Wagner Relief Measure Before Senate for Unemployment Aid
The $2 billion Wagner unemployment relief bill cleared the Senate Banking and Currency Committee. It would allocate $1.5 billion to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for public works and create a $500 million bond issue for post offices and post roads construction. A separate $300 million loan fund for states was reported as a distinct bill. The panel rejected loans to private industries 9 to 6, signaling a looming Senate clash with President Hoover over private loans.
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Washington
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate
Hoover
Bonus Army Parade Demonstrates in Washington
About ten thousand veterans marched through Washington at sundown to press for the soldiers bonus, signaling they will stay active until 1945. The orderly demonstration featured injured veterans, including a man who wore only half a face from France, symbolizing wartime sacrifice.
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France
Washington
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Temperatures swing wildly as frost follows heat
The report notes extreme warmth followed by near freezing with a 36 degree reading. Dry vegetation sparks several grass fires and gardeners lose some recently planted plants to sun and lack of water. A frosty morning affects Lakewood area, yet no vegetation damage is reported. A mysterious man is seen each morning near Youngstown Road. Crowds at East Washington street bridge trouble residents, especially women. About 600 New Castle Bee members wear lavender ribbons for Croton M E churchs eighty fifth anniversary.
Weather Statistics for This Date One Year Ago
Maximum temperature 66 degrees and minimum 52. Precipitation measured at 1.5 inches. Data compiled for comparable conditions on the same date last year.
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U. S
Rockefeller defections spark pro and anti propaganda clash
In Philadelphia Bishop Ernest G. Richardson condemns John D. Rockefeller Jr for wavering amid the repeal push. Richardson, a chief Anti Saloon League leader, accuses Rockefeller of being swayed by wet propaganda while defending prohibition and church reform.
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E. L. Brawley
International News Service
Philadelphia
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Ernest G. Richardson
Anti- Saloon League
Methodist Church
Rockefeller
Richardson
Postpone Motor Freight Hearing Delays Huberts Transport Case
The Harmony Short Line Motor Transportation Co seeks to stop Louis M. Hubert from moving freight between New Castle and Pittsburgh via intermediates. The Public Service Commission postponed the hearing to July 13. Pennsylvania Railroad protests a Midland to Pittsburgh route run by East Liverpool and Pittsburgh Motor Express Co owned by Hubert and Earl Singer. same day hearing scheduled.
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Pittsburgh
Harmony Short Line Motor Transportation Company
Louis M. Hubert
New Castle
Examiner S. Ray Shelby
Public Service Commission
Hubert
Pennsylvania Railroad
Midland
East Liverpool and Pittsburgh Motor Express Company
Hubert and
Earl Singer
Four Youngstown men sentenced for banditry after Beal store raid
Four Youngstown men aged 24 to 28 were sentenced to Western penitentiary terms after pleading guilty to breaking and entering and related charges. They shot and wounded a watchman at West Middlesex during the May 24 robbery. David Prosser received three to six years plus one to two years for aggravated assault. Clifford Pathon and Michael Dominick got 3 to 6 years, James Greco 2 to 4 years. All except Greco had police records.
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Michael Dominick
James Greco
Greco
Cowan Arrested After Pittsburgh Railway Protest
In Pittsburgh on June 8 police arrested C. B. Cowan of Cleveland, leader of the Workers' Ex-Service Men's League. After Cowan and about 200 followers disrupted rail traffic last Saturday in Cleveland, they were moved east of McKeesport and warned to keep moving as state police were called to prevent a return to Pittsburgh.
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International News Service
Pittsburgh
Workers’ Ex-Service Men’s League
C. B. Cowan
Cleveland
McKeesport
Greensburg
Cowan
Furlough Plan Considered After Pay Cut Rebuff
Washington reports the senate might replace the flat ten percent federal pay cut with a partial furlough plan. The administration backed proposal failed 41 to 36 though four additional supporters arrived, rebounding momentum for renewed action on staggered furloughs without pay.
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International News Service
Washington
Senate
Moses
Sutton Station Robbed Overnight in Sutton
Jesse Jenkins reported to police that the Sutton Gasoline Service Station at South Mill and Sutton streets was entered during the night. Officer Dukes found a broken window and an unlocked entry. A cigarette machine was destroyed and emptied, with cash and other items taken totaling 17 dollars. No money was recovered.
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Jesse Jenkins
Sutton
South Mill
Sutton Streets
Robert Dukes
Train wreck injures fifty in New Jersey crash
An Atlantic City to New York passenger train hit a derailed freight train in Deans New Jersey causing more than 50 injuries. The express plunged eight feet down an embankment into trees with ambulances from Trenton Princeton and New Brunswick rushing to the scene. No fatalities were reported and twenty five victims were hospitalized in Rahway Princeton and New Brunswick. Notable injuries included Charles H E Scheer and Atlantic City engineer Harvey McCulley.
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Deans
N. J
Atlantic City
New York
Tranton
Princeton
New Brunswick
Rahway
Charles H. E. Scheer
Harvey McCulley
Scheer
Col. Scheer
502D Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Fire Destroys Twelve Cars In Massachusetts Wreck
In Clinton Massachusetts on June 8 a freight wreck involving a 61 car Boston and Maine Worcester to Portland express caused an explosion of two gasoline tank cars and two cars plunged into Coach Lace pond. Twelve cars burned. no crew injuries reported.
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Clinton
Mass
Worcester
Portland
Boston and Maine Railroad
W C T U Warns Repeal Of Prohibition Is Murderous
Evanston Illinois June 8 the national office of the W C T U issued a statement to dry leaders asserting that repealing the eighteenth amendment would be murderous by restoring high alcohol related deaths and cowardly by yielding to liquor interests. The reply to John D Rockefeller Jr condemns any move toward complete liquor law liberalization worldwide and calls such repeal un American and stupid.
