Better House Financing by FHA in Syracuse Plan
Syracuse Commissioner William F. Canough proposes using Federal Housing Authority financing for block rehabilitation in a central city sector. He envisions rings of development around downtown to halt blight, with $1,500 per house for updates including paint, new bathroom, heating, and kitchen upgrades, aiming for saleable homes rented at reasonable rates.
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Syracuse Herald- Journal
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Philadelphia
Fiery coal mine eruption near Pitt Stadium threatens city
An abandoned coal mine burning underground near Oakland Pittsburgh broke surface near Pitt Stadium and a new municipal hospital. City Works Director seeks WPA help to flood and smother the blaze, ending years of underground fire.
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Carnegie Tech
Pittsbuerch
Street Cleaner Becomes Bishop of Italian Churches
Brooklyn street cleaner, 38, to be consecrated by Rev. Eustachio Paolicelli as bishop over 500 Italian speaking Protestant churches. He will keep sweeping streets in Brownsville on weekdays, saying street cleaning provides spiritual strength and useful work. The Brooklyn based Church of God leader serves as pastor and school superintendent, with a family of two children.
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Church of God
Brownsville
Supreme Authority
Eustachio Paolicelli
United States
Department of Sanitation
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Paolicelli
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South America
Italy
Canada
Swede’s $65,000 Fortune Blocked By Allied War Blockade
Chicago May 3 Ins A fortune of 65000 left by Herman R Olson Chicago paying magnate who died without a will may be blocked by Allied blockade of Scandinavia. Olson apparently has a Swedish brother but war prevents proof of kinship from Stockholm.
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Scandinavia
Sweden
Herman R. Olson
G. Bernard Anderson
Olson
Stockholm
Temper and prayer amid chaos on city street
A speaker recalls dodging debris as a bag of garbage flew from a fourth story window past his car. He says he kept calm and did not curse but offered thanks to God that he was not hit.
Monkey Quaffs Champagne And Bites Countess Thumb
New York police and health officials faced charges for a prisoner monkey named Chico after he bit Countess Aline Kotzebue and tennis pro William Douglas at a River Club party. The intoxicated simian had champagne, three sandwiches, a banana and peanuts before the attacks.
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New York
Board of Health
Swanky River Club
Chico
C. B. Dillingham
Aline Kotzebue
New York Hospital
Willian Douglas
Man Guilty of Manslaughter Over Grocery Dispute
Albert J. Wooster of Kirkwood is sentenced to four to eight years in Attica Prison for the slaying of Robert J. Maughey a semi invalid during a quarrel over relief groceries. He pleaded guilty before Broome County Judge Thomas A. MacClary to first degree manslaughter.
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Albert J. Wooster
Kirkwood
Attica
Robert J. Maughey
Wooster
Broome
Thomas A. MacClary
Swiss Mobilizes 30 000 Reservists Amid Frontier Tension
Berne reports the Swiss government orders over 30 000 additional reservists to report from May 14 to 18 in response to German troop concentrations near the frontier. Army commander Henri Guisan weighs further mobilization as estimates say 500 000 to 600 000 men may be in arms by June. Older Landsturm units aged 36 to 60 join the call alongside younger soldiers already in service.
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