Seek To Prevent Girard Being Tried By Japan
A federal petition seeks a writ of habeas corpus to compel the Defense Department to return US Army Private William S. Girard from Japan to the United States for trial on manslaughter charges. Girard’s Army lawyer called the Japanese killing an accident as legal moves to block transfer begin in Washington.
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Girard
Japan
Washington
INS
Defense Department
William S. Girard
U. S
Earl J. Carroll
Tokyo
Carroll
Army
Coloma S
Notable traffic and safety updates across the city
Residents fear drag racing on Us Route 422 as vehicles travel three abreast. Spring cleaning begins in schools while doors and windows are secured nightly. Smithfield Street resurfacing starts. Croton area moves a bungalow to Haus Ave causing brief traffic delays. Lawn sprinkling continues awaiting rain.
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Croton
Haus Ave
Daily Weather Report W. Pa Mostly cloudy and warm
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies and warm conditions tonight and Friday with showers. Low temperatures range 51 to 60 degrees tonight, little change expected Friday, and no precipitation recorded in the 24 hour period. River stage 5.5 feet. Weather data compares to last year with 82/8 and no rain, vs 70/45, heavy dew, river stage 7.6 feet.
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W. Pa
Britain and U S to Share Atomic Information
U S and Britain reach an accord after a year of stalemate to exchange data on nuclear submarines and peacetime atomic plants. Washington will share details on Shippingport Pa and Britain's Calder Hall reactor while Britain receives Nautilus secrets and progress on its own atomic submarine project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
U.S
U. S
Britain
Calder Hall
America
Shippingport
Pittsburgh
New French Cabinet Effort Under Bourges Maunoury
In Paris Maurice Bourges Maunoury meets with Radical Socialist leaders and Rene Coty to form a cabinet to end France s political crisis. He plans talks with Rene Pleven and Pierre Pflimlin and may seek Guy Mollet s support for the new government.
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Paris
itSi
Maurice Bourges-Maunoury
Bourges-Maunoury
Rene Coty
Edouard Daladier
Guy Mollet
Rene Pleven
Pierre Pflimlin
MRP
Fourth Republic
Coty
Pflimlin
Airman Roberts Receives Punishment for Mis Treating Recruit
Airman 2-C William Roberts Jr. was reduced one grade and fined $50 a month for two months after an Air Force court martial at Lackland AFB. He was convicted of shoving a trainee during training. Maximum penalty could be six months imprisonment and a bad conduct discharge.
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San Antonio, Tex
INS
William Roberts, Jr
Air Force
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Hearings Planned on Ban Against Red China Trade
A Senate commerce subcommittee will hold hearings on the U S ban on trade with Red China. Chairman Warren G Magnu son says a long look will be taken as soon as possible with testimony expected from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other officials. The State Department voiced disappointment at Britain's move to ease restrictions. President Eisenhower supports a long term view that trade cannot be stopped.
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Warren G. Magnuson
Wash
Senate Commerce
BoYo
China
Britain
U.S
Magnuson
John Foster Dulles
State Department
Eisenhower
Woman Who Escaped Jail Sought Near New Bedford
State police hunted a woman who fled the Clarion County jail then escaped from a second floor cell and climbed a fire escape. Phyllis Jean Fish, 22, was last seen hitchhiking near New Bedford where she has friends and relatives after an Ohio arrest on a fugitive warrant for auto larceny and bad checks.
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Clarion
New Bedford
Lawrence County
Clarion County
Phyllis Jean Fish
Ohio
Falls With Pencil Leads to Child's Minor Injury
Lynda Salzman, four, at 308 Elizabeth Street, fell with a pencil in her mouth when another child bumped her. The pencil lodged partly in her throat and she received treatment and was discharged from Jameson Memorial Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynda Salzman
Elizabeth Sr
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Graduation listeners hear Dr Fischer urge self made knowledge
440 New Castle High School seniors received diplomas at the Cathedral in a 1957 commencement led by Dr John H Fischer of Baltimore. He noted the rise in secondary education from 700 thousand in 1900 to seven billion today and urged that knowledge comes from individual effort as manufacturing tech advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Castle High School
John H. Fischer
Baltimore
Ralph A. Cooper
Board of
Fischer
Kathryne Allen
Probes Hit Bakers Union in Senate Inquiry
Senator McClellan opens a new Senate investigation into the International Bakery Workers Union. Evidence aims to expose fund misuse misuses of trusteeship and possible labor management collusion. Witnesses include Anthony Conforti of Chicago Local No. 1 and ex vice president George L. Stuart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
International Bakery Workers’ Union
Senate
Teamsters
John McClellan
Cackets
McClellan
International Union
Anthony Conforti
Chicago
Jurisdiction Over U S Troops Is Discussed
A Greek parliamentary committee debates whether Greek courts will try American service members. The Status of Forces agreement would let U S military courts handle on duty tax crimes while Greek courts try off duty offenses. A recent case in Japan involved Army Specialist 3 William S. Girard. An airman faces formal charges in a highway crash that killed General Stafnos Sarafis.
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Athens
Greece
United States
U.S. Army
William SS. Girard
Marion Mousalli
Benwood
W. Va
U.S. Air Force
Stafnos Sarafis
Death notices and ages in local column
Death record items include Mrs. Thomas J. LaRock aged 51 of 511 W Madison Ave and Rev Wilson Reid with unspecified details. Also listed are Marion Ulah 61 and Stephen Craig Musulin 9 from Beaver County, reflecting a set of brief notices.
