Roosevelt Turns National Youth Administration Into Political Light
Roosevelt declares the NYA a direct action program with a $50 million appropriation, aiming for tangible results beyond past conferences. Hoover aides Hugh Hastings and Ray Wilbur contest the move, arguing previous child welfare efforts yielded lasting gains and accusing Roosevelt of politicizing the NYA.
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Roosevelt
National Youth Administration
George Durno
Te N. 8
Washington
INS
Friends
Herbert Hoover
NWA
George A. Hastings
Mr. Hoover
White House
NYA
Hastings
Hoover
New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Interiew
National Conference On ‘Child Welfare
Horse Show Day with Free Admission in Indiana County
A Saturday horse show day offers free grand stand admission with a loud speaker announcing classes. Henry Rhoads hosts the event at Tor rance State Hospital farms as master of ceremonies. Ice cream, coffee, sandwiches, and candy are sold on grounds. A special prize honors top horsemanship by a mule or horse team driver. Judges include John McCurdy, A Burge, and W C Lewis. The Indiana County Horse and Mule Association sponsors the show with a committee led by Connolly, Fiscus, White, Smith, and Long.
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Henry Rhoads
Torrance State Hospital
John McCurdy
New Alexandria
A. Burge
State College
W. C. Lewis
White Township
Indiana County
Horse and Mule Association of
J. J. Connolly
D. J. Fiscus
James H. White
Jack Smith
Clair Long
Obituary of William L Hildebrand 82 in Johnstown
William L Hildebrand 82 died 5 15 pm Tuesday at the home of his son in law and daughter near 1017 Bedford Street Johnstown after an illness of advanced age. Survived by widow Josephine two daughters Annie and Ethel May two brothers and a sister two grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral 2 30 Friday at Metzler home Rev George H Jones interment Headrick Cemetery. Mrs Martia Fisher Buchanan 30 died last night at 1102 Church Street wife of Walter Buchanan Arrangements pending arrival of CCC Camp member Walter Buchanan at Port Allegany. Try our classified Columns for results.
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William Lemon Hildebrand
Karl F. Metzler
Bedford Street
Johnstown
Conemaugh Township
Cambria County
George and
Elizabeth
Cobaugh) Hildebrand
Josephine (Headrick) Hildebrand
Annie
E. K. Kennedy
Pittsburgh
Ethel May
Earl E. Metzter
David G
Ferndale
John C
Youngstown
Annie Beam
Bon Air
Daniel
James
Hildebrand
Moxham Brethren Church
Martia (Fisher) Buchanan
Walter Buchanan
Church Street
Samuel Fisher
Buchanan
CCC
Port Allegany
Fruit Growers Tour Set for August 29 in Indiana County
Indiana County fruit growers plan their annual tour and field day for Thursday August 29 leaving the Court House at Indiana at 9 18 a m. Route 422 to Shelocta then Spring Church to visit C RB Yerger's twenty acre orchard twelve years old last year yielding 3000 bushels of apples. Afternoon visits include T C Hood Elders Ridge with a basket picnic and a speaking program by Penn State extension staff on spray residues and apple disease control. A roundtable discussion on varieties methods and markets closes the event inviting all fruit growers and their families.
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Indiana County
Court House
Indiana
Shelocta
Spring Church
C. RB. Yergov
Yerger
Armstrong County
T. C. Hood
Elders Ridge
Hood Farm
al. A. Ruef
Penn State
Shawnee Dam Fund Drive Starts In Cambria County
A regional campaign funds a Shawnee Dam project with an estimated cost near 40000 dollars. Sportsmen provide about 5000 for materials while labor is to be donated by Uncle Sam. The Peoples Bank of Clymer will custody the funds and credits will be published for contributors. A first list of donors includes Floyd L. Houck J W Houck Wm McAdoo C L Langwill and many others.
