Steel strike break comes at Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh area and other steel centers report partial settlements as about 48,000 of 650,000 striking workers have signed interim agreements since June 2. Companies including Detroit Steel and Kaiser sign, with unions and shop terms debated. Pittsburgh Steel plans full production as wage talks continue. Ford also plans mass shutdowns idling 27,200 workers, affecting auto production nationwide.
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Murray
Detroit Steel Corp
Kaiser Steel Company
Pittsburgh
WSB
Pittsburgh Steel
Monessen
Allenport
Worcester
Mass
Akron
Ohio
Us, Steel
Bethlehem
Republic
Jones & Laughlin
Inland Steel
National Steel
Allied Industries
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Dearborn Rouge
Yalu Plants Hit Hard by Aerial Campaign
A week of heavy action near the Yalu River saw a U S Sabre jet lost in an air clash and five Allied planes shot down by enemy fire, highlighting intensified combat in the region.
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Korea
Red China blasts UN raids on Manchuria power plants
Tokyo dispatch reports Peiping’s official newspaper Pei ping People’s Daily denouncing UN strikes on Yalu River power stations as an atrocity and vowing severe punishment for American attackers. Editorial broadcast via Peiping radio links the raids to a monstrous crime. U.N. air operations last week damaged over 90 percent of North Korea’s electric works, with continued strikes Tuesday and Thursday.
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Tokyo
China
Yalu River
Peiping People’s Daily
U.N
Manchuria
Red China
United Nations
Peiping Radio
North Korea
Ta Kung Pao
Hong Kong
Peiping
Suiho
Korea
Korea. Five Hundred Air Force
Navy
Marine
Police Free 80 Korean Assembly Members from Mob
In Pusan on June 28 police saved 80 Korean assemblymen held for hours by a mob outside the meeting hall. The crowd of about 600 demanded the assembly bow to President Syngman Rhee or dissolve. Officers formed double ranks, allowed exit, while a woman member was among those liberated. One protester was restrained by force and others shouted as foreign observers watched.
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Pusan
Korea
Syngman Rhee
Lee Bum Suk
Rhee
Hoosier Awarded Medal for Heroism
Roy V. Rankin of Evansville Indiana was awarded the Soldier's Medal for saving a burning ammunition truck by driving it a half mile to a stream. Ignoring the cargo of highly explosive white phosphorus shells he jumped into the cab and steered the truck into a stream preventing a possible explosion and saving the vehicle and cargo.
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Seoul
Korea
Pfe
Roy V. Rankin
East Walnut Street
Evansville
Rankin
First Corps
President's Transport Payment Questioned Over Auto Use
The President faced scrutiny over expenses tied to transportation before an automobile, with questions about who bore costs and how long prior arrangements lasted. Officials declined detailed disclosure, citing security and policy constraints.
Fines and Terms Meted Out For Intoxication
City Court Judge Edward S. Everett Saturday handed two day jail terms to John Berger and Ronald Webster both 32 and alleged intoxicated at the bus station. Belleville police reported multiple local fines and pleas, including Dexter King 44 and 34 receiving a $10 fine and a suspended $10 plus costs.
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Edward S. Everett
John Berger
Greenup
Ill
Ronald Webster
Dexter King
North Fourth Street
Herbert McClure
North Twelfth Street
William Guess
Poplar Street
Blanche E. Houriet
Albert White
R.R
White
William Holbert
Rockville
Alvey Rodgers
R.A
West Terre Haute
Lloyd Miller
Lafayette Avenue
Andrew Austin
South Fourth
Victor Larsen
Heat Wave Stretches Across East With Toll Surging
The long heat wave continues to grip the eastern half of the United States with the death toll topping 100 in three days. New Jersey reports 53 deaths from the heat and humidity as temperatures reach 100 degrees or more in many states. The blistering pattern spreads from the Gulf States to the Ohio Valley with 90s to 107 degree readings and little rain, threatening crops and delaying relief.
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Associated Press
New Jersey
Chicago
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Pennsylvania
Gulf States
Central Plains
Mississippi
Ohio
South Atlantic States
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic Coast
Alabama
Heiress Consuela Cuneo Elopes With Leslie L Cooke Jr
Chicago reporters reveal that Consuela Cuneo a 19 year old debutante daughter of Cuneo Press president and National Tea Company leader eloped on June 24 with Leslie L Cooke Jr. The couple announced their marriage while Consuela, who suffered a serious Cadillac crash a year earlier, had disappeared last Tuesday.
