Current SAG in Industry Seen as Natural Dip
Industrial activity has dipped six percent from December peak as steel and allied lines slow. Retail trade and services hold near 1939 levels, with optimism for a quick rebound in the next month or two. Babson notes steel capacity fallen to 87 percent, the lowest since last summer, while other key industries also declined.
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Roger Babson
Babson Park
Fla
Boston
Florida
Dha
Steel and Allied Lines
Destroyers move to scene of naval attack echoing war aims
Ty United Press reports Sumner Welles, Roosevelt's envoy to Europe, heard Hitler's war aims and attitude toward peace. The piece notes an echo of the war within the American neutrality zone as three US destroyers and a Coast Guard cutter head toward a distant location about 150 miles northeast.
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Ty United Press
Sumner Welles
Roosevelt
Europe
Adolf Hitler
United States
Coast Guard
Buchalter Guilty on 15 Counts in Racketeering Case
Louis Buchalter, leader of industrial rackets, is found guilty on 15 counts in a high profile trucking and buying scheme. Federal and state actions fuse as he faces combined sentences, with Dewey’s office pressing for harsh punishment and a separate narcotics case already yielding a long federal term. The dual actions threaten a lengthy imprisonment if he survives the expected state sentence after the federal term.
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Frese
New York
Louis
Lepke) Buchalter
Trump
Thomas E. Dewey
Buchalter
Pennsylvania Bill Aims to Curb Official Coercion
Pittsburgh report states a proposed Pennsylvania bill modeled on Hatch law seeks to shield public officials from political pressure. It would make it unlawful for a public official to threaten dismissal or intimidation to influence campaign contributions or political activity.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Commissionera
Deer Township
Installation at Presbyterian Church Sunday
Bay Scouting in Corry takes another step forward Sunday when Troop 82 will be formally installed at the Presbyterian church with Wilford Pomeroy as scout master. District Scout Council met at the Library Friday with about twenty five boosters. Elaborate preparations are under way for the installation, replacing former Troop J. Scout master Pemercys will be aided by a full committee. District Commissioner Ray Yohe will preside. Delegation from Troop 4 of Erie and representatives from St Pauls Lutheran will attend. Rev Edward L Wagner will deliver the sermon. The council also schedules a new installation at Emmanuel church on March 31.
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Bay
Presbyterian Church
Wilford
Pomeroy
District Scout Council
Pemercys
Ellewort Hall
Bruce Smith
Harold Wolfe
Harold Sweet
Robert Whitnex
Merrill Patterson
Porter Auer
Ross Fehlman
Ray Yohe
Charles H. Brugger
John L. Taylor
Erie
Toop 70
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Edward L.wagner
St. Pauls
Corry
Episcopal Church
Charles Collier
Emmanuel Church
Wil
Searl Files for Democratic State Treasurer Nomination
Harrisburg March 2 Jack son E Searl Bethlehem former deputy secretary of revenue and Young Democratic state chairman filed petitions with the state elections bureau for Democratic nomination for state treasurer He says he entered the race because the Democratic state committee made it an open primary Thompson the Philadelphia veteran candidate filed petitions for Republican nomination for auditor general
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Harrisburg
Jackson E. Sears
Bethlehem
Secretary of Revenue
State Elections Bureau
Sarl
Democratic State Committee
Searl
Frank P. B. ‘Thompson
Philadelphia
Five suffocate in Worcester apartment fire
Early in the day a five story Worcester apartment building was destroyed by fire. Five people perished including George D B Thompson and Mrs Anda Hydock along with Miss Jean E Nordstrom and her sisters Rena and Tora. Sixty tenants were carried down ladders or fled the freezing weather.
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Worcester
Mass
Maron
George DB
Thompson
Anda Hydock
Jean E. Nordstrom
Rena
Tora
Jurist Expected to Divorce Mrs James Roosevelt
Betsey Cushing Roosevelt’s attorney anticipated a divorce ruling on Monday for James Roosevelt, heir to the presidency. Judge Thomas Gould presided as hearings continued with testimonies from her brother and a valet, amid a court process that may yield further action.
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Jurist
James Roosevelt
Mareh
Betsey Cushing Roosevelt
Thomas
Gould Yelerdey
Howard
Cushing
Gunfire off Scottish coast spooks Berwick residents
London dispatch reports early morning gunfire off the Scottish coast near Berwick-on-Tweed. Residents rushed to the seashore believing a naval engagement underway. German bombing planes were reported nearby, with RAF fighters scrambled to the scene.
