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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1933
Page
20
Ira R. Brown and his wife Louise faced arraignment in general sessions after being tied to an extortion bid of 4700 dollars from Mrs. George A. Fuller widow of a wealthy contractor. Police traced the plot to a beer garden where Brown worked and surveillance followed fake payment notes.
Four city police officers begin a two week annual vacation starting Monday. Named are Sergeant Grover C. Syling and Patrolmen Fred Harlan Tom Ross and Patrol Driver H E Richards.
A citizen's advisory committee of fifteen will guide county relief with health and medical, work project, and case subcommittees plus two more on social breakage and free entertainment. Members include Mayor Charles B. Mayne, Dr. W. W. Bissell, Dr. Mary J. Baker, J. K. Love, and Carl E. Paisley among others. The groups will meet regularly and oversee relief work across the county with Ellwood City and other districts contributing through the county board.
Privates Richard Stover, 21, Fort Wayne Indiana Ernest Palmer, Philadelphia and Jack G Berry of Clearbrook Virginia drowned while swimming at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. They were members of the First Chemical Regiment. Airplanes and speedboats joined the search today.
L. E. Christley, referee in Work men's Compensation, will take testimony in cases here Wednesday and Thursday. The testimony will commence at 9 a.m.
A humorous session at the New Castle Rotary club featured a heated debate on whether the past presidents group should be dissolved. Past President L B Round opposed the club while George Muse supported it. Judge George Dickson presided with Ray F Hall and Fred L Rentz. Rotarian Thomas Carruthers attended as a guest. The debate followed a recent attendance contest where George Lyon’s team placed last. Presidents W J Caldwell led the meeting.
City Solicitor Robert White will protest the proposed abandonment of street car service by the New Castle Street Electric Railway to the west side. The public service commission will hear the company’s application in Pittsburgh. The city seeks resumption after the Shenango river bridge repairs.
An unknown Ohio driver lost control at the BR&P undergrade crossing on Butler road around three this morning and struck Weingartner gardens, catapulting into soft earth but missing two poles. The driver departed after state patrol officers arrived car was gone.
Washington June 12 The senate exposed income tax avoidance by partners in J P Morgan Co triggering calls from Speaker Rainey for a complete federal tax overhaul. Leaders like Senator Reed favored a gross income tax with exemptions for smaller incomes to hit tax dodgers.
Philadelphia report details a foster mother mistaking a disinfectant for medicine, giving a child a teaspoonful that proved fatal at Frankford Hospital. The woman faced a bail bond on a technical involuntary manslaughter charge as authorities reviewed the case.
Harry Hoskins municipal engineer said Work Relief employees under Engineer Roy Stewart have begun laying the foundation for a concrete culvert on the lower road to Cascade Park. Workers removed protruding ties and within a day or so gravel will be screened for the driveway. Additional crews worked on Croton Avenue hill wall Gaston Park Cascade Park proper and the Lutton street quarry. Over 100 men reported for work today.
A determined team of New Castle Boy Scouts from Troop 37 sponsored by the Kiwanis club competed for honors against 64 other groups in a first aid contest, highlighting youth service and community involvement.
Gertrude and Lancaster Webber stood trial before Judge R L Hildebrand on forcible entry charges from Rev Verlan Flack. The Webbers owned 258 West Falls Street and say they allowed Flack to stay last fall if he would vacate in spring. They claim he refused to move out, after which they entered the house through a window, placed furniture outside, and later had the furniture returned inside under a constable’s involvement. The Webbers insist their aim was only to regain possession of their home.
Nazi students raised the swastika banner at Graz university and clashed with police who stormed barricaded doors. Several arrests were made as order was restored.
John Hill, a Black man, was severely cut Sunday afternoon about three o'clock by D. M. Freeman on Bridge street. Police found Hill with serious wounds and Freeman had fled. Hill was taken to New Castle hospital with injuries to the left hip neck and right hand.
An investigation in New York found that forty blind women workers completed tasks faster and more efficiently when music was played. The workers reported feeling less tired and more cheerful with music, suggesting a positive effect on morale and output.
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