Opening of Pennsylvania Power Plant Heralded by Ceremony
Officials and 1 500 guests attend noon luncheon at New Castle Field Club. At 2 30 the dedication at West Pittsburg marks a milestone for Pennsylvania Power Company with a motorcade, Boy Scouts, and Legion Band.
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Pennsylvania Power Company
Pennsylvania Power
New Castle Field Club
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
New Castle
West Pittsburg
New Power Company
American Legion
New Castile
Pennsylvania Power Company Opens West Pittsburg Plant
New Castle and Lawrence County citizens gather to honor the Pennsylvania Power Company and its family on the formal opening of the new three million dollar power plant at West Pittsburg. Meantime two automobiles bound for the World’s Fair depart from a local hotel with licenses showing Wisconsin and Oregon. A stalled truck on East Washington street delays a streetcar until helpers push it free. Evening robins sing during twilight near Spruce street as a social gathering forms.
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Pa News
New Castle
Lawrence County
Pennsylvania Power Company
West Pittsburg
Ak Mead
New York
Wisconsin
Oregon
Wer
Cedar Street
Giddings
Pennsylvania
Cc. Ment
Daily Weather Report Summary
United States weather statistics for the 24 hour period ending at m. m. Wednesday show a maximum temperature of 91 and minimum 66 with .20 inches of precipitation and a river stage of 4.7 feet. Comparisons to the same date in prior years note a high of 72, a low of 50, and no precipitation.
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United States
Teapot Dome echoes in Louisiana scandal talk
Baton Rouge June 29 Nearly a dozen investigations swirl as Louisiana weighs the chance of another Teapot Dome style affair The focal figure is Dr James Monroe Smith former president of Louisiana State University who vanished after a police search across the U S and Canada Unclear if he acted alone as investigators pursue market operations connected to the university.
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Willam G. Gaudet
Internacional News Service
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
James Monroe Smith
United States
Canada
Louisiana State University
Yar
Smith
University
New Castle
Moscow claims two Jap planes shot down near Lake Buir
Moscow reports two Japanese bombing planes shot down over Soviet outer Mongolia near Lake Buir along the Manchukuo boundary. Soviet claims thirteen more Japanese planes turned back toward Manchukuo as pursuit planes engaged.
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Moscow
International News Service
Soviet
Outer Mongolia
Vere Sion
Lake Buir
Manchukuo
Tuy
NRW
Supplies Enter Tientsin Concessions Amid Blockade Easing
With the Japanese blockade relaxed around the British and French concessions in Tientsin the food situation improved as large supplies entered without obstruction. Japanese and British consular officials left for Tokyo to join talks to end the blockade, due to reach Japan by Saturday with discussions starting Monday.
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International News Service
Tientsin
Tokyo
Japan
Deny Margiotti Right To Practice In Philadelphia
A seven-judge court in Philadelphia unanimously denied Charles J. Margiotti the right to practice law in the city. Margiotti, former Pennsylvania attorney general, had sought to compel the Philadelphia County Board of Law Examiners to endorse him or reveal its objections after the board refused his admission. The ruling aligns with his status as a Pittsburgh attorney and bar member of the state supreme court.
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International News Service
Philadelphia
Common Pleas
Charles J. Marriotti
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County Board of Law Examiners
Marglotti
Pittsburgh
State Surpreme Court
Rule
Board
Indorse Nim
New Castle
Probes into Fraud Claims Hit Pennsylvania Unemployment Benefits
The Division of Unemployment Compensation and Employment Service tightens controls to ensure benefits go only to qualified claimants. In Lawrence County an investigation targets alleged fraudulent claims as part of a statewide probe over the past month. Bobby Vernon Dies at 42 in Hollywood Heart attack claimed the life of the veteran film comedian best known for early silent pics and later writing work.
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Pennsylvania
Joseph R. Hensley
Lawrence County
New Castle
Bobby Vernon
International News Service
Hollywood
Get Refund On Retail Beer And Liquor Licenses
Public notice from Auditory General Warren R. Roberts in Harrisburg reports New Castle will receive 1350 dollars as a semiannual return from the state on retail beer and liquor licenses for the last six months of 1938. Lawrence County also benefits in a small sum.
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Warren R. Roberts
Harrisburg
New Castle
County of
Lawrence
New Cabtle
Slayer Of Infant Put In State Hospital
Clair Young, a Charleroi miner, fatally wounded his 19 month old daughter Ada to “go to heaven.” A commission found he suffered delusions and homicidal tendencies. Judge Carr Gibson ordered his commitment to Farview state hospital for the criminally insane after sanity was judged. Authorities report he has become so violent he must be kept in a straight jacket.
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International News Service
Washington
Clair Young
Charleroi
Ada
Heaven
Farview State Hospital
Carr
Gibson
Young
Divorced War Bride Found Dead in Pittsburgh Apartment
Pittsburgh, June 29. Mrs Raphaeile D Edmundson, 45, a divorced war bride, was found dead today in the apartment of widow friend Mrs George J Melvaine. Her throat and wrists were slashed and a razor blade lay in her hand police said. She had been in West Penn hospital for a nervous condition for three weeks until last Sunday.
