Akron Gang Sought Ties In $120000 Mail Robberies
Ohio authorities join federal and state officers in tracing a Warren Ohio mail truck robbery with Butler Pennsylvania and Akron gang activity. A pouch with over 50000 in bonds and more than 120000 total loot was found on Portage lakes, linking to similar August 1934 and August thefts.
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Butler
R. V. Kelley
Philadelphia
Samuel May
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Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank
Republic Steep Corp
Portage Lakes Drive
New Pennsy Chief Named to Succeed Atterbury
Martin W. Clement, vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, named to succeed William Wallace Atterbury as president. Clement has been acting head since Atterbury fell ill a year ago.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
William Wallace Atterbury
Clement
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Pennsylvania
Atterbury
Ickes to Lead New U. S. Public Works Board
Secretary Ickes heads the president’s round table on the $4 billion public works fund. The new Works Allotment Division will select and route projects, with final approval by the president, apart from the relief head under FERA who will be a different official.
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Secretary of Interior
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Round Table
Public Works Fund
Works Allotment Division
Frank C. Walker
Roosevelt
Relief
Harry L. Hopkins
FERA
New Castle Grid Team to Open Spring at Taggart Stadium
North Jefferson street police enhance station surroundings while New Castle high school prepares for the upcoming fall grid season. The first of three spring night games at Taggart stadium pits New Castle against Aliquip pa high school with a largely new lineup. Peach trees bloom nationwide as traffic lines are repainted and parking zones marked.
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Taggart Stadium
Aliquippa High School
New Castle
Daily Weather Report Summary
United States weather report for the 24 hour period ending at 9 this morning records a maximum 68 and minimum 31 with no precipitation and a river stage of 4 feet. Comparable data from the same date last year shows a maximum 47 and minimum 30.
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U. S
Youth Who Shot Parents To Get Test For Sanity
Howard Pierson 20 confessed murderer of his parents after a long police interview. District Attorney James P. Hart says if Pierson is not proven insane he will be prosecuted fully and plans to seek an insanity examination and possible electric chair. Dr. Joe Wooten called Pierson a dementia praecox sufferer. The statement describing the double slaying on a country road near Austin is being kept confidential pending the sanity test.
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Tex
Howard Pierson
William A. Pierson
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James P. Hart
Young Pierson
Joe Wooten
Hart
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New York NRA Act Ruled Unconstitutional by Court of Appeals
Albany April 26 The Court of Appeals voted four to three to strike down New York state NRA act, upholding a 1935 legislative amendment aimed at removing unconstitutional features. Governor Lehman is expected to sign the bill in light of the ruling.
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N. Y
Court of Appeals
New York State
Appellate Division
Lehman
South Side merchants adopt eastern standard time
The South Side Board of Trade voted to observe eastern standard time and not use daylight savings time. Members will extend the change to nonmembers in the area who are expected to follow the new time standard.
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South Side
State May Not Get Much Of U S Work Fund
Harrisburg April 26 Pennsylvania may be unable to obtain much of the 4 880 000 000 federal works fund due to state constitutional borrowing limits Governor George H Earle said today The governor warned that monies other than highway projects may come as loans rather than grants risking limited relief aid for the state He noted the need to repay funds within two years if loans are used and cited ongoing disputes over taxation with the Republican senate majority
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
George H. Earle
Intercollegiate Conference On Government
Washington
State Department
Robert L. Johnson
Senate
Historic Capitol Burns in Oregon Fire
Salem Oregon April 26 Oregon's historic capitol building opened in 1878 and cost 750000 was a blaze scarred shell. Floyd McMullen a Williamette University student firefighter died after being struck by a falling cornice. Damage estimated at 2500000 bonds saved total 3000000 moved to a bank. Tax records valued at 1000000 declared lost.
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Ore
Oregon
Floyd McMullen
Hermiston
Williamette University
County Treasurer Candidate Killed in Blair County
Hollidaysburg Pa April 26 John W Oates 55 former assistant cashier of Citizens National Bank Blair County treasurer candidate was killed when his car plunged over a cliff into forty feet of water in an abandoned quarry near Williamsburg His body was found erect in the driver's seat in the wreckage
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Citizens National Bank
Blair County
Oates
Williamsburg
No Score Report For New Castle Aliquippa Spring Game
There will be no score service for the New Castle Aliquippa high school spring football game at The News office tonight. No telephone line exists in the press box at Taggart field, so no results will be transmitted.
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New Castle-Aliquippa
Taggart Field
Controller Denies Sam Due Gilkey in Mandamus Case
The answer filed by County Controller R C McCaslin via attorney Orville Brown contests a $5,605 bill for Croton avenue duct drawings. It concedes a contract with Gilkey for roads and bridges but argues it was not binding on the county due to late filing with the controller as required by law. The reply denies an $800 credit on the viaduct account and notes a $1,015 payment to Gilkey including that amount for engineering services on recommendation of the county commissioners.
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R. C. McCaslin
Croton Avenue
Orville Brown
Prothonotary
Gilkey
Act of Assembly
Tugwell trusted with Roosevelt bank roll in Beverly Hills
Special to The News reports in Beverly Hills that Tugwell is chosen to manage the Roosevelt bank roll, gaining the boss's trust while other professors debated theories but failed to handle real cash.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Tugwell
Relief Probe By State Legislators Is Resumed
A Pennsylvania investigation into the Lawrence County Emergency Relief Board continued with the full legislative committee present. Witnesses described project development and hiring practices while officials outlined rent payments and Work Relief transfers affecting local tenants.
