Indiana youth critically injured in two-car bus collision
Vernon Martin 16, left with critical injuries at Indiana Hospital after a crash at Philadelphia and Thirteenth streets at 12 30 am. His companions Earl Mages 17 and Fred Clark 15 suffered non life threatening injuries and were discharged. State police said Mages failed to stop at the intersection, causing the Penn Niagara coach to strike the car. The wreckage damaged the Maggs car severely while the bus and another car had minor damage.
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Indiana
Cas
Philadelphia
Thirteenth Streets
Vernon Martin
Martin
T4th
Oak Street
Earl Mages
Oakland Avemng
Fred Clark
North Wighth Street
Mages
Clark
Maggs
Philadelft Street
Thirteenth Street
Penn-Niagaraines
George Deabenderfer
Albert Carlson
DuBois
Bee
Igbway
Piladelphia Street
Carlson
Deabenderfer
Fall Injures Homer Area Youth at Home
Joseph Risinger, son of Mr and Mrs J M Risinger near Homer City, is in Indiana Hospital after slipping on cellar stairs and striking his head. He suffered a cut above the head and loss of nine blood, with condition listed as fair. He was admitted about 7 pm after local first aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Rialnzer
J. M. Risinger
Homer
City
Indiana Hospital
Risinger
Homerity
Smith Car Slightly Damaged by Fire
The Indiana fire department was summoned about 4 30 a m yesterday when fire broke out in the car of Raymond F P Smith parked at the rear of his home on East Water Street. The blaze, attributed to a short circuit, was extinguished before the first truck arrived. The motor and ignition system were damaged slightly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Fire Department
Raymond FP. Smith
East Water Street
Sith
Twins Born in Riverdale Hospital in New Year
In Brooklyn Riverdale Hospital a girl born in 1939 and a boy born in 1934 are twins, delivered eight minutes apart as the new year began. The record notes a prior birth at 11:56 p.m. December 31, 190d and a twin brother born 12:04 a.m. January 1984.
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New York
Riverdale Hospital
Brooklyn
Padling Roaer
Obituary notes for Meg Sheffier in Homer City area
Mrs Rachel Bracken Sheffler wife of Samuel S Sheffier of Homer City died at home 218 West Elm Street at 9 30 am Monday age 89 3 8 Born on Bracken farm near Homer City lived near Coral Luther Chapel Coral married September 14 1872 left husband a son Jasper of Buirit Lake Isla a daughter Edith wife of BH Hendrickson of Derry nine grandchildren 16 great grandchildren funeral 2 pm Wednesday at her late residence Also notes death of Frank H Eader of Salina aged 60 with line about parents and Limestone Pa
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Meg
Samuel
Sheffier
Rachel Bracken Sheffler
Samuel S. Sheffier
Homer City
West Elm Street
James and
Margaret Kerr Bracken
Old Bracken Farm
Coral
Derry
Fred Shivey
Blairsvie
School Head's Wife Killed in Crash Near Charleroi
Mrs. Killius, wife of Johnstown superintendent James Killins, was fatally injured when their car skidded and plunged down a steep Speers embankment near Charleroi. Her mother Mrs. Myrtle B. Heiner of California, Pa., was seriously hurt. Killius, the driver, had a shoulder injury and two children were unharmed. Also mentions a Workers' Federation executive board meeting at Black Lick Friday at 3 p.m. attendance urged.
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Speers
Charleroi
Kilius
Johnstown
James Killins
Myrtle B. Heiner
California
Killius
Chice Heiner
Romanian Prime Minister Duca Assassination Seen Hindering Nazi Opposition
H R Knickerbocker, famed foreign correspondent, argues Duca's murder will close ranks against Germany and possibly avert war. The act, blamed on Romanian fascists, prompts martial law in Romania and raises grim European war prospects as Nazi rivals unite in response.
