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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1932
Page
2
In Harrisburg a second special session debates unemployment relief with 51 bills from both chambers. Measures cover Sunday amusements tax relief bond issues and salary cuts for legislators, while four Senate bills stray from the relief program.
PA Newc Observes the annual shift in officers and reports minor storm damage across the city. A man aged, riding a bicycle on Court street hill, recalls his boyhood days. Two men with engine trouble worked under an umbrella in front of a South Crawford Ave house. A large limb from an old tree fell in Dr. Samuel Warner’s Croton Ave yard. W. R. Biddle carried an oversized egg from William Rodgers farm RD 2, measuring 82 inches long and 6 inches in circumference, on display.
Mt. Jackson hosts the annual Battery B families gathering though no survivor attends. A recent downtown airplane sighting raised safety concerns as rain saturates ground. A 1899 county map review by Carrie Hazen contrasts Lawrence County’s growth with today. Firefighters enjoy a furlough amid quiet days and unemployment relief plans surface for weed cutting.
Instructions explain how to answer a true false quiz titled Sez You. Readers are told to mark True or False beside each statement and tally a score up to 100, listing correct answers on page 6. The text outlines scoring and completion steps.
Streets dried after recent rains and weeds growing as sidewalks overhang in places. Today's weather was near perfect with bright sun and a cool breeze, a calm start as bass season opens Friday and fishermen plan trips to favored grounds. A calf in a South Mercer street wagon mooed as Pa Newer noted the morning scene.
A Chicago convention dispatch recounts caucuses by Mr. Broe and others. John Wilson and John K. Javen led Pennsylvania delegates while Wilson became vice chairman. Discussions centered on abolishing the two thirds rule and repealing Prohibition to bring back beer. Ted Higgins was seen with a mysterious stranger outside the Congress hotel.
The state and county aid for mothers is cut as a supreme court ruling prompts a special session. Mothers on the list will receive half the prior allowance until the legislature restores funds. Governor Pinchot called the special session to address the issue and relief is awaited.
A photo of nine men linked to a bandit gang is being scrutinized in New Castle. Authorities compare the pictured men with those seen in Cleveland for possible identification as suspects in a hold up and murder.
President Hoover has signed a bill extending the war risk insurance for World War veterans for another five years. Those insured may renew without a medical examination, per Lawrence County Chapter Red Cross advices.
Lindbergh describes meeting Curtis in Cape May and New York, plotting a Block Island rendezvous, and a search by boat. He notes Curtis’s changing plans, anonymous calls, contacts with a potential “Dynamite” contact, and a late New York return with a Hilda alias.
Chicago stadium crowds witness a battle over the two thirds rule as Roosevelt backs down from majority rule on six ballots. Huey Long and others press, Lindbergh testifies in New Jersey kidnapping trial, detailing Curtis denials and Curtis's claims versus Jack.
A senate ten minute session discussed finance probes and early readings of measures. Senator Samuel W. Salas Philadelphia sponsors a bill to let municipalities issue emergency loans to cover delinquent taxes and past years with refunds possible later, for salaries and emergency relief. Senator William S. Rial Westmoreland backs a bill for installment payments of taxes and water rents, with swift floor action anticipated.
Funeral services for James Ed ward McWilliams 13 North Liberty street were led by Rev Homer Davis assisted by two other pastors. Interment followed at Oak Park cemetery with pallbearers C. W. Davis J. C. Hyde Patrick Scanlon W. E. Marquis Charles Lent and Robert Garvin. Alice Marjorie Boughton daughter of Mr and Mrs Richard Boughton 923 Winslow avenue also was buried at Oak Park with eight pallbearers. I F Swineford and Robert C Shaw had services at family homes with interment at Oak Park and Plain Grove Presbyterian cemetery respectively.
Funeral services for James Monroe Zeitler were conducted at his residence 11242 South Walnut Street Monday evening with Dr. Charles B. Wingerd pastor of Central Presbyterian Church officiating. This morning the cortege departed for Punxsutawney for additional services and interment.
Funeral services were held from the home for Homer E. Young who died last Saturday in Fredonia Mercer County. He formerly lived in New Castle and worked for a Pittsburgh firm at his death after earlier posts with Remington Arms Nicargua Pittsburgh Water Heater and others. Surviving: wife Clara Alexander Young and sister Mary Jane McCullough. He belonged to the Presbyterian church of Connoquenessing and many fraternal groups.
Funeral services for Miss Rebecca E. Jackson were held Monday evening at 7 30 at the home of her niece Mrs C B Sproul 118 East Sheridan avenue with Dr C J Williamson in charge. Ruth Drescher sang Abide With Me and The Lord Is My Shepherd with accompanist Mrs J L Reed. The funeral party left for Uniondale cemetery Pittsburgh for interment with Mrs Blanch Lewis noting the death of her aunt Mrs J C Uber who died Monday at 12 30 at age 85.
State highway patrolmen at the New Castle station under Corporal Lawton inspected automobile brakes along several highways today.
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An illness at the home of her daughter left Mrs. Uber wife of Rev Offutt and an only child with many friends in the city. She formerly resided near Blacktown Mercer county. Short funeral services take place Tuesday at eight pm EST at 1043 Church Street Indiana Pa. Wednesday the funeral party proceeds to Grove City for 2 pm EST services at the First Presbyterian Church. Interment follows in Grove City Cemetery.
Three men convicted of stealing chickens were moved from the county jail to the Allegheny county workhouse by Sheriff Frank N. Johnston this morning. Charles Duncaster Tony Johnsonti and Theodare Shives, all residents near Hubbard CO, face sentences from six months to one year for stealing fowl from Pulaski township farms.
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