Plan Ceremony At Liberty Bell Plan ceremony will mark opening of GOPNational convention
Harrisburg notes describe a streamlined Republican National Convention opening in Philadelphia with Pennsylvanian delegates key to outcomes. Independence Hall ceremony features the Liberty Bell viewing and a performance by Richard Crooks. Pepper and Hamilton to speak as Rowland's Rangers push Governor James for standard bearer. The Pennsylvania GOP backs James as best fit to lead in the fall.
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Raymond Wilcove
International News Service
Harrisburg
Bilty
Philadelphia
Independence Square
Independence Hall
Hamilton and
Pepper
Richard Crooks
Metropolitan Opera Company
Committee of 300
James
Rowland
Josiah W. Kline
Republican Party
Kline
New Castle
Refugees recount France's ruin and wartime journeys
Refugees describe upheaval from Bordeaux to Paris and Lisbon as the Washington ferries displaced civilians back to America. Mrs. Bongnird, a newlywed, awaits word from her French-army husband while others recount war shocks, escapes from Palestine, and encounters with submarines.
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Nicholas Bongnird
Molly King
Grosse Point
Mich
Mark L. Severe
United States
Paris
Washington
Sioux City
Town
Nancy
Joly
Seek To Prevent Germany Seizing Foreign Money
Washington June 21 The House Banking Committee recommended a bill to bar Germany from seizing billions in the United States without government approval The measure would allow delivery of such funds to foreign governments only if recognized by the State Department It targets Germany to block a $1 billion gold transfer by the Federal Reserve to a puppet government and also applies to the Netherlands and other conquered nations
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International News Service
Washington
Honse Banking Communittee Today
Germany
State Department
Crerman
France
Federal Reserve Bank
Holland
Two Held For Attack Upon Wright
Two colored youths, Edward Nixon and Clarence Thomas, both of Moravia street, were committed to fall on a charge of assault and battery after an incident on Grant street near North Jefferson Street. They allegedly argued with Peter Wright over money for labor owed, Nixon drawing a pen knife and cutting Wright's overalls. Constable Fair arrested both.
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James C. Brice
Peter Wright
Green Street
Edward Nixon
Clarence Thomas
Moravia Street
Grant Street
North Jefferson Street
Wright
Nixon
Wight
Fair
Shellenberger to Speak at Mission in Bath NY
Wayne Shellenberger a New Castle youth and recent Binghamton Bible School graduate will be guest speaker at the City Flescuie Mission tonight at 8. Archie Gibson says special musical talent is also engaged for the evening as Shellenberger prepares to become pastor of the Christian church in Bath New York.
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Wayne Shellenberger
New Castle
Binghamton Bible School
Binghamton, N. Y
Christian Church
Bath
N.Y
Flescuie Mission
Archie Gibson
Welsh statesman urged to join Churchill’s cabinet
Friends of David Lloyd George urge the Welsh statesman to reconsider a post in Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s cabinet if offered again. They argue his entry would strengthen the British government after Churchill formed his cabinet months ago and Lloyd George previously refused a post.
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David Lloyd -George
Great Britain
Winston Churchilla
Churchill
Lloyd George
New Castles Speculates On Third Term Plans
In New Castles officials debate third term goals, noting Knox and Stimson unlikely to accept a nonpartisan defense post if it ends January 20, 1941. Frank H. Gannett, a New York publisher and GOP aspirant, bluntly says the president seeks a third term.
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Knox
Stimson
Frank H. Gannett
New York
GOP
Huy
Vacation Newsletter Delivery Service Details
The News offers home away delivery while you travel from New Castle. Arrange at the News office, not with carriers. Rates listed: one week 25e, two weeks 40c, one month 50e, three months $1.26.
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New Castle
G O P Leaders Claim Cabinet Creates Issue
Reports from Philadelphia and New Castle outline rival GOP camps over Willkie Dewey and Taft ballots with Delaware news noting cabinet members Hull Knox and Stimson shift toward interventionist stance. Republicans warn about war mood while emphasizing antiwar pledges and isolationist promises.
Extension Party and Baker Family Reunion Highlights
The Plaingrove and Tarlansburg Senior Extension clubs hosted Butler and Mercer County clubs with 90 attendees. Games led by Mr Lang of State Peachers College, and a program by Edwin Gardner, followed by a lunch and friendship hymn. Baker family reunion at Gaston Park included a luncheon at 12 30 and contests. out of town guests Jane Bladman and Mrs Paul Amiey among attendees.
