Showdown Over Solicitor For Curry School Board
The Curry School District faces a wrangle over hiring legal counsel to supervise the vocational school project and related Relief Works Division financing. After lengthy debate at a special meeting the board adjourned with no final ruling, as talks continue on solicitor selection and project funding.
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Curry
Board of Education
Vocasional
Als
Raymond A. Preeburg
Jamestown
Queston
Lambing
Walter L. Peake
Bennett
Messrs. Lambing
Atorney Peake
Messrs. Willsteam
Patterson
Barhes
Mr. Love
Brown
Blaine Kincaid
Love
Francis
Club Enjoys Travel Talk by Miss Bonsteel
Miss Lotta Bonsteel, third grade teacher, led Rotary lab members on a South America travel talk at Mincheon nesting. Accompanied by Mrs. Cora Smith, she shared pictures and experiences from frontier regions, cultures, and industries. H J Davis gave a three minute talk on the coal mine core and its impact on employment as twenty six members attended the luncheon.
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Lotta Bonsteel
Rotary Lab
South America
Mincheon
Misa Bonsteel
Cora @. Smith
Seryter Op Tae
Miss Bonsteel
Sands
H. J. Davis
Statewide drive to increase voter registration records
United Press reports candidates from both major parties urged every eligible voter to register by the Saturday deadline for the November election. Republicans stressed mobilizing thousands still unregistered, while Democrats cited rising registrations in cities like Philadelphia and urged their supporters to join the effort statewide.
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Ross Downing
United Press
Harrisburg
Pittsburgh
Scranton
Harvey Taylor
Noverer
Philadelphia
Witness Tests Against Young Engineer in American Tragedy Trial
Mrs. George McKechnie testifies as first witness for the state, describing the friendship and alleged dual romance between Freda Crain and Robert A. Edwards, a 21 year old mine surveyor charged with Freda's murder in Harvey's Lake. The trial centers on whether Edwards killed Freda to court another girl, with testimony detailing visits and weekends in the Crain household.
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George McKechnie
Robert A. Edwards
United Fresh
Edwards
Freda
Crain
East Aurora
Lamont lauds Soviet policy in Carnegie Hall lecture
Doris Lamont, son of Wall Street banker Thomas W. Lamont, praised Russia as the best hope of human progress during a Friends of the Soviet Union lecture in Carnegie Lecture Hall. He noted steady economic rises, acknowledged past shifts, and urged further study of the Soviet system.
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Wall Street
Russia
Unitea Presa
Pittsburgh
Doris Lamont
Thomas W. Lamont
J. P. Morgan
Lamont
Soviet Union
Friends of the Soviet Union
Carnegie Lecture Hall
Plane crash kills seven with American among dead
United Press reports an American named Albert Desario was killed when a London Paris airliner exploded before crashing into the English Channel. Seven people died total, including the British pilot and six passengers. Three passengers were French and two English. Bodies were mutilated and hard to identify after the rain swept, choppy sea crash.
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United Press
Ambridge
England
Albert Desario
Work Relief Allocation To Be Made Today
Harrisburg news reports the State Emergency Relief Board will meet at 2 p.m. to allocate October county food funds and earmark 2 to 3 million dollars for work relief. Federal October allotment is 8.675 million, with additional state funds to follow. The legislature permits transferring up to 15.361 million as needed. The plan aims to fund a budgetary minimum work program replacing CWA and LWD.
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United Press
Harrisburg
State Emergency Relief Board
Washington
Banker Nevin Dies at Home in Pittsburgh
Joseph Campbell Nevin 4, managing director of the Pittsburgh branch of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank, died at his home after a short illness.
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Pittsburgh
Joseph Campbell Nevin
Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank
Jury Selected to Head of Utility Empire Trial
A jury of farmers and small-business men was tentatively accepted in Chicago to sit in the federal court trial of Samuel Insull and 16 co-defendants. Insull appeared in court as prosecutors and defense lawyers began rigorous questioning in the case stemming from the collapse of his vast utility empire.
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TAY
Insult
Chicago
United Press
Samuel Insull
Offhcer
Croesus
James H. Wilkerson
Insull
Ater
Dennis J. O'Sullivan
Federal Court
Rail magnates seek freight rate hike to aid recovery
Washington October 2 Railway chieftains told the Interstate Commerce Commission they would add 170 million dollars annually to freight revenues if allowed higher rates in 1934. They cited a 300 million dollar rise in operating costs this year and warned current revenues may not cover fixed charges without a rate base boost. Charles E. Denney of the Erie Railroad urged prompt action to improve rail capacity and recovery.
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United Press
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission Today
Charles E. Denney
Erie Railroad
Two Injured in Truck Accident in Pa Town
In Brunner operated truck collided with Charles Nicks injuring Nicks with a fractured skull and Brunner with a fractured arm. Police report the truck hit Nicks, throwing Brunner against a wall and causing the injuries.
