Toll mounts to 95 in new mine disaster
United Press reports the May bach mine explosion near Priedrithsthal Germany raised the death toll to 95 with five missing believed dead. Engineers traced the blast to a little used gallery 1800 feet underground where an electric spark likely ignited coal dust. Officials denied rumors of gasoline and said victims may be buried in a common grave on Wednesday.
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United Press
Priedrichsthal
Germany
Desa
Maybach
Uiey
Erie Rail line reconfigures Maple Avenue crossover in city
Crews from multiple points shift the Maple Avenue crossover on the Erie Railroad. By noon the eastbound track was ready for trains under caution and by late afternoon both directions were expected to be operational. A large Pennsylvania line crew also replaced mainlines to accommodate the new layout. Officials Barber and Shaughnesey observed progress as the crossover change completes a major rerouting to ease heavy train movement through the city.
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Erie Railroad
East End
Erie
Pennsylvania
Maple Avenue
Pennsylvania Avenue
P. RR
Barber
Shaughnesey
Hrie
Erié
Portland man in crisis sportsman Whitney dies in New York
Harry Payne Whitney, noted Portland and New York financier and sportsman, died of pneumonia at his Fifth Avenue home after a cold last week. He and his wife Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and their three children were with him. Born 1872, Whitney built a vast fortune and led in polo, part of the Big Four team that helped establish the sport in the United States.
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Guy Smith
Salamanca
America
New York
Harry Payne Whitney
Fifth Avenue
Whitney
Gertrude Vanderbilt
William C. Whitney
Navy
Grover Cleveland
Flora Payne ‘Whitney
Yale
Tax penalty takes effect on county and state taxes
County tax collector Frank B. Westley urged taxpayers to pay state and county taxes within four days to avoid a five per cent penalty. The penalty starts Saturday, November 1, and those who have not paid are advised to settle this week.
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Frank B. Westley
Pinchot Attacks Atterbury At Westinghouse Rally
Gifford Pinchot, Republican gubernatorial candidate, called Pennsylvania Railroad president Atterbury the worst enemy of the people and challenged Westinghouse officials to prove any alleged menace to business. He promised abolition of the coal and iron police by July 1 and said unemployment relief would be in operation by January 1, 1931, before heading to Tarentum for a Kiwanis club talk.
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Westinghouse
United Press
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric & Mig. Co
Gifford Pinchot
W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
Pinchot
E. &. Humphrey
Westinghouse Airbrake Co
J. T. Whiter
Tarentin
Kiwanis Club
Portland salesman commits suicide in Salamanca hotel rooms
Guy Smith aged 6 of Portland, a tour company salesman and Corry visitor, shot himself in the right temple with an .88 caliber revolver in rooms over the Zafron Brothers store on Atlantic Street Salamanca weekend. His wife, learning he never returned home, learned he had been in Salamanca for days, staying at Hotel Dudley. In the clubrooms where the shot occurred two men were in the room as the body lay with feet on the floor. Smith died shortly after. survived by a wife and two children. The body was sent home for funeral and interment.
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Guy Smith
Portland
Salamance
Zafron Brothers
Atlantic Street
Smith
North East
Corry
Salamanca
Dudley
Charles Yaw
Salamates
Rom
Ody
Two Badly Hurt as Machines Collide West of City
Two men were badly injured in a head on collision on the Roosevelt Highway west of the city Sunday morning. Orville Titus of Baagerdam and Clyde Peebles, recently in this city, were treated at Corry Hospital. Titus suffered a disjointed hip and other injuries. Peebles had broken legs below the knee and facial injuries.
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Roosevelt Highway
Orville T Tus
Baagerdam
Clyde Peebles
Greenville
Corry
Peebles
Titus
Corry Hospital
N. Troy Gil Tette
Range
Beaverdam
Kincaid Farm
Benefit for Corry boys band set for November 7
Over 150 participants will take part in a large benefit entertainment at the high school auditorium Friday evening November 7. Superintendent Ralph S. Dewey announced the program featuring the Corry boys band music drills dancing and a one act comedy.
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High School Auditorium
Corry
Ralph 8. Dewey
Auto crash injures two on East Pleasant Street
Mrs. Paul Lines and her son Quentin were injured when their Pontiac veered off East Pleasant Street he last evening, crashing into a tree. Mrs Lines sustained a fractured ankle and facial injuries, while Quentin Lines, age five, had a broken nose.
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Paul Lines
Quentin
East Pleasant Street
Pleasant Street
Six Die in Western Pa Traffic Wrecks
Six people died and at least 20 remained in western Pennsylvania hospitals with injuries from automobile crashes over the weekend. Victims include Miss Sarah Hart, 19, of Oliphant, killed, sister Katherine, 15, and father Jacob Hart, 67, injured when their car was struck by Oscar Hardy. W. Claire Virtue, 35, of Washington, Pa, died after being crushed under a overturned truck near Huston. An unidentified man, about 54, was struck by a car on Buena Vista Blythdale road. Joseph Ditmer, 60, Mine No. 2, Castile Shannon, died after being struck on Hayalock Road near Library. Alfred Davison Jr., 19, Hillcrest, Pa, held for the coroner. Mrs. Minnie Edwards, 62, Pittsburgh, died at West Penn Hospital from Friday injuries. Harry Reynolds, the driver, to be turned over to the coroner. Harry Miller, 12, Patterson Heights Beaver Falls, killed when struck near home. Driver of the fatal vehicle fled.
