Indictments Target Miami Anti Negro Society Leaders
Four Greater Miamians surrendered to federal authorities on indictments tied to last winter’s racial terror campaigns. Helen Russell and three Ku Klux Klan members face counts of perjury and false statements to FBI and post office officials. Housing project protests and Klan activity are central, with potential five year penalties per count. Russell disputes meeting with Klansmen and organizing protests.
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Miami
Fla
Carver Negro
Runsell
Grand
Orwick
Adgreen
FBI
de Rosier
Post Office Department
Loyalty Board
McGranery
Washington
Atty
Russell
KKK
the Indictments
Edison Center
Israeli Captain Removed From Vessel After Demands
A young Israeli ship captain, Adam Graetz, 24, master of the Abraham Graetz, threatened to sink his ship in the Atlantic unless his father joined the Israeli cabinet. He was brought ashore in Halifax by tug, described as mentally ill, and taken to a hospital. Reports from the ship said he used a pistol to force a radio message to Ben-Gurion.
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Halifax
Atlantic
Adam Graetz
Abraham Graetz
Israel
Graetz
David Ben-Gurion
Card of Thanks for Richard G Hoburn
We thank friends neighbors and relatives for kindness and sympathy shown after the death of our son Richard G Hoburn. Grateful for flowers loans of cars and all assistance received.
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Richard G. Hoburn
Carter Trial Opens Over Fatal Turnpike Crash
The trial of 17 year old Richard Carter of Cleveland, stationed at Indiantown Gap, began at 1 30 p m Wednesday for involuntary manslaughter in the November 10 turnpike crash that killed Richard J Gatz 18. Witnesses testified Carter was driving about 60 mph in a 60 mph zone with the car partly in the right lane.
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Richard Carter
Cleveland
Ohio
Indiantown Gap
Carter
Richard J. Gatz
Instally
Somerset Community Hospital
Pvt
Walter Gartska
State Police Turnpike
Don Carrol
Canonsburg
Carrol
Gatz
Russian Invents Stomach Camera Takes 12 Photos
A Russian inventor, D. D. Maksutov, unveiled a device that deploys a dozen tiny cameras around a central electric bulb to photograph the stomach interior. The cameras, lowered via a rubber tube, are spread by air and captured in a rapid 100th second flash, yielding 12 simultaneous images.
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London
Moscow Radio
D. D. Maksutov
Moscow
High Honors To Walker In Garden Test
Glenn Walker, 17, earned high honors in a national contest for top young vegetable growers at the National Junior Vegetable Growers association convention in New York. He won a share of the $6,000 A and P scholarship fund as a state winner for Pennsylvania and cropped crops valued at over $500 from a four acre family farm. Walker, a 1952 Somerset High graduate, plans college study in vocational agriculture and helps run the family farm with his parents.
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Glenn Walker
Friedens R. D
National
Junior Vegetable Growers Association
New York
N. Y
NJVGA
A & P Food Stores
Grant B. Bayder
University of Massachusetts
Young Walker
Richard Walker
Sipesville
Somerset
Crouse Cadets
Somerset High School
Pennsylvania
Robert Fox
New Castle
Frederick Hyde
Connellsville
Patrick Dunn
Ebensburg
Samuel Kirk
Rome
Robert Orr
Creekside
Nadine Thompson
Lakewood
Colo
Beirut Lebanon
American University
Court Blames Parole Board For Pen Fuss
A Common Pleas judge in Pittsburgh holds the state parole board partly responsible for unrest at Western State Penitentiary. Judge Henry Ellenbogen cites Leroy B. Shaw, 23, still imprisoned a year after parole recommendation, urging Shaw’s immediate release. Parole board chair Henry C. Hill notes 60 percent of judges favor parole. Shaw was paroled in 1950, later cited in auto theft and burglary indictments and returned to the industrial school as a parole violator.
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Pittsburgh
State Parole Board
Western State Penitentiary
Common Pleas Court
Henry Elsenbogen
Leroy B. Shaw
Ellenbogen
Shaw
Parole Board
Harrisburg
Henry C. Hill
November Vital Stats Record Births and Deaths
Seventy births and 23 deaths occurred in November per figures from Norman E. Knepper Jr. The births were all at the hospital. Nine deaths happened in the hospital, fourteen at other locations.
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Norman E. Knepper, Jr
Fiddler Recommitted to County Jail
Jack Fidler aged 27 of Meyersdale was recommitted to Somerset county jail by Sheriff Karl I. Hare after a temporary release. He had been jailed July 15 for six months on a vagrancy charge and is described as an idle laborer.
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Jack Fidler
Meyersdale
Somerset County
Karl I. Hare
Fidler
Local TV Repair Shop Advertises In County
Motorola Philco and Admiral dealer offers repairs for all makes and antenna installation at 111 W Union St. Phone 5000. The shop promises top equipment and full service for receivers and antennas.
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Motorola
Philco
Admiral
W. Union St
Truman Urges MacArthur to Present Plan to End War
President Truman in a White House message pressed Gen Douglas MacArthur to disclose immediately an airtight plan to end the Korean conflict. He said if a reasonable approach could shorten fighting by even a day it should be presented to the President without delay.
