Kiwanis Meet Returns to Rustic Lodge as Members Rejoin
The Kiwanis Club held its regular weekly meeting at Rustic Lodge last night marking the return of the club to its former meeting place and the reappearance of Walter Fish and Guy Kanable after Florida sojourns. The theme Business Standards featured talks from committee members and local business leaders. May 18 named Ladies Night with a Dinner Dance at the Country Club.
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Kiwanis
Kiwanis Club
Rustic Lodge
Walter Fish
Florida
Guy Kanable
Beryl Sennet
Harry Pharoah
Clymer Water Company
Dean Alvord
Syntron Company
Billboard
Jon Neff
Insurance
Country Club
Private labs approved for blood tests for marriage licenses
The plan allows privately run laboratories or physicians to perform the medical examinations for marriage licenses with a fee set by them. Public announcements of the approved labs are delayed until May 1. Free tests are available through the state for applicants who cannot pay if certified by a doctor.
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Everhart
Philadelphia
State Health Department
Dr. Everhart
Orphans’ Court
Roosevelt Aids GOP Intra Party Talks Ahead Of Convention
In White House lobby, Roosevelt sees telegrams urging unity as Rayburn predicts a delegation free of mud. Massachusetts holds a primary with unpledged delegates opposed to Dewey backed by McMasters. Rhode Island and Oklahoma GOPs name uninstructed delegates as Stassen prepares a broad platform focusing on domestic unity.
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Texas
Roosevelt
White House
Rayburn
House
Garner
Massachusetts
Saltonstall
Wiliam N. McMasters
Thomas E. Dewey
Demceralvshire
Farley
Mr. Roosevelt
Rhode Island
Une
Oklahoma
Stassen
Philadelphia
Platform Committee
Congress
Man Who Eluded Death In Insurance Murder Gets Second Trial
Herman Petrillo, once condemned to die for Alfonsi’s poisoning, is tried again in Philadelphia after a State Supreme Court grant of a new trial. The state will pursue the Raefelo Caruso drowning case, part of the same insurance murder syndicate probe. Petrillo sought an out of city trial and judge recusal were rejected.
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Philadelphia
Herman Petrillo
Ferdinand Alfonst
WPA
State Supreme Court
Raefelo Caruso
Alfonsi
Caruso
Ting
Petrillo
Supreme Court
High Court
Frank Smith
Smith
Edwin QO. Lewis
Governor outlines 1940s speech on fiscal, foreign policy shifts
The fall year old governor plans a 45 minute keynote addressing foreign policy and domestic reforms. He calls for repeal of reciprocity trade program or Senate ratification for trade pacts, adequate relief, local control, balanced budget rhetoric, preservation of key New Deal programs with tweaks to Wagner act, and farm payments tied to soil conservation with a two price system for domestic versus export crops.
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Senate
APL
Methodist divorce rules challenged at Kansas City conference
The committee on the state of the church rejected strict anti divorce norms still held by Methodists and upheld a liberalized policy allowing ministers to remarry the innocent party in cases of adultery or other cruelty. Dr Ernest Fremont Title and Rev Dr Robert B Spencer spoke on cross religious dialogue and rising prejudice against Christianity.
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Uniting
Kansas City
Ernest Fremont Title
Evanston
Robert B. Spencer
Tokaoka
Japan
Japan Methodist Church
Senate Address Key Labor and Fiscal Proposals
The session tackles federal funding for a program, aid to children of separated mothers, shifting veterans funds to back bonds, property department control of a new Liquor Control Board building, and election law changes for substitute legislators. It also covers administrative costs and confirms Governor James’s appointees to state commissions and boards.
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Phia
Veterans Compensation Fund
Department of Military Affairs
Pinchot
Department of Property and Supplies
Northwest
Liquor Control Board
Senate
James
Lynn G. Adams
State Police Commission
John C. Beil, Jr
Francis Bo Haas
Public Instruction
Labor attack on unions by Thurman Arnold sparks convention debate
McDevitt cites Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold at the federation’s 39th convention, arguing his anti trust interpretation would condemn unions that ban non union fabrication. He accuses officials of drafting contract clauses restricting worker conditions, noting no court has tested these actions yet.
