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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1931
Page
5
A fatal crash near Pittsburgh involved a Lawrence vag truck colliding with Rothrock at an unspecified location. Five and ibe were noted as participants, with Ittsbursh referenced as a former advertising point. The report provides limited details on the sequence or official statements.
In Dlmira New York on August 7 Martin Schempp completed a sustained flight test during the national gliding contests. He flew for three hours as the standout effort, though Albert Hastings of Los Angeles holds the record with a four and a half hour flight set last year.
Numerous residents and visitors are listed with recent and upcoming trips and stays. Dorothy Craker heads to New York City for two weeks to visit relatives. others travel to Buffalo, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Titusville, Findley Lake, and Chautauqua. Families, friends, and clubs host gatherings at homes in Union City, Titusville, Brockway, and Jamestown, with several motor trips noted. Notable names include Mrs. L. C. Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. W. d. Smith, Miss Irene Smith, Mrs. Edwin Bagatrom, Miss Annette Titus, Miss Josephine Fleming, Mayor Frank T. England, Rev. P. Burt, and Miss Maude Wallace.
Roy L Huff of Harrisburg Pa is named supervisor of paroles in the Bureau of Prisons succeeding Frank Loveland Jr whose resignation is effective today Huff previously directed restoration in Pennsylvania public welfare and comes from Cambridge Massachusetts where he will join the Department of Correction payroll supervision duties
In Shenandoah Pennsylvania health officials search for the meningitis germ source after John Kurohinsky, 14, died and seven other children are ill. Names include John Kurceevsky, 19, Zigmund Gruca, 13, Edward Vistilovicz, 11, Leo Ostrosky, 10, Joséph Papalis, 12, Thomas Barlow, 13, and Mary Messavage. High school pool closed and swimming areas cautioned. In Freedom Pennsylvania a 50-year-old unidentified man drowned when a rowboat sank near Lock No. 5 while he was collecting scrap iron. The body was recovered by divers and firemen.
Dr. Harry Rhodes and other Corry Rotary Club members joined about one hundred Rotarians from Jamestown Erie Warren Bradford Westfield Buffalo Niagara Falls and Fredonia at an inter city Rotary meeting held yesterday at Panama Rocks New York. The Jamestown club arranged the outing with afternoon games and a golf match at Chautauqua. Dinner followed at six with Charles Willcox Niagara Falls Ont governor of the 27th district as speaker recounting events from the Vienna Rotary convention and brief talks from visiting members.
Austin August House of representatives voted 77 to 62 to strike the enacting clause from a bill creating an oil conservation commission. The senate rejected by 17 to 14 to engage a similar bill, killing the proposal.
Financial closing notes list numerous firms and sectors such as American Smelters Anaconda Copper Kennecott International Nickel General Motors Packard Studebaker Willys Overland Atlantic Refining Continental Oil Mid Continent Pipelines Prairie Pipe Line Sinclair Ohio Oil Canadian Pacific Great Northern railroad lines and various utilities and industrials including General Electric Curtiss Wright Westinghouse Steel and oil firms with reference to a New York Stock Exchange listing and professional brokerage.
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