President Hoover aboard Arizona heads to Porto Rico
President Hoover and his party boarded the battleship Arizona as it sails toward Porto Rico. The ship received a captain’s inspection with elbow-grease cleanups by sailors, while Hoover, Hurley, and Wilbur observed the spotless ship and praised the crew.
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George E. Durno
International News Service
U. S. S. Arizona
Porto Rico
Arizona Today
Caribbean
Hoover
The
United States
Patrick J. Hurley
Interior
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Old Point Comfort
Palm
City and school plan spring sports and improvements
Painters busy repair downtown fire escapes while students skate and games loom at George Washington junior high athletic field. Council discusses spring improvements including paving streets and a $100,000 bond, with road work on Hazelcroft avenue and North Mercer street project requiring city township and county cooperation. A large tree is moved to R. C. Love’s North Jefferson street lawn.
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George Washington
Stanley Treser
Neshannock Township
Hazelcroft Avenue
Wilmington
North Hill
Mercer Street
R. C. Love
North
Jefferson Street
Love Home
Daily Weather Report Summary
United States Weather Bureau statistics show the 24 hour period ending at 9 am with a maximum temperature of 49 and minimum 23. No precipitation occurred and the river stage measured 66 feet.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Spring Arrives With Sunshine Heralding Baseball and Cleanup
The piece notes a nationwide burst of spring activity as mild winter ends. It lists exhibition ball games, women shaking moth balls from wardrobes, golfers reclaiming clubs from attics, robins’ sightings, and cars receiving a shine, all signaling the season’s onset at nine this morning.
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International News Service
Westminster College appoints Charles Freeman as acting president
Pittsburgh, March 21. Dr. Charles Freeman dean of men at Westminster college for 34 years was named acting president while a new head is elected. Dr. W Charles Wallace, named head for commencement 1931, was granted leave of absence until then with instruction to return for the commencement exercise. The president search committee has not reached a decision and will report at the June meeting.
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International News Service
Pittsburgh
Charles Freeman
Westminster College
W. Charles Wallace
Westminster
Gas Tax Evaders Censured by Governor Pinchot
Harrisburg report of Governor Pinchot condemning the State Department of Revenue for negligence as gas tax evaders swindled millions. He cites specific county discrepancies and urges collection at the source with new legislation.
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Pinchot
International News Service
Harrisburg
Mar
State Department of Revenue
Gifford Pinchot
Assembly
Department of Revenue
Allegheny County
Philadelphia
Philadelphia County
Cal
Planned Tax Increase Delayed Until After 1932 Campaign
The 1931 report indicates a $700 million July 1 deficit to be covered by short term certificates delaying any federal tax hike until after the 1932 presidential election. Administrations plan economy measures and seek cuts to 1933-34 outlays, aiming to curb government costs below $5.3 billion.
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Washington
Mar
Treasury
Capitol Hill
Grand Jury Will Hear Testimony In Murder Case
Cambria County Grand Jury will reconvene Monday to hear the charge against Harry Starwick of Conemaugh, accused in the mutilated death of 7 year old Betty Mowry. It is the first recall after a normal dismissal in the county. A petit jury was empanelled to report the first week in May.
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Cambria County
International News Service
Johnstown
Harry Starwick
Conemaugh
Betty Mowry
Starwick
Plan To Arraign Akron Mechanic In Grave Charge
Akron officials plan to arraign Paul F. Kassay a former Austro-Hungarian officer on criminal syndicalism charges tied to a sabotage plot to wreck the Akron dirigible. DOJ agents tie Kassay to a San Diego navy bomber crash and report links to a nationwide plot. Kassay once worked for Great Lakes Aircraft in Cleveland. Continued on page seventeen.
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Akron
International News Service
Paul F. Kassay
Department of Justice
Kassay
Navy
San Diego
Calif
W. Y. Pharraguerre
Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation
Cleveland
Hunt Continues For Murderers In Frey Killing
State, city and local authorities pressed a wide search for Stanley Cicero and William Schemnitzer, both from Broughton Pennsylvania, for the killing of State Police Sergeant John E. Frey. No definite clues were found as the manhunt extended.
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International News Service
Albany
N. Y
Stanley Cicero
William Schemnitzer
Broughton
John E. Frey
Nautilus Submarine Heads for Brooklyn Yard Christening
The Nautilus submarine carrying Sir Hubert Wilkins is outbound from the Delaware River near Philadelphia toward Brooklyn Navy Yard. It will be christened Tuesday by Jean Jules Verne’s descendant, then proceed to New London for tests before sailing to Halifax in early April and London by mid May for a June Arctic voyage.
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Sir Hubert Wilkins
Arctic
Jean Jules Verne
Inset
Jules Verne
United States
Brooklyn Navy Yard
International News Service
New York
Delaware River
Philadelphia
Navy Yard
New London
Halifax
London
North
Sir Hubert
Fire destroys Wheatland community hall after firefighters dance
Sharon Pa March 21 Firemen who hosted a dance at the Wheatland community house returned to the scene to battle a blaze that gutted the building causing about 25000 in damage. The fire is believed to have started from a carelessly tossed cigarette in the rest room and the eight year old hall likely will not be rebuilt.