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U. S
Thurman Arnold
Arnold
McDevitt
Labor leaders back Roosevelt third term at Pennsylvania CIO meet
Reading April 30. A state CIO convention opened with William Leader declaring a resolution to endorse a third Roosevelt term and lauding his peace policies. John L. Lewis plans to address the gathering. Emil Rieve spoke as opening day speaker. The resolution praises labor gains and asserts Roosevelt’s rights of labor are recognized and enforced.
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Reading
Roosevelt
Congress of Industrial Organizations In
Pennsylvania
William Leader
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
United Mine Workers of America
John L. Lewis
Lewis
National Cio
Emil Rieve
Hoesjerg Federation
Gove Eremental
Can Religion Build a New World lecture by Dr Eddy
Dr Eddy urges Americans to avoid provincialism as world conflicts press a heavy responsibility on the United States to aid global rebuilding. He cautions that no system offers more than America and notes we must first perfect democracy at home before aiding others. He will speak on Can Religion Build a New World at John Sutton auditorium at 7:30 tonight. public invited.
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America
Dr. Eddy
Germany
Eddy
John Sutton
Youth leaders appointed to school and borough posts
Youth superintendent John Mitchel will be high school principal with Jean Widdowson as dean of girls and assistant principal. Harold Heckman named police chief and back Sheehe street commissioner. Morgan Litzinger to judge duties by county veto, Tony Bruno elected burgess. Grade School Officers at Horace Main School see Marjorie Blair and Billy Hunter acting as principal and secretary yesterday.
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John Mitchel
Jean Widdowson
Harold Heckman
Indiana
Sheehe
Morgan Litzinger
Tony Bruno
Horace Main School
Mar-jorie Blair
Billy Hunter
Secre
House Battles Over Wage Hour Amnesty in Congress
WashingtonApril 30 tentative acceptance of an amendment loosening wage hour limits for salaried workers intensified the House battle over revising the wage hour law. The proposal by Rep Hoffman Mich approved 74 to 30 with plans for reconsideration later this week. The measure would remove time and a half for hours above 42 weekly but cap average weekly hours over 26 weeks. It would apply to office or plant workers with six months regular salary. Rep Marcantonio NYA supported the current law saying adoption would aid opponents of the statute while Rep. Wagner NY explained a Senate bill to regulate foreign investments during wartime escaped scrutiny amid questions about a Roosevelt order on Danish Norwegian credits.
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Washington
House
Hoffman
R-Mich
Fors
Marcantonio
Al-Ny
Senate
Wagner
Roosevelt
United States
School Week Plan Outlined With Talks and Open House
The district schedules principal changes at Toomorrow Le Claire Barnett and Thaddeus Stevens School. Superintendent Perry emphasizes youth citizenship and responsibility amid world tensions. Midweek programs include Alaska trip talk, high school assemblies, scout talks, and a KDKA Artist Program. Open house and Citizenship Day are planned at Thaddeus Stevens with Dr Hugh Given speaking on citizenship.
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Tary
Toomorrow le Claire Barnett
Jimmy Bowser
Thaddeus Stevens
Carl Iseman
Dorothy Myers
Ronald Helman
Ethel Nagy
Sup't
Perry
Europe
Asia
Ois
Edgar C. Perry
Horace Mann School
Mary Russell
Alaska
Ae Lubold
Willett
Arthur Russell
U.S. A
Hugh Given
Sally Funk
Banquet in Honor of Dead Cadet at Kemper School
In Columbia Missouri Kemper Military School cadets and dates dined last night to honor Cadet J E Winmy Parker Jr killed in an automobile accident. The memorial was arranged at the insistence of his father J B Parker Sr who said he wanted to do something for the boys in Parker's company. He attended a memorial service in Boonville and the school later held a dinner dance for Company C boys.
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Columbia
Kemper Military School
J. E. Winmy Parker
Jimmy
J. B. Parker
Boonsville
As Boys
Centenary of Prince Gallitzin Remembered in Loretto
A pageant planned for May in Loretto marks the 100th anniversary of Prince Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin’s death. The “Apostle of the Alleghenies” founded a Catholic community in western Pennsylvania, built St Francis College and left a lasting imprint on the region despite hardship and exile from Russia.
