Believe Son Is Still Alive in New Rochelle Kidnapping
Murray Levine, father of kidnapped 12 year old Peter Levine, says he believes his son is alive and that the ransom note suggests contact with the right people. Police continue to drain Indian Lake in Crotona Park, Bronx, following an anonymous tip about the body.
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New Rochelle
N.Y
Murray Levine
Peter Levine
Levine
New York
Indian Lake
Crotona Park
Bronx
Obituary notices from Blairsville area posted for several residents
Obituary items report deaths in Indiana, Blairsville and surrounding townships. Names include Mrs Mary Belle Wise Small 34 of Clymer, William J George 81 of Johnstown, and multiple Stephens family members. services planned in First United Presbyterian Blairsville and Raleigh Funeral Home Hillsdale with burial in Blairsville Cemetery.
State House Members All Plan To Run For Re election
Washington March 7 A Pennsylvanian poll shows 33 of 34 incumbents intend to seek re election to the U S House next year with one abstaining James Wollenden of Delaware County saying petitions are circulating All 84 Pennsylvania seats in the House with Ken Henry Venbogen resigning in January leaving a vacancy not filled Officials said no special election The list includes many with sixth and fifth terms and several first termers planning to run again The roster shows Republicans and Democrats from multiple counties including Philadelphia Allegheny York and Beaver among others
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Washington
U. S
House of Representatives
Iic
James Wollenden
Trelaware
Pennsylvania
Kenry kVenbogen
Allegheny County
Wolfenden
Robert F. Rich
Clinton County
Patrick J. Baland
Scranton
Marry L. Haines
York County
Haines
Charles M. Crosby
Meadvile
J. William Ditter
Montgomery County
Matthew A. Dunn
Charlies J. Faddis
Waynesburg
Oliver W. Frey
Allentown
Clearfield
Joseph Gray
Cambria County
James L. Quinn
Allegheny
A. G. Rutherford
Honesdale
Gifford Pinchot
Benjamin Jarrett
Farrell
Robert Gray Allen
Greensburg
Boss
Guffey
Richard M. Simpson
Benjamin K. Facht
Philadelphia
M. J. Bradley
James P. McGranery
Ira Walton Drew
Leon Sacks
Peter J. Demuth
Herman P. Eber- Harter
Speedy trial for matricide for Danielsen
A county jail report states Danielsen, held after the matricide of his mother, displayed intermittent sobbing during a quiet Sunday. Two alienists will examine him while First Assistant Prosecutor Wil bert Crowley described the boy as highly intelligent but not vicious, noting he said he lost his temper after stabbing his mother, Mrs Eleanor Danielsen, 47, whose funeral was held today.
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Danielsen
Wilbert Crowley
Eleanor Danielsen
Alaska Governor’s Wife Marooned Above San Gabriel Dam
Mrs Helen Troy wife of Governor John Troy of Alaska was marooned above San Gabriel canyon dam No One after four hundred cabins and other buildings were destroyed. Dr E R Lambert and others attempted to reach her by land and by amphibian plane landings failed.
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Helen Troy
John Troy
Alaska
San Gabriel Canyon
HO Whygdan
E.R. Lambertson
Sale
Morgan Not to Resign and TVA Pressure Deepens
President Roosevelt published views from Harcourt Morgan and David Lilienthal accusing the TVA chair of trying to dominate the agency. Morgan defended his stance in a February 14 letter to Representative Maverick rebutting claims that TVA would cede most power to private monopolies.
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TVA
Roosevelt
Harcourt Morgan
Lilienthal
Morgan
Maverick
D-Tex
Maerick
TVA policy debate on power contracts and private utilities
The discussion centers on power contracts with a Tennessee ALCOA plant and a private industry joker allowing Arkansas Power and Light to buy prime power at secondary rates. Directors Harcourt Morgan and Lilienthal push private utility purchases in TVA territory. Wendell Willkie favors government purchase of these companies, while observers note differences in proposed terms. Lilienthal favors cost-based pricing minus depreciation, Willkie advocates paying for properties as going concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Aluminum Company of America
Morgan
Arkansas Power, and Light Company
Harcourt Morgan
Lilienthal
TVA
Wendell Willkie
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
Willkie
Forgotten vacation operator aids hotel fire victims
Anne Reilly, a Philadelphia telephone operator on vacation, awoke to smoke at the 44 floor New Yorker hotel in New York. She grabbed a robe and rushed to the switchboard where she and two overworked operators calmed hundreds of guests during a blaze racing up a ventilating shaft early Sunday.
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New York
Anne Reilly
Philadelplg
New Yorker
Respite Granted to Blair County Slayer Roy Lockard
Governor Earle's office announced a respite for Roy Lockard. Execution postponed from the week of March 14 to the week of May 2.
