Free Press Denies Press Gag Threats and Industry Shifts
Rochester publisher Frank Gannett defends a free press against supposed threats from Senator Minton while noting the Associated Press is a cooperative with broad representation. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a state committee reports net gains for industry over the past 3.5 years, with 74 establishments and 4,600 jobs created, led by clothing, textiles, steel, and related sectors, and payrolls rising.
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Rochester
Frank Gannett
Gannett
Senator Minton
D-Ind
Minton
Press of America
Supreme Court
Associated Press
Harrisburg
Democratic State Committee
Pennsylvania
Federal-State Employment Service
Bureau of Inspection
State Department of Labor and Industry
Chambers of Commerce
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Chamberlain Goes Home From Crisis Talks
Britain sails largest fleet in 15 years as Chamberlain returns to peace talks with Hitler amid Czechoslovakia crisis. Paris orders 300000 more troops. Moscow watches terse moves in central Europe as Germany presses demands.
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London
Britain
Chamberlain
Hig
Adolf Witler
Europe
In Vergordon
France
Godesberg
Czechoslovakia
Hitler
Downing Street
Viscount Halifax
Europe braces as Mussolini warns of danger and Poland moves
Reports from Geneva note Litvinov remarks on possible Soviet aid to a Polish-Soviet agreement while Poland’s border tensions with Czechoslovakia and threats from Germany loom. Pravda cites executions in Moscow. Mussolini cautions followers to ready for war as Berlin presses Prague for a reply and a broader regional crisis unfolds. In Budapest American and British legations evacuate amid border closures and Czech Hungary military posturing.
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Urs
Soviet Union
Europe
Czechoslovakia
France
Maxim Litvinoff
Geneva
Russia
Poland
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Hitler
Joseph Stalin
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Enger
Opaan
Trotsky
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Budeten
Duce
Germany
Hiller
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Prague
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Budapest
United States
Trieste
Italy
Adriatic Sea
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Hungary
Mobilization and border clashes in Europe escalate in 1836 reports
Reports describe French mobilization as precautionary with reservists called from the Army and Air Force to bolster northeastern frontiers. Daladier requisitioned trucks and autos, while tensions rise near Czechoslovakia as Sudeten forces clash with Czech patrols. German rail restrictions disrupt Asch area supplies and rationing begins amid a broad mobilization of up to 1.5 million in response to German pressure. Premier Mussolini announces Germany’s six day ultimatum to Czechoslovakia setting Oct. 1 as expiry.
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Maginot
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Toops
Asch
Czechoslovak
Eger
Edvard Benes
Jan Surovy
Padua
Italy
Mussolini
Death Calls L A Patterson and Local Obituaries
Death calls L A Patterson. Retired Indiana County farmer John Emery Stiles of Dilltown dies at 68 after 8:10 PM. Survived by widow Mina McPeeters Stiles, sons Jesse and Herbert, six grandchildren, and two brothers. Funeral Monday at Dilltown Baptist Church. interment Armagh. Also noted are memorials for Jacob R Speicher 73 of Ebensburg and Lyle Clark Ealy 31 of Barnesboro with funeral plans in Ebensburg and Cassopolis respectively.
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John Emery Stiles
Indiana County
Dilldown
Mr. Stiles
Buffington Township
William
Agnes Stiles
Mina (McPeeters) Stiles
Jesse
Seward
Hersbert
Dilltown
Clayton Stiles
Cramer
Homer Stiles
Dilltown Baptist Church
Armagh
Triple threat traffic jams flood Pittsburgh area
September 24 Pittsburgh faced a triple threat traffic disruption as Pitt Stadium hosted Pitt Panthers versus West Virginia University drawing thousands, Forbes Field near-sellout anticipated for Pirates vs Reds, and Allegheny County’s Centennial Parade of Progress deploying 200 traffic officers plus 40 motorcycle patrols to manage the crowd.
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Pittsburgh
West Viteginia
Pitt Stadium
Pitt Panthers
West Virginia University
Forbes Field
Pittsburgh Pirates
Cincinnati Reds
Allegheny County
Charles L. Dye
Dr Lyle C Ealy obituary and career notes
Prospect Hill Cemetery reports Dr Ealy's death after four years of illness. Born October 1, 1907 in Cambria County, he attended Barnesboro High School 1925, State College 1930, Temple University School of Medicine, and joined the Babcock Surgical Society. He was Temple Medical School's first intern at Graduate Hospital Philadelphia. Vandergrift resident U Lincoln Jones dies of heart attack at 56. Born in Tunnelton, he served in WW II with 80th and Rainbow divisions, survived by wife Eunice and two sons. Funeral Monday at 2 pm led by Rev W Clyde Barnes, burial in Edgewood Cemetery, Sallsburg.
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Prospect Hill Cemetery
That City
Ealy
Cambria County
Barnesboro High School
State College
School of Medicine
Temple University
Babcock Surgical Society
Lyle C. Ealy
Temple Medical School
Interneship
Graduate Hospital
Philadelphia
U. Lincoln Jones
Vandergrift
Carnegie-Ilingis Steel Company
U. Lincoln Jones J
Hamilton Avenue
Jones
Tunnelton
Joe Ambrose
Margaret Miller Jones
First Presbyterian Church
The
American
Texas
W. Clyde Barnes
Presbyterian Church
Edgewood
Sallsburg
Green School Plans Win 0. K
Morton said the woman later told him Andrenck was wounded during a scuffle for a rifle. The prosecutor charged she had a jealous consuming love. During noon recess word spread that Mrs. Hartman broke down. Defense Attorney Thompson said she was ready to plead guilty. Judge Waychoff initially ordered Western Penitentiary, then changed to the women’s industrial home. Mrs. Hartman, mother of three, had been freed by a Cleveland jury last year after claiming self defense in the slaying of her husband in a Cleveland park. She declared he deserted her and the children as she fired four duillets into Hayt man’s body.
