Hertzler nips Marsh for Republican judge nod in Erie County
In Erie County primary results Hertzler edged Ruehle T Marsh by about 400 votes for the Republican nomination to the Court of Common Pleas. Miles B Kitts won the Democratic nomination by a margin between 2000 and 3000 votes, with strong gains in Erie city. Bilton H Blair led the race for county commissioner, while Hel e M Schluraff finished runner up to claim the other Republican nomination. Rollo McCray trailed in the contest. Continued on Page Five.
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J. O.hertzler
Miles B. Kitts
Court of Common Pleas
Erie County
Hertzler
Ruehle T. Marsh
Republcan
Kitts
I Kitts
Fitche T. Marsh
Erie
Bilton H. Blair
Sintton City
Hele M. Schluraif
Blair
Rollo McCray
Britain Ready to Seal Gibraltar As War Clouds Gather
Local election results show a slate of candidates across city and county offices. Winners include Pred Weaver and Frank Heath for City Council, with party leanings listed for treasurer school director and other posts.
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Great Britain
Gibraltar
Italy Speeds Finance Plans War Thot Near I
United Press reports Gibraltar prepared to seal its harbor with booms at north and south entrances as warlike activity escalates. In Rome Mussolini's cabinet approves a new internal bond issue and higher taxes to fund an imminent war with Ethiopia, plus funds for a navy oil depot through 1942. Geneva sent Baron Pompee Aloisi to relay the council's concessions offer, seen as Italy’s chance to avert wider war.
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United Press
Gibraltar
Admiralty
Rome
Benito
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Geneva
Baron Pompea Aloisi
Benito Mussolini
Aloisi
Italy
Ialy
Wagner defeats Corry candidate for Register of Wills in Erie area
Erie area returns show Clarence R. Wagner overturning Carl ton V. King by a narrow margin for the Democratic nomination. Wagner carried key Erie wards and townships as Vogt also trailed, shocking King supporters countywide. Final tallies from Union City and nearby precincts highlighted Wagner’s late surge in the East Side.
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Erie
Carlton V. King
Corry
Register of Wills
Wing
Clarence R. Wagner
Ace
Tom Eri Siuo
Wagner
Ne Pounly
Yuli
Pine
Wagner Pelltis
King
LotWa Loone
Grove Township
Snyire
Hay Vogt
Erio
Wagney
Erie East Side
Wagfer
Wogt
Nunn Hast
Union City
Tnion City
Vogt
Waxener
North East
Kile
Tlwas
Erie City
Negotiations speeded to avert miners strike
Washington Sept 18 The joint wage conference reported reasonable progress toward completing new wage contracts for 100000 union miners. Five days remained of a one week extension granted by the United Mine Workers to break a deadlock amid efforts by Assistant Labor Secretary Howard P. McGrady to urge ministers to keep mines open and avert a walkout next week.
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Jimca
Washington
Ward
United Mine Workers
Howard P. McGrady
Roosevelt
Markets at a Glance and London Stocks Rise
Markets at a glance show Frese Atoka Higher active with steel shares reaching new highs. Cheb and Chicago stocks advance while call money sits at 4 1 2 percent. Foreign exchange and grains trend mixed with wheat at 114 to 1 5 cents. cotton and rubber rise. silver steady as New York anchors.
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Frese Atoka
Chicago
New York
Pittsburgh Steel Capital Drive Aims to Realign Centers
Pittsburgh prepared to reestablish itself as the world's leading steel center through a U S Steel merger of Carnegie and Illinois Steel. Myron Taylor and Willym A Irwin would meet to announce the deal. Benjamin Fairless will run operations for the merged Carnegie Illinois company from Pittsburgh, directing major steel units and by products amid wartime competition.
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United Press
Pittsburgh
United States Steel Corporation
U. S. Stes
Myron Taylor
Willym A. Irwin
Carnegie
Linois Steel
Benjamin ¥. Fairless
Mergea Carnegie-Illinois Company
Fairless
Carnegie Steel
Iinois Steel Col
Stainton By-Products Co
Lorain Steel Co
Johnstown
Mulderick Wins Mercer County Democratic Sheriff Nomination
John Mulderick of Grove City leads six candidates for Mercer County Sheriff in the Democratic primary per Green Ville dispatch. Mulderick, brother of Councilman Leo Mulderick, has long operated a local gasoline station and hopes for victory in November.
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John Mulderick
Grove City
Corry
Mercer County
Greenville Dispatch
Mulderick
Leo Mulderick
Fen
Goffe
Workers for City Street Repair Job
Workers invited to report to City Engineer N R Dickson at the Municipal Building Friday morning at 8.00. Bring the letter and two forms of identification mailed by the State employment office. Those who do not sign up then will have their cards returned and a replacement drawn. Forty seven men will start work Friday morning on a storm repair project.
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N. R. Dickson
Erie
Noary
Servant Receives Life Income From Trust Funds
Newark news reports Rosa Christoph described as a faithful servant was bequeathed life income from a $100,000 trust fund created by Edwin N. Ring, former Lackawanna official, with an additional $150,000 income if widow Cisca M. Rine dies, as probate details emerge.
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Wey
Newark
N. J
Rosa Christoph
Ste Edwin N. Ring
Lackawanna Railroad
Cisca M. Rine
Revision defeated in Pennsylvania constitution vote
Sept 18 Philadelphia voters rejected a proposal to modernize the state's constitution by at least 100,000, with tabulations from over half the districts showing 376,784 for revision and 431,394 against. Governor Earle had backed the change and campaigned with supporters, while Republicans denounced the early tallies as a setback for the New Deal era platform in the Keystone State.