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Harrisburg
Earle
Roy Lockard
Blair County
Relief load drops again in Pennsylvania
Relief rolls in Pennsylvania fell to 610,192 as of February 26, a drop of 27,463 from the prior week. Expenditures excluding administration were 1,386,806 dollars, down 98,484. New applications fell 6,002, with 6,328 cases closed due to WPA employment and 6,972 for other factors, notably unemployment compensation.
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Pennsylvania
Department of Assistance
Arthur W. Howe
Allegheny
Lackawanna
Westmoreland
Beaver
Indiana County
Community notices of deaths in Shelocta and area
HILDA ELIZABETH Rairigh two year old daughter of Ward and Lottie Rairigh of Shelocta died at 525 p m Saturday of bronchial pneumonia She was born November 19 1985 and leaves parents a brother and sister Clark and Martha Louise her paternal grandmother Mrs Tillie Rairigh Smal of Rural Vesley and maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Gelius Reeder of Shelocta Funeral services were at the Feefer home at 230 p m today Rev Robert Richter officiating and burial in Gas town Cemetery LAWRENCE DELPONTE 56 died unexpectedly in his home in Iselin at 4 a m Saturday He was born in Austria February 6 1882 and had been in the meat business in Iselin for years Surviving are his widow Mrs Pearl Delponte a daughter Mrs John Thompson at home four sisters Mrs Augusta Louis of McIntyre Mrs Mazel Shery of Johns town and two in Europe He was brother of Quido Delponte of Johnstown and Victor Delponte in Europe Funeral services will be at Holy Cross Catholic Church Iselin at 9 a m Tuesday Rev S A Gawronsky to officiate and interment in St Bernard's Cemetery Indiana
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Church Street
Giles
Catherine
Craig)Stephens
Cherryhill Township
Indiana
Burrell Township
Blairsville
First United Presbyterian
Women's Bible Class
Mothers of Democracy
Gladys Brown
B. L. Stephens
Clymer
C. W. Stephens
Spangler
H. W. Stephens
R. D
EH. Stephens
Penn Run
Edwards
C. C. Day
Paul Stephens
Brown
France
Stillman A. Foster
First United Presbyterian Church
R. E. McClure
Robert Francis Smathers
Frank
Zelda (Mulberger) Smathers
Armstrong Township
Donald Curtiss Smathers
A. C. Mulberger
Plumville
Mary Belle (Wise) Small
Horace Small
Indiana Hospital
Sarah (Myers) Wise
John Wise
Green Township
Commodore
Purchase Line Church of the Brethren
Shirley Joan
Harvey
Everett Wise
Grace Hickok
Nellie Fyock
Cockport
Raleigh
Hillsdale
Dorsey Rottuck
Montgomery Cemetery
William J. George
Johnstown
Bisksville
Westmoreland County
Brushvalley
Western Reserve Medical College
Cleveland
George
W. K. Anderson
Franklin M. EB. Church
Blairsville Cemetery
Shelocta
Orville J. Fleming
Buriel
Greenwood Cemetery
Hilda Elizabeth
Ward
Lottie Rairigh
Bor
Clark
Martha Louise
Tillie Rairigh Smai
Vesley
Gelius Reeder
Feefer
Robert Richter
Lurial
Gastown Cemetery
Lawrence Delponte
Iselin
Austria
Pearl Delponte
John Thompson
Augusta Louis
McIntyre
Mazel Shery
Europe
Quido Delponte
Victor Delponte
Holy Cross Catholic Church
Tselin
Sev .S. A. Gawronsky
St. Bernard's Cemetery
Japs Struggle Central China Move Near Yellow River
Japanese troops pressed from six jumping off points along the Yellow river north bank into central China. The campaign culminated in the capture of Chaotsyn, a railway terminus near the big bend on the Yellow river, opposite Tanokwan near the Lunghai line.
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Shanghai
Shansi
Yellow River
China
Chaotsyn
Chaotsun
Tanokwan
Lunghai
Treasury balance and receipts report March 4
Washington March 7 The treasury position on March 4 shows receipts of 26,132,455.57 and expenditures of 32,918,112.61, leaving a balance of 3,010,125,040.45. Customs receipts for the month totaled 3,966,129.20.
