Senate clash over wage ruling aid and court bill
Washington April 1 Senate debate centers on Supreme Court minimum wage ruling for women. Wheeler argues court enlargement unlikely to gain votes. Bates warns against making court partisan. Citing 1937 decision and earlier 1936 NY act, critics warn constitutional democracy at risk if court politics override judicial function.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wheeler
D-Mant
Supreme Court
Senate
High Tribunal
Henry M. Bates
University of Michigan Law School
Roosevelt
Senate Judiciary Committee
Bates
Cummings
New York
Dorothy Thompson
Germany
Italy
Congress
Burke
D-Ned
Ashurst
Wandergrift News founder dies in New York
The Wandergrift News owner Shale died, funeral today in New York. He built a weekly then daily paper and was a frequent visitor to Van dergrift. Survived by two daughters and four grandchildren. buried at Vergailes cemetery in McKeesport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wandergrift News
Robert L. Slough
Shale
Vandergrift
Milton R. Shale
Blairsville Dispatch
Clairton Progress
New York
Vergailles Cemetery
McKeesport
Free Show at Indiana Promises Flash Gordon for 13 Weeks
Indiana Theatre offers 20 youths a pass to every episode of Flash Gordon for 13 weeks. Winners chosen by drawing at a free show. Screenings at 12 30 and 2 30 during matinee program and every Saturday thereafter. Cast includes Buster Crabbe Jean Rogers Charles Middleton and Priscilla Lawson. Spectacular settings and creatures depicted with advanced studio effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Theatre
Flash Gordon
Buster Crabbe
Mongo
Alex Raymond
Frederick Stephani
Jean Rogers
Charles Middleton
Priscilla Lawson
Flashes of life and oddities from small towns
Brief items from Bluffton to Ames feature an odd leaf found by E J Hamilton in a flood washed tree along the Wabash. a rural Staten Island one room school with 18 pupils. a Scottsbluff deputy identifying a bad check artist from a stranger's description. and an Iowa State student sending a double chocolate soda gift by telegraph with total charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluffton
Ind
E. J. Hamilton
Wabach River
New York
Lillian Boeddinghaus
New Springville
Staten Island
Richmond
New York Five Boroughs
Eenie Meenie
Scottsbluff
Neb
Mahlon Morgan
Floyd Perry
Morgan
Perry
Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College
Davenport
Teachers to Learn of Job Tenure and Organization
Miss Roma Gans of Teachers College Columbia University will discuss tenure and organization at the convention. Miss Elizabeth Baker of Harrisburg, a legislative committee member, said 200 delegates would attend representing 15,000 leaders. Officers will be elected. Venison resembles mutton more than beef in chemical similarity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roma Gans
Teachers College
Columbia University
Elizabeth 5. Baker
Harrisburg
League
Spanish Rebel Revolt Growing Across Fronts in Spain
The Associated Press reports government troops pressing three fronts against Franco’s insurgents with clashes reported near Valladolid Algeciras and Salamanca. Insurgent gains at Bilbao Press indicates renewed fighting while air raids on Durango caused dozens of deaths and injuries. European powers discuss disarmament but react conservatively with Italy opposing and Britain France cautious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Spain
Francisco Franco
Spanish Morocco
Valladolid
Algeciras
Salamanca
Franco
Guadalajara
Cordoba
Burgos
Madrid
Bilbao
Durango
Europe
Ialy
Germany
Mussolini
Italy
Hitler
Great Britain
France
Norman H. Davis
United States
London
Britain
Mushmano and Lewis Back Kennedy for Governor
In Brownsville on April 1 Judge M A Mushmano of Allegheny County and labor leader John L Lewis urged Lieutenant Governor Thomas Kennedy as Pennsylvania’s next Governor. Mushmano praised Kennedy’s experience and knowledge from two years as Lt Gov. Lewis echoed the labor rally sentiment in Harrisburg and praised Kennedy as fit to lead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
M. A. Mushmano
Allegheny County
John L. Lewis
Thomas Kennedy
Pennsylvania
Mushmano
Lewis
Kennedy
Commonwealth
Three Children Drown In Cemetery Pond Near Schenectady
April 1. Theresa Mann age 3 and Charlotte Mann age 8 perished after falling into a cemetery pond. Their brother James Mann, 4, died later in hospital after rescue attempts and revival efforts by the fire department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schenectady
Theresa
Charlotte Mann
James Mann
Obituary notices for L F Sutter Mrs Belle Fry Miller and Peter Sakach Jr
Obituaries report L F Sutter surviving widow Mrs Hite Gourley Sutter and eight children with multiple siblings listed, plus Belle Fry Miller dies at 70 near McGees Mills with extensive survivor list and funeral plans, and Peter Sakach Jr 20 dies after illness from mine injuries in Punxsutawney with church services and burial details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle (Fry) Miller
Clemp Miller
McGees Mills
Monday
Aternoon
Indiana
Clyde
DuBois
Reed
Cresson
Oran
Paul
Dallas
Dan
Jesse Robbins
Commodore
Wallace Sample
Mahaffey
Merd Bracken
Dayton Lines
