Europe and Burckhardt Shake Danzig Peace Rumors
London reports a web of mysterious communications after talks between Adolf Hitler and Carl Burckhardt the League of Nations high commissioner for Danzig at Berchtesgaden. Six nations eying a possible Danzig settlement. Britain Poland France Italy Germany and Sweden receive vague outlines amid German silence and political suspicion.
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London
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Carl Burckhardt
League of Nations
Danzig
Berchtesgaden
Germany
Italy
Great Britain
France
Poland
Sweden
Burckhardt
Berechtesgaden
Britain
Lord Halifax
Halifax
League Committee of Three
Chamberlain
Scotland
League Committee
Berlin
Rome
Geneva
Lord Runciman
Signs Point to Imminent Crisis in German Polish Tensions
Louis P. Loshner reports rising fear that a Danzig solution will be bloodless and Poland may yield as German forces mass along the frontier. Propaganda chief Goebbels returns from Italy as Berlin presses for a quick settlement, with warnings to England France and Poland and signs of a swift response.
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Louis P. Loshner
Munich
Czech Bohemia and
Morava
Memel
Nazi Party
Danzig
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Germany
East Prussia
Goebbels
Italy
Rome
Count Galeazzo Ciano
Hitler
Ciano
England
France
Berlin
Burckhardt Tries to Ease Danzig Strife
Dr Carl Burckhardt high commissioner of the League of Nations in Danzig sought to calm mounting German Polish tensions over the free city. He conferred with Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden last week amid uncertainty about Danzig s future.
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Danzig
Carl J. Burckhardt
League of Nations
Free City
Burckhardt
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Fish Warns War May Break Out August 20
Representative Hamilton Fish of New York warned that war could erupt on August 20 as international tensions grew. He urged a 30 day political truce and proposed talks among Germany Italy France and Britain with potential arbitration by King Leopold of Belgium, King Haakon of Norway, and Switzerland's president.
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Olso
Hamilton Fish
New York
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Interparliamentary Union Congress
Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop
United States
England
France
Fish
Interparliamentary Conference
Italy
Britain
Leopold
The
Bergians
Haakon
Norway
Switzerland
Philip Etter
Japan Reaffirms Axis Pact Stance and Far East Focus
Tokyo officials say Japan will confine current actions to the Far East and eschew deeper European involvement for now. Premier Hiranuma and key ministers led Aug. 8 discussions amid Italy and Germany alliance deliberations, with information exchange against communism continuing.
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Tokyo
Japan
Far East
Kiichiro Hiranuma
Hiranuma
Italy
Germany
Berlin
Soviet
Russia
Governors Close Oklahoma and New Mexico Oil Wells
Oklahoma Governor Leon C Phillips orders a 15 day shutdown of state wells starting tomorrow. New Mexico Governor John E Miles plans to close about 2,200 wells with limited exceptions. The move follows Texas led price cuts and a planned 15 day halt across the mid continent.
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Oklahoma
New Mexico
Texas
Oklahoma City
Kansas
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Leon C Phillips
Santa Fe
John E. Miles
Compact Commission
Independent Petroleum Association of America
Sinclair Prairie Purchasing Company
Gerald C. Mann
Austin
Jerry Sadler
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
Mann
Phillips
Anti British Demonstration Fires Swatow Consulate
An angry mob of anti British demonstrators tried to set fire to the British consulate at Swatow. The crowd was brought under control after Japanese army guards protected the buildings. The clash followed a Chinese man’s injury in a prior surge against British sailors.
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Hong Kong
Swatow
Domei
Soviet 600 Percent Shipping Tonnage Tax At Vladivostok
Hochi reports Soviet Russia imposes a 600 percent toll on Japanese ships at Vladivostok making calls by Japanese vessels at Soviet ports virtually impossible. The move affects trade and naval logistics between Tokyo and Moscow.
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Tokyo
Hochi
Vladivostok
Japanese forces in Shansi threatened with annihilation
A Chinese army spokesman said Japanese troops trying to mop up Chinese regulars and guerrillas in southeastern Shansi province had failed and were threatened with annihilation.