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Treasury
Eleven Pennsylvania school employees granted pensions
Dr. Lester K. Ade announced eleven school employees received retirement allowances from the School Employees' Retirement Board. They served 10 to 48 years in Pennsylvania schools, including Lettie B. Cullers of Pittsburgh with 47 years and Ma bel B. Cannon with 48 years, among others in Armstrong, Beaver, Clarion, Mercer, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester K. Ade
Laura A Reinhardt
Allentown
Millicent M. Robinson
Grove City
Mercer County
Grants. Decker
Upper Dublin
Montgomery County
William C. Moore
Plymouth
Mabel B. Cannon
Frank Spert
Margaret M. Levin
Philadelphia
Bolshevik Heroine Testifies Against Bucharin in Treason Trial
Barabara Yakovleva, once a Bolshevik heroine and former head of the Cheka, testified in Moscow on March 7 that Nikolai Bucharin urged plans to kill Lenin and Stalin if peace with Germany was demanded. She described Bucharin as the ideological leader of a Moscow inner circle faction and said he admitted plotting to destroy Lenin and Stalin. Bucharin defended himself and admitted espionage by subordinates, while facing a possible death sentence alongside 20 co defendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Barbara Yakovleva
Nikolai Bucharin
Russia
Mascas
Madame Yakovieva
Bucharin
Nikolai Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Germany
Te Bucharin
Lenin
Cheka
Finance
Madame Yakovleva
Stalin
Jacob Sverdloff
Communist Party
Britain
Japan
Poland
Part-Time Students Dominate 1937 Pennsylvania Colleges
Dr Lieter K Ade, Superintendent of Public Instruction, released figures showing 106,253 students across 57 accredited Liberal Arts Colleges in Pennsylvania. Of these, 55,638 are part time, attending afternoons and evenings or enrolled in extension courses. Only 13 colleges have no part-time students, with Penn State boasting 25,000 part-time enrollees in other institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lieter K. Ade
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Pennsylvania
Ade
Dickinson College
Carlisle
Pennsylvania State College
Commonwealth
University of Pennsylvania
Peach Yellows Infection Wanes in Pennsylvania Orchards
The State Bureau of Plant Industry reports 1937 shows 415 infected trees out of 393,682 inspected across sixteen counties. Infection level fell from 1936 and the seventeen year average, with all diseased trees marked and removed by growers, a control method in place since 1921 that reduced infection from about 9 percent to under one tenth of one percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
State Bureau of Plant Industry
New ruling allows color in oleomargarine for demos
A Pennsylvania Agriculture Bureau regulation permits on premise demonstrations of colored oleomargarine. Demonstrators may add color to samples and distribute them if a placard explains that colored margarine sales are unlawful and color is used solely for demonstration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Foods and Chemistry
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
Potatoes Surplus Report Shows Higher Stock Levels
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture reports that on January 1 there were 108,836,000 bushels of merchantable potatoes available for sale in the United States, marking a 26 percent increase from January 1, 1987.
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Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
United States
Poultry in Cold Storage Drops Since Last Year
State Secretary J Hansell French reported a survey showing 123 320 000 pounds of poultry in cold storage in the United States on January, down from 187 887 000 a year earlier and below the five year average of 132 485 000 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Hansell French
State Secretary of Agriculture
United States
State Game Commission Owl and Fox Bounty Payouts
During January the State Game Commission paid bounties totaling 11 110 50 on 76 great horned owls 1 825 gray foxes 16 goshawks and 6 453 weasels besides other small game payouts to hunters across the state.
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State Game Commission
Great-Horned Owls
Gray Foxes
Week-End Raids Of Night Spots In Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh March 7 One hundred persons were arrested or released as agents raided 14 night spots in a state wide drive by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. Ninety seven agents moved on clubs early Sunday in the largest raids since prohibition repeal. Hearings will be held for 13 tavern proprietors and employees. three clubs faced gambling charges with forfeits. Brooke said 125 clubs cited and 250 licensees to be summoned for license renewal May 1.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board
Allegheny County
J. Twing Brooks
Brooke
Helvetia Group for Mine Safety Meeting Elected Officals
The Helvetia group for mine safety held its initial meeting Saturday evening to form leadership. Michael Pasternick was elected vice president John Gallo became secretary and treasurer Douglass was safety director Dr Hays health director J B Vanity social director and Charles Ramsell Paul Danko Michael Kalafskey Sr Patsy Bannan and Henry Salva named to the executive committee George Smith general manager Kent Coal Company and Charles Ghizzoni of United Mine Workers of America spoke.
Still Seeking Last Airliner in Sierra Nevada Search
Fresno Calif March 7 Eight planes hunt for a vanished air transport and its nine occupants along a 60 mile snow covered stretch on the western Sierra Nevada slopes. Aerial searchers had scouted north and west of Bass Lake and between Sequoia and General Grant National Parks. Weather hampered the hunt since the Transcontinental and Western Air Transport vanished in a storm last Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fresno
Calif
Sierra Nevada
Bass Lake
Sequoia
General Grant National Parks
Pershing Eyes Sun After Calm Progress
General John J. Pershing continued his slow recovery at Desert Sanitarium Tucson after a heart ailment and uremic poisoning. He spent 40 minutes on a sun porch as doctors noted blood pressure low but no major change. In other news, Grant S. Christian, 74, who founded the first phone in the North Penn Valley, died yesterday at his Lansdale home.
