MacDonald Resigns as Prime Minister to King George
London reports James Ramsay MacDonald tendered his resignation to King George at Buckingham Palace after illness and parliamentary hostility. He urged Stanley Baldwin to succeed him, prompting a major cabinet shake up. MacDonald arrived with Sir Olive Wigram at 3 45 p m for the formal handover.
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London
James Ramsay MacDonald
King George
Stanley Baldwin
Council
Buckingham Palace
Olive Wigram
MacDonald
Palace
Guffeys Action Delays Beaver Mahoning Canal Plan
Senate Commerce Committee amends the Beaver Mahoning canal proposal to join it with a Lake Erie project and require rivers and harbors board approval. Senator Guffey says the canal should be a single project, delaying Army Engineers' report by months. Roosevelt may withhold $5,000,000 already approved.
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Arthur C. Wimer
Washington
New Castle News
Washington, D. C
Senate Commerce Committee
Joseph F. Guffey
Omnibus Waterways
Lake Erie
Rivers and Harbors Board
Guffey
Ashtabula
Board of Engineers of Rivers and Harbors
Army
Beaver-Mahoning
Roosevelt
New street signs rise along Washington street
Pa Newc notes many electric signs are being added along Washington street. Signs on North Mill street and near Grant and Falls streets cause concern as some have been damaged, prompting police vigilance. A motorist reported two dead bobwhite birds impaled on his bumper after speeding past the Post Office.
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Pa Newc
Washington Street
Broadway
New York
Northill Street
North
Grant Streets
Grant
Falls Street
North Mill Street
Highland
Falls Streets
Plants distributed by Emergency Relief in county drive
Thousands of cabbage, tomato and pepper plants provided by Emergency Relief over three days will continue through Saturday. All plants are Lawrence County grown and inspected by County Farm Agent H. R. McCulloch. With normal care and weather, abundant garden produce is expected this summer. Relief had also distributed thousands of seed packets previously.
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Lawrence County
H. R. McCulloch
Daily Weather Report
U S weather statistics for the 24hour period ending at 9 this morning show a maximum of 71 and a minimum of 57 with .01 inches of precipitation. River stage stands at 3.9 feet. For the same date last year a maximum of 96 and a minimum of 55 with .17 inches of rain were recorded.
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U. S
Beo
Canal link to Lake Erie gains Senate panel support
The Senate commerce committee endorsed an amendment to the omnibus rivers and harbors bill proposing an extension of the Beaver Mahoning canal project. The plan would connect Beaver Pennsylvania with Struthers Ohio as part of the waterways program, though no PWA allocations were set.
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International News Service
Washington
Ohio River
Lake Erie
Senate Commerce Committee
Joseph F. Guffey
Beaver- Mahoning
Beaver
Struthers, C
Commerce Committee
PWA
Riddle And Winick Earn Medical Degrees At Jefferson College
Ransom J. Riddle and William Winick of New Castle were among 142 seniors receiving doctor of medicine degrees at Jefferson Medical College's 110th commencement in Philadelphia. Homer P. Rainey of Bucknell delivered the valedictory. Riddle and Winick each secured hospital residencies at Hamat Hospital Erie and Montefiore Hospital Pittsburgh respectively. Riddle earlier earned a Bachelor of Science from Allegheny College. Winick from Geneva College.
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Philadelphia
Ransford J. Riddle
William Winick
New Castle
Jefferson Medical College
Homer P. Rainey
Bucknell University
Riddle
Hamat Hospital
Erie
Winick
Montefiore Hospital
Pittsburgh
Allegheny College
Geneva College
Railroad Employee Crushed by Cars in Pa. Incident
Punxsutawney Pennsylvania June 7 George Kuntz 46 B and O railroad employee died in a hospital after being crushed between two box cars He was married and had a family.
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International News Service
Punxsutawney
George Kuntz
Color Girl Miss Hilda Hazard Leads Naval Academy Parade
Baltimore Color Girl Miss Hilda Hazard is chosen as Color Girl for the annual June week exercises at the U S Naval Academy Annapolis. Her color presentation caps the Middies final dress parade of the year.
