Senate Fight Over Black Nomination Intensifies
In Washington observers report a fierce battle over Hugo Black’s Supreme Court nomination. The judiciary committee approved the nomination 13 to 4 amid clashes including a physical confrontation between Dietrich and Burke. Opponents argue Black cannot legally sit on a court created post by Congress and question his ties to the Ku Klux Klan. Supporters push ahead with floor speeches and a likely 1–2 day debate before a vote.
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Washington
Hugo L. Black
Supreme Court
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
Dietrich
D-Ii
Burke
D-Neb
Black
Besmirch
Ku Klux Klan
Congress
Justice van Devanter
Steiner
Oregon
White
Maine
Bridges
New Hampshire
Judiciary Committee
Friedline clan elects L. R. Friedline president at Emerald Park reunion
L. R. Friedline was elected president of the Friedline clan at their annual reunion near Stoystown on Route 30. Officers also chosen include Amy Shaffer as secretary and Ira Friedline as historian. the meeting was held Sunday afternoon at Emerald Park. Passes Block Signal Bill awaits Senate action after House approval.
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L. R. Friedline
Friedline
Emerald Park
Stoystown
Amy Shaffer
John Shaffer
Ira Friedline
Mrs De Schweinitz Wins Mexican Divorce
Philadelphia Aug 16 Mrs Jessie de Schweinitz has secured a Mexican divorce from Karl E Schweinitz state secretary of public assistance. The decree was granted at Cuernavaca Mexico after she testified at a hearing. She was Jessie L Dickson of McConnellsburg and they married in 1911 and have two children.
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Philadelphia
Jessie de Schweinitz
Karle Schweinitz
Public Assistance
Iete de Schweinitz
Tony
Cuernavaca
Mexico
de Schweinitz
Jessie L. Dickson
McConnellsburg
American ace joins search for missing Russian fliers
Fairbanks Alaska August 16 American ace Jimmy Mattern who flew non stop from Oakland is delaying search efforts due to threatening Arctic weather He will head the hunt for Sigismund Levaneffsky and five companions who landed in polar wastes after a Moscow to Alaska attempt Moscow signals weakly reported from Irkutsk while Soviet officials await confirmation Mattern joins Joe Crosson S E Robbins and Murray Stewart in the multinational effort amid rugged Arctic conditions and sparse radio contact
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Arctic
Jimmy Mattern
Mattern
Oakland
Calif
A. Vartanian
Seattle
Moscow
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Polar
Joe Crosson
North Pole
Likutsk
Siberia
Washington
Irkutsk
Levaneffsky
Edmonton
Alta
Signal Corps
Pole
Alaska Airways
S. E. Robbins
Murray Stewart
U. S. Signal Corps
W C T U Education Radio Programs Highlight Marihuana Menace
The national W C T U educational program sponsors two radio talks on temperance. Today at 4:45 PM Cleveland time Mrs Pearl Kendall Hess speaks from WTAM on The Marihuana Menace. August 27 Mrs E J Gibson speaks from KDKA Pittsburgh on Gleanings from the Conference at Chautauqua.
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Cleveland
Pearl Kendall Hess
WTAM
E. J. Gibson
KDKA
Pittsburgh
Chautauqua
Beam's U S Picnic Planned for August 21
The annual Beam's Sunday school picnic will be held in the grove near the church on Saturday August 21. A program is planned for the afternoon with plate lunches at five and a play The Fashion Show of Hicksville.
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Beam
U. S
Beam’s
Hicksville
Lone cop puts five in Meyersdale jail after street clash
Policeman John H. Bittner of Meyersdale borough police placed five men in the borough jail following a front street incident. He intervened when a group of about eight men, drinking, attempted to leave in a truck. They attacked the officer and Bittner eventually detained Ira Hostetler Garrett R. D 2 Norman Burkholder Garrett R. D 2 George Haer Garrett R. D 2 and Melvin Haer Garrett R. D 2. Several others escaped but he continued the search and apprehended Melvin Haer. Page Five will continue the report.
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John H. Bittner
Meyersdale
Main Street
Bittner
Norman Burkholder
Garrett R. D
George Haer
Melvin Haer
Colvin Auto Theft and Wreck Near Ligonier Valley
The Colvin brothers report their car stolen Friday while at the Clarence Manders place on the Lincoln highway near Ferrelton. The thief, posing as a furloughed U S Army private named John Hurley, wrecked the car minutes later at the Ligonier valley bathing beach. The vehicle was taken to a Ligonier garage for repairs and brought home Monday. the stolen licenses remain missing.
