Pennsylvania farm show opens with free admission and varied exhibits
In Harrisburg on January 15 the Pennsylvania annual farm show opened despite flu illness among Dorothy and others. No tickets are required as Capitol Hill requests flood the exhibit of agricultural products. Louis J. Taber will address the event and the Harrisburg American Legion band will perform. The opening day featured school children, livestock arrivals, and thousands of poultry populating cages. The week promises diversified meetings, a State Motor Police exhibit, polo and horse contests, band concerts, rural drama, and 1,500 awards totaling $40,000. Full-size silos will be shown among 353 commercial exhibits.
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Harrisburg
Penn
Sylvania
Capitol Hill
Ars
Louis J. Taber
National Grange
Harrisburg American Legion
Carnegie Institute Reclaims Foreign Paintings for 1940 Show
The Carnegie Institute will replace foreign works with American paintings in its 1940 international exhibition. Trustees decided after war disruptions to restore the American presence, ending a long tradition that paused during the World War years.
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Carnegie Institute
Mine blast may never be fully explained at Bartley
At Bartley Pocahontas Mine 1 explosion killed 8 workers last week. Officials said cause may never be known after gas ignition triggered the blast. Rescue teams recovered 91 bodies. 47 miners escaped. Coroner urged prompt burials as families mourn. A note found on victim Ernest Hoops revealed funeral wishes. Correction: Perry Atwell’s name was mislisted. he survived the naming error. Meanwhile in Miami Beach Governor James reported his daughter Dorothy improving from influenza and planned to return to Harrisburg after a rest and care period.
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Am Bartley
W. Va
Pond Creek Pocahontas Company
Bartley No. 1
R. E. Salvanta
J. A. Bennett
Ernest W. Hoops
Jackson
Rev. Spears
Ernest
Perry Britton Atwell
Miami Beach
Arthur H. James
Dorothy
Pennsylvania
J. Pat Perigo
Harrisburg
Misa James
Texas
James
Farquahr Heads of AP Members and Ship Closures
Paul Miler, chief of the Press stee Yoote Penne at, predicted the ship closes day might. Reanicer had beer secretary since Derstren a Pennsylvania mom 1924. Hotels are pushing lists as resignations grow among chambers and private firms.
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Paul Miler
Stee Yoote Penne
Savevet du
Reanicer
Derstren
Pennsylvania
Rice
Ise
Franklin case ends in acquittal described as just verdict
On page one of the Franklin edition the jury acquitted the defendant, with officials calling the decision a just verdict. The report notes Adams led the defense and the panel returned a clean result in the trial.
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S. Cot
Adams
Treasury Balance Report Shows Large Fiscal Totals
Treasury balance recorded at 2 billion 411 million 704 thousand 935 dollars and 96 cents. Included are month receipts totaling 17 dollars and the fiscal year expenditures listed as 3 million 87 thousand 400 dollars 99 cents.
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Treasury
MAR Aly
Flood Control Plan Details for Ohio Valley Projects
Report outlines how more than half of flood control funds would fund reservoirs in Armstrong and Westmoreland counties and other sites. It lists costs, unexpended balances, and estimated completion figures for Mohoning Creek, Crooked Creek, Canemaugh, Loyalhanna, Tionesta, Yough River, and related works including land purchases, railroad relocations, and highway adjustments. Projections show overall near 24 million dollars needed for next year in the Ohio Valley and Susquehanna basins, with several towns and projects named.
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Wwahia
Crooked Creek
Armstrong County
Mohoning Creek
Canemaugh River
Saltsurs
Loyalhanna
Westmoreland County
Inclina County
Tionesta Reservoir
Forest County
Youghingheny River
Confluence
Ohio River Valley
Avonstoch Channel
Ohio Valley
Susquehanna Basin
Williansport
York
Wilkes-Barre- Hate
Sulemans Creek
Plymouth
Kingstone Edwardsville
Sunbury
Delaware Bay
Sehuyks
Philadelphia
Storm Damages Garages Near Blairsville and Hart
A storm blew away part of a wall and roof of a brick garage built by Justice of the Peace F. J. Surittmatter two miles east of Blairsville and damaged another Hart garage one mile closer to Blairsville. Double doors ripped off and walls collapsed. Two Burrell Township school buses housed in the Surittmatter garage were damaged, officials said.