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Hilda Hazard
Baltimore
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Miss Hazard
Labor Leaders Push Drafted NRA Codes for Recovery Act
Washington June 17 labor leaders urge a new recovery act with teeth licensing of interstate industries and federal powers over economic affairs. AFL President Green calls for a constitutional amendment to empower the federal government and reuse NRA provisions, as labor expands toward 3 million members ahead of Atlantic City convention.
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International News Service
Washington
NRA
Organized Labor
Congress
Green
American Federation of Labor
Federation
Executive Council
Supreme Court
A. F. of L
Atlantic City
N. J
Blue Eagle
Truck Driver Shot Near West Chester
Charles Young a 33 year old Chester truck driver was shot and critically wounded by two gunmen on West Chester pike four miles north of here. Bullets pierced his abdomen and stomach doctors at a hospital here reported.
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International News Service
West Chester
Charles Young
Chester
West Chester Pike
Here
Death Record for Hugh Graham and Harriet Thompson
Death notices report Hugh Graham of 215 East Wallace Avenue and Harriet Vance Thompson, 85, of New Wilmington.
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Hugh Graham
Wallace Avenue
Harriet Vance Thompson
New Wilmington
Soviets Execute Five Hitler Agents Near Odessa
Berlin reports the Soviet firing squad executed five Russians of German descent accused as Hitler agents. The fifth was carried out today at the village of Strassburg near Odessa in the U S S R close to the Romanian border.
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Berlin
Today
Strassburg
Odessa
Westminster College Commencement Schedule Highlights
Westminster College in New Wilmington lists more than twenty events for the upcoming commencement weekend starting Saturday. The schedule includes reunions for classes from 1880 to 1930, a Duff chimes dedication, a band concert, May queen crowning, plays, an all college party, a Sunday church sermon, an organ recital, and a baccalaureate sermon by President Robert F. Galbreath.
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New Wilmington
Westminster College
Donald O. Cameron
Isabel Reed
Poland
South Terrace
A. T. Cordray
Christian Associations
United Presbyterian Church
William E. Brooks
Morgantown
W. Va
Gordon Balch Nevin
Nevin
Handel
Bach
Purcell
Wagner
Mendelessohn
Widor
Robert F. Galbreath
Two Political Quotes Stir Hollywood and Detroit
Beverly Hills reports the president threatening a possible call to arms if Wagner and Snyder bills fail. At the Federation of Women's Clubs in Detroit Mrs. Thomas G. Winter criticizes Hollywood and claims clean pictures come from the solid middle class, not the intelligentsia. Society classes are deemed the dirtiest minded.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Wagner
Guffy Snyder
Federation of Women's Clubs
Detroit
Thomas G. Winter
Federation
Hollywood
Intelligensia
America
Suspects Sought in Tacoma Kidnapping Case
Three men and a woman are being sought in the Weyerhaeuser kidnapping. They were last seen near Brigham City Utah and headed toward Cheyenne Wyoming. A Seattle resident named Gladys West is identified as the woman. Donald Dawes is the aviator suspect. FBI Special Agent Harold Nathan arrived to assist in the manhunt as authorities track ransom notes and vehicle movements across the Northwest toward the Midwest.
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Tacoma
Harold Heroux
Mews Service
Wash
Pacific Northwest
Chicago
St. Paul
Weyerhaeuser
Brigham City
Utah
Salt Lake City
Cheyenne
Wyo
Winthrop Hotel
Little George Weyerhaeuser
Floyd Anderson
Department of Justice
Huntington
Ore
Spokane
Midwest
Seattle
Gladys West
Donald Dawes
Harold Nathan
Federal Bureau of Investigation
U. S. Department of Justice
Little George
Hearings Halt in Mellon Case in U S Tax Board
Hearings before the U S Board of Tax Appeals in Andrew W Mellon income tax dispute halted after the Union Trust Co of Pittsburgh failed to respond to a subpoena. Chairman Van Fossan found the trust in default and adjourned the hearings indefinitely, with government counsel Jackson planning to report to Attorney General Cummings for possible district court action.
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International News Service
Washington
U. S. Board of Tax Appeals
Andrew W. Mellon
Union Trust Co
Pittsburgh
Ernest H. van Fossan
Trust Company
Robert H. Jackson
Jackson
Cummings
U. S. District Court
Vandals Face Workhouse Threat in City Parks
City council discussed vandalism in parks and along Croton avenue hills. Mayor Charles B Mayne suggested that vandals caught destroying property could be sentenced to the Workhouse, replacing current prosecutions for malicious mischief. Concrete benches, shrubbery, and a tree were damaged, with razor blade damage noted on a tree trunk.
