Industrial War Bloodshed as Steel Strike Intensifies
Riots rise across the nation as Pittsburgh hosts the National Steel Workers Committee meeting. Three deaths in Western Pennsylvania and growing labor actions in Mahoning Valley slow 44 000 steel workers while Carnegie says more return to work, Foster disputes spread. Chicago mills close or cut back. lake sailors and other unions loom as potential allies. United States officials weigh expanding the strike and mobilizing allied labor.
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Pittsburgh
National Committee For Organizing Iron and Steel Workers
Cleveland
Pennsylvania
Mahoning Valley
Ohio
Youngstown
Homestead
Chicago
National Steel Workers’ Committee
Foster
United States
House
Cooper
Republican
William Z. Foster
Steel Strikers’ Organization Committee
Senate Labor Committee
Kenyon
John J. Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick
H. 5S
Rubin
Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Foreign Relations Committee
Knox
Night School Plans by State College Officials
Mechanics to be given benefit of night school to start in October at Technical High School. Courses include shop arithmetic, advanced shop mathematics, sketching and mechanical drawing. Enrollment open next Thursday October 2 at Central High School 7 30 pm. Classes twice weekly for twenty weeks with cooperation of State College. Only cost is purchase of a few books.
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KE. Zorger
N. C. Miller
State College
Technical High School
Central High School
Zorger
Army and Navy Chiefs Summoned in Prohibition Suit
Subpoenas require Secretary Baker, Secretary Daniels, General Pershing, and General March to testify in Federal Court in Trenton New Jersey. They are to address demobilization in criminal prosecutions against three Hudson county liquor dealers charged with war time prohibition violations.
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Associated Press
Trenton
N. J
Baker
Daniels
Pershing
Hudson County
George H. Tucker
North Hudson Liquor Dealers' Association
Weather forecast for Harrisburg and eastern Pennsylvania
Fair to night and Thursday with little change in temperature. Gentle to moderate winds. Susquehanna and branches remain nearly stationary at about 3.4 feet Thursday morning in Harrisburg.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Susquehanna
City Commends Shade Tree Planting Effort
State Forestry Commissioner Robert S. Conklin endorses the city’s tree planting movement and offers support. He urges a broader mix of species, limits Norway maples, and stresses citywide control under an ordinance. About 500 trees are ready in nursery space and Park Department plans will be finalized.
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Robert S. Conklin
E. Z. Gross
Mr. Conklin
Conklin
Park Department
Gross
Returning to Work at Cambridge Mills After Strike
Strikers in Cambridge Ohio gradually return to their jobs after a brief walkout. Five of ten Guernsey plant mills of the American Sheet and Plate Company resume operation with a sixth expected to start today.
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Associated Press
Cambridge
Ohio
Guernsey
American Sheet and Plate Company
Bartenders Are Doctors Now Court Remark
Judge Dickinson told a Philadelphia jury that wartime prohibition does not bar sale of whisky for medicinal use. The seller must prove the whisky is for legitimate illness and not a sham, otherwise the sale could violate the law.
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Dickinson
United States District Court
Philadelphia
Skeleton Army Corps in Each Department Planned
A plan by officers to reorganize the Regular Army into skeleton corps in each military department. The department commander would lead the corps aiding rapid mobilization of six Army corps, with reserves drawn from universal training to fill units.
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Associated Press
Washington
Baker
General March
War Department
Strikes Breaked in Birmingham District
Steel company officials in the Birmingham district said the strike was broken and most workers were ready to return while strike leaders insisted the fight had just begun. No disorder occurred.
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Associated Press
Birmingham
Ala
Steel Corporation
Doctors Praise New War Era Medical Methods
State Medical Society sessions at the Penn Harris Hotel highlighted blood transfusion developments and the doctors who served in the colors during World War I. Major W. G. Murdock cited Pennsylvania’s low draft rejection rate and praised physician involvement in the draft process.
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State Medical Society
Penn-Harris
Pennsylvania
W. G. Murdock
Murdock
China Ends War With Germany by Presidential Mandate
The September 23 dispatch from Peking reports President Hau Shihi Chang issuing a mandate that formally ends the state of war between China and Germany. General Tuan Chi-fui, who previously declared war for China, receives the Order of Merit from the mandate.
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China
Associated Press
Peking
Hau Shihi-Chang
Germany
Tuan Chi-fui
Prelude to Showdown With Labor Socializes the Industry
Indiana Harbor officials issue an ultimatum to striking workers: return within two days or the Inland Steel plant will shut for six months. Congress weighs the steel strike as a potential prelude to broader industrial conflict amid talks of socializing key sectors and public leverage.
