Silver Purchases Likely to Steer Inflation Debate
Washington reports show the Roosevelt administration shaping a national silver policy. Silver advocates expect purchases to lift commodity prices, while officials project inflation to be unlikely. the plan envisions silver forming 25 percent of the monetary value of the bullion reserve with gold remaining at 75 percent.
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H. C. Thompson
United Press
Washington
Roosevelt
New Money PLC
United States
Ihetherea
Bulletin roundup of wartime and domestic incidents
London notes collapse in armament effort as British cabinet discusses. Washington reports mine collision leaving casualties. St Louis records grain elevator fire toll and damages. Fort Worth greets a six pound daughter to May and Mrs Roosevelt. Tampa notes free lunch tickets denied to 1500 schoolchildren and four seniors. Washington signs Costigan Jones sugar control act. Chicago warns of major 1904 crop failure as rain fails.
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Fort Worth
May
Milcott Roosevelt
Washington
Ronse Welt
Costigan-Jones
Near Riot at Labor Meeting in Philadelphia
May 5 Philadelphia delegates clashed over endorsing Republican gubernatorial candidate Girard Pinchot. After 16 minutes of riotous debate the resolution was tabled. John A. Phillips, federation president, escorted Pinchot as delegates confronted the nimble crisis in the convention hall.
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United Press
Philadelphia
Girard Pinchot
Pennsylvania Federation of
1934 Improvement of Local Gaps is Assured
State Highway Department guarantees inclusion in the 1934 third class city program for local gaps on South Gencer Street to Grove Street and on Northwest and West Church streets leading to the Spartansburg Highway. Erie County officials and local petitions advocate immediate work, with Governor Pinchot to receive the requests. Division Engineer Frame confirms the two Corry road jobs will be included.
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State Highway Department
South Genler Steel
Grove Street
City Inc
West Church Streets
Helen Schiprai
Erie County Commssioners
The
Journal
Glen Miller
Gifford Pinchot
Insull Bond Bid Fails to Lower Jail Bail to $100000
Chicago May 9 Judge Samuel P Alschuler refused to hear a habeas petition to reduce Samuel Insull’s bond from 200000 for release from county jail Friends loyal to Insull sought 100000 bail as his son and counsel prepared an immediate appeal If appeal fails Insull must remain jailed while his fortune and career face clouded scrutiny The 71 year old once controlled a 3 billion dollar utilities system and had fled the law for two years prior to arraignment
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United Press
Chicago
Samuel P. Alschuler
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Samuel Insull, Jr
Floyd
Thompson
United States
Circuit Court of Appeals
John P. Barnes
Insull
Bar of Justice
Indictments fire in Cleveland bank failures six named
Federal grand jury indicts six in Cleveland bank collapses. Joseph R. Nutt Anson Trust chairman Wilbur M. Baldwin Union Trust president James Arthur House Guardian Trust president Archibald R. Fraser Guardian vice president Harry Robinson Guardian executive vice president Alex Bernstein former Cuyahoga county treasurer charged with false entries and mail fraud. Also notes separate Pittsburgh civil suit for $19 000 damages after March auto crash.
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United Press
Cleveland
Federal Grand Jury
Mig
Union Trust
Guardian Trust
County
Treasulrer
Maila
Joseph R. Nutt
Anion Trust Board
Republican National Committee
Wilbur M. Baldwin
James Arthur House
Archibald R. Fraser
Guardian
Harry ©. Robinson
Alex Bernstein
Cuyahoga County
Erie Man Is Slain in Bar In Erie Pa
A 63-year-old bartender was found dead in his establishment with a high gash in the back of his head. Birank A. Seiteb, the victim, was a longtime bartender and had recently opened his own place. Police sought a woman living in the same building in connection with the case.
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United Press
Erie
Birank A. Seiteb
Mysterious French Murder Ties to Stavisky Scandal
In Lorient France on May 9 the death of Mme Mar Bilerite Henriot, shot in her garden, shocks a nation already stirred by the Stavisky affair. Her death, linked by police to possible incriminating evidence against Stavisky allies or as a warning to authorities, deepens the scandal.
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Mme
Niquerite Henriot
United Press
Loridnt
France
Mar Bilerite Henriot
Stavisky
Hemriot
Dudge Alberg Prince
Paris
Phillippe Henriot
Lorienistrict
Serge Alexandre Stavisky
McSparran to Run as Independent in November
Harrisburg May 9 John A McSparran a potential gubernatorial nominee on both major tickets said he will run as an independent in November if he falters at the May 15 primary The state agriculture secretary denied withdrawal reports calling them from opponents noting his strength and assuredness Moody wins Europe trip for high school student Cleta Moody Providence high School student was named first prize winner in a League of Nations serial competition for high schools and prepares for a trip to Europe
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Vinion
Harrisburg
John A. McSparran
Ury
State Secretary of Agriculture
New York
Cleta ‘Moody
Providence
Europa
League of Nationa
State Department reply awaited on teachers cuts
The board may begin definite work on the 1934-5 school badge next week if the state department of public instruction approves salary reductions. Directors instructed Secretary C. H. Geiger to seek permission for cuts up to 20 percent, though no figures are set. No reply has been received yet, delaying budget progress while relief project details and district shares remain unsettled. Supt. Dewey will present a state relief report and complete his annual report at Monday’s meeting, with budget and tax assessment due by June 1 as delays push a potential special session.