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Justice of the Peace
F. J. Surittmatter
Blairsville
Blaireville
James W. Hart
Burrell Township
Storm damage and tornadoes sweep through the Midwest and Northeast
A powerful storm lashed Indiana and nearby states with torn roofing and widespread wind damage. Tornadoes near Montgomery Alabama killed six and injured others, while Wisconsin and Pennsylvania faced ice, snow, and power outages as crews labor to clean up.
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Middlewest
Eest
Seaboard
New York City
Montgomery
New York
New England
Wisconsin
Minois
Michigan
Fayette County
Uniontown
Fayette
William Penn
Cresson Mountains
Pittsburgh
Wilkes-Barra
Wyoming Valley
Easton
Stroudsburg
Housing Groups Of Three States Open Joint Conferences
Officials from Pennsylvania New York and New Jersey gather in Philadelphia for a five day housing conference to promote consistent local programs sounder administration and higher professional standards in low rent housing Nathan Straus U S Housing Authority administrator will speak at a dinner meeting Wednesday night Coleman Woodbury and Edward Weinfeld also participate along with Jos s executive director of the Pittsburgh Housing Association
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Philadelphia
Housing Authority
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Carl Henry Monsees
National Association of Housing Officials
Nathan Straus
U. Housing Authority
Cinner
Coleman Woodbury
National Association
Joss
Theittsburgh Housing Association
Edward Weinfeld
New York State
18 Suspects Named in Front Case and Seizure
The 18 individuals identified by Hoover are linked to the Christian Front amid an August seizure ordered by Attorney General Murphy. The raid yielded thousands of rounds, 15 partly made bombs, powder, rifles, an automatic pistol, a shotgun, and a long sword. Names include Michael J. Blerne, William G. Bishop, Macklin Boettger, Andrew Buckley, William H. Bushnell Jr, Claus G. Ernecke, John F. Cassidy, John F. Cook, John A. Graf, Leroy Keekan, Henry Kelly, Frank M. Malone, John Prout Jr, Alfred J. Quinland, John A. Wiebrook, Michael Will, Edward Walsh, and others.
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Frank Murphy
Supreme Court
Cassidy
Charles Coughlin
Michigan
Christian Front
Father Coughlin
Hoover
Michael J. Blerne
New York National Guard
William G. Bishop
Thore
Vienna
Austria
Grea
Belgium
Macklin Boettger
Fittsburgh
National Guard
New York
Pennsylvania
Andrew Buckley
185Th Infantry
William H. Bushnell, Jr
Claus G. Ernecke
Wlive
Berlin
Germany
U. S. Naval Reserve
Genryge Kelly
Frank M. Malone
John ‘. Prout, Jr
Alfred J. Quinland
John A. Wiebrook
Brooklyn
FBI
Michael Will
Rapid Travell Company
Edward Walsh
Lawrence jurors report delay tied to prior campaign case
Lawrence's jury duty date was moved after counsel sought a delay to attend other commitments. The earlier grand jury inquiry into Democratic campaign charges in 1938 led to multiple trials. Charges included cheating, defrauding the Commonwealth in gravel contracts, and blackmail involving Spurgeon Bowser. Other figures faced fines for conspiracy and misuse of highway office funds. An appeal is pending.
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K. Ratan
Lawrence
Commonwealth
Spurgeon Bowser
James P. Kirk
Bacratory of Highways
Williamsport Man Killed In Collision Near Elizabethtown
C Best 70 a Williamsport factory superintendent was killed in a collision at Elizabethtown. Frank Kiessling 48 of Williamsport was fatally injured by an automobile that failed to stop. Mrs Amelia E Sturm 63 of Allentown died when the car she rode in plunged through a guard rail near Emmaus.
