Greensburg Bank Robbery Trial Nears Verdict
In Greensburg on September 8, the Avonmore Bank robbery case moves toward a jury as Mrs. Domenic Micale testifies that Mrs. Vance Carter said her husband arid Joseph Plezarski were implicated. The trial includes rebuttal witnesses and defense alibis as Judge William Domn presides and a night session is ordered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensburg
Domenic Micale
Vandergrift
Vance Carter
Avonmore L¢St. National Bank
Carter
Joseph Plesarski
New Kensington
Avonmore Bank
Ward Hicher
Commonwealth
Plezarski
William T. Domn
Dom
Vance
Braeburn
Make Lunch Attractive and Nutritious for School Time
Miss Bessie Owen, home economics extension representative, urges parents to vary lunch boxes beyond sandwiches. Include raw vegetables, fruit, and a milk drink, plus a hot dish or thermos treat on cold days. Use clean ventilated containers and wrap items separately to add surprise and keep food fresh. Order a copy of Planning the Club Lunch from the Agricultural Extension Association office in Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buddy
Bessie Owen
Home Economics Extension
Owen
Agricultural Extension Association
Indiana
Carter Defense Alleges Police Torture At Barracks
Carter testified for three hours and Plezarski for two, each claiming state police tortured them at the barracks. They described beatings, handcuff injuries, sleep deprivation, hair pulling, ear twisting, repeated knockdowns, and harsh shower treatments to force talks. No witnesses could verify facial or boss injuries from the alleged abuse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
Frank Smith
Plezarski
Plezareki
Three Sided Fight Emerges in GOP Platform Battle
Republican leaders push a three sided fight to unite the party for November. Reed to fill Ware’s national committee vacancy, aiming for harmony on a platform favored by Pinchot allies. Steedle faces possible removal while Mrs. Pinchot surfaces as a gubernatorial candidate amid a split in Allegheny County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
South Park
Reed
National Committee
William S. Ware
Wm. A. Schnader
Invernor
M. Harvey Taylor
Joseph Bialas
Allegheny County Independent Republican
Haya
State Committee
Gifford Pinchot
Priion Committee
Joseph G. Steedle
Steedle
McKees Rocks
General Assembly
Allegheny County Committee
Pinchot
Mrs Pinchot and Her Political Campaign History
Mrs. Pinchot and her energetic spouse have long championed reform issues such as minimum wages maximum hours unemployment insurance and workmen's compensation while opposing privately paid deputy sheriffs. She has run for public office three times two earlier bids for Congress in the 15th district in 1928 and 1932 both defeated by Rep Louis T McFadden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pinchot
Congress
Louis T
Mc~Fadden
United States Senate
Pinchot Politicians Rally Amid Calls for Reform in Pennsylvania
In a vivid interview Mrs. Pinchot hints at a possible run to voice a growing unrest among working people. The Republican platform criticizes federal bureaucracy, pledges streamlined state government, and supports constitutional revision, aiming to unite supporters and appeal to Governor Pinchot’s legacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Pennsylvania
Keystone
Gifford Pinchot
William A. Schnader
Pinchot
Republican Platform Promises Sweeping Social Reforms
The state committee endorses outlawing sweatshops and protecting women and children in industry, ends private payrolls for deputy sheriffs, and targets a square deal for labor with a minimum wage. It proposes unemployment insurance study, continued relief funds, veteran support, honest elections, press freedom, and a real estate tax reform plan to curb burdens on taxpayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth
State Emergency Relief Board
Pinchot
Morro Castle Blaze Traps Passengers In Mass Panic
International News Service reports the Morro Castle fire swept through the liner from stem to stern. Crew battled flames as hoses burst and passengers leaped into the sea. Captain died of a heart attack before the ship sank. rescue by Monarch of Bermuda and Andrea Luckenbach saved some lives while many perished. Governor Moore assisted in the search as the cause remained a mystery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Markov
International News Service
Morro Castle
Monarch of
Bermuda
Andrea Luckenbach
