Five Armored Men Rob Philadelphia Bank for $33100
In broad daylight five men armed with handguns robbed the Wyoming Bank and Trust in North Philadelphia’s Olney section, taking $33100 from customers and employees before fleeing in a stolen car. A balcony lookout signaled the assault, while a teller and others complied under threat. The incident marks the first Philadelphia bank robbery since 1938.
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Philadelphia
Wyoming Bank and Trust Company
Olney
Ubank
Rouwers
Ley Luun Lio SuVer
Oll
Mary Bunn
Miss Bunn
Philadelphia Bank
Germantown Trust Company
Ship Runaway Kills Woman During Carrier Launch
In Belfast a new British aircraft carrier the Formidable slipped into the river during christening by Lady Wood. A shower of timber and debris killed Mrs Isobel Kirk and wounded 20 others as the 753 foot ship thundered down the slip. Officials ordered immediate yard inspections.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Ang
Befast Lourh
Isobel Kirk
Knights of Columbus Call for Christian Crusade for Peace
Swattle august 17 4 Knights of Columbus adopt a resolution at their 67th international convention urging nations leaders and peoples to seek peace through Christ. The group denounces nillification of the Catholic church by Time magazine and calls for spiritual guidance to settle world disputes.
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Knights of Coumpus
John W. Babcock
Mchigan State Council
Time Magazine
Knights
Catholic Church
Kinzer Assails Democratic Trade Policy Hurting Pennsylvania Farmers
Rep. J Roland Kinzer charged in the Congressional Record that the Roosevelt administration's relief and reciprocal trade program harmed Pennsylvania farmers. He compared per capita benefits and taxes with Alabama and Arkansas, cited relief reductions, and warned foreign competition devastates local agriculture. He urged policy changes to protect Pennsylvania’s farm families and markets.
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Washington
J. Roland Kinzer
Congressional Record
Pennsylvania
Kinzer
Union
Lancaster County
Alabama
Arkansas
Nebraska
Roosevelt
Farmers of America
Bonding case defense nears end in Kirk Skok Temple trial
In Dauphin county court the defense finished all but minor phases of the Kirk Skok Temple bond conspiracy trial. James P. Kirk denied conspiracy to extort and misuse the highways secretary office. He admitted seeking Warren Van Dyke’s help for bonding business, arguing it was legal if proper.
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Harrisburg
Kirk-Skok Temple
Dauphin County
James P. Kirk
Victor S. Skok
Pittsburgh
H. H. Temple
Highway Department
Earl V. Compton
Fred S. Reese
Kirk
Skok
Temple
Secretary of Highways
Warren van Dyke
Earle
Compton
City of
van Dyke
Highways
Boswell Men Cleared in DynAmite Mischief Charges
James Haines and Harry Emerick, both Boswell residents, had charges of malicious mischief with dynamite dismissed by Justice of the Peace John Kircher after a hearing. They were jailed on larceny and auto code violations after being found in a stolen car following blasts on August 6. Police linked the explosives to a theft from a local powder warehouse, but the blasts caused no injuries.
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Boswell
James Haines
Harry Emerick
State Motor Police
Justice of the Peace
John Kircher
Kircher
Four-Year Voting Ban For Homestead Officials
In Homestead a court barred two women from voting or seeking office for four years after pleading no defense in a vote fraud case. Beulah Pryer and Rose Bulkearn were fined $25 each for their roles as they announced intent to run for the Homestead election board. Judges McNaugher and Thompson said two more officials facing similar pleas will receive comparable sentences.
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Pittsburgh
Homestead
Beulah Pryer
Rose Bulkearn
Homestead Election Board
William W. McNaugher
A. Marshall Thompson
Jailed for Auto Code Violation
Theodore Laverbeck aged 19 of Worthing West Virginia was jailed for seven days for auto code violation by Justice of the Peace Robert Cook Meyersdale.
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Theodore Laverbeck
Worthing
West Va
Justice of the Peace
Robert Cook
Meyersdale
WPA Holds Key to Penna. Relief Rolls
Governor James said WPA relief replacements could cut Pennsylvania’s relief load soon. He urged immediate transfers from relief to 18 month veterans and noted WPA rules limit rehiring after 186 months. The state mobilized cabinet leaders to fill August quota of 150000 jobs, with expected state and municipal projects and a 300000 monthly capacity if WPA cooperates.
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Harrisburg
WPA
James
Pennsylvania
Edward B. Logan
General State Authority
Highways Department
E. Arthur Sweeny
Welfare
Philadelphia State Hospital
Byberry
Altoona Women Die After Train Crash at Virginia Crossing
Bealeton Virginia August 17 A Southern railway train struck an automobile at a grade crossing causing the deaths of Mrs Frances M Wooten 45 wife of the Altoona Pa Y M C A secretary and Elizabeth Cassidy 16 daughter of an Altoona candy maker The pair were returning from a Rapppahanock river vacation when the crash occurred Witnesses said signals on the main line were apparently ignored The train was northbound and Mrs Wooten died on the scene while Miss Cassidy died later at Warrenton Yates nursing home
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Bealeton
Southern Railway
Frances M. Wooten
Altoona
Elizabeth Cassidy
Rappahanock River
Virginia
Collision slows Route 219. milk truck and car damaged
On Thursday morning north of Somerset Route 219 saw a car and a milk truck collide. Leroy Barron 32 of Somerset drove the truck to discharge cans at H W Walker Creamery and was passed by Clarence Donaldson U M W international representative. Both vehicles sustained damage estimated at $100 and $10 respectively. no injuries reported.
