06 Apr 1934
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1934
Page
1
Pennsylvania’s 1938 birth and death rates hit new lows. Births totaled 156,939 at 16.8 per 1000. deaths 166,839 at 15.8 per 1000. Infant deaths reached 8,229 with 6106 stillbirths, infant mortality 52 per 1000 live births, signaling a stationary population trend.
Funeral services for Mrs Anna May Cost 59 will be held Saturday at 2 30 PM at her home 188 Franklin Avenue Vandergrift Rev S S Shankis of the First Lutheran Church will officiate. She was born August 27 1864 in Westmoreland County and survived by husband H N Most a daughter Mrs Edna Blystone a granddaughter Alva Blystone a brother the Rev Curtis K France and five sisters. Burial will be in Vandergrift Cemetery. Albert Hammond longtime Reymer Brothers representative died at 78 in Greensburg. Funeral at 8 PM at First Presbyterian Church South Main Street with Rev Henry B Strock. burial Mt Olivet Cemetery Frederick MD. Mrs Rose Meinhold 68 of Jerome Arizona died recently. Born January 11 1876 at Brady’s Bend Pa she is survived by husband Ralph Meinhold nine children and many Saintz kin including Margaret Otto Gehlman Agnes Rick and others in Brownstown and Conemaugh streets.
Judge Lindley at the conference opening warns of an alarming national crime rise linked to 8,000,000 youths out of school and work. He dismisses new laws as ineffective and calls education the sole remedy to prevent poverty, social ills, and intellectual maladjustment, noting President Glenn Frank agreed at last night's opening session.
Tokyo reports a Japanese tennis ace Jiru Satoh, 24, world top ten, killed himself by leaping from a steamer near Singapore on his way to Europe for Davis Cup. Officials cite love and duty pressures, while friends note overtraining and low spirits. Satoh wished to marry Sanne Okada, a fellow star, amid national team duties and expectations.
The speaker argues that balancing the budget is as vital as balancing the nation, warning that an economic crisis involves non financial interests. He cites the need to protect bodies minds and spirits of citizens and says the mood affects schools and recovery.
M C Gordon chaired the session to honor Mr Sutton for faithful service. Elders John Q Anderson Walter H Jackson Robert L Jamison John F Pounds and John Woods were re elected for three more years. Deacon nominees Miss C Myrtle Gray Miss Rosa Myers and C K Carnahan were elected to the Board.
The Washington Post March and El Capitan by John Philip Sousa are listed with pieces by Promenade Nationale Band. Messages to the Legion and Forty and Eight. Addresses by Wright Tatman of Texas and Watson B. Miller. Sam R. Heller delivers closing remarks as National Rehabilitation Committee chair.
The Middletown airfield tragedy adds to a string of crashes in the region nicknamed the grave yard of aviators. The latest victim, returning to Cleveland for air mail service, disappeared after leaving Middletown at 3 0 p m. The piece notes past losses including McAlister’s winged anniversary and other accidents near Marion and Altoona.
The census shows 1932 per capita tax distributions with school districts receiving 29.11 percent and cities 28.91 percent. State government accounts for 27.1 percent of total government cost payments in Pennsylvania, with counties 10.14, townships 3.85, poor districts 1.11, and the Delaware River Bridge Commission 0.24. Dr. Fox notes Pennsylvania spends more relative to total costs than New York, Ohio, New Jersey, or Massachusetts, while federal figures indicate favorable business inquiries.
Through cooperation of Dr. Charles Foster and Prof. Sanders the William Penn Council completed its Scout Leaders Training School on the college campus starting April 11 and running Wednesdays to May 22. Courses cover Scoutmastership first aid nature study and enrollment tents. Registration night is next Wednesday at 7 30 in Leonard Hall.
The figures indicate state taxes have risen faster than local taxes in the past ten years, highlighting a trend of greater growth in state revenue efforts compared with municipal and county levies.
A lengthy petition describes impairment of a treasurer bond and the underwriting of National Surety Co by National Surety Corp. It asserts liabilities from May 1, 1983 onward and disputes solvency claims while noting that United States Casualty Co. and the treasurer seek a jury trial. The narrative also recounts a separate domestic suit involving Mrs. Vanderbilt and a dog related incident narrated by Louise Wright.
