New Steel Mill Planned Near Glassport in War Era
Pittsburgh sept 14 A plan for a 2 million dollar electric steel plant to produce 100000 tons of alloy steel yearly was disclosed by the Copper Weld Steel Company of Glassport It would be ready by year’s start and likely located in Glassport with a possible late change to an undisclosed Ohio town.
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Pittsburgh
Con Stont
The
Post-Gazette
Copperweld Steel Company
Glassport
Ohio
Dry gains marked in Pennsylvania local option votes
Unofficial returns show temperance forces winning numerous referenda on liquor and beer sales. About 114 cities, towns and townships rejected beer and 118 rejected liquor while 219 voted for malt beverages and 208 for liquor. Beer dry to wet cases numbered 18, wet to dry 64. liquor dry to wet 18, wet to dry 80. Deep inroads into wet areas were forecast, potentially increasing dry territory near 160 subdivisions.
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Flannery
Luzerne
Edward J Thompson
Centre
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
John ¥. Malone
James
Allegheny County
George H. Lysle
McKeesport
Robert E. Lamberton
Robert C. White
Pennsylvania
Nice_Wise
Harrisburg
Gettysburg
Kittanning
Beaver Falls
New Brighton
Bedford
Butler
State College
Coatesville
Clarion
Bloomsburg
Carlisle
Chambersburg
Huntingdon
Indiana
Williamsport
Muncy
Lewisburg
Oil City
Liquor Board
Milesburg
Centre County
White Snake Spring Township
Bedford County
FY. Scott McBride
Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon League
Tie
McBride
Survivors Of Athenia Reach Halifax Amid Rescue
More than 200 survivors of the British liner Athenia reached Halifax by the American freighter City of Flint. Ill clad and unnerved, many Americans recalled near misses and described crowds aboard a vessel built for a small crew. Some reboarded the City of Flint for a 48 hour run to New York as hopes rose on the eve of a wider war.
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Halifax
N. S
Athenia
City of Flint
New York
BE. S. T
Mary Catherine Underwood
Athens
Texas
Britain
France
London
United States
Joseph P. Kennedy
Washington
Flint
Philadelphia primary results for state and court nominations
Returns from 6454 of 8085 districts show Soffel ahead in Republican State nomination with 339 373 to Patterson 593 952. Democratic State results give Soffel 205 962 over Goodrich 316 338. Superior Court Republican shows Keller 649 868 leads Baldridge 638 241 and Hirt 620 827. Democratic items list Thompson 22575 and Flannery 319 830 with Keller 326 620.
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Supreme Court
Philadelphia
Soffel
Patterson
Goodrich
Superior Court
Hirt
Baldridge
Keller
Dale
Thompson
Flannery
Allegheny County
Election Ballot Totals and Unofficial Results
Election Season 1570 shows unopposed Democratic Sheriff and Prothonotary nominees. George Jerko leads Democratic District Attorney. Republican counts list Sheriff and other offices with tallies for Irvin, Foster Park, Moore and others. Coroner results include Dr. B L Fleming and Lewis Litzinger.
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Herbert M. Brown
Darrell Sams
George Jerko
Indiana
J. Clair Irvin
Foster J. Park
William J. Moore
W. R. Calhoun
Harry A. Nichol
Earl E. Hewitt, Sr
Ben F. Harris
A. B. Ansley
iJohn M. Thompson
D, E. Calhoun
Blaine Short
Boden
Luther S. Williams
Steal Clark
Lawrence Robinson
J. B. Clenniken
Turner B. Streans
Levi Hayek
Edwin M. Clack
Reppell
Paris Armies Push as British Reach Front in France
Paris dispatch notes no action on arrival as supplies concentrate and Nits are disposed. British forces cross the channel without incident and ten English troop ships pass Gibraltar bound for France. Soldiers move toward the front while peasants watch veterans blend into the advance.
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Yel
Channel
Annou Preent
Alveciras
Spain
Gibraltar
France
Garvisin
Saar ‘Basin
Sarregue
Saar
Daladier restructures cabinet amid wartime fighting on front
French premier Daladier shuffled his cabinet as heavy fighting raged on the western front. Swiss observers cited German artillery superiority but French machine gunning and Maginot Line guns showed strength. Daladier added foreign affairs to his duties, appointed Bonnet as justice minister, and created Blockade and Armament posts with Pernot and Dautry taking key roles.
