Tragic Leap From Empire State Roof Ends in Death
Ro bert Francis Erskine, 23, a Bronxville Press reporter, leaped from the 86th floor parapet at the Empire State Building and fell 1,050 feet to the sidewalk on West 32d Street. He smiled and waved before the jump, leaving $9, a watch, and a chain in his pockets. motive unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Robert Francis Erskine
Empire State Building
Erskine
Bronxville
N. Y
Press
West 32d
James
C. Cass Lawler
Bar Association Criticizes Roosevelt A dministration
The American Bar Association tabled a report criticizing the Roosevelt administration for allegedly eroding constitutional rights. Frederick H. Stinchfield was elected president, with others including George M. Morris and Harry S. Knight taking leadership roles. The report warned against measures expanding court membership and curbing federal court powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
American Bar Association
Roosevelt
William P. MacCracken
Frederick H. Stinchfield
Minneapolis
William L. Ransom
New York
Walter F. Armstrong
Association
Bils
Stinchfield
American Liberty League
George M. Morris
Washington, D. C
House of Delegates
Harry S. Knight
Pennsylvania
John H. Voorhees
Sioux Falls
S. D
Robinson Replies To Landon's Speech In Arkansas
In Little Rock Joe T. Robinson Democrat majority leader accuses Republicans of trying to frighten the consumer and defends Roosevelt fiscal policy as humane and fiscally sound. He counters Landon’s charge of wasteful spending by noting Landon’s only firm pledge is to slash taxes on large corporations. Sister M Clementine dies in Erie after 62 years with the Order of St. Joseph and service at St Vincent's hospital. she taught in Meadville Corry and Houtzdale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Joe T. Robinson
Alf M. Landon
Roosevelt
Landon
Buffalo
Robinson
M. Clementine
Erie
Order of St. Joseph
St. Vincent's Hospital
Meadville
Corry
Houtzdale
Knox Attacks Administration Over Fanatics and Theorists
Col Frank Knox the Republican vice presidential nominee assailed the current administration for elevating fanatics and impracticalists to power. He spoke at a Vermont rally promising to expose administration failures and restore sanity, criticizing spending and economic controls while pledging allegiance to constitutional limits and the American system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert M. Yoder Buriington
Col
Frank Knox
Republian
Vicc
Vermont Party
Four-Job Farley
President Roosevelt Tours Dakotas Amid Drought Watch
President Roosevelt travels by Roosevelt train through North and South Dakota surveying drought conditions and crop damage. He plans drought conferences with the Dakotas and Wyoming governors and attends the funeral of Secretary of War Dern in Salt Lake City before heading to Des Moines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas B. Cornell
Roosevelt
Pierre
S. D
North Dakota
South Dakota
Almestown
N. D
Bismarck
Aberdeen
S. C
George H. Dern
Salt Lake City
Utah
Minnesota
St. Paul
Wisconsin
LaCrosse
North
Wyoming
Rapid City
Dern
Des Moines
Women Oppose Communism and Fight for Government Reform
Harrisburg August 28 Mrs Mabel Jacques Eichel national director of the Independent Coalition of American Women warned that liberal men could lead to a dictatorship The group vows to prevent communism from shaping US government At a Pennsylvania meeting they discussed backing Governor Alf Landon and Col Frank Knox and planned permanent nationwide state campaigns to recruit habitual nonvoters and anti New Deal Democrats The coalition already operates in 20 states with rapid organization progress led by Mrs Albert S F Keister of Pittsburgh and committee member Mrs T Magill Patterson of Philadelphia
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Mabel Jacques Eichel
Independent Coalition of American Women
United States
Pennsylvania
Albert S. F. Keister
Pittsburgh
Save Chautauqua Campaign Ends In Victory
Chautauqua, N Y August 28 Officials announced the Save Chautauqua campaign ended with funds to pay off 500000 in bonded indebtedness and to adjust 285000 of remaining debts Threatened to halt the institution but bells rang to celebrate the program as a continued summer music religious and cultural center S M Hazlett president of the Chautauqua Reorganization Corporation noted the effort rebuilt the public mind
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chautauqua
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
S. M. Hazlett
Chautauqua Reorganization Corporation
Heiland Pays Back Costs After DA Order