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Clevelate
Haytman
Philadelphia Banker Slain at Home in Suspected Murder
William Paravano, 53, a swier at Girard Bank Note Co, was shot twice above the heart at his Philadelphia home. Police say it was undoubted murder and search for an unidentified visitor heard by Paravano’s daughter Cecile, who heard the doorbell before the sounds of gunfire. The daughter alerted a nearby grocer, and officers located the fleeing visitor.
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Philadelphia
William Paravano
Girard Bank Note Company
John Scull
Paravana
Cecile
Scull
Saul
Ten Bundles of Evidence in Movie Legislation Inquiry
A House committee renewed focus on charges that Sunday movie legislation was sold. Former Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti testified and named possible players while the panel sought bank and Warner Brothers records to verify a $100,000 check linked to Albert M. Greenfield and a broader $100,000 sum. The inquiry, directed at Finance build work, may release new information today as Margiotti remains on the witness stand.
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Charles J. Marisiatti
Margiotti
House Committee
Herman B. Cohen
William Jones
Philadelphia
Warner Brothers
James Assails Earle's Malicious Policies Toward Industry
ROBE TREE Sept. 24 James, Republican candidate for governor, assails Governor Earle over his four year rule and policies toward industry. He says Earle has crippled industries, driven unemployment up, and blamed the machine age while promising idle workers will rise. James argues the machine age is Pennsylvania’s future, not a bogeyman.
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Robe ‘Tree
Arthur H. S James
Earle
James
Delaware County
Govenor
Mr. Earle
Harrisburg
Columbia
Pennsylvania
Testimony Details Alleged State Department Alterations
Margiotti testified about alleged illegal purchases by the Department of Property and Supplies and said former secretary Arthur Colegrove raised truck prices by 700 dollars to 3500 dollars to fund a contribution to the Democratic state committee. He claimed rock asphalt on state projects was unsatisfactory and could have been purchased for four dollars a ton. The committee warned him to stick to direct evidence and avoid leads. Abram Salsburg claimed the committee had been fed false leads and sent on a wild goose chase.
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Margiotti
Department of Property and Supplies
Arthur Colegrove
Colezrove
Democratic State Committee
Calegrove
Sli Aton
Abram Salsburg
Long illness ends in death in Greenwood Cemetery Indiana
Boston will preside at the funeral for the widow of Alfred Johnston who died a year earlier. A lifelong resident except for Taylorsville years she was active in Center Presbyterian Church and Ladies Art and Women’s Missionary Societies. Surviving are son Murray E Johnston and daughter Mrs J E Faith, both at home.
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Boston
Greenwood Cemetery
Indiana
Alfred Johnston
Taylorsville
Center Presbyterian Church
Ladies’ Art and Women’s Missionary Societies
Murray E. Johnston
J. E. Faith
Roosevelt and New Deal rally in Pennsylvania politics
In a radio address Senator Joseph F Farley claims Tory capitalists concede labor parity as Roosevelt's term nears 1941. Pennsylvania electioneering features Earle and Jones urging Negro voters to back the Democratic ticket as they campaign across counties and towns. The rhetoric targets tax policy, corporate holdings, and state utility regulation amid a close fall campaign.
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Guffey
Harrisburg
Sept
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U. S
Joseph F. Farley
Pennsylvania
Earle
Jones
MT. Gretna
Charles Alvin Jones
Perry County
James J. Davis
Port Royal
Hemlocks Park
Norristown
Barte
Williamsport
Sleeping Beauty Enters Fourth Year Aftercoma Miracle
CHICAGO SEPT 24 A measles attack left two year old Mary Ellen Reardon in a six month coma diagnosed as sleeping sickness She slowly improved feeding by tube and could sip foods later her eyes opened but did not track her mother or respond to spoken words Now she shows faint movements and her mother promises a birthday cake on October 17 when she turns three years old
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Chicago
Mary Ellen Reardon
Markets Produce and Livestock Reports from Pittsburgh and Chicago
Pittsburgh market notes show slow demand for apples and potatoes with various grades steady to slightly higher, while livestock volumes include 1200 hogs with 1100 direct, and limited cattle and sheep trading. Chicago wheat futures retreat after early gains amid war tension, with broad grains moving lower on volatile trading and a heavy selling wave.
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Pittsburgh
N. Y
Idaho
Atalns
Chicago
Plans for Chest Meet Outline Campaign Start
Members of the Community Chest boards met at Campaign headquarters for campaign planning and schedule reviews. The general campaign opens October 10 with pre campaign detail work led by Mrs. Jose Work and assistants. Early Bird breakfast on October 10 will unite all agencies with report meetings set for Tuesday Thursday and Friday evenings.
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Community Chest
Tuefany
Ralph W. McCreary
Charles F. Gimare
Jose Work
Uime
Indiana
Harry J. Buchheit
Harry B. Boyd
C. Farm Steel
Ward U Johnson
J. A. Lubold
J. M. Abler
Teachers College
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