South Koreans Top Little Nori Hill After Heavy Battle
South Korean infantry pushed to the crest of Little Nori Hill near the Ijin river in western Korea, repelling a Chinese company after fierce fighting aided by U.N. air and artillery. U.N. officers reported at least 303 Chinese dead, wounded, or captured, with sustained allied firepower and ongoing fortification work under shelling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George M'Arthur
Seoul
Nori Hill
Korea
U.N
Republic of Korea
Ijin
U. S
Howard A. Trammell
Breckenridge
Tex
U. N
Little Nori
Big Nori
Trammell
Eighth Army
Fifth Air Force
Yonchon
Greyhound Bus and Car Crash Kills Five in Virginia
A Greyhound bus and a northbound car collided near Saluda Virginia on U S Route 17 killing five sailors in the car and injuring five others. Four sailors died instantly, one died at a hospital, and a sixth was seriously injured. Four bus passengers were hurt but none seriously.
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Saluda
Pennsylvania
Middlesex County
Richmond
Churches Urge Honest Negotiation to Avert World War
The National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA urged the nation to seek honest negotiation for world disputes. The 3,000 word message adopted unanimously appeals for Christian answers on schools government and foreign policy while defending free thought and condemning character assassination.
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George Cornell
Denver
America
National Council of Churches of Christ In the
USA
Christian People of America
Marke
John MacKay
Princeton
N. J
MacKay
Princeton Theological Seminary
Council
General Assembly
William C. Martin
Dallas
Tex
Methodist Council of Bishops
Southern Baptists and
Lutherans
Missouri Synod
Roman Catholic Council of Bishops
United States
Jack Pierson
St. Louis
Woodrow Heads Somerset School Board Elections
At a recent Somerset School Board meeting I F Woodrow was elected president A J Kerin as vice president Carl Friedhoffer treasurer and Stanley Hoffman secretary for the board's new term.
Seek Way To Advise Lie On Subversives
A U S state department committee and American justice department officials work on ways to give confidential information on suspected subversives to United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie. The final decision rests with President Truman. Delegates at the U N push for clearer reporting on subversives and staff firings. No new firings are imminent. Lie is to meet with MacGranary and Senator Wiley to discuss authority and details.
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Francis W. Carpenter
United Nations
N. Y
U.S. State Department
American Justice Department
U. N
Trygve Lie
Truman
Financial Committee
Lie
U. S. Atty
MacGranary
Alexander Wiley
R-Wise
Wiley
U. S
General Assembly
United States
U.S
FBI
Justice and State Departments
Two Somerset Truck Drivers Hurt in Five-Car Crash
Five tractor trailers and two autos collided on the Pennsylvania Turnpike east of the Butler Valley interchange Friday night injuring three people. Calvin N. Cramer and Earl W. King, both local drivers, escaped injury though their trucks sustained heavy damage. An Ohio couple from North Olmstead, Ohio were among the injured. their names were not released.
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Pennsylvania Turnpike
Butler Valley
Calvin N. Cramer
Marks
Ton R. D. 1
Earl W. King
Rockwood R. D
North Olmstead
Ohio
Two Men Jailed on Identical Charges
Two men were committed to Somerset county jail by Squire J. Harrison on assault and battery and desertion and non support of a minor child. Robert Brown age eighteen of Somerset a radio operator and Leonard Brunetti age twenty six of Bedford a truck driver were the defendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset County
Squire Co. J. Harrison
Robert Brown
Somerset
Leonard Brunetti
Wainwright Testifies At Provoo Treason Trial In New York
Gen Jonathan M. Wainwright testifies in the Treason trial of sergeant John D. Provoo recalling Corregidor surrender in 1942. He says he never heard of disloyalty by Provoo and confirms he was compelled to broadcast for the Japanese.
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New York
Corregidor
Jonathan M
John D. Prevoo
Wainwright
Provoo
Court Bids CIO Strikers Go To Jobs
Buffalo fresh from an injunction orders CIO steelworkers to return to the American Logomotive plant at Dunkirk to resume atomic energy supply production. Judge John Knight set a temporary order and will hear arguments next Thursday on making it permanent during the Taft Hartley 80 day cooling off period. The CIO vows to test the act's injunction provisions as unconstitutional. The government argues the strike disrupts key atomic energy projects at Savannah River and Portsmouth. The union and company pledge cooperation though both intend to challenge the order legally.
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Buffalo
N. Y
CIO
Dunkirk
John Knight
Federal District Court
Savannah River
Paducah
Portsmouth
Truman
Youth Arrested For Throwing Firecrackers In Meyersdale
James Sacco an 18 year old from Sand Patch was arrested Thursday for throwing a firecracker at the Meyersdale borough police car. Burgess Harry A Finegan fined Sacco $25. Police chief James Brecht made the arrest from the Taxi Inn window early Tuesday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meyersdale
Burgess Harry A Finegan
James Sacco
James Brecht
Taxi Inn
Early Morning Fire Damages Bread Truck on Route 31
Somerset firefighters responded at 3 am Friday to a garage blaze across from Oakhurst Tea Room. A Blue Ribbon bread truck stored inside suffered $125 damage as the ignition system ignited while Jack Trent, the night manager, was servicing a thermostat. The fire melted the radiator wires and shattered the windshield.
