County to appoint new county engineer Monday
Nevin R. Dickson city engineer is a candidate to fill the county bounty engineer post to replace the late Hill of North East. The board of county commissioners will name the appointee Monday at 10 o clock after receiving eight applications and deferring action for further consideration.
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Nevin R. Dickson
Board of County Commissioners
Hill
North East
Board of Commissioners
Corry
Joan S. Hinkel
Renovo Division
Pennsylvania Railroad
R. B. Herrick
F. G. Diefendorf
H. M. Fry
Fred C. Talbot
County tax collector appointment at courthouse
Members of the Board of County Commissioners will appoint the city tax collector on Monday. G. H. Gordon, current state and county tax collector, is a candidate, along with city treasurer and tax collector Westley Pridy.
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Board of County Commissioners
Court House
G. H. Gordon
Dod
Soho
Pridy TE
Westley
Five Best Radio Entertainments Tonight
WEAF and NBC broadcast at 8 p.m. Edwin Franko Goldman and concert band with NBC network. At 9 p.m. Walter Damroth and Symphony Orchestra on WEA and NBC network. At 10 p.m. B A Rolfe Dance Orchestra on WIZ and NBC network. Also 10 p.m. 614 time melodramas with instrumental suite. Whay Kansas City 12:45 a.m. Night News.
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NBC
Edwin Franko Goldman
WEAF
Walter Damrosth
WEA
A. Rolfe
WIZ
WHAY
Kansas City
Condemned Slayers Pass Through City En Route to Death House
Three Hilla negroes John H Wilson Ray Raymond Parker James Parker and an accomplice bound for the Rockview electric chair passed through the city on the eastbound Pennsylvania Railroad. Accompanied by Sheriff Tick Applebee and Rockview warden Stanley Ashe they faced final denials from the State Pardon Board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockview Monway
Erie
Pennsylvania Railroad
Tick Applebee
Stanley Ashe
Rockview Penitentiary
Lire Erie
Metrons
John H. Wilson
Raymond
James Parker
Two Killed as Heavy Freight Cars Run Wild
Two rail crew members die as 39 loaded coal cars derail and crash into an engine in Reading Railroad yard at St Clair. Another crewman is critically injured. The incident blocks the main yards and prompts a hospital response. Separate report notes a sewage disposal conference and city council plans for improvements and state-mponsored reviews.
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Willville
United Press
Pottsville
Mar
Twishen
St. Clair
Here
Reading Railroad
Guy Frantz
Reading
Joseph Hartnett
Schuylkillhausn
Arakeman
John Howells
Port Carbon
Reading Rail
St. State
Fox Controls Loew's Chain
William Fox purchased a controlling interest in Loew's Inc from Marcus Loew for about 120 dollars a share. The block of stock plus other holdings reportedly gives Fox working control of Loew's, a move announced in Wall Street today.
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United Press
New York
William Fox
Loew
Ing
Marcus Loew
Walltreet
Fox
Loow’s
Wheel of Lindy plane finds wheel during Mexico City excursion
The wheel of Col hus Lindberghs plane nearly cost the flyer and his fiancee Miss Anne Morrow their lives during an air excursion last Wednesday. The wheel was found near the village of Huesustock, Priv 25 miles north of the capital, according to the Prensa newspaper.
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Central Press
Wichita
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Anne Morrow
Mexico City
St. Louis
Col Hus
Filer
da Prensaret
Huesustock
Priv
Four perish in Steubenville Ohio home fire
Steubenville Ohio March 2 Four persons died in a house fire at the William Prim home near Goult station eleven miles west of Steubenville The victim list includes Mrs Dora Prim 45 wife of William Mrs Anne Crawford 22 daughter of the Prims Charles Crawford husband of the daughter and Ollis Crawford months old Coroner A J Bell led searchers who could not locate the bodies all four were believed cremated in the blaze Prim survived with both feet burned off and was hospitalized after the fire though unable to provide details.
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United Press
Steubenville, O
Wiliam Prim
Goults Station
Steubenville
Ohio Valley
Dora Prim
Willian
Prin
Anne Crawford
Charles Crawford
Ollis Crawford
Simonths Old
A. J. Bell
Prim
Nonstop Mexico City to Washington Flight Set Record
Joaquin Gonzalez Pscheco and C. McMillan launched from Mexico City at 6 47 p m in a Stinson Detroiter with 500 gallons of fuel. The ascent flagged new altitude records as they climbed over mountains en route to Tampico. Their route echoed Lindberghs 1927 miles and they planned to pass Tampico Brownsville Galveston New Orleans Atlanta and Richmond. They carried letters from diplomats but not to Hoover due to incomplete delivery.
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Mexico City
Mar
Joaquin Gonzalez Pscheco
C. &. McMillan
Washington
Valbuens Civil
Tampico
Charles A
Lindbergh
Pacheco
McMillan
Bownsville
Galveston
New Orleans
Atlanta
Richmond
Mumtitlan
Emilio Portes Gil
Herbert Hoover
Nis
Dwight W. Morrow
Hoover
Kellogg
Probe dry activities in Pittsburgh investigation unfolds
Pittsburgh March 2 The activities of Albert Scales of the Pittsburgh prohibition office are under investigation, John D Pennington prohibition administrator for the district announced. Scales was suspended from duty last February 12 but Pennington refused to give the cause for the dismissal pending the investigation outcome.