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Charles B. Mayne
Baltimore and Ohio Officials Inspect New Castle Shops
G. H. Emerson and W. D. Whitsitt from the Baltimore and Ohio railroad lead a delegation in New Castle for an inspection of the shops and equipment at the terminal. They are joined by G. R. Galloway and H. M. Sherrard from Cincinnati and Harry Rees of Akron. The visitors traveled by private car and then to Erie to view a General Electric diesel engine under construction for B and O lines before returning tonight.
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G. H. Emerson
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
W. D. Whitsitt
Baltimore
New Castle
G. R. Galloway
Western Lines
H. M. Sherrard
Cincinnati
Harry Rees
Akron
Erie
General Electric Company
B. and O
Dick Klingensmith Has Perfect School Attendance
Dick Klingensmith son of Mr and Mrs Albert Klingensmith of North Mercer street has achieved perfect attendance at Highland avenue school for six years with no absences or tardies. He will enter George Washington junior high next term.
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Dick Klingensmith
Albert Klingensmith
North Mercer Street
Highland Avenue School
George Washington Junior High
Three Gunmen Die in Chair For Murder Careers
Three young gunmen Morton Millen Irving Millen and Abraham Faber were executed in Charlestown State Prison early today in Massachusetts. A crowd of about five thousand gathered outside as the men faced the electric chair one by one. The brothers Mills Millen and Faber met their end after a spree that killed four men in New England's latest wave of banditry.
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Win Brooks
International News Service
Boston
Morton Millen
Irving Millen
Abraham Faber
State’s Prison
Charlestown
New England
Millen-Faber
Massachusetts
Mother and Son Executed After Delaware Murder Case
Mrs May H Carey 55 and her son Howard were hanged at Sussex county jail yard at 5 02 am and 5 31 am after fatal acts linked to the murder of her brother Robert H The executions followed a court case in Georgetown Delaware as fog shrouded the scene and both accepted their fate with quiet resolve
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Karl M. Kahn
International News Service
Georgetown
Del
May H. Carey
Howard
Sussex County
Death
Delaware
Emporia Banker Finney Shoots Self Amid Bond Scandal Fallout
W. W. Finney, 62, a prominent Emporia banker tied to a 1933 state bond scandal and bank embezzlement, killed himself with a bullet as a sheriff waited to take him to prison at his summer cabin. He had narrowly escaped a 36 to 600 year sentence and was father of Ronald Finney, who is also in prison.
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International News Service
Emporia
Kan
W. W., Finney
Kansas
Ronald Finney
Tom Boyd
Finney
Here
Grove City Woman Appointed Superintendent in State Hospital
In Harrisburg on June 7 Mrs Hazel Smith of Grove City wife of Rep William G Smith was named superintendent of the state hospital for crippled children at Elizabethtown by Health Secretary Dr Edith MacBride Dexter. She succeeds L G Owen who earned 3600 annually while Mrs Smith will receive 2000 plus an additional vacancy as superintendent of nurses paying 1800 a year, a saving of 3400 in salaries. Smith previously led the nurses at Concord New Hampshire hospital.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
Hazel Smith
Grove City
William G. Smith
State Hospital For
Elizabethtown
Edith MacBride-Dexter
Smith
L. G. Owen
Owen
Dexter
Concord, N. H. Hospital
Gunton and Hainer To Attend State Planning Meet
City council considers trimming travel funds and sends only Matthew Gunton and Robert Hainer to the State Planning commissions convention in Harrisburg June 14 15 Budget notes show a 200 appropriation for planning work while push to limit expenses.
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Gunton
Hainer
Albert A. Hoyland
Matthew Gunton
Robert Hainer
Harrisburg
Council
Joseph Alexander
Glenn Throop
Hoyland
D. O. Davies
Alexander
Throat
Planning Commission
Water bills and sprinklers amid dry lawns in July
The narrator notes the water price is cheap at three months of service for the cost of a straw hat. With a dry lawn and washings to be done, the sprinkler should be turned on to moisten hay as water remains plentiful at seventy three today.
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Water Hill
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Irving
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