Seventeen Bills to Meet Relief Deficit in Senate Tonight
Harrisburg May 13 Seventeen administration bills totaling 71.65 million to meet a relief deficit and 61.05 million transferred from state funds passed the House last week. Senate to convene at 9 PM EDT and consider measures for rapid passage. Public hearings may delay the program as Democrats push for hearings on relief financing.
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Harrisburg
James
House
Senate
Sleventeen
Harry Shapiro
G. Mason Owlett
Cornelius D. Scully
Pittsburgh
Claude T. Reno
Lynn G. Adams
Motor Police
Francis B. Hass
Public Instruction
John C. Bell
Owlett
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Federation of Women's Clubs
America
Boston
State Elections Bureau
Public Utility Commission
Lackawanna Avenue
Scranton
Republicana of
Pennsylvania
Pardon Bid For Operator Of "House Of Horrors" Heard May 24
Harrisburg May 18 An application for a pardon for Lancaster County "House Of Horrors" operator Harry C Zimmerly will be heard by the Pardon Board May 24 seeking commutation of a 7 1 2 to 18 year sentence for the 1988 death of Mrs Gladys Lawson following an illegal operation. Zimmerly claims poor health and housing to support himself. Police linked bones and clothing to the missing woman amid reported screams and shotgun warnings at his Mechanic's Grove residence.
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Harrisburg
Lancaster County
Harry C. Zimmerly
Gladys Lawson
Immerly
Mechanic's Grove
Frank P. Tucker
Zimmerly
Rally for National Convention Organizing Meeting in Philadelphia
A state committee will hold a reorganizing meeting in Philadelphia on Saturday to mobilize support for the upcoming national convention. The session will involve 72 party delegates and alternates preparing for the convention’s work and decisions.
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State Committee
Philadelphia
Cabinet reshuffle and war updates span Europe
The article details British cabinet reshuffles with Arthur Greenwood and Sir John Simon among others, Mussolini ordering Littoro line improvements, and Italy’s security measures along the Brenner Pass and borders. It notes Mussolini piloting a reconnaissance flight and questions about stopping merchant ship searches by Allies, with neutral observers watching Rex’s Gibraltar voyage for potential incidents.
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Iallan
Mussolini
Littoro
Brenner Pass
Germany
Tr Duce
Bamshing
Rome
Italy
Gibraltar
Suez
Rex
New York
Italy Quietly Bars Student Gatherings as Calls for Reservists Rise
Confined from page ons, Italian authorities close to Belgian seminary and urge English and Scottish students to return home. No authoritative confirmation on a 1,000,000 man draft. Vatican and British legation advise precautions. Security blocks crowds at embassies. Italian students reportedly released with limits on movement.
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Holy See
Vatican
European air war reports and cabinet reshuffle noted
German claims state 20 Spitfires shot down while one damaged. RAF night bombing on Waalhaven near Rotterdam. British advances in Belgium with French forces. Admiralty reports missing submarine Seal. Scotland Yard detains 3000+ Germans and Austrians for internment. Churchill reshapes war cabinet with Morrigan and Simon plus others.
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DNB
Netherlands
Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
Waalhaven
Rotterdam
Belgium
Admiralty
Wos
England
Home Office
Scotland Yard
East Coast
Counies
Morrigan
Churchill
John Simon
House of Lords
Viscount Caldecote
Alfred Dutt Cooper
John Reith
Lord Lloyd
Malcolm MacDonald
Kingsley Wood
John, Simon
Rix Jobe Andere
Train Crash Hurts 280 In Port Jervis Run
New York May 13 Erie Railroad officials blamed a too swift approach to Port Jervis station for a collision involving two of five excursion trains. From IBM Endicott outing to New York World's Fair, the crash injured 280 with five hospitalized.
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New York
Erie Railroad
Port Jarvis
N. Y
Endicott
Edward Smith
Port Jervis
Pointed Board of Trade President Filled by Nominee
The report notes the President of the Board of Trade has been pointed while several senior posts including Postmaster General and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster still await appointment.
