Federal WPA Leaders Gather To Plan Action
More than 150 pickets demonstrated outside the Stevens Hotel in Chicago as Col. F C Harrington and WPA officials from 48 states opened a two day conference. Union leaders had advised skilled WPA workers to abstain, but organizers pressed a mass protest near the hotel with heavy police reserves in attendance.
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Cinternativonal Wews Service
Chicago
Stevens Hotel
Col. F. C. Harrington
Federal Works Progress Administrator
WPA
Pegan
Big Towntown
Faye Te
New Castle
City curb work ongoing and crews painting lights around town
City workmen began installing curb on South Jefferson below the post office while Penn Power crews repaint street lights. Observers note activity on Mahoning Avenue and along Lawrence County highways. Harvest labor shortages worsen as farmers seek help, Sheriff Ingham confirms no qualifying harvest hands in jail. Clyde Shoal and P Newe collide in Sycamore street incident as page continues.
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Jefferson Street
Penn Power Company
Mahoning Avenue
Lawrence County
Daily Weather Report for 24-Hour Period Ends Tuesday
United States weather statistics show a maximum temperature of 78 degrees and a minimum of 47 with no precipitation. River stage measured at 45 feet. Comparable date last year recorded a maximum of 88, minimum 65, and 10 inches of precipitation.
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United States Weather Statistics
Marriage polo pair survive 100 foot parachute ordeal
J Gomelius Rathborne, a society polo player, and his wife were rescued after spending the night 100 feet above the World Fair crowd in a fragile parachute seat. Police and mechanics finally lowered them to earth at 4 40 a m after a jammed mechanism and a 30 degree tilt.
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Cinternationég News Servicr
New York
J. Gomelius Rathborne
Rathborne
West Ly
Nancy Nelson Huldekoper
Baltimore
State AFL CIO Labor Walkout Grips Pennsylvania WPA
Thousands of WPA workers across Pennsylvania prepare for a statewide walkout at 4 30 p m Friday in protest of a new congressional wage scale AFL CIO affiliated building trades unions ordered the strike CIO workers in Philadelphia to join on WEA projects and the Workers Alliance urged its unemployed WPA members to follow July 20 if not today the action risks mass layoff per WPA warning that five consecutive days of absence could result in dismissal
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Raymond Wilcove
Nas Service
Harrisburg
WPA
Pennsylvania
Congress
A. F. of L. Building Trades
Cra
Philadelphia Industrial Council
CIO
WEA
Friany
Workers’ Alliance
Afl-Cio
A. F. of L
E. C. Smith
Buyin Sew Castle
Evacuate Foreigners From Bolzano Zone
Premier Mussolini personally ordered evacuation of foreigners from Bolzano near the German frontier after secret police reports of espionage by Western powers. An official communique explained the extraordinary measures in a region housing about 300,000 Germans since the postwar annexation.
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International
Rome
Mussolini
Bolzano
Ministry of the Interior
Governor Names Thorne For P U C
Ralph W. Thorne a Williamsport manufacturer and Lycoming county Republican chairman was appointed to the Public Utility Commission by Gov Arthur H James for a 10 year term. He will be paid $10 000 annually and succeeds Donald M Livingston who resigned February 28 from Media. Aly ws kew castle.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
Ralph W. Thorne
Willamsport
Lycoming County
Public Utility Commission
Arthur H. James
Thome
Donald M. Livingston
Aly
Kew Castle
Typhoon Strikes Shanghai Area Rounds Ports In Distress
A powerful typhoon battered the Shanghai region sinking ships and forcing crews to abandon vessels. The Japanese steamer Talan anardyi ran aground off Seddle Island as the storm moved inland from the south.
