Homer City man convicted in officer's death
Nikola Harchenko of Homer City was found guilty on involuntary manslaughter and failing to stop after his car struck Graceton policeman Earl R. Myers on the Indiana Blairsville road near Grace ton. The jury returned the verdict at 2 15 p m after a trial that began Thursday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nikola Harchenko
Homer City
Earl R. Myers
Graceton
Hatchenko
Indiana
Blairsville
J. N. Langham
Harchenko
Taft Sayes
Girard
Leroy
Lynn Barney
Hayes
Christian Education Banquet Promised in Indiana County
The Christian Education and Teachers' Training banquet of the Indiana County Sabbath School Association will be held Tuesday evening, September 20, at 5 30 o clock in the Presbyterian Church. All interested in Christian education urged to attend. A table reserved for graduates of the Standard Training Course in the county. Program led by Miss Leona Kline with minutes, treasurer’s report, officer election, address on Training the Leadership by Rev Charles W Cochran of Apollo Pa. Prayers by Rev Mclvaine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana County Sabbath School Association
Presbyterian Church
Leona Kline
Helen’ Norstein
Sec
Wallace Chapman
German rescue ace missing after Arctic search
Berlin dispatch reports Ernest Udet, famed German air ace, disappeared while aiding a coast Greenland distress search for the Hutchinson Family. He volunteered from Godthaab after the distress signal. Udet, once the war’s most daring German flyer, had joined an Arctic film project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Ernest Udet
Hutchinson
Greenland
Udet
Godthaab
Baron Richthofen
State Birth Rate Declines in First Half of 1932
Harrisburg report shows birth rate about 17.8 for the first six months of 1932 with 84,616 births and an estimated total 170,000 for the year. Downward trend spans ten years, public health nurses push preschool vaccinations, tonsil and adenoid removals, eye treatments, and defect corrections. Seedling shipments for reforestation will come from four state nurseries for fall planting. Dr Biehl, chiropodist, at Hotel Indiana on Sept 20th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Emlyn Jones
Bureau of Vital Athlletics
State Department of Health
Pennsylvania State Department of Health
Elden Leads 40 and 8 Society In Portland
John A. Elden, a Cleveland lawyer, was elected national head of the 40 and 80 society of the American Legion at the Portland Oregon convention. He said he would launch a drive for 50 000 members and promote a national boxing program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Elden
Society of the American Legion
Portland
Ore
Elden
Cleveland
Good Season for Forest Fires But They're None
Forest officials report a dry ground in the Gallatin district matching 1930 drought conditions, yet few fires. Deep-burning fires perplex foresters as surface flames stay weak but roots and trees die, with occasional trees toppled in minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallitgin
C. B. Zerby
Silagnon
Tie
DuBois Death and Murdered Wife to Rest in Same Cemetery
Charles Edwin DuBois shot himself after his wife Edith M. L. Dubois was found murdered in a Plymouth Mass cellar. Both to be buried in Quincy, with DuBois’ will leaving property to his New York mother. Attorney says contents of a letter to his lawyer may not be ethical to reveal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Mars
Charles B. DuBois
Plymouth
Jeremiah J. McAnarney
DuBois
New York City
Dorothy Ducas
Mass
Charles Edwin Dubois
Edith M. L. Dubois
McAnarney
Jules Dubois
Johns Hall
New England
Death notices for George Snyder and Clark Marshall in Blairsville
George Snyder 66 of Blairsville died at Homeopathic Hospital Pittsburgh after an operation. He worked 43 years with Pennsylvania Railroad mainly on Indiana Branch. Survived by two sons Harry and Albert, a daughter May, a sister Mrs John Jamison. funeral in Blairsville conducted by Rev Jrom Stuart, interment Greenwood Indiana. Clark Gettis Marshall 76 of Plumville died after weeks of illness at his home. Born December 6 1855, he lived in South Mahoning then Plumville, was an elder in Presbyterian Church of Plumville for 10 years.
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George D. Snyder
Indiana
Blairsville
Homeopathic
Pittsburgh
Mr. Snyder
Pennsylvania Railroad
First Presbyterian Church of
Harry Snyder
Albert Snyder
Freeport
May
William Steele
John M. Jamison
Snyder
Steele
East Brown Street
Jrom Stuart
Greenwood Cemetery
Clark Gettis Marshall
Plaraville
South Mahoning Township
Plumville
Presbyterian Church of
Plunyillg
Pretty dancer Mlle Ria Rubens linked to Rubens name
Pretty as a painting, Mlle Ria Rubens is a popular European dancer seated above. She is a descendant of Peter Paul Rubens, the famed Flemish painter, though she does not paint.