L. G. Heiland of Somerset was arrested on a bench warrant for back court costs from a gambling devices case. He was jailed briefly and released after paying the unpaid costs plus additional fees. The district attorney said back-cost offenders will be pursued with more bench warrants and immediate service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. G. Heiland
Somerset
Matthews
Heiland
Harry Sellers
S. Cober Braucher
Ofice
Six Vagrant Boys Detained in Borough Yard Incidents
Borough police freed six vagrant boys arrested in the Baltimore and Ohio railroad yards after varied outcomes. Joe Lavely, 17, is held for Johnstown on a rock-throwing charge. Robert Wood, 15, faces Morganza indefinite sentence. the others from Johnstown were sent home. Hesselbein, 14, exposed and in torn pajamas, also returned home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore and Ohio
Morganza
Somerset County
Johnstown
W. W. Cupp
Caboose
Somerset
Joe Lavely
Robert Wood
Greer
William Hesselbein
Hollidaysburg
Lewis Keifline
Robert Keifline
Robert Rowland
Cupp
Hesselbein
Open Bids For 5 Co. Bridges In Somerset County
Harrisburg bids opened on 21 projects including five bridge replacements in Somerset county. Unofficial low bidders include Clyde L. Moore for a 0.12 mile timber deck I-beam bridge at Rural Route 550, F. Freeland Inc. for a 0.31 mile timber deck beam bridge on Rural Route 55122, and Carl R. Camp Inc. for several timber deck I-beam bridges on Rural Routes 55094 55022 55026 with bids ranging from about 11 299 to 32 106 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Department Or Highways
Somerset County
Somerset
Quemahoning
Stonycreek
Clyde L. Moore
Lowellville
Paint Township
Carl R. Camp, Inc
Philadelphia
Black Township
Rockwood
Garrett Borough
Holt, McConnell and Osburn, Inc
Canonsburg
Pairhope Township
Freeland, Inc
Pittsburgh
Landon Aims for More 1936 Campaign Tours Across Midwest and East
Gov Alf Landon returns from his first campaign swing and begins meetings with Kansas officials and the parole board. He notes no comment on party plans and discusses the drought. An eastern swing is planned through Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri with stops in Chicago and Milwaukee and a New York Madison Square Garden appearance in late October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kas
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
State Parole Board
Landon
John Hamilton
Des Moines
Roosevelt
Hamilton
Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Missouri
Milwaukee
Madison Square Garden
New York City
Philadelphia
Boston
Baltimore
Miners Endure Fifth Hunger Day at Polish Mine
In Mala Dombrowka Poland 300 hunger striking miners resist a partial settlement offering 8000 zlotys to cover 24000 claimed back wages. They reject the stipend and vow no water until fully paid as families watch anxiously. The skull and crossbones symbol rises from the shaft as the stand continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mala Dombrowka
Polish Silesia
Demand Discharge of Polish Overseers Sparks Mine Strike
In Lens France on August 28 a thousand coal miners at the Ostri court mines struck after occupying underground galleries and refusing to work. The action, guarded by pickets at the entrance, demanded the dismissal of 50 Polish overseers accused of brutality toward French miners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lens
France
No Summer Slump In Business This Year
Pittsburgh reports the University of Pittsburgh bureau of business research says western Pennsylvania’s business index reached a six year high as August advances. Production and retail trade rose with late July pauses in iron and steel orders seen as temporary while new orders for early delivery increase. Bituminous coal output up 13 percent and iron and steel production about 8 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh Bureau of Business Research
Pennsylvania
Car Driver Held After Fatal Pittsburgh Crosswalk Crash
An automobile killed 55 year old Joseph Kralvec of nearby Wexford as he crossed a highway near his home. Coroner's officers said Max Glassberg of New York City drove the car and was held under $1000 bail for appearance at an inquest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Joseph Kralvec
Neaby Wexford
Max Glassberg
New York City
No Stoppe Murder Case Baffles Police In Racket Deaths
Coroner T E Cato reports a murder death by own action verdict in the numbers racket case of Robert Stoppe Jr 33 of Chester West Virginia and Mildred Bennett 32 of East Liverpool Ohio. Police still pursue a robbery murder theory while noting Stoppe may have shot Mrs Bennett then himself.
