Senate debates two thirds vote plan on court powers
Senator Norris proposed constitutional amendments to curb federal judges and limit life tenure to nine years as part of a broader push against the Roosevelt judiciary bill. Democratic opponents discuss possible amendments and timetable for resuming testimony as hearings continue. Wheeler requests delay for fresh data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashimpton
Norris
Ind-Neb
Senate
Supreme Court
van Nuys
D-Ind
Jon
Wheeler
D-Mont
Gether
Congress
King
Utah
Chicago
Columbia Broadcasting Company
New York
Capitol
Ashurst
D-Ariz
Judiciary Committee
Administration
Senator Glass
D-Va
Roosevelt
Forest Tree Plantations Near Clymer Inspect Nurseries and Plantations
Planters visited the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corp forest tree nursery near Clymer and nearby plantations. The spring sale will offer nearly two million evergreen seedlings, led by Scotch Pine Red Pine Pitch Pine White Pine Norway Spruce Hemlock Banks Pine and Austrian Pine. Young plantations eleven years old stand ten to twenty feet high and growing rapidly on thin soil suited to reforestation. The C B C nursery is Pennsylvania’s largest commercial forest tree nursery. Forester W W Simonds of Penn State urged pruning about 100 trees per acre to favor the best timber in a mature stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation Forest Tree Nursery
Clymar
C. B.C. Nursery
Pennsylvaniia
W. W. Simonds
Penn State
Father Carlin Speaker Here at Blairsville Event
The Blairsville Holy Name Society hosted a talk led by Father Carlin with remarks from J. Charles Short, president, and Thomas Sheehe as chairman. Other speakers included Rev. James Brady of St. Bernard's and M. J. Sullivan, grand insight of Father McNelis Council Knights of Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Charles . Short
Blairsville
Holy Name Society
Thomas Sheehe
James Brady
St. Bernard's
M. J. “Sullivan
Father McNelis
Knights of Columbus
Big Steel and the Labor Split of 1919 1920s
A history of the Carnegie era steel struggle and its 1919 comeback attempt led by the American Federation of Labor. The effort failed after three and a half months and $400,000, giving way to John L. Lewis and a split from William Green. Lewis formed a broad industrial union movement, suspending leaders and reshaping labor organization in the steel and mining sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Carnegie
U. S. Steel Corporation
American Federation of Labor
American Federation of Innors
National ‘Committee
Iron and Steel Workers
John L. Lewis
William Green
Committee
Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Green
Steel workers rally as Murray leads UMWA drive
A union steering coalition led by Murray with Fairless held talks amid a 200000 strong steel workers following. A scale committee from Carnegie-Illinois plants drafted demands including 10 day dismissals seniority rights two weeks paid vacation and equal pay for similar work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steel Workers
Murray
U.M.W.A
Fairless
Carnegie-Illinois
Fairlose
F. W. Bohne
Joint General Council of Pittsburgh
Wage Increases Raise Pay Across Major Industries
Chicago wage gains touch steel and packers, utilities, mining and farming firms. Big four packers plus firms like International Harvester and Timken lift salaries, boosting annual payroll by tens of millions. Mining and fruit and vegetable labor also see notable raises, with totals approaching $168 million for 925 thousand workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
National Tube
Pittsburgh
Columbia
Otia
Sharon
Lukens
Reading
American Rolling Milla
United States
Jones and Laughlin
An Welli Ag
Swift, Armour, Wilson and Cudahy
Howmet Company
Houston Packing Co
Timken Roller Bearing Company
International Harvester Company
John Deere and Company
Moline
Ill
Hercules Motors Corp
Hoover Co
Gardner Denver Company
Quincy
Denver
Colo
la Grange, Co
Minnesota
Upper Michigan
Wisconsin
California
Western Electric Company
Cicero, I
Chicago
Sanute
Acquittal unlikely in Monaghan death case details
Legal narration centers on conviction of Gunderman for second degree murder after self defense claim. Justice Maxey questions witnesses about cries for mercy as trial exposes alleged coercion and earlier questioning of Monaghan. Margiotti and Duggan present closing arguments on aiding and abetting theory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
Monaghan
Frank C. Monaghan
Commonwealth
Stacy Gunderman
Gunderman
Sainte
Frank Monaghan
Bertitlon
Charles J. Margiotti
