Stalemate on WI Work as relief bill may end today
United Press reports Washington notes a standoff over the New Deal work relief bill with the prevailing wage amendment a key vote. Labor leaders pledge to resist compromise while Sen Pat McCarran defends the measure. Administrations aides maneuver as final ballots approach amid party tensions and possible approval.
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F.D. R. Post
U. S
H. C. Thompson
United Press
Washington
Senate
Organized Labor
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Pat McCarran
McDervah
Pennsylvania Telephone takes over Columbus exchange
Arrangements are under way for the Pennsylvania Telephone Corp to take over the Columbus exchange, consolidating with the Corry system around April 1. The merger has PSC approval and plans include new poles between Corry and Columbus, plus a joint project with Pennsylvania Hled tle Co. A new cable ling is expected, and Columbus patrons will be served directly through the Corry exchange, expanding service for both communities.
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Pennsylvania Telephone Corporation
Columbus Exchange
Corry
Public Service Commission
Columbus
Colimbun
Thia Arate Ie Lion
Relief Agency Plans Large Potatoes Buy in Erie County
The state will purchase 270000 pounds of potatoes for relief use in Erie County with 10000000 pounds authorized overall. Surplus crop sales would benefit growers by about 69000 and shipments will go to six collecting points including Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Warehouse facilities are being arranged and growers are asked to contact the Potatoes to Growers Association or state agriculture officials.
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Pennsylvania
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation
U. S
Pittsburgh
Wilkes Barre
Johnstown
Philadelphia
Erie
Yore
Potato Growers Association
State Department of Agriculture
Corry School System Praised for Teaching Standards
Corry district praised by Henry Klonower chief of the Beacher Division of Public Instruction for high teaching staff qualifications. The district maintains 100 percent of teachers with two or more years preparation since 1920 21 and 44.2 percent are college graduates, reflecting strong professional standards amid economic pressures.
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Corry
Henry Klonower
Beacher
Ineui
Klonower
Gerry
Three Die On Crossing In Cuyahoga Falls Collision
Three people died when a gasoline electric interurban train struck an automobile at a crossing in Cuyahoga Falls during the night. The victims were John A. Bernel, his wife Frances Bernel, and their nephew Thomas Henry, all from Akron.
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United Press
AKRON
Cuyahoga Falls
John A. Bernel
Frances Bernel
Thomas Henry
12000 Federal Agents Launch Huge Cleanup
Treasury today sent its 12000 law enforcement agents into a major national crime drive. Coast to coast underworld rings were hit as arrests climbed, with well over 200 already recorded and more expected hourly. The drive mirrors a nationwide narcotics cleanup, extending to all tax and law violations under treasury jurisdiction. Stephen B. Gibbons directs the effort, coordinating secret conferences among top treasury enforcement officers over ten weeks.
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United Press
Washington
Treasury
Brsb
Stephen B. Gibbons
The
Jersey Youth Admits Story of Kidnapping Hoax
Wilmington March 15 Police and federal agents withheld full details on the reported kidnapping of Chester Hyde 21 of Woodbridge New Jersey after an unconfirmed claim he confessed to Chief Howard L Boyd that the alleged abduction was a hoax Hyde was found bound in Rockford Park by two patrolmen and held for Woodbridge authorities He later alleged two men and a woman abducted him and took him to Philadelphia before bringing him to Wilmington for release.
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United Press
Wilmington
Del
Chester Hyde
Woodbridge
N. J
Howard L. Boyd
Hyde
Rockford Park
Bureau of Investigation
Philadelphia
Detective Bureau
Young Hyde
Philatphia
Hien
Parle
Red Cross Aids Flood Refugees Across Missouri and Arkansas
Midwest Red Cross headquarters reports caring for more than 4500 flood refugees in seven Missouri and Arkansas counties with the number expected to exceed 6000 by nightfall.
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United Press
ST. Louis
Midwest
The
American Red Cross
Missouri
Arkansas
Twenty Nine Miners Ordered To Appear For Court
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania twenty nine officers and members of the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania were notified to appear in court tomorrow for a final decision on contempt of court proceedings.
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Wilkes-Barre
United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania
Payroll Robbery Strikes Shamokin Shirt Plant
A lone bandit assaulted Mrs. Leis Podob near Shamokin Pennsylvania at midday and escaped with 1200 dollars from the Shamrock Shirt Company payroll. Police search for the suspect.
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Shamokin
Sandit
Leis Podob
Swithh
Shamrock Shirt Company
State considers oil industry control plan in PennsylvanIa
Harrisburg March 15 A system to regulate price and production of oil products similar to public utilities is under serious consideration by the state administration. The plan would strip the Public Service Commission of many powers and establish a new state agency resembling a public utilities board. Governor Earle seeks to conserve the oil reserve as the industry expands, with prices and profits to be regulated. Joseph H Guttey has asked the U.S. Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to approve related actions.
