Tenure Law Biggest Issue in 1937 Session
Harrisburg Dec 19 The tenure law for Pennsylvania teachers emerges as a major topic as the 1937 legislature convenes January 3. Supporters and opponents mobilize with the state education association urging a fair trial for one year while Senator Mundy vows to resist any modification. The act lists grounds for dismissal including immorality incompetency intemperance cruelty and persistent negligence.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Arthur H. James
Pennsylvania State Education Association
Ast
Frank Farst
J. Herbert Kelley
State Department of Public Instruction
Leo C. Mundy
Wilkes- Barre
Obituary notices for Alex Wright and Rager headlines
Funeral services for Alex Wright 28 of Colver will be conducted at 2 30 tomorrow at his parents home with Rev H J Baumgarter officiating Interment in Lloyds Cemetery Ebensburg He had typhoid fever complications and had been ill since November 6 He was born in Scotland 1910 and worked for Ebensburg Coal Company for 12 years He is survived by widow Jeanor Evans Wright and others Rager 85 of Indiana County died at his daughter’s home in Cambria County after several weeks illness Funeral services will be held at 2 30 tomorrow at the Ragey home in Huff Interment in nearby cemetery
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Alex Wright
Colver
Memorial Hospital
Johnstown
Mrr
Richard Wright
H. J. Baumgarter
Ebensburg Presbyterian Church
Lloyd's Cemetery
Ebensburg
Ewright
Scotland
Jeanor (Evans) Wright
Agnes Grazier
Margaret Malcolm
Rager
Indiana
Nalus Ali Wesley
Cambria County
Mr. Rager
Huff
Magele Nelson
Alfred L. Ragey
Meg
Annie Collins
Florence Deckert
Security Plan Aids Old Age Insurance Funding
The proposed plan scraps the contingency fund idea in favor of a trust bolstered by federal subsidy. The government would pay one third of old age insurance costs, with one third from workers payroll taxes and one third from employers payroll taxes. The 1 percent payroll tax would rise to 1.5 percent in 1940. Senator Vanderberg praised the advisory council report as expert and nonpartisan and expected Republican cooperation in Congress.
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Vanderberg
R-Mich
Advisory Council
Congress
Turner of Delaware Is Pushed For House Speaker
Harrisburg dispatch from December 19 reports Republican organizers in the 1930 Pennsylvania House predict Ellwood J. Turner of Delaware County will be named House Speaker. Turner, a lawyer and former minority floor leader, keyed as a candidate amid caucus planning with 192 2/3 members and a GOP 1 vote margin over Democrats.
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Turner
Delaware
Harrisburg
Ellwood J. Tursier
Delaware County
Ouscee
House
Robert E. Woodside, Jr
Woodside
James F. Torrance
Fatal automobile crash involving youths at Maple Street crossing
Samuel Kettering, 20, and teammate Testa, both students from Lucernenitres, narrowly escaped death when their car was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad express at Maple Street crossing. Testa suffered a severe forehead laceration and was hospitalized in fair condition, while Kettering returned home with minor burns. Rail crew, Indiana Police, and local officials investigated as other injuries and fatalities from weekend accidents across Pennsylvania were reported.
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Samuel Kettering
Luceramines
Maple Street
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Vincent’s Gallege
Testa
Lucernenitres
Kettering
Tesla
Indiana Hospital
Kat Steving
William T. Marlin
Blairsville
R. K. Joyce
Pittsburgh
Joyce
Streams
William J. Kelley
Noble Murdock
Julius Sipos
George Gance
Heilwood
Justice of the Peace
F. M. Gamoe
Pine Township
Sipos
Gance
Andrew Lindsey
Carl Babick
Tellwood
Landon Warns on Communist Threat in Hemisphere
Landon argues the United States will not allow foreign governments to gain a foothold on the continent and predicts communism and Nazism will fail here due to liberty. He urges practical action beyond words. Ruiz Moreno counters that Argentina sees no external threat as strong as the U.S. believes. Hull replies Argentina might change view if totalitarian fleets are near. The conference opens with 155 resolutions proposed and only four adopted.
