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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1942
Page
1
The readable fragments mention Corry and May but lack clear events, names, or dates. The garbled lines reference a home order, authority, and city context without coherent details. No decisive action or outcome can be established from the legible content.
Allied air forces intensified operations against Japanese bases in Lae New Guinea and Bougainville as fears of a broader Southeast Asia drive rise. Four Japanese planes were destroyed at Lae, with a raid suggesting Japan may target Australia or seize New Guinea and surrounding isles to cut supply routes. The Darwin raid drew a strong Allied response, with eight bombers and three fighters downed.
An auto driven by Arvin Dainger of Spring Creek left the Roosevelt Highway and struck the fence at the State Fish Hatchery annex west of Corry. The car was badly damaged while Dainger sustained only bruises and shock. The hatchery fence suffered extensive damage.
Edward Gawarecki, 23, of Mapleview near Rome, New York, faced murder charges in the slaying of Lloyd Wilkinson, 23, of Northass. Gawarecki admitted the armed hold up and robberies linked to a shooting amid a background of other crimes in various New York city investigations. He was being guided by District Attorney Burton R. Laub and state troopers in the Wilkinson case.
Chief of Police J Bert Healing of North East credits tracking to the mystery of Lloyd Wilkinson a 23 year old Navy petty officer slain on Good Friday near Harborcreek. An arrest notice in St Louis linked an armed robbery suspect to the case and connected the party to the Wilkinson murder as District Attorney Buron Laib headed to St Louis.
In the fourth wartime manpower survey, men aged 45 to 65 registered briskly with an estimated 700 enrolled by about 1 pm. Registrations ran from 7 am at Municipal building and Senior High School, with boards staying open past 9 pm. Registrants sign for non combatant duty and will receive a three page questionnaire on skills and experience.
Washington April 27 Navy announced the destroyer Sturtevant had been sunk off the Florida coast by an underwater explosion within the past 24 hours. Also dated April 27 war updates say Corregidor sorties disrupted a Japanese troop concentration on the Bataan Peninsula and sparked fires in enemy motor vehicles. Federal Communications Commission froze most domestic radio instruction for duration of the war with two exceptions. In West Virginia a 24 year old man faced grand jury on reckless driving after a fatal automobile crash that killed a worker. In London British sources say two new Japanese thrusts risk UN positions in Burma near the Mandalay Lashio road.
In Jersey City on April 27 five people were killed and 262 injured as the Hudson River Tubework train derailed at Exchange Place. Motorman Louis A Vierbuchen of Newark was charged with manslaughter. investigators sought the exact cause as other crewmen were questioned. Rescuers used floodlights and gas masks amid wreckage and power loss.
President Roosevelt outlined a seven point program to stabilize wages and salaries, curb the cost of living, and gear the economy to wartime conditions. He urged Congress to act on measures including tax adjustments, price stabilization, credit restraint, and rationing of essential goods.
Members of gesuure oy educa tion will convene its special session at 8:90 o'clock this evening to con sider the 1042-43 budget. The meeting will be preceded by a committee session, which will complete the preliminary work on the budget, permitting the submission of the estimated needs of the district for the coming year to the full membership of the board at 8:40 o'clock. Tentative approval of the budget is expected to take place at the meeting.
Robert Clyde Smith, 17, of 708 West Main Street, died after being struck by an automobile driven by Lawrence Brown, 17, returning from French Creek inn. Brown and two passengers admitted drinking beer. Brown faced involuntary manslaughter charges as police noted beer impairment. Unclear exact location details reference Haré Creek area and nearby farms.
The Soviet Union launches a major offensive into Finnish territory from the east as Britain notes the drive nears the British frontier in 1949. Finnish high command reports attacks along the Karelian Isthmus near the Siglin Canal and Lake Onega, but says the assaults were repulsed.
A heavy loss fire destroyed a large barn and silo on the Roy Skift farm on Welch Hill southwest of the city. The blaze also claimed a cow and damaged hay, seed oats, and farming tools while the Maine family suffered losses. Insurance was limited on the barn contents and Skift’s loss was partly covered.
Adolf Hitler won supreme power in Germany with the Reichstag vote after pledging obedience and warning of a potential new war. The speech intertwined bombast with anxiety as Goering and others pressed for legal confirmation of Hitler’s expanded authority to mobilize the nation for future conflict, especially against Soviet Russia.
The RAF carried out its largest Western Europe offensive, bombing Rostock and other targets in a strategic push that could reshape the conflict. About 1,600,000 pounds of bombs were dropped on Rostock as US collaboration and Western European pressure grow. British and American air power supported raids across Boulogne and Le Touquet, with German retaliation including Bath.
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