Group Hospitalization Offered for Families in Greensburg
A Greensburg meeting announced a nonprofit group hospitalization plan for Westmoreland County families. Latrobe and Westmoreland hospitals join the service, offering 21 days semi private coverage for individuals 75 cents a month, couples 1.40, or families 1.75, with enrollment via employers.
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Greensburg
Westmoreland County
Greensburgh
Abraham Oseroff
Hospital Service Association
Montefiore Hospital
Pittsburgh
Westmoreland Hospital
Latrobe Hospital
Latrobe
Osetoff
General Assembly of Pennsylvania
Keystone State
Oseroff
Pennsylvania
Oserof
Obituary notices for Siverd Whitcomb and Kauffman family
Obituary notices continue listing survivors and funeral details. Robert Lindon Siverd’s service is set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Taylorsville Church with burial in the church cemetery. Robert Whitcomb, 18, dies of pneumonia. funeral at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Whitcomb home with burial in Grandview Cemetery. Catherine Kauffman, 93, dies at her Bell Township home. services at 2 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. in Banner Ridge Church, burial to follow. she is survived by several children and is a Civil War widow.
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Robert Lindon Siverd
Taylorsville Church
Siverd
Robert Whitcomb
George
Sarah
Lees) Whitcomb
Seward
Lee Hospital
H. E. Smith
Seward Methodist Episcopal Church
Whitcomb
Grandview
Johnstown
Florence Rightler
Ang
John Whitcomb
Riverside
Catherine Kauffman
Bell Township
Clearfield County
Mahaffey
Banner Ridge Church
Kauffman
Bor
Covode
Henry Fryer
Samuel Kauffmann
William
J. T
Mya
Ellwood Passmore
Martin
Akron
D. T. Byers
Vandergrif
H A. Immel
Bradford
Paris Under Heavy Guard Amid Riots and Frontline Moves
News of Paris chaos as army garrisons and guard units stand ready after violent protestors clash with police near the Senate. Insurgents push along Catalonian coast, seizing Mount Turmell and threatening Tortosa defenses while Western fronts report activity and recruitment drives in government areas.
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Isis
Radical
Socializta
Paris
Bluin
Senate
Mount Turmell
Barcelona
Andes
Vinaraz
Tortosa
Vincrez
Barvelaing
Barecelona
Barcelonas
Leticia
Ime i
Machod
Imo
Shang Tung
Puierhehwang
J. Mentsine Pukow
Yangtee
Severe midweek snowstorm cripples regions across the US
Cold sleet and drifting snow hit the eastern half of the continent with 6 to 15 inches in north central Pennsylvania. Texas to Great Lakes see freezing temps. crops and utilities suffer million-dollar losses. Nebraska and Iowa report many towns without telegraph or telephone service. In Pampa Texas seven schoolchildren are marooned in a snowbound bus but believed safe in oil field homes.
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Chicago
Stone
Stow
Pennsylvania
Kansas
Texas
Greal Lakes
Atlantic Seaboard
Ohio
Iowa
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Illinois
Oklahoma
Indiaa
Pampa
Tex
Floods Threaten Farm Areas Across Southern States
Emergency stations mobilized as doctors and nurses rushed to storm zones. Flooding hit the Cahaba and Tombigbee rivers in Alabama, plus St Francis and Red rivers in Arkansas and Louisiana. Lowlands fled as freezing temps, gale winds, and snow accompanied the storm, washing away seeds and fertilizer and killing young crops.
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Cahaba
Alabama
Tombigsee
St. Francis and
Red Rivers
Arkansas
Louisiana
Cahaba and
Tombigee
Gulf
Mobile Bay
Cochrane Bridge
Public Works Bond Plan Weighed by President
President Roosevelt said a 1.5 billion bond issue for public works was being studied with city and railroad leaders, while stressing that any program would not reduce existing work relief funding. He planned further discussions with New York Mayor La Guardia and industry groups before a congressional message next week.
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Owever
LaGirardia
New York
United States Conference of Mayors
John J. Pelley
Association of American Railroad
Pelley
Roosevelt
Congress
Questons
Reconstruction Fieated Corporation
Young Guests At Fish Meet In Moore Hotel
Scores of boys and girls aged eight to 15 attended the Indiana County fish and Game Association meeting at the Moore Hotel. Ross Buller of Bellefonte State Fish Hatchery spoke on sportsmanship and fish varieties. Field and stream films were shown. The gathering announced trophies for prize fish and county sportsmen groups joining the county Fish and Game Association to affiliate with the Southwestern Division of the State Federation of Sportsmen’s Organization.
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Indiana County Fish and Game Association
Moore Hotel
Ross Buller
Bellefonte State Fish Hatchery
Buller
Sporting Goods
County Fish and Game Association
State Federation of Sportsmen's Organization
Relief and RFC loans face opposition in push for aid
President questions guaranteeing railroad bonds and rejects direct relief while urging a unified security and wage program. Hopkins stresses safeguarding individuals and linking future works to unemployment and employment services as RFC loans meet unexpected Senate resistance.