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Deat
Arthur Greenwood
Churchill
John Simon
House of Lords
Viscount Caldecote
John
House of Commons
Alfred Duff Capper
Munich
John Reith
Kingsley Wood
Geal
Herbert Morrison
London County Council
Leslie Burgin
Lord Liford
Malcolm MacDonald
John Anderson
Home Secretary
Andrew Duncan
Board of Trade
Duchy of Lancaster
France and Allied Forces Enter Belgian Front in War Advance
France reported entering Belgium as Allied forces moved to check the German advance. Daladier met Belgian King Leopold III after inspecting Allied outposts with British officials. German operations targeted areas north of the Albert Canal and southeast of Tirlemont while Ardennes, Luxembourg border, and Tongres regions faced renewed pressure. French air power downed 12 German planes. advance guards engaged near Maastricht and Tongres.
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Belgium
Daladier
Leopold III
Albert Canal
Tirlemont
Brugsels
Belgian Ardennes Mountains
Luxembourg
Lower Rhine
North Brabant
Econimand
War Ministry
Tongres
Belgian Ardennes
Moselle
Ohrenthal
Forbach
France- Luxembourg
Tongress
Maastricht
East
Brabant
Netherlands
Faris
France
Nancy
Paris
Gnewer
Adolf Witler
Arrest Two for Poor Driving in Indiana and DuBois
Two men, Nick Kevaichik of Indiana and Vincent 3B. Reekie of DuBois, were arrested Saturday for reckless driving. They will face hearings before Justice of the Peace Walter H. Jackson. Borough Patrolman Jay Brown made the arrests.
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Indiana
Nick Kevaichik
Vincent 3B. Reekie
DuBois
Justice of the Peace
Walter H. Jackson
Jay Brown
Defense to safeguard Western Hemisphere eyed in new funds plan
War department recommendations to President Roosevelt ahead of Congress seek up to 100 million dollars for army and navy boosts to speed munitions production amid European war developments. Lawmakers urge accountability for vast defense spending while differing on threat levels and postwar needs. Neutrality act provisions extend to Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg restricting arms sales on credit.
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War Department
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Congress
la Follette
Minton
D-Ind
Reed
R-Kygas
United States
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Obituary notices from early September 1873
Obituaries list multiple survivors including Mrs Lavina Getty Mrs Charlotte Malcolm Mrs Gertrude Langdon Mrs Mary Knapp B F Bostic and Edward Bostic with services in the Wilson home at 2:00 p m and interment in Thompson Cemetery James Edward McKee son of Mr and Mrs James McKee Sagamore died at Adrian Hospital age 24 services planned at grandparents home Sagamore at 2 p m by Rev J E B Giffen burial in Sagamore Agnes Elkin died in Smicksburg with obituary to appear in Tuesday issue
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Wilson
Lavina Getty
Cherry Tree
R. DB
Charlotte Malcolm
Indiana
Gertrude Langdon
Glen Campbell
Mary Knapp
Dixonville
B. F. Bostic
Pocatello
Idaho
Edward Bostic
Cherrytree
R. D. Puneval
Thompson Cemetery
James Edward M'Kee
James McKee
Sagamore
Adrian Hospital
Punxsutawney
Calvin McKee
J. EB. Giffen
Agnes Elkin
Smicksburg
R. D
Accidents Reported Across Indiana and Pennsylvania Toll
In Indiana Helen Hare a teen and her companion suffered severe facial and leg lacerations after a car ran off the highway and hurled into a culvert, both admitted to Indiana Hospital. Pennsylvania posted nine weekend accidental deaths, including a drowning in Fairmount Park and a horseback riding fatality, with six highway deaths among the toll.
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Helen Hare
Indiana
Indiana Hospital
Officers Win Bandit War in Northeastern Ohio
In a multi site gun battle spree, four bandits robed six at a Ravenna tavern then clashed with Deputy Fitzgerald near Cleveland. Two bandits were killed, two wounded, and several suspects captured as state patrol pursued them at high speed ending with a crash into a voting booth. Juratovac and Jakale died, McLaren was killed earlier in Youngstown.
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Cleveland
Northeastern
Ohio
Aix
Youngstown
Ravenna
Alex Jukale
Ava
McLaren
Varanches
Dionisio
Fitzgerald
Homovec
Bernard Gersper
Columbus
Jakale
Juratovac
Fatalities in Work Zone and Road Accidents Reported
An overturned machine killed a worker near Kingston. William Sullivan, 38, of Kingston, struck and killed by an automobile near his home. John Halet, 24, of Wilkes-Barre, fatally injured when thrown from his motorcycle as it was towed by a car. Nine-year-old Rose Mary Grapas was struck and killed by an automobile near Dunmore.
