Farm bill clash overruns House debate in Washington
In Washington the House clashed over farm bill provisions amid heated exchanges. Boileau accused subsidies of aiding southern dairy expansion and urged blocking retired cotton and wheat land from dairy use. Hook defended the bill while Hoffman labeled it a political tool. Senate talks on processing taxes and farm payments continued toward a possible Saturday vote.
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Washington
Boileau
United States
Hook
D-Mich
Hoffman
R-Mich
Senate
Ellencer
D-La
Barkley
Kentucky
Pittsburgh Man Kills Wife Then Self in Lovers Lane Tragedy
William H. Forsythe a 55 year old Pennsylvania Railroad boiler maker shot his wife Mrs Rosalia Karr 30 in a parked car on a lonely Ross Township lane then killed himself with a gunshot. The bodies were found by a milkman. Forsythe and Mrs Karr were parents of four and ten year old respectively.
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Pittsburgh
William H. Forsythe
Rosalia Karr
H. F. Allen
Ross Township
Allen
Forsythe
Karr
The
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York Dairymen Vote to Strike Friday
In Buffalo and surrounding area, over 450 farmers voted at a Marilla meeting to halt milk supplies Friday morning unless Class One milk brings $3 per hundredweight with 3.5 butterfat. Current payouts run from $2.45 to $2.75.
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Buffalo
N. Y
New York
Marilla
Duke Di Borgo Arrested in French Plot Case
The Duke di Borgo, Corsican noble, is jailed in Paris over a failed Cagoulards plot to topple the French government. Reports say his wife fled with documents to London, linking him to Col. Francois de la Rocque’s circle.
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Duke di Borgo
Duchess di Borgo
Walter Norrie
New York
London
Col
Francois de la Rocque
Sante
Central Presa
Harrisburg Meeting Attacks Philadelphia Mayor Wilson
Philadelphia Mayor S Davis Wilson faced strong church opposition in Harrisburg as the Pennsylvania Council of Churches denounced him as a potential gubernatorial candidate for violating Sabbath observance. church leaders tied open Sundays to falling Sunday school attendance and urged voters to seek better leaders to curb liquor and Sabbath violations.
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Harrisburg
Philadelphia
S. Davis Wilson
Pennsylvania Council of Churches
W. B. Forney
Lord's Day Alliance
Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
Wilson
Forney
F. Scott McBride
Pennnsylvania Anti-Saloon League
McBride
General Assembly
Committee On Social Service
Dean A. R. Kratz
School of Theology
Albright College
Reading
Committee On International Relations
W. B. Harvey
E. B. Roberts
Glenshaw
O. H. Lefever
G. D. Batdorf
John S. Stamm
Wyatt Brown
C. E. Schaffer
S. W. Herman
C. Lester Mathias
Salesman Charged With Embezzlement
Elwyn Judy former service salesman of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company West Main Street was arrested Saturday Nov. 27 on charges of fraudulent conversion and embezzlement of 295.44 of the companys money Judy waived hearing before Squire C J Harrison Jr and posted 500 bond for the next criminal court term.
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Elwyn Judy
Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company
West Main Street
Set. J. A. Blair
Pennsylvania Motor Police
Judy
Squire C. J. Harrison, Jr
Prices fixed for most soft coal after December fifteenth
The vituminous coal commission set nationwide prices for over 80 percent of soft coal output east of the Mississippi and in Iowa. The schedules raise consumer coal costs while lowering home heating bills overall, with detailed figures by mine and size released only as ranges. The move follows contested legality and parallels earlier Guffey act debates, as marketing rules accompany the price fix.
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Washington
Guffey
Commission
Mississippi
Inowa
United Mine Workers
NRA
Supreme Court
Congress
J. W. Carter
Carter Coal Company
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Michigan
Kentucky
Tennessee
Western
County Wins Suit Against Milford Township Over Route 53 Costs
Somerset County won a civil court verdict of 1354.20 against Milford Township for its share of the Route 53 project built in 1926. Judge Norman T. Boose presided as the case, one of two argued that day, concluded with a jury award covering unpaid charges after Milford raised bonds and pledges to cover road costs.
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Somerset County
Somerset
Milford Township
Norman T. Boose Presding
Milford
E. E. Kiernan
Board of Supervisors
State Highway Department
Boose
Gedor Gerula
Windber
Stenkin Begins Penitentiary Term for Manslaughter
Paul Stenkin, 49, a Holsopple miner, began a 3.5 to 7 year sentence at Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh after pleading nolle contendere to murder and admitting he struck Vincent Slaga with an axe-handle during a spring clash over a dead miner relief check.
