Frontiers Are Patrolled as European Tensions Rise
London dispatch reports Germany massing troops and reservists along Czech and French borders in six week maneuvers observ ed by Britain and France. Czechoslovakia remains vigilant while Viscount Runciman mediates between Prague and Sudeten Germans, a mission seen as guiding Britain’s future policy and possible war involvement.
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Germany
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France
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Lord Runciman
Mid- Atlantic
Neville Chamberlain
Austria
Rusia
Batchamberlain
Csechoslovakia
Rubbish Pile Fire Baffles Somerset Vigilantes
A rubbish pile near the Somerset Loor and Column Co plant on South Kugewood Ave. caught fire during a Saturday night traffic jam. Somerset volunteer firemen extinguished the blaze with no damage reported while navigating slow through crowded weekend shopping streets.
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Somerset
Kugewood Ave
Somerset Loor and Column Co
Ten youths fined for trespass at private pool
Ten boys and a girl paid $1 fines after being arrested as uninvited guests at a private swimming pool on an estate on a hot day. Their defense claimed the pool was not in use.
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Merion
Trolley Line Quits After Hard Times in Media
The Delaware county route between Media, Folsom and Essington ends service after the picturesque Anni e More trolley car line, in operation since 1900, makes its final run and buses replace the route.
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Delaware Co Ors
Media
Folsom
Essington
President Approves Somerset Airport Plan
Attorney Silas K Uhl said Washington informed him that President Roosevelt approved Somerset airport plans involving a half million dollar expenditure. Officials expect release of funds within ten days or two weeks and construction to begin shortly after.
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Silas K. Uhl
Washington
Roosevelt
Somerset
Earle Visits Texas City Before Mexico Trip
Gov George H Earle of Pennsylvania arrived in Brownsville at 2 10 p m en route for a Mexico City vacation He planned to fly tomorrow at 9 a m for Mexico City and join a fishing rodeo at Port Isabel Accompanied by Mrs Earle and Capt A M Banks they left Little Rock after a night of the 10 000 mile air vacation They expect to be away about a month and Banks acted as pilot on the trip
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Tex
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania
Mexico City
Port Isabel
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Earle
A. M. Banks
Pennsylvania State Police
Little Rock
Governor Earle
Captain Banks
Harrisburg
Mexico
Central America
Tropical storm moves inland near Lake Charles
Weather bureau lowers warnings along Texas coast as the center passes inland near Lake Charles Louisiana. Winds peaked near 40 mph in Jennings and Lake Arthur. Communications disrupted and tides warned. Cameron F. village fate unclear. First storm of the season.
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Weather Bureau
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Louisiana
Gulf
Jennings
Lake Arthur
Morgan City
W. F. McDonald
Cameron
Calcasieu Lake
West Indies
Yucatan Channel
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Port Eads
Galveston Bay
Port Arthur
Port O'Connor
Stonycreek Ninth Annual Picnic Draws Big Crowd
The Stonycreek Valley Community Association ninth annual picnic filled the consolidated school grove with attendees on Saturday. The Stonycreek band played morning and afternoon, joined with local groups for evening entertainment. Hundreds enjoyed the renowned chicken dinners in the gymnasium at noon as Dr. Lee Driver, a former Harrisburg school administrator instrumental in the building of the consolidated school, was warmly welcomed during the afternoon program.
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Stonycreek Township
Stonycreek Valley Community Association
Stonycreek
Lee Driver
Harrisburg
Driver
Sipesville Church Picnic Draws 600 Attendees
About 600 persons attended the annual Sipesville Church of the Brethren outing in Sipesville grove on Saturday. The day featured an all day picnic and a festival at night led by the youth group. Rev. E. M. Hertzler of Windber preached in the afternoon and the evening program included the play The New Minister along with readings and songs.
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Sipesvile
Peace Officers Spend Day At Fish Hatchery
Three hundred members and guests of the Somerset County Peace Officers Association spent a Sunday outing at the Ogletown Fish Hatchery near Windber. Attendees included officers from every precinct, constables, burgesses, justices of the peace, and county officials. Sheriff Fred P. Hare led the organizing committee with Windber Police Chief Ray Holsapple and Scalp Policeman Debere Bennett, and a luncheon was served by a committee headed by Holsapple and Windber Policeman Fred Schwerr.
