Indict Nunan On Dodging Income Tax Of 91 086
Former U S tax chief Joseph D Nunan Jr faces a five count indictment for income tax dodging totaling about 91 088 over 1946 to 1950 He quit as head of the internal revenue bureau in 1947 and is accused of underreporting income and evading taxes His aide Daniel A Bolich was indicted earlier for similar charges Nunan faces up to 25 years in prison and fines if convicted The case stems from a House subcommittee probe into tax scandals surrounding internal revenue officials.
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New York
Joseph D. Nunan Jr
Internal Revenue Bureau
Nunan
Daniel A Bolich
House
Brooklyn
Bolich
Ways and Means
Internal Revenue
Rep
King
D-Calif
Washington
Costello Nunan
Frank Costello
U. S. Senate
Costello
Treasury
Nuney
Too Old Hanberry Declines Cuba Yellow Fever Anniversary
James L. Hanberry, 77, last of 13 Spanish-American War volunteers who exposed themselves to yellow fever, says he is too old to attend the 50th Cuba project anniversary. Batista invited him to Havana, but he declines. The 1901 experiments by Dr. Walter Reed involved disease-carrying mosquitoes. Congress later awarded medals.
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Orangeburg
8. C
James L. Hanberry
Cuba
Fulgencio Batista
Hanberry
Havana
Walter Reed
Congress
Liquidating Dimling Candy Co Ends 77 Years of Trade
Pittsburgh December 2 The Dimling Candy Co president Herbert Dimling says he is liquidating the 77 year old business due to a labor dispute that idled 130 workers since November 17 The AFL bakery and confectionery workers union rejected the latest offer and Dimling will close production keeping two office staff for liquidation The firm operates 11 retail stores and a wholesale business in the Pittsburgh district.
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Pittsburgh
Herbert Dimling
Dimling Candy Co
Dimling
AFL Bakery and Confectionery Workers
Struggling to Pay Money Due School Districts in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg December 2 The Department of Public Instruction reports a budget strain from late appropriations. Fourth class districts will receive all payments by Thursday. Semi annual sums for first and second class districts will be requisitioned by next week. Some districts may borrow to meet payrolls. The delay stems from a 1951 law boosting school funding. payments were due in October for fourth class and in November for other classes.
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Harrisburg
Department of Public Instruction
E. A. Quackenbush
Bureau of School Administration
Treasury Department
York
Quackenbush
Driver Dies Under Wheels Of His Own Tractor Trailer
James M. Deitz, 30, of Avella Pennsylvania, died beneath the wheels of his own tractor trailer in a freak accident near Ashland Virginia on U S Route 1. Six other people in a parked car were uninjured. The truck struck the rear of the car, swung it around, and Deitz was crushed.
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Richmond
James M. Deitz
Avella
Ashland
D. K. Flinchum
Flinchum
Dietz
Bell Telephone Get Large Rate Increase In Pennsylvania
The Public Utility Commission approved a 21.23 million dollar annual rate rise for Bell Telephone Co in Pennsylvania ending nickel pay booth calls. The agency trimmed the request from 33.01 million, ordered a revised local rate plan, and allowed a 5 to 10 cent toll hike with broader flat rate calling areas.
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Harrisburg
Public Utility Commission
Bell Telephone Co
Pennsylvania
PUC
Bell
Commission
Bell Jast
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
State Cio Council
Pennsylvania Hotels Association
Philadelphia Association of Retail Druggests
PAC
CIO
Auto and Truck Skid Hit Two Horses on Icy Road
Two brothers, Leroy and Harry Pritts, driving an auto and a truck, skidded on an icy highway east of Berlin while near Berlin White Horse Route 5039 and collided with a team of frightened horses. Both horses owned by Ralph E Groft of Berlin were seriously hurt, one in very bad condition. About 150 dollars damage reported to the vehicles.
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Berlin
Paul Lutz
Pennsylvania
Ralph E Groft
Leroy G. Pritts
Everett R. D. 2
Harry EB. Pritts
Meyersdale R. D. 2
Pritts
White Horse
Robert Mosteller
Lancaster Co
Lancaster County
Richard Gerstell
Lancaster
State Council of Civilian Defense
Samuel Yeager
Harrisburg
Gerstell
Commonwealth
Mt. Joy
Yeager
Cease fire plan for Korea loses at United Nations
Western bloc rejects Russia's call for immediate Korean ceasefire in the U N political committee while approving an Indian peace plan. Forty-one nations oppose the stopgap move. five Soviet bloc states back it. Acheson departs to prepare NATO talks in Paris.
