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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1935
Page
16
Harrisburg June 10 Emergency unemployment relief in Pennsylvania is being tightened to remove ineligible families. The plan includes bonds and affidavits, bank account checks, work registration, and more investigators. So far 63,000 have been dropped and nearly 50,000 dollars returned to counties.
The National Recovery Act and its 578 codes cost over 93 million dollars for the two-year period ending this month. Code authority spending was 71.7 million, with the petroleum code at 2.21 million and the national labor relations board at 1.21 million. The Conference Board is sponsored by major manufacturers nationwide.
International News Service reports in Denver that a swarm of white ants invaded the post office stamp sections and ate through entire boxes of envelopes. Officials used gas to exterminate the pests and prevent further damage, a situation once feared to rival chain letters in scale.
In New Brighton Pennsylvania on June 10 Charles St. Clair Rowan aged 31 was killed when his car failed to round a curve, struck a bridge abutment and overturned. Herbert Karr 26 suffered a crushed chest while Florence Hahner 25 was injured with a broken nose and other injuries.
A Sunday morning presentation by Wesley M E Church children for Children’s Day featured the play Gods Flowerland in a rustic woodland setting. The cast included numerous young performers with roles such as Daisies Violets Roses and Angels, directed by Dee Rec and Edryce Cox with accompanist Miss Hillyard.
An audience including residents from Sharon Youngstown and Butler heard Judge Frederick C. Hill of Los Angeles speak on Christian Science. The lecture titled Christian Science: Gods Law of Progress argued there is a rational universal spiritual law guiding life and can solve mortal distress.
Detectives search for a killer after iron worker John F Hewson, 45, was ambushed and beaten to death with a heavy blunt object, losing $1. A passerby found him on the sidewalk. he died before hospital treatment. Police suspect a drunken misidentification. Earlier, Samuel Aiterberg, 49, brewer's distributor, was robbed of $1465 by two men who jumped on his moving machine at a red light.
Pat Murphy aged 55 was killed today after falling or leaping from a third story window of his rooming house in Youngstown Ohio. Police noted his wife died a year ago today.
In Mbabane Swaziland a native woman suffered a seven day yawn that could not be closed until a lector at the Berlin Mission helped. Doctors diagnosed a dislocated jaw bone causing the persistent gape and finally restored movement.
In Sassari Mussolini scorched critics from Britain and other nations as ridiculous, while dispatches from Africa report Emperor Haile Selassie challenging Il Duce. The exchange underscores tensions over Italy’s African policy and imperial leadership.
Harry Alexander a leading member of the New Castle Lodge of Elks No 69 is named general chairman of the reception committee for the 1935 Elks Good Will Tour party due in New Castle July 10. The party leaves Miami and will reach Columbus the day the grand lodge session opens.
Joseph Saunders, age 9, who stayed behind to fish because he could not swim, died in a pond behind the General Fireproofing Co. plant. He had joined brothers Homer Fitch, 12, and Billy Fitch, 10 at Crab Creek for swimming before remaining to fish. Police recovered the body.
Dr Herbert Lincoln Spencer, former Pitt dean, is named president of the Pennsylvania College for Women in Pittsburgh as 50 graduates receive diplomas. Acting president Miss Mary Helen Marks presides following the death of Cora Helene Coolidge.
Lawrence County Chapter of the American Red Cross will meet at 7 30 this evening in the chapter rooms for the June session. Chairman Paul F Butz seeks a large turnout as this will be the last executive committee meeting until fall.
An 18 year old girl, Miss Mary Piccari of 418 East Division, suffered a chin cut an arm cut and back bruises in an early morning New Castle incident. The car carrying four people went into a ditch after a tire blew out, injuring one passenger and leaving three others uninjured. Driver D Ross of Butler Avenue reported they were bound for New Castle.
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