White House seeks adjournment to end summer session
A White House conference with President Roosevelt and leaders from both parties was set to avoid a long summer session. Republicans pressed for a firm adjournment date while opposing much of the administration program including the silver bill and Wagner labor measures. House leaders backed swift action, while Senate fights over the six-point program threatened continued Washington stalemate.
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William K. Hutchinson
Senate
Czar Reed
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Mayor LaGuardia Convenes City Leaders on Relief Efforts
In a Mayor LaGuardia led town meeting the city’s six million residents discussed unemployment relief as an established condition. Notables present included Bishop Manning, Winthrop Aldrich, O'Brien, Whitman, Hylan, James Speyer, Felix Warburg, Judge Lehman, and Miss Mary Dillon, among others.
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Mr. Hylan
James Speyer
Felix M. Warburg
Irving Lehman
Mary” Dillion
Labor
Frances Perkins
New York
City weighs bonds or rent as unemployment relief plan
The mayor faces a funding dilemma as federal aid will vanish by August. Citizens debate whether to issue bonds or fund relief through regular expenses while paying back debt with interest. Leaders propose tax on earners to raise funds. Russian gold output grows, colonial politics swirl, and national defense worries mix with labor unrest. President Roosevelt’s influence looms large in New York politics.
Police Recover Stolen Automobile Near Cathedral
Police recovered the automobile of C. W. Rice of 804 Cretan Avenue stolen near the Cathedral last night. The incident was reported early this morning as officers searched the area for the missing car.
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C. W. Rice
Cretan Avenue
McNair Speaks At Thiel College Commencement
Pittsburgh mayor William N. McNair delivered Thiel College commencement address on The Land Law of Moses. Earl S. Rudisill inaugurated president. two New Castle students Michael Goldner and Walter Hempel earned BA degrees. Honorary degrees went to Judge William Hirt and Rev. L A Fritsch. RWD workers gather at Gunton Park this afternoon as park director J D Alexander attends. Chinese currency varies in value by district.
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Greenville
William N. McNair
Pittsburgh
Thiel College
Moses
Martin L. Clare of
Appello
Board of Trustees
Earl S. Rudisill
Thiel Colege
Presidenteensestlh
Gettysburg College
John C. Ward
Erie
L. A. Fritsch
Youngstown
Ohio
J. H. Graf
Pritsch
United Lutheran Church
Reverend Samuel Gamble to Speak at Westminster Graduation
The Rev Dr Samuel Cooper Gamble will deliver the commencement address at Westminster College for the eightieth annual graduation exercises on Monday June 11. Gamble is pastor of the Second United Presbyterian Church Butler Pa a Westminster graduate from 1901 and earned a doctor of divinity from Westminster in 1924.
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Samuel Cooper Gamble
Westminster College
Gamble
Second
United Presbyterian Church
Butler
Westminster
Pittsburgh Seminary
Atlantic Avenue Lad Injured In Auto Crash
Edwin Jaskolka eight son of Mr and Mrs Anthony Jaskolka of 250 Atlantic avenue is critically injured in a New Castle hospital after being struck by a Canton Ohio woman driving an automobile while on his way to school. An operation was performed Tuesday evening and this morning his condition was described as fair.
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Edwin Jaskolka
Anthony Jaskolka
Atlantic Avenue
New Castle Hospital
State Relief Board To Meet In Harrisburg
Harrisburg June 6 The state emergency relief board met to allocate June funds from an 11.5 million dollar federal grant. Eric H. Biddle, state relief director, flew to Washington to confer with Hopkins as May funds exhausted. The grant allows continued direct relief and LWD projects and completes CWA started work.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
State Emergency Relief Board
Harry L. Hopkins
Eric H. Biddle
Washington
Hopkins
Jung
CWA
Grand Jury Finds True Bills Against Eb bit t and Gudyks
Final returns issued Tuesday evening found true bills against Dan Eb bitt for breaking and entering a building and George and John Gudyk, charged with assault and battery. Clarence Harper Jr was not indicted. John Krupa’s case regarding a ferocious dog was not indicted. Costs assigned to the county.
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Grand
Dan Ebbitt
George
John Gudyk
Clarence Harper, Jr
John Krupa
Grand jury finishes swift work with two days of bills
Judge Hildebrand commends the grand jury for completing all bills in two days. Costs were set against Alderman J Lee Cooper while John Carna faces charge of malicious destruction of railroad property as a true bill is returned.
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J. Lee Cooper
John Carna
Hildebrand
Code Authority Set To Address Auto Dealers Meeting
Ray F. Hall, secretary of the Lawrence County Automobile Dealers Association, announces a June 8 meeting at Soldiers Memorial Hall Pittsburgh for Western Pennsylvania dealers. J Reed Lane, executive secretary of the Motor Vehicle Retailing Trade Code, will speak on code violations and treatment, with questions accepted in writing beforehand. Three arrests were reported yesterday for parking, suspicion, and disorderly conduct.
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Ray F. Hall
Lawrence County Automobile Dealers Association
At & O'Clock
National Control Committee
H. F. Gleason
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Lane
Prohibit Driving Through Cascade Park
Superintendent C Coulthard bans automobile traffic in Cascade Park to protect children using the park. Cars entering from Cascade Boulevard may park near the bathhouse or exit to Black Oak drive toward Gaston Park. Those using the lower East Washington gate can access as far as the Glenn pool.
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C. Coulthard
Cascade Boulevard
Black Oak Drive
Gaston Park
Washington Street
Glenn Pool
Rinascenza Lodge Names New Officers
Rinascenza Lodge No 19 Order Sons and Daughters of America elected officers for 1934 1935 at King Humbert hall Division 1 street. Names include Joseph Tomasello maestro Oddone Divitte assistant maestro Guy Casalena ex maestro and others. Delegates Frank O Moretti A Fiala to Pittsburgh grand convention. Alternates Sam Tomasello Frank Sparano. Carmi Glover streets super intendent notes city trading machine active in Junior High street. Parlor pbssale Fe Parlor wheeze shows periodic surge in Manhattan.
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Rinascenza No. 19
Order Sons and Daughter of America
King Humbert Hall
Division 1
Joseph Tomasello
Oddone Divitte
Guy Gcasalena
Domenico Pagley
Sam LaScola
Nobile DiLorenzo
Dan Moretti
John Sacripanti
Elvira di
Carmi Glover
Pbssale Fe
Adverse Report On Beaver Mahoning Canal Plan
Washington June 6 A adverse report on canalization of the Beaver and Mahoning rivers to aid Youngstown steel district water transport on the Ohio river was submitted to Congress by President Roosevelt. The Army Engineers favored a 12 foot channel from Beaver to Struthers with $37,000,000 government funding and $10,000,000 local share, but the committee cautioned the project may not be attractive given limited power development and high cost.
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Youngstown Steel District
Ohio River
Special Cabinet
Roosevelt
Army Engine
Special
Army
Beaver
Struthers
Younsstown
Wampum Road Boy Is Hurt
Five year old Donald Robison of the Wampum road was struck by a car driven by Mr Metzler while attempting to cross near his home. He was taken to New Castle hospital with bruises to the head and back and his condition today was described as good.
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Donald Robison
Lewis Robison
Wampum Road
New Castle Hospital
Metzler
Beaver Falls
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