Earle Ends Cabinet Rift As CIO Divides Gubernatorial Fight
Harrisburg scenes shift as Governor Earle endorses Charles Iaint Jones for governor amid CIO backing questions. Kennedy forces weigh future moves while Margiotti reassures support and Ed De Witt backs the Kennedy slate. Pinchot pushes taxation critique in bid for GOP nomination alongside Judge James and John J. McClure rallying support in Scranton.
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Harrisburg
Earle
CIO
Overnor
Charles Iaint Jones
Edward N. Jones
Thomas Kennedy
Jones
Kennedy
Charles J. Margiotti
Privad
LPHIA
Fovernor Pinchot
Forwar
Repulican
Pinch
Arthur H. James
Fred K. Derby
Scranton
James
Pennsylvania
John J. McClure
Delaware County
Reublican
Superior Court
Work Week Law Faces Legal Challenge in Kane County
Officials wrestle with a contested work week statute seen as unconstitutional and applied amid ongoing suits. Holgate Manufacturing and more than ten firms sought exemptions during a grace period. Judge Hargest notes potential widespread litigation and uncertainty for employers while Judge Sheely pauses enforcement pending court decisions.
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Holgate Manufacturing Couny
Kane
Labor and Industry
Holp
William M. Hargest
Roosevelt Declines Support for Immediate Rail Wage Cut
Washington reports President Roosevelt suggested a wage cut for railroad workers is inadvisable at present. He said he had not considered that angle and, off-hand, would say a wage cut is not advisable. The briefing notes outline railroad consolidation plans and a federal agency to push reorganizations, with a committee led by I C C Chairman Splawn to propose actions to Congress within weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Chicago
W. M. W. Splawn
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Splawn
Joseph B. Eastman
Charles D. Mahaftie
Bombing of Barcelona Continues Amid Citywide Fear
Bombers pounded the city in two raids leaving officials counting 50 dead and 100 wounded. Insurgent planes dropped leaflets promising ongoing attacks every few hours. Hospitals near the suburbs faced wreckage as battles raged through Tarragona and San Vincente, while residents sheltered in subways and streets crowded with smoke and fear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barcelona
Tarragona
San Vincente
Mediterranean
Obituary notices for William Albert St. Clair and Charles Morganti
William Albert St. Clair, 19 months, son of Raymond and Grace Cook St. Clair, died of pneumonia. Funeral at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at 1198 Washington Street, Rev. John W. Kennedy presiding. interment Oakland Cemetery. Born July 28, 1938. Survives: parents, two sisters, two brothers, grandfather Samuel St. Clair of Homer City. Charles Morganti, 74, died of uremic poisoning at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at 348 Oak Street. Resident in Indiana 17 years. member of St. Bernard Catholic Church. Survived by children Philip, Richard, Albert, Frank, John Morganti, Miss Jennie Morganti in Italy. Funeral 2 p.m. Sunday at his residence. interment St. Bernard Cemetery.
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William Albert
Raymond
Grace
Cook) St. Clair
Washington Street
John W. Kennedy
First Regular Baptist Church
Oakland
Helen
Louise
Kenneth
Samuel St. Clair
Homer City
Charles Morganti
Oak Street
Indiana
St. Bernard Catholic
Morganti
Philip Morganti
Richard
Albert Morganti
Frank
John Morganti
New York
Jennie Morganti
Italy
St. Bernard Cemetery
House Debates Fleet Increase and War Referendum
Senate Democrat Pitiman derides Litvinoff plan as futile while Hull’s National Press Club remarks signal opposition. Critics say a war referendum would cripple government in war, provoking cross party tension over neutrality and executive power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlion
Maxin Litvinoff
Pitiman
D-Nev
Congress
Putman
Hull
National Press Club
Litvindlt
Ower
Jobless barber held for theft in Saltsburg case
Clifford Baker twenty eight of Pittsburgh was jailed in Indiana County on one charge of stealing an automobile in Saltsburg. Arrested on Route 80 in Allegheny County by state police after hitchhiking from Pittsburgh in search of work as a barber he confessed taking the car owned by James T. Stewart of Saltsburg and was captured before reaching Indiana. The vehicle was returned to the owner. Baker had been released from a West Virginia prison eleven months earlier following a three year sentence for automobile theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana County
Saltsburg
Clifford Baker
Pittsburgh
Baker
C. E. Loughner
Harry G. Wagner
Pennsylvania Motor Police
Route 80
Allegheny County
Indiana
James T. Stewart
C. F. Rugh
H. C. Armstrong
West Virginia
Germans March on Memel in Polish Lithuanian Crisis
German government sources declined to discuss Memel while suggesting Poland's insistence on normal relations with Lithuania justifies restoring diplomatic ties severed after Poland seized Wilno in 1920. Hitler prepared for a Reichstag address in Vienna era to discuss broader borders and potential Memel bargaining.
