Maloney Appointed World Coal Company Manager
Robert Maloney of Jefferson County, a noted mining expert, has accepted the position of world coal properties manager for the British Empire Steel Corporation. He will base at Sidney Nova Scotia, overseeing a company producing over 6 000 000 tons annually. Previously he led Adrian mine for Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal and later Indiana County operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Maloney
Jeffon County
British Empire Steel Corporation
Sidney
Nova Scotia
Maloney
Adrian
Rochester
Pittsburgh
Indiana County
Davis Coal and Coke Company
A. W. Calloway
Haseen
A. L. Light
Panxatitawney
West
Alumni Luncheon and Reception for Western Pennsylvania Graduates
Alumni and other Western Pennsylvania residents prominent in various professions attend a 12:30 luncheon. A general reception in the adjacent hall will host graduates from 1876 to 1930 in an informal gathering to reminisce about Dear Old Normal days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Taxi Meter Records Long New York to Pittsburg Ride
A taxi driver recalls a long ride chasing a woman who vanished through a hotel side door. Metzner later notes the meter at 98 dollars and 20 cents, plus the cab fare from New York, as he tracked the journey from New York to Pittsburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meisner
Pittshureh
New York
Metzner
New Yor
Third Ward school concert program for Tuesday issue
National participation in the cantata. The Third Ward school event will be listed in Tuesday's issue. Tonight's concert includes Orchestra Overture The Barber of Seville Finlandia Sibelius Choral Society The Nightingale Tchaikovsky Nuova, Band Moment Musicale Schubert Chorus The Throstle Under the Swaying Pine Tree Elsford Schoenfeld The Romana Edna Rosalina Paul Indian Mountain Loves Song Cadman Mah Lindy Lou Little Banjo Dichmont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pril
Elsford Schoenfeld
Edna Rosalina Paul
Cadman
Mah ‘Lindy Lou
Lily Strickland
Dichmont
Mitchell faces borough loss audit over 1923 funds
Punx Sutawney discusses misused borough money with losses sustained in various ventures. Attorney Brown proposes special auditors to examine borough books from 1923 onward and verify yearly bank balances to determine each bondsman liability. Mitchell hopes to repay losses with help from family and friends and will address council Monday with a comprehensive statement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Mitchell
West Mahoning Street
Gerun Band To Open Cliffside Park Dance Thursday
Tom Gerun and Californian's Own Sons play at Cliffside Park opening dance on Thursday evening May 8 at 8. Photographs of the band will be given as souvenirs. Mr Gerun remains single. Everett McGanahan of Morgantown visited his parents on Locust street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Gerun
William Tenn Hotel
Pittsburgh
Cliffside Park
Everett McGanahan
Morgantown
W. Va
Leonard McGanahan
Locust Street
Huge New England fires scorch multiple states
Fire toll mounts across the Northeast as blazes burn in New Hampshire New York New Jersey Rhode Island Massachusetts Maine and Connecticut. More than 200 homes and several plants burned in Nashua while Staten Island and Long Island suffer brush fires with hundreds of thousands in losses. Dozens of villages in New Jersey face widespread destruction and hundreds remain homeless. Army National Guard and Connecticut college students assist in containment as Lakehurst Naval Station is briefly threatened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
International Nova Service
Nashua
N. H
Staten Island
Long Island
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Maine
Connecticut
Portland
New England
Oakwood
Statensland
Ocean County
N. J
Lacey
Bamber
Pine Forest
Connecticut Agricultural College
New London-Hartford
National Guard
Naval Air Station
Lakehurst
Pinchot Campaign Pace Shifts Across Pennsylvania
