State and Business Unite to Fasten Labor Law Test
In Harrisburg on January 18, Pennsylvania New Deal governance and hundreds of business groups united to press the Supreme Court test of disputed labor acts affecting about 3.09 million workers and employers. Governor Farley ordered more lawyers for faster rulings, while Margiotti and corporate counsel prepared for hearings to resolve constitutional questions and enforceability pending court action.
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Barrisburg
Pennsylvania
New Deal
Supreme Court
George H. Farle
Charles J. Margiotti
Margiotti
Little
NRA
High ‘Court
State Supreme Court
John W. Kephart
Sterling McNees
Dauphin County
McNees
William A. Schnader
Rich Hill Coal Company
Morrisdale Coal Mining Pompey
Schnader
Department of Labor and Industry
Love Leads to Tragedy in Western Pennsylvania
In a grim case near Greensburg in Westmoreland County, Meese killed his lover Nellie and then shot himself with a home made pistol. The mother of Nellie, a WPA sewing worker, later found the bodies as neighbors recounted the horror. Meese had discussed letters and a planned further inquiry into how the couple met.
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Hollis
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Greensburg
Westmoreland
Meese
Redstone Township
Brownsville
McMurray
Nellie
Scorcner
Me ‘Murray
Clara Hollis
Bhe
Pearl Hollis
Living costs take all pay in state employment shifts
Fragmented OCR text notes rising living costs affecting state government payrolls and re employment trends. Mentions a jump in office staff numbers and shifts across industries, implying budgetary pressure and wage concerns.
Carter Glass Takes Stand Against Anti-Lynching Bill
Washington dates from Dan 13 report that Senator Carter Glass, birthday noted, backs opposition to the anti-lynching bill. Connally predicts sentiment shift. Bailey warns the party risks losing the negro vote as Democrats debate farm and housing measures.
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Washington
Dan
Thong Albuster
Glass
Connally
D-Tex
National Party Convention
Senate
Roosevelt
Sutherland
Supreme Court
Bailey
D-Nc
New Low-Cost Housing Program Recommended
A state committee notes federal emergency units creation, Pennsylvania Railroad electrification, and many former state workers remaining in Harrisburg after 1994. It flags Harrisburg housing as among the nation's worst for a city of its size with only 140 units built in 1935–36. High rentals and food prices burden workers earning $1,080 yearly. The remedy urged is an extensive low-cost housing program.
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Harrisburg
United States
Record of Musick Pilots 2400 Mile Flight Honors
The article highlights Charles Musick amid records for load and distance on long flights. It mentions a 1250 mile test that set ten world records and notes his Harmon Trophy for pioneering work in the Pacific in 1935. Milwaukee police anecdote follows about Detective Sergt Charles Muellier and a vagrancy arrest involving James Brown.
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Alameda
Honolulu
Musick
Harmon
Hiss
The
Pacific
Milwaukee
Wis
Sergt
Charles Muellier
Mueller
James Brown
House of Correction
Muellner
Brown
Pan American crash cuts Pacific service plans report
The crash ended but will be resumed with a new ship after a memorial loss noted for Pan American veteran Musick who flew over 1,000,000 miles and held world records. No blame was placed on Musick or the Leta crew amid three aviation disasters within a week.
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Pan American
Musick
Leta
Pacific
Northwest Airlines
Bozeman
Mont
California
Pan
American
America
Australia
G O P Urges James To Run For Lieutenant Governor
Ebensburg’s Jones and Schuylkill County attorney Theodore C Applegate discuss a bid for lieutenant governor. Applegate seeks a 35 to 40 year old woman learned in law to win on a platform aiding laborers, industrialists, farmers and homemakers. Earle undecided on U S Senate bid in Harrisburg.
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David L. Lawrence
Chiang Kai-Shek Plans Counterattack on Japanese Invasion
Chiang Kai-Shek flew to Suchow to direct a major counteroffensive along the Tsinp-Te Lung-hai axis to halt Japanese advances threatening China's lifeline. Han Fu-Chu joins as Shantung forces mass near Suchow, with Chinese troops attacking along the Tsinuan corridor and near Pukow.
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Shanghai
Chiang Kai-Shek
Suchow
Lunghai
China
Han Fu-Chu
Shantung
Chiang
Tsinpu
Tsinpn
Tientsin
Pukow
Nanking
Tsinan
Shan-tung
Tsining
Yenchow
Shang- Nai
United States
Yangtze River
Democratic campaign arouses optimism in Pennsylvania
State Treasurer F. Clair Ross declared that every plank in the 1934 Democratic platform had been fulfilled. G. O. PP. stands for Great Old Promisers, while Matthew H. McCluskey, Philadelphia co-leader with John B Kelly, said party strength in Pennsylvania is greater now than in 1936 when Roosevelt carried the state.
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F. Clair Ross
G. O. PP
Matthew H. McCluskey
Philadelphia
John B Kelly
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Wright on trial for wife murder in Glendale home
Los Angeles January 19 14 defense attorney Jerry Giesler said Paul A. Wright will testify that “it was more than a kiss” prompting him to kill his wife Ars Evelyn Wright and his friend John B. Kimmel in his Glendale home. Wright faces a life or death murder trial.
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Los Angeles
Paul A. Wright
Glendale
Jerry Giesler
Wright
Ars
Evelyn Wright
John B. Kimmel
Treasury balance report from Washington sums to record
January 13 14 ledger shows Treasury receipts 13 845 731.51 and expenditures 15 395 002.17 leaving a balance of 2 959 782 571.89. Custom receipts for the month total 8 584 644 24 78. Read the Gazette Classified Ads for details.
