Democrats in Sinclairs Lap Power Shift At California Convention
California Democrats move to place Upton Sinclair at the 1934 convention helm with a modified platform. Creel drafted changes seek to tone down Sinclair era extremes while keeping key reforms such as tax shifts and home exemptions. The plan aims to unite factions by pledging support for Roosevelt and opposing socialism or dictatorship.
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Ross Marsitall
INS
Sacramento
Cal
Upton Sinclair
California
Sinclair
Taladena
George Creel
Creal
Roosevelt
Creel
Torture Duo Found Guilty In Ardendash Robbery Case
Trial room details reveal Stratigos, blinded and wearing dark glasses, testified against the convicted men. Ardendash residents and a fourth participant remain at large as authorities close the case.
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Ardendash
Stratigos
Alagna Tells of Liner Unrest
Dr Goettler describes testimony on unrest aboard a liner, recounting efforts to document possible poisonings. He notes limited evidence after cremation, the lack of vital organs, and trace metals in bones possibly from melting metal, while explaining petition efforts and police advice on signatures.
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Hackney
Dr. Goettler
Ship crew testimony details survival, mutiny, and peril aboard
Testimony centers on Captain Willmott's death and a charred body identified as his, while Macon and other ship operators recount discoveries of combustible polish used near the radio shack. Alagna describes past strikes, duress to compel hiring, and demands for higher pay, private rooms, and broader duties.
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Ney Martin Gonboy
Willmott
Macon
Marero Castle
Loremor
Radio Shack
Alagna
Ife
New York
Rogers
Torreson
Ward Line
Radio Marine Corporation
Hoe
Gabau
Hoover
Ouhr
Anti-Japanese threats erupt in Salt River Valley
In Arizona's Salt River Valley, night riders in automobiles warned Japanese colonists to leave by sunset. A dynamite bomb failed to explode at D. Tadano's home. hours later a bomb damaged T. Ishakawa's house and irrigation ditch while men fired high powered rifles. Two other tenants received similar warnings.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Port
Gory
Mocur
T. Ishakawa
Sunser
Morro Castle witness reveals inflamable polish use on ship
Alagna testifies that Catnu admitted demands and a reform he was unaware of. He details the night of the fire, describes finding fire in the radio shack at 3 a.m., and admits the presence of combustible polish and kerosene stored behind the radio shack, known to sailors, amid questions about hidden inflammables aboard the Morro Castle.
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Alagna
Catnu
Hoover
Willmott
Rogers
Maki
Radio Shack
Morro Castle
Peraon
Relief Endgame Seen as Aid Persists Past Session
Governor administration completes relief efforts with 5.6 million dollars from liquor profits, enabling continued federal aid to provide food fuel and clothing for the jobless through January 31, 1935, a month after the regular session opens. Governor Pinchot’s five Public Service Commissioners are confirmed after a tense Senate battle. relief bills pass largely along party lines as debate flags legality of using earmarked funds.
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Pinchot
Public Service
Senate
Public Service Commission
Jhenry J. Snyder
Lehigh
False Teeth Dangers and Daily Care Advice
A fragmented ad-like notice warns readers about teeth slipping and discomfort from dentures. It recommends a specific product, urging use with daily care, while cautioning against improper handling and offering a drugstore solution for secure fit.
Senate pay bill battle tests home rule precedent
The Senate faced a fierce argument over a salary bill granting $300 per legislator with added transportation and per diem. Senators Buckman and Harria sought to overturn or degrade the vote while others accused critics of turning politics onto the floor. The measure was sent back to the appropriations committee and a caucus stretched long as leaders pressed to trim provisions.