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Somerset
Route 31
Oakhurst Tea Room
Jack Trent
Garbage collectors strike halts New Castle sanitation
About 40 garbage collectors walked off the job in New Castle today protesting a sanitation department ban on driving garbage trucks home at lunch. The protest disrupted pickups during the noon period.
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New Castle
Sanitation Department
Astronomer Missed Testimony in Sallade Murder Case
Alfred L. Sallade, 32, faces a murder trial for the shooting of Charles P. Van Pelt, 19, at a Coudersport airport. An astronomer from the U S naval observatory was flown in to testify about the moon’s position but did not reach the court before summations began. Sallade claimed he fired believing the youths were thieves. The judge planned to charge the jury after state and defense summations.
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Coudersport
Alfred L. Sallade
Harvard University
Potter County
Robert J. Flint
Sallade
Walter P. Wells
Tomorow
Charles P. van Pelt
Rosemont
Erwin Bergdoll
River Edge
U. S. Naval Observatory
Washington, D. C
Williamsport
Coudersports
G. M. Clemence
van Pelt
Negabors
Sallade Sallade
Velma Turner
D. Roger Grigson
Downingtown
Xmas Airlifts For Gis Win Official OK
The airlift moves 326 American airmen home for Christmas with official approval despite protests by non participating carriers. KLM initially delayed a flight but then followed IATA rules and proceeded with 52 airmen to New York. Israel Airlines and BOAC also planned additional charter flights through December and early January. The six round trips run at about $300 per airman versus $417 regular fare.
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Philip Clarke
London
Santa Claus
International Air Transport Asociation
IATA
KLM
New York
The
Hague
Israel Airlines
British Overseas Airways Corporation
BOAC
Don L. Dunlap
Douglas
Neb
U. S
Third Air Force
England
Five Somerset FFA Students Win State Medals
G Floyd Dye announced that five Somerset county FFA students earned medals in the State College Vocational Agricultural Project contest. George Newhoff of Jenner Boswell Jenners town High won gold for potatoes. Samuel Dimenzo of Meyersdale gold for vegetable gardening. Donald Glessner of Meyersdale silver for work record. Wilbur Hershberger of Conemaugh township gold for turkeys. John Mosteller of Somerset High bronze for sow and litter. Judges finished Thursday night after starting Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Floyd Dye
Somerset
Fayette Counties
Somerset County
FFA
George Newhoff
Jenner-Boswell-Jennerstown High
Samuel Dimenzo
Meyersdale
Donald Glessner
Wilbur Hershberger
Conemaugh Township
John Mosteller
Somerset High
Dye
State College
Eisenhower for Dignity's Sake To Ignore Blast
Arab mourners in Casablanca under French machine guns, as Moroccan police report rioting deaths amid a wider North Africa unrest. In Honolulu, Eisenhower rejects Truman's critique of his Korea trip, resolves to seek a solution but insists on prisoner returns before any truce.
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Casablanca
Morocco
Foreign Legionnaires
North African
Abdelatif Ben Kaddour Killoli
Louis Ribers
Ribers
Mvy
Forhat Hached
Tunisia
Pon Whitehead
Honolulu
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Truman
Korea
Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
United States
Icy Turnpike Crash In Somerset County Injures Driver
A single vehicle crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near the Somerset interchange left Salvadore Ralph Trippi, a Cherry Point marine from New York, with $1700 in damages. The car overturned on icy roads three and a half miles east of the interchange. Trippi and two passengers were assessed, with one man released after observation. Police cited excessive speed for the conditions.
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Somerset County
John Anaskievich
Somerset Turnpike
Salvadore Ralph Trippi
Cherry Point
N. Y
Somerset
Somerset Community Hospital
Keller Denounces Prague Paper Misquotation
Helen Keller, counselor of the American Foundation for the Blind, denounces a Prague newspaper for misquoting her as endorsing a Communist world council for peace. Her denunciation was read on Voice of America by the foundation's executive director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Helen Keller
Miss Keller
American Foundation For the Blind
Rude Pravo
Prague
World Council For Peace
Vienna
Voice of America
M. Robert Barnett
Foundation
Regional Weather Outlook for Pennsylvania
Eastern Pennsylvania shows partly cloudy skies a windy chill and light snow flurries in the west and north on Saturday with possible snow Sunday. Western Pennsylvania stays cloudy and windy with colder temperatures and snow flurries Saturday and likely Sunday.
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Pennsylvania
Somerset Weather Report Summary by David Grove Observer
Temperature from 5:30 p m Thursday to 5:30 p m Friday shows a high of 34 and a low of 16 inches of snow recorded. The report notes incomplete lines and garbled text in the original transmission.
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Somerset Meather
David Grove
U. 8S
Weather Observer
Cess Cansesteres
Pnaehrntane
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