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REC
Congress
Hopkins
Hokins
RFC
Wheeler
D-Man
Attest Claims of Garrett Heir in Delaware Case
Ellen Scheaffer testified to a 20 million dollar inheritance claim asserting she attended the birth of Isaac Newton Scheaffer in Paradise Delaware. She presented a baptismal certificate and family Bible from 1810 as proof, stating Isaac was raised by Benjamin and his wife after early life with Henrietta Garrett and relatives.
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Ellen Jane Palmer Scheaffer
Henrietta & Garrett Jr
Isaac Newton Scheaffer
Newark
Del
Garrett
Paradise
Mrs. Garrett
Rachael
Roosevelt Era Money Plans Face Senate Clash
Wheeler attacked pending legislation to let the Reconstruction Finance Corporation make long term loans, fearing lax safeguards on railroad loans and potential favoritism to Big Business. The Senate passed an RFC bill. House version under review. Admins eyed revived Public Works Administration loan plan up to 1.5 billion dollars, pending public support. Hopkins and Aubrey Williams met with Roosevelt as relief funding looms.
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Wheeler
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate
Public Works Administration
Congress
Hopkins
Aubrey Williams
Roosevelt
Williams
Open Final Hearing on Taxes Driving Out Industry
Philadelphia April 6 A Dent Tax Survey Commission final hearing nears end to determine if industrial taxes and legislation have driven industry from Pennsylvania. Testimony from eastern business leaders is sought on legislative barriers. The commission, chaired by State Senator John H Dent, has a $50 000 appropriation and cannot subpoena witnesses.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Dent’ Tax Survey Commission
John H. Dent
Westmoreland County
John H. Fertig
Dauphin County
Pennsylvania Oil Investigating Commission
Wold
Dent Board
Dent Commission
Harrisburg
Pittsburgh
Wilkes-Barre
Erie
Senate considers bigger fund for next year than 1.775B
Senate aides debate a larger 1097 88 budget with figures around 3.26B or 1.8B while evaluating no interest long term city loans plus broader proposals to aid business. Ideas include 8B highway construction 9B public works plan 1.5B state road loans 1.5B rail investments 1B housing, and federal industrial banks.
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Glass
D-Va
Senate Appropriations Committee
Wagner
D-Ny
Hurd
Earle
Pennsylvania
Lauchlin Currie
Federal Reserve Board
WPA
Congress seeks ideas to solve unemployment crisis
Washington April 8 Representative Stefan R Nebraska gathers suggestions from inventors across the country. Respondents propose diverse fixes from reducing golf and boosting work to tax on idle cash and new devices. Local ideas include a grasshopper catcher a money system regulation and inventions for medical and mining use.
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Washington
Stefan
R-Neb
Sharon Mass
Olathe
Kans
Manchester
Ind
Chicago
Ypsilanti
Kansas City
Topeka
Local nursery seedling effort ships millions of trees
Twenty local men plus CCC crews have worked overtime over the past two weeks to lift, bundle, and ship nearly three million seedlings from the Soil Conservation Service Nursery at Five Points. The trees will plant 2500 acres, roughly one fifth the size of North Mahoning Township, or about 400 miles if laid end to end. Indiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Washington, Wisconsin, and Iowa along with twelve northeastern states have received Indiana Nursery fees, with orders sent to destinations outside Pennsylvania and neighboring states. Peak shipping season is past, though thousands more will be dug.
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CCC
Soil Conservation Service
North Mahoning Township
Indiana
Philadelphia
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Washington
Wisconsin
Towa
Pennsylvania
Trucker Warned to Stay on Certificated Routes
The Public Utility Commission warned truckers to limit activity to routes in their certificates. It fined Harry Toser of Harrisburg $100 for illegally transporting groceries from Philadelphia to Penbrook. Toser’s certificate allows groceries and scrap iron Philadelphia to Harrisburg and meat Allentown to Harrisburg, excluding intermediates.
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Harrisburg
Public Utility Commission Today
Harry Toser
Philadelphia
Penbrook
Toser
Allentown
Peel Heads States Seniors at Penn State
In Pennsylvania State College reports, Joseph Peel, a varsity football guard, becomes the first non fraternity member elected president of the senior class. The 4-H Club meeting in Kellysburg is postponed due to other events, likely resuming next week. Authorities note 11,000 in Wilkes-Barre area affected by local developments.
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Kellysburg
State College
Joseph Peel
Pennsylvania State
American Motors
Wilkes-Barre
Independent ticket wins junior class and picks two leaders
Walter Jones of Hollidaysburg was elected president of the 1833-39 junior class and Arnold Laich of Munson was named sophomore class head after three days of elections that ended yesterday.
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Walter Jones
Hollidaysburg
Arnold Laich
Munson
Beav er Falls Inventors Propose Robot Speed Governor
In Beaver Falls on April 8 two inventors William Broad and Stephen Moltrup introduced a robot speed controller for cars. The device uses centrifugal force to trigger a red dash light a buzzer and a horn when speeding. They aim to market the governor to state police as part of a safety campaign.
