Roosevelt Memos Push New Work Policy with $3.3 Billion Plan
The Roosevelt administration outlines a broad public works program to create jobs for millions, proposing federal funding and bond purchases to accelerate projects including waterworks, bridges, roads, and housing. The plan seeks to shift labor rules and establish a tempo for large scale construction nationwide while expanding federal oversight.
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Beesley
William SN
Neal
Tolernational
Atel
Priacity Public Works
Adadehington
Etitos
Propria
Chinls
Fogo Two
Weather and town notes from New Castle area
Reports from New Castle area detail light rain, warm temperatures, and a morning rainstorm prior to a cooler period. Weather Bureau data notes a 29 degree difference from last year on day 94, with last night at 71 degrees. Observations mention autogyro sightings, local infrastructure, and public works changes near the new freeral building and library.
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Tien Visto
New Castle
Daily Weather Report for 24 Hour Period
Weather notes show a maximum temperature of 8 degrees and a minimum of 71. Precipitation is trace. River stage at 4 feet. Data appears inconsistent with historical norms and contains typographical errors.
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U.S
County Tax Day Sees Over 100000 Collected Monday
County Treasurer Pitts reports that by July 31 reception of tax payments totalled over 100000. Clerks worked all day stamping receipts and opening envelopes while preparing funds for banking. He notes this year's receipts lagged slightly behind last year due to large industrial checks arriving earlier.
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Pitts
Kidnapers Release Oklahoma Oil Man Urschel
Charles F. Urschel, 41, a multimillionaire oil operator, was freed by his kidnappers near Oklahoma City after days in captivity. Arthur A. Seeligson said ransom negotiations led to his release with payment reportedly made at Sulphur, though the amount remains undisclosed.
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Ilovaational News
Sorelen
Oklahoma City
Okla
Charles F. Urschel
Urschiel
Asyacclates
Worlthy
Drschel
Arthur A. Seeligson
Urs Syne
Ikansom
Scelleson
Urschel
Sulphur
More Guardsmen May Be Sent To Coal Strike Zone
Two more battalions of the Pennsylvania National Guard were ready to depart for the coal strike zone. Maj. Kenneth Momeyer at Brownsville reported to Maj. Gen. FE C. Shannon at the state military reservation as Shannon planned to travel to Harrisburg to confer with Gov. Gifford Pinchot. The report surfaced during patrols at Camp Rickards UTNTY.
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Frederick Ritter
Nova Service
Utnty
Rickards
MT. Gretna
Pennsylvania
Cunard
Kenneth Momeyer
Brownsville
FE. C. Shannon
State Military
Shannon Mwais
Harrisburg
Gifford Pinchot
Nation Stirred By Kidnapings Across America
Nationwide kidnaping scare features Urschel ransom release in Oklahoma City and the O Gonnell case in Albany. Reports from Washington urge a national police force while Lehman calls for death penalties where victims die. Hoover warns kidnapings threaten law and civilization. Butler witness returns to duty with State Highway Patrol.
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International News Service
America
Oklahoma
Charles I. Urschel
Multii-Nilionaire
Albany
Manny Strewl
Strewel and
Stroll
John J. O’gonnell, Jr
Washington, D. GC
Herbert H. Lehman
Chicago
J. Edgar Hoover
Bureau of Investigation
Washington
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Butler
Fatrolman Sarko
Executions Raise Tension in Altona Riot Clampdown
Four communists were executed on the block in Altona Germany for killing two Nazi storm troopers during a political riot last winter. The event occurred on one of the “body Sundays” before the Hitler regime’s advent. Planes Bomb Village in India.
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Altona
Germany
Nine Pickets Wounded in Uniontown Area Riot
Nine mine pickets were shot in three outbreaks in Fayette County during morning unrest. Deputies claimed attack by pickets. six were wounded at Star Junction, two at Colonial No. 3, one at Edenborn. All injured sent to Uniontown Hospital. one in serious condition. National Guardsmen had been deployed after martial law was declared.
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International News Service
Uniontown
Fayette County
Gifford Pinchot
Star Junction
Colonial No. 3
Edenborn
Italian Armada Delayed By Atlantic Weather
Cyclones over the Atlantic units halt the Italian air armada en route to Valentia Ireland. Weather at Shoal Harbor Newfoundland shows improving winds but heavy fog offshore. take-off postponed amid unsettled conditions.
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Shoal Harbor
Newfoundland
Atlantic Ocean
Italan Air Armada
Valentia
Ireland
Will Rogers on Red River dispute with Texas
Special to The News from Beverly Hills quotes Will Rogers railing at Oklahoma Texas tensions over the Red River water border. He jokes about using the National Guard for parades and threatening to stand in the river with a squirrel rifle if Texas engineers cross the line.
