Citizens Challenge County Overpayments as Poor Directors
Eleven Lawrence County citizens led by J Ed Duff and others filed a petition with the county court contesting the consolidated report by the County Auditors and Controller. They claim $600 was overpaid to each of the county commissioners for services as poor directors, totaling $1,920 in 1931 and $150 through January 1, 1932. The petition seeks the right to prosecute the alleged overpayments, and the case was granted to proceed.
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Lawrence County
Lawrence County Court
J. Ed Duff
George W. Ferrer
Jos. S. Rise
Charles W. Nolan
John Rearic
S. R. Huey
Albert Shoaf
S D. Pearson
S. W. Rearic
James B. Matthews
Charles A. Reed
Pa Newc Observes Local College Shipments And Recreation
Express offices report heavy college shipments as two truck trunks pass by. The George Washington junior high lawn is newly attractive with old swimming holes fading from the district. A guard rail section of the Covert Station bridge is missing and should be repaired. Tennis grows in popularity with many new courts built in New Castle. Lions club Lakewood beach outing reveals many fish yarns told by members and families.
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Covert Station
Pa Nene
Lakewood Beach
Lions Club
Vera
New Pennsy Head Arrives On Job
G S West former superintendent of the Pennsylvania railroads Monongahela division arrived from Pittsburgh to assume the Erie and Ashtabula division superintendency filling the post vacated by H T Frushour. Frushour left for Terre Haute Ind to head the main line St Louis division. West brings extensive transportation experience from Pennsylvania service beginning in 1909 and rising through motive power roles to master mechanic and superintendent positions. P W Sullivan succeeds West as Eastern Division head.
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G. S. West
Pennsylvania Railroads
Mononga
Pittsburgh
Erie & Ashtabula
H. T. Frushour
Frushour
Terre Haute
Ind
St. Louis
Monongahela
West
Pennsylvania
Railroad
Motive Power
Buffalo
Conemaugh
Philadelphia
Indianapolis
P. W. Sullivan
Daily Weather Report for 24-Hour Period
U S weather statistics show a maximum temperature of 88 and minimum 53 with no precipitation. River stage stands at 3.4 feet. Year ago readings report a max 85, min 69, and precipitation of .44 inches.
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U. S
Armed Guards Patrol Erie Courtroom in Graham Threats
Armed guards patrolled Judge J Orin Waite's Erie courtroom today after threats against District Attorney Mortimer Graham. Wilbur Umunitz, a gang leader convicted on a third offense and facing life imprisonment for robbery, is on trial with three accomplices. Police say the gang terrorized the city during their crime career.
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International News Service
Erie
Mortimer Graham
J. Orin Waite
Wilbur Umnitz
Umunitz
Hunt for Rome Fliers Continues Despite Hopes Dwindling
Italian air ministry and civil authorities persist in searching coastal regions north of Rome and Sardinia for the Trans Atlantic monoplane American Nurse with three passengers and a woodchuck aboard. Reports of a North Sea crash near Yarmouth prove unconfirmed as ships, pilots, and officials extend the hunt.
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International News Service
Rome
Italian Air Ministry
Sardinia
Leon M Pisculli
Edna Newcomer
William Uldrich
Yarmouth
Eng
New York
North Sea
St. Nichlas
Scroby Sands
Gorleston
Roosevelt Makes Stop in Cheyenne on Wyoming Campaign
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived by special train in Cheyenne Wyoming today to greet Democrats gathered along the tracks. A temporary platform enabled a brief address to several thousand supporters before an automobile tour of the city.
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International News Service
Cheyenne
Wyo
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wyoming
Roosevelt
New Zealand Quake Shakes Hastings Napier Gisborne Wairoa
A severe earthquake lasting about four hours struck a sixty mile area around Hastings Napier Gisborne and Wairoa injuring three people at Wairoa. Telegraph and telephone services were cut and widespread damage included collapsed bridges broken walls and cracked roads as well as suspended water supply.