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United States
Landon
America
Ruiz Moreno
Argentina
Cordell Hull
Medal awards noted at aviation dinner
The article recalls Lindbergh receiving the Grand Cross of the German Eagle on October 20 at a Berlin aviation dinner, with Ford similarly honored on his 75th birthday. It stresses a stance against Nazism and hatred, noting the speaker rejects sympathy for it.
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Lindbergh
Berlin
Ford
Swindle Continues With Letter Tied to Arms Plot
Investigators traced a key clue in the arms smuggling inquiry to a letter addressed to George Musica alias George Dietrich, purchasing rifles and ammunition. Musica, 47, to be brought from New Haven for questioning alongside brothers Arthur alias George Vernard, 44, and Robert alias Robert Dietrich, 34, all held on $100,000 bail for violating federal securities laws.
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George Musica
George
Dietrich
McKesson & Robbins
Jeter
New Haven
Conn
Arthur
George Vernard
Robert
Robert Dietrich
Bridgeport, Com
Warn Studio of Nazi Picture in Standoff with Germany
The Hays office faced a widening rift with the German government and Warner Brothers over the production of Confessions of a Nazi Spy. German consul Dr George Gussling warned of possible trouble if the film is made, saying Germany may ban future movies from studios that display content conflicting with German interests.
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Hollywood
Hays Office
Warner Brothers Stadio
George Gussling
Los Angeles
Germany
Pope Pius Reported Grievously Ill in London
Dec 19 Reuters reports Pope Pius suffered another heart attack and his condition alarmed observers. The pope had earlier braved cold rain to attend a Pontifical Academy of Science opening, delivering a 45 minute discourse on science and religion to scientists, prelates and diplomats.
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London
Reuters
Pius
Pontifical Academy of Science
Vatican Gardens
Bodies reported in Biscayne Bay near Miami Beach
Police received a report that two bodies might be Charles S. Rye of United States Steel Corp and his six year old daughter Dorothy. A harbor patrol boat was dispatched after the pilot of a private plane sighted them on the Miami beach side of Biscayne Bay north of the city. Rye, an assistant manager in market research, had come from Pittsburgh to recuperate from a nervous breakdown and rented a boat Thursday. he had not been seen since.
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Miami
Fla
Charles S. Rye
United States Steel Corp
Dorothy
Biscayne Bay
Rye
Market Research Department
The
Steel Company
Pittsburgh
Sulphite Plant Hit by Blaze in Augusta
A spectacular general alarm swept the Kennebec Pulp and Paper Company sulphite storage plant and offices in Augusta today. The fire of undetermined origin caused estimated losses of 300000 dollars with the plant empty at the time. The inferno involved a million dollar facility and centered at the Kennebec operation, marking a major industrial blaze in Maine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Kennebec Pulp and Paper Company
Killer Farmhand Held As West Texas Axe Murderer
A drunken farmhand Frank Salazar admitted killing the parents of his loved girl in Miles Texas. He abducted 16 year old Wilma Kennedy then fled to Austin where he shot Mr and Mrs Kennedy and wounded two sisters with an axe. District Attorney O Q Fisher said the death penalty demanded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
West Texas
OQ. D. Fisher
Supreme Court Pays Tribute to Justice Cardozo
The Supreme Court paused to honor late Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo. Chief Justice Hughes called Cardozo a mighty warrior for his convictions and noted his pen wielded with deadly power. Attorney General Cummings presented resolutions praising Cardozo.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Benjamin N. Cardozza
Hughes
Cummings
Cardozo
McMahon Leads Broad U S Inquiry Into Wall Street and Drug Firms
The probe, coordinated by Assistant U S Attorney General Brien McMahon, targets Wall Street brokers, drug firm officials, and McKesson & Robbins records with over 160 subpoenas issued. Agencies involved include the U S Attorney's Office, Post Office Department, Treasury Alcohol Bureau, FBI, Narcotics Bureau, and Federal Tax Bureau.
