Bill Postpones Sheriff Sales For Two Years
Harrisburg legislation would postpone all tax sheriff sales for two years, enabling counties to delay foreclosures until 1937 with county sheriffs and treasurers acting with Common Pleas Court consent. The Cordier resolution aims for speedy enactment amid bipartisan support. A companion bill would replace the Industrial Policy Act with a system of property guards, subject to approval by the attorney general.
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Harrisburg
INS
Senate
House
Benjamin Thompson
Westmoreland
Common Pleas
Pennsylvania
Charles Harmuth
Allegheny
Roosevelt weighs NRA overhaul at White House talks
President Roosevelt and top advisers led by Donald Richberg met at the White House to discuss reshaping the creaking NRA. With the Recovery Act due to expire June 16, Roosevelt favored a possible extension in a modified form while stressing the discussions covered general ties.
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Washington
INS
NRA
Roosevelt
Donald R. Richberg
White House
Silken Spindles Opens in Gazette Tomorrow
The Gazette begins the new serial Silken Spindles with Brian West torn between lovers Vicky Thatcher and Gale. Vicky schemes to win him, Gale works at a silk mill, and unforeseen events drive the plot toward disaster as readers await the finale.
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Gazette
Brian Westmore
Vicky
Gale
Brian
Gazelle
Vicky Thatcher
Brunet
Pealer Emerges in Harrisburg Talks for Chief Engineer Post
Borough and County Engineer Thomas Pealer, a lifelong Democrat, meets Democratic leaders in Harrisburg amid rumors he could be tapped as chief engineer of the Pennsylvania state highway department. He is known for rural road projects in Indiana County including the Pinchot type roads and long service in road construction and maintenance.
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Thomas Pealer
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Tom
Indiana
Yoalors
Death notices for McGaughey and Lutz in Indiana County
Other deaths include James Robert McGaughey 383 longtime Indiana County resident who died at 1 00 pm Tuesday at his daughter's home after a paralytic stroke He is survived by two sons J W of Wilkinsburg and Austin K of Erie a brother and a sister The funeral arrangements are to be announced Emma B Lutz died Monday night in Seward and will be buried in Armagh Cemetery after services at her home at 2 pm Thursday She is survived by two daughters three siblings and a widow’s share of public notices continue on Page Two.
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James Robert McGaughey
Indiana County
W. B. Fleming
South Mahoning Township
John and
Hannan (McCall) McGaughey
Charity (Kirkpatrick) McGaughey
Fleming
J. W. McGaughey
Wilkinsburg
Austin K. McGaughey
Erie
J. S. McGaughey
Mary McGaughey
Clarion
Robinson Funeral Home
Harry Prugh
Homer City Presbyterian Church
Circle Hill Cemetery
Punxsulawney
Emma B. Lutz
Seward
Armagh
Harry EB. Smith
Seward Methodist Episcopal Church
Morton
Sara (Rodgers) Wakefield
Lutz
George B. Lutz
Paul Snyder
M. J. Moorhead
Nora Kern
New Florence
Alva
Wilbert
Westinghouse Lands Norris Dam Waterwheel Contract
Tennessee Valley authority awarded Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing a roughly 900000 dollar contract to build two grafit waterwheel generators for Norris Dam. The project, delivering about 500000 man hours of labor, is slated for late this year. Ross and DeGaetano offer women’s four dress shirts for one dollar instead of 1.68 as advertised. See page 9.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Tennessee Valley Authority
Norris Dam
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Ross & DeGaetano
Harrisburg Deeper Dive On Constitutional Convention
Harrisburg reports the administration bill to create a constitutional convention clears the Democratic House but faces Republican Senate resistance over lacking a popular referendum. Gov Earle pressed for quick passage as amendments pour in, aiming to replace the 1874 constitution with a new document by 1936, with two consecutive sessions needed before voters weigh in.
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Robert F. Gorman
CN. S
Harrisburg
Jan
INS
Democratic House
Senate
George H. Earle
House
Republican Senatoria
Charles J. Margiotti
John W. Scotzin
Pennsylvania
Frank W. Ruth
Berks
Roosevelt plan aims to put 4.5 million on relief work
Washington report says the plan envisions an average wage of 50 dollars per month for relief workers, with varying scales for white collar, skilled, and unskilled labor. Admiral Peoples testified that some projects could start within 30 to 90 days after grants, including rivers and harbors, highways, housing, slum clearance, and rural electrification. New York housing chief James Moffett urged broad cooperation and outlined programs to speed immediate results.
