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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1933
Page
1
President Roosevelt moves to shift who bears risk in stock trades by requiring sellers to disclose full information about securities. The plan, announced to Congress, would force low issue firms to reveal background and truth about offerings as hearings set to begin Friday.
Governor Gifford Pinchot threatens to veto the Sowers-Conner beer bill and any measure that returns beer to politics. He says the legislature must accept his framework or face no statutes regulating beer by April 7. The conflict centers on a coalition plan backed by the beer lobby and the assembly’s delayed action.
PA Newc observes Texas yellow and white plates seen on Washington street. A young lady downtown Tuesday wore orange lounging pajamas under a coat. Buds begin to show and spring nears. Calls for dog control in city. Baseball games underway on lots. Croton venue report: two men claimed a house fire alarm. no fire found, chimney soot caused smoke.
County Commissioners Elder Conners and Woods viewed Erie county relief operations with skepticism after a brief review. They found overhead running costs high compared with Lawrence county and noted about 2500 families served, 3000 in the county, with 100 employees including 37 paid staff. The Erie facility occupies a large building and many volunteers, especially women, participate in relief work. Six trucks supported the operation as part of the effort.
International News Service reports a clogged oil feed line is tentatively blamed for the City of Liverpool disaster at Dixmude Belgium. The engine overheat is said to have damaged a gasoline intake pipe causing an explosion. 15 lives lost including a British knight.
United States weather statistics for the 24 hour period ending at 9 am report a maximum temperature of 38 and minimum of 28 with no precipitation and a river stage of 8.2 feet. Year ago readings show a 44 maximum, 30 minimum and 0.01 inches of rain.
Twenty eight relief workers from Lawrence county traveled to Erie on Tuesday to join a Regional Conference on Unemployment Relief at the Erie YWCA. Dr. G S Bennett called the day profitable as about 300 workers from the Erie district participated and discussed humane, value centered relief aims.
Special to The News reports a theft at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel where six saxophones four clarinets a bull fiddle and a bass drum were stolen. The Beverly Hills town constable seeks the thief as residents await the outcome and consider rewards.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee resumes consideration of the proposal for American entry into the world court on new terms. With urgent relief legislation absorbing attention, action likely stalls in committee unless the president shifts political pressure to force a vote.
New York March 29 reports say the famous Trans Atlantic liner Leviathan will be withdrawn from service after next month. The German built luxury ship, taken over during World War I, has not shown a profit amid competition from newer faster foreign vessels.
In Berlin Adolf Hitler tells his cabinet the Nazi economic boycott against Jews is organized to prevent spontaneous moves. He says the action is now in Nazi hands and world Jewry should see that the war against Germany can only affect German Jews. The press hails it as a defensive measure ahead of its 10 am Saturday start.
R. C. Copper 73, a farmer living six miles from New Castle on Ellwood City road, was found dead in bed by relative Oscar Houk. Death blamed on heart trouble after he was last seen Saturday. Copper had lived alone since his wife’s death and left with $7,400 bank deposits. He taught in Shenango and Slippery Rock townships earlier, survived by brother J L Copper and sister Mrs L W Bowden. Funeral Friday at 2 pm from Bowden home. interment Oak Park cemetery.
Workers from the State Highway Department repair the original Stone Arch Bridge over Big Run at Cascade Park on East Washington Street. About fifteen men lay masonry and extend the arch wall using salvaged blocks from Gardner Avenue bridge and a nearby abutment, with a crane lifting heavy stones. The project aims to prevent future erosion and damage as winter waters recede, under engineer John Street, finishing soon.
Pennsylvania’s General Assembly split on measures to regulate beer as April 7 legalization approaches. The Sowers-Conner regulatory bill faced first reading amid committee amendments, while the Pinchot beer bill moved to Ways and Means, delaying administration plans.
Dr. W. P. Tolley, a young college president, told about 100 business and professional women and girls at the YWCA that women must aid in world leadership. He praised President Roosevelt for appointing Miss Perkins to the cabinet, calling it a splendid precedent.
Rovers of Pennsylvania woodlands foresee a lumber boom as the Roosevelt reforestation unemployment bill moves, with 250000 men to work in national forests. In Allegheny region spanning McKean Elk Forest and Warren counties about 1000 men could be kept busy a year. A six point plan includes tree planting road construction improved recreations timber stand care road side improvements and fire line construction.
A Philadelphia tragedy figure from 1931 is set to marry, linking a historic case to a forthcoming wedding. Details indicate the bride will wed the identified figure, highlighting a personal union amid a long past event.
John Mc Laughlan aged 35 was shot and killed in the lobby of the Park Lane hotel Toledo by two gunmen. One gunman, possibly a disgruntled patron, also tried to shoot a bellhop and a guest. both escaped injury.
A lyrical piece celebrates gardeners tending plots with seeds and vegetables. It mentions onions lettuce greens and a promise of summer harvests while noting backaches blisters and growing muscles from work. The verse sees spadino forks shovels hoes and rakes as tools, and cites April weather as a catalyst for gardeners to raise crops and flowers.
Harrisburg March 29 House passes bill allowing school districts to terminate teacher contracts if notice is given 45 days before term end. Measure sponsored by Rep. Lose Lycoming.
Death records list Anna M Cain 83 of Washington DC Roy McClellan 30 Lowellville RD 2 R C Cooper 73 Ellwood City road Jerrald Frank Cangey seven of South Liberty Street Lois McDowell 14 Kennerdell RD 2 and Helen Barbati four months RD 4.
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