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International News Service
Evanston
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Pitt Graduation Held For 1326 Pitt Students And 203 at Duquesne
In Pittsburgh on June 8 1509 graduates will receive diplomas from two universities. The University of Pittsburgh will confer degrees on 1326 students at Pitt Stadium and Duquesne University will honor 203 graduates. General Douglas MacArthur has accepted an invitation to deliver the commencement address at Pitt.
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Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
Pitt
Duquesne University
Douglas Macarthur
Rockefeller Could Be Our Next President
A Beverly Hills message praises John D. Rockefeller for his candid, plain spoken stance on prohibition and other issues. The writer suggests Rockefeller could be an ideal president if persuaded to take over a small, rundown outfit like theirs.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Rockefeller
Rural Assemblymen Plan Meeting On Jobless Aid
June 8 report says 75 rural district legislators will meet in Harrisburg to draft views opposing a second special session to grant jobless aid. George N. Wade and A. L. Sheffer called the gathering. Gov. Pinchot criticizes the Talbot Act as political maneuvering.
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Harrisburg
House
George N. Wade Cumberland
A. L. Sheffer
Mifflin
Gifford Pinchot
Paul B. Rice
Dauphin
Talbot-Turner House
Rice
Jail Trip As MacArthur Speaks At Pitt
Two University of Pittsburgh students Leonard Grumet and Alonzo Brewer and former student Lewis Teitelbaum were held in police cells as General Douglas MacArthur spoke at the university commencement. Police confiscated protest signs amid the clash with Pitt authorities.
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Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
Douglas MacArthur
United States Army
Leonard Grumet
Alonzo Brewer
Lewis Teitelbaum
Liberal Club
Pitt
General MacArthur
Appointed Dog Catcher Captures Three Dogs on First Day
Charles Settle, newly appointed city dog catcher, began work Tuesday and caught three dogs on his first day. Two dogs were shot and the third, a police dog, is held in the pound until its owner recovers it by paying a fee and boarding costs.
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Charles Settle
Cleveland hotel blast death toll rises to fourteen
The Ellington apartment hotel in downtown Cleveland from yesterday’s explosion and fire may have been incendiary. Searchers recovered a fifth body as firemen and police continued digging for other victims. nine guests remain missing among about 150 occupants.
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International News Service
Cleveland
Ellington
Davis and Reed Back Revenue Bill Passage in Senate
Senators David Reed and James J. Davis voted to pass the compromise revenue bill drafted by conferees. The measure approved 47 to 35, with Reed and Davis backing Vice President Curtis on the ruling that the bill was in order. Howell challenged the change from taxing power companies to taxing electric power consumers, but Curtis overruled and the Senate sustained him 42 to 33.
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Arthur CC. Wimer
Washington
New Castle News
Washington, D. C
David Reed
James J. Davis
Senate
House
Reed
Davis
Curtis
Howell
Nebraska
Three Cent Stamp Printing Begins in Washington
The bureau of engraving and printing started producing 4,000,000,000 three cent postage stamps in anticipation of the July 1 rate change. Production will run at 100,000,000 stamps daily until all are printed.
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Washington
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Dynamite Used To Wreck Home At Sykesville
An explosion of incendiary origin shattered the home of Mrs. Anna Sidelli in Sykesville Pennsylvania. She and her five children escaped injury as the blast hurled them from their beds. State police believe a passing car tossed at least 12 sticks of dynamite at the house. motive remains undetermined.
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International News Service
Punxsutawney
Anna _ Sidelli
Sykesville
Here
Sidelli
Ruth Bryan Owen Trails In Early Election Returns
With one fourth of precincts reporting in Jacksonville Florida Mark Wilcox leads Ruth Bryan Owen by about 1000 votes for the Democratic nomination to congress Owen advocates re submission Roosevelt holds a commanding lead for Florida's twelve votes in the Democratic national convention Governor William Murray and L J Chassee oppose Roosevelt Former Gov John W Martin leads for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination as ballots remain uncounted
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Jacksonville
Fla
Mark Wilcox
Ruth Bryan Owen
Congress
Owen
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Florida
William Murray
Oklahoma
L. J. Chassee
Milwaukee
John W. Martin
Fireman Killed In West Homestead House Fire
A West Homestead home fire claimed the life of 20 year old volunteer firefighter Steven Rubincsak Jr. when a weakened chimney collapsed on him. His wife, John Pawlysyson, and the couple’s four children escaped via the kitchen roof with injuries minimal.
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Pittsburgh
West Homestead
Here
Steven Rubincsak, Jr
John Pawlysyson
Death Record for Joseph Mutai
Joseph Mutai aged 72 percent R. D. 7 is reported deceased. The notice provides no further biographical details or obituary information.
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Joseph Mutai
R. D
Bonus Marchers Must Maintain Army At Capital
In Washington on June 8 the district commissioners order to evacuate the capital after the parade was carried out. The bonus army now manages itself with police turning over operations to marcher leaders. Police supply and relief move to a newly formed missionary division to feed nearly ten thousand encamped marchers.
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Washington
Bonus
Bonus Army
Pelham D. Glassford
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Omit Dividend After 30 Years
Youngstown Ohio June 8 directors of Youngstown Sheet and Tube voted to omit the quarterly dividend of 1.12 percent on preferred stock to conserve cash. The move marks the first time in three decades the payout was skipped.
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Youngstown, O
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company Today
Unable to Sing the Old Songs The Weather Says Eighty
A speaker laments aging and inability to recall or perform old or new songs. The crooner’s style unsettles him as he hears radio tunes but lacks words. He notes the weather is warm at eighty degrees.
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