Dogs Kill Five Sheep Five Geese in Pearl area
A roaming dog pack killed five sheep on Benjamin Rosenstock’s farm and five geese on C. J. Shull’s property around Pearl over the weekend. Sheriff Horace M. Alexander and Deputy Raymond Haugh investigated, rounding up at least one dog for examination as residents report dogs from several neighbors roaming in packs harassing small livestock.
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Pearl
Benjamin Rosenstock
C. J. Shull
Rosenstock
Horace M. Alexander
Raymond Haugh
Shull
Frederick
Wreck of Santa Fe Chief Kills Four, Injures Fifty Three
A derailment east of Lomax Illinois of the Santa Fe Chief from Chicago to Los Angeles killed four passengers and injured 53 of about 200 aboard. No. 9 derailed heavily with many victims. two named dead were Edward Monty of Phelps Wisconsin and Mrs Gina Guilfi of Albuquerque New Mexico.
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LOMAX
Ill
Sante Fe
Chicago
Los Angeles
Henderson County
Dean F. Beals
Edward
Monty
Phelps
Wis
Gina Guilfi
Albuquerque
N.M
Burlington
Fort Madison
Iowa
Mississippi River
Santa Fe
Mountain Climber Perishes After Crevasse Rescue Effort
A University of California biochemist, Dr. Anthony Levy of Berkeley, was found dead atop Mt. Olympus after aiding a fellow climber out of a crevasse. Levy died about nine hours before rescue crews reached him on the 7,954 foot peak in Olympic National Park. Dick Neal of Seattle slipped and broke a leg, prompting Levy and two others to attempt a surface rescue.
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Port Angeles
Wash
Mt. Olympus
Anthony Levy
University of California
Berkeley
Olympic National Park
National Park Service
Levy
Dick Neal
Seattle
Neal
U S Forces Ready to Fire If Hostile Red Threats Rise
Admiral Felix B. Stump, Pacific commander, said U S Navy units off the Communist China mainland would fire on any Reds approaching with obviously hostile intent. He noted American pilots previously shot down two Chinese aircraft near Hainan and emphasized orders to avoid provocative action while defending against threats. He also cited about 100 Soviet submarines in the Pacific and said the 7th Fleet would defend Formosa and the Pescadores if attacked, with possible use of atomic weapons.
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Washington
Felix B. Stump
Pacific
U.S. Navy
Communist
China
Stump
Comane
US News & World Report
United States
Hainan
7Th Fleet
Formosa
Pescadores
Juvenile Held for Stealing Money from Pearl Home
A 14 year old county youth is held for juvenile authorities on a charge of taking about £7 from Mrs. Carrie Brown’s residence in Pearl last Monday. He admitted taking the money and spending part for the church, with the house unlocked due to a misplaced key. A separate break in at a Petersville home owned by Leslie Affleck yielded glassware and other items, investigated by Deputy Haugh.
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Carrie Brown
Pearl
George Layman
Sheriff's Office
Leslie Affleck
Brunswick
Petersville
Haugh
30 Young Airmen Accused of Plot
CHANUTE AIR FORCE BASE idl Air Force officials announced that 30 young airmen were seized as suspected members of a secret youth terrorist society named Pachico. Col. Grover Wilson said the men are held for questioning over acts of violence and lawlessness from AWOL offenses to knife assaults on informers after pledging to obey Pachico laws. Personal incomes up in United States. average $1,709 per person for last year, a 365 increase from 1952.
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Chanute Air Force Base
Idl
Air Force
Pachico
Grover Wilson
Washington
United States
Eisenhower To Talk On TV And Radio Tonight
President Eisenhower on vacation in Denver will address the nation in a coast to coast half hour radio and television talk to urge GOP support for the 83rd Congress. Major networks carry the live address at 8 p.m. EST with others airing later.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Washington
ABC Radio
Braniff DC3 Crash Kills 11 In Iowa Pasture
A Braniff International DC3 crashed into a pasture 40 miles south of Swaledale Iowa killing 11 of 19 aboard. Eight injured, two critically. Initial reports blamed a power failure at the airport, later denied. Debris strewn along 1 mile of pasture as rescuers cut through wreckage. Pilot Capt W A Pickering and co pilot W B Wilde died. hostest Betty Ann Truly survived in fair condition.
