Soaring Heat and Economic News Dominate Erie Briefs
Copper prices rose to 34 cents a pound after two increases last week with a quarter cent higher quotation than July 1. Plans for summer concerts in City Park drift from Corry Baird as rehearsals proceed in Johnson block. Columbia Gas and Electric dividends totaling 4.627 million dollars approved for August 16 on several preferred stocks. Columbus Library to close July 1 for summer, books due. Farley to speak on Economic Stability at Virginia, 9 pm over WJZ. Northwestern Pennsylvanian Elka Association to meet at Greenville lodge. Christensen Motors to deliver 1938 Dodge police car this week. Pennsylvania aids program distributes 225 thousand dollars in flour and 75 carloads tomatoes and peaches to relief recipients. Breathless Moments booked at Rex theatre. Henry Bensink pleads guilty in delivery truck theft case. 79,639 farmers enroll in 1938 39 A A A program, up 2,180 from last year. Erie to form 16th local housing authority with appointees named. Temperature 80 in afternoon, 54 overnight. one breeze. Donald Bull in serious condition after auto strike in Union City. Most stores open for holiday. barbers closed at noon.
Cyclist Hurt In Head On Collision Near Ringway
Two Ridgway residents were injured in Fourth of July weekend crashes. Ailwin Dallenbach sustained a fractured shoulder and multiple cuts when his motorcycle hit a car driven by Mrs Ann Wolff on Grant Road four miles west of Ringway. Dallenbach is in serious condition at Elk County General Hospital, with Wolff suffering knee bruises and minor injuries. Motorcycle damage about $65. car damage about $60.
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Ringway
Ailwin Dallenbach
Grant Street
Ann Wolf
Main Street
Dallenbach
Elk County General Hospital
Wolff
Grant Road
Hypnotist Proposes Court Hypnosis To Prove Harmlessness
Hollywood July 6 United Press reports hypnotist Robert A. Gilbert held in connection with the death of Mrs Marie Colombes suggested he be allowed to hypnotize people in court to prove harmlessness if brought to trial. Gilbert known as Gilbert the Great in vaudeville circuits denied any link between his visit and the death. Coroner Frank Nance ordered a second autopsy after the first failed to reveal a definite cause and body removal from a cemetery crypt.
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United Press
Hollywood
Robert A. Gilbert
Marie Colombes
Gilbert
Spanish Navy Fleet Reported Crippled in June Airstrike
A Zaragoza dispatch to Messagero says the Spanish Loyalist battle fleet was completely crippled by a June 17 airplane bombardment off Cartagena. Nation planes supporting the Nationalist forces conducted the attack.
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Unecey
Rome
Messagero
Zaragoza
Spain
Cartagena
Jobless Compensation Totals in Pa Top $36 Million
Unemployment relief in Pennsylvania shows weekly distributions and cumulative figures. Corry office issued ninety seven checks totaling 957.50 for the week ending June 24. statewide claims and payments cumulatively exceed 86,778 through late June.
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Corry
Pennsylvania
Secretary of Labor and Industry
Bashore
Amounl
Geue
Man Admits Attack on Nine-Year-Old Girl
Charles Wendel of Eschtach Road near St Marys faces trial after admitting to abduction and attempted rape of a nine year old girl. He was held in county jail pending September court Levin. Wendel was arrested Friday after luring the child into the woods Thursday afternoon and arraigned by Justice A G Brehm. He pled guilty and was returned to jail.
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Ridgway
Ficauins
St. Marys
Charles Wendel
Eschtach Road
Ele
Levinof
Wendel
Taft
Justice of the Peace
A. G. Brehm
Beards Save Northwest Passage Filming at Boise City
Beards save Northwest Passage filming in Boise City Me as crew faced a beard shortage. An SOS call asking for 15 men with beards who could swim and were not afraid of water solved the crisis.
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Boise City
State Medical Aid to Farmers Under New Plan
Harrisburg July 6 A new program to improve and safeguard health of Pennsylvania farm families was approved by the Farm Security Administration under Carson P Mertz state FP A director A group doctoring plan started in Crawford and Franklin counties lets farmers and families receive medical and dental care and pay physicians on a cooperative basis Mertz said it is too early to judge results but expected benefits and eventual statewide expansion.
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United Press
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Farm Security Administration
Carson P. Mertz
Crawford
Franklin
FSA
Mertz
F. S.A
Roosevelt to name wages and hours administrator soon
President Roosevelt studied a list of 50 candidates for a wages and hours administrator and may choose before leaving on a transcontinental tour tomorrow night. Sidney Hillman, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization's textile workers organizing committee, urged the immediate selection to check an impending wave of wage reductions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Sidney Hillman
Committee For Industrial Organization
Textile Workers
Forged-Check Forger Targeted City Merchants
Police issued a warning after a man passed three forged checks at local merchants, two for 37 and one for 20 dollars. The suspect, described as Morris, about five foot ten with faded overalls, claimed rural residence and fled the city, prompting alerts to nearby towns. Merchants were told to be vigilant as banks froze the checks and the list of potential victims expanded across the district.
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Morris
Gee
Etwivet
Poice
Ue Checle
Erie Resident Dodges Rattler in Close Escape
Erie resident A. Mowrey a locksmith at 11 West Main Street recounts a near fatal encounter with a 49 inch rattlesnake at his Warren County hunting camp near Clarendon. The snake struck as he stepped outside, he leaped back and shot the head with his revolver. Hunters note rattlers are uncommon in that area.
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Erie
Aseon A. Mowrey
Clarendon
Warren County
Mowrey
Mun
Avaiel
Seek Big Sum for Flood Work in Western Pa
Pittsburgh July report notes Mayor C D Scully requested 260000 of Public Works Administration funds to avert delays in flood projects across western Pennsylvania. Col W B Covell approved the request and forwarded to Major General Julian L Schley, War Department engineers chief. Congress flood control act left state share unfunded, risking six months to a year delay unless immediate funds are provided to cover the 5 million dollar state share.
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Sy United
Pittsburgh
C.D. Scully
Public Works Administration
Pennsylvania
Col. W. &. R. Covell
U. S
Scully
PWA
Julian L. Schley
United States ‘War Department
Congress
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James A. Fardley
University of Virginia
WJZ
Northwestern
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Christensen Motors
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Rex Theatre
Journal
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Charles Barker
Michael J. Campbell
H. Eugene Kelley
Melvin Zurn
Nell McLaughlin
Wiliam M. Kneth
Harle
Donald Bull
Orman Bull
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Tad Mene
Mississippi
New Madrid
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Dorothy
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North Center St
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