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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1937
Page
5
Final plans are completed for Sunday school closing exercises at Tifereth Israel synagogue on Sunday morning June 6. Invitations go to members parents and friends of pupils. Awards and certificates will be prepared for progressive pupils. Rabbi Katz leads with synagogue officials. The program will be formal and adhere to Orthodox traditions.
Lieut. Col. Benjamin C. Jones publisher of the Tyrone Herald is ordered up for examination and promotion to colonel in command of the 103rd cavalry Pa National Guard. He will take the qualifying exam to assume the post by June 26 ahead of summer encampment at Indiantown Gap. Jones succeeds Col. Milton G. Baker who resigned. Jones is a World War I veteran and has served as senior lieutenant colonel in the 52nd cavalry brigade.
The crowd at a social event watches Mr. Kindler chase a deserter oboe player amid a birthday cake interruption. The scene highlights an immigrant’s first impressions of America before realizing it is the Fourth of July.
An official recounts the Almeria bombardment as 40 minutes of hell with more than 300 shells, flying shrapnel, collapsing buildings, and mass panic. Rescue teams worked through smoke and dust as civilians fled, with 150 trapped and 200 wounded, two children miraculously saved after 12 hours.
Riot and shooting incidents accompany steel workers pickets at Republic Steel in Warren Ohio as planes fly food to beleaguered employees. Pickets and inside workers clash at gates. three pickets treated for head wounds. Sheriff works for peace. company claims 40 percent capacity.
Civil War veterans in the district attend memorial services marked by reduced turnout and aging participants. Rev. Rees T. Williams praised their sacrifices, urging rededication to the idea their efforts were not in vain. The day also featured Legion bands, solo and quartet performances, and honors at Greenwood cemetery with remarks by Dr. John J. Melsivaine and wreaths by Boy Scouts.
City officials visited West Washington Street to inspect the Fee property sidewalk after Jack Fee complained water from street grading and an overlayed sidewalk causes flooding during storms. Council agreed to view the site to seek relief from the problem.
Joseph D. Alexander stated city ground work for gardens near the disposal plant site is underway. Frank Nugent reported the south area has been plowed and allotments are planting with more than sixty gardens planned. A claim notes it as one of the citys best plots. A Glasgow crowd of 150000 watched Scotland defeat England in football.
Councilman B F Butler introduces a proposed ordinance requiring contractors or agents to obtain a city engineer permit before taking orders to oil dirt streets. A 300000 dollar indemnity bond must accompany the permit. Mayor Charles H McGrath suggested the measure. Property owners may oil their own streets.
Tonight at 7 30 Scouts and leaders chosen to represent Lawrence Co at the National Jamboree in Washington DC will meet at the First Christian church on the Public Square. Scoutmaster E D Hawk will lead the meeting with Executive Karl F Green outlining trip details. Switzerland and New Zealand have the greatest per capita wealth of any two countries in the world.
Rep Cartwright of Oklahoma, chairing the House roads committee, said the panel authorized him by a 7-7 vote to stay put on his 150 million ear-marking amendment to the relief bill and to bargain with the administration. Rep Beiter of New York, leading the group seeking 300 million for PWA funds, said he would not withdraw his amendment until all blocs are satisfied.
A Hong Kong crackdown fined 60 foreign drivers and 1,035 Chinese motorists for excessive horn blowing while 69 persistent "hank merchants" had their driving licenses revoked under the traffic enforcement drive.
Gladys MacKnight and Donald Wightman waited for second degree murder sentencing in the hatchet killing of Helen MacKnight. They spent the weekend at Hudson county jail with Wightman in the hospital ward after conviction. Their sole visitor was counsel R. Lewis Kennedy.
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