs Resort
A fire at Atami Japan destroyed 1500 houses, leaving 5000 homeless in a 35000 population resort. No deaths reported. Firefighters and police from Atami and nearby towns fought the blaze of hotels city hall post office courts theater and a department store while shelters fed the homeless. In Royalton Pennsylvania a boat capsize on the Susquehanna River left 36 year old William Fox missing and presumed drowned as authorities search the river.
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Atami
Japan
Royalton
INS
Susquehanna River
William Fox
Death notices of Frank Lesniak Lee Raney and Clyde Morrow
Death notices list Frank Lesniak 62 of Wampum R D 1 Lee M Raney 76 of Pelham New York and Mrs Clyde Morrow 74 of 321 Hazelcroft Avenue with dates noted.
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Frank Lesniak
Wampum R. D
Lee M. Raney
Pelham
N. Y
Clyde Morrow
Hazelcroft Avenue
President Gonzalez Videla Visits Washington D C
President Gonzalez Videla of Chile visits the United States on a goodwill trip as guest of President Truman. He will lay a wreath at the Unknown Soldier tomb visit Mount Vernon and attend a state dinner hosted by Secretary of State Acheson.
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Acme Telephor
Washington, D. C
Truman
Gabriel Gonzalez Videla
Chile
Washington
Senora Gonzalez Videla
Gonzalez Videla
United States
Mt. Vernon
Acheson
Carleton Hotel
Washington National Airport
Bomb Explodes At Harvard Thayer Hall Injuring Student
A dynamite bomb exploded on a window sill at Thayer hall on the Harvard campus injuring Robert Dobbie 21 of Allentown Pa and sending glass into 24 rooms. Police suspect a practical joke as clashes between undergraduates and non students are mentioned.
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Cambridge
Mass
INSI
Thayer Hall
Harvard University
Robert Dobbie
Allentown
Harvard Yard
Debbie
Harvard Square
Belgian Premier-Designate Van Zeeland Meets Exiled Leopold II
In Geneva, April 13, Belgian Premier-Designate Paul Van Zeeland arrived from Brussels and went to Pregny for a conference with exiled King Leopold II. Leopold seeks to form a Catholic party cabinet to win Leopold's return, with a noon Brussels meeting canceled after an urgent summons to Van Zeeland.
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Geneva
INS
Paul van Zeeland
Brussels
Pregny
Leopold II van Zeeland
Leopold
Charles
van Zeeland
Negligence In Sanatorium Fire Found By Coroner's Jury
A coroner's jury in Norristown ruled negligence at Belle Vista sanatorium where 10 patients died in a March 29 fire started by arsonist Nicholas A. Verna. It urged further investigation and ordered Verna committed to an asylum. prior mental tests found him not responsible.
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Norristown
Insi
Belle Vista
Springfield Township
Nicholas A. Verna
Harold C. Knight
Verna
Farview State Hospital
Reverend Weaver Accepts Chicago Methodist Pastorship
Merle Weaver, pastor of Kings Chapel and Pulaski Methodist churches, will become pastor of Aldersgate Methodist Church in Chicago. He has studied at Pittsburgh Zenia seminary and plans to enroll at Garrett Biblical Institute, starting duties in June.
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Merle Weaver
Kings Chapel
Pulaski
Aldersgate Methodist Church of
Chicago
Weaver
Pittsburgh- Zenia Seminary
Garret Biblical Institute
Aldersgate
Slays Three and Self in West Virginia Family Tragedy
In Huntington on April 13 a 19 year old railroad worker killed his wife Mildred, her daughter Brent ten, and W A Banks 40 a rail clerical worker then beat and stabbed three, set fire to the home and shot himself twice. Neighbors and police found the fires and bodies. the son William Blanks Jr later shot himself as police surrounded him.
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Huntington
W. Va
W. A. Banks
Mildred
Brent
William Blanks, Jr
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Six Inches Of Snow Reported In Local District
Snowfall reached six inches overnight in the local district with limited ground cover this morning as melting reduced visibility. The event began Wednesday afternoon and continued through the night, turning streets slippery as temperatures dropped before midnight. It was the heaviest fall of the winter season.
First Mate Reports Baltic Sighting Of Possible U S Plane Wreck
The first mate of a German steamer said wreckage possibly from a missing U S Navy Privateer was seen in the Baltic Sea near Bornholm. He reported cabin fragments and damaged biscuit boxes 90 nautical miles from Bornholm, with another report placing debris 200 miles east of Bornholm.
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Copenhagen
Insi
Baltic Sea
Berhard Revens
Juno
Alfredshem
Sweden
Revens
Bornholm Island
Oland Reef
Frankfurt
Bornholm
Baltic
Two Killed In Traffic Crash In Pittsburgh
An elderly couple Frank Allega aged 68 and Josephine 62 were killed in a north side Pittsburgh crash while returning from greeting their son Arturo 27 at the pier. Angelo 39 and Arturo’s companion were unhurt as the immigrant family had just met him in the city.
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INS
Italy
Frank Allega
Josephine
Amebridge
Arturo
Angelo
Allega
Pennsylvania
New York
Baseball Fan Mopes Over Snowy Opening Day
Arthur Mometer stands outside his door as snow blankets the scene. The irritated fan protests that it is not baseball weather and notes a chilly 35 degree day, while a dog barks and a cat flees.
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