Turnpike landowners seek aid from Judge Roose in Somerset county
Organizers of the Turnpike Landowners Protective Association circulated petitions to Judge Norman T. Boose and Governor Arthur H. James after a Monday meeting. The group demands settlement from the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission for 142 affected landowners and threatened to fence the turnpike if no agreement is reached within 10 days.
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Turnpike Landowners’ Protective Association
Norman T. Roose
Somerset County
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
Protective Association
Boose
James C. Mankamyer
Somerset Township
Arthur H. James
Turnpike Commission
Allegheny Mountain
Laurel Hill Mountain
Somerset
Norman T. Boose
Judge Boose
Hold Haffe For Embezzlement
Robert Haffe a 28 year old employee at the Somerset branch of Rom and Son wholesale grocers faces multiple charges including embezzlement constructive larceny fraudulent conversion and false pretense Information was filed before Justice H S Whipperman of North Center avenue He is held on 1000 bond and committed to the county jail A preliminary hearing is set for Thursday afternoon The company suspects defalcation of funds and Haffe is said to have been in charge of the Somerset branch with home address 1474 Franklin Street Johnstown He was reportedly discharged by Rom last Saturday
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Robert Haffe
Somerset
Rom and Son
Justice of the Peace
H. S. Whipperman
North Center Avenue
Haffe
Franklin Street
Johnstown
Rom
Squire Whipperman
Praise for Supreme Court wage ruling at CIO Pennsylvania convention
Reading April 30 coverage highlights the keynote by J. Allen Haywood CIO national director of organization praising the Supreme Court decision upholding the 5 a day minimum wage in government steel contracts. He taunts the AFL over recent labor-election defeats and notes CIO gains in auto mobil e plant elections to shape bargaining agencies. Delegates anticipate debate on a Roosevelt third term.
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U. S. Supreme Court
AFL
Ciio-Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council
J. Allen Haywood
CIO
Tom Girdler
Republic Steel
Swoc
Haywood
William Greek
Billy
E. J. Lever
Direcor
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Bethlehem Steel Company
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
William Leader
Branch 1
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
Former Order Is Set Aside By U S Circuit Court
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals set aside an order directing reorganization trustees of the Pittsburgh railways to pay federal and state taxes of 285 203 93 for 1937 38 on 55 underlying concerns. Judges Maris Clark and Jones concurred, ruling trustees might reject leases and the tax liability remains undecided. The city and tort creditors committee protested, claiming such payment would create illegal preferences.
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Philadelphia
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Pittsburgh Railways Company
Albert B. Maris
William Clark
Charles Alvn Jones
Nelson McVicar
Pittsburgh
Maris
City
Fire damages Parker Theatre in April blaze
Firemen battled flames at the Parker Theatre as crowds watched the feature Laugh It Off. One firefighter was overcome. damage was estimated at 15,000 dollars.
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Darby
Parker
CIO Leader Promotes Roosevelt Third-Term Bid
At the four day Pennsylvania Industrial Council CIO meeting, Textile Workers' Union chief Emil Rieve urged re election of President Roosevelt. He warned against a reactionary White House in November and praised the New Deal noting the federal wage hour law raised pay for 185000 cotton textile workers.
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Reading
CIO
Roosevelt
Emil Rieve
Textile Workers’ Union
Pennsylvania Industrial Council
Rieve
White House
Ex Senator Simmons Dies at New Bern
Former Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons dies at his daughter's home near New Bern North Carolina at age 86. A 30 year Senate veteran he retired in 1930 after losing a Democratic primary to Josiah Bailey. His health had declined for several years following his 1928 split from the party ticket.
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New Bern
N. C
Furnifold McLendei Simmons
Here
Simmons
Senate
Josiah W. Bailey
al Smith
Boy Fatally Shot While Target Practicing at Quarry
In Pottstown on April 30 a 14 year old boy was shot and killed while target shooting with two companions at an abandoned stone quarry. The incident occurred during a practice session and details about the other youths and motive were not immediately clear.
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Pottstown
Pittsburgh 12000 Families Observe Moving Day
About 12 000 Pittsburgh families will hit the road tomorrow continuing the citys old Moving Day custom as most leases expire at midnight tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Buddy Rogers Flies Over Somerset in Yellow Green Monoplane
Screen star Buddy Rogers and his small party visited Somerset Tuesday en route to Morgantown. They arrived after a perilous landing in Johnstown and landed at Westmont before being secured at Somerset airport. Rogers praised Western Pennsylvania reception and planned to return to Hollywood soon.
