Langer Sworn In Amid Senate Seat Investigation
Former North Dakota governor William Langer is sworn in as U.S. Senator while an inquiry into his seat continues. C R Veriy of Minot accuses irregular state finances and absentee ballot fraud in Langer's bid, protesting the seating.
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London
Britain
Hopkins
Joseph P. Kennedy
Kolpien to Direct Erie County Music Contests
Maurice Kolpien, assistant county Superintendent of Schools, re appointed director of Erie county high school music and speech contests for 1941. He began in 1939, succeeding J T Phelan. The Erie county unit is among 60 plus Pennsylvan ia Forensic and Music League members directed by the University of Pittsburgh. First place winners advance to Northwestern district meets at Slippery Rock in April, then to the April 18 19 state contests at New Castle. Over 50 schools enter band choirs orchestras and more in county district and state events. Participating Erie area high schools include Academy Strong Vincent St Stanislaus Albion Corry Edinboro Girard Harbor Creek Lawrence Park McKean Mill Creek North East Springfield Union City Waterford Wattsburg and Wesleyville.
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Erie County
University of Pittsburgh
Kolpien
J.T. Phelan
Roosevelt
Erie
Slippery Rock
A. J Denniston
GreenVille
New Castle
Pennsylvania
Igh
Pittsburgh
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Altoone
Sunbury
Johnstown
Pottsville
Grove City
Oil City
Norristown
Academy
Strong Vincent
St. Stanislaus
Albion
Corry
Edinboro
Girard
Harbor Creek
Lawrence Park
McKean
Mill Creek
North East
Springfeld
Union City
Waterford
Wattsbure
Wesleyville
Fire Claims Merchant in Cutting Store Blaze Tragedy
A cutting store fire likely started from a defective chimney or firing, killing merchant in his Cutting shop. Coroner and emergency crews investigated as survivors inspect the wreckage. losses include building, contents, and ledgers valued around seven thousand dollars with no insurance. The incident follows two prior fatal fires in the area, and the merchant’s family and relatives are noted in the report.
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Samuel T. Bowers
Jamestown
David A. ‘Tripp
Spring Creek
Clark Lindsey
Concord Township
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Huself
French Creek Township
Robert Lee Hulett
Frank Hulett
Cutting
Grace Evans
French Creek
Guy
Mark
Bert Rogers
Adamsquay Hulett
Spitzer
Clymer
Oldlock
Im Cutting
Relief Rolls In State Show Further Jump In 1940
Pennsylvania general assistance rolls rose for the third time in the final week of 1940, with a net increase of 3,021 cases while 2,854 were closed. Total rolls at year end stood at 187,990, down 66,000 from 204,000 in 1939. Expenditures totaled 907,960 dollars, with 81,555 dollars in milk or orders unannounced.
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Pennsylvania
Ty Uy Wenka
WEA Cubertmen
It Takes More Than A War to Stop Em Comics in News
A feisty collage of oddities and misadventures from wartime America. The item lists quirky incidents across cities, from a factory wife mistaking medical advice to quintuplets, to horses biting a hand and cops rehearsing on stage. It highlights celebrity rumors, quirky lawsuits, and bizarre accidents, all in a light, wired news style. Strong names surface, with places like Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Memphis anchoring the anecdotes. Local police, court notes, and oddball gaffes populate the roundup, framed as a quirky wartime snapshot.
Gone With the Wind Tops Box Office Milestones
By April 20 the film Gone With the Wind had drawn more than 17 lakh dollars at the box office. The release used 423 Technicolor prints and shows stretched across 1,600 miles of film.
Musmano curb tipsy motorist plan spurned
States bar association rejects three Musmanno proposals for drunken driving penalties and evidence rules. It approves a legislative committee to probe communist Nazi and fascist propaganda and suspect groups. A $109000 appropriation will be sought.
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Allegheny County
State Bar Ass‘n
Cy Associated Press
Hershey
Department of Revenue
OF & Hill
Union City Man Captured After Jail Escape
Union City resident Jane Barrows Burrows, 29, escaped from Rockview penitentiary and was tracked to Eagle Valley near Tyra. He will be returned to state prison to face charges of breaking jail after a December 1989 robbery sentence of two and a half to five years.
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Ente, Jane
Emcry Barrows
Union City
Rockview
Kane Plans Improvements for 1941 Paving Program
Kane announces a 1941 paving program to complete holdovers from 1939 and map a new budget due to reduced state revenue. The chief project is stone curbing and paving from car to curb on Silver Lane, about half done, with tarbing and paving added to curb to curb on hill streets to cut maintenance costs. West Side storm sewer work was finished last year, with about 4 500 feet of streets completed except for top coat and curb work to be done this year.
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Kana
Uis
Une
Poplar Street
West Side
New Bern
Father of three slays girl in Pennsylvania mine pit
Pittsburgh Jan 6 Associated Press reports county Detective Frank Rita said a 29 year old father of three admitted killing 17 year old Mary Tropeck in Sturgeon. He stated I don't know why I done it after striking her with an empty wine bottle and stuffing the body in an abandoned mine pit while jailed on a detainer awaiting flight charges.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Frank Rita
Mary Tropeck
Sturgeon
Rita
WPA
Fatalities rise on Chester County highways report says
The Coatesville Record notes 44 people were killed on Chester County highways, a rise of three from the previous year. The survey highlights increased fatalities in Coatesville and surrounding areas.
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Coatesville
Te Comtesville Record
Chester County
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