Carroll guilty in first degree in Maine death tour case
Europe alarmed by Hitler moves. Francis M. Carroll, former deputy sheriff, found guilty of first degree murder in the death tour garroting of Dr. James G. Littlefield. The trial linked to 19-year-old Paul N. Dwyer, serving life, and included witness readings, appeals talk, and dramatic courtroom scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Dwyer
Paris
Francis M. Carroll
James G. Littlefield
Paul N. Dwyer
Dwyer
Carroll
Barbara
Lydia
Maine
Thomaston
Ralph M. Ingalls
Ruby Carroll
William H Fisher
Carrol
Hevily
Moving Picture Theatre
William H. Fisher
E. L. Stetson
Hazel Talbot
Robert Pierce
Newburyport
Homer Sellers Jr Ill in Detroit Hospital
Mr and Mrs Homer Sellers of South Ankeny avenue were summoned to Detroit Michigan on Thursday due to the illness of their son Homer Jr He has been working in Michigan recently and is reported by friends to be in a serious condition in a Detroit hospital from a heart ailment Homer Sellers Sr is a longtime employee at the Somerset post office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Sellers
South Ankeny Avenue
Detroit
Michigan
Homer
Young Sellers
Micnigan
Somerset Post Office
Half Million Nazi Spies In U S Told By Witness
John C Metcalfe testified before the House committee on Un-American Activities that the Nazi movement in the United States aims to build a vast spy network and sabotage machine for wartime use. He cited links to Fritz Kuhn and the German American Bund, estimating at least half a million Americans are involved or sympathetic, and said Kuhn ordered destruction of suspicious correspondence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Committee On
unAmerican
United States
John C. Metcalfe
Chicago
Adolf Hitler
Metcalfe
Germany
Bund
Fritz Kuhn
National
Kuhn
Hans Luther
Ger
House Committee
Peter Gissibl
Chicago Bund
Hitler Youth Movement
Nazi Germany
Civil service exam dispute looms in Harrisburg
In Harrisburg the welfare committee may air a civil service exam controversy next week. Rep. Shaw and Shippen Lewis demand a review of exams described as impractical and psychological as the House seeks to liberalize merit certification for county boards. Over 80,000 examined for about 6,000 jobs, with 1,600 permanent hires and 5,000 names certified before a halt last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Department of Public Assistance
Shippen Lewis
Department’s Employment Board
William A. Shaw
Pittsburgh
House Welfare
House
Earle
Lewis
Shaw
Sand Senate
Employment Board
Leo C. Mundy
Luzerne County
Welfare Committee
Relief Administration
Mundy
House Committee
Gathings Nominated for Congress in First District
Complete official returns from Arkansas Democratic primary show State Senator E. C. Gathings of West Memphis winning the First District nomination with 24 984 votes over Rep. W. J. Driver who had 24 654. The Third District contest between Rep. Claude A. Fuller and State Senator Clyde Ellis remained undecided.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
E. C. Gathings
West Memphis
W. J. Driver
Gathings
Driver
Claude A. Fuller
Clyde Ellis
Girl for Branchers Assistant District Attorney birth祝い
Mrs S Cover Braucher and Brancher A D A welcome Nancy Cover Brancher born Friday at 5 pm in Somerset Community hospital. The newborn is named for her maternal grandmother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Branchers
S. Cover Braucher
Luther Avenue
Somerset Community Hospital
Nancy Cover Brancher
Secretary of Mines Hartneady Dies at 60 in Pennsylvania
Thousands in the Pennsylvania coal fields mourn the death of Michael J. Hartneady secretary of mines and longtime mining official. He died at 6 55 am from a heart attack after a brief illness following toothache. Funeral services are set for Tuesday with a Requiem high mass at Sacred Heart church. Burial in the parish cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nesquehoning
Ang
Pennsylvania
Michael J. Hartneady
Hartneady
Bluff
Sacred Heart Church
Mike
Carbon County
Hazleton
Earle
Warren van Dyke
Harrisburg
Capitol Hill
Confluence Man Self-Commits Himself to Jail
Albert Snyder aged 38 a Confluence WPA worker drove 30 miles to Somerset and surrendered to the county jail claiming a self committed act He was arrested for operating a vehicle without a license Snyder said he had three permits but failed operator tests and Justice of the Peace T J Navener sentenced him to three days in jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Snyder
Confluence
WPA
Squire
R. D
Somerset
Snyder
Justice of the Peace
T. J. Navener
Japs Rain of Death Hits Hankow Wu Chang Hanyang
Japanese air raid on Hankow Wu Chang and Hanyang devastates the tri city area killing or wounding about 400 civilians. American mission sites and clinics are hit including the Or der of Saint Annes chapel in Wuchang and a city clinic killing 12 patients. Rail yards with crude oil are incinerated as trains and tracks are destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hankow
China
Wuchang
Hanyang
Tri-City
Yangtze River
Shanghai
Chiang Kai-Shek
The
Order of Saint Anne
American Episcopal Church
Seventy Day Adventists
Canton-Hankow
Paint Shop at Rotary entertains Somerset club
The Somerset Rotary club met at the Ferner hotel where Paint Shop theater members performed Miss Nancy Kerr from New Alexandria gave a monologue in Italian dialect. Rubrey Farquhar presented My Mad Inventions while Carl Low, Paul Forrest, Eileen Derdeyn, Si Gersen and Rita Brown acted scenes from the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The audience gave a $20 purse to support the Paint Shop fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset Rotary Club
Ferner Hotel
Paint Shop Theater
Nancy Kerr
New Alexandria
New York
Guiseppi
Rubrey Farquhar
Fleet Street
Carl Low
Paul Forrest
Eileen Derdeyn
Si Gersen
Rita Brown
Rotarians
Mexican oil tanks seized in Dutch port dispute
Amsterdam reported the Mexican Eagle Oil Company seized 1000 tons of oil in two tank lighters at Dordrecht claiming ownership of expropriated wells in Mexico. The seizure reportedly had the port court of justice's permission. The Eagle was among 18 expropriated by the Mexican government. May 18. Bataafsche Petroleum, Shell group member, appealed a court ruling lifting an embargo on the Swedish tanker Lundgren carrying Mexican oil. embargo granted June 18 and removed Aug. 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Mexican Eagle Oil Company
Dordrecht
Mexico
Mexican Eagle
Aguila
Bataafsche Petroleum Company
Shell Group
Lundgren
Border clash on Sakhalin as NKVD fire wounds two Japanese
Tensions flare between Soviet Union and Japan after NKVD infantry fire on Sakhalin near the border injuring two Japanese policemen escorting a member of parliament and an inspection party. Reports say the attack was unprovoked and involved a border investigation unit. A separate Changku feng incident near Shangku feng is said to be closed after a noon truce.
