Relief agency inquiry aims to purge politics from relief work
In Harrisburg on April 4 the House adopted Rep. Miles Horst’s resolution for a sweeping probe into Pennsylvania’s unemployment relief administration amid criticism. State Emergency Relief Director Robert L. Johnson insisted relief be politics free under his watch and announced upcoming exams to hire more investigators with strict merit criteria to curb political influence.
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Harrisburg
House
Miles Horst
Lebanon
Pennsylvania
Senate
G. C. PF
INS i
Robert L. Johnson
Tnder
Jobson
Johnson
Trating
Hauptmanns Fire Reilly in Struggle Over Defense Funds
New York April report details Brune Richard Hauptmann’s defense woes as his wife Anna fires Edward J. Reilly, veteran chief of defense, amid disputes over a $25,000 fee. Hauptmann defense fund reportedly netted about $12,000 of $15,000 with $6,000 already allocated to Reilly for relief. Jolson comments on political influence within emergency relief during investigations into relief positions and projects.
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New York
Brune
Richard Hauptrmanns
Anna Haupmans
Edward J. Reilly
Haugataliin
Wetes Wats
Milwaukee
Carpenters
Reilly
Flemington
Uouptinamt Defense Fund
Haunt Nui
Death notices of Patterson Guella and Fennell
Obituary notices report the death of James Martin Patterson 66 in Derry township near Blairsville with burial planned at Edgewood Cemetery Satsburg. Infant Robert son of Richard and Dolores Guella died in Indiana Hospital. interment in St Bernard's Cemetery Indiana. Perry E Fennell died suddenly at Huntington W V. funeral held at Homewood Baptist church with Knights of Pythias pallbearers listed.
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James Martin Patterson
Derry Township
Blairsville
Joseph K
Elizabeth (McColgui) Patterson
Ruth 'Newhouse
Patterson
Clara
Sally
James
Nora Barkey
Amy Patterson
Bellevue
Pressbyterian Church
Satsburg
Edgewood Cemetery
Sattsburg
Robert
Richard
Dolores
Arduini
Guella
Iseth
Indiana Hospital
Brooklyn
N. Y
St. Bernard's Cemetery
Indijana
Perry
Walter Fennell
Ernest Pennel
Henry Fennell
Eugene Fennell
Richard Fennell
John Speedy
Fennell
Syracuse Ludge No. 82
Knights of Pythias
Frank W. Jackson
Bob ‘Terrace Avenue
Apollo
Jackson
Western Pennsylvania
William Penn
Pittsburgh
Andrew G
Capher
Vandergrift
Elizabeth
Samuel W. Jackson
Frank
A.J. Temerill
B. A.ownsend
Bath
Alex Stewart
Indiana
Graceton Pupils Passed Tests
Graceton pupils listed here have successfully passed the required examinations. Names include Nua Vanderpool, Mary Beak, Helen Hosas, Pauline Roberts, and many others. Also notes burial and obituaries, with Frank W. Jackson and Alexander Er. Wilson deaths and funeral details.
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Graceton
Nua! Vanderpool
Mary Beak
Helen Hosas
Pauline Roberts
Debt Supke
Arthur Dellafiorni
Edward Dillon
Victor Pollock
Mary Vargo
Esther Wise Kenly
Susie Horehor
Margaret Kinter
Bertha Conrad
Sophio Usieo
Agnes Valnes
Joba Repka
Walter Mul
Katie Hrebik
Certrudde Rura
Anna O'Mara
Mary Krov
Margaret Dovrovich
Frank Bermuk
Betty Borenbrok
Martha Chicurdy
Matilda Vileck
Sophie Vileneck
T-A
Helen Supko
Marilyn Philippi
Doe Repka
I Mary Gilbert
Evelyn Turlick
Witches Come Forth In Pittsburgh Witchcraft Scare
Letters to Pittsburgh postmaster describe medieval witchcraft beliefs and home remedies to cure a Wilmington woman plagued by a spell. Readers offer recipes such as boiling clothing and cat hair in water and other cures while doctors caution against non medical treatments.
