Unions Protest New WPA Wage Scale Across Nation
The CIO AF of L and Workers Alliance press Congress as WPA workers strike over a 130 hour monthly requirement and loss of prevailing wage. Labor groups seek relief act amendments to restore prevailing wages, protect security payments, and end the 18 month layoff rule. Conference called by WPA commissioner Harrington set for Chicago next week.
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Washington
Senger
Gol
C. Harrington
WPA
Chicago
Damon Zunion
International News Service
CIO
A. F. of L
Workers’ Alliance
Congress
United Labor Movement
Corn in tassel and warm day sightings in New Castle area
A New Castle district report notes corn in tassel with some fields ahead of normal due to heat. Observers mention bantam variety ears on Charles Biddle in West Washington Street and a sunken garden with strawberries. A boy dropped a milk bottle but repaired the broken glass after police intervention.
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Lawrence County
New Castile
Ot Pa Nene
Delaware Avenue
Ee Charles Biddie
West Washington Street
Mr. Biddle
Lester Brady
Kurtz Place
Saucht
Neshanmock Creek
North Mill Street
Daily Weather Report Summary of US statistics
The 24 hour period ending at 3 m Friday recorded a maximum of 93 and a minimum of 67 with no precipitation. River stage measured 6 feet. Comparable date last year shows a maximum of 94 and a minimum of 58.
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United States
Sollows
Secret Talks Poland Germany Over Danzig Danzig Issue Escalates
London reports secret discussions between Germany and Poland on Danzig with Poland seeking independence for the Free City and preserved customs rights while Poland asks Prime Minister Chamberlain to delay a stern warning. Diplomatic circles in London note Berlin-Warsaw talks and a possible Danzig peace formula.
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Charles A. Swoth
London
Germany
Poland
Berlin
Warsaw
The
Mirror
Danzig
Chamberlain
Britain
New Castle
Edison Likely Navy Secretary Head: Edison in line as Swanson funeral planned
Capital speculation centered on Charles Edison as the next Navy secretary while the nation prepared to honor the late Claude A. Swanson with a state funeral. Some outlets noted possible candidate Governor Lloyd C Stark of Missouri if Edison declined. Roosevelt was expected to wait until after the funeral to act.
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George Duano
Edison
Lloyd C. Stark
Missouri
America
Edisor
Stark
Kansas City
Roosevelt
Senate
Swanson
New Castle
Yankee Clipper On Northern Route In trans Atlantic flight
The Yankee Clipper departed Port Washington at 9:22 a m heading to inaugurate Pan American Airways regular trans Atlantic travel on the northern route via Canada Newfoundland and Ireland to England The flight carried five group of newspaper publishers and carried Guiso Coen a Florence Italy native now resident in the United States who seeks American citizenship to visit a dying son The American Express Company urged a place for Coen to reach Southampton by Sunday for onward travel to Florence
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Internationaal News Service
New York
Port Washington
Pan American Airways
Canada
Newfoundland
Ireland
England
Guiso Coen
Florence
Italy
United States
Coen
Florents
American Express Company
Goen
Southampton
New Castee
Fifty Stricken By Chlorine Gas At Municipal Pool
Fifty people including 60 year old William Rubin of New York and 42 year old Leonard Nunna plus 17 year old Clarence Mosher were among about 75 stricken when a wind shift blew chlorine fumes from an open tank across a Utica municipal pool. Most were to be released after a hospital night. three were seriously affected.
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International News Service
Utica
Willam Rubin
New York
Leonard Nunna
Clarence Mosher
Uulea
Plane Crash Reported in Mountains Near Sinking Valley
A single motor plane vanished in heavy thunderstorms near Sinking Valley while headed east. Six state police, led by Sgt. E. F. McGill, searched the area as two planes from Duncanville piloted by Earl Price and Clete Mollot aided the hunt.
