Route 6 in Excellent Shape Across Nation
Clyde F Brown reports Route 6 condition from Provincetown to Long Beach as excellent except for 85 miles in Utah gravel. Traffic on the highway rising monthly. World Fair traffic up 15 to 40 percent in places. plan to beautify roadside and add directional signs. Over 60,000 Route 6 folders printed in Pennsylvania.
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Mass
Long Beach
Calif
8 Route 6 Association
Fork Jervis
Clyde F. Brown
Long
PR Gleeton
Bainsboro
Pennsylvania
Brown
Wendell B. Phillips
J.P. Gibbs
New York State
Utah
Alex Fitrhugh
Des Moines
Iowa
Cave
Pennsylvena
WPA to reduce state and federal payrolls in Pennsylvania
About 800 state WPA administrative federal employees in Pennsylvania will be cut from the payroll by September 1 to meet a 35 percent budget reduction under the 1939 40 relief act. Discharges for 180 office workers are effective now, with 500 more to follow, leaving about 1 500 administrative staff. Lieutenant Colonel Philip Mathews has been nominated as state WPA administrator.
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Pennsylvania
B. C. Smith
Bmnith
Smnith
Roosevelt
Philip Mathews
U. S, Army
WPA
Mathews
Urly
Boy dies after freight train hopping in Pennsylvania
A 14 year old Trafford boy was killed in Wilkinsburg while hopping a freight train. He lost his grip and was crushed beneath a box car wheel, dying in Columbia hospital. The incident was reported to the coroner.
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United Press
Wilkinsburg
Trafford Oly
Columbia Hospital
Charles Chappettille
Velma West Squeals On Pal As Leader
Velma West, a murderess, confessed in Dallas to leading an escape from the Ohio women's reformatory on June 20. She named Mary Ellen Richards as the co-conspirator who conceived and engineered the break, aiding two other inmates to flee.
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Velma West
United Press
Dallas
Tex
Ohio Women's Reformatory
Dallns
Mary Ellen Richards
Rainfall Drought Relief For Northwestern Pennsylvania Crops
Heavy showers drenched the region easing drought fears for crops and gardens in northwestern Pennsylvania. Farmers hail the rain as a Godsend aiding oats, potatoes, corn and berry crops while haying progresses and drought damage diminishes. Some potato blight noted but not severe. rainfall improves blackberry and raspberry prospects amid cooler nights.
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Pennsylvania
Men Probing N J Politics
The Justice Department investigates alleged political corruption and civil liberty violations tied to the Hague machine in New Jersey. The probe also examines Bernard N. McFeely Hoboken Democratic boss and Enoch Johnson Atlantic County Republican leaders. Federal agents have questioned scores in Jersey City Atlantic City and Hoboken.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Hague
New Jersey
United Press
Bernard N. McFeely
Hoboken
Enoch Johnson
Atlantic County
N. J
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Jersey City
Avanus City
Fayette and York vote on two jurists this November
Dauphin county court orders that Fayette and York counties elect judges this November. Commonwealth Secretary S M R O'Hara is instructed to accept petitions for Democratic and Republican nominees, after advice from Attorney General Claude T Rens. Falls 400 feet incident reports a driver escaping with bruises after a 200 foot plunge in Pittsburgh.
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Fayette and
York
United Press Harrisburg
Dauphin County
Fayette and York
Commonwealth
S. M. R. O'Hara
Claude T. Rens
Pittshurgh
Harry Zimbala
Bilward City
Elf
Drought Damages Rise Across Mid-Atlantic States
Daily losses from the 27 day drought in Pennsylvania New Jersey and Delaware topped 10 million dollars with over a million in daily damages. New Jersey losses cited between six and ten million while Pennsylvania estimated over two million. Four heat drownings and one lightning death raised total fatalities from the heat wave.
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United Press
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Amos Kirby
Mullica Him
N. J
Farm Security Administration
Pennsylvania Department of Agrculture
Joseph Migliore
Philadelphia
Howard Atwood
Camden
Anthony Decappio
Titusville
John Alfred Sutler
Enterprise
Thomas Chamberlain
Bridgeton
Edgar Goodwin, Jr
Trenton
Henry Vick
Pennsauken
Paul Nauss
Relief Board Examinations Set for Fall Across Nine Cities
Civil service exams for state Department of Public Assistance jobs will be held in nine cities including Erie from September 30 to October 1. Pay ranges from 1020 to 3000 annually. Old eligibles lists were discarded as uneconomical and outdated. New tests will form replacement lists and certain existing employees will not be required to reapply.
