Pennsylvania pardon board resumes with clemency appeals
United Press reports Harrisburg September sessions reopen to hear 100 clemency requests including three slated for execution next month. Gov. Harle grants respites to two murderers while others, John G. Polens and Joseph Senalskas, await Monday execution dates for the slaying of a Youngsville filling station proprietor and the Meto Seminist case.
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Harrisburg
State Pardon Board
George H. Harle
Roy Lockard
Altoona
Paul Perry
Lockard
Matthew Karmendi
Ferry
Earle
We Imprisoniment
John G. Polens
Joseph Senalskas
Warren County
Metro Seminist
Youngsville
Train Wreck Toll Reaches Eleven In California
A California train wreck leaves eleven dead and numerous injured. Former Erieite, William Kissell, is described as a seasoned burglar linked to post office robberies in western Pennsylvania and New York. Prosecutors say Kissell faced maximum five year federal sentence after a Baltsburg post office heist in 1937. Additional gang members, including Clifford Mahar Joseph Kelly and James Martin, are tied to the Saltsburg and Aullman post office crimes.
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PRI
Frank P
D. Ar. Stephens
Fittsburgh
Kissell
Pennnsylvania
New York State
Il Ig
Ell
American Welding Co
12Th
Chestnut Streets
Western Penitentiary
Kissell Nas
Stephens
Saltsburg
Clifford Mahar
Peach
Joseph Kelly
Shamokin
James Martin
Mbany
Willionaire Kid
Aullman
Indiana County
Republicans Silent on Big Utilities
Brockway Pa Sept 21 Charles Alvin Jones charged the Republican party with a lack of policy on public utilities while leading Democratic gubernatorial efforts in northwestern Pennsylvania He accused the party of plans to return extortionate rates and public exploitation in exchange for support in the November election Jones criticized the GOP platform for omitting a utilities stance and attacked Joseph Pew and former Senator Joseph Grundy over alleged plans to pave way for a new public utility law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press Brockway
Republican Party
Charles Alvin Jones
Northwestern
Pennsylva
Jones
Joseph Grundy
U. S
Joseph Pew
State's Records of War of 1812 Studied
Harrisburg reports that Pennsylvania wartime material from 1812 is sparse. Dr Lester K Ade says originals are being studied and classified by the archives division to speed indexing and usability. The collection includes muster rolls payrolls provisions and rations accounts militia election returns and individual service statements.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Lester K. Ade
Archives Division
Mliltia
Root's Store at Union to Close
Root owner of Root's Furniture Store in Union City announces sale of entire stock and fixtures and closure of the Union City location after 25 years in business. He will focus his operations on Gerry's store. Public sale starts Thursday with evening hours until 9 o'clock.
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Aou
Root
Union City
Root's
Gerry
Cerry
Compuster
Selecting Jury for Trial of Mother of 2 in Waynesburg
In Waynesburg Pennsylvania on September 21 the defense and prosecution continued jury selection for Mrs. Flossie Hartman 33 Taylortown mother of two charged with the slaying of her sweetheart John Andrendk 22 a coal miner. High jurors all men not opposed to the death penalty were chosen yesterday the first day of the trial marking the second murder trial for Mrs Hartman in two years. In January 1937 Cleveland jurors acquitted her of shooting dead her husband Joseph Hartman while he sat with another woman in an automobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Waynesburg
Flossie Hartman
Taylortown
Chidren
John Andrendk
Hartman
Cleveland
Joseph Hartman
Hearing on Anthracite Bills Prompts Coal Community Turnout
Open hearing in Harrisburg as the Lauck commission bills to rehabilitate the anthracite industry promote state regulation through a permanent anthracite commission. The United Mine Workers of America endorse the bills and hundreds of miners and business leaders gather at the Education building for the late afternoon session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Your Lauck Commission
United Mine Workers of America
House Mines and Mining Commiies
Hartisburg
Missing Erie Girl found in amnesiac state at station
Lucille Aldrich, a ten year old from 12 West 21st Street in Erie, had been missing since Monday afternoon. She was found at Union Station before Tuesday noon in a highly nervous condition and taken to her parents’ home. Mr Frederick Aldrich, a chemist at American Dynamic Chemical Corporation, and Mrs Katherine Fybell, an employee at the Traveler Aid office, identified the girl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Station
Jury Awards $40,000 to Widow in Winsor Fire Suit
A federal court jury found Ralph Winsor’s death not self inflicted and awarded Florence Winsor, widow of the Bradford meat market proprietor, $40,000 plus $2,088.20 interest. The case sought coverage from Equitable Life Insurance Co on four policies totaling $40,000. The trial spanned from Monday, with exhibits detailing the .38 caliber revolver and circumstances of the September 18, 1937, death. The firm Wilson and Fite Gibbon of Bradford represented the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rie
Ralph
Winsor
Bradford
Florence
Equitable Life Insurance’ Co
Dex Munnes Tu
Insor
Seek Funds for Repairs of 10 Ship Niagara Restoration
Representatives Wagner and Gorski submitted a resolution to obtain federal funds for restoring the Wapehip Niagara, a historic vessel partially rebuilt after being moved from the public dock to the peninsula. The resolution aims to return the ship to its 1818 condition when it sailed from Erie with others to seek the British.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Wagner
Adem Gorski
George H. Earle
Niagara
Erie
Sever
Charles Mong Dies in Heart Attack at 64
Charles Mong 64, wealthy Waynesburg oil operator and bank director, died of a heart attack in Waynesburg Pennsylvania. A native of Biniv's Corners in Clarion County, he had worked in Greene County oil developments for 25 years.
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Waynesburg
Charles Mong
Mong
Biniv's Corners
Clarion County
Greene County
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Polens and
Sennuskas
Calif
William Kissell
Federal Penitentiary
Southern Pacific
Mojave Desert
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M. L. Ketcham
India
Will
Bethel
Tabernacle
Church
UNION
Rexall
Miller’s Pharmacy
Frank C. Chapin & Sons
Doc
Eal! J Lichen Ea PV
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Standard Sanitary Mig. Co
Pittsburgh, PA
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American Radiator
Standard Sanitary Corporation
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