Beals Convicted On Two Charges In 15M Case
William Beals 52 of Salisbury found guilty by a Criminal Court jury on assault and battery with intent to ravish and simple assault and battery. The verdict followed testimony about his past crime and alleged attempted rape of Ethel Mae Fazenbaker, with motions for arrest of judgment and a new trial filed for January.
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William Beals
Salisbury
WPA
Beals
Meele Irene Hemming
Western Penitentiary
Pittsburgh
Ethel Mae Fazenbaker
Criminal Court
A. M. Matthews
Fred Speicher
Fazenbaker
Gress
Justice of the Peace
C. A. Maust
Boose
Commonwealth
Matthews
Mr. Matthews
Ivan Lambert
Turn South for Bowers
A 19 year old reformatory escapee is sought in the slaying of Mrs. Wilma V. Carpenter near Ambler. Wendell Forrest Bowers, seen in a Moody photo, is identified by multiple witnesses and a companion, with reports placing him south toward Winchester Virginia. His father offers aid as detectives pursue the suspect who has prior reformatory terms including robbery.
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Richard V. Wall
Norristown
Wilma V. Carpenter
Wendell Forrest Bowers
Bowers
Winchester
Mary Griffin
Carpenter
Roland F. Bowers
Ambler
Camp Hill
Philadelphia
Huntingdon Reformatory
Margiotti says Bowers not a parolee in slaying case
Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti declares Wendell Bowers who fled after the slaying of Mrs. Wilma Carpenter near Norristown was released from the Pennsylvania Industrial School for Boys in Huntingdon on December 3 1937 on a final discharge. He says Bowers was not paroled and the State Board of Pardons had no supervision or role in his release.
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Harevysburg
Charles J. Margiotti
Wendell Bowers
Wilma Carpenter
Norristown
Pennsylvania Industrial Schoo
Huntingdon
State Board of Pardons
Somerset Children Present Playlet on Christmas Seals
Somerset grade school children entertained the Lions club at a weekly dinner in the Brethren church with a playlet titled Why Buy Christmas Seals. Directed by Miss Sipe and Miss Marjorie Weaver, the program showed how Christmas seal sales fight tuberculosis worldwide. A short musical program followed.
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Somerset
Lions Club
Brethren Church
Sipe
Marjorie Weaver
Somerset County
Tuberculosis League
Federal court bars PUC York rate hike for Edison Light
A three judge federal statutory court constrained the Public Utility Commission from enacting a temporary rate schedule on the Edison Light and Power Company of York. The order blocks a $435,000 annual rate reduction plan.
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Philadelphia
Public Utility Commission
Edison Light and Power Company of
York
House Debates Wage Hour Bill End in House Vote
The House split 216 to 198 between southern Democrats and northern Republicans sending the wage hour bill back to a labor committee for revisions. The motion to recommit drew fierce speeches as Rayburn warned it would spell defeat, while Sen. House and Senate differences remained over a five man board versus a one man agency. A child labor amendment was added limiting under 14 or under 16 in mining or manufacturing, and the Shirley Temple exception for child movie stars was included.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Labor Committee
Hartley
D-Nj
Rayburn
D-Tex
O'Connor
D-Ny
Rules Committee
Democratic Party
Senate
Bankhead
Dies
Norton
Schneider
P-Wis
Kramer
Dcalif
Shirley Temple
Eighty Pickets Sentenced in West Side Disorderly Conduct Case
In New York on December 17, a record sixty men and twenty women were sentenced for disorderly conduct linked to mass demonstrations against automat cafeterias. Magistrate Anthony F. Burke imposed 20 to 90 day terms with fines up to 50 dollars, noting court leniency invites defiance, and citing an appeals court ruling against mass picketing.