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Maginot Line
Siegfried Line
Daladier
Jand
George Pernot
Tvadical Union Group
Raoul Dautry
Railjays
London Press Reports German Plans and Polish Bombing Toll
The Ministry of Information says Britain will ask Baltic and South American allies to safeguard neutrality as Germany may seek bases. Polish embassy reports German raids on 30 Polish cities and towns killing over 1500 civilians. US Ambassador Drexel Bidle says Germans bomb civilians without caution. London endures blackout as war widens.
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Germany
South America
Tha Ministry of Information
Poland
U. S
Anthony J. Drexel Buldle
England
London
Paris
Veteran dies at 100 in Gettysburg
Gettysburg, Sept 14 Major Calvin Gilbert longtime Union Army veteran and former commissary officer died last night at age 100. Born in Gettysburg he held a captain's commission from Lincoln and was later made a brevet major by Johnson. A new Cub sportplane seaplane enters market as a deluxe two passenger craft selling under $2000 with a 65 hp motor.
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Gettysburg
Calvin Gilbert
Gilbert
Lincoln
Johnson
Gamelin: France's famed military strategist and leader
Gen Maurice Gamelin, reputed Europe's finest tactical mind, headed France's armed forces after a career spanning Saint Cyr and Algiers Rifles. He served under Joffre, planned at the Marne, led a Brazilian mission, commanded Syria garrisons suppressing Druze revolt, and became inspector general in 1935. He is noted for recalling Napoleon orders instantly.
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Maurice Marie Gustave Gameli
Europe
France
Saint Cyr
French
West Point
Algiers Rifles
Africa
Marshal Joffre
Battle of the Marne
Brazil
Syria
Druse
Maxine Weygand
Napoleon
German News On War Declares Poland Encirclement
Berlin reports in Deutsche Diplomatisch Politische Korrespondenz on Canada joining Britain against Germany and notes Warsaw encirclement near Lwow and Lublin. German army says weather unlikely to slow advances despite rain forecasts, with motorized units extending the push toward Warsaw.
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NEA
Warsaw
Poland
Poman
Lodz
Roosevelt
Deutsche Diplomatisch-Politische Korresrandenz
Canada
Dominion
Great Britain
Germany
Lwow
Lublin
France
First Steam Railroad Run Era Ends in Honesdale
Honesdale, a town of 5500, will lose its rail service on September 24 1939 marking the end of passenger trains on the Erie branch to Lackawaxen. The era began with the 1829 Stourbridge Lion import and its failed weight wrecked track, leaving travelers to motor 16 miles to Narrowsburg to connect with the main line.
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Honesdale
Ty Seat
Narrowsburg
N. C
Carbondale
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
German Submarines and Neutral Ships War Plan
The article describes German plans to seize contraband shipments to enemy ports while avoiding an all out unrestricted submarine campaign. It notes Germany would stop and search neutrals, torpedo ships found carrying contraband after warning. It also cites Deutsche Diplomatisch-Politische Korrespondenz interpreting Roosevelt's Monroe Doctrine stance and its implications for U S neutrality and Canada in the Western Hemisphere.
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Lwow
Modlin
Narew
Vistula
Germany
Deutsche Diplomatisch-Politische Korrespondenz
Roosevelt
Canada
United States
Speedway owner charged with blue law violation
Altoona reports speed way owner Wilfred A. Morgan and 14 associates are charged with violating blue laws by holding races last Sunday. Constable Chester A. Force filed the charges.
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Altoona
Wilfred A. Morgan
Chester A. Force
Blaze Forces Eight From Burning Bridgewater Home
A family of eight fled a two story home in Bridgewater after a fire driven by Smoky alarmed them. The fire destroyed the Cullen residence, an automobile, furniture and most of their clothing. A nine month old girl and her brother Thomas aged eleven with whooping cough and bronchitis were carried out wrapped in blankets.