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Idilow
Ion G. Duca
Romania
Nazi Germany
H. R. Knickerbocker
Duca
Knickerbocker
Jeter
Germany
Constantin
Annelescu
Europe
Gemany
Nicola Constantinescu
Fiven Guard
Hitler
Ruminia
Congress to Act Quickly on Recovery Budget Plan
President Roosevelt presented a plan urging consolidation of the recovery program, approval of the big budget, then lawmakers return home. The plan envisions a six billion dollar plus budget with two point six billion for ordinary government operations and heavy spending on PWA CWA AAA and related programs. Republicans plan to oppose excess funding while acknowledging administration has the votes to push the program through. Monetary policy not discussed in the three hour session with legislative leaders. The silver bloc, numbering twenty seven open adherents, is a major obstacle in the Senate or House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George R. Holmes
Washington
Roosevelt
PWA
CWA
AAA
Congress
Injured man struck by car on Indiana Blairsville road
Frank Kurgess, 44, of Windber Pennsylvania, was seriously injured when struck by a autos on the Indiana Blairsville road near Graceton early today. He suffered a fractured leg and head lacerations and was taken to Indiana Hospital at 7 05 a m. State patrol says he crossed the road to board another car. driver S E B Spleher of Indiana was traveling toward Blairsville. A companion was unhurt. Spleher not held. The injured man and companion were reportedly looking for work.
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Frank Kurgess
Windber
Blairsville
Graceton
Indiana Hospital
Stateighway
Kursels
S. EB. Spleher
Indiana
Blairaville
Spleher
Three Pittsburgh men arrested for bad checks
Angelo Carminara, 24, Burkhart, 40, and Clyde Grimm, 20, all of Pittsburgh, were held in Greensburg after state police acted on a scheme involving counterfeit check writing. Police say the men used rubber stamp equipment to forge checks and targeted Blairsville and nearby towns, with arrests made in Gattysburg yesterday.
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Angelo Carminara
Burkhart
Clyde Grimm
Pittsburgh
Greensburg
Mate
Blairsville
Black Lick
Latrobe
Killanning
Tarentum
Jane
Gattysburg
Hunt Missing Dartmouth Man
Clarence Marks Jr a Dartmouth College student is missing with a search extending into Canada Ottawa police and Justice agents traced movements after a woman reported a young man like him visited her Ottawa home for a meal Parents Mr and Mrs Clarence L Marks informed officials which spurred inquiries Also note an American Legion Auxiliary benefit card tournament set for Moore Hotel on Wednesday January 3 with prizes and turkeys for high score and admission fee.
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Clarence Marks
Dartmouth College
Canada
Clarence L. Marks
Ottawa
Department of Justice
Philadelphia
INS
American Legion Auxiliary
Moore Hotel
Slayer to Die in Gas Chamber
Denver attorneys plan a motion in El Paso county district court to set aside the death sentence of Waller Reppin, 18, of Newark, N J, who is to be executed in Colorado s new lethal gas chamber this week for the killing of Vincent Regan, a Colorado Springs taxicab driver. The defense argues a minor cannot plead away life and cites a letter from Cyrus Dolph regretting the guilty plea advised to Reppin.
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Denver
Philip Hornbein
David Rosner
Ha Et Paso
Colorado Springs
Waller Rep- Din
Newark
N. J
Herbert Reppin
Walter Reppin
Angul
Vincent Regan
First
Gree
Hornbein
Roster
Cyrus W. Dolph
Reppin
Shove
Colorado
Walter Rappin
Week of Prayer opens with series of church services
Indiana observes National Week of Prayer with services starting this evening at 7 30 in First Presbyterian. Subsequent gatherings move to First United Presbyterian Wednesday, Zion Lutheran Thursday, and finish Friday at Methodist Episcopal. Rev Stewart Nye Hutchison of East Liberty Presbyterian delivers the opening talk.
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Indiana
First Presbyterian Church
First United Presbyterian Church
Zion Lutheran Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
Stewart Nye Hutchison
East Liberty Presbyterian Church
Ray Ewers
East End Christian Church
Pittsburgh
Lynching Toll Surges in United States Report
The NAACP released a year end tally showing 28 lynchings in 1933, up 180 percent from 1932. It cites the San Jose double lynching on November 26 involving Thomas H. Thurmond and Joan Holmes, linking it to Governor Rolph’s failure to deploy National Guard as requested by the sheriff.