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Truman
MacArthur
Sterling ¥. Green
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
White House
Eisenhower
Korea
Roger Tubby
Andrew Berding
Defense Department Information Office
Defense Lovett
Defense Department
U. S
William Reeder
Army
Supreme Court Hears Segregation in Public Schools
The Supreme Court heard warnings that ending race segregation in public schools could devastate Southern education. Justices weigh whether states may require separate schools for white and Black children, with cases from Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. The 1896 precedent allowing segregation with equal facilities remains central, affecting 17 states and four permissive ones.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
Supreme Court
South
Virginia
J. Lindsay Almond
John W. Davis
South Carolina
Thurgood Marshall
Kansas
Delaware
District of Columbia
Judge gives time to answer in Spiteler habeas case
Indiana December 10 Judge E E Creps grants Dist Atty J Murray Butterbaugh until December 22 to file an answer to George Spiteler plea for freedom under bond while awaiting murder trial. Spiteler, 33, is accused of killing C R Peterman, 55, in a Smicksburg farmyard gun duel after Peterman ordered him to leave the area. Butterbaugh will be given another date for arguments on the habeas corpus writ after the answer. Spiteler’s trial is scheduled for March.
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Indiana
E. E. Creps
Dist
Atty
J. Murray Butterbaugh
George Spiteler
Spiteler
C. R. Peterman
Smicksburg
Peterman
Butterbaugh
Creps
Spiteleer
James Released After Paying Stiff Fine
Russell James of Conemagh township was released from Somerset county jail after paying a stiff fine for short weight of solid fuel and costs of a hearing. The 31 year old miner, employed, married, and father of a child, was prosecuted at a Wednesday morning hearing.
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Russell James
Conemagigh
Somerset County
James
Wild West Gun Battle in Times Square Ends with Cop Killer Shot
In pre dawn Times Square a gun battle left six others wounded, including three officers. Clarence O Sims, a 37-year-old Cleveland man, was shot by Patrolman Cornelius O Shea after a long chase along Eighth Avenue. Sims confessed to unsolved stickups before dying.
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New York
Times Square
Eighth Avenue
Manhattan
Clarence O. Sims
Cleveland
Cornelius O'Shea
Sims
O'Shea
Sans
Harlem
Bar Sims
Cecil Johnson
42Nd Street
Johnson
George McAuliffe
Robert Knox
James Kane
Browlers
McAuliffe
Knox
Richard Conlon
McAliffe
Conlon
Kenneth Walters
Ninth Avenue
45Th Street
Kane
David Heinweil
Bronx
United States and Britain Block Tunisian Bey Appeal at UN
At the United Nations the United States and Britain halted a push by an Arab-Asian bloc to invite the bey of Tunis to send a spokesman and press for Tunisia self-rule. The vote counts showed limited support with Western allies backing the move, while France opposed it and boycotted debates.
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Edward Curtis
United Nations
N. Y
United States
Britain
Tunis
France
U. N. Assembly
Tunisia
U. N. Good Offices
U. N
Pakistan
Russia
Iran
U.S
Canada
New Zealand
Australia
Junior Moore Memorial Fund To Be Started
A memorial fund named for John D. Moore Jr will be started by friends to honor his memory after the auto mobile crash on Route 219. The fund will buy books for a school library or classroom and be administered by Kenneth Halverson, while Moore’s family supports the tribute as classmates and teachers recall his band and chorus involvement.
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Broute 219
John D. Moore, Jr
Millie Eleanor Matthews
Moore
Kenneth Halverson
North Edgewood Avenue
Jerry Halverson
Somerset Joint High School
Bernice Hoover
Richard Hoburn
Holsopple Woman Injured in Johnstown Crash
A Holsopple R D 2 woman, 31 year old Corallen Kopp, was injured in Johnstown after noon when her car was struck by a vehicle driven by a Johnstown man. She received treatment at Memorial Hospital for a head injury.
Truman Returns From Kansas City Funeral Trip
President Truman and his family traveled from Independence Mo to the White House after attending the funeral of Mrs David W Wallace the 92 year old mother of Mrs Truman.
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Truman
Washington
White House
Independence
David W. Wallace
Eisenhower and MacArthur to Meet in New York
President elect Eisenhower and General Douglas MacArthur are expected to meet in New York soon after Eisenhower’s return to discuss MacArthur’s plea to shorten the Korean War. The meeting may occur at Eisenhower’s Morningside Heights home or Commodore Hotel, with possible next week timing.
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Don Whitehead
Helena
Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
New York
MacArthur
Morningside Heights
Commodore Hotel
Dulles
World
Europe
Middle East
Far East
Korea
State Department
Joey
Meyersdale Methodist Men Host Editor Henry B Reiley
The Meyersdale Methodist Men hosted Henry Baker Reiley editor of the Somerset American as their speaker in the church social rooms. He urged Christians to rally to defend civilization amid government scandals and crime and praised Meyersdale men for reviving church influence in social life. George R Paxton introduced him and the Rev E W Kelley gave the blessing. About 35 men attended.
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Meyersdale
George R. Paxton
E. W. Kelley
Weather Outlook for Western and Eastern Pennsylvania
Eastern region forecast shows cloudy skies with morning showers and mountain snow flurries at night and a colder finish. Friday brings partly cloudy skies and milder afternoon temperatures. Western region expects snow flurries and colder conditions Thursday with a milder, partly cloudy Friday afternoon.
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Pennsylvania
Somerset Weather Light haze and scattered readings
Daily weather report by David Grove details a 24 hour period ending 5:30 p.m. Tuesday with a maximum temperature around 36 and a similar minimum, noting precipitation and a year ago comparison. The OCR text is garbled but indicates typical observer data for the Somerset area.
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Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S
Weather Observer
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C. T. Saylor
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Lima Davis
East Church Street
Ginger Bread Party
American Legion Home
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5 Maneer Radio & TV Service
EES
Jay Heißle
Supreme Ct
D. A
Berlin
Somerset Sportsmen’s Association
VFW Hall
N.Y. Street
Toyland
U.S. - Britain
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Holsopple
Johnstown
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Hig
Reiley
R. D
U S. Weather Bureau
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St. Louis
Boston
Jacksonville
Sone
Philadelphia
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Kerrigan Furniture
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Stone Electric
L. K. Miller & Son
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