Study urged on company towns in Western Pennsylvania
Harrisburg May 19 Spokesmen for bituminous coal communes urged a commission study of company towns and a report to the 1939 Legislature before a Senate committee hearing. They opposed a bill allowing incorporation by majority voter application, arguing towns are needed for miners without lodging and that such action would shift taxes and create numerous small boroughs.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Senate Committee On
Anthony Cavalvante
Fayette Democrat
Flw. Dunbar
Mather Greene County
Frank Smith
Clearfield
Hearng
Dunbar
Smith
Louis Hagemeier
State Association of Boroughs
Obituary notices for Indiana figures in Streams funeral home
Funeral details list several deaths including Aaron Kanarr the last Civil War veteran of Indiana buried at Fairview Cemetery near Hillsdale with American Legion escort. Marie C Nichol Wagner dies at 54, services at Free Methodist Church, interment Oakland Cemetery. Laura McCreight Miller, 66, dies of rheumatism with services at Streams Funeral Home and Oakland Cemetery plot.
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Aaron Kanarr
Indiana
Streams
Feneral
John W. Kennedy
First Baptist Church
W. Shane
Fairview Cemetery
Hillsdale
American Legion
Streams Funeral Home
Marie C
Nichol) Wagner
Marie C. Wagner
Edward Wagner
Puesday
E. School Street
Germany
Pittsburgh
Wagner
Free Methodist Church
Edward
Io Insdiana
Bertha M. Kelly
Janet Stile
Monaca
Raymond
Robert
Wilbert
Billy Kelly
Jackie Stile
Barbara Gener
School Street
East Church Street
A. G. Previts
S Richardson
Vendergrift
Oakland Cemetery
Laura M'Creight Miller
J. Burt Miller
Letitia McCreight
Armstrong Township
Miller
Hazel
W. M. Cosby
Washington, D. C
James W
Cecil
Eliza Jane Blakley
Arm
Strong Township
James McCreight
Wilkinsburg
Stillman A. Foster
Samuel W. Shane
Earle Signs Extension and Labor Reforms
Governor Earle approved a $35,000,000 extension and a package of labor reforms. The measures license industrial namework, require wage reports, amend the Unemployment Compensation Act to include out of state employers, restrict factory safety standards, and empower the Labor and Industry Department to mediate disputes and ensure worker safety.
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Department of Labor and Industry
Proposals for Perpetual State Labor Authority Plan
Proposals- Div. Next discusses labor dispute measures as a companion to the Little Wagner Act. It seeks to amend the General Authority Act to be perpetual, not limited to 32 years, to manage a $56 million building program, authorize land purchases for burial grounds at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Home in Erie, approve a Federal act promoting basic agricultural law research, expand cooperative extension work, and bolster land grant college endowments while granting retirement allowances for state employees with partial back deductions.
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General Authority Act
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Home
Erie
Pennsylvania
Opponents Press Court Measure Amid D Drow Debate
Continent from page one covers the vacancy on the Supreme Court after Justice Van Devanter retires. Senators discuss appointments with Senator Robinson and Pittman named among likely choices. Robert Jackson says he does not wish to be considered. Roosevelt had not chosen a successor. Retirement reshapes political support for the court bill, breaking a solid Republican opposition and prompting possible administration compromise. Senate debate looms as a three member subcommittee drafts an adverse report and aims to report within a week for a June 1 start.
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Supreme Court
Justice van Deryanter
Robinson
Pittman
D-New
Robert Jackson
Roosevelt
van Devanter
Judiciary Committee
Ashurst
D-Aziz
Senate Dbal
Pittsburgh Markets May Produce and Livestock Prices
Markets report moderate produce demand in Pittsburgh with apples at 2.13 to 2.18 and russet apples 2.00 to 2.15. Potatoes list 31 cars, various regional prices. Florida Bliss Triumphs meet 1.50 per crate. In livestock, hogs rise 25 cents, steers 10, calves 9.50 to 10.50, vealers tops 10.50, sheep steady with lambs at about 11.00, direct sales noted.
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Pittsburgh
Maine
Michigan
Florida
Senate Sends Relief and Police Bills In Senate Action
The Senate advanced relief measures and police bills amid party- line tensions. Democratic sponsors Leo Atcherman Monroe James Lovell Westmoreland Henry Vansickie Justin D Jirolamio Northampton and John J McDevitt backed the package. The bill would provide 137.55 million for relief over two years and provoke a noisy debate on abolition of the poor guards and voter decisions.
