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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1934
Page
1
The Governor's Committee on Street and Highway Safety calls for Accident Reduction Month starting in September. With Labor Day holidays bringing heavy traffic and tourism, motorists should exercise caution, adjust speed to road conditions, and practice lane discipline and courtesy to reduce injuries and hospital visits.
Forty friends gathered at the Walker homestead in Shelocta to celebrate Israel Walker’s birthday. The lifelong Indiana County resident, who served in the Spanish American War, is the oldest Highway Department employee there. Guests enjoyed a country dinner, gifts, and music from an orchestra.
Large families attend the Berg revival at Indiana Evangelistic Tabernacle with a special award for the head of the largest household. The one hour service runs 7:46 to 8:45, with favorite hymns and instrumental selections. A Sunday program includes Evangelist Virginia Brandt Berg speaking at 2:45 p.m. on The Life of Victory How May It Be Attained and a 7:80 p.m. address Can We Be Mistaken.
Indiana County Fish and Game Association invites hunters fishermen and sportsmen to a basket picnic at Rustic Lodge on Thursday afternoon September 5. First picnic of its kind in the county features horse shoes quoits trapshooting rifle shooting and casting contests with no admission fee and an invitation to bring family and a basket dinner.
A large audience heard the Musical Harveys perform Christ in Music last night amid favorable comments. Rev. Jack Munyon of the Tabernacle is expected Sunday. The Berg evangelistic party will continue for one more week.
Five people died in a transport plane crash after missing a highway landing and striking trees and an embankment. Fire hampered access as bodies were recovered, including Trudson found yards from wreckage. Pilot Bontrager was in constant radio contact with Kansas City airport before attempting the landing.
This is the third of a 12 article series by housing expert Roger Whitman on home repair and modernization tied to the Federal Housing Administration campaign. A summer rental showed hot water failures from a warped stove top to a small 25 gallon tank and poor plumbing.
Washington gossip and policy notes mix as Huey Long teases Reynolds in the Senate, remarks about phonetic names, and a stream of early 1930s reforms. The piece then shifts to home economics on water heating, tank upgrades, and rust prevention before touching on anti-trust boosts by farm groups and a profile of Joseph Kennedy as SEC chief, noting his family moves and restlessness in Washington.
A lively report on a Friday afternoon target shoot sponsored by the Indiana County Mish and Game Association. G G Hill M local hunter won first, Boyd Cunningham second, James Baker third, with others like Gableson and Carnahan also placing. The wind tested offhand shots at one hundred yards, yet observers praised the high accuracy and crowd pleasing bullseyes.
The note mentions adding a shut off valve and drain cock to keep the coil free from sediment as part of a bathroom modernization plan. It states NEXT: Modernizing the bathroom.
Washington and New York dispatches report the National Labor Relations Board strengthens collective bargaining for House Engineering Corp and United Automobile Workers No 1883 while half a million United Textile Workers prepare to strike. Officials warn of wage stagnation, peaceful settlement risks, and potential widespread action across the textile sector.
In Hazleton, Miss Anna McDonald and others were injured as a riot erupted over control of Kel ayres high school building in McAdoo. Republicans and Democrats clashed after a contested election, with stones, bricks, and milk bottles smashing windows while state troopers and the sheriff restored order.
Washington reports rising textile strike spread to wool and worsted workers with 150,000 ordered out alongside 600,000 cotton workers due to 11 30 p.m. deadline. talks with President Roosevelt on drought relief and relief officials visiting the Roosevelts. industry leaders and unions clash over collective bargaining and government relief plans.
Gov. Pinchot faces a deadlock over Pennsylvania relief. State emergency relief director Biddle says funds can last another week for 300,000 families, about 1.25 to 1.3 million people, then federal aid awaits state action. Hopkins demands legislative action as condition for further federal support. The governor returns to Milford amid word of a possible special session next Wednesday.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate George H. Earle accused Governor Linchot of stalling on unemployment relief and called for an immediate special session focused on relief. He claimed Linchot could save the unemployed with a pen stroke and criticized Republican leaders for delaying policy ahead of the November 6 election. The governor was away for Labor Day and not expected back until Tuesday.
The federation discussed relief issues with Gilbert S. Parnell and Philip Morrone detailing unemployment insurance and youth aid. They urged a ten mile per hour school zone sign plan, protested current Emergency Relief medical orders, invited Eric H. Biddle to a September Indiana convention, and called workers to form militant groups to push the program.
An elderly man died of a cerebral hemorrhage while en route from Indiana to Austria. Coroner John Woods ordered the body to Streams Funeral Home. Parkas, a Hungarian, was survived by his widow in Austria and had been a former resident of Josephine and Leechburg, with two years at Armstrong county home. He had recently visited friends in Josephine and stayed two weeks at the Verek home.
Homer Sanders, 35, of Sharon, signed a plea admitting guilt in attempting to conceal the lifeless body of 4 year old Leah Dilley found in a house he was fumigating. His arraignment is set for Tuesday, with attorneys seeking a sanity commission before sentencing. He has been jailed since June 15 on the concealment charge.
Hyde Park New York September 1 Budget Director Lewis Douglas who resigned his post after a long period of tension with President Roosevelt has drifted from regular White House contact. Once a trusted financial advisor he increasingly kept to his budget duties and away from political debate. His defection mirrors earlier exits like M. W. Sprague, another Treasury aide who quit the Roosevelt camp amid sharp New Deal criticism.
Ohio man Wilson Weaver, 43, of Barberton, was rushed to Indiana Hospital with head lacerations after his car left the Benjamin Franklin Highway near Shelocta and hit an embankment. In Armagh, Rev. Peter G. Childs, 60, his wife, and Alice Washington, all from Erie, were injured in a collision with a truck at William Penn Highway and Route 56. Childs’ car struck a Greensburg driver’s truck as he failed to stop entering from Route 66.
The Browning Reed wedding will take place this evening with Browning as groom and Reed as bride. Best man will be the groom's brother. ushers include William Lloyd Browning junior of Newburg A Lauman Martin of Uniontown Joseph BR W Dodge of Kiskiminetas and Charles Paul Reed junior of Indiana. Mrs Elizabeth Carson Canfield will play music before the ceremony and the reception follows at the Reed home. The couple will honeymoon in an Eastern departure and reside in Leonia New Jersey near Englewood. The Reed and Browning parents will be in the receiving line.
Police and New York detectives investigated a late night collision between the Montrealer and a Lake Placid bound train near Crughers. Brooklyn brakeman James J. Tracy was killed. 85+ people were injured from shattered windows and debris. Engineer Michael Cummings escaped with bruises. Reports differed on the cause including an open switch or dense fog.
A dense list of company names spans industries from automotive to steel and oil. Firms include General Electric General Motors Ford Chrysler Standard Oil Texaco United States Steel Bethlehem Steel Sears Westinghouse and many others, reflecting broad market activity and corporate presence.
Marie Winifred Churchill 23 years eight months eighteen days born Cherry Tree November 11 1910 died August 4 1934 at parental home Survived by parents grandmother Mrs D S Spider Hillsdale and siblings Ruth Fee Glen Campbell Viola Binnick Ontario Paul at home Herbert Glen Campbell Beulah Snyder Hillsdale Mary Sara at home Funeral at Wesleyan Methodist Hillsdale 2 pm conducted by Rev Robertson Burial Thompson Cemetery Family thanks for kindnesses floral tributes and use of automobiles.
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