Plane of Flying Family Feared Lost in Greenland Waters
International News Service reports searchers failed to locate the plane City of Richmond and its eight passengers after a forced sea landing off Greenland. Distress signals were heard, with hope the pilot George R. Hutchinson and family reached a remote island. A British trawler Lord Talbot and a motor boat from Angmagsalik aided the search.
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International News Service
Copenhagen
Greenland
George R. Hutchinson
Richmond
Angmagsalik
Hutchinson
City of
SOS
Talbot
Greenland Board
Collins' Place Not Filled Until After October 1
Harrisburg report notes Governor Pinchot claiming control of the Public Service Commission through appointments of P. S. Stahlnecker and Dr. Clyde L. King. The resignations of W. D. B. Ainey and Emerson Collins pave the way for new leadership. King and Stahlnecker replace Ainey and Brown as terms expire.
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Pinchot
Collins’ Place
Harrisburg
Gifford Pinchot
Public Service Commission
P. S. Stahlnecker
Clyde L. King
W. D. B. Ainey
Emerson Collins
Williamsport
Collins
Dr. King
Ainey
Stahlmecker
J. W. Brown
Lancaster
Autumn plans for safer curves and new highway sign
PA officials consider super elevation of highway curves to improve safety for motorists. Harrisburg dispatches note a banking method being studied to avoid cement damage. A new sign reading Bad Corner appears at Slippery Rock Inter section. Residents advised to patch rough North Mercer street and dust concerns noted on roads to fair grounds. Buckwheat harvests underway east of the city as Halloween nears and apple surplus draws attention. Local social notes follow.
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Harrisburg
Slippery Rock
Daily Weather Report Summary for 24 Hour Period
The report records a maximum temperature of 83 and minimum of 42 with no precipitation and a river stage of 3.4 feet for the current 24 hours ending 9 am. It also notes figures from the prior 24 hours ending Sunday 9 am with a maximum of 82, minimum 39, and a 3.5 foot river stage.
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U. S
Maine Voters Hand Republicans a State Election Test
About 200000 Maine residents vote in a statewide election selecting a governor, legislature, county officials, and three congressmen. National implications loom as Republicans seek a surge or Democrats view the vote as a Hoover rebuke amid a presidential year.
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Maine
International News Service
Portland
Pine Tree
Hoover
Daniel F. Field
Republican State Committee
Davis Trial Set for September 19 in Lottery Conspiracy Case
Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania will go on trial September 19 on charges of conspiracy and operation of a lottery connected to the Loyal Order of the Moose charity. Judge T Blake Kennedy ordered separate trial after defense petition. Other defendants Raymond Walsh, Bernard Maguire, and Hiram Mann and Frank Hering faced earlier motions. Steuer asked post Nov. 1 for Walsh and Maguire.
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International News Service
New York
U. S
James J. Davis
Pennsylvania
Charles H. Tuttle
T. Blake Kennedy
U. S. Senate
Kennedy
Tuttle
Davis
Loyal Order of the Moose
Max Steuer
Raymond Walsh
Bernard Maguire
Steuer
Hiram Mann
Kansas City, Mo
Chamber of Commerce
Frank Hering
Official
Moose
Two Hurt As Car Overturns On Route 17 Near Edenburg
Joe Milito and Miss Joennie Villa were injured when a car driven by Milito overturned on a hill at the Route 17 dirt road intersection near Edenburg after a tire blew. Milito suffered facial lacerations and Villa was wounded. both received local medical treatment.
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Edenburg
Lawton
Joe Milito
East Division Street
Joennie Villa
Friendship Street
Milito
Miss Villa
Releases Signed for Pittsburg Road at County Meeting
At a county commissioners meeting with property owners on Pittsburg road three more releases were secured. Officials expect remaining releases soon and aim for early contract approval once all claims are adjusted. commissioners will not approve until all settlements are finalized.
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Pittsburg Road
County Commissioners Attend Bradford Convention
County officials P. O. Elder F. R. Woods and Elmer Conners depart tonight for Bradford Pennsylvania to attend the state convention of county commissioners. The two day session begins tomorrow morning with the convention expected to run through the next day.
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P. O. Elder
F. R. Woods
Elmer Conners
Bradford
Dissolution of Reichstag Ordered Amid Chaos in Berlin
The Von Papen government declared the Reichstag dissolved after deputies refused to hear Chancellor Von Papen's program and moved to vote on motions of nonconfidence. Government statement claimed dissolution as the chamber continued balloting on a Communist nonconfidence motion.
