Four Month Drive To Provide Work In 1935
President Roosevelt announces a new four month Works Progress Administration drive led by Harry Hopkins to place unemployed men. December through March projects must meet four criteria including contract timing, completion within a year, suitable relief areas, and a labor cap. Recheck of applications continues as plans for relief reductions and future targets are outlined.
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International News Service
Hyde Park
N. Y
Works Progress
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
Hopkins
WPA
Interior Ickes
Public Works Administration
Washington
New Castle High Set To Face Braddock In Opener
Friday the thirteenth brings prep football to Taggart Stadium as New Castle high hosts Braddock high in a season kickoff forecast to draw strong turnout. Voters rally on primary weekend amid large anticipated turnout for both parties. Dahlia gardens in Lawrence County show peak blooms with many exhibits, and local peaches from Norman Ryhal on Ellwood Road attract attention at the News office.
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Lawrence County
News Today
Norman Ryhal
Ellwood Road
J. H. Hale
Daily Weather Report From Morning Observation
U.S. weather statistics for the 24 hour period ending at 9 this morning show a maximum temperature of 83 and a minimum of 50 with no precipitation. River stage is 4.2 feet. Comparable data from the same date last year records a maximum of 85 and a minimum of 60 with 0.01 inches of precipitation.
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U.S
New Castle Opens Football Season Against Braddock
High school football kicks off tonight at Taggart stadium with New Castle facing Braddock. A large crowd is expected as New Castle aims to start a tough season, with quarterly results to be posted at The News building on North Mercer street. Call 4000 for updates.
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Taggart Stadium
New Castle High
New Castle
Braddock High
Braddock
Mercer Street
Citizens Organizing To Oppose $1.5 Million Bond Issue
A large cross section of New Castle residents met at the courthouse to form a taxpayers organization to defeat a proposed bond issue of 1.5 million dollars. Judges J Norman Martin and attorney Robert L Wallace led the session with plans for an education campaign to explain why the bond is unwise and unnecessary.
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Court House
Judge Martin
Robert L. Wallace
J. Norman Martin
Mr. Wallace
New Castle
Revision Plans for Pennsylvania Constitution Draft
Harrisburg reports outline recommendations from Governor Earle's advisory committee on revision ahead of next Tuesday's vote on a constitutional convention. The 75 member panel seeks local government consolidation, graduated taxes, broader borrowing power, social security for dependents, and judiciary efficiency, while keeping elected governor, lieutenant governor and auditor general.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
Keystone
Pennsylvania
George H. Earle
Council Seeks WPA Backing for Road and Band Projects
At City Hall the council voted to request WPA approval for several works totaling over 327000. Planned are paving for Raymond Leasure and six other streets, grading Schley street, a traffic survey of dangerous intersections, and a potential band project sponsored by Tony Caiazza. City share 67165.67. WPA share 240640.35.
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WPA
Schley Street
Raymond — Leasure Avenue
Garfield
Tony Caiazza
Ohio Legislature Called To Meet For Special Session
The Ohio legislature was notified to convene in Columbus next Wednesday to consider funds for old age pension payments and to finance Ohio's share of a $20,000,000 public building program. Supplemental financing methods for the rest of the year will also be discussed.
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International News Service
Columbus
Ohio
Death Of Star May Result In Murder Charge
Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr detained on suspicion of murder after Evelyn Hoey Broadway star was shot dead in Westchester. Rogers and friend William J. Kelly held 32 hours in Chester county jail before release on bond. Authorities seek fingerprints linking to the death pistol.
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Evelyn Hoey
Henry Huddleston Rogers, Jr
Downingtown
Young Rogers
Rogers
William Kelley
Miss Hoey
Kenneth T. Downs
Westchester, Pa
Chester County
Westchester
Henry Huddleston Rogers
Standard Oil King
New York
William J. Kelly
Union City
N. J
Broadway
Funeral Services For Louis C Reis Saturday Afternoon
The body of Louis C Reis a prominent former resident of New Castle will arrive from Pasadena California tonight at 9 02 PM and be taken to the Jos S Rice Co chapel At noon Saturday the casket will be moved to the First Presbyterian church where it will lie in state until the 2 PM funeral services The interment will follow at Oak Park cemetery.
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Louis C. Reis
New Castle
Pasadena
Calif
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Jos
Secretary Hull Appeals For Peace In Europe
Secretary of State Cordell Hull urged a final appeal for peace as Geneva tensions threaten a broader European war. He warned that threats of hostilities anywhere endanger all nations and urged pacific resolution of disputes between any countries.