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Plaingrove
Tarlansburg
Butler
Mercer County
Lang
State Peachers College
Edwin Gardner
Leora McCommon
Plaingrove High School
Walter
Baker
Gaston Park
Alden
Jucy Cobert
Mra
Beatrice McNicholas
Mame McNicholas
Jane Blackman
Jane Bladman
Latonta
Paul Amiey Raed
Anne McNicholas
Youngstown
Members Attend Social Gathering and Tea Party
Mist Pearl Bromley received M and Othn M. nedic tub members and special guests Helen and Della And Ten. Cenilla TMynin and Charlotte Cameron won cards. Refreshments followed with an array of new handkerchiefs. A birthday anniversary was noted for 18 today.
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M. Nedic
Mist Pearl Bromley
Patetersonee
Cenilla Tmynin
Charlotte Cameron
Helen
Della
Cascade’ Park
Phyl LeCoamte
Deaths of the Day Obituaries in Slippery Rock Butler area
Funeral notices report Mrs Elin Milton Ziegler wife of John Ziegler funeral Thursday at Emanuel Evangelical church with Rev C W Dietrich. Pallbearers listed and interment at Oak Park cemetery. Also obituary for Mrs Birdie Stillwagon 67 died at Butler Memorial Hospital after a week of illness. Services Sunday at 2 30 from Central Presbyterian church residence. Interment Sap pery Rock cemetery.
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Milton Ziegler
John Ziegler
Emanuel Evangeliea
C. W. Dietrich
Russell Thompson
George Strehler
D. W. Hopwood
George E. Strehler
Fred Wedley
Birdie Stllwagon
Rebukah Lodge
Slippery Rock
Ralph McCandless
Butler
Kenneth
James Allen
R. M. Patterson
Central Presbyterian Churel
Grant Fisher
Sappery Rock Cemetery
John M. Watson
Highland Avenue
C. N. Moore
J. K. Purst
H. D. Elder
George W. Ramsey
Ty O. Morgan
Cilbert BE
Long
A. A. Webb
Westin Oak Park Cemetery
Knickerbocker Tells Of Flight From France
Belgian Public Health Minister Jaspir and former French Air Minister Pierre Cot figure among refugees aboard a vessel carrying 1,500 reporters and British, French, Polish, and Czech journalists. Two-thirds were British. The group, including four American newspapermen, lived in a waking nightmare as France fell and the morale of the army collapsed, while the Meuse rout and German moves dominated urgent headlines.
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Robert Rothschild
Jaspir
Pierre Cot
United States
France
Britain
America
G men probe bombing plot in citys deep alarm
Investigators and police guarded public buildings and newspaper plants after a bombing plot was uncovered. A dynamite theft from a west side construction site prompted a large subversive roundup. One blast injured nine at the Daily Worker building and glass shattered at the German consulate. A formal US plan seeks a Pan American trading cartel to control export surpluses as war rages in Europe.
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Dewey
Daily Worker
Battery Place
Joseph McKilin
Deutscher Handels and Wirtschaftsdienst
Antrage Buckwandtrunpg Divisenfragen
Roosevelt urges unity in trade as wartime cabinet picks emerge
President Roosevelt calls for united action on trade while hinting at a harsh wartime cabinet plan. He nominates Henry L. Stimson for secretary of war and Col. Frank Knox for secretary of the navy, with aides noting their nonpartisan defense stance amid the New Deal era. Roosevelt plans a weekend press conference at his Hudson Valley home to outline the approach.
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G. O
Europe
Republican Party
United States
Chatman Hamilton
National Committee
Henry L. Stimson
Col
Frank Knox
Navy
Roosevelt
Stimson
Herbert Hoover
William Howard Taft
Knox
Hudson Valley
Governor James Campaign Opens in New Castle
Governor James signals readiness to accept candidacy if urged. He says the path from breaker bay to potential president is long. Taft of Ohio and Frank Gannett of Rochester are among visitors in the hotel, meeting with delegations eager to see him.
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Dewey
Wendell Willkie
New
Rhode Islands
Taft
New Castle
Abraham
Roosevelt defends Stimson and Knox selections
President Roosevelt defended his Stimson Knox cabinet picks and denied plans for a third term while signaling a wartime coalition. He argued voters should consider patriotic motives over partisan aims as he outlined a defensive program not aimed at intervening in world affairs outside the hemisphere. In New Castle, Everett Ayersman 22 faced 54 days in jail after pleading guilty to assault and battery, disorderly conduct and petty larceny tied to a June 15 theft at G C Murphy Co. store.
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American
Ray
New Castle
Everett Ayersman
Wallace J. Ewing
Asault
Willis G. McMalen
G. C. Murphy Co
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