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Every day on the editorial page of the Allentown, Pa., Call (circulation 40,868, largest in the Lehigh Valley) appears a column set in what looks, at first glance, like an incredible amount of pied type. Closer inspection reveals a few recognizable proper names and some German-sounding words, but all set in English characters. The column carries the head Pumpernickle Bill, with a small drawing of a hayseedy fellow with stringy beard, corncob pipe, pencil behind ear. But no hayseed or pie-eyed compositor is Columnist Pumpernickle Bill. He is serious-minded William Stahley Troxell, 44, an ex-school...
...Troxell is No. 1, resent the common designation of "Pennsylvania Dutch," insist that Pennsylvania Germans is correct. The language is better suited to the ear than to the eye, hence Pumpernickle Bill's column is read aloud to family groups in over half the homes reached by the Allentown Call...
There were no bank runs in Allentown next business day, but last week the Republican National Committee received a letter for Nominee Knox from Pennsylvania's Secretary of Banking Luther A. Harr. After citing the State's law against financial slander, Secretary Harr, a Democrat in a Democratic State Administration, declared: "Your statement is so sweeping as to include every bank and savings institution in the State, but I will not stand on technicalities. If you have information that one bank or savings institution in this State is unsafe, I am willing to accept that as sufficient justification...
...course of his current 22,000-mile campaign tour, Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Frank Knox arrived one day last fortnight in Allentown, Pa. Having asserted within the week that Franklin Roosevelt was leading the U. S. toward Communism and that the nation would be better off today if it had had no Government at all since 1932, Alf Landon's First Mate proceeded to continue his discussions of the New Deal in the same tone and temper. To Allentown's sober citizens he boomed: "I am tired of hearing this nonsense about a choice of the American people...
Died, Lawrence Henry Rupp, 54, past (1930-31) Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, onetime (1919-20) chairman of Pennsylvania's Democratic committee; after a long illness, in Allentown...