Progress Report From White House Conference
President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Churchill voiced forward steps on collective defense in southeast Asia and on Western Europe defense. They signaled agreement on sharing atomic energy mechanisms and on Western Germany’s role as an equal partner in Western nations, with little public sign of progress on Indo China or Red China.
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Washington
INS
Eisenhower
Churchill
Britain
United States
Southeast Asia
U. S
Germany
Howard Handleman
Indo-China
Red China
Europe
White House
James C. Hagerty
Harvest activity shifts as county fields begin old method
Wheat harvest starts in northern county fields using traditional methods while combines wait for later. Bay hay is mostly baled in the field, with some piling. Traffic on Perry highway shows heavy Sunday flows as residents enjoy the holiday weekend. Fireworks noise suggests many ignore Pennsylvania laws. Elderberry crops look strong this year with full bloom and promising yields. New Castle Free Library lawn is well kept but faces littering issues.
Empty sarcophagus dims hopes for pharaoh mummy
In Cairo Egyptologist team led by Dr. Zakaria Goneim reveals the alabaster sarcophagus opened to reveal an empty tomb. They plan further excavation in October after suspending work this month pending more clues in the 5 000 year old pyramid.
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Cairo
INS
Zakaria Goneim
Egyptian Antiquities Department
Ball Player Dies On Field In Ohio Softball Game
Michael Rebraca 35 of Girard Ohio collapsed with a heart attack during a tri state softball tournament at Gaston Park. He was pronounced dead on arrival at New Castle hospital after being removed from the game. Rebraca a notable softball hurler for Tiny's Bar team from Youngstown, slumped on the bench after reporting chest and left arm pain. the game was halted.
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Michael Rebraca
Belgrade Avenue
Girard
Gaston Park
New Castle Hospital
Charles E. Allen
Rebraca
Youngstown
Tiny's Bar
Sharpsville
Kebraca
Four Die In House Blaze In Harmony Township
Thelma Baker, 25, and her two sons and a niece perished in a fire that destroyed a frame house in Harmony township near Phillipsburg New Jersey. The mother and father escaped briefly but she reentered the flames and all four victims were found amid the ashes with no basement.
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Phillipsburg
N. J
Thelma Baker
Harmony Township
Robert
Baker
Boy On Bicycle Fatally Hurt In Lancaster Accident
Harry Royer aged 35 of Bainbridge RD 1 died from a fractured skull after a Sunday night bicycle collision on the Marietta Bainbridge pike. Police say an auto driven by William Flowers 38 of Maytown struck and dragged him 200 feet as two other vehicles failed to stop.
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Lancaster
Harry Royer
Bainbridge
R.D
Marietta-Bainbridge Pike
Royer
William Flowers
Maytown
Clarence Grimm
Scott Minnich
Flying Tanker Crashes. Fourteen Die in Riverside Route
Fourteen Air Force personnel perished when a KC-97 Flying Tanker crashed into Box Springs mountain near Riverside California. The bomber’s crew of seven and seven passengers were lost with no survivors. The aircraft was on a training flight from Altus Air Force Base Oklahoma and the names of the dead would be released after next of kin notification.
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Riverside, Calif
INS
Air Force
Japan
Box Springs
Altus Air Force Base
Okla
Oklahoma
State Agents Start Checkup On Sales Tax
Harrisburg state agents begin auditing more than 5 000 retailers after mechanical detection flagged below average returns from about 20 000 retailers collecting the one percent general sales tax. Joseph Snyder says 285 auditors will review each retailer to find reasons for shortfalls amid a 1953 law tied to revenue goals.
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Commonwealth
Joseph C. Snyder
State Revenue Department
Budget Bureau
Boy 14 Treated After Bicycle Fall on Sumner Avenue
Frederick Robins aged 14 of 321 Euclid Avenue was treated at Jameson Memorial hospital at 1 PM Sunday for abrasions to the right elbow and a forehead lacreation after a bicycle fall on Sumner Avenue.
