Baldwin Bros win contract for Pine Grove Cemetery road work
Baldwin Brothers Construction Company received the contract to improve Pine Grove Cemetery. Crews will resurface the circle with black top and build a new 24 foot wide east side road with a 16 foot surface and 4 foot berms. A pair of entrance pillars may be added at the new driveway.
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Haldwin Bros
Pine Grove Cemetery
New Road
Baldwin Bros. Construction Company
East Columbus Avenue
Pine Grove Cemetery Association
Beldwin Brothers
Bracken-Keating Company
Columbus Avenue
Pennsylvania
Lew Rodgers Addresses Corry Council of Republican Women
Lew Rodgers, Republican candidate for Congress, spoke at the Corry Council of Republican Women meeting held at the home of Mr and Mrs J D Desmond on East Pleasant street. About 75 members and guests attended as Edith Stearns and Helen Rowe performed songs and Mrs F S Austin spoke on women's political roles.
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Law Rodgers
Vongrass
Bri
G. A. Shea
Irs. FS. Austin
Edith Stearns
Waverly
N.Y
Helen ‘Rowe
Stearns
Raye
R. C. Barth
Jamestown
N. Ys
Appointment of Wy Louis Schlessinger as district unemployment head
Labor Secretary Ralph We Bashore announced the appointment of Wy Louis Schlessinger of Erie as district manager of the division of unemployment compensation and employment service. His headquarters will be in Erie.
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Ralph We Bashore
Wy Louis Schlessinger
Erie
Division of Unemployment Compensaation and Employment Service
Echlelainger
Boy Is Killed by Auto in Fras THORPa
In Fras Thorpa a seven year old boy named Huiyghten Niemiec was struck and killed by an automobile driven by Harold D. Smith as his applicer collected a payment for the funeral. An inquest is pending and Smith is released. The incident echoes a two years earlier when the boy’s sister Elaine Niemiec died in a separate auto accident involving the same owner.
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United Fras Thorpa
Huiyghten
Thoms Wiemled
Iin
Harold D. Smith
Smith
Elaine Niemiec
Atnuel Sy Acar
Noth
Joan Niemiec
Eldest son of president accuses writer of lies
James Roosevelt, secretary to President Roosevelt, denounces claims of wealth from insurance commissions as false. In a Collier's Magazine reply, he says he earned independently as an insurance broker, countering a Saturday Evening Post piece alleging $250,000 to $2,000,000 yearly. Tax records for 1934–1946 cited.
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United Press
Washington
James Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Collier's Magazine
Saturday Evening’ Post
Jimmy
Alvan Johnston
Sigma
White House
Collier's
State to assume indigent medical care obligation by Sept 15
Harrisburg reports consensus between medical profession and the public assistance department on a scale of service prices for indigent care outside county institutions. A bill asserting state obligation has been improved, with an expected effective date after a forthcoming legislative session.
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Py United Press
Harrisburg
Public Assistance Department
Man Charged With Attack Is Set Free
Un verified report states Silas Swagger charged with beating his 14 year old wife Bikaveth. Swagger denied the assault on the day before Justice With Peace in Grennmaly. Swagger posted bail and was released pending further proceedings.
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Unites Presa
Anz
Silas Swagger
Hia
Bikaveth
Anyeate
Roosevelt shifts to fight yes but Democrats in primary fights
President Roosevelt returns to Washington after a five week trip pressing a drive to defeat conservative Democrats. He backs Lawrence Camp in Georgia and Olin Johnston in South Carolina while signaling opposition to Sen. Walter F. George and Sen. William D. Cotton Smith as he vows more steps in the party struggle for control.
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United Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Yes
Democrata
Ute White House
Havis
Bert Roosevelt
Georgia
South Carolina
Barnesville
Walter F. George
Lawrence Camp
U. S
Atlanta
Greenville
Olin D. Johnston
Biligox D
Cotton Ma" Smith
S.C
J. William Ditter
Pennsylvania
National Republican Committee
George
Wise
Ditter
Jury Out Now in Murder Case in South Parts Maine
Superior Judge William H. Fisher instructed jurors in the murder trial of former Deputy Berit Francis M. Carroll that they could return one of three verdicts. If guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, the defendant faces murder or manslaughter. a third option was acquittal.
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South Parts
Wiliam H. Fisher
Berit Francis M. Carroll
Fisher
Erie Couple Charged In Defamatory Love Letter Case
Erie, Pa Aug 12 A man and a woman both about 60 were named defendants in a defamation case linked to a love letter that disrupted the personal life of Buffalo marine architect Howard B. Gerken and caused him financial loss. Trow held for grand jury. Mrs Albright to be heard.
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Erie
Buffalo
Howard
Tropical storm center forms near Grand Cay Island
A tropical disturbance in the Caribbean near Grand Cay Island intensified as winds rose to about 70 miles per hour. The storm was tracked by meteorologists as it moved toward the south Florida area, with warnings issued for coastal regions.
