Carburetor icing blamed for Cavalier disaster
Wing Commander Vernon Brown announced that carburetor trouble caused by icing led to the January 2 loss of the Imperial Airways flying boat Cavalier southeast of Long Island. Eight passengers and five crew. two passengers and one crew member died. Survivors were rescued after about ten hours in the sea. The report urged equipment to heat incoming air to carburetors and for passengers to be strapped during takeoff and landing.
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Imperial Airways
Cavalier
Vernon Brown
British Air Ministry
Brown
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Long Island
New York
Bermuda
Tive
Ephis
M. R. Alderson
Neil Richardson
Donald Miller
John Noakes
R. Spence
Standard Oil Company
Baytown
Europe Tension as Mussolini Expected to Speak
European politics intensify as Premier Mussolini prepares an address that may press France for African colonies. The era’s power dynamics see Hitler expanding influence by absorbing Czecho-Slovakia, reclaiming Memelland, and aligning with Romania to push toward the Black Sea. The British government meanwhile slows its push to form a broader alliance.
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Mussolini
France
Africa
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Czecho-Slovakia
Memelland
Lithuania
Black Sea
Romania
Not Far Apart on Flood Control Says State and Federal Officials
State and federal spokesmen reached a middle ground on flood control funding and water ownership. G Alber Stewart argued the dispute centers on waters rather than lands and criticized federal insistence on surrendering water resources for projects. Col Cavell of the Army Engineers said the agencies are close and that four of nine dams in Western Pennsylvania are already approved with a fifth on the Youghlogheny River planned for May.
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Pittsburgh
G. Alber
Stewart
Sfaldés
Tavel
W. BR. Cavell
U. S. Army Engineers
Powers Seek Anti-Hitler Bloc as Poland Quiets Aims
Four power talks on Germany with France Soviet Russia and Poland show Poland leaning away from confrontation near borders. Britain ponders triple entente with France and Russia and a separate Polish accord on military aid. Chamberlain delays bloc moves until Mussolini speaks. Dalladier to address France next week with wide broadcast plans. Opposition press urges faster unity and some French sources doubt a formal declaration is ready.
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Security policy clash on parity payments to farmers
Economy advocates pressed to drop the $250,000,000 parity payments provision aimed at restoring farmers buying power to prewar levels. The proposal was not included in President Roosevelt's program, signaling a policy still unsettled as pages continued from page one.
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Roosevelt
Obituary notices for Wieneke Moorhead Trimble in Saltsburg area
Obituary notices report Herman C M Wieneke dying after illness at 76 in Saltsburg with Danish birth and 49 years in town, longtime glassworker and weighmaster for Keystone Coal Co., survived by widow Alwina K Wieneke and multiple children. services set at Robinson Funeral Home with burial at Edgewood Cemetery. Also notices for Thelma E Moorhead and Anthony Trimble list home receptions, church services, and interment details in local cemeteries.
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M. Wieneke
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Saltsburg
Denmark
Salteburg
Keystone Coal Co
Moo
Ween
St. John's Luther
Charles Sinclair Applegath
D. D
Greenwood Cemetery
Anthony Trimble
Creekside
Assumption Catholic Church
Ernest
Emilio Furn
Bernard
Iudigia
Canal Group Seeks Funds for Erie Ohio Canal Plan
A coalition from 22 Ohio and Pennsylvania cities formed the Mahoning Shenango Grand Rivers Improvement Association in Youngstown to urge immediate federal funding for the proposed 200 million dollar Laker Erie Ohio river canal. J C Argetsinger, vice president of Youngstown Sheet and Tube, was named to press the House Rivers and Harbors Committee, with J E Ben Helt as president and several district vice presidents named from nearby towns.
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Mahoning
Shenango
Avgetsinger
Relief funds split as debate over WPA budget grows
Lawmakers clash over Roosevelt’s request for 150 million to run the WPA through July 1. Sabath appeals for rural support while Tarver denounces horse trading. Senate split expected between administration and economy camps as a House subcommittee weighs cuts to 125 or 100 million. New York students mocked for mispronunciation.
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Iouse Rules Committee
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D-Ga
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Colo
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Huse
James Directs Collection Aid in Bankruptcy Rural Tax Relief
Harrisburg March 25 Governor James directed the attorney general to assist municipalities in collecting delinquent taxes from bankrupt coal companies. A House resolution urged state intervention in proceedings under the federal bankruptcy act to recover back taxes from coal and other corporations seeking reorganization.
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James
House
Ivan C. Watkins
Ur-Sehuylisik
Schuylkill County
Rerson
Delaware River Commission
Pennsylvania Federation of Teachers
Highway Department
Claude T. Reng
Del
Aware River Commission
Earle
Manhunt Continues After Bank Robbery and Shootout
Durand loomed into a bank, ordered staff to line up, grabbed 2000 to 3000 dollars, then opened fire. He tied three workers with a rawhide thong, shot at windows, and after a brief fight collapsed and killed himself. The incident followed with a separate report from Berne noting Swiss frontier wine controls as a precaution.
