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NEWS PHONES 40C9 Telephone Tour News Items To Cali 40C0 NEW CASTLE NEWS VOLUME XLiX, No. 294 NEW CASTLE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1929. PAGES -i- i- WEATHER Cloudy and cooler tonight. Thursday cloudy. No change in temperature.

THREE CENTS A COPY Progress Indicates Graf Zeppelin To Reach Cleveland, 0. Today CALIFORNIA KNOWS HOW TO RAISE WIND FOR GRAF ZEPPELIN to News) BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, Aug. I It was a warm sultry night and. Dr. Eckener of the ZeppeUn didn't know if that still air would raise him high enough to get over the mountains, so Los Angeles had a banquet, and twenty local wn smen spohe.

They rushed from the dinner to the field and the ship raised so fast they had to throw fourtec. jpewriters and two radio announcers overboard to get it. back to a flying level. I)r. Eckener and Mr.

William R. II ear st made the best speeches. Mr. Hearst is the Queen Isabella of the voyage. And by the way this Thaden that won the Derby is from Bcntonville and Rogers, the same town I dug a high flyer out of twenty years ago.

She might have flown over Pittsburgh but her wings were sprouted in old Arkansas. Give the home town a break. Yours, WILL. Big Progress Slow; Bucking Wind Expect That Greater Speed Will Be Made During Afternoon Five Women Killed On Grade Crossing BANCROFT, Aug. prominent Freeport (111.) women en route home after a vacation at Stevens Point, were killed near here today when their automobile was struck by a gas-electric car.

The victims were: Mrs. Anna M. Gransten, owner of a Freeport publishing house; Miss Martha Young, sister of Mrs. Gransten; Miss Fanny Reitzel; Mrs. C.

Fred Kuehner, and Mrs. W. A. Hance, whose husband is now on a hunting trip with his son in British Columbia. Win tier Of Puff Air Derby Greeted INVALID ABOARD ZEP SAYS MESSAGE One Of Passengers Is Stricken With Heart Attack Tuesday (International News Service) With all its five engines churning in protest against severe headwinds hampering its ental progress, the giant Gorman dirigible Graf Zeppelin was fighting its way across 1 lie southwestern stretches of the United States today enroll te from Los Angeles to Lakehurst, New Jersey, on the fourth and final leg of its pioneering flight around the world.

From the time the huge air liner, bearing sixteen passengers and a crew Delegales Agree On Reparations At Hague Parley seriously By Eleventh Hour Agreement Hague Conference Is Saved; Young Plan Approved DR. STRESEMANN SUFFERS COLLAPSE CASTLE FAIR DRAWS BIG THRONG ON FIRST BIG DAY Horse Races and Feature Events Start With Afternoon Program Judges Begin Work on Record Crowds Thursday and Friday. At noon today the Iiarlansburg Road looked like the Lincoln Highway on a busy Saturday afternoon. Long lines of automobiles, from decrepit flivs to the latest thing in sedans moved all in the same direction, towards the pw astle air, and at two o'clock the gate keepers at the ng them through like wheat down an were i i air openeu 'irsi days of many of tin order, nor wa: diape, a Perplexing Question Of Post- War Finances Is Tentatively Settled Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden of Pittsburgh, left, winner of the national air derby, snapped file was greeted at Cleveland airport tv Cliff Henderson, manager of the national air races, leading the field of women flyers to the finish line.

Inset, right, is Gladys O'Donnell oi Long Beach, who finished second. Aew Castle PA NEWC OBSERVES Register Thursday! Attend the New Castle Fair! of thirty-four on the last lap of the first commercial circumnavigation the globe by air, swept over Arizona and the expansive reaches of Texas, contrary winds of violent proportions have put a tremendous handicap in the way of its progress across the country. Adverse Winds Late dispatches from the dirigible and from points along the route told how the zeppelin was fighting adverse winds of thirty-mile an hour velocity. With this unlooked-for complication the 70-mile an hour average speed the Graf achieved during its long flight three-quarters of the way around the (Continued On Page Two) (International News Service) THE HAGUE, Aug. the European powers brought into harmony on the perplexing question of post-war finances by a dramatic eleventh hour agreement, the economic stability of this continent was virtually guaranteed today.

