Bitter Fight Looms Over Greenback Bill
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission awarded two thousand dollars in cash across six medals to 18 cases of heroism. William W. Lairson, 39, saved fellow worker John J. Roach from a fatal fall at a tower, bracing and catching him as both tumbled to the ground. Other awards honored rescues in gas interiors and drownings with recipients from Oklahoma, Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, South Carolina, Georgia, and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Preas Rittsburgh
John J. Roach
Lairson
Roach
Texas
Pennsylvania
New York
South Carolina
Oklahoma
Ohio
Kentucky
Sealer Garrity Reports April Weights and Measures
Thomas M. Garrity, newly appointed county sealer, released April’s weights and measures report. Inspectors found four computing scales condemned, one wagon and two platform scales adjusted, four liquid measures condemned for dry use, and two avoirdupois weights condemned. Of 512 packages checked, 92 underweight and 88 unmarked. 40 noncompliant packages were ten pound onion meshes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas M. Garrity
Exie
Sentencing Ahead for Columbus Youth on Burglary Charge
Vicar Hobar, 25, of Columbus, faces four counts of breaking and entering and larceny. He pleaded guilty to stealing cash and cigarettes from the Parje Lunch restaurant on North Center Street early Thursday. The county court will sentence him Monday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vicar Hobar
Columbus
Court House
Hobar Plang
Parje
North Center Strees
Americans in Addis Ababa Remain at Own Risk
Washington May 2 American officials said citizens in Addis Ababa have stayed in the British legation compound for months at their own risk with no plan for a U S military relief. Officials stressed that sending forces was out of the question even if further trouble arose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Preas
Washington
Addis Alba
State Department
Legation
Americana
Ethiopia
Convicted Penn Senator Not to Attend Session
William H. Clark of West Chester, facing an appeal from a bribery sentence, will not occupy his state senate seat during the special legislative session. A leave of absence is planned, shifting the Republican majority and altering the balance to 28 Republicans and 21 Democrats after recent electoral changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morey J. Potter
United Press
Harrisburg
William H. Glark
West Chester
Superior Court
Preas
Solon
Senate
Frank W. Ruth
Berks
James B. Norton
Harry Shapiro
Philadelphia
Clark
Funeral services for Corry’s oldest resident
Funeral services for Corry’s oldest resident Mrs Melissa Chase 99 who died after a short pneumonia illness were held at 2 pm in the home of her adopted daughter Cora Anderson 212 West Pleasant Street Rev B R Lewis of the Christian and Missionary Alliance church officiated. Bearers included Harold and Clifford Anderson Clyde Anderson Harrison Rawson Robert Street and John Street. Attendees from the area included Mr and Mrs Harold Anderson and son Harrison of Erie Mr and Mrs Clyde Anderson and son of Sherman Mrs Gertrude Barwher of Siegertown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corry
Melissa Chase
Mars
Cora Anderson
West Pleasant Street
B. R. Lewis
Christian and Missionary Alliance Church
David Custis Cemet Ery
Columbus
Harold Anderson
Clifford Anderson
Clyde Anderson
Harrison Rawson
Robert
John Street
Harrison
Erle
Clyde Anderson and Son
Sherman
Gertrude Bar Wher
Siegertown
Refuge in British Legation as Addis Ababa Fallout Grows
Foreigners in Addis Ababa sought refuge behind barbed wire at the British legation as Emperor Haileselassie fled the capital. Looting and shootings erupted while Italian forces advance toward the city and the legation prepares to weather a siege. The emperor vowed not to surrender and to seek peace only through the League of Nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Kuh
United Press
London
Addis Ababa
Halle Selausie
Poreignery
Legation
Sidney Barton
Foreign Office
China
Barton
Ethiopia
Exchange Telegraph
Egersi
Ti Wan
Ames
Addis Abava
League of Nations
Parker Sr Directed Kidnapping Of Wendel
United Press reports in New Jersey that Elis Parker Sr a famed rural detective was named by a man under arrest as the person who directed the Wendel kidnapping The suspect said Parker orchestrated the action while Parker Jr remains a fugitive on a kidnapping indictment The confession linked to the Lindbergh case delayed Hauptmann execution authorities pursue further details
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray Sigefeld
Wendel
Brooklyn
Vandensikidl Declares Republican Presidential Candidacy
United States Senator Arthur Vandessikidl announces he will be nominated as a Republican presidential candidate though he says he is not seeking the role. The Michigan senator, long seen as a potential dark horse, says he would accept if offered at the Cleveland convention, amid comments from Governor Frank Taggage of Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Washington
Arthur Vandessikidl
Michigan
Clavell
Washington
Pranktage
NYA Program Continues With $75 Million Federal Aid
Washington reports the National Youth Administration will receive 75 million dollars from the world relief program to continue offering jobs for needy youths aged 16 to 25. The allotment exceeds the current fund by 25 million, aiding about 500,000 youths with New Deal security wages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Youth Administration
Law Worl
Aubrey W. Williams
New Deal
Sy United
June 2 Deadline For Retail Liquor Licenses In District 4
Clyde B. Smith, director of licensing and enforcement, announced renewal applications for retail liquor licenses in District 4 must be filed with the liquor control board by June 3. Licenses failing to meet the deadline will be barred from business for the next year in each district. District 4 includes Erie and multiple counties. dealers must operate on Standard Time regardless of daylight time observance.