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International
Berlin
von Papen
Reichstag
Senate committee Eyes New Counsel for Pinchot Probe
Harrisburg Sept 12 The Rial senate committee seeking counsel for Gov Pinchot probes will meet this week to pick another attorney. Possible candidates include George Pepper Margiotti Alter and Eaton with judge Gawthrop’s declination renewing the lineup discussion. Senator Rial defers naming until the capitol meeting.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
Rial Senate Committee
Gifford Pinchot
Public Service Commission
Superior Court
Robert W. Gawthrop
George Wharton Pepper
Charles J. Margiotti
Irene Schroeder
Glenn Dague
James J. Davis
Margiotti
George F Alter
Pittsburgh
Oliver K. Eaton
William S. Rial
Westmoreland
Capitol
Woman Dies at 116 After Eating Eggs Daily
Jersey City reports Dora Meyers died at 116, attributing long life to eating a dozen eggs daily when finances allowed. She outlived three husbands and all but one of her 11 children. son John Meyers, 89, announced the death.
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International News Service
Jersey City
N. J
Dora Meyers
John Meyers
Tropical Storm Aims For Texas Coast
Weather Bureau warns of a tropical storm moving toward the Texas coast at seven miles per hour. If on course, it could strike near Port Arthur this afternoon or tonight, following a deadly recent storm that caused 49 deaths in the region.
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International News Service
Houston
Tex
Texas
Porth Arthur
Tropical hurricane menaces New Orleans coast
Washington reports a tropical hurricane increasing in intensity that day menacing New Orleans and the Louisiana coast. At 10 a.m. the storm was centered about 250 miles south by southwest of New Orleans, with a hurricane warning issued by the weather bureau.
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Washington
New Orleans
Louisiana
Weather Bureau
Paraguayan Forces Mark Major Victory at Fort Boqueron
Asuncion reports the first army corps in Ca sado continues fighting at Fort Boqueron in the Chaco. It says Bolivian forces were nearly wiped out with the 14th regiment largely destroyed and its commander Major Lairana taken prisoner.
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International
Asuncion
Paraguay
Fort Boqueron
Chaco
Casado
Lairana
Car Upsets On New Jersey Hill With Narrow Escape
John A. Pullins of 25 Grant Avenue Kearney New Jersey escaped injury when his new car skidded down a hill on the Stevenson bend of the New Castle Bedford highway early today, plunged into an embankment overturned and righted itself with only a shake up as damage was reported to the vehicle.
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Stevenson Bend
New Castle
New Bedford
John A. Pullins
Grant Avenue
Kearney
N. J
Highway Patrol
Lawton
Pullins
Pittsburgh Truck Driver Killed in Woolworth Building
Robert Mazersky, 28, a Pittsburgh truck driver, was killed instantly when crushed beneath an elevator on the first floor of the F. W. Woolworth building. He was peering into the shaft preparing to make a delivery when the descending cage crushed his head between the bottom of the elevator and the first floor.
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International News Service
Pittsburgh
Robert Mazersky
F. W. Woolworth
Mazersky
Bridge Proposal Placed Before Grand Jury
County commissioners presented data on a proposed Hettenbaugh Run bridge to the grand jury after a car knocked the site into the stream. Testimony has been heard. grand jury approval is needed before bids. Estimated cost about 3000 dollars.
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Grand Jury
Hettenbaugh Run
Rural Teachers Hold Institute in Union Township Meeting
Rural teachers from Lawrence County met Saturday for a substitute institute in Union township arranged by County Superintendent John C. Svyling. Officers of the P S E A were elected, with Roy R. Conway as president Glenn W. Johnson as secretary and Clare B. Book as treasurer. Delegates to the state convention were chosen from both high school and elementary groups, with S W Mullough and John Cornelius named for their respective roles and alternates listed.
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Union Township
John C. Svyling
Lawrence County
Roy R. Conway
Glenn W. Johnson
Shenango Township
Clare B. Book
S. W. McCullough
Donald McGary
Bessemer
John Cornelius
West Pittsburg
W. F. Miller
Hillsville
Stalin May Be Ousted From Soviet Leadership
Reports from Moscow received in London claim Joseph Stalin will be replaced next month by War Commissar Voroshilov as broad policy changes follow within the Soviet government.
