Milk Fund Benefit Proves Fine Success Show Draws Hundreds
Hundreds of parents and friends filled the Junior High auditorium for a grand milk fund benefit last evening. Nearly six hundred children performed in a world tour of dances and the story of the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. The program featured Mary Frances Brooks, Miss Agnes Connell, Miss Lucille Murray, the Corry School Boys Band, and the Senior High Orchestra in Mosaic. Uncle Sam visits with Columbia as part of the finale. continued on Page Seven.
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England
Germany
Bohemia
Ireland
Spain
Sweden
Scotland
Rged
Europe
Amelia
S Shoe
Mary Frances Brooks
Agnes Connell
Lucille Murray
Must
Te P.T. A. Council
Dewey
Miss Moray
Sam
Tagle Sem
Wilbur Renskers
Charlotte Bachainer
Mary ‘Frances Brooks
Uncle Sam
Columbia
Dick Shoop
Two Bodies Found Jammed in Auto Rumble Seat
United Press reports two men were found dead in the rumble seat of an automobile parked on an oval street. Police headquarters say both men were dead, discovered by a passerby drawn by a trickle of blood from the car.
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United Press
New York
Contends Girardot a victim of revenge in insurance case
In Baie Pennsylvania February 10 the defense opened its case in an insurance conspiracy trial. Frank Girardot a former Brie adjuster is described as a victim of jealousy and revenge by Louis Kaufman and Henry Cornell. Miss Anne Viney testified she accompanied Kaufman and Girard on inspections of two houses in Le Boeuf and Bike Creek townships Erie County. She reported smelling gasoline in a kitchen and saw Cornell during visits. The Commonwealth says the men aimed to collect insurance on two houses burned in incendiary fires.
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United Press
Baie
Allorney Samuel Y. Rossiter
Frank Giradot
Brie
Girardot
Louis L. Kaufman
Kaufman
Anne Viney
le Boeuf
Bik Creek
Erie Country
Farm accident fractures leg of Maryin Y Williams
Maryin Y Williams of R. D. G. was injured on his farm north of the city yesterday afternoon while hauling a tree. A skid-rolled tree struck his left leg, fracturing two bones above the ankle. He was taken to Carry hospital, stayed overnight, and returned home this morning.
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Maryin Y. Williams
Chambersburg man to manage Hotel Corry takes post
Lee C Shoemaker of Chambersburg Pa will assume management of the Hotel Corry on March 1 succeeding G A Wallace who has resigned after a year and after purchasing the Carver House at Warren Shoemaker formerly assisted at Wilkinsburg in hotel work and earlier with a large Savannah Ga hotel He expects to move his family to Corry next week but will not formally direct affairs until the month’s start He plans changes to improve patron experience but declines to outline policy yet
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Lee C, Shoemaker
Chambeburg
Corry
G. A. Wallace
Carver House
Warren
Shoemaker
Wilkinsburg
Savannah
Honor Letters Awarded At Junior High
Honor letters were awarded to a large group of pupils at the Junior High ceremony this morning led by Principal H. G. Wolfe. Awards followed a point system with several students receiving letters of fifth, fourth, and other terms as the program included music, remarks, and a school song. Notable names include Cecil Akam Ruth Busshears Dearing Dorothy Gauffreau and many others across Grade 7 and 8. Ray Lyman Wilbur and Job S. Fisher will speak at a Washington bicentennial banquet in Pittsburgh Monday night.
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Wolfe
Ceremonias
Juniior High School
Hadebdel
Gerryidedien Zien
H. G. Wolfe
Cecil Akam
Ruth Busshears Dearing
Dorothy Gauffreau
Leon Bertrany
Francis Coyle
Elizabeth Dahl
Joe Ficcardi
Merion Fitch
Frank Gates
Gertrude Lindstrom
Myre LaMachhio
Mildred Perry
Alice Pole
Helen Rathburn
Wilbur Renskers
Mary Varassa
Harold Walsh
Charlotte Witaker
Lawrence Nichols
Lewie Castrantes
Ray Courtney
Duane Fogle
Ruth Johnson
George Nagel
Hob Ort
Harry Paulson
Stanley Prugar
Albert Rath Purn
Agatha St. Pierre
Charlotte Schrambling
Brea Thayer
Martha Marie Hawkins
Helen Hovey
John Hadock
Mary Elizabeth Gillette
Shirley Larsot
Jack Lindsley
Roberta Ross
Jeanne Titus
Virgil Warner
John Zepka
Louse Madsen
Wilbur
Pittsburgh
Ray Lyman Wilbu
Interior
Job S. Fisher
Pennsylvania
Washington
English Beauty Embraces Mohammedanism in Plane
An English heiress princess, Princess Muda of Sarawak, converted to Islam in midair aboard an Imperial Airways airliner over the English Channel. The ceremony, performed at 5,000 feet by Dr. Khalid Sheldrike, followed her Protestant, Christian Scientist, and Roman Catholic phases. The event occurred during a layover on the London to Paris route.
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United Press
Paris
Barnes
England
France
Muda
Sarawak
Bortes
Walter Palmer, Ltd
Imperial Airways
Khalid Sheldrike
Western Islamic Association
Prineras
Pope
Bell Involves Three Others In Fayette Murder
A former Pennsylvania county detective testified in Buffalo that he and three others drove John Donahoe to his murder near Uniontown in Fayette County in 1929. Bell named two men and a fourth accomplice, but the fourth man’s name was not disclosed. Donahoe was shot five miles from Uniontown. the death led to the suicide of the then district attorney.