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Frederick Robins
Euclid Avenue
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Sumner Avenue
Planes Collide At Columbus Killing Two Navy Fliers
A mid air collision at Port Columbus Sunday night between an American Airlines passenger plane and a Navy Beech craft killed two naval reserve fliers. Pilot John Hoerath 35 of Westerville and navigator Don Edgar 48 of Columbus died in the crash. The passenger craft skidded 500 feet after nose wheel damage and engine fire. Passengers escaped via rope from the emergency door with rope burn injuries. Hoerath was auto sales manager and Edgar a university official. both WWII veterans.
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John Hoerath
Westerville
Don Edgar
Columbus
Hoerath
Edgar
College of Arts and Sciences
Ohio State University
Port Columbus
Adenauer's CDU Loses Seats in North Rhine Westphalia
Final unofficial returns show Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats losing several seats in NRW though remaining the largest party. The Reds are wiped out with zero seats, while CDU drops to 90 of 200. Social Democrats and Free Democrats tie at 76. Center party has nine. Obs expect CDU to seek a coalition with Free Democrats to form a majority.
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Bonn
INS
North Rhine- Westphalia
Konrad Adenauer
Christian Democrats
Catholic Center Party
Ade-lnauer
Reds
North Rhine-Westphalia
Ruhr
Social Democrats
Free Democrats
Center Party
Adenauer Party
Slays Son-In-Law Then Takes Own Life in Breslau Quarrel
A 40 year-old retired coal miner shot and killed his son-in-law John Mittrick 44 in Breslau near Wilkes-Barre and then shot himself in the chest in a death by own action. Thomas Piscotty was hospitalized with a chest wound as police and a neighbor found the victims during a violent quarrel. Marine Mittrick and two children were away picnicking at the time.
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Wilkes-Barre
Paris
Breslau
Wilkes- Barre
John Mittrick
Thomas Piscotty
Mercy Hospital
Mittrick
Marine
Condition Of Truman Still Very Serious
Former President Harry S. Truman remained in a very serious condition after gall bladder and appendix surgery on June 20. Doctors reported a slight improvement but warned a new crisis could arise, with a possible bowel hemorrhage as the gravest risk.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Research Hospital
Truman
Wallace Graham
Graham
United States
Robert E. Adams
United Press
Research
Independence
Mike Westweed
Man Involved in Severe Crash Injures Police Report
Edward L. McMillen, 24, of 611 Allen Street, was critically injured after a 3 a.m. Sunday crash on Route 108 east of Mt Jackson. His car hit Blair Gourley’s vehicle, then William Majors’s car, then crashed into the Cubellis residence on Mt Jackson Road, causing about 5000 dollars in damage and injuring McMillen with multiple fractures.
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Edward L. McMillen
Allen Street
Michael Cubellis
Mt. Jackson Road
McMillen
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Youngtown Hospital
Mt Jackson
Blair Gourley
Seward Avenue
Bradford
Willian E Majors
Lawrence Avenue
Ellwood City
Cubellis
Four Die in Patoka River Drowning Near Jasper
Four persons drowned while wading in four feet of water in the Patoka River near Jasper Indiana. Victims include Robert Mendel 23 and three Blesinger children Phyllis 15 Charles 12 James 14. They stepped into seven feet of water after holding hands as three other Blesinger children watched. Arthur 18 Ronald 11 and Sharon 8 could not swim. Bodies recovered hours later.
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Jasper, Ind
Patoka River
Jasper
Robert Mendel
Walter Blessinger
Phyllis
Charles
James
Blessinger
Arthur
Ronald
Sharon
Deaths in Girard and area listed in yesterday records
Deaths reported for Michael Rebraca 35 of Girard, Mrs. Merle C. Smith 72 of 305 West Fairmont Avenue, Earl T. White 61 of 318 North Vine Street, Charles Bender 82 of 317 West Lea Avenue, and Leroy Deen 68 of Eden Street as published in the June 28 1954 notices.
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Michael Rebraca
Girard
Merle C. Smith
W. Fairmont
Earl T. White
N. Vine Street
Charles Bender
W. Leasere
A Leroy Deen
Edens
Calls For Ethics Code In Senate Probes
Sen. Prescott Bush urged swift adoption of a ethics code to ensure justice and fair play in Senate investigations. The move follows Vice President Nixon’s call to curb televised hearings amid concerns of a circus atmosphere. Bush is set to testify at early hearings on rules for Senate investigating committees.
