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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1934
Page
1
Violence and vandalism surge as the fourth day of the milk strike hits Chicago and rural areas. Hundreds of tons of milk destroyed. dairy plants raided. trucks overturned. a Soo line train raided. Pure Milk Association blockade, with 18 000 producing members, remains near total.
Six giant navy sea planes will depart San Diego for San Francisco and then on to Honolulu in a planned non stop mass flight. Admiral David F. Sellers will accompany the group to San Francisco. The 28 crewed planes aim to cover 2150 nautical miles in about 26 hours.
President Roosevelt to urge Senate ratification of the St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty and seek reform of the Farm Home Mortgage Acts in a forthcoming message. The legislative program is taking shape with debt and government finance issues still unresolved.
Washington welcomed Soviet ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky as he met with President Roosevelt at the White House. The reception marked the first accredited Soviet representative since the Kerensky era, and both leaders spoke of world peace as a shared goal in the new era of relations.
Belief grows that Supreme Court decision in Minnesota case signals forthcoming court action on the NRA measure. Legal observers cite anticipated rulings and potential next steps as the high court weighs related constitutional questions.
Washington dispatch reports belief that the Supreme Court will uphold the constitutionality of the National Recovery Act after a 5 to 4 Minnesota mortgage moratorium decision. Chief Justice Hughes led a liberal interpretation trend, joined by Brandeis, Stone, Roberts, and Cardozo. dissenters were Sutherland, McReynolds, Vandevanter, and Butler.
A passerby likely saved a local resident Monday afternoon when a cigarette tossed from a top-floor window lit on the hat of a man below. The quick observer prevented a potential fire as the hat burned briefly but was stopped before spreading.
U S Weather statistics show a maximum temperature of 36 and a minimum of 33 with .06 inches precipitation. River stage recorded at 7.2 feet. For the same date last year, the maximum was 40 and the minimum 28 with no precipitation.
Paris reports persist that the United States and France are considering mutual defense pacts with Soviet Russia. Some versions claim study and initialling, but no confirmation. Daladier opposed tie with the Soviets, while Herriot favors an alliance, potentially speeding a pact if premier again.
Special to The News reports Dr. Cary Grayson of Washington, D. C., Admiral and President Wilson’s private physician, visiting Mayo’s roadside house in Rochester. The letter recalls Grayson’s humor, his ties to Senator Carter Glass, and a tale of Jesse Jones at Buckingham Palace with Wilson.
Rudy Vallee declares he will fight Fay Webb’s separate maintenance suit in California. He refuses to seek a venue change and says he can secure a fair decision here.
A 6:10 a.m. quake rattled Riverside and Los Angeles regions, awakening residents and disturbing dishes but caused no damage according to police reports. The tremor was also faintly felt in Wilmington near Long Beach and described as barely noticeable.
Miss Margaret Zeigler and several named individuals are listed in a death record, noting ages and residences for N. Carl Francis Hamilton 33 Los Angeles California Charles Franklin Wilson 68 530 West Washington Street Thomas B. Wareham 53 Wilmington Township Martin J. Rusk 63 214 East Clayton Street.
Pittsburgh Jan 9 Viola Sayles a 19 year old Carnegie Tech drama student was reported located after a week long disappearance. Her mother said a letter from Cleveland explained the student had found work in Ohio to earn tuition for attendance at the University of Chicago.
Frances Weibley a 12 year old Schenley high school student described being kidnapped by two men and a woman in a Turtle Creek home. She told police she was forced at gunpoint to stay five days tied to a bed and dragged unconscious for a day, then left to walk home hungry and tired.
International News Service reports Harrisburg officials approve another 1.25 million dollars for Works Progress Administration projects in Pennsylvania. Planned are a social survey to employ 300 idle teachers and airport work including a new port in the Pocono Mountains and improvements at landing fields in Pittsburgh Altoona Johnstown Wilkes Barre and Scranton with costs ranging from twenty three thousand to one hundred fifty seven thousand dollars.
Six local banks a real estate firm and the Pennsylvania Railroad paid nearly one million dollars toward Pittsburgh tax bills before state statements arrived. Their action ensures payrolls for the last half of December and the first two weeks of January along with current interest on coupon bonds. Edward Dombrowski of Savannah Avenue has left for Detroit to visit relatives.
The Stavisky case triggers fierce speculation after he dies from a head wound as police close in. Paris newspapers question whether it was suicide, while political factions demand accountability. Headlines in Quotidien and other papers challenge the official ruling as tensions rise.
Frances Sepasi, 27, confessed to shooting Dr Paul R. Ress as he walked from his car to his home in Reading, Pennsylvania. Ress, a prominent physician, was critically wounded four times while en route to St. Joseph's hospital, where doctors held little hope for recovery.
Chicago officials open an incendiary fire probe into the Warshawsky & Co mobile accessories warehouse on South State Street. Fire Chief Corrigan cites suspicions as 400 firefighters and 64 apparatus fight the five hour blaze.
President Roosevelt signed an executive order extending the federal pay cut of 15 percent until June 30 1934. The plan provides a 5 percent restoration of the cut on June 30 as directed in the budget message to Congress.
Four coal cars derailed on the Pennsylvania railroad main line near Coatesville Pennsylvania when a 68 car freight train partially left the rails. No injuries reported. The incident occurred at Parkersburg about five miles west of Coatesville.
BRIEFS report a wage dispute eruption as 60 workers threaten a walkout over hourly rates in Venango county for Rocky Grove street work. Exposed pay differs with 40 cents versus 50 cents for other CWA workers. Also noted is the death at 83 of Alice French author Octave Thanet after a long illness. Roosevelt spends Jan 9 drafting messages for Congress, including St Lawrence waterway treaty ratification.
An escaped Ohio inmate Neal G Bowman believed in a car speeding east through Erie Pa has triggered a cross state manhunt by Pennsylvania New York Ohio West Virginia police. A general alarm was sent across state barracks as authorities pursue Bowman and Shereff H Party who was later released.
Chicago police guard trial witnesses amid ongoing life threats as John Factor the Barber is set to testify. The Touhy gang members under arrest face pressure while a premium stock promoter case ties into a larger sensational financial drama.
The United States and Britain reached a bargain based increase in Britain's liquor quota tied to a permanent 1.3 percent rise in the British pork quota. The agreement marks a victory for the Yankee Trader policy shaping Roosevelt era foreign policy.
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