Cuban revolt spreads as Grau San Martin faces crisis
Open revolt erupts in Pinar Del Rio against the Grau San Martin dictatorship as officers seize Consulacion barracks. Reports from Havana cite revolts in Santa Clara Matanzas and Cienfuegos, with 490 officers deposed, 300 besieged at the National Hotel, and plans to field troops in Santa Clara and La Grande.
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Ramon Grau San Martin
Cuba
Pinar del Rio
Consulation
Havana
Santa Clara
Madanzas
Cienfuegos
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
Crow San Martin
National Hotel
William K. Hutchinson
IL. N
Gran San Martin
Grau San Martin
Falcencio Batista
Matanzas
Cienfue- US
Tandron
Sancti Spiritus
Mona
Laguno la Grande
Consulacion Pinar del Rio
ABC
Fernando Aron
Nurse Held Over Murder Charge In Grace Shooting
Wilhelmina Weltz San Francisco nurse is held to answer in Superior Court for the first degree murder of Francis M. Grace wealthy retired shipping magnate. Defense may hinge on accident theory as motive remains undisclosed. Brother William Weltz and sister Mela Wells arrived from Cannaville Pa.
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Banta Cruz
Cal
INS
Francis M. Grace
Wilhelmina Weltz
San Francisco
Gold price fixed at 30.49 per ounce by Treasury
Washington Sept 15 The foreign exchange and precious metals desk reports the Treasury fixed today’s selling price for gold at 30.49 per ounce at the Ferral Reserve Bank, up from 29.77 yesterday.
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Washington
Ferral Reserve Bank
Treasury
Community Chest drive highlights Indiana hospital wards
September 25 to 29 features the Indiana hospital as a participant. The article visits the women’s ward crowded with cots, the men’s ward full of mine, accident, and medical cases, and the children’s ward with hopeful faces and a ruptured appendix patient near death’s door.
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the Community Chest
Indiana Hospital
Community Chest Fund
Saltsburg Dam Opposition Delays Allegheny Flood Plan
Objections by the Conemaugh Kiskiminetas Rivers improvement association hinder approval of a Conemaugh river reservoir near Saltsbury as part of a $51 million federal flood control package. The group argues the project would flood valleys, disrupt villages, and force railroad relocations, while eight other reservoirs were recommended for immediate construction.
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Conemaugh
Mahonlng
Styer
Blairsville
Pennsylvania Railroad
French Creek
Tlonesia Crock
Red Bank Crack
Crooked Crack
Loyalhanna Creek
Allegheny River
Allegheny
Tygart Creek
West Forkiver
Monongahela
Standard Oil to Buy Richfield Oil
San Francisco Sept 15 Formal announcement of the purchase of Richfield Oil Company by the Standard Oil Company of California for 23500000 may be expected next week Parker Toms chairman of Richfield reorganization committee verified that all Richfield bondholder committees had accepted Standard's offer of 23500000 R Delmont Fisher for Borough Tax Collector The Milk Man 19x
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San Francisco
INS
Richfield Oil Company
Standard Oil Company of California
Parker Toms
Richfield
Toms
Richfield Committees
Standard
Special Constitution Day Service Urged By Burgess
Burgess B H Lichteberger in a proclamation urged observance of Constitution Day with special ceremonies. He asked churches to hold patriotic services, cultural institutions to offer music and exhibits, and schools to teach Magna Charta to instill reverence for the constitutional republic among citizens and new immigrants.
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Burgess
United States
B. H. Lichteberger
B.H. Litchteberger
Indiana
America
Tax Justice League of Pennsylvania Chartered by Court
A charter granted September 12 1933 in Westmoreland County formalizes the Tax Justice League of Pennsylvania. The court approved the incorporation articles and listed incorporators including Thomas J. Rawlings Blairsville R D 2 J Newton Trimble New Alexandria R D 1 John D McCurdy New Alexandria R D 1 E M Sweitzer Shippenville R D 4 T Thomas Greensburg R D 2 and others, with subscribers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westmoreland Court
Tle
Tax-Justice League of Pennsylvania
League
Court
Westmoreland County
TAX Justice League OF Pennsylvania
Charles D. Copeland
Thomas J. Rawlings
Blairsville
R. D
J. Newton Trimble
New Alexandria
John D. McCurdy
E. M. Sweitzer
Shippenville
Dd. 'T. Thomas
Greensburg
Ira J. Wray
Apollo
H. A. Suetoee
Selinsgrove
P. . Shade
Mifflinburg
Ferry Disaster Claims 24 Factory Workers Drowned
In Moscow two men were sentenced to ten years for negligence after the capsizing of a ferry on the River Ka near Gorky. The tragedy, two weeks past, claimed 24 automobile factory workers as victims.