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San Jose
Cal
Thomas H. Thurmond
Joan Holmes
James H. Rolph, Jr
National Guard
American Pace
Nbraa
Hold-up duo to workhouse in Johnstown case
Judge J N Langham yesterday sentenced four men who pleaded guilty on charges of robbery with aggravating circumstances larceny of an automobile firing weapons and concealed weapons violations Nathan Zacharias 0 1 of Kasion Pa and Roland Dasilets 28 of Lowell Mass were sent to from five to 10 years in Allegheny County workhouse Two were committed to the Allegheny County workhouse one to Indiana County jail and the other paroled The youths held up Frank Sedmeyer an employee of Sanitary Dairy Co on the Homer City Johnstown road at Armagh as he was returning to Johnstown from Indiana on Christmas morning Continued on Page Three
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J. N. Langham
Allegheny County
Indiana County
Nathan Zacharias
Kasion
Roland Dasilets
Lowell
Mass
Frank Sedmeyer
Sanitary Dairy Company
Johnstown
Homer City-Johnstown
Armagh
Indiana
Kiwanis elects Walter H. Jackson 1934 president
Walter H. Jackson was installed as Kiwanis Club president at a Rest-a-While supper meeting. He announced the Jacksonian New Deal for his cabinet and renamed the official family, positioning chairmanships for maximum service. Continued on Rage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter H. Jackson
Kiwanis Club
Timothy F. McCarthy
Jackson
Johnstown Man Held on Taxicab Theft and Firearms Charges
Daniel Howitt 28 of Johnstown Pa held in Indiana County jail on larceny of gasoline and firearms violation after a Blairsville justice of the peace hearing following a three state taxi ride. Lucille Weimer 22 of Pittsburgh and David Berringer 19 of Polk Pa were arrested in a farmhouse raid near Josephine Burrell township after a 45 mile ride from Portsmouth Ohio to Pittsburgh. Howitt allegedly forced Maze to join the trip and was described as a fugitive from a state hospital for the criminally insane. Police said the group traversed Ohio West Virginia and Pennsylvania during the long ride.
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Daniel Howitt
Johnstown
Indiana County
Blairsville
Portsmouth
Oakland
Pittsburgh
David Berringer
State Hospital
Polk
Hewitt
Justice ' of the Peace
Ralph C. Brown
Antares
Kenneth Maze
Yean
Maze
Radio Bandit Sought Across Blairsville DuBois Mount Union
State troopers and Western Pennsylvania police pursued a trio of suspects linked to a radio bandit racket. Blairsville issued a warrant for 21 year old Charles A Goodyear connected to Harrisburg’s Department of Properties and Supplies. DuBois sought Charles A Jones about 22 and Mount Union pursued Charles Hauck. Jones claimed to be employed.
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Blairsville
DuBois
Mount Union
Pennsylvania
Charles A. Goodyear
Department of Properties and Supplies
Harrisburg
Charles A. Jones
Charles Hauck
Jones
Marion Center Vote Recounted By Court Action
A county recount was conducted in Marion Center Borough after a petition to the Court. The panel of referees J J Henderson John C Wells and L F Robinson all from Indiana completed the recount of ballots for the six year term school director race. The Gazette had previously printed the official vote and the recount totals.
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Marion Center
J. J. Henderson
John C. Wells
L. F. Robinson
Indiana
Heir to Lumber Millions Takes Own Life
Cyrus Yawkey Woodson, 19, sole male heir to grandfathers lumber fortune, died from a self inflicted bullet wound on New Year’s Day in Wausau Wisconsin. Coroner R F Braun ruled no inquest to follow as death stemmed from a personal safety matter.
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Wausau
Wis
Cyrus Yawkey Woodson
Cyrus Yawkey
R. F. Braun
Half Off All Pens and Accessories at Local Store
A local ad promotes half price on pens and related items including sets, billfolds, and accessories. Prices listed include five to eight dollar ranges with sale emphasis on fountain pens and bundles. Buyers are urged to visit the shop for discounts and available stock.
