Arson Attempt Endangers Four In Pine Township
Four people sleeping above a restaurant and bar on Heilwood Nicktown Road in Alverda escaped a fire started with gasoline and powder. Police investigated motives, finding no clear reason and noting the owner Michael J. Barton has long resided in Alverda with a solid reputation.
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Alverda
Heilwood- Nicktown
Pine ‘Township
Pennsylvania
Arthur C. Wood
Robert Graham
Michael J. Barton
Barton
Fred Bakale
Mary Bakale
Ee Sfaff
Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Corporation
Trout Stocking Planned in Local Streams by Indiana Fish Group
Marvis Stern of the Indiana Fish and Game Association announced 2,000 brook trout would be dumped this afternoon in Little Yellow Creek and Laurel Run, delivered by the State Fish Commission for stocking to two Yellow Creek tributaries. He added that 3,000 brown trout will be placed in Yellow Creek on Tuesday March 7 at 10:30 A.M. and invited sportsmen to join the stocking party assembling at Ewing's Mill.
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Marvis Stern
Indiana Fish and Game Association
Little Yellow Creek
Laurel Run
State Fish Commission
Strongstown
Yellow Creek
Stern
Ewing's Mill
Hotel Fire at Queen Hotel May Claim 25 Lives
Halifax March 3 Firemen probed ice coated ruins of the Queen Hotel to determine the loss of life after an early morning blaze trapped sleeping guests and leveled two adjoining structures. Police said 25 persons were missing and feared more may have perished. four unidentified bodies were removed from the ruins.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
Queen Hotel
Robber Dared by Pistol in Philadelphia Bakery
Pretty Dorothy Matthews laughed when a man poked a pistol at her in a bakery thinking it a joke. The robber fled bewildered after the mock threat in a Philadelphia scene dated March 3.
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Philadelphia
Dorothy Matthews
Deaths of Mrs George C Cost and others in local obits
Obituaries note the death of Mrs Della Fleming Cost at 1238 Water Street after a heart ailment. Funeral at St Bernard Church set for Monday at 10 am. Also listed are Miss Genevieve Margare t Elrick of Blairsville, Horace H. Riddell of Lockport, with family details and service plans. Page two continues.
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Della (Fleming) Cost
Della Trends Coal
George C. Cost
Water Street
Harry
Christina
Penrod) Fleming
St. Bernard
Genevieve Margaret Elrick
Samuel
Nellie
Sylvis) Elrick
Maple Street
Indiana Hospital
Blairsville
Marie Andre
Paul S
Kenneth Elvick
Blairsville Presbyterian Church
Joseph C. Stuart Wil
Blairsville Cemetery
Horace H. Riddell
Lockport
Indiana County
R. E. Keyser
Johnstown
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Mae Webster
Joseph Riddell
New Florence
R. D
Clarence Riddell
Philadelphia
Edward Forsythe
Depry
James K. Massey
Pittsburgh
Jennie Loveland
New Relief Boards Set Up After James Fires All o7
Harrisburg March 3 The governor announced tentative memos creating boards in 30 counties on paper at least ahead of expected resignations of Democratic appointees to his office. He did not identify the appointees or their counties. Six new members would join the state board of assistance within a week.
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James
Harrisburg
Es Ae
Sit Whlic Bis de
Haan
Rae
Discoverer of Tut's Tomb Dies
London reports Howard Carter the archaeologist who with Lord Carnarvon opened the tomb of Tutankhamen has died at age sixty six after years of illness. He dismissed the supposed curse as he had long warned against superstition. Carter found the tomb on November thirty, nineteen twenty two and his death recalls the fabled curse.
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London
Howard Carter
Lord Carnarvos
Carter
Lord Carnarvon
Soffel Seeks State Supreme Court Seat Next Autumn
Judge Sara M. Soffel of Allegheny County announces she will run for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The first woman jurist in the state aims for the Kephart seat, pledging non partisan intent though a Republican. Soffel notes bowing to Governor Hirt’s Superior Court appointment and cites backing from the Pennsylvania Federation of Women's Clubs.
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Pittsburgh
Sara M. Soffel
Allegheny County
William E. Hirt
Erle
State Supreme Court
James
Hirt
Soffel
Supreme Court
John W. Kephart
Kephart
Pennsylvania Federation of Women’s Clubs
Clues Sought in Garroting of 13 Year Old Girl
Oklahoma City march 3 7 officers prepare to question 100 relief workers in a search for clues to the brutal garroting and bludgeoning of Haselteen Black a slender 13 year old junior high school girl her body found in a park across from the brick settlement wearing pink pajamas and a plug.
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Oklahoma City
Haselteen Black
Charles Ryan
HIRT TO TAKE HIS SEAT ON MARCH THIRTEENTH
Harrisburg March 4 A judge who calls the thirteenth a good date will take the Superior Court seat on March 13 when Governor James resigns and nominates William T Hirt of Erie to the 18000 a year post. Hirt, born May 13, first appointed Feb 13, 1929.
