Substantial School Tax Increase Seen in Corry District
The Corry School District plans a substantial millage increase for the 1936-37 year while pursuing drastic expenditure cuts to balance the budget. A tentative plan will be presented at a special Board meeting Wednesday evening, with a curtailment program and talks on eliminating a deficit estimated at 20 000 to 25 000 dollars by year end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Charles H. Moiroc
Corry
Ita
Starglass Inara
N. I Legislators Refuse 400 Dead In Tornado
Relief agencies worked to rehabilitate tornado torn regions as crushed homes and businesses left about 400 dead across six states. Gov. White directed efforts in Tupelo Mississippi where fatalities surpassed 200. Gainesville Georgia organized a relief drive as losses neared 12 million dollars and nearly 2,000 were injured.
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United Press
Hugh White
Mississippi
Tupelo
Miss
Gainesville
North Georgia
Body recovered of drowned girl in Conewango Creek
The body of Norma Nolen aged around ten from North Warren was found in Conewango Creek near the March 25 drowning site after a search by local youths Leslie Ray Michael Russo M Baxter and Mr Brown. Friends and relatives offered rewards. a boat grappling hooks and local workers aided the recovery as funeral plans were announced for North Warren.
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Norma Nolen
North Warren
Conewango Creek
Leslie Ray
Michael Russo
M. Baxter
Mr. Brown
Warren
Nels Chrmiensen
Columbus
Leslie Dodd
Guy Simmons Named Fourth Ward Assessor
The Erie county board of commissioners named Guy M. Simmons of 20 Spring Street as Fourth Ward assessor replacing the late Samuel Wales. Simmons, longtime Corry resident, will oversee county assessment work in the ward and city, with broad public support expected. London plans to submit evidence to the League of Nations alleging Italy used poison gas in air raids on Ethiopian cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of County Commissioners
Erie
Guy M. Simmons
Spring Street
Fotmty Fofessor
Sarmiel Wales
Tsat
Mr. Simmons
Corry
London
Great Britain
League of Nations
Italland
Debate Teams of Corry High at Rotary Meet
The Corry High School debate teams, affirmative and negative, argued the question of providing a universal medical care system at public expense during the Rotary Club luncheon. Negative team members were Talth Lyman, Burton Dearing, and MacBain Sears. the affirmative team included Jeanne Titus, Martha Marie Hawking, and Mack Johnson.
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Rotary Club
Corry High School
Gladys Price
Dlistrict
Talth Lyman
Burton Dearing
MacBain Sears
Jeanne Titus
Martha Marie Hawking
Mack Johnson
Night Express Plunges Into Ravine in Mexico City Bombing
The Vera Cruz to Mexico City night express was wrecked by a dynamite blast near Paso Del Macho on Paso Grande bridge. More than 10 dead and five gravely wounded. oil car fire set other cars alight as bandits reportedly sought a money consignment. Col. Fxiuardo Chazaro aided troops in the salvage and pursuit. Fragments of the bomb were recovered.
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United Press
Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Vera Crag
Ney
Paso Grande Bridge
Paso del Macho
Fxiuardo Chazaro
Ohio River Flood Crest Near Cincinnati Predicted
Swollen streams of the Ohio Valley continued to pour muddy water into the river as a flood crest of 62 or 58 feet was forecast for Cincinnati. Meteorologist W. G. Devereaux said the crest would be reached late Thursday or Friday.
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Ohio River
Cincinnati
Ohio Valley
W. G. Devereaux
U. S
Detention in Wendel Case Dominates New Jersey Debate
New Jersey lawmakers blocked two requests to probe the Lindbergh kidnapping, leaving the Wendel case as the sole open matter in Hauptmann’s kidnapping trial. In New York City authorities detained an unnamed man linked to Wendel’s claim of abduction and torture to force a confession.
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New Jersey
Lindbergh
New York
Wendel
United Press
Trenton
N. J
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Ellis Parker
Burlington ‘County
Pavken
Parker
Gov. Hoffman
Eric Richard Hauptmann
Wen Mel
Hoffman
Hauptmann
Inge
Sherman youth jailed for double robbery and burglary
Charles Eawin Manson, 28, of Sherman, was sentenced to four two to four year terms in Attica State Prison by Judge John K. Patterson in Chautauqua county court at Mayville. He pled guilty to burglary and grand larceny for stealing a safe from Ripley Feed Co and later stealing 100 from a vault after the combination was advertised. Sherman residents testified as character witnesses. He said he married a Corry girl on October 16 but they never lived together. He claimed the robberies funded losses from failed ventures and money borrowed from friends.
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Charles Eawin Manson
Sherman
Attica Sta
John K. Patterson
Chautauqua County
Mayville
Ripley Feed Company
J. Livenguth
Sherman Schools
Henry C. Poland
Sherman Community Church
James G. Pratt
Samuel H. Skinner
Batt
Corry
Eleven Die as Big Transport Plane Crashes Near Uniontown
New York reports say a Transcontinental Western airliner carrying 14 people crashed near Uniontown Pennsylvania. Eleven perished, hostess Nellie H Grainger survived along with two passengers. Names include Mrs Meyer Ellenstein and D D August among others. The flight departed Newark bound for Columbus with a planned stop at Akron. The crash occurred after hours overdue, with radio trouble cited. The list of aboard includes Frank Hardiman and B Challimor among early named passengers and crew.
