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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1931
Page
5
Harrisburg June 29 The 129th Pennsylvania legislature adjourned with 695 bills passed and 13 constitutional amendment resolutions. Gov. Gifford Pinchot signed 426 of 691 bills sent to him and vetoed 265. amendments require no governor action. Executive action covered 504 measures before adjournment.
Guardian appointed for Martin Schuster who was recently committed to Dixmont hospital. Evidence was taken before Judges Hildebrand and Chambers today as part of an R&R petition for guardianship.
A commission in lunacy reports Schuster is placed under guardianship with The Peoples Savings and Trust Company named guardian. In lucid moments the patient wishes to return to Roumania and a friend plans to take him there, with county funds advanced and later repaid from Schuster's estate.
District Attorney John Powers asked the court for an order to destroy liquor seized in raids by County Detective Lee and others. Names listed include C. J. Mc Person, Samuel Kabat sky, Ernest Rader, Mary Haddad, James Roselle, Frank Parada, John Neghin, Josephine Klein, Harry Hodges, and Rudolph Klein. Judge Hildebrand granted the order with Sheriff Frank Johnston to carry out the destruction and return the record to court.
Judges R L Hildebrand and James A Chambers will hold a session of divorce court on July 17. Cases to be heard must be filed at least ten days before the hearing date.
A large crowd attended Battery B Day celebrations led by P. L. Kinney in Mt. Jackson. The event included parades from Watt Post Home to Battery B Monument, a memorial service, a basket dinner for about three hundred, and an afternoon program at Mt. Jackson Consolidated School featuring Attorney Walter W. Braham and speaker Rev. Haverfield.
Chicago police investigated a gang related killing near a farmhouse. Frank Scavo, 26, was found face down with tire prints on his shirt, suggesting the killers ran him over after shooting him.
Morris Decolati of Gallatin, Pennsylvania, appears before Warden David Creigh at the county jail in Washington. He extends a paper reading that he agrees to come to jail in lieu of a constable and asks for leniency. Decorati, convicted of an automobile offense, received a three day sentence for nonpayment of a fine.
Historic sites once bulwarks of frontier life, including fortifications akin to Custer era outposts, confront a loss of prominence as modern development expands. Preservation groups warn that remaining structures risk being overshadowed by progress.
One hundred 4-H girls from Lawrence Beaver Butler Mercer Erie Crawford and Armstrong counties begin a week at the Fred L Rentz Y M C A camp on Slippery Rock creek for leadership study. Miss Harmony Hutchinson and Miss Eleanor Drury lead as extension workers supervise activities including games folk songs and campfire entertainment.
A Sunday evening service marked the close of the Forty Hours Devotion at St Lucy’s Church at North Cedar Street and Wabash Avenue. Five hundred attendees joined the procession after the sermon led by Rev. Fr. A. P. Scholz with guest Rev. Fr. Vincent Galliano.
Police opened a probe into the death of Beatrice Swanson three of Warren Pa. who was struck by a hit and run motorist on the Roosevelt highway near Ludlow Pa. She died overnight at Kane Community hospital after the east bound collision.
A string of vehicle accidents reports twelve fatalities and thirty eight injuries. Notable cases include Evelyn Graham age six in Stowe township and John Cavanaugh Jr. aged two in Monaca, with multiple other deaths and injuries in Pittsburgh Greensburg Philadelphia Glenside and Blairsville areas.
In Chicago acting collector Robert E. Neely reports June tax collections reaching $560,723 with one gambler paying $365,000 to clear his delinquent account. The statement notes gangsters and racketeers are settling their income taxes as required. The note is part of the St. Joseph Gazette's broader item.
In Wellsburg West Virginia on June 29 Mrs Mary Nelson Morrison wife of Deputy Sheriff Lawrence Morrison took insect powder and died shortly after a quarrel and estrangement with her husband. The same report details a burglary attempt where a man kicked a dog then shot Deputy Sheriff Bender who survived two days. Bender had a paralysed arm and is survived by his father and two brothers.
The brother of a New Castle man was shot by a burglar early in the morning. The incident occurred around 4 o'clock as Mr Bender, awakened by his dog, rushed to the kitchen and released the dog. The report notes ferocious barking as the trigger for the events.
Mrs Clark will host the Risen Star club at her South Jefferson street home in New Castle on Tuesday evening. Election of officers will be the feature of the meeting.
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