Shirey Fired as Forester in Surprise Move
Harrisburg announced the dismissal of District Forester I I Shirey and five inspectors in a sudden state forestry shakeup. Charles E. Zerby of Clarion named successor, while veterans Alban A Jaiden J Z Brubiker E A Buchanan We Egham herlain and Wridt Sherman were ousted. Speculation swirls over political motives with no official explanation.
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Gallitgin
Harrisburg
I. Shirry
Lewis KE
Sta
Forests
Wei Staley
Alban A. Jaiden
Lawrees
Cambria County
J. Z. Brubiker
Gallitaing
E. A. Buchanan
Brushvalley
Indiana County
Egham Herlain
Duncansville
Wridt. Sherman
Johinstown
District Forestry Service
Charles E. Zerby
Clarion
Shirey
Jefferson
Armstrong
J. I. Shirey
Walter D. Ludwig
E. B. Miller
Meathe
Baltimore man fractures arm leaping from window
W Ridgley Hammond a 63 year old Baltimore resident was locked in Blair County courthouse at Hollidaysburg during a meeting. He searched for the watchman then leaped from a window to escape, breaking his right arm.
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Altoona
INS
W. Ridgley Hammond
Baltimore
Mercy Hospital
Hammond
Blair Court House
Hollidaysburg
Aswald Dismissed In Detroit Traffic Court Conscience
Detroit June 29. Paul F. Aswald 25 drove 650 miles from Warhead Kentucky to Traffic Court after forgetting a parking tag. He explained he found the tag in his pocket on vacation and rushed back. Judge John Maher dismissed the charge praising his conscientiousness. Oswald then returned to Kentucky.
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Detroit
Paul F. Aswald
Warhead
John Maher
Oswald
Kentucky
Treasury balance report for June 27 released
Treasury balance stands at 531,642,244.12 dollars with expenditures totaling 15,813,038.82 dollars and customs receipts of 415,373,151.19 dollars in Washington on June 29.
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Washington
INS
Treasury
Economy wave may make 14 point ship link
Harrisburg June 29 INS The economy wave rose strong as a 14 point relief plan faced opposition and potential cuts across hospitals mothers aid and education. The Talbot Turner bloc pressed for a 27 million dollar savings including a three year pause on teacher retirement fund payments and unspent 1929 appropriations to balance the budget and fund relief. Labor plans a 13 point relief program with direct aid and public works.
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Joseph A. Loftus
Senate
Finance Committee
Assembly
Talbot-Turner
House
Clarence L. Ederer
Montgomery
State Banking Department
Banking Department
Fourth of July at Dreamland with Jean Ward and Epika Vagabonds
Dreamland Park owner Jimmy Cicero brings Jean Ward and her Epika Vagabonds to Dreamland for an Independence Day event with an afternoon and evening dance. The Pittsburgh based group, a 12 piece dance band, performs frequent radio programs on KDKA and features skilled musicians from the Pittsburgh area. The event promises swimming, dancing, and boating with reasonable rates, inviting Indiana and surrounding towns to attend.
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Jimmy Cicero
Dreamland Park
Jean Ward
Edika
Dreamland
Indiana
Jean Wald
Pittsburgh
T She
Heeh Music Shhowl
KDKA
Cicero
Joan Wald
Pageant planned on the life of George Washington
The Rogers Company of Ohio will stage a large outdoor pageant in the city to depict Washington life. About 20 participants and many singers, dancers, and pantomimists join a cast backed by local groups. Performances set for July 2 and July 4 at the Fair Grounds start at 8 PM.
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George Washington
Rogers Company
Ohio
Fair Grounds
Washington
Fort Duquesne
Silver Public Utility Issues Promised Battle
The piece outlines Democratic planks including a repeal amendment stance and agriculture reforms aimed at stabilizing farm income and credit, with calls for intelligent surplus control, farm mortgage financing, and critique of the Farm Board. It also covers corporate, bond issue transparency, public accounting, unemployment relief via state credit, public works, and a four-point program, plus an international policy favoring arbitration and wartime treaty support with reservations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Federal Farm Board
Democratic Party
State Department
Fordign
Senate
Fragmentary Local Notation of Names and Places
Readable fragments list individuals and towns such as Everett Springfield Mercer Philadelphia Williams Wilkes Danville Wellsboro Mary Cameron and Mrs A among scattered references. No coherent event or action present. item appears as a partial roster or notes.
