McFadden Seeks Broad Inquiry Into Federal Finance
In Washington a clash over an inquiry expands as Rep. McFadden presses for a House investigation into the Federal Reserve System the Treasury and the IRS. Speaker Garner supports a comprehensive probe while Michener and O’Connor debate scope and timing amid currency and Volstead Act maneuvering.
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William S. Neal
LN. S
Washington
UNSA
Federal Reserve System
National Banking Department
House Rules Committee
Rep. McFadden
Pennsylvania
Garner
Michener
Michiigan
Rep. O'Connor
New York
Rules Committee
House
McFadden
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Federal Reserve
Congo
Ebanking Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
McWadden
Rulius
Yua
CINS
Insi
Senate
Hingeham
Connecticut
Chia
Borah
Idadie
Binglson
Drys
Horah
Ing Rain
Prohi Nominees Here are 1932 convention picks
The National Prohibition party announced its 1932 standard bearers at Indianapolis. Ex Congressman William D. Up..."
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National Prohibition Party
Indianapolis
William D. Upehair
Georgia
William E. Borah
Frank
Regan
Rock- Torch, Ill
Obituary notices from Westover and Kittanning township deaths
An obituary item reports 19 month old Karl Jum Westover of White township died at 1:30 p m after suspected food poisoning. Funeral at 2 p m Monday at the parental home with Rev. Harry Prugh. Greenwood cemetery burial. Also noted Joseph S Lloyd 34 of Kittanning township died July 7 after cancer. survived by wife six daughters and four sons and many relatives. funeral at Heisman elurel conducted by Rev J G Langs Taun. burial in Black cemetery.
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Westover
Karl Jum
Karl James Westover
Hamer Road
White Township
Ater
Imogene Louise
Harry Prugh
Homer City Presbyterian C Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Joseph S. Lieyad
Joseph S Lloyd
Kittanning Township
Armstrong County
Lloyd
Cyrus Blose
Punxsutawney
Roy Zehner
Indiana
Bftie Lloyd
Pillshureh
Chester Bowser
Kittanning
George
Jacob EK
Columbus
Mitchell Lloyd
Freeport
John
Alvin
Glen Lloyd
Gilbert Lloyd
Natrona
Thomas Lloyd
Creighton
Nathan Lloyd
New Kensington
Dward Lloyd
Ford Duff
John Hartman
Birdville
Johm Rummell
Barver
David Wells
Oakland
Stolen Truck in Pittsburgh Believed Linked to Cigars Robberies
State police connect a Pittsburgh warehouse theft to a wave of cigar robberies across Indiana Cambria Clearfield and Westmoreland counties. The gang is suspected of stealing about 1 million cigars and thousands of tires with several warehouses broken into since December.
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Bunjdits
Greenshore Biaverks
Crime Iials
Indiaana-Cambria- Qlearfield
Owhelpsale
Rolery
Bates
Ville Warrhose
Anil Tugk Cigarettas
Shay Hoek Wits Lata
Wertmoreland
Phir
Hoyners
Gideon
lauderbach-Griest Uit Hiehinun
TCU
Dubgia
Iaatowi
MacDonald urges global pact to ease war debts and arms fear
In Lausanne, Prime Minister MacDonald urged rapid negotiations on a reparations accord, stressing shared global burdens and a new chapter in history. He warned against cheap burdens and called for a united front to rebuild morally, with Britain France and Italy praising the talks as signatories prepared to extend debt suspensions.
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MacDonald
United States
Germany
Europe
Golid Ccohonie Foundation
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Japan
Poland
Portugal
Greece
Jugoslavia
Romania
Great
Britain
Edquard Herbst
Lausanne
Britain seeks debt relief from United States in Lausanne talks
London moves to secure reduction or cancellation of wartime debts to the United States. Britain builds grounds at Lausanne for a moratorium on European debts, aiming to speed Lausanne ratification and pave way for broader negotiations at the U.S.-led economic conference in October. Adolf Hitler's Nazis attack the Lausanne reparations agreement, criticizing Chancellor Von Papen and testing party lines ahead of elections, while some opposition papers mildly praise the pact.