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Moscow
INS
Gorky
Cop Signal Test Tonight Lights On For Ten Minutes
Tonight at nine o'clock a new police signal lighting system will be tested for ten minutes. Lightcap Electric Company installed 28 street inters light units and one atop Court House tower at a cost of $570, all on a single circuit. A police call activates all lights and directs responders to the nearest phone for information. Burgess and Police Committee chose the red light system as affordable and satisfactory, noting city telephone networks would be costly to install and rent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lightcap Electric Company
Police
Balm Verdict Shocks Miss Windsor in California Case
Claire Windsor loses a landmark verdict in California with Alfred G Read Jr. as the defendant. Windsor plans to appeal to the State Supreme Court citing excessive verdict and evident errors, as her attorneys argue the decision is unjust and unsupported by the evidence.
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Alfred G. Read, Jr
California
Miss Windsor
State Supreme Court
Los Angeles
INS
Claire Windsor
Marion Read
Oakland
Cal
Flower Show Here Tomorrow At Indiana Hotel
Arrangements completed for the Indiana Flower Garden Club show at the Indiana Hotel tomorrow from 1 to 9 p.m. Entries due by 9:30 a.m. Strong interest noted despite recent poor weather. Tomorrow morning entry speed aided by pre-cut blooms. Varieties include Snapdragon 12 spikes Celosia coxcomb 1 stem Celosia plumb 3 stems double nasturtiums bowl Delphinium 8 stems semi cactus dahlias 3 and 8 stems informal decorative dahlias 8. Judges Norton H H Cross Ford City H Kissinger Homer City. Prizes donated by J M Stewart Co A W Mabon & Sons Indiana Hardware Co Indiana Floral Co Willis Henderson Piarists Green Vase Floral Shoppe Mrs B B Race Mrs 8 CG Streams J Willis Wilson Frank Kring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Plower Garden Club
Indiana Hotel
Norton HH
Cross
Ford City
H. &. Kissinger
Homer City
J. M. Stewart Co
A. W. Mabon & Sons
Indiana Hardware Co
Indiana Floral Co
Willis & Henderson
B. B. Race
J. Willis Wilson
Frank Kring
DuBois Vote Machines Ready for Primary Election
Six Dubois voting machines tuned by custodian John W. McIntosh ahead of next Tuesday’s primary. Machines map party rows with Republican and Democrat on two rows each and Prohibition and Socialist on one row each. Maurice W. Trainer seeks Tax Collector in Indiana Borough as a long-time resident and World War veteran.
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Maurice W. Trainer
Indiana Borough
Indiana
Bex
Lancaster hex doctors charged with practicing medicine without license
Lancaster officials crack down on hexing and hoodoo practices. John Geigh and Charles Klinge, both 50s 70s, bound on charges of practicing medicine without a license after investigators found potions papers and a witchcraft themed kit at Geigh's home. Robert Semenow leads the case as officials vow to cleanse Lancaster.
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Lancaster
Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
Lancaster County
John S$. Geigh
Charles Klinge
Robert W. Semenow
Law Enforcement Bureau
State Department of Public Instruction
Herman Benski
Honor comes to young doctor Beck rejects clinic post
Dr W L Beck a Chirapodist has been chosen to head the Penn Foat Clinic of Pittsburgh but he will not accept as he plans to open an office in Indiana. Known as Beckie to friends he will remain in Indiana and wishes for his success. Vote for Levi Houck for Jury Commissioner, a well known farmer of Rayne Township, aged 19.
