Storm clouds in Harrisburg delay quit plans in May
Legislative leaders, facing storm clouds of controversial bills, pushed adjournment back by a week or two as debates over relief, liquor, and workers compensation heated. House considered a $537 million appropriations bill and sought action on liquor licensing, relief, and public assistance reforms amid protests by teachers and civil service workers.
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Harrisburg
Pi — Legislatve
Senate
Penvesiyania
G. Mason Owlett
Mayel
House
Workers' Alliance
van Allsburg
Civil Service Protection
Department of Public Assistance
Owlett
General State Authority Board
Oil Industry Investigating Commission
Delaware River Joint Commission
Earle
James
CIO
Edwood Turner
Turner
Department of Publi Assistance
WPA
Montis
Howard EL. Russell
Woman Falls in Subway In Philadelphia Station
Miss Hermine Heere, 24, slipped from a station platform in Philadelphia yesterday and was dragged under a subway train before the car was halted. She sustained a gash and was treated at the scene before being taken to a hospital.
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Philadelphia
Hermine Heere
Uly
Coal Mines Idle as Warmer Talks Aim at Settlement
Western Pennsylvania coal producers idle for five weeks as Roosevelt urged early wage contract agreement. Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce proposes committees in industrial towns to press for resumption under national chamber supervision. Shutdown hurts local business with University of Pittsburgh reporting a 34 percent drop. Pennsylvania Railroad lays off 1,027 shop workers. carloadings 80 percent below April 1938. Nonunion operator Raymond Schnars reports his home dynamited. wife Mrs Schnars unharmed.
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Western Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Pittsburgh Chamber
National Chamber
James R. Greene
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Fittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburgh
Raymond Schnars
Phillipsburg
Japan May Aid Search For Halliburton Missing Junk
San Francisco May 8 Japanese officials consider aiding a search for Richard Halliburton and the missing Chinese junk after a cyclone scattered debris and cut radio contact. Walred Crowell said Yokohama could be 1200 miles away and that Japan may deploy an aircraft carrier to hunt the vessel, with officials in Washington and contacts in Italy seeking information. Crowell noted a chance Halliburton could be alive and urged cooperation to mount a daylight air and sea search using the junk as a base.
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San Francisco
Japan
America
Richard Halliburton
Hallyburton
Yokohama
Walred Crowell
Washington
Talyc
Halliburton
Ming Kong
Crowell
Nis
Dalblntton
alWava
Alliance shifts in European power alignments
Fragmentary OCR shows a discussion of alliances and neutralities in Europe. Mentions Poland Britain France Italy and Germany with Greece Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union as actors. References to Danzig and a Macedo nian policy hint at broader reordering amid Polish German tensions.
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Poland
Soviet Union
Italy
Germany
London
Pevedulogical
Ubeemenl & i
Danzig
Yugoslavia
Li Duce
Czecho-Slovakia
WPA Curtailment Triggers Rise in General Assistance Rolls
The WPA curtailment drives an upturn in state relief, with 3,979 net new cases (15,260 people) in the week ending April 29. Openings totaled 12,598 (46,295 people) and closings 8,625 (31,665 people). total WPA additions reached 6,453 cases (22,859 people), a weekly high since September 1985. Private employment gains offset some gains, but coal mine shutdowns kept unemployment openings high, notably 2,989 of 4,149 openings in the 16 hardest hit counties.
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Federal Works
Pact of Milan cements Rome Berlin axis in view
A Milan accord announced after talks between Joachim von Ribbentrop and Galeazzo Ciano signals a strengthened Rome Berlin axis. Britain and France are eyed as primary targets, with Soviet alliance talks moving toward a British reply as international tensions rise. Also noted are religious pleas for peace from Pope Pius XII and ongoing wartime reports from Asia, plus local obituaries and a treasury balance bulletin.
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Joachim von Ribbentrop
Count Galeazzo Ciane
Milan
Germany
Britain
France
William Leeds
Moscow
Duke of Windsor
Verdun
United States
Pius XII
Algiers
Algeria
South China
Lightning tests promise transformer protection in storms
Westinghouse engineer at the voltage laboratory describes a new high voltage discharge test with 1,500,000 watts demonstrations. He explains hot lightning is a long duration discharge, hotter than cold lightning, and could shield industrial centers from destructive storms by protecting transformers.
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Nalichesy
PFOL
Bellasehi
Reesearch
Westinghouse
Obituary for Mrs Priscilla Reeves and relatives
Obituary notes the death of Mrs. Priscilla Reeves at 10 28 a m on Saturday in Indiana. It lists surviving relatives including two daughters Mrs Rose McDonald and Mrs Alice Bryan and a grandson Robert Nichols. Funeral arrangements set for 2 30 p m Wednesday at the grandparents home with interment in Greenwood Cemetery.