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Thomas J. LaRock
W. Madison Ave
Wilson Reid
New Wilmington
Marion Ulah
Essenter
Stephen Craig Musulin
Beaver County
Boy Drowns In Creek At Ellport
Nine year old Stephen Craig Musulin of West Mayfield drowned near Ellport in Beaver County when he slipped from a rock into Connoquenessing Creek just off First Ave. in Ellport. He was with his older brother Charles Michael. Deputy Coroner Sam Teolis and Ellwood City Rescue Squad confirmed the tragedy.
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Ellwood City
Stephen Craig Musulin
West Mayfield
Boro
Beaver Falls
Beaver County
First Ave
Ellport Boro
Sam Teolis
Charles Michael
Stephen
Court Clears Action For Postal Annex Enabling Bid Ads
Judge Lamoree approved vacating Market Street for a parcel post annex site to be bid on by the Post Office Dept. The successful bidder will build and lease the annex to the government. The city also cleared County Line Street for transfer to Lockley Machine Co.
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John G. Lamoree
Market St
Post Office Dept
Robert M. White
Clare E. Roberts
Philadelphia
Lamoree
County Line St
Fourth Ward
Lockley Machine Co
Tractors collide killing 13 migrant workers in North Carolina
A potato truck crashed into a migrant workers crowd at a busy Fayetteville intersection nine miles north, killing 13 and injuring 25 to 41. The injured were taken to Highsmith, Cape Fear Valley, and a Dunn hospital as authorities confirmed the fatalities.
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Fayettevile
N. C
Here
Highsmith
Cape Fear Valley
Dunn
Highway Patrol
L. L. Guy
Soviet Propaganda Pushes for Atomic Test Ban
London report says Valerian Zorin urged the United Nations subcommittee to adopt a solemn pledge not to use atomic weapons as a step toward a complete prohibition. He said Russia seeks full prohibition but would not insist on partial measures given Western positions.
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London
INS
Kremlin
Moscow
Tass
Valerian A. Zorin
United Nations Disarmament Subcommittee
Zorin
Russia
Soviet Union
Conn Indicted by Grand Jury on Receiving Stolen Goods
Anthony Conn manager of Sylvan Heights golf course indicted by Lawrence County Grand Jury on a charge of receiving stolen goods. He faced arraignment April 18 and was released on a $5000 property bond. Police linked him to a Dubois Country Club burglary where $540 and $2000 in equipment were taken. The case proceeds to criminal court opening Monday.
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Sylvan Heights
Lawrence County
Anthony Conn
S. Mercer Sr
Justice of the Peace
CC. E. Anderson
Neshannock
Conn
Dubois Country Club
Dubois
L. C. Mantz
City Data on May Tax Receipts and Fire Incident
City school and wage tax receipts for May totaled 94000.69 dollars, per City Treasurer Marie C Hanlon. Total wage tax collections for 1957 to date stand at 408172.58, up from last year by 15295.08 during the same five month period. City taxes collected to date this year amount to 911181.45, or 87.4 percent of the 1041536.13 tax duplicate. Firemen responded to a blaze at the Patterson building on Washington Street but no damage occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie C. Hanlon
Soviet Leaders Begin Finland State Visit
In Helsinki Bulganin and Khrushchev opened a state visit to Finland as their train crossed from Moscow to Helsinki. A crowd greeted the leaders at Vainikkala border station and officials including Gromyko Serov and Mihailov joined the trip to discuss economic aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helsinki
Finland
INS
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
Vainnikkala
Andrei Gromyko
Ivan Serov
Nikolai Mihailov
Authority To Meet Again At Early Date
Parking Authority chairman T Thomas J Foley said the group will meet soon and seek a council discussion to identify sections of the city suitable for parking sites. Council approved another engineering survey to locate one or two sites but did not indicate preferred locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. Foley
Parking Authority
Foley
Edward A. DeCarbo
President Eisenhower Tours New Supercarrier Saratoga
President Dwight D. Eisenhower sails aboard the 60 000 ton supercarrier Saratoga off the Florida coast on a two day tour. He is joined by Secretary Charles E. Wilson Secretary John Foster Dulles and other top officials as the ship demonstrates jet fighters atomic bombers and naval power in exercises. The Saratoga carries about 3000 crew and 100 planes and will join the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean later this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Eisenhower
Navy
Saratoga
Florida
Mayport
Fla
Jacksonville
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
John Foster Dulles
Atomic Energy
Lewis Strauss
Thomas S. Gates
Treasury
George M. Humphrey
Arleigh Burke
Naval Operations
Maj
John Eisenhower
White House
Boston
Northampton
Mediterranean
Forrestal
Fall on Porch Leaves Man with Head Injuries
Ronald Large of Pulaski Road fell from his porch at 3 30 p m Wednesday suffering forehead lacerations and head contusions. He was treated and discharged from Jameson Memorial Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronald Large
Pulaski RD 1
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Duke of Rough and Green Prefers Dry Golf Weather
The passage notes farmers and gardeners begging for rain while rivers fall and forests risk fire. It highlights a figure called His Nibs, The Duke of Rough and Green, a golfing club leader who favors hot dry fairways, liking temperatures up to eighty four.
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Duke of
Rough and Green
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Catherine Keith Bacon
Knoxville
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U.S. Naval Academy
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Bacon
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