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W. L. Beck
Penn Foat
Pittsburgh
Beck
Indiana
Beckie
Levi Houck
Rayne Township
Ike Hoover Dies Suddenly at Washington
Irvin Hoad Hoover chief usher at the White House is dead at 62. His death creates an unfilled vacancy in White House staff as Roosevelt orders a White House funeral. Hoover served presidents for over four decades, guiding state events and ceremonies with trusted discretion. He helped with three presidential weddings and two funerals and accompanied Wilson on European trips. Survived by his widow and two children.
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Washington
Irvin Hoad Hoover
White House
Shoxer
Ike
Hoover
Roosevelt
Yakine
Cadttrom
Edison Company of
New Jersey
Harrison
McKinley
Taft
Dsoover
Alice Roosevelt
Nicholas Longworth
Jeanor Wilson
William G. McAdoo
Jessie Wilson
Francis Sayre
Harding
Wilson
Europe
Paris
Treasury balance report Sept 13 treasury figures
Treasury balance as of September 13 shows $1,176,527,886.83 with miscellaneous receipts and customs inflows. M I R credit stands at $2,424,628.87 and custom receipts amount to $12,708,746.41.
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Washington
INS
Treasury
Bank Bandit Identified as Zeberick in 1925 Robbery
Lawrence Waltour of Vandergrift Savings and Trust Co. positively identified Westmoreland county jail inmate Alex Zeberick as one of the bandits who in 1925 beat teller Walthour and fled with 75000 in currency. Zeberick, a 40 year old sandy blond, 5 foot 8 and 155 pounds, is married and was arrested in Cleveland before extradition to Westmoreland. Local trooper in charge confirms prior investigation and current case.
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Lawrence Waltour
Vandergrift Savings and Trust Company
Pepalty
Eld
Westmoreland County
Greensburg
Alex C. Zeberick
Walthour
John J. Tomek
Troop A
State Police
Zeberick
Cleveland
Compromise Agreement, Wage Contract Promised: President By Night
Fayette County fields today report a coal strike still volatile as violence flares and a miner was fatally beaten while en route to work. State police moved a large force into Uniontown to supervise the strike zone, aiming to quell rioting and restore order amid threats and gunfire.
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Uniontown
C. H. Yauger
H.C. Frick Coke Company
Edenborn
Wanger
Mt. Pleasant
Westmoreland
Everett Doyingen
Uniontown, Pa
Western Pennsylvania
Fayette County
Code Signing Aims To End Bloody Strife In Labor Talks
Washington dispatch reports a Department of Justice and Labor Department inquiry on the Pennsylvania situation, with President Roosevelt awaiting a code of fair competition. Union leaders push for an oil coal relation in the code as negotiations continue. John Kay hints at action, while Ickes is considered for a coal czar role in the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt Tada
Potomac
Reed
John
NRA
Ickes
Coal Code Deadlock Broken By Roosevelts Night Pact
Washington reports a late night compromise ending a coal strike threat as operators and union leaders agree on a coal code and wage contract to be signed by President Roosevelt. Officials say the agreement halts potential spread of strikes to other coal regions and brings immediate fuel stability. Gifford Pinchot reports steady quiet in Pennsylvania coal areas after battles earlier in the week.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
White House
Hugh Sys
Heavy Penalties Face Thieves Who Steal From Farms
Pennsylvania officials note farm theft is a serious offense under the 1925 Farm Stealing Act. Penalties include up to 500 dollars and a maximum three year jail term. Farmers urged to report incidents to local police or state police promptly.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
General Assembly
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Saltsburg
Standard Oil
R. Delmont Fisher
Milk Man
TAX League
Claire
Ike” Hoover
Lynn G. Adams
Gov. Pinchot
Harrisburg
J. C. Mauk
Butler
Mawk
Mauk
Charles C. Keller
Carl Stahl
Lee
Morewoad
H. CU. Frick Coke Company
Lutheran Church
Sion
Pennsylvani
Dent ‘Oosevelt
Department of Justice
Labor Department
Roog
Pinchot
William
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Bill
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