Inauguration Day and Local News Roundup
Inauguration Day activities include a Golden Rule Club dinner at Parish Hall at 6:30. Community notes report Crawford county appoints F Floyd Van Winkste as county detective, succeeding Ray mond Q. McIntosh. Erie Medical Society to meet at Hamot hospital with Dr A G Davis speaking on spine fracture treatment. Warren County farm bureau set for 10 a m meeting at the courthouse with Carleton J. Curtis as president. President Roosevelt to address the nation via NBC WJZ WEAF networks from Washington at 10 p m. A Pine Valley resident reports a suspicious negro seen near a neighbor’s wood shed. Corruite licensees may obtain permits after January 18. World War veterans urged cash payments at a Harrisburg rally. Johnson, track foreman at the Ene Railroad, to retire after 44 years. Sharon city employees receive a 10 percent salary increase starting Jan 1. Local students return to class after Christmas recess. vocational classes housed at Bates Mattress Company. Harold T. Lovejoy performs on Major Bowes radio program. Columbus ice skating draws crowds. city plans continued recreation. City Council cancels January Jamulay meeting due to no business.
Scottsboro jury rolls reopened to include negroes
Alabama begins fourth attempt to convict nine black youths for attacks on two white hoboes in 1931. Trials to start next week with jury rolls revised to include a negro, defense by Samuel Leibowitz, and potential reindictment after prior Supreme Court reversals over exclusion of black jurors.
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Alabama
United Press
Decatur
Als
Victoria Price
Fuihy Bates
Thomas E. Knight
Samuel Leibowitz
New York
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Haywood Patterson
Petit Jury
Thelma Todd's Mother Attacks Grand Jury Inquiry
Thelma Todd's mother, after her third LA county grand jury appearance, denounces the investigation into her daughter's death as the work of cheap politicians. She summons reporters, speaking with excitement and anger about the case and its handling. The piece includes unrelated technical notes on early paper wheels and their history with 600 ton compression tests.
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United Press
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Former Corry Man Is Mayor of Lewistown
John Healy, former Corry resident and well known Lewistown figure, has been named mayor to fill the vacancy caused by Mayor George Keim’s resignation after becoming county commissioner. Healy formerly ran a North Center Street photography gallery and served as president of Lewistown Council.
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Corry Man
Lewistown
Ward
Bred Healy
Hias
John Healy
Corry
Hai i
Healy
George B. Keim
Corryman
Noted Leather Chemist W K Alsop Dies
W K Alsop chief chemist of the United States Leather Company died at his Ridgway home after a week of illness. A Haverford College graduate he was a star athlete and led the American Leather Chemist Association. He served as editor of the Journal of American Leather Chemist Association for 26 years and worked 35 years for the U S Leather company. He is survived by his widow four sons a daughter and four sisters.
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W.K. Alsop
United States Leather Company
Ridgway
Haverford College
Alsop
American Leather Chemist Association
Tanners Council of America
Journal of
J. W. & A.B. Howard Tannery Company
Philadelphia Funds 150000 for Democrats Convention
Albert M. Greenfield, chairman of the Democratic campaign committee, announced that Mayor Charles D. White of Atlantic City and a group of resort hotel owners have pledged support and that Atlantic City would contribute toward the 150000 needed to bring the 1938 Democratic National Convention to Philadelphia.
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United Press
Philadelphia
Philadelphild
Deeereeiee
Albert Ms. Greenfield
Charles D. White
Atlantic City
New
Former Franklin Student Composed Hit Song The Music Goes Round and Round
Jan G. Aa Franklin High School graduate now living in Chicago wrote the catchy tune The Music Goes Round and Round which gained national radio play. Harold Hodgson of Galloway is named as the rightful composer, with publishing rights later shared with Reilly and Farley after Hodgson failed to copyright initially. The piece circulated through Bennett orchestra and various clubs before gaining fame.
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Franklin
Jan. G
Franklin High School
Chicago
Harold Hodgson
W. J. Hodgson
Galloway
Hodgson
Hodgeon
State College
Wart Bennetts Orchestra
Ena Hodgson
Oil City
Inett
Ruth Lee
Bennett Orchestra
New York
Reilly
Farley
Stanley Hickman
Hernett Band
Fatley Abaring
Specialist slain shocks Chicago doctors and police
Investigation into the mysterious slaying of Dr. Silber C. Peacock, a specialist in children's diseases, was launched after his beaten body was found in an automobile. Detectives seek a mysterious woman said to have summoned him by telephone, with few clues available.
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Silber C. Peacock
Chicago
Roosevelt Warns New Taxes for Boni in Budget Fight
In a Washington dispatch President Roosevelt warned Congress that new taxes would be imposed if the budget is upset by the soldiers bonus bill or by loss of federal revenues from invalidation of processing taxes by the Supreme Court.