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International News Service
London
Joseph Stalin
Moscow
Voroshiloff
Aged man killed near Grove City
Aged man Alfred Kite, 72, a guest at the Odd Fellows home for the aged, was killed when struck by a car while walking on the highway near the home in Grove City Pennsylvania. Richard G. Brown, 18, of Harrisville, the driver, was released on his own recognizance pending a coroner's inquest.
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International News Service
Grove City
Alfred Kite
Odd Fellows’ Home For
Richard G. Brown
Harrisville
Deaths James A. Garrett 76 Alliance and Samuel B. Clark 87
Obituaries note the deaths of James A. Garrett aged 76 from Alliance and Samuel B. Clark aged 87 from Neshannock Township. The notices offer memorial details and familial notices.
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James A. Garrett
Alliance
Samuel B. Clark
Neshannock Township
Democrats Turn Speeches Into Dinners in Campaign Spin
Special To The News notes a pattern where Republican campaign talks are held at meetings while Democratic speeches occur at dinners. The piece quips that old Democrats seek tangible gains from speeches and mentions Mayor Walker's trip to Italy and a new mayor's photo, contrasting with Tammany Hall.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Walker
Italy
Jimmy
Tammany Hall
Washington teachers face janitor duties at new high school
Washington Pa September 12 teachers at the new million dollar Junior-Senior high school must decide if they will accept the school board order that all high school teachers perform janitor tasks. The move followed the death of one of four janitors, with teachers to seek volunteer student cleaning groups to help.
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International News Service
Washington
Find No Trace of Col. Robins in Disappearance Case
Investigators search for Colonel Raymond Robins a Hoover ally as silence surrounds his unresolved disappearance. Amnesia theory gains ground though friends confirm he was in good health and expected to campaign for Hoover's re election.
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Col. Robins
International News Service
Southwest Harbor
Raymond Robins
Hoover
Robins
Ministers Prepare for Erie Conference at Sharon
Sharon Pennsylvania September 12 ministers and laymen prepare to attend the Erie conference of the Methodist Episcopal church opening in the First M E church tomorrow Bishop Adna Leonard will preside the six day session adjourn Monday morning with noted clergymen including Dr Clarence True Wilson and Bishop Edwin F Lee laymen will participate on equal footing with ministers a change authorized at the Atlantic City general conference The Saturday eve session will feature a public meeting at the junior high school building with an address by Dr Wilson secretary of the board of temperance prohibition and public morals
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International News Service
Sharon
Erie
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
M. E
Minsters
Atlantic City
Wilson
Board of Temp.ance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Chinese and Japanese suffer heavy losses near Tahsing Chutze
In Harbin area Japanese headquarters report 204 Chinese slain and two Japanese killed or wounded in a clash between Javanese troops and rebels along the southern Chinese Eastern railway near Tahsing Chutze. Earlier bandits looted a night express train. guards allegedly fraternized with them. the Soviet consul at Dairen was among robbed passengers.
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International
Harbin
Manchuria
Tahsing-Chutze
Dairen
New York Subway Opened With Strong First Day
New York officials hailed the new subway as a success after 24 hours of operation. From midnight Friday to Saturday 171,267 passengers rode the eighth avenue line, paying 8563.35 in nickels, with Times Square station leading receipts at 1090.79.
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New York
Eighth Avenue
Times Square
Races Westward To Wed Kansas Girl
Uniontown pa sept 12 or val e turner a postal employe of Washington dc raced westward by motor to keep his Kansas City wedding engagement threatened by an accident. Turner was jailed after his car fatally injured Vincent Baiovie a coroner's jury exonerated him but the district attorney sought more details before releasing the groom bail set at 1000 and he resumed his dash to the church.
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International News Service
Uniontown
Orval E. Turner
Washington, D. C
Kansas City
Turner
Vincent Baiovie
Arthur Mometer Looks Ahead To A Frugal Winter
The farmer enjoys leisure to read and plan as barns brim with clover hay and wheat. He has little cash but stores of home raised beef and crops promise sustenance through winter with simple stews and preserved eggs.
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Floyd Bennett Airfield
G. J. Atiilisch
Joseph Ruff
P. Redpath
Jane
Kathryn
Hutchison
Norman Alley
Stahlnecker and King
Joseph A. Loftus
PA News
Mercer Street
Euclid Avenue
City Line
Pa Nene
Harlansburg
Daily Weather Report
Senate Prohers Hunt Counsel
Port Arthur
Union High School
Association
Stalin
Yours
Chinese Eastern Railway
Kansas
Weshington
D. C
Man
Arthur Mometer
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