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Pittsburgh
Visul Ihrives
Pennsylvania
Willam M. Turner
Yatasboro
Harson
Lurner
Health course approved for Mont Alto July meetings
Dr Edith MacBride-Dexter secretary of health announced a training program for Hel Representatives of the Department to be held at the Mont Alto Sanitorium in early July. Hundreds of health workers including county medical directors health officers and nurses will attend, with lectures by central office staff and others. The camp aims to improve public health administration across Pennsylvania.
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Edith MacBride-Dexter
Mont Alto
Pennsylvania
MacBride-Dester
Aeld
Family notices and a Germany military revival scene
The article lists obituaries for Mrs. Emerson Kauffman and Mrs. James Hannon with burial at Edgewood Cemetery, plus Ramuel A. Varner’s death in North Apollo and funeral in Apollo. It also discusses postwar Germany’s revived military atmosphere, fears of rearmament, and public sentiment amid demilitarization limits and Locarno era constraints.
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Emerson Kauffman
Mifflintown
James Hannon
Lewistown
William B. Turbett
Altoona
Salisbury United ,Presbyterian Church
W. W. Zundel
Edgewood Cemetery
Saltsburg
Roosevelt Fishes as Static Limits Shore Messages
In Miami on April 4 a radio static reduced shore communications while President Roosevelt fished aboard the Nourmahal Astor yacht. The vessel’s location near Conception Island in the Bahamas remained vaguely known as crews hunted tropical fighting fish.
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Miami
Fla
Roosevelt
Nourmahal
Conveption Island
Bahamas
Muscian Father of Three Dies After Poisoning In Pittsburgh Hotel
In April Muscian, a father of three, faced a personal crisis and wrote notes saying he wouldn't take it. He swallowed poison in a Pittsburgh hotel. Theodore Macken, once an orchestra leader, died. He left notes for his wife Anne and asked authorities to cremate his body. He urged his wife to tell their three children it was accidental.
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Mnsi
Pittsburgh
Theodore FE
Ted) Macken
Jedter
Piar
Anne Mickert
Danora
German Conscription As Nation Sees It
Berlin dispatch reports post war Germany facing conscription as the nation debates Hitler’s grip on power. Correspondent Pierre Iluss notes societal strain amid militarization and political shifts shaping the future of the German state.
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Pierre Iluss
Berlin
INS
Ger- Magier
Hitler
Wimself
Ger Jhaby
Attempt To Stop 45-Year-Old Job Dismissals
Washington April 4 Miss Perkins said the Labor Department studies a plan to curb age based job denial and firing at 45. The move would amend old age and unemployment insurance laws once enacted, with tougher taxes on offending employers and possible penalties under pension and jobless programs. Rep Dunn pressed for action for workers aged 45 and older.
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Washington
UNS
Perkins
House Labor Committee
Rep. Dunn
Pennsylvania
Miss Perkins
Labor Department
Priscilla Was A Lady Faces Unladylike Verdict
In Philadelphia a riding accident ended with Priscilla the mare being judged unladylike by a jury of 11 men. James McMichael, owner of the riding academy, was ordered to pay Miss Isabella Rudisill $2148 for injuries she suffered when Priscilla slipped. Rudisill had sought $50,000 claiming damages from the fall.
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Philadelphia
Priscilla
Ole Wuinda
Briscilla
James McMichae
Isabella Rudisill
Rudisill
Harry S. McDevitt
Henry
Locarno Pact Looms Over Culbertson Sims Bridge Match
New York reports Ely Culbertson and P. Mal Sims form a Locarno style pact to deter Ye Four Aces led by Oswald Jacoby David Burns Stern Howard Schenken and Michael Gottlieb in a 16 rubber contract bridge battle. The Four Aces scoff at claims of best systems and public stakes. Culbertson Sims lead 9 1880 point swing, now 9460 to 846?