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Leo Atcherman
Monroe
James Lovell
Westmoreland
Vustin D. Jirolamio
Northampton
John J. McDevitt
Philadelphia
Nottion
Senate
Political moves on Pennsylvania motor police merger bills buy votes
The debate shows 28 to 19 party lines with Democrats Cavalcante Fayette Heyburn Del aware Jacobs Cumberland Lamius York Reed Washington Rupp Le high Sones Lycoming and Republicans Woodward Howell voting contrastingly. Bills seek to create a Pennsylvania Motor Police, shift state police powers, fund via fines, and enable emergency highway use. Federal objections cited by Gelder McDonald and Buckman argues 9 million cost to state. McGinnis defends modern plan. Other measures advance and defeats noted including auto license fee cuts and smaller court oversight, with votes on tax exemptions and real estate utility holdings.
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Cavalcante
Fayette
Heyburn
Delaware
Jacobs
Cumberland
Lamius
York
Reed
Washington
Rupp
Lehigh
Sones
Lycoming
Woodward
Philadelphia
Howell
Lackawanna
Pennsylvania Motor Police
Bureau of Investigation
Frederick T. Gelder
Susquehanna Republican
Thomas H. McDonald
Federal Bureau of Roads
Bernard B. McGinnis
Allegheny Democrat
Highway Patrol
Clarence J. Buckman
Bucks Republican
McGinnis
Buckman
Senate
David Lawrence
Commonwealth
House
Schuylkill County
Senate Majority Rule Requires Twenty-Six Votes for Passage
The Senate requires a constitutional majority of 26 votes to pass legislation, meaning at least 26 senators must support a measure for it to become law. This threshold governs debates, amendments, and final votes in the chamber.
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Senate
State urged to run coal business under private operations
Lauck and Angell proposed a five cent per ton tax on coal produced by current anthracite operators to fund state purchase of stock in the emergency mine corporation. The plan limits tonnage to output by unhired miners in make shift workings and calls for a gubernatorial proclamation against bootlegging when these miners are employed.
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Lauck and Angell
House approves 50000 for special deputies in Garrett case
Harrisburg May 19 The House approved a 50000 appropriation for three special deputies who worked for the attorney general in Philadelphia suits over the estate of Henrietta E Garrett widow of the Snaff manufa cturer The bill moves to the Senate with eight other appropriations totaling about 450000 Pennsylvanians hope the estate may yield 16000000 if heirs prevail If not the money reverts to the estate Other line items include 75000 for WPA sewing project materials 100000 to navigation board for Delaware River 100000 to Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 30000 to National Farm School 55000 to seal abandoned mines 14002.12 for reservoir costs 305.56 for reimbursements to farming groups
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Harrisburg
House of Representatives
Philadelphia
Henrietta E. Garrett
Senate
Herbert Cohen
York
House
Pennsylvania
Garrett
Board of Commissioners of Navigation
Delaware ‘River
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Franklin medals awarded scientists in Philadelphia
May 18. The Franklin Medal goes to Dr. Robert A. Millikan of Caltech Pasadena for isolating and measuring the electron and to Dr. Peter Debye of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin for research on the electrical properties of insulators.
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Philadelphia
Robert Andrew Millikis
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debys
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics
Berlin
Germany
Franklin Institute
Millikan
Debys
Frick Coke Signs Labor Agreement with United Mine Workers
Pittsburgh May 19 The H C Frick Coke Company said it complied with the Wagner act and signed a contract with the United Mine Workers to establish exclusive bargaining for the employer. It covers payroll deductions audits and arbitration rules and affects 2 500 to 3 000 miners at Maxwell Colonial No 1 Filbert and Gates mines and about 2 000 at four National Mining Company and Sharon Coal and Limestone Company mines.
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Pittsburgh
H. C. Frick Coke Company
United Mine Worker's
Maxwell
Colonial No
Filbert and Gates
United Mine Workers
National Mining Company
Sharon Coal and Limestone Company
Assembly probes media charges in Pennsylvania
Ellwood J. Turner Republican floor leader from Delaware County seeks an investigation into reports that about 150 Media Democrats urged the dismissal of Dr. James F. Bogardus as party chairman in Delaware County and Forests and Waters secretary. The group met April 22 and alleged a close alliance with applicants for tap room licenses. licenses were reportedly held up last fall until payments of 50 to 1200 dollars were made to Democratic politicians.
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Harrisburg
James F. Bogardus
Delaware County
Ellwood J. Turner
House
Turner
Democratic Party
Murder prisoner refuses parole paper in Sunbury
Santo Francisco, 68, jailed for second degree murder at Marion Heights near Shamokin, refused to sign any papers to end his imprisonment. Warden Minnick said parole offers have been made over three years, but Francisco said he would not sign. He added that when God opens the door he will leave, while the warden called him a model prisoner.