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Everett
Springfield
Mercer
Philadelphia
Williams
Wilkes Jrure
Mastine
Danville
Revival Nights at Fifth and Blairton Avenue Tent
Crowds grow as revival services led by Rev Bevington of Kittanning continue nightly except Monday at 7 40 pm. Brother Jack hosts a sermon on The Good Man Who Went to Hell and the Bad Man Who Went to Heaven with Scripture from Luke 16 1 8. The message urges mercy through Jesus Christ and notes many attendees raised hands for prayer.
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Fifth
Blairton Avenue
Bevington
Kittanning
Brother Jack
Hell
Heaven
Jesus Christ
Stephens- Storrs
Government Economy and Banking Tariff Plank Outlined
A party platform advocates a 25 percent cut in federal expenditures and strict economy in Washington, abolition of useless offices, and ending extravagance while remaining silent on the bonus. It calls for prompt relief for bank depositors, tighter bank supervision, protections against using funds for speculation, and divesting banks from business affiliates. It favors a competitive revenue tariff with a non executive fact finding commission and supports an international economic conference and reciprocal tariff pacts.
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Washington
Hoover
Charges Ainey Got $150,000 in Rent in Philadelphia
Chapman alleges Ainey received funds over six years, citing four $6,000 checks drawn on Chemical National Bank and cashed in $100 bills wrapped in paper. He claims packages were delivered to Ainey and links hotel suites in New York to fare increase requests, with rent payments charged to the utility.
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Philadelphia
Chapman
Ainey
Schnader
Herman Goldberg
Chemical National Bank of New York
T. E. Mitten
Thomas Mitten
New York
Roosevelt Rumors Swirl Around 1932 Nomination
Rumors allege Governor Franklin Roosevelt will fly to Chicago for a convention address if nominated. Alfred E. Smith could swap Senate bid for votes, with Bernard Baruch backing the plan. Chicago insiders discuss resignations, bolting governors, and Tammany backing in exchange for presidential support.
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Franklin Roosevelt
New York
Albany
Chicago
Bernard Baruch
Roosevelt
Alfred E. Smith
Senate
Robert Wagner
Jimmy Walker
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Pinchot
Ballinger
Taft
Delegates React to Odd Doorway at Opposing Headquarters
Delegates paused and looked twice at the doors of the opposing headquarters after an unexpected incident. The moment sparked questions about security and the visibility of the event, with onlookers noting the tense atmosphere outside the building.
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Cess
New Evidence In Curtis Case
IN S report details William Haskell testimony about Curtis claim that Lindbergh nearly jumped overboard to reach the captors ship. Curtis allegedly said he and Lindbergh would drop a bombshell and that contact with kidnappers was made off Norfolk but rough weather halted the transfer of the baby.
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Julia McCarthy
INS
Flemington
N. J
Charles A. Lindbergh
William Haskell, Jr
John Hughes Curtis
Haskell
Curtis
Alec
Lindbergh
Norfolk
Obituary: Mrs Alice Rinn Dies in Colorado Hospital
Mrs. Alice Rinn died Thursday June 23 in a Longmont Colorado hospital. She was a daughter of the late James W and Sara Howearth from Sample Run. She wed in Colorado since 1891 and was mother to James Ray and May, all of Colorado. Survived by sisters Mary Layton Flora Myers and Mrs John Baris of Indiana and Jud Howe of Longmont, John Corrigan of Clymer, J O Howearth of Moundsville W Va. Funeral services and interment were held in Longmont on Sunday.
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Alice Rinn
Longmont
Colo
James W
Sara Howearth
Sample Run
Rinn
Colorado
James
Ray
May
Mary Layton
Flora Myers
John Baris
Indiana
Jud Howe
John Corrigan
Clymer
J. O. Howearth
Moundsville
W. Va
How to Make That Good Jelly by Miss Owen
Home Economics expert Miss Bessie Owen notes fewer women succeed at jelly making than other preserves. A good jelly is clear with fruit color, holds its shape without stiffness, and cuts clean. Use little juice at a time, avoid long cooking, strain juice, and heat sugar before adding to hot juice.
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Bessie Owen
Home Economics Extension
Miss Owen
Advances New Claim to Fame
John C. Sonate, 22, Greensburg, claims he is the only person to be apprehended, tried, and acquitted in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case. He says he was arrested May 16 in Nebraska City, Neb, grilled for three days and tried for four days, with a verdict of not guilty delivered in court.
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Pittsburgh
INS
John C. Sonate
Greensburg
Sonate
Nebraska City
Neb
Cliffside July 4 Dance Attracts Top Band Dan Gregory
Cliffside Park hosts a July 4 dance with Dan Gregory, famed across the coast for Eastern Star and Masonic events. His band delivers sweet music and can surge to high gear, supported by Victor records and broadcasts on WABC WJZ and WLW. The newly decorated hall promises one of the nation’s finest dance pavilions.
