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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1935
Page
1
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Dynamic relief administrator Harry L Hopkins to personally run the Works Progress Administration division for a $4,000,000 program, speeding projects to the areas with the most need and setting wage security levels. Paris dispatch reports anger over suspected German flights over frontier forts, with warnings to shoot down any aircraft in the forbidden zone.
Mary MacElroy a beauty queen type figure in one of America s strangest kidnaping crimes pleads with Gov Park to commute life or restore peace of mind appealing to you and Oregon as well as her captor Several observers expect clemency for Walter McGee who received a death sentence and is held over the $80 000 ransom paid by her powerful father The case drew wide notice in Jefferson City Missouri and continues on Page Three
Fremont April 26. A dramatic testimony by an 11 year old girl, the attack victim, in common pleas court. Arthur R. Brown, 44, the defendant and former Pennsylvania state police member, to testify to prove he was not in Fremont at 6 p m on April 2. The girl described being enticed into a man’s automobile near a newspaper stand and assaulted. Jury members cried as torn garments were shown and the court heard the poignant account led by Judge A V Baumann.
Five thousand hopeful students from 120 high schools gathered in Oil City for the state finals of the Pennsylvania Forensic and Music League. Regional preliminaries set new standards in public speaking debate and vocal and instrumental music as eliminations began in the morning across ten auditoriums.
Harrisburg April 26 The governor warns Pennsylvania may miss much of the federal four and a half billion works relief appropriation due to constitutional borrowing limits. He spoke at the second intercollegiate conference on government noting fears the funds would be allocated as loans rather than grants, with highway funds possibly exempt. The state departments request eighty one million, eight hundred eighty three thousand eight hundred.
A city council session was postponed to Saturday after Finance Director C A Duke failed to attend the special meeting called by Mayor Clen Miller. With Duke absent and waivers needed, council members declined to sign, halting proceedings. Miller and City Solicitor Walter H Scott planned to report on a Harrisburg visit regarding a bill allowing municipalities to acquire and operate lighting plants. The search for Duke extended through the town as questions about funds in his department lingered.
Washington April 26 Treasury said it has no announcement to make on the price of silver and offered no elaboration beyond the brief statement read to reporters. The government reiterated that no new policy details would be released at this time.
An explosion in a St Louis sewer collapsed part of a large tube leaving at least six men injured and four workers trapped. Rescue efforts were underway as authorities assessed the damage and risks at the site this afternoon.
In Hollywood on April twenty six, a designer Paul Wharton, 25, was shot and killed in his studio apartment. A UCLA law professor Henry Bolte, 25, was critically wounded nearby, and suspect William M Howard, 25, reportedly died by suicide after fleeing Wharton’s apartment. Police connect the cases as one of Hollywood’s most baffling crimes.
Two young couples returning from the junior senior prom escaped injury when their car struck a safety zone sign on State street in Erie early today. Driver George Gordon Jr. led the vehicle, with passengers Frank and Norma Grice and Hazel Rhenborg. The car suffered extensive front damage.
Sky Craft Inc engineers announced in Indianapolis today that an $1800 airplane, operable after 30 minutes of instruction, will be manufactured here by May 18. The Ford V-8 powered craft will resemble a car with a fuselage, wings, and propeller attached.
AKRON April 25 three suspects in the $124,005 Warren mail truck robbery were arrested as police and federal agents swept the city. Detectives would not reveal identities but said we have got the right men. More than $80,000 in bonds and many registered letters had been recovered from North Reservoir while a missing mail sack containing about 272,000 in cash destined for Republic Steel payroll remained missing.
Considerable interest centers in a test well being drilled on the George Clark farm between Corry and Spring Creek. Operations began about a week ago and progress is slow. Information today indicates what luck the sponsors have had, while local property owners hope for success. Additional farms in the vicinity are reportedly leased and Warren dollars are said to be in charge of the operations.
Forest G Moorhead of Beaver, president of the State Bar Association, urged higher standards of legal education and stricter enforcement of criminal law at a speech before the Erie County Bar Association. He denounced unauthorized low practice by lay organizations and stressed progress through professional training.
Lewisburg Pa April 26 4 disease afflicting deer in Lycoming County attributed to a fly Cephenomyia probifer by Bucknell zoologist Dr Norman H Stewart who examined the carcasses at the request of the state game commission He described mylosis spread by the fly whose larvae feed on nasal blood vessels causing inflammation and virus spread to brain centers through bone tissue
Johnson, Pennsylvania relief administrator, defended Gov. Earle's relief program amid charges from Senate Republicans that the 204 million revenue plan is extravagant. He argued the $111 million tax program is needed to aid the unemployed and to prevent a disorganized mob of the needy, insisting the administration acts are sound and necessary. Also noted is Jerome D. Barnum being elected president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association.
The 1939 Corry High School seniors were honored by juniors at the annual prom held last evening at Motel Corry. A 6:30 dinner for 139 attendees preceded a junior senior dance at the Junior High gym with Gayle Pete Brown and his orchestra playing. Libations and toasts by Junior Class president Diane Fogle and Senior Class president Walter Gutick capped the evening, followed by performances by Horace Brynolfson and Phyllis Lyons.
About 300 college students gathered in Harrisburg to conduct a model legislature as the Pennsylvania intercollegiate conference on government holds its second annual three day session. The event, led by Gov. Earle’s support and Commonwealth Secretary Lawrence, will reconvene with a unicameral 100 member body and may draft a model constitution for consideration by a future convention. Directors Bracken and Blatt of Pittsburgh head the conference.
Fire destroyed Oregon's six year old capitol building in Salem on April 26, causing more than a million dollars in damage. Historic state records were ruined and one firefighter was injured. The blaze swept through offices and a portion of the building, underscoring the loss of irreplaceable documents and state business records.
Howard Pierson, 20, son of a Texas supreme court judge, was described as a lonely youth who fled into an imagined world to escape perceived discrimination and real threats. He admitted planning and shooting his parents on a secluded road west of Austin, with a history of attempted suicide two years earlier.
A shooting affray in the South District near Welfare Island ferry left a man and a woman dead. Two other people, a man and a woman, were critically wounded. Names and locations are uncertain due to garbled text. Further details pending.
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