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Cassie
Beverly Hills
Cal
Bill Murray
National Guard
Bill
Aes
Oklahoma
Texas
Ill
Ma Ferguson
Red River
Auto blast victim named in Portersville case
Photos show Mrs. Demaris Sayre Rubright 27 of New Castle, her husband James C. Rubright, and trucker William Rosner. Rubright and Rosner, both of Pittsburgh, were detained at Butler for questioning after being arrested while unloading a truck in Pittsburgh Monday afternoon.
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Demaris Sayre Rubright
New Castle
Bauder School
Portersville
James C. Rubright
William Rosner
Butler
Rubright
Rosner
Pittsburgh
Johnson Appeals To Country For Patience With Little Fellows
Washington Aug 1 President’s blanket hours and wage plan nears deadline. Hugh Johnson National Recovery administrator appeals for patience with small employers who signed but cannot yet comply. He urges fair treatment for those unable to implement immediately and notes many two to three person shops face reemployment plan readjustments.
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Johnson
Washington
Hugh
National Recovery
Newspaper Staffs Exempt From Code
Washington August 1 Historial staffs of newspapers and hospital employees are exempt from the 41 hour week provision of the blanket industrial code according to Interpretation No 10 by the National Recovery Administration. Reported that newspaper reporters editors writers and interns nurses hospital technicians and research technicians are classed as exempt from the act.
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International News Service
Washington
National Recovery
Hold-up Man Shot Dead at Bridgeville Stand
Pittsburgh August 1. Stanley Ofsanka 30 of Canonsburg attempted a Bridgeville barbecue stand robbery and was killed after pulling a revolver toward proprietor Attilio Ferrero and the responding constable Ross Carlisle who ordered him to drop the weapon. A companion was jailed.
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International News Service
Pittsburgh
Bridgeville
Stanley Ofsanka
Canonsburg
Ross Carlisle
Rose Garden
Ofsandea
Attilio Ferrero
Carlisle
Ofsanke
Pittsburgh Coal Company raises retail coal price by $12 a ton
Pittsburgh August 1 The Pittsburgh Coal Company announced a second rise in two weeks hiking the domestic retail coal price by 12 dollars per ton. The jump makes curb coal price four dollars and thirty cents a ton, following a prior 25 cent increase and after recent miner wage hikes.
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International News Service
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Coal Company Today
Death Notice for Miss Ella V Justice and Others
Death notices list Miss Ella V Justice of 111 North Jefferson, Mrs Gottlelb Steiner of Pittsburgh, Holland S Shaffer aged 86 of North Beaver Township, Daniel Keller Perdue, $7, John Blair Reed aged 63 of 312 B Lea sure Avenue, 109 North Scott Street.
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Ella V. Justice
North Jefferson Street
Mrs. Gottlelb Steiner
Pittsburgh
Holland S. Shaffer
North
Beaver Township
Daniel Keller Perdue
North Scott Street
John Blair Reed
B. Leasure Avenue
Former Resident Named Carnegie Homestead General Superintendent
M F McConnell, a New Castle native and former Homestead plant employee, becomes general superintendent of Carnegie Steel’s Homestead works, moving from Mingo Junction Ohio. He succeeds James E Lose, who becomes operating vice president, while Ralph H Watson advances to vice president of U S Steel.
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Homestead
Carnegie Steel Company
M. F. McConnell
New Castle
Carnegie
George A. Rigby
McConnell
Mingo Junction
James E. Lose
Ralph H. Watson
United States Steel Corporation
New Homestead
Paya
Rubright Denies Knowledge Of Wife S Death In Blast
James Rubright, 29, a Harmony garage mechanic, faced state police with tearful denials about his wife Dematis Rubright's death near Portersville on a lonely Perry Highway road. Police and two associates questioned as authorities pursue details of the blast that killed Mrs Rubright on Sunday night. Rubright was arrested in Pittsburgh 12 hours after the tragedy.
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International News
Butler
James Rubright
Harmony
Perry Highway
Portersville
Pittsburgh
Sharon Girl Is Robbed in Sharon Pennsylvania
Police seek a youthful bandit who gagged 18 year old Florence Spencer at her home in Sharon and escaped with a small amount of money during her parents absence last night. Florence is daughter of Joseph Spencer an official of the P H C national fraternal insurance organization.
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International News Service
Sharon
Florence Spencer
Joseph Spencer
P. H. c., National Fraternal Insurvive Organization
Heat Wave Continues In State Need Rain
Sweltering Pennsylvanians eye the sky for rain as forecasters promised clouds, but heat persists across Philadelphia district. At least nine deaths linked to high temperatures state wide. Wickes-Barre reports six fatalities. Water shortage feared as hydrants run for Kiddies amid 99 degree heat. Continued warning issued by the weatherman.
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International News Service
Philadelphia
Ol' Sol
Wickes-Barre
Man Hospitalized After Overexertion at Neshannock Creek
Lawrence Scetsom of 223 North Scott Street was overcome by exertion while swimming in the Neshannock Creek at the Narrows. Friends rescued him, he was taken to New Castle hospital, improving and expected to return home later today.
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Lawrence Scetsom
North Scott Street
New Castle Hospital
Neshannock Creek
Alliy
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