Mrs Vanderbilt expresses elation at the court outcome yet calls the matter a gross abuse and says she may move out of the neighborhood to keep her Scotties. She attributes the dispute to the lives of her dogs and contemplates relocating.
All peaceful in District No 2 as a district labor contract covering the new seven hour day and the $1 basic daily wage from the Appalachian agreement is expected to set the pattern for other districts. In New York production gains, bituminous coal output reached 100,000 tons in the last week, up nearly four million tons from 1933. Fayette County unrest flares as a dynamite bomb injures Union leader Martin Ryan near Brownsville. state police launch probe while miners strike in sympathy at Frick Coke mines and Colonial pits in Smock and Grindstone.
William Hynes district president of the United Mine Workers of America asserts that the Frick company refused the reinstatement applications of several miners at Grindstone, detailing the dispute over reemployment.
Cannes France April 6 IN S The aged King Gustav V of Sweden flatly refuses to bless Prince Sigvard and forgive his marriage to Holika Patzek a German market owner’s daughter. The monarch will not comment further.
Philadelphia April 6 An Inquirer dispatch reports Delaware county authorities seek the killer of Mrs. Margaret La Grasse 27 found dead in her Upper Barley home kitchen. Her husband Arthur who found the body after returning from a owling match is being questioned. The gas burners were open and authorities initially suspected self inflicted death until a bullet through her heart was found.
Treasury balance as of April 4 lists four billion seven hundred thirty eight million two hundred twenty three thousand six hundred thirty four point eighty two. Internal revenue receipts exceed nine hundred fifteen thousand dollars while customs receipts total four million three hundred ninety seven thousand five hundred eighty two dollars and eighty three cents.
Philadelphia April 6 A Democratic primary campaign pivots on President Roosevelt support with George H Earle praising his recovery program in Bethlehem and Joseph F Guffey extolling Roosevelt leading the nation. Rival factions chart Roosevelt aligned lines as issues like liquor stores loom amid party unity hopes.
New York honors Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary on the twenty fifth anniversary of his 1909 pole ascent. He planted the Stars and Stripes at the top after 28 years of Arctic effort, returning by dog team with six months to reach civilization, word reaching New York later that year.
Le Knox, 68, founder of the Blaw-Knox Steel Company, died at his Bellevue home after a hemorrhage. He was stricken yesterday in Youngstown. Born in Pulaski, Pa., Knox is survived by his widow, three daughters and a brother.
Pittsburgh April 6. Mayor William N McNair says council blocks his salary cut. Gov Gifford Pinchot offers a plan: McNair would donate part of his 15000 annual pay into a conscience fund while legally barred from a salary reduction. McNair had urged candidates for governor to accept cuts before elections.
A 44 year old man George Gosney of Bentleville suffers inverse reactions to heat and cold. During a July sunstroke he collapsed on a Charleroi highway and spent weeks in a coma. North Dakota corn output reached 40,048,000 bushels last year.
Four University of California Los Angeles men and 26 sorority co-eds are under a weeklong quarantine at the Colonial Sorority Lodge after health officers seal the front door. Helen Fischer, a sophomore class secretary, has a mild scarlet fever and authorities order the house under quarantine.
The famous library of law and other books in the Middle Temple London founded in 1641 contains about 70000 volumes today.
The Indiana County Sheep and Wool Growers directors met to plan 1934 activities including cooperative lamb marketing, an annual wool pool in June, and a ram sale in September. W B Connell outlined May demonstrations on docking drenching castration and shearing with a 65 to 70 pound finishing goal and a suggested feeding plan of corn oats and bran.
Revival services under the American Sunday School Union begin Sunday evening April 8 at 7 30 in Lucerne Hall. Rev Major John Russell the Welsh evangelist will lead nightly except Saturday and stay through April for the Union Sunday Schools Group Gathering. Rev and Mrs Russell plan to return to England and welcome friends. Rev Charles Williams of Indiana is the missionary in charge.
Senator Royal Copeland of New York told an educational conference that the national school and teacher training system must be revamped to curb crime. Speaking before the citizens conference on the crisis in education with Ohio State University, he said a permanent cure for crime rests on treating and removing its underlying causes.
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