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Washington
Jean On
Bertram G. Frazier
Samuel W. Salas
Harry Shapiro
Philadelphia
Clarence Buckman
Bucks
Snyder
Senate
Buckman
Frank Harria
Allegheny
Appropriations Committee
Full Program of Features and Speeches Ready Firs and Full
A detailed rundown of an election rally program outlines Invocations by Rev J A McCamey of the Methodist Episcopal Church Indiana and remarks by Senator Edward Bennett and State Chairman M Harvey Taylor with other Republican speakers including David A Reed and William A Schnader. Local candidates will attend without addresses. Also notes pioneer ox roaster Kellar Harris with a long record and future roasts including 127 to date.
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Harry Scott
Frank MM. Trexler
Superior Court
Taylor
S. M. R. O'Hara
Harrisburg
H. B. Buterbaugh
Kellar Harris
Indiana County
Rudolph
Apollo
Mr. Harris
Indiana
Smicksburg
John P. Edkin
Bald Eagle
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company
Tyrone
Presidential Interference In Strike Forecast
The mob faced a five month jail term while six other pickets were arrested at Lewiston Maine as a flying squadron tried to draw out loyal workers. Governor Braun refused martial law, pledging to defend strikers and mills with impartiality. In Saylesville Rhode Island calmer scenes as 300 to 400 workers entered Sales Finishing Company under National Guard protection. Passaic Valley manufacturers warned 13 000 dye plant workers of civil suits if the planned walkout violated a current union contract. Danbury Connecticut precedent saw employers win a bitter court fight with many strikers losing homes to judgments. Galileo invented thermometers in 4a.
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Lewistown
Lewiston
Gov. Braun
Saylesville
R. I
National Guardsmen
Passaic Valley
New Jersey
Danbury
Conn
Fog Fatal To Girl Passenger
A heavy fog caused a Franklin Meadville Highway crash killing Dorothy Montgomery ten and injuring five others including two in critical condition. Driver Lawrence Carter twenty eight and his brother Edward were hospitalized in Germantown. Frances Rice seventeen sustained numerous fractures. her sister Sarah Rice twenty one was less injured. Authorities noted a prior fatal crash on a Sandy Lake road involving Dorothy Miller seventeen and Chauncey Brakeman nineteen on a similar curve.
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Franklin
Meadville- Franklin
Dorothy Montgomery
Guy Montgomery
Lawrence Carter
Edward
Germantown
Jack Beddow
Frances Rice
Sarah Rice
Dorothy Miller
Chauncey Brakeman
Sandy Lake Road
Lesson 2 Of Soft Coal Mining Course
James Horvath outlines questions for a soft coal mining course in Connellsville, covering barren seams, coal clarity, cleavage, slips, current seam, smokeless coal, domestic coal, permissible explosives, standards, temperature effects, gas risks, weight limits, state versus federal mining agencies, term distinctions, inspector roles, specific gravity in mining, dangerous roots, and the number of known coal seams in Pennsylvania.
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James Horvath
Connellsville i
State Department of Mines
U. S. Bureau of Mines
State and Company
Pennsylvania
Johnston nurse awaits balm verdict in Greensburg case
Kathryn Sloan a 79 year old Johnstown nurse testified she divorced her husband to pursue an earlier romance with Greensburg dentist Dr Theodore Leatherman. Sloan recalled their friendship began in 1921 and ended after Easter Sunday 1938. Leatherman denied the allegations.
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Greensburg
Theodore Leatherman
Kathryn Sloan
Johnstown
Miss Sloan
Jim
Leatherman
Merapi Volcano Erupts. Residents Flee to Coast
In Batavia Java on September 20 authorities reported Merapi volcano unleashing glowing lava blocks hurled toward the coast. Hundreds of villagers fled in panic as a dense cannonade of volcanic projectiles threatened a major eruption.
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Batavia
Java
Phantom slayer D'Ascanio indicted in Wheeling mill deaths
Steubenville dispatch reports David D Ascanio alias Casco was jailed awaiting trial after a grand jury indicted him for first degree murder in three Wheeling Steel plant killings. The victims were Fred Melsheimer 38 Ray Wockendarfer 44 and William Messer 36.
