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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1929
Page
1
An aged cartoonish venting piece portrays Will Rogers urging sending farmers the fat congressmen as relief. It cites government actions, relief schemes, and census rolls to help stranded farmers, urging collective action to gain support and sustenance.
Pa Newc Observes reports that county high annuals, usually from foreign firms, were printed in New Castle this year. Local printers should secure the business. Ray F Hall, credit manager, leads the national credit survey mailer and urges merchants to return blanks promptly with information.
Weather for 24 hours ending 9 am from U S Weather Ob server B J Jolson records 77 degree max and 41 degree min with 0 percent precipitation. Hives stage 5 fen listed and stationary.
Dunes Treasure Island, once Lafitte’s hiding place, hosts the international pageant of charm and bathing girls in Galveston. Ten foreign nations and 34 American states send contestants as the beauty capital title is contested. The first public appearance is at Seawall parade in sports costumes this afternoon with a Sunday fancy bathing costume parade. Crowd of 200000 expected.
In Gastonia North Carolina early today police and a civilian were wounded during disturbances at Loray Mill as strikers clashed with officers. More than two suspects were arrested on charges of secret assault with intent to kill. if Chief Adderholt dies charges may become murder. Additional arrests expected as the standoff continues near the strikers camp with a tented settlement.
International News Service reports leaders expect several days delay in summer recess for Congress as Senate debates the farm relief bill debenture issue. House approved conference report on the farm bill faces Senate discussion likely through next Tuesday before decision. Democratic leaders seek passage amid price inflation and partisan divisions.
The forecast covers June 10 to 15 for North and Middle Atlantic States with showers in the first half and again near mid and late week. Temperatures start below normal, then near to above normal for the remainder. Ohio Valley expects showers Tuesday or Wednesday and again toward week end with temperatures trending near or slightly below normal early and mostly above normal later.
An eight person injury and three dead tunnel collapse occurred in a 60 foot section of tunnel No 9 on the Union Pacific Salt Lake line seven miles west of El Caliente. A special train rushed the wounded to a hospital. Deceased identified as Williams Bense and Parowan Utah residents including an unidentified seven year old girl.
A misty quiet shrouds Lindy and Anne as Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his bride enjoy temporary seclusion aboard the Mouette off Boothbay Harbor. Reporters are blocked by fog while sightings place the yacht near the Pemaquid coast. Rumors point to a summer home visit at North Haven, though no arrangements are confirmed.
Captain Melvin L. Craig regular army officer in Beaver Butler Lawrence and Mercer counties received a farewell from reserve officers and friends at the Elks home. The event sponsored by the Stig nango Valley chapter Restage Officers association and Wase praised his four years directing ROT C efforts in the district. Major Lewis E. Burnside of Sharon led the proceedings after dinner and letters of regret from 99th Division officers were read along with a request for his suitable successor.
George W. Thomas past exalted ruler of New Castle lodge No 09 BP OE will attend the Elks national conclave in Los Angeles from July 8 to 21 as representative of the local lectee. He will leave July 4 with Mrs Thomas and daughter Mary Lau, visiting friends in Long Beach San Dimas and Torrance before returning home.
At a meeting of the executive committee of the Perry Street Post American Legion, a resolution protesting a discriminatory postal appointment was adopted. The protest targets a nonresident ex-service member filling a local post office vacancy and will be sent to General Brown via Congressman J. Howard Swick. Messengers have been sent to Congressman Swick, Orville Potter, and District Legion Commander Mike Kane, who learned of the incident while visiting the post.
GREENSBURG Pa June 1 With the closing of Mt Golin school near Hove this semester comes the close of 52 years of teaching for W A Hays of Greensburg. Hays who has spent all of the Westmoreland county schools has taught at Mt Odin for the past decade he has been principal of the North Huntingdon and Mt Pinsent township schools for the past four years. He is over 70 years of age.
City playgrounds will officially open Monday at 11 o clock with a flag salute and dedicatory prayers at Croton West Side and Gaston Park grounds. Children from McCleary George Washington and Franklin playgrounds will attend as workmen finish setting up equipment. Dr C C Green and the school board enabled access to Glen and Sen Franklin schools for the children.
Windsor dispatch reports King George confirmed Premier MacDonalds Labor cabinet appointments at Windsor Castle. The new cabinet members, including Miss Margaret Bondfield as Labor minister, arrived from London by special train. Hoover era U S law enforcement commission grapples with data gaps and aims to collect sufficient statistics within ten days to guide hearings and procedures.
Sharon Pa June 8 newlyweds Howard and Mrs Rann escaped in nightclothes as flames gutted their Vermon Road home near Ver mon. Firefighters fought the blaze but the residence was burned to the ground. An investigation by authorities is underway.
New York June 8 Knowledge that only surgical skill and lifelong treatment could save him is believed to explain the death by his own action of Russell Gordon Smith 33 year old sociology professor at Columbia University who leaped from the 13th floor of a fashionable apartment house. He was a graduate of the University of Virginia and was instantly killed when he fell to the pavement from the residence of Mrs. Ethel Clyde granddaughter of a Clyde steamship lines founder and a former wife of a German World War Major.
Digging for miner Mike Milovich who vanished after a timber and mine cars collapse continues near Sutter Creek California. Officials say no hope of finding him alive and fear he was crushed or smothered by fallen timbers and debris.
International News Service reports a June 8 tornado in Plainview Texas killed two farmers and seriously injured six others. Nine houses were demolished and numerous trees uprooted as though wind ripped through.
A civil suit in Washington Pa titled Miss Louise King against Arthur Rich ended with damages awarded. The court ordered 26 000 dollars to the plaintiff. Rich is serving a life sentence in Jackson state for assault.
Fincernation News from Old Orchard Maine reports a hurricane developing suddenly over the Atlantic delaying the proposed two trans Atlantic flights. Dr James H Kimball of New York says clearing may take at least 24 hours. Captain Lewis A Yances of the Great Phoenx notes the Yellow Bird could not depart today nor likely tomorrow.
A brief obituary item notes the death of Ethel May Keligy aged 14 in Maryland or nearby area, with sparse data and no additional biographical details available in the fragment.
Delaware County authorities investigate the death of Bramwell Linn a 22 year old Haverford College honor student found shot in his campus apartment. Coroner Frankesfield says the case appears suspicious with conflicting evidence as companions are questioned. The missing details include Linn’s expected bachelor degree and the circumstances of the 22 caliber wound.
Chief Justice William Howard Taft was admitted to Garfield Hospital for a minor stomach ailment deemed not serious by his physicians. He spent a comfortable night and, with his customary cheerfulness, hopes to return soon to Murray Bay, Canada.
A garbled OCR fragment presents a jumble of misread words and nonsensical phrases about propinate inglents and world fiss, with stray references to weather and dates. It lacks coherent facts, named entities, or a clear event to summarize.
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