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Cambria County
Uncle Sam
Peoples Bank of
Evangelistic Conference At Crooked Creek Church
At Crooked Creek Baptist Church Chambersville an Evangelistic and Pro phetical Conference runs nightly except Saturday at 745. Tonight and tomorrow cover the Second Coming of Christ led by Rev Joann W Kennedy. Thursday features Rev T Wilbur Lawton of Havre de Grace MD speaking on Where Are the Dead. Invited guests from far and near with special musical numbers by Misses Conrad and Williams of Indiana.
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Crooked Creek Baptist
Crooked Creek Baptist Church
Chambersville
Christ
Joann W. Kennedy
T. Wilbur Lawton
Havre de Grace
Maryland
Conrad
Williams
Indiana
Beekeepers Plan Field Day With Picnic Event
Beekeepers from Indiana Jefferson Elo and Clearfeld counties join a four county field day and picnic at Marion Center Community Park on Friday August 30. The Marion Center Jersey Bull Association also hosts a field day at the same site but does not interfere with the bee program. Events start 10 30 a m with wrapping and packing demonstrations for market and E J Anderson will lead practical demonstrations including electric embedding of foundation. A noon to one p m basket dinner precedes a group photo at 1 p m and talks on queen rearing and full management follow. Bee supply dealers offer exhibits and prizes including smokers and veils for contests. All interested in better beekeeping are invited.
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Indiana
Jefferson
Elo
Clearfeld
Marion Center
E. J.’ Anderson
Bee
J. B. Hollopeter
Rockton
E.d. Anderson
Jersey Show Thrills Highlight Dayton Fair Update
The Marion Center Jersey Bull Association moved the annual cattle show to Friday August 30 at Marion Center Community Park. Judging begins 11:00 a.m. with Dairy Extension official R R Welch presiding. Five Jersey bulls and daughters to be shown. Bangs and tuberculosis tested. buyers from distant counties and New Jersey expected. picnic available and cattle progress to be studied. The Dayton Fair expands with Ward Beam's Congress of Dare Devils, auto polo, races, and high thrills attractions.
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Marion Center
Jersey
Indiana County
Lancaster
Delaware
Chester
New Jersey
Wetzel speaks at Lions meeting in Indiana
At the Indiana Lions weekly gathering at Rustic Lodge on August 20 1995 guest speaker William Wetzel of the Soil Conservation Service shared the agency’s purpose and farmer benefits. Lion Don Longwill sang with Delos Campbell on piano and plans were made for a Cliffside Park picnic August 27 and a Horseshoe exhibition at the Indiana County Fair Grounds on September 9 tickets available from Lions members.
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Indiana Lions
Rustic Lodge
William §. Wetzel
Soil Conservation Service
Wetzel
Lion Don Longwill
Lion Delos Campbell
Lions Club
Cliffside Park
Agriculture Hall
Indiana County Fair Grounds
Indiana
Humorist Rogers to Rest Amid Simple Memorials
The body of the famed wit will rest at Memorial Park Chapel then beneath a tree in Memorial Park before a public viewing. Army aviators and hundreds of police will guard the rites while a Hollywood bowl service and Beverly Hills ceremony honor his life. The private funeral in Oklahoma and film industry tributes follow with a single hymn, a quartet, and brief oration.
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Rogers
Mary
James
Will
Santa Fe
Memorial Park
Glendale
J. Whicomborougher
Northwest
Brougher
Guard of Honor
Oklahoma
Hallywood Hills
Beverly Hills
Roy L. Smith
First Methodist Church
Frank C. McKean
Hollywood Ministerial Association
Pilot Will Receive Honor For Long Flight Death
Mrs. W F Post and surviving sons plus daughter attend the ceremony as friends and Kiowa neighbors gather in Garvin county. Will Rogers and Wiley Post are referenced in a tribute noting the famed Oklahoma aviators and a state funeral in a rural church setting. The article recalls a past flight and a porch beacon guiding the duo.
