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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1940
Page
17
Allied rear guard fights to hold the Dunkerque fortified zone as German forces press for a breakthrough. Naval artillery and RAF support aid efforts to cover ongoing embarkations despite magnetic mines and torpedo boat assaults.
New Castle doctors enjoy a broad reputation as patients travel from Poland Ohio and Clarion Pennsylvania to Jameson Memorial Hospital for tonsil procedures. Northern county highways are detoured due to bridge and Route 18 rebuilding, with Pulaski bridge work diverting Shenango River traffic. Baseball crowds visit city diamonds as rainfall subsides and Shenango River falls from 11.4 feet after a week of showers. A celebrity mystery visit ends abruptly.
United States weather statistics for the 24-hour period ending 5 p m Sunday show a maximum 81 and a minimum 54 with no precipitation. the river stage is 10.8 feet. For the previous 24 hours ending 5 p m Saturday the high was 71 and the low 53 with 0.33 inches of rain.
British troops arriving in London report Dunkerque cove still under fire as waves of German bombing fail to stop the evacuation. They describe long delays for ships at the port under shelling and aerial attacks while fires rage and the towns nearby lie in ruins.
London reports a government takeover of civilian life with a surrounding guard along arterial roads to the provinces. Identity papers and licenses face strict checks as cars stall on trunk routes. All aliens must remain in their homes by midnight under new measures.
The United States liner President Roosevelt sailed from Galway to the United States with hundreds of Americans aboard and others left behind awaiting later passage. The Washington may head to Bordeaux to evacuate more Americans as war rages in Europe.
Death records list Romeo DeBiagio 49 of 108 East Reynolds Street Edwin Benton DeVore 70 of 650 South Bay Street Mrs John P Sturm 49 of 134 Boyles Avenue Calvin McConnell 78 of East Brook R D 5 David De Hartland Sr 84 of Miami Florida Mrs Elmer Macom Grove City and Mrs Harry Costello 55 of Granite City HL
Under floodlights at Taggart stadium six hundred New Castle schoolgirls perform in a June Festival pageant. From Senior high and two junior highs they bring mass dances formations and rhythmic marches. Three queens Catherine Lynch Fern Riley Betty Milliken will be crowned with attendants. If rain delays the outdoor show moves to Tuesday evening.
Red Cross workers will meet Tuesday at 4 30 in the Chapter House to report on the initial campaign progress and plan continuation. The chapter aims to raise 8000 more in the new quota as signed. Many churches added recent collections to aid refugees relief. London news reports two bombs dropped on Forest Row Sussex with minor damage and one chicken casualty.
German high command reports Allied retreat along the Maginot line near Joerbach. It claims 330,000 French and British troops taken prisoner in Flanders and notes slow progress at Dunkerque due to widespread flooding. Air attacks continue. ships sunk and damaged as raids extend to Rhone valley and Marseilles.
Berlin states it will safeguard both ships the Washington and President Roosevelt while charging an allied plot to sink the liners as they return home with 2,684 U S war refugees. The government claims the Anglo French secret service plan is a pretext to arouse anti Germany sentiment and draw the United States into the war.
KEARNEY, N. J. June 3 Work resumed on two cruisers and two destroyers at the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co after 6700 CIO workers voted 5 to 1 to end their three day strike as a patriotic duty.
William R Hanna learned that he has been recommended by the post office department for the postmastership of New Castle. The news, received from Washington, suggests a swift official action and Senate confirmation following President Roosevelt's nomination. Hanna has long been active in county politics and served as acting postmaster since December 1, 1939.
Stockholm reports Swedish neutrality guards shot down two German planes over Swedish territory. Seven soldiers and two officers escaped and were captured and interned. Other dispatches indicate British ships bombarded German forces at Mo i Rana in Norway.
An inspection program for the Rural Electrification Experimental Project at the R. N Moose and Sons Farm near New Wilmington draws prominent agricultural figures. The 1 30 P M program features E S Bayard editor in chief of the Pennsylvania Farmer, W S Hagar deputy secretary of agriculture, G W Kabie editor of Electricity on the Farm, with Professor R A Blasingame of Penn State presiding. A North Beaver high band, Fredonia FFA demonstration, and a grinding demonstration accompany the meeting.
The liner Manhattan carrying 1800 Americans from Genoa moves toward New York as passengers fill halls salons and dining rooms. Some will be picked up by the liner President Harrison sailing today while others may be evacuated aboard the liner Excambion.
German planes bombed French air fields near Paris tonight including the Issy-Les-Moulinaux military airport. Issy-Les-Moulinaux, a 46 000 population suburb southwest of the city gates, contains the fort and a large parade ground and is part of Paris 15th arrondissement.
President Roosevelt directed an across the board average ten percent cut in budgets for all non defense departments and agencies. He called Budget Director Harold Smith to a White House conference to begin a department by department and agency by agency review within the executive branch.
June 3 The 27 year old Duke of Northumberland, a leading British nobleman and major coal mine owner, was killed in action in Flanders while serving with the Grenadier Guards. He was ninth in his line and among Britain's wealthiest individuals.
Seniors at the 375 June graduates of the high school heard a baccalaureate sermon by Dr. D L Ferguson at the Cathedral. Carl S Coler of Westinghouse Electric spoke at Friday’s commencement with diploma exercises in the Cathedral. The school choir and organ concert preceded the service led by Principal Frank L Orth and Dr C C Green.
London officials announce there is no truth to the German claim that the British battleship Nelson has been sunk. The denial comes as reports circulate from New Castle and elsewhere.
London June 3 The British Broadcasting Company denied a report that an entire German division was wiped out near Rethel.
German planes struck Paris in the first air raid since war began nine months earlier. At least one apartment building was hit and fires erupted on the outskirts near the Bois de Boulogne and the Champs Elysees. Casualties reached 35 dead, with one American among them.
Several high schools held baccalaureate services with notable speakers. At Plaingrove High School the Rev J Leslie Bell delivered an impressive sermon. Shenango High School hosted Rev Earl Collins from Ross Corners. Princeton High School heard Rev A W Smith from Rose Point Reformed Presbyterian church.
In June the town feels the rush of convention season with delegates to vote in a favored son gesture. Crops begin to show and schools wind down as summer clothes tempt. The verse notes the heat and the old cadence of seasonal changes.
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