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Bridgewater
Skippy
Roger Cullen
Ma@a
Thomas
Dorothy
Two Half Holidays Suggested For Thanksgiving
County Judge Houston proposes splitting Thanksgiving by granting half days on both sides to honor Roosevelt's Turkey Day while avoiding anger from Governor Cooper's decree. He notes taxpayers might object if county workers take both days off. Treasury balance and receipts details follow with Sept. 12 figures.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Houston
Roosevelt
Cooper
Treasury
Blairsville Man Retired From Rail Road Service
Eighteen Pennsylvania Railroad employees with combined service of 629 years were retired this month from the Pittsburgh Conemaugh and Pennsyl vania divisions. Notable retirements include John C. Rag er of Blairsville with 17 years of service in the Conemaugh Division.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburgh
Conemaug
Mancangahela
Conemaugh
John C. Rager
Blairsville
Army and Navy Recruit At Johnstown Station
Army recruiters in Johnstown seek applicants for Air Corps vacancies at Langley Field Virginia. Candidates must be high school graduates or tradesmen with deficits made up, meet height and weight standards, and may study fields like airplane mechanics, armament, radio, machinist, parachute rigging, clerk, and photography. Enlistment is four years with age up to 31 for first enlistment and re-enlistment rules eased for veterans. Louis C. Blicker leads the station in Room 211 New Post Office Building.
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Army
Johnstown
Air Corps
Langley Field
Louis C. Blicker
Stock Market Rundown New York Sept 14 Stocks Mixed
The New York stock market shows a broad mix with many major issues quoted in fractional terms. Notable figures include Air Reduction, Allied Chemical, American Can, Am Tel and Tel, Chrysler, General Electric, General Motors, Bethlehem Steel, IBM, and Westinghouse amid fluctuating percentages and irregular notations.
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New York
Balto and Ohio
Bendix Avia
Beth Steel
Eastman Kodak
Gen Foods
Gen Motors
Bh& Gillett
Val RR
Loew's
Mack Trucks
Montgom Ward
Nash-Kelyinator
Nat Biscuit
Nat Dairy Pr
Nat Distillers
Nat Pow
NY Central RR
North Ameria
Packard Mtor AM Penna RR
Phila Red
Phillips Pet Pub
Pure Oil Radio Corp of
Am Reading Co
Repub Steel Reynolds
Tob B
Sears Roebuck
Cocony Vacuum South Pac South Ry
Sperry Corp
Stand
Cal Stand Oil
Ind
Stand Oil
NJ Studebaker Corp
Texas Corp
Timken Roll
United Aircraft
United Corp
United Gas Imp US
Indus Alco US
Rub Run US
US Steel
West Union Tel
West
Woolworth
Pennsylvania G O P Receipts and Balance Report
The Republican finance committee of Pennsylvania reported a September 9 balance of $33 048 to the House clerk. Over the three months ending that date receipts totaled $91 744, mostly from the Republican national committee. Erie contributors included five Jareck family members 1200 N A Parker 4800 Ernest R Behrend Hays H Clemens and F B McBrier 500 each.
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Washington
Republican Finance Committee of
Pennsylvania
House
Republican National Committee
Erie
Jareck
N. A. Parker
Ernest R. Behrend
Hays H. Clemens
F. B.mcbrier
Squalus Near Its Drydock
Portsmouth September 14. After 114 days of demanding work salvage crews moved the Squalus to a Portsmouth navy yard wharf to begin drydock preparations and recovery of the 26 sailors killed in the May 23 tragedy. The vessel cannot be dried out until sea water is pumped out to lift her higher in the water. A Board of Inquiry was set to reconvene to inspect the Squalus in drydock the following day.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Navy
Haulig
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Board of Inquiry
Refugees flee through disrupted Lwow amid chaos and fear
Amid war upheaval in Lwow, refugees crowd the streets as a freight train carries mobilized soldiers and families toward Romania. Fires burn, water is scarce, and sewage systems are damaged while Polish lines hold the city against advancing Germans. Jewish residents fear mass shootings as rumors spread.
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Hungary
Lwow
Rumania
Italy’s War Stand Draws Mediterranean Interest
Observers in Budapest and Greece note that sion, Greece and Turkey show keen interest in Italy’s continued position out of the war. Diplomats fear Malian influence in the Mediterranean is already challenging their regional positions.
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Sion
Greece
Turkey
Italy
Mediterranean
Market Report From Pittsburgh and Chicago
Markets show slow produce demand with steady potato and apple prices across regions. Wheat and corn rise on bullish government price hopes while livestock in Pittsburgh shows mixed demand for hogs cattle calves and sheep amid cautious buyers. Weather forecast calls for fair warm days with no significant precipitation. Approximately 300 rubber components cited for new car production.
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Pittsburgh
New York
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Ohio
Chicago
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Indiana, PA
Yosef Starynski
Gen
Gamelin
Berlin
Blaze
the Treasury
Fuehrer
NEA Radiophoto
Poumaniere
Adolf Hitler
Nazi Air Corps
Reich
Ae, Aya
Budapest
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