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Somerset County Peace Officers Association
Ogletown
Windber
Somerset County
Fred P. Hare
Ray Holsapple
Debere Bennett
Holsapple
Fred Schwerr
Berwick man pleads guilty in fatal hunting accident
Burton Belles, 51, a Berwick steel worker, pleaded guilty to accidentally killing Eli Hess, 79, near Bloomstown while hunting. The court sentenced him to 2 to 5 years in prison and fined between 500 and 1000 dollars.
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Bloomsburg
Burton Belles
Berwick Steel
Eli F. Hess
Squire With 40 Years Service Calls Fees System Faulty
Pittsburgh Aug 14. Squire Joseph H C Gray age 91 argues the fee system for justices of the peace can be overdone. Gray has served 40 years as a squire. In all his years he jailed one man on his orders. He earns his living from rentals and preparing income tax returns.
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Pittsburgh
Joseph H. C. Gray
Gray
Hines Trial Starts Today in New York
The policy rackets trial of Tammany Leader James J. Hines begins tomorrow in New York. Hines faces charges of belonging to a gang that controlled the policy lottery by violence and of conspiring to intimidate or bribe judicial officers for gangster operations. The gang was once led by Arthur Flegenheimer Dutch Schultz, shot in a New Jersey bar in October 1935, with the annual policy racket take estimated at 100 million dollars by District Attorney Dewey.
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New York
Tammany
James J. Hines
Thomas E. Dewey
Hines
Arthur
Dutch Schultz) Flegenheimer
New Jersey
Dewey
Clarion Oil Man Jacob Black Dies at 92
Clarion Aug 14 Jacob Black aged 92 longtime oil man and retired banker died this afternoon after a several year illness. He had lived in Clarion for 40 years.
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Clarion Oil Man
Clarion
Jacob Black
Boose Family Welcomes Second Son
Mr and Mrs Howard R Boose Jr of South Kimberly Avenue announce the birth of a son Friday night at Community Hospital This is the family's second son and adds to their two older children in the home
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Boose
Howard R. Boose, Jr
South Kimberly Avenue
No Spirit for Conflict in Manchukuo Border Tensions
J D White reports from HevnkIng Manchoukuo on fears of renewed Russo Japanese clashes despite a truce at Changkufeng. He notes 20 Manchoukuo units heading toward the frontier with little ammunition, claiming maneuvers but ready to act if incidents flare. Officials praise peace yet keep tensions high along vague Siberian frontiers.
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Manchoukuo
Soviet Russia
Changkufeng
Japan
Russia
China
Manchukuo
Manchuria
Siberian
New Armed Clash Narrowly Averted at Changkung Hill
A Soviet communique reports a near clash with Japanese forces after the August 11 armistice. Troops moved forward on Changkuleng Hill, with both sides withdrawing about 80 meters to positions held midnight Aug. 10. Litvinoff demanded a 100 meter Japanese withdrawal, while Tokyo said a memorandum to avoid incidents and a troop map were being finalized.
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Changkuleng
Changkufeng Hill
Tass
Maxin Litvinoff
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Litvinoff
Sovice
Tokyo
War Office
Russia
Sir Landon Ronald Dies in London at 65
Sir Landon Ronald, renowned English conductor and violinist, died today in London after a long illness. The 65 year old musician led major orchestras and was a prominent figure in British classical music. His death marks the loss of a celebrated figure in the arts.
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Landon Ronald
London
Sir Landon Ronald
England
Queen Mary Retains Atlantic Blue Ribbon With Fast Eastward Run
The Queen Mary set a new fastest eastward ocean crossing, finishing 2,938 miles from Ambrose Light in 3 days 20 hours 42 minutes at 31.69 knots. She had earlier shortened the westward record, and cut the Normandie’s eastward time by 1 hr 25 min in the round trip. Engineers monitor all details as Queen Elizabeth construction proceeds. The liner heads to Cherbourg then Southampton.
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Cunard White Star
Bishops Rock
Scilly Islands
Greenwich
Ambrose Light
New York
Clyde
Cherbourg
France
Southampton
Youth robber suspect captured in railroad yards
An 11 year old black youth sought by Harrisburg authorities on a robbery charge was captured in Hollidaysburg railroad yards after a scuffle with a constable. Leon Tune identified by Captain John Giles of the Pennsylvania railroad police was found alighting from a freight. A cordon of state motor police surrounded the area as Tune allegedly produced a revolver in the struggle, but both were uninjured. Tune was held for Harrisburg authorities.