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Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Albert Widle
Fairmount Park
Lake Chamouain
Tillie Nartinouk
Mc Keasport
Fitesim
Pittburgh
Charles &. Allen
Meadville Eagles
George K. Shearer
People’s Drug Company
Washington, D. C
York
Harry M. Cassiday
Greensburg
BR. D
George Henry Lowell, Jr
William Sullivan
Kingston
John Halet
Wilkes-Barre
Rose Mary Grapas
Dunmore
Invasion Deepens as German Forces Advance in Low Countries
Reports from Brussels and Amsterdam indicate German troops crossed the Maas and IJssel, with a general Dutch withdrawal in northern provinces. British and Allied forces reinforce water defenses as air raids continue and refugees flood cities, while Churchill forms a larger wartime cabinet and accelerates arms production. Germany claims downing over 50 Allied planes as parachutists are reportedly neutralized after landings.
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Foreign Office
Royal House of Orange Nassau
Irene
Netherlands
Air Ministry
Waalhaven
Rotterdam
Holland
Liege
Namur
Brussels
Flanders
Maas
Ijssel
Amersfoort
Rhenen
Amsterdam
Britain
Antwerp
Hague
Winston Churchil
England
Honey Locust Beans Planted To Help Starving Deer
LOCK HAVEN May 18 Sportsmen and game officials plant honey locust beans in Clinton County forests to aid deer survival through winter. Beans, green as good cattle fodder, ripen and drop late winter. One Berry property tree yielded six bushels this year. beans fall about nine inches long and brown. Clinton County sportsmen estimate 400 to 500 deer have starved since January with fishers finding up to 18 dead along a stream. Attempts to solve the problem by corn drops and habitat access have met limited success due to cost and inaccessibility.
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Lock Haven
Clinton County
W. Grant Berry
Millen L. Reeder
Beery
Oda
Clinton County Sporsmen
Apartamen
German invasion news from Holland and Norway update
Reports describe Austriana citizens rounded up by Scotland Yard and sent to camps by Home Office order. In Norway the Norse front remains in Narvik with no new developments while the German high command claims Allied ships sunk or damaged in the North Sea. Dutch flooding of the second line continues as defense plans unfold. Communiques boast heavy shelling of Waalhaven airfield and limited parachute landings. German troops in Holland face resistance shielded by Dutch civilians, with an attempted Ansterdam putsch and Dutch army regaining control.
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France
Enat Conal
Scotland Yard
Home Office
Norway
Arctic
Narvik
North Sea
Ijssel
Maas
High Command
Rotterdam
Waalhaven
Holland
Ansterdam
Belgium Front Holds Line Near Liege Amid Nazi Advance
Belgian forces reportedly repelled heavy frontal attacks along the Albert canal line though a Nazi thrust extended 13 miles west of Liege. French troops join Belgian lines as counter air raids and reinforcements surge. Civilian exodus under government control as Brussels braces amid air raid alarms and reports of downed enemy planes.
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Liege
Hhus
Pierlot
Bryussela
Louvain
Antwerp
Paul Henri Spank
Brussels
Dutch Fight Back as German Forces Push Across rivers
Dutch border troops withdrew virtually without damage as German columns pressed through the Meuse and IJssel axes. Dutch aircraft bombarded advancing columns while French and British troops engaged east of North Brabant and in Central Holland. Dutch defenses focused on the undefended central regions, delaying the German advance.
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Hague
Muha
Meuse
Ijssel
Ligh
Netherlands
North
Brabant
Maas
Holland
Norhern
Germany Eyes Historic Clash as Belgium Battle Rages
Reports say Belgian troops fight bitterly against a German advance near Liege and the Our River area while French forces move to bolster positions south of Liege. German gains push west from Liege and north of the Meuse as Allied air defenses claim heavy German losses.
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Liege
Ourthe
Meuse
Brussels
Belgium
Holland
Viscomte Davignon
Berlin
W. von Buelow- Schwante
H. M. van Haersma de With
Hague
Julius Graf von Zech Saint von Burkersroda
Germany
Kiel Canal
Sweden
Oresund
Denmark
College Weather Forecast With Cloudy Warm Spell
A college weather note predicts more cloudiness and a warm day ahead. Thundershowers are expected tonight and tomorrow with readings around 68 degrees, high near 8 for the month and a low near 38. Precipitation totals and humidity are noted along with pressure readings.
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