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Cliffside Park
Dan Gregory
Dan
Eastern Star
Masonic
Victor Records
WABC
WJZ
WLW
Bandits Release 3 Missionaries in China Raid
In Henan province a Chinese Communist bandit raid captured three Lutheran women missionaries and their five children. They were released and reached Hankow safely. The fates of the three male missionaries, husbands of the women, remain unknown.
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Shanghai
Henan Province
Hankow
Regional W C T U Conference at Ridgeview Park
Mrs G J Diven of Blairaville heads Indiana Co W C T U discussion on How to Reach the Youth at a regional conference July 14 15. Miss M Agnes St Clair handles publicity and arrangements for attendees and lodging, with several counties represented and lower rates at hotels for travelers from Pittsburgh.
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G. J. Diven
Blairaville
Indiana Co
Ridgeview Park
M. Agnes St. Clair
Pittsburgh
Park
Miss St. Clair
Death Bed Tale May Solve Murder in 1921 case
ERB Pennsylvania, June 29. A death bed confession from a Union City man forms the basis for District Attorney Mortimer E. Graham to solve the 11 year old murder of Harvey Sexton the county tax collector who vanished in 1921 with tax funds from the county. Relatives challenge the confession. The victim’s name was not released by police.
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Erb
Union City
Mortimer E. Graham
Harvey Sexton
Sexton
Westinghouse Omits Dividend On Common Stock
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company directors voted to omit the $1 dividend on the common stock while the regular preferred was paid. The statement said the move conserves cash due to earnings concerns and notes the company has no bonds or bank loans and remains sound in cash and quick assets.
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New York
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
Shrinkage in Ingot Output Hurts Iron and Steel Market
The Iron Age review notes further shrinkage in ingot output and declines in steel scrap prices. Raw steel production dipped from 16 percent to 15 percent of a weekly national average and is expected to fall further by week’s end. Finished steel and pie iron prices remain unchanged at 2.087 cents per pound and 14.01 dollars per ton.
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New York
Iron Age Review
Greenwood Cemetery Plans Earth Excavation and Grading
The Greenwood Cemetery Association announces excavation of about 6600 cubic yards of earth for leveling in a new section near Homer City road. Earth will be moved between sections to prepare both for final grassing and sale.
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Greenwood Cemetery Association
Homer City Road
Epidemic warned over bonus fund shortfall in Senate
Senator Blaine of Wisconsin warned the Senate that without Congress funding for the bonus army the District of Columbia faces a ravishing epidemic. The June 29 INS dispatch notes the warning as the Gazette Classified column requested.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Congress
Senate
Blaine
Wisconsin
Tunney Ay Gene Tunney Convention Opened in Chicago
INS dispatch from Chicago on June 29 describes a slow start to the convention with delegate credential fights. Huey Long defended his delegation against Scott Lucas, Alfred N. Philips lost to Einar Hordale, and Senator Thomas J. Walsh unseated Jouett Shouse in the main event over the Kansas chairmanship.
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AY Gene Tunney
INS
Hicago
Hooey
Huey Long
New Orleans
Scott Lucas
Havana
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Jouett Shouse
Kansas
Shouse
Convention Sidelights at the Democratic National Conventio
Delegates at the convention hear the speakers as critics note Roosevelt’s nomination. Huey Long voices defiance over vice presidential talk while Al Smith and others skip the parade. A prominent politician remarks on Senator Ham Lewis’s withdrawal amid a close race.
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Ham" Lewis
al Smith
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania vehicle inspection starts July 1 in Harrisburg
Harrisburg announces the compulsory inspection period for all Pennsylvania registered passenger cars, motor trucks, and motor buses from July 1 to September 30. Blue and gold stickers will identify second-period inspections, with station numbers perforated by the department of revenue. Continuous patrol oversight by the state highway patrol and strict station discipline are in effect.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Department of Revenue
State Highway Patrol
Clyde King
Doubt Czech Lindbergh Clue Prompts Police Investigation
Prague authorities questioned an 81 year old American who surrendered claiming to be the Lindbergh baby murderer. He refused to name himself, said he fled to London with six accomplices, then to Paris, bought a car, and planned to reach Russia via Germany and Czechoslovakia. He speaks only English despite a Slavic appearance.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Police Today
Waagnerstadt
London
Paris
Russia
Germany
Czechoslovvakia
Oan
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