Radicalism Under Fire At Veterans Camp Meeting
In Wilkinsburg delegates to the sixteenth annual Veterans of Foreign Wars encampment hear warnings on radicalism from educator Col C Blaine Smathers and Congressman James L Quinn. Smathers blasts teachers spreading communistic doctrine. Quinn urges redemption of America amid social and economic conflicts. Joint session opens with 30 000 veterans and ladies auxiliary delegates.
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International News Service
Pittsburgh
Wilkinsburg
James L. Quinn
Col. C. Blaine Smathers
Pennsylvania Soldiers’ Orphans School
Scotland
Ladies Auxiliary
Tacoma Under Near Martial Law
Tacoma in near martial law as National Guard troops under Brigadier General Pennington enforce bans on public gatherings to secure the opening of lumber mills after a two months’ strike. Guards patrol city streets amid two minor skirmishes and warnings of agitators aiming to worsen clashes.
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Tacoma
Wash
National Guard
Clarence D. Martin
Carlos A. Penington
Mexican Rebels Kill Ten Men in Coatepec Raid
A band of 150 rebels attacked Coatepec in Vera Cruz, looting the town and killing ten members of the garrison. Federal soldiers battled the raiders for an hour but the attackers escaped into the mountains.
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International News Service
Mexico City
Coatepec
Vera Cruz
Jamboree De Luxe Opens Tonight at Union High
The National Security Association presents a two night event called Jamboree De Luxe at Union High School at 7 30 tonight with Judge R Lawrence Hildebrand opening. Friday night moves to Benjamin Franklin Junior High with Mayor Charles B Mayne delivering the opening. The program features Melvin Kerry and his orchestra Castle Royal orchestra Red Burnside and His Ramblers and Mary Elizabeth Suber School dancers. Special guests include Crawford Oakridge children and Margaret Henry Home children with Eileen Murphy highlighted as a featured dancer.
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National Security Association
Union High School
Benjamin Franklin Junior High School
R. Lawrence Hildebrand
Charles B. Mayne
Melvin Kerry
Castle Royal Orchestra
Red Burnside
Minnow Emerges From Faucet in Pittsburgh Home
Mrs. Marie E. Darcy heard a splash when she turned on a kitchen faucet in Pittsburgh on June 27. A tiny minnow surfaced from the tap, and her husband kept the creature in a water glass.
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Pittsburgh
Marie E. Darcy
Six Philadelphia Men Sentenced In Insurance Swindle
Six Philadelphia men convicted of a fraud that duped an insurance company out of 10000 on fake accident claims were sentenced to three months in county prison. Benjamin Cohen, 45, called ringleader, already serves five years. Joseph Sweet, 54, described as inside man and adjuster for 14 years, is serving four years.
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Philadelphia
Benjamin Cohen
Joseph Sweet
Traveler Charles Jackson Arrested and Ordered Out
Charles Jackson a colored traveler was arrested for soliciting alms last night and ordered out of the city by Mayor Charles B. Mayne today.
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Charles Jackson
Charles B. Mayne
Inoculation Drive for Police and Firemen in Philadelphia
Philadelphia authorities urged city police and firemen to take typhoid inoculations as the outbreak spreads. The tally includes 45 new hospital cases and multiple victims among police and their families. A May 30 picnic exposed 400 people to the fever germ. nearly 30 of that group contracted typhoid this week.
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International News Service
Philadelphia
Albert Jones
Joseph Heller
Dynamite Plotters Sentenced in Gulf Refining Plot
Joseph McTaggert and William J. Callahan of Philadelphia were sentenced to two to ten years in prison for possessing explosives intended to damage the Gulf Refining plant during a strike last year. They pleaded guilty last November and have remained jailed awaiting sentencing.
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International News Service
Philadelphia
Joseph McTaggert
William J. Callahan
Big Planting of Forest Tree Seed in Harrisburg
Harrisburg reports the department of forests and waters planted more than a ton of spring seed for 8 to 10 million seedlings. The program includes 14 tree types with red pine and black walnut most numerous. Seeds were gathered by department employees and CCC workers at department nurseries.
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Harrisburg
Department of Forests and Waters
Department
CCC
Cramps Prove Fatal to Youth in Crooked Creek
Walter E. McLaughlin 21 of Markle drowned after cramps while swimming in Crooked creek near Apollo Pennsylvania. His brother Eugene 18 tried to save him. body recovered 15 minutes later but life could not be saved.
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Apollo
Walter E. McLaughlin
Markle
Allegheny Valley
Crooked Creek
Eugene
Young Man Attempts to Snatch Purse on East Washington Street
Police report a young man about 18 in a dark suit with light curly hair attempted to seize a purse from a woman as she walked with two others at the East Washington Water street intersection. The effort failed and no purse was taken.
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East Washington Street
Water Street
Accuse Man Of Abducting Own Child From Home
Authorities search for Wilford McDonough 29 accused of abducting his 15 month old son from a Washington nursing home. John Ferry leads the investigation, saying the man took the child to aid in soliciting alms and left with him after a claimed walk. The mother, unable to care for the baby, left him at the home to work in West Brownsville.
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International News Service
Charleroi
Wilford McDonough
Washington, Pa
John Ferry
Washington County Pool Board
McDonough
Ferry
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Brownsville
Wallace–Maher pupils win top honors at St Mary's
Virginia Brincko and Joseph Maher received medals for the highest average in fifth grade at St Mary's School, Wallace Avenue and Philipps Place, as the term closed last Friday.
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Virginia Brincko
John Brincko
Wallace Avenue
Joseph Maher
Thomas Maher
Phillipps Place
St. Mary's School
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