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Armstrong County General Hospital
Kittanning
Claireefer
Indiana
Jesse Reefer
Vandergrift
Mack
Rebt Reefer
Here
Amos Hatkleroade
Jalesboro
Wilbert Bell
Rural Valley
Arthur Cribb
Yatesboro
R. D
Kingsley Henderson
Harry Hammond
Wilkinsburg
Gastown Reforms Church
Reese
Alda (Campbell) Boyle
Blairsville
Angela Mann
Clymer
John Woods
Robert Boyle
Boyle
Michael Peightal
Edward Horner
Robinson
Josephine Rager
Mann
Joseph Campbell
BD. W
Bethel Church
Clydé
Church
John Frank Askins
Pennsylvania Railroad
Water Street
Askins
Mabel
John
Walter Askins
Bolivar
Curtis
Ernest Askins
Josephine
Belle McDermott
Mary Jane Askins
RB. E. McClure
D. B
First Unitedit Presbyterian Church
Blairsvite Cemetery
Martin Runee
William Nichols
Augustus Niehols
Brockway
Ambrose Nichols
Punxsutawney
Rose McDonald
Ridgway
Alice Bryan
Kane
Robert Nichols
Greenwood Cemetery
W. K
Priscilla) Reever
Drowning in poison probe widens in Philadelphia
Detectives review drownings in the Delaware and Schuylkill as possible cases in a broad murder for insurance scheme. District Attorney Kelley to exhume four more bodies for autopsies to test for poison. nine bodies have been exhumed with eight poisoned and one death by car crash. Arrests total twenty one with a fugitive sought as authorities pursue the scheme.
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Philadelphia
Delaware
Schuylkill
Charles F. Kelley
Kelley
Charles H. Hersch
Lena Winkleman
Joseph Swartz
Louis la Vecchia
Rose Davis
Abraham Sherman
Dora
Labor Board Record Shows No Employer Bias
The board defended its labor rulings as evenhanded between CIO and AFL cases and noted wages differ from federal agencies. It denied favoritism toward any union and cited an unusually strong court record as evidence. A Hughes letter from 1987 argued enlarging the Supreme Court would not boost efficiency.
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CIO
AFL
Labor Board
the Reported
Hughes
Supreme Court
American farmers urged to defend government from foreignism
Congressman Tibbett told carriers to combat foreign ideologies and to keep Communism Nazism and Fascism from gaining a foothold. He praised farmers as upstanding citizens and urged daily efforts to uphold the American form of government.
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Tibbett
Windsor to Paris Speech Aims at Peace Plea
Windsor plans to address Paris tomorrow to resume normal life. Reported as an appeal to reason amid world conditions, not a political message. The Duke will speak 19 or 12 minutes starting at 10 p.m. US time, with NBC to broadcast in the United States.
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Paris
National Broadcasting Company
United States
Mystery of Marjory West's disappearance endures
On Mother’s Day one year ago in the Allegheny National Forest near Bradford a four year old girl, Marjory West, wandered away from a family picnic and vanished. Thousands of volunteers and state police scoured the woods with dogs and planes, but no clue has emerged. Her mother, Shirley West, clings to hope that Marjory will return.
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Bradford
Marjory West
Shirley West
Marjory
Wests
Allegheny National Forest
Dorothea
Paradise Opens Tomorrow For Anglers of Pennsylvania
Paradise opens tomorrow for Pennsylvania anglers with a five‑day limit per season and a two‑trout slot per day. The State Fish Commission expects about 1,500Waloniats to a mile of Spring Creek as the first day of the sixth annual season begins four miles upstream from Bellefonte. Fishing hours run 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily except Sunday, with required resident or nonresident licenses and no other fees.
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Bellefonte
Paradise
Spring Creek
Commission
Fron Bellefonte
Ainly
Flashes of Life Close Quarters
A motorcycle and sidecar and an automobile crash near Driffield York shire. From wreckage emerged a grandmother grandfather mother father and baby. Mother and father sustained slight injuries others unhurt.
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London
May
Driffield
Yorkshire
Methodists Conference Deliberates On Finistry Boards and Creed
The Methodist conference meets daily sessions to finish work for adjournment by Wednesday night. Accumulated committee reports await action on finistry qualifications National Board for Missions Board of Hospitals National Treasury and a proposed social creed. About 900 delegates are expected to debate the issues.
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National Board For Missions
Board of Hospitals
National Treasury
Pennsylvania Leads Nation in Auto Fatality Reductions
Harrisburg May 8 Pennsylvania led the nation in reducing automobile fatalities in the first quarter of this year. The Department of Revenue, citing figures from the National Safety Council, reported 167 fewer deaths than the same period last year, a 37 percent drop. Only Wyoming had a larger percentage decrease.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Department of Revenue
National Safety Council
Otto F. Messner
Safety Council
United States
Wyoming
4-H Club Meetings Planned This Week
Oak Tree 4-H members and parents meet tomorrow at 8:00 p m in Mahoning School House two miles west of Oak Tree to plan this year's program. Marion Center 4-H Club and parents meet Thursday at Carl Wallace's home for business singing and recreation. 4-H Purchase Line Care Club meets Friday evening May 12 at R L Bouchers home with parents.