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Chicago
Consuela Cuneo
Leslie L. Cooke
Cuneo
Cuneo Press
National Tea Company
Officials hunt shooter of sheriff in Austin Indiana
Authorities search for 57 year old George Noble, accused gunman in the shooting of Scott County Sheriff Ralph H. Morris. Morris was wounded three times as he approached Noble home to investigate a family argument. Doctors in Louisville report the sheriff in serious condition.
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Austin
Ind
George Noble
Scott County
Ralph H. Morris
Noble
Morris
Indiana
Louisville
Doctor Koehler Dies After Auto Crash
Dr. Paul O. Koehler, 61, a chiropractor and former president of the Kentucky Association of Chiropractors, died after his car ran off Bardstown road in Louisville. He was a native of the state and his death followed the Friday incident.
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Louisville
Paul O. Koehler
The
Kentucky Association of Chiropodists
Bardstown Road
Koehler
Western nations draft note to Russia on German future
Western ministers outline initial limits for talks with Moscow. First, agree on a commission to study free elections across Germany. Then decide on the status of a future all German government before a final peace treaty. Western insistence on international supervision clashes with Soviet demand for four-power veto. Russians seek to bar any German military alliance such as a West European Army. The note signals a compromise to resume talks between the Big Three after earlier discord.
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Germany
Moscow
Russia
West Germany
Notes Exchanged as Negotiators Trade Requisitions
MUNSAN Korea June 28 United Nations and Communist truce negotiators exchanged notes via liaison officers. The Reds accused the U.N. of delaying the war while the U.N. pressed the Communists to verify locations of four North Korean prisoner camps. Harrison urged timely replies to avoid endangering captured U.N. soldiers.
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Munsan
Korea
United Nations
U.N
William K. Harrison
Nam II
Harrison
North Korea
Woman's Life Saved By Wrong Number In Maryland
In Beltsville Maryland on June 28 Mrs Nan Gingell’s phone call saved her life. Seconds earlier she stood beside Miss Catherine Beall 56 outside Gingell’s gasoline station on the Baltimore Washington boulevard. Mrs Gingell went inside to answer the phone. A tire burst truck struck Miss Beall and fatally injured her. The call was a wrong number.
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Beltsville
Nan Gingell
Catherine Beall
Death notice for Mrs Mary Anna Lapsanszky in Gary Indiana
Mrs Mary Anna Lapsanszky 57 of 1553 Grand Avenue died at 6 30 am Saturday at St Anthony's Hospital. Survived by sister Mrs Cecelia McGaffney Gary Ind four brothers Andrew Danville Ill Paul P and Peter P both of Gary Ind William Kutch Clinton Ind. Active in Eagles Lodge auxiliary Good Cheer Club Indiana Association of Blind Krietenstein Legion Post auxiliary Verhovay Lodge and Sacred Heart Church. Body to P J Ryan Sons Funeral Home with funeral 8 20 am Monday at Sacred Heart Church Requiem Mass 9 am Monday Rosary 7 30 pm Sunday at Ryan Funeral Home Burial Calvary Cemetery.
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Mary Anna Lapsanszky
Grand Avenue
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Cecelia McGaffney
Gary
Ind
Andrew
Danville
Ill
Paul P
Peter P Kutch
William Kutch
Clinton
Eagles Lodge
the Good Cheer Club
Indiana Association of Blind, Inc
Krietenstein Legion Post Auxiliary
Verhovay Lodge
Funeral rites for Fred W. Collins at Montrose church
Funeral services are set for 10 o clock Monday at Montrose Methodist church for Fred W. Collins 77 of 1412 South Eighteenth Street with Rev C H Loveland officiating Burial will be in Mt Pleasant cemetery Graveside rites will be conducted by Social Lodge 86 F and A M The body will be moved from J N Hickman Son Funeral Home to the church at 9 o clock Monday Collins served over 40 years as a local post office employee.