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Steubenville
Ins
Wheeling Steel Corporation
David D'Ascanio Allas Casco
Gran Jury
Fred Melshaimer
Ray Wockendarfer
William Messer
Former state officer found guilty in fraud case
Sidney J. Winegrad, former secretary of the State Employees' Retirement Fund and former head of the Corporation Bureau, Department of State, was found guilty of fraudulent conversion and forgery in a sealed Dauphin county court verdict reached after about an hour of jury deliberation.
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Harrisburg
Sidney J. Winegrad
Secre
State Employes’ Retirement Fund
Corporation Bureau
Department of State
Dauphin County
Mae West and Marlene Dietrich End Feud in Hollywood Meeting
Mae West and Marlene Dietrich reconciled after a dressing room confrontation in Hollywood. The pair, long estranged since Dietrich's Europe interview, met on the Paramount lot and ended their feud yesterday.
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Hollywood
Ins
Mae West
Marlene Dietrich
Paramount
Europe
Tour of Fruit Orchards Near Homer City and Blairsville
Thirty five fruit growers toured Thomas K. George’s twenty five acre orchard southeast of Homer City and A Woodward Smith’s Blairsville area farm. They learned about crop prospects, history, and disease and insect injury identification led by Penn State experts. Prizes were awarded for quiz results and dahlias celebrated a social hour amid Mr. Smith’s flower garden.
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Thomas K. George
Homer City
Mr. George
A. Woodward Smith
Blairsville
Mr. Smith
John BP. Stewart
Department of Experimental Horticulture
Penn State
Dr. Stewart
Smokehouse
Smith
L. T. Denniston
L. E. Dills
Ed A. Murray
Punxsutawney
H. W. Stonebraker
White Township
Mrs. Smith
Obituary notices from Shiloh Church and multiple deaths
The obituary lists Shiloh Church member Mrs. Stitt and her family, notes her church work and two weeks illness. Funeral notices cover INKA BAY BARTLEBAUGH as three months old, JO H BELY in Arcadia, and MRS. RURY M. CANN near Hastings with a large survivor list. MISS MARGARET MARY STROING, Grace ton native, dies after six weeks, with services in St. Francis Church and Graceton cemetery.
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Arcadia
Rury M. Cann
Elder Township
Hastings
James
Laura Kough
Harry Cann
Goalport
Thomas Ebbs
Clarence
Harry
Dan Kough
Nant-y-Glo
Thomas Kough
Bolivar
William Iinley
Shuber
Caalport
Union Cemetery
John R. Barton
Hastings Methodist Episcopal Church
St. Francis Church
Matthew Yonosek
Graceton Cemetery
Roosevelt Faces Heavy Schedule on Textile Strike and NRA Redesign
President Roosevelt, aboard Vincent Astor’s Nourmahal near Hyde Park, plans a full day of meetings with Secretary Frances Perkins and Governor John Winant on textile strike mediation and NRA reorganization. Perkins and Richberg pressed for faster reform while Winant provides strike data for the mediation board.
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Edward B. Lockett
INS
Hyde Park
Roosevelt
NRA
Vincent Astor
Nourmahal
Newport
Frances Perkins
John Winant
New Hampshire
Special Mediation Board
Miss Perkins
Winant
Perkins
NRA Coungel
Donald R. Richberg
Textile Special Mediation Board
Nazarene Revival Continues With Hancock and Ross
Revivals at Willett Nazarene continue with Evangelist Ira J. Hancock noted as an engaging speaker. Harold Ross of the National Music Academy of New York City and the American Guild of Organists of Pittsburgh will provide solo voice and organ. This evening features Mendelssohn’s Prelude and Song Without Words in G minor.
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Willett Nazarene
Willet Nazarene
Ira J. Hancock
Harold Ross
National Music Academy of New York City
American Guild of Organists of Pittsburgh
Mendelssohn
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