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Associated Press
Indiana Harbor
Ind
Inland Steel Company
Washington
Congress
Kenyon
Iowa
Senate Labor Committee
Gary
Steel Corporation
Capital
John J. Fitzpatrick
Organization Committee
Steel Workers
Srustien
Fitzpatrick
Jury Hears Whisky Evidence in Steelton Murder Trial
A Steelton murder trial before Judge Co. V. Henry centers on Lawrence Brown and Theodore Martin charged with killing S Wolfe Lacob. The case follows the January 24 crime at Lacob’s Harrisburg Street store with co-defendant Love Wilson a fugitive. District Attorney Michael E Stroup leads the prosecution as jurors probe exhibits including liquor corks.
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Lawrence
Little” Brown
Theodore Martin
S. Wolfe Lacob
Steelton
Leroy Arms
Hattie Saunders
Henry
Paul A. Kunkel
Carson
Arms
George Kunkel
Andrew Thomas
James Jones
Thomas
Jones
Herbert Mitchell
J. M. McCarrell
Hershey
Hershey Park
Edwin R. Deimler
Evan Deimler
Russell
Earl Stare
Walter
Ralph Logan
Lee Hawthorne
Daniel J. Moran
James Crawford
Rutherford Heights
Frank Pieritz
Joseph Huss
G. Miller
Royalton
Harry Frank
William Lloyd
Walter L. Dowhouer
Matthew Barlow
Man Struck By Engine In Local Yard
Joseph Hurst 61 of 7 South Fauxteeth street was struck by a moving engine in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards. He failed to see the approaching locomotive while crossing tracks and suffered a compound fracture of the right elbow. Hurst, a railroad brake man, is in Harrisburg hospital.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Joseph Hurst
South Fauxteeth Street
Harrisburg
Hurst
State to Condemn Old Cemetery Entrance for Memorial Bridge
Pennsylvania must condemn land at Harrisburg Cemetery old entrance held by Forster estate reversion clause to use for north side Memorial Bridge approach. Temporary pedestrian bridge planned over the Pennsylvania Railroad at State street during construction. trolley lines moved to Market, Fourteenth, and Thirteenth streets. Railroad spurs will run in State street to move materials.
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State of
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg Cemetery
Memorial Bridge
Cemetery Association
Forster
Pennsylvania Railroad
State Street
Market Street
Fourteenth
Thirteenth
Five Strikers Arrested at Sharon Steel Hoop Plant
Five men were arrested at the Sharon Steel Hoop Company plant in Youngstown Ohio last night. Police say two detainees had stones tied in handkerchiefs while the remaining three were unarmed.
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Associated Press
Youngstown
Ohio
Sharon Steel Hoop Company
Stores to close for Jewish New Year holiday in Harrisburg
All Harrisburg stores run by Jewish community will close for Yom Tov as Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset and ends at sunset the next day. Orthodox Jews observe two days. Synagogues hold religious services as the New Year starts the Ten Days of Penitence leading to Yom Kippur.
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Harrisburg
American Legion Post 27 Meets Tonight at Court House
American Legion Post 27 will meet at the Court house tonight at 8 for organization and to elect officers and delegates to the State convention October 2 to 4. The post has 300 members and invites all service men to attend.
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Post 27
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
de Post
Seekers for Treasure Are Cast Ashore
Six crew members of the Casco, a San Francisco treasure seeking schooner, arrived in Nome in a native skin boat from King Island after the Casco grounded near Nome on September 8. The rest of the crew remain with King Island natives awaiting help. no lives were lost. The Casco left Nome July 14 bound for the Kolyma river region in Northern Siberia. The Bear departed Nome for King Island to assist.
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Associated Press
Nome
Alaska
San Francisco
King Islad
King Island
Revenue Cutter
Arctic Ocean
Robert Lewis Stevenson
United States Revenue
Bear
Kolyma River
Siberia
Veterans Receive Welcome Home Services in Harrisburg
Governor William C. Sproul will lead a Sunday welcome home service on Harrisburg Island honoring soldiers sailors marines nurses and welfare workers with a medal presentation for World War participants. The program includes a parade athletic stunts a River Front Park dinner dances and free theater shows.
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William C. Sproul
Harrisburg
Chamber of Commerce
River Front Park
Lyman D. Gilbert
American Red Cross
Harrisborg
Sermunf Gurpert Previewing Labor Accord
Fragmentary OCR yields a report on Sermunf Gurpert predicting Avechcac Modwra meeting with Labor, with a quotation about Ariel Aiwa. The article mentions CUMMING BILE and discusses railroad policy aimed at forbidding strikes by workers, reflecting labor disputes of the era.
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Sermunf Gurpert
Ely Anntceary
Ariel
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Steelton Grocer
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Hengtor Myers
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Addy
Pireted
New York
Sie Hinee Weld
Fienepe
Cummania
Senate
Aftio
Wolle Kacob
Miracle Sous
Laerence Brown
Canada
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Fitzcourgh
Eter Mills
Kiarriage Licenses
John F. Witmer
Leona R. Hartman
Millersburg
George W. Enders
Hainton
Nora KR. Eisenhower
Lower Paxton Township
James E. Ingram
Beatrice G. Pettix
Bressler
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