State relief rolls under probe for targeted aid
Harrisburg January 9 The Department of Public Welfare announced an investigation into Pennsylvania relief population as a precursor to limiting relief employment to those in need. State WPA Administrator J Banks Hudson said reclassification is underway at the department’s request. Public Assistance Secretary Arthur Howe Jr said rolls have expanded to a new high.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
Department of Pub Nc Assistance
Pennsylvania
WPA
J. Banks Hudson
Department
Public Assistance
Arthur W. Howe, Jr
Czechs Seek Neutral Zone Amid Frontier Clashes
Prague reports Hungary faced Czech demand for a neutral frontier zone after border skirmishes inflamed public opinion. A Czech officer was seriously wounded in Nagygevac near Unevar amid fighting with Hungarian regulars and irregulars. Czech forces held fire after liaison officers intervened.
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Budapest
Hungary
Nagygevac
Unevar
Dovice
Springlike weather boosts Western Pennsylvania cruising
Pa Newe notes clear highways as thousands ride out Sunday. W E Dufford reports four cardinals in his front yard, Hope springs. Italian midget auto bought by Michael Grata of East Long avenue draws attention as it tours the city, Fiat badge visible. Suburban paving progress eases street dept burden. continued on pages two.
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Pennsylvania
Ae W. E. Dufford
North Street
O’brien
Pa Newe
Michael Grata
East Long Avenue
Fiat
Daily Weather Report Summary
United States weather statistics show a 24 hour period ending 5 p.m. Sunday with a maximum 51 and minimum 34, no precipitation, and a river stage of 6.9 feet. A prior 24 hour period ending 4 p.m. Saturday recorded a maximum 38 and minimum 26 with no precipitation.
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United States
LaGuardia Seeks Larger Relief Fund Increase
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia urged a House appropriations subcommittee to raise Roosevelt relief from 875 million to 915 million dollars. He spoke for the U S conference of mayors asserting 915 million is needed to meet WPA relief demands for the rest of the fiscal year ending June 10.
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International News Service
Washington
Fiorello LaGuardia
New York Today
House
Roosevelt
U. S. Conference of Mayors
la Guardia
Confirmation Of James Cabinet May Be Held Up
In Harrisburg Pennsylvania the confirmation of Goo-llect Arthur James cabinet appointees faces a possible delay as Democrats threaten to withhold support over a senate reorganization. With 25 Republican votes and 34 needed, a coalition of Republicans and nine Democrats may be required to approve the nominees.
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Raymond Wilcove
International News Service
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Senate Today
Arthur H. James
Senate
James
William J. ‘Eroe, Jr
Lawrence Beaver Democrat
Broe
Reckless Driving Charge Is Filed By Sharon Police
Sharon Pennsylvania police filed a reckless driving charge against David Schumaker of Cleveland aged 33 after his ten wheel tandem truck laden with six and a half tons of coal rammed into the downtown business district injuring six women and damaging seven cars. He said he lost control on a steep hill.
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International News Service
Sharon
David Schumaker
Cleveland
Schumaker
Authorize Bus Line To Croton
The New Castle based New Castile Electric Street Railway Company is cleared by the Public Utility Commission to abandon the Croton Avenue streetcar line and switch to bus service via Penn-Ohio Coach Lines. Identical fares and transfers will apply, with six conditions on abandonment including pole removal at cost and a $1000 payment to the city for rails and related equipment.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
New Castile Electric Street Railway Company
New Castle
Public Utility Commission
Croton Avenue
Penn-Ohio Coach Lines Company
Deaths in region report of several residents
A death notice lists R T Newell age 82 of 1040 West Washington. Virzah McClane Winner age 5 of Ellwood City. Edward Patterson Gilliland age 57 of New Wilmington. George C Munnell age 73 of Lawrence County Home. Irvin Clarence McClintic age 45 of Fay-alte. Teresa Marlone Panaro age 18 of Wampum. Phoebe Amanda Lockie age 61 of New Wilmington. Roby Joan Shaffer age six months of West Washington Street Extension.