Curry Run
George Sutton
Otterbien Church
Peter Sakach
Buffalo & Susquehanna
Adrian
Punxsutawney
Mary (Flisher) Sakach
Walston
Jefferson County
Greek Catholic Church
Sagamore
Moncevich
Plumville Star Players Lead 1930s Teams and Local Tragedy
Peter Sakach Jr a Plumville High School graduate of 1934 was a star athlete and member of the 1936 championship Plumville baseball team. The obituary notes Lester Kring of Owensdale died after being struck by a vehicle on the way home from school, survived by many relatives. Louise E Montgomery Leasure Montgomery obituary lists burial and service plans in Armstrong Township Greenwood Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Sakach, Jr
Plumville High School
Plumville
Joseph
Michael
Nicholas
Niagara Falls
Mary
Olga
Indiana
Agnes
John
George
Lester Samuel Kring
C. R. Kring
Owensdale
Connellsville Hospital
Goldie
Frank
Ralph
Hazel
Viola
Howard
Anna- Maea
Harry
Edward
Ethel
G. R. Kring
J. F. Yehaven
Grove Chapel
United Brothern
Qwensdale U. B
Barnhart
Oakland Cemetery
Louise Eunice (Leasure) Montgomery
Armstrong Township
Greenwood Cemetery
Robinson Funeral Home
Wimmer
James
Agnes (Hopkins) Leasure
GM Strike Status Recedes As Workers Idle Across Michigan
Gen Motors reports a receding strike status with about 17,400 idle workers across its Pontiac Fisher and Chevrolet plants plus 7,000 at Yellow Truck and Coach in Pontiac. The walkouts, sparked by a policeman’s discharge amid union claims of discrimination, follow a broader auto-industry pause affecting 100,000 Michigan workers and involve Chrysler Briggs Hudson Reo and other plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geeral Molota
Cleveland
Fisher
Pontiac
Pontiac Motor Co
Chevrolet
Fiints
Fisher Plant
Pontiac Fisher
General Motors
United Automobile Workers
Yellowrock
Michigan
Chrysler Corporation
Chrysler
Briggs Manufacturing Co
Hudson Motor Car Co
Detroit
Reo Motor Car Co
Lansing
Yellow Truck and Coach Company
Harry Grossman
Miners threaten biggest soft coal strike this year
United Mine Workers prepare for a near nationwide walkout starting tomorrow unless a wage accord is reached. About 400 000 miners from Central Pennsylvania to Washington state would halt work with mines in Illinois under Progressive Miners of America control continuing. John L Lewis Day was observed as talks stalled after long negotiations begun February 17 in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
Washington
Illinois
Progressive Miners of America
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Roosevelt
Edward F. McGrady
Hoosevelt
Appalachian
Tennessee
Mrs Montgomery Rites Noted in Rochester Mills Area
Obituary fragment notes the late Mrs T N Montgomery of Rochester Mills, a member of the Christian Church. Survived by husband T N Montgomery mother Mrs James Leasure of Rochester Mills three brothers B Leasure of Glen Campbell J Leasure of New London and H C Leasure of Rochester Mills sister Mrs Murray Heard of Rochester Mills three sons Fred Montgomery of Shelocta Richard Montgomery of Newville Hugh Montgomery and a daughter Miss Wilda Montgomery both at home two grandchildren Theodore and Bonnie Jean Montgomery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester Mills
Christian Church
T. N. Montgomery
James Leasure
BR. B. ,Leasure
Glen Campbell
Misa Wilda Montgomery
Theodore
Bonnie Jean Montgomery
Pennsylvania 1936 Weighing and Measuring Device Inspections
Inspectors in Pennsylvania tested 2,418,964 weighing and measuring devices in 1936. The Bureau of Standards report to Secretary Thomas A. Logue notes 141,460 devices condemned as faulty, about six percent overall unfit for use, and 9,035 gasoline pumps found short of measure. Heavy duty scales, testing trucks, and coal truck reweighing highlighted enforcement challenges and widespread inaccuracies. Ninety percent of tested scales were wrong, with adjustments restoring use. coal trucks saw 1,631 inspections and 1,566 prosecutions, yielding $15,715 in fines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bareaut of Stands and Weights Ltd
Internal Affairs
Commonwealth
Bureau of Standards
Secretary of Internal Affairs
Thomas A. Logue
Motor Patrol
Department of Highways
Department of Internal Affairs
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Fuel Tax Collected On 391,043 Gallons
Secretary John B. Kelly announced that the Pennsylvania liquid fuels tax was paid on 391,043 gallons of gasoline admitted into the state over the Ohio boundary by border patrols of the Department of Revenue during February. The patrols issued 773 clearance certificates covering 1,733,850 gallons of petroleum products in or out. Of the checked total 1,616,731 gallons were gasoline and 117,110 gallons were kerosene fuel oil naphtha motor oil spirits and benzol. Gasoline exports totalled 1,225,688 gallons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Department of Revenue
Secretary of Revenue
John B. Kelly
Miners seek pay rise to halt strike flood fears
Reports from informed quarters say final proposals call for a 50 cent daily wage increase for daily paid miners and 9 cent per ton rise for ton pay, plus time and half overtime. Operators reportedly offered to renew the current pay scale.
