Pope Pius IX Vows to Rise Again Despite Illness
The ailing pope showed improvement but remained bed bound with leg paralysis, high blood pressure and other ailments. He signed papers, met with Cardinal Pacelli and family, while doctors urge rest and avoid exertion. No full exam yet to determine cause. A blood clot at the left knee is cited as a contributing factor.
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Vatican City
Pius
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
Vatican
Holy Father
Mi'an
Agostino Gemelli
Sub-Zero Weather Grips Midwest Across Cold Wave
A bitter cold outbreak linked to the season’s coldest wave spreads across the Midwest. Readings include Warroad Minnesota 33 Deluta Minnesota 24 Freeport Illinois 18 Green Bay Wisconsin 12 Escanaba Michigan 10 Jamestown North Dakota 9 Milwaukee 6. Forecasters warn of heavy snow and travel hazards as a 16 inch Montana fall and a St Marys River blizzard disrupt navigation. A 250 foot freighter Burlington ran aground off Holland Michigan with 24 crew saved. Two men aboard the Dorothy Trene ferry are reported overdue at Vermilion Ohio.
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Chicago
Mich
Jamestown
N D
Milwaukee
Harve
Mont
Iowa
Minnesota
St. Mary’s River
Upper Michigan
Burlington
Holland
Dorothy Trene
Vermillion
Ohio
Gulf Coast
Texas
Arkansas
Mississippi
Alabama
Profit Sharing Draws Large Crowd at the Par-K
A profit sharing promotion at the Par-K theater drew a large Somerset audience for the second award. Homer Faust received twenty five dollars. fifty one grand prizes are planned for Monday evening December 21 at 8 30. The audience heard from Jack Langley and Miss Lidia Elizabeth Celli assisted with awards. Fifteen merchants represented and ten one dollar winners were named, with many local shops listed.
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Homer Faust
Somerset
Park
Jack Langley
Langley
Lidia Elizabeth Celli
Herman Balis
Merchants Group
Polly Jane Shop
Penn Furniture
Penney’ Barkman’s
Sifford's
Balls
Budds
Schenck
Somerset Paint and Supply
Schell
Daily American
Beerus
Schrock
Miller’s
Berlin
John M. Knepper
E. Catherine Street
Gertrude Christner
South Center Avenue
Stanley Lecsewski
Quecreek
Ruth Yoder
Paul Hay
Gladys Funk
West Catherine Street
John Hoffman
Jenners
W .Guy Critchfield
West Union Street
Silas Dwire
Markleton
Roosevelt Wins Pennsylvania by Large Margin in 1932 Result
President Roosevelt polled 2 353 788 votes in Pennsylvania, 683 448 more than Governor Landon who had 1 690 300 of 4 138 879 total. Minor parties were swept from the ballot for the first time in 25 years. Landon close behind only Hoover and Coolidge era highs.
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Harisburg
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Landon
Elections Bureau
Socialist
Prohibitionist
Thomas
Colvin
Prohibition
Browder
Aiken
Lemke
Royal Oak
Miscellaneous
Emire
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Coolidge
Christmas Tree Erected by Borough Volunteers
Civic groups joined to put up the annual community tree on Monday afternoon at the traffic dummy in the square. The tree was donated by Mrs. Jonas L. Baer and Oscar Pile with support from the Pennsylvania Electric Company, the volunteer fire department, and the borough council. Later, multicolored lights lit East and West Main streets and North and South Center.
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Pennsylvania Electric Company
Fire Department
Jonas L. Baer
Oscar Pile
Seal Sale Struggles Highlight Tuberculosis Fight in Somerset
Somerset county underperforms in the annual Christmas seal sale, a national TB fund drive. Chair Lyle Cage warns action is needed to meet next year’s goals as the campaign notes its long, evolving history and growing public health impact with clinics and nurses expanding nationwide.
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Somerset County
Pennsylvania
Lyle Cage Seal Sale
Mily Bissell
Baltimore
America
Philadelphia
United States
MBS
Frank Keiman
N. Y
Uniontown Detective Defies Superior in Monaghan Case
County Detective John C. Wall returns to work and refuses to take orders from Davis Henderson, amid the Monaghan case. Monaghan, a 64 year old hotel keeper, died in September after a confrontation with Wall who had arrested him for drunken driving. The investigation led to 12 indictments including District Attorney James A Reilly.
