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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1932
Page
15
More than 237000 American steel workers lost a full week’s pay during 1931 due to foreign steel dumping in the United States. George H Charis, president of the National Association of Flat Rolled Steel Manufacturers in Cleveland, cites the impact.
State officials approved the county detention home after Industry and Welfare department changes. Improvements include iron outward opening window gratings with padlocks and a fire escape, room reconfigurations, accessible bathrooms, and new furnishings. The facility houses up to 10 boys and 10 girls, with regular parole reporting to Parole Officer J M Dunlap, and records kept in the office.
New York publicist David M. Lion testified to the Senate market investigating committee how he engineered publicity for stocks tied to pools. He said he received calls on stock and profited by exercising options, while insisting some calls involved no publicity. Senator Glass questioned motives as Gray opened with stock exchange rules on legitimate advertising.
In Indianapolis on June 3 Mayor George R. Dale of Muncie Ind received 18 months in federal prison and a $1000 fine for conspiracy to violate the prohibition law. Dale and ten other Muncie residents including officials were convicted. Frank F Massey chief of police and Corbett Johnson were designated pillars of the conspiracy. Other defendants got 90 days to one year and a day and fines up to $500.
Democratic national chairman John J. Raskob testified at the Senate investigation into stock speculation. He described dealings in General Motors and pools in Anaconda and Radio stocks, with records of transactions from 1928 to 1931 and ownership of 40,000 GM shares by 1931.
The House Ways and Means Committee reported favorably the Garner relief bill by a party vote. It stripped many construction authorizations, added a $15 million army housing program, and required in post offices under $5,500 that postmasters serve as their own janitors, while keeping a five day work week for all related construction.
MT CLEMENS Mich June 3 East Detroit police charged Justin Fouchin 34 of that village with employing five young boys to burn three buildings so he could earn money fighting fires as a volunteer firefighter. A boy confessed to his mother after she found him taking oil from a stove.
Two young women entered the city and applied for one night's lodging at the city jail. They stayed in the ladies department under Policewoman Minnie McKibben’s supervision and left this morning. Dr. LeRoy M. A. Maeder addressed the American Association for the Study of Feeble Minded, noting Pennsylvania’s feeble minded population at 150,009.
Two young women claimed Butler origin and said they were traveling toward Youngstown and points west when they hitchhiked a ride. Police noted no injuries and urged motorists to report suspicious activity.
Philadelphia report notes a figure between 1 and 2 percent of the population considered feeble in a June 3 dispatch. The brief cites health statistics and the term feeble in the context of societal welfare.
Jack Varley was arrested last night on a charge of being drunk and dis orderly. This morning he was sentenced to ten days in the county jail by His Honor Mayor Charles O. Mayne.
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