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Paul Stenkin
Vincent Slaga
Western Penitentiary
Pittsburgh
Fred P. Hare
Merle K. Glessner
Norman T. Boose
Stenkin
Slaga
Nolle Contendre
Boose
Holsopple
New York Milk Inspector Dies in Bellefonte
Dr. W A Brunson senior milk inspector for New York State Health Department died unexpectedly in a Bellefonte Pennsylvania hospital yesterday. Since July 1 he directed New York s out of state milk inspection program covering northern and western Pennsylvania with Elmira New York as headquarters.
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Albany
N. Y
W A. Brunson
New York State Health Department
Bellefonte
New York
Pennsylvania
Elmira
No Educational Broadcasts From FCC Committee Says Tyson
Dr Lev ering Tyson president of Muhlenberg College Allentown Pa told delegates at the second national conference on educational broadcasting that no permanent solution for successful non profit educational radio broadcasts could be expected from a committee appointed by the federal communication commission.
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Chicago
Levering Tyson
Muhlenberg College
Allentown
Federal Communication Commission
Buck deer season yields second day buck shows weather aid
The second day of hunting saw improved conditions with clear skies boosting visibility in Somerset county mountains. Hospitals reported no additional hunting accident patients by Tuesday evening. Fred P. Hare Jr. shot the first buck of his big-game career on a farm in Addison township, while others including A. S. Lehman and George Gardner found success in Allegheny and Shae towns. County officials noted heavy activity along the Lincoln highway with 12 deer removed by hunters from inside and outside the county.
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Somerset County
William Lee
Humbert South
Prantz
Confluence
Fred P. Hare, Jr
Somerset Township
Schoo
American Book Company
Addison Township
Hare
R. W. Trevorrow
John Nicholson
Jack Hare
Somerset
A. S. Lehman
Reels Corner
Allegheny Township
Ivan Lambert
Ivan Lambert, Who Accompanied Mr. Lehman
William R. Lohr
Bucktown
Shae Township
George Gardner
South Rosina Avenue
Wills’ Church
Route 219
Harry C. Jacobs
Ligonier
Two Auto Crashes Result in Two Deaths Near Lancaster
Lancaster reports two deadly crashes within an hour. Benjamin Earl Wilson, 39, from Lancaster died in a bottling works truck collision with a trolley car two miles west of the city. Edith G. Dellinger, 53, of Lancaster was killed when her car left the Lincoln highway two miles east. Gochenour, 65, driver with his daughter Ethel, 34, survived with injuries after the wreck. Police say Gochenour, felled by a choking spell, tried to pull off the road but lost control.
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Lancaster
Benjamin Earl Wilson
Christ Herr
Salunga
Wilson
Wheeling
Godenour
Wilson's aid plan for coal industry rejected
Francis Shunk Brown, head of the city trusts board, rejected Mayor Wilson's idea that the Stephen Girard Estate abandon anthracite royalties for a year. He warned the board would face surcharges if it acted, noting the estate owns under three percent of Pennsylvania's hard coal lands and would not make a meaningful price drop.
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Philadelphia
Francis Shunk Brown
Board of City Trusts
Stephen Girard
S. Davis Wilson
Wilson
Brown
Morris Wolf
Pennsylvania
Rescue at Sea Off Costa Rica Saves Fifteen Men
A fishing vessel sank off the Costa Rican coast on November 30. The motor ship White Star rescued fifteen men from the sinking vessel as emergency crews coordinated the response.
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White Star
Costa Rica
Fear Japan closes open door in Chinese markets
Reports from Tientsin say a Japanese dominated peace commission reduced tariffs on many Japanese imports into North China while American goods were excluded. Officials fear such moves mark a broader loss of open trade in China and could provoke a new confrontation over the open door policy observed by the United States and other powers.
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Wasiington
Japan
Cunama
Nippon
Hul
United States
Secretary of State
Tientsin
North China
Peace Maintenance Commission
Manchuria
Empire
Manchukuo
Hull
China
Great Britain
Chinese Customs Organization
Somerset Boy Becomes Judge in New Mexico Bandit Trial
George Hay son of Commissioner W J R Hay has been chosen to preside as judge in Deming New Mexico over the Brooklyn Cowboys desert train robbers case. Hay, a Somerset native, studied at Valderroso University Indiana, served as captain in WWI, practiced in Kokomo then Silver City, won the judge seat after initial defeat, and has since earned wide recognition as an authority in the region.