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Consternational Wes Service
Altoona
Sinking Valley
E. F. McGill
Duncanville
Earl Price
Clete Mollot
New Castle
Death Records list several residents and ages
July 8 1989 death notices reveal Clarence Coulter 30 of Greenville Stella Rodgers Vincent 71 of Plaingrove Henrietta Wetter 87 of Indianapolis Feed Knight 60 of Ellwood City Bonnie Haggerty one month Harbor Street Margaret Lawrence 78 Muddy Creek Township Emma Reiber Kelley Ti 915 Maryland Avenue listed in the record series.
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Clarence Edward Coulter
Greenville
Stella Rodgers Vincent
Plaingrove
Henrietta Wetter
Indianapolis
Ind
Feed Knight
Ellwood City
Bontie Jou Haggerty
Harbor Street
Margaret A. Lawrence
Muddy Creek Township
Butler County
Emma Reiber Kelley
Maryland Avenue
Nine Local Boys Report for Army Training at Fort Hoyle
Among 802 candidates reporting for weeks of duty at the CMTC artillery camp in Fort Hoyle Maryland are nine New Castle youths. They have received preliminary instructions and are now learning artillery fire. The group includes Howard L. Carlisle Fred S. Kuttesch Clark E K Ryhal Robert J Wilkison Eldridge C Huffman Richard E Cramer Dwight C Miller James P Toler and John Zakel.
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Artillery Cmtc
Fort Hoyle
New Castle
Howard L. Carlisle
Fred S. Kuttesch
Clark EK. Ryhal
Robert J. Wilkison
Eldridge C. Huffman
Richard E. Cramer
Dwight C. Miller
James P. Toler
John Zakel
Fry
Heavy Wool Crop Pooled by Lawrence County Growers
Work of grading and shipping the 1939 wool crop by the Lawrence County Wool Growers Association finished last evening with three carloads on the way to Draper and Company of Boston. The pool weighed 12,580 pounds, about 4,000 pounds more than 1938, due to a heavier fleece. Over 400 sheep raisers across Lawrence Beaver and Butler counties will benefit. This year’s price was among the best in years, signaling stronger demand.
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Lawrence County’ Wool Growers Association
Draper and Company
Boston
Mass
Jase
Nesociaitioln
Lawrence
Beaver
Butler
Half of War Supplies for Japan Sought by Bipartisan Move
A bi partisan push in Congress to embargo arms and war supplies to Japan will open next week. Sponsors seek a hearing before the foreign affairs committee, promising action on the Bloom neutrality bill. Rep Bloom and Rep Coffee urge prompt hearings as demands grow. In Pittsburgh a 21 year old man died when struck changing a tire. Carl Gatto 40 held on detainer.
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William S. Neal
Coffee
Washington
BUX
New Castle
D International News Service
Pittsburgh
Woodrow J. Fisher
West Wilmerding
Carl Gatto
Turtle Creek
Five Sentenced In Beaver County Relief Scandal
Beaver County officials and merchants were convicted in a $3,000 relief fraud. Judge Frank E. Reeder sentenced Howard A. Hunter Peter Thatch Charles Goldstein Stanley Jurkowski and Mitchell Kaplan to one year in the Workhouse with possible reductions for restitution and costs. Jurkowski faces remaked or full term depending on compliance.
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International News
Selvier
Beaver
Beaver County
Frank
Reeder
Hose
Howard A. Hunter
Ambridge
Peter Thatch
Merhants
Charles Goldstein
Stanley Jurkowski
Mitchell Kaplan
Rochester
Jurkowski
Hunter
Thatch
Goldstein
Kaplan
Reader
Hue TN
Castle
Missing Children Reported In Hollywood California
Mrs C W Standish, widow, reports her two children Penny 12 and Schuyler 10 missing since last evening while she napped. They often appear as motion picture extras. Police teletype and radio broadcasts issued to 19 southern California cities.