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United Press Buffalo
Pennsylvania
Uniontown
Huffals
Anthony W.oan
Masontown
Wade K. Newell
Pennnsylvan
Austin J. Roche
Buffalo Gold Bell
Eused
Newell
John Donahoe
Pulica
Roche
Ell
Uniontawp
R. C. Bledsoe
Cosmo Stangdni
Donohoe
Bell
Poace
Bell Sas
Union Town
Donohar
Jan Smother
Brffalo
Donohue
Pensylvania
A. D. Rosenberg
Fayete County
DeValera Plans to Abolish Oath of Allegiance
Irish Free State amidst early returns shows Fianna Fail led by Eamonn DeValera gaining ground against Cosgrave. With two thirds of seats counted Fianna Fail leads government party by a narrow margin. Independents and Labor may swing support, potentially forming a majority against the present administration.
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Stet Press
Dublin
Irish Free State
Fianna Fail
Eamonn DeValera
Hidda
Free State
England
de Valera
Wim. T. Cosgrave
H* Seas
Fianha Fail
Cosgrave
Laborites
Ather
Attacks on Cardozo Unheeded, Senate OKs Nomination
Washington Feb 18 A Senate judiciary subcommittee voted unanimously to confirm Benjamin N Cardozo as associate justice of the Supreme Court after hearings on attacks directed at both the nominee and his father Albert Cardozo The elder was accused by Russ Tweed a Tammany figure of being owned by political bosses The remarks drew protests from Sen Ashurst who denounced the attack as below the belt and a grievance against Cardozo the son
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United Press
Washington
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Supreme Court
Senate Judiciary
Thi Alpert Cardozo
Tammany Whitaeter
Russ Tweed
Himsell
New York
Benefit show raises 489 for Cory Relief Fund
A Kiwanis Rotary women and girls group produced Follies of 1492 in the Cory high school auditorium. Receipts totaled 620.14 with 404.85 from tickets and 218.80 from program ads. Expenses 120.91 leaving a net 489.24 turned to the Cory Relief Fund. Committees led the effort with Walter Scott Arch Lyons Edward Feldt and S D Wilcox noting receipted bills will be available for inspection.
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Cory Relief Fund
Kiwanis
Rotary
Business and Professional Women
Corry Journal
H. Hausman
LeJeal
B. W. Stennett
Hanes
L. Carlson
Waltere, Scott
Arch C. Lyons
Benefit Entertainment
Edward A. Feldt
S. D. Wilcox
Relief Fund Committee
Demand Reduction in County Salaries Debated
In Greensburg Pennsylvania on February 19 a Tax Justice League meeting drew 250 citizens urging a 10 percent wage cut for all county officials and employees from judges to laborers. For salaries fixed by law a resolution favors voluntary reductions.
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Vined
Greensburg
Tax Justice League
Corry Woman on Radio Tells of District Meet
Mrs C Barnes a longtime leader in local women’s era circles spoke on WILB station about the Northwestern District of Pennsylvania Women plan for the Spring meeting in Corry on March 1 and 2. She noted several hundred women from across northwestern Pennsylvania are expected to attend and also appeared at the Belle Lettres Club luncheon in Oil City.
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C. Barnes
WILBW
Oil City
District of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Glass-Steagall bill delayed by Senate debate
The Senate debated the Glass-Steagall bill to expand federal reserve credit and currency, delaying passage. Amendments were offered, including one to lift the one year loan restriction for distressed banks, affecting banks with capital of 2 million dollars or less. Col Frank Knox announced “palley bands” would be sold to entice hoarded money into usable channels.
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Washington
Senate
Federal Reserve
House
Hoover
Thomas
Dem
Okla
Col
Frank Knox
Hoovar
First Prohibition Poll Shows 5 to 1 Repeal Support
United Prona reports early returns from eight states on repeal of the 18th Amendment. In the Literary Digest poll 272265 favored repeal while 1205 voted for enforcement, a net 84.15 percent. New York and Illinois led as wet states with margins around 7 to 1 and 4 to 1 respectively, while Georgia and Virginia showed dry and wet splits reflecting regional contrasts.
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United Prona
New York
Hallinta
Literary Digest
Linois
Tlinois
Georgia
Virginia
Artillery Duel Precedes Shanghai Big Push Saturday
In Shanghai the Chinese and Japanese batteries opened a night artillery duel near Biemachi east Chipei ahead of a major Saturday push. American and British residents evacuated danger zones in the International Settlement as fires broke near Rokkusen Gardens. Chiang Kai-shek returned to Nanjing to urge Chinese resistance and reject Japanese conditions as intolerable.
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United Press
Shanghat
Hong- Kew
Yangtzepoo
International Settlement
Shanghai
Edwin
Cunningham
Johnn. Brenan
United States
H.R. Ekins
Biemachi East
Chipei Frogt
Iku International
Rokkusen Gardens
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Nhow
Nansking
Wang Ching-Wei
Lo Wen Kan
Chiang
19Th
Chang
Last Saxony King Dies After Stroke
SYBILLENORT Germany Feb 19 Friedrich August 11 last king of Saxony died here after lingering unconscious for hours from a stroke of paralysis. He succeeded his father King George in 1004 and abdicated in 1918 after a republic followed a revolution.
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Une Creas Sybillenort
Germany
Friedrichy
Saxony
Friedrich
George
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Lyle ¢. Wilson
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