Political Scramble Starts Fall Campaign Near
Harrisburg June 25. Pennsylvania party leaders prepare for local nomination petitions as the fall campaign opens. Democrats show organization strength under State Chairman David L. Lawrence, while Republicans rebuild after M Harvey Taylor’s resignation. July 26 is the nominating petition deadline with new filing fees for various offices under permanent registration.
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M. Harvey Taylor
G. Edward Green
George H. Earle
State Elections Bureau
Mediation board efforts appear deadlocked in steel dispute
Taft and the mediation board push for a one on one conference as four steel firms refuse to bargain with the CIO led by Lewis. The board outlines proposed settlement terms while unions insist they will strike until elections decide the contract fate. Murray says Roosevelt could arbitrate.
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John Hill
Republic
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
Zao Hill
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Inland Steel Company
United
John L. Lewis Rokk
Taft
Sheet and Tube
Lewis
Phillip Murray
C. I. O's Steel Workers Organizing Committee
C. I.O
Mediation Board
Secretary of Labor
Frances E. Perkins
Lloyd E. Garrison
University of Wisconsin Law School
Edward F. McGrady
Tom M. Girdler
Frank Purnell
Eugene Grace
Bethlehem
Leopold E. Block
Inland
CIO
National Labor Relations Board
Murray
Roosevelt
America
New State Cabinet Plan and County Takeover
A new 11 member state cabinet will be appointed by the governor for Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The plan transfers 375 poor boards duties to county commissioners effective January 1, 1938. A nine member public assistance board will advise the cabinet head.
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Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Automobile as Aid to Democracy In The Old Days
A fragmented line recalls cars as a democratic equalizer while noting that in the past poor men lacked horses and buggies to reach the town banker. The compact remark juxtaposes mobility with social access in a bygone era.
Miners Demonstration Amid Martial Law In Johnstown
Miners at South Fork Cresson Portage and Gallitzin joined a peaceful sympathy strike in Johnstown. Governor Earle declared martial law after a threatened 40 000 miner march, with 200 state police kept in the city and 200 withdrawn as order shifted.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
South Fork
Cresson
Portage and
Gallitzin
Somerset County
Berwind-White Coal Company
James Mark
George H. Earle
Bethlehem
Earle
Deaths of the Day: Love Hogue and Barnes
William Howard Love died in Tulsa Oklahoma and funeral services will be in Oil City Saturday at 11 a.m. Survived by wife Maud Maxwell Love and daughter Harriet. James A. Hogue died at his farm in Slippery Rock Township aged 60. service Saturday at 2 p.m. Leroy Barnes died at his Riverview Avenue home aged 40 with funeral plans to be announced.
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William Howard Love
Tulsa
Oklo
Oil City
Mr. Love
New Castle
Lawrence County
Prairie Oil & Gas Company
Independence
Kas
Sinclair Oil Company
Love
Maud Maxwell Love
Harriet
J. B. Love
Leasure Avenue
Methodist Episcopal Church
Maxwell
Epworth Church
James A. Hogue
Slippery Rock Township
R. D
Mr. Hogue
Worth Township
Butler County
James
Mary Kauffman Hogue
Charlotte M. Armstrong Hogue
James Hogue
Scott G. Hogue
Eliasville
Texas
Delphis L. Hogue
Lulu Stoughton
Scott Township
Boyd Funeral Home
R. J Fredericks
Calvary Presbyterian Church
Mt. Union Cemetery
Leroy Barnes
Riverview Avenue
First Group of Democrats Off to Parley
The Jefferson Island club hosted a jamboree in bright weather with Maury Maverick of Texas showing Roosevelt buttons and Edward A. Kenny of New Jersey distributing posters for his lottery bill. Five senators Bailey Byrd Clark Van Nuys Adams arrived from Washington but offered no comment to reporters.
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Jefferson Island
Roosevelt
Bailey
North Carolina
Byrd
Virginia
Clark
Missouri
van Nuys
Indiana
Adams
Colorado
Washington
Chamberlain urges calm as New Spanish crisis unfolds
Britain seeks cool heads amid Italo German actions around Spain. Chamberlain warns against rash moves while calling for patience and renewed efforts to withdraw volunteers. Attlee demands end to non intervention and League action. India to get air conditioned railway cars.
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Berlain
Germany
Europe
Clement Attlee
League of Nations
Chamberlain
Anthon Eden
Rome
Gilbraltar
Spain
State to Launch Building Program Under New Superintendent
A state building program is set to begin under the superintendent. His successor as of June 30 will be budget secretary Arthur Howe. Projects include state hospitals in Allentown Farview Warren Connellsville Nanticoke Philipsburg Scranton and others with costs ranging from 68 000 to 2 847 000 and penitentiaries in Grateford Philadelphia Mt Gretna Pittsburgh Rockview.
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Arthur Howe
Allentown State Hospital
Allentown
Farview State Hospital
Farview
Warren State Hospital
Warren
Connellsville State Hospital
Connellsvile
Nanticoke State Hospital
Nanticoke
Philipsburg State Hospital
Philipsburg
Western State Psychiatric Hospital
Pittsburgh
Scranton State Hospital
Scranton
New Eastern Penitentiary
Grateford
Eastern Penitentiary
Philadelphia
Mt. Gretna
Western State Penitentiary
Rockview
Read in the Cooler After Walk-Beat Rift
In Pittsburgh, 54 year old John Read was jailed for five days after an argument with Frank Miller over cleaning a sidewalk for a meal. Read became angry and began a fight when Miller declined his offer.
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Pittsburgh
John Read
Read
Frank Miller
Miller
Deep Drilling Predicted To Reach Three Miles Deep
In Colorado Springs C A Young of Dallas Texas secretary of the American Petroleum Institute urged deeper drilling reaching three miles into the interior of the earth. He cited standardization and advances in drilling and production as making deeper targets feasible as members gathered for the institute midyear meeting.
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Colorado Spring
Colo
C. A. Young
Dallas
Texas
The
American Petroleum Institute
Young
Institute
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