War Debts and Arms to Be Reduced
United States and France reach a debt for disarmament deal in principle. Washington and Paris plan future talks in Paris Washington or London while Edge and Herriot pursue simultaneous discussions. Agreement targets debt cuts after the American election in November. Berlin braces for Reichstag vote as police enforce a ten day political truce and ban rallies and demonstrations.
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Arno Posch-Fleurot
Aris
Washington
London
United States
Walter E. Edge
Edouard Herriot
Paris
Novemer
Edward L. Deuss
INS
Berlin
Adolph Hitler
Paul von Hindenburg
Burnside Four Days in Sun Fest Opens
The four day celebration begins with a principal address by the Secretary of Internal Affairs. Music by the Revloc Band and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Band of Indiana. Grange Day Friday features speeches by James J. Davis and others. A Bernesboro Legion home game vs Homestead Grays, boxing, and Girls Band of Beaver Springs entertain. Airplane stunts by Eddie Miller, rope ladder acts, parachute jumping, free grounds admission. John Scott Post 521 American Legion sponsors. Ten thousand expected on Legion Day and more on other days.
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American Legion
Salem Church Plans Reunion
Salem Church prepares for its reunion with Jones on saxophone and Clarence Hurrell Jr. on trombone among performers. historian S. D. Davin will summarize church history at the morning service. Attendees include Mrs. Joshua Davis and Rev. Albert Evans. Attendees bring own lunches for the day, with services starting at 10:80 EST.
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Salem Church
Connellsville Bandit Gang Ends As Arrests Grow
Connellsville reports a closing chapter as Greensburg State Police arrest three more youths tied to a Westmoreland County hold up at Sweeney's Service Station. Mrs. Donald Brooks identifies Ralph Simpson as one of eight involved. Simpson, plus Calvin Russell and William Meredith, are jailed in Uniontown. Meredith allegedly helped link several robberies. Police withhold names to aid the search for four remaining suspects.
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Connellsville
Connellaville
Greensburg
Sweeney
Westmoreland County
Donald Brooks
Ralph Simpson
McKeesport
Essex Terraplane Sets Speed Records on Hill Tests
Essex Terraplane tops hill climb at ten mph start and finishes fastest to summit while several cars fail to reach the peak. Acceleration tests on flat ground show the Terraplane winning three events from dead stop to 50 mph and 10 to 50 mph in high gear, proving strong power to weight ratio.
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High Pear
Essex Terraplane
Bessex Terraplane
Essex
Slayings of Volpe brothers spark murder motive debate
The page continues the Volpe killings case with theories that the five restaurant customers who witnessed the shooting did not recognize the gunmen. Some believe the Volpes were killed for betraying a political and liquor business ally, while detectives argue the murders stemmed from attempting to muscle eastern liquor and gambling rackets.
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Volpes
East End
Two Miners In Gas Blast In Somerset County Mine
An explosion in a Somerset county mine caused by gas left two men fighting for life. Investigators could not determine if an electric coal conveyor or another source sparked the blast. It marks the first electric conveyor tied blast in the area and the first mine burn in years.
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Somerset County
Treasury balance report for July reveals totals
Washington July 30. Treasury balance as of July 28 is 168202005.74 dollars. Expenditures amount to 2236383.86. Customs receipts total 1653020.80.
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Treasury
Washington
INS
Bestor At De Molay Dance at Idlewild Park
DeMolays Masons alumni and guests attend the annual Moonlight Guest Dance described as the greatest in Westmoreland Chapter history. Don Bestor and his eleven piece orchestra will play at Idlewild Park near Ligonier on Tuesday evening August 2 with a $1.75 per couple admission.
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Westmoreland
Idlewild Park
Ligonier
Don Bestor
New Yorker
New York City
Khaki Shirts Seek to Form in Friendly City
Johnstown, July 30. Hundreds of veterans marched into the city to organize the Khaki Shirts, Walter Waters' new group for bonus legislation. Federal troops banished them from the capital and plans rushed for camps around the hills, while local officials moved to house and feed the weary marchers and transport them onward if possible. The Johnstown Democrat warned against housing nonresidents and urged decisive action to prevent the concentration of unemployed in the city.
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Johnstown
INS
Walter Waters
Doak A. Carter
Cleveland
Eddie McCloskey
McCloskey
Samuel
Lewis
Highway Department
Emmittsburg
York
McConnellsburg
Gifford Pinchot
Washington
Bonus Army
Death Notice for Freedom Stevenson Family
Death due to kidney trouble reported for Freedom and Mrs James Stevenson of Madera. They are survived by fourteen grandchildren.
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Freedom
Mrs. James Stevenson
Madera
Funeral notices from Blairsville area obituaries
Funeral services set for Jessie Marie McClellen in Blairsville with burial in Blairsville Cemetery. Francis Elwood Elkin, five weeks old, dies near Plumville. services at Heberling home with burial in Smicksburg cemetery. Mrs. Smith M. McCreight of Reynoldsville dies at 214 Hill Street. three daughters survive. funeral in Reynoldsville with burial in McCreight cemetery nearby.
