Britain on alert for IRA violence after depot raid
Britain tightens security as Scotland Yard hunts IRA members after a raid at Archorfield army depot. Reports say eight to twenty attackers overpowered guards and fled with weapons while Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Eden receive enhanced protection amidst wartime style alert.
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Arborfield Army Depot
London
Britain
Scotland Yard
TRA
IRA
British Isles
Archorfield
Ohio Men Face Dilemma Over Bail For Speeding
Two Ohio men faced a Sunday dilemma after one was jailed for speeding on the Pennsylvania turnpike. Lloyd Lentz Jr. 25 from Gnadenhutten tried to raise a fine by telegraph and cashing a personal check but failed. They hocked a spare tire and wheel at a Somerset service station to gain freedom. Charles Ostrander 28 of McKeesport was transferred to Western Penitentiary for 18 to 36 months on burglary and larceny. Robert Sheeler 21 of Somerset was jailed briefly then released after posting bond for headlight tampering.
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Ohio
Lloyd Lentz, Jr
Gnaden‘autten
Justice of the Peace O
Somerset
Gnadenhutten
Western Penitentiaary
Charles Ostrander
McKeesport
Ostrander
Friedens
Stoystown
Robert Sheeler
Mountain Playhouse Presents Sabrina Fair This Week
The Mountain Playhouse offers Sabrina Fair this week and announces Dorothy A Son next, with reservations via Boswell 3512.
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Sabrina Fair
Boswell
Russia shoots live animals into space beyond 300 miles
Moscow reports that a leading Russian scientist announced experiments sending rockets with live animals to space over 300 miles high. Artificial satellites are planned to replace rockets for long term observations from pole to pole, including sun phenomena, ionosphere studies, and cosmic rays.
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Moscow
Russia
A. G. Karpenko
Moscow Pravda
Karpenko
Commission of Interplanetary Communication
Communist Party
Pravda
America
United States
Norwegian Ship Comes To Port After Blast At Sea
The Norwegian motorship Tancred arrived in San Francisco with a gaping deck hole after an engine room explosion. Two young crewmen were dead and four were seriously burned or injured. The dead are Anders Lund, 17, and Kjell Petterson, 21, both Norwegians. The ship’s voyage was inbound from Manila with 42 crew and 12 passengers. cause of the blast was not yet determined. Coast Guard Willow aided with a medical officer aboard in rough seas. Skipper Olav Moen.
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San Francisco
Tancred
Anders Lund
South Trondelag
Norway
Kjell Petterson
Fredrikstad
Manila
Golden Gate
U. S. Coast Guard
Willow
Olav Moen
Red Cross Delivers Aid for 29 American Civilians
Nelson Riley of the American Red Cross arrived in Hong Kong from Tokio with 29 parcels to be handed to Chinese Communist Red Cross officials at the border for 29 American civilians claimed by Reds.
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Red Cross
U.S
Hong Kong
Nelson Riley
Tokio
Ogline's Fruit Market Plums and Tomatoes
Blue plums priced at 42.50 per bushel and canned tomatoes at 1.50 per bushel offered by Ogline's Fruit Market on Plank Road. Phone contact listed as 38612.
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Ogline
Baer Injured In Route 219 Collision Near Meyersdale
A two vehicle crash on Route 219 near Meyersdale injured Glenn B. Baer 25 and E B Stutzman 64. Baer sustained a forehead laceration and hand bruises. Stutzman’s truck operated by Blacktop Construction suffered $800 damage. State police to file charges for Baer failing to yield. A separate Penn turnpike crash near Somerset injured four from Staten Island in a no passing zone collision.
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Rockwood
Meyersdale Community Hospital
Glenn B. Baer
E. B. Stutzman
Berlin
Meyersdale
Baer
Stutzman
Blacktop Construction Company
R. D
Justice of the Peace
Carl Phalin
Summit Township
Staten Island
N. Y
Somerset
Vincent Santiago
Akron
Ohio
Ronald E. Rine
Utica
Ray Perry
Julius Garriga
Fayson Lakes
N. J
Santiago
Rine
Perry
Garriga
Frick Memorial Hospital
Mt. Pleasant
Lois
Linda
COPS BREAK 13 LOCKS TO SEIZE DRUGS IN NY APARTMENT
New York police armed with keys and a crowbar unlocked thirteen locks in a single raid and seized five pounds of marijuana valued at $6,000 along with a hypodermic needle. Arrested was 48-year-old Rose Fields. A fierce doberman pinscher fenced the premises during the operation.
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New York
INS
Rose Fields
Vienna Die Presse Claims Mayerling Documents Publication
Die Presse reports it possesses authentic documents solving the Mayerling mystery and will publish them before turning them over to Vienna archives. The records trace the 1889 Mayerling deaths of Crown Prince Franz Karl and Baroness Marie Vetsera and recount a hidden police file long kept secret.
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Vienna
Die Presse
Francis Joseph I
Liai
Berlin
Procrastination Session Congress Dubbed by GOP
Twelve Republican senators labeled the Democratic controlled Congress the let s put it off session and the Congress of procrastination. Lyndon Johnson urged Democrats to stop election year fevers and consider remaining issues. The GOP blamed delaying Democrats while Knowland Bridges and others criticized Democratic tactics and cited stalled presidential proposals.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Johnson
Eisenhower
Sen
Allott
Cole
GOP
Knowland
House
Bridges
Democrats
Geneva
H Alexander Smith
Clifford P. Case
Ives
Flanders
Watkins and Bennett
Utah
Carlson
Kan
Butler and Beall
Goldwater
Ariz
Bender
Ohio
Connie Took 14 Lives ere She Broke Up
Hurricane Connie unleashed showers across Pennsylvania causing at least fourteen deaths and widespread damage. Lancaster and Philadelphia saw heavy rain while Lancaster crops benefited. strong winds felled trees and damaged crops. A Haverford woman, Emma G Todd 92, drowned in a Coatesville flash flood.