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Fred W. Collins
South Eighteenth Street
Montrose Methodist Church
C. H. Loveland
Mt. Pleasant
Social Lodge
Death of Miss Carrie Blei at 86 in Callahan Funeral Home services
Miss Carrie Blei age 86 of 45 South Fourteenth Street died at 11 15 Friday morning at Hice Nursing Home She is survived by cousin Mrs Anna Volpp of Danbury Conn She was a member of Im manuel Lutheran Church The body was taken to Callahan Funeral Home services set for 2 o clock Monday afternoon Rev F C Jordan officiating Burial in Highland Lawn Cemetery
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Carrie Blei
South Fourteenth Street
Hice
Anna Volpp
Danbury
Conn
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Callahan Funeral Home
F. C. Jordan
Highland Lawn Cemetery
Funeral Services for Rev Frank C Fraley 94
Funeral services for Rev Frank C Fraley aged 94, longtime Maple Avenue Methodist pastor, were held at 2 pm at Gobin Memorial Methodist in Greencastle. Burial followed at Forest Hill Cemetery. He served as local pastor from 1905 to 1909. He died Thursday evening at his Greencastle home.
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Frank C. Fraley
Maple Avenue Methodist Church
Gobin Memorial Methodist Church
Greencastle
Forest Hill
Fraley
Heat exhaustion blamed for death of Fred H. Boyd
Fred H. Boyd 55, part owner of Manhattan Crushed Stone Co., died at his Reelsville home after returning from daily duties. Survived by widow Mary Eletitia Boyd, daughter Kathryn, sister Roscoe Mercer, five brothers Ralph Roy Phillip Steve Boyd. Funeral Sunday at Miller & Sons Funeral Home with burial in Cloverdale cemetery. Rev Dallas Rissler to officiate.
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Brazil
Ind
Fred H. Boyd
Manhattan Crushed Stone Company
Reelsville
Knightsville
Masonic Lodge
Mary Eletitia Boyd
Kathryn Boyd
Roscoe Mercer
van Buren Township
Ralph
Roy Boyd
van Buren
Phillip Boyd
Harmony
Steve Boyd
Brand Orville Boyd
Indianapolis
Miller & Sons
Dallas Rissler
First Baptist Church
Greencastle
Cloverdale Cemetery
Death of David Yeager 58 in Cheyenne funeral Sunday
Jasonville Indiana reports David Yeager 58 formerly of Middleton died Tuesday in Cheyenne Wyoming. Funeral services set for Sunday at Prairie Creek Methodist Church at 2 PM CST. Surviving widow Dorothy five daughters Sheila Ann Yeager Mrs Revard Mrs Irene Hardwick Mina Yeager Dorothy Stites a son Nicholas Yeager Otto Yeager and sister Olive Wilson.
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Jasonville
Ind
David Yeager
Middleton
Cheyenne
Wyo
McClanahan Funeral Home
C.S.T
Prairie Creek Methodist Church
Fred Sexton
Lincoln Street
Dorothy
Sheila Ann Yeager
Revard
Irene Hardwick
Nebraska City
Neb
Mina Yeager
Seaside
Ore
Dorothy Stites
Florida
Nicholas Yeager
Lincoln
Otto Yeager
Olive Wilson
Logansport
James E. Van Meter Dies at 60 in Carlisle
Carlisle Indiana June 28 James Elmer Van Meter 60 of Carlisle died Friday at Good Samaritan Hospital Vincennes He was a Methodist and Modern Woodmen member Surviving widow Lelia three sons Chester George R Van Meter Carlisle Leo E Van Meter Shelburn three brothers Isaac Pearl and John Van Meter of Carlisle Funeral holdings Schulze Funeral Home will return to residence
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Carlisle
Ind
James Elmer van Meter
Good Samaritan
Vincennes
Methodist Church
Modern Woodmen
Lelia
Chester
George R. van Meter
Leo E. van Meter
Shelburn
Isaac
Pearl
John van Meter
Schulze Funeral Home
Sunday Service and Burial Arrangements Announced
Saturday evening services will be held at 2 o'clock Central Standard Time on Sunday afternoon at the residence with the Rev. F. F. Stoelting officiating. Burial is planned for the IL O. O. F. Cemetery.
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Rev. F. F. Stoelting
IL O. O. F
Mrs Jennie Marshall dies at 84 in Rockville Indiana
Mrs Jennie Marshall age 84 of Rockville R R 4 died Friday at Union Hospital Terre Haute. She leaves a son Elva Montezuma two daughters Mrs George Broderick Rockville and Mrs Joe Mc Dowell R R 4 Rockville 11 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. She was a member of New Bethel church. Funeral services are set for 2 PM Monday at New Bethel church with burial in Memory Gardens Cemetery.