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Pittsburgh
Albert Scales
Pittsburgh Prohibition Office
John D. Pennington
Fennington
Coolidge Signs Bill Aimed at Rum Trade
President Coolidge signed the Jones Bill, imposing a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a 10,000 dollar fine for liquor law violations to curb bootlegging. The measure, effective immediately, pairs with 2 million dollars in prohibition funding and marks a strong enforcement push on the eve of the Hoover administration. The act targets illegal manufacture and transport of liquor, with prosecutors retaining options under Volstead act and liquor tax laws for minor offenses.
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Herbert Little
United Press
Washington
Coolidge
Hoover
Mabel Wilke Vci Jebrandt
Ant Sdloon League
Wesley Tomes
Republican
United States
Committee on Plant Project Holds Meeting
The central committee of citizens overseeing the Industrial Fund campaign met at the Municipal Building this morning at 10.00. Chairman Bentley led a session reporting progress on land parcel options with several offers at fair or nominal prices and others as gifts. The group plans to form a permanent committee, seek legal counsel, and appoint a trustee to represent contributors as negotiations with Phillipsdones Corporation proceed. A follow up meeting next Tuesday will invite all contributors to ratify plans and provide input. A few more pledges were noted, with additions to be published Monday or Tuesday.
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Centra Committee
Citiens
Industrial Fund
Phillipsdones Corporation
Builoing
Bentley
Cenetra
Central Committee
Malta
Hearing Postponed for Sam Martowice at East Main Street Store
Sam Martowice was seized by police after a late Thursday visit to his East Main Street store. A hearing was postponed one week from Friday night. he had been due to be arraigned that evening. Officers reported seizing seven tens gallons of beer and eight and a half gallons of wine during the visit.
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Pellegrino Cook
Erle Storexeéper
Cook
Erie
Sam Martowice
East Main Street
Martowice
Washington forecast promises rain and cold for inauguration day
The Weather Bureau issued an official forecast for the nation's capital predicting increasing cloudiness Sunday followed by rain on Sunday night and likely Monday. The report notes cold temperatures and a brisk wind as conditions complicate events surrounding the inauguration.
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United Press
Washington
United States Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Coolidge appointments die in Congress as term ends
President Coolidge faced a stalled slate as Congress winds down. More than 20 nominations for judgeships and other posts will die when the session ends, including Wilbur to a Ninth Circuit judgeship and Lenroot to the U.S. Court of Customs Appeals. Other slated nominees include Stycken, Carfey, Gardner, McDermott, and Phillips.
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Congress
Wilbur
Raul R. Mallon
United Press
Washington
Mar
Coolidge
Senate
Secretary of Navy
Curtis D. Wilbur
California
Irvin L. Lenroot
Wisconsin
United States Court of Customs Appeals
James
Goolr
Hoover
Wilbur Lloyd Styken
Francis Carfey
New York
Archibald Gardner
South Dakota
George McDermott
Kansas
O. L. Phillips
New Mexic
Robert Lamont Named Secretary of Commerce in Hoover Cabinet
Robert Lamont of Chicago, head of a large steel foundry, was named Secretary of Commerce as part of President Hoover's new Cabinet. The others confirmed include Henry L. Stimson as Secretary of State, Andrew W. Mellon as Secretary of the Treasury, James W. Gow as Secretary of War, Walter J. Woodhel as Attorney General, Wilber J. Brown as Postmaster General, Charles Francis Adams as Secretary of the Navy, Ray Lyman Wilbur as Secretary of the Interior, and James J. Davis as Secretary of Labor. Lamont, a Detroit-born industrial director with ties to Armour, American Radiator, International Harvester, and Bell Telephone, studied at the University of Michigan and previously led Army ordnance procurement in Washington from 1918 to 1919.
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United Press
Washington
Minnesota
Army Ordifanes Déparment
Snk
Hoover Parade Boosts Pennsylvania in Inaugural Run
Mar. 2. Pennsylvania officials prepare for the Hoover inaugural parade as Winthrop Ware is credited with helping Hoover secure the nomination. Sen. Ware remains ill in St Louis and cannot ride in the procession. PennsylvaniaGovernor Fisher leads the contingent toward the incoming president.
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Thomas E. Williams
United Press
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington
Kansas City
United States
Eledt
Ware
Benefit game report leads to murder charge in Carmel
Mon day coverage from Carmel reports Hasty Jones in charge of a benefit basketball game for the Greater Corry Industrial Fund. A later article notes John Gryskiewicz's death from injuries and a first degree murder charge filed against Jolus, with Anna Lillian Mitchell heading to Spring Creek for a week.
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Hasty Jones
Wao
State Armory
Greater Corry
Anna Lillian Mitchell
Spring Creek
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N. R. Dickson
Journcil
H. Young
Meauville
Philip S. Wickerham
Butler
Young
Christan Siebert
Loew's Chain
Ohio
Mexico
Robert Lamont
Chicago
NEW Commerce Secy
Ead
Wade
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