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Washington
CINSI
Roosevelt
House
Christian J. Peoples
Treasury
Congress
Peoples
Con- Bless
Kidnapped girl returned home in Scarsdale case
Three year old Joy Jolliffe was returned to her home by Department of Justice agents after being abducted yesterday by three women in black. Police said the child was found with her mother. The child's parents, George Jolliffe and Mary Jollifes, are separated.
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Scarsdale
INS
Joy Jolliffe
Department of Justice
George Jalliffes
Mary Jollifes
Pittsburgh
Constable Harman Seeks Sheriff Nomination
Constable Charles Harman of Washington township announced to friends that he will run for sheriff at the next primary. A lifelong Republican and local farmer and livestock dealer, Harman is well known across the county and plans to enter the race after today’s discussions.
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Charles Harman
Washington Township
Indiana
Harman
Mais Has Ten Days to Live
Richmond dispatch reports Rob ert Mais, leader of theTri-State Gang, has ten days to live as execution looms for the March Fed eral Reserve Bank truck holdup and chauffeur murder. Walter Legenza faces the electric chair on February 2 after transport from New York to federal custody.
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Richmond
Robert Mais
Tri-State
Federal Reserve Bank
Mais
Walter Legenza
Dale
New York
Mecropa
Weather forecast and cold wave threaten Midwest
Forecaster Robert Tross predicts cloudy and slightly warmer conditions with subzero night temps and a chilly day across Ebensburg and Somerset. Snow totals range two to four inches while highway crews advise chain usage. a new cold wave from the Canadian plains grips the frigid middle west with subzero temperatures by nightfall.
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Robert Tross
Ebensburg
Somerset
Chicago
Middle West
Canadian Plains
Hauptmann to Move for Dismissal in Lindbergh Case
Flemington wires reveal Bruno Hauptmann defense to ask for indictment dismissal after state rests. Ed Reilly says motion grounds include lack of proven murder and disputed blood clot evidence. The state winds up its case on the Jane man theory as cross examination plans take shape.
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Kenneth T. Downs
N.S
Flemington
N. J
INS
Bruno Richard
Hauptmann
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Today
Edward J. Reilly
Brooklyn
Bronx
Egbert Rosecrans
Blairshawn
Reilly
Charles A. Mitchell
Mercer County
Harry Walsh
Jersey City Police
Leigh Matteson
N. S
State Today
International
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Davia T. Wilentz
Wilentz
Pennsylvania crop values rise 70 percent from 1932 lows
State Department of Agriculture reports 1934 farm crop values at 142 million dollars, up from 84 million in 1932 and 118 million in 1933. Higher prices boost cash income projected near 200 million. Pennsylvania leads in buckwheat tobacco and other crops, with corn, hay, potatoes, wheat, oats, and apples as top contributors.
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Pennsylvania
State Department of Agriculture
Commonwealth
Three youths sent to Allegheny County workhouse
Paul Bogdanski aged 23 from Livermore RE. D. 1 John Modrey 22 and George Comesky 24 from Coal Run pleaded guilty to larceny of motor vehicles. Judge J N Langham sentenced them to six months to a year in the workhouse, carried out by Sheriff A Eugene Wilson and Deputy Sheriff H Elmer Borland after arrest by state highway patrolmen last weekend.
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Paul Bogdanski
Livermore RE. D
John Modrey
George Comesky
Coal Run
Allegheny County
J. N. Langham
A. Eugene Wilson
H. Elmer Borland
Preparatory United Presbyterian Services Ahead of Communion
Preparatory services for the communion will be held at First United Presbyterian Church. Friday evening at 7 30 and Saturday afternoon at 2 30. The Rev B Copeland of Third United Presbyterian Church of New Castle will preach.