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United Press
Pennsylvania
Studenta
Sarah ‘Harb
Oliphant
Uniontown
Katherine
Jacob Hart
Oscar Hardy
Negra
Hart
Ottter
W. Claire Virtue
Washington
Huston
Buena Viera
Blythdale Road
Joseph Ditmer
Castie Shannon
Hayalock Road
Library
Alfred Davison, Jr
Hillchest
Minnie Bdwards
Pittsburgh
West Penn ‘Hospital
Harry Reynolds
Harry Miller
Patterson Heignns
Beaver Falls
Another Brokerage Failure In New York
The stock exchange firm of G Clothier Jones & Co was suspended from the exchange today for insolvency. Three partners were named G Clothier Jones John Bell Jones and Raymond Heber Bailey with Nelson H Gildersleeve as special partner. The firm operated offices in Camden Harrisburg Hazleton Lancaster Philadelphia Pottsville Reading Shamokin and Upper Darby, Pa. It was later suspended as associate member of the New York Curb Exchange.
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United Press
New York
Stock Exchange
G.clothier Jones & Co
G. Clothier Jones
John Bell Jones
Flock
Raymond Heber Bailey
Nelson H. Gildersleeve
C. Clothier Mes. and Co
Pranches
Camden
N. J
Harrisbug
Hazleton
Lancaster
Philadelphia
Pottsville
Reading
Shamokin
Upper Darby Pa
New York Curb Exchange
Evening entertainment set to please all ages with comedy
Elaborate preparations underway for tonight's program featuring a one-set comedy as a highlight. Reserved seating goes on sale on November 7 in the senate building. Tickets priced for adults and students.
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Sth
Fon
Two Brokerage Partners Die in Suspected Double Suicide Pact
Philadelphia report says Sidney F. Tyler Brook age 46 and Brock partner George K. Reilly were found dead from gunshot wounds in separate incidents. Earlier Reilly was found dead with bullet wound and Brock’s body was discovered in an apartment with a pistol. The firm Brock and Company faces liquidation as investigators review liabilities.
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Philadelphia
United Press
Sidney F. Tyler Brook
Reilly, Brock and Company
Brock
George K. Reilly
Reilly
Conshohock
Ita Tire
Hoover hears report on U S unemployment
Washington gives a briefing that unemployment strain exists in major urban centers yet no one will freeze or starve this winter. Allan Burns, executive director of the Nations Association of Community Chest and Councils, informed President Hoover at the White House. Fred G. Croxton, federal unemployment adviser for the arid western states, said he will depart for Columbus Ohio to begin assigned work. Katherine Stone returned home after visiting Warren with Herbert Stowe and family.
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United Press
Washington
Hoover
Allan Burns
The
Nations Association of Community Chest and Councils
Burns
White _ House
Joffe
Fred G. Croxton
Columbus
Ohio
Commerce Department
Hoover Urges Wider Naval Armament Cuts
President Hoover called for extending the London treaty restraints on naval arms and urged continued disarmament progress. He spoke via world radio to Prime Ministers MacDonald and Hamaguchi, praising the accord as a step toward broader limits and international peace.
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London
MacDonald
Great Britain
Hamaguchi
Japan
Tokio
France
Italy
Premise Hamaguchi
Fortuc
Preparatory Committee On Disarmament
League of Nations
Mr. Hoover
Siid Hamaguchi
Nmtai
U S Attorney Pleads For Law Enforcement
United States Attorney Louis B Graham urged cooperation of all law enforcement agencies at a prohibition rally in Wilkinsburg to slow the activities of better equipped gangsters. He presented data showing law enforcement lags underworld pressure and said the prohibition force is too small to stop contraband flow.
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U. S
United Press
Wilkinsburg
United States
Louis 8. Graham
Second Presbyterian
Vghureh
Atamatios
Underworld
Graham
New Military Group Seeks Ten Gain Control
A disrupted capital city reports a counter revolution against the government toppled by Washington. First cavalry, stathc infantry and military police aided the revolt before the junta moved to quell it. Prisoners include Col. Ban Jeima de Mello. Similar unrest was reported in Sao Paulo as hospitals, banks, and stores faced closures amid mass evacuations.
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C. A. Powell
United Press
Rio DE Janeiro
Get
Cdy
Washington Luls
Stathc
Cal. Piquetta de Mello
Sao Paulo
Thousazis
Plata Republica
Col
Ban‘Jeima Fe Mello
World Fight For Fascism Foreseen by Mussolini
Italian Premier Mussolini warned that a worldwide battle between fascists and anti fascists is forming. He said a moral war exists and warned of possible material war on Italy's frontiers, defending the Fascist regime and its March on Rome legacy while calling for vigilance against Berlin.
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Edward Storer
United Press
Rome
Figs
Benito Mussolini
Venice Palace
Italy
Milasolini
Thaly
Mussolini
Béert
de Sirlig
Berlin
Europe
Taly
Five Best Radio Entertainments Listed
NBC and WEAF offer Rosy and his pans at 7 5 p m and A P sypsies at 5 80 p m. WABC schedules Symphony hour and Evening in Paris with General Motors Tamil program at 8 60 p m. Programs feature NBC OBS and NEG networks across stations.
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WPC
NBC
Rosy
General Motors
WABC
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Delné
Rotary Club
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Pizor
George ‘Thomion
Maysville
Ner Nlece
Miss Flowers
U.S
Katherine Stone
de Warren
Heotter
Herbert Stowe
Paul R. Mallon
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