John Duggan, Jr
Sanate
Price
Penitentiary Terms In Drunken Driving Cases
Robert Frampton of Falls Creek and Mrs Frampton with Constance Grant of San Francisco faced sentences while Arthur paid restitution after pleading not guilty amid admitting drinks prior to the crash. Judge Creps noted luck spared other passengers serious injury. Mike Sabol of Creekside was fined 200 and costs and jailed 9 to 18 months for DUI after night driving through closed streets. Anveco Baronni Pasquini Baronni of Aultman paid 125 and costs for liquor law violations, Luther Poreas and Anna Pinkett of Coral fined 50 and costs for liquor control act breach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Frampton
Falls Creek
Frampton
Constance Grant
San Francisco
Arthur
Creps
Mike Sabol
Creekside
Kelley
South Fourth Street
East Church Street
Sabor
Indiana County
Anveco Baronni
Pasquini Baronni
Aultman
Nine hurt in county collision and labor dispute
A county page reports two incidents. A Reed driven car collided with the Greene vehicle injuring three passengers at a Route 58 22 intersection near Armagh. Emmet Hodges Wayne Halstead and Miles Campbell also appear in separate unrelated reports about injuries and labor strife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. W. McClusky
Alexander Reed
Derry
Greene’s
Ralph Greene
Reed
Armagh
Emmet Hodges
Wayne Halstead
Hernshaw
W. Vai
Lee Hospital
Johns
Roosevelt Beats Deadline At Pine Mountain Ga
President Roosevelt sent his full tax return to Atlanta by daily mail after completing the process at his Pine Mountain vacation home. He and his wife’s income from lectures writing and broadcasting largely goes to charity. After the tax, he planned visits to a rural resettlement project and a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Chipley Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warm Springs
Marth
Roosevelt
White House
Pine Mountain
Atlanta
North
Civilian Conservation, Corps
Chipley
Highway Collisions and Fatalities Across Pennsylvania Roads
A string of winter traffic mishaps across multiple counties describes wrecks from Indiana to Philadelphia. Hodges faces $10 fines for reckless driving after a collision near Graceton. several other drivers escape injury while cars and trucks sustain major damage. The report also lists numerous fatalities and cold weather crashes, including drownings and a wall collapse in Greensburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. B. McDonough
West Virginia
State College
Campbell
Pittsburgh
Hodges
McDonough
Justice of the Peace
J. W. Gordon
Grid Hodges
Luther Lewis
Indiana
Margaret White
RD. 3
Toronton
Graceton
Corp
John Kwishek
Blairsville
R. D
Vernon H. Adams
Boston
Mass
S. R. Davidson
Hallan A. Lemon
Saltsburg
RD. 2
B. W. McClusky
Paul Schultz
DuBois
Schulz
Lemon
J. Williams
Mark 'Telk
Johnstown
Williams
Davidson
Oiate
Pennsylvania
Howard Messner
Ephrata
Lancaster County
Greensburg
John McCaulley
Jeannette
Oxford
Ernest McCummings
Sylmar
Howard Paxson
New London
McDonald
Frank Rosella
Washington County
Canonsburg
E. E. McCartney
Murry Hill
Lancaster
Benjamin Clark
Kinzers
Harrisburg
Thomas O. Romerger
Waynesburg
James Marsh
Perry
Scranton
Jacob Kejper
Pair convicted of murder seek new trial in death penalty case
A couple convicted of first degree murder, with no mercy recommended, return to court for a new trial while awaiting execution. The county jail reports they admitted striking the fatal blows to a child during the April 21 incident. Sheriff George Wolf accompanies them as the Governor sets the death date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Wolf
Commonwealth
Robert J. Pyderbaugh
Lockard
Puderbaugh
Lopkard
Sonny Reais
Matthew Barmend
Oeily
Major Companies Listed in Stock Market Ticker
A dense roster of major corporations spans energy autos steel and consumer goods. Firms include Aloca Am Can Am Com Alco Dow Jones peers Beside banks airlines and utilities the list features Chrysler Coca Cola General Electric General Motors IBM and many others reflecting a broad market snapshot of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alco
Atv
Anaconda
Atch
T and
Atl
Refin
Balt
Ohio
Bendix Aviat
Beth
Pe Briggs Mig
Budd Wheel
Burr Ad Mach
Calumet
Hee Canad Pac
Cerro de Pas
Chrysler Coca-Cola Com
Crane
del Lack
Douglas Aire du Pont de N
Eastman Kod
el Auto
Elec
Gen Foods
Gillette
Hershey Choc Hudson
Int Harvest
Nick Can
Tel
Kennecott Kresge
Leh Val RR
Loews
Mack Trucks
Montgom Ward Nash-Kelv
Nat Biscuit
Nat Dairy Pr
Nat Distill
North Am Packard
Penn ‘Rr
Phillips Pet Pup
Repub
Sears Rock Socony-Vacuum
Studebaker Texas Corp
Trme