Indictment Seeks death penalty for Palm Beach attacker
Palm Beach county grand jury accuses Charles Jefferson, a theatrical promoter, of kidnapping, rape and murder in the slaying of Frances Dunn and abduction of Jean Bolton. The case cites a signed confession and seeks the death penalty. Jefferson had prior prison releases cited for parole issues.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Palm Beach County
Charles Jefferson
Jefferson
Herbert Goddard
Thomas Cochran
Thomas Ashwell
Miami
Jean Bolton
Boca Raton
Frances Dunn
Pennsylvania
Denver
Orange County
Orlando
Sister Slays In Mercy Ad in Allentown
In Allentown a 54 year old nurse Miss Margaret L. Cowan shot her sister Mrs. Loueda Saeger multiple times at Adelawn Street State Hospital while visiting with her husband. The motive cited was mercy killing as police prepare murder charges. Mrs. Saeger had been a patient since 1937 for mental decline related to age.
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Allentown
Loueda Oaeger
John S. Saeger
Miss Cowan
George Westinghouse
Charles M. Schwab
Edwin K. Kline
H. I. Klopp
Saeger
Kite Fli er Dies After Forty Foot Fall
In Harrisburg area a 12 year old boy Kenneth Clouser died after walking backward through a factory roof in Highspire and toppled forty feet to the concrete. The accident occurred today in an abandoned building near his home.
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Harrisburg
Kenneth Clouser
Visit Somerset After Long Absence From Dixon native returns
Edward W. Rhoads, a Somerset native now living in Dixon Illinois, returns to Somerset for a second visit in 51 years. He travels with his wife and son and daughter in law and their grandson Ernest Jr. The group will visit friends and relatives and spent Tuesday with Dr. C J Hemminger and wife on East Patriot Street.
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Edward W. Rhoads
Somerset
Dixon, Ill
Ernest Rhoads
Ernest, Jr
Edie
Rhoads
Somerset County
Illinois
Bandits Nab 70 000 In Long Beach Bank Holdup
A five man gang robbed two bank messengers of seventy thousand dollars outside Long Beach post office. They used machine guns to disarm Patrolman Legouri and seize the bags, then fled by car as police and federal agents searched the area by land sea and air. No shots were fired.
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Long Beach N. Y
Main Street
N. Y
Long Island
Army
Nassau County
Coast Guard
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Harry Meyer
Edwin Podsen
National City Bank of Long Beach
James Legouri
Legouri
Meyer
Podsen
Bedford teenager injured in crash with power shovel
Bedford county truck driver Franklin Koontz 17 of Bedford R D 4 was critically injured when his light truck collided with a slow moving tractor trailer carrying a large power shovel on a steep grade near New Baltimore. He was taken to Somerset Community Hospital with possible skull fracture and facial injuries.
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Bedford County
Pennsylvania Turnpike
New Baltimore
Somerset Community Hospital
Franklin Koontz
Bedford
R. D
Angelloni
Somerset Motor Police
Koontz
James White
Pittsburgh
Berlin
Turkeyfoot Hosts First Meeting of Kingwood Young Republicans
More than 100 Young Republicans from Upper Turkeyfoot and nearby areas met in Kingwood I O O F Grove for the inaugural gathering of the Kingwood Young Republican Club. County Chairman Harry Naugle presided. Charles Forney delivered the keynote. Officers named include Elizabeth Kreger as chairwoman Roy Pletcher as vice chair Kenneth Sanner as secretary Park Wilson as treasurer Emory Hostetler and Mrs Frank Stoner as county delegates. The group plans a membership drive with a 250 member goal.