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Tokyo
Russia
Japan
Changkufeng
Sakhalin Island
Moscow
Domen
NKVD
Ryukichi Tashirogi
Domei
Shikika
Sakhalin
Tashirogi
Shangkufeng
Siberia
Korea
Manchoukuo
Hanes jailed again for car theft in Boswell
Frank Hanes, 23, Boswell youth, is jailed in Somerset county on larceny of an automobile charges. Constable Ed Airesman pursued him through the night after Hanes allegedly stole William Oscar's car on Bowell street Thursday. Arraigned before Justice John Kircher, Hanes was bound over for the next term and jailed for $500 bond. He has prior motor code violations and minor larceny arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Hanes
Boswell
Somerset County
Ed Airesman
Hanes
William Oscar
Bowell
Justice of the Peace
John Kircher
Constable Airsman
Germany's long-distance fliers plan 21 hour return flight
New York report notes Captain Alfred Henke and crew prep to depart Floyd Bennett Field for Berlin after completing a 24 hour 56 minute non stop flight from Berlin. Repairs on hydraulic brake and cowling were minor. Henke credits global aviation progress and teamwork for the achievement amid upcoming British competition.
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Floyd Bennett Field
New York
Berlin
Albert Henke
Henke
Germany
Grandenburg
Alfred Henke
Boulder Mine Tragedy Claims Miner In Pennsylvania
Joseph Gnapp aged 29 was crushed to death when a three ton boulder collapsed at the No 10 mine of the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Corp in Galliton. James Hartman 23 of Amery was seriously injured and eight other miners escaped after rocks fell on Gnapp. Hartman sustained a fractured skull and crushed chest. Coroner Pat McDermott and State Mine Inspector William Filer opened an investigation.
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Gallit2on
Joseph Gnapp
Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Corporation
James Hartman
Am ‘Ry
Joseph Salvan
Hartman
Pat McDermott
William Filer
Ebensburg
Denied Rumor Of Mine Collapse Beneath School
Somerset township school board denied late Friday rumors of a mine collapse under Friedens High School. W C Rhoads and Park Speicher, both board members, stated they had no knowledge of any collapse and would have been notified if such an incident had occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset Township
Friedens
Somerset Township School Board
W. C. Rhoads
Somerset
Park Speicher
Rhoads
Million Nazi Reservists Called Out
Paris reports massive German movements as more than 1,000,000 reservists were drafted and private vehicles, trucks, and even municipal buses requisitioned in Bavaria for autumn maneuvers. France seeks details through diplomats while fortifications on the Maginot line are reinforced and spy cases rise on the German frontier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Germany
Czechoslovakia
France
Britain
Albert Sarraut
Maginot
Foreign Office
Reich
Germany speeds maneuver plans across nation
Berlin Aug 12 Top speed preparations for nationwide military maneuvers push Germany to a new wartime footing. The regular army will field next month with new reserve divisions for the first joint training since World War I. Reserves from 1934 35 and 36 expected to report with portions drafted. Landwehr veterans age 35 to 45 may join. Maneuvers will be staged regionally, not as a single national display, as public worry grows over possible broader actions.
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Berlin
Germany
Landwehr
Bavaria
Saxony
Somerset Weather Report By David Grove Observer
Daily weather summary for 24 hours ending 5 30 p m Friday shows high 73 and low 55 degrees with readings from Somerset. A comparison with the previous year notes maximums around 58 degrees.
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David Grove
U. S
Pittsburgh
U. S. Weather Bureau
New York
Boston
New Orleans
Chicago
Ook Los Angeles
Eeee
Aeee Parkersburg
Anne Elkins Seesenneege
Miami
San Antonio
Eee T—Trace
Weather forecast for Eastern Pennsylvania and adjacent regions
Fair and warmer conditions dominate eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland with a weekend shift to partly cloudy skies. Showers are expected in the western and northern portions during Saturday night, with additional showers in the extreme west on Sunday afternoon or night. Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia stay fair and warmer, with Sunday partly cloudy and showers later.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
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Hitler
Homer Sellers, JR
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IL. X. L
AIR Civil Service
Secretary of Mines
Oak Grove
J. O. Yutzy
Mauch Chunk
Cornelius and
Catherine Gallagher Hartneady
Mauch Chunk Township
Harteady
United Mine Workers
Kathryn Cadden
Agnes Curry
Charles Bonner
Catherine Walbert
Patrick
John Hartneady
Somerset Paint Shop Theatre
U.S
Little Theatre
Holland
Parliment
Deny
Township High
Somerset Weather
Weether
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