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United Press New York
Uniontown
TWA
N. H. Granger
Newark
Newcat
Meyer Ellentein
Ellensteiy Wate wArdle
St. Louuis
D. D. August
Pista
Revat August Porge Co
Grove City
Paha Plano
Otto Ferguson
N. C. Lewis
PWA
Summit Heel
New York
Frank Hardiman
Lexington Ave
New York City
Arey
Park Central
A. He
Marilyn Miller Dies at 87 Broadway Dancing Star
Marilyn Miller, 87, a renowned Broadway dancing star, died today at Doctor’s Hospital after a hospital stay for a lingering illness. Her decline included a toxemia and sinus infection contributing to fever spikes, with her husband Ester O’Brien and her sister Ruth Sweeney among those noted in the report.
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York
Marilyn Miller
Doctor's Hospital
Miss Diller
Sieway
Ester O'Brien
Ruth Sweeney
Star of Mia atre Dancer Flourished Across Nations
The article recalls a toe dancer whose early life with parents spanned many states and countries. Lee Schubert signed her for The Passing Show of 1914 in London 1918, and Florenz Ziegfeld placed her in The Ziegfeld Wollies after noticing her talent. December 21, 1920 marked a key moment in her career.
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Union
England
France
Germany
Belgium
Switzerland
Cuba
Australia
Lee Schubert
London
Floren Ziegfeld
Marilyn Monroe shines on Broadway and screen in early hits
Sally dies then Sally runs two years on Broadway before touring for two more. Marilyn fulfills a childhood boast and appears in Sunny Rosalie and Smiles. She enters film in 1929 playing Sally on screen. In 1938 she leaves Hollywood for Broadway with Thousands Cheer and remains a success.
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New York
Marilyn
Sunny
Rosalie
Smiles
Sally
Hollywood
Broadway
Italian General Graziani Drives on Addis Ababa
Rome dispatch reports Gen. R. Graziani leading a combined air and ground offensive toward Addis Ababa with aims to seize key railway links and threaten the Ethiopian capital. Military observers in Rome foresee possible Italian occupation and a strategic collapse of Ethiopian resistance as the drive continues toward the railway corridor.
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H. T. Gorrell
United Press
Rome
Ronolto Graziani
Taian Permanter
Filhinpia
Tijiga
Havar
Atlis Ababa-Djibouti
Aquis Ababasa
Changes Proposed to Vocational School Plan by WPA and State
Authorities update the school building plan following WPA and Department of Public Instruction recommendations. The board’s property committee will review changes to meet state requirements, including possible cost increases and added steel sash lighting. An architect, Karl Morrigan, will discuss the plans. approval hinges on implementing the recommendations.
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WPA
Department of Puilic
Board of Education
Mals
Karl Morrigan
WPA sewing project starts at V F W Home
Twenty seven women reported at the VFW Home this morning for the WPA sewing project. The force will be increased to the thirty provided for the work later in the week. Mrs Mille Smart of Erie supervised women’s activities and aided Mary Murray and Kathryn McMahon. Materials have arrived and the outlook is encouraging for several months of work with hopes for full operation within days. Also reported, Willamer Double, 59, of Slippery Rock, Pa, was questioned in Butler County for the murder of his sister, Laura H. Kelly, 79.
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Works Progress Administration
Mille Smart
Erie
WPA
Mary Murray
Kathryn McMahon
Sister
Washington
Willam Er
Slippery Rack
Butler County
Slater
Laura H. Kelly
Youth Confessions Solve Colza Murder Plot
State police report signed confessions that solve the murder of Metro Seminak, owner of the Brolenstraw Airport filling station near Youngsville. Joe Seneauskas, 19, of Cleveland, is named killer, paid $120 by John Polens, 81, of near Gavlani to carry out the slaying. Both men are jailed in Warren County awaiting arraignment after Polens’s Pittsburgh arrest and Seneauskas’s earlier exoneration.
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Metro Seminak
Brolenstraw
Youngaville-Pittsfield
Joe Seneauskas
Cleveland
Kowalski
Colza
Corry
John @. Polens
Gavlani
Pamy
Skaying
Seneauskas
Seminick
Pol
Trouble Seneauskas
Uder
Kovwalsiei
Semitete
Chapman
Golsberg
Warren County
Murete
Polens
Wrren
Katherine Kowalski Kovach
Culza
Warren
Thal
Pojens
Plekeit
Pittsburgh
Seret
Donovan
Buteler
Cory
Git
Seneauskes
Poléns
Garland
Youngsville
Seminal
Sencausléay
Whit
Sene@uskas
Tone Bowers
Bowers
Seminale
Assaissin
Roosevelt Highway
Tiller
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N. I
Ory
J. Ernest Palmour, Jr
Palmour
Atlanta
Clarence Ellis
Marina Reynolds
J. M. Sheffield
Becky Patterson
I Tupelo
Norma Nielsen
Guy Simmons
Rotary
MEX Express
Charles Manison
Marilyn Mi
Ller
Mantetamemr
Joe Senenuskas
East of
Metro
John Polens
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