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Uniontown
John C. Wall
Frank C. Monaghan
Davis W. Henderson
Wall
Uniontown Hospital
Monaghan
Bertillon
Charles J. Margiotti
James A Reilly
Margiotti
Supreme Court
Henderson
Reilly
Ice Skating Pond For Somerset High School Planned
Somerset borough officials consider funding an ice skating pond for the school and grant water supply for construction. The council also weighs filling the borough engineer's vacant rooms and accepts James H. Seibert’s resignation with Clarence Schrock named as treasurer. A request to resurfacing the square of Main streets with amiesite is being sent to the state highway department.
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Somerset
Harold Schrock
James H. Seibert
Clarence Schrock
State Highway Department
Fast
West Main Streets
Godino twins joined together in death in New York
The Godino twins Simplicio and Lucio died within days of each other, joined in life by nature and in death by surgical separation. Simplicio died in York hospital of cerebrospinal meningitis eleven days after Lucio succumbed to fever. Simplicio had been recovering from the operation before his death and hoped to stand and walk alone.
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New York
Godino
Simplicio Godino
York Hospital
Lucio
Simplicio
Simplic
Flood devastates Cagayan valley in Philippines
Philippine army reports thousands displaced as the Cagayan river flood swamps the valley in northern Luzon. Siabela province commander says up to 54 towns inundated and lines of communication cut, with fears of massive loss of life.
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Luzon
Islands
Manila
Philippine Army
Cagayan River
Aparri
Ilagan
Madrid braces for Fascist onslaught as raids hit Guadalajara
Madrid officials warned of a major Fascist assault after 23 planes bombed areas near Guadalajara and eastern zones faced heavy shelling. Refugees fled western Madrid as insurgents pressed toward the city, while Foreign Minister Del Vayo planned to present new charges against Germany and Italy to the League of Nations with alleged torpedo and bomb fragments from Cartagena.
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Guadalajara
Madrid
Guardalajara
Ministry of State
Helsingiors
Legation
Julio Alvarez del Vayo
Germany
Italy
League of Nations
Miguel de Cervantes
Cartagena
Air Ministry
Supreme Court Upholds State Price Fixing Laws
The Supreme Court unanimously upholding California and Illinois fair trade laws preventing retailers from beating manufacturer fixed prices. Justices ruled these measures constitutional and noted their aim to protect goodwill tied to trademarks. Nine other states have similar statutes.
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James W. Douth
Washington
Supreme Court
Sutherland
California
Ilinois
Iowa
Ohio
Maryland
New Jersey
New York
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
High Court
Federal District Court For
District of Columbia
Public Utility Holding Company Act
Department of Justice
District Court
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Stone
Nine seniors join National Honor Society at Somerset High
Somerset high school's senior class will induct nine students into National Honor Society chapter 888 at 1 pm during afternoon ceremonies before the entire school. Principal William E. Griffith notes this group represents about one third of NHS members with previous and future selections from the junior class planned for 1937, with five percent potential from a class of 170 students.
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Somerset High School
Donald Berkey
Dwight Bittner
Betty Cover
Dorothy Daniels
Lory Davis
Ruth Friend
Robert Enfield
Agnes Heckman
Mary Jane Nichol
William E. Griffith
School Boards Reorganize Across Counties
Two county districts re elected officers at reorganizations this week and a third plans to reorganize Tuesday evening as year end approaches. Somerset township chose James G. Miller president and Virgil Good vice president with W. C. Rhoads secretary and Co. W. Coleman treasurer. Brothersvalley township named Sherman Berkley president James Walker secretary and J. W. Croner treasurer as Berkley succeeds Walker. Berlin Philson Bank rooms hosted Stonycreek township annual meeting where officers were set, per Director R. A. Poorbaugh. Meyersdale borough announces reorganiztion at the high school Tuesday evening.
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Somerset Township
South Side
James G. Miller
Virgil Good
W. C. Rhoads
W. Coleman
Brothersvalley Township
Sherman Berkley
Somerset School Board
Robbed Mail Carrier Abducted In West Virginia
A rural mail carrier, Bannon Corey of New Freeport Greene County Pa, reported three well dressed young men abducted him in his car in Littleton and drove him for three hours before dumping him in Sherard West Virginia after robbing him of 55 dollars.