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Beaver Falls
Pennsylvania
William Broad
Stephen A. Moltrup
Butler Calls Naval Bluff in Senate Hearing
Major General Smedley Butler former Marine commander told the Senate naval committee that the administration naval expansion bill is an international bluff. He warned the American people will wake up and oppose the bill before keel laying, saying the expanded navy is intended to do somebody else’s work.
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Washington
Smedley Butler
Marine Corps
Senate Naval Committee
Markets and Livestock Reports From Pittsburgh and Chicago
Pittsburgh markets show slow demand for Luce apples with varied New York and Pennsylvania varieties and steady potato stock in 100 pound sacks. Livestock in Pittsburgh includes 1,300 hogs with direct sales and steadier prices, strong cattle and veal markets, and lambs with mixed wool notes. Chicago futures rise as wheat jumps amid British miller buying and frost damage reports, with May and July contracts showing notable gains and corn starting higher.
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Pittsburgh
Luce
New York
Baldwins
Pennsylvania
Graina
Chicago
Liverpool
Texas
Yala Advance
Low Truck Rates Blamed on Small Operators in Pa
Public Utility Commissioner Richard J. Beamish blamed low trucking rates in Pennsylvania on single truck operators who drive their own rigs. He said many truckers are willing to work for nothing or less than nothing, speaking at hearings yesterday in Harrisburg on April 7.
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Harrisburg
Public
Richard J. Beamish
Pennsylvania
Beamish
Bronx Confiscation of Life Magazine Issue
New York district attorney Samuel J. Foley ordered confiscation of all copies of Life magazine from sale in the Bronx. Four pages depicting the motion picture Birth of a Baby were ruled obscene under the penal code, forbidding possession of lewd or lascivious material.
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New York
Life Magazine
Bronx
Samuel J. Foley
Indiana Armstrong County music and forensics contest scheduled
The Indiana Armstrong County event lineup begins at 9:00 a.m. with C. F. Shaukis of Elders Ridge Vocational School as chairman for Hive musical events including Piano Alto Soprano Girls Trio and Girls Chorus. Declamation Poetry Reading and Shakespeare Reading also start at 9:00 a.m. with Janes J. Wilson as chairman. James M. Cassel will chair the forensics segment. Thirty nine events have been entered by Indiana and Armstrong County high schools, signaling keen competition. The events are sponsored by the Indiana County Principals Association under William H. Floto of Cherry Tree High School, and all participating schools are members of the Pennsylvania Forensic and Music League. Indiana County returns to these contests after eight years.
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Indiana
Armstrong County
C. F. Shaukis
Elders Ridge Vocational School
Ventures
Janes $. Wilson
Saltsbury High School
Indiana County
Stock market overview of major industrials and energy firms
A dense list of companies and percent figures outlines a snapshot of stock activity across sectors. Firms include Am Rad and St and Wh, Anaconda, Chrysler, General Motors, IBM style firms, Eastman Kodak, Du Pont, Reading Co, Penn RR, US Steel, Westinghouse, Woolworth, and many others. Percent changes and composite indices appear alongside names, reflecting market shifts and sectoral performance without narrative detail.
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Rad
Canad Pacific
Che, Corp
Chrysler Corp
Coulm G
el Fla
South Wic
Cons Edison
Consul
Aahe
Crane Co
del and Hudson
Douglas Aircraft
du Pont de
Eestman Kodak
Gen Foods
Gen Motors
Gillette
Phillips Pet
Pure OK
Radio Corp
Reading Co
Repab Steel
Reynolds
Socony-Vacuum
Southern Pacific Ally Southren Ry Te Secicy Corp
Stand
Cal
Ind
Studebaker Corp
Texas Corp
Timken
Transamerica O2
United Aircraft
United Corp
United Gas
Indus Alco
US Rubber
US Steel
Vanadium Corp
West Union Tel
West el
Mig
Woolworth
Curb Ark Nat Gas
Elec
Pennroad Corp
Local Weather College Report and Vehicle Safety Note
Weather outlook shows rain today and tomorrow with 8:00 am temperature 34 degrees. Rain period totals and month figures noted plus barometric pressure changes from yesterday to today. A safety study states 25 mph yields 43 feet stopping distance, and farmers now use six cylinder tractors that are more efficient and reach 25 mph on highways.
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Croup Hospital
Britain
Mexico
Montefiore
London
Aguila Company
Aguila
Royal Dutch Shell
Lazaro Cardenas
United States
Hull
Erin
Fashion
Varsity- Town
Moorhead
Viola Zometsky
Walter Zometsky
H. E. Harvey
Joseph Kisn
Lucernemines
Stanley Zomatsky
Detroit
Mich
Paul
John Edward
Betty Jean Zemetsky
Brotzman
Penfield
Picard
Augusta
Hershey
Bobby Tyre Jones
Peel
Butler
NAVAL
Magazin
Armstrong
Local Weather College
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