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Memel
Poland
Lithuania
Wilno
Vilna
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Reichstag
Kroll Opera House
Austria
Hitler
Vienna
Fuehrer
Linz
Gdynia
Germany
East Prussia
Hull’s Policy Blueprint Warily Outlined by Observers
Observers linked Hull’s speech to a foreign policy plan stressing a strong navy and army to protect American rights, consultation with Britain and France without alliances, no recognition of Russia under Germany or Manchukuo, economic openness, condemnation of treaty violations, and a steadfast presence abroad to protect American interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark
D-Mo
Hull
State Department
Great Britain
France
Russia
Germany
Manchoukuo
Crisis Tests Berlin Rome Axis As Lithuania Crisis Deepens
Warsaw and Kaunas seek peace while Germany and Italy drift toward a possible alliance. Poland warns Lithuania over Wilna and a border clash fuels a broader settlement demand. Hitler schedules Reichstag with Austria annexation drift and Goering proclaims the four year plan extension as Europe faces a tense moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Kaunas
DNB
Poland
Estonia
Latvia
Raunas
Wilna
Lithuania
Europe
Rome
Berlin
Fuehrer
Hitler
Reichstag
Austria
South Tyrol
Italy
Carinthia
Schuachnigg
Schuschnigg
Chamberlain Weighs Policy As War Tension Grows
The British premier faces Cabinet strain over a pledge to aid Czechoslovakia against Nazi aggression. He weighs a brisk League of Nations move versus a sit tight approach while monitoring Moscow’s calls for general consultation and cabinet unity.
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Chamberlain
League of Nations Council
Britain
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Europe
Oust Whitney From Exchange
New York March 18 Richard Whitney bankrupt broker awaiting sentence on two grand larceny charges pled guilty was expelled from the New York Stock Exchange today. The expulsion order was voted by the governing committee and read at the opening by Charles RA Gay who succeeded Whitney as exchange president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
iPr
Richard Whitney
New York Stock Exchange
Charles RA. Gay
Whitney
Cornetist Fulfills Pact With Dead in Reading Ceremony
March day crowds gathered on Neversing Mountain as 73-year-old Alvah Schaeffer kept a 10-year pact with Tom Hannahoe by playing two melodies at Hannahoe's grave. A younger musician played while Schaeffer listened, lasting tradition amid concerns over cemetery access and aging hands.
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Reading
Neversing Mountain
Alvah Schaeffer
The
Stars and Stripes
Schaeffer
Tom Hannahoe
Irishtown
Hannahoe
St. Patrick's
Schueffer
Tom
State Police Had Busy Year In 1937
Pennsylvania state police recovered 74074 dollars worth of stolen goods from July to December and saw more arrests in the criminal investigation department. In the second half of 1937 the force made 4675 arrests, led by 1288 larceny and burglary offenders, including 65 homicide cages. The department logged 1,634,658 miles traveled and 32328 requests for assistance, with 18176 investigations and 76 stolen automobiles recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
P. W. Foote
Criminal Investigation Department
Death by own action in dynamite cap incident at Crosby
Deputy Coroner George P. Lull ruled Carl F. Bond a sixty six year old PWA worker died from an explosion after biting a dynamite cap. Bond was found at his Crosby home eighteen miles south of Bradford, with investigators believing he had been dead about three days.
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Bradford
George P. Lull
Carl F. Bond
PWA
Lull
Bond
Crosby
Here
Claims Pay for Ants Biting Him
John Burkhardt of Brad dock won $223.30 from the state workmen's compensation board after an on the job lunch incident where he sat among a colony of man eating ants. He was bitten badly and could not work for 15 weeks. the award covered $59.50 hospital expenses.
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Pittsburgh
John Burkhardt
Suburban
Braddock
Workmen's Compensation Board
Burkhardt
Two Percent Tax Question From Philadelphia Buyer
A Philadelphia resident questions the new two per cent sales tax on a nonfood purchase. He asks if a beefsteak bought with a black eye qualifies for exemption while the butcher is unsure. The story also notes a Democratic Club meeting at 8 pm in the Deposit Bank building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Democratic Club
Deposit Bank
Foreigners Die in Spain Amid Caspe Capture
Reports from Hendaye claim 2000 government soldiers were killed as Francoist insurgents captured Caspe 47 miles from the eastern coast. Rebels report advances along Caspe to the Mediterranean and say French prisoners were taken. Alcorisa fell, giving insurgents control of the Montalban Alcaniz highway guarded by new villages southeast of the road.
