Learn To Swim Campaign Opens At YMCA In 1930s
The annual Learn to Swim campaign for non-swimming boys aged 10 to 18 opened at the YMCA with nearly 400 applicants. The newly decorated Y pool hosted beginners under expert tutors plus instructors like Bill Winters and Richard Iower. The program uses NYA support and features guards trained as life savers.
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Young Men's Christian Association
Crack
National Youth Administration
Bill Winters
Austin Lewis
Richard Iower
Alfred Jones
Nick George
Paul Gilbert
Harley Brooks
Henry T. MacNicholas
Dario Baptiste
Stanley Witherspoon
First Ballot Nomination of Landon Likely
Delegates debate Landon’s chances as Vandenberg denies vice presidential plans and Dickinson disavows coalitions. New York sends 90 delegates while Hilles struggles to direct Kansas votes and Roraback joins the Landon camp.
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Landon
New York
Charles D. Hilles
Old Guard
London
Kansas
Hilles
J. Henry Roraback
Connecticut
New Castle Girl Edith Flynn To Graduate With Honors
Edith Dolores Flynn daughter of Mr and Mrs A H Flynn of 110 South Scott street will graduate Cum Laude at Villa Maria College near New Bedford. She earned high praise from instructors for a consistent record and served as a student teacher in geometry during the term. Degrees are conferred Tuesday night as commencement exercises wrap up a four day program.
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New Castle
Edith Dolores Flynn
A. H. Flynn
South Scott Street
Villa Maria College
New Bedford
John Mark Gannon
D. D
D.C. L
Consistory Men Attend Council in Philadelphia
Representatives from the Valley of New Castle Consistory A A S R returned from Philadelphia where they attended the Pennsylvania Council of DeLiberation meetings led by John S Wallace. Attending from New Castle were William C Porter Russell C Melvin W Charles Sankey John S Wallace and Walter Myers plus Merle Raisley Paul Moore from Beaver Valley Wilson Flann from Oil City and Guy McCutcheon from Franklin. The council will meet in Pittsburgh next year.
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Valley of New Castle
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Council of Deliberation
John S. Wallace
Pennsylvania
William C. Porter
Russell C. Melvin
W. Charles Sankey
Walter Myers
New Castle
Merle Raisley
Paul Moore
Beaver Valley
Wilson Flann
Oil City
Guy McCutcheon
Franklin
Pittsburgh
Two GOP Women at National Convention in Cleveland
Two distinguished Republicans, Mrs Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms and Mrs Alice Roosevelt Longworth, are photographed together at Cleveland for the GOP national convention. Simms, former Illinois at large congresswoman, and Longworth, Ohio delegate, are linked by marriages to party leaders. The caption lists numerous attendees from towns including New Castle New Castle Sharon and Pittsburgh with many names across Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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Cleveland
Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms
Illinois
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Ohio
Westminster Commencement Honors Class of 1936
Westminster College awards 114 graduates with magna cum laude honors to Virginia Booth and others. Scholarships and Bible prizes go to Adele Hall and Joyce Beatty. Seven honorary degrees include four doctorates of divinity and a science degree for Wendell Cleland. Alumni events feature a May Queen ceremony, a band concert, and a campus procession through commencement week.