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Upper
Turkeyfoot Township
Kingwood
I. O. O. F. Grove
Young Republican Club
Harry Naugle
Young Republicans of
Davidsville
Charles Forney
Elizabeth Kreger
Roy Pletcher
Kenneth Sanner
Park Wilson
Emory Hostetler
Frank Stoner
Arrest Youth for Fixing Rails to Wreck
Sunbury Aug 15 A 19 year old youth was arrested today and charged with removing connecting bolts from Pennsylvania railroad main line rails from Harrisburg to Williamsport. Lieut J R McIlvain said the act was similar to the Reno derailment and could have caused disaster. William Bridge of Milton held on malicious injury to railroad property in $5000 bail.
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Sunbury
Heer
Pennsylvania Railroad
Harrisburg
Williamsport
Lieut. J. JR. McIlvain
Reno
New
Housel
McIlvain
Will'am Bridge
Milton
Government launches antitrust drive against Kraft groups
The government announced a national anti trust campaign targeting Kraft paper and Kraft paper container industries and pressed an investigation into the National Paperboard Association.
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Kraft New York
Government Today
Kraft Paper
Kraft Paper Container Industries
National Paperboard Association
FBI Takes Over Probe Of Wreck City of San Francisco
Federal officers assumed control of the investigation into the derailment of the City of San Francisco train. Authorities seek clues about a possible single assailant or multiple actors responsible for the 23 deaths and 109 injuries. Police questioned a Lewistown man held as Bob La Duceur, while the search extended across Nevada, Utah, and California. A motion picture of the wreck scene is under review for new clues.
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Reno
San Francisco
Nevada Canyon
A. D. McDonald
Southern Pacific Company
Nevada
Utah
California
Bob la Duceur
Lewistown
Mont
Andy Welliver
Mcnonaia
Lnose
C. A. Harper
Elko
Nev
Federal Bureau of Investigation
John Rowverry
Elko Theater
Rowberry
Engineer recalls 1938 Streamline wreck and 23 lives lost
New York August 15 CBS radio interview with engineer Ed Hector Cox recalls the City of San Francisco crash in Nevada. He describes seeing a green tumbleweed on the tracks, applying brakes, and finding passengers dead as dust rose from mangled cars. He walked a mile and a half to a tele phone after gathering firewood with a section crew.
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New York
Ed Hecox
San Francisco
We the People
CBS
Hecox
Nevada
Asia
Jim Kelly
Jim
WPA Raises Pay For WPA Workers In South
Commissioner Harrington announced a revised WPA wage schedule effective Sept 1, boosting the national average by about 2.50 monthly to roughly 55.50 for about 2,194,911 workers. The plan raises southern wages while maintaining northern scales with minor adjustments.
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Wshington
FP. C. Harrington
WPA
Harrington
New York City
Birmingham
Ala
Westmoreland Treasury Shortage Shocks County Officials
Ernst and Ernst auditors report a $17 153.99 shortage in Westmoreland County treasurer's office with $4 241.09 already paid back. They cite incomplete records and weak internal controls and urge a future survey and needed reforms. Commissioners hold Treasurer A T Collins responsible to clear the accounts. The treasurer offers to review the report with his books after the audit order amid campaign-period concerns.
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Greensburg
Ernst and Ernst
Westmoreland
A. T. Collins
Collins
Bethlehem Plan Banned in Labor Board Ruling
The National Labor Relations Board ordered Bethlehem Steel to disestablish employee representation plans at ten plants in Pennsylvania New York and Maryland finding the plans a company project in violation of the Wagner act The CIO steel workers committee initiated the action alleging interference to keep the plans as the chief form of representation The affected plants span Johnstown Lebanon Bethlehem Rankin Leetsdale Steelton Lackawanna Valley and Sparrows Point Maryland.
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Washington
Labor Relations Board
Bethlehem Steel Company
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Bethlehemy Pa
Pennsylvania
New York
Maryland
The
Steel Corporation
Leard
Bethlehem
CIO
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
Labor Board
Johnstown
Lebanon
Rank‘n
Leetsdale
Steelton
Lackanare N. Y
Saorrows Point
Kirk Agency Earned Bond Commission Claims In Trial
In Harrisburg on August 15 testimony sought to prove the James P. Kirk agency of Pittsburgh earned a share of commissions on state bond business. Victor S. Skok testified the firm prepared payroll stats and checked estimates for road contracts while denying a monopoly aim and political leverage.