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Somerset
George Hay
W. J. R. Hay
Hay
Deming
New Mexico
Brooklyn
Valderroso University
Indiana
Theu H
Silver City
Valperioso University
Kokomo
United States
END BROOKLYN GRAVE DIGGERS STRIKE ENDS
Pleas of innocent were entered to train robbery and murder charges for Henry Lorenz and Harry Dwyer in New Mexico. A train held up Thanksgiving Day by the Brooklyn Cowboys ended with a melee and the death of El Paso switchman W. L. Smith as passengers beat the suspects. Justice of the Peace Albert Brown ordered no bond and scheduled a premilitary hearing for December 20.
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Las Cruces
N. M
Henry Lorenz
Harry Dwyer
Southern Pacific
Justice of
Albert Brown
Pond
Brooklyn Cowboys
W. L. Smith
el Paso
Switchman
Rites Thursday for William H. Miller Squire
Last rites will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the home in Stoystown for William Henry Miller known as Squire Miller a Civil War veteran former state legislator and community leader. Interment follows in Stoystown cemetery with Rev L F Foltz officiating. Miller a lifelong Lutheran and former Sunday school teacher helped shape local civic life and voting record.
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Squire
William Henry Miller
Stoystown
L. F. Foltz
Stoystown Lutheran Church
Squire” Miller
Lutheran Church
Squire Miller
Abraham Lincoln
Congress
Christmas savings checks total nearly twenty thousand dollars
Somerset merchants expect a trade upswing as four banks release about $19 219 in Christmas savings funds with more than 1 000 local recipients. Checks mailed today or soon average around $20, with some larger accounts reaching about $200. Funds are typically spent on essentials, gifts, and occasional luxuries.
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Somerset
Shopkeeper Confesses in Killing of 11-Year-Old in Newport News
Detective Captain J M Peach said Michael Ritter an elderly shopkeeper admitted he did the shooting that killed Sue Stokes 11 and seriously wounded her companion near his home late today Captain R A Johnson arrested Ritter as he clipped a hedge witnesses said the hermit like shopkeeper fired from his screen door as children chalked the sidewalk The Stokes girl died en route to the hospital and 12 year old Harry Ellen Coleman was wounded in the hip not critically hurt
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Newport News
J. M. Peach
Michael Ritter
Sue Stokes
R. A. Johnson
Ritter
Edward G. Butcher
Harry Ellen Coleman
Stokes
Clerks Push Chain Store Union At CIO Convention
Pittsburgh dispatch reports Samuel Wolchok of New York says United Retail Employes would join the AF of L if CIO makes peace with CIO and shifts to industrial unionism. Delegates claim 45,000 clerks and salesmen in retail, excluding chain stores, attended the convention.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Retail Employes of America
Samuel Wolchok
New York
A. F. of L
CI. O
Wolchok
Japanese Seize American Vessel and Protests In Shanghai
In Shanghai a Japanese force seized an American owned launch, tossed its flag into the Whangpoo river, provoking a protest by U S Consul General Clarence Gauss. The action came amid broader reports of Japanese advances near Nanking and censors moving to control Shanghai communications.
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Shanghai
Whangpoo River
United States
Clarence E. Gauss
China Foreign Steamship Company
Roowevet Line
William Hunt
Steamship Company
Gauss
Nanking
Kwanteh
Kiangyin
China
Almor
Kwangten
Yangtze River
Japan
International Committee
Kashing
Paul Emile Naggiar
Commission OKs liquor licenses amid deed restrictions
Judge L Stauffer Oliver ruled the state liquor control board must not refuse licenses to tenants in properties with deeds prohibiting liquor sales unless complaints are filed. The decision reversed the board’s earlier refusal to renew licenses for two Philadelphia taproom operators due to deed clauses.
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Philadelphia
L. Stauffer Oliver
State Liquor Control Board
Weather outlook for three states shows fair days
Western Pennsylvania with light snow flurries near the lakes and steady temperatures. Eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland expect fair conditions and slightly cooler Wednesday. West Virginia remains fair Wednesday and Thursday with little temperature change.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
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