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Mason City
Iowa
Braniff International Airways
Memphis
Tenn
Pelee
W. A. Pickering
Parkville
W. B. Wilde
Minneapolis
Hampton, Iowa
Betty Ann Truly
Kansas City
Shreveport
Mercy Hospital
Ex Kings and Exes Sail Luxury Cruise to Corfu
European royalty on a 12 day Ionian Sea cruise aboard the Agamemnon, hosted by King Paul and Queen Frederica, aims to boost Greek tourism and royal alliances. Guests include Queen Juliana, ex King Mihai, Grand Duchess Charlotte, ex King Umberto, and many royals with their children. Greece hopes engagements may be announced as the cruise ends.
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Corfu
Greece
Ionian Sea
Naples
Isles
Paul
Frederica
Prince Paul
Netherlands
Juliana
Romania
Mihai
Charlotte of
Luxembourg
Umberto
Italy
Marie-Jose
Switzerland
Athens
Dennis Typaldos
Embattled Vargas Holds On In Brazil
In Rio de Janeiro tanks moved to guard the presidential palace as the air force pressed Vargas to resign. Reports say Vargas vowed to leave only dead while military leaders pledged to uphold the presidency amid rumors of bases being prepared and censorship at radio stations.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Getulio Vargas
Radio Nacional
Vargas
Rio
Casado de Castro
Zenobio da Coste
Galeno
New York
Air Force
Presidential Guard
Carlos Lacerda
Rueben Vaz
Two Car Crashes Yield Damages and Charges in Frederick
Police investigated two weekend accidents in Frederick city. James Earl Spurlock of New Market faces reckless driving and driving on an expired license after his southbound car crossed the center line and hit a parked car owned by Donald E. Faulders of Boonsboro on Broadway causing about $400 in damage to each vehicle. The incident occurred around 12:47 a.m. Sunday. In a second, minor mishap on West Patrick and Jefferson streets William H. Holton of Braddock Heights rear ended a car stopped for a light driven by Norman C. Anderson of Suitland. Holton faced no charges and about $25 was estimated as damage to Anderson’s car.
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Frederick City
James Earl Spurlock
RFD 5
New Market
Broadway
Spurlock
Bernard King
Donald E. Faulders
RFD 2
Boonsboro
West Patrick Street
Jefferson Street
William H. Holton
Braddock Heights
Norman C. Anderson
Suitland
Horton
Anderson
Denver Shook
Rome's Bells Toll For Funeral Of De Gasperi
Rome tolls marked the state funeral for Alcide de Gasperi, Italy’s postwar premier, with bells across nearly 500 churches. Tens of thousands mourned as the 73-year-old leader, credited with fending off communism and fostering European unity, was entombed at San Lorenzo after a service at the Church of Jesus. Pope Pius XII authorized the interment in Rome’s ancient Basilica, following a large public procession through the capital.
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Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Italy
Chiesa del Gesu
Church of Jesus
San Lorenzo
Constantine
Pius XII
Churchill Seeks Way To Save EDC
In London Prime Minister Churchill met with French Premier Mendes France to salvage the European Defense Community and urged rapid German troop alignment with the West. Talks at Chartwell and in Brussels aimed to resolve deadlock and explore a renewed European defense plan with Britain taking a leading role.
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Churchill
EDC
London
Pierre Mendes-France
European Defense Community
Pierre Mendes- France
Chartwell
Churchil
Anthony Eden
Mendes-France
Brussels
France
West Germany
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Western
Europe
West Europe
Germany
Paris
National Assembly
Mendes- France
Britain
Paymaster Wounds Wife And Kills Self
Washington reports that 45 year old paymaster Joseph C. Ellis shot his wife Elizabeth and then killed himself after a confrontation at their Northwest Side home. Their son Joseph 17 said overwork during Senate sessions may have driven the tragedy. Ellis died at Emergency Hospital, his wife wounded in the face. The son grappled for the gun as the father committed suicide. Neighbors reported no prior trouble.
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Washington
Senate
Joseph C. Ellis
Joseph
Ellis
Elizabeth
Northwest
$34 Million Plant For Cumberland
Cumberland sees a $34 million Pittsburg Plate Glass plant to be built locally, creating about 1,000 jobs and marking the largest single project in the firm’s 71 year history. The plant will feature new technology and be over half a mile long. The city also approves a $2 million Potomac river sewage treatment unit to render waters usable for production, with more than 600 acres of farmland bought for the plant site.