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Brie
Charles Nicks
Robert Brunner
Nicks
Ty Brunner
Brummer
Kck
Wontenay Tot Burned In Stove Grate Tragedy
Mary Lou Wontenay eight likely died from burns suffered when she lit a paper at an open stove grate. The Oil City child crawled from bed while her mother was away and her clothing was ignited. Neighbors and the mother fought the blaze. she died in Oil City hospital. Survived by parents sister and grandparents in Union City and Edinboro. Funeral held in Union City.
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Mary. Lou Wontenay
Max Wontenay
Oil City
L. J. Wonteray
Union City
Martin McCarthy
McCarty
Fearing
Wontehay
Ane
Brady Skelton
Edinboro
Six Georgia guardsmen mobilized in late news update
United Press report notes six Georgia national guardsmen mobilized though deployment destination remains uncertain. West Virginia NRA enforcement act ruled unconstitutional in the first test of its validity by Circuit Judge B. F. Howard. Bank robbers in Walling- ton, Connecticut, with six men using machine guns and revolvers steal 125000 from bankers. Bridgeport exposure: 125 000 alarm, polnol high explosive boxes stolen from Remington Arms powder reservation. Lloyd Garrison resigns from National Industrial Relations Board to become dean at University of Wisconsin. Apopka bank robbery by three unmasked bandits, loot amount undetermined. Steamship distress: Ainderby in hurricane with 2 stave-in hatch. Trematon reports standing.
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Welch
W. Va
West Virginia
B. F. Howard
Bridgeport
Conn
Remington Arms Go
Billion Sought for PWA Bill
Washington October 2 Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Iokes indicated he would seek a real public works appropriation from the next Congress to carry the recovery program until industry resumes normal activity. He said a writ instrumental appropriation of 1,000,900,000 may be sought and estimated that 20,000,000 would cover 1985 work on uncompleted projects.
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United Press
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Harold L
Ekes
Congress
Tokes
Tekes
Chicago man claims seeing Hauptmann near Hopewell
Chicago civil engineer William B. Debbis testified to Justice Department agents that he positively identified Bruno Hauptmann from a newspaper photo as the Lindbergh kidnapping suspect near Hopewell New Jersey on the night of the crime. He described a gray sedan with a blonde woman and a man under a blanket in the rear, and recalled a tire-pump incident involving the suspect. Debbis said he did not report it at the time, fearing repercussions, and later recognized the man in Maine years afterward.
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Chicago
Wilam B. Debbis
Department of Justice
Emma Hauptmann
Hopewell
N. J
Dennis
Hauptmann
Billy
Mitchell Urges Fleet of Dirigibles for War Aid
Brig. Gen. William Mitchell urged immediate creation of a large war fleet of airships and told the Federal Aviation Commission that high losses came from gross stupidity. He proposed fifty airships to attack Japan in two days, cited the Akron disaster, and urged a unified air force with separate crews for lighter-than-air craft.
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United Press
Washington
William
Mitchell
Federal Aviation Commission
Army
Weirton Case Faces Capital and Labor Clash in Court
Weirton Steel fights to restrain government under NIRA section 7A as labor allies and Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers observe. Government witnesses expected to claim coercion and interference while Weirton defends its union as independent. The case unfolds in Judge John P. Nields’s federal courtroom with witnesses from both sides.
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John A. Reichmann
United Press
Wilmington
Del
Capital
Labor
John P. Nields
National Industrial Recovery Act
Weirton Steel Company
povers+ ment
Amalgamated Association At
Iron
Steel and Tin Workers
American Federation of Labor
Steel Company
Steubenville
Clarkshurz
Weirton
W. Viv
Se Tlon TA
NIRA
Back of Weirton
Tnilon
Amalgamated
Ito
MIRA
Unis
Clear up score of robberies in Central Pennsylvania
Lewsiburg Pa Oct 2 More than a score of robberies in Central Pennsylvania during the past year were claimed solved after the arrest of Russell Hazlett 20 of Huntingdon and Alphonse Bellaonts 29 of Pittsburgh Hazlett confessed participation in four robberies at Huntingdon and one at Clearfield. Part of the alleged tool mostly wearing apparel has been recovered and identified by store owners.
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Lewisburg
Pennsylvania
Russell Hazlett
Huntingdon
Alphonse Bellaonts
Pittsburgh
Hazlett
Hunlindon
Cleanfield
Erie Manufacturer President Dies of Heart Attack
J. Garson 48, president of McCreary Manufacturing Co, collapsed in a bank lobby in Erie PA yesterday. He came to Erie from Cleveland eight years ago and died of a heart attack.
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Erie
United Press
Eric
L J. Garson
McCreary Manufacturing Co
Garson
Cleveland
Fair but cool weather for opening of series
Fair but distinctly cool weather was forecast for the opening game of the world series in Detroit tomorrow. The U S Weather Bureau announced the outlook. Warmer unsettled weather was predicted for Thursday when the second game is scheduled.
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United Press
Detroit
U. S
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New York
Ainderby
S. S.trematon
PWA
Lindbergh
Rand
HL. Rowe
Smethport
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