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Pennsylvania
Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin
Alleghenies
Father Smith
Allegheny Mountain
Father Gallitzin
Albert Garland
St. Francis College
St. Michael’s
Prince Gallitzin
Charles M. Schwab
Dimitri Alexeivich Gallitzin
Holland
Austria
Gallitzin
Frederick William of the
Netherlands
Duke of Luxemburg
America
Baltimore
Cambria County
Russia
Philadelphia
Church Fronts Social Justice March, Editor Says
Harrisburg April 30 Churches must play a part in the march toward new frontiers of social justice, says Dr. Barclay Acheson of Reader's Digest. He warns against mechanistic government and urges religion to drive ideas for the common good in a free democracy. Rural church decline cited at 2-4 percent annually. denomination splits blamed alongside mobility and migrant labor.
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Church
Harrisburg
Barclay Acheson
Easton
Reader’s Digest
Pennsylvania Council of Churches
Obituary notices in Indiana town list several deaths
A batch of notices covers Rosie Beatty of Clark Street widow. Martha Jane Kanarr widow. John Wilson Peddicord age 85 farmer. Harry Newton Risinger born 1867 with many children and relatives. Elizabeth Marqon Hileman 78. Vena K. Martin 65 of Apollo. Cecil Lawrence Tonkin born 1881 with five children. Funeral details and burial plans follow for each, naming survivors and churches or cemeteries involved.
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Harry Newton Risinger
Rayne Township
White Township
Martha (Cresswell) Risinger
John C. Risinger
Mary Edna Betweed
Detroit
Mich
Florence May George
Schvale
Howard William Risinger
Charles Edgar Risinger
Indiana
R. D
Francis McFarland
Clyde M. Rising
Bell Funeral Home
Harry Burton Boyd
First Presbyterian Church of Indiana
Greenwood Cemetery
Vena K. Martin
Sprague T. Maurtin
First Street
Apollo
South Bend Township
James and
Elizabeth
Millicon) Kier
Quentin
Wilkinsburg
D. M. Kier
Blairsville
Emma Fulton
West Lebanon
C. W. Cochran
Apollo Presbyterian Church
Martin
Apollo Cemetery
Cecil Lawrence Tonkin
Montgomery Township
Catherine
Hazelett) Tonkin
William Tonkin
Indiana Hospital
Parks Hall
Dayton
John Griffith
Raymond Pearl Ad Ann
George Butterbaugh
Marion Center RR
Streams Funeral
Charles T. Schlotter
Grove Chapel Lutheran Church
Greenwood
T He Funeral Home
British air battles and Norway operations reported
A military source said two Nazi planes were shot down as the war office remained silent. Germans captured Storen amid a difficult Allied position in the Dombas sector 480 miles south of Storen on the Oslo Trondheim line. Allies reportedly landed more troops on three western Norwegian coast points and British flying boats speed troops to Norwegian fjords for air and land actions. Britain’s attempt to secure a Russia trade deal faces friction as Moscow calls Russia’s exports Germany’s own affair, complicating blockades.
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Storen
Dombas
Oslo-Trondeheim
Norway
Russia
Germany
Britain
Gfies
Girl escapes from kidnapers in Bellefonte
Mary Tombs a 17 year old from Milesburg told District Attorney Musser Geltig that men who appeared foreign placed a sheet over her head and carried her from her home porch. She said they rode about a mile before placing her in a back seat. she escaped by elbowing a man and fleeing.
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Bellefonte
Mary Tombs
Milesburg
Musser Geltig
Estate of Florenz Ziegfeld Sold for 34000 at Auction
The late Florenz Ziegfelds $200,000 estate in Hastings on Hudson N Y was sold at auction yesterday for 34000. Brooklyn realtor Edward Rosenman purchased the property and said he has no plans for it. He has previously handled business deals for Father Divine the Harlem evangelist.
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Hastings-On-Hudson
N. Y
Florenz
FDR'S MOTHER BETTER TODAY
Mrs Sara Delano Roosevelt 85 year old mother of the President is reported fully recovered from a severe attack of indigestion. The illness struck yesterday while she and Mrs Gordon Crawford were returning from a pre opening visit to the New York World's Fair.