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St. Louis Church
Lucerne
Father Lipski
St. Bernard Cemetery
Indiana
Jessie Marie McClellen
L. J. McClellen
Campbell Street
Blairsville
Indiana Hospital
McClellen
Francis Elwood Elkin
Francis Elwood
Dale Elkin
Plumville
William Heberling
Heberling
Mr. McCall
Smith M. McCreight DU Bois
Smith M. McCreight
Reynoldsville
Hill Street
Derry
Order of the Eastern Star
Livingston Manor
Washington, D. C
Presbyterian Church of
DuBois
Schoos
J. F. Whitworth
McCreight
Paradise
Buck
Methodist Episcopal Church
Los Angeles Welcomes Olympiad Parade of Nations
A chorus of 1,000 voices rises as international marches and national songs begin the parade of nations. Athletes from nearly 50 countries enter the stadium led by the United States squad, flags aloft, moving to the field under the Olympic banner.
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United States
Opening day sets world abuzz for tenth Olympiad
The Los Angeles ceremony opens the 16 day program drawing 1800 athletes from 43 nations as 105000 ticket holders witness the flag raising, torch lighting, and a grand spectacle with dignitaries including Vice President Curtis and Japanese representatives amid festive crowds and international excitement.
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Wallace X. Rawles
Los Angeles
Southland
India
United States
Olympic Stadium
San Francisco
Baron Sato
House of Peers of
Japan
Tokyo Medical College
Eduardo Hernandez
Chazary
Ortiz Rubio
Mexico
Mars
Olympic Village
Baltic
Italy
France
South Africa
Great Britain
Canada
Kaufman Band at Dreamland for Saturday Dance
Whitey Kaufman and his orchestra from Pridgetown, W Way, will headline the Dreamland Dance Pavilion tonight. The band, once engaged by Victor and honored by NBC, has previous radio hits on KUKA and remains popular with Indiana dancers, hoping for a large local turnout.
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Whitey” Kaufman
Pridgetown
W. Way
Dreamland Dance Pavilion
Whitey
Victor Recording Company
National Broadcasting Company of America
KUKA
Indiana
Mr. Kaufman
Dreamland
College Training School Opens After Summer Break
The College Training School notes a busy summer with tennis and swimming activities for Junior and Senior High students across Seventh to Ninth grades. Winners emerged in grade tournaments, and plans point to a fall tennis club as classes fill to capacity with a waiting list. The school reopens Tuesday September 6 for all grades except Windergarten.
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East Campus
Virginia Hill
Bobby Bennett
Ruth Neal
Walter Whitmyre
Betty Sprankle
Jimmie Bennett
College Training School
Windergarten
Local Police in Control in Washington and Bonus Army
Local police and troops hold Washington area, with several officers injured. National Commander Walter Waters demands clearing the district by noon, while marchers regroup toward Johnstown, Pennsylvania, planning to form a new force named the Khaki Shirts led by Doak Carter.
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Lacre Anacostia
D.C
Bonus
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fort Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Walter W. Waters
Portland
Ore
Lower Pennsylvania
Jownstown
Waters
Doak Carter
Cleveland
West End Tent Meetings Weather Becomes Stormy Yet Stand Firm
A West End tent meeting saw a promising start with Miss Woia Tampt delivering piano and solo performances before a looming storm. Pastor Tumpt began a sermon as hail and high winds approached but the tent withstood the weather, no injuries reported, canvas ripped but repaired. Bible pictures featuring the Apostles Peter entertained a later crowd. Sunday evening at 7:80, Mr. Collmer to preach on Some Trees of the Bible. all are urged to attend with friends.
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Apostle Peter
Collmer
Waters critics discuss forming unit amid unemployment pools
The text notes plans to recruit from the unemployed but completion of definite formations remains uncertain. Talks of police or federal steps to limit veteran concentration near Johns town exist, with no orders issued. The retreating marchers reached McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania, exhausted from tear gas, having obtained food from nearby Maryland towns and resting frequently.
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Waters
Johnstown
McConnellsburg
Maryland
Boy Has Even Chance At Health
Uniontown reporters describe Carmella Tussone a nine year old boy as unconscious for 446 hours after a fall from a tree. Physicians say he now shows faint signs of recovery smiling at doctors and murmuring missing words including mother and ice cream in a soft whisper.
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Uniontown
INS
Carmella Tussone
Inspection at Mount Gretna ends week of Pennsylvania Guard training
Mount Gretna Pa July 30 more than 5000 Pennsylvania National Guard soldiers completed a week of field training with two infantry regiments of the 56th Brigade under Brig Gen Edward Martin conducting a major field inspection. Regular Army officers inspected arms and quarters as Gen Martin and aides toured the encampment. Troop E 104th Cavalry Chambersburg won the Shannon streamer for best platoon leadership with 82.82, followed by Troop RK 104th Harrisburg 82.28 and Philadelphia Troop C 104th Cavalry 81.74. machine gun marksman streamer went to 103d Cavalry Boalsburg led by Capt Leland H Walker.
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Regular Army
Martin
Hastings Jones
William Wagoner
62Nd Cavalry Brigade
104Th Cavalry
Chambersburg
Roy G. Dunkle
104Th
Harrisburg
Ira N. Kellberg
Philadelphia
Cornet
Frederic C. Wheeler
Indiana Congressman seeks probe into Army aid for veterans
A congressional investigation demand was issued into using army troops to clear Washington of bonus seekers. The congressman also pressed Red Cross chief John Barton Payne to provide food and shelter to unemployed veterans and their families in the capital. About nine percent of forest fires are linked to railroads.
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Fhnis
Washington
John Barton Payne
The
American Red Cross
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