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Wall Street
McKesson & Robbins Corporation
U. 8
Brien McMahon
Washington
Attorney General
U. S. District Attorney's Office
Postoffice Department
the Treasury's Alcohol Bureau
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Narcotics Bureau
Federa, Tax Bureau
Wife of Rev Bolton Fills in for Pneumonia Case
Mrs Bolton 61 plans to continue riding the Wemile route to fill pulpits on the Monongahela circuit as her husband recovers from pneumonia. She recalls riding as a bride 92 years ago and reports good turnout at Girards Fort and Fordyce.
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Walnesburg
Bes
C. W. Bolton
New streamlined locomotive debut in Erie works
Railroad men observed the unveiling of two new streamlined locomotives at the General Electric Erie works. The project, two years in development by General Electric and Union Pacific engineers, promises a 15 car capacity and speeds up to 126 miles per hour while costing about the same as a diesel powered engine of equal horsepower.
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Ersh
Dee
Erie Works
General Electric Company
General Electric
Union Pacific Railroad
Clyde J. Waggoner
Waggoner
Japan objects to U.S. loan to China
Tokyo Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita called the $25,000,000 loan from the Export-Import Bank a dangerous political gesture. He said it would prolong the Chinese Japanese conflict and inconveniencing third powers. Arita called the loan an inopportune act and faulted U.S. understanding thus far.
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InternationaliBy Associated Press
United States
China
Washington
Tokyo
France
Europe
Hachira Arita
Japan
East Asia
Italy
Rome
Realzioni Internazionali
Te Institute For Study of
Paris
Georges Bennett
Trench
Britain
Hachiro Arita
Debating Capone Term Return From Alcatraz
Justice Department officials said Capone would not necessarily be returned to Chicago to serve a one year jail term after his current sentence ends. They are consulting with Capone's family about paying a $50,000 fine and continued medical treatment. Capone is said to be suffering from a mental disorder and is serving time in Alcatraz.
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Washington
Justice Department
al Capone
Chicago
Alcatraz
Capone
State WPA chief hopes no more forced layoffs in Pennsylvnia
Harrisburg December 19 WPA Administrator J Banks Hudson said he hopes there will be no further forced layoffs of Works Progress Administration workers in Pennsylvania He will review the shrinking layoff numbers to determine if more cuts are needed to meet the state quota and extend current works project funds through March
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Harrisburg
WPA
J. Banks Hudson
WEA
Pennsylvania
Lost dynamite found in store stove incident
A State Minor store in Logan, West Virginia, reported a customer found a package on a lighted stove and handed it to a clerk. Inside the package, seven sticks of dynamite were discovered, apparently left by a forgetful miner.
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Logan
W.a
Former caddy nets first hole in one at Erie Galt Club
A 24-year-old former caddy braved the cold to play a Sunday round at the Erie Galt Club and scored his first hole in one after years of play. The ball bounded over frozen ground on the short 15th hole into the cup. The item ends with a stray line about sea salyr.
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Erie Galt
Police Poll Half Million Citizens on Tax Sentiment
Philadelphia readers receive half a million ballots from policemen posing as messengers to rate five tax options for a 29 million budget gap. Voters weigh a 3 percent sales tax, 1.5 percent income tax, higher water rates, selling or mortgaging the gas plant, or spreading the deficit over years. A state supreme court ruling on tax authority looms as proceedings proceed.
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Philadelphia
Davis Wilson
Sell & J
Supreme Court
George Woodward
Comptroller
Upturn in State Relief Reported With Net 3047 Cases
State wide relief shows 3 047 more cases and 10 167 people on rolls for the week ending December 1. Indiana County adds 130 applications and 1 928 persons, with 89 cases opened and 47 closed, net load up 43 cases. WPA curtailment drives an overall rise of 551 cases as WPA employment losses push more people onto general assistance.
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Rn Worlk
Liquor Fight Shapes Pennsylvania Dry Election Outlook
McBride asserts the Pennsylvania dry election marks a major shift in congressional and state legislative balance. Harkey Reiter of the Liquor Control Board cites state liquor profits projected at 14 to 15 million dollars this year, with last year’s receipts totaling 16 million plus an 8 million relief tax. Historical sales figures show repeal-era volumes rising from 41 million in 1934 to 73.5 million in 1936.