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Rockville
Ind
Jennie Marshall
R. R
Union Hospital
Terre Haute
Elva
Montezuma
George Broderick
Joe McDowell
New Bethel Church
Branson Funeral Home
Memory Gardens
Kuykendall, Clarence Leonard 70, Dies in Terre Haute
Clarence Leonard Kuykendall 70 died Friday afternoon. Survived by brother Charles E Kuykendall of West Terre Haute and several nieces and nephews. Body to Marrs Funeral Home. Services Sunday at 2 PM CST at Dennison Methodist Church. Burial Ferris Cemetery.
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Marshall
Clarence Leonard Kuykendall
Charles E. Kuykendall
West Terre Haute
Marrs
Dennison Methodist Church
James Kelley
Ferris Cemetery
Visitation Set After Death of G R Westcott at 72
Hutsonville Illinois June 28 G R Westcott aged 72 died Friday at Schmidt Clinic Robinson. Survived by widow Estella Musgrave Westcott a daughter Rosalia Westcott of Wyandotte Michigan a son Stokley Westcott of St. Louis and three grandchildren. Body to Prust Funeral Chapel West Union with friends welcome after 3 pm Saturday.
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Hutsonville
Ill
G. R. Westcott
Schmidt
Robinson
Estella Musgrave Westcott
Rosalia Westcott
Wyandotte, Mich
Stokley Westcott
St. Louis
Prust
West Union
Death of Elwood Baker in Paris Illinois
Elwood Baker aged 52 died Friday at 817 Broom street Paris. He was born in Edgar county and is survived by widow Dorothy mother Mrs Martha Baker son William and brothers James and Floyd Baker all of Paris. Services set for 2 PM Monday at Honnold Batchelor Memorial Chapel with burial in Edgar cemetery.
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Paris
Elwood Baker
Broom Street
Edgar County
Dorothy
Martha Baker
William
James
Floyd Baker
Honnold-Batchelor
Edgar Cemetery
Clinton man and singer John Thomson dies in Gary
Clinton native John Thomson, 64, former professional singer and member of the Masonic lodge in Scotland, died Friday at his nephew John Frame’s home in Gary. Survived by one brother in Scotland and several nieces and nephews. Body taken to William and Burns Funeral Home in Gary.
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Clinton
Ind
Walter Burnsides
John Thomson
John Frame
Gary
Thomson
Masonic Ge
Scotland
William and Burns
Paris farmer Charles Harris dies at 77
Charles Harris 77 a retired Edgar County farmer died of a heart attack Friday at his Paris home 405 East Wood street Surviving Lois T widow son Henry T Harris Paris and three sisters C P Thomas Mrs Amelia Johnson Paris and Mrs Hazel Miller Charlotte NC He was a charter member of the Paris Elks Lodge Funeral services set for 10 30 Monday Central Standard Time at Blume Funeral Home Burial Edgar cemetery
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Paris
Ill
Charles Harris
Edgar County
East Wood Street
Lois T
Henry T. Harris
R. R. G. Paris
C. P. Thomas
Amelia Johnson
Hazel Miller
Charlotte
N. C
Paris Elks Lodge
Blume Funeral Home
Edgar Cemetery
Former Brazil Resident dies in Eldorado Illinois
Adam Metz aged 73 a former Brazil resident died at a hospital in Eldorado Illinois Funeral services are set for 2 P M Sunday at Bean and Tanner Funeral Home in Eldorado He is survived by his widow Florence two sons one daughter several grandchildren and two sisters Mrs Thomas Conner of Brazil and Mrs Bert Funkhouser of Shenandoar Iowa
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Brazil
Ind
Adam Metz
Eldorado
Ill
Bean and Tanner Funeral Home
Florence
Thomas Conner
Bert Funkhouser
Shenandoar
Iowa
Funeral services for Sgt Colonel W Gann held in Farmersburg
Farmersburg Ind June 28 Special funeral services for Sgt Colonel W Gann 20 formerly of Paris Ill will be at the Farmersburg Methodist Church Monday at 2 pm. Burial will be in West Lawn cemetery. He died Thursday at Fort Hood Texas from injuries in an automobile crash. The body arrived in Terre Haute Saturday and was taken to Fidler Funeral Home.
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Farmersburg
Ind
W. Gann
Paris
Farmersburg Methodist Church
West Lawn Cemetery
Gann
Fort Hood
Texas
Terre Haute
Fidler Funeral Home Re
Ingrid Bergman Plans U S Visit Amid Custody Dispute
Actress Ingrid Bergman will visit her daughter Pia, 13, in the United States for six weeks in late July or early August, per attorney Greg Bautzer. It remains unclear if Roberto Rosellini and their other three children will join. Bergman earlier sought Rome court permission for Pia's visit.