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International News Service
Wellington
New Zealand
Hastings
Napier
Gisborne
Wairoa
Senator Howell Plans October Republican Speaking Tour
Senator R. B. Howell of Nebraska said he will campaign for the Republicans in Nebraska in October. He previously staged a one man filibuster in the senate for farm relief and avoided discussing Roosevelt farm policy. He warned of possible changes in the west within 60 days due to the economic situation.
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International News Service
Washington
Hoover
Senate
R. B. Howell
Nebraska
Howell
Farm Relief
Topeka
Franklin D. Roosevelt
West
Earl of Craven Taken By Death
The Earl of Craven who linked with the Countess of Cathcart in a New York moral turpitude case six years ago died in France. He had eloped to South Africa with the Countess and later the pair moved to the United States where the Countess faced charges at Ellis Island before a court allowed her to stay.
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International News Service
London
Earl of Craven
Countess of Cathcart
New York
France
Evening News
South Africa
United States
Ellis Island
New Castle Opens 1932 Football Season at Home
The News reports New Castle high hosts Union High tonight at Taggart Field to launch the 1932 football season with score updates available by phone and in windows on North Mercer street. Westminster College also begins play at Forbes Field against Duquesne under floodlights in Pittsburgh. Ellwood City high and other district schools start games this weekend.
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Onight
Taggart Field
New Castle High School
New Castle High
Union High
Union Township
Mercer Street
Westminster College
Duquesne University
Forbes Field
Pittsburgh
Ellwood City
System of Staggered Road Work to be Stopped
State Highway Superintendent H F Lightner announced the six day work cycle on the New Castle to New Wilmington and Pulaski to New Bedford roads would end. He said crews must be familiar with the work to finish within appropriations and that cost and efficiency issues led to the change. (Continued on Page 7)
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H. F. Lightner
New Castle
New Wilmington
Pulaski
New Bedford
Neshannock Township School Board seeks early state appropriation
At a meeting last evening the Neshannock Township School Board voted to ask the State Department of Education for the state appropriation now. The department allows advance payment due to the current economic condition to cover high school tuition and other essential work as the board works to stabilize finances.
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Neshannock Township
State Department of Education
Victims Named In Bus Collision At Manunka Chunk
Stroudsburg Pa Sept 16 tentative identifications were made of two people killed in the bus truck crash at Manunka Chunk New Jersey, early yesterday. Edna Hanoka 42 of 2565 Grand Concourse Bronx New York was one victim and Joseph Froelich 24 of Chicago the other. A D Toronton 55 of Buffalo left ear torn and skull fracture was among the critically injured at Portland hospital.
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International News Service
Stroudsburg
Manunka Chunk
N. J
Edna Hanoka
Grand Concourse
Bronx
New York
Joseph Froelich
Chicago
A. D. Toronton
Buffalo
Portland, Pa
Roosevelt Enters Farm Relief Debate in California
Special to The News reports Roosevelt joining the farm relief discourse in Beverly Hills. The piece argues market forces decide crop prices, not speeches, and that relief should come via tax policy. It contends landowners shoulder more tax burden to support non-landowners, as farmers chase promises from speakers.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Roosevelt
Dorothy Millette’s Body Possibly Buried in Pauper Grave
In Sacramento a pauper’s grave loomed for Dorothy Millette who died after learning of Paul Bern’s suicide. Coroner James Garlick warned relatives, if unlocated, may not claim the body and the remains could be disposed of at county expense. Millette leapt from a river boat with $38 in her purse. Bern had supported her for 20 years.
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Dorothy Millette
International News Service
Sacramento
Cal
Paul Bern
Jean Harlow
James Garlick
Theft of Battery Reported to Police
Joseph Bara of 1601 Hanna Street reported to police that a battery was stolen from his machine while it was parked at his home yesterday. a neighbor's house was nearby and the theft occurred during that visit.
