Submarine 8-3 Found Safe After Wide Search
The submarine 8-3 surfaced to report only radio equipment impairment after a 48 hour, multi-vessel search in the South Atlantic. Located about 25 miles off the Central Florida coast, it proceeds to Guantanamo Bay for winter maneuvers, with 41 officers and men aboard.
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International News Service
Washington
South Atlantic
Navy Department
Florida
Guantnamo Bay
Cuba
Guantanamo
State Sends Funds to County Schools in Biennial Aid
Harrisburg January 31 State Treasurer Samuel S Lewis mailed checks totaling 5 718 688 to 2 300 fourth class school districts with a similar August payment planned and about 7 000 000 to second and third class districts during the year Philadelphia and Pittsburgh will receive over 3 500 000 The payments are from a 47 000 000 biennial appropriation for teachers salaries and 76 555 958 for other educational purposes today’s list includes Allegheny Beaver Butler Centre Clearfield Crawford Erie Fayette Indiana Jefferson Lawrence McKean Mercer Monroe and others.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
Samuel S. Lewis
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Nium
Allegheny
Beaver
Butler
Centre
Clearfield
Crawford
Erie
Fayette
Indiana
Jefferson
Lawrence
McKean
Mercer
Monroe
Lindbergh Makes 1000 Mile Hop From Maracay
Col Charles A Lindbergh began a 1000 mile flight from Maracay Venezuela to St Thomas as part of his South American goodwill tour. The Lone Eagle departed at 6 AM and faced a long route via Barcelona Antilles Santo Domingo Haiti Porto Rico and Havana with stops and celebratory receptions along the way.
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O International News Service
Maracay
Venezuela
Charles A. Lindbergh
America
Barcelona
Lindbergh
Col. Lindbergh
Caracas
Spirit of
St. Louis
Antilles
Mexico City
St. Thomas
Santo Domingo
Haiti
Porto Rico
Havana
Col Lindbergh
American Legation
Club Paraiso
Four County Jail Escape Plot Foiled by Vigilance
Four county prisoners faced escape when Sheriff H. M. Reynolds and Deputies William Reynolds and Kenneth Musser intervened. George Davis Norman J Wright Richard Cowan Hoyt Homes and Herbert Hake plotted using a padlock belt loosening skeleton keys and concealed tools. The break failed due to careful observation and improvised jail security measures.
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Lawrence County
H. M. Reyolds
Willian Reynolds
Kenneth Musser
George Davis
Norman J. Wright
Richard Cowan
Hoyt Homes
Herbert Hake
Fire Destroys Oakland Home
The fire at 3 Cliff Street, Oakland, gutted a six room frame dwelling, causing several thousand dollars in damage. Origin undetermined, it started on the second floor and spread rapidly before Sixth ward firemen arrived. Mr and Mrs Rotel escaped unharmed as crews prevented further spread to nearby houses.
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John Robel
Cliff Street
Sixth Ward
Rotel
Companionate marriage debated by Dr Taylor and Judge Lindsey
Beverly Hills dispatch reports Dr M S Taylor and Judge Ben Lindsey debating companionate marriages in Chicago. The writer, recalling Hollywood and The Follies, says marriage should be companionate and expresses doubt about divorce, noting many couples do not improve with repeated attempts.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
M.S. Taylor
Ben Lindsey
Chicago
Hollywood
Community notes and quirky local anecdotes from PA Newe
George W Heckart reports two live snakes found in sand near Sampson street in Hemlock. Readers are invited to submit News items, including February 29 birthday stories and Cathedral Square naming ideas. Other items note bridge club gatherings, a mail carrier who stamps albums, parking shifts on Jefferson street, and a garbled telephone joke about milk calls.
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George W. Heckart
Hemlocktreet
Newe
Sampson Street
Pa Nence
Frances St John Smith Missing Woman Sparks Grand Jury Talk
In Northampton Massachusetts Major Stanley Washburn and Dr L H Horton urged a grand jury probe into the disappearance of Frances St John Smith from Smith College. Police noted the student showed melancholy mood two days before vanishing and a draft letter to her New York governess was discarded.