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Tune
Harrisburg
Giles
Philco May Move Out Over Philadelphia Strike
Aug 14 Philadelphia Storage Battery Co president J M Skinner warned Philco radios may relocate from Philadelphia due to a strike. Skinner asked Mayor Wilson for protection against terrorism while CIO regional director Edelman accused the company of planning to break the union after the plant shut down May 1 following a dispute with the United Radio and Electrical Workers Union.
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Philadelphia
James M. Skinner
Philadelphia Storage Battery Company
Philco Radios
Skinner
S. Davis Wilson
John Edelman
United Radio and Electrical Workers Union
Brandenburgs nonstop transatlantic flight lands in Berlin
Four German air crewmen in the Focke-Wulf Brandenburg completed a record nonstop 19 hour 55 minute return from Floyd Bennett Field New York to Templehof Berlin in a downpour. It was the first nonstop Germany United States intercontinental flight, surpassing the previous west coast record by five hours. The crew, greeted amid Nazi colors, said they merely did their duty and sought rest.
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Berlin
Brandenburg
Templehof
New York
Floyd Bennett Fields
Germany
United States
Wiley Post
Aviators’ Club
Alfred Henke
Ruth Honest Not Impartial Ruth Honest Not Impartial
In Scranton the county judge called the Ruth legislative commission’s study of criminal justice honest but not impartial. He urged a commission to investigate the legislature and executive, condemning rubber stamp legislators who voted on unfamiliar bills and accusing a visiting judge colluding with a crook.
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Scranton
Will Leach
Lackawanna County
Ruth Legislative Commission
Pennsylvania
Scrantonian Today
Earle
Leach
Commission
Berserk man launches park shooting during New York police memorial
In Central Park a man, allegedly driven by traffic summonses, opened fire at a police memorial service injuring five and killing himself. Officers Lieut. James McDonnell and Patrolman Francis Lynch among the wounded. bystanders also hit. San Filippo died after being shot from about 20 bullets. police found two summonses in his pocket.
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New York
Central Park
Charles San Fiappo
San Filippo
James McDonnell
Francis Lynch
Voth
McDonnell
Lynch
Louis Popernick
Smithton Woman Hurt in Charleroi Plane Crash
Mrs Isavel Shaffer 25 of Smithton was seriously injured when a plane she rented for a short flight from Charleroi Monessen airport crashed after takeoff. Pilot Ronald of Greensburg injured slightly. Shaffer had multiple injuries including a fractured jaw and possible skull fracture. Witnesses said the elevator cable appeared to break as the ship nose-dived from about 600 feet southeast of Belle Vernon.
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Charleroys
Isavel Shaffer
Smithton
Charleroi-Monessen
Ronald
Greensburg
Charleroi Hospital
Belle Vernon
World parachutist James Williams dies in France fall
James Williams, renowned para chutist and self-proclaimed world champion, died when his parachute failed to open over Lons airport in France. The Aug 14 jump, witnessed by about 5,000 spectators, ended after a 1,000 foot fall when the rip-cord malfunctioned, prompting an investigation.
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Sons-Le-Saunier
France
James Williams
Lons
Williams
Jura
Hollywood subversives probed by Dies committee report
Washington reports that Hollywood studios harbor radical and communist activity according to Edward Sullivan special investigator for the House committee. He cited money funding subversive causes and warned that many stars fear speaking out lest they be vilified or ditched by studios. The inquiry named Bridges and suggested officials may have aided deportation efforts. Probing Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, the investigation highlighted terrorism from crop sabotage to murder tied to Pacific coast interests.
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Hollywood
Congressional
Special
House
Edward Sullivan
Invest
Sullivan
West
Communist Party
Roosevelt
Sullivan Bridges
CIO
Pacific Coast
Labor Department
Immigration Service
Harry Bridges
Bridges
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Portland
Seattle
Pacific
Weather forecast for the mid-Atlantic region
Eastern Pennsylvania shows fair conditions Monday with Tuesday partly cloudy and local showers in the afternoon or at night with little temperature change. Maryland stays fair and warm Monday, then Tuesday partly cloudy with showers in extreme west areas later. Western Pennsylvania enjoys fair weather Monday, then showers Monday night or Tuesday with a cooler Tuesday night. West Virginia remains fair and warm Monday, Tuesday partly cloudy with possible afternoon thundershowers.
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West Virginia
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