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Connie
Associated Press
Lake Erie
Pennsylvania
Allentown
Coatesville
Johnstown
Philadelphia
Lancaster
Lancaster County
M. M. Smith
Smith
Pittsburgh
Haverford
Emma G. Todd
Baumer Home Service Reunites with China POW
Maj. William H. Baumer returned to Milton to attend church after 2½ years as a Chinese prison internee. He lost fingers and toes to frost bite, was wounded in the leg, and described a mock trial by a military tribunal. Baumer said his captors treated him better after injury and suggested the release was a Geneva bargaining move.
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Lewisburg
Bill Baumer
Milton
Bill
William H. Baumer
China
Reds
Geneva
U. S
Red China
UN AMERICAN COMMITTEE TO PROBE ENTERTAINMENT
The House un-American Activities Committee opens a New York probe into alleged Communist influence in film theater and television. Twenty seven witnesses including Lou Polan Jerome E. Chodorov Sam Jaffee Zero Mostel and Stanley Prager are subpoenaed. The AFLTA or local units may discipline members who refuse to answer.
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New York
House un-American Activities Committee
Francis E. Walter
Lou Polan
Jerome E. Chodorov
Sam Jaffee
Zero Mostel
Stanley Prager
Walter
Jaffee
Polan
Hollywood
AFL American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
Ohio Preacher Sermons at Calvary Methodist Pulpit
The guest preacher at Calvary Methodist Church Sunday was the Rev. Herbert E. Massey a pastor from Centenary Methodist Church East Palestine Ohio and a member of the Northeast Ohio conference He is a college classmate of Calvarys pastor the Rev Dr Clark S Derby
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Calvary Methodist Church
Herbert E. Massey
Centenary Methodist Church
East Palestine
Ohio
Northeast Ohio
Mr. Massey
Clark S. Derby
Calvary Church
Three Drowned When Cayuta Lake Boat Capsizes Near Odessa
A Cayuta lake boat overturned in a west wind, drowning three aboard including Mrs. Lucy Ward and Mrs. Max Brinthaupt Jr and her 14 year old son Robert Carlisle. Four others were saved, with rescuers reaching survivors Richard Comstock and Mrs. Gertrude Dawson and her daughters Jeanne and Nancy.
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Odessa
N. Y
Cayuta Lake
Lucy Ward
Max Brinthaupt Jr
Robert Carlisle
Elmira
Jack Elias
Elias
Albert
Richard Comstock
Gertrude Dawson
Jeanne
Nancy
Reds mean to retain East German Republic
Deputy Prime Minister Otto Nitschke, writing in Neu Zeit, urged that East Germany’s social and cultural achievements be preserved in reunification. He warned that Russia would not relinquish the East German Democratic Republic without protections for its system.
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East German Republic
Berlin
Otto Nitschke
East Germany
Neu Zeit
Christian Democratic Union
Russia
East German Democratic Republic
Koreans Parade Before U S Embassy in Seoul
Readers learn of demonstrations in Seoul and Pusan as Koreans demand removal of truce inspectors while President Rhee denounces U S policy. The report covers calls for immediate action, the U N Far East command, and the extended deadline for truce teams.
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U.S
Seoul
U. S
Korea
Syngman Rhee
Asia
Rhee
Japan
United States
S. B. Lacy
Pusan
Truce Team
Inchon
Wolmi Island
South Korea
Judge refuses restraining order against picketing at Boswell mine
Judge Thomas F. Lansberry declined to issue a restraining order against picketing at a Boswell strip mine. He affirmed the right to lawful picketing while warning the union liable for violence or intimidation. About 100 United Mine Workers members showed up Wednesday for what operator John T. Stoddard called a union drive.
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Thomas F. Lansberry
Boswell
United Mine Workers of America
John T. Stoddard
Judge Sheely to Try Haines Murder Case
Carlisle August 14 Judge W C Sheely Gettysburg will preside at the murder trial of Percy Haines 60 accused court room killer Haines is charged with the pistol death of John D Fuller Jr attorney for Mrs Haines in a wife support case Judge Mark E Garber and two others were wounded in the courtroom shooting on August 2 The shooting occurred after Judge Garber entered a support order against Haines
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Carlisle
W. C. Sheely
Gettysburg
Percy Haines
Haines
John D. Fuller Jr
St Johns ER U B Sunday School festival set for Aug 16
St John s ER U B Sunday School festival moved to Beam s Grove near Gray on Tuesday August 16. Hot chicken and beef suppers served starting at 5 00 P M with entertainment at 8 00 P M. Everyone welcome.
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St. John’s ER
U. B
Beam’s Grove
Gray
No Flood Threat In Pittsburgh
The U S weather bureau said there is no flood threat in the Pittsburgh area following a heavy 12 hour rainfall yesterday.
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Duquesne Light Co
Pennsylvania
U. S. Weather Bureau
Pittsburgh
Harrisburg
Connie
Lightning Rods Offered By Chester A Rhoads
Contact Chester A Rhoads at 425 South Center Ave Somerset for free estimates on lightning rod repair work. Telephone numbers Somerset 4895 or 5047 available.
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Chester A. Rhoads
South Center Ave
Somerset
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