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Littleton
W. Va
Bannon Corey
New Freeport
Greene County
Corey
Sherard
Man Charged With Driving Pennsylvania Car With Maryland Plates
James Peck of Listie is held on charges he operated a Pennsylvania car bearing Maryland license plates. State police flagged him along Route 53 near Friedens, he fled into woods, was captured at his Listie home. He remains jailed on a minor count while resisting arrest and foreign-license charges are added.
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James Peck
Listie
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Somerset
Peck
Friedens
Somerset County
Wallis Simpson Offers to Surrender Love to King Edward
In Cannes, Wallis Simpson signs an official statement offering to withdraw from her relationship with King Edward VII to help resolve Britain's constitutional crisis. Lord Brownlow reads the document while reporters observe from the Majestic Hotel. Simpson faces exile options as Edward weighs his throne.
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Edward Kennedy
Cannes
France
Tratin-Atlantic Telephone
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Edward Vig
Britain
Mrs. Simpson
Baltimore
Baward
Lord Brownlow
Getleman-In
Majestic Hotel
Brownlow
Simpson
Bethany Receives Cochran Estate Gift for College Endowment
The will of the late M. M. Cochran of Uniontown discloses a trust benefiting his widow Mrs. Cochran and daughter Miss Emma Cochran. After their deaths the trustee will transfer the remaining balance to Bethany College to augment the M. M. Cochran general endowment fund. The Fayette County Bar Association receives Mr. Cochran's law library.
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Bethany College
Bethany
W. Va
M. M. Cochran
Uniontown
Cochran
Emma Cochran
Cousin Urges Wallis Simpson to Leave King Edward
Mrs. A C Higbee a distant cousin of Wally says Mrs Simpson should tell King Edward she is going back to America the finest country in the world. She notes Mrs Simpson comes from a fine family and cites genealogical ties through Amelia Warfield.
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Amelia Warfield
Snyder Inquest Rescheduled After Auto Fatality
Coroner's inquest into Armour Snyder's death near Listonburg has been postponed to Wednesday evening. Snyder, 24, died from injuries after being struck by a heavy coupe on Route 53 Saturday night. Driver J Thomas Lenhart says Snyder stepped into the path. no charges filed pending the inquest.
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Somerset
Armour Snyder
Confluence
R. D
Shyder
Frantz Hospital
J. Thomas Lenhart
Listonburg
Lenhart
Snyder
Glasgow Bulletin Calls King to Act on Renunciation
The Glasgow Bulletin says Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson earned the empire's gratitude for ready to renounce King Edward VIII in Cannes. It urges the king to complete the act of renunciation to end the crisis and heal the wounds of the royal couple and the nation.
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London
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Cannes
Edward VIII
Glasgow
King Edward VIII Rejects Wallis Simpson Sacrifice for Crown
Dec 7 report from London describes King Edward VIII refusing to consent to a morganatic marriage with Wallis Warfield Simpson. Prime Minister Baldwin outlines four key points: Edward's insistence on marrying Simpson, Simpson's willingness to give up love, the government's refusal of a royal marriage, and dominion voices to be heard after a final decision.
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London
Edward VIII
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Britain
Edward
England
Mrs. Simpson
Baldwin
Simpson
Cannes
Herman Rogers
Mennonite Bishops Postpone Social Security Decision
In Lancaster on December 7 bishops of central Pennsylvania Mennonite churches from ten counties deferred ruling on accepting social security benefits while agreeing they must pay required taxes. Moderator Bishop Noah Landis listed three reasons for delay including lack of letters from the social security board and insufficient act understanding.
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Lancaster
Pennsylvania
Noah Landis
Neffsville
Social Security Board
Mennonite Board of Missions
Federal Social Security Board
Washington
Mennonites
Landis
Lebanon
Iota
Snyder
Cumberland
York
Ams
Berks
Chester Counties
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Pontiff
Cresson
William A. Callan
Cresson Sanitorium
City
Brothersvalley
Romantee
Wallis
Filis
Great Britain
Villa Viel
Scotland Yard
South Sea Islands
Reginald Fellowes
Lady Anne
Cousin
Wally
King Adieu
Snyder Inquest
Stanley Baldwin
Commons
Churchill
House of Commons
Ferner’s
J. M. Maizel
Ferner Hotel
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