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McBride
Hanor
Pennsylvania
Stock Market Roundup of Steel and Oil Shares
A dense ledger of stock quotes lists steel, chemical, and oil stocks with fractional gains and losses, noting names like Bethlehem Steel, General Electric, and Studebaker. The page also features a marriage anniversary quote from George and Mrs Silsby, urging harmony and mutual respect for long, happy companionship.
Markets: Pittsburgh livestock and Chicago grain mixed
Livestock markets in Pittsburgh show hogs 10 cents lower with top 8.00 for 230 lb heavies, cattle light on sale with few steers and top bulls 7.00, calves steady with vealers at 11.00, lambs 25 cents lower. In Chicago wheat opens fractionally higher, May 68 5-8-3-4, July 66 1-8, corn up 3-8-5-8 to May 52 1-8-1-4, July 53 amid cold European weather and Liverpool upticks.
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Pittsburgh
Chicago
Liverpool
Europe
Italy
Semi social medicine plan nears reality in six cities
Washington reports plans for semi socialized medicine where patients pay doctors in advance for services. In cities including New York, Washington, Kansas City, Buffalo, Detroit, Milwaukee and parts of California and Utah, programs would cover physician, nurse, hospital, lab and other care. Eligibility targets low income. single $1.50, married $2.50, family $3.50 monthly.
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Washington
New York City
Kansas City
Buffalo
N. Ya
Detroit
Milwaukee
California
Utah
California Medical Association
National Health Conference
Ueal
Congress
District of Columbia Medical Society
American Medical Association
Tess Han
Unclear historic notice on estate settlement and creditors
Fragmentary notice from an administrator in Philadelphia asking creditors to present claims and settle debts. The text references an estate, administrator names, and a request for prompt payment from identified individuals. The readability is limited by OCR errors and mis-scanned names.
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Carl Hubbell
Hepburn
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Gran Chaco
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Luzerne County
Harry
Trout
Lancaster
Wilson L. Yeakle
Bucks
Edwin Winner
Montgomery
Jaco B. Schrock
Somerset
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Robert S. Mamilton
William EB
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Lyenming
Thomas B. Stockham
J. E. van Alisburg
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Venango
Kent Kane
McKean
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Reading
Ethel M. Bahn
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Jacob Kyeitz
Robesonia
Ari
Hanover
Thomas Campitelli
Lardinella
Popko
Clairton
Finleyville
Washington County
Scranton
Harlan Jacoby
League of American Nations
inter-American Court of Justice
Haly
Mussolini
Latin America
Lima
Peru
Alt M. Landon
Spain
Warn Studio
Nazi Picture
Pope Pius
Cardoza
R. R
Indiana County
Alco
Atch
T&s F
Balt & Ohio
Bendix Aviat
Beth Steel
Bury
Calumet & Hee
Canada Pacific
Cerro de Pas Aby Ches & Ohio
Chrysidr Corp
Columb Va el Bya Coml Solvents
Cornwith & South
Cons Edison
Consol Gil Bah Corn Products
Crane Co
del Lack & West
Douglass Aircraft
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Eastman Kodak
Ek Auto Lit
Mack Trucks
Montgom Ward
Nash-Kelvinator
Nat Biscuits
Nat Dairy
Nat Distillers
Central RR
North Amer Co
Packard Motor
Penn RR
Phila Read
Phillips Pet
Pure Oil
Radio Corp of Am
Reading Co
Repab Steel
Reynolds
Sears Roebuck Tay Socony-Vacuum
Southern Pacific
Southern Ry
Sperry Corp
Studebaker Corp
Texas Corp
Timken
United Aircraty
United Corp
United Gas Imp
Us& Indus Alco
US Rubber
US Steel
West Union Tel
West el
Woolworth
PFW
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Penmoad
Honesdale
George Silsby
Cenepe
Widdowson
Hamilton
Hamilton Clark I? Lawals
Otha Weritt
Hamilton Myrna
Roth
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