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Karl
Robert B. Colvin, Jr
R. B. Colvin
Clarence Manders Place
Lincoln Highway
Ferrelton
Ligonier Valley
Ligonier
Colvins
East
Chambersburg
Pittsburgh
John Hurley
Manders Place
Hurley
R. B. Colvin, Jr
Colvin
Food Poison Sickness Strikes Railroad Brakeman
Rodger L. Eddington of Foxburg, a brakeman, was in serious condition at Altoona hospital with possible food poisoning after being taken from a Pennsylvania railroad freight train near Conemaugh. He fell ill shortly after eating aboard the train.
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Altoona
Rodger L. Eddington
Foxburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Japan closes embassy at Nanking calls consuls home
Tokyo announces closure of the Nanking embassy and orders all Chinese consuls to depart with staff. Shigeru Kawagoe remains in Shanghai. Japan plans war fund increases and a possible special diet session to authorize further military spending amid intensified Shanghai and Nanking air battles.
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Japan
Nanking
Tokyo
China
Koki Hirota
Charde d'Affaires
Shinroguro Hidaka
Shanghai
Shigeru Kawagoe
Fumimaro Konoye
Diet
Meyersdale youth fined for imitation pistol incident
Meyersdale 19 year old Strawdor Naylor was fined 10 dollars plus 7.95 costs after a hearing before Justice Charles J. Harrison for disorderly conduct. An imitation Luger pistol found in his car frightened motorists along county highways and he admitted driving Meyersdale youths aged 15 to 17.
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Strawdor Naylor
Meyersdale
Justice of the Peace
Charles J. Harrison
Squire Harrison
Pennsylvania Motor Police
Naylor
Somerset
$6,000,000 Paper Mill Contract In Florida
The Rust Engineering Company to build a $6 million 180 ton paper mill at Fernandina Florida for the Fernanda Pulp and Paper Company. It will be first commercial size plant to pulp from southern woods using the bleached sulphite process. The mill to be ready by August 1 1938 and will employ 400 men plus wood cutters.
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Pittsburgh
Rust Engineering Company
Fernandina
Fla
Fernandina Pulp and Paper Company
Twelfth Man Arrested in Warren Disorders
Warren Ohio August 16 The twelfth man charged with possession of explosives in the Republic Steel strike bombings is identified as Mike Spelich 24. He was arrested today by Warren police joining three others arrested last week. Spelich had earlier been released on bond on a separate sniping charge against food planes bound for the Republic plant during the strike.
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Warren, O
Republic Steel
Warren
Mike Spelich
Spelich
Republic
Martins Have Gone South Early This Year
The martins left the Martin Hotel near the County Trust Company building on Friday at 9 15 PM marking the start of their southward migration. Normally arriving around April 7, the vanguard appeared April 6 this season with departures anticipated around September 1, signaling an unusually early winter ahead. Credited observer Frank Bird at the Park theatre confirms the timing while locals note the birds’ long-standing pattern.
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County Trust Company
South America
Frank Bird
Park Theatre
Bird
Martin Hotel
Somerset
Newspapers Seek 44 Hour Week Exemptions
The Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association representing 132 papers asked the state for exemption from the new 44 hour week law. The request was sent to the bureau of labor standards which is reviewing hundreds of similar requests, especially under the women’s law effective September 1, with recommendations due to the industrial board Wednesday.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association
State Today
Bureau of Labor Standards
Industrial Board
Threatened President Declared Sane in Boston
Morton D. Wainwright, 72, of Winthrop, arrested July 1 for sending threatening letters to President Roosevelt, was declared sane by Dr. C. Macfie Campbell of the Boston psychopathic hospital. Wainwright pleaded innocent and is held on heavy bond.
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Boston
Morton D. Wainwright
Winthrop
Roosevelt
C. Macfie Campbell
Boston Psychopathic Hospital
Wainwright
Maine voters reject old age school tax plan
Maine voters rejected a proposed one per cent retail sales tax to fund old age assistance and education equalization. Early returns from about two thirds of the state show opposition at roughly two to one.
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Maine
Portland
Copeland in New York Attacks Roosevelt on Black Nomination
In New York City political rifts widen as Senator Royal S. Copeland denounces Franklin D. Roosevelt's Supreme Court pick Hugo Black as an insult to the people and vows to oppose confirmation. Tammany figures meet with Copeland while fusion forcesback LaGuardia-pressured bidface postmaster Farley backed Mahoney slate.