Roosevelt seeks curb on credit in auto sales talks
President Roosevelt, in talks with Alfred P. Sloan Jr and other industrial leaders, weighs limiting auto industry credit to curb high pressure salesmanship. Officials discuss voluntary production controls and possible anti trust law revisions to align industry with government planning. A major Commerce Department advisory council meeting is planned.
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Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
General Motors Corporation
Auto
Sloan
Mr. Roosevelt
Ernest T. Weir
National Steel Corporation
Lewis Brown
Johns Manville
M. W Clement
Pennsylvania Railroad
Colby Chester
General Foods Corporation
Roosevelt
William Knudsen
General Motors
Senate
Congress
Commerce Department
Business Advisory Council
Bertrand Snell
New York
House
Deaths of Thomas Lutz and Clark A Leasure
Death claims Thomas Lutz aged nearly 61 at his Rayne township home after a long Indiana residence. Survived by widow Jennie and two sons Guy and Victor. funeral Saturday at Streams Funeral Home with Rev. Charles T. Schlotter, interment Oakland Cemetery. Clark A Leasure of Albion dies at 77 after a weeklong illness from heart trouble. Survived by widow Ida and three sons Everett, Paul, and Carl. funeral Sunday at his late home with interment Richmond Cemetery.
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Thomas Lutz
Rayne Township
Samuel
Mary
Stuchell) Lutz
Indiana
Grove Chapel Lutheran Church
Jennie Lutz
Guy Lutz
Home
Victor Lutz
Clark A. Leasure
Punxsatawney
Albino
Canoe Township
John Leasure
Ida Catherine McGee
Albion
Leasure
B. R. & P. Railroad
Reynoldsville
Presbyterian Church
Everett J
Paul D
Carl
Charles H
Toronto
Miller
Akron
Laura Keller
Edith Bryant
DuBois
Lottie Larson
Jewett
Sarah Wolfe
Wellsville
Richmont
Markets report from Pittsburgh and Chicago grains
Pittsburgh livestock markets show hogs 1500 head with 1100 direct down 9.00 to 9.10 for 210 lb, heavies 7.50 to 8.50, cattle 250 including 225 direct steady, calves 250 with 150 direct steady, top vealers 13.50, sheep 700 with 250 direct steady, good lambs 8.50 to 8.75, sheep 6.00 down. Chicago wheat trends lower as forecasts of larger shipments from Aunting dampen prices with May around 8 1/4 to 8 1/4-8 1/4, July near 94 90 3-4, corn opening mixed then slipping on broad setback.
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Pittsburgh
Chicago
Three youths arrested here on stamp thefts report
Three youths were arrested here in connection with thefts at several local businesses including a beauty shop, a dentist’s office, and the Indiana Building and Loan Association. Stamps valued at $1.50 were taken from Dr. Thomas D. McNelis’s office and $2.00 from the loan office, with additional loot noted at another dentist’s office and at M. Bgunelt and Sons Co.
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Thomas d. McNelis
Indiana Building and Loan Association
M. Bgunelt and Sons Co
Stock Market Sees Wide List Of Major Corporations And Ratios
A historical stock market listing shows prominent names across aluminum steel oil and machine sectors with numerous tickers and percentage figures. The compiled items include Am Can Am Tel Am Co Am and For Pow Am Rad and St and Am Smelt along with several automakers and suppliers such as Chrysler and Ford, plus utilities and railroads. Readouts show mixed percentage changes and trade volumes across many entities, reflecting a dense archival snapshot of market activity.
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al Chem
Dye Am
Alco Am
Pow Am Rad
St & Am
Tel
Anaconda Ad Refining
Bald Luca Balt
Ohio
Beth Steel
Burr Add Mach
Calumet and
Hee Canad Pac Case
Cerro de Pasco Ches
Chrysler Corp
Column
el Coml
Somwith
South
Cons Edison
Consol Oil Corn Products
Crane Co
del Lack and
West Douglas Aircraft
du Pont de N
Eastman Kodak
el Auto Lite
Elec Gen
Gen Motors Gen
Hard Walker
Hudson Motor
Int Harvester Int
Nick Can
Kennecott Kresge
Lehigh Val Coal Lehigh Val RR
Loews
Joe Mack Trucks
Monigom Ward Nach
Kelvinator
Nat Biscuit
Nat Dairy
Nat Distillers
Nat Pow
Central Now
Amn Patriard Motor
Penn RR
Phila Read
Phillips
Pet
Sve
NJ Pure Oi Radio Corp
Reading Co
Recub
Steel Reynolds Toh
Sesrs
Roebuck Socony-Vacuum
Southern Pacific Southern Ry Sperry Corp
Cal
Ind
N J Studebaker Corp
Texas Corp
Timken Roll
Transamerica
United Aircraft
United Corp
United Gas US Rubber US
Smelt Rand MU 5S Steel Vanadium Corp
West Union West Elang Mig
Woolworth
Curb Ark Nat Gas
Cities Service
Sir Peunroad Corp
Local College Weather Report Describes Snow and Warm Span
A local college weather note reports continued snow with brief warm trend ahead. At 9 am the temperature was 28 degrees, with a 24 hour high of 38 and a low of unknown. Snowfall in the period totaled 1 inch.
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Burries
Calder
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Kentucky
Dender
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Norton CD
James
Chopin
Maraoponin
Guggenheim
Rebecca Pole
Lard van Lennep Guggenheim
Florida
William van Lennep
Col
Robert Guggenheim
Ae Washington
Treasury Lan
Gazette
IFDR
Moorhead
Hart. Schaffner
Marx
Michaels
Stern
Varsity Town
Florsheims
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Florheims
Glastonbury
Odd Lot Union
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