Doctor’s cough shocks town with broken rib discovery
Burnsviille West Virginia January 2 Local physician Dr Trimble bragged of a cough stronger than any man alive. Dr H T W Hall Weston City Hospital confirmed the boast and examined Trimble to reveal a cracked rib from the tremen dous coughing effort.
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Burnsville
W. Va
M. Primble
Braxton County
Trimble
H. T. W. Hall
Weston City Hospital
Doug
Blairsville opens state liquor store in East Market street
Blairsville's state liquor-store on East Market Street opened this morning with William J. Jack of Indiana as manager. Clerks include William Brantlinger and William Boesman of Blairsville and Lawrence Bromberick of Indiana. Repairs to the Indiana store on Philadelphia Street continue, with a next-week opening anticipated. State Liquor Control Board rules for staff require clear speech, exact product fulfillment, no brand favoritism, no third-party conversations, no chewing or smoking, hats off, no horseplay, and no drinking on duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blairsville
Stokes
East Market Street
William J. Jack
Indiana
William Brantlinger
William Boesman
Lawrence Bromberick
Brody
Philadelphia Street
Fannie Barkson 102, one of last ex slaves in area dies
Mrs Fannie Barkson, a former enslaved woman born in North Carolina, died at 102 in Garlisle county home. She had four children born during slavery and is survived by a son and daughter both in their eighties. Her death marks the passing of one of the region's last ex slaves.
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Garlisle
Fannie Barkson
North Carolina
County Engineer Hospital Patient Update
County Engineer Thomas F Pealer of Indiana underwent a major operation at the Indiana hospital yesterday morning. This noon his condition was reported as favorable and his early recuperation is expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas F Pealer
Indiana
Indiana Hospital
Western Flood Ravages Los Angeles Area New Year Toll
Devastating 24 hour storm dumps 8.27 inches of rain in Southern California. The Los Angeles county toll reaches 31 dead with 27 missing, hundreds homeless, and vast property damage expected. Bridges washed out, trains halted, airports closed, and city life disrupted across Los Angeles Long Beach and surrounding districts. Governor Rolph orders flood relief funds and civil defense activated as guards and rescue crews work to save trapped families.
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Los Angeles
Los Ang
Reco
California
Maticades
Politan
Beach
Venice
Montrose
Dena
James Rolph, Jr
Win
Los
al Long Beach
San Fernando Valley
Ford City Curfew Enforced Tonight In Wartime Measure
Ford City imposes a wartime curfew effective tonight for children. Burgess M. Wis announced the rule and police will target minors found on streets after curfew hours. Parents face fines for violations as the curfew runs nightly from nine PM to dawn through the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford City
Burgess M. Wis
New Officers Take Allegiance At Swearing In
Register and Recorder W Ryhoun of Indiana and Deputy Re and Recorder Edward arcadia Montgomery township sworn in yesterday by Judge J Langham. Jury Commissioners Levi M Rayne township and W M Montgomery township sworn in by Judge Langham. Burgess B H Lichtebarger sworn in yesterday by Prothonotary W Earl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Ryhoun
Indiana
Edward
Arcadia
Montgomery
Corporation Opens New Era In Banking System
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation begins guaranteed deposits today with 19,423 banks admitted. Deposits up to 2500 dollars are insured, rising to 100 percent up to 10000 after July 1, with 75 percent to 50000 and 50 percent above that. Chairman Walter J. Cummings predicts a lasting, nationwide banking reform.
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Washington
INS
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
America
Roosevelt
Fulk
Walter J. Cummings
Corporation
In & Wes Bank
Federal Reserve System
Corts
Cummings
Banks Reserve System Auton P
Tfequ
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Vernn Martin
Smith
Othe
Elder's Ridge
Salina
Frank H. Kader
Frank
Eader
George W
Mary Travis Widder
Limestone
Tie Regilar
T le
Workers’ Federalign
Roumanian
Bodes Ili
Capitol Notes
Hunt
Dartmouth
Week OF Prayer
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
United States
Zacharias and
Casilete
Kiwanis
Marion
Negress
County Engineer Hospital
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