Deaths of Sailors Ruled Accidental in Adirondacks
Coroner ruled the deaths of sailors Johnnie M. Munnon and Robert Griffith accidental by drowning after their 14 foot boat sank while crossing an ice-covered Blue Mountain Lake during a hunting trip. The men, ages 28 and 26, were from Connecticut and Illinois respectively.
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Glens Falls
Blue Mountain Lake
John Sullivan
Johnnie M. Munnon
Ledyard
Conn
Robert Griffith
Harvey, Ill
Adirondacks
Sullivan
Trucker Dies After Good Turn at Farm Fire
Kane William Roy Shafer, 25, stopped to help fight a farmhouse blaze near Everett Carr. He flagged a damaged wire, received an electric shock, fell, and died minutes later. The accident occurred as Shafer pointed out a bare wire spot, suggesting the fire’s cause.
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Pratt, Kane
William Roy Shafer
Everett Carr
Shafer
Carr
Robin Hood Banker Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
William R. Rose, 51, former president of Home National Bank of Ellenville, pleaded guilty to misapplying more than a million dollars. Judge Weinfeld called him grandiose and reckless for overdrafts of 1.4 million dollars. Anjopa Manufacturing’s Joseph Di Candia received three years. Margaret Brush faced a suspended sentence. Over five years Anjopa overdrafts totaled one million dollars. the Anjopa Corporation fines totaled $14,006. Two sisters tied to Hotel Zeiger, Celia Hoffmen and Ann Schandler, got two-year suspended sentences on probation.
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NEW York 7
William R. Rose
Ellenville
Rose
Home National Bank of
Edward Weinfeld
Robin Hood
Weinfeld
Joseph di Candia
Anjopa Manufacturiing Co
Cragmoor
Margaret Brush
Anjopa
Anjopa Corporation
Deaths of War Hero Zervas and Two Media Veterans
Wi Napoleon Zervas 67 famed resistance leader and World War II general died yesterday in Athens Greece. Arthurs N Green 69 vaudeville songwriter and pianist known as the Man of a Million Melodies died Monday in Lake Hopatcong NY. Robert M Bowman 53 longtime Philadelphia Inquirer editor died Monday after 34 years in journalism.
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Athens
Greece
Napoleon Zervas
Zervas
Lake Hopatcong
Arthurs N. Green
Green
Philadelphia
Robert M. Bowman
Philadelphia Inquirer
Bowman
the Inquirer
Midwest
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E. W. Edwards & Son
Syracuse 2
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Cutler
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