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Pittsburgh
Raphaeile D. Edmundson
George J. Melvaine
Memorial Plan Erects Marker at Volant College Site
Plans for a marker to mark the site of the famous old Volant college were launched at the Volant college reunion on the campus now occupied by the Presbyterian church. Homer C. Drake was elected president for the coming year amid a large gathering. Nearly two hundred attended the noon dinner at the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Shaw Mrs. Clark Blevins and Mrs. W Yam Miller led church volunteers who decorated tables with garden flowers and provided a chicken dinner. The afternoon featured reminiscences and a formal program, marking the largest attendance in the association’s history.
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Volant College
Presbyterian Church
Homer C. Drake
Association
John 3B
Homer “Ketler Miller
Guest Church
R. S. Naylor
The
Methodists
New Castle
Brownmiller Seeks New Trial in Payroll Fraud Case
Harrisburg June 29 defense counsel asked for a new trial for Roy B. Brownmiller former highways secretary convicted of a 1,000,000 payroll fraud in Luzerne county. Judge Howard W. Hughes presided with former judges J Dress Pannell Hanisburg and H Bechtel Pottsville attending the motion.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
Roy B. Brownmiller
Luczerne County
J. Dress Pannell
Hanisburg
H. ©. Bechtel
Pottsville
Howard W. Hughes
Washington County
President Seeks Inside Of Legislative Revolt
President Housevelt summons congressional leaders to the White House seeking the inside view of a growing revolt threatening a summer session. He pledges to stand by through winter to push action on three major issues. Key aides Barkley Rayburn Garner Bankarad briefed.
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Washington
Housevelt
White House
Congress
Barkley
Rayburn
Wwere
Froosevelt
Garner
Bankarad
Elz
Poland Reaffirms Danzig Rights as Corridor Stand-Off Threatens War
Poland warned Adolf Hitler it cannot cede the Baltic outlet or close the corridor to the sea. President Sorace Moscick declared Poland determined to remain linked to Danzig and Gdynia, insisting on peaceful trade and sovereignty in the free city amid rising tensions.
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Poland
Baltic
Lester Kirkien
Internaions
Warsaw
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Sorace Moscick
Danne
Danzig
Gdynia
New Castle
Rushing Action On Relief Bill In Senate Conference
The $1.8083 billion relief appropriation bill, roiled by senate amendments, was rushed to conference with house members to settle changes before Friday midnight. After five long night sessions and heated clashes, the bill passed 54 to 0 and was increased by 73.9 million.
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Washington
Senate
House
Death Notices and Ages in City Chronicle
Death record lists John Sampson Swisher aged 69 of 1217 Francis Place Patrick Thornton aged 82 of 433 East Boyles Avenue Maz Quering Rosndi aged 63 of 624 Raymond Street with June 29 1939 date.
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John Sampson Swisher
Francis Place
Patrick Thornton
Boyles Avenue
Maz
Quering Rosndi
Raymond Street
Danzig Tension Deliberate Nazi Plan For Unrest
In London the Polish corridor defense pledge by President Moscicki is seen as challenging Hitler and signaling a general war if Danzig or related moves escalate. British quarters view Osnar tension as a deliberate Nazi attempt to unsettle European democracies, with no public warning issued to Germany.
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Charles A. Smith
London
Ignace Moscicki
City Awaits Big Pet Parade Friday in New Castle
City readies for the second annual pet parade with prizes at 2 30 p m Friday. Juvenile participants from New Castle will parade from Rosens grounds along South Jefferson to East Washington Water and South Mill, ending back at Rosena grounds with sponsors New Castle Recreation and others.
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New Castle
Rosens
Jefferson Street
South
Jefferson
East Washington
South Mill
Rosena
Fight receipts totalled 333302 dollars reported
Gubernatorial News Service in New York says Joe Louis will receive 214332 for his defense and Galento 50029.63 as the beaten challenger. Gross receipts including movie and radio rights were 283. and new receipts 889252.17. Federal taxes 28922.44 and state taxes 27644.07. Spectators numbered 34852 for the 11 minutes 29 seconds of action.
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Gubernational News Service
New York
Oni Res
Joe Lo
Galento
Cll Lenger
Career Of Olson Ended By Posse After Long Hunt
Ray Olson, hunted since June 17 in Wisconsin’s north woods for murder of two sheriff’s deputies, was killed on the edge of Lake Namakagon after a long manhunt. Deputies fired as Olson fled toward a thicket and a stolen boat, ending a 13 day chase without surrender.
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Olson
Posse
Long
International News Service
Wayward
Wis
Ray Olson
Wisconsin
North Woods
Lake Namakagon
New Castle
Song of Power And Its Generators In A Valley Chorus
A fragmented verse extols power, wires, coal, and generators as a factory hums with lights. Fifty thousand workers push to harness electricity with notes praising the power plant that fuels stores and homes. The chorus pledges more power to you as the weather sits at seventy nine.
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