Western Pennsylvania voters calm after a week of political briefings and promises. Former Governor Gifford Pinchot seeks a second term with noon events in Kittanning and a Wilkinsburg mass meeting. Pinchot’s running mate Charles Armstrong and other ticket members plan Central Pennsylvania tours this week. Senator Grundy ends Erie campaign, heads to Philadelphia with hopes of strong western support. Phillips Bohlen ticket halts local activity until Thursday with a Carnegie Music Hall mass meeting led by Col. Samuel Harden Church. Major Thury Curran to be principal speaker at the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Gifford Pinchot
Harrisburg
Pittsburgh
Pinchot
Kittanning
Wilkinsburg
Charles F. Armstrong
James J. Davis
Francis Shunk Brown
Joseph R. Grundy
Daiis
Erie
Philadelphia
Grundy
Western
Samuel ©. Jamison
Phillips-Bohlen
Thomas W. Phillips, Jr
Francis H. Bohlen
Charles A. Dorrance
Carnegie Music Hall
Samuel Harden Church
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Major Thury Tt. Curran
National Association Against the’ Prohibition Amendment
Forest Fire Near Oak Grove School Spreads in Indiana County
A large fire reported yesterday near Oak Grove school in West Wheatfield township Indiana county consumed an area estimated between 40 and 82 acres. Nearly 100 acres were reversed by the blaze that broke out Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Grove
West Wheatfield Township
Indiana County
Fires rage across Cambria county and beyond in weekend blaze surge
A cluster of fires swept multiple counties including Cambria and Indiana with near twenty blazes reported and dozens more in Blair and Clearfield. The largest fire scorched about 200 acres in Gallitzin township near Altoona waterworks, believed started by youths gambling in a smoking enterprise. Several smaller fires near Blandburg Reade and Cresson areas remained active as forestry crews worked to bring them under control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hilltons
Tiana
Wehrum
Buffington Township
Indians County
Indiana County
Blair
Clearfield
Forester Shirey
Cambria
Altoona Municipal Water Company
Buchhorn Mountain
Gallitzin
Blandburg
Reade
Lilly and Greston
Cresson Township
Hickston Run
West Taylor Township
Johnstown
Cramer
Colver
Franklin Way Meeting Outlines Ohio Highway Cost Breakout
Franklin Way meeting reports total Ohio highway cost near five million dollars with allocations for new roads two million forty five thousand dollars widening roads and related work. Bridges receive nine hundred sixty thousand dollars and eliminating grade crossings is planned for one million seven hundred thousand dollars. Indiana Winots and Iowa work progress on the same highway. Less than seventy five miles of dirt road remain on the Atlantic Ocean to Omaha stretch. At Omaha the…
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Indiana
Winots
Iowa
Atlantic Ocean
Omaha
Neb
Stocks Rally After Afternoon Slump On Broad Support
Industrial stocks and specialties rebounded after a sharp late-week decline. Trading volume surged to about 8.3 million shares by noon with many leaders advancing. GE, U S Steel, Warner, Radio Keith, Westinghouse, Standard Oil of New Jersey and others showed notable gains as professionals pressed the market higher amid easing distress signals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cousins
INS
New York
Indusa
Stock Exchange
General Electric
United States Steel
Warner Brothers
Radio Kerth
Westinghouse
American Tel
Tel
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Columbia Gas
United Aircraft
Benjamin Franklin Highway Meeting Hopes for Swift Completion
At a local gathering Ohio State Senators Assemblymen state officials and town leaders discussed advancing the Benjamin Franklin highway. They expect completion soon to create a short east to west ocean to ocean route with an 18 to 20 foot wide highway and strong community backing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Franklin
Cauat
Ohio
Ocean
Vast City Inferno Destroys Mills Factories
