Extra Tariff on German Goods In Effect At Dawn Sunday
Washington reports a 26 percent extra tariff on German goods will take effect at dawn Sunday following a 1930 tariff law ruling that Germany's currency system acted as a subsidy. Officials noted imports from the Reich may fall sharply, with copper oil and cotton as key imports, though some trade experts doubt Germany can curb vital purchases further.
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Washington
Treasury
Germany
Reich
James Tax Policy to Be Known Monday
Gov James and a Republican leader set Monday to reveal the administration tax policy for the coming Biennium amid a fiscal crisis. Sen G Mason Owlett said he would speak on the situation with the budget and tax outlook, as a $163 million emergency tax program awaits Senate review.
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Harrisburg
James
G. Mason Owlett
A+ Tioga
House
Senate Finance Committee
Finance Committee
Commonwealth
Dauphin County
Claude T. Reno
Lehigh Bankers Association
Allentown
Reno
Henrietta Garrett
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Utility Consumers Service
John J. Lipko
Wilkes-Barge
Pennsylvania
Ernest Tipple
Sullivan County
Dennie Porter
Wheelerville
James Mcials
Pennsylvania union council to hold May convention on 1939 legislature
John Phillips, president of the Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council, announced its second annual state convention for May 2 to discuss legislation before the 1939 General Assembly session. Lewis G. Hines urged employers to pay state unemployment fund contributions on any wages covered by federal wage hour rules. In the education forum building 300 collegians from 28 colleges studied bills from committees into the morning hours.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council
CTC
John Phillips
General Assembly
Lewis G. Hines
Labor and Industry
State Education Forum
Obituary notices outline Sutton and Thompson deaths
Continued obituary text recounts Robert S Sutton and Mary Agnes Sutton, and details family ties, marriages, and social affiliations. It also covers Mrs Hannah H Thompson of Blacklick, and Thomas McConville of Iselin, noting ages, birthplaces, and funeral arrangements, with clergy details and cemetery plans.
British diplomacy and talks amid Hungarian axis alignment
The article cites British ministerial efforts with Cinea Markovich and Count Clano indicating Hungary’s axis-leaning tone. It notes attempts to settle Yugoslav Hungarian minority disputes, with Teleky and Csacky in Rome and Berlin, and Fafencu moving from Berlin to London amid Britain France Romania diplomacy. US diplomats monitored European moves as Kennedy returned to London from Edinburgh. Berlin reacts to Roosevelt peace appeal, predicting a sharp rejection by Hitler.
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Clano
Hungary
Axis
Cine
Paul Teleky
Stephen Csacky
Rome
Berlin
Cincia-Markovich
Grigore Fafencu
Resuying
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United States
Europe
Joseph P. Kennedy
Edinburgh
Hitler
Roosevelt
Woman Torture Story in Pittsburgh Home Invasion
Pittsburgh April 22. John Nickel 8 dollars, working nights, returned to find wife Alice bound to a chair with a clothesline and gagged with a tea towel. She recounted a robber duo entering at 1 am, one small man threatening money, a lit match burned her hand, water poured on her, and the husband-protester stayed unseen as she was tied while the Nickel children slept upstairs.
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Pittsburgh
John Nickel
Alice
Storty
German war guilt debate shapes Reichstag speech context
Berlin reports indicate oversea mediation is widely viewed as a crude attempt to assign war guilt a priori. Hitler, Mussolini, and Roosevelt factor into Friday Reichstag remarks amid a flurry of foreign office briefings and a Belgian response to neutrality guarantees.
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Woodrow) Wilson
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Hig Reichstag
Berlin
Elias Erkko
Finland
Switzerland
Netherlands
Lithuania
Hubert Pierlot
Belgium
Great Britain
France
Treasury balance report shows April 20 figures in Washington
The Treasury reports receipts of 11,693,983.27 and expenditures of 25,351,786.80, giving a net balance of 3,187,592,431.67, with a working balance of 2,475,633,440.49 and monthly customs receipts of 17,214,555.43. An overflowering cherry tree in Japan remains flowering year round.
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Treasury
Washington
Poison ring case shifts to judges after guilty plea
In Philadelphia on April 22 a 44 year old housewife Mrs Catina Favato pleaded guilty to poisoning three people for insurance money ending a murder trial for her stepson Philip Ingrao. State sought death for three killings and charges include father Charles and Giuseppe Di Martina plus defrauding insurers of about 28000 dollars and conspiracy. Witnesses spoke of a hex doctor and a network spanning New York New Jersey and Delaware with Philadelphia as headquarters.
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Philadelphia
Catina Favato
Philip Ingraa
Herman Petrillo
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Miners Move Toward New Anthracite Contract Talks
In March a 16 member committee pressed to replace an April 80 contract as miners and operators adjourned to Monday. Mayor La Guardia urged federal action amid looming subway shutoffs and reports of coal shortages. Anticipated national strikes threaten 500,000 jobs, with CIO calling for 125,000 bituminous miners to quit May 5 and 100,000 anthracite miners if needed. Governor Harrisburg reports state police readiness as May 5 approaches.