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Mlle Ria Rubens
Ria
Peter Paul Rubens
Twelve fairs listed for week in September
Harrisburg reports twelve fairs scheduled across Pennsylvania for September 1924. The dates span Sept 20 through Sept 24 with towns including Crawford County entries Cochranton Linesville Townville and others, plus Allentown Mansfield Honesdale Gratz McConnellsburg and West Lampeter among listed locales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Bureau of Statistics and Information
Pennsylvania
Erie Gangsters Get Long Terms
Erie. Two gangsters, Wilbur Umnitz and George Zimmer, head to Western Penitentiary under heavy guard with sentences totaling 49 to 75 years. Umnitz, 28, convicted of his fourth robbery, faces 33 to 55 years. Zimmer, 26, 16 to 20 years. Also, 34 dry law offenders pleaded guilty in federal court, including two former State Troopers, Jesse L. and Louis King, each fined 100 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Western Penitentiary
Wilbur Umnitz
George Zimmer
Umnitz
William E. Hirt
Zimmer
Franklin
Jesse L
Louis King
Theodore Nistor
Eric
Law observance and youth respect in Indiana Chest appeal
The Indiana Community Chest promotes law observance as essential to civilization and government. It argues enforcement fails without citizen recognition of social duty and urges support for character building agencies addressing the lack of respect for law among the young.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Community Chest
Indiana Chest
Pennsylvania GOP backs repeal of 18th Amendment
Curtis told state Republicans in Allentown that repeal of the 18th Amendment and state control of liquor are favored, with immediate Volstead Act modification but no state enforcement act. The party praised legislative savings of about 17 million dollars and endorsed several statewide and judicial candidates. SHG Batya Tetradent contrasted farm relief records of parties and praised Hoover while Curtis urged a national cooperative farm relief system and blamed Roosevelt for lacking a farm plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allentown
Pennsylvania
Hoover
James J. Davis
U. S
Charles A. Waters
Frank E. Baldwin
William B. Linn
Supreme Court
William M. Parker
Arthur H. James
Joseph Stadtete
Superior Court
SHG Batya Tetra Dent
United States
Curtis
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Man 71 Dies After Suicide Attempt in Ellwood City
James Mondell, 71, died in Ellwood City today from a fractured skull after a suicide attempt gone wrong. He tied a clothesline to a cellar beam and stepped from a chair. the rope broke and he died within minutes. The item also notes a square dance at Rocky Glen with John Warner calling and a Sunday concert by Shaffer's Royal Entertainers in Johnstown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellwood City
James Mondell
Mondell
Rocky Glen
Park
John Warner
Shaffer
Arlington teen crowned queen at dairy festival
Ann Elizabeth Davies of Arlington County Virginia smiles for the camera after being chosen as Regina U to reign as Queen at the second Piedmont Virginia Dairy Festival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Elizabeth Davies
Arlington County
Regina U
France to back Hoover one third arms cut
Paris Sept 17 France ready to accept President Hoover proposed one third reduction in armaments Premier Edouard Herriot told the foreign relations committee of the Chamber of Deputies. The premier spoke on the eve of his Geneva trip to join disarmament conference steering committee discussions.
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Arno Dosch-Fleurot
INS
Paris
France
Hoovers
Edouard Herriot
Foreign Relations Commission
Chamber of Deputies
Geneva
Chamber
United States
Herriot
Commission
Berlin
Boy Adds to Hollywood Family with 7 Pound Son
The Hollywood home of Stuart Irwins welcomes a seven pound son, adding a new member to moviedom’s leading circle. June Collyer is noted among the mothers in the industry, marking a celebratory moment for the film world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
June Collyer
Hollywood
Stuart Erwins
Tate brothers held after confession in brutal Uniontown murder
In Uniontown on September 17, police held George Tate 19 and his brothers Sam 17 and John 24 after George allegedly confessed to ambushing and killing their father, a 68 year old cattle dealer, in a mountain hideaway. Loot of 160 dollars split among the trio followed the slaying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uniontown
INS
Tater
George Tate
Sam
John
George
Tate
Idense
Ting
Moi
Extradition Papers Signed For Murder Suspect Return
Extradition papers signed by Gov Gifford Pinchot were sent to Hartford for the return to Indiana County of Michael Thath who confessed to stabbing Andrew Buydos to death in Shanktown Green Township. District Attorney William M Ruddock Sheriff A Eugene Wilson and Detective Harry B Koozer took the papers and were to await Connecticut governor approval before bring Thath back for trial on murder charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Govsernor Gifford Pinchot
Indiana
Michael Thath
New Britain Conn
Andrew Buydos
Shanktown
Green Township
Hartford
William, M. Ruddock
A. Eugene Wilson
Harry B. Koozer
Connecticut
F. M. Fritccman
Tkach
Three Guilty as Witnesses Involve Blairsville Man
Ebensburg Sept 17 Three men who pleaded guilty testify as commonwealth witnesses in Cambria county criminal court against Alphonse Wargelle former Blairsville policeman charged with directing or taking part in robberies in Westmont Johnstown last fall Wargelle is linked to thefts at Robert Shaffer home in late November and Abram Rose home October 27 Jack Kiedy now jailed for a year testified he and Wargelle discussed robberies in the Johnstown area Wright and Buazinotti also pleaded guilty and testified they shared in the spoils Contnurd on Rage
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ebensburg
Commonwealth
Alphonse Wargelle
Blairsville
Samuel Lemmon Reed
Cambria County
Westmont
Johnstown
Wazelle
Robert Shaffer
Abram
Rose
Jack Kiedy
Blacklick
M . Wright
Alfred Buazinotli
W Ae
Bugsinotti
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Capitol News
Department of Forests and Waters
Charles R. Meek
Bureau of Forest Extension
Dr. Biehl
Hotel iIndiana
Mrs
Edith Dubois
Charles E. Dubois
George Snyder
H. C. Wolford
Atlanta
Internal Revenue
H. C. Galster
Wolford
Bradford
Boy Scouting and Community Chest
Fogelsville
E. L. Rawley
T. R. Stnavesan
Dley
Decatur Taser
Tasker
Parts Co., Inc
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