Warning On Bad Checks From Ring In Somerset County
County Detective Harry C. Jacobs cautions Somerset merchants about a ring of bad-check operators seen in Windber Somerset and Rockwood with more than 300 dollars in two weeks. Checks range 8 to 80 dollars and often claim salary payments. Operators use gasoline sales and forged signatures while fleeing with no funds to recover. Police are tracking them but no arrests yet.
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Harry C. Jacobs
Somerset County
A. M. Matthews
Windber
Somerset
Rockwood
Mgr. Jacobs
Windler
Johnstown
Self defense claim in fatal Thomas home shooting
Defense counsel Ben Marks told a Mercer jury that Rev. D T Thomas an elderly evangelist charged with murder would testify he shot his wife and a boarder in self defense. He argued Mrs Thomas threatened him with a knife and that the boarder Frank Hodge was present during the October 16 slayings.
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Commonwealth
Calucci
Norman T. Boose
James Bacelli
Bacelli
Johnstown
Tire Hill
Baselli
Susie Baker
Central City
Orrie Meyers
Pete Fedorka
Baker
Fedorka
George
Susie
Joe Stefan
Wincber
Asault
John Rakoczy
Rakoczy
Stefan
Recreation Park
Windber
Margiotti Takes Bed as Van Dyke Improves
Harrisburg reports Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti ill with a cold and taking to bed after ten days of working through a chill. Highways Secretary Warren Van Dyke, stricken with pneumonia, shows marked improvement and rests comfortably, according to Dr. C. C. Englehart who calls his condition very satisfactory.
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Harrisburg
Charles J. Margiotti
Highways
Warren van Dyke
C. C. Englehart
van Dyke
Margiotti
Skidding Car Sends Deneen to Hospital in Ice Treacherous Roads
A Lincoln highway crash near Jenner town left 69 year old Harry Deneen of Watfords burgh with severe scalp lacerations as his car skidded into a ditch during icy foggy conditions. Police logged widespread borrow injuries and many vehicles ditched as Somerset county faced a day of treacherous ice and freezing rain.
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Lincoln Highway
Jennertown
Somerset County
Harry Deneen
Watfordsburgh
Pulton County
Somerset Community Hospital
Somerset
State Department of Highway
State Mo
Boswell
Ohio
Charleston
W. V
Altoona
Franklin
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Cincinnati
Allegheny
Monongahela
Correction: Silk Dance Sets 95c and Bath Robes 2.95 Ad
A correction to The Balls Advertisement states prices were transposed yesterday. It should read Silk Dance Sets 95 cents and Men's Bath Robes 2.95 dollars.
AFL Leader Urges Boycott of Japanese Goods
William Green of the AFL called for a boycott of Japanese merchandise. In East Liverpool Ohio union pottery workers and merchants paraded and burned a large pile of boxes marked made in Japan. Merchants had voluntarily remove the goods from 109 district stores before the protest.
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William Green
American Federation of Labor
Union Pottery
East Liverpool
Japan
Green
A. F. of
CIO Leader Attacks Labor Board Over Wage Act
Philip Murray charged at the CIO steel workers convention that the AFL seeks to use the National Labor Relations Board to attack industrial unionism. He accused AFL leaders of carrying out an illegal boycott and criticized recent board decisions upholding minority craft bargaining in plants where CIO preference existed. Murray called for CIO unity behind the Wagner Act while accusing the board of bias.
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Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
CIO Steel Workers
A. F. of L
National Labor Relations Board
CIO
SWOC
Murray
James F. Dewey
U. S
Dewey
William Green
Labor Board
Panay survivors recount sinking and bombardment at Yangtze
United States gunboat Panay kept its guns blazing as bombs fell from Japanese planes. Jim Marshall, survivor and Far East correspondent, describes the attack that sank the Panay and damaged three Standard Oil ships. He and F Hayden Vines, both wounded, were evacuated to Shanghai.
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Shanghai
United States
Jim Marshall
Far East
Collier's Magazine
Marshall
Yangtze
F. Hayden Vines
Roanoke
British American Tobacco Company
China
Standard Oil Company
Panay
Standard Oil
Meian
Yangze
Nanking
Yangchow
B. F. Stamps
Huntington
W. Va
Richmond
Mary Wemerst
Emerson
N. J
Oahu
Colin McDonald
London Times
McDonald
American Tobacco
Nye says Panay attack not a cause for war with Japan
Fort Wayne Indiana December 15 Senator Gerald Nye told the Fort Wayne Teachers Association that the bombing of the Panay does not justify U S war against Japan. He cited Japan's military leadership as insane and blamed the American dollar policy for provoking involvement.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Panay
United States
Japan
Gerald P. Nye
R-Nd
Yangtze
Washington and Jefferson Students Vote Against War
A Washington and Jefferson College student assembly voted to urge President Roosevelt to keep the United States from possible entanglement in Sino Japanese troubles.
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Washington, Pa
Washington and Jefferson College
Roosevelt
United States
Britain warns Japan over Far East attacks on shipping
In the House of Commons Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced Britain had sent a note to Tokyo seeking more than apologies for Sunday’s gun boat Ladybird raid and other vessels. He said Japan must assure no repetition or further strain on Anglo Japanese relations amid U K U S cooperation.
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London
Great Britain
Japan
Far East
House of Commons
Anthony Eden
Tokyo
Ladybird
Eden
Britain
United States
Robert Craigie
Panay sinking prompts Japanese punishment pledge
Japanese authorities relieved Rear Admiral Teizo Mitsunami of his post after the Panay bombing, pledging punishment for those responsible. Emperor Hirohito met with naval minister Mitsumasa Yonai as investigations referenced the attack on the Panay and three merchant ships. Survivors arrived in Shanghai amid caution and ongoing searches.
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Shanghai
Teizo Mitsunami
United States
Domei
Mitsunami
China
Tokyo
Hirohito
Mitsumasa Yonai
Roosevelt
Japan
Japan weighs new amends to United States over Panay attack
Tokyo weighs further apologies and indemnities after the Panay incident and American demands for no further interference in China. officials consider safeguards and honors while some citizens propose funds for victims and a duplicate Panay for the Yangtze.
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Tokyo
Japan
Wnday
United States
Panay
Yangtze River
Joseph C. Grew
U. S
Washinton
United Stetes
China
Foreign Office
Nichi Nichi
United States Navy
Yangtze
London Peace Council backs Japan boycott plan
The International Peace Campaign Council unanimously agrees to a private worldwide boycott of Japanese goods starting January 1. An international peoples conference is set for January in London to coordinate aid to China, with 39 international organizations developing technical plans for the boycott.
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London
International Peace Campaign Council
China
Street Worker Glenn Way Dies by Own Action in Home
Coroner Ed Lowrey ruled 45 year old Glenn O. Way, a Warren borough street department worker, died by his own action today in his bedroom at home. He is survived by his widow and three daughters.
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Suicide Warren
Ed Lowrey
Glenn O. Way
Borough Street Department
Somerset Daily Weather Report by David Grove
Daily weather summary notes 24 hour period from 5 30 p m Tuesday to 5 30 p m Wednesday with maximum and minimum temperatures and precipitation figures including a comparison to the same period a year ago.
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David Grove
A. S. Weather Observer
Weather Outlook for the Mid-Atlantic States
Western Pennsylvania sees cloudy skies and warmer temperatures with possible rain on Thursday and Friday. West Virginia expects occasional rain on Thursday and Friday with only modest temperature changes. Eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland forecast cloudy conditions with possible rain, and Friday remains mostly cloudy with light to moderate temperatures.
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Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
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