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International News Service
Shanghai
Talan Anardyi
Seddle Island
South Siders Plan Picnic at Cascade Park
During a Tuesday meeting of the South Side Board of Trade in East Long Avenue Alder man B J Biondi's office plans were advanced for the annual community picnic at Cascade Park on Wednesday July 19 The event opens at 2 pm with races games and free coffee and peanuts The prize committee led by Joseph Frengel has hundreds of prizes and Coy Cols heads an active sports program Stores in the area will close at 2 pm to accommodate the outing
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South Side Board of Trade
B. J. Biondi
East Long Avenue
Cascade Park
Harold Lebo
New Castle
Cascade
Lebo
Joseph Frengel
Harry Clark
BR Run
Ruy
New
Roosevelt May Seek Third Term If Urged By Friends
Mrs. James Roosevelt, the president's mother, said in Le Havre that Roosevelt might run for a third term if his friends press him. She stated he is physically capable and that no one knows what may happen two years from now.
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Sulestin
International Navy Service
LE Havre
Frunte
Roosevelt
James. Roosevelt
Paula Stone to Wed Band Leader Duke Daly
Hollywood July 12 Paula Stone film actress and Fred Stone’s daughter will wed Duke Daly the band leader she announced in Hollywood today. The couple met in New York last winter while she toured. Daly traveled from Boston after a prior commitment.
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New Castle
Paula Stone
Cturarnational
Hollywood
Fred Stone
Duke Daly
Castern
Miss Stone
Daly
New York
Boston
Roosevelt Eyes New Move On Neutrality Act
President Roosevelt plans a fresh push for neutrality legislation to permit arms sales abroad, backed by a special message. The move follows a 12 to 11 Foreign Relations Committee vote to postpone, with administration aides signaling a potential compromise bill to win Senate support and possibly sway Senator George of Georgia and others.
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Edward B. Lockett
International News Service
Washington
Roosevelt
Codetess
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
Europe
Unis
Hull
George D. Georgia
George
Giette
Iowa
Arden
Committee of New
BCY
New Castle
State Police Clear Streets at Pontiac Plant
July 12 One and a half state policemen marched into Pontiac to restore order at the General Motors Fisher Body Plant. Captain Laurence Lyon led 50 troopers and 18 deputies to clear streets as 2000 pickets dispersed. Workers entered the plant with minimal resistance for the first time in three days. Lyon warned union leaders to leave town and stated there would be no riot act read, reinforcing that force would not be used to block work.
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Pontiac
General Motors Corporation
Fisher Body
Laurence Lyon
Alleged Torso Murderer Held Without Bonds
Cleveland July 12 Frank Dolezal aged 52 was held in county jail without bond after arraignment on a first degree murder charge in the death of Florence Foilla one of Cleveland's twelve torso murder victims. Inquiry begins into potential civil rights violations. Dolezal was held without charge for six days.
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International News Service
Cleveland
Frank Dolezal
Florence Foilla
Dolezal
Britain Plans Massive Army Boost Amid War Chest Rise
Britain increased its war chest with 79,106,000 pounds for the army, projecting a total force of 963,000 including regulars, reserves, militiamen, and territorials. The current fiscal year army estimates total 227,261,100 pounds. Funds will fund rearmament and new militia, drawn largely from a defense loan, not new taxes.
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Britain
Charles A. Smith
International News Service
London
Great Britain
Europe
Today
New Castle
Bomb Explodes Injuring Youth
Walter Noga a nine year old boy from Prank avenue was badly burned in Cascade Park when an unexploded Fourth of July bomb found by him and companions exploded at 2 20 pm in the wooded area. Police arranged medical attention and he was sent home after treatment.
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Walter Noga
Prank Avenue
Cascade Park
Noga
Baldwin Named As Commissioner in Beaver County
Attorney Paul H. Baldwin of Rochester Republican was appointed county commissioner to fill the unexpired term of Howard A. Hunter who and four others were sentenced to a year in the workhouse over the Beaver County relief scandal Judge Frank E. Reader ruled Baldwin not a fall primary candidate Baldwin previously served as relief administrator in Rochester and held a state relief post in Harrisburg.