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New York
West Side Court
Anthony F. Burke
Automat
AFL
Court of Appeals
Marble leases deemed value less in Norris dam area
Knoxville report shows marble consultant Ernest West said leases by Senator Berry and others had no commercial value. The TVA seeks condemnation while Berry defendants claim substantial marble worth up to 2.5 million dollars exists in the Norris dam reserve.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Ernest H. West
Dorsett
Tennessee Valley Authority
George L. Berry
Norris Dam
Frank H. Towsley
Berry
H. A. Morgan
David E. Lilienthal
A. E. Morgan
Ever Normal Granary bill passes Senate in partisan vote
The Senate approved the administration’s ever normal granary farm bill 59 to 29 after four weeks of wrangling. It now heads to a conference with the House to reconcile differences before the deadline of December 22, with Secretary Wallace predicting a possible stronger measure than either chamber.
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Washington
Senate
House
Conference Committee
Wallace
McAdoo
D-Calif
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Agriculture
Shop Lifters Watched Across Somerset During Holidays
Somerset police and merchants report increased efforts to curb shop lifting as crowds grow for the holiday season. An official said local losses exceed 1 000 dollars annually, with about 40 percent occurring during holidays as thieves often operate in groups or single wanderers. Police Chief John I. Smith warned that offenders will be vigorously prosecuted.
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Somerset
Thorughout
John I. Smith
Bus Plunges Into Creek In Fog With 18 Injured
A bus from Fairmont to Wheeling, West Virginia, skidded off a foggy highway in Barrackville and rolled into a creek. Eighteen of the twenty occupants were injured, with seventeen passengers and the driver treated for superficial injuries and six discharged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrackville
W. Va
West Virginia Transportation Company
Fairmont
Wheeling
West Virginia
Four SWOC delegates held as material witnesses in Pittsburgh death
Pittsburgh police hold four SWOC delegates as material witnesses after a 30 year old woman is found dead in a Fort Pitt hotel. Authorities say a note mentions a departure by two men connected to the case. Coroner and officials await chemical tests to determine cause of death.
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Pittsburgh
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Fort Pitt
Andrew T. Park
Jacob Zelkind
Morris Engargola
Brooklyn
Rose Ault
W. J. McGregor
Louis H. Green
Fred A. Odenwalk
Zone
New York
Park
Walter Monaghan
Coal pricing reclassified in regional bituminous order
A regional order of the bituminous coal commission sets new by products and sewer coal prices across several districts. District 1 in parts of West Virginia, eastern Pennsylvania, and Maryland lists 1.70 to 2.45 per net ton fob mine, with no freight adjustments. District 3 in northern West Virginia fixes 2.05 to 2.30 and 1.91 to 2.15 for low sulphur coals. District 7 covers smokeless field in WV and VA at 1.65 to 2.15, no freight. District 8 spanning WV, VA, KY, TN, NC ranges 1.95 to 2.45 by grade and size.
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Washington
Bituminous Coal Commission
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
North Carolina
Trustees Must Pay 4-Mill Personal Tax
The Superior Court in Philadelphia ruled that personal property in the hands of liquidation trustees is subject to the four mill personal property tax for county purposes. The decision upheld Berks county’s Common Pleas ruling on $62,868 in Mohnton Trust Company trustees’ holdings, stating liquidating trustees are not exempt by the act’s provisions or by implication.
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Philadelphia
Common Pleas Court
Berks County
Mohnton Trust Company
Superior Court
Check Artist in Jail for Grand Jury
Louis J Trio 42 a Johnstown laborer was arrested on forgery charges tied to a Windber Somerset county check ring. Seven informants say he passed worthless checks totaling 76.23 and he was bound over for the next court term after a hearing with Justice J D Patton.
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Louis J. Trio
Johnstown
Somerset County
Fred P. Hare
Trio
Justice of the Peace
J. D Patton
Windser
Windber
Ray Holsapple
Franklin Street
Longer post office hours for holiday mail rush
Postmaster C F Sutliffe announces extended evening hours at the Somersett post office from today through December 24 except Sundays. Stamp and parcel post windows stay open until 8 pm. money order windows 8 am to 6 pm. Two city deliveries today, regular two daily deliveries next week, and all windows closed Christmas day with limited staff. Perishables should be mailed promptly and special delivery stamps encouraged to ensure handling.