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R. T. Newell
West Washington Street
Virzah McClane Winner
Ellwood City
Edward Patterson Gilliland
New Wilmington
George C. Munnell
Lawrence County
Irvin Clarence McClintic
Fayalte
Teresa Marlone Panaro
Wampum
Phoebe Amanda Lockie
Roby Joan Shaffer
Probing Shipments Of Planes To Loyalist Spain
The National Munitions Control Board report to Congress details two U.S. aviation firms Grumman Aircraft Engineering and Brewster Aeronautical Corp. shipping parts for 40 fighter planes to Loyalist Spain via Canada and France in violation of the neutrality act. An additional shipment moved through Mexico, with authorities charging agents of the firms.
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International News Service
Washington
Department of Justice
Spain
National Munitions Control Board
Congress
Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp
Brewster Aeronautical Corp
Canada
France
Grumman
Highway Speeding Campaign Catches 7309 Offenders
Gov Geo H Earle launched a highway speeding campaign on January 1 1938 resulting in 90 day license suspensions for 7309 motorists during the year J Griffith Boardman secretary said 110 suspensions in the final week raised totals to 3971 Pennsylvania operators and 3338 out of state motorists.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
Geo. H. Earle
Department of Revenue
J. Griffith Boardman
Pennsylvania
Chrysler shuts Plymouth plant amid unauthorized slowdown strike
In Detroit in January Chrysler Corporation closed its Plymouth plant after an unauthorized slow down by United Automobile Workers members. The Plymouth site employs 5,400 workers, with 2,000 Briggs body plant workers sent home as the shutdown spread to Briggs facilities.
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International News Service
Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
Plymouth
United Automobile Workers
Briggs Body
France Stands Firm Against Appeasement At Rome Talks
In Paris Edouard Daladier pledges France will defend its soil and interests, signaling a firm stance ahead of Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax stopping in Paris en route to Rome for talks with Benito Mussolini and Galeazzo Ciano. The two hour layover is seen as a warning to Italy before Wednesday negotiations begin.
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Italy
Edouard Daladier
Neville Chamberlain
Rome
France
Tunis
Corsica
Chamberlain
Viscount Halifax
Italan
Benito Mussolini
Galeazzo Cinno
Secretary Hull Back From Lima
Secretary of State Cordell Hull returned from Lima Peru today praising the Eighth Pan American Conference for boosting hemisphere solidarity. He said the American republics stand united to defend peace territorial integrity and national policies while noting a widespread view that international lawlessness and anarchy exist in many areas and economic chaos looms globally.
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International News Service
New York
Cordell Hull
Lima
Peru
Hull
U. S
U S Air Supremacy Threaten Report To Congress
Washington dispatch reports that the national advisory committee for aeronautics warns U S air supremacy may be lost unless rapid action is taken. Recommendations call for expanding army and navy air forces, boosting production facilities, increasing trained air corps personnel, and expanding research facilities. Roosevelt expected to seek 6 000 plane army air corps and 3 000 plane naval air force.
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Leon W. Shloss
International News Service
Washington
United States
Europe
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Federal Aviation Research
Congress
U. S
Army
Navy
Air Corps
Ines
Orville Wright
Col
Charles A. Gindbergh
4. H. Arnold
Army Air Corps
Edward J. Noble
The
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Roosevelt
Naval Air Force
Grand Jury Resumes Probe On Tuesday
Harrisburg reports that Dauphin county grand jury will extend its Erie gravel scandal probe involving high Democratic officials after the David L. Lawrence indictment. Indications point to possible indictments this week and a trial date for Lawrence to be set with District Attorney Shelley.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Dauphin County
Secretary of the Commonwealth
David L. Lawrence
Paul N. Schaeffer
Berks County Juris
Erie
George H. Earle
Arthur Colegrove
H. H. Temple
A. Griffith
Highway Department
Schaeffer
Carl B. Shelley
Lawrence
Daughter of Late Official Appointed Jury Commissioner
By order of Judge W. Walter Braham Mrs Ruth Thorn Adams was today appointed jury commissioner to succeed her late father B Frank Thorn of 418 East Garfield Avenue The Democratic jury commissioner Mr Thorn was her father and Mrs Adams is a member of the same party Her term has three years to run She lives with her two children in her father's home in the same residence for some time.