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Erie
Cartey
Corry
Vicnity
State Department of Public Assistance
Lst
Civil Service
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Harrisburg
Johnstown
Allentown
Williamsport
Scranton
DiBois
Civil Sérvice
Assistance Department
Board
Anid
Lewis Attacks Garner Over Unions During Wage Hour Debate
John L. Lewis of the Congress of Industrial Organizations denounced Vice President Garner as a labor battling, whisky drinking, evil old man amid House Labor Committee review of wage hour act amendments. Garner read a United Press account of the testimony, said he has no comment and would not criticize anyone.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organizations Today
John Ni Garner
Lewis
Thhat Garner
Garner
United Press
Western Auto to Open New Location in Ajax Building
Lester R. Lopus owner of Weston Auto Associate Store announced plans to relocate from the Barlow block to the Ajax building in North Center Street. The move targets August 15 pending store assistants from Western Auto Supply HQ in Cleveland. The relocation will provide expanded floor space to accommodate a 50 percent stock increase and improved display.
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Lester R. Lopus
Ajax
Weston Auto Associate
Barlow
Woodworth
T Ajax
Nori Center
Lopus
He Journal
Western Auto Supply
Cleveland
Lupus
Quinn to Speak at John Brown Picnic July 29
Francis B. Quinn Erie attorney will be the chief speaker at the John Brown Memorial Association reunion in New Richmond on Saturday July 29. A 1 3 oclock program follows a noon dinner served by New Richmond church ladies. The Esquires quartet and Miss Ruth Bennett with Miss Barbara Anderson Corry will perform, adding to the day’s program. The reunion site is near the tannery where abolitionist John Brown once operated, drawing a Northwestern Pennsylvania crowd. business meeting and officer elections are planned.
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Peerry
Debnt Bton Memorial Association
New Richmond
Francis B. Quinn
Erie
Wil
Fsquires
Ruth Bennett
Barbara Anderson
Corry
Pennsylvania
Water relief tests under way for East Wayne street sewer
City and property owners report encouraging results from a Wednesday test of a new sewer section on East Wayne street designed to divert storm water to a vacant lot. Officials say heavier rains are needed for a definitive check, with possible future expansion from Congress-Wayne to the horse.
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Wayne Street
Wes Aga
Congress
East Wayne Streets
Council
Manchten
Rouse
Tewiy Mills
Barkeiry
Frank
Hepler
The
Journal Today
Smith Street
Cornell
Hoodlum gunmen fire on town. boy wounded in Pa
State police searched for youths in a brown automobile after shots fired from a passing car shattered the general store windows and lightly wounded 13-year-old boy Paul Yeager in Hollum Sang. The assailants fled through Main Street of the Williams community.
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Thomas
Gahy
Paul Yeager
Win
Frank
Ullel
WiHe Miking
Brown Fuitomobile
J_ Hf
Mars Nears Earth In 36 Million Mile Proximity
New York July 97 the planet Mars nears Earth at sunset and will be 36,023,100 miles away the closest in 15 years. Astronomers will photograph surface markings with strong telescopes while lay observers ask if life exists there. Radio stunts minded as a novelty mirror the War of the Worlds broadcast.
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United Press
New York
Mars
Janowt
Orson Welles
H. G. Wells
Wonder
Miiion
Newark
N. J
New Jersey
Welles
Lansford
United States Abrogates 1911 Japan Treaty
The United States abrogates the 1911 treaty of commerce and navigation with Japan, clearing the way for potential embargo or retaliation over Japan's Asia policy. Secretary Hull informs the Japanese ambassador as Congress signals support for strong action, amid stock and bond market reactions.
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Bate Department
Japan
Seuoh
Wy Beil
My Vandenbers
Mii Agit
Uy Clube Rey
State Department
Uae
Sherenxing
Selina Wokvo
United States
Ax Tapiny
China
Weber
Stock Exchange Res
Tokyo
Far East
Truck Driver Held After Bradford Auto Crash
Paul Stavros 47 of Detroit was hospitalized in Bradford after a collision with a truck driven by Clarente Stanford Buffalo. Stanford was held on reckless driving charges. Stavros said he slowed on Route 18 to yield for a left turn but the other vehicle struck his car destroying it.
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United Press
Bradford
Paul Stavros
Detroit
Bradford Hospital
Clarente Stanford
Buffalo
Stavros
Stanford
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Relief Board
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Western Auto Store
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