New Deal Is Here To Stay Says Roosevelt In Nation Address
President Roosevelt declared the New Deal is here to stay in a nationwide address delivered during Wisconsin's tercentenary week. He denounced those who would restore the old order and urged mass support for a sweeping recovery program. The remarks were linked to political implications for Senator Robert M. La Follette’s re-election bid. In a related note, Leonard G. Reid and J. R. Ayling failed to break a distance record after a 31 hour flight from Ontario to England, landing at Heston and quickly taking off for Hatfield.
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Amnesty Grants Freedoms in German Prisons
Berlin August 9 Hitler government decrees amnesty for minor criminal offenders and political prisoners in line with old custom to mark the accession of a new executive. Political offenses listed include slander against Hitler or government acts against the national press and excess zeal in the Nazi cause. Cases linked to the June turmoil and protection custody in concentration camps may be reviewed for release if they promise to refrain from opposition.
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Vare Funeral Rites Draw Many in Philadelphia
Funeral rites for former political czar Vare held at 2 10 p m at Oliver H Bair chapel with Rev Charles M Boswell officiating. Vaux Lodge No 393 conducted Masonic services at Laurel Hill cemetery where the body rests in a mausoleum. Thousands filed by the bier in tribute to the once powerful Republican leader as police, newsboys, bootblacks, and others mourned. memorial services followed by the Republican city committee.
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Prison terms tied to probation for dry law violators
In Philadelphia on August 9 the U S circuit court ruled that prohibition era violators given suspended sentences may be imprisoned if they violate probation terms. The court said Supreme Court decisions freeing many dry law violators do not apply to those who were sentenced and a final judgment entered in their case.
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Martial law query in Minneapolis tied to truck strike
Employers seek end to martial law in Minneapolis citing civil authority under Gov. Olson. The six thousand truck drivers strike has sparked legal action and the push for relief from federal judges. Also notes death of Granz Zwaka, once an aide to President Hindenburg.
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Floyd B. Olson
Farmers Face Major Disaster As Crops Burn
A heat wave and record temperatures sweep the nation as crops wither and deaths rise. The scorching weather, extending across two thirds of the country, has caused prostrations in hospitals from Chicago to Kansas City, with estimates of heat related deaths exceeding a thousand in five months. Temperatures topped 115 degrees in places like Ottumwa as relief potential dwindled.
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Plan Lets Spartansburg Depositors Get 65 Percent Back
O M Thompson conservator of Grange National Bank at Spartansburg says the plan approved by the Office of the Comptroller of Currency will enable about 65 percent of the bank’s net unsecured deposits to be distributed. The sum over 125000 will be made available through National Bank of Union City, with distribution expected within thirty days. Cooperation of Union City officers and a local committee aided the effort.
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Youth Admits Killing Recluse Near Tionesta
State police said Orvel Cussins, 19, adopted son of a wealthy farmer, confessed to shooting Lawrence A. Smith, 84, in his mountain shack near Tionesta while Smith surprised him stealing a fox. Cussins was taken to Tionesta as first degree murder charges were planned after hours of questioning.
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Boy Killed as Army Round Fires Blank at Rodeo
A Fort Riley troop in Burwell Nebraska staged a wild west rodeo last night. A boy named Billy Snyder was killed and three others wounded when soldiers fired live ammunition by mistake. Authorities opened an investigation after blanks were believed used.
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Set Aside Conviction in Nicola Tax Case
Inidad Bross reports the U S circuit court of appeals set aside the conviction of Nicola a Pittsburgh financier and executive of 20 corporations for tax evasion of 26894 dollars on 1923 income. Nicola, 73, had faced a 2800 dollar fine and four years and a day in Lewisburg prison, but the sentence was suspended as taxes were paid or adjusted and monthly reports were made to a probation officer in Pittsburgh.
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Open bids on Sparta Road Friday in Corry area
State Highway Department will open bids tomorrow at Harrisburg for Northwestern and West Church streets within Corry and for the three mile Corry Spartansburg road gap from the Erie county line into Spartansburg. Early award expected. construction may begin before September 1.
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Fate of Albany Mother Rested with Governor
August 9 Albany. Governor Herbert Lehman faces a crucial decision on whether to allow the execution of Mrs Anna Antonio, a mother of three, in Sing Sing’s electric chair. In the reception room, attorney Daniel Prior pressed for a reprieve as Lehman weighed justice and mercy. 145 miles downriver, Antonio awaits in a death cell with a barber ready to shave the head before the electrode.
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Erie Doctor Arrested For Practicing Without License
ERIE Pa Aug 9 Dr GT Wilson formerly of Dubois and Franklin Pa was arrested today on a charge of practicing without license. He has run offices for 18 years and was taken in after a complaint by Constable Badders of Girard Pa. Badders alleges Wilson used leeches to test him for neuritis and he then sought treatment from another doctor.
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Court Sets Aside Big Lippincott Taxes
Philadelphia Aug 8 The U S court of appeals ruled the Internal Revenue Bureau erred by forcing executors of Isté Walter Lippincott to pay 73210 in transfer taxes The judge found that when Lippincott transferred property valued at 1066868 to his daughter 40 months before death it was not a transfer to avoid pevitance taxes
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New federal relief setup eyed for September start
A new national relief work program, tied to federal funds, is planned to begin mid September. Officials led by Eric H. Biuite outlined eligibility, weekly pay, and project rules while stressing municipal cooperation and use of public property for approved tasks.
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EXPAND PENNA FOREST FIRE EQUIPMENT and Press
HARRISBURG, Aug. New equipment purchased by the Department of Forests and Waters will cost up to 626000 the value of yanid's forest fire fighting gear and make the organization one of the best equipped in the United States George H. Wirt chief forest fire warden announced today. New purchases include eight shortwave radio sending and receiving sets 3000 cutting rakes for building packfire lines 980 fivegallon spray tanks three powerful pumps capable of forcing heavy streams of water through 2000 feet of hose 17 eightyfoot steel fire observation towers 560 doublebitted axes 600 brush hooks 57 crosscut saws and 500 entargement for night fighting.
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Commissioners Win Stay Until Appeal Action
Pittsburgh Aug. 9 Thomas J Ledden and B D Brown commissioners of Bilis county won a temporary release from jail as the Superior Court granted a supersedeas awaiting appeal rulings Judge Joseph Stadtfeld refused to stay their removal from office Attorney Charles Margiotti argued two hours for the right to hold office until the appeals are decided Brown and Ledden convicted of fraudulent conversion and misuse of county funds and misdemeanor in office were sentenced to six months in Bilis county jail and a $500 fine last Thursday Judge Eugene Batruque yong presided and sentenced them with remarks on their trials
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