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New York
UNS
Ely Culbertson
P. Mal Sims
Oswald Jacoby
David Burnssline
Howard Schenken
Michael Gottlieb
Simses
Culbertsons
Sims
Culbertson
Sims-Culbertson
Death by own action foiled plot at Boston hotel
A New York bond broker, 35, Harry B. Van Allen, leapt from a twelfth story window at the Hotel Statler. A woman, who called herself Bea Ryan, was found in a hysterical state in the room and admitted she planned the leap but changed her mind. They registered as Mr and Mrs H Carney of New York.
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Boston
INS
Hotel Statler
Harry B. van Allen
New York
van Allen
Bea Ryan
H. Carney
Railroads Outline 3 Point Program in New York
John J. Pelley president of the Association of American Railways outlined a three point plan to address railroad issues to the New York State Chamber of Commerce. Withdraw subsidies from other transport modes and regulate them comparably, block laws raising railroad costs, and end the coordinator law giving railroads a self driven approach through the industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John J. Pelley
Association of American Railways
New York State Chamber of Commerce
Association of American Railroads
Plumville Social Roundup and War Commentary
Plumville residents and relatives were active with callers and shoppers in Indiana from Tuesday to Sunday. The note book lists Stiteler, Good, Elkin, Cassedy and Lewis families visiting or shopping, plus a birthday greeting for Mrs. Gahagan. The piece concludes with a brief wartime observation on soldiers killed by shells and the vacuum effect causing instant death.
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Paul Stiteler
Paul Jr
George Welch
Plumville
Charlie Neal
Merle Black
William Stiteler
Edward
Silas Kerr
William Condron
Joan
Indiana
Frank Uncapher
William Good
Aileen Walied
Alice Goods
Charles Stiteler
Gust Smith
Homer Uyskel
Gladys
Pauline Stifeler
John Elkin
Bert
Olive Hoover
Ord Bond
Russel Lewis
Doras
Monte
Harry Lewis
George Dodson
Apalle
Theodore
Orvie Lewis
Jeannette
Kate Walker
Tom Taylor
York State
L. A. Cassedy
Stan Marshall
Louise Stiteler
Wilsimsburg
Milt Lewis
John Wagner
Quint Whitaker
Howard Lockhart
Ray Whitaker
Vernon Stiteler
Mine School graduation at Clymer High Auditorium
Commencement exercises for Penn State College Night Extension Course, begun last November in Clymer, will be held tomorrow at 7 30 p.m. in the Clymer High School auditorium under John E. Davis. Thirty two of 45 in the class will receive credit certificates. Ola Conrad and Russell Schrade led weekly classes, with H B Northrup of State College as speaker. Three papers will be read on course benefits geology and chemistry physics.
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Pennsylvania State College
Clymer
Clymer High
John E. Davis
Clymer High School
State College
Ola Conrad
Russell Schrade
H. B. Northrup
Mineral Industries Extension
Norman Davis
Joseph Lezurk
James Daniels
Mike Timko
Thomas King
Market Report Doctors Wheat Strength In World Sparket
The market opened with slight resistance but wheat futures gained and firmed toward midday led by Rotterdam and Chicago. Oils, utilities, and certain mining and steel shares showed firmness with American Power and Light and Bethlehem Steel among movers. hogs and tobaccos faced pressure while Otis Elevator hit a new low and Hazel Atlas Glass tumbled.
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Leslie Gould
INS
New York
Atlantic Refining
Seaboard
Standard
N. Z
Tidewalx
Shell
Amer
Roterdam
Chicago
Colton
U. P
U. S
Steel
Bethlehem Wipirs
Chrysler
Johns Manviiy
Otis Elevator
Texas
Lords Sit as Criminal Court in Murder Appeal
London April 4. The House of Lords, rarely used as a criminal court, sat to hear the appeal of a young farm laborer sentenced to death for killing his wife with a sawed-off shotgun. He sat between guards at the rear, unseen by the Lords during legal arguments.
