Suspect Held In Clinton On Check Forgery Charge
Vermillion Circuit Court charges filed against Austin Leon Speas a 75 year old check artist held on 5000 bond. He admitted cashing a 19 75 bogus check at Helms Rexall Store and had a 18 75 in cash a pipe a pad of checks and pencils when arrested. Speas is wanted in multiple states and federal authorities hold a fugitive warrant. He has a lengthy forgery record with about 34 known cases.
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Clinton
Ind
Vermillion
Austin Leon Speas
Worthington
Speas
Walter Burnside
Pete Avennatti
Helms Rexall
Austin
Rockville National Bank
Miller’s Standard Service
A. R. Miller
Rockville
John Benetti
Indiana
Illinois
Kentucky
Iowa
Michigan
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Terre Haute
Everett Helms
Homer Mitchell
Mitchell
Helms
Saboteurs blamed after deadly Cuban train wreck
In Taguasco Cuba officials blamed anti government saboteurs for a wreck that killed 19 and injured 21. They said a switch was thrown to divert a Havana bound express into a passenger train bound for Santiago while fearing a daily pattern of sabotage. This was the deadliest incident so far.
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Taguasco
Cuba
Havana
Santiagos
Man Hits Auto in Toledo Collision Arrest Made
Police report Herbert Watson 23 collided with a car at a red light while chasing a bus, smashing the windshield and causing an arrest in Toledo Ohio on December 17.
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Toledo
Ohio
Herbert Watson
Watson
Parish Center Dedication Highlights Community Support
The parish marks the completion of a Tudor Gothic church addition at Seventh and Eagle streets with a dedicatory service led by Rev. Mabley and confirmation of the fall class by Rt. Bishop Charles Clingman. Out-of-town visitors include Dr. W A Jamieson and several Indianapolis and Muncie guests.
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W. A. Jamieson
Richard A. Kirchhoffer
Mabley
Women’s Auxiliary Council
Seventh
Eagle Streets
Miller
Arthur Lawson
Indianapolis
Camilla Hiatt
Kirchhoffer
al Thompson Jr
Muncie
Terre Haute
Chester Hackett
Esther Rowe Smith
Edward Mabley
Anne
Thomas Mabley Jr
Council to Ponder Fate of Federal Housing Project
City officials say six ordinances will be debated in regular session Tuesday night at 8. Three measures await final reading and three are introduced anew, including a plan for temporary park board control of Fairbanks Voorhees and Hyte Center veterans housing and their dismantling. Also on the agenda are transfers of 137720 to the parking meter account and 145000 to the general fund plus three old departmental appropriations. The article notes Evzones kilts may exceed 40 yards of cloth.
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Joseph Pino
Joan Brentlinger
City Board of Park Commissioners
Fairbanks, Voorhees and
Hyte Center
Robert X. Kelly
Soviet Leaders Visit Poland to Discuss Troop Status
Shepilov and Zhukov arrived in Poland to discuss legal status of Soviet troops, with Polish officials including Foreign Minister Rapacki and Defense Minister Spychalski present. Tass reported the talks aim to settle troop presence after Gomulka’s rise, amid wider Moscow Warsaw diplomacy and Rokossovsky’s political shifts.
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Red Army
East Germany
Shepilov
Zhukov
Adam Rapacki
Marian Spychalski
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Tass
Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Warsaw
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Polish
Communist Party
Gomulka
Khrushchev
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Rokossovsky
Nikolai Bulganin
County Purchases Road Equipment
Vigo County Commissioners awarded a crawler tractor bid for the Highway Department to Indiana Equipment Co of Indianapolis for 12,200 including trade in of old equipment. Bids from McCallister Machinery Co 12,500 and Flesch Miller Tractor Co 13,692 were higher.
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Vigo County
Indiana Equipment Co
Indianapolis
McCallister Machinery Co
Flesch-Miller Tractor Co
Suspect Shot During Indianapolis Police Chase
Denver Brock a 16 year old Indianapolis youth was critically wounded by a police bullet after a high speed chase. Patrolman John A Bush said he fired after warning Brock as the suspect tried to flee into a dark alley. Lester Rich 18 was arrested on vehicle taking charges.
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Indianapolis
Denver Brock
John A. Bush
Brock
Lester Rich
Jilted student kills coed then takes own life near Mount Mary
In Milwaukee a jilted graduate student Eugene Levitt 24 of New York shot his University of Wisconsin girlfriend Barbara Skalitsky 21 a Waterlooo senior in the hall of her rooming house near Mount Mary College then killed himself in the temple. The landlady Miss Ann Jurishka said Levitt urged her to stay out of it as he fired two shots at the woman.
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Milwaukee
Mount Mary College
Barbara Skalitsky
Waterloo
Wis
Eugene Levitt
New York
University of Wisconsin
Jewelers in Burbank report $300000 hold up
New York jewelry firm owner David Gurfein, 49, was abducted at Burbank Airport by two gunmen who forced him to drive to a remote area while one searched his briefcase for two envelopes with $300,000 in cut diamonds and emeralds. Gurfein called police from a filling station after the abduction.
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Burbank
Calif
New York
David Gurfein
Los Angeles
Rye Gurfein
Wabash Valley AI Bakes Two Semester Course Offerings
The Wabash Valley Chapter American Institute of Banking outlines its first and second semester plans with courses in commercial law economics and negotiable instruments. Instructors include Roy O. Hunter Bruce Wright Sherman F. Dallas and Fred D. ORear with a dinner January 9 where president King A Fasig and officers will be introduced.
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Wabash Valley
American Institute of Banking
Roy O. Hunter
Indiana State Teachers College
Bruce Wright
Brazil Trust Company
Sherman F. Dallas
Fred D. O’rear
Merchants National Bank
Wabash
Terre Haute House
King A. Fasig
Twelve Killed In Phoenix Train Crossing Crash
A train struck at an unguarded crossing in Phoenix killed twelve people, including a small child found under wreckage. Police reported 11 dead at the scene and indicated many victims were likely farm workers of Mexican descent. The crossing had only a standard sign, no signals, and the incident occurred at 2:10 am. Thousands gathered as officers and deputies managed the crowd while bodies were removed before the train continued to Phoenix station.
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Phoenix
California
E.S.T
Phoenix Station
Brewers Convert Percherons To Beer Haulers In London
London reports rationing forcing brewers to repurpose their Percheron teams from show stables to haul beer today.
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London
Revolt in Hungary Nears End Amid Workers Holdouts
Reported near end of revolt as workers return to pits but at Szeppel Island iron and steel works a sit down strike is threatened over factory control. Central Workers Council refuses to disband as Kadar denounces it as a counter revolutionary instrument. At Belogjannis electric factory workers protest arrests of Sandor Bacz and Sandor Bari with police guarding the plant.
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Kadar
Budapest
Ssepel Island Iron and Steel Works
Central Workers Council
Belogjannis Electric
Sandor Bacz
Sandor Bari
Soviet protest over U S B57 bomber intrusion
The United States studied a Soviet protest alleging three U S Air Force B57 reconnaissance jets violated Soviet air space near Vladivostok on Dec 11. The Soviet note warned of consequences for future intrusions, while FEAF denied any knowledge of such flight.
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Washington
United States
Vladivostok
S. Striganov
State Department
Tokyo
Far East Air Forces
FEAF
Ussr
U.S.A
Japanese Sea
U. S
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