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New York
Sara Delano Roosevelt
Gordon Crawford
Infant Donald Eigelman Dies in Indiana Hospital
Donald Eiselman, 14 months old, son of Mr and Mrs Ivan Eigelman of Indiana R D 4, died at Indiana Hospital at 7 a m. Today. Body to Bowser Funeral Home at Plumville. Arrangements incomplete. Complete obituary to appear tomorrow.
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Donald Eiselman
Ivan Eigelman
Indiana R. D
Indiana Hospital
Bowser
Plumville
Buck Promoted Within PRR Group Heads West
Altoona April 30 The Pennsylvania Railroad announces promotion of Elwood R Buck master mechanic of the Pittsburgh Conemaugh and Monongahela division with headquarters at Pittsburgh to superintendent of motive power of the Wabash Railroad headquartered at Decatur IA. James L Marks master mechanic of the middle division at Altoona succeeds Buck at Pittsburgh C A Wilson master mechanic at Williamsport replaces Marks and H C Wright assistant master mechanic on the Philadelphia division takes Wilsons place.
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The
Pennsylvania Railroad
Elwood R. Buck
Pittsburgh, Conemaugh and Monongaehela
Pittsburgh
Wabash Railroad
Decatur
James L. Marks
Midddle
East Altoona
Buck
C. A. Wilson
Williamsport
Marks
H. C. Wright
Philadelphia
Wilson
Treasury Balance Report Shows April Receipts and Expenditures
The Treasury reports April receipts of 8.59 million and expenditures of 22.72 million. Net balance stands at 2.2006 billion dollars. Customs receipts for the month total 24.59 million.
Fragmented Stock Market Ledger Of Companies And Brands
A dense list of company names and stock markers spans industries from aviation to steel, chemicals, automotive, consumer goods, and utilities. It notes firms like Anaconda, Chrysler, General Motors, Dupont, Eastman Kodak, Goodyear, Sears Roebuck, Jones & Laughlin, Lehigh Valley Coal, and Westinghouse among others, implying a broad market snapshot of equities or tickers tied to industrial names.
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Bald Loco City
Bendix Aviat Bay
Beth Steel
Aly Burr
Cerro de Pas
Chrysler Corp
Cory Products OI
Douglas Aircraft
Briy du Pont
Eastman Kodiak
Motors
Gillette
Greyhound Carp
Hershey
Interlake
Harvester Oaly
Nick
Death shocks Abington as 16 year old charged in school slaying
Edith Snyder was killed in her home as investigators press the case against 16 year old Robert Heineman. Police say the gun was found at a friend's house where Heineman stayed. District Attorney Smillie signals a first degree murder plan while classmates recall the grieving farewell at the girl’s funeral.
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Abington
Edith Snyder
Robert Heineman
Heineman
Jv Fall
Frederick B. Smillie
International News From War Fronts Norway and Slovakia
The Hungarian minister in parliament warned Slovakia to honor minority rights and warned of remedies. Swedish reports say Allied reinforcements landed at Sunndalsfjord and near Andalsnes, Nore and Sogne fjords in Norway. Casualties from recent fighting show limited land losses with Norwegian and French forces suffering several dozen deaths and many wounded, while sea battles account for most deaths.
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Slovakia
Istvan Csaky
Norway
Sunndals Mjord
Andalsnes
Nore
Sogne
Steitke Jer
Namsos
Justice Rules on Small Loans In Pennsylvania
Harrisburg report states it is illegal for banks to collect a five percent premium paid to surety companies on small personal loans from 100 to 3000 dollars. Deputy Attorney General Orville Brown, at the request of banking secretary John C. Bell, says single-name surety loans raise costs by about five dollars per hundred and violate the usury and small loans act.
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Harrisburg
State Department of Just
Pennsylvania
Orville Brown
John C. Bell
Secretary of Banking
al Utioult Ba
Brawn
Markets Report From Pittsburgh And Chicago Grain Notes
Markets show mixed activity with grain futures wavering as improved weather spurs selling pressure early then steadies on commission house support. Wheat May and July futures shifted but remained near prior close while livestock prices in Pittsburgh traded lower for hogs and steady for cattle and sheep amid ongoing demand signals. Tony Galento interview snippet notes his reaction to a past bout and mindset in training.
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Chicago
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