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Sunbury
Santo Francisco
Northumberland County
Robert Minnick
Minnick
Francisco
Marion Heights
Shamokin
Church Must Meet Modern Diversions in Altoona
In Altoona on May 19 Attorney Thomas C. Hare urged the Wetheny Synod of the Lutheran Church to adapt to modern diversions. He said an average man seeks dogma rituals and daily life application of Christian principles, and urged pastors to address crime juvenile delinquency and poverty while facing conventions and prejudices.
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Altoona
Thomas C. Hare
Wetheny Synod
Lutheran Church
Restore Wall Pay Gut PUNXSUTAWNEY
May 19. Directors of Adrian Hospital restored half of a 20 per cent wage cut made in 1932. They also authorized installation of emergency lights and fire alarms.
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Adrian Hospital
Grace optimistic as Grace inspects Bethlehem plant
Johnstown May 19 Chairman Eugene Grace visits the Bethlehem Steel Corporation plant. He says capacity operations would continue and declines to discuss the labor situation.
Bankers discuss rates and pensions at Atlantic City convention
ATLANTIC CITY May 19 The Pennsylvania Bankers Association plans its annual convention May 26 to 28 to discuss interest rates realty problems and government pension plans. About 600 liquor employes meet in Hazleton May 19 delegates report wages and working hours were discussed with an announcement due in Harrisburg in a few days.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Pennsylvania Bankers' Association
Hazleton
Pennsylvania State Liquor Board Store
Harrisburg
Women Voters Name Officers at Altoona Convention
The Pennsylvania League of Women voters named officers for the coming year at its Altoona convention. President re-elected is Mrs. Davis Chandler Prince of Swarthmore. New nominations include Vice Presidents Mrs. Conery Reed Villanova and Mrs. Francis R Strawbridge Philadelphia, Secretary Mrs. Alexander H. Frey Radnor, Treasurer Mrs. Harry E. Kohn Philadelphia, Executive Directors and Regional Directors listed, with floor nominations for additional posts. The group urged legislation on women workers’ conditions and backed the Weiss bill for modern personnel methods, while supporting a nonbelligerent foreign policy and merit civil service reforms.
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Altoona
Pennsylvania League of Women
Davis Chandler Prince of
Swarthmore
Conery Reed
Villanova
Francis R. Strawbridge
Philadelphia
R. Pier Wright
Erie
Alexander H. Frey
Radnor
Harry E. Kohn
D. Cairns
Bethlehem
Charles L. Chandler
Chester
L. Walter Davis
al Oona
Daniel Goodman
Delaware
Reed Morgan
Francis R Strawbridge
C. Albert Fox
West Chester
Caroline Sickler
Edith Torlady
Huntingdon
James Davis
Barkley
United States
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Senate considers child labor bills and trade practice questions
Testimony supported child labor bills before the Senate Interstate Commerce committee but members disagreed on what the Supreme Court might accept. Chairman Wheeler said a post Varn Devanter successor could lead the court to reverse itself and uphold a child labor law.
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Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Supreme Court
Wheeler
D-Mont
Varn Devanter
Market movers list stocks and brokers in scattered figures
A dense OCR of stock tickers shows many company names including Am Can Am Tel and Tel Anaconda General Electric Dupont Ford and Jaguar like entries with percentages and prices across a broad market snapshot. It reads as a chaotic ledger of equities with few coherent statements or dates, reflecting a raw timeline of trading figures and ticker labels rather than a narrative.
State recounts event in Monaghan death for Reilly murder trial
Pittsburgh May 18 The state began rebuilding the night Frank Monaghan died to persuade jurors in the Fayette County district attorney James Reilly murder case. Florence Dean, a Uniontown hotel maid, testified about the elderly hotel keeper’s last night as witnesses recalling screams and hair and blood evidence were presented by crime experts.
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Uniontown
James A. Reilly
Iniisburgh
Frank C. Monaghan
Monaghan
Reilly
Uniontown, Pa
Pittsburgh
Commonwealth
Fayette County
Charles 2
Margiott
Florence Dean
Bertillon
Margiotti
F.C. Buckmaster
C. W.W. Muchlberver
Chicago
Remove Last Obstacles
Rogers offered opinion that royal family members avoided the duke's marriage as the king was advised against sending anyone. Britain pressed for a private wedding with no royal representation. The marriage contract could bar Mrs Warfield from the duke's estate on separation, while French practice normally keeps each spouse's prior property with eventual settlement on break.
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Rogers
George VI
Warfield
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