Pennsylvania Telephone to Break Ground on $150000 Plant Shift
The Pennsylvania Telephone Corporation announces a $150000 improvement plan to eliminate aerial crossings over the Pennsylvania and Erie Railroad at Center Street. A conduit will route cables underground from Park Place to Main Street, enabling a dial system and new colonial-style headquarters expected to start in August and finish by January 1. The Upton Lang Co of Erie is named as general contractor, with construction advancing on the Park Street site.
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Pennsylvania and Erie
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Park Street
Pennsylvania Telephone Corporation
Upton-Lang Company
Erie
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Washington
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Trmetion
Corry
Bus Service Normal in Detroit Again
Detroit press reports bus service returned to normal after a strike by new drivers protesting a city charter amendment. A 30 day truce with Detroit Street Railway suspended the issue while a court tests the measure’s impact on seniority across trolley and coach divisions.
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United Press
Detroit
Bia
Detroit Street Railway
State Federation of Labor Urging Passage
John A. Phillips, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, sent telegrams to members of Congress urging wage hour legislation. The federation represents 409,000 wage earners and warns that failure to pass the act this session would harm the economy and delay recovery.
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Ey Wien
Creus
Washington
John A. Phillips
Bennsylvania Federation of Labor
Congress
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Federation of Labor
Train Derailment Kills 26 in Paris Suburb
United Press reports a Saint Etienne express derailed near Villerive Saint Georges while speeding to the Vosges. Twenty six killed and 40 injured, as a single wooden car burst into flames after crushing between two steel cars. Some victims burned alive. two bodies still missing under wreckage.
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Vosges
Villerieve Saint Gorges
Pues
Iito Humes
Chinese and Japanese clash in North China cities
Dispatches describe Japanese forces mopping up Tientsin and Shanghai while Chinese government troops struggle to respond. Reports from Nanping and Peiping note disjointed reinforcements and stalled tempo as Japanese advance continues.
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United Press
Tientsin
North China
Peiping
Shanghai
Chinrac Kovernment
Naniting
Changhsinten
Hershey Hosts Conference To Unite Independent Unions
Representatives from independent unions in the Middle Atlantic and New England met in Hershey to plan a strong organizational structure. Attendees included Mark Traynor of Rochester and leaders from 60 000 workers across 800 unions, spanning automobile, textile, clothing, and other sectors. The group aims to form the American Federation of Independent Unions.
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United Press
Advance Work on Legislation Moves Toward House Floor
Washington July 30 The congressional tax avoidance committee completed work on recommendations to close tax loopholes and expedite legislation to reach the house floor week after next. The plan reportedly calls for increased surtaxes on personal holding companies limits on holding company deductions expanded use of nonresident aliens and restrictive taxes on trusts. Chairman Robert L. Doughton said the group would reconvene Tuesday to finalize its report.
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Sy Annes
Washington
Congressional Tax Avoidance Committee
World Today
Uniterstand
Gary Cooper Home Burglarized for $18 000 in Jewelry
Hollywood report says Gary Cooper and wife Veronica Balfe were away when burglars looted jewelry worth over $18,000 from their residence. Police said additional items including dinner plates and linen could raise the total loss to about $25,000.
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Gary Cooper
Cooper
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Addiiton
CCC enrollee killed in accident near Emporium
Thomas B. Tyler of Philadelphia a colored CCC camp member near Emporium was fatally struck by an automobile in a July 90 incident.
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Thomas B. Tyler
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Emporium
City of Baltimore Burned After Bay Fire Disaster
Two die two missing as the City of Baltimore stern wheeler burned in Chesapeake Bay. Officials probe rifling of mail sacks as a post office and railroad theft investigation widens. Passengers and crew leaped into cold water to escape flames. one fireman reported safe later. A second incident linked to robberies and mail sacks investigated by federal and Pennsylvania Rail Road police.
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Ed Cullis
Triinster
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Rate Nilehen
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Louisville
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James Bateliven
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W. G. Gilson
Fate
Gibson
iMcent
W. W. Waterhouse
Panine
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Waterhouse
Boston
German and Russian Ambassadors Clash at London Meeting
At a committee session in London on July 30, German Ambassador Vorebkin accused the Soviets of starting the Spanish war. Russian charged Britain with stoking the nonintervention plan amid tensions with Germany.
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London
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Rossa
Spilninb
Russa
PUC Wile Checks Pa Gas Tariffs
The Public Utility Commission will hold hearings for 22 Western Pennsylvania gas companies excluding Penns Valley Gas. Entities Curry Erie Warren will be affected with hearings in Philadelphia Rideway Bead o and Pittsburgh. The inquiry covers three counties with temporary gates to curb excessive pending outcomes.
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Guppilies Curry
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Conméssioi
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Japs Use Planes Bomb Chinese Centrals at Paotingfu
Japanese war planes bombed central government concentrations at Paotingfu and killed 25 Chinese soldiers, the Central News Agency reported today.
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United Press
Nanking
Paotinggu
Labor Urges Passage of Wage and Hour Bill
Washington July 30 Labor leader William Green of the American Federation of Labor urged swift passage of the Wage and Hour bill. He cautioned lawmakers that Senate delays must not derail reform and called for action in committee to craft a version acceptable to labor.
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United Press
Wiabhington
William Green
American Foderation of Labor
Geis
Connery Wage
Ang Howe
Wperess Iy
Green
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Lular
Grem
Wwe
Final rites for murder victim as lover held
White funeral services are held for Florence Jackson, 37, murdered by her lover who admitted the crime after conferring with counsel in Queens County jail. The incident involved a red belt and a plea that she asked him to.
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Vicin
New York
Floremce Jackson
Queens
Co A Survives Blow Wins in Field Meet
The 28th division National Guard unit at Indiantown Gap reports a tense encampment week with weather challenges. Soldiers endured heavy rains as they prepared for homeward discharge early Saturday morning and discussed the camp’s thrills and hardships in reports from Fig Newton Chase and General Roelofs.
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Johnstown
Governor cannot reduce long terms in Alabama rape cases
Montgomery July 30 Governor Bibb Graves said Alabama law prevents reducing prison sentences for three men convicted of rape in the Scottsboro case. Reports claimed Andy Wright Heywood Patterson and Charlie Weems faced 0, 6, and 75 years respectively for alleged participation in assaults on two white women aboard a freight train in March 1931.
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Vyncu Crves
Montgomery
Ala
Jr. Bibb Graves
Alabama
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Andy Wright
Heywood Patterson
Charlie Weems
Woman Killings Spark Barn Quarrel in Spartansburg Farm
A man, 57, died after his wife allegedly struck him with an ax following a violent quarrel in the barn on their Spartansburg farm. The wife, 49, was charged with murder as a neighbor and police moved suspect and injured to hospital. investigation continued.
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Aorta
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Leanatdn
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Maine
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Tileo
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Bray
Sadie Dor
Uledeeh
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Lownie
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Records of Erie Broker Charged With Fraud
Erie Pa July records detail Charles I Kamerer a one time broker known as a boy millionaire facing a $2000 fraud charge. He remained in jail as a $60000 bond was not posted and state securities officials led by Edward W Teuscher and examiner Willa F Grant reviewed Kamerer’s ledgers in his office.
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Erie
Recorda
Charles I. Kamerer
State Securities Commission
Kamerer
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