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Cumberland
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
Harry B. Higgins
Otla
Potomac River
Potomac
Polio Strikes County Airman
Abluary officials informed Mr and Mrs Wilbur Summers of Myersville that their son Airman First Class John C Summers is a polio victim and patient at the United States Naval Hospital Charleston South Carolina where he is stationed The Red Cross at Charleston has advised the local chapter of his condition described as serious though after the acute stage and that he has improved and is now in the physiotherapy ward with daily visits ongoing from Charleston officials
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Wilbur Summers
Myersville
John C. Summers
United States Naval Hospital
Charleston
S. C
The
Red Cross
Summers
World Council of Churches Seeks Guidance for 170 Million Christians
Church delegates from around the world gather in Evanston to draft six guiding reports for the World Council of Churches. They tackle church stances on communism capitalism and racial and social issues. Key disputed items include international affairs and social questions as they seek Soviet non Soviet understanding and end hostilities.
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Evanston, HJ
General Assembly
World Council of Churches
World Council
Missouri Battleship Big Mo Sets Sail Toward Mothball Fleet
Norfolk and civilians bid farewell as the 45,000 ton battleship Missouri leaves port for retirement to the mothball fleet after a 12:45 pm departure. The ship will voyage three weeks to Bremerton Washington, arriving September 13, a return to duty no longer planned.
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Norfolk
Missouri
Bremerton
Wash
Cuff Links With State Seal Given B Rosenour By Governor
Governor Theodore McKeldin presented cuff links bearing the Maryland Seal and a picture of the State House to Benjamin Rosenour Jr at his 85th birthday party Sunday evening at the Elks Home on West Second Street. About 500 guests attended, all told not to bring gifts. Rosenour greeted guests, and a large birthday cake was cut as remarks were offered by the Governor and Judge Charles E Moylan. The event honored a reciprocal gesture for a 5 year earlier Elks Club party. Rosenour’s birthday fell on Saturday.
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Maryland
State House
Theodore McKeldin
Benjamin Rosenour, Jr
Rosenour
Charles E. Moylan
Supreme Bench of
Baltimore
Elks Club
KLM Plane Carrying 21 Is Overdue
An overdue KLM airliner from New York with 21 aboard is feared missing over the North Sea off the Dutch coast. Dutch and British authorities reported a possible forced landing near London, but no confirmation from police or coast guard. Search forces including the Dutch coast guard and rescue services were mobilized.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
New York
North Sea
KLM
London
Schiphol
Bakkum
Egmond
Bergen
Scheveningen
Air Ministry
Dutch Coast Guard
Milit
Vitn Hant
Five Children Die In Maine House Fire
In Waterville Maine five siblings of Mr and Mrs Richard Vachon perished in a blaze in their second floor bedrooms as their mother returned from work at a mill and tried to reach them. Firemen traced the fire to defective wiring on the second floor and a milkman who saw smoke failed to wake the family.
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Waterville
Maine
Richard Vachon
Patricia
Daniel
Judith
Stephen
Anne
Faces Questioning In Death By Poison
Baltimore man David E Roche 23, charged with assault by poisoning in the death of his wife Dorothy 23 from potassium cyanide. He to have hearing at Central District police court after surrendering post funeral trip from Johnstown Pa. Dorothy died Aug 14. Roche says wife had prior hospitalizations at Spring Grove State Hospital. Remanded to jail on docket. Also brief notes on a Libertytown man James Newman and a New York aircraft market uptick.
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Baltimore
David E. Roche
Dorothy
Roche
Central District Police Court
Johnstown
Gle
Spring Grove State Hospital
Peoples Court
James Newman
Libertytown
Ellis G. Carty
Newman
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Reese Shoemaker, Jr
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Peter Pan Inn
James H. Falk
Rockville
Hagerstown
Hyattsville
Emmanuel Tabernacle No. VIII
Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar
Priory
Albert M. Coblentz
the Tabernacle
Frederick Junction
Weverton
U.S
Navy
Civitan Club
Civitans
March of Dimes
Annapolis
Bernard Polan
Glen Burnie
Anne Arundel County
Republican State Central Committee
State Board of Education
de Gasperi
College Park
Berwyn Hardware & Supply Co
Paymaster
Wife
Self
Laura L. Foreman
Orphans Court
West
All Saints Street
E. Austin James
Elizabeth Heck
Dorothy Long
T. Elmer Baer
Nellie G. Bussard
Middletown
Gettysburg
Warren R. Lawson
Frederick Rfd
Melvin E Guiden
Bigerville Rfd
East Middle
South Stratton Streets
Gettysburg i
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Cleveland
William J. Corrigan
Pittsburgh Plate
Ewan Cilague
Labor Statistics
Department of Labor
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Big Mo
Mothball
Nixon
American Airlines
Congress
B. Rosenour
Royal Dutch
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