Labor peace talks hinge on unions' split reunion
John L. Lewis and William Green will personally steer tomorrow’s talks to reunite the AFL and CIO. Philip Murray and Senator Thomas D Utah urge a settlement, as bitter rifts over industry wide or craft union structure and executive power block progress.
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Washington
Dee
John L. Lewis
William Green
Organized Labor
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
Labor
Philip Murray
C. St. C. Hace Committee
Lewis
Murray
Green
George Harrison
A. F. of L
Thomas
D-Utash
Senate Labor Committee
Ford Unveils Two Distinct 1938 V Type Lines
Ford displays two 1938 V type eight cylinder lines in Sutton-Miller showroom standard and deluxe. The standard line targets economy with coupe tudor and forder types and 8 6 horsepower W eighit engine while deluxe offers eight body styles with 85 horsepower and enhanced styling features. Improvements include redesigned front end, grille, hood, fenders recessed headlamps longer hoods larger tanks and rustless steel belt, plus Voight engine refinements and better springs for smoother riding.
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Sutton-Miller Company
Additon
Fisher Hunters Seek Deer and Scenery on Kaul Lodge Trip
The hunting party, dressed in red caps and khaki, gathers for the Kaul lodge expedition. Senator Dieterich and others join Colonel Kaul, a former veterinarian nicknamed Doc, with prominent figures including Jerzy Pot eski and Richard Bailey Sr. All expect to return to Washington tomorrow.
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Garner
Kaul Lodge
Kaul
Doc
Tener
Dieterich
Aliins
Minton
Indiana
Radclige
Maryland
Schwellenbach
Washington
Buffy
Wisconsin
Truman
Missouri
Murray
Montana
Serring
Russell
Georgia
Jerzy Poteski
United States
Richard Bailey, Sr
Guffey
David L. Lawrthers
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Matthew H. McCloskey, Jr
Philadelphia
Farm and Wage-Hour Bills Endangered by House Fight
Washington report on a behind the scenes struggle over crop controls and wage-hour measures. Urban and industrial districts threaten to strike cotton provisions from the farm bill unless southern colleagues back the labor standards bill. Questions arise about votes, committee action, and potential passage with minor changes as lawmakers brace for amendments.
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Washington
Dev
House
Sothern
Tomaht
Norton
O-Nd
Labor Committee
Rules Committee
South
Senate
Stewart McDonald
House Banking Committee
FHA
Rep. Snell
New York
House Renybicin
Roosevelt
Flying at state colleges proposed to build air force reserve
Floyd E. Evans, Michigan State director of aeronautics, urged flying instruction for all juniors and seniors in land grant colleges at a nominal fee. He warned America lags in air power and said nationwide air education would aid commercial aviation and aircraft manufacturing, proposing model airplane activity and public school air instruction as part of the plan.
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Miami
Fla
America
Floyd E. Evans
Michigan
National Association of State Aviation
Evans
Amish School Attendance Case Remains Tense in Pa Courts
The article details King jailed for not sending Rebecca to Honeybrook school amid a two day term cut to one day. A court order freed him to await today’s hearing as he plans to teach school attendance law. The Amish in Southeastern Pennsylvania follow the case with interest amid broader fights in Lancaster County over consolidated schooling.
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King
Chester County
Cnsts
Rebecca
Honeybrook
Pennsylvania
Lancaster County
Obituary Notice Details Interment Plans
The obituary states officiate and interment will be in Oakland Cemetery. It notes omission of three siblings of Rev. Mr. Roberts: Mrs. Sarah Thomas of Girard, Ohio, Mrs. Margaret Frack of Niles, Ohio, and R. G. Roberts of Girard, Ohio.
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Oakland Cemetery
Roberts
Sarah Thomas
Girard
Margaret Frack
Niles O
R. G. Roberts
Hour Act Headed for Court on Day
The text outlines a plan for enforcing an hour act limiting work hours. It details overtime pay at one and one half times the regular rate for excess hours and allows certain industries to adjust weekly averages. It also prescribes a lunch break, and gendered restrictions on work hours, plus a note on Latin origins of Occident and Orient.
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Sax
Revival Sermon at Indiana Gospel Tabernacle
Evangelist Tubby spoke on communism, Hitlerism and fascism to a large Indiana audience. He warned dictatorship equals loss of liberty and described Stalin’s Russia as cruel and enslaving. Prophetic Week continues with "Sunrise At Midnight" and "The Collapse of the Present World System."
