Cat May Help Write Poe Ending To Year-Old Mystery
Charles E Homeyer admitted dismembering his wife Anna Snellman Homeyer 65. police say he found her dead, dragged the body to the bath, and dismembered it. A cat tied to the case led investigators to a skull embedded in concrete, culminating in a murder narrative echoing The Black Cat.
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Cat
Poe Finis
Tunkhannock
Charles E. Homeyer
Charles J. McKay
State Police
Homeyer
Anna Snellman Homeyer
Edgar Allan Poe
Ann Snellman
Big Four talks stall over Austrian treaty at Paris
In Paris on March 8 the Big Four deputies failed to finalize an agenda for the foreign ministers meeting. Russia pressed to address the Austrian treaty and charged the West with violating the 1947 Paris peace pact on Trieste, while the other three powers balked at a full airing. The deadlock follows days of dispute over German settlement and ongoing rifts between East and West.
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Paris
Russia
United States
Britain
France
Trieste
Andrei Gromyko
Italy
Yugoslavia
Gromyko
Survivors of Navy Privateer Crash Sighted Near Rome
The Navy reports 10 survivors seen on life rafts in the Mediterranean after a Privateer patrol bomber crashed en route from Trieste to Rome. Four crew members remain missing. Search planes located six survivors on one raft about 18 miles west of Ostia Lido, then found four more on another raft after relaying from the carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Washington
INS
Navy
Mediterranean Sea
United States Mediterranean Fleet
Trieste
Rome
Ostia Lido
U. S
Franklin D. Roosevelt
OPS To Free Food Prices From Freeze
Gordon B. Severance head of the local OPS says federal action within a week will allow food price increases. The food industry will exit the general maximum price program and come under the margin markup regulation, permitting price rises based on a date yet to be announced.
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Los Angeles
Gordon B. Severance
Office of Price Stabilization
OPS
Lawyers Club
Severance
Washington
Arizona Water Question Sets Stage for Groundwater Code
Testimony before the committee shows drought strains raising doubts about irrigation capacity and income in Pinal County. Lane warns that about 150000 more acres may be labeled critical within 90 days, restricting new pumps and prompting possible contractual funding from indirect beneficiaries to support underground water conservation.
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Lane
Arizona
Pinal County
Pinal
Yorty
Central Arizona
California
John R. Murdock
Congress
Frank Bow
Ohio
Bus Crash in Imperial Calif Leaves Many Injured
The Imperial California bus crash injures multiple people including Claude Childers and Paul Weierbach with various bruises cuts and fractures. Witness Branham describes a passing car forcing the bus off course. The bus jumped a gully cleared a barbed wire fence and landed upright. Investigators from the Arizona Motor Vehicle Division probed the scene alongside two inspectors. The article notes the first US patent for wireless radio was issued in 1872 to Mahlon Loomis.
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Branham
sa#f
Motor Vehicle Division
Arizona Corporation Commission
A. P. Buzard
Kester Caywood
United States
Mahlon Loomis
General Church urges mountain fighting over wheels for soldiers
Fort Benning Ga March 8 AP Maj Gen John H Church fresh from Korea says doughboys must walk not ride and train to stand on their own two feet. He emphasizes realistic night training and using vehicles only where needed while preparing troops to fight through mountains and poor roads if war returns. His 24th Division fought along the Naktong Waegwan and advanced toward Seoul last October.
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Fort Benning
John H. Church
Korea
24Th
Church
Seoul
Taejon
Naktong
Pusan
William F. Dean
Japan
Russia
Waegwan
Red Cross Campaign Totals for Maricopa County
The Maricopa County Chapter of the American Red Cross reports 1951 campaign totals reaching 70,250 in cash donations and pledges toward a 248,978 goal. The Women’s Division leads with 10,966 toward a 23,000 Phoenix district target, while divisions show Special gifts 35,805 public service 6,874 commercial 7,563 schools 1,069 and other county areas 5,819. Residential canvass continues through Saturday with co chairs Mrs Ed Ryan and Mrs Guy Stillman.
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Maricopa County
American Red Cross
John T. Kimball
Phoenix
Ed Ryan
Guy Stillman
Soviet New Times says Japan mobilizes for full war effort
Moscow dispatch notes New Times magazine asserts Japan has shifted to near total war production to supply American troops and to reconstitute the Japanese army navy and air force.
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Moscow
New Times
Korean Front Movements Near Hongchon and Pangnim
Korean Marine squads pushed within seven miles of Hongchon a major Communist base while the Fifth Divisionheld Hoengsong area under fire from about 8,000 entrenched enemies. U S Seventh Division seized peaks near Pangnim to bar a counterattack as Allied air forces blasted from front to Manchurian border. Superfortresses led a heavy 220 ton raid on Chunchon warehouses behind the line. Fourteen Russian built jets were spotted near Sinuiju but fled as U S Sabres moved to engage. Night bombers targeted enemy vehicles supplying reinforcements south.
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Hongchon
38Th Parallel
Fifth Division
Hoengsong
U. S. Seventh Division
Pangnim
Eighth Army
Chunchon
Korea
Sinuiju
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Calif
Claude Childers
Jacqueline Childers
Paul H. Weierbach
Allentown
John Jordan
Homer C. Brown
Custer
S. D
J. C. Hayes
Elks Point
George Schultz
de Altona Park
L. Z. Smith
South 13Th Street
Lionel Branham
South Central Avenue
Jose G. Bustamante
el Paso
Tex
W. D. Willey
American Bus Lines
Smith
el Centro
State Fair Grounds
Cocker Spaniel Club of
Sahuaro State Kennel Club
Cockers
Cocker
Phoenix Field
Kennel Club
Jimmy
Paddy
Second Ave
West van Buren
Red Cross
Admiral Television
Ain Ae
Lawson Living Room
van Buren
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