Tax program delayed by new changes in Harrisburg
In Harrisburg April QT lawmakers face delays as the administration delays an emergency tax program while five major measures proceed. Senate Majority Leader Owlett notes milk control teachers tenure and other topics may spur further action before May 26 adjournment.">
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Skid
G. Mason Owlett
Senate
Owlett
House
Frederick Homsher
Lancaster
Committee On Municipal Corporations
Oil Industry Investigating Commission
Diedrge Woodward
Philadelphia
House acts on relief bill amid amendments and other measures
The House welfare committee approved the relief bill with corrective changes. It would remove 5,000 relief workers from civil service, with beneficiaries’ names now available for public inspection. Other bills affect aliens registration and professions regulation, while a Sunday movie Referendum faces repeal. Unemployment figures show a heavy coal mine shutdown strain with 25,000 already on benefits and 65,000 more to follow. State officials warn of gravest relief strain in memory.
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John B. van Alisburg
Ir-Erie
van Alisburg
House
Senate
Bloomsburg
Gilbert Wolfenden
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Howard L. Russell
Department of Public Assistance
Van Allsburg Relief Bill Reported Out With One Modification
Harrisburg April 21 The House Welfare Committee approved the Van Allsburg relief bill with a single change, removing a publication requirement for relief beneficiaries but keeping names available to sponsor Rep. Joh Van Allsburg. The measure would shift civil service from about 5,000 public assistance workers and grant more county board authority. Howard L. Russell warned the state faces a serious relief funding crisis and urged improved cooperation with national programs and stronger county relief administration.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylventas Organization
Welfare Sons’ Tee
Joh van Allsburg
Rerie
Department of Public Assistance
Howard L. Russell
Pennsylvania
Britain Eyeing General Election and Expanded Conscription
A Mackenzie led piece argues Prime Minister's push for a general election tied to conscription debates in Parliament. It notes Chamberlain’s stance that Britain is not at war yet not peacetime, citing guarantees to Greece Poland and Romania and the need for a larger, skilled force. It discusses the shift from Napoleonic mass numbers to high quality mechanized warfare and the role of home production and skilled manpower. Funeral notices follow for Sara Smith and Lizzie Gardner with services in Rochester Mills and burial in Burnside.
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Greece
Poland
Romania
England
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Sara Smith
Gipsy
Lizzie Gardner
Pittsburgh
United Presbyterian Church
Rochester Mills
John Winwood
Odd Fellows Cemetery
Burnside
Obituary highlights of Cannizzaro and Corson-Parson
Obituary continues from page one noting the death of wife Mrs. Josephine Cannizzaro and funeral plans at St Berard Church with burial at St. Bernard Cemetery. Also reports the death of Mrs Annie Corson-Parson at age 83 in Rochester Mills, born November 2, 1885, daughter of Joseph and Mary McCracken, with surviving children Eliza Graham Murray Ty Corson-Parson Olie Corson-Parson, five grandchildren, six great grandchildren and two sisters.
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St. Berard Roman Catholic Church
St. Bernard Cemetery
Annie Corson-Parson
Rochester Mills
Corson-Parson
Joseph
Mary Hunter McCracken
Grant Township
Eliza Graham
Murray Ty Corson-Parson
Olie Corson-Parson
Hoe
Hitler symbols clash in New Jersey coverage of Nazi reaction
Reports describe German symbols and a harsh reaction to Chamberlain’s policy. A Rooseveltdominated scene in Hyde Park sets the stage for a forthcoming World’s Fair address as Hitler’s Reichstag speech looms. The tone reflects tension over Western arms, appeasement, and Nazi rhetoric.
Plain ship for royalty trip to North America
London April 27 Prime Minister Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons that George VI and Queen Elizabeth would travel to the United States and Canada aboard the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Australia instead of the Repulse. The Repulse, Britain's only available battle cruiser, will stay in European waters due to international tensions. The Empress of Australia, formerly Tirpitz, is set to sail May 6.
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Chamberlain
House of Commons
George VI
Queen Elizabeth
United States
Canada
Britain
Australia
Free Agriculture Course Offered by Alder Ridge School
The agricultural department at Alder Ridge Vocational School offers a free ten week course for adult citizens and 1914 era land boys no longer enrolled. The first organizational meeting is Monday May 1 at 7 30 p m. Topics include poultry vegetables gardening and dairying with practical experience over weekly sessions.
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Farmers Fight To Work On Dream Highway
Somerset, Apr 27 Farmers and laborers oppose a closed shop contract with AFL organizers on the Harrisburg Pittsburgh all weather road. After driving out two organizers, the seven mile link near here halted work and the firm canceled the union contract affecting about 80 workers. Local independents vow to march on another link four miles west to oppose the union. Victor B. Glessner leads the independents stating the initiation fee is a racket and dues may total 15 000 to 20 000 dollars.
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H. W. Findley
Victor B. Glessner
W. R. Mostellex
Connell and Laub Company
Glessner
Independents
Senate committee backs amended tenure law amid teacher opposition
Harrisburg April 27 The Senate education committee led by Senator Frederick L Homsher says amendments to the 1087 tenure law will pass out for action soon. The changes add subordination to eight dismissal causes and permit boards to view marriage as an outside occupation, with a five year probationary period. The School Directors Association cites rising married teachers and notes few graduates secure teaching jobs, urging careful action.
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Harrisburg
Senate Education
Frederick L .Homsher
Senate
School Directors Association’ of
Pennsylvania
Department of Public Instruction
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Association
Norway Prince Crowned Liner Collision Near Harbor
The Norwegian liner Osilopjord carrying Crown Prince Oluf and Crown Princess Martha collided with the pilot boat Sandy Hook in fog just outside the harbor. The Sandy Hook sank. its crew were rescued by the Osilofjord which bore no serious damage and later resumed its voyage with a police launch acting as pilot, arriving at quarantine shortly after.