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C. Best
Williamsport
Elizabethtown
Frank Kiessling
Amelia E. Sturm
Allentown
Emmaus
Markets and Livestock Prices Reported in Pittsburgh
Livestock markets in Pittsburgh show steady tonnage with 1,500 head traded across 160 to 290 pound ranges and calves around 250. Cattle values hold firm with steers and heifers in mid to high range, cows and cutters varied, while sheep and lambs edge higher. grain markets in Chicago show a rapid wheat advance on short covering and European tensions, with corn near unchanged to modestly higher.
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Pittsburgh
Chicago
Europe
Italian air racers short of world distance record
The Italian air team announced that the Malian plane under Cal Angelo Tondi landed at Fernando de Noronha, Brazil, after 34 hours 25 minutes in the air. It had flown about 4,400 miles toward Patagonia, 3,000 miles short of the 7,812 mile record set by British planes in 1938, fuel leakage reported en route.
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DE Janeiro
Fernando Navonha
Patagonia
Cal. Angelo Toudi
Rome
Royal Air Forge
Ismaila
Suez Canal
Darwin
Australia
Tondi
Fernandoa Noronha
GOP Lincoln Day Dinner Heads 1940 Campaign
Washington January 15 Republican chairman John D. M. Hamilton will lead a Lincoln Day kickoff for the 1940 campaign with a 6.50 plate dinner in New York City. The RC called a partial list of dinners tied to Lincoln’s birthday. speakers include Governor Arthur H. James of Pennsylvania and Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan at Grand Rapids celebration.
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Washington
John D. M. Hamilton
New York City
Lincola
Republican National Committee
Hance
Arthur H. James
Pennsylvania
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Grand Rapids
Publishers Dispute Movie Portrayals in Press Role Debate
Harrisburg January 16 1949 A Pennsylvania publishers association denounces film depictions of reporters editors and publishers as false to life The PNPA vows continued independent press safeguards and outlines officers and district members across the state including Steinman Homberger and Reynolds
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Harrisburg
America
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association
William N. Hardy
PNPA
Smith
Washeingland
Arndem
Col. J. Hale Steinman
Lancaster Newspapers, Inc
C. M. Homberger
Jeannette News-Dispatch
Ry Evers Whitmore
New Holeland Clarion
Treaswer
Howard Reynolds
Quarryville Sun
Colonel Steinman
A. W. McDowell
Sharon Herald
John E. Person
Williamsport Sun and Gazette-Bulletin
Clonel J. H. Zershey, Jr
Pottsville Republican
H. A. Moyer
Souderton Independent
N. A. Frantz
Stroudsburg Record
Cecil K. Krewson
Tunkhannock Republican
New Age
Floyd Chalfant
Waynesboro Record Herald
George Bf. Fry
Newport Weekly News-Sun
Penn G. Hastings
Milton Standard
B. T. Martin
Dushore Sullivan Review
Robert B. Herbert
Greensburg Tribune and Review
M. R. Shale
Blairsville Dispatch
Vernon L. Wise
Buller Eagle
Walter J. Conrath
Albion News
Stocks Rise and Fall on New York Exchange Listing
On January 16 the New York noon stock sheet lists a wide range of industrials and utilities with varied results. Major movers include Air Reduction, Am Tel and Tel, Chrysler, General Electric, and Westinghouse, reflecting mixed sentiment as traders price shares across steel, oil, chemicals, autos, and railroads.
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New York
Alco
Anavanda
Ohio
Bendix
Hee
Chrysler Corp
Corl Solvents
South
Con Edison
del Lack
West Im
Douglas Aircraft
Eastman Kodak
Gen Foods
Gen Motors
Gillette
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Pennate Judiciary
Todey
Aera
Supreme Cour
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Pierce Butler
Judiciary Committee
Roosevelt
Robert H. Juvikean
Francis Biddle
Senate
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Congress
Philippines
Eitner
Ter
Mahoning
Linnie Davis
Mahoning Valley
Company Winch
Cattiege Institute
Ameria
Aiduailly
Daveeba
Amaury
Farquahr
Franklin
Moorhead
Manos
Indiana
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