Markets report from Pittsburgh covers produce and livestock
Produce demand slows with steady apple prices across varieties led by New York Baldwins and Winesaps while potatoes and Florida crops show mixed crates and sacks values. Livestock prices drift with hogs steady near yesterday, cattle and calves softening, and sheep and lambs largely unchanged, amid routine market activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
New York
Baldwins
Starks
Pennsylvania
Rome
Maine
Idaho
Florida
Pitysburgh
Rush Welfare Building Plans in Pennsylvania
Plans for a $29,618,000 welfare construction program are being drawn by architects and engineers under the General State Authority Act. Projects include a maximum security prison, an industrial school for boys, a psychiatric hospital in Pittsburgh, a new mills and an $11 million medical hospital in Scranton, with expansions, repairs, and urgent improvements slated across twenty nine institutions. The program aims to resume work paused by unemployment relief funding shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pentsylvania
Department ‘of Welfare
General State Authority
Department of Welfare
Industrial School
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
New Mills
Iion Dollar Medical and
Surgical Hospital
Scranton
PWA
Commonwealth
Stock market list and odd fact notes from 1996 query
Long fragmented market ticker style list of company names and percentage figures followed by stray facts about taxidermists using ants, infant rickets prevalence in the United States, and a 1996 cranberry crop estimate of 530,000 barrels. The passage blends stock data with unrelated agricultural and health notes.
State Labor Group Backs Lewis in Sit-Down Row
The Pennsylvania Federation of Labor representing 400000 workers opposed 10 company unions and backed John L Lewis in his sit-down strike dispute with AFL President William F Green. It urged abolishing company unions, backed a 40 hour week, and called for public works and court reform as part of a broader labor agenda. The federation will elect officers tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
William F. Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
Lewis
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
John A. Phillips
Federation
Pennsylvania
Berks County Hosiery
Ralph M. Bashore
Labor and Industry
George H. Earle
Ice storm tied to plane crash witness testimony
Cecil Northrup, pilot of a Penn Central Airlines plane, testified he flew through a severe ice storm described as damp air trapped by a cold front creating a 2,000 foot thick belt west for 20 to 30 miles. He said ice forced passengers to transfer to another aircraft and officials noted conflicting wreckage observations on wings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil
Northrup
Pennsylvania Central Airlines
TWA
Hugh A. Duggan
PCA
Pittsburgh
Department of Commerce
Revival at Pealer building invites the sick for healing
J. W. Clair announces a revival focused on James 5 and God's Word. He invites all sick, especially those deemed beyond human aid, to a healing service on the third floor of the Pealer building at 722 Philadelphia Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chrint
J. W. Clair
James
Pealer Building
Philadelphia Street
Propaganda Probe Ordered by House Rules Committee
Washington April 1 The House rules committee approved a resolution for a congressional inquiry into alleged propaganda against the American form of government. Chairman Dickstein said he could name 125 spies aiming to set up a Fascist state in America. He testified that Fritz Kuhn of Detroit led an organization of 200,000 Nazi sympathizers and that a Nazi army was being drilled in the United States, some in uniform under the Nazi swastika.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Rules Committee
Dickstein
House Immigration Committee
America
Rules Committee
Fritz Kuhn
Detroit
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Qwen J. Roberts
Minton
D-Ind
Schwellenbach
D-Wash
N. Y
Musmanno
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Esquire
Moorhead
L. F. Sutter
Hite ‘Gourley) Sutter
Robert M. Sutter
Homer City
Max C. Sutter
Maurice L. Sutter
Harry B. Sutter
Chicago
Hamilton Sutter
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Department of Revenue of
Irene
George Hart
Tuzetle
Peter Sakaun
G.M
Ators
Alco
Belt
Calumet and
Hee
Canad Pac
Cerro de Pas
Ches and
Crane Co
del Lack
Douglas Aire
Hershey
Hudson
Kennesott
Kresge
Lehigh Port
Lehigh Val
Val RR
Loew's
Dy Mack Trucks
Montgom Ward
Nash-Relo
Nat Biscuit
Nat Dairy Pro
Nat Distill
NY Cen
Studebaker
Texas Corp
Transamerica
Airer Corp
United Corp
United Gas Imp
Indus Algo
US Rubber
US Steel
Vanadaim
West UN Tel
West el and
Cure Ark Nat Gas A
Cities Service
Elec
Penmoad Corp
Bureau of Agriculture Economics
Dyer Hudson & Co
Stock Exchange
Farmers Bank & Trust Co
Lloyd Fritchman
MGR
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