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Caspe
Hendaye
France
Francisco Franco
Mediterranean
Spain
Burgos
Europe
Alcorisa
Montalban
Alcaniz
pBatwe, Molinos and
Castelseras
Montalban-Alcaniz Road
Market Roundup of Major Industrial Stocks and Utilities
The page lists a wide array of companies across industry groups from chemicals and refining to autos and steel. Entries include Anaconda, Am Can, Am Tel and Te, Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler, Gen Motors, Du Pont, Eastman Kodak, IBM, Packard, Penn RR, Reading Co, Sears Roebuck, US Steel, and Woolworth, with percentage values indicating performance or yield. The list also features utilities and oil majors such as Stand Oil Cal, Pure Oil, Consol Oil, Southern Pacific, and Texaco style entries, reflecting a dense snapshot of the stock market landscape and investor sentiment for the period.
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Atch T
Atl Refining
Balt
Ohio
Bendix Agiat
Beth Stec
Beth Steel
Pettyty Briggs Mig
Calumet and Hee
Canad Pacific
Cerro de Prs
Chrysler Corp
Cons Edison
Consol Oil
Crane Co
del Lack and
West
Douglas Aircraft
du Pont de N
Eastman Kodak
Elec
Gen Foods
Gen Motors
Gillette Oly
Nick Can
Kennecott
Kresge
Leh Val RR
Liggett and Myers An Loew's Inc
Mack Trucks
Monigom Ward
Nash-Kelvinator
Phila Read
Sty Phillips Pet
Pure Oil
It Radio Corp of
Aim & Reading Co
Repub Steel
Reynolds Tob
Sears Roebuck
Socony-Vacuum
Southern Pacific
Southern Ryaly Sperry Corp
My Stand Gas
Cal
Oi Ind
Stand Oil NJ
Studebaker Corp
Texas Corp
Timken Roll
Transamerica
Men in White Masks Rob Germantown Bank
Four armed men robbed the Germantown Trust Company branch in Philadelphia forcing customers and clerks to the floor. They fled with bags of money after firing four shots at a pursuing officer.
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Philadelphia
Germantown
Germantown Trust Company
Honda
Rand
Joseph Oats
Nanty Wills
Roland Carnathan
Record-auto license total hits new Pennsylvania high
Harrisburg March 18 Pennsylvania reports a record total 2,232,349 auto driver licenses issued. Secretary J. Griffith Boardman says this is 202,822 above the 1887 figure for the date. Four thousand applicants were denied under the Financial Responsibility Act for past highway accidents with damages over 100 dollars. they must disprove the claim or show future financial responsibility of 11,000 dollars with cash, a surety bond, or insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Secretary of Revenue
J. Griffith Boardman
Treasury balance and receipts report
Washington report lists Treasury position March 16 with receipts of 276,028,829.66 and expenditures of 251,311,269.08, leaving a balance of 3,146,372,112.85. Customs receipts for the month amount to 13,739,553.51.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
the Treasury
Produce and livestock markets reports from Pittsburgh and Chicago
Pittsburgh markets show moderate demand for produce with apples and potatoes largely steady and various regional prices listed. Hogs and cattle movement mixed with direct sales influencing values. veal and lamb quotes noted amid general steadiness. Chicago wheat and corn futures surged early on political tensions, with May and July contracts posting gains after opening weaker.
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Pittsburgh
New York
Baldwins
Pennsylvania
Rome
Florida Bliss
Chicago
Lithuae
Nian
Local College Weather Report Shows Cooler Dry Day
Generally fair and colder today with increasing cloudiness and showers tomorrow. Temperature at 8 a.m. 40 degrees, yesterday's max 51 and min 48 above zero. Rain in period 61 inch. Barometric pressure yesterday 28.8.
Gasoline tax yield shows double digit rise
Receipts from the Liquid Fuels Tax for the fiscal year to March 1 totalled $33,458,074.88, Secretary of Revenue J. Griffith Boardman reported. The figure marks a 12.9 percent rise or $3,453,325.22 over the same period last year. In addition to the regular liquid fuel tax, $10,720,079.18 was collected from the gasoline tax for unemployment relief.
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J. Griffith Boardman
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Margiotti and
Shaw
Pinchot
McClure
Edith B. de ‘Witt
Democratic State Committee
Welfare
Edith MacBride-Dexter
J. Shaw
Commodore
Moorhead
Pege Que
Ned Kelly
Twister
Blytheville
Ark
Arkansas
Mississippi Diyer
Marshal Goering
Cornetist
Shanghai
Mendel
Treasury
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