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Wasegagion
Roosevelt
Congress
Supreme Court
Warner McCray Installed as Worthy Master at Corry Grange
An unusually interesting Corry Grange No. 55 meeting featured the annual installation. Warner McCray of Spring Creek was installed as worthy master with staff including overseer Howard VanTassel and lectu rer Mrs Emma Swanson. Other officers named were steward Roy Swart assistant steward, chaplain Mrs Mary Reynolds, treasurer Mrs Emma Drake, secretary Mrs Mary Kimmy, Ceres Mrs Lizzie Lawson, Pomona Mrs Ethel Chase, Flora Mrs Mabel Akam, lady assistant steward Mrs Rath Swart, pianist Mrs Doris Ruftner, and executive committee Frank Harvey. Axel Swanson, absent, will be installed next meeting. Music by Gerald Whaley accompanied the ceremonies. A noon dinner served for seventy five. A program followed with vocal quartet, recitation by Leonard Swanson, assembly singing, remarks by Nevin R. Dickson and Warner McCray’s report on the State Grange meeting in New Castle.
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Corry Grange No
Grange
Glen Eldred
Spring Creek
Warner McCray
Howard VanTassel
Emma Swanson
Warner
Roy Swart
Mary Reynolds
Emma Drake
Mary Kimmy
Ceres
Lizzie Lawson
Pomona
Ethel Chase
Flora
Mabel Akam
Rath Swart
Doris Ruftner
Frank Harvey
Axel Swanson
Gerald Whaley
W. H. Garnett
E. Marstaller
Hebert Trisket
George Chase
Leonard Swanson
Nevin R. Dickson
Crawford County Grange
New Caste
Aero Supply Wins War Dept Contract for Airplane Parts
The War Department awards Aero Supply a government contract worth 3646.50 dollars. The deal covers delivery of control and switch assemblies for airplanes to the Air Corps Material Division at Wright Field Dayton within thirty days.
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Washington Adrives Louay
War Department
Air Corps
Wright Field
Dayton
Porter Reappointed City Clerk After Reorganization
Claude B. Porter was returned to his position as city clerk by City Council at the morning reorganization meeting. Porter had lost the post in the Miller bloc shakeup two years ago and is restored to a long-held municipal role.
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Claude B. Porter
Mr. Porter
Direct relief cases show sharp decrease in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg reports that by December 28 1935 the direct relief rolls stood at 233 320 cases or 804 044 persons a drop from about 1 700 000 names last summer. State relief administrator Karl de Schweinitz notes the weekly relief population fell to less than half of mid summer totals.
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United Press
Harrisburg
Penmsylvania
Karl de Schweinitz
Animah Described As Not Dissing Cells of the Vensurha
A small aquatic animal reportedly resists death after being squeezed and separated. The unnamed source notes the creature’s resilience until disturbed, with a mysterious claim from Stover in Jonesville, reported by the Hier's Weekly.
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Stover
Jonesville
Pone
Aawin
Cmd Fiennes Asic
Pinchot levels new WPA graft charge via Roosevelt
Former Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot accuses the Works Progress Administration of graft in Philadelphia in a second letter to President Roosevelt. He cites a Philadelphia employment agency charging workers to obtain WPA jobs and claims receipts show payments of 20 and 22.50 dollars, with further details about Democratic division pending.
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Roosevelt
United Press
Washington
Pennsylvania
Gifford Pinchot
Works Progress Administration
Philadelphia
WPA
Pinchot
United States
Mother Charged in Fortunes Case in San Francisco
San Francisco Chronicle reports Amn Cooper Hewitt, 21, heiress, will accuse her mother Maryon Bruguiere Hewl D Werlanger McCarter of sterilization to gain a $410,000,000 fortune. Suit to be filed in superior court naming two surgeons and a state health department psychiatrist. Meanwhile in Ness City, Kan, a purse lost 11 years ago by Gilbert Hawkinson was found with 11 cents and a navy ID tag bearing his name.
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United Press
SAIN
Maryon Bruguiere
D'Werlanger McCarter
San Francisco
New York
Ness City
Kan
Gilbert Hawkinson
Amarillo
Tex
Walter Coker
Navy
Hawkinson
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F. Floyd van Winkste
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Conneau Township
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Mrst Ward
Ffs
Ballon
Erie County Medical Society
Hamot Hospital
Erie
A. G. Davis
Warren County Farm Bureau
Court House
Warren
Carleton J. Curtis
Columbus
NBC
WJZ - Weaf
E.S
Jackson
Flower Hotel
Joseph Carter
Pine Valley
Sandusky
Parsons Desiniti ® Licensts
Bureau of Miscellaneous Licenses
Revenue Department
U. S
James J. Davis
C. ¥. Johnson
Ene Railroad
Bear Lake
Ccmpany
Erie Railroad
Cleveland
Johnson
Sharon City
Bates Mattress Company
Raymond Avenue
Herding School
Harold T. Lovejoy
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the Wong
Radio City
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M. Leo Mulderick
Fred J. Weaver
Glen Miller
A. Duke
Stanley H. Nichols
Scottsboro
Thelma Todd
Phila
Dr, Silber C. Peacocke
Corry Grange
Aero Supply
WAR Dept
Cern
Suit and Dress Club
Frank C. Chapin & Sons
North Center Street
Penn
C. B. Porter
Frisco
Condra’s Pharmacy
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