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United Press
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Earle
Keystone
Shoot to Kill Orders Against Cattle Thieves
In Will County Illinois 2000 farmers mobilize to defend cattle as rustlers blamed for thefts and a farmhand’s death. The Will County Anti-Paras Theft Association forms a sharpshooters unit after a mobilization meeting led by Ross Saunders, with Gov Horner promising state police support.
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William A. Mueller
United Press
Joln
Wilt County
Will County
Faceu
Chicago
Here
Ross Saunders
Henry Horner
Saunders
Horner
Barnes Wins By Landslide In Philadelphia Supreme Court Race
Justice H. Edgar Barnes led the Republican Supreme Court nomination with a wide margin across 1479 precincts, tallying 116,175 votes. M. A. Musmanno trailed, and Horace Stern topped the field for district attorney while Patterson and Marshall trailed in other races. Barnes’s nomination assures election, Gov. reported to United Press.
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United Press
Philadelphia
Jusice
H. Edgar Barns
Supreme Court
Barnes
M. A. Musmanno
Pittsburgh
Musmanno
Horace Stern
Stem
Marion D. Patterson
Blair County
B. Marshall
Theft of Auto Owned by Clymer Man
Police seek a Chevrolet coupe owned by Dr. R. Williams of Clymer after it was stolen from near his Panola CCC camp residence last night. The theft was discovered early this morning and the thief was believed to have headed toward Busti.
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Clymer
R. X. Williama. Clymer
Pan- Ama CCC
Busti
Stock swindlers case rests in jury's hands
A federal court jury in New York began deliberations in the case of Jamies C. MeKay and William J. Graham of Reno Nevada. They are charged with using the mails in a conspiracy to defraud investors of millions with an alleged gambling scheme referred to as an impresario operation. The jury received the case at 11 am EDT.
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United Press
NEW York
Jamies C. MeKay
William J. Graham
Reno
Nev
Kephart Named Next Chief Justice of High Court
Harrisburg reports that despite two other candidates gaining early support John W Kephart Ebensburg will become chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court He starts with the seniority backed by the court system and will assume the role when Chief Justice Fraser retires in January Kephart has served since 1919 with a 21 year term and will hold the post for three years until his retirement.
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United Press
Harrisburg
Supreme Court
Robert
Frazer
Pittsburgh
H. Edgar Barnes
Horace Stern
Philadelphia
John W. Kephart
Ebensburg
Fraze
Kephart
Alexander Simpson, Jr
William Schaffer
Direct Relief Checks Assured for Pennsylvanians
Washington announces Pennsylvania will receive $6,250,000 from the Federal Rel ief Administration for the latter half of September boosting total state allotments to $35,419,900. Ohio gains $2,350,000 and West Virginia $600,000 as part of the same disbursement.
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United Press
Washington
Federal Relief Administration
Ohio
West Virginia
Coyne and Malone Win in Allegheny County Race
State Senator James J. Coyne and former Pittsburgh councilman James Malone clinched the Republican nominations for Allegheny County commissioners. Malone held a lead as outlying district returns arrived. Malone 67,188 Coyne 45,788 Topley 36,640.
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Pittsburgh
James J. Coyne
James, Malone
Pitsburgh
Allegheny County
Malone
Samuel J. Topley
Malage
Coyne
Topley
Constitution Day Attacks Sharpened Republican Fire
Washington reports on Constitution Day as Republican opposition to the New Deal intensifies led by Herbert Hoover. Hoover addressed 25 000 critics in Chicago while Dani el Rope defended Roosevelt against Democratic charges of wrecking the Constitution with New Deal policies.
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United Press
Washington
Herbert Hoover
Roosevelt
New Deal
Secretary of Commerce
Dani Jel GC. Rope
Alexandria
Hoover
San Diego
Calif
Frank Knox
Chicago
James A. Reed
Missouri
Fred Snyder
Herbert Leith
Mansfield, C
Ohio
South Side
Snyder
Avie
WADOO LINKED IN LOS ANGELES CASE
In Los Angeles on September 14 a federal bankruptcy referee claimed he was discharged due to actions by Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, stirring local politics. Rupert B. Turnbull, forced into retirement after six years by five local federal judges, accused McAdoo of violating confidence in releasing a report. The document attacked sites of former superior court judge Leon J. Fanowich to secure a general bench position. Yankwich was installed as a federal jurist two weeks ago.
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United Press
LOS Angeles
William Gibby McAdoo
Itay
Rupert B. Turnbull
McAdoo
Turnbull
Ormer Superior Court
Leon J. Faniowich
Yankwich
Plan to Enlarge Alexandria Port Prepared
Alexandria Egypt September 18 cabinet approves a plan to enlarge the port of Alexandria near the Suez Canal entrance. Two Italian submarines and a British destroyer entered the canal today.
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United Press
Albandria
Egypt
Alexandria
Adjacen
Suez Canal
Canal
Direct relief denied as Alabama strikers protest pay cut
Jasper Alabama September 18 direct relief was shut off from Walken County s 2 500 striking WPA workers today. The workers walked out last week asserting a 50 percent wage cut in relief payments.
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Jasper
Ala
Walken County
WPA Wortra
Two Workmen Die in Hollis Street Theatre Collapse
United Press reports two workers were killed and another injured, as the Hollis Street Theatre, once famous, collapsed during demolition in Boston. Firefighters and volunteers searched the ruins for more victims while debris was cleared for a parking space project.
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United Press
Boston
Hollis Street
City Hospital
Ilsyid
Striuctre
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Roscoe Dearing
Clarence Yt Shoop
L. Heston
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Milles B. Kitts
J. C. Hertzler
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Elton HL
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W. G. Stroble
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Mortimer
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Recorder OF Deeds
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Emmett & Parker
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