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Tabernacle
Indiana
Joseph Stalin
My. Tubby
Germany
Italy
Evangelist Tubby
P U C Grants Rails Increase
The Public Utility Commission granted new freight rate increases for railroads including bituminous coal coke iron and steel cement lime and petroleum products. Leaders such as W S Franklin argued the higher revenues were needed to fund state expenditures while opponents urged soft coal rate relief and market protection.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Pennsylvania
W.S. Franklin
Pennsylvania Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio
Reading
New York Central
Harrisburg
Public Utility Commission
Bitumingus Coal and Coke
Richard J. Beamish
Washington
Beamish
Clearfield
Hampton Roads
Earlein
Jnst
West Virinia
West Virgina
Nee
J. 1
Ierstate Commerce Commission
Hale Holden
Southern Pacific Company
Oil Men Seek Special Session For Oil Board
Harrisburg reports from Pennsylvania petroleum dealers urge a special legislative session to consider a state oil control board modeled after the milk commission. A. A. Fish and John Lamberti say such a board could stabilize the industry though details and price fixing remain undecided.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Milk Commission
A. A. Fish
Philadelphia
Oil Dealers Associaion
John Lamberti
Scranton
Fish
State Commission
Ralph H. Smith
Pittsburgh
Oil Industry Commission
Sweden
Fish and Lamberti
Drumheller Addresses Future Teachers At College
A. E. Drumheller head of the commercial department at the high school spoke to prospective teachers at College this morning on weaknesses of school teachers. He emphasized individuality planning relationships and personality as crucial. He urged careful work planning and pupil consciousness to guide progress and stressed teacher administration relations.
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A. E. Drumheller
Drumheller
Longs welcome baby girl Phyllis Catharine at Barr Slope
Mr and Mrs Merle Long of Barr Slope announce the birth of a daughter weighing nine pounds at home. The child is named Phyllis Catharine. Mrs Long previously known as Miss Ruth Martin. Locals planned hunting trips and several area residents visited friends in Pine Flats Penn Run and Heilwood. Mrs Ben Wallemire is ill. Claudette Colbert in Hollywood bet a fastball wager with Ernst Lubitsch, while cotton production figures are cited in a separate note.
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Merle Long
Barr Slope
Phyllis Catherine
Gwennie Parry
Examinations for State Jobs to Be Held in Pa
Public examinations for positions in two state agencies will be held soon. Notices from R H Biter list exam dates December 4 11 and 18 at Boenys burg for the State Unemployment Compensation Division and the Employment Service. The Pennsylvania Employment Board announced the first exam for positions in the department of public assistance and county boards of assistance. Written exams are planned on three Saturdays starting January 8. Job listings include director of research and statistics and many accounting and clerical roles with salaries ranging from 1060 to 7500 dollars.
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Employment Service
Boenyburg
R. H. Biter
Gallitzin
Pennsylvania
Department of Public Assistance
County Boards of Assistance
County Relief Board
Knights of
Veterans of Foreign Wars
YOM. CG. A
YW. C. A
Civil Service
Direetor
Couny
Dirvetor
Brushvalley and Vandergrift Visit Gratitude Day Gathering
Mr and Mrs A M Buterbaugh and family spent Thanksgiving with B D Hill in Vandergrift and visited Meadville friends. The Buterbaughs also visited Sandy Lake. Last week Mrs Daniel Lite Mrs Taylor Deyarmin and Mrs A M Bittersbaugh called on Mrs Raymon Zack. A test shows young children 18 months to 4 years average about 36 minutes of crying daily.
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A. M. Buterbaugh
Brushvalley
B. D Hill
Vandergrift
Jesse Buck
B. N. Kuhns
Meadville
Sandy Lake
Daniel Lite
Taylor Deyarmin
A. M. Bitterbaugh
Raymon Zack
Roosevelt Budget Plan Splits Congress On Road Cuts
Washington officials report President Roosevelt’s highway funding cuts trigger party splits over balancing the federal budget. Senators and representatives clash on canceling 214 million dollars for 1939 while some back shielding other appropriations. Pennsylvania faces an estimated loss of about 0.274 million dollars in the current biennium and 66 road projects and 181 miles of highway in jeopardy under the proposed shift to spread the 200 million dollar balance across two years.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
New England
Austin
Vermont
Pittman
Nevada
McNary
Oregon
House
Harrisburg
Warren van Dyke
Pennsylvania
van Dyke
Mary OConnor bail set in Labor Day slay case
Philadelphia December report says 19 year old physical education student Mary K OConnor remained jailed after bail set at 5000 cash despite family near raising funds. Judge Stauver Oliver noted the body found face down in mud and water, inquest to continue with witnesses including Marie Phillips, an Olympic gymnast.