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United Press
London
Berwick-on- Tweed
Germany
Royal Air Force
Guffey Unopposed as Jones Silent in Democratic Nomination Fight
In Harrisburg on March 2, Joseph F. Guffey faces no official opponent for the Democratic renomination as petition drives continue. Walter A. Jones declines comment on a possible challenge while petition efforts also target Leo Mundy and John B. Keckly. A separate bid for auditor general emerges with F. Clair Ross and Donald M. Livingston filing, and Owen B. Hunt enters the state treasurer race. Republican filings remain limited with Frederick T. Gelder as a notable candidate.
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United Press
Harrisburg
Dem- Stee
Joseph F. Guffey
Turnpike
Walter A. Jones
Jones
Leo GC Mundy
Wilkes-Barre
Guffey
Philadelphia
John B. Keklly
F. Clair Ross
Donald M. Livingston
Owen B. Hunt
Fle
Frederick T. Gelder
State Senate
Genera
Baldwin Ordered to End Company Union
In Eddystone Pennsylvania Baldwin Locomotive Works faced a National Labor Relations Board ruling charging the company dominated union. The board ordered the firm to cease acts and to desist from any further connection with the Federation of Baldwin Employees and to end the company union.
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Eddystone
Mare
Baldwi Locomotive Works
National Labor Relations
NLRB
J. Warren Madden
Edwin S. Smitty
Balwin
Baldwin Employes
Ite
University seeks half million more annually, Pitt news
A Pittsburgh report notes the University of Pittsburgh faces a need for an additional 500000 dollars per year to cover current expenses. Speaker John G Boys Mal Tas addresses Pitt alumni, highlighting financial pressures and the institution's total funding requirements.
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Pittsburgh
Pittteburgh
Chavieslior
John G
Pitt
Appointment of Denis Driscoll Drags Public Utility Commission
The fate of the Public Utility Commission hinges on Denis Driscoll. If St Marys attorney resigns from PUC, Republicans would gain control and threaten about 350 employees. Driscoll, trustee candidate for the Associated Gas and Electric Company reorganization, is named by Judge Letchell to supervise the billion dollar system.
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Public
Utiility Commission
Commission
Toome
Dénis 2. Driscoll
St. Marys
Associated Gas and Electric Company
New York
Vincent L. Letchell
Driscoll
Decison
Tlly Commission
Arthur H. James
Republica
Cristol
Driscol
Thomas Buchanan
Beaver
Richard J. Beamish
Harrishing
James
John Sigains
Warren
Ralph W. Thorne Williamsport
Senate
Sigains
Thorne
State Treasury
Auditor General's Department
Washington
A.C
Pennsylvania
Italy to Protest British Blockade Tomorrow
Rome announces that Italy will protest to Great Britain over the British blockade measures, especially Britain’s coal blockade from Dutch carriers. A protest memorandum was drawn up and will be forwarded by the Italian government to Britain and possibly to the Allies.
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Rome
Italy
Great Britain
Freighter Southgate Located in Safe Condition
March 2 The Navy announced the Mush freighter Southgate which had flashed a submarine a danger message last night had been located by Navy planes and found in no apparent danger on San Juan Puerto Rico. A British broadcast said the German freighter Tyoja was set afire by its crew and scuttled off the Netherlands East Indies after being challenged by a British warship. Unconfirmed reports circulated from Montevideo that several German freighters with two submarines and possibly a pocket battleship were off the Umneuga coast in the South Atlantic. More British warships are believed to be in that region.
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United Press
Washington
NAVY
Southgate
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Netherlands
Indies
Montevideo
South Atlantic
Umneuagan
Herlini
Miter
Welles
United States
Hitler
Highway engineers to discuss spring road program
Harrisburg March 2 department officials will meet March 9 to arrange the state's spring road maintenance and construction plan. Highways Secretary Laimoni Hughes announced the gathering to align materials and reconstruction engineers with new specifications for concrete pavement during the department laboratory week.
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Harrisburg
Asteleton
Laimoni
Hughes
Spegtars
WPA Worker Dies in Storm Sewer Project
In Castle, Pennsylvania, a WPA worker named Clarence Letlow, 58, died when a frozen trench wall collapsed during storm sewer construction. Fellow worker Charles Cillne received minor injuries. The accident occurred shortly after the trench wall gave way, pulling down the supporting crib.
