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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1925
Page
22
President Coolidge will study the League of Nations invitation to participate in its disarmament conference from a constructive angle. The White House said the aim is to determine how the United States can best cooperate to achieve a worldwide armament reduction.
Attorney James A. Chambers spoke at the Lions noon meeting on December 22 condemning senate hysteria over the league of nations disarmament conference and the world court. He warned against partisan mood in Eighteenth Amendment debates and recalled Washington era liquor tax enforcement. Lion Dan Andrews was noted as leaving.
In Richmond Virginia Lion A C McCoy presented an Eversharp pencil to Lion Andrews. Lion George Smith was elected Lion Tamer and vice Lion Andrews resigned. Newly elected officers will be installed at the meeting on Tuesday December 29.
City Mayor William H. Dunlap has arranged for Santa support from private funds. On Christmas morning Santa and officers will visit poor homes delivering candy toys and trinkets. Charitable groups join in supplying clothing food and essentials. Municipal bunkroom residents will receive warm breakfasts and a Christmas treat.
Charles Dereaner a Baltimore and Ohio engineer suffered a scalp wound when his engine collided with a shifting engine and two coal cars at a bridge in Ellwood City Pennsylvania. He was taken to a hospital and is not seriously hurt. His fireman escaped injury. Mr and Mrs E L Stevens announce the birth of a daughter born December 158 at their home on Haus avenue.
John L. Lewis president of the United Mine Workers of America issued a statement from Philadelphia on December 22 asserting that despite miners contributing to peace efforts there is no peace and the fight must continue. He warned that no further steps remain to stop the strike.
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church will hold a Christmas Festival service on December 25 at 10 30 a m with holy Communion and a 6 0P Sunday school program. The programme features songs recitations and awards for perfect attendance and pins for several children. The pastor Rev George F Hegele will preach on Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward All Men.
Federal prohibition administrator Fred C. Baird announced that 40 Pittsburgh drug stores will have their liquor permits not renewed for dispensing liquor without prescriptions. He noted the possibility that about 15 more firms may have permits denied, with names not disclosed.
C. Ed Brown submitted the names of five persons who passed exams and are certified as eligible policemen. Edward Pritchard William Allegier Clarence Samuels R H Dukes and William James are named with Pritchard 108 1 3 percent and Allegier 104 1 6 percent for military service. Twenty one applied. nine passed educational tests. five passed physicals. one failed physical. three received negative reports. Appointments slated to fill existing and upcoming vacancies.
A teen detainee, spared after court review, submits a poem to the mayor. Titled A Prisoners Meditation, the verse laments a broken home and temper, urging peers to heed warnings about bad influences and criminal paths.
A Brazilian fish species reportedly makes doglike barks and may pursue catfish as prey. The unusual behavior draws curiosity from researchers observing local aquatic life.
Pittsburgh police tighten patrols after a spate of robberies over 24 hours causing about $8,000 in losses. A bandit grabbed over $7,000 from a gas station manager and collector, another masked thief stole about $100 from a suburban theatre ticket seller, and a baking company collector lost around $50. Other minor robberies prompted police action.
Officers Thompson and Augustine responded to a call at the New Castle tin works last night. They arrested Harry Gregory of Mt. Jackson, about 20, while taking tires from machines. He is also alleged to have stolen tires and wheels from Andrew Roth’s car on Magee street three weeks earlier.
Numerous petty shoplifting cases rise during the Christmas season and police have worked to straighten out many, with Mayor William H. Dunlap noting humanity is a necessity in handling these incidents.
Police report multiple cases showing acute city need including a foreign birth mother caught in a department store with her young daughter and stolen items from five and ten cent shops. Items worth a few dollars were recovered and returned. police provided food money and planned a Christmas gift for seven children as the father is tubercular and unable to work.
Henry Breneman and son S F Breneman of Portersville are summoned to Sliperry Rock for the serious illness of Mrs Gaily Glenn. Theodore Minor and Robert Forest are cutting bank props on the Robert Eider farm. Walter and William Shoaff help Grover Stevenson load railroad ties at Brent. Meril Shoaff and Henry Boozel cut bank props on the Sam Magee farm. Mrs Margaret McCommons travels to Randolph NY to spend Christmas with daughter Mrs George Hull. Leonard Uber teaching in Elwood City spends Christmas at home.
A Senate resolution introduced by Senator LaFollette calls on the secretary of the treasury to report income tax returns of all anthracite companies. Reed blocked immediate consideration. The resolution seeks data on capital stock inv ented capital net income and depreciation charges.
A senate resolution tied to hard coal company reporting is stalled due to Reed's objection and cannot be acted on until the senate reconvenes after the holidays.
New York December 22 Frank A Munsey began as a grocer's clerk earning 40 a month and built a publishing fortune over 40 million. He once owned up to seventeen newspapers and ten magazines though at his death he ran two daily papers and two periodicals the New York Sun the New York Evening Telegram Argosy All Story Magazine and Munsey's Magazine
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