Transamerica Unit
Aire Corp
United Gas Imp US Indus Alco US Rubber US Smelt
US Steel
Vanadium West UN Tet West
el and M
Woolworth
Curb— Ark Nat Gas A Cities Service Electric Bond
Pennroad Corp Ie SS
Obituary notices for Hawxhurst Cook and Huston families
Obituaries report the death of Diana Hawxhurst and Malcolm Hawxhurst with funeral details at Wayne Avenue extension and Greenwood Cemetery. Additional notices detail Joan Burdett Cook’s death at 59 at her daughter’s home in Indiana and Margaret Matthews Huston’s death at 76 in Bolivar after eight days with pneumonia, listing survivors and service arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diana
Malcolm Hawxhurst
Annie C. Chrisman
Valley Stream
Ila
Alanson W. Hawxhurst
Indiana
Margery Belle Lucas
Willard Arden
Robert David Hawxhurst
Wayne Avenue
Holt Hughes
Greenwood Cemeery
Joan Burdett Cook
Raymond St. Clair
Washington Street
Cookport
Indiana County
Andrew
Rachel
McGuire) Cook
Claire
Learn) Cook
Floyd Cook
Portage
Paul Cook
Johnstown
Vernon Cook
Jay Cool
Harry Thompson
Richmond
St. Clair
John McAdoo
Mariggn Center
Zens Fisher
John W. Kennedy
First Regular Baptist Church of
Margaret (Matthews) Buston
Thomas M. Huston
Bolivar
Westmoreland County
Mra Huston
Relief caseloads dip as week ends in March across counties
Direct relief figures for the week ending March 6 show a total of 163,644 cases affecting 4,618 persons with a net decrease in 21 counties and increases in 40. Philadelphia County records a 439 case rise, while Lehigh reports the largest decline at 85 cases. Indiana County notes 80 new relief applications bringing total cases to 1,031 and 4,232 people. Expenditures reach 1,198,645 dollars, up 5,807.30 from the prior week, with 59 new cases opened and 36 closed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marel Pengaylvania
Philadelphia County
Lehigh County
Indiana County
Markets Pittsburgh March 15 Hog Cattle and Poultry Prices
Market notes list hogs at 9.00 to 11.50 per hundredweight with various weight brackets, sows down to 9.50, cattle with steers 8.50 to 9.75 and heifers 8.25, calves at 11.00 to 11.50, lambs 12.75, and pork and poultry quotations across several classes. Also includes potatoes, butter, cheese, and eggs price ranges and regional variety items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Starks
Pennsylvania
Rome
Florida
Bliss
New York
Thefts Cleared Through Arrest
Police say a man cut the glass of a shop front door and stole a clock seal tobacco coffee cartridges for a .25 pistol. The articles and the pistol were recovered at his home. he admitted entering Dr C W Rink’s dental office via skeleton key and stealing gold sold for $30, and breaking into Lucy Claws store on North Fourth Street last October taking $20 and a watch. He allegedly tried to rob the Clawson store again on Christmas night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Rink
Farmess Bank
Lucy Clawson
North Fourth Street
Earle Holds Key To Must Legislation Controversy
Governor Earle faced challenges reconciling elements of his plan prompting protests from West Fairfield township. The page also records the marriage of Miss Margaret Matthews to Edgar Huston on December 17, 1865 and Huston’s death in 1932 with funeral arrangements and burial at the Bolivar church cemetery in West Fairfield township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cowanshannock Township
Armstrong County
Daniel
Rebecca
Lukehart) Whitacre
103Rd
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Anna McGaughey
Cozad
Nebraskat
D. C. Whitacre
Dayton
Walter Whita
Clarence Arthur Helman
White Township
Robinson Funeral Home
H. A. Markell
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Grove Chapel
Abraham I
Jane (Byers) Helman
Florence O'Hearn
Gertrude Altman
Indiana
Carrie Wadding
Thelmastoker
Philadelphia
Harry Helman
Donald Helman
Blairsville
West Fairfield Township
Joseph
Elizabeth (McElivoy) Matthews
Margaret Matthews
Edgar Huston
A. H. Vincen
United Presbyterian Church
Ligonier
Mra
Huston
Clyde Br, Huston
Fayette City
W. H. Matthews
Also Mentioned on This Page
Father Carlin
John Woods
Westinghouse Pittsburgh
United Electrical Land Radio Workers Union
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Ciet
Goodrich
Herbert F. Goodrich
Grounty
Goodrich’ Committee
Earle
Joint Committee of
Pwh
Public Service Commission
House Utilities Committee
Wes
John Metcalfe
Westinghouse
Stike
Sighless
Pennsylvania Association For the Blind
Association
Charles McLaughlin
Moorhead
Isanate
H. FB. Latimer
Mest Cutters
Packard
Wpmen
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