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Oak Tree
Mahoning
Marion Center
Cale
Carl Wallace
Purchase Line Care Club
R. L. Boucher
Beery’s Divorced Wife Weds Broker in Lake Tahoe
Wallace Beery's ex wife Reta Beery wed broker Albert J. Poll in a Lake Tahoe ceremony following her divorce from Beery a week earlier. The couple reportedly tied the knot yesterday after a whirlwind romance spanning New York and Los Angeles.
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Carson City
Wallace Beery
Reta
Lake Tahoe
Albert J. Poll
New York
Los Angeles
Beery
King and Queen Good Sailors Aboard Empress of Australia
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, both keen sailors, enjoy a North American voyage aboard the liner Empress of Australia. On May 8 the ship, leaving Portmouth, faced a stiff breeze causing pitching and some absences from divine service, though the King and Queen attended. They later walked the deck smiling and talking with passengers, and at noon wore life belts for a shipboard inspection.
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Australia
North America
Portsmouth
Stock Market Averages From War News and Industry Totals
Market round up shows broad activity with many stocks cited by symbol and company including Anaconda Chrysler Corp Westinghouse Edison and General Electric among others. Shares in motor and steel sectors rose and fell with varied results across utilities and manufacturing firms reflecting steady industrial activity.
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Air Redue
al Chem & Dye
Rud & St
Smelt
Smelt & R
Tel & Tel
Anaconda
T& SF
Bald Loco
Ala Balt & Ohio
Bendix
Studebaker Corp
Texas Corp
United Aircraft Atyy US Rubber Era US
Bicelie West
Union ‘Tel
Weal
Woolworth
LFW
Curb
Ark Nat Gas
el Boudarid
Markets Report on Apples Potatoes Hogs Cattle and Grains
Markets show mixed movement in fruits and vegetables with numerous apple lots and Maine and Idaho potatoes listed, pork and beef prices soft to steady, hogs and cattle uneven, and grain futures tumbling on rain forecasts. Wheat futures opened steady to lower after heavy selling on rain relief prospects, with nearby quotes around July and September contracts.
Doctor to Wed Mercer in July Announcement
Miss Jessie Franklin Muncaster of Derwood Maryland former dietitian at Mercer Sanitarium and Dr William W Richardson of Mercer will be married in July according to an announced from Miss Muncaster's parents.
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Mercer
Jessie Franklin Muncaster
Derwood
Mercer Sanitarium
William W. Richardson
Muncaster
Senate to Vote on Farm Benefits and 1930s Budget Fight
Senate debate centers on an additional 338 million dollars for farm benefits within a record 1.216 billion dollar agriculture bill as Congress weighs relief and budget shifts. The House faces a 770 million naval supply bill amid broader appropriations and reorganizations proposed by President Roosevelt, with economy advocates noting budget cuts in some areas.
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Washington
Senate
Agriculture Department
House
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
Naval
Navy Department
Clarion Judge Escapes Death In Auto Crash
Judge Harry R. Rimmer of Clarion survived a crash when his car plunged upside down into a creek on the Lakes-to-Sea Highway near Reynoldsville. He was found by Walter Leis of Brookville, treated at Brookville Hospital, and released.
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Harry R. Rimmer
Clarion
Suluers Farme
Reynoldsville
Walter Leis
Brookville
Brookville Hospital
Ritz Hotel Robbed Again in East End Heist
In Pittsburgh on May 8 two gunmen wearing dark masks robbed two Ritz Hotel employees at the East End location, fleeing with about $300. It was the second robbery at the hotel within a year as a bellboy and Clerk George Hall, 35, were forced aside while the cash drawer and sale were emptied.
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Pittsburgh
Ritz
East End
George Hall
Man facing chair in Sunbury over foreman death
Sunbury reports Andrew J. Schurtz, a 47 year old WPA project worker, saved from death by electric chair after being convicted of fatally shooting his foreman Edward C. Fisher, a 32 year old Pennsylvania National Guard lieutenant, on April 21. Schurtz’s attorney filed a notice of appeal for a new trial claiming temporary insanity and that Fisher had warned of dismissal if he did not stop floating on the job.
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Sunbury
WPA Project
Andrew J. Schurtz
Edward C. Fisher
Pennsylvania National Guard
Robert ©. Moser
Schurtz
Fisher
Coalport Plunges Into Bankruptcy and Sheds Police
In Clearfield county the town of Coalport with 1200 plus residents furloughed its sole policeman and ordered street lights shut down. Fire brigade head J W Laing says volunteers are asked to form a policing committee as finances falter.
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Cloalport
Clearfield County
J. W. Laing
Telephone operator dies in Meadville crash
A 19 year old Franklin woman Catherine Ragan, city telephone operator, died when her car failed to negotiate a sharp Meadville Road turn and overturned near the city limits. Her sister Macy Ragan, age 16, suffered forehead injuries.
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Franklin, May &(P
Catherine Ragan
Meadville
Macy Ragan
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