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Washington
Geneva
Ethiopia
Cordell Hull
America
Europe
Italy
Mussolini
Hull
Officials Meet In Conference On Big Viaduct
County Commissioners Elmer E. Conners P O Elder and F R Woods joined railroad and state officials at the Edenburg site to discuss bridge and viaduct plans. The project would start near Sherrard's store, cross the railroad, span the Mahoning River, and extend south of the river before turning toward the flat and Pennsylvania railroad tracks.
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Edenburg
Elmer E. Conners
P. O. Elder
F. R. Woods
W. E. Robinson
Pennsylvania Highway Department
R. L. Becker
Public Service Commission
R. P. Frosberg
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad
A. C. Clarke
K. J. Wagoner
B. & O. Railroad
L. J. Riegler
Pennsylvania Railroad
M. C. Preye
J. §. Yard
State Highway Department
B. N. Hanlon
New Castle Motor Club
P. G. Dingledy
Pennsylvania Power Company
Mike Conti
Joseph Kuhn
John Gibson
Mahoning Township
Charles Houlette
Sherrard’s Store
Mahoning River
Death notices for Viola Luiska and others in brief
Death record items list Viola Luiska a 10 year old in Bessemer Rev Arthur Seymour 36 of Hancock NY and Mrs Henry Texter 75 of 742 Paul Street with limited readable details indicating notices.
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Viola Luiska
Bessemer
Arthur Seymour
Hancock
N. Y
Henry Texter
Paul Street
Italy Keeps East Africa Plans On Track After Laval Talk
Rome reports Italy will go ahead with preparations in East Africa despite Pierre Laval’s Geneva speech. An Italian official says the situation remains unchanged and critiques any League proposals as unlikely to offer a workable Abyssinian solution.
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Guglielmo Emanuel
Rome
Pierre Laval
Geneva
France
League of Nations
Italy
East Africa
Laval
League of Nations’ Committee of Five
Volant Road To Be Finished Soon
County Commissioner Elmer Connors announced the Volant road from the end of the concrete on the New Castle Volant road into the village will be improved soon. A half mile section left unimproved due to measurement errors caused muddy conditions and ruts. When done it will connect with the Pinchot road from Volant to Leesburg enabling direct access to the Perry highway.
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Elmer Conners
Volant
New Castle- Volant
Leesburg
Perry Highway
Hitler Declares Swastika Flag The Only German Emblem
Nueremberg Sept 13 Hitler will proclaim the Nazi Swastika flag the sole flag of the third Reich in a Reichstag session. The old imperial flag will be abolished and the hooked cross designated as Germany's emblem in land sea and air. The move aims to end flag disputes and show unity of state and party.
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International News Service
International
Nueremberg
Germany
Third Reich
Adolph Hitler
Reichstag
Hitler
Nazi Party
State Freshman Killed In Crash At Penn State
Theodore Van Anden Brown an 18 year old freshman at Penn State College was killed when the car he was driving home after attending freshman week left the road and crashed into a tree near his home. He was the son of a Pennsylvania Pur natural clergyman and was believed to have lost control while swerving to avoid an object.
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International News Service
State College
Theodore van Anden Brown
Pennsylvania Purnace
Penn State College
Brown
Laval pledges France to League action in Italo Ethiopian crisis
Premier Laval declares France faithful to the Covenant and the League. He backs Britain's call for collective action against aggression while pledging to maintain friendship with Italy and seek peaceful outlets for expansion, framing Paris as supporting collective security in Geneva.
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International News Service
Geneva
League of Nations Assembly
Pierre Laval
France
League of Nations
Britain
League
Laval
Great Britain
Italy
Senator McAdoo To Marry Third Time
Washington September 13 Senator William G McAdoo of California former treasury secretary and former husband of Eleanor Randolph Wilson plans a third marriage The bride to be Doris Crosy 25 of San Diego engaged in welfare work in Washington The senator will be 72 in October Mrs Eleanor Wilson McAdoo obtained a divorce recently
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International News Service
Washington
William G. McAdoo
California
Eleanor W.1son McAdoo
Here's to you Squire on fifty years together
A nostalgic verse to celebrate a couple's golden jubilee and fifty years of marriage. It praises enduring partnership through storm and strife and wishes health happiness and long life, with a light note about the weather at seventy eight today.
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Squire
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Council
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Arthur Mometer
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