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Los Angeles
Ingrid Bergman
United States
Pia
Miss Bergman
Gregson Bautzer
Rome
Bautzer
Roberto Rossellini
Peter Lindstrom
Billy Rose Wins Point In Divorce
New York June 28 Showman Billy Rose gains a joint trial of his divorce suit from Eleanor Holm and her separation suit. State Supreme Court Justice Aron Steuer sets the trial for Sept 10 and allows an amended complaint listing additional alleged adultries by Holm. Holm denies the accusations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Billy Rose
Eleanor Holm
State Supreme Court
Aron Steuer
New York State
Rose
Uruguay Wins Independence in the 1820s and 1830s
Uruguay declared independence from Spain in the early 1820s and consolidated it through the 1830s, marking the birth of a sovereign nation and the emergence of its political institutions. The era established Uruguay as a distinct republic with lasting territorial and diplomatic developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uruguay
Spain
Taft gets set for real war as delegates seek seat
Texas backers bring a filing cabinet of documents to Chicago to prove Taft deserves seating at the convention. Henry Zweifel says hearing Tuesday will address the 38 vote Texas delegation and other contests. National Committee plans testimony as Taft campaigns in Washington then heads to the city. Delegates shuffle in both parties with updated AP tallies showing Taft leading Eisenhower in GOP votes and Kefauver plus partners ahead in the Democratic race.
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Taft
Eisenhower
G.O.P
Chicago
Gen
Texas
Henry Zwiefel
Frank Blankanbeckler
Austin
W. F. Tucker
Zwiefel
Dan Davis
Dallas
Neil Beaton
San Antonio
International Soundphoto
Henry Zweifel
Fort Worth
Tex
National Committee
Washington, D. C
Convention City
Illinois
Puerto Rico
Indiana
New Mexico
Mississippi
Associated Press
Kefauver
Russell
Harriman
New Immigration Law Approved By Congress
Washington June 28 Congress approved a new immigration law over President Truman's veto. It overhauls immigration and naturalization and becomes effective in six months. The measure preserves national origins quotas and modestly raises yearly entry limits, reflecting a major policy shift and a rare veto override.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Truman
U.S
Sen. McCarren
D.-Nev
Rep
Walter
D.-Pa
Stewart Granger Tops News From Hollywood
Hollywood gossip surveys Stewart Granger as a prime example of missteps in public dealings. His remarks on the Jean Simmons RKO suit prompt Treasury inquiry and MGM worries over Granger’s box office potential. Lucille Ball and Elizabeth Taylor announce January babies while Desi Arnaz and Ball plan 39 filmed shows next season. Marilyn Monroe will headline Gentlemen Prefer Blondes after earlier doubts. Two films without dialogue cue a trend toward film-only releases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Stewart Granger
RKO
U.S. Treasury Department
Granger
MGM
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr
Lucille Ball
Elizabeth Taylor
Lucille
Desi Arnaz
iThis
Marilyn Monroe
20Th Fox
Miss Monroe
Gents
Ray Milland
Navy to lay keel of Forrestal supercarrier July 14
The navy announced the keel for the 59,900 ton carrier Forrestal will be laid July 14 at Newport News in Virginia with Defense Secretary Robert Lovett presiding. At 1,040 feet, it will be the longest warship and is designed for heavier jet aircraft to expand naval air power? launching expected by March 1954.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Forrestal
Defense
Robert Lovett
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Virginia
OBITUARY Robert G. Tandy Tribune- Star linotype operator dies
Robert G. Tandy 69, a linotype operator in the Tribune Star composing room for 20 years, died at 3:25 am Saturday at his residence 2822 Schaal avenue. Survived by wife Gertrude a son Ralph Canton Ill two daughters Mrs Harold Porter and Mrs Halleen Brewer Terre Haute and four grandchildren. Body to Gillis Memory Chapel services at 2 pm Monday burial in Highland Lawn cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert G. Tandy
Tribune- Star
Schaal Avenue
Gertrude
Ralph
Canton
Ill
Harold Porter
Halleen Brewer
Terre Haute
Gillis Memory Chapel
Highland Lawn Cemetery
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France
Chorwon
International
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South Shore Hospital
pLone
William Gann
Ingrid
Daughter
U. S
T-S
Jerry H. Henderson, Jr
Dental Corps
U. S. Army
Wabash Ave
Oakley
Cotes
Hora
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