On the verge of a complete collapse with years of tangled international finances threatening as the result of a breakdown, The Hague conference on reparations and the liquidation of post-war problems was snatched from the brink of failure after a trying eight-hour session which ended in (Continued On Page Fifteen) MacNicholas To Act As Director Y. M. C. A. Board Names Assistant Acting Director About time for the claimants for the tallest sunflowers to put in their annual appearance.

Workmen have installed the traffic light at Park and Highland avenues but it is not yet in working order, or at least was turned on last liight. Another to be installed at Laurel avenue, the idea being to stagger the light so that motorists will be compelled to stop at the High- land avenue public school. The light at Park and Highland will be a little difficult to see. unless some of the tree branches are trimmed. EXPECT DIRIGIBLES A CLEVELAND, OHIO DURING AFTERNOON Women Fliers May Left turns for autoists travelling west on East Washington street at Croton avenue are banned, according to a notice hung in the street.

One week from today and the school bells will peal out again, and New Castle's gigantic army of school children will be back in classes. Safetv zones have been painted on By HOMER H. METZ International News Service Aviation Editor CLEVELAND, Aug. 28. Today might aptly be termed day at the 1929 national air races now in progress at the Municipal Airport here.

at this session of the big sky tournament wall witness the finish of the Phiiadel- phia-to-Cleveland derby, the appearance of the two largest dirigibles in Mhe w'orld. the Graf Zeppelin and the Los The Zeppelin, according to latest dispatches, is expected over the airport about 1 It will fly around the field at a low altitude in order to give the crowd a good Race Over County Air Derby Contestants May Stage Race From Cleveland To Butler, Labor Day Two Are Injured, Hit By Mailbox Jireer Accident In Pittsburgh Sends Two IVIen To Hospital For Treatment PITTSBURGH. Aug. 28. When two men were treated at a hospital here for bruises and cuts they slated the injuries were received when they were by a They said they were walking along the sidewalk when an automobile ran onto the curb and struck a pole with such violence that a mailbox attached broke loose.

The object had sufficient momentum to cause painful injuries to the two men it struck before reaching the ground. The men gave their names as Mike Kusimik, 32, and Thomas Miller, 33. The driver of the automobile, Norman McVicker. 25. of Cannonsburg, was arrested and charged with reckless driving.

Thursday First Day To Register the streets in the vicinity of public closeup of it and then will proceed on schools, in preparation for the opening of the new school year. The newly opened stretch of improved road between Edenburg and Hillsville is certainly a wonderful improvement over the old route. The road is almost entirely on a new line and eliminates some of he turns and hard grades. There is still a stretch in the vicinity of Edenburg that is not improved, but work on this stretch has been delayed pending a decision as to how series of railroad tracks ir to be crossed. A certain young fisherman, by the name of Max Welleegelke, aged 11 years, brought a sun bass to Pa Newc Tuesday afternoon.

Before leaving Max wanted everyone on The News force to see it. He contends he is quite an expert at this sport. The county farm office is at present null and void, meaning to Weather Eiepocf Weather statistics for the 24-houi period ending, at nine o'clock this morning, furnished by S. Weather Observer B. F.

Johnson at the New Castle Water Co. pump station, follow Maximum temperature. 75. Minimum temperature, 46. No precipitation.

River stage 3.9 feet and falling, I to Lakehurst, N. for the finish of its history-making round-the-world flight. The Las Angeles, which is flying here from New Jersey, will arrive over the air field at 4 o'clock and then will be moored to a specially constructed mast in the centre of the arena directly in front of the stand. Another feature of the day, but one I which will hardly be witnessed by many of the spectators, inasmuch as it will take place too early in the morning, will be the refueling of the Boeing plane in which Captain Ire Eaker of Mark" fame, is attempting to lower the transcontinental flight record from Los Angeles to New York and return. Capt.

Eaker. whose plane is known as will in all probability arrive over the air port at eight As soon as he is sighted, Lieut Longfellow of the army will take to the air with a load of gasoline and the refueling will be made. The appearance of the Los Angeles. incidentally, will be featured by a demonstration of the newly developed stunt of hitching and unhitching an airplane to the bottom of (Continoed On Page Two) Plans are now under way for an air race from Cleveland to the Pittsburgh-Butler airport on Monday, which are expected to be completed today. In the event that plans are carried out the race follow a course would take them directly over this city, as New Castle is almost in a direct line from Cleveland to Butler It is said that eight of the women contestants in the air derby which ended at Cleveland Monday have indicated their willingness to enter such a race.