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International News Service
Beaver
Paul H. Baldwin
Rochester Republican
Howard A. Hunter
Beaver County
Frank E. Reader
Baldwin
Rochester
Harrisburg
Day At Cascade Park Picnic Draws B and O Families
Weather perfect for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad picnic at Cascade Park with executives officials and out of town guests attending. By afternoon a large crowd gathered for sports prizes and planned speeches followed by a family dinner in the grove chaired by J L Harper and a committee coordinating the event.
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Baltimore and Onto
Cascade Park
Grove
J.L. Harper
New Castle Junction
New Castle
Armed Clash At Harlan Ky Leaves Pickets Wounded
Gun battle at the Mahan Eluson Coal Corporation mine near Stanfil Harlan County Kentucky leaves several pickets and National Guard members wounded. Dock Caldwell dies from a rifle bullet while Hanberry Bowman Draiel Lee Frank Laws and Joan Peanedy are among others injured in the clashes. The National Guard presence was involved as miners tried to advance into the mine.
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Cinte National News
Harlan
Bicke
Kenatsucky National Guard
Mahan-Eluson Coal Corporation
Stanfil
Dock Caldwell
Wilsonburg
Fistr
N mL. Hanberry
National Guard
Hanberry
Harlan Hospital
Noble Bowman
Chevrojet
Draiel Lee
Teetersville
Frank Laws
Crammies
Joan Peanedy
Sew Castle
West Pittsburg Residents Demand Road Completion
West Pittsburg residents circulate petitions to finish the unpaved section of Route 168 through the borough. The three quarters of a mile gap would shorten and secure the New Castle to Beaver Valley route and ease borough travel, with surveys urged and work started as soon as possible.
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West Pittsburg
New Castle
Wampum
Beaver Valley
State Highway Department
Wet and Dry Vote In Four Districts
Four county districts have petitioned for a liquor and beer vote in the primary. Scott township is already dry from a four year prior vote. Perry township and the boroughs of Wampum and Enon Valley will vote on September 12, with petitions from districts already filed.
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Scott Township
Perry Township
Wampum
Enon Valley
New Castle
Death Record for Nancy Rodgers and Norman Hunter
Death notices for Nancy Elizabeth Rodgers aged 84 of 416 East Meyer Avenue Norman Oklahoma and Norman M. Hunter aged 64 of West Los Angeles California. No further details provided on cause or survivors in the readable text.
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Nancy Elizabeth Rodgers
East Meyer Avenue
Norman M. Hunter
Los Angela
Cal
AF of L Rejects Responsibility for WPA Strikes
William Green led an AF of L protest meeting in Washington to deny the union ordered WPA strike wave. He urged Congress to change the 1939 40 relief act and preserve the wage clause, noting strikes were spontaneous and the remedy lies with lawmakers.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
William Green
WPA
WEA
Green
Congress
AF of L
WP. Isi
Fede
New York
Atlantic City
Picnic season promptings and playful picnic lore
The text paints a rustic scene of picnics with spice cake, pickles, salads, ball games, and simple foods like baked beans and chowder. It mentions young wigs, costumes, and a lighthearted mood, hinting at sunburn and cramped arms after games.
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Harrington
Betty Kennedy
Neshenneck Avenue
Castle Beach Dam
Daily Weather Report
Seneauua
Bolzano Zone
Thorne
P.U.C
South Siders
Georgia
Mich
Lyon
Datroik
Frank
Cabtle— Baldwin
Kennedys
Duke
Mrs
Joseph Kennedy,the Duke of Kent and
Joseph Kennedy
United States
Duke of Kent
George VI
Dorchester Hotel
Cantral Press
Weatherman
Harlan, Ky
Picket
Federation
U.S
Damox Runyon, JR Atinn
News Service
Lta
Arthur Parker
Lola
New Castles
Windsor Castle
Queen Elizabeth
The
Daily Mail
TLR. A
England
Thomas River
AUY
New Castor
Arthur Mometer
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