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Tucson
Ariz
John J. Pershing
Desert
Roland Davison
Lansdale
U/P
Grant S. Christian
North Penn Valley
Ashland
Markets and livestock report from Pittsburgh and Chicago
Produce demand in Pittsburgh shows apples and potatoes steady with multiple varieties and prices listed. Hogs and cattle in Pittsburgh market noted higher on most classes, with vealers strong and sheep modest. Chicago wheat and corn futures show a modest upturn with May and July contracts around 90 and 60 cents respectively.
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Pittsburgh
Chicago
Belle of the 90s Dies in Want in Pittsburgh
Evelyn Granville once the most photographed New York girl, died penniless in a Pittsburgh boarding house after a two month illness. Disclosed by friends, she was 44 and known as Mrs. Evelyn G. Scott. A former actress, she had been a pianist and a ticket seller after marrying John J. Scott of Pittsburgh in 1890. Crippled in a streetcar crash, she left theater work and later held clerk and WPA sewing room jobs.
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Pittsburgh
New York
Evelyn Granville
Evelyn G. Scott
Lillian Russell
Diamond Jim" Brady
Teddy” Roosevelt
John J. Scott
Local College Weather Report Prevails
Weather summary notes generally fair and colder today with snow flurries and fair and warmer tomorrow. 8:00 a m temperature 29 degrees above zero, high 37, low 28, barometer yesterday 28.7, today 20.
Ten Killed in State Traffic Fatalities Reported
A string of Philadelphia area auto deaths includes Mrs. Mary Rogan 68 struck by an unattended car and James Fergus 63 struck as a pedestrian. Others named are William Sutch 26 drowned when his car veered into the Schuylkill. Elmer Seiff 37 crashed into an elevated pillar. Charles Nineischler 80 pedestrian. Thomas Wolford 41 Chester whose car hit a bridge abutment. Leroy Gensemer 46 crossing a street. Elton Hy McCann 26 whose car skidded onto a sidewalk and tumbled into a creek. Bainbridge Ruth Park 20 Columbia killed when a car crashed into a tree.
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Philadelphia
Mary Rogan
James Fergus
William P. Sutch, Jr
Schuylkill River
Elmer Seiff
Charless Nineischler
Thomas Wolford
Chester
Leroy Gensemer
New Castle
Elton Hy McCann
Bainbridge
Ruth Park
Columbia
Stock Market and Major Corporations Listed in Broad Roll
A dense roll of company names spans energy, steel, automotive, chemicals, and utilities including Air Reduction, Am Chem, Am Can, Anaconda, Bethlehem Steel, Briggs, Chrysler, Edison, Consol Oil, Du Pont, Eastman Kodak, Ford Motor, General Motors, IBM, Kellogg, Lowes, Packard, Penn RR, Southern Pacific, US Steel, Woolworth, and Texaco among others. The list resembles a market snapshot or index of principal firms across industries. No narrative events are provided.
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Anaconda
FAU Refining
Bald Loco Ct Balt
Ohio
Bendix Aviat
Beth Steel Briggs Mig Burr Add Mach
Canad Pacific
Cerro de Pas Ches
Chrysler Corp
Column
el Coml
Cons Edison
Consol Oil Caron Products
Crane Co
del Lack
West Douaglas
Aircraft
du Pont de N
Eastman Kodak
el Auto Lite
Erec
Gen Fonds
Gen Motors Gen
Gillette
Hard-Walker
Hudson Motor
Int Harvester Int
Nick Can
Tel
Kellnecott Cop Kresge
Leh Val RA Loews Inc
Mack Trucks
Monigom Ward Nash
Kelvinator
Nat Biscuit Nat Dairy Pr
Nat Distillers
NY Central RR
North Ameria Packard Motor Penn RR Phillips Pet Pub
Sve
NJ Radio Corp of Am
Repab Steel Reynolds Tob
Sears Roebuck
Socony- Vacuum
Southern Pacific
Southern Ry Sperry Corp
Cal Stand Oil
Ind Stand Oil NJ Studebaker Corp
Texas Corp
Timken Roll
Transamerica
United Aircraft
United Corp
United Gas Imp US
US Rubber US Steel Vanadium Corp West
Mia Woolworth
IFW
Cure Ark Nat Gas
Pannroyd Corp
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Moorhead
Pibiana'e Labgnc Oi
Finest Men's Store
Lockard
SheMeld Farms, Inc
Triumph
Barrowine Furness
England
Central
the Treasury
Helvetia Group For
Pershing
Rome
Charles Kodman
Pauline Kodman
Elias Myers
Ronald Stout
New York Zoo
Belle
Pennieless
WPA
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