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Somerset
Buddy Rogers
Mary Pickford
Duppstadt
Town
Westmont
Johnstown
Sunnehanna Country Club
Goolf
al Young
Rogers
Morgantown
West Virginia
Arthur Troon
Detroit
Mich
Clara Bow
Gary Cooper
Richard Arlen
Wings
Evan Lloyd
Community Chest of
University of Kansas
Pennsylvania
Hollywood
James E. Rishell
Airport Committee
Roger
Will Reopen Penna Exhibit at New York World's Fair
Private donors pledging 75000 enable Pennsylvania to reopen its replica of Independence Hall at the New York World's Fair this year. The state commission reorganized at a capitol meeting electing Richard P. Brown as chairman after Mrs George T. Earle resigned. About 400 companies across leading industries donated amounts from fifty dollars upward, supplying the bulk of the funds.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Commission
Capitol
Richard P. Brown
Brown
George T. Earle
Independence Hall
Gump Transferred as Special Agent for New York Life
J E Gump and 25 years in New York serve as representative for New York Life Insurance. He moves to Somerset to head a wide territory from Cumberland to central state regions, operating from the Johns town office.
Million dollar hit for Hitler alive in League custody
Samuel Harden Church of the Carnegie Institute offered a $1,000,000 cash reward to deliver Adolf Hitler alive and unharmed to the League of Nations for trial. The offer, framed as good through May 1940, was announced in New York and outlined in a Times letter. Church said the plan emerged from a Pittsburgh group and reflected Carnegie’s ideals of enforcing peace.
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New York
Adolf Hitler
League of Nations
Samuel Harden Church
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburgh
New York ‘Times
High Court of Justice
Samuel Harden Churcen
Churen
The
Times
Andrew Carnegie
Church
the Times
Duquesne Club
Mrs Shaver Laid To Rest
Last rites for Elizabeth Linn Shaver were conducted at the Shaver residence on West Church street. The service was led by Rev. Dr. I Hess Wagner with assistance from Rev. Russel B McGiffin. Interment followed at Union cemetery under direction of Walter S Hoffman.
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Elizabeth (Linn) Shaver
Shaver
West Church Street
I. Hess Wagner
Trinity Lutheran Church
Russel B. McGiffin
Lutheran Church
Summerhill
Cambria County
George L. Roth
Somerset Bar Association
Court House
Thomas Lansberry
Wadsworth Wagener
Simon K. Uhl
Karl Staub
Stanley Hoffman
George Dickey
W. F. Shafferman
Kenneth Barron
Union Cemetery
Walter S. Hoffman
Britain weighs Norway war risks amid Mediterranean shift
British officials report intensified Norwegian fighting as Allied troops resist German advances north of Steinkjer while fresh landings occur along the coast. Italy’s war posture prompts Mediterranean precautions and possible shipping reroutes, with Sir Archibald Sinclair urging decisive action in Norway and government questions over troop readiness.
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London
Britain
Mediterranean
Norway
Dombas
Oslo
Trondheim
Southeim
Archibald Sinclair
Nowneemien
Italy
Cape of Good Hope
Sinclai
Glasgow
Archibdald
Chamberlain
Storen
12 Men Jury To Try Shewchuk
In Camden New Jersey an all male jury is chosen for Peter Shewchuk the 21 year old Pennsylvanian on trial for murder in the strangling of an 18 year old minister's daughter over 50 cents The minister Rev Walter A Dworecki was convicted and executed last March 24 for hiring his daughter slain to collect insurance The youth testified that the father urged him to act quickly or the girl would go to court for getting him in trouble The body was found at dawn with a crushed rose beside her in mud
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Camden N. J
Peter Shewchuk
Samuel Orlando
Shevchuk
Walter A. Dworecki
Chester
Shewchuk
Allies Take Nazis' Number At Namsos News Report
J Norman Lodge reports from Formofoss Norway about Nazi air raids along the Namsos front as British anti aircraft guns deter seven bombers. German attacks reach Grong and the Swedish frontier trail while a Red Cross ambulance train is machine gunned. An Allied convoy and 25 Red Cross ambulances are among those hit, with no casualties reported. Additional Allied landings are said to be in Borgsundolf Sundall fjord and Nordfjord.