Fire swept thirty acres damaging or destroying 200 to 260 buildings including White Mountain Freezer Mast Hollifa Street and American Box and Lumber yards. National Guard looting arrests. militiamen ordered to shoot looters. Dynamite used to clear burning piles due to high winds. Incendiaries linked to multiple fires. damage now estimated at six million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Mountain Freezer Company
Mast Hollifa Street
American Box and Lumber Company
Hill Coal Company
Nashua Building Company
Tyngsboro
National Guard
Charles W. Howard
Union Hotel
McGlynn Bottling Works
School Street
Multiple Accidents on Benjamin Franklin Highway Reflect Dangers
Several incidents occurred along the Benjamin Franklin Highway involving construction work and civilian drivers. A worker, Many Accident, remains in critical condition after a crash caused by Mike Fisher of White township, with his car hitting a rock and striking the worker as trucks and piled material obstructed one-way traffic. Carl Voytovich, eight, was seriously hurt near New Alexandria when hit by Louis Sherden’s car. authorities say the child darted into the road. Mrs. Anna Broker, 32, died after her car overturned near Mac Went, with her husband and two children injured. police note her death followed a guardrail breach and embankment slide along the Delmont-Vandergrift road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Bennett and Sons Construction Company
Benjamin Franklin
Indiana
Mike Fisher
White Township
Strongstown
Fisher
Bems
Skonjlus
Indiana Hospital
Carl Voytovich
Forbes Road
Westmoreland County
Louis BE. Sherden
New Kensington
William Penn Highway
New Alexandria
Westmoreland Hospital
Greensburg
Felton Undertaking Establishment
Blairsville
Sherden
Anna Broker
Penn
Broker
Delmont-Vandergrifft
Mac Went
Greeneburg
Patricia
Car Crash Leaves Broker Family Hurt and Kids Safe
The Broker car crash left John eight unaccounted. Mrs Broker severely injured with head and face wounds. Katharine 13 and Marlon 11 had minor cuts. Charles two-year-old unhurt. The family was cared for at the McCowan farmhouse after the wreck on a highway grade. Patrolman Miller noted driving speed and car wobble before overturning onto a post. Mrs Broker lacked an operator license at the time, though she had held one previously. Multiple city-region accidents followed with several injuries and fatalities reported in Pittsburgh area towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broker
Charles
Katharine
Marlon
Robert McCowan
John Broker
Brokar
Miller
State Highway Patrol
Blairsville visitor list from May day weekend
A flurry of locals and visitors from Blairsville and nearby towns filled a Blairsville briefing. Names include Mr and Mrs Howard R McMillen Mr and Mrs H B Martz Paul H Snyder Rev Peter Brennan H V Johnston M E Brown James Boner C A Zeigler Thomas Hill Elizabeth Hill Michael Daubner Charles Walmer Thomas C Brown Cy Butterbaugh Dr C W Banks Mrs Samuel E Ferguson My and Mrs Richard Ferguson Joseph A Srp Mrs Hiram F P Bowser Teddy Silvis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blairsville
Howard R. McMillen
Hodge Street
H.B. Martz
Glen Campbell
Paul H. Snyder
North Walnut Street
Johnstown
Peter Brennan
Charlerol
H. V. Johnston
South Stewart Street
Pittsburgh
South Liberty Street
Springdale
Charles Walmer
Wilkinsburg
Thomas C. Brown
South Spring Street
H. B. Butterbaugh
Indiana
C. W. Banks
Derry
Samuel E. Ferguson
William Penn Highway
Richard Ferguson
Vandergrift
Joseph A. Srp
Glassport
J. A. Sup
Hiram FP. Bowser
Teddy Silvis
North Brady’ Street
New York City
Collier School of
Death Calls Continued in Berry Township Service
Westmoreland county resident died after a lingering illness with funeral rites held at the Lattimer home in Berry township at 2 p.m. today. Interment followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westmoreland County
Lattimer
Berry Township
Lattimer Rites Held at New Alexandria Cemetery