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Somerset
P. W. Lutz
Leroy Barron
Somerset R. D
H. W. Walker Creamery
Clarence Donaldson
United Mine Workers International
Somerset County
Barron
Donaldson
Breathes Breath Into Baby To Revive Girl
In Waynesburg on August 17 a 20 year old mother, Mrs. Thomas McCullugh, found her four month old daughter Beverly lifeless under a rubber sheet. She prayed and breathed air into the child's lungs until Beverly revived, saying she did not know how long she breathed and prayed between breaths. The McCullughs live near Aleppo.
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Waynesburg
Aug
Thomas Mccullugh
Beverly
McCullughs
Aleppo
Washington and Jefferson raises $301000 for chemistry building
Washington and Jefferson college completes a drive to raise 300000 for a new chemistry building. General chairman Elder W. Marshall announces the total is 301000, with the Somerset alumni contributing 500 toward the campaign. Construction will begin soon.
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Washington, Pa
Washington and Jefferson College
W. Marshall
Pittsburgh
Somerset
2000 Flood Refugees Add to Alabama Homeless
In Selma and nearby areas the flood crisis swelled as about 2000 people were forced from their homes. Prattville faced receding floods and disease fears, while a train wreck caused one death and property losses. Red Cross boats evacuated marooned families along the Cahaba and Autauga rivers.
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Selma
Ala
Alabama
Gulf of Mexico
Prattville
G. Newton
Autauga County
Red Cross
Alabam
Cahaba River
Gulf
Allenville
Atitauga Creek
Pea Size Hail Strikes Philadelphia During Severe Storm
A severe storm lashed Philadelphia with pea size hail and 28 mph winds, knocking out power and causing lightning strikes near city hall. Drought and high heat plagued parts of Pennsylvania, with temperatures near 90 degrees in many areas. A separate report says Jack Mullaney was killed by lightning on a golf course during a storm.
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Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Piladelphia
City Hall
Martinsburg
Bitar County
Blue Mountain
Fair County
U. S. Weather Bureau
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Philadiphia
Jack Mullaney
Thanksgiving Proclamation History Tied to Lincoln and Washington
Lincoln museum director Dr L A Warren recalls the chain of Thanksgiving observances from Washingtons 1789 proclamation to Lincolns 1863/1864 actions and subsequent presidents maintaining the last Thursday in November as the national day. The piece notes earlier gaps and the church calendar link to Advent and New Year.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Moosevelt
Avraham Lincoln
L. A. Warren
Lincoln National Life Insurance
Warren
George Washington
Lincoln
Washington
Congress
Madison
Dane Killed by Gunmen After Flag Incident in Shanghai
In Shanghai's international settlement a Danish employee of the Great Northern Telegraph company, H. P. Krough, aged 39, was shot by gunmen as he left his home. He had been accused by the Japanese controlled government of pulling down a Japanese flag in the border settlement. The attack targeted a western residential district largely inhabited by Americans.
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Shanghai
International Settlement
H. P. Krough
Krough
Great Northern Telegraph Company
World Fair costs cut at New York event
New York World's Fair officials announced a retrenchment plan to trim daily operating costs by five thousand dollars through layoffs and departmental mergers. The announcement came in New York on August 17.
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New York
British Holy Land Plans Denied OK
Geneva reports the League of Nations mandates commission withheld approval of Britain's plan to make Palestine an Arab dominated state. The seven commissioners split, with four opposing and three supporting the May 17 Waite paper reinterpretation, sending the issue to the League council next month.
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Geneva
League of Nations Mandates Commission
Great Britain
Palestine
World Zionist Congress
Holy Land
League of Nations Council
Mandates Commission
League Council
Switzerland
Belgium
Norway
Netherlands
MacDonald to Go to League Council on Palestine Plan
Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald said he would appear before the League of Nations council in Geneva next month to seek approval for the British Palestine plan after the Mandates Commission refused it. Government aides indicated they were not alarmed and openness to changing the mandate or the plan if needed. No action would occur until parliament reviews the council decision.
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London
Malcolm MacDonald
League of Nations Council
Geneva
Permanent Mandates Commission
League
Palestine
Boy Falls From Tree Breaks Both Arms
Lyle Walker eleven year old son of Mr and Mrs Earl Walker of Rockwood district one was admitted to Somerset Community hospital Thursday night after falling from a tree while playing at home. Both arms broken below the elbow and he suffered multiple head lacerations.
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Lyle Walker
Earl Walker
Rockwood R. D
Somerset Community Hospital
Injured Pennsylvanian Worker To Hospital After Hand Infection
Blaine Hostetler, 24, of Friedens, a Pennsyl vania turnpike worker employed by Hinman Brothers Construction Co., was admitted to Community Hospital Thursday night with an infection of the right hand. The firm is building the east approach to Laurel Hill tunnel.