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al Smith
Pittsburgh
Mary Jane Dickson
Bellevue
Hiram Stoner
Mr. Pleasant
Mary Schonhofen
Wilmerding
Florence Sando
Wilkinsburg
Bauer Meyer
Virginia Booth
Cleveland Heights
Annette Bach
Etna
Mary Louise Jenkins
Dormont
Anne Kendlehart
Emsworth
John Gerstner
Upper Darby
Herman Meyer
Lowellville
Robert Lowndes
Sharon
Marjorie Scott
Euclid
Willard George
Youngstown
Pai Nu
Kappa Delta Sorority
Eichenauer
Adele Hall
Derry
Joyce Beatty
J. B. Eichenauer
Robert P. Pomeroy
Westminster
Robert Lauterbach
Erie
Martha Cochran
East Liverpool
Margaret Eversole
American Association of University Women
New Wilmington
Miss Eversole
Sigma Kappa Sorority
William E. Wenner
Ashtabula
Helen J. Martin
American Mission College For Girls
Cairo
Egypt
D. D
J. M. McCalmont
Elfinwild U. P
Glenshaw
H. R. Shear
Crafton Heights U. P
J. H. Brinckerhoff
Ben Avon Presbyterian Church
Joseph L. Grier
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Louisville
Wendell Cleland
The
American University
Donald O. Cameron
Westminster Band
South Terrace
George Bernard Shaw
Beverly Blythe
Doris Hill
Alverton
Jean Semple
Grace Bell
New Castle
Elizabeth Charles
Aliquippa
Ruth Forsman
Midland
Florence Heintz
Isabel Reed
Poland
Catherine Hittner
Christian Association
College Y. W. C. A
Lois McGill
Ben Avon
Lowerne Swindler
Cecil Bowles
Westminster Women’s Ensemble
College
R. F. Galbreath
Robert Arrowsmith
Eric
John Auld
Allison Park
Edwin Austen
Grace Behm
Butler
Dorothy Bieber
Oil City
Ohio
Russell Bowen
Baltimore
Bruce Bower
McKeesport
Betty Brown
Panama
N. Y
John Byers
Pulaski
Edith Carson
West Middlesex
Paul Carson
Struthers
Ruth Clark
York
William Daggett
Helen Davies
Dorothy Dinsmore
Helen Dreier
Rochester
Gladys Evans
Ruth Galbreath
Elizabeth Galbreath
Sam Gaston
Dean George
Katherine Goeddel
Homestead
Lois Greer
Valencia
Esther Heyman
Rita Hite
Jane Holland
Henry Hunneke
Baldwin
L. I
Harriet Jackson
Sewickley
Carter Johnston
Volant
Dorothy Johnstone
Munhall
Anna Mary Kendlehart
David Kennedy
Wheaton
Ill
Rosina Kenyon
Pitcairn
Gerald Kloss
Albert Koper
Irwin
Nell Kudelko
Deaconess Board Elects Officers at 25th Charter Anniversary
At the Deaconess Board annual meeting held Friday at 2 pm in the Irene Maitland Deaconess Home Phillips street, five members were reelected for four years and J E Iams elected to fill an unexpired term. The gathering marked the home’s 25th charter anniversary with remarks from Dr T E Colley and two charter members recalling early history. A social hour followed refreshments prepared by the Mahoning Home Missionary society. The board will reorganize June 26.
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Deaconess Board
Irene Maitland
Phillips Street
H. M. Allen
J. M. Edwards
L. M. Buchanan
Gertrude Mitchell
Roy C. Miller
Jennie Anderson
Evelyn Bloomer
Wesley M. E
Alma Wolverton
First M. E
Ida Schnackel
Mary C. Hedman
Baltimore
Grove City
Jennie Drake
Emma Baer
Mahoning Home Missionary Society
First Lady Greets Farm Wives at DC Conference
Mrs Roosevelt welcomes 6500 farm wives from 16 countries and all states at the White House during the third triennial conference of the Associated Country Women of the World. President Roosevelt pledges to seek better substitutes when new things fail.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alfred Watt
Vancouver Island
B. C
Associated Country Women of the World
Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Roosvelt
Central Press
Boy Hit by Truck in Brooklyn Avenue Accident
Bruce Heasley thirteen, son of Andy Heasley of 707 Brooklyn Avenue, is in Jameson Memorial Hospital in serious condition after falling from a bicycle and being struck by a truck driven by Walter Wisner at 10 o clock this morning near North Crawford and Erie Avenue. He has a possible skull fracture and left rib fractures with shock, as hospital authorities report. Two entombed miners, Charles Webb and Dan Williams, trapped after an explosion, are believed dead with near zero chance of survival after attempting to move a slate blockage.
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Bruce Heasley
Andy Heasley
Brooklyn Avenue
Jameson Memorial Hospital
North Crawford and
Erie Avenue
Walter Wisner
Charles Webb
Sullivan
Dan Williams
Paxton
Volunteers Reach Two Entombed Miners Battling Gas
Fifty volunteers under U S Bureau of Mines experts fought gas and rubble at Paxton Indiana as they tried to reach two entombed miners in the Slate mine. The operation focused on safe access and rescue, with progress reported amid dangerous conditions.
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International News Service
Paxton
Ind
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Rice To Determine Vacation Periods For City Firemen
Council this morning left to Safety Director J Myron Rice the problem of vacations for firemen. He asked colleagues if there was any law on city books relating to vacations for the fire laddies and decided that one week's vacation would be given to firemen employed less than one year and two weeks for those employed more than one year.
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J. Myron Rice
Rice
State Delegation To Favor London
Pennsylvania's 75 delegates to the Republican national convention largely back Gov. Alf M. Landon for the nomination. Officials predict Landon will win the first ballot with about 15 votes for Sen. William E. Borah and Col. Frank M. Knox to split strength. The question hinges on when the state moves to join the London camp.