The race would take about an hour Li complete and would be staged during the afternoon, probably passing over here around two o'clock. Among the women who were in the cross-country derby who have signified their intentions of compel- i ing are Mrs. Louis McPhetridge Thaden of Pittsburgh, derby winner; Gladys of Long Beach, i Mrs. Blahche Noyes, Amelia Earhan, tians-Atlantic flier; Phoebe Omile of Memphis; Ruth Nichols of Rye, N. Mrs.

Kieth Miller of New Zealand, rnd Lady Mary Heath HENRY T. MaeNK HOI AS Henry MacNicholas, identified with New Castle Y. M. C. A.

work for the past two years in the capacity of assistant physical director, has been selected as acting physical director by the local board of directors. Robert L. Meermans, general secretary announced today. The appointment is effective September 2. MacNicholas will succeed to the position left vacant when Walter Knk- er, past physical director, resigned last spring to assume a physical post under the jurisdiction of the Harrisburg Y.

In making the announcement, Secretary Meermans said that a permanent director would (Continued On Page Two) All New Castle Voters Must Register To Vote This Fall REGISTRATION HOURS FOR DAY ANNOUNCED Leave Tonight For Scranton Legion Delegates Hope To Secure Premise Of State Convention For New Castle TO GET HCNORS FOR MEMBERSHIP SHOWING Delegates and alternates of the Perry S. Gaston Post. American Legion. will leave late this evening for Scranton, where they will the remainder of the week attending the state convention which opens in Scranton tomorrow The delegation which will be headed by Commander Ivor Davis, was instructed at the special meeting of the post last evening to ask for the state convention here next year, but view of the fact that it is almost assured that Harrisburg will receive the convention next year when a Memorial bridge will be dedicated, it is hardly possible that New Castle will be honored in 1930 However, they do expect to bring the great meeting here in 1931. Phil Greer, who was chairman of the Legion committee which was active in presenting the demands of the Gaston Past and citizens of New Castle in an attempt to secure the convention this year, told delegates the meeting last night that the $5.000 which was promised in the event the convention was brought here this year, would still be available in 1931 and urged the delegates to make every effort to bring the session here.

Seek To Get On Committee Past Commander Harry Long told (Continued On Page Two) irrounus elevator cliutf While big1 opening. 1 rehearsals and their booths in everything in weather prevai Old start. Splendid Cattle Perhaps feature of the exhibits are the cattle. Splendid sleek looking creatures. Jerseys and Guernseys; Hoisteins and Short horns, well fed and well groomed, all of them looking good enough to win a prize, and to those present Tuesday will be more Prank F.

Forbes, in charge es Superintendent of Dairy Cattle and Robert Stoner, superintendent of Beef Cattle have this end of the fair in excellent condition and the cattle barns are sure to draw crowds. Down in the horse barns are seen heavy draft Percherons. and Belgians, brawny fellows with well developed flanks and shoulders, looking capable of moving anything they cared to push or pull. Joseph Burton is the superintendent of this end of the show and the horses on dis- plav are well worth seeing. The sheep barns are in charge of A Fullerton as superintendent and lovers of the embryo wool shawls will find plenty to interest them here.

In the swine barn are found a lot of future baked ham sandwiches and pigs knuckles. Be rs hi res. Chester Whites. Poland Chinas. Durocs and Hampshires.

On Tuesday afternoon 'he judging contest for boys was held under the direction of Harold R. McCulloch. as superintendent, and a large group of farm boys were busily engaged in judging swine and cattle. The prizes offered are three trips to State college next June. The names oi the winners will be published later.

Chicken Coops Filled. There seems to be an unusually (Continued On Five) today is really the rs are something akin to dress exhibitors have not yet put there any racing. Today sees plendid racing card, and with a i will fcret off to a ree- Seyen Year Old Bov Is Killed Dcminick Ona Dies At. Hospital Following Injuries ACCIDENT OCCURS IN SEVENTH WARD Dominick Ona. aged 7, son of Mr Joseph Ona.

10S Montgomery avenue, died last evening: at 8:55 o'clock in the New astie hospital of injuries sustained at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday afternoon in Rabbit Way, in the rear of his home, when struck by the truck of Joseph of R. D. No.