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Linton Wells
U.S
England
London
INS
Washington
United States
Lausanne
Great’ Britain
Germany
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Jang von Papen
von Papen
Varwaerts
Vor Papen
Social Democracy
Centre
Weimar
Boersen Zeitung
Cuban Chief Secret Service Captain Slain in Peru
Northern Peru faced a military crackdown as federal land sea and air forces converged on insurgents in Trujillo. Communist Apris sta party barricaded the town after a ten hour battle costing many government soldiers. Martial law spread nationwide and ports including Tinanchance Salaverry and Chicams were closed as a precaution.
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Peru
Aprissta Party
Trujillo
Tinanchance
Salaverry
Chicams
Survey Finds Most U.S. Families Live in Single Homes
A Harvard City Planning Studies survey by Robert Whit ten and Thomas Adams shows 47.1 percent of American families reside in single houses while 47.7 percent live in two family homes.
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Robert Whitten
Thomas Adams
Harvard City Planning Studies
United States
Has signaling become a lost art in driving?
The Pennsylvania Motor Federation warned that signaling by drivers is declining as more accidents occur from failure to signal. Edward Gable cited violations of highway rule No 1012 and urged motorists to use hand signals or other visible indicators to start stop or turn, noting enforced policing is impractical yet essential for safety.
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Pennsylvania Motor Federation
Edward Gable
Federation
State Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Gable
French Actress Cultivates Silk and Sheep in Colonies
The French beauty, a rising film star now under a German contract, reportedly grows silk by raising silkworms in French Indo China and maintains an extensive sheep ranch in New Caledonia while cultivating raffia palms in Madagascar. The leaves yield a silky material, boosting her ventures as prices climb on delicate undergarments.
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Lily Tacleehe
Fourth of July Picnic and Dance Draws Crowd in Borough Park
Mr and Mrs Don McHenry and Mildred Metenry of Detroit visited their mother Mrs William McHenry at this place Miss Juline Bostow of Pittsburgh spent the week with Rev Boston and wife A borough park picnic and dance on the Fourth of July attracted a large attendance and a fine program Tire
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Don McHenry
Mildred Metenry
Detroit
William McHenry
Juline
Bostow
Pittsburgh
Rev
Boston
Borough Park
Ketch Curlew Safe In Port
New York reports the missing Ketch Curlew has been sighted returning toward New York with six amateur seamen aboard. The Vnast Guard Cutter Marion said the vessel, unreported since starting the Montauk Point Bermuda race June 25, was found eighty miles off Nantucket in the Atlantic. Warrant Hoss Dennican confirmed all aboard are safe and the Curlew plans to proceed to New York under its own power.
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New York
Vnast Guard
Marion
Montauk Point
Bermuda
Atlantic
Nantucket
Alhanda
Hoss Dennican
New London
Conn
Conroy
Ketch
Nat Blum
Rovenberk
Lenjamin Theeman
Frank Rigay
Jurry Wells
Carl Parnes
Creekside Band and Visitors Spend Week in Johnstown
Creekside band members and relatives spent a week in Johnstown with Charles Hopkins. Freda Hopkins returned home from a month with her grandmother. Various visitors including Mr and Mrs Warnon and Merle Simpson with Dorothea Boyce joined local hosts over the weekend and Fourth of July.
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Creekside
Charles Hopkins
Johnstown
Freda
Jd. A. Warnon
Indianw
Jeroy
Merle Simpson
Dorothea Boyce
Pittsburgh
D. A. McKee
John Johnson
Claire Johnson
Burl
Indiana
Lowry Carnahian
Punxsutawney
Porter Kelley
Vandergrift
Oscar Wilson
Oli Guy
Frank Wilson
Warden Held In Trusty Death
Jacksonville July 9 Inmate Arthur Maillefert death leads to first degree murder charges against Warden George Courson and Guard Salomon Higginbotham after a hearing on a writ of habeas corpus. Convicts testified of cruelty at the Florida prison camp including the sweat box and barrel punishments. Jurying evidence showed Maillefert died while restrained and starved, with guards accused of brutal acts and a judge inspecting the sweat box scene.