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United Press
Paris
Washington
France
Andre de Lanoulaye
State Department
United States
Debler
Johnson
Roosevelt
Board of Education
State Department of Public Instruction
C. H. Geiger
Iielps
Beet
Worle
Sup
Dewey
Wort
GWA
Johnson bill gains in Congress on utility rate cases
Washington May 9 The Federal Trade Commission report on underground political activity by public utilities spurred strong congressional support for the Johnson bill restricting court fights over utility rate decisions. The Senate backed measure, while a House judiciary substitute neared defeat. Representative James Beck charged the bill would erode U S court power.
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Johnson
Edward Lewis
United Press
Washington
New Federal Trade Commission
Senate
House Judiciary Committee
Latest
Trade Commission
Peport
House
Roosevelt
New York
Congress
James Beck
United States
Six Lost on French Airliner in English Channel
A French airliner with six aboard was found wrecked off Boulogne in the English Channel. Croydon airport said all six are dead, attributed to fog after the plane departed Paris for London this morning and disappeared in bad weather near Boulogne.
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United Press
London
English Channel
Croydon
Boulogne
Paris
Air France
Tey
Macon Fails to Prove Efficiency in Naval Games
Washington reports the airship Macon failed to prove efficiency in naval war games. Secretary Claude A. Swanson said the Macon was destroyed by attacking airplanes during Caribbean fleet maneuvers and is of no current use. It is at Miami for repairs after girders were sheared on a previous transcontinental flight.
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United Press
Washington
Macon
Navy Department
Claude A. Swanson
Miami
New Clue to Kidnaping Case Emerges in Tucson
A note, believed authentic, from the kidnapers of June Robles was pushed under the County Attorney Clarence Houston's office door in Tucson. The note repeats the demand for $15,000 ransom, similar to the one received the afternoon June was kidnapped two weeks ago. Carlos Robles, June's uncle, is a deputy in Houston's office.
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Tucson
Ariz
Dune Robles
Clarence Houston
Carlos Robles
June
Houston
Driscoll to Deliver Memorial Day Address in City
Col Del Driscoll, notable Marys attorney and longtime veterans figure, will speak at the Memorial Day observance. Committees of the Veterans of Foreign Wars organize the program, with a city park exercises finale and a graves decoration, as plans develop for the 1931 event.
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del. Driscoll
Col. Driscoll
West East Penneylyanld
Tay Aittress
Wien
Three Relief Projects Provide One Hundred Jobs
About a hundred men are employed on various Relief Works Division projects as work progresses on the school painting job at the Fairview building and renovations at the Senior High and Concord schools. The library redecorating advances while Washington building work continues with classes in session. City projects include graveling streets and a Firth on West Church Street. Thirty five men work on street graveling and eight to nine on Church Street. Traveling work wraps up on Marion Street and Clinton Street projects are further along. Both the school district and city await approval of additional relief projects that could raise RWD staffing well over a hundred.
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Nel Relief Works Division
Programy
Nerv Tday
We Fairview
Toda
Concord School
Washington
West Church Street
First
Second Avenues
Church Street
Marion Street
Clinton Street
RWD
Himnaad
Pa. Primary Continues Regular Free for All
Pennsylvania primary reaches late campaign stage with 57 candidates across Democratic and Republican tickets for five statewide offices. Candidates claim bold prospects while conceding nothing as the final week unfolds and ballots await count.
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Joseph
Wasney
United Press
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Say
Illustrated health lecture tonight in Corry
B Palmer of Washington D C will present an illustrated health lecture at Corry Municipal Building this evening at eight. The talk uses screen projections to explain good health and natural remedies to combat disease. Public invited as part of the Natural Educational Service of Pennsylvania network of 17 sanitariums.
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C. E. Palmer
Washington, D. C
B. Palmer
Washington D. C
Mr Palmer
Corry
Naturnal Educational Service of
Pennsylvania
Coitry
Battle Grell
United States
Leaps 200 Feet In Death By Own Action
Traffic stalled for 18 minutes on the Bloomfield bridge as Joan Byres, 48, Swissvale, leaped onto an empty freight car and plunged to his death. The incident occurred this morning near the center of Eve bridge causing a brief but significant disruption.
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Bloomeld Bridge
Joan, Byres
Pan Cosdallp
Eve Bridge
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