Work Relief Bill Passes Congress Aims at Jobs
The measure aims to provide millions of jobs and places tremendous responsibility on the president to enact relief programs.
06 Apr 1935
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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1935
Page
1
The measure aims to provide millions of jobs and places tremendous responsibility on the president to enact relief programs.
International News Service reports Army Day activities with 65 000 marchers expected in Washington led by Secretary Dern and General MacArthur. 85 aircraft will fly over as New York Chicago and San Francisco join nationwide demonstrations marking the event.
An early morning crash on Wallace hill Mercer Sharon highway killed Miss Berchtold 18 and John Kasmer 20, with Dominic Aiello 21 dying later at a hospital. Otto Berchtold 20 and Nellie Hoover 17 survived with scratches as the two other youths were injured en route to a Charleston dance.
The Roosevelt administration plans quick signing of the $4.88 billion works relief bill upon the president’s return from the Caribbean trip. The measure aims to remove 3.5 million families from relief rolls by year end and spur industrial activity with government purchases, while limiting state loaning for existing power plants.
Civil engineer John W. Dinsmore remains missing one week after vanishing at 2 15 am from a South Jefferson street restaurant. Authorities in Ohio and Pennsylvania scoured seldom traveled roads near the state line, but Sheriff Edward Pritchard and State Trooper McCullough found no trace.
Amateur weather forecasters who predicted an early spring see a cooler stretch in mid March and question where the warm weather has gone. The note recalls twelve months of lower temperatures and marks Army Day observed nationwide eighteen years after the United States entered World War I.
U S weather statistics for the 24 hour period ending at 9 this morning show a maximum temperature of 46 and a minimum of 36 with 0.05 inches of precipitation. River stage is 4.1 feet. For the same date last year highs reached 66 and 47 with 0.03 inches of rain.
Dr. H E Zimmerly a 67 year old physician was held for court on $6000 bail after a preliminary hearing on charges of performing two illegal operations while police search for the body of patient Mrs Gladys Lawson. Richard Parker a bootlegger aide was questioned and corroborates that the woman died during the operation.
Chicago April 6 Thomas Cronin union president was held for the fatal shooting of William Bahnfleth 40 at the Cronin home. Cronin claimed Bahnfleth had been unduly friendly with his wife. Cronin shot Bahnfleth five times while Mrs Cronin and their 7 year old son watched.
DETROIT April 6 The Hupp motor plant shut down today due to a strike affecting an undetermined portion of its 1458 workers. Plant manager R R Todd said more than half remained at work after the strike was called by the American Federation of Labor yesterday. Production will resume Monday after replacements are brought in.
Former Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania and his wife plan to depart for Los Angeles then return home after a brief Southern California visit. They have just ended a two months cruise in the South Seas.
A legislative investigation into the operation of the Lawrence County Emergency Relief board is expected to begin Friday April 12. Assemblyman William J. Eroe Jr the committee chairman announced plans are in formative stages with hearings likely in a county courthouse courtroom. The probe will review the relief board from its inception and report to the General Assembly.
The American Federation of Labor union at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. announced that 90 percent of the membership voted for a strike. The statement came just before a broader strike vote begins by AFL groups at B. F. Goodrich Co. and Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
Jimmy Neilson a 13 year old boy from San Jose Calif was wheeled into Truesdale hospital in Fall River Mass for an operation to correct an inverted stomach. He held his mother’s hand and appealed with mute eyes as he entered the operating room.
Raymond Hamilton surrendered with two pistols but was captured before he could draw. He faces execution for the murder of a prison guard and will be sent back to Huntsville for execution after being held at Dallas county jail. Companions Chester Regan and Glenn Allen also surrendered in Fort Worth.
President Roosevelt prepares to leave the Bahama coast for Washington after a restful fishing cruise aboard the Nourmahal. He will transfer to the destroyer Farragut at sea and travel by train to Washington, timing his return for the end of the voyage.