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Stanley Washburn
College Pond
L. H. Horton
Boston
Washburn
Flimsa Hamilton
New York
Dewey House
Death Notices for Fitch Kerr and Biasucci
Death notices list Mrs. Mary J. Fitch of 928 Maryland Avenue Mrs. Sarah Anna Kerr age 69 of 26 North Appleway and Anthony Biasucci age 6 of 20 Center Street. records show the individuals and addresses for local obituaries.
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Mary J. Fitch
Maryland Avenue
Sarah Anna Kerr
North Appleway
Anthony Biasucci
Center Street
City to contract iron stairways for Central Fire Station
Council instructed Councilman Davies to present a contract with A. J. Hall for iron stairways and erection at the new Central Fire Station on South Jefferson Street. City to pay Hall 464 dollars, 80 percent of 580 dollars. Solons authorized Davies to arrange the iron stairway project.
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Council
Davies
Department of Public Safety
A. J. Hall
Central Fire Station
South
Jefferson Street
Hall
Solons
Impetus for New Castle Airport Project Grows
A subscription drive in New Castle drew local donations up to 300 dollars and more, while offers from John Crown and C L McMillin promise cheap field use and equipment. Crown would place a plane and a mechanic at the field. McMillin offers land on Harlansburg road with one year nominal rent credited to purchase, supporting the push for a government mail airport. In Chicago a morning rush tragedy saw a well dressed man fall from a tenth floor to a laundry wagon roof. police await a coroner’s report.
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New Castle
John Crown
C. L. McMillin
Harlansburg
Crowl
Chicago
United States Rules Out Tariff Revisions in Policy Decree
The Coolidge administration rejects tariff revision as a matter of policy. A new declaration, approved by President Coolidge and the State Department, rebukes internationalists and debt cancellationists while signaling firm resistance to domestic revision efforts led by Democrats and insurgent Republicans.
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United States
Lawrence Sullivan
Congress
White House
Coolidge
State Department
Hugh Wilson
Allegheny River Ice Jam Near Kittanning Tightens
Cold over several days thickened a 1.5 mile ice jam on the Allegheny River near Kittanning. The jam extends 22 miles and remains intact from Schenley to Barton's Bend after days of freezes.
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International News
Kittanning
Allegheny River
Schenley
Barton's Bend
Conference Ends Pan American Session With Key Decisions
Havana January 31 delegates adjourned after settling two major questions. Mexico failed to push to remove the American secretary of state as chairman and Dr Leo S Rowe as director general. The conference also approved non American governments joining the Pan American treaty on commercial aviation.
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International News Service
Havana
Mexico
Leo S. Rowe
America
United States
Great Britain
Mad Dog Reported On Old Pittsburg Road
J W Brewster of North Beaver township reports a mad dog loose on Old Pittsburgh road south of East New Castle. The large white and black bull dog like animal attacked several dogs and may threaten school transport near Shenango Consolidated. notify Brewster at 8075 R3 or any neighbor if captured or killed.
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J. W. Brewster
Beaver Township
Pittsburgh
East New Castle
Shenango Consolidated School
Funeral of Vincent Blasco Ibanez Draws Mass At Valencia
Two thousand mourners attended the funeral of Vincent Blasco Ibanez the noted Spanish novelist who died in Mentone France. The casket wrapped in the Valencian flag was carried from the Ibanez villa past posters celebrating his cinema sales. Alpine chassiers stood as guard of honor and wreaths came from Valencia workers and the Beaux Arts society. The Spanish government did not attend.
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France
Vincent Blasco Ibanez
Valencia
Ibanez
Metone
Beaux Arts
Twenty Eight Today: What You Can Do
The piece emphasizes self made success over birth or wealth. It asserts success depends on personal results and effort, not origins or assistance. It urges action and responsibility, noting today is the twenty eighth.
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