Funeral services were held at the New Alexandria cemetery for Mr. Lattimer, elder of the United Presbyterian Church of New Alexandria. He left a widow Ada Kuhns Lattimer and four sons Grayson of Uniontown William K Dunlap and Wilbur at home a daughter Laura Louise Lattimer an instructor at Corapolis High School a brother Frank of Brehmer Ohio and sister Lillie Lattimer of New Alexandria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Alexandria
Lattimer
United Presbyterian Church of
Ada Kuhns Lattimer
Grayson Lattimer
Uniontown
William K. Lattimer
Dunlap Lattimer
Wilbur Lattimer
Laura Louise Lattimer
Coraopolis High School
Frank Lattimer
Brehmer
Ohio
Miss Lillie Lattimer
Community Sing at Clymer Christian Church Draws Crowd
The regular monthly Community Sing at Clymer Christian Church drew a near full house with a varied program. Highlights included choirs and duets from local groups, and Rev. E J Barber gave prayers. The next sing is planned for June 8 1930 at Diamondville M B Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clymer Christ~ian
E. J. Barber
Clymer Christian Church
Clymer Community Quartet
Ardee Grey
Imogene Bundertin
Clymer
Glen Campbell
Ladies Quartet
Twolick Valley
M. 8
Church
Indiana
Glen Campbel
Hillsdale
Diamondville M. EB
Clywer Christian Church
Mwolick Valley
Narrow Escape Near Altoona Ends With Minor Injuries
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Haupt had a narrow escape while driving near Altoona as they approached an intersection. Their car was struck by another vehicle, losing a fender and sustaining minor dents while Mrs Haupt received bruises and scratches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Haupt
Altoona
Haupt
UMW A Meeting Debates Parker Supreme Court Nomination
In Hazelton Pa on May 5 the Tri District Convention of the United Mine Workers opened its fourth day with talks on Judge John J Parker for the U S Supreme Court. James McGinnis of Scranton noted protests sent to Senator Glenn by John L Lewis while Lewis defended his actions against Parker setting forth steps to block Senate confirmation as delegates cheered a condemning resolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazelton
INS
United Mine Workers of America
John J. Parker
Supreme Court
United States
James McGinnis
Scranton
O. F. Glenn
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Parker
Senate
Parer
Anatden
Hoover
Allah
Points on People Thomas Williams of Smithport
Thomas Williams of Smithport was transacting business in town Saturday. Squire Chris Butterworth of Clymer visited in town for business. Mr. and Mrs. R Y Miller of Uniontown were weekend guests of County Commissioner and Mrs. Charles L. Bence. John McQuilken and Sterle Engle returned from Kettle Creek Potter County where they fished for trout catching 108 fine specimens 4 to 14 inches. WD Tyan tax collector of West Wheatfield township was among the day’s callers at the Court House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Williams
Smithport
Chris Butterworth
Clymer
Indiana
Myr
R. Y. Miller
Uniontown
Charles L. Bence
John McQuilken
Sterle Engle
Kettle Creek
Potter County
Tyan
West Wheatfield Township
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Punx Sutawney
Gerun
Brody
Franklin 'Way
Canadian Pacific
Ghes
Chrysler
Coun Cola
Lontinental Can Possiceseeres
Waglmin Kodaly Seeseger
General Motor
Ollegby
Nickel
iGaave Kelvinator
Kennecott
Gus-Hlee
Chies
Parmroad Corps
Eccererrene
Filyss Overland
Atehigon
T. Dean
Bethlehem Steel
Peon R
Re . Pwllatanoo
Pure
Eee
Radio Cory
Reading
Sehulte Retail
Sinclair Oil Standard Oil
N. J. Studebaker
Alvwity
U.S. Steel
White Motor
St. BS
Piereer Ree
North Americas
Dupont Accageeetervengeeeees
Herbert A. Steab
Stetoenville Pike
Mckeesport
Aliquippa
Adoen
Lock Haven
Lebanon
John Blouch
Cording Matarazzi
Steubenville Pike
Moon Run
Fritz Ritz
Lobbs
ClRcus Pierre
Ludwig
By. Bushmiller
Mister
Coorrigh Pree
New York World
Bane Gue
Ieee
Archie Clark
Wan Jeyt
Pien
Woody Smith
Kenneath Green
Claude Smith
U.M. W. Meeting
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