Hoover to Sign Relief Bill Expands Federal Aid
President Hoover to sign a $2.122 billion relief measure creating vast federal aid, including direct relief of distress, construction loans for bridges and waterworks, and $122 million for highway work. Reconstruction Finance Corporation to handle loans. states rush applications, with Illinois and Pennsylvania leading. Debentures to fund loans. reports to Congress to be kept confidential unless directed.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Joans
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Hig Way
Reconstruction Corporation
Treasury
House
Senate
Hoover
Congress
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Trimble
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Textile strikers terrorize North Carolina towns in restless invasion
A leaderless wrecking crew of hundreds of textile workers from High Point invaded Thomasville and forced shutdowns of mills laundries and power. The protests involved about 3000 workers in High Point with 100 miles of closures across nearby towns Jamestown and Ernersville.
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Thomasville
High Point
Jamestown
Sernersville
Measure adjusts Witkin bill for firemen relief funds
Amendments acceptable to the State Firemen's Association were prepared to insert in the Witkin bill returning to the state treasury unexpended balances of the foreign fire insurance fund. About 1,665,000 remained, with 860,000 to be returned to the state and the rest kept for relief organizations. Firemen in districts would receive the collected amounts. The Witkin bill awaits House appropriations committee action.
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Foreign Fire Insurance Fund
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Harrisburg
Staudenmeier
Schuylldll
Fremen
House Appropriations
Treasury
Senate Rebukes Pinchot Over RF C Funds Bill
In Harrisburg on July 19 the Pennsylvania Senate unanimously passed the Woodward bill, approving county commissioner agreements for spending Reconstruction Finance Corporation funds. Pinchot had called the measure ridiculous and said only he should control the 45 million dollar federal relief request. The Senate sent the bill to the House with approval, endorsing county involvement in relief spending.
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Harrisburg
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Pinchot
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate
Federal Agency
House
Hoover Spared From Veterans Demonstration In DC
President Hoover returned to the White House from his Rapidan fishing camp to find a left wing Bonus Army demonstration planned to coincide with his arrival had failed. A police escort met his car as it entered the District of Columbia and led to the executive mansion. Police guarded the Pennsylvania Avenue approaches while pedestrians passed by. The Saturday night protest had kept people out of the area, but today no attempt to divert pedestrians occurred.
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Virginia
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Executive Mansion
Senate stock market probe to continue through recess
Senate Banking and Currency Chair Norbeck announced plans to extend the stock market inquiry through the summer recess. The committee will keep a steering sub committee and may defer public hearings while James B. Stewart stays in Washington to collect data for next winter.
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Washington
Norbeck
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Senate
John J. Raskod
Percy A. Rockefeller
New York
Couzens
Mich
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Townsend
Del
Glass
Dem
James B. Stewart
South Dakota State Banking Department
Stewart
Three Bandits Rob Jewelry Firm in Upper Fifth Avenue Heist
Three bandits struck the jewelry firm of Chas W Schumann Sons in the highly policed upper Fifth Avenue shopping district today. They escaped with jewels valued between 60 000 and 125 000 carried in a suitcase.
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New York
Upper Firth Avenue
Chas
W. Schumann & Sons
Gene
Prank Hyde Kills Wife and Daughter Then Takes Own Life
NEW CASTLE Pa July 19 Prank Hyde a gasoline station owner shot his wife Beatrice 48 and daughter Jane 19 in their home then killed himself. Police said both were shot in the chest with a 252 caliber revolver and Hyde cut his throat with a razor. Coroner Dr Orville Potter went to the scene. No other people were in the house at the time.
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New Castle
Hyde
Jane
Beatrice
Wes
Orville Potter
Lawrence County
Illling
Bloody clashes as Communists and Nazis clash in German cities
Reports from Berlin detail deadly confrontations between Communists and Fascists across several cities including Breslau Altona and Frankfurt am Main. The clashes followed government outlawing of unlicensed political gatherings and threats of the death penalty, with hundreds reported killed or wounded that month, though figures vary by source.
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Alay
Ontioor
Iron Front Hatchets
Breslau
Altona
Berlin
Rhineland
Hanover
Hamburg
Dresden
Vorwaerts
VIEW DECISION VICTORY FOR TAX DELINQUENTS
Greensburg PA July 19 judges freed two unemployed men jailed for not paying school taxes. They urged full investigations before action and recommended appeals for exoneration from boards and officials. The released men are Archie McHachrim 49 and Ivy Newman 86 of New Kensington.