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Erie County
Lquor Control Board
Clyde B. Smith
Ilicensées
Deanline
Cameron
McKean
Warren
Erie
Crawford
Mercer
Venango
Clarion
Jefferson
Forest
Wayne
Pike
Monroe
Carbon
Luzerne
Columbia
Lycoming
Montour
Clinton
Potter
Tiby
Sullivan
Bradford
Susquehanna
Wyomitt
Lackawanna
Smith
Stroudsburg editor named for Pennsylvanian Manual
C H Westbrook of East Stroudsburg is appointed editor of the Pennsylvanian Manual succeeding James F Lavery of Erie whose dismissal was announced. The seventh edition of the official organ is expected within a month, announced by Arthur Colegrove secretary of property and supplies. Westbrook had been publicity director for the East Stroudsburg chamber of commerce and the manual is usually issued in the first year of the biennium. The delay explains the editor replacement. KILLED FLYING KITE IN BARRE PA A ten year old Hartley Gilley was electrocuted and two other boys and a woman injured when kite string touched high tension wire. The injured were Daniel Marino 5 his mother Mia Anna Marino 23 and another boy unnamed.
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C. H. Westbrook
East Stroudsburg
James F. Lavery
Erie
Westbrook
Arthur Colegrove
New
Canisteo
Arkport
N. C
Philadelphia
Waees Barre
Hartley Gilley
Danlel Marino
Mia
Anna Marino
Corry School Board To Meet Over Tax Bond Call
Corry School Board plans a special session Monday at eight to consider a taxpayer proposal for a bond issue to replace a tax hike in the tentative budget. A petition asks using a bond to balance the district finances, instead of a two and a half mill property tax increase and a one dollar per capita rise. More than a hundred taxpayers attended a recent open meeting to protest the tax increase.
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Board of Education
Corty
Boar of Education
Corry
Cody
Sended & Yecenk
Van Allsburg to Attend Extra Legislative Session
North East Assemblyman Van Allsburg, Republican nominee and re election candidate, visited the Journal office and said he is open minded on relief funding and state needs through January 1. He will depart for Harrisburg to attend the special session beginning Monday, hoping for a harmonious, efficiently handled program after close study of relief issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Vi. Allsburg
van Allsburg
Harrisburg
Journal
van Ailsburg
North East
van Atumurg
Brookville Slayer 18 Held For Grand Jury
John Becker, 37, was held for grand jury action on a felonious homicide charge in the death of Katherine Bracken, 42, beaten to death at a railroad signal tower in Pittsburgh and Shawmut. He was secretly arraigned before Squire M. A. Crawford after being moved from an unidentified jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Becker
United Press
Brookville
John Becker
Katherine Bracken
Pittsburgh and Shawmut
Squire M. A. Crawford
Attempt to Add for City Mortgages Faces House Vote
Washington May 2 Propan ela with stout house expansion of the Fraxien Lemke farm mortgage refinancing bill to a greenback measure to refinance city mortgages faces a pivotal House showdown. Rep Ford and Rep Sabath back a city mortgage refinancing amendment, arguing it would let city homeowners with small values refinance at low rates. Critics warn total refinancing would rise to about 9 billion dollars, with city mortgages estimated at 9 billion beyond duplexes and apartments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Lewis
United Press
Washington
Stout House
Thomas PF. Ford
Calif
Adolph J. Sabath
da Mh
Veller
Ford
Wrasier-Lemle Bil Ealls
Townsend Club Hears Address By Erie Speaker
An Erie Townsend Club gathering at the Grand theater featured Wim Meclelland as a Townsend speaker. He described rising momentum for the movement and noted petitions mounting as a May 8 Washington trip approaches. John Marsh will auctioneering at a later club meeting with his orchestra providing music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wim, Meclelland
Erie
Grand Theater
Townsend
Washington
California
Washington, D
Auto Tarayan
McClelland
Clarence Brooks
W. Ha. Marsh
John Marsh
Buffalo men escape injury after road accident
Two Buffalo men escaped serious injury when their Plymouth coach skidded on a Columbus Lotteville road and rolled over a slight embankment. Driver Harry Katen 610 Landen Avenue Buffalo escaped with a shaking up while Walker F Baker received a forehead laceration and minor bruises. The wrecked automobile was towed to a garage for repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Columbus- Lotteville
Harry Katen
Landen Avenue
Bufalo
Walker F Baker
Karpis Arrested As He Leaves His Apartment
Alvin Karpis public enemy No 1 was flown to St Paul in an airliner chartered by G men after a New Orleans capture. Ten federal agents under J Edgar Hoover joined the operation. He faces kidnapping charges in connection with Bermer cases and will be held in the county jail escape proof cell. A 22 year old woman at the scene was arrested after a struggle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Prose
ST. Paul
Minn
Alvin Karpis
Public Enemy No
G-men
New Orleans
Wil- Vam Hamm, Jr
109Th
U.S. Air Squadron
St.Paul
Karpis
Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Han
Edward G. Bremer
Army
Department of Justice
Doc Barker
Tommy Tonly Volney Davis
Willie Davis
Barker-Karpis
Barker Karpi
Harry Campbell
Thursby
Atlantic City
Canal Street
Orly
Western Air
Newark
N. J
Hoovers
New York
Lo Washington
Hoover
Federal
Aji
Reading Rail Files Lower Fare Tariffs
Reading Company and the Western Maryland Railway filed terms with the public service commission to reduce passenger fares on joint routes. The tariff change aims to provide lower rates for travel between Reading and Baltimore locations, impacting regular and holiday schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Reaiing Company
Western Maryland Railway
Tie Publlo Merches Comimisalin
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OO Orleans
OKLA
Carmegie Hero Fund Commission
Mercer County
Por Hamm
Eveape
Penn
Haile Selassie
NYA
Liquor Control Board
School Board
van Alesburg
Grand Jury
Townsend Club
Erieste
William McClelland
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