Urge Probing Of Red Atrocities In Korean War
A House inquiry accuses Russia of Katyn murders and urges Congress to press for an International Court of Justice case. It links Katyn to alleged Korean War atrocities and calls for an international commission to probe Communist mass murders.
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House Committee
Russia
Katyn Forest
Congress
Washington
Oec
House
New
Third Congress
United States
United Nations
International Court of Justice
Katyn
Korea
Ray J. Madden
D-Ind
Defense Department
Clayton Bissell
U. S. Army
Army
Bissell
Signal Mountain
Tenn
Rep. Flood
D-Pa
Flood
Ukraine
Bessarabia
Carpathian Russia
Markel and Friedline Named to County Assistance Boards
Gov John Fine appointed Martin Markel of Somerset and Nat Friedline of Meyersdale to the Somerset county board of assistance. He also named Mrs. Clarice Wilcox of Wellsboro to Tioga county board of assistance and John A. Carr of Radnor township to the Delaware county housing authority.
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Harrisburg
John 8
Fine
Martin Markel
Somerset
Nat Friedline
Meyersdale
Somerset County Board of Assistance
Clarice M. Wilcox
Wellsboro
Tioga County Board of Assistance
John A. Carr
Radnor Township
Delaware County Housing Authority
Pinay Resigns as French Premier Ahead of Confidence Vote
Paris December 23 Premier An toine Pinay announced his coalition government’s resignation on the Assembly floor just minutes before three confidence motions. President Vincent Aurisi’s reaction remained uncertain as observers weighed the MRP abstention that would have doomed the government.
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Paris
Antoine Pinay
National Assembly
Assembly
Vincent Aurisi
Pinay
Catholic Popular Republican Movement
MRP
Nine Bradford Police Resign Over $50 Raise Standstill
Bradford nine of a 21 man force resigned today to protest the city council’s refusal to grant a fifty dollar monthly raise. Mayor Hinaman and the council said the city cannot afford the increase and accepted the resignations effective January 3.
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Bradford
Joseph L
Hinaman
UN admits flight over Panmunjom dispute site
The UN Command confirmed an allied aircraft accidentally flew over Panmunjom Dec 17 and expressed regret. A new Communist protest followed alleging a UN shell exploded in the neutral zone at 12 10 a.m. Dec 20.
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Torio
United Nations Command
Panmunjom
U. N
Charles W. McCarthy
Red
Jury Rules Auto Death Accidental In Pennsylvania Crash
A Somerset County coroner jury ruled Annie Mae Wainright 25 died in an unavoidable icy highway accident after a rear end collision on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Allegheny tunnel. Theron C. Wainright 24 survived head injuries. both Greeneville residents were in a car that struck Arnold B. Richter’s vehicle from Chicago.
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Theron C. Wainright
Somerset Community Hospital
Annie Mae Wainright
Allegheny Tunnel
Arnold B. Richter
Chicago
Richter
Somerset County
Wainright
Andrew Petylak
Bedford Turnpike Division
C. T. Saylor
Blanche Floyd
Melba Beech
Somerset
George J. Hay
Albert Snyder
Harry C. Walker
Hilda Phillippi
Rockwood
Water tastes odd in Somerset borough
Borough Secretary Richard Pile said the strange taste and odor in Somerset water comes from hydrogen sulphide from Coxes Creek wells. He noted the taste is unpleasant but not harmful, worsened by drought lowering well levels. Flushing helps in parts, aeration is needed but unavailable, rain and snow may restore water quality.
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Richard Pile
Somerset Borough
Pile
Coxes Creek
UN Delegates Recess After Long Night Over Korea Charges
United Nations delegates recessed the seventh General Assembly session after rejecting Russia s charge that U S authorities mass murdered Communist prisoners on Pongam Island. Only the Russian bloc supported the demand for censure while ten Asian Arab nations abstained. Lester Pearson presided as the assembly adjourned until late February to decide next steps in Korea.
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A. J. Holdberg
United Nations
N. Y
U. N
General Assembly
Korea
Lester B. Pearson
Canada
U. N. Assembly
Sia
U. S
Pongam Island
India
Russia
Andrei A. Gromyko
Hydrogen Plant Explosion Kills 16 in Nagoya Japan
A large hydrogen explosion at the Tea Synthetic Chemical Company plant in Nagoya wrecked the facility. Police report 16 workers dead, 5 missing, and 370 injured with 70 seriously hurt. US air force volunteers aided search as gas fumes forced rescues in gas masks. Investigators blame a spark in a hydrogen tank during ammonium sulphate production. Estimated damage about $14 million.
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Nagoya
Japan
Tea Synthetic Chemical Company
U. S. Air Force
County Schools Begin Christmas Vacation Today
Somerset county schools start Christmas vacation today with 1 p.m. assembly led by Philip Holsinger at Somerset joint high school and a noon lunch for home room students. The district includes 20 schools with about 2,800 pupils and returns January 5.
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Somerset County
Somerset Joint High School
Philip Holsinger
Patriot Street
Union Street Grade School
Mother Goose Nursery
Norman Knepper
Plane crash probes move on amid mounting dead and survivors
A two man investigating board spent most of the day at the wrecked scene of the Christmas special C124 crash which killed 86. Fifty plus identifications have been released as survivors remain in critical condition in scattered military hospitals.
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Moses Lake
Wash
Congress
North Pacific Rim
Washington State
Alaska
Korea
Larson Air Force Base
Pentagon
H. W. Bowman
Larson
Wendell L. Burton
Eisenhower Presses Spirit First In Defining Strength
President elect Eisenhower told the Freemoms Foundation that America must be strong first in spiritual convictions to win the ideological struggle with Russia. He urged home selling of the idea and noted a commission to study minority treatment in hotels jobs and restaurants. He recalled friendship with Zhukov and discussed international trade with business leaders and segregation with negro clergy.
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Arthur Everett
New York
Eisenhower
America
The
Freedoms Foundation
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Georgi K. Zhukov
Zhukov
Russia
Marshal Zhukov
Central Committee
Communist Party
National Fraternal Council of Churches
Washington, D. C
W. H. Jernagin
Jernagin
Commodore Hotel
George A. Sloan
U. S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce
Warren Lee Pierson
Trans-World Airlines
Sloan
First $100,000 Is Raised For Hospital Fund
The memorial tributes division of the Somerset Community Hospital campaign reached the $100,000 mark with $100,700 noted after a noon report. Ralph A. Poorbaugh chairs the division aiding a $400,000 goal to expand and renovate the hospital. Admiral C. D. Reynolds calls the progress heartening as corporate gifts are expected and donors seek tax advantages through year end pledges. The drive totals are from gifts and pledges toward the hospital’s renovation plan.
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Somerset Community Hospital
St. Paul's Presbyterian Church
Ralph A. Poorbaught
E. L. Anderson
A. D. Graham
Poorbaugh
Central City Hardware Store Burglarized. $2400 in Stock Stolen
State police report the W. M. Wech tenhiser and Sons Hardware Store in Central City was burglarized in the early hours of Monday. Rifles shotguns knives and tools valued at $2400 were taken. Investigation continues by state police and Central City Chief Joe Meyers.
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Central City
Somerset
W. M. Wechtenhiser & Sons
Joe Meyers
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Brooklyn
State Crime Commission
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Samuel S. Liebowitz
Brooklyn Rackets Grand Jury
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