01 Aug 1928
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1928
Page
1
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Fragmentary OCR item mentions pensions, payments, and property notes in a South area around 52 East and Suttings. References to James and Hix appear with possible street addresses and unsettled drainage or paving costs. Details are unclear but indicate financial obligations and local street matters.
A Reid Range gas station near Beaverdam was looted overnight as thieves smashed the door and hauled away cash and goods including fuels, candy, tobacco, and automobile items. In Cadiz Spain, Ramon Franco prepared a four motor Dornier seaplane for an Atlantic World flight, starting with a takeoff from the bay and planning stops through the Azores, Halifax, and New York, amid a large crowd and government officials observing.
Thirty six employees of the Indian Refinery Company of Lawrenceville Indiana were treated at Good Samaritan Hospital after an explosion at the plant. One worker said the steam still head blew after startup. Fire crews fought flames as gasoline sprayed and the blaze was contained. The plant's capacity is about 15,000 barrels per day and about twelve hundred men are employed onsite.
WEAT presents Gilbert and Sulivar with Opera Princess Tale at 9 30 PM. WOR Newark airs Rey Clicks at 7 20 PM and Kolater Light Opera Hour on the Wiz Network. Patmolive Hour on WHAT Network features Philco flow and other programming details.
In Rome, Premier Mussolini will hear the full account of the North Pole disaster from General Umberto Nobile and his crew after their triumphant return. The expedition members were greeted by a crowd of thousands at the station, with Prince Ponziani leading the formal welcome and the crew paraded through cheering streets.
Hoover will lead a personal speaking campaign expanding beyond radio. He plans a broad sweep through Buffalo, Boston, Chicago, New York and other cities, with stops in border states and possibly Louisville or Nashville. The tour may be one or two trips, with weekly Washington base and limited speeches each trip. The plan aims for the widest country-wide tour in recent years.
City officials report no response from Pennsylvania Railroad and Erie Railroad on promised reconstruction of dangerous grade crossings and water drainage under right of way. City Solicitor Kincaid threatens action before the State Public Service Commission if no progress in days. Engineers continue inquiries into flood damage at Corry Jamestown plant and protest needed drainage work to divert water away from the plant and sewer system.
Secretary Kellogg announced he will sail August 18 from New York aboard the te de France for Paris to the termination of the war treaty with arrangements for his return aboard the Leviathan sailing from Prince September 4.
Police received a call around six about a car loaded with liquor being unloaded at a Second ward house. Chief Tipton and Officer Ruppersberger found a New York registered car with advertising circulars. no liquor was found. Residents said the car had been there earlier driven by a man and a woman. rumors of weekly liquor deliveries in the area have circulated for weeks.
A roar shook South Toledo when a gasoline tank exploded at the Holson Varnish Company plant. Within 20 minutes flames enveloped the facility as vats of varnish exploded and flaming gasoline flowed through the wiring. Fire apparatus were dispatched but firefighters faced a rapidly spreading blaze.
N ine men died and between 20 and 40 were involved when a 500 ton steel gate slipped from a crane beam at Locke 6 on the Welland canal in Thorold Ontario The accident occurred during gate installation and rescue crews and Red Cross units rushed to the scene from Thorold St Catherines and nearby areas Wrecking parties removed debris as officials feared more deaths and unidentified bodies lay at the site eight miles from St Catherines
Airplanes from the 103rd observation squadron of the Pennsylvania National Guard photographed and assisted in a small scale battery between units of the 218th coast artillery and aircraft. Units conducted practice marches and emplacement hunts while infantry battalions engaged in combat problems. Major General William G. Price Jr. was to review marchers and oversee track and field events as athletes prepared in the athletic bay. Karl Morris of Pittsburgh arrived for a visit with relatives.
A. Geiger, school district business manager, asked for bids on grading and preliminary work for a new athletic field to be built on district property near Dunior High School in the second ward. Harrisburg plans provide complete specs for a modern complex including football field, baseball diamond, track, two playgrounds, tennis courts, croquet, volleyball, and horseshoe pits, with grading starting this summer to be followed by football field readiness for fall games and baseball by spring.
Washington Aug 1 details of the secret British French naval compromise reached the State Department. Secretary Kellogg ordered the embassy to obtain permission to publish the note but refused to discuss 18 contents. The note touched on disarmament and the League of Nations plan for a world wide conference.
Washington Aug 1 The Republican campaign for the Hoover Curtis ticket will cost about 4 million dollars J R Nutt national committee treasurer said at a conference Jeramish Milbank eastern treasurer Rep Franklin W Fort secretary and Herbert L Guilerson satire secretary were also present Nutt said an active drive for contributions would begin soon and that voluntary contributions have already been received.
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