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W. F. Post
Maysville
Kiowa Reservation
Will Rogers
Wiley Fest
Jie
Garvin County
Wiley Fost
Winnle
James
McDonald Viewing Crisis Deepens European Debates
British cabinet planned a special session on Italy and Ethiopia with empire delegates including Rayner Bruce Parr and Dulanty. Sir Samuel held talks with Hassan Sabry Bey as to Suez status while Washington signaled aloofness from the Ethiopian dispute. A London press view noted no U.S. move before the League meets.
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Italy
Dominion
Briain
Empire
Col. Rayner
Canada
Stanley Bruce
Australia
James Parr
New Zealand
James F. Dulanty
Irish Free State
South Africa
G. H. Ferguson
Whitehall
Sir Samuel
Herbert Samuel
Paris
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Hassan Sabry Bey
Suez Canal
United States
Ray Atherton
Foreign Office
Atherton
Washington
Rothermere
Britain
League of Nations Council
Council
Senate panel backs arms embargo and travel ban bill
The Senate foreign relations committee approved a bill restricting arms shipments to belligerents, banning U S ships from carrying munitions to foreign belligerents, prohibiting American citizens from traveling on belligerent ships with a 90 day homecoming clause, and barring foreign belligerent submarines from basing on U S soil.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Filibuster and NRA Clash Turbulent Senate Debate
Washington Aug 21 Senate debate centers on ending chaos in the coal industry through a Little NRA plan proposed by Senator Guffey. He cites six aims from stabilizing supply and prices to ensuring living wages for roughly 500,000 workers and 2 million dependents, urging congressional passage despite opposition claims of dishonesty and court challenges.
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Wheeler
Montana
Senate
TVA
Guffey
Washington
INS
Pennsylvania
Guffey. Snyder
NRA
Showgirl and Salvation Army Lassie Urge Rights for Miners
A plea from a former showgirl and a Salvation Army lassie calls for civil rights for miners and seeks to end harsh conditions in mining communities. They demand action by private ownership and operation under government supervision, without cost to the government.
Headstones for Veterans Graves by Indiana County Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars will help families obtain government headstones or permanent markers for deceased veterans. Stones are 42 inches by 14 inches by four inches in American White marble. An appointed committee will handle applications. stones delivered free to the nearest railroad station, with local authorities covering final transport and erection costs.
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Indiana County Post
C. C. McLain
Indiana
A. P. Lundry
Blairsville
Ralph Kunkle
Homer City
James B. Braughter
Marion Center
Archie Beatty
Ernest
Jesse R. Beer
Commodore
W. Earl Oakes
Clymer
Harry Coleman
Clarksburg
James H. Painter
Plumville
Arch Repine
Alverda
E. C. Warden
Creekside
Albert Mier
Robinson
Ralph Cummings
Sheldon D. Spider
Forest fire rages across Nova Scotia and Maritime Provinces
Water supplies run dry as a massive forest fire sweeps through Nova Scotia and the Maritime Provinces. Firefighters struggle to contain the blaze amid extreme heat, destroying thousands of acres of timber and forcing residents from their homes.
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Halifax
N. S
Nova Scotia
Maritime Provinces
Billy Marks Gets Medal Honors at Fox Chapel
Pittsburgs dispatch reports Wilson F. Billy Marks of Kiskia Princeton University Golf star won medal honors in district qualifying at Fox Chapel Country Club. Marks posted 74 73 147 three strokes over par as 53 entrants from Pennsylvania West Virginia and Ohio vied for a place in the National Amateur Golf Championship at Cleveland September 9 to 14.