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Osilofjord
Norway
Prince Oluf
Martha
Sandy Hook
Treasury plan for secret police unit opposed
A distrust of any secret police has led Treasury Secretary Morgenthau to drop his proposal to merge enforcement agencies. The plan would have placed more than 3,000 federal agents into a single unit, a concept President Roosevelt had supported for transmission to Congress.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
White House
Congress
Barry Barrymore To Seek Divorce
In St Louis on April 27 John Barrymore and Elsine Barrie announced plans for a second divorce after 30 months of marriage. He said separation was agreed amicably while claiming the couple had not hit it off. Separations were described as mutually agreed as their partnership dissolves. Charlotte White, 23, a Philadelphia night club dancer, was beaten on the head with a hammer today by a man who grabbed her arm as she walked home. A man was taken by a policeman, charged with assault and battery, and Miss White said she did not know why she was beaten.
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Hyde Park
N. J
Hitler
Roosevelt
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Norway
Denmark
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Reichstag
New York
Mitler
Philadelphia
Charlotte White
Night Club Danvey
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Pulgeman
Aseault
Miss White
British PM seeks broad wartime profiteering penalties
The article reports the prime minister urging harsher penalties for wartime profiteering and proposing a system to tax all war profits, not just those from armaments. He addresses the House of Commons confidently, aiming for a confidence vote on measures deemed unprecedented since Cromwell's era.
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House of Commons
Britain
Oliver Cromwell
Market summaries from Pittsburgh and Chicago reports
Pittsburgh markets show produce demand moderate with apples and potatoes per car listings and several price ranges for varieties. Hogs steady in livestock with mixed cattle calves and sheep notes. Chicago wheat and corn markets move on rumors and speculative pauses after initial gains.
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New York
Baldwins
Rome
Michigan Rurals
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Rurals
Florida Bliss Triumphs
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Crop Loan Agent Here Wednesday
Crop loan agent Louis E Schucker from the Emergency Crop Aid Feed Loan office Harrisburg will be at the Indiana Post Office Wednesday May 3 at 9 pm to receive applications for start term loans mainly for feed fertilizer and baby chicks. Gilbert Ligon of Manitou Springs Colo wrote his father about Miss Mary Everett and Miss Lucy Kissell both teachers and offered an appreciation trip to the World's Fair by plane or train.
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Emergency Crop Aid Feed Loan Office
Harrisburg
Indiana Post Office
Manitou Springs
Colo
Gilbert Ligon
Mary Everett
Lucy Kissell
Bert Ligon
Wichita Falls
Tex
Ruth Holds Little Hope Bills Governing Legal Practice Will Pass
Harrisburg April 27 Five new laws from the Ruth commission findings will be introduced in the legislature next week, totaling 1019 measures from a year and a half long survey of legal practice. Senator Ruth pessimistically said none will pass, as Democrats fail to move them from committees. Proposals include governor rewards for felon capture, real estate lien rights, behavior clinics, and six sixths verdicts in criminal trials, among others.
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Harrisburg
Ruth Court Investigting Commission
Frank W. Ruth
Dbarks
Ruth
Ruth Commission
Washington
Buth Commission
Stock Market Averages Mix As Dow Edges Higher
A broad list of corporate issues, including Am Can, Chrysler, General Electric, and Standard Oil, show varied activity with several firms advancing and others slipping amid shifting market sentiment. Notable items include Amoco, U S Steel, and Camden-Pacific tied to mixed trading and demand signals across industrials and utilities.
WPA Probe and Expected Tax Bills Reach Capitol
The Senate foreign relations and labor committees face delays on a new neutralty measure and Wagner Act amendments. House plans three tax bills to freeze old age insurance taxes, extend corporate levies, and continue nuisance taxes. The Senate Commerce Committee moves to report the Florida ship canal bill without recommendation, authorizing completion of the $200,000,000 waterway tied to Roosevelt era relief funds.
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Labor Committee
Barkley
House
Velie
Canad
Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Tadas
Senate
Shepard
D-Tex
Roosevelt
Judge Ponders Acquittal Plea In Mills Case
Philadelphia April 27 Judge Lewis E Devinthal considered a direct acquittal plea for William B Mills former county prison superintendent in the bake oven deaths of four convicts. Assistant DA Boyle argued enough evidence showed Mills disregarded duty the night convicts perished from radiator heat. Defense says no crime just involuntary manslaughter and questions indicting prison inspectors as well.
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Philadelphia
Lewis E. Devinthal
William B. Mills
Mills
John A. Boyle
Wa. A. Gray
Commonwealth
Trig
Gray
College Weather Update Amid Cloudy Cooler Rain
Reading from the campus station shows continued cloudiness and cooler temps with rain today. 8 a.m. readings report 63 max 47 min, with record highs 71 and 95 for the month and 18 for the low. Precipitation totals stand at 3.51 past 24 hours, 3.94 for the month. pressure at 29.2. Sky described as cloudy with fracto-nimbus clouds.
Cranium Crackers Post Win In This Best
Lancaster April 27 Em ma Cochran 12 hurt seriously after being struck by a 12-pound shot during weight tossing following a field meet at Fulton Township school Principal Harry Gerlach said several boys were tossing the weight Reading Schoolboys at Northeast Junior High learn cooking and sewing in a domestic arts club to tailor their own clothes
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Emma Cochran
Fulton Township
Harry Gerlach
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