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Francis W. Carpenter
United Nations
N. Y
Russia
U. N
Korea
United States
Britain
France
China
Afghanistan
Argentina
Burma
Egypt
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Lebanon
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Ecuador
Yemen
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Red China
North Korea
Gald
Acheson
Washington
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Paris
Three-Man Junta Resigns in Venezuela After Election
In Caracas on December 2 the three man military junta governing Venezuela since 1948 resigned after a general election. Defense Minister Marcos Perez Jimenez assumed the presidency, pledging to honor the November 30 constituent assembly vote. FEI leads with 570,123 votes. URD, COPES, and KURD follow in reported counts amid censorship and shifted unofficial tallies.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Marcos Perez Jiminez
Perez Jiminez
Supreme Electoral Council
Independent Electoral Front Party
FEI
Democratic Republican Party
KURD
Christian Socialists
COPES
URD
COPEI
Willemstadt
Curreau
Netherlands West Indies
Miraflores Palace
Mrs Woodrow Recovers From Car Crash Injuries
Mrs. I F Woodrow remains at home on South Kimberly Avenue after a Sunday auto wreck near Johnstown. An X ray shows a broken bone in her left shoulder and she also endured severe shock. Mr Woodrow suffered bruises but was able to leave hospital. The vehicle was badly damaged.
Accident victim discharged after turnpike crash
Joseph Maruskin of 238 Loraine Ohio was treated at Somerset Community hospital Tuesday morning after a turnpike accident. He received lacerations to the scalp and was discharged following emergency care.
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Joseph Maruskin
Loraine
Somerset Community Hospital
Sino Troops Battle ROK Hand To Hand On Sniper Ridge
Chinese troops attacked Sniper Ridge with hand to hand fighting against South Korean defenders in subfreezing weather. The assault lasted about 80 minutes after a pre dawn push across Pinpoint Hill. Allied fire supported the drive as snow and cold hampered movement. Six inches of new snow and near zero temperatures marked the frigid front.
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Seoul
Sniper Ridge
Pinpoint Hill
Rocky Point
Pinpoint
Pyongyang
Samdung
Wonsan
North Korea
Fifth Air Force
Somerset Johnstown Holiday Evening Bus Schedule
The Somerset Bus company announces special 9:10 p.m. weekday departures from December 13 through Christmas. Two routes run via Route 219 and Route 53 to Boswell and Hooversville with return to Somerset. Johnstown connections occur on select shopping nights and Johnstown to Somerset service runs December 6 13 18 20 and 22.
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Somerset Bus Company
Somerset
Johnstown
Harrison, Gray and Jennerstown
Boswell
Listie, Friedens
Stoystown
Hooversville
Taft Calls Durkin Post Incredible in Clash Over Labor Choice
Senator Taft denounces President-elect Eisenhower’s pick of Martin R. Durkin as labor secretary as incredible and partisan Truman Democrat. He questions patronage shifts by Herbert Brownell and warns of GOP friction while noting Durkin’s stance on labor law reforms. Continued on page six.
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Rowland Evans, JR
Washington
Robert A. Taft
GOP
Eisenhower
Ohio
Martin R. Durkin
Hisenhower
Cincinnati
Taft
Durkin
AFL Plumbers’ Union
Truman Democrat
Hie
Brownell
Herbert Brownell
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Truman
Labor Department
Lop Off Half Million Jobs Dworshak Idea
Senate economy bloc member Sen. Dworshak proposes abolishing up to 500000 federal jobs to save at least 2 billion dollars annually. He calls for a house cleaning in the interior department and a major policy shift away from New Deal era bureaus. He cites civilian salaries at 95 billion last year and warns of too many postwar jobs since the Korean War.
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Rose M’kee
Washington
INS
GOP
Senate
Sen
Dworshak
Idaho
Interior Department
Douglas McKay
Civil Service
One of five convicts captured after West Penitentiary escape
James Milk, 25, one of five dangerous escapees from Pittsburgh s Western State Penitentiary, was captured in Charleston West Virginia within 12 hours. He had fled from the Lerby home in Rea near Washington along with four companions who held a family for two days before splitting up.
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Washington
Pittsburgh
Western State Penitentiary
West Virginia
James Milk
Western Union
Charleston
W. Va
Milk
Duquesne
Emile Lerby
Rea
Lerby
Ethel
John Gagich
Mary Gagich
John Gagich Jr
Marlene
Gagich
Pennsylvania
Singleton Shaffer
Two Killed on County Highways in November
The state police at Somerset report two fatalities on county highways in November with six injuries. There were 11 accidents causing about $7,115 in property damage, along with 44 traffic arrests and six criminal arrests or 17 criminal complaints investigated.
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Somerset
Geisbert in Baltimore Hospital for Treatment After Mine Explosion
Laurence Geisbert and his wife from Gray are in Baltimore Md for medical tests after a mine explosion injury. He was seriously burned and spent months in Somerset Community hospital and is now a patient at Union Memorial hospital.
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Laurence Geisbert
Gray
Baltimore
Coal Dirt and Topsoil Sold From New Centerville Yard
Extra special cheap coal fill dirt and topsoil offered for pickup near New Center ville with trucks ready and personal contact available by phone at Rockwood 2718.
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New Centerville
Rockwood
Weather forecast for eastern and western Pennsylvania
Eastern Pennsylvania sees cloudy skies with snow or rain ending Wednesday morning and a high around 32 to 36. Another cloudy day on Thursday with more snow and little temperature change. Western Pennsylvania reports cloudy conditions with light snow in the east early Wednesday morning, a high near 32 to 86, then Thursday clouds followed by rain or snow and little temperature change.
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Harrisburg
Weather Bureau
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Westernennsylvania
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