Luckenbach
New Jersey
A. Harry Moore
New Jersey Coastal Service
Joseph Karmov
International
Asbury Park
N.J
INS
Lions Clubs Great Meet Highlights Aviators and Artist
The Dione-Cud meeting featured Billy Cramer of State College and Ralph L. Martin of New York City as guest speakers. Cramer traced flights to Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Greenland, and Canada, plus early aviation with the Curtiss Company and Arctic and Alaska trips. Martin discussed art and cartoons. Eyewitness testimony described the Morro Castle fire aboard ships and the rescue chaos, with crew members fighting flames and passengers scrambling for lifeboats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Cramer
State College
Parker
Shorty) Cramer
Ralph L. Martin
New York City
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Greenland
Canada
Cramer Boys
Billy
Curtiss Company
Brooks and Kelly Fields
Gulf of Mexico
Greater Rockford
Arctic
Alaska
Siberia
Chicago Tribune
Chicago
Berlin
Port Burwell
Labrador
Antarctic
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Cramer
Delos
J. Ellsworth Campbell
Indiana
Martin
Edwin Clark
FILE SUCCEEDS PENFIELD AS LEGION HEAD
The executive committee for the proper observance of Constitution day appoints a committee to audit the Legion accounts for the current year and report in October. New officers elected for the year include Post Commander Clinton M. File and senior vice commander Paul Munshower with others named. Delegates to County Council and alternates are listed. The administration notes a 10 percent membership gain, improved finances, junior baseball, Sons of Legion, and a senatorial scholarship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward A. Hayes
Penfield
Legion
W. Earl Long
M. F. Hasinger
George K. Clark
Clinton M. File
Indiana State Teachers College
Paul Munshower
Walter Black
Marion Center
R. W. McCullough
R. E. Penfield
R. W. Watson
J. J. Mellvaine
John Erickaon
C. E. Rink
Gilbert Parnell
Dale Timberlake
Roy Penfield
Sons of Legion
Passengers Listed From 17 Day New York to Havana Cruise
The Motto Castle carried many travelers from Philadelphia Providence and New York on a 17 day cruise to Havana. Relatives crowded the Ward Line offices as officials checked passenger lists and sought survivors along the Jersey coast. Noted names include Anne Conray Carolyn Casey Miss J Hendriks Jane Adams Agnes M Prince Alma Hill and others with ties to Philadelphia Providence Brooklyn and New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Met Motto Castle
Havana
Anne Conray
Carolyn Casey
J. Hendriks
Jane Adams
Agnes M
Ruth Prince
Alma Hill
Rose Biren
B. M. Weinberger
Joseph Drummond
Francis T. Cass
Emily C. Beck
Philadelphia
F. Roberts
L. Taubert
Misa F
Eek Marabehif Aye Grafe
FB. Wheeler
di Charles. Coshrane
I L. Voscelaf
Oscar L. de Mola
RD. Agentraga
Rafael Rios
Manel G. Vedal
New York City
Concordia Singing Society
Long Island
Ward Line
Jersey
Renee Mendez Capota
Cuba
Ann Behring
Wilfred J. Kelly
Royal Bank of Canada
Clemens Landmann
Matanzas
Madeline Desvernine
J.D. Desvernine
Pillsbury Flour Company
Litzinger Transferred In Secrecy to Penitentiary
Former state highway patrol member Litzinger, after pleading guilty to the Seward hotel slayings, faces new charges of escape and auto theft in Centre county. He has 33 years minimum ahead, with confinement at Western Penitentiary after leaving Bedford. He criticized Pennsylvania doubling a sentence on escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Highway Patrol
Bedford
Pennsylvania
Litzinger
William Buck
Ralph Manning
Davis Prosser
Center County
Moral Aid of Labor in Strike Zones Continues
Violence flares in New England textile strike as 700 strikers clash with 600 deputies guarding Sayles Finishing in Saylesville Rhode Island. Twenty pickets are injured but no shots are fired and order is restored by state troopers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Violence Inc
Saylesville
R. I
New England
Sayles Finishing Company
Sayles
Release of Cravenor Over Confession Spur Ends
Armstrong county authorities freed Cravenor after an alleged 1922 confession about killing a man near Saltsburg. He admitted fabricating the story to seek institutional commitment, and had previously testified at a murder trial where a suspect was acquitted. County officials informed the district attorney and sheriff of the confession and its false nature. A separate notice invites Indiana County workers to a Friday meeting at Hillsdale Deckers Point road to discuss surplus food and a new work program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armstrong County
