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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1941
Page
2
The article argues for broad diversification across 24 leading industries to reduce risk. It favors safe stocks with low debt, avoiding speculative war profits, and highlights optimistic views on domestic debt, potential postwar growth in chemistry, synthetics, plastics, television, rayon, safety glass, cooling systems, and new automotive tech driven by emerging cyclotrons and atomic energy concepts.
A proposal to run oil factories for one year asserts it would raise employment by lowering production costs and improving living standards. It urges alignment between religious leaders and scientists and calls for character development to responsibly use material wealth for national progress.
Two Japanese liners Tatuta Maru and Heian Maru unloaded silk cargoes worth 2,600,000 to aid American defense. The government froze raw silk supplies to ensure military needs, while the Heian Maru faced jail after unloading delays. A separate Erie typhoid case surge prompted health officials to investigate in Girard.
Local ads and notices mix with brief city items from Certo to Ridgway including sales, real estate, and a street accident. Georgia peaches, a modern home for sale, last names like Jolson Racine and Hart, plus health and public works notes, grave illness, and police court snippets.
Amng. 2 Otto Mille von Peterson of West Silicott aged 20 died last night after a basement assault at the Aristotype Company plant. District Attorney Edward G. O'Connor said one of five held in custody claimed he witnessed a fight in the basement. Autopsy cited asphyxia from external violence with a brain injury, dislocated wrist, fractured nose and two broken ribs. Police report four others were in or near the building, a known haunt for derailed drinkers.
Coline OM Hage outlines U.S. wartime export curbs aimed at Japan, limiting motor fuels and aviation-related stocks to Allies and resisting nations, with licenses tied to prewar quotas. China, Britain, and other allied or resisting areas seek embargo on fuel for Japanese warplanes, amid wartime aid to China. The piece notes past export volumes to Japan and calls for public subscription to support the Journal.
Report from Lock Haven Pennsylvania details a spate of nocturnal assaults in Clinton County. A 28 year old summer student, Dorothy Williams of Jersey Shore, was struck unconscious and wounded on the way to her boarding house near a movie theater. She suffered two head wounds and a fractured skull but is recovering. Nearby towns have seen two similar attacks. Dorothy Peters, 17, and Dorothy Orner, 26, were also assaulted in the past weeks. A Penn State freshman, Rachel Taylor, was found dead with injuries in a college yard, with authorities noting a continuing pattern of night attacks on unescorted women emanating from State College to the surrounding area.
August 15 will see one of Evie Works greatest payroll distributions as about three quarters of a million dollars is shared among General Electrics employees. The regular weekly payroll near half a million dollars will be supplemented by profits sharing for the first half of 1940 and payments of vacation allowances for Refrigerator Cabinet Division members for 1941.
Harrisburg reports six bills to create a system for registering and voting Pennsylvanians in military service without returning home became law today after the governor signed. The piece notes Oliver Cromwell as the earliest military organizer of espionage amid the era’s political context.
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