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T. E. Cato
Robert Stoppe
Chester
W. Va
Mildred Bennett
East
Liverpool
Ohio
Co Cner
Stoppe
Steppe
Cato
Sergt
Fred Cuereance
Bennett
Ohio Valley
Coroner Rules Murder in Stoppe Bennett Shooting
Chester West Virginia August coroner T E Cato said autopsy results support murder and death by own action in the case of Robert Stoppe 35 who killed Mrs Mildred Bennett 32 in a truck on a lonely road. Police noted three chest shots and one in the head and questioned how Stoppe could have fired all shots. The coroner asserted the post mortem showed bullets missed Stoppe's heart and stood by the murder verdict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
W. Va
T. E. Cato
Robert Stoppe
Mildred Bennett
West Virginia
Steppe
Stoppe
Pittsburgh Driver Dies After 200‑Foot Plunge Near Tionesta
William J. MacGivern Jr., 20, of Pittsburgh, died from injuries when his car plunged 200 feet off the Allegheny highway near Tionesta and landed on Pennsylvania railroad tracks. Investigators said he fell asleep at the wheel. Hours later Emery Evans, also of Pittsburgh, drove over the bank but only fell ten feet, striking a warehouse and suffering fractured ribs. Witnesses note the bank lacks guard rails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tionesta
William J. MacGivern, Jr
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Railroad
MacGivern
Emery Evans
Evans
Trotzky and wife interned in Norway amid exile
Norwegian authorities detain Leon Trotzky and his wife along with two male secretaries, after Trotzky refuses to cease revolutionary activity. Officials say the exiled leader will stay at home for now and no formal disposition of the secretaries is announced. Police guard the Trotzky residence as calls are banned and the case moves toward an uncertain outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oslo
Norway
Leon Trotzky
Trotzky
Storm kills one in Indiana city of Terre Haute
A 56 mile per hour wind storm struck Terre Haute and surrounding areas late today, killing 6 year old Bobby Baker when a tree fell on his tent home and injuring his mother Bertha Reynolds. The storm caused fires, widespread darkness, downed trees and utility poles, and halted streetcar service. Firefighters faced debris and damaged homes as electric wires sparked multiple blazes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Ind
Bobby Baker
Bertha Reynolds
E. Moery
Bus Fire Destroys Great Eastern Lines Coach East of Ligonier
A New York to Chicago Great Eastern Lines bus caught fire around 4 a.m. on the Lincoln highway near Ligonier, likely from overheated brakes. Driver William Keifer of Pittsburgh evacuated 25 passengers and luggage before the fire, fanned by wind, left the left side split open, and a new bus was sent from Pittsburgh later that day.
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New York
Chicago
Great Eastern Lines
Ligonier
Lincoln Highway
Laurel Hill Mountain
Wiliam Keifer
Pittsburgh
Ligoniery
Loyalhanna Creek
Great Eastern
Oregon
Europe
Keifer
Bedford
Stoystown
Somerset Grange Corn Roast Brings Members and Guests
Members of the Somerset Grange gathered Friday evening at the summer cottage of Mr. and Mrs. James Moore for their annual corn roast. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kister and a long list of Glessner, Shultz, Ogline, Kniep, and other family and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset Grange
James Moore
Charles Kister
Warren Kister
Luella Kister
James G. Miller
James S. Glessner
Gladys Glessner
Owen Glessner
Betty Glessner
Mary Grace Glesner
Jimmy Glessner
A. S. Huston
Florence Glass
Ed. S. Forney
Sara Forney
D. W. Seibert
Millard Walker
Bert Blair
E. W. Cleeves
C. W. Duppstadt
D. J. Shultz
Lester Shultz
Mildred Shultz
Thelma Shultz
Alvin J. Ogline
Alice Ogline
Gladys Ogline
Helen Ogline
Harry J. Lambert
S. Marjorie Weaver
Homer R. Kniepper
Arlene Knepper
Jennie Eberle
Bail Set in Carmel Auto Fatality Case
Authorities set $1000 bail for Wesley Braslington as coroner investigates the death of Joseph Lucas 55 of Elysburg who was struck by a car while walking along a nearby highway in Carmel on August 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt, Carmel
Wesley Brassington
Joseph Lucas
Elysburg
Lucas
Electric Worker Found Dead in Norristown
Fellow workers found Sidney F. Mathers, 40, an electric company employee, dead near a ladder against a pole with a 13 000 volt switch. The incident occurred in Norristown on August 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norristown
Sidney F. Mathers
Electric
Iran repels assault as Madrid tightens bomb defense
The Associated Press reports Madrid faced a third rebel aerial attack this week with strict precautions against Fascist bombs. Explosives hit Quatro Vientos and Getafe airfields but the government says damage was slight. Rebels claimed major losses for the air bases and air combat continued near Burgos and Guadarrama north of Madrid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Madrid
Quatro Vientos
Getafe
Burgos
Guadarrama
Ront
Dictatorship Near Spain Risks Monarchy Return
Burgos, Spain Aug 28 fascist rebel leaders claim a victorious force will first impose a military dictatorship akin to Italy and Germany and then allow a possible return of Alfonso the Bourbon to the throne if the people desire. They say Germany and Italy back the rebels and will ban arms to Spain in the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burgos
Spain
Italy
Germany
Alfonso
Bourbon
Chester Shaver Addresses Somerset Rotary on Europe
Chester Shaver, Oberlin College faculty member and son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Shaver, spoke at the Somerset Rotary noon meeting at the Fer ner hotel. He compared Europe then and now, predicting a possible clash between Fascism and Communism and outlining their divergent ideologies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester Shaver
C. L. Shaver
Oberlin College
Somerset Rotary Club
Ferner Hotel
Shaver
Rotary Club
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Knox
Calvin Coolidge
America
Dakotas
SAVE
Big Feat
Gov. Landon
Buffalo, N. Y
Atiow
Offerman
Itadium
Alfred
M. Landon
Central Press
NO Stoppe Murder Club
Iran
Robert B. Parker, JR
The
Henry Ford
Pantrete
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