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Harrisburg
James
Pennsylvania
William T. Hirt
Erie
Asth
Hirt
Superior Court
Committee On Ethics
American Bar Association
the Commonwealth
M. R. O'Hara
Luzerne County
Fred 5. Reese
Cumberland County
W. A. Valentine
Luzerne
Pinchot
NEW Justice
Park Question Meet Tonight
Proponents and opponents of Indiana County's plan to buy the Indiana Fairgrounds for a civic center will hear views at a public meeting tonight. The session, at 8 p.m. in the Indiana Courthouse, follows a 2 to 1 negative vote by commissioners. The Chamber of Commerce backs public acquisition under state law.
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County of
Indiana
Indiana Fairgrounds
Chamber of Commerce
Pomona Grange
Fairgrounds
John B. Flenniken
C. L. Campbell
Levi Holick
Commerce Chamber
Anti Fireworks Law Endorsed
Harrisburg report says Governor James backs restricting fireworks to curb indiscriminate use after six deaths and multiple injuries on the Fourth of July. Past failures and rising casualties spur two House bills as the Legislature weighs the best path to regulate distribution and reduce harm.
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Harrisburg
James
George H. Earle
New Pontiff Pacelli Elected Pope Voices Hope for Peace
Berlin dispatch notes Nazi press mostly accepts Eugenio Pacelli as Pope Pius XII with a wait-and-see stance from German policy. Coverage highlights Pacelli’s political weight and past ties to Vatican concordat, while recalling Mundelein’s 1937 remarks and Goebbels’ Der Angriff critique.
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Berlin
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
Pius XI
Lokal Anzeiger
Morgenpost
Pius XII
Vatican
Nazi Germany
Wilhelmstrasse
Cardinal Pacelli
George Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
der Angriff
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Miners Leader Outlines Planned Wage and Work Conditions
John Owens district head of the United Mine Workers spoke at a scale meeting in New Philadelphia on March 3 outlining aims for upcoming negotiations with coal operators in New York. He said the union will seek a six hour day five day week overtime at time and a half double time on Sundays and two weeks’ annual vacation, noting similar benefits exist in other stabilized industries.
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New Philadelphia
United Mine Workers
New York
John Owens
Owens
Miner Hurt At Aultman In 14 Foot Fall
Andrew Mackey of Punxsytawney is in Adrian Hospital with a fractured pelvis from a 14 foot fall at the A. L. Light mine near Aultman. He tumbled from the tipple to the ground during an accident at the mine. William Harris was fined $38 for drunk and disorderly conduct after a police officer noted his horn blasting nonstop from his car.
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Andrew Mackey
Punxsytawney
Adrian Hospital
A. L
Aultman
Mackey
William B. Harris
Thomas W. Koat
Harris
Mother In Jail Over Beating of Tiny Daughter
In Lewistown a young mother Helen Hoover protested from a jail cell that she did not want to see the man charged with attempting to kill her two year old daughter again. State Police said Paul Barrick beat the child at least 50 times and branded her with a stove lid. The baby Miriam Wolf born premature and nicknamed Rosebud remains unconscious with brain injury. hospital staff express distress over the case.
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Lewistown
Helen Hoover
Paul Barrick
Gray
Barrick
Paul
Harrisburg
Catherine Booth
New York Probes Kuhn and Bund Activities
New York investigators led by Commissioner William B. Herlands issued 10 subpoenas including one for Fritz Kuhn as part of a broad inquiry into the German American Bund and allied groups. The probe aims to determine if funds from sales of writings emblems and uniforms were properly accounted for under city tax laws.
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New York
Bund
Fritz Kuhn
William B. Herlands
Herlands
Kuhn
Milk meeting for Kittanning to form branch
A meeting to form a Keystone Milk Producers Association branch will be held at the Courthouse in Kittanning on Monday March 6 at 2 p m Producers from adjoining counties are urged to attend Beaver College appoints acting president Dr James Flt Money succeeds Dr Walter B Greenway who resigned due to ill health
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Keystone Milk Producers Association
Kittanning
Beaver College
Jenkintown
James Ft.liott Money
Money
Walter B. Greenway
Sets His Coronation Date for Sunday March 12
Vatican City March 3 Pope Pius XII announced his coronation for Sunday March 12 in Vatican radio address. He urged peace faith charity and love of Jesus Christ while diplomats anticipated a perilous but hopeful papal diplomacy era. His accession followed a unanimous condolence vote by cardinals and he prepared to connect Rome papal properties to the coronation festivities.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Catholic Church
Piug XI
Sistine Chapel
Jesus Christ
Vatican
Christ
Almos' Sican
Rome
Vall
Holy Father
Giovanni Haustatini
Pius XI
Germany
Nazi Germany
Berlin
St. Peter's
Pontiff
Years Prove Mrs FDR Found White House Less Prison
Washington dispatch notes Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt over six years has shown the White House less of a prison than she predicted. She plans to christen a new Atlantic airliner and embark on a seventh year of paid lectures, traveling over 200000 miles since March 3.
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White House
Washington
Franklin D
Roosevelt
Whit House
Atlantic
America
Thug
Aig
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Title Rock
Ark
Imogene Taylor
Violet Poage
Imogene
Elrick
Tut
Egypt
Erie County
Perkins
Kauphasia
Secretar
Palansen
Piabiliged
Miner
Rosebud
N. Y
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