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W. Walter Braham
Ruth Thorn Adams
B. Frank Thorn
East
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Thorn
Adams
Clemency Denied for Youth in Mrs Porter Murder
Philadelphia January 9 The state supreme court unanimously refused clemency for Ernest M Hipple a 21 year old Sullivan County mountaineer found guilty of murdering Mrs Jennie Porter in an electric chair case Justice James B Drew wrote the majority opinion The decision seals the death sentence.
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International News Service
Philadelphia
Ernest M. Hipple
Sullivan County
Jennie Porter
State Supreme Court
High Tribunal
James B. Drew
Beaver Falls Man Fatally Shoots Himself in Tragic Death
Beaver Falls Pennsylvania January 9 Mont D Patterson 56 a long time resident and mill worker fatally shot himself in the head yesterday coroner reports Patterson father of ten children wife Harriet eight sons two daughters three sisters two brothers and six grandchildren survived by prominent family members and local ties
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Beaver Falls
Mont D. Patterson
Beaver Walls
Patterson
Harriet
Child Bride Case In Kentucky Reported Near Whitesburg
International News Service from Whitesburg Kentucky says a 13 year old schoolgirl Mattie Lucas Bailey was married last weekend to 18 year old Morris Sergent in Parraday, a mining town seven miles from Whitesburg, with ceremony performed by her uncle Rev Tilden Lucas.
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International News Service
Whitesburg
Kentucky
Mattie Lucas Bailey
Morris Sergent
Parraday
Tilden Lucas
Surprise thrust on Franco in Estremadura gains claimed
Government and insurgent commands reported key successes on rival fronts. Madrid communiques claim 350 square miles captured in Estremadura and withdrawal pressure on insurgent lines. Barcelona says Franco transfers troops and air forces to shore up the southwest frontline.
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International
Hendaye
Estremanduran
Pennaroyan Mince
Madrid
Estremadura
Franco
Barcelona
Francisco Franco
Start Hearings On W P A Fund Need
Washington January 9 spokesmen for the U S Conference of Mayors the Workers Alliance and the CIO urged the house appropriations committee to approve President Roosevelt's request for 875000000 to fund WEA for five more months. Mayor Fiorello H LaGuardia of New York City led the delegation carrying a survey of relief needs and stressed that 875000000 is the bottom figure to avert hardship.
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International News Service
Washington
U. S. Conference of Mayors
Workers Alliance
The
CIO
House Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
WEA
Florelin H. LaGuardia
New York City
Mayors’ Conference
Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt to Send Defense Message to Congress Soon
President Roosevelt prepared a new U S defense package to mobilize industry for war and will present the plan to Congress as early as Tuesday or Wednesday. The message aligns with his call to be prepared and signals a likely clash over military expansion and funding with congressional leaders ready to begin formal review.
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Washington
Roosevelt
U. S
Congress
White House
National Resources Committee
Capitol Hill
Quiz Suspect In Girl Slaying
SCRANTON Pa Jan A suspect who gave his name as Paul Rhodine 27 of Salt Lake City was held for questioning in the brutal murder of Margaret Martin 19 a Kingston Pa business school graduate whose nude body was found trussed in a burlap bag in Rhealersburg creek last December 21 Detectives say Rhodine wrote letters to hundreds of young women nationwide and will be held for further investigation into his activities.
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International News Service
Scranton
Paul 5
Rhodine
Salt Lake City
Margaret Martin
Kingston
Business School
Rheelersburg Creek
George Donaldson
Miss Martin
Utah
Rhodiie
Weather Musings On Snow Delays And Springlike Days
Arthur Mometer notes snappy winter weather with heavy snow and frost lingering. He suggests snowfall may return in April or May, while birds arrive and days stay mild yet unsettled.
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