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Flore
Lawrence County Emergency Relief Board
William J. Broe, Jr
New Castle
William G. Smith
Grove City
L. Norman Dilley
Greenville
James Kelso
North Beaver Township
William J. Klinger
Butler
Roosevelt reorganizes works relief with Hopkins in charge
President Roosevelt formalizes the public works relief administration structure naming Harry L. Hopkins head of the new progress division. Rear Admiral C. J. Peoples joins as procurement head and Col. Robert E. Wood serves on the business advisory group. Mayor LaGuardia expected as a conference representative. Hopkins duties include project allocation and payroll verification.
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Public Works Relief Administration
New Progress Division
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
C. J. Peoples
Robert E. Wood
Chicago
Business Advisory Committee
Mayor LaGuardia
New York
Work Relief Organization
Forest Fires Rage Along 10 Mile Front In New Jersey
In Atlantic City area a 10 mile front near Somers Point burns as volunteers and CCC workers fight the blaze. Farmers flee with possessions while crews backfire and dig ditches. Fire wardens guide efforts from the air as smoke covers seashore resorts. Similar fires threaten Long Island communities including Bay Shore and Deer Park amid northeast winds.
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Babylon
Deer Park
Setauket
New England Governors Agree On Action Plan
In Hartford on April 26 six New England governors agreed on a unified plan to avert a textile and transport collapse. They favored cancelling the cotton textile processing tax already paid by Connecticut totaling 2.9 million dollars, ending wage differentials, and preventing imports above the 1928 34 average.
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New England
Connecticut
Death Records: James Gearhart and S W Mayberry
James Frank Gearhart aged 70 of Mercer County is listed in death records. Also noted is Mrs. S W Mayberry aged 82 of 227 Laurel Avenue.
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James Frank Gearhart
Mercer County
S. W. Mayberry
Laurel Avenue
Parking Rules For Downtown Streets In Haven Safety Lesson
Police Chief John F. Haven outlines an upcoming safety lesson on parking. He states that on downtown streets other than Washington street, parking is limited to two hours where regulated.
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John F. Haven
Washington Street
Mary McElroy Appeals for Clemency in Kidnap Plot
Miss Mary McElroy and her father H F McElroy traveled to Jefferson City to appeal to Governor Guy B Park for clemency for Walter McGee, sentenced to die on May 10 for involvement in the 1933 kidnaping.
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Mary McElroy
H. F. McElroy
Kansas City
Guy B. Park
Miss McElroy
Gov. Park
Walter McGee
Steamer Titania Cries For Help In Ice Field
The steamer Titania bound westward, 4900 tons, owned by W A Souter of Newcastle, sent a distress call after heavy ice damaged its stern 150 miles off St John S N F. The sealer Imo gene was dispatched immediately to assist.
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Two Young Men Die in Chair at Sing Sing Prison
In Ossining New York on April 26 two young men Stanley Pluzdrak aged 18 and Bruno Salek aged 21 were executed in the electric chair for the murder of Buffalo police lieutenant George Uhle. Both faced death with stoical calm.
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Sing Sing Prison
Ossining
N. Y
New York State
Electric Chair
Stanley Pluzdrak
Bruno Salek
Buffalo
George Uhle
Stoical Cali
Two Die After Shootings in Hollywood Case
A gunman turns the weapon on himself after fatally shooting a dress designer in Hollywood. Police say two people died and a man sought as a suspect also died by suicide at the scene.
Hollywood Double Slaying Ends With Suspect Suicide
A Hollywood murder spree left Paul Wharton 25 a dress designer for Jean Harlow dead William M Howard 30 sought as a suspect died after Bolte 39 UCLA law professor was shot and wounded The suspect Howard then killed himself as Bolte lay dying in a dimly lit hallway near the film colony police say the motive involved silencing a witness and ending his own life
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Hollywood Film Colony
Paul Wharton
Jean Harlow
William M. Howard
Wharton
Henry E. Bolte
University of California At Los Angeles
Howard
Bolte
Forensic and Music league contest opens in Oil City
Eighth annual Pennsylvania Forensic and Music league contest opens with school bands filling assembly halls. Results list winners in trombone solo Neil Di Bias Tur tle Creek first Richard Houghton Ferndale high second Thomas Cramer New Castle third. Flute solo Harry Houdeshell William Penn high first Elmer Nichols Shaler township Glenshaw second William Kitto Ferndale high Johnstown third. Oboe solo John Schobbler Conneaut Lake first Alvin Ashton Clairton second. Piano Solo Dorothy Seltzer Norristown first Shirley Abelson Hal
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Pennsylvania Forensic and Music League
Neil di Bias
Turtle Creek
Richard Houghton
Ferndale High
Johnstown
Thomas Cramer
New Castle
Harry Houdeshell
Wiliam Penn High
Harrisburg
Elmer Nichols
Shaler Township
Glenshaw
William Kitto
John Schobbler
Conneaut Lake
Alvin Ashton
Clairton
Dorothy Seltzer
Norristown
Shirley Abelson
Hal
Gardener’s Golf Tale: Par in the Garden
A narrator recounts trading golf for garden toil to save on gear. He notes four cents a stroke in golf, but now favors shovel and hoe as exercise. His score drops. he proclaims par is rising in the garden, claiming eighty three today.
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