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United Press
Harrisburg
Commission
Earle
Toda
Public Service Commission
Gifford Pinchot
Aidy
Ins
Joseph H. Guttey
Interstate Commerce Committee
U. S. Senate
Pennsylvania
Basing Point Issue May Pass to Congress
Washington dispatch reports sharp conflict between NRA and FTC over the steel basing point system. NRA backs a group mill base plan for areas with 20000 tons yearly capacity plus finishing mills, establishing area prices within 50 miles. FTC opposes the code as monopolistic and price fixing, with views diverging so far that coordination failed and the matter heads to Congress.
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NRA
The
Trade Commission
Federal Court at Ease Monday for March term
Preparations were under way for the March term of federal court. Jurors were selected but some excused for preexisting engagements. Judges Gibson and Schoonmaker will preside, arriving from Pittsburg area over the weekend. Clerk John Spaeder awaits a docket of criminal cases as the grand jury is sworn next Monday with numerous offenses against the government listed for the session.
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Federal Court
Sorryites
R. M. Gibson
F. P. Schoonmakher
Erle
Pittstaregti
John Spaeder
Water Bills Cut Twenty Cents Under New Schedule
Water customers will save twenty cents on two dollar fifty cent bills under Carry Water Company's new rate, effective April 1. The Journal published a typo last night, omitting the saving for the $2.50 bills. the correct reading is that such bills drop to $2.20, a twenty cent reduction.
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Carry Water Company
Journal
Roosevelt Faces $850 Million Income Tax Deadline
President Roosevelt seeks 850 million dollars from about 2 million income tax payers to meet revenue goals for the fiscal year. Tax returns are due by midnight with a pink publicity slip. about one in 60 will owe, and June 20 is the final realisation date.
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Lyle
Wilson
United Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
Bradford man and woman found dead in tourist cabin
Bradford Pennsylvania March 15 A prominent Bradford house painter and a Beauford woman were found dead in a tourist cabin at Farmers Valley about 1% miles from ten shortly after noon. The man Robert Nesselson and the woman Mrs Lecca Mir Misoy were identified but details of the deaths were not released. A reliable source says there were wounds or marks of violence and signs of poisoning. The bodies were found by Ray Lushibalgio, an attendant at a nearby service station.
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Bradford
United Press
Bradford House
Painnter
Beauford
Farmers Valley
Robert Nesselson
Lecca Mir- Misoy
Ray Lushibalgio
Thousands of Homes Menaced by Mississippi Floods
Widening flood waters push over 100,000 acres in the lower Mississippi Valley and force emergency centers to shelter thousands of people in five states. Three men feared drowned near boundary junctions of Illinois Missouri Arkansas and Kentucky as fears grow of a flood rivaling 1927. In Kennett Missouri river breaks through levee two miles north inundating thousands of acres. 4000 families evacuated while guards and engineers rush repairs and monitor spread.
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Mississippi River
United Press
Illinois
Missouri
Arkansas
Kennett, Mo
St. Francis River
Here
Missettel
Kennett
Army Engineers Corps
National Guard
Speeds East in Attempt to Set 7 Hour Mark
Willys-Post speeds east in the Winnie Mae aiming to span the continent in seven hours and pioneer sub stratosphere commercial flights. He departs from Burbank airport in a fragile craft, wearing a space suit, with no radio and no landing gear, headed for Floyd Bennett Field in New York.
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Norman B. Devel
United Press
Los Angeles
Mar
Wiley Post
Wiley Port
Atlantic Seaboard
Post
Earl R. Genderlin
Condi
Pie “Auini
Muroe
Ake
Mojave
Cat
Winnie Mae
New York
Som
Wounding Reported In Pittsburgh Hotel Shooting
Don Gender of Montgomery Ward learned yesterday that his 23 year old brother Burl Fi Gender was critically wounded in a Pittsburgh hotel by two personal safety related bullet wounds. The victim, shot in the head and near the heart, had recently been promoted at work and was using the hotel as headquarters since March 6. A small calibre pistol was found by his side and his parents from Olean have gone to his bedside. Latest reports say his condition improved.
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Don Gender
Montgomery Ward & Company
Burl Fi
Gender
Pittsburgh
George Gowle
Olean
Bad Weather Delays Oakland to Honolulu Mystery Flight
Unfavorable weather halts takeoff of a mystery plane from Oakland for a test flight to Honolulu. The mission aims to test a robot pilot and a new radio compass on the 2400 mile great circle route between the mainland and the Hawaiian Islands. The white streamlined Doug- Jays airliner stood ready at Oakland Airport in line for the flight once conditions improve.
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Honolulu
United Press
Oakland
Calif
Oaklandt
Heanhild
Hawaiian Islands
Indiana cashier sentenced to prison in federal case
Thomas W. Robinson, 45, cashier and director of Citizens National Bank in Indiana, Pa, pleaded guilty to misapplication of 32001 and received a year and a day in federal prison. The World War II veteran stood silent as the judge pronounced sentence after the plea through attorney Hiri A. Estep.
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Pittsburgh
Thomas W. Robinson
Citizens National Bank
Indiana
Robinson
Hir—i A. Estep
Congvesantin
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