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Greensburg
Westmoreland County
G. B. Whitten
C. D. Copeland
W.T. Dom
Archie McHachrim
Ivy Newman
New Kensington
Fire Destroys Gas Truck Near Union City
A leak in the feed line caused a fire that destroyed a Pennzoil gas truck and its 5,000 gallon load near Union City on the Titusville road. Driver John Watson suffered facial burns while attempting to control the blaze with a hand extinguisher. he drove the truck off the highway to limit pavement damage. The equipment, valued around 20,000 dollars, was fully insured and later wreckage inspections will confirm total damage.
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Ol City
Union City
Titusville Road
Corry
Titusville
John Watson
Oil City
Fire menaces guard camp at Mount Gretna
Mount Gretna Pa July 19 Guardsmen of Pennsylvania's National Guard faced a fire threat at their camp when a wood pile fire sparked flames fanned by a sharp breeze. The 28th division HQ motor transport train tents and stores were at risk but bucket brigades and shovels controlled the blaze. Cavalry and infantry movements followed as units deployed by truck to reinforce and reposition near Swatara Pass. 60 trucks assisted as the 111th 112th and 142nd regiments moved in stages to the bivouac site.
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Mt. Gretna
Pennsylvania
National Guardsmen
28Th Division
10Th Cavalry
Harper's Tavern
Unig
Swatara Pass
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Iheith
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Police conference on Casper case in Erie
Acting Chief Flannigan and patrolmen Mulheir and Brown travel to Erie for talks with District Attorney Gotham on the Paul Casper Jr case. Casper is held in connection with a Wheel-In Gasolins Station robbery on East Columbus Avenue. Casper’s brother Carl and the Cratus youth, linked to a Spiesman Shoe Store robbery, pleaded guilty earlier and were sentenced to county court. The younger Casper admits involvement in the Columbus burglary and is expected to plead guilty. Alex Hammond of Detroit is a guest at the Wolford home on East Main Street.
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Mulheir
Brown
Erie
Gotham
Paul Casper, Jr
Sby R
Ream
East Columbus Avenue
Capper
Carl
Cratus
Casper
Columbus Avenue
Hoover Notification Ceremonies Set for August 8 or 15
Washington July 19 President Hoover will be notified of his renomination by the Republican ticket on August 8 or 15. House Republican Leader Bert Snell of New York announced at the White House that the ceremony location was not yet determined.
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Washington
House
Bertrand Shell
New York
White House
Hoover
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Snell
Pinchot Charges Huge Error in Economy Bill
Governor Pinchot accuses the House economy bill of a $15 million error, contending only about 6.27 million is available for unemployment relief. He cites abatements under the Talbach measure and reductions in revenue, warns Philadelphia hospital and relief funds would shrink to about two million, and derides the Woodward Sense bill as ridiculous.
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Senate
Pinchot
Harry Scott
Centre County
Senate Appropriations Committee
Priblin
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Counterfeiters' Cache Bared By Prisoner
Pittsburgh July 19 A man who led Federal investigators to a cache of alleged counterfeiting equipment in an abandoned mine near Layton Fayette County is held on under 1000 dollars bond awaiting a Federal grand jury action. U S commissioner yesterday ordered Paul Sidorenka who allegedly posted a counterfeit five dollar note arrested on charges of passing the spurious bill and delivering the equipment to Federal agents.
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United Press
Pittsburgh
Layton
Fayette County
U.S
Paul Sidorenka
Clairton
Sidorenka
Federal relief funds sought to aid destitute Pennsylvanians
Governor Pinchot applied to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for a $45 million emergency loan to cover nine months of relief. He urged immediate access of $10 million to feed the starving and organize aid, warning delay could cause disorder. He cited 11.6 million unemployed or underemployed Pennsylvanians and noted state funds are exhausted. A second item reports enabling legislation to use federal relief funds moves through the legislature with a tentative $21 million in state economies to support relief and a Baldwin amendment paving future borrowing, pending a constitutional election. In the same issue a separate brief notes a boy fractured his arm near 730 Liberty Street when the car crank caused an accident.
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Joseph S. Wasney
United Press
Harrisburg
Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Pincchet
Pennylvania
Senate
Baldwin
Ni Seériale Appropriations Committee
Radio Ents Today Signal Five Best Programs
Today’s five best radio entertainments listed across networks including WABC CBS WEAF NBC and WIZ with performers Sir Reis and Dunt Sanderson Crum Wynn and Bani and programs noted as Concert and Freight in a terse network summary.
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WEAF
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Crum
NBC
Nk Wynn
Bani Walle
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