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First United Presbyterian Church
B. Copeland
Third United Presbyterian Church of
New Castle
Auto Death Suit Seeks $15,000 Damages
J B Sutter of Covode and Mrs Iddo Lewis of near March and are named defendants in a Common Pleas suit for 15000 damages brought by Mr and Mrs Harry Mauk of North Mahoning township parents of Martha Ann Mauk seven years old who was fatally injured October 3 when she stepped from a school bus and ran into an auto driven by Mrs Lewis about 430 pm The child died at Punxsutawney hospital at 1145 pm The bus was driven by Sutter Mrs Lewis was exonerated by a coroner's jury at an inquest October 10.
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J. B. Sutter
Covode
Iddo Lewis
Near Marchand
Common Pleas
Harry Mauk
North Mahoning Township
Martha Ann Mauk
Lewis
Punxsutawney Hospital
Sutter
Five masked bandits rob mail truck in Tall River
Five gunmen staged a mail truck robbery in Tall River Massachusetts on January 23 netting an estimated 129000. They forced the driver Herbert Reid to a secluded street and bound him with rope and tape before fleeing in a second car with the loot. Police mounted highway manhunt as thieves abandoned the second vehicle bearing Rhode Island plates and moved to a third car.
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Tall River
Mass
Herbert Reid
Ayere
Federal Reserve Bank of
Boston
Fall’ River
Reid
Rhode Island
Fall River
Local hospital treats two injured youngsters
Two youths were admitted to the Indiana Hospital after falls yesterday. Thomas Perry, 14, son of Mr and Mrs Anthony Perry of CLYMER, arrived at 6 40 p m with a back injury from a swing fall. William Heaton, 9, son of Mr and Mrs Harry Heaton of 1121 Maple Street, came in at 2 40 p m for reduction of a left arm fracture.
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Indiana Hospital
Thomas Perry
Anthony Perry
Clymer
William Heaton
Harry Heaton
Maple Street
Damaging testimony at today's Hauptmann trial
In Flemington New Jersey on January 23 the defense faced a setback as Arthur Koehler government wood expert testified that a piece of lumber from Bruno Hauptmann’s home matched the nail hole pattern of the ladder used in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. Detective Bornmann described climbing through a trap door to the attic and finding a short board with sawdust, supporting Koehler’s comparison.
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Bulletinee Om
Flemington
N. J
INS
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Arthur Koehler
United States
Hauptmann
Lindbergh
Ry James L. Kilgallen
Atti Bruno Richard
Bornmann
Atti
Sengials -Borniman
Hoth Him Kaeehler
Railig
Ann Harding Too Ill to Comment on Custody Case
Los Angeles date Jan 28 film star Ann Harding was described as too ill to comment on Barry Bannister branding her not a fit and proper person in care of their six year old daughter Jane. Harding recently won full custody in a Rhode Island court after divorce years ago.
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Los Angeles
INS
Ann Harding
Barry Bannister
Jane
Miss Harding
Bannister
Mrs Coolidge and Queen Marie Inherits Candy From Sayre Will
Rockwell Sayre's will awards candy to Mrs Calvin Coolidge and Queen Marie for disliking cats. About 149 prominent persons and institutions receive similar gifts under the will. The Rockwell Sayre estate valued at $10,000 is in probate. candy shipments and related exhibition plans are noted.
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Chicago
Rockwell Sayre
Sayre
First Presbyterian Church
Thurs
Sion
President Roosevelt to sit for oil portrait by Salisbury
Washington January 23. The president has finally given in to sit for a portrait. English painter Frank O Salisbury, who previously painted Calvin Coolidge, has been admitted to paint Mr Roosevelt in oils after he set photographers free to shoot.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Frank O. Salisbury
Calvin Coolidge
Mr. Roosevelt
Roosevelt shifts on world court Vandenberg reservation
Washington reports indicate the Roosevelt administration shows weakness in U S adherence to the world court as Vandenberg reservation negotiations begin. A secret White House talk followed by Vandenberg saying acceptance remains under discussion amid Senate opposition to adherence and added reservations.
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William K. Hutchinson
U.S
Washington
INS
World Court
Vandenberg Reservation
United States
Roosevelt
Vandenberg R
Michigan
White House
Vandenberg
Senate
Norris
Nebraska
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Clara Bow
Rex Larbow Bell
Rex Bell
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State Department
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