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New York
New York City
Tammany
Royal S. Copeland
Roosevelt
Hugo Black
Copeland
Black
Ku Klux Klan
Supreme Court
John F. Curry
Piya
F. H. LaGuarra
Manhattan
Jeremiah T. Mahoney
Brooklyn
Bronx
Queens
Richmond
James T. Farley
Despondent coal miner suicides at Acosta
Harry Swartz 58 of Acosta died from a self inflicted gunshot early Monday morning. He had suffered a back injury in Jenner mine five years earlier and remained at work despite poor health. Survived by wife Mary and three children Ellwood, Mrs. Lloyd Saylor, and Harry Swartz Jr. Funeral at Bakersville Lutheran Church with burial at Bakersville cemetery.
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Harry Swartz
Acosta
Swartz
Consolidation Coal Company
Jenner
Somerset Community Hospital
W. J. Logue
Meyersdale
Mary (Weyant) Swartz
Ellwood Swartz
Jenner No. 2
Lloyd Saylor
Somerset
Beliare
Virginia
United States Army
Bakersville Lutheran Church
Dr King May Get Arms From Austria
Vienna reports indicate that Chinese foreign minister Dr H H Kung may have arranged arms purchases from Austria after a lengthy talk with Chancellor Kurt von Schushchnigg. Groundless rumors tied Kung to a meeting with Soviet foreign commissar Maxim Litvinov at Bad Gastein.
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Vienna
H. H. Kung
Austria
Kurt von Schuschnigg
Dr. Kung
Maxim Litvinoff
Bad Gastein
Shanghai Evacuation as Battle Rages Over Whangpoo
As Shanghai endures fifth day of Sino Japanese fighting, American and other foreign women and children evacuate on liners President Taft President McKinley and others. 1,150 American troops reinforce Shanghai to protect foreign areas while Nanking evacuees begin upriver moves toward Hankow.
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Morris J. Harris
Shanghai
China
Japan
Whangpoo
International Shanghai
Yangtze
Taft
Shell
Manila
Augusta
Harry E. Yarnell
United States
Asiatic Fleet
Chefoo
Nanking
Hankow
Hongkew
International Settlement
Hong~ Kew Park
Pootung
Refugees flee Shanghai as shells rain on river
More than 1,000 American and British refugees board frail tenders on the Whangpoo river seeking the sea. American and British women and children total 1 173 aboard several boats as Japanese warships shell the area near Woosung and Soochow creek while planes circle. The Dollar Line tender leads toward Manila aboard the President Jefferson as anti aircraft fire erupts and then subsides.
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Shanghai
Whangpoo River
Jefferson
Manila
Vehina
Soochow Creek
International Settlement
Dollar Line
United States
100000 JAP TROOPS ON WAY TO CHINA
An AP dispatch reports 100000 Japanese troops are en route to China amid escalating tensions around Japan and Shanghai. The note flags this as the first uncensored account of Japan's war preparations, sent by James A. Mills.
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China
James A. Mills
Associated Press
U. S
McKinley
Japan
Shanghai
Kinley Reports Japan’s War Plans in China
The dispatch notes Japan’s looming China campaign with 100000 fighting men expected, though domestic enthusiasm is muted. News from Gore to Shanghai describes a grim, large scale mobilization and rising costs feared by the home front.
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Kinley
Gore
Shanghai
Japan
China
Weather Reported Daily for Somerset by David Grove
Daily temperature from 5:30 p m Sunday to 5:30 p m Monday shows a maximum and a minimum. The report lists readings for Somerset including the observed high and low temperatures.
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David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
Associated Press
United States Weather Bureau
Prec City
New York
Boston
Miami
Eee
Los Angeles
Oon San Antonio
Weather Outlook for Mid Atlantic and Appalachians
Regional forecast for Western Pennsylvania West Virginia and surrounding states expects local showers Tuesday and Wednesday with only minor temperature changes. Eastern Pennsylvania Maryland and the central regions show variable clouds with showers mainly in the afternoons or nights and slight warmups in spots. The lower Lake region upper Ohio valley and Kentucky Tennessee are noted for showers with little temperature change.
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Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
Lower Lake Region
North Atlantic States
Upper
Ohio Valley
Kentucky
Tennessee
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Colvin Boys
Meyersdale Youth
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Warren Disorders
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King
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