Indiana
Cravenor
Kittanning
Saltsburg
William M. Ruddock
A. Eugene Wilson
Sreeman Walker
Workers’ Federation of
Indiana County
Election House
Hillsdale
Deckers Point Road
Doctor Kellam Hurt Seriously in Vandergrift Crash
The young physician, son of Mr and Mrs Lemuel Alcorn, believed to have fallen asleep at the wheel while driving to Vandergrift after a tiring hospital shift. The wrecked car was towed to Vandergrift and stored in the father’s garage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemuel Alcorn
Vandergrift
Curb market at Meadville area grows as season peaks
City curb markets draw 66 farmers retaining home stalls each Wednesday and Saturday. Patrons thank McCrory for space near the block party on the McCrory lot. Some wonder if a Meadville style public market house will ever be built while municipal markets run year round during heavy produce season. Rental fees cover light, heat and overhead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCrory
Meadville
Liquor Agents Arrest Man on First Day in County
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board agents arrested Steve Liptak of Dixonville for possessing intoxicating liquor. He appeared before Squire Walter H. Jackson, waived the hearing, and posted a $500 bench warrant for court. Officers were reported to be visiting the county today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Liquor Control] Board
Steve Liptak
Dixonville
Squire Walter H. Jackson
Liberty
Curfew Tightened for Clymer Youths This Fall
Labor Week note reports curfew enforcement to begin September 10 as Carnival returns. Burgess urged Clymer parents to enforce safety law with no exceptions, citing recent close calls and rising city concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burgess
Clymer
Obituary notices for Sleppy Keough Preadi and Feitshans
Obituary notices report Nettie Wolfe Sleppy died, with services at Spruce Grove church and interment in church cemetery. Anna Keough Preadi, former Indiana county resident, died in New Lebanon Columbia county. services at Armagh Methodist Episcopal church. Dayav Feitshans of Rayne township died Friday at age ninety five. Civil War veteran, funeral at his residence with interment in Bethel cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nettie (Wolfe) Sleppy
Miss Cora
We H. Sleppy
John Sleppy
Penn Run
Spruce Grove
Anna(keough) Preadi
Indiana County
New Lebanon
Columbia County
Eeen
Thomas Preall
Andrew Black
Albert Shingler
Sandy Lake
John Clark
Charles Preall
Armagh
Armagh Methodist Episcopal Church
Idayv
Feitshans
Rayne Township
Laura A. Flecker
Captain Creps
Bethel Lutheran Church
John Feitshans
Covington, C
Edwin F. Feitshans
Indiana
Ira E. Feitshans
Spokane
Wash
G. F. Hildebrand
Bethel Cemetery
Treasury balance and meeting notice in Washington Gazette
Treasury balance listed as 2 134 084 016 20 with Mis. Int. Rev. 14 430 738 34 and customs receipts 3 877 412 38. Workers' Federation Local No 3 schedules a meeting at James A M E Zion Church Water streets Monday Sept 10 at 730 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
Workers’ Federation
Weers' Federation
James A. M. E. Zion Church
Water Streets
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Wury
Avonmore
Anthony Micale
Micales
Carters
Mra
Micale
P. K. Shaner
George Crouchman
John W. Dickson
Leechburg
Harry Greggy
Freeport Road
John Krenosky
John Kazor
8. B. Allison
Nick Romey
Anthony Belli
Witnhesses
Walter
Mary Plezarski
Eicher
Detroit
Vincent F. Bunch
Frank J. Gleason
William R. Hanna
Joseph Hoffer
John P. Kilgore
James M. Keating
J. R. Eckman
Barry Edward and
Harold Woods
Plewarski
Pittsburgh
Kitsaning and
Freeport
Smicksburg
Margaret Orr Lockard
Oakwood St
Morro
Lions Clubs
Flushing
L. Lb
File
Legion Head
Gazette
Parawat
Ouavies
Boston
Phils
Street
Yennae
Francis J. Gorman
A. F. of L
Honea Path
S. C
Perkins
DR. Kellam
Allied Chemical
American Can
Armour A
Atchison T. S. F
Atlantic Refining
A.T
B. and Q. Railroad
Bethleheth Steel
Bordens
Canadian Pacific
Ches
Ohio
Chrysler
Goco Cols
Columbia Gas Consolidated
Curtiss-Wright du Pont
Radio Corporation
Ie Radio Keith
Sears Roebuck Reynolds ‘Tobacco
Salt Cr
Warner Bros. PLC
Ford Limited
Pennroad
Clymer Kids
Geo. D.leydic Ma
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