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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1936
Page
1
Burgos reports General Cabanellos declares civil war in Spain a war of extermination. He says 25,000 Spaniards have died in the Marxist government conflict and promises death for officials if the rebels win. Journalists toured military jails and camps as evidence of the brutal struggle.
Gladys MacKnight 17 and Donald Wightman 18 of Bayonne sat in police cells awaiting arraignment on murder charges after the death of Helen MacKnight 47 who was found with fatal hatchet blows in her Bayonne kitchen. Edgar MacKnight husband and General Cable manager discovered the crime.
Alice Longworth argues politicians won’t control rain or famine and mocks efforts by Tugwell and Wallace to frame weather relief as a cure for farmers. She cautions voters that droughts reflect natural limits, not partisan schemes, and warns against treating nature as an assembly line.
U S weather statistics show a maximum of 82 and a minimum of 45 with no precipitation. River stage stands at 4.4 feet. Figures for the same date last year recorded a high of 89 and a low of 65.
Chancellor Adolf Hitler formally opened the 11th Olympiad in Berlin with a brief speech at 5 16 pm before about 110000 in the Olympic Stadium. The opening featured ceremonies a team parade and a Nazi salute to the crowd. The United States flag bearer Alfred Joachim led the U S team and received a patriotic salute as rain fell on the ceremony. Competition starts tomorrow morning with a festival play this evening promising a thrilling event.
Arrangements are under way for the annual New Castle News employees and families outing to be held next Tuesday, prompting an early newspaper edition that day. The column also notes grass growing between brick street crevices on Pine Street between Court and East Main and discusses farm mail box lettering trends and Bohemian Waxwing sightings near North Hill.
A terse promotional note urges readers to use page 12 for tips and services. It emphasizes modern approaches and efficiency, inviting engagement with the newspaper’s interior pages.
Local WPA authorities send a request to Harrisburg for ratification of a new fifteen mile road and state highway improvement program. Approval expected soon, district 14 chief Lloyd McCormick says work would begin immediately once authorized. The first section No 37403 runs 2.6 miles through Washington and Scott Townships from Perry highway to Volant road. The macadam will be removed, new stone laid, and a blacktop surface added.
Wilkes Barre report says deputy game warden Thomas Bradshaw age 40 was fatally shot during a midnight encounter in Meadow Run. A woman with him was questioned after telling police she was alone with him when the shot fired as a searchlight briefly shone. Bradshaw was taken to a hospital after motorists summoned aid.
A roaring tropical hurricane plowed a seventy mile swath along Florida’s extreme western coast. The Minnie Lee with five on board capsized in Choctawhatchee Bay and no bodies were recovered. Coast guard says two other boats, the Ketchum and Sea Gull, were missing. The Sea Gull departed Tampa on July 25 for Dry Tortugas.
Paul Bruce McNeil son of Allegheny county jail warden John McNeil died suddenly in Grove City hospital while visiting relatives. He attended college there and is survived by his wife Twila Hines McNeil two children a brother and two sisters. Warden McNeil was in Grove City arranging the funeral. Burial plans unsettled.
In Harrisburg a plan to return relief administration to local communities is pressed as amendments to a 45 million dollar appropriation bill threaten to extend the fourteenth week of the special session. Senator Cavalcante rallies a large cross party bloc to back the change ahead of possible quick adjournment if accord on the tax program holds.
A Paris Soir dispatch said 11 foreign airplanes arrived for the insurgents in Spain. Included were three tri motor bombers with swastikas on their wings and arms were provided.
Governor Alfred M. Landon, pausing his presidential bid, leads the Kansas national guard in reviewing the 16th field artillery brigade at Fort Riley. A 55 mile auto ride is planned, with a 3 p.m. troop review and an evening return to Topeka. He notes politics are off for the day amid fresh endorsements and campaign forecasts.
A plan to move the West Middlesex Republican rally from August 22 to the following Wednesday or Saturday is considered to avoid conflicting with the American Legion convention in Johnstown August 20 21 and 22. Leaders fear ex service men will be blocked from attending the West Middlesex event due to the clash.
Sterling Powell 16 from Grant Nebraska was seized by FBI agents and jailed on a charge of attempting to extort 25000 from Shirley Temple's parents. Powell faced a U S commissioner for arraignment as investigators kept details secret. His father Carl Powell expressed bewilderment at the arrest.
Samuel C. Weed to stand trial at the September term on three murder indictments for killing his wife and two children while they slept. He admitted I did it as he was arraigned in Erie. Weed, injured from a suicide attempt, is jailed in the county prison near Paul Ferry, also facing murder charges.
Weather outlook shows likely rain in the North and Middle Atlantic states near the start and end of the week. Temperatures are expected to be moderate with a warm spell in the middle of the week.
William Sutton aged 42 of West Pittsburg Road is recorded dead. Mary Swad aged 80 of 424 East Long Avenue is listed as deceased.
President Roosevelt, en route to Waterbury, began a fast moving tour by train and auto to inspect flood damaged regions in New England. He planned a flood control conference aboard his special.
Andrew W Mellon secretary of the treasury in three Republican administrations is back in the United States after a short trip abroad. He arrived yesterday on the North German Lloyd liner Bremen and said he had not been thinking about the forthcoming presidential campaign and would express no opinions on Governor Alfred M Landon or the financial state of the country. He added no one is interested in what I think.
Government actions in Spain seize church funds amid political tension as reinforcements arrive at northern gates.
Rebels reportedly within 11 miles of Madrid as leftist authorities mobilize against the church. The government orders searches of convents and churches for large sums, seizing bonds and cash held in church vaults including 20 million pesetas in bonds at the Archbishop’s palace and 1.5 million pesetas at Madres Escolapias convents.
Anna Bender a 19 year old from West Pittston died after a mysterious disease that hardened her body. The illness began in her blood two months earlier and progressively paralyzed her, ending with a whispered wish to go home to die. Similar ossification cases had drawn nationwide attention in 1934.
The piece extols horseback riding as superior to fishing sledding tennis and other sports. It notes a five gait horse can transform aging nostalgia with a bloom returning to the cheeks and claims weather at eighty nine today.
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