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WPA
Sew Castle
WEA
Glarence Letlow
New Quatle
Charles Cyllne
Roosevelt to Return to United States to Probe Attack
President Roosevelt returns to the United States to oversee an inquiry into reports that a Western Hemisphere safety zone was violated by submarine activity. The White House cites attacks near Puerto Rico on a freighter and a German sub, with British warships intercepting others in the Caribbean.
Free Woman in Double Deaths
In Washington a coroner jury exonerates Mrs Mary Caldwell in the double killings tied to a farm home shooting on February 20. Acting on orders from Glenn Planta the shooter killed Planta and wounded her husband Halph with a shotgun through a kitchen window. The outcome clears Caldwell of murder charges. Also noted is the death of Hall of Fame pitcher Hill Ny 73 at Temple University Hospital.
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Washington
Pas
Mary Caldwell
Glenn Planta
Caldwell Haid
Halph
Te Ghisle
North Trabane
Wlathei
Yitomen
Slim
39 Red Army Planes Near Helsinki Reported
Fragmentary wartime note reports thirty nine Red Army aircraft near Helsinki with bombing to the north of the capital. Messages mention elevated warnings, wounded, and unclear signals while observers describe aerial activity from multiple squadrons and German escorts in the vicinity.
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United Press
Helsin
Kindis
Corry Youths Eligible for Training Camp
Applications received by committee member Lester Lopus for the 140 Girleenw Military Training Camp set to begin July 8 with sessions at Fort Bragg Virginia Port Manttee and other posts. The camp offers training in artillery infantry signals and more, with transport and medical attention provided. eligibility depends on successful examinations and the first conformation of applicants for the summer course.
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Citizens Military
Lester Lopus
Leenian
Augia
Sean
Wavell
Lops
Teen Wade
Lye Leen
Drs VW
Gratiam
Muah D'Hire
Fort Brivoir
Eawelly
Port Mantee
Edaxh Artillery
Port Hayl
Field Artillery
Au Infantry
Foy Howard
Bifanniy
Eploved
Jehaes
Abelter
Saint Laundry
Girl to Become Bride Today in Quebec
A young woman, reported as 16, was to marry today in Quebec amid a ceremony attended by family and local residents. The event followed a notable voyage and weather conditions including a storm that affected travelers and pilots nearby.
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Quebec
Dwessslers
Doe
Tire
de Streyert
Yoominns
Mornig
Botthin
St. Malaise
Gye
Two Erie County Residents Die In Separate Vehicle Crashes
Traffic accidents claim the lives of two Erie County residents within eighteen hours. Joseph F. Duke, 56, of Erie formerly of Corry, was struck by a bus near Waterford while Brak Kern, 71, of Waterford, was killed when his truck was struck by a second vehicle four miles west of Waterford. The crashes occurred as Duke walked the Erie street near Hullette Road and Kern stopped along route 5. Police say Duke stepped into the path of the bus, Kern’s collision happened while he was driving west toward Erie. Investigations by State Highway Department official Clarence Dingfelder and others continue.
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Erie County
Joseph F. Duke
Erie
Corry
Brak Kern
Walter Dinghelder
Waterford
Byealy
Mt Erie
Brie Coneh Company
Hultele Road
McGlellaned
Bia
Yinno
Charles Mathers
Trust
Wietnm
Duke
Ik Bus
Jo Tone
Fohi
Hewani
Shviter Waller G. Stroble
Wetnediake Investiga
Beg Tollke
Clive Anorniyy
Stoker Gamripany
Vesa
Manon ‘Varner
Irs
Martin Orooke
Gillfornia
Winoloverd Wl Boll
Wo & A
P Howard
Aed
Ells i Dingfelder
State Highway
Departmentext
Bele
Dodge
Struc
Trane Kern
Alwit
Dingfelder
Hig Brother
Clarence Dingfelder
Robert Nichols
Lela
Fle Uele Jetniike
Jy Poinh
Vetlim Walle
Nazi Plane Downs Belgian Plane In Belgium Province
A German aircraft shot down a Belgian plane over the Belgian province today, with reports confirming the loss and casualties. The incident adds to mounting tensions as forces maneuver in the region and Allied responses are awaited.
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United Pree
Brussels
Geontkit
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