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C. F. Sutliffe
Somerset Post Office
Sutliffe
Postal Department
New Mattson murder suspect questioned in Tacoma case
A 32 year old farm hand calling himself Hans Kessling was detained in Chicago for questioning about the kidnapping and murder of Charles Mattson, 10, in Tacoma Washington on December 27 1936. Floyd A Ducowman of the FBI called the man a possible match from a filed suspect profile. He was nabbed by detectives wearing a checkered cap and overalls.
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Chicago
Hans Kessling
Charles Mattson
Tacoma
Wash
Floyd A. Ducowman
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Kessling
Japan orders new probe into Panay attack findings
A Japanese army and navy spokesman announced a thorough investigation of Sunday’s air attack on American vessels in the Yangtze. The inquiry follows U S government statements and Panay survivors who said the gunboat was machine-gunned, a claim denied by Japanese authorities in Shanghai and Tokyo.
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Shanghai
Yangtze
United States
Tokyo
Japan delays reply on Panay incident amid machine gun charge
Tokyo officials push back on Washington demands for full redress after the Panay bombing and alleged machine gunning. A Japanese army surgeon testified no bullet wounds were seen, only blast and splinter injuries, while Tokyo refuses to discuss stronger U.S. representations. Public silence and cautious assurances cloud prospects of a quick settlement.
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Tokyo
Foreign Office
Japan
United States
Noe
Panay
Washington
Navy
Teizo Mitsunami
China
Rotary Governor Visitation Lights Somerset Meeting
F DeWitt Zuerner, governor of Rotary district 176, visited the Somerset club and spoke at the Ferner hotel luncheon. Miss Helen Bittner led about 40 Union Street school carolers with solo and quartet performances. The gathering gifted treats and the governor warned of looming global chaos and the chance of a new world war within two years.
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F. DeWitt Zuerner
Rotary International
Somerset
Somerset Club
Ferner Hotel
Helen Bittner
Union Street School
Miss Bittner
Union Street
Bobby Brashear
Edward Martin
David Weimer
Carmel Para
Dean Mickey
Jimmie Critchfield
DeWitt
United States
Dickey Named Lawrence County Judge
Governor Earle announced the appointment of Thomas W. Dickey of New Castle to the Lawrence County Common Pleas bench to fill the vacancy created by Judge James A. Chambers resignation due to ill health.
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Dickey
Lawrence
Harrisburg
George H. Earle
Thomas W. Dickey
New Castle
Lawrence County
James A. Chambers
Survivors recount Panay attack and gunboat killings
Report describes open boats filled with wounded being machine gunned after Japanese air and naval assaults on Panay and Yangtze gunboat Yangtze. Officers and crew, including Lt J W Geist, recall bomb strikes, halted escape, and continued artillery fire as the Panay sank.
Weather Outlook for Maryland and Nearby States
Maryland foresees rain with moderate temperatures on Saturday followed by clearing and a colder afternoon or night. Sunday brings fair weather. Western Pennsylvania expects light rain turning to snow flurries Saturday night with Sunday mainly cloudy and possible local snow flurries. West Virginia has light rain, colder conditions possibly turning to snow flurries Saturday, Sunday mostly fair. Eastern Pennsylvania reports rain and moderate temperatures Saturday likely clearing south portion by night, with Sunday generally fair and cooler.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Weather Elsewhere
The Associated Press reports eight P M temperatures across regions with highs and lows, plus 24 hour precipitation totals from U S weather stations. Data reflects recent trends in regional climate conditions and patterns.
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Associated Press
United States
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Cornelius Ault
New Mattson
Panay Frobe
U.S
176Th District
Meiping
Naval Board Inquiring
Yangtze River
J. W. Geist
Altoona
John Mender
Naval Board of Inquiry
Oahu
Naval Board
Whangpoa
Augusta
Asiatic Fleet
Shanghai Bund
Otori
Kasasagi
Ladybird
Nanking
Charles L. Ensminger
C. H. Carlson
Standard Oil
Mein
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Mender
Standard Oil Company
Ensminger
Colin McDonald
Times of London
Geist
J. J. Hughes
Erest Mahlmann
Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
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