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Code of Ethics
Senate
Ashington
Sen
Prescott Bush
Richard M. Nixon
Bush
Nixon
Evacuation of 166 Passengers From Texas Train
Helicopters airlift 166 passengers from a flooded Southern Pacific Sunset Limited near Langtry Texas. The Rio Grande flood cut roads and bridges, sending evacuees to Comstock and Del Rio for connections. No injuries reported though food and water were scarce.
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Langtry, Tex
INS
Langtry
Tex
Southern Pacific
Roy Bean
Pecos
Lilian Langtry
Ai Force
Comstock
del Rio
Carpenters Strike At Harrisburg
About 850 Harrisburg area carpenters struck to demand a 12 cent hourly wage increase and two cents for welfare insurance. Members of United Brotherhood of Carpenters Local 287 walked out as weekend negotiations with the Building Construction Employers Assn bogged down. The union rejected a two year contract offering an immediate 7.5 cent raise plus a similar amount next February.
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Harrisburg
INS
Harrisburg Area
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Assn
Carr Ready to Quit McCarthy Aide Report Says
Francis P. Carr, staff director of Senator McCarthy’s Senate Investigations subcommittee, is said to be ready to resign to take private industry work. A confidant says he feels smeared by the hearings and will leave within two weeks for a $15,000 a year job plus expenses. Carr was en route to Washington from Newport R I when the report reached.
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Washington
INS
Francis P. Carr
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wisconsin Republican
Carr
McCarthy
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Newport
R. 1
FBI
McCarthy Committee
Special Subcommittee
Congressional Committee
Steel Wage Talks Near Breakthrough Reported
Pittsburgh insiders report a possible settlement in the 1954 U.S. Steel and United Steelworkers contract talks affecting about 500000 steelworkers as the contract nears Wednesday midnight expiry. The USW wage policy committee meets in Pittsburgh after five hours of weekend bargaining, amid reports the package may cover wages pensions and insurance.
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Pittsburgh
INS
U.S Steel
United Steelworkers
USW
David J. McDonald
U. S. Steel
Presidency Is Handed To Army Chief Of Staff
In Guatemala City the anti-Communist Liberation group demanded contact by 8 a.m. local time as a new ruling military clique took power. Radio stations went off air before the deadline, and no official response was reported.
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Army
Tegucigalpa
Hoendures
INS
Guatemala City
Guatemala
Arbenz Resigns as Guatemala President. Diaz Takes Command
Honduran dispatch reports Col. Carlos Enrique Diaz named president by Guatemala's army chief of staff after Arbenz's resignation. Liberation forces call the move a maneuver while vowing to continue anti Communist fight. Observers see possible shift toward more capable army leadership. Contingsé On Page Two.
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Joseph A. Hinshaw
Tegucigalpa
Hondias Ins
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman
Guatemala
Carlos Enrique Diaz
Liberation Radio
Arbenz
New Jersey Forest Fires Devastate South Jersey Areas
Nine fires across Atlantic and Burlington counties swept through south Jersey fanned by 25 to 35 mph winds. Thousands of acres burned, two homes destroyed, hunting lodges leveled, two Boy Scout camps damaged, and over 100 people evacuated from Cardiff. Firefighters contained most blazes by night, with some activity continuing into morning.
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Camden
N. J
INS
South Jersey
Cardiff
Pleasantville
Atlantic County
Burlington County
Cape May Court House
Arthur Mometer Travel Expands as Service Notes Rise
A local travel firm signals broadening operations while warnings about extra charges surface. The piece mentions tips for waiters, cab drivers, coat attendants, and car parkers, with a focus on the common fifteen percent gratuity. It also references costs for rooms, taxis, theater tickets, gasoline, soft drinks, and a note about the warm eighty degree day.
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Pa Newe
Perry Highway
Pennsylvania
Lawrence County
New Castle
Daily Weather Report
Ohio
Naval Air Station
American Airlines
Naval
Philipsburg
SNS
Adenauer
Stanton Samuelson
Mrs. Truman
By Rose McKee
Texas
By Alvin Spivak
Liberation Forces
New Jersey
Cine Seta
Arthur Mometer
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