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J. Norman Lodge
Formofoss
Norway
Namsos
Hermann Ring
Red Cross
Grong
Sondola
Formcfoss
Gaddede
Richard Early
Sweden
Snasa Lake
Borgsundolf
Sundall Fjord
Nord Fjord
Trondheim
Dombas
Andalsnes
Nazi Plane Crashes In Essex Town
A German warplane crashed in an Essex coastal town during a raid on London, killing all crew and wounding about forty people. The explosion damaged a hospital area, demolished houses, and sparked multiple fires as air raid precautions and rescue teams aided victims amid darkness.
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London
Essex
Wwwn
Germany
Humber
Yorkshire
James cabinet scans budgets for relief funds
The James administration and department heads review budgets to free extra funds for relief at a May 6 special legislative session. Budget secretary Dr. Edward B. Logan cautions a final fund estimate is not yet reachable, with relief needs estimated around 170 million dollars through January.
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Harrisburg
James
Edward B. Logan
Assembly
Pennsylvania
Mt Lebanon Memorial Service Sees Large Turnout Expected
The Mt Lebanon memorial service is set for Sunday May 26 at 10:00 with participation expected from the American Legion and auxiliaries Sons of Veterans Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Berlin high school band patriotic orders and other groups. Last year attendance exceeded 1200 people.
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Mt. Lebanon Memorial
Mt. Lebanon
American Legion
Sons of Veterans
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Berlin High School
Patriotic Orders
British Ship Blown To Bits At Namsos
Svenska Dagbladet reports a British destroyer blown to pieces during a German air raid on Namsos harbor. Scores of British marines and sailors believed killed. survivors taken aboard a cruiser that escaped the fjord. Heavy bombs and naval fire persisted along Skagerrak as Narvik’s garrison faced British bombardment.
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Stockholm
Svenska Dagbladet
Namsos
Namdalen
Norway
Nam
Skagerrak
Skagen
Denmark
Arctic
Narvik
Norwegian bridge dynamited as Germans halt near Storen
A Tidningen dispatch from Norway reports German forces advancing from Trondheim were stalled at Lundamp, 10 miles north of Storen, after a Norwegian youth blew up a bridge as two Nazi cars passed. Norwegian positions remained in the valley north of Storen, while the timing of the report relative to German announcements remained unclear.
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Stockholm
Tidningen Today
Norway
Trondheim
Oslo
Lundamp
Storen
Tidningen
Communists to Parade in Philadelphia May Day Event
Communist party leaders were granted permits to hold their traditional May Day parade and mass meeting in Philadelphia tomorrow. An hour and a half after the Communists finish, the American Legion will hold a meeting in the same area.
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Communists Legion
Philadelphia
Communist Party
American Legion
Licenses Boosted in Allegheny County This April
Couples rushing to wed to avoid blood tests boosted marriage licenses applied for in Allegheny county to 1,257 this month, up from 825 issued last April, reflecting stronger wedding activity in the period.
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Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
Germans claim Norway conquest near complete as Oslo Trondheim linked
German high command says Oslo to Trondheim rail link secure and Dombras junction captured, enabling a rapid push to purge Allied forces in central Norway. Hitler praises 20 day campaign and notes ongoing operations from Oslo north and west. British footholds at Narvik face stiff German resistance as Luftwaffe and ground forces reinforce positions.
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Louis P. Lochner
BER
Norway
Oslo
Trondheim
Dombas
Adolf Hitler
Immigrant mother refuses sons' military service
Philadelphia April 30 The Yugoslavian mother Ana Varosich 45 declared she would not allow her five sons to fight if the nation is drawn into a foreign war. She told Federal Judge George A. Welsh that if they come this way they all help America but they will not go over there. The judge praised her stand.
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Philadelphia
America
Ana Varosich
George A. Welsh
Weather outlook for Eastern PA and Maryland this week
Scattered showers expected Wednesday across Eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland with additional showers and possible thunderstorms overnight. By early Thursday rain may ease, followed by cooler conditions. West Virginia and western Pennsylvania will see showers and thunderstorms Wednesday, then cooler at night and a partly cloudy, rather cool Thursday.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
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Central Press
Berlin
Lillehammer
Lewis
Railways Company
PAL
Mary Hause
PENNA
Samuel Harden
SOF
BE OF Pittsburgh Group
Mrs. Shaver
Edwin Stout
Associated Press
Hitler
Kronaheim
Dienst Aus Deutschland
DNB
Somerset Weather
David Grove
U. S
U. S. Weather Bureau
Pp. m. Prec
Boston
Los Angeles
San Antonio
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