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Pittsburgh
Country Club
Cleveland
Lawson Little
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Fox Chapel Country Club
Wilson F
Billy") Marks
Kiski
Princeton University
Compton Returns Home From Albuquerque
Clarence Compton arrives in Indiana after a four weeks stay in Albuquerque New Mexico with his brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs Frank Compton. He reports conditions in the southwest improved. Will Rogers had relatives in Albuquerque where he visited and many expressions of grief were noted over his death.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Frank Compton
Clarence Compton
Indiana
Southwest
Will Rogers
Sufferers Rise To About 100 In Encephalitis Like Illness
Somerset on Aug 2 reports approximately 100 residents with mild cases of a strange malady resembling encephalitis. While only a few cases lingered in Windber, the contagion continued to spread through Somerset county.
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Somerset
Windber
Somerset County
Five candidates withdraw petitions list
The following candidates have withdrawn their petitions Steele Clark Cherry Tree County Commissioner W C Nelson Pine School Director A W Beer B J Green Road Supervisor Allen Wilson Homer City Inspector of Election and Clare M Marshall Indiana No 3 Council
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Steele Clark
Cherry Tree
W. C. Nelson
Pine
A. W. Beer
B.J. Green
Allen Wilson
Homer City
Clare M. Marshall
Indiana No. 3
Two Named to Election Posts in Indiana Borough
Paul D. Stewart appointed judge of election for the Second Ward Indiana borough to replace L. F. Robinson a school director candidate. A. J. Bell named inspector of Armstrong township No 2 to replace Wilber Bell who moved from the district. Democratic Meeting Friday Young Democrats urged to attend at County Deposit Bank building Indiana on August 23 at 7 p.m.
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Paul D. Stewart
Indiana
L. F. Robinson
A. J. Bell
Armstrong Township No. 2
Wilber Bell
Headquarters
County Deposit Bank Building
Everyeus
Hunger drove Newburgh showgirl to murder her baby
In Newburgh a 27-year-old former showgirl and Salvation Army worker, Dorothy Sherwood, confessed to drowning her two-year-old son James in Moodna Creek. She said she killed him to spare him starvation as unemployment and debt mounted. She led police to her act, spoke of euthanasia influences, and was ordered held for the grand jury.
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Newburgh
Dorothy Sherwood
Salvation Army
James
John Powell
Moodna Creek
Sergeant Powell
Andrew Calver
Hher
Orange County
Darothy Sherwood
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
California
Fred Sherwood
Dorothy
Calicoon
N. Y
Jimmy
Hergan
Treasury Balance Report Shows Aug 1 Totals
Treasury balance as of Aug 1 stood at 1 598 744 990 57 dollars with internal revenue receipts totaling 10 699 041 55 and customs receipts 22 913 079 97.
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Treasury
Washington
INS
Internal Revenue
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Moorhead
Shawnee Dam
Floyd L., Houck
J. W. Houck
Wm. McAdoo
C. L. Langwill
RB. B. Haupt
H. L. Dick
Paul R. Neal
John K. Steele
H. J. Donegan
Steve Renkoski
Clymer Hardware Co
J. W. Ackerson
J. L. Bence
C. M. Widdowson
Ralph Smith
Jay A. Ackergon
Don J. Hill
Harold &. Nesbitt
Thomas Lostrick
Hall Blair
Wm. Buggy
St. L
J. Sickenberger
D. D. Patterson
J. B. Wassam
E. L. Hughes
Geo. H. Lutman
Howard Williamson
Andrew Carlson
A. J. Bragg
Thomas Shearer
H. G. Christie
J. D. Leadbetter
Dean Lydie
CG. W. Myers
Jacob Trantz
Dayton
Gordon
Joe
Byron
I. A. Jurnell
Arthur Post
Wiley
Post
Ponca City
Capitol Steps
Ernest W. Marland
Oklahoma City
First Baptist Church
Jefferson County
Ward Beam
Congress of
Dare Devils
America
Butler City
Serrianna
Butler
Dayton Fair
Lions Meeting
Humorist
Legation Guard
London
Addis Ababa
Simla
India
14Th Punjab Regiment
Bombay
Legation
Lassie
Son
Hinh
BLM
Billy” Marks
Compton
Camly
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