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International News
Hollywood
C. W. Standish
Penny
Schuyler
First Thaddeus Stevens Reunion Planned for August 18
Former pupils from 1898 to 1920 gather at Cascade Park for the first grand reunion celebration Friday August 18. A organizing meeting at East Washington street launched the group with Richards as first president and plans for an outing including athletic events and dinner.
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Thaddeus Stevens School
Cascade Park
East Washington Street
Earlie
Thaddeus’Stevens
Ald
President Roosevelt's neutrality plan faces Senate defeat
A solid Senate opposition across parties threatens to block Roosevelt's neutrality push to lift the arms embargo. The 23 member Foreign Relations Committee was split 11 11 on dropping neutrality legislation with Iowa Senator Gillette still undecided. The panel meets next Tuesday to decide and a floor vote would be nearly impossible if neutrality is dropped. Continued on page two.
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Edward B
Gillette
Iowa
Poland Sets Danzig Peace Demands in June 8
Warsaw reports Poland’s minimum Danzig terms for peace with Germany include keeping Danzig outside German control, remaining in the Polish customs area, safeguarding Polish minority rights, and respecting national individuality. Poland warns against possible German rearmament and notes Hitler’s four demands for Danzig, corridor access, and a 25-year nonaggression pact.
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Warsaw
Germany
Poland
Danzig
Gazeta Polska
Hitler
Reich
East Prussia
Japan Reports New Victory In Asian Clash
Tokyo reports a dawn clash between Japanese Manchukuo troops and Soviet Mongolian forces ending in a Japanese victory. The dispatch claims a large number of Soviet troops captured and a Mongol base seized after two days of heavy fighting. An officer in Hailar cites 60,000 Soviet troops involved and credits Japanese air superiority as decisive. Separately Olivia de Havilland seeks U.S. citizenship, noting her birth in Japan to British parents.
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Confernational News
Tokyo
Shala
Halsten
Hailar
Siberian
New Castle
International News Service
Hollywood
Olvia de Havilland
Miss de Havilland
Japan
W. A. de Haveland
United States
San Francisco
OXIX
Highways Drive to Remove Illegal Signs and Posters
The State Department of Highways opened a drive to clear highways of illegal signs and posters encroaching on rights of way. Secretary I Lampauk Hughes ordered enforcement and a crackdown on commercial and political postings. Action runs through August 15.
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Iseroe Nance
Harrisburg
State Department of Highways
Cleveland torso murder case confesses again in jail
Frank Doleze, 52, a Cleveland torso murder suspect, changed his story and named Florence Polio as the victim in January 1956. Authorities exam questions whether his head disposal in Lake Erie matched weather records, with further questioning including possible lie detector use. He remains held for investigation as officials pursue charges.
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Alvin L. Krieg
Cleveland
Hitle
Frank Doleze
O'Donnell
Florence
Doleze
Donnell
Cortinnea
New Castle
Georgia
Coleman
Germany to draft 400000 more men in service
Berlin reports new mobilization of four hundred thousand additional men for labor or military service. Posters indicate classes not yet examined must appear by September 10 for conscription. Castles in New York are not relevant to this item.
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C Infernational Mews Service
Los Angeles
Georgia Coleman
New York
P. G. Pahl
Mat Ganger
RLY
New Castles
Berlin
Nist
Ber S
Where to go for a quiet escape in Slippery Rock
The speaker weighs options from city noise to ocean and pines, and favors Slippery Rock as a silent wide retreat with no phones or cars. They crave distant seas, clean skies, and true rest away from crowds.
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Town
Horta
Azores
Yeomans
Betty Lush Dedley
Navy
Mercy
Cal
Bly
Erie
State Board of Pardons
Faul Ferry
Ferry
Philadelphia
Wilkes-Barre
Thomas Cannon
Alberts
Kutztown
Muriel Dunlap
Louise Blank
Francis Keating
Thaddeus Stevens
Frank Dolezel
Martin L. O'Donnell
Dolezel
Central Press
Sew Castle
Arthur Mometer
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