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Philadelphia
Mary K. O'Connor
Nancy Glenn
Willian A. Gray
O'Connor
L. Stauver Oliver
Oliver
Hich
Nancy
Charles Hersch
Corant Water
Hersch
Marie Phillips
Mary
Thanksgiving visits from Pine Flats church members
A group from the Pine Flats Baptist Church visited the home of their pastor Rev. G. W. Wilson in Marion Center on Tuesday evening. Thanksgiving guests included Ray and Mrs Norman Grey of Braddock Pa and others from Heilwood Akron Ohio Somerset and nearby families visiting the Gibsons Lockards Williams and Shaffer households.
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The
Baptist Church
G. W. Wilson
Marion Center
Ray
Norman Grey
Braddock
J. A. Gibson
R. 5. Lockerd
Raymond Lockard
Heilwond
William Lockard
Gwennie Williams
Goss Lutman
Akron
Ohio
Fd Shaffer
Somerset
E. H. Williams
D. D. Patterson
Louise
Gibson Home
Markets show moderate demand for fruits and steady grain prices
Market reports list apples at varying prices across states with No 1 Pennsylvania Baldwins 75 cents, Jonathan 90.1 cents, West Virginia Jonathan 75-90, Ohio Rome Beauties 1.00, Maryland Delicious 1.10, and Maine Green Mountains at 1.25-1.30. Potatoes show a steady market with No 1 100 pounds sacks around 1.25-1.30 in Maine and Idaho Burbanks 1.75. Livestock prices include hogs at 1.10 to 9.15 for several weights, sows 6.74-7.7, cattle fat cattle 10.26, top dealers 13.00, and sheep at 9.75-10.25 with lighter drops.
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Pennsylvania
Baldwins
West Virginia
Ohio
Rome
Aleady
Japanese yield on U S launch seizure in Shanghai
Report from Shanghai dated December 1 details Japan returning an American owned launch and two American flags after protests from the U S Consulate General. It notes Japanese actions under blockade rules and mentions ongoing fighting near Nanking, with Chinese forces retreating and calls for withdrawal as Japanese advances threaten to encircle Nanking.
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Shanghai
United States
Whangpon River
William Hunt Steamship Company
Carlier
Japan
Nanking
Kiangyin
Yangtze River
Yangtzes
Commercial Pacific
Buettner Speaks At Lions Club
Leo J. Buettner of Johnstown spoke at the Lions meeting at Rustic Lodge representing the State Workman’s Lossurance Fund and PA workers compensation issues He urged practical view of the new law and highlighted moral duty for workers disabled by occupation The club discussed its Christmas party plans and toy donations with guests present and next meeting details. Andy Devine and a seal named Butch traded bites on the film set for Dr Rhythm scene, marking the first seal bite in the shoot.
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Leo J. Buettner
Johnstown
Losurence Fund
Lions Club
Rustic Lodge
State Fund
Pennsylvania
Buettner
Messrs
Roland Cook
Dr. Geller
Raymond Lipson
Nicely
Lions Cluo
Homer City Lions
Commercial Hotel
Seal
Andy Hollywood
Andy Devine
Butch
Devine
Andy
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Favor Control Board
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Claudette Colbert
Ernst, Lubitsch
Paramount
Lubisch
Notre Dame
U.S
American Fire Company
Olda Bini
Madison Square Garden
Bini
Mary O'Connor
Amn
Anaconda
Aleh
AU Refining
Bald Loco
Bendix Aviat
Beth Steel Briggs Mfg
Burr Add Mach
Calumet and
Hee Canad
Chrysler Corp Cum Solvents Com
Bison Consul
Corn Products
Crane Co
Dei Lack and
West Douglas
Gil Radin Corp
Reading Co
Repab Steel Reynolds
Tob
Socony
Stand
Cal Stand Oil
Ind
Studebater Corp
Texas Corp
Timken Rail
Trans-America
United Aircraft United Corp
United Gas Imp WS Indus Alco US Rubber US
M US Steel
Ye Vanadium Corp
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Ark
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Cities Service
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Sir
Pennroad Corp
Ay Kbe
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Toyland
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Sally Sailos
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