Corry News Briefs and War Era Updates
Local notes report near flood hazards and hazardous driving conditions. Charmin Roy McDonald of San Sylvae Erie county notes a scrap demand and price rise on Wednesday April 26. Police handle a bowling alley quarrel. no arrests. Private Kurt Lindberg among Cincinnati trainees after curtailment. Lost wallet recovered with documents. currency traced. Blackout fears and defense test hints prompt public alert. Rabies epidemic notes and Pasteur treatment impact. War casualty lists include Pfc Joseph Gale and 38 Pennsylvanians missing in action. New York Life Insurance marks 100 years since April 19 1945 founding.
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Charmin Roy McDonald
Tin San Sylvae
Erie County
McDonald
Corry
Ghairman Burch Gordon
Erie Court to Rule on OPA Rent Control Eviction Case
April 12 Erie county court opens a challenge to OPA rent control authority in an eviction dispute. Carlsons seeks eviction of Mrs Watts from a house owned by L Carlson, with Carlson claiming nuisance. Attorney Agresti argues OPA overstepped by issuing the eviction letter. judge Evans sets hearing for late May.
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Erie
OPA
Elmer L. Evans
Erie County
Rd. Watts
L. ©. Carlson
Richard ‘Agresti
Watts
Local
Rent Control Board
Agresti
Carlson
Agrest
OPA Rent Control Board
Ahoney Henry A. MacDonald
Evans
Mrs Raymond Spiesman Dies After Illness
Mrs Raymond Spiesman died Tuesday afternoon at 1 16 at the home of his parents 608 West Smith Street Medina New York born September 8 1908 in Medina N Y spent years in Erie before moving to Corry She is survived by her husband four brothers all of Medina A rosary service will be held Friday at 9 30 from St Thomas church with prayers at the Spiesman home Interment in the church cemetery
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Jars
Verurude
Lewis” Spiesman
Raymond Spiesman
Snyder Circle
Charles Spiesman
West Smith Street
Splesman
Mevina
Erie
Corry
Huge Navy Fund Bill Reaches House
After hearing Forrestal's off the record remarks the committee made few cuts in the budget requests. The approved total of 32,047,194.96 is 80,685,164.00 below the submitted requests. The total includes 27,072,000,036 in new appropriations and 5,073,931,400 in noncontractual authority.
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Forrestal
Pennsylvania Sawmills Struggle for Wartime Lumber and Manpower
Pennsylvania sawmills push wartime lumber output amid critical manpower needs. The War Manpower Commission and United States Employment Service project a 1944 demand of about 3,347 workers across mill operations, with 2,162 wood workers and 585 sawmill workers targeted. In 1954 PA mills produced 490.877 million board feet, with 977 mills declaring output above 40 million feet annually.
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Pennsylvania
Gurney Curiae Ae
United States Employment Service
State War Manpower Commission
Tot Woods
Tor Sswanill
Wor
State Department of Forests and Waters
Swymilling
Allegheny Forest Experiment Station
United Sates Employment Service
War Manpower Commission
Dunkirk Plans End of Tax Reimbursement Agreement
Dunkirk officials move to end the city charter duty to reimburse the school board for uncollected senior tax levies. The council adopts a plan to pay delinquent taxes totaling 429,291.44 from 1935 onward if the school board approves the accord at its next regular meeting.
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Dunkirk
Board of Education
Three Oil City People Remembered in Probate Will
Blanche J. Jones widow of George H. Jones former president of the Standard Oil Co of New Jersey left a will naming Oil City residents two local churches and the Oil City Hospital as beneficiaries. The will has been submitted for probate in the surrogate's court of Westchester County New York according to information received yesterday.
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OL Cevy
Oil City
Oil City Hospital
Blanche J. Jones
Nazis Retreat in Crimea War Zone and Romanian Front Shifts
Soviet reports say Nazi forces pull back in the Crimea as Skrsinian units strike across Central Romania. German and Romanian losses around Pascani totalled 3,000. Axis counterattacks near Tasl repelled, towns seized. Malinovsky’s forces push toward Chisinau while Konev’s army claims 30 more localities. Zhukov’s Ukrainian army presses along the Czechoslovak border as Czech troops join liberation efforts.
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Rombia
Pascatli
Prul River
Custesii
Eigi
Pascani
Wid Ploesti
Tasl
Flere
Rodion
Malinovsky
Tiraspol
Ovidiopol
Chisinau
Ospital
Bessarabia
Konev
Moscow
Carpathian
Iasi
Bucharest
Koney
Gregory K. Zhukov
Ceech
Fry Family Estate Bequests Not Disclosed
A sister of Dr George N. Fry of Dil City is reported to have died. the will lists beneficiaries including Dr Pry James W Fry and Richard I Fry. The estate size and exact bequests are not disclosed in the available text.
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George N. Fry
Dil City
Dr. Pry
James W. Fry
Richard I. Fry
Vandals Smash Erie Car Glass at Club Lot
Erie police report vandals smashed windshields of five cars on the Cascady Park Club lot at 301 Raspberry Street between 10:15 and 10:35 p.m. Investigators name five owners and note rocks and slag found in vehicles. Club president Emmet Bard will call a board meeting amid suspected ties to recent dissatisfactions among former members.
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Erie
Cascady Park Club
Raspberry Street
Lesrard Spell
East 5Th Street
Bertha Ester
East Biule Street
Willis Miller
East 28Th Treet
John Wachter
Arthur
Hish
Emmet
Bard
Vic Wars
Scrut
George Bayber
Negro Locked In Boxcar Two Days
Alonzo Grossow a New York Central camp resident slept in a Pennsylvania Railroad box car and was imprisoned for two days before a brakeman found him in a Renova siding. He was returned to Erie and charged with trespassing, later released on costs to Alderman Thoms McCarty.
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Alonzo Grossow
New York Central
14Th
Myrtle Streets
Pennsylvania Railroad
Renova
Sassafras Streets
Cross
Erie
Lemon Juice Cure for Rheumatic Pain Promoted
An advertised remedy claims lemon juice quickly eases rheumatic pain. The promo urges a 10 week supply from Rexall Cut Rate Drug Stores with a money back guarantee.
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JWR Chingians
Wytor
Gustuntey
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National Geographic Society
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James Pappas
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C. BE. Lindberg
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati
Richmond, Ky
Eastern State Teachers. College
Warren Police
Far Jewsh Jaapers
Richa D. Hughes
Bernice R. Gravina
Taransrrine Ucense
Gorry
State of Willon Defense Headquarters
Torrisburg 50
Gysfinleel
Middletown
Yeaden
Sewickley
Tarentum
Ford City
New Brighton
West York
Mineraville
Nazareth
Palmerton
Washington
Joseph P. Day
New York
Navy
Pfc
Joseph Gale
The
Maines
Salina
War Department
Donald Caton
Imperium
Louis J. Fey
Shar~on
Stail
Hones E. Howley
Warren
Clyde H. Schott
West Middlesex
Joseph A. Skonaw
New York “Life Insurance Company
New York State
Rent Control Office
Crimea
Resiatone
Panama
Panama Way
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Able and State Breets
Coca-Cola
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