McCarthy Expected at Monday Army Hearing
Sources say Senator Joseph McCarthy plans to attend the Monday hearings on his dispute with the Army. The Wisconsin Republican denied plans to walk out as the inquiry resumes after a recess sparked by Eisenhower secrecy orders. McCarthy said he would be there but offered no promises on the inquiry’s conclusion.
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Washington
INS
Joseph R. McCarthy
Army
Wisconsin Republican
Eisenhower
Stuart Symington
Robert T. Stevens
Symington
Karl FE. Mundt
S. D
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Frosty morning frost hits county crops. Route 224 resurfaced
Frost was observed in several sections of the county as temperatures plunged to freezing overnight. Route 224 near Hillsville and west of Parkstown are being resurfaced today with amiesite, Parkstown section widened earlier. Funeral quotes on the Dionne quintuplets mark twenty years.
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Hillsville
Parkstown
Reby Alfred A. Martin
Argentina
Weather Forecast and 24 Hour Climate Extremes
Clearing east portion and mostly sunny west portion today with a high near 58 to 64 degrees. Tonight fair and cool with scattered frost. lows 34 to 40, mountains 30 to 34. Saturday fair and warmer in the afternoon. US weather stats for the 24 hours ending today morning show high 63 and low 32 with frost. river stage 5.4 feet. A year ago the high was 82 and the low 52 with no precipitation.
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United States
Segregation Ruling Prompts Senate Aid Bill Debate
The Senate will open debate on a bill to provide 100 million dollars in federal aid for school construction in response to the Supreme Court anti segregation ruling. Senator Cooper leads the labor subcommittee team aiming for swift approval, while he notes Presidential backing is essential to pass in Congress.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Senate
Labor
John Sherman Cooper
Ky Cooper
Eisenhower
Congress
Sen
Richard B. Russell
High Court
Indi
Westminster Receives 10000 Gift For Memorial Field House
Dr. Will W. Orr, president of Westminster College, announced a $10,000 anonymous donation toward the Memorial Field House fund now within 40,000 of completion. The field house, dedicated in 1951, honors Westminster men who served in World Wars I and II and is part of the college centennial campaign culminating in 1953 with Freeman Science hall dedication.
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Will W. Orr
Westminster College
Orr
Westminster
New Freeman Science Hall
Bank Robber Stole 7498 At Wilkes Barre
Police hunt a robber who held up the Plains First National Bank of Wilkes Barre at noon. He escaped in a 1941 grey car after forcing tellers Marian Gildea and John Owens to lie on the floor. No customers present. State police set roadblocks around the area.
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Wilkes-Barre
Plains
First National Bank of
Marian Gildea
John Owens
Local Valuation Figures From Several Residents
Attorney Rufus C. McKinley age 78 of 409 E Moody avenue. Clement M. Ellsworth age 46 of 33 Maple street Oakland. Mrs Richard D. Krumph age 41 of New Wilmington R D 2. Philip Fletcher age 72 of St Peters burg Florida.
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Rufus C. McKinley
E. Moody Avenue
Clement M. Ellsworth
Maple Street
Oakland
Richard D. Krumph
New Wilmington
R.D
Philip Fletcher
St. Petersburg
Fla
Moon Testifies In Warren Case
Norman Moon, 28, a construction worker, resumed testimony in the Warren murder trial. He is charged with the fatal shooting of Judge Allison Wade during a last January when he faced a non support hearing. Moon discusses his childhood army service in World War II and marital troubles with his wife Janet Schwab of Tidioute.
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Warren
INS
Norman Moon
Moon
Allison DD
Wade
Janet Schwab
Tidioute
Nicaragua Eyes Lead in Action on Guatemala Threat
Washington dispatch says Nicaragua seeks to spearhead a Western Hemisphere response to Communist influence in Guatemala. Informants report informal talks with El Salvador, Honduras, and possibly Panama on arms shipment from behind the Iron Curtain strengthening Guatemala's military.
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Joseph A. Hinshaw
Washington
INS
Nicaragua
Guatemala
el Salvador
Honduras
Panama
J. L. Hazlewood Works Damaged By Explosion
Explosion at the Jones and Laughlin Hazelwood works damaged the powdered coal preparation plant with substantial destruction. No injuries were reported and operations were not expected to be affected. The blast occurred in the cyclones near the main boilerworks in Pittsburgh's South Hills district.
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Pittsburgh
Jones & Laughlin Hazelwood Works
South Hills
City Fireman Hurt In Auto Accident
W. Roy Samuels, 61, a city firefighter living at 202 East Fairmont Avenue, sustained a possible left rib fracture when his car collided on North Mercer Street Thursday. He received treatment at Jameson Memorial Hospital. Traffic Lieutenant Delbert Weis said no accident report had been received.
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W. Roy Samuels
East Fairmont Avenue
Mercer Street
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Delbert Weis
Fourth Secret Conference At Geneva Parley
Geneva May 21 Indo China peace talks open with nine nations forming three subcommittees to discuss armistice terms for Vietnam Laos and Cambodia. Molotov chaired sessions as Western delegates warned against quick cease fire while China accuses U S of bluffing ahead of November elections.
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Geneva
INS
Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
V. M. Molotov
Indo-China
China
U. S
Indo- China
Peiping
Presbyterians Discuss Merger Plan Backed At Detroit Assembly
The 880 delegates at the 166th General Assembly in Detroit backed a merger plan for the three main divisions of American Presbyterians. Rev. Ralph W. Lloyd, president of Maryville College, was elected moderator for the coming year and chairs the permanent commission on church cooperation and union which produced the plan to join the Presbyterian Church in the U S Southern, the Northern Church, and the United Presbyterian Church. The split dates to Civil War era slavery disputes.