1. Butler road, who conducts a garden business. According to the attending physi- rans death oi the little boy was due to the puncturing of his left lung by a part of the left collarbone, which was fractured as he came in contact with the truck. There was also evidence of a fracture of the (Contloned On Page Two) Reports Bedoins Mass For Palestine March PASTOR SUDDENLY 2 Called To Venango When Home Burns Home Trust Company Official Hears Homestead Is Destroyed Fev. Dr.

E. J. Rector Ot St. Johns Episcopal Church Suddenly Stricken DEATH RECORD Henry Stahl. 68, Dominick Ona, avenue.

Dr. E. J. Owen, Last Cleveland, 108 Montgomery Sharon, Pa. XAWA YS APPREHENDED County Detective W.

G. Fleming and Constable James Ellison last apprehended two boys, George Davis and Dan Phillips of Farrell, who ran away from their homes, in the vicinity of Harbor Bridge and lodged them in the city jail. They were turned over to Andy Phillips of Farrell today, who took them home. -----------------------------------------------------Mrs. H.

G. Armstrong of Vandergrift. is visiting with Mrs. H. D.

Hanna oi Lincoln avenue. J. C. Miner of Winter avenue, secretary and treasurer of the Home Trust company of this city, is in Venango, Venango county, today, where he was summoned yesterday following a fire which completely destroyed the Miner family homestead there. A telegram from his brother, who has occupied the home for some time, told of the misfortune.

Word reached here about 3:30 yesterday afternoon and the local banker left immediately for the scene. The fire was caused by a stove ex- it is believed New Castle voters will be given their first opportunity to qualify for the September primary election when on Thursday, August 29. the first registration day will be held. The hours of registering are from 7 to 9. 11 to 2 and 4 to 10 o'clock eastern standard time.

This means that the polls open at 8 daylight savings time and remain open until 10 a. re-open at 12 noon and remain open until 3 p. m. and open again at 5 o'clock and remain open until 11. Everybody in New Castle must register in order to vote.

Previous registration means nothing at all as only those register on one of the three days provided can vole on September 17. In order to register it is necessary produce county receipt, issued within the two years last past. City fax receipts are not good. Citizens who have been naturalized should have their naturalization papers wilh hem. Thursday is the first day and in older to avoid the possibility of not getting registered on the second or third day, it is urged that as many as possible get.

themselves registered on Thursday, August 29. SHOOT TO HELD AT FIELD CLUB RANGE A shoot will be held this evening at at the range of the New Castle Field club. All sportsmen, who; ferent occasions Many local Kpi: co- are interested in clay pigeon shoot- palians will attend the funeral serv- i mg can participate in the same. i ices when held 111 I i 11 SHARON, Pa An; J. Owen, one of th Episcopal church Pennsylvaiva.

iii''d home here today. He as IV i il copal church of this city. Rev. Dr E. of the northwestern at his hns Epis- The dea.h of Dr.

Owen war. due to an attack acute He had been rector oi St. Episcopal church of Sharon for approximately a quarter of a century and was one of the outstanding clergymen of the Episcopal Diocese of Erie During his rectorship, he had erected a parish house and a rectory for the parish. He was one of civic as well as religious leaders He was well known here, where he had officiated in Trinitv church on dif- 1 Ml I i i I JERUSALEM. Aug.

28 Panic gripped Palestine today as reports spread throughout the Holy Land that large forces of Bedoins. masking revolt against British rule under the guise of anti-Semitism, were massing thru- out the region for a march upon Palestine. The Arab forces, reported number at least 2.000. and including a large forces of Jebel Druse tribesmen, most of all Moslem riors. are reported to outnumber by far the available British troops in Palestine, and there are unconfirmed rumors that Jerusalem is in grave danger from the advancing horde.

Although the situation in Jerusalem proper is now more or less calm, riots between Jews and Arabs are ing in the outlying settlements of the Holy Land, the Moslem raiders ap- n.irentlv being undismayed by the large force British and marines whien have already to protect Jewish residents irom further attacks. A force of 1300 marine di today at Jaffa, the port of Jeru- alem, will bo stationed at ten miles away, which is the mam railway junction Palestine and an important strategic point With the arrival of the.ve new reinforcements. British government officials b'lieve that one company oi troops can now be posted in every city of Palestine, which is regarded as guar- against further outbreaks. Arthur Yiomcter i 'one nc I OI to ent ve- bar ot di a vus. imaica 'cs arc c.

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