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Jacksonville
Fla
INS
George Courson
Salomon Lgginbotham
Florida
Arthur Maillefert
Westfield
N. J
Courson
Maillefert
Box
Courgon
Cautson
Vhey
RR. Killinger
Duval County
Ife
Guarda
Muaillefert
Arthur Drew
Higginbotham
Muaillaferty
Drew
Caprson
Gibbs
Wall Street Stock Report Shows Mixed Decline Amid Leadership Shifts
The market posted a dull session with American Telephone weighing on indices and sparking broad weakness in People’s Gas. Coca Cola faced heavy selling while industrial leaders like U S Steel and Du Pont hovered near prior closes. a touch of short-covering late trimmed losses as turnover neared a yearly low.
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Loslie Gouldins
New York
American Telephone
Coca Cola
Spegintty
Guch
American Can
U.S. Steel
DuPont
Westinghouse
Auburn Auto
Union Pacific
Dallimore
Ohio
Standard
dJersey
New York Central
Beth- Jeham Stec
Brooklyn
Manhattan Transit
Ley Western Union
United Gas Improvement
General Motors
U. S. Steel
American Vohacea
du Pont
Borden
Auburn
Steel
Union Paneifle
Atehisan Lisa
Allied Chemical
People's Gas
Old Home Town at Homer City Fire Band Lineup
Local historical page lists multiple fire companies bands and drums in Homer City area. Entries name Clymer Glymer Derry Saltsbury Ferndale and Nant-y-Glo groups alongside Homer City apparatus and related marching corps.
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Homer City
Clymer Fire Company
Glymer Fire Company
Derry
Black Lick Fire Company
Indiana
Franklin Borough
Derry Fire Company
Saltsbury Fura Company
Lucerne Mines
Ferndale Fire Company
Homer City Fire Company
New Mloyenne
Nant-y-Glo Fire Company
U S Flyers Lost In Mexican Tropical Storm
Mexico City July 6 A widespread search was under way for two American aviators believed to have perished in a tropical storm south of Rinconantonio on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Clarence J Meltroy of Medaryville Indiana and Roy Gordon of Tegucigalpa Honduras flew into the storm June 27 and have not been heard from since.
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Mexico City
INS
Rinconantonio
Tedhuantepec
Clarence J. Meltroy
Medaryville
Juds
Roy Gordon
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Hilty Back in Rockview Cell After Escape
John Hilty of Sugar Hollow, 28, who escaped Rockview and led officers on a three week chase, was recaptured and returned to the Rockview penitentiary after Greensburg state police questioned him about the murder of William Kaskan, a 44 year old chicken farmer of Kiski township, with Chambers stating the inquiry remains promising but he had no confirmation of Hilty’s involvement.
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John Hilty
Sugar Hollow
Rockview
Kiski Valley
Hilty
Greensburg
William Kaskan
Kiski Township
Chambers
R. A. Chambers
Greenburg
Rockview Penitentiary
Saltsbury
Autogiro Demonstration by Indiana Citizens
Indianapolis spectators witnessed Jim Ray, the autogiro pilot who landed on the White House lawn last summer, perform an aerial display. Cairn plans to buy the patent and begin production in the country, with Ray expected to return Monday after Chicago business.
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Cairn
Jim Ray
White House
Hoover
Ray
Indiana
Chicago
Reynolds Pal Shot Death Inquest Details Unfold
The inquest into the death of 20 year old Reynolds hears Walker speak of night parties with Smith and a gun found in Walker’s room. Reynolds’ gun was found beside the body while Mrs. Reynolds Libby Holman Brandeis testifies to a blank memory of events from July 4 to July 6, with key timelines and testimonies lingering. The case centers on Reynolds heir to tobacco wealth and the unresolved circumstances surrounding the temple shot.
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Walker
Young Reynolds
Smith
W. N. Dalston
Reynolds
Smith Reynolds
Libby Holman
Staadway Singer
Reynolds), Testified Mrs. Reynals
Libby
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BIG Inquiry
Treasury
Federal Reserve System and
Prohi
Secret Service
Edna No
John Carr Coat Company
Adamsburg
George Parnell
Paul Semoncer
Angelo Rerolin
Trusty
Compton White
Idaho
Stock Report
Mexico
Politetan Haus
Mayo Dames
Armstrong
Autogiro
Indianans
Reynolds’ Pal
Eee
Moorhead
Men & Reyes
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