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London
INS
House of Lords
Banks Lose in Cambria County
The State Supreme Court hears appeals from the Cambria County Common Pleas ruling in favor of the School District of Lower Yoder Township against two Johnstown banks over funds held in trust. The dispute centers on costs and attorney fees after a Morrellville bank default, the Title Trust & Guarantee Company collateral, and a July 1933 replevin action. The district argues an insufficient offer and raised counsel fees, while the banks contend full payment was made with interest and costs.
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Pittsburgh
CINS
Cambria County Common Pleas
Lower Yoder Township
Johnstown
State Supreme Court
Tille Trust & Guarantee Company
Marrettville Deposit Bank
Appellees
Rvests
Sordoni Banking
Morrellville Bank
Morretlville Bank
Title Trust & Guarantee Company
Morrellville Institution
Common Pleas Court
Morton Meyers
Ray Patton Smith
Voliva Plans Counter Attack After Election Sweep
M o n t h e d i l y r e p o r t s t h e f o r m e r Z i o n d i v i n e l e a d e r W i l b u r V o l i v a s a y s h e will stage a counter effort against his political foes who won the overseer's slate. He vows to fight the new mayor William Edwards and commissioner team from May 1 as they take office. Voliva proclaims the earth is flat and the world near an end and declares he is the only man who can build Zion single handedly.
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Hitler
Germany
Europe
Jing S. A. Brown
Berlin
Versailles
Locarno
Hiller
Hs Son
Sion
Ill
Wilbur Glen Voliva
William M. Edwards
Voliva
Zion
Tragic Crash Kills Two Of Six Young Riders In New Castle
A party of six youths returning to New Castle after dropping a girl at Ellwood City crashed into a pole. Anna King and Lewis Zubkovsky, both 19 and 17 respectively, died. Others from New Castle were injured, including Agnes McLaughlin with a broken leg and jaw, Roy Munford and Paul Walenski with cuts and bruises. A Laborers meeting with A Fulton organizers was announced for Court House tonight at 7:30.
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New Castile
New Castle Hospital
New Castle
Ellwood City
Anna King
Lewis Zubkovsky
Agnes McLaughlin
Roy Munford
Paul Walienski
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Elief
Hauptmanns
Jolson
Emergency Relief Administration
Emergency Relief Organization
Vollat
Pers Sons
C. I. Hildebrand
Bethel Lutheran Cemetery
Huntington
Silver Lodge No
Ford City
Homewood Cemetery
Alexander ER. Wilson
South Bend
William H
Leila Anne Armstrong Wilson
Nancy (Rearich) Wilson
Arthur D
Ross
Wilson
West Lebanon
W. J. Craig
Parkwood
Maurie Wilson
W. S.A
John Wilson
Avonmore
Robert Wilson
Margaret Long
Seattle
Wash
Mre
Ita Barkley
W. C
Bolivar
West Union
Anna Bell (Atkinson) Silvus
Robert J. Silvus
Salisburg
Millan Young Af
James J, Silvus
Amsterdam
Edgne B. Silvus
Moorhead
Sambul A. Varner
Ramuel A. Varner
North Apollo
Creekside
John P
Margaret
Bee) Varner
Jennie Varner
Ivan Goodbread
Leeburg
Harry Kelly
Catherine Varner
Sis
William
Prank
Apoll Lester
Edgar Vandergrift
Agnes Smeltzer
Inez Fetter
Florence Saxson
Dayton
Daniel Myers
Pine Run
Harvey George
Clyde Warner
Apollo Baptist Church
Wiles
Young
Apollo Cemetery
Roosevelt Fish
Muscian
Allied Chem
Aimar
Aitchison T
Avantie
ATT Webbe Bordens
Coca Cola
Columbia Gas
Consolidated
Curtiss-Wright PA du Pont
Mirs
Nickie
Banks
Cambria County
Yoder
Common Laborers of America
A. F. of L
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Mardis of
Holsapple
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