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Blaine Hostetler
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Friedens
Community Hospital
Hinman Brothers Construction Co
Laurel Hill Tunnel
Pennsylvania Milk Strike Prompted State Watch Inaction
Harrisburg reporters say Pennsylvania milk control commission kept a hands off policy as the dairy farmers union strike against New York City prices spread to northeastern Pennsylvania. The panel raised Class One milk price to Scranton Wilkes Barre area to 2.70 per hundred pounds, higher than strikers demand, with further price changes and a conference planned in the coming days.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
New York City
John M. McKee
New York
New York State
Upper Pennsylvania
Lynn G. Adams
James
McKee
Scranton- Wilkes-Barre
Milk Strike Triggers State Trooper Deployment in New York
New York Governor Lehman orders all available state troopers to duty amid violent dairy farmer union milk boycott. Union leader Archie Wright accuses the move of turning the government into a strike breaking agency as supply cuts raise prices. Health officials report a 5 percent normal supply drop in New York City and consider expanding the milk shed to imports from Boston and other cities. A milk truck was fired upon near Ft. Plain, amid ongoing clashes between pickets and non striking farmers.
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Utica
N. Y
New York
Herbert L. Lenman
Archie Wright
Lehman
New York City
John L. Rice
Rice
Boston
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Detroit
Chicago
Montgomery County
Gerald K. Nellis
Dairymen’s League
Ft. Plain
Holton V. Noyes
Wayne County Dairymen Vote to Withhold Milk
James R. Kean of the Dairy Farmers Union said 360 of about 400 Wayne county dairymen attended a Honesdale meeting and voted to withhold their milk from creameries tomorrow. He added roughly 510 of about 1,200 county dairy farmers are affiliated with the union.
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Scranton
James R. Kean
The
Dairy Farmers Union
Wayne County
Honesdale
Kean
Seize Games In Store Raid Jail Haeck
State police report a raid on a New Kuhntown store seizing punching boards and slot machines amid an ongoing investigation. No injuries reported. Police say suspect Haeck was charged with theft and possession of illegal gambling equipment.
Store operator jailed after raid on illegal gambling devices
George J. Haeck 51 of Pittsburgh was booked in Somerset county jail after state police raided a Kuhntown shop west of Bakersville citing illegal punch boards and a slot machine. The raid aims to remove punchboards from local stores and will lead to formal charges at a Somerset justice of the peace hearing. Blair Schmoyer and Stevens participated in the operation.
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Pittsburgh
Jefferson Township
George J. Haeck
Rossmore Ave
Kuhntown
Bakersville
J. A. Blair
Blair
Somerset County
Haeck
Squalus Near Surface After Second Blowing and Towing
The Squalus neared the surface after a second successful blowing and towing from 240 feet. The operation began at 9:30 a.m. and by 1:05 p.m. the stern showed, with hopes to raise the submarine and move it to the Portsmouth navy yard for reconditioning. Weather and tide influenced progress as crews repaired air hose lines damaged by a storm.
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John F. Chester
Portsmouth
N. H
Portsmouth Navy Yard
German Hungarian Talks Hint at War Pact
Berlin reports say Adolf Hitler hosted Count Stefan Csaky and Doeme Sztojay at Ober Salzberg. Discussions centered on Hungary allowing German troops to occupy Carpatho Ukraine if war occurs and remodeling Hungary along fascist Nazi lines.
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Louis P. Lochner
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Count Stefan Csaky
Obersalzberg
Hungary
Danzig
Poland
Count Csaxy
Doeme Sztojay
Osy Csaky
Csaky
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Fuschl Castle
Wilhelm Frick
Leopoldskron Castle
Salzburg
Diensch Aus Deutschland
Germany
Salsburg
Carpatho-Ukraine
Rumania
Chodacki Returns to Danzig From Warsaw
The Polish commissioner general Manan Cno nacki returned from Warsaw where new instructions were received on negotiations with Arthur Greiser. Talks may continue and some optimism emerged for a peaceful solution on Danzig's status. Foreign residents see the issue as political beyond trade controls. Military displays and a defensive air force rumor add to tensions in the free city.
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Danzig
Manan Cnonacki
Warsaw
Arthour Greiser
Senate
Cnodacki
Greiser
Germany
Poland
Diplomats Seek Italy Views on Poland Turn
Diplomats conferred with Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano to learn Italy's stance on Poland as talks continued in Rome on August 17. The discussions aimed to secure an official position from Italy on the evolving European crisis.
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Italy
Poland
Rome
Galeazzo Ciano
Pease
Weather Outlook Eastern Panhandle and Mid-Atlantic
cloudy Friday with scattered showers at night or Saturday. West Vic shows occasional showers Friday and Saturday with little temperature change. Western Pennsylvania mostly fair Friday, Saturday partly cloudy with south and central showers and minimal temperature change. Maryland partly cloudy Friday with scattered showers Friday night and Saturday admixture and little temperature change.
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Pennsylvania
West Vic
Maryland
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