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Detroit
Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
Ralph W. Lloyd
Lloyd
Marysville College
Tennessee
Commission On
U. S
United Presbyterian Church
Area Turnpike Group Set Up Permanently
Chamber of Commerce groups from Lawrence, Beaver, and Mercer counties form the Beaver Valley to Erie Turnpike Planning association at a Castleton hotel meeting. Permanent officers elected are S Sahli, president. Joseph Franeck, vice president. Frank Speidel, secretary. The group plans a route to present to the state turnpike commission citing benefits for industrial and agricultural areas.
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New Castle News
Lawrence-Mercer-Beaver County
Beaver Valley To Erie Turnpike Planning Association
Castleton
Robert E. Housle
Grove City Chamber of Commerce
James J. Brennan
Sharon Chamber of Commerce
Ray B. Johnston
Ellwood City Chamber of Commerce
Paul Dingledy
Greater New Castle Association
Thomas Williams
Wheatland Burgess
Joseph A. Franeck
Farrell Chamber of Commerce
J. S. Sahil
Beaver County Planning and Soning Commission
S. M. Brown, Jr
Greenville Businessmen's Association
Boy Struck By Auto Near Boyles Avenue
Three year old Eddie Gerlach of 140 Boyles Avenue was treated for elbow and left leg injuries after running into the street and being hit by a passing car. Hospital report notes the accident had not been officially reported at press time.
Korea offers final compromise on elections stalled talks
South Korea will accept all Korean elections if Red Chinese troops withdraw from North Korea before voting and if the United Nations supervises the balloting. Foreign Minister Pyun Yung Tai says he will present the offer to 19 nations at Geneva and may end the Korean phase if rejected.
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Geneva
INS
Pyun Yung Tai
North Korea
United Nations
Pyun
International
De Valera Defeated as Costello Set to Form Irish Government
Dublin May 21 Fa mon De Valera conceded political defeat and said John A Costello would form the next government. Final returns show Fianna Fáil with 64 of 144 seats, Fine Gael 49, independents 5, Labour 26, Farmers and New Republican parties. Three Wicklow races to be held May 26. coalition majority clear.
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Dublin
Famon de Valera
Ireland
John A Costello
County Wicklow
Costello
de Valera
July Draft Call For 1403 Men In Pennsylvania
Harrisburg May 2 11 NS State Selective Service Director Henry M Gross announced Pennsylvania's July draft will call 1403 men aged 20 and older. The quota equals about one seventeenth of the national call of 23000, and Pennsylvania’s share typically runs one fourteenth. Last July the state drafted 1509 men.
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Harrisburg
State Selective Service
Henry M. Gross
Pennsylvania
Gross
Avert Violence In Pittsburgh Strike Averted
Prompt police action halted a potential flare up in the Pittsburgh department stores strike as about 30 strikers tried to block customers at Bell Transportation Lines. The group fled in cars when officers arrived.
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Pittsburgh
Bell Transportation Lines Company
Treasury Sells Steel Mill to Argentina
Senate investigators question the 9 million sale of a 160 million dollar steel mill to Argentina built for Czechoslovakia and impounded after its shift to a Communist regime. The mill sold by United Engineering and Foundry of Pittsburgh faced scrutiny amid concerns over Argentina's trade ties and possible export contract revocation.
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U.S. Treasury
Argentina
Senate
Treasury
Czechoslovakia
Senate Internal Security
Peron
United Engineering and Foundry Company
Pittsburgh
Guatemala
Commerce
Sinclair Weeks
Police Check Up On Pair Carrying Valuable Bonds
In Pottsville on May 21 two men, Charles Bowers and George Donmoyer, held on theft charges, were investigated after police found war bonds worth 19 500 and bank credits of 14 000 in their possession. Names matched to other individuals from Ohio. Authorities also investigated a car sale to a local dealer.
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Pottsville
Charles Bowers
George Donmoyer
Bowers
Harry
Reading
Ohio
France resists U S proposal on Indo China
France refused to grant independence to Indo Chinese natives as a condition for American military aid. Paris fears granting such rights could imperil other colonies and influence armistice talks with the Communists at Geneva. French sources see U S intervention as a bargaining tool to shape negotiations rather than imminent action.
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Paris
U.S
France
Free World
Southeast Asia
U. S
Indo-China
Geneva
Marine captain slays three children and injures wife in North Carolina
Michael P. Carroll, 32, a Marine captain stationed at Camp LeJeune, hacked his three children to death with a hatchet, critically wounded his wife, then slashed his throat with a butcher knife in their New River housing area home near Jacksonville. Margaret Carroll survived and was hospitalized.
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Jacksonville
N. C
INS
Michael P. Carroll
Augusta
Camp LeJeune
New River
Margaret
Paul Gilboy Injured Playing Baseball at 211 W Grant St
Paul Gilboy of 211 West Grant Street injured his right knee while playing baseball on Thursday. He sustained abrasions and received treatment at New Castle Hospital before being discharged.
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Paul Gilboy
W. Grant Street
New Castle Hospital
Fire alarm halts blaze after overheated wiring
Firemen respond to box 214 at 12 10 pm to 123 Clentere boulevard where electric wiring overheated and insulation smouldered. Wires were cut to avert a fire.
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Clentere Boulevard
Tomato Planting Hope Prompts Garden Dreams
The writer reflects on planting tomato plants this time of year with hope for a bountiful ten week harvest. Each seedling is tended like a baby as the yard becomes a scene of plan and care.
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