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LaGuardia
CIO
Jobin L. Lewis
Appalachian
Charles O'Neil
Lewis
Mine Workers
Alleghenies
Washington
Roosevelt
Harding
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
James
Col. C. M. Wilhelm
Wilhelm
Hope for funds for teachers' back salaries in Shamokin
A Coal Township teachers' spokesman said funds to cover six months of back salaries are hoped to arrive soon and that classes will resume. John Mangle, president of the Township Teachers' Association, anticipated a settlement and satisfactory arrangements. State officials work to speed a $1,000,000 distribution authorized by the Legislature to distressed districts. Also notes sports quip about DiMaggio and Gehrig.
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Shamokin
Coal Township
John Mangle
Her Township Teachers’ Association
Department of Public Instruction
Harrisburg
Dynamite Found Near Sault Ste. Marie Canal
Sault Ste. Marie Ont April 22 Canadian press discovery of 60 pounds of hidden dynamite near the upper Cheat Lake bottleneck of the Sault Ste. Marie ship canal escalated Canada wide sabotage fears. Major Jack McMeeken urged citizens to guard against sabotage while officials tightened security and called up veterans for guard duty at strategic sites.
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Ont
Cheat Lakes
Sault Ste. Marie Ship Canal
Jack McMeeken
Ontario
Michigan
Dominion
Europe
Dominon
Canada
Saul Ste. Marie Ship Canal
Lake Superior
Eastern Lakes
Great Lakes
George Harbottte
Church Unification Likely To Close Pittsburgh District Churches
The merger of three Methodist branches at a Kansas City conference will prune Pittsburgh district churches to cut duplication. The new church will serve about 180000 in the Pittsburgh conference, bounded by the Ohio line and Cre gson and Buller areas, with 280 pastors in the Episcopal Church's 120000 membership. District Superintendent Dr Cavcoran notes weaker churches will be eliminated where communities share both denominations, citing New Cumberland as an example.
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Methodist Union
Pittsburgh
Methodist Church
Kansas City
Ohio Line
Cregson
Buller
New Cumberland
W. Va
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal South
S. W. Cavcoran
Rescue Five Boy Coal Diggers Trapped in Cavein
Pittsburgh workers and police rescued five boys trapped by a cave in at a hillside coal working where they had gone to dig fuel for warmth. Three youths were buried under debris. Samuel Burnett, 9, was rushed to a hospital in critical condition. two others had minor injuries. Two boys remained uninjured.
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Pittsburgh
Hime
Samuel Burnett
Lindbergh Arrives at Wright Field for Arm y Conference
April 22 Col Charles A Lindbergh, now in active Army duty, landed at Wright Field from Washington in his plane for a conference with Air Corps engineers. He will stay over the weekend as guest of Brig Gen George H Brett to inspect the research and engineering laboratories with the Materiel Division.
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Army
Wright Field
Washington
Air Corps Engineers
Lindbergh
George H. Brett
Nine Die as Planes Crash Over French Airfields
Paris April 22 Nine crew members died when two French bombers collided and crashed at a military air base near Tours while preparing to land. A third bomber's crew of five perished in a Beauvais night crash. Additional fatalities and burnings were reported from a separate air incident over Northern Morocco.
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Tots
Beauvais
Morocco
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Algeria
Saint Symphore
Tours
New York World's Fair Exhibits Mixed with Leisure Displays
New York World's Fair heads have organized educational exhibits as part of a broader display. However, the average visitor will mainly notice the prominent attractions including a fan dancer a roller coaster and a hot dog stand alongside the educational arrays.
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Hipple In Cell At Rockview Faces Possible Reprieve
Ernest Hipple, slated for execution, remained hopeful Governor James will grant a reprieve. He arrived at Rockview Penitentiary with sheriff and deputies, visited by his mother and sister, while his counsel argued mental incompetence ahead of an imminent electric chair date.
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Rockview
Bellefonte
Ernest Hipple
James
Ard
Dames
Samuel 5. Lewis
Prison Board
la Porte
Nations weigh fears as Nazi threat looms across Europe
Berlin signals neighbor fear of Nazi aggression while London notes Roosevelt peace moves. Helsinki says no German threat to Finland. Kaunas cites German pledge not to use force. The Hague and Berne stress neutrality guarantees. Paris boosts naval base and taxes for preparedness. Sault Ste. Marie reports dynamite finding. Venice hosts talks linking Yugoslavia and Hungary with Rome Berlin axis.
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Markets produce and price notes from Pittsburgh and Chicago
Pittsburgh reported slow demand for produce with apples and cars near steady and assorted fruit and vegetables priced per basket or sack. Chicago noted minor advances in wheat and corn futures reflecting Liverpool quotes, with May and July contracts showing small gains in quiet early trading.
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Showdown on Neutrality Moves in Senate
Washington reports that administration leaders pushed toward a showdown on the Neutrality Law. Hearings end next week as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee begins voting on six amendment or repeal proposals. Chairman Pittman announced testimony by Hugh Johnson and hinted at late-week action.
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P Administration
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D-Ney
Hugh 5. Johnson
NRA
Adolf Hitler
Roosevelt
Borah
R-Idaho
Republican Committee
Consumer Group Seeks P U C Budget Increase
Harrisburg April 22 The Pennsylvania Utility Consumer Service asked Governor James to raise the Public Utility Commission budget for the next two years. John J. Lipko, its president, urged a budget to complete inventories of utility properties to establish a fair rate base and save ratepayers millions.
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Pennsylvania Utility Consumers Service
James Today
Public Utility Commission
Pennsylvania
John J. Lipko
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