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Harrisburg
James P. Kirk
Pittsburgh
Victor S. Skok
Kirk
Skok
Kirk Agency
H. H. Temple
Highways Department
Secretary of Highways
Emile F. Rossi
Rossi
Harrisourg
Plane crash at Rent schler Field kills two in Hartford
An airplane owned by New York advertising executive Arthur Kudner crashed on takeoff from Rent schler Field Hartford killing Michael Madrazo of Corona and Joseph Kuroski of Jamaica both New York. Pilot Wynn Bradford and co-pilot Eli Abramhon sustained critical injuries while George Daulfkirsch was seriously hurt.
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Hartford
Car Strikes Tree Leaves Frank Laurer Injured
A Hooversville man, Frank Laurer aged 21, was seriously hurt late Monday when his car rammed a tree on a rural road near Trent. He was admitted to Community hospital after midnight with a brain concussion a fractured jaw and facial lacerations.
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Hooversville
Frank Laurer
Laurer
Trent
Campbell absolved in death of Alexander E. Patton
A coroner's jury today absolved Donald A. Campbell of criminal responsibility for the death of Alexander Ennis Patton a 47 year old member of a prominent Clearfield county family Patton died after a scuffle at the American Legion home on June 4 Campbell was the Legion hall steward at the time of the incident
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Harrisburg
Donald A. Campbell
Alexander Ennis Patton
Clearfield County
Patton
American Legion
Campbell
Inquest Planned Into Laurel Hill Tunnel Rock Fall
After ten days of unofficial inquiry coroner Dr. H A McMurray will hold an inquest at 10 a m in Greensburg Court Room No 2 to fix responsibility for the Laurel Hill tunnel rock fall that killed four men. District Attorney Copeland plans to attend as an interested observer while witnesses from Hankin Conkey Construction and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission are summoned to testify.
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Laurel Hill Tunnel
H. A. McMurray
Westmoreland County
Greensburg
McMurray
Inclu
Hankin-Conkey Construction Company
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
Charles C. Copeland
F. E. Sass
Somerset County
Sass
Somerset Community Hospital
Turnpike Commission
State Department of Labor and Industry
Federal Public Works Administration
United States Bureau of Mines
Ola K. Schooling
Leonard Anderson
Walter Daley
William J. Leach
Argument Turns Fatal for Boswell Woman
A Boswell woman, Mary Motovich, 56, died after an argument caused excitement she could not withstand. Coroner Dr. F E Sass ruled death by coronary occlusion. She collapsed in front of her Stonycreek home. she leaves three sons, a sister, and a late husband. Funeral plans pending at Jay O Hay mortuary in Boswell.
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F. E. Sass
Boswell
Mary Motovich
Stonycreek
Sass
Morovich
Michael Motovich
Peter
U. S. Army
Fort Meyer
Nick
Esau Motovich
Mitchell Gascovich
Aliquippa
Jay O. Hay
Weather Elsewhere Report by David Grove
Temperature for the 24 hour period from 5 30 p m Monday to 5 30 p m Tuesday shows a maximum of 71 and a minimum of 51 degrees The record notes a comparison to last year with a maximum of 71 and a minimum of 51 degrees forgotten.
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David Grove
U. S
West Virginia and Mid Atlantic Forecast Showers Likely
Scattered showers are forecast for West Virginia on Wednesday and Thursday with little temperature change. Western Pennsylvania sees partly cloudy skies with scattered showers in the southeast and cooler conditions in the northwest, followed by generally fair weather Thursday. Eastern Pennsylvania expects partly cloudy skies with showers Wednesday afternoon or night ending early Thursday, and cooler interior conditions Thursday. Maryland remains partly cloudy and warm with scattered afternoon showers Wednesday and likely Thursday.
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West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Maryland
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