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Joseph Bara
Hanna Street
Death Notice for James MacDonald and Elsie Baker Blinn
Death records report James MacDonald of Wilmington and Mrs. Elsie Baker Blinn 34 of Ellwood City R D 2.
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James MacDonald
Wilmington
Elsie Baker Blinn
Ellwood City
R. D
Woman Missing: Police Seek To Solve Mystery
Grace Atwood, daughter of a Middleboro manufacturer, vanished while awaiting marriage to Charles du Bois. Du Bois, a New York and Boston jeweler, gave conflicting accounts of his wife’s whereabouts, first saying she was in Canada, then that she died in Montreal. Police fear she is dead and seek her body.
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Grace Atwood
Middleboro
Mass
Charles du Bois
New York
Boston
du Bois
Plymouth
Canada
Montreal
China accuses Japan of violence in Manchuria note
The Chinese Nationalist government at Nanking accuses Japan of relentlessly pursuing violence murder and conquest in Manchuria and says the note may threaten diplomatic relations after Japan signed a treaty with Manchukuo and recognized the regime.
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Japan
China
Manchuria
Manchukuo
Man
Dewey Elected Head of Trustees State Association
Philip H. Dewey secretary of internal affairs and trustee of Mansfield State Teachers college was elected president of the Association of Trustees, Pennsylvania State Teachers colleges, at the annual meeting in Harrisburg. Other officers named include First Vice President William T. Harris, Second Vice President Joseph L. Townsend, Third Vice President Lee Smith, Secretary Ruth D. Bovard, Assistant Secretary Mabel H. Wells, and Treasurer J. G. Benedict, with affiliations to East Stroudsburg, Bloomsburg, Clarion, Slippery Rock, and Shippensburg colleges.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
Philip H. Dewey
Mansfield State Teachers College
Association of Trustees
Pennsylvania State Teachers Colleges
H. A. Fisher
Kutztown College
William T. Harris
Nanticoke
East Strodusburg College
Joseph L. Townsend
Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg College
Lee Smith
Uniontown
California College
Ruth D. Bovard
Clarion
Clarion College
Mabel H. Wells
New Brighton
Slippery Pook College
Trea Urer
J. G. Benedict
Shippensburg College
Wealthy jeweler dies after rooming house shooting
In Quincy Massachusetts Charles E. Du Bois of Tuckahoe New York died at 12 40 pm after a self inflicted head wound. Police and hospital officials said he did not regain consciousness and gave no statement about his missing wife whose disappearance had puzzled officials for a week.
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International News Service
Quincy
Mass
Charles E. du Bois
Tuckahoe
N. Y
Quincy Hospital
du Bois
Charles FE. du Bois
N. J
Hancock Street
Anderson
No Lights on Motorcycles Cited in Patrolmen Deaths
Erie report notes a theory that patrol motorcycles operated without lights contributed to the probe into the deaths of two Peninsula State Park patrolmen. Adam Kruth, father of George Kruth 25, says patrolmen were ordered to patrol boats without lights. William Paradine’s father says his son’s lights were not working.
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International News Service
Erie
Peninsula State Park
W. G. Stroble
Adam B. Kruth
George
William Paradine
Seventy six opens season with eleven men clash
Arthur Mometer describes kickoff as eleven players on each side prepare for the season debut. Fans anticipate wins and an All American pick as games begin and referees signal play on many fields. The season is on and the public watches with hopeful enthusiasm.
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PA Newc
George Washington Junior High School
Pretty Bessie Chambers
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Merchants’ Association
Pennsy
Daily Weather Report
Gov. Roosevelt
Senator Howell
Greensburg Pa
Buzzardtown
Adamsburg
Henry Sindor
State
Tokyo
Dixon Hoste
Shanghai
Nanking
Dewey
Trustees State Association
New England
Arthur Mometer
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