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W. W. Durand
Bol Nelson
Durand
Nelson
Gawthrop
Maurice Knutson
Knutson
Sheriff Aubrey Wins Acquittal in Embezzlement Case
Uniontown Pa March 25 A Fayette County jury found insufficient evidence of embezzlement against Sheriff Thomas R Aubrey acquitting him of charges tied to alleged misappropriation of about 30 000 while he served as county treasurer from 1931 to 1935. The defense challenged the use of documentary evidence and raised exceptions to remarks by Judge H S Dumbauld during the trial.
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Uniontown
Fayette County
Thomas R. Aubrey
Aubrey
H. S. Dumbauld
Woman Steel Seller Weds Woman Steel Seller
Chicago reports the marriage of Jean O Haver Shasvere, famed as the United States only woman steel salesman, to Fred I Mills of Robinson HL. The 54 year old, who once sold structural steel for the Chicago Merchandise Mart, plans to retire from competition and settle in a small town home and garden.
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Chicago
Jean O'Haver Shasvere
United States
Chicago Merchandise Mart
Fred I. Mills, Robinson
Relief winner in Irish Hospital Sweepstakes in Philadelphia
Pearl Mason, a 38 year old Philadelphia woman on relief for six years, won about 150000 in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes.State officials said about 4000 would be taken as recompense for the relief money already collected at 14.80 a week, as her two children and friends watched.
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Philadelphia
Pearl Mason
Spring Arrives as Thunber Cutters Work on White Ash
Youngsters note spring by activity of Thunber cutters cutting White Ash trees. They are sawing the timber into bat sections for shipment to a baseball bat manufacturer. Local scene captures season onset with woodwork for sports equipment.
Cabinet Aides to Address Public in State Radio Series
Pennsylvania Governor Arthur H. James announced a statewide radio series where cabinet members and other administration leaders will discuss state problems starting April 6. Secretary of Highways Lamont Hughes will open, detailing highway department conditions and plans. the governor will participate later.
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Lamont Hughes
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Hughes
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Ernest Hipple
Sullivan County
Ball
Democrats Scan Likely Candidate for Four Appellate Seats
Democratic state leaders study lists of judges and lawyers to pick candidates for four appellate seats in the 1939 off year election. Republicans hold all four current posts. primary ballots on September 12 will determine nominations for Supreme and Superior Court seats with several Philadelphia Pittsburgh Cambria County and Erie figures among the named contenders.
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Supreme Court
Superior Court
William H. Keller
Lancaster
Thomas Baldridge
Hollidaysburg
William £. Hirt
Erie
Hirt
James
John W. Kephart
Curtis Bok
Philadelphia
Ralph Smith
Pittsburgh
John McCann
Cambria County
Michael J. Musmanno
Guy K. Bard
Herbert B. Cohen
Noise Is Relative Says Industrial Physicist
Dr. Ernest J. Abbott of Ann Arbor, Michigan, told the third annual Conference on Industrial Physics at the University of Pittsburgh that noise is relative. One man's squeak can be another's purr and only noises deemed unnecessary bother people. He noted carpet sweeper hums that drive engineers may not affect juries. Industrial physicists attended the meeting.
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Ernest J. Abbott
Ann Arbor
Mich
University of Pittsburgh
Abbott
Markets Mixed as Wheat Holds Steady in Light Chicago Trade
Wheat prices were near steady in light early Chicago trading amid firm Liverpool quotes and European political jitters, with rains hitting the domestic winter belt and May and July futures hovering around 6.74 a bushel. In Pittsburgh, salable hogs and cattle remained comparatively steady with some declines, veal prices slipping, and limited sheep availability. Produce demand was slow in Pittsburgh with fruit and vegetable quotes showing modest steadying, including apples, potatoes, and regional varieties in several price ranges.
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Liverpool
Food aid reaches eight million pounds in February
Harrisburg reporters say relief officials distributed more than 8,000,000 pounds of federal foodstuffs to ten families on Pennsylvania's aid rolls in February. Distribution runs through 14 district warehouses with WPA labor. A Detroit patient’s death certificate was signed in error while relatives had already collected his life insurance.
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Detroit
Recall proposal leads in Pennsylvania election code changes
Barrisburg March 26 proposed changes in the state election code include a recall of elected officers after one year, requiring 45 percent of governor’s last vote to trigger a special election. The measure would let the officer serve until results, then bar further recalls. Other changes aim to remove filing fees for nomination petitions and curb cross party nominations, with added duties for county election board counsels.
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General Assembly
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Leydic
Allegheny Republican
Andrews Cambria Democrat
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Slayer awaits execution as pardon delays death warrant
In Hollidaysburg Warden Maurice Hamilton calls prisoner Lockard a model inmate as a pardon board action delays the execution set for January 9 1937. Lockard asks to return to baseball and says he will keep his chin up while awaiting death. In Muncy Margaret Karmendi, mother of the infant killed by Roy Lockard, will not be told of his fate. She faces a second degree murder conviction after a long legal fight.
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Lockard
Pardon Board
George H. Earle
Muncy
Margaret Karmendi
Roy Lockard
Wally
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