In Gettysburg Pennsylvania on April 6 Cel tus Edward Bosselman a 50 year old man shot himself in his kitchen four months after his wife died in an automobile accident. The death was ruled a suicide linked to his despondency over his wife’s death.
Monday safety guidance from Chief John F. Haven warns drivers it is unlawful to pass a street car on either side while it is discharging passengers. The lesson emphasizes strict adherence to traffic rules to protect pedestrians and riders.
A man identified as C. R. Buchanan of 1420 West Washington reports three youths about 19 or 20 slugged and robbed him of about 45 dollars at 11 30 p m last night in an alley by the Eintracht club on Taylor street. He said he stepped from the club where he is a member, was felled, and the money taken from a pocket in his trousers.
Several changes in politically appointive offices were announced for New Castle and Lawrence county. Mrs. Charles G. Long is named secretary of health to succeed A Clyde Sheaff effective April 10. New registrar replacements include C F Miles by Robert Riley of Wampum, Charles French by Cora A Johnson of Ellwood City, and Mrs William McElwee Jr by Nellie F Means. Don F McGrew is replaced as Home Owners Loan Corp manager by acting manager Mildred Henderson. The New Castle loan office shows strong performance with loans totaling over two million dollars.
State police hunted four young gunmen who robbed the Milroy Banking Company taking 3000 in small bills after binding cashier George Meek. The escape route led toward nearby mountains while tracers tied a stolen car to Tusseyville. A roadhouse owner reported four men matching the bandit description drank there last midnight.
State police announced the recovery of the stolen car used by four youths who fled with $3,000 from the Milroy Banking Company on a mountain highway near here. No clues in the car identified the robbers who were traced from Milroy to Tusseyville after the robbery yesterday.
Death notices list Antoinetta Aceto Polo 48 of 910 South Mercer Street Miss Alice Morell 19 of Struthers Ohio Rosie Vankowski 63 of Hamilton Street Extension Janet Masajada 4 months of 180314 Hanna Street.
The French cabinet voted to keep the outgoing class of semi-annual conscripts under arms for three months until July 14 amid a tense European situation. Authorities said 100,000 to 160,000 troops would remain on the German frontier as more than 100,000 soldiers mass along France's northeastern boundaries.
Philadelphia April 6. William S. Ware late Republican chairman died leaving a personal estate valued at 1 459 917. Records filed in the register of wills office show the figure as of today.
A Beverly Hills dispatch notes a sheep herder friend claims Our Saviour was once a sheep herder and argues the sheep business is ancient and yields good food. He also jokes about hog meat prices driving Gentiles to kosher. He mentions California lobbying bills bought votes and now lost.
Joseph Robinson a 23 year old Springfield clerk is held without bail in the death of his alleged girlfriend Miss King 17 as police investigate. Authorities say he admitted giving her pills after she told him she was about to become a mother. Two pill packages were found at her Media home and turned over to the district attorney. Robinson faces an accessory before the fact of murder charge.
Former President Herbert Hoover arrived at Grand Central Terminal to meet New York Life Insurance Company directors for a quarterly meeting. He stated to reporters that the visit was for private business and social reasons with no politics involved.
Cambridge again defeated Oxford in the annual boat race between England's leading universities, held today near Putney on the Thames. The long rivalry continues as Cambridge secures another victory in this storied contest.
Lee Erdman drew crowds by displaying an 11 foot monster snake captured in a burlap trap on a refuse pile three miles north of Shamokin Pennsylvania. The vibrant reptile measured 5 to 6 inches in diameter and weighed about 65 pounds. Erdman believed it might be a cobra that escaped from a circus or carnival.
Sharon Pennsylvania April 6 37 year old window washer John Crokan died today after plunging from the third floor of the Veterans of Foreign Wars building authorities said the cause was accidental.
The narrator notes the trout season soon opens allowing anglers to cast along long brooks in search of speckled trout. He admits he is not a fisherman and buys fish from stores, though he jokes about appetite being keen at fifty five.
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