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International News Service
Sharon
Wheatland
Will Rogers Proposes Tax on Crime to Fund Government
Beverly Hills March 21 Will Rogers argues that all states gamble like Nevada and if Wall Street were taxed on every game, government could be funded. He suggests legalizing crime with heavy robbery tax to deter bandits and notes taxes have already driven some industries out of business.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Nevada
Wall Street
Prince Wilhelm Attacked by German Officer Reported
Koenigsberg dispatch reports Prince August Wilhelm fourth son of the former Kaiser and a Nazi supporter was accused by national socialist spokesmen of being assaulted by policemen as he tried to board a train with Joseph Goebbels Berlin lieutenant of Adolf Hitler.
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International
Koenigsberg
Germany
August Wilhelm
Joseph Goebbels
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Tragic New Jersey case of girl’s death ruled self-inflicted
In Summit New Jersey on March 21 widow Angeline Mazzacco found $50 missing, questioned her daughter Rose 14, and later the girl’s body was found hanging from a steam pipe. Police say the death was self inflicted.
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International News Service
Summit
N. J
Angeline Mazzacco
Rose
Fliers Ready To Hunt Survivors On Northern Newfoundland Ice
Bernt Balchen and two companions prepared to depart for the icefields of Northern Newfoundland to locate the 28 missing men after the Viking explosion. They fly from St. Johns via Boston and will search Horse Island and White Bay while delivering food and medical supplies to island inhabitants who sheltered 127 men.
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International News Service
ST. Johns
N. B
Bernt Balchen
Newfoundland
Viking
Randy Enslow
Miriam C. Cooper
Boston
L. F. Frissell
Varick Frisell
New York
A. G. Penrod
Horse Island
White Bay
Death Record Entries from Rainier Oregon and Nearby Towns
Obituary style list noting multiple deaths including Zedic Henderson of Rainier and ages from 7 to 81. Other names include C. Wesley Vasser aged 7 of 307 W Cherry St. Carl Creatura age 1 of Hillsville. Mrs Bertha A Barker age 41 of Slippery Rock Township. Margaret Van Kirk infant of New Galilee. Barbara Ann Russell 25 months of 219 East Meyer Ave. J George Rock age 81 of Petersburg Ohio.
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Zedic Henderson
Rainier
Oregon
C. Wesley Vasser
Cherry Street
Carl Creatura
Hillsville
Bertha A. Barker
Slippery Rock Township
Margaret van Kirk
New Galilee
Barbara Ann Russell
East
Meyer Avenue
J. George Rock
Petersburg
Lloyd George to report Tuesday on Liberal support pledge
David Lloyd George has pledged continued support to Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald as talks between liberal and labor spokesmen continue. He will report the weekend discussions to the liberal parliamentary party on Tuesday, with the agreement likely to include renewed pledges to back the government.
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London
David Lloyd George
J. Ramsay MacDonald
Liberal
Labor
Lloyd George
MacDonald
Gov
Erie man confesses to murder of Mary Sobuski
Anthony Wieczorkowski known as Tony The Sheik confessed after intensive questioning to killing his 22 year old sweetheart Mary Sobuski of McKean. Her body was found in Presque Isle Bay after he strangled her at a secluded spot near Gaskell Avenue on December 29. He is married with a four year old son. District Attorney Otto Harbst reported the confession.
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International News Service
Erie
Anthony Wieczorkowski
Nmy Dempsey
Tony the Sheik
Mary Sobuski
McKean
Presque Isle Bay
Otto Harbst
Wieczorkowski
Gaskell Avenue
Lake Erie
Marshall Gets Terms To Both Works And Pen
Andy Marshall convicted of highway robbery and assault and battery was sentenced to one year in the Allegheny county workhouse and two and one half years in the Western penitentiary. The sentences run consecutively starting after the workhouse term. Co-defendant Joe Morocco received a lighter fate, with a request for leniency and a sentence to Huntington Reform School. Mordcco pleaded guilty to the robbery charge.
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Andy Marshall
Allegheny County
Western Penitentiary
Hildebrand and
Chambers
Marshall
Joe Morocco
Samuel Sankovich
Bessemer
Mordcco
Morocco
Huntington Reform School
Cambridge Crew Defeats Oxford In Annual Race
Cambridge University's magnificent eight won the eighty third annual boat race at Putney, finishing two and a half lengths ahead of Oxford. The estimate crowd reached about one million as Cambridge extended their eight year winning streak.
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Cambridge
Oxford
F. A. Wray
International News Service
Putney-On-Thames
England
Cambridge University
This is the Day of Verse by Arthur Mometer
A playful fragment proclaims a poetic festival as spring arrives. Poets and youths ready their instruments with a lively roundelay and burning verse, marking a forty eight day in the calendar and urging creative expression.
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Harry R. Flory
Albert Minteer
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