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International News Service
Cleveland
Pennsylvania
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Landon
William E. Borah
Idaho
Frank M. Knox
Chicago
London
Fourteen Criminally Insane Inmates Escape at St Peter
Fourteen criminally insane inmates at the state hospital for the insane in St Peter, led by Lawrence Devol Barker Karpis gangster, overpowered guards and escaped last night. Two were recaptured and authorities in surrounding counties opened road patrols as hospital officials declined to discuss the break.
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International News Service
St. Peter, Minn
State Hospital
Lawrence Devol
Barker- Karpis
Woman Enters Plea To Drunken Driving Case
Emma Hilke, the sole woman charged with driving under the influence, entered a nolle contendere plea this morning and faces sentencing later. John A. Riley Jr. pled nolle contendere to failing to register commercial foods. Eugene Thomas pled guilty to breaking and entering the Jenkins grocery.
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Emma Hilke
Nolle Contendere
John A. Riley, Jr
Eugene Thomas
Jenkins
Card Of Thanks From Dunlavey Family
The Dunlavey family expresses gratitude for sympathy and kindness shown during their bereavement. F. M. Dunlavey and family extend thanks to all who offered support.
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F. M. Dunlavey & Family
The Jungle Sermon Topic At Nazarene Revival
The young peoples revival at the Church of the Nazarene runs all week. Tonight features a musical service at 7 30 with Rev and Mrs Ellis Teasdale to sing, followed by a sermon on The Jungle. A prayer service starts at 7.
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Young Peoples Revival
Church of the Nazarene
Ellis Teasdale
Marriage License Applications Listed for New Castle Area
The notice lists multiple couples filing for marriage licenses across New Castle and nearby areas. Names include Otto H. Pearsall and Charlotte Kuerner, Anthony Perenny and Mildred Liput, and Joan Ellport with Allen Berger, among others. Addresses span Norwood Avenue Erie and Pine Street New Castle, with entries for residents in Ellwood R D 1 and Liberty Hotel.
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Otto H. Pearsall
Norwood Ave
New Castle
Charlotte Kuerner
Erie
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Gov. Landon
Vandenberg
Michigan
Walter E. Edge
New Jersey
George N. Peck
Col. Peck
Hoover
Platform Committee
Dickinson
Iowa
Dolores Flynn
Villa Marie College
Council of Deliberation
G.O.P
Robert Lake
Oakmont
Mary Lembie
Roland Levine
Anna Mae Leyshon
Nancy Litman
Verona
Hazel Long
Worthington
Virginia Luse
Donald McAdams
Leonard McConnell
Jackson Cen
Pearl McConnell
New Galilee
Thelma Dunmire
Lakewood
Thelma Marrilees
Kenneth McCormack
Rimersburg
Mary McFarland
George McGeoch
Cambridge
Chauncey McGeorge
Marjorie McGeorge
Isabel Mackey
Otto Manse
Florence Marriott
Mildred Roux
Farrell
Virginia Rumbaugh
Saxonburg
Wayne Rush
New Alexandria
Ellwood Rushworth
Swissvale
Alta Russell
Ruth Rutter
Isabel Sheetz
Hudson
Kenneth Seifert
Helen Simison
Jane Similey
Bulger
Robert Snodgrass
Harvey Snyder
Comfort Spelman
Kent
Ruth Stewart
Hubbard
Natalie Taylor
Stoneboro
Jacob Thomas
Dorothy Tinker
George Tomko
Helen Towner
Mt. Lebanon
Wm. Turner
Cambridge Springs
Martha Veazey
William Wagner
Richard Watt
Irma Wible
John Willits
Ford City
Evelyn Wilson
Dorothy Young
Janet Brenneman
Walter Donaldson
Lloyd Garrett
William Glaser
Virginia McCown
Lillian Oelslager
Greensburgh
John Shiling
Anne Thomas
Bernice Turner
Robert Willison
Dr. Davis
Deaconess Board Annual Meeting
Deaconess Home
J. E. Iams
W. L. Bloomquist
Pleasantville
Theiel
India
Ceylon
Java
Sumatra
Boy
Minnesota
LE An
Vacton Perry & Bryan
Washington St
Inside
Sherwin-Williams
Anthony Perenny
Miller Ave
Mildred Liput
Es Awen Ellwood
R. D
Allen Berger
Joan Ellport
Gladys Boots
Steve Gonda, Jr
Hanna St
Mary Vincent
New Castle Boro
Herbert Ridgley
Liberty Hotel
Anna Catherine Anderson
Pine St
Fish Co
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