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Miami
Fla
Grand Cayman Island
Wirrironne Fords
State Secretary of Mines Hartneady Dies in Pa
Michael J. Hartneady, 60, long time State Secretary of Mines and a key figure in Pennsylvania coal regions, died suddenly of a heart attack in Nesquehoning while visiting a brother-in-law. Hartneady, born in Mauch Chunk and raised in the coal fields, had been in good health recently and his death creates another vacancy in the cabinet.
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United Press
Harmendy
Hartneady
Hagleton
Hew
Mauch Chunk
Bartheady
Wurle
Japs Intensify Drive in China Cities Bombed
Japanese forces press the assault on Hankow as 45 planes drop heavy bombs. The two day toll climbs toward 1,200 casualties while talks with Russia offer a brief pause on the Siberian Manchukuo border.
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China
Japan
Russia
Py United Press
Yangtze
Hankow
Changfukeng
Japaneen
Manchukuo
Érisia
Married teachers urged to resign in Titusville area
Richmond township school directors adopted a resolution asking all married teachers to resign. No replies had been received as the appeal was announced.
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United Press
Titusville
Richmond Township
Harvest Help Sought at North East Farm
Employment Service office announces a call from North Fant for thirty to forty men to harvest beans and tomatoes. Workers seeking this field job should visit the local Employment office for information.
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North East
Gate Employment Service
North Fant
Gov Earle Receives Pilot Wings In Harrisburg Today
Gov George H Watts becomes the commonwealths first chief executive to pilot a plane receiving a pilot wings certificate after demonstrating control with a federal inspector present. In Belle Vernon Pa an automobile crash near a railroad bridge left Walter Rosell 24 dead and Everett Prewett 26 injured.
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Gov
Earle
Unitea Press
Harrisburg
George H. Watts
Commonwealth
Bureau of Air Commerce
Belle Vernon
Walter Rosell
Star Junction
Everett Prewett
Payette City
Civil service exam dispute threatens major legislative clash
Harrisburg Aug 12 A bitter civil service jobs dispute in the relief administration nears a major legislative clash as Gov Teore Harle mediates after Democratic leaders and aid officials condemn exams for 6,000 posts from 168,000 applicants as psychological rather than practical. A conference between Employment Board member Shippen Lewis and Rep William Shaw was urged by the governor who described his role as a mediator.
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United Press
Harrisburg
Relief Administration
Grand Jury
Teoree Harle
de Parkment
House
Senate
Karl de Schweinitz
Shippen Lewis
Employment Board
Lewis
William A. Shaw
House Welfare Committee
Earle
Building project at State at standstill at Penn State College
State College Pa Aug 12 construction on the general state authority 5 million dollar building project at Penn State College is at a standstill over a wage dispute affecting about twenty plaster and component workers. Union plasterers and cement finishers local No 882 refused to cross a picket line, suspending work.
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United Press State College
General State Authority
Perm State College
Operative Plasterers and Cement Highers Union
Man With Three Weeks to Live to Wed Sweetheart
George Burke 26, dying from incurable strep infection, plans to marry Betty Luchansky 26 soon after doctors say he has at most three weeks to live. Burke, once a radio engineer, was to wed in May 1935 but has been bedbound since. Luchansky stayed by his side and arranged a hurry wedding to honor his belief in a future together.
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Cleveland
George Burke
Betty Tuehamikylao
St. Tinkers Hospital
Burke
United Press
Governor Earle calls for arrest of 13 accused
Harrisburg August 12 Governor George H Earle waives immunity and urges District Attorney Carl B Shelley to arraign him and the thirteen appointees and Democratic associate on charges. He demands immediate public disclosure of all evidence and states the district attorney can proceed to arrest and indict once evidence is presented to a magistrate.
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United Press
Harrisburg
George H. Earle
Carl B. Shelley
Earle
United States
Blealk
House Committee
Inga
Harle
Lewis Journal Attacks AFL Over NLRB Clash
Washington August 12 John and Lewis United Mine Journal charges the American Federation of Labor with a pro communism stance for defying the National Labor Relations Board. The piece says the AFL attitude fuels anti union sentiment and benefits employers and groups hostile to labor.
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United Press
Washington
John & Lewis
United Mine Woven Journal
American Federation of Labor
National Labor Relations Board
Sai ‘Tl
Lwbor
National Boxer Relation Board
A. Ofvis
Encourat
National Manufaures’ Association
U. S. Clamber of Commerce
Reactiona
Wba
Three Philadelphians Charged in $39,000 Fraud Case
Three Philadelphia men face preliminary cheating charges for allegedly deceiving a Harrisburg woman out of $39,000 through whisky certificate manipulation. Detained in $60,000 bail each, the trio—Max Speigelman, Nathan Hammer, and Benjamin Kauffman—were arrested with aid from state motor police and state securities commission officers.
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United Press Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Max Speigelman
Nathan Hammer
Benjamin Kauffman
Firemen to Close Western Pennsylvania Convention Tonight
Un Ion Town Pennsylvania reports the Western Pennsylvania Volunteer Firemen's Association will close its annual convention with a large water battle parade and fireworks display. About 